mtl008 Chapter 158 Idol Ghost Stories Rules 31
Chapter 158 Idol Ghost Stories Rules 31
He dressed her in the clothes he had once taken off, piece by piece, and smoothed her hair. He then placed a kiss on her forehead with almost reverence.
"One by one, it's over." The cocoon cracked open above her head, revealing the outside world.
That world didn't have elaborate training buildings, nor did it have those sinister staff members, and there were no trainees at all.
At this moment, the world revealed its true nature to Ling Yi.
A dilapidated three-story building, old office equipment, and mottled floors.
In just a moment, it pulls people back to reality from their beautiful dream.
The split cocoon was absorbed into Chen Shu's body, leaving only a small patch of silvery white beneath Ling Yi.
Ling Yi sat down and asked, "What? Don't you like that kind of life?"
“I like it.” Chen Shu traced Ling Yi’s cheek with his fingertips, both infatuated and struggling.
He longed to confine her to that world, yet he also feared that she would become so immersed in it that she would never wake up again.
“But that’s not your world.” He gently kissed Ling Yi’s lips and whispered, “Your world should have real sunshine and air filled with the fragrance of flowers.”
There may be many bad things there, but they are real.
His small, conjured space of false air could not sustain a beautiful flower.
Chen Shu pulled Ling Yi up and led her out of his world step by step.
The moment Lingyi stepped out of the dilapidated office building, it was as if time had flowed by, and she witnessed the entire story of Chen Shu's birth.
It was a once-glorious company, named after miracles, and it truly did create miracles.
It accounts for 30% of the annual satellite TV dramas and almost monopolizes all the contracts of top stars in the industry. It is all-powerful and influential in the small world of entertainment.
Every piece of cake it throws out gets celebrities scrambling to grab it.
In order to obtain its resources, some celebrities have even signed contracts that split the profits 90/10, or that allow them to perform for free in exchange for fame.
Chen Shu was the first person to install a camera when the company entered the surveillance era. He witnessed the company's glory, but also the dirty deeds behind that glory.
Where there is profit, there is darkness, let alone the place where money comes in the fastest.
The twisted nature of humanity driven by the pursuit of resources and money is unimaginable.
Those who chase after money and fame will never know that a camera is watching everything they do from above.
Behind every moment of glory lies the ultimate decline.
As the internet emerged, as people's entertainment activities increased, and as the channels for celebrities to rise to fame expanded, this company gradually declined.
The celebrities and stars it nurtured have left one after another, and artists who had been treated unfairly have also come forward to condemn its past greed.
With its reputation ruined, funding chain broken, script resources deteriorating, and embroiled in scandals and tax crises, this behemoth turned into a dilapidated building almost overnight.
To deal with countless troubles, it first sold the artists' contracts, then sold all the copyrights it held, and finally had to sell its office building in the city center, and had to move to this three-story building in the suburbs in a sorry state.
The cameras that were once in the top-of-the-line building have long since become someone else's property after the real estate was sold. The cameras that once recorded everything in the company and were later exhibited in the company museum during the company's heyday are now back in service.
It has heard countless praises from celebrities through the glass. A broken camera worth a few hundred yuan can receive compliments such as "retro" and "artistic" because of the success of the company it belongs to.
Now he's back at work, and in this dilapidated house, he witnesses the setbacks of its former owner.
He made call after call, only to be rejected time and time again. He smashed everything he could, cursing those people for being ungrateful.
But when he offered a 10/90 split, did he never think about this day coming?
The camera worked faithfully, but also mercilessly mocked its owner's wishful thinking.
It thought that everything would end so quietly.
When he could no longer pay the rent, when debt crushed the company, it fulfilled its mission, and its owner gave up his daydreams.
But an unexpected turning point occurred at this time.
Because of the excessive prosperity of the entertainment industry, talent shows, which had been shelved for several years, have been brought back to the stage.
Countless men and women chasing their dreams stand on the stage, telling their fans about their stage dreams, becoming overnight sensations, darlings of the spotlight, and raking in countless amounts of money.
This gave the company's owner new hope. Although he had lost his connections and money, he had a keen eye for spotting stars.
From the very beginning, this is how he built his business.
So he went to great lengths to select ten students from several art colleges and sign them to his company.
Those children who have never experienced the harshness of the world thought they had obtained a ticket to enter the entertainment industry, but they never expected that this was just the beginning of a nightmare.
The person who signed them trained them with the harshest methods, measuring their every move with a ruler, trying to mold them into pleasing puppets.
The camera footage showed a boy who was over 1.8 meters tall eating only one banana a day, and a girl who weighed 90 pounds being scolded as a fat pig.
This company, which had been deserted for a long time, seems to have regained some life as these children suffer greatly.
Those teachers hired by the company owner at high prices are all senior "masters" in this industry. They know best how to flatter fans and how to train artists to be obedient.
Praise, reprimand, curse, then praise again—they used their well-practiced rhetoric to train these kids in a repetitive cycle until they lost their individuality and became cogs in the machine of the company, their every move conforming to the expectations of the fans and the company's plans.
The man who sold his last property and took out countless loans for one last gamble was very satisfied with everything that happened at the company.
He was like a gambler, just waiting for the show to start and for his men to become an overnight sensation.
Is there some shady dealing preventing his subordinates from debuting?
Is it possible that someone more outstanding will push him out?
impossible!
Although he lost his connections, he still has a mountain of dirt on him.
Perhaps those scandals weren't enough to blackmail those people into acting in his plays, nor were they enough to get them to give him a large sum of money, but they were enough for those people to do him a favor and insert his people into the debut group.
As long as you can debut, the money will come!
When children enter talent shows and stand under the spotlight to receive more and more love, there is always someone behind them laughing silently.
He laughed as he said his time had come again, that even after decades, he was still a master manipulator in this industry.