Chapter 638: Chapter 638

Qin Siqin: [Actually, it’s quite normal. Wen Ningning was bound to leave the girl group. She couldn’t just help JY clarify things for nothing. It’s all just a ’give and take’ deal, mutually agreed upon.]

He Jinxia just finished brushing his teeth and came back, seeing this, he slowly replied.

He Jinxia: [JY also came to find me, but I refused him.]

Qin Siqin: [Good refusal. JY is like a ticking bomb. As long as the group members themselves aren’t careful, the traces they leave will sooner or later resurface.]

Yu Yanyu: [...I think we’re not talking about the same thing.]

Yu Yanyu: [How idle do you think I am to go bother about Wen Ningning? I’m talking about the agent group this morning. Didn’t you see it? Tonghua Entertainment is preparing a big girl group reality show! And what’s more, Zhang Yingru is joining!]

Qin Siqin: [?? I don’t have such an agent group.]

Yu Yanyu: [Then you can leave; I’m talking about the agent group of Tonghua Entertainment.]

Qin Siqin: [You got me there.JPG]

After getting dressed, He Jinxia saw this message and couldn’t help but be stunned, his eyes full of confusion.

The agent group of Tonghua Entertainment... He hadn’t joined such a group.

He Jinxia couldn’t help but ask—

[What group is this?]

Yu Yanyu: [It’s the group set up by agents of Tonghua Entertainment.]

He Jinxia: [So it’s clearly an agents’ group, how did you mix in?]

Yu Yanyu was instantaneously startled, stunned.

He had naturally snuck in quietly.

This was still a secret, his own agent had admonished him over and over not to let it out.

Seeing the message, he was too excited and accidentally exposed the group!!

Yu Yanyu: [Sorry, I wandered off in my sleep, I went to the wrong set, I misspoke, sorry, I got the group wrong [goodbye]]

Qin Siqin: [If you don’t confess honestly, here comes a report call.]

He Jinxia: [Bring it on!] Thɪs chapter is updated by novｅlfire.net

Yu Yanyu: [This is a secret I can’t tell. Please spare me, sisters.]

Qin Siqin: "I’ve already picked up my phone and opened the dial screen."

He Jinxia: "The whistleblower hotline for Tonghua Entertainment is 533XXX28, you’re welcome to take it."

Yu Yanyu: "Damn it, I’ll talk! I’ll talk, okay!!"

Here, several hundred lines of dialogue are omitted.

Qin Siqin was patient and gradually forced young Yu Yanyu to reveal how he infiltrated the agent’s inner circle, then extracted decision-making news from within the company, and always kept an eye on the company’s moves.

By the time He Jinxia arrived at the filming site, Yu Yanyu’s confession had reached its final part on her phone.

Yu Yanyu: "This morning when I opened the group chat, I saw a message that Tonghua Entertainment is going to host a large-scale real-life girl group show soon, aimed at tapping into the sparse girl group market and boosting the popularity of lesbian girl groups, while also looking for promising new talent."

Yu Yanyu: "After painstakingly climbing over the firewall, I discovered that the current agent of JY girl group, Zhang Yingru, is actually going to take over this program! That means, she might continue to manage a girl group, so does this count as her giving up on JY to seek a way out?"

Seeing this, He Jinxia’s expression hardened and she fell into deep thought.

An agent and a star complement each other. JY girl group is currently in a slump, and for Zhang Yingru to maintain her position as a second-tier agent—or even advance further—she must launch a better girl group, but this group definitely will not be JY.

Though it is said that some stars in the entertainment circle are late bloomers, girl groups are not included; JY has been out for six years, and the first year of their debut was also the peak of their popularity.

During that period, they stood at the summit of all Huaxia girl groups, a hot commodity among second-tier stars, appearing at every major event, and many TV dramas featured theme songs sung by them.

That was the prime period of JY’s development, and with such a strong start, many people in the industry were optimistic about JY, believing they could truly be "the light of Huaxia girl groups."

When did they start to decline?

Perhaps it was when the members all became famous, their attitudes inflated, and they stopped putting their heart into engagements, causing the quality of their public appearances to degrade gradually, frequently missing opportunities, making progressively poorer decisions...

He Jinxia shrugged her shoulders, snapping out of her reverie, a team rising from glory to obscurity and then back to glory was all too common.

The entertainment circle receives new things every day, with thousands of changes; she couldn’t pinpoint the exact reasons for JY’s decline, as there were too many influencing factors.

He Jinxia lowered her gaze. Yu Yanyu was also a star at Tonghua Entertainment, she knew he had a decent relationship with Sheng Yan and came from a good family. Since the news came from his channel, it was likely true.

It seemed that Zhang Yingru also had little faith in JY and was planning to foucs on a new team. Even if she had led this group for six years, when it came down to it, she was ready to let go, a typical businessman’s nature.

"Jinxia, did you see the statement Wen Ningning released this morning?" Cheng Xiaohua’s voice reached her ears.

He Jinxia nodded at her. On her way to the set, she had casually scrolled through the hot topics on Weibo, not only seeing Wen Ningning’s statement but also noticing a headline about a wolf taking on a new film.

Cheng Xiaohua curiously asked, "It’s surprising that Wen Ningning chose to speak up for JY. After seeing her withdrawal statement yesterday and the final few lines she left, it seemed like she was supporting JY, but actually, she was mocking them.

The withdrawal statement hasn’t been deleted yet, and a new clarifying statement comes out, everyone comments that Wen Ningning is slapping her own face. Jinxia, do you also issue clarification statements?"

He Jinxia shook her head.

Cheng Xiaohua felt relieved, her demeanor relaxing as she said, "I was worried you’d get hot-headed and impulsively speak up for your former Boss. I think there will be a twist in this matter later, so let’s not be hasty in taking sides yet, lest we end up getting slapped in the face later."

He Jinxia’s past grievances with JY were only vaguely known to Cheng Xiaohua, mostly on the surface, not as clearly as Luo You understood; she still thought their resentment was just a minor squabble.

Jinxia had been with JY for four years after all; even if she was doing better now, she might still reminisce about her youth.

Cheng Xiaohua worried that if someone from JY called and pleaded with Jinxia, she might soften her heart, even though Jinxia didn’t appear that irrational.

But people stammer, horses stumble, so just in case, Cheng Xiaohua still offered a reminder.

Soon, the set was prepared, and both He Jinxia and Qiu Zhenze had finished their makeup, starting another busy day.