The True Heiress Is The Real Bigshot-Chapter 715 - 587 Exposed! [1 Update]_2

Shang Yaozhi’s eyes darkened, but he slowly let out a breath and regained his smile, "That’s actually quite good, I’ve regained confidence in myself."

The agent moved his lips, "Yaozhi, you’ve always been amazing. Don’t lose confidence in yourself."

Anyone would struggle to stay composed when being belittled like this at a public ceremony for an international award.

Shang Yaozhi just smiled.

There could only be one person who would dare do something like this, right?

Shang Yaozhi gazed at the girl sitting in the VIP seats, lost in thought.

On the stage, David was stunned, finding it hard to believe.

How could the surveillance video from their meeting room appear here?

And it wasn’t over yet.

After the video finished playing, a recording followed immediately.

As soon as David heard it, he recognized it as the call he made to Diana yesterday, and he began to sweat profusely.

Meanwhile, Diana’s complexion also turned grim.

Between winning an award and saving face, the latter was obviously more important.

Of course, having both would be the best.

Diana had never considered that her deal with David would be exposed.

Who would know about something like this?

And who could hack into her phone after finding out, stealing her call logs and recordings?

It was a dead wish.

More and more gazes converged on them, especially since there were many noble ladies present, all from the elite circles of O continent.

They whispered among themselves, their eyes constantly circling around Diana.

Diana’s face turned the color of iron, and an extreme sense of humiliation surged in her heart.

She immediately stood up and turned to walk outside.

She didn’t want to stay a second longer.

Being a lady of the Pazzi Family, the reporters wanted to stop her but didn’t dare.

"Turn it off!" David, holding a walkie-talkie, roared at the backstage, "Turn it off now! What’s wrong with you people?"

The backstage staff, sweating profusely, fumbled, "So-sorry, Mr. David, this is out of our control now, we can’t turn it off."

The voice continued.

"Yes, Miss Diana, rest assured, Chuguang Media is just a small company, they won’t dare to say anything, and they wouldn’t think that I would give their award to you."

With that, the audience on site went wild.

Viewers of the live broadcast in Hua Country were also infuriated.

[With this, you TM still have the audacity to belittle Shang Yaozhi’s acting? Are you worthy?]

[Impressive, Chuguang Media is a small workshop, so bullying is allowed, huh? If ’The Rebirth’ was a Universal Film Company production, the IFF jury wouldn’t dare to fart [smile].]

[Pazzi Family sure is something, reaching so far, but sorry, you still can’t control things in Hua Country.]

[I remember the IFF is invested by the Lorentz Family, right? Could it be that all these major clans of O continent are in cahoots, liking to bully people like this?]

The longstanding enmity between the Pazzi Family and the Lorentz Family is actually not widely known to the public.

After all, since Xize Laurent had woken up, the Lorentz Family had been focused solely on development, maintaining a peaceful coexistence with the Pazzi Family on the surface.

Those who had studied that period of O continent history didn’t associate the centuries-old situation with the present at all.

The audience below was abuzz with discussion, and reporters from various countries used their cameras to capture the moment non-stop.

Dave’s flustered and furious demeanor was fully documented.

This was indeed a big headline.

The scandal of corruption at the IFF Gold Awards wouldn’t even need a second day to spread across the entire international film industry by that evening.

It was a globally recognized award, even known to those who didn’t follow cinema closely.

David sweated buckets.

He yelled for the backstage to cut the power entirely, and finally, the image on the big screen disappeared.

Before David could catch his breath, someone took the stage.

The reporters recognized her as Xie Manyu, the Hua Country actress who had just won the Best Actress award.

Xie Manyu was also the first person of Chinese descent to receive this award.

However, the film was produced by Universal Film Company and wasn’t counted as part of Hua Country’s films.

"Sorry, I won’t accept this award," Xie Manyu stuffed the trophy directly into David’s arms, and cracked a slight smile, "Because I doubt your fairness and am quite afraid that my name was written down simply because you’re scared of Universal Film Company."

"If I were to accept it, my actions would be dishonorable as well, and I hope that it’s truly my acting that is worthy of this award."

Her statement made the judges unable to sit still.

A judge stood up and hurried a few steps forward: "Miss Xie, we can all guarantee that there’s absolutely no foul play with your award, we’ve discussed your portrayal comprehensively."

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He was still holding the Golden Image Award trophy, and when he turned his head, he met Shang Yaozhi’s gaze squarely.

Shang Yaozhi was sitting there quietly, without any complaints.

The award felt like a hot potato in Matt Bilitch’s hands.

Xie Manyu didn’t pay any attention to the judge and walked straight off the stage to the girl’s side: "Boss."

Ying Zijin looked at her: "That award is yours."

"It’s okay, I don’t want it," shrugged Xie Manyu, "I’m from Chuguang Media, we all share in the glory and the loss together. Anyway, I don’t take the awards too seriously."

As she spoke, she bent down, "Boss, you’ve saved my life; in matters like these, I’m only on your side."

Ying Zijin’s expression was stilled for a moment.

Xie Manyu turned her head: "Xiao Shang, you’re still young, it doesn’t matter if you don’t get this Golden Image Award."

Shang Yaozhi also smiled: "Teacher Xie is right."

At least now he could be sure that it wasn’t his acting that was the problem.

He could let go of that worry.

Indeed, winning the award or not didn’t matter anymore.

The scene had completely descended into chaos.

A few bold reporters had already run up the stage with their equipment, handing their microphones to David.

"Mr. David, you’ve openly cheated, are you such a person that fears power?"

"Mr. David, the IFF has lost its original fairness, what will you do if film companies stop submitting films to the IFF?"

David’s face was so unsightly, it seemed it might drip with gloom, his teeth grinding audibly.

The IFF Golden Image Award had a history of over a hundred years, with an event every year, well over a hundred times.

There had been scandals in the past, and the judges tacitly understood them.

That’s why David, in his new appointment, had given the important awards for "New Life" to "Lost Memories."

But it was the first time that the scandal had come out before the award ceremony had even finished.

How did it get out?

Who had the audacity?!

David still hadn’t figured it out.

But no matter what, this 123rd IFF Golden Image Award had turned into a joke.

The audience had long dispersed.

The trophy left by Xie Manyu at the judges’ table seemed to mock something.

Claire was still slumped in the soft chair.

He looked up blankly, watching the girl’s serene face, as his own complexion turned paler by the moment.

Era Media had raised numerous international film kings and queens, and though they had left Era Media to stand on their own, they would all come back to help when the company needed.

But this time, Era Media had offended even its home-grown film kings and queens.

If the IFF Golden Image Award could be faked and the scandal went public, it would become a laughing stock, who would dare to star in Era Media’s movies again?

But how did it get out?

Ying Zijin lifted her eyes slightly and said indifferently, "I told you, this is just a beginning."

Originally, she had more meticulous plans targeting Era Media.

Now they weren’t needed.

David finally got away from the reporters.

He quickly stepped down from the stage, looked at the girl, and sneered, "Don’t think you can leave Jade Ice Cui unscathed!"

How could a Hua Country entertainment company defy the Lorentz Family so openly and not lose face, could the Lorentz Family let them off?