Chapter 34

After reaching a consensus, the contract was quickly signed under the notarization of a lawyer. Unlike the contracts with Sun Yizhen and Kim Tae-hee, because Jung Soo-yeon was younger, the contract was for eight years. Additionally, because she needed more training, the commission was set at fifty percent.

However, even so, Lee Su-jeong understood that this was the best contract in all of South Korea, well, except for the company's relatively small scale.

For the benefit of Empire Entertainment, Jung Soo-yeon would live at home and not require accommodation from Empire Entertainment, which also relieved Lee Jung-hui and Jang Dong-guk.

As for Jung Soo-kyung, since she was still young, Lee Su-jeong said they would wait a few years, and Lee Jung-hui naturally had no objections.

Ding Dong. After everything was completed, unexpectedly, a notification box from Devil Entertainment popped up in Lee Jung-hui's mind again:

"Respected player, hello. Congratulations on signing three future top female stars in a row. This has increased your influence in the entertainment industry. The system rewards you with 2 achievement points and +1 prestige..."

Just as Lee Jung-hui was feeling happy about this, another Ding Dong sounded, and another notification box appeared. This time it was a system task: "Respected player, hello. Because you signed three future top female stars and changed their development trajectories, you have triggered a C-level task — Starlight Radiance.

Starlight Radiance: Within ten years, ensure that Sun Yizhen, Kim Tae-hee, and Jung Soo-yeon achieve the heights they were originally destined to reach. Complete the task, and you will be rewarded with 50 achievement points, +5 prestige, and +5 luck. If you fail, you will lose 200 achievement points, -10 prestige, and +5 destruction, and trigger a random high-risk system task..."

This C-level task was for ten years, and Lee Jung-hui was not at all concerned. He believed he could accomplish it. However, the random high-risk task caught his attention.

When he read it, he almost gasped. It turned out that the system's tasks were divided into fixed and random categories, and the random ones were generally not good. They were divided into five levels: low-risk, high-risk, critical, collapse, and destruction.

High-risk was still manageable, but at the critical level, it was no easier than murder or arson. For example, increasing box office revenue by fifty percent, or replacing all the original cast and crew, or destroying a certain big star or company.

Moreover, the most important thing was that although the C-level task would only be settled in ten years, he saw that after three unpredictable events occurred, there was a fifty percent chance of triggering a critical task. This made him nervous, as "Blue生死恋" (Blue生死恋) already had two unpredictable events.

Feeling anxious and depressed, Lee Jung-hui could only console himself with the thought that it was better to know now than to find out later.

Jang Dong-guk, however, had no idea what he was thinking. He had a question that had been bothering him for a long time, so he couldn't help but ask Lee Jung-hui, "Jung-hui, what did Ms. Lee Su-jeong mean by the fiancée? Have you and Tae-hee already become engaged?"

Lee Jung-hui didn't expect him to be so nosy and said irritably, "It's not Kim Tae-hee!" Realizing this could cause misunderstandings, he had to explain further, "There is no fiancée. Please, I'm only eighteen, and that woman, well, how to put it, is just a friend..."

Jang Dong-guk, however, found this amusing and teased him, "Why are you so nervous? Eighteen is still young, but getting engaged is still possible!"

He then frowned, "Logically, I should know all the women you know. Tae-hee aside, I'm familiar with Miss Sun Yizhen and Miss Ha Ji-won. Also, from Ms. Lee Su-jeong's expression, she definitely wasn't lying. But if she said that woman is the most beautiful in the world, it can't be any of them..."

"Stop wasting my time!" Lee Jung-hui didn't know how to explain the situation with Alice to Jang Dong-guk. Seeing that it was almost six, he waved and left.

However, even though he left, the matter with Alice was not over. Or rather, Alice herself was still haunting him. When he got home and opened his room door, that hateful demon appeared again.

She was dressed very provocatively, wearing a black crop top and tight denim shorts that accentuated her ample chest and round buttocks, making her even more visually striking.

