Chapter 96 Cheng Cheng: I have a great idea!

By 7:30 in the evening, the news that Cheng Cheng was holding a press conference had spread.

As the night deepened and the lights came on, the venue for the press conference was crowded with people. Media reporters set up their cameras and looked for the best shooting angles.

The live broadcast room has been opened and the barrage of comments has started rolling.

Reporters at the scene whispered to each other:
"Brother Ma, how do you think Cheng Cheng will respond to this press conference?"

"It's hard to say. It depends on how his PR team discusses it. But I think, judging from the current pressure from public opinion, he definitely won't dare to evade this issue."

"Indeed, the donation fraud incident has caused a lot of controversy, and he must give the public a clear explanation."

"Having said that, how to explain and to what extent is a technical job. The complexity is far from as simple as it seems on the surface. If he is not careful, he may fall into the abyss again after just becoming popular."

"It all depends on whether Cheng Cheng goes crazy or not. I think Cheng Cheng might make a big deal. We all think that the purpose of his press conference is to respond to the donation issue. Maybe he just wants to fool the whole nation and sleep on the stage."

"Pfft - you never know! If that's the case, then we have something to report!"

At the same time, discussions started online:
"Cheng Cheng must be trying to quibble at this press conference. Just like what Luo Ge said, don't be fooled by his sweet words! Everyone should be vigilant!"

"That's right, what the hell is the point of responding? Isn't this press conference just an attempt to whitewash themselves? What's there to say? There were no donations, and I tell you, it's too late to make amends now!"

"Why did he tag so many people at the end? To divert attention?"

"I'm already familiar with the routines of the domestic entertainment industry. It will definitely be another bunch of empty apologies and sophistry. These actors are always thinking about how to evade responsibility and calm public opinion, rather than truly solving the problem and recognizing their own mistakes."

Blackie:
"You can't wait to convict Cheng Cheng before the press conference even starts, right? Isn't the purpose of a press conference to respond to outside doubts? Don't you even have this little bit of patience?"

"I see. Frog is too straightforward and has caused a lot of trouble. He starts to jump up and down at the slightest sign of trouble. How much do you hate him?"

"They don't hate so many actors who abuse their stand-ins; they don't hate so many directors who lick the capitalists; they don't hate so many shoddy bad movies! But when Cheng Cheng put all his efforts into making the anti-fraud film "All or Nothing" which broke 20 billion, and directed and starred in "A Little Thing Called First Love" which was stuffed with eight good songs and grossed over 30 billion at the box office, they hated him to death. I would rather believe that those who are led by the rhythm do so because they don't know the truth, rather than out of human malice."

"The broken icheng, the fangirls, the fans of Lu Zhuofeng, the blacklisted investors, the movie investors who saw Brother Frog's huge commercial success, and the idol stars who just do nothing, they have too many reasons to hate Brother Frog, they can't tolerate Brother Frog."

"Don't be impatient when the situation turns around later!"

"I don't believe that the person who wrote 'I am not afraid of being torn to pieces, I just want to leave my innocence in the world' could do such a thing!"

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"Inversion?"

Xia Ming laughed so hard when he saw this comment. He had already blocked all of Cheng Cheng's escape routes, so how could he turn things around? What kind of turn was that?
Unless Cheng Cheng had already donated the money, but this is absolutely impossible!

If they have donated money, why would they hold a press conference? !
He had already made his judgment!

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Zhao Wenliang smiled sinisterly and said, "The press conference will start in ten minutes!"

Lu Zhuofeng asked: "Are the navy ready?"

"Of course," Zhao Wenliang said confidently, "We have already entered the live broadcast room. No matter what Cheng Cheng says later, we can ensure that the direction of public opinion is always in our hands!"

"That's good!" Lu Zhuofeng's eyes showed some hatred and anger, "Make all preparations, and make sure he pays the price this time!"

Zhao Wenliang patted his shoulder and said, "Don't worry, we won't let him off easily. He has run out of tricks. This press conference is the beginning of his downfall!"

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The time came to seven fifty and Cheng Cheng appeared at the press conference.

The scene instantly became agitated, with reporters’ cameras and flashlights pointed at Cheng Cheng. The live broadcast room was also boiling, with comments filling the screen:
【coming! 】

【1】

[Why hold a press conference? Just quit the industry to avoid embarrassment! ]

[That's right! Anyway, the things you think about are a waste of your brain cells, and speaking them out insults our intelligence, so why bother to explain them? ]

【climb! 】

[Wait for the disease to reoccur and see what I can do this time]

[Anyway, let’s listen to Cheng Cheng’s explanation first]

[Brother Frog! I support you! ]

Cheng Cheng walked onto the stage with a cheerful smile on his face, waving as he walked, as if he was not attending a press conference about an apology, but something like a fan meeting or a product launch.

