This celebrity became even more popular after being exposed of having multiple girlfriends
Chapter 196: I Need to Seek External Help

Chapter 196: Chapter 196: I Need to Seek External Help

Wu Mu?

Huang Shi now knew about him, but he didn’t have much of an impression, remembering most clearly... that incident where Wu Mu got caught up with the boss of the company.

He Ling, on the other hand, had a deeper impression of Wu Mu and found him quite appealing. He provided an interesting anecdote, "Speaking of Wu Mu, the director of ’Masked Singer,’ which is our station’s Sun, has been a huge advocate for him ever since he came on the show. He’s recommended Wu Mu for our program several times."

There’s such a thing?

Everyone looked surprised at He Ling.

The director of the program being recorded confirmed this with a voice-over, "We did invite Teacher Wu Mu, but he was unable to make it due to not having an available schedule."

Lu Yao cheerfully raised her hand, "I know! I talked to Xiao Wu about my desire to come to ’Aspired Life,’ and he said he was also invited but didn’t take it because at the time, he was considering taking on the composing assignment from Director Wang Ren."

"Director Wang Ren’s composing assignment?"

Everyone was happily chatting about Wu Mu, generating numerous topics.

Off to the side, Gu Hao looked rather displeased.

As a top celebrity in the same circle and his competitor, he naturally wouldn’t join the conversation about Wu Mu.

That would be like giving the competitor more exposure.

Especially in recent years, with a slight surplus of top celebrities in the circle, the competition had become even more fierce.

There are nine people recognized as the top celebrities in the circle, comprising the ’big four,’ ’three youngsters,’ and ’two talents.’

The ’big four’ refer to the slightly more senior top stars, with Xiao Yi and the earlier-mentioned Wu Mu being among them.

The ’three youngsters’ are the newly popular idols from the past two years, and Gu Hao, along with the previously mentioned Sun Zhichun, are in this category.

The ’two talents’ are among the top idols who have begun transitioning and hold the most talent, focusing on acting in film and television dramas, with Zhou Yu as one of them.

Nine people were arguably too many; the resources were simply not enough to go around, so in the past two years, the battles among the top celebrities were particularly intense, all wanting to push their competitors down and rise themselves.

Initially, Wu Mu had already been squeezed out, but who would have thought that he could make such a comeback and rise in popularity!

Not only did he become popular again, but his momentum had been growing stronger, so now, he was the topic of conversation in his program, and other people couldn’t even join in!

Seeing everyone chatting away, Gu Hao was exceptionally irritated and intervened to change the subject, "What game are we playing today?"

He Ling, spotting his irritation and with his high EQ, chimed in, "Right, playing games. Today, we’ve specially prepared a new game for Ah Yao and Ah Hai."

The new game prepared by the program team for Lu Yao and the others was a talent performance.

Everyone wrote down their best Skill on a slip of paper, tossed them together, and drew lots, with each participant performing the Skill on the drawn slip.

And they also had to score each other, with the first-place winner assigning the last-place finisher’s chore for the afternoon.

"Haha, I’m singing!" Cai Wanhai laughed. He’d drawn his own slip.

"... I’m also singing!" Lu Yao was somewhat disheartened. She’d drawn Gu Hao’s slip.

Her singing ability... could be gauged by how long it had been since she’d performed singing on stage; it was her super weak spot.

Unless there was a surprise, she was all but guaranteed last place.

During the talent performance phase, Cai Wanhai, the professional singer, shone the brightest.

Not only did he sing beautifully, but he even flaunted his skills by improvising a song about the sponsor’s snacks using one of his old tunes.

This made the director of the program beside him grin from ear to ear, feeling the effectiveness of the performance. He believed it would have a great response when broadcasted.

First place was almost certainly Cai Wanhai’s.

Then it was the turn of Lu Yao, the predicted last-placer, to perform.

She sighed, "Can I not sing, or can I bring in a substitute?"

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Bring in a substitute singer?

Cai Wanhai laughed loudly, "You want to ask Wu Mu, right? Forget it, there’s no such rule in the show."

He Ling also smiled, just about to persuade Lu Yao to just start singing when he suddenly heard the director’s voice in his earpiece, "He teacher, you go ahead and change the rule, let Lu Yao ask Wu Mu to sing."

Huh?

He Ling was briefly stunned, not understanding why the program team would suddenly make such a request.

Well, naturally, the program directors wanted to ride the wave of popularity.

Lu Yao and He Ling, being on the show, didn’t have time to check their phones and were unaware of external events.

But he, the director, knew.

Outside, Wu Mu’s song marketing had already blown up!

With the concerted effort of anti-fans to spread the news, the topic had climbed to the number three spot on Weibo’s real-time trending list!

Even the live viewer count in "Idol Daily’s" broadcasting room, he estimated, must be at least one to one and a half million people!

At such a time, if they could get Wu Mu to connect to their program live, wouldn’t that equate to a free trending spot for themselves?

As for the possibility of upsetting the anti-fans... well, Lu Yao and the others aren’t aware of the external events, right? You can’t blame them for something they don’t know about, can you?

Moreover, the on-site director also felt that causing such a fuss over an overly tidy workspace was a bit far-fetched.

After weighing the factors, the director of ’Aspired Life’ finally spoke up.

With the director speaking up, He Ling certainly couldn’t ignore it, and the matter wasn’t without precedent. Without any change in his demeanor, he smiled and said, "Ah Yao, if you want to ask Wu Mu to be your substitute, it’s fine. Just like Peng Hai did in a previous episode, if you can get the approval of half the people here, we’ll change the rule for you."

Huh, they can really change the rules?

Lu Yao immediately looked at the others with sparkling eyes.

Meng Yuxi and He Ling of course supported her, which already made half, and with Huang Shi finally raising his hand...

In the end, amid Cai Wanhai’s cries of unfairness and accusations of a scandal, Lu Yao dialed Wu Mu’s number.

....

Wu Mu was in the middle of a game.

Just as well, he hadn’t played much recently and was a little behind on project progress. Now was a good time to kill two birds with one stone while on the show.

The best part was, he didn’t have to worry about typing away continuously at the code being too dull for the show and resulting in too few points.

The anti-fans were just too useful!

Today, even if he did nothing but sleep, it wouldn’t hinder the anti-fans from boosting his popularity.

Director Yang Chen, who had initially been nervous, now gleefully enjoyed the anti-fans’ traffic.

Since Wu Mu, the principal party, wasn’t worried, what was there for their program to be anxious about? They might as well feign ignorance, and at most, issue a non-specific clarification afterwards.

One hundred and thirty million people!

Such an exaggerated number, apart from previous instances of superstars with high status coming on the show, had never been reached.

It only goes to show how numerous Wu Mu’s anti-fans really are, coupled with the passersby drawn in by the trending topic, achieving this astonishing figure.