Xia Feng and Long Aotian were passing by the film set when someone recognized Xia Feng.
Mei Qing, the one I told you about last night, he's terrifying. A man said to the woman beside him.
The person called Mei Qing was a reporter who specialized in digging up explosive news.
When she told her about this yesterday, she didn't believe it, after all, no picture, no truth.
No one dared to believe that Liu Yuannong was beaten, and Li Chaoren grovelingly accompanied him. To her, it was simply a fantasy.
Although no one dared to publicize what happened last night, among their friends in the industry, and through rumors, someone was bound to talk about it.
"Is it true or not?" Du Meiqing asked doubtfully.
She then took a photo with the small camera she carried with her, but unfortunately, only Xia Feng's profile was captured.
"It's true." The man nodded seriously.
"Then tell me again what happened last night." Du Meiqing became interested again.
She had just secretly taken a photo of Xia Feng, and now that she had a photo, the meaning was different.
Only when Xia Feng disappeared from their sight did the man solemnly and eloquently begin to narrate.
Du Meiqing listened and recorded it with her portable voice recorder.
"Mei Qing, promise me you won't spread it around. Otherwise, I'll be in trouble." The man was afraid that Du Meiqing would spread it, as she was a reporter who loved to dig for scoops.
"Don't worry, I'm a person with professional ethics, and I won't disclose that you provided the scoop," Du Meiqing said, patting the man on the shoulder.
"What do you mean?" the man asked.
"Heh heh... nothing, I'm leaving." Du Meiqing said and then chased after Xia Feng.
While walking, she secretly uploaded the stolen photo to the cloud and then deleted the original from the camera.
Reporters always kept a few backups to avoid being discovered, especially if the subject demanded the deletion of photos.
Du Meiqing saw Xia Feng and Long Aotian not far ahead and quickened her pace to catch up.
"Hey, you don't seem like Hong Kong people. Are you from the mainland?"
Du Meiqing overtook Xia Feng and Long Aotian, then deliberately turned back to greet them.
The button by the headlight also contained a pinhole camera, specifically for covert filming.
"Yes," Xia Feng replied with a smile.
"Are you visiting Hong Kong? Let's get acquainted, my name is Du Meiqing," Du Meiqing said, extending her hand.
Xia Feng ignored her and said, "You should turn off the camera on your chest."
As soon as he said this, Du Meiqing blushed. Being exposed so directly was inevitably awkward.
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Du Meiqing quickly regained her composure, turned off the camera, and apologized, "Heh heh... it's because of my profession, I forgot."
Xia Feng smiled and walked forward. Just as Du Meiqing was about to catch up, Long Aotian blocked her path.
Seeing Long Aotian's cold expression and the inexplicable chill emanating from him, Du Meiqing instinctively stopped in her tracks.
It wasn't until Xia Feng and Long Aotian had walked far away that Du Meiqing reacted, stomped her foot, and muttered to herself, "As expected, they're not ordinary people."
She mistook Long Aotian for a bodyguard, and only people of status would have such an imposing bodyguard.
Seeing her plan fail, Du Meiqing was not discouraged, as she already had the photo and the explosive scoop.
Wu Ji Entertainment.
This was the media company Du Meiqing worked for.
As soon as Du Meiqing returned to the company, she went to the editor-in-chief's office.
"Editor Liu, I have an explosive piece of news to publish," Du Meiqing said directly to the editor-in-chief after entering his office.
Liu Lun's eyes lit up. Media companies like theirs made money from entertainment news.
For example, a male celebrity was seen privately meeting someone and didn't return to his hotel all night.
Or a female celebrity got into someone's car, and the car kept shaking.
These were high-click-rate news. As long as it was marked as exclusive, money would come in non-stop.
If it was explosive news, it would be even better, published exclusively, with billions of clicks.
Other media companies wanted to repost it? Fine, pay up.
"What explosive news?" Liu Lun's eyes lit up.
The company hadn't had any explosive news for more than half a year. Du Meiqing, the news ace of the entire company, couldn't find any good material, let alone others.
"It depends on whether the editor-in-chief dares to publish it," Du Meiqing said.
Liu Lun was greatly surprised. Was it that explosive?
Media professionals like them all had their backers, otherwise, how could they publish explosive news as soon as they got it?
Without backing, the company would have been trashed long ago.
"Tell me what the news is first. No matter what it is, I'll guarantee you can publish it," Liu Lun decided to publish it after some thought.
"Let's take a gamble and turn a bicycle into a motorcycle. If it fails, the company is already like this, so at worst, we'll close down."
"At Yang Bingchen's charity gala last night, someone beat up both Liu Yuannong and his son. Is that considered explosive news?"
Du Meiqing asked rhetorically.
"Hiss..."
Liu Lun gasped.
This was explosive news that could blow up the sky! Previously, news related to Liu Yuannong was just minor gossip.
But they dared to expose that too.
"If you've done it yourself, are you still afraid of others exposing you?"
But this time was different. Liu Yuannong was beaten, which involved not only Liu Yuannong but also the person who did the beating.
If this explosive material was true, the person who could beat Liu Yuannong could only prove to be even more formidable than Liu Yuannong.
If this scoop was released, it was obvious to anyone with a brain that it would be explosive.
Liu Lun remained silent.
Seeing this, Du Meiqing asked, "Editor Liu, you said you could definitely publish it. If you don't dare, I'll sell this scoop to a media outlet that dares to publish it."
"Publish it!" Liu Lun gritted his teeth and confirmed.
Hearing Du Meiqing say that, he became anxious.
If such a great scoop was released, the company could feast for three years.
"Then I'll go write the article." Du Meiqing's eyes lit up.
"Go ahead. After you finish, I'll review it before publishing," Liu Lun replied.
"Okay," Du Meiqing said excitedly and left the office.
As a reporter, whether one could collect explosive material was the main way to measure a reporter's success.
Liu Lun did not dare to be careless. After Du Meiqing left, he made a call to his backer.
"Hello, Director Zhang. I have something to report to you," Liu Lun said somewhat deferentially.
"What is it?" Director Zhang on the other end of the phone asked.
"We have just collected news about Liu Yuannong. This is explosive material. Should we publish it?" Liu Lun asked for instructions.
Director Zhang pondered for a moment and replied in an unquestionable tone:
"Hong Kong media has always upheld freedom of speech. As long as the information is true, there is nothing that cannot be published. I will take responsibility if anything happens, so you can proceed with confidence."
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(ps: What? Someone said I don't pamper my fans anymore? I'm going to beat you to death! I pamper you the most! A big kiss for each of you~ mua!(*╯3╰))