After he stepped onto the stage, he smiled and said, "There are so many people~"

【What is he laughing at? ! 】

[Pfft~ He's quite relaxed]

Li Zhuo followed Cheng Cheng and walked onto the stage together.

She was holding a bundle of square objects in her hand, which looked like documents or books. Reporters at the scene turned their cameras to the bundle, speculating that it might be related to the press conference.

In front of the live broadcast room, Xia Ming sneered: No matter what it is, it can't turn the world upside down!
Cheng Cheng sat down, tried the microphone, and got straight to the point:

"I said before that I would donate 100 million yuan in the next ten years, but later I changed my mind."

【? ? ? 】

There was a "boom"!
Opening lightning strike!
The barrage exploded!

The audience was puzzled:
[What the hell? Not donating anymore? ]

【Not acting anymore? ! ! ! 】

[No, you are playing with people's feelings, right? ]

[You've made so much money, why don't you donate it? 】

【madman! 】

[Can you take back what you said? Then why are you still a star?! ]

[Fuck! I shouldn't have supported you in the first place! It has become my cyber black history! ]

[I give in, bro! ]

There was excitement and shock in Xia Ming's eyes!
He didn't know why Cheng Cheng said that, but things were obviously developing according to his crew's wishes!

And running all the way!
He didn't know what to say. Should he say that Cheng Cheng cooperated well? Or that his plan was extremely clever?

“Hahahaha~”, he laughed wildly, “Cheng Cheng, although I don’t know what you are crazy about, but you are seeking death yourself, so you can’t blame me, hahahaha~”

At the same time, executives from blacklisted companies such as Xianghua Entertainment and Fanghua Beauty were also watching the live broadcast. Seeing this, they wanted to jump up and tell the world:

"Look! Did you see that? Cheng Cheng said this himself! This lunatic admitted this himself!"

"Block him now!"

"Block him!"

At the scene, the sounds of shutter clicks were heard one after another.

Cheng Cheng continued, "I originally wanted to donate 100 million directly. Isn't that bold? Donate 100 million directly! When I first came up with this idea, I told everyone in the public that I would donate 100 million directly. I also told the people around me that, and everyone around me was very excited! 100 million in cash. I have been preparing to donate 100 million in cash, but later I changed my mind because I felt that whether I donated 100 million or 1 billion, it would not be of much use."

[What kind of bullshit is this? One billion or one billion is useless? ]

【? ? ? 】

[Put your head here and see if I hit you or not]

[Is this Chinese? Why can't I understand it? ]

[Is this guy out of his mind? ]

【Crazy talk! 】

[It's no use, just give me all your money! ]

[As a public figure, is it really appropriate to say that 100 million is useless? ]

Cheng Cheng was not affected and continued:
"Because whether it is 100 million or 1 billion, it is like water without a source, and it will run out sooner or later. I have a greater vision, which is to establish an inexhaustible charity fund!"

"This charity fund is making money all the time and creating wealth continuously. Even if it is ten years, a hundred years, or a thousand years later, it will still be running. As long as the world does not perish, it will exist forever!"

"It's just like the Wangdel Award! It's the most important award in the world! I also want to create the most famous charity fund in the world. The money created by this charity fund will be used directly for charity, bringing aid and hope to children in need around the world! Of course, the first thing to be guaranteed must be the aid and support of our Tianxia!"

“Within a year, it will create a value of over a million!”

“Over 10 million in three years!”

“Over 100 million in ten years!”

“Over 10 billion in 50 years!”

Cheng Cheng gestured with his hands:

"What do you think? Do you think this idea is great? Is this idea bold? Is this idea better than donating 100 million directly?"

【What is this lunatic saying? 】

[Mom, I’m scared! 】

[Inexhaustible. Are you dreaming? ]

[Why don’t you donate your 100 million first? ]

[No, are you dreaming here? ]

[It's getting more and more crazy][Okay, okay! As expected, it's another madness to divert attention routine! It's been predicted! ]

[No way to save this person]

Li Zhuo opened the bundle and found brand new, beautifully packaged books inside.

Cheng Cheng took a copy from Li Zhuo and said, "This book is called The Little Prince. It's a short fairy tale. This is the basis of my idea!"

"Hmm?" Xia Ming felt something was wrong in front of the screen.

Zhao Wenliang, Lu Zhuofeng and others also frowned and waited for further instructions.

Cheng Cheng showed the book to the camera:

"Half a year ago, this book was just completed; two months ago, the book was applying for a book number; a week ago, the book number was finally approved and printing began, with an initial plan of 30 copies; now, 10 copies have been printed, and another 20 copies are being rushed.

My idea is to create a children's charity fund based on the book "The Little Prince". All the money earned from the book, except for printing costs, distribution costs, and foundation operating costs, will be donated to help children in need. I will bear the cost of the first 300,000 copies alone."

