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Chapter 178: Could the Performance Card have other uses?

Chapter 178: Chapter 178: Could the Performance Card have other uses?

After the draw, and after checking the system panel, Wu Mu was satisfied and closed the system interface, ready to get down to the real business of the day.

He had been contemplating for a while, even though the Performance Card’s function was to add money for him, could the system’s covert marketing drive be utilized by him in other areas?

Logically, the system promoted hot events in order to cash out his earnings.

But what if he just focused on the heat driven by the system, what would happen if he didn’t accept the cash out from the system’s push?

What’s more, the scope of using the Performance Card, does it have to be registered under his real name.... and so on and so forth.

Wu Mu had a pile of speculations built up in his mind.

Hmm, he would find out the results of some of those speculations soon.

Wu Mu started searching online for information about the companies behind investor Li Hu, as well as various news exposés about the financial company he owned.

And this search confirmed what he thought, a whole trove of complaints and scolding information.

Secret illegal interest rates, violent debt collection, relentless harassment of debtors’ families and friends, even pressuring people to suicide—the news just kept on coming.

It could only be said that domestic so-called financial platforms, all inevitably indulge in these things, those established by internet giants are a bit better and not so unsightly.

But for those lesser-known, less formal ones, it’s all shades of gray and white together.

And companies like these that tread a gray area and fear exposure to the public eye, when they land in his hands, are just so fitting to his professional taste.

When Wu Mu got busy...

Investor Li Hu on the other side, was raging mad.

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Up to now, Li Hu’s face still turns red with anger when he remembers yesterday’s events.

Always held up by people in the circle, he had never endured such insult.

Wu Mu’s behavior yesterday was like stomping on his face several times after throwing it to the ground.

If he didn’t get his revenge, how would people in the industry view him from now on? Wouldn’t they laugh behind his back that a little star had snubbed him?

So right there and then, he demanded Yang Rongfa to remove Wu Mu, threatening to pull his investment if Yang Rongfa didn’t remove that person.

As for whether dismissing Wu Mu would affect his investment returns.

That’s a joke, there are so many singers and stars in Hua Country, without one of them, would the world stop turning?

Even if he could really enhance the investment, how significant can the enhancement really be?

At the end of a drama series, composition is just a branch; done well, it decorates, done poorly, it’s just so so.

Like replacing him with the previously expected Legendary Heavenly Queen Mo Mo, could it really be that much worse?

That was what he thought.

But what shocked him was that when he actually started taking action, the situation did not develop as he anticipated.

Firstly, with Mo Mo, she rejected their invitation outright without even asking for a quotation and hung up the phone right there, giving him the cold shoulder again.

Then with Yang Rongfa, the matter of dropping Wu Mu was boldly agreed upon, but when he wanted to go further and have Yang Rongfa step in to blacklist Wu Mu, Yang Rongfa’s attitude immediately became ambiguous.

After his repeated threats of pulling investments, Yang Rongfa still refused to agree, showing a helpless look and revealing that Wu Mu and Lin Xueming’s daughter had a good relationship, and they were also quite familiar with Lin’s daughter; it’s too difficult to do as asked.

Li Hu had no choice but to try contacting some companies and directors he had invested in before.

But these people behaved just like Yang Rongfa, willing to agree not to use Wu Mu anymore, but reluctant to go a step further and help him spread the word to blacklist Wu Mu.

However, this time their reasons differed from Yang Rongfa’s...

"Blacklisting him is useless; there are already several companies in the industry that have blacklisted him, Star Electronics has been doing so for a while, and a big agency company in the industry, Tianwei Entertainment, is also blacklisting him, but it’s hardly effective."

"Now the projects that invite him to appear on shows are doing so because he can genuinely boost the program’s ratings, they won’t stop inviting him just because he’s blacklisted."

"To really prevent him from making a living through blacklisting, it’d have to be CCTV or the major TV stations reaching a consensus to act, there are too many private production company factions, it’s impossible to control."

Li Hu can still remember the words his friend, a production company boss, told him.

Only then did he realize to his shock that this small star, who seemed insignificant in his eyes, was actually so difficult to deal with.

Even aside from blacklisting, after investigating, he found that buying negative press to smear him also seemed to have little effect.

It’s not that there was no effect at all, but it wouldn’t hurt him meaningfully.

From the typical industry tactics, he simply couldn’t trouble this person at all, feeling completely at a loss.

But to let this matter go, he just couldn’t swallow his pride.

He had to find a way to teach this person a lesson!

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While Li Hu was thinking about how to deal with Wu Mu...

On Wu Mu’s end, all of Li Hu’s company’s dirty laundry had already been collected.

He spent half a day editing these dirty materials into a video.

Yes, he planned to upload the video and then use the Performance Card to ignite the video’s popularity, thus exposing Li Hu’s company to the public eye.

For his kind of company, as long as the level of attention raised was sufficient, no action would even be required on his part, the relevant departments would definitely step in to handle it.

But obviously, he couldn’t use his real account for such a task.

Wu Mu might ignore these types of things after the bluff, but he wasn’t foolish.

Directly exposing himself would be risky; what if the pressured Li Hu became desperately cornered and decided to confront him in person?

Better to sneakily plot against him from the shadows.

For a head-on confrontation, he’d wait until he gained attribute points for a mini-superman, or after he drew some peerless martial arts secret manual or the like.

Wu Mu found an old, unused account, then renamed it "Ally of Justice," and uploaded the prepared video.

After uploading, he opened the performance list under the system’s name.

Then as expected, he found a new item under his performance list.

"I knew that using a pseudonym or being anonymous would still count as my performance," Wu Mu sighed with relief.

The video, just as he anticipated, also fell within the range of performance.

Mm, most likely, being a video blogger or UP host would also count as part of a star’s performance work.

And since the video appeared on the performance list under his name, what came next was simple.

He directly used a ten million Performance Card on this video.

Ten million in quota, for a series or movie, barely causes a ripple.

But for a video where a million views are only worth three to four hundred in revenue...

Wu Mu could hardly imagine the heat it would generate.