Chapter 65
The relationship between Shen Wu and Qi Song was groundless, with no solid evidence, but Xu Qiongya and Qi Song had gone to watch his competition together and had eaten with him, all with conclusive photos as proof.
Whether he was Qi Song’s son or not, either the film emperor was secretly married and had a child, or the young fresh meat’s mother had a close relationship with the single film emperor. Both were explosive news that could stir up a storm.
And for M+ Entertainment’s public relations department to quell this storm, they had to first get Shen Tianheng’s cooperation.
A million words from others were not as powerful as a single sentence from his own father, Shen Tianheng.
Meng Huaizhi took over the work of the public relations director, Du Chen, and personally made a call.
Shen Tianheng’s attitude was not good, “This is our family’s business. It has nothing to do with you.”
Shen Tianheng had clearly already seen the trending topic online. His tone was aggressive and fiery. His loud voice directly passed through the phone, echoing in the conference room of M+ Entertainment.
No one had ever spoken to Meng Huaizhi like this before. The management and young employees in the conference room were all as silent as cicadas in winter.
However, the other party was the chairman of the Shen Corporation, so of course, he didn’t have to be polite to a junior like Meng Huaizhi.
However, Shen Tianheng’s attitude took a 180-degree turn, and his suddenly softened voice could only be heard by Meng Huaizhi, “The care you showed Shen Wu in the variety show, and the few negative trending topics before… thank you.”
Meng Huaizhi was slightly taken aback, and then said, “I’m very happy that he has entered the entertainment industry. As a senior, I should have promoted and taken care of him. And… he’s also my spouse.”
When he said the last few words, his voice was almost inaudible, but the corners of his lips had a clear curve.
Du Chen and the others were still not quite used to it. They carefully kept their mouths shut, not knowing where to put their eyes.
Luo Jinyi silently waved her hand, meaning: Let’s disperse.
Seeing Meng Huaizhi nod lightly, everyone tiptoed away from their seats and left the conference room in order like elementary school students lining up.
Shen Tianheng on the other end of the phone was silent for a long time.
Until the office was empty, perhaps he had swallowed the words “I’m also his father” with a lack of confidence. He spoke in the silence, only saying, “I’ll handle this matter.”
Meng Huaizhi thought for a moment and suddenly asked, “Uncle, are you busy now?”
Shen Tianheng answered seriously, “I’ve postponed a meeting. I’m looking at the trending topic with my secretary now.”
“Mm,” Meng Huaizhi was unhurried, his faint voice was inexplicably firm. “I’ll give you three hours.”
Shen Tianheng swallowed again, snorted, and then hung up the phone.
Shen Tianheng quickly had his secretary help him register for Weibo and complete the verification.
Weibo name: Shen Tianheng, verification: Chairman of the Shen Corporation.
He first posted a Weibo post to clarify his relationship with Xu Qiongya.
@Shen Tianheng: Ms. Xu and I have long since separated peacefully due to incompatible personalities. Thank you, Ms. Xu, for your companionship over the years [Image].
Even though he didn’t want the whole country’s netizens to witness their family’s scandal, this time he had no choice but to post that humiliating divorce certificate.
A moment later, he hurriedly posted another Weibo post.
@Shen Tianheng: @Driver Shen Wu This is my son, biological. Rumor-mongers will bear the consequences.
As soon as this Weibo post about Shen Wu was released, all the melon-eating netizens gathered in his comment section almost at the first moment. For a newly registered Weibo, the number of followers was actually soaring at a rate of hundreds per minute.
She had the same surname as Shen Wu, and Xu Qiongya was his ex-wife, which seemed much more credible than the groundless rumors of the unscrupulous paparazzi. But among the massive number of comments, there were still voices of doubt.
[Everyone says they’re incompatible when they get a divorce. Isn’t it because of a marital crisis that they divorced?]
[But they divorced in early March. Considering that they had no feelings for each other long before they decided to divorce, and they had to wait for a one-month cooling-off period, Ms. Xu only started to have contact with Film Emperor Qi at the end of March. Is there anything wrong with that? And they were just watching Shen Wu’s competition together, and Shen Wu was also there when they had a meal. It’s not like they were on a private date…]
[That’s right. They’re already divorced. I see that no one cares about those men who have one-night stands and cheat.]
[By the way, isn’t President Shen’s son the current vice president of the Shen Corporation? His name is on the company’s information there…]
[Is it Shen Ping? That President Shen from Star Entertainment?]
[Yes, yes, Star Entertainment is under the Shen Corporation!]
Shen Ping also took advantage of the buzz and spoke up, directly using the Star Entertainment official Weibo account, which had hundreds of thousands of followers.
Compared to the concise Shen Tianheng, he published a long and heartfelt article.
@Star Entertainment: I am the CEO of Star Entertainment, Shen Ping. Xiao Wu is my own half-brother. Ms. Xu is my stepmother. I am grateful for her twenty-plus years of dedication and care. She married into the Shen family in her early twenties to be my stepmother. After that, she no longer had a single day of her own life. My father has a strong personality and always can’t help but interfere and control the lives and career choices of his family members, which has led to the escalating conflicts at home. Shen Wu is a brave, sincere, and freedom-loving child with a dream and the ability to work hard for it. For his racing dream, he had to leave home to pursue his dream alone. Ms. Xu, in order to better accompany and take care of Xiao Wu, after careful consideration, finally chose to divorce my father. During this period of time, my father has also…
Shen Ping had almost thrown all the blame on Shen Tianheng, but these were all undeniable facts, with no fabrication. At the end of the article, he also belatedly explained a few words for his own father, barely salvaging a bit of Shen Tianheng’s public image.