At this point, he felt a little frustrated:
"Of course, I also know that you will definitely not believe what I said before. At the beginning, I didn't plan to publicize it. I wanted to report to the public after the results were achieved. But I didn't expect the pace to come so fast and everyone was urging me so much. I had no choice but to publish a press release to prove my innocence and tell everyone that I have actually been doing charity work all along!"

The barrage is stupid!

【what? 】

[He is actually doing charity? ]

[No, I want to ask, is it reliable to donate money from the income from selling books? ]

[Isn't this just a show? ]

[Can a book support a foundation? ]

Now a reporter raised his hand to ask:
"Cheng Cheng, how can you prove that you have been preparing for this, and not just doing it on impulse to whitewash yourself? Maybe you didn't write this book for charity, but now you have no choice but to do this. Please forgive my presumptuousness, but I believe that I am not the only one who has this suspicion. Everyone here, including the audience in the live broadcast room, has this suspicion."

Xia Ming shouted "Nice!" and thought that the reporter asked a good question!
Cheng Cheng pointed at the reporter and asked, "My reporter friend, what is your name?"

The reporter who asked the question said calmly, "Excuse me, my surname is Li."

Cheng Cheng: "Okay, big face, you asked a good question!"

Reporter Li: ???

Why the hell you ask me!

Cheng Cheng showed the back of the book and asked, "Can I take a picture of it?"

Reporter Li nodded and said, "We can take the picture."

Cheng Cheng pointed to a line of small words on the back of the book and said:
"This book is dedicated to children all over the world. The proceeds from each book will be donated to the Little Prince Children's Care Fund to help children in need around the world. Thank you for your love and for working with us to protect the future of children around the world."

"I designed this sentence myself and printed it on the back of every book. It's on the 100,000 copies that have been printed, and it's also on the 200,000 copies that have yet to be printed."

"From now on, you can search for the Shenhua Publication official account on WeChat and buy the book there. Each copy is priced at 20 yuan, and reservations are accepted until copies are sold out."

Cheng Cheng looked at the reporter who asked the question again: "My dear, the scandal about my fraudulent donation has been going on for a few days."

Reporter Li: “Two days.”

Cheng Cheng: "Do you think it's possible to add this sentence to the cover and print 100,000 copies in two days?"

Reporter Li shook his head subconsciously: "I can't do it."

Cheng Cheng smiled: "Very good, of course I can't do it. No one can do it. This is enough to prove that I have been making this preparation, and it is not just a spur-of-the-moment decision to whitewash myself. But in order to dispel everyone's suspicion, I can provide more sufficient evidence."

Li Zhuo operated and projected Cheng Cheng's mobile phone interface onto the big screen.

Cheng Cheng said: "This is the chat record between me and the editor of the publishing house on January 1th. The chat record contains the content of my communication with the editor, which includes this sentence. Is it clear?"

Reporter surnamed Li: “It is clear and straightforward.”

Cheng Cheng: "This is the email I sent to the editor. It contains the book cover I designed myself. When you click on it, you can clearly see that the same sentence is printed on the back of the book cover. The date is eight days ago, January 1nd. Is the evidence conclusive?"

Reporter surnamed Li: “The evidence is irrefutable.”

Cheng Cheng: "These two can't be fake, right?"

Reporter Li nodded: "I can't do that."

Cheng Cheng looked at him with a smile: "Well, big long face, do you have any questions?"

Reporter Li shook his head and said, "No more."

Not only did he have no doubts, but all the viewers in the live broadcast room had no doubts.

[These evidences are obviously real, they can't be forged]

[The difficulty of forging this evidence is no less than holding the president of QQ hostage, not to mention that there are only two days]

[It turns out that Cheng Cheng really wasn't doing anything funny.]

[I said that Frog Brother would not defraud donations! You can question Frog Brother’s mental state, but you cannot question Frog Brother’s character]

[Hahahaha, you guys are yelling! Why aren’t you yelling anymore?!]

[Some netizens are always on the front line, always get slapped in the face, never learn their lesson, and can never be awakened. I want to ask, will you die if you wait a little longer? ]

[Fortunately, Frog had sufficient evidence, otherwise this wave of accusations would have really ruined it]

[This wave of face slapping is so cool to watch! ]

In front of the screen, Xia Ming was a little bit unbelievable!

He was confident that he had predicted all of Cheng Cheng's actions and blocked all of Cheng Cheng's escape routes, but he never expected that Cheng Cheng would turn the tables in a way that he could never have expected! And the evidence was so sufficient! There was no loophole at all!
Writing a book and then using the manuscript for charity, is there such a cool trick?
This lunatic! This lunatic!
You ruined my script!
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Lu Zhuofeng and Zhao Wenliang also found it hard to accept, especially Lu Zhuofeng. At this moment, his face turned ashen and he wished he could eat someone!
He thought that he had waited for a perfect opportunity, and this time he would be able to avenge his previous defeat and completely defeat Cheng Cheng, but he did not expect that Cheng Cheng would be able to escape from the net!!!

