Do Not Speak Ill of My Mother!
Chapter 210 You know who I am talking about.

Chapter 210: 210 You know who I am talking about.

However, what Yan Yueqing guessed wrong was—Zhong Hao wasn’t driven mad by anger, it was his agent Jin Kai who was almost going mad!

"Star of Performance," the show, was precisely the one Jin Kai had chosen for him.

Splendid Culture, an established talent agency in the capital, had many artists under its wing. Zhong Hao wasn’t considered a top-tier celebrity there, but with his striking looks and the title of "National Campus Heartthrob," he had landed leading roles in several major IP idol dramas.

With his handsome and intimidating campus prodigy persona, the aloof CEO who spoke little, his acting skills weren’t particularly outstanding. However, due to his character settings, even if the audience felt he was a bit rigid in his acting, there was still a large fan base that recognized him.

Some fans even rationalized it like this, "In the past, the entertainment industry was mostly filled with good-looking artists working to pay off their parents’ debts. Now it’s almost all ugly children from capitalist families. No matter what the acting is like, Zhong Hao’s face in idol dramas is better than those ugly guys ruining the white Moonlight!"

Passersby choked up after hearing this...

What can you do, right? If you have to choose between a handsome guy with no acting skills and an ugly guy with no acting skills, you’ve got to pick one, don’t you?

Perhaps it was exactly because of the fans’ unlimited indulgence that Zhong Hao’s performances became even more forced and artificial.

This time on the show, Jin Kai had particularly pulled some strings, hoping that with Zhong Hao’s recent crash-course in acting, he could attract a bunch of new fans.

Who could have expected that with his strong suit of scripts and Xu Ran, the recently popular Xiao Hua as his co-performer, he would end up being completely upstaged by Meng Chengchu, who couldn’t even count as a supporting actor?

In the hotel suite, after a day’s filming, Zhong Hao returned to his room just in time to see his agent waiting for him in the living room.

"Brother Kai, you’re here?"

Jin Kai replied gloomily with a grunt, "Have you seen the online reviews lately?"

Zhong Hao adjusted his hair in the mirror and replied, "No, I don’t like looking at those."

"Even if you don’t look at online reviews, you should know that the company is very dissatisfied with your recent performance!"

Zhong Hao was indifferent, "Brother Kai, the new show with Xu Ran has been on air for a week now, the reception has been good, and tonight’s storyline is a watershed moment! Once the episode airs, the fans will naturally defend me, there’s no need to worry about the evaluations from a reality show, is there?"

In line with Hua Country’s policies promoting commendable professional conduct, Splendid Culture specifically purchased a script this year praising firefighters, rushing to shoot it overtime, and getting the green light all the way to airing.

Before the new drama was scheduled, Jin Kai arranged for paparazzi to shoot images of Zhong Hao and Xu Ran going out together, to stoke fires for the CP; it was quite a boost for the show’s popularity!

After it aired, viewers shipped the drama’s lead male and female couple while also shipping Zhong Hao and Xu Ran in real life, and the reviews were consistently not bad.

"Star of Performance" was meticulously picked by Jin Kai, and the subject of this episode’s script coincidentally had this sense of destiny with the content of the new drama.

Who knew? After Meng Chengchu stole the spotlight on the reality show, the audience’s tastes suddenly became picky!

After the latest two episodes aired, the public’s reception didn’t go as smoothly as Zhong Hao had imagined, instead, there was a dramatic turnaround!

"Damn! What the hell were these two episodes about tonight?! The more I watch, the more nauseated I get! The male lead, as a firefighter, is playing with a fire extinguisher in an underground parking lot with the female lead?!"

"My son watched it and said he wanted to play too, is this the values the drama is conveying? Forget it, I need to teach the brat a lesson first! Messing around with fire extinguishers is against the law, alright?!"

"What’s the deal with this drama? Isn’t it a mainstream TV series promoting firefighters? How can it make such common knowledge mistakes?"

"And the most lethal part is... the female lead, solely based on a stethoscope, declared that the pregnant woman was dead but her unborn child was still alive, and she insisted on cutting the baby out!"

Jun Yan looked at this and expressed his confusion, "If the pregnant woman is deceased, isn’t it understandable to save the child?"

Regarding this point, Yan Yueqing felt deeply, "Yan Bao, this is a piece of medical knowledge. If the pregnant woman dies, the fetus cannot survive for several minutes inside the womb! If there’s still a fetal heartbeat, the first thing to consider is whether the pregnant woman still shows any signs of life. Her being a surgical doctor and performing an obstetric surgery is illegal practice in itself. After so long a surgery and the baby is still alive, it shows the mom isn’t dead at all—she was cut open while alive!"

Jun Yan, hearing this for the first time, was horrified, "Alive... being cut open? That must have been excruciatingly painful..."

Yan Wang affirmed, "Mom’s science is correct! Nowadays, TV dramas often show plots about choosing between saving the mother or the child, but in reality, regular hospitals won’t ask whether to save the mother or the child. A fetus doesn’t have human rights; a person is only granted rights at the moment of birth! In emergencies, it’s always about saving the mother."

He got to know that from his foster mother, Lin Qiming.

When his mom was hemorrhaging during childbirth and rushed to the hospital, she cried, begging Lin Qiming to save the child.

Later, when Lin Qiming relayed the mother’s wishes to the doctor, she got a good scolding and a lecture.

What saving the mother or the child?

The doctors’ prime responsibility is the mother’s life, isn’t it?

While they were having this animated discussion, netizens were equally in turmoil.

Overnight, the rating of Zhong Hao’s new show plummeted from 8.1 to 5.7, and one-star reviews grew more frequent.