Star Entertainment was the Shen family’s enterprise, so it was normal for Shen Wu to sign with his own company. Despite this, Shen Ping still went to great lengths to explain the whole story. The Shen Wu in his words was almost as simple and kind as an angel.
Shen Wu had entered the entertainment industry to earn money for his family, so he had entered his brother’s company and had not received any preferential treatment from beginning to end. Later, his contract was transferred to M+ Entertainment, both because M+ Entertainment had offered favorable conditions to poach him, and also because his brother hoped that he could develop freely without worrying about his family.
Shen Wu looked at the long article published by Shen Ping and was stunned for a long time. His finger hovered in mid-air, and for the first time, he was so conflicted about something as small as a like.
He thought for a moment, rested his head on his arms, and lay down on the table, repeatedly savoring the description in Shen Ping’s words.
—Shen Wu is a brave, sincere, and freedom-loving child with a dream and the ability to work hard for it…
Shen Ping had deliberately changed the address at the beginning of this paragraph and had used his full name, extremely solemn.
Shen Wu had never heard him call him by his full name, and the following evaluation also seemed too heavy. Even someone as confident as Shen Wu was a little embarrassed to take it to heart.
This should just be Shen Ping’s compensation for him, right? To solve the current rumors, just like the exaggerated praise of the public relations team’s hype, there’s never too much of a good thing.
He had had enough of watching the show. Two more WeChat messages popped up on his phone screen.
He usually called Shen Ping when he had something to do. The two of them had a large age gap and rarely chatted online, so much so that Shen Wu had not changed the contact name in his WeChat yet.
So he received these two messages.
Ge: Xiao Wu, those are also the words I’ve always wanted to say to you. It’s not public relations.
Ge: I’ll always be on your side.
Shen Wu had heard similar promises like the latter many times.
But never once like now.
After the two high-ranking Shen family members had spoken up, the tide of public opinion online quickly turned.
The few doubts that occasionally popped up were particularly abrupt in the one-sided public opinion and were naturally discovered by Shen Tianheng, who was always paying attention to Weibo.
This little bit of groundless doubt could not stir up any waves, but he was so angry that he replied one by one.
[Hahaha, what a great public relations.]
Shen Tianheng replied to the comment: The lawyer’s letter from the public relations department has been sent to you. Remember to check your private messages.
[What’s the situation? So it’s SW’s dad who was cuckolded, and he still has to come out and defend his ex-wife?]
Shen Tianheng replied to the comment: Are you talking about yourself?
[Are you really Shen Wu’s own dad? He’s not even replying to you…]
Shen Tianheng replied to the comment: He can reply if he wants to, and he doesn’t have to if he doesn’t. With this time, you should mind your own business.
[My friend knows a little about the Shen family’s situation. I heard that their family’s situation is quite complicated. Anyway, President Shen has always been quite disgusted with his youngest son. He never mentions him outside, and he’s never said a good word about him at home.]
Shen Tianheng replied to the comment: You know about my family’s affairs? Shen Wu is my son. What’s wrong with me saying a few words about my son? If your parents don’t care about you, it can only mean that you were picked up. You guys try to make up stories about him again?
#Chairman Shen’s true personality# trended.
Shen Wu: “…”
For many moments, he felt that Shen Tianheng was the male lead of this world.
Shen Tianheng’s true personality had let the passersby eat melon to their heart’s content.
He also did not disappoint the passersby’s expectations. To prove his relationship with Shen Wu, he posted three more photos of him and Shen Wu on Weibo.
These three photos were all of him and Shen Wu at the school entrance, taken at the beginning of elementary school, middle school, and high school respectively.
The elementary school Shen Wu was only as tall as Shen Tianheng’s thigh. One hand was held by Shen Tianheng, and the other was wiping the tears from the corner of his eye. His red peach blossom eyes looked pitifully out of the frame, probably at his mother.
The middle school Shen Wu was already as tall as Shen Tianheng’s shoulder. A shadow of the mature young man he was today could be vaguely seen. He was reluctantly half a meter away from Shen Tianheng, with a straight face looking at the camera.
By the time he was in high school, this time, Shen Wu was not even wearing a school uniform. A loose-fitting large T-shirt hung on the teenager’s thin body. He was carrying his schoolbag on one shoulder and was about to leave. The photo only captured his hazy side profile, which was still strikingly handsome.
The fans, on the other hand, took the opportunity to save these few father-son photos, their words and actions all revealing their obvious intentions.
[Father-in-law, calm down. Can you post more pictures of our Wuwu when he was a child?]
[So cute, ahhhhhh. As expected, a handsome guy is a handsome guy even as a child. A round face is also so handsome, so handsome and cute, wuwuwu.]
[Pinching Wuwu’s little face, so soft, so soft.]
[Wuwu is a natural handsome guy. He was so handsome in middle school, wuwuwu. Suddenly, I’m turned off by my school’s school grass (?)]
[Ahhhhhh, so cute and handsome.]
[Dad! Dad! Look at me!!! (shouting)]
Meng Huaizhi was always paying attention to the online trends and also saw these few father-son photos that were being made public for the first time, as well as all kinds of comments with ulterior motives.
He chose to be out of sight, out of mind. He only looked at the photos. After admiring them enough, he silently clicked save. Three photos at once, a full harvest.
Then he went to the album to edit, crop, and only left Shen Wu.
Then he moved them to the album titled “ww.”
