[R18] Idol estrus (NP) – Chapter 116 of “Idol’s Heat Period (NP)” [English]

114, scam

Amidst the mocking applause, Lin Tu looked at Mingcheng calmly.

“Hu Dan is yours.”

Mingcheng raised the corners of his mouth and nodded slightly.

Lin Tu continued to speak.

“The decision to operate “Singers” was also made by you.”

Mingcheng nodded and even encouraged, “You can continue to guess what I have done.”

Lin Tu patiently counted to him.

“You invested in “Heavy Rain” and made it appear when the reputation of “1over” was plummeting, in order to use Fran’s character to completely destroy the goodwill that Ling Chu had finally built up.”

Mingcheng had no intention of explaining himself, as if he was just stating a fact.

“As long as anyone on the Cannes Film Festival nomination list faces Ling Chu, he will only lose.”

Lin Tu couldn’t help but sneered.

“You knew from the beginning that I would lose, so you came here just to give me a lift today?”

Mingcheng’s smile was very innocent.

“I’m looking forward to a more brilliant performance from you.”

Lin Tu quietly looked at Mingcheng, who seemed to have a winning chance in front of him, and suddenly started laughing too.

“Aren’t you curious why I guessed this in such a short period of time?”

Mingcheng showed a puzzled expression in cooperation, but the strong emotion hidden in his eyes made he’s tone a little excited.

“When did you realize something was wrong?”

Lin Tu looked at him silently.

“In the beginning.”

In fact, Lin Tu became alert to her the first second she appeared.

She no longer believes that there is a free lunch in this world.

Her experience over the years has taught her that the more “well-intentioned” it is, the more “free” it is, the more “expensive” the reward required behind it is.

That’s why she borrowed Yu Si from Fang Suo, hoping to confirm through his eyes whether Hu Dan was as trustworthy as she showed.

It’s a pity that even Yu Si, who has always had amazing intuition, failed in front of Hu Gan.

Lin Tu had 10,000 reasons to suspect that Hu Dan’s motives for helping her were impure.

She quickly thought of the decision made by the board of directors before the film festival to invest in “The Song of Songs”.

With Mingcheng as the major shareholder, the board of directors has no decision-making power at all.

From this point, it is not difficult for her to infer that this resolution was assigned to her only after Ming Cheng approved it.

Mingcheng didn’t nod, the board of directors didn’t have the guts or the power to hide it from him.

Lin Tu knew that in Mingcheng’s eyes, the worse her situation was, the more excited he would be.

It is impossible for her to bow to Mingcheng and pray for him to give her help and resources.

So when she is isolated and helpless, Hu Tan, the foreign aid that falls from the sky, will undoubtedly become the last lifebuoy that she clings to.

Facts have proved that Lin Tu was right to prepare for a rainy day.

Hu Gan mastered all aspects of Lingchu’s award-winning work in the subsequent execution.

How the film should be promoted, how the judges should publicize it, how it should cooperate with theaters and how the screenings should be allocated are all decided by Hu Dan alone, and Lin Tu has no chance to take advantage of it.

Even with Hu’s public relations, the movie “Trembling Lover” has been climbing steadily at the Cannes Film Festival, and even won two nominations for director and actor in one fell swoop, but the passive Lin Tu still keenly smelled the dangerous atmosphere hidden in the air.

Hu Chan’s biggest flaw is that he prematurely relaxed the threshold for watching movies.

For a low-budget film like Trembling Lover, word-of-mouth is the most important aspect that needs to be strictly controlled before competing for awards.

Even an insider like Lin Tu, who has become a monk by the way, knows clearly that instead of striving for the almost insignificant box office performance before the film festival, it is better to use invitations to watch the film to screen the audience, artificially stabilizing the reputation of The Trembling Lover at a fixed value.

But Hu Gan did not do this.

As Lin Tu expected, the tickets for the additional all-night movie were sold out, and the film’s reputation also plummeted.

No matter how good their public relations were before, with the Cannes Film Festival’s judging criteria that emphasizes both artistic and commercial aspects, they were destined to miss the final grand prize.

This is a Jingxin scam tailor-made for Lin Tu.

Lin Tu did not place his bet on Hu Tan from the beginning.

She closed the nomination list in her hand and calmly took out another photocopied document and unfolded it.

“There are still five days until our bet ends.”

Mingcheng’s eyes fell on Lin Tu’s hand.

It was the entry notice for a niche independent film festival that opened three days later in the evening and was jokingly called the Oscar winner by insiders.

This film festival does not have a jury or competition.

The only grand prize that cannot be called an award is the Audience Choice Award. As long as you are shortlisted, it means winning.

While Hu Chan was working hard to run Ling Chu to compete for awards at the Cannes Film Festival, Lin Tu temporarily took back all the profits she had made from Nomercy from Fang Suo and started his own efforts.

She will not let the mermaid fall in love, nor will she wait for redemption.

This time, she will take her destiny completely into her own hands.