Her delicate collarbone, slender waist, and smooth, long legs were truly a sight to behold. In the morning, Sun Yizhen had already been very alluring, but compared to Alice, she was outclassed from head to toe.

Unfortunately, this was someone he couldn't provoke. Although his blood was boiling, Lee Jung-hui could only grumble, "Please, at least have some self-respect in front of a man and dress properly!"

"Mind your own business!" Alice pouted, then suddenly giggled and lifted her long, smooth legs in front of him, biting her lip in a seductive manner, "Do you want to touch?"

"Yes!" Looking at the fine, white, porcelain-like legs, Lee Jung-hui answered without hesitation, then quickly dodged her, adding, "But I want to live a few more years!"

Alice was taken aback, then laughed even more wildly, her movements becoming even more alluring. Lee Jung-hui ignored her, turned on his computer, and opened the Naver website forum.

Following Lee Jung-hui's advice and under his detailed guidance and planning, the viral marketing campaign for "The Curse" was finally launched with great enthusiasm. Over the past half month, the results were significant.

Viral marketing developed from the concept of "email-based viral marketing" proposed by Jackson and Draper in 1997. Its primary condition is to provide a carrier with传播价值, such as text, images, videos, or products. Only if the carrier has传播价值, can it be spread through emails, websites, forums, etc., by leveraging the community habits of these groups, stimulating their enthusiasm, and rapidly expanding from small to large, creating an explosive promotional effect...

"The Curse" first provided details about the strange events surrounding little Eun-ju, including detailed text and accompanying images. The most shocking were the specially edited clips of strange events from Eun-ju's childhood, including the death of Hye-jin's father, the sudden strange disasters in the village, and the unharmed Eun-ju standing there, which was undoubtedly eerie and even chilling...

Of course, this was not enough. If it had stopped there, the enthusiasm stirred up by the water army hired by TUBE Entertainment would have gradually subsided. Therefore, a few days ago, "The Curse" website released another set of images and videos.

This time, it was not the little girl Eun-ju, but a grown-up girl in a black dress. However, in all the images, only her back was shown, and in the related images, there were also terrifying scenes of death.

In the video, a man with a camcorder, whose face was not visible, was filming. Suddenly, he stopped, screamed in terror, and then fled. In the end, he died a tragic death, and the video only left the shadow of a woman in black...

This was actually a cleverly edited clip of the death of the character played by Jung Jun in "The Curse," but at this point, it was incredibly eerie and thrilling.

When Lee Jung-hui opened the Naver website forum, the discussion area specially set up for Eun-ju in "The Curse" was bustling:

"This woman in black must be Eun-ju, she has grown up, and this time it seems she is actively killing. This is too terrifying!" The opinion of a user named Eun-ju Fan was widely agreed upon. Of course, this enthusiastic follower of Eun-ju's story was actually from TUBE Entertainment.

"I've always been curious about Eun-ju. Does she have a disaster attribute, or is she possessed by an evil spirit..." A female user named Lee Hyang-jin's post in the discussion area also attracted a lot of attention and discussion. However, she was also an employee of TUBE Entertainment.

Another TUBE Entertainment employee, Kim Yu-jin, posted, "Eun-ju's situation is not uncommon. In our village, there is a woman who, whoever she marries, dies. Even her parents and relatives have died."

These three posts were representative and guiding. For example, the last post, many people had heard or witnessed strange events. After Kim Yu-jin mentioned it, and the moderator set up a related topic, thousands of people replied, sharing various strange stories, such as a haunted house next door, seeing a woman in white at night; or a villager who went frog hunting at night and accidentally entered a cemetery, where frogs jumped onto him, scaring him to death...

Looking at the website of "The Curse" with over a million clicks and the discussion threads related to Eun-ju with over ten thousand posts, although many were from TUBE Entertainment,

However, there was no doubt that "The Curse" had already become a stormy topic, attracting more and more attention. As long as they maintained this trend for the next month, they would succeed. PS: Please recommend, anyone voting?

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