Chapter 972: Trouble Resolved
After Tim Haggis spoke to Xiao Yao, he took action. With the energy of his FBI middle manager, it is not difficult to secretly disclose the facts of a certain case to the parties.
In the case of Hobson's food poisoning, he and his team thought it was an accident, because a buyer at one of the restaurants he dined at lost money in the casino and purchased expired and spoiled ingredients at low prices in order to make up for his losses. The person in charge of the restaurant sincerely apologized to him in person, and when he learned that the person responsible had been arrested by the police, he thought that this was the end of the matter.
But what he didn't expect was that almost half a month after the incident, he received a message from an anonymous person. Through this information, combined with what he heard about the Korean group and the Chinese star Xiao Yao competing for guest performers during the rehearsal before the Billboard Awards ceremony, Hopson and his team easily concluded that their food poisoning was instigated by someone else.
Although Tim Haggis said on the phone with Xiao Yao that he was a mid-level FBI who was not afraid of offending entertainment companies, he did not want to make an enemy for nothing. In order to avoid exposing his colleagues and friends in Las Vegas and himself, Tim Haggis secretly sent some technical processing to Hobson, at least non-police professionals in the entertainment industry like Hobson and his team can't see that those things come from within the police.
Since it is impossible to see that the information came from within the police and was received anonymously, the credibility of these things is questionable.
At this year's Billboard Awards, replacing Hopson as a guest performer was Chinese star Xiao Yao. As a result, Xiao Yao was the actual beneficiary of Hopson's inability to attend the awards ceremony, and it should be more likely that Xiao Yao was the mastermind behind it, but the information in that document pointed the finger at the Korean-American agent of the Korean group that failed to compete, so Hopson did not believe the anonymous information, but informed his company of the matter, asked the company to use resources to investigate, and at the same time personally invited a private detective to verify.
Hopson may not be particularly well-known in the world, but he is also an A-list star singer in the United States, and the company behind him also has considerable scale and strength. The company and his personal investment in the investigation, coupled with the secret help of Tim Haggis, made a relatively clear judgment in just two days.
In this world, there is fierce competition in all walks of life, but giving food to people who are not competitors in the strict sense in order to replace each other's subordinate means is relatively rare and bad even in the entertainment industry, and Hopson and the company behind it will naturally not give up.
The response within the industry will come later, and Hobson can't let go of the direct implementers of this matter in the first place. The case has not yet been closed on the police side, and the Hopson team immediately handed over the anonymous evidence received and the evidence verified by itself to the police as a whistleblower, urging the police to speed up further in-depth investigation.
Seeing that the Hopson team came up with the evidence, the local police department in charge of the case in Las Vegas knew that the lid could not be closed. Since it can't be covered, the police naturally have to follow the normal procedures. Because the Hopson team provided evidence and stared at the side, the police handled the case very efficiently.
Although the BTBS portfolio and its agent have left Las Vegas, they are still active in the United States. Las Vegas police soon traveled to Miami to arrest BTBS's agent, John Lee, as a suspect and bring him back to Las Vegas.
Hopson and the companies behind him will also take follow-up actions against the companies of the Korean combination, so it is only natural that the public will know about this matter. First, the news of John Lee's arrest was reported by a media in the United States, and then Hopson held a special press conference to tell the media about the case, and showed some of the solid evidence, publicly condemning John Lee's behavior.
Although Hobson has no evidence at hand to prove whether this incident is John Lee's personal behavior or the instructions of the higher management of the Korean entertainment company or simply the collective decision of the company, but this kind of thing, even if it is an individual act, the company cannot get rid of it, and Hopson intentionally or unintentionally brought the Korean entertainment company behind John Lee at the press conference, obviously trying to do it with the other company.
The case is still under investigation, and the police have only arrested John Lee as a suspect, not to mention that the court has not yet convicted him, and the police have not even charged him with the crime. The case is not yet closed, and it stands to reason that it would be inappropriate for Hopson to open fire on John Lee and his company now, but Hopson has shown a lot of solid evidence, and the matter has basically been determined in many media outlets.
Although the suspects and victims involved are all locals, they involve foreign stars and foreign companies, such an incident is simply breaking news.
