Chapter 769 - 767: Tong Yan Cannot Be Replaced
Something very bad, with a very big impact.
Because a video appeared on the internet, and in the video, it was like this:
Old Mrs. Su and Old Su are in the video tearfully accusing the famous artist Tong Yan of abusing their relatives, abandoning their relatives, and so forth.
They spoke with eloquence and cried pitifully.
The elderly are already vulnerable, let alone two seniors in their sixties and seventies. As long as they cry on video and say a few words, they can easily elicit sympathy, let alone speaking so thoroughly.
Huaxia has a tradition of respecting the elderly and loving the young, so when an elderly abuse scandal emerges, how could it not arouse public outrage?
This incident didn’t even need to ferment; it almost instantly spread across the entire internet, and almost all Huaxia people knew about it.
Tong Yan was accused of abusing her own grandmother and grandfather.
This matter is quite serious; Huaxia TV Station urgently convened a meeting, and some executives suggested removing Tong Yan, otherwise, the impact on the show would be too great. Just replacing one person shouldn’t have too big an effect on the ratings.
After all, Huaxia TV Station is a national television station and needs to promote positive stories. If they employ such a person, wouldn’t it serve as a negative example? The higher-ups would never agree.
Director Wang, as the only director invited, faced many executives without any fear, and without thinking, he directly refused, "I don’t agree to replace her."
For years, no one had dared to contradict the senior leadership, and now a small director openly refused him, causing his face to darken instantly, "Tong Yan must be replaced, listen to me on this."
Director Wang stood up at the scene, threw down his responsibilities, and spoke decisively, "Then replace me as well."
Back then, when he was at a low point, almost ruining his career, it was Little Fatty who stood up to help him. His current success was given by her. Many people add flowers to the brocade, but few people send charcoal in the snow.
"You! Don’t think I can’t replace you, there are plenty of directors these days!" The senior leader was extremely angry, his face turning exceedingly dark.
Director Wang is a good director, and if they lost him, the show would be ruined, all the previous efforts wasted, and if Tong Yan left, then Yimo would also leave, and the ratings would definitely not be high.
Knowing all this, the station chief quickly stepped in to mediate, "Old Hu, calm down, and Xiao Wang, you calm down too. Let’s sit down and discuss this slowly."
The station chief’s face still needed to be respected, so the two of them sat down.
But the atmosphere at this time was still not good.
Just then, the station chief suddenly thought of something, his eyes lit up, "There was a movie before called...that...that...’The Sixth Sense,’ yes, yes, that’s the one. Wasn’t it because there was a mosaic that it became wildly popular and the box office was exceptionally high? Why don’t we do that too? Put a mosaic on Tong Yan?"
The others nodded, it seemed like a good idea, maybe the show’s ratings would also go up because of the mosaic.
The more they thought about it, the better the idea seemed, but only Director Wang shook his head, "I don’t agree."
Station Chief: "Why?"
"Most of the audience of this show comes for Yan Mo. If you put a mosaic on one of them, will they still watch? Obviously not." Director Wang said firmly, "The audience won’t buy it."
And there was one more important thing he didn’t say. How ironic this action would be; it would add a stain to Little Fatty’s artistic career. He would absolutely not agree to it.
This won’t work, and that won’t work either. The station chief was getting a bit impatient, "Then what should we do?"