Why the hell?
Is there really no way to deal with him? !
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At the scene, other reporters stood up and asked questions.

In fact, ignoring those crazy things Cheng Cheng said at the beginning, like "create a world-famous charity fund" and "it will exist forever as long as the world does not perish", they can still feel Cheng Cheng's intentions.

But no matter how well-intentioned it is, this behavior is still difficult to evaluate.

"Cheng Cheng, how can you be sure that this book will be able to create a value of 100 million? Is it too optimistic? Are you so confident about the content of this book?"

"Cheng Cheng, what if the market doesn't buy it? After all, the establishment of a public welfare fund requires a lot of financial support. If the book sales are not good, how do you plan to deal with it?"

"Mr. Cheng Cheng, how do you ensure the transparency and fairness of the charity fund? How do you prevent the funds from being abused or misappropriated?"

"The operation of a public welfare fund requires a professional team to manage it. Have you already formed such a team? How do you guarantee their professionalism and experience?"

"Cheng Cheng, can you explain in detail the charity model of this book? After readers buy the book, how does the money flow into the charity fund?"

Cheng Cheng answered them one by one: "First of all, I will not answer the content of this book for the time being. I want everyone to evaluate it. I will give a reporter to each little prince present today."

Did every reporter give out a copy of The Little Prince?

But the reporters at the scene were tactful enough not to correct Cheng Cheng.

Cheng Cheng: "Including the audience in the live broadcast room, one thousand people will be randomly selected to be sent out. I hope that after reading this book, everyone can give a fair and objective evaluation of the quality of this book. I know that everyone has different preferences, but I believe there are certain standards for objectively analyzing the quality of a book."

[Sending the reporter, right? ]

【Let’s get a fair-skinned, beautiful and long-legged girl】

"In addition!" Cheng Cheng added, "What if the market doesn't buy it? It's normal to have such doubts. I understand everyone. If it can't achieve the goal of 'the value it creates will exceed one million within a year! Over ten million within three years! Over one hundred million within ten years!', I will make up the remaining money! But I believe that it will not be used."

"Regarding the transparency and fairness of the public welfare fund, I know this is the issue that the public is most concerned about and is also the key to ensuring the healthy operation of the fund. To this end, I can assure you that I will establish a strict financial management system to ensure that every inflow and outflow of funds is clearly recorded and audited regularly. All financial statements will be open and transparent for the public to review so that everyone can understand the use of funds."

[Now I believe it. Cheng Cheng is really doing charity work with all his heart.]

[Indeed, all financial statements are open and transparent, which is something that many charitable foundations cannot do. This attitude is impeccable! ]

[It is much higher than some funds]

Half an hour later, the reporter's questioning ended. Cheng Cheng felt a little sleepy. He yawned and said:

"It's almost time. Let's end today's press conference here. Oh, by the way, I forgot one thing."

He took out a crumpled piece of paper from his pocket, unfolded it, asked Li Zhuo for a pen, and wrote down a name.

The reporters present looked at each other in bewilderment. What was going on?
A sharp-eyed reporter recognized that the paper was Cheng Cheng's revenge list.

He asked excitedly: "Cheng Cheng, is this your revenge list? Did you remember another name? Can you tell me who it is? Is it Xia Ming?"

Cheng Cheng looked at the live camera and said:
"I know who is behind my plot this time, and I hope you know that too. I hope we can have a good chat next time we meet, and talk about why you framed me."

In front of the screen, Xia Ming looked at Cheng Cheng's dark eyes, as if he was stung by a scorpion, and jumped up from the sofa! He was terrified!

Cheng Cheng, you lunatic!
He tagged me on Weibo before, and now he put me on the revenge list!

Although it was indeed me who did it, you have no evidence. How can you say that it was me who did it? !

You crazy bastard!
Crazy batch!

But soon, as his fear receded like a tide and he gradually regained his composure, he realized:

The person Cheng Cheng wrote down may not be me!
And even if it's me, so what?

Do you think everything will be fine after answering the doubts?

We haven't discussed your matter clearly yet!
I just don’t believe that as a top star who has been scolded as a poor student, you can write a book worth 100 million yuan!
Your book is not good! You still can't calm down the rhythm!
　Thanks to the big guy [D's Fraudster] for the 1500 starting coins, thanks to the big guy [Three Cats Who Love Tofu Pudding] for the 600 starting coins, thanks to Chen Hansheng's apprentice for the 100 starting coins, the big guys are awesome!!!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)