The media doesn't have to wait until the case is closed. Now with this explosive news, of course, the media reporters couldn't hold back and immediately reported the news.
Although the suspect and victim in this case are not Xiao Yao, they also have something to do with Xiao Yao.
Before Hopson presented the evidence, many people, including journalists, were skeptical about John Lee's motives. Hopson was absent from the awards ceremony because of food poisoning, and instead of being a guest performer, it was not John Lee's Korean group that benefited, but Chinese star Xiao Yao.
At the press conference, some media reporters raised this question in public.
So, while presenting the evidence, Hopson also told the media reporters about what he learned from David Green, the on-site director of the Billboard Awards ceremony, about the rehearsal that day. At the end, Hopson also thanked God for letting Xiao Yao unexpectedly kill halfway, and didn't let John Lee and the Korean combination succeed.
Previously, an anonymous social media account in South Korea broke the news that the mastermind behind this incident was detained on Xiao Yao's head, and after some gossip media in South Korea and Huaxia reprinted the report, there was an uproar on the Internet. As soon as this news came out, it was equivalent to completely returning Xiao Yao's innocence, so the media in Huaxia quickly reprinted this news to China.
When the "scandal" came out, because there was no substantial evidence, most of the Chinese netizens were skeptical, and when the news of John Lee's arrest and Hobson's press conference reached Huaxia, those small number of doubts quickly disappeared, and were replaced by everyone's evaluation and discussion of this matter.
In addition to condemning the bad behavior of the South Korean group's agent and even his company, Chinese netizens also spoke more highly of Xiao Yao's performance at the Billboard Awards Ceremony.
When Xiao Yao's "rumors" came out before, someone had already broken the news that Xiao Yao became a guest performer at this year's Billboard Awards Ceremony through competition with others. Now judging from this news, Xiao Yao's competitor at that time was the Korean group BTBS, which was more popular in Europe and the United States.
Of course, this is not the point, the point is that it can be judged from this news that since the agent of the Korean group is behind the Hobson food poisoning incident, then the Korean group must have been prepared when competing. Xiao Yao would be another candidate for the guest performer at that time, according to Hopson's relay in the news that David Green, the director of the awards ceremony, was temporarily recommended by Nicky Thompson and Cordy Scott, who were attending the rehearsal at the time, after learning about Hopson.
This also means that Xiao Yao won the prepared BTBS in the competition without preparation and became a guest performer. As a result, a large number of "remote blows" began to wreak havoc on the Internet in Huaxia.
In the few days before receiving the certificate, Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting had already taken the time to record the official versions of the two songs "Theremedy" and "Lucky", but they have not yet been released on the music website. In fact, after the Billboard Awards ceremony was broadcast, some fans shouted on the Internet for Xiao Yao to release the official version of "Theremedy", but Xiao Yao only started recording it on the day of the broadcast of the awards ceremony, and after the recording, he had to prepare to get the certificate, so it was not released for the time being.
Originally, Xiao Yao planned to release the song after receiving the certificate, but now because of the case, his performance at the awards ceremony on the Internet has been higher, and the shouting has made Xiao Yao send the official version of the call more, and Xiao Yao took the opportunity to release the official version of "Theremedy".
As for the official version of another song "Lucky", Xiao Yao held it in his hand and did not release it.
The truth behind the previous Hobson food poisoning incident was not exposed, and Billboard magazine did not reveal to the media that Xiao Yao replaced Hopson as a guest performer and competed with the Korean group for PK in order to save face for the Korean group. Later, when Hobson explained the reason why Xiao Yao became a guest performer to American media reporters at the press conference, many media reporters not only knew that Xiao Yao had also gone through PK, but also realized that Xiao Yao was unprepared at that time, and they were also very interested in the PK situation of the two groups of people at that time.
The case has not yet been closed, and many media reporters are following up on it. When there was no further information about the case, some media reporters went to the people who participated in the rehearsal of the awards ceremony to learn about the PK of the two groups.
At this time, John Lee's behavior had been exposed, and the people at Billboard no longer had to worry about the face of the Korean group, so they told the media reporters the detailed process at that time. In addition, after Hobson revealed at the press conference that Nicky Thompson and Cordy Scott were the people who recommended Xiao Yao to be the guest performers, these two were also interviewed by many media reporters. Whether it was David Green, the on-site director of the awards ceremony, or these two star singers, they were full of praise for Xiao Yao's performance during the rehearsal, and they also revealed that Xiao Yao had temporarily prepared two performances at that time.
The song Xiao Yao performed at the awards ceremony was "Theremedy", which the audience had seen, and it was indeed very exciting, and according to these interviewers, Xiao Yao's other performance at that time was even more exciting than the song "Theremedy". In that performance, Xiao Yao actually completed a song called "Lucky" with two different timbres for men and women, which gave everyone at the scene a great shock.
What didn't make Xiao Yao's performance even more shocking? These people actually told the interviewed reporters very frankly that they were afraid that Xiao Yao's performance would be too brilliant and overshadow the limelight of those nominated performers, so they tacitly chose Xiao Yao's other relatively less shocking performance.
Such a statement naturally greatly shocked the reporters who interviewed and the netizens who saw the report later. It's just a pity that the TV station did not arrange behind-the-scenes filming during the rehearsal, so Xiao Yao's wonderful performance of completing the same song with two different timbres of men and women has not been recorded, and everyone has not had a chance to see it for the time being.
Xiao Yao also has fans in the United States, and he also has foreign social media accounts. Many American fans and netizens who felt very unbelievable that one person performed two different timbres of a man and a woman in one song at the same time in media reports ran to Xiao Yao's American social media account to leave messages, asking Xiao Yao to release a video or audio of singing the song.
After Huaxia fans and netizens often shouted for Xiao Yao to release the official version of the song, fans and netizens in the United States also began to shout to Xiao Yao publicly on the Internet. It's just that the requirements of fans and netizens in the United States are lower than those in Huaxia, and they don't ask for the official version of the song, only a video or audio.
After the news of the arrest of BTBS's agent John Lee reached Huaxia, Xiao Yao's troubles were basically solved. After receiving the certificate, Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting rested for a few days, and after the people in the studio basically confirmed with Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany that there was no major problem in renting part of the castle venue for him as a wedding venue, Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting flew to Germany with some relevant staff of the studio.
Some of the wedding things can be handed over to the people in the studio to do, and some of them are done by Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting themselves, such as the selection of the wedding venue. Although both have decided that they want to have their wedding in Neuschwanstein Castle, they are only renting part of the space, not the whole of Neuschwanstein Castle. To choose which places to choose, the two of them still have to go to Neuschwanstein Castle to carefully inspect them in person, and then come to discuss and decide with each other.
Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting went to Germany for about a week. During this period, Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting not only wandered around Neuschwanstein Castle to inspect the wedding venue, but also met with Martin Groz of BMW Group headquarters and finalized a cooperation project.
This time, Neuschwanstein Castle was able to agree to let Xiao Yao rent a venue for the wedding, and Martin Groz of the BMW Group played a big role in the middle. Since he came to Germany, Xiao Yao of course wanted to meet Martin Groz and thank him in person.
Of course, Xiao Yao's thanks are not just verbal. After meeting Martin Groz, Xiao Yao took out all the script ideas of BMW advertising movies that he remembered in his previous life and gave them to Martin Groz as a thank you for his help this time. After Martin Groz again proposed the idea of having Xiao Yao direct one of the commercial films, Xiao Yao also promised to direct an advertising film for the BMW Group in the next three years.
Martin Groz first met Xiao Yao as Marketing Director at BMW Group Headquarters, and now a few years later, he has gone from Marketing Director to Vice President of Group Headquarters. In the past few years, BMW's series of advertising films has been released every year, and they have achieved good results. This idea was highly recognized by the whole group and can be regarded as one of the important achievements of Martin Groz as marketing director, so Martin Groz has always paid special attention to and liked Xiao Yao, who provided him with this idea in the first place.
When Xiao Yao asked him to help communicate with Neuschwanstein Castle about renting a venue for the wedding, Martin Groz agreed without hesitation. He originally wanted to use this as a gift for Xiao Yao's newlywed, but he didn't expect Xiao Yao to have anything in return, but he didn't expect Xiao Yao to come here, not only sent the scripts of several advertising movies, but also promised to direct one of them in the future.