Chapter 3: 002
Both An Mey and Elisa were assigned to Viviana at the same time. Just five months ago. Even before they came in contact with Viviana, they had heard a lot about the actress. From her pre-debut scandal of bullying one of the Nation's Flowers* in the crew, to staffs leaving their job after a few months because they could not handle her abusive nature.
(*a term for most liked female celebrity)
Every event she participated, every crew she joined, one or two scandals would definitely pop up. So much that she's crowned as the 'Scandal Queen' by a well-known media, with a snide remark that she was increasing popularity by trapping other individuals into creating hype with her.
And that was indeed the truth. Most of the roles Viviana played in her two and half years of acting career were something immemorable, which gain a low public favourability and sometimes even hates for it.
She's also often called as the 'Villainous Side Bitch' by her haters. This was because all the role she had played can be summed into the name. And the fact that she acted so well in such characters made the viewers, mostly the haters, believe that she was just acting out her own character.
With the amount of work she did, she can be said to be lesser than that of the 3rd Tier Artist. But the popularity she had was comparable to that of an 2nd Tier Artist. After all, she had been into many scandals with many of such artist.
As time goes by, Viviana was in various scandal with actors, singers, idols, models, directors, producers, and what not. So much that the very inclusion of her name in a sentence had become a scandal itself. So much, that people got tired of seeing her name and hated it. Hated seeing her face, her name. Hated her.
Manager An and Elisa were assigned to such person. They were reluctant, but being in the corporation left them with no other choice.
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After her pre-debut scandal, Viviana had become the training ground of the wannabe paparazzies.
But the situation this time was different. As the monger, this time, was one of the most reputable entertainment media and it also involve a big name of the entertainment industry, Han Jun, endearingly called as Lord Han by the fans and everyone who knows him.
He was an idol who has been in the industry for more than a decade. He started as an idol at an early age of 15 and became one of the most loved vocalist and dancer of his era. Now he had his own studio and has starred in many big movies and dramas.
At first, the scandal started as something which was totally unrelated to Viviana. The idol was captured visiting the hospital with a woman when he pulled down the mask for a few seconds while talking to the doctor. Maybe the paparazzi was too focused on Han Jun, they didn't manage to capture a recognizable picture of the woman.
In his ten plus years of career, he barely had any dating scandal. So, the pregnancy scandal this time, was a great breakthrough for the media.
The traffic on this article was massive. The fans and netizens, after the pictures were posted, were in a mission to find out the identity of the woman. Coincidently, the woman was wearing a limited-edition hoodie which was modelled by Viviana for the brand. And the woman appeared to have similar height and proportion as her.
But this was not the first time Viviana had been under the suspicion of being pregnant. As Viviana was very high profiled, whenever she failed to appear in front of the public, she'd always be accused of being pregnant by the marketing accounts.
Usually, Viviana would appear in front of the media in just a month, if not a week. Whether it was a commercial shooting, a dinner party, or an audition. She was always doing something.
But this time, Viviana had not been given any resource by her agent as her 'punishment' and had to remain quite for three whole months.
The marketing accounts were raising the issue here and there. And some of the netizens were even led by them and started to officially question the Han Entertainment of her status.
"She's taking a short vacation" was the excuse the company provided. It did more harm than help in clearing the rootless rumors.
The paparazzies and gossip-mongers who had deep 'affection' for her were sure that she was either being kept by one of the rich big shots or that she was pregnant. As their 'source' had leaked the information. They were just searching for the evidence of her being pregnant and tada…. The candy dropped in front of them.
It didn't take much time for them to turn the whole situation from "Han Jun have a secret girlfriend who is now pregnant" to "3rd Tier Actress, Viviana's latest victim Super Idol Han Jun! And this time she succeeded? She's Pregnant?"
Now, there were many moralists calling out for her to shave her head for being shameless and Han Jun's fan were ready to skin her the moment she appears before them.
"Will it be okay?" Asked the concerned Elisa.
"The situation is not that dire yet." Manager An replied. "As long as the clarification is made from both the party involved, it'd turn normal. It's just…" Manager An paused.
"Just that your boss isn't willing to do it yet." Came the lazy voice of the actress.
The manager looked at Viviana who now seemed to have had enough fun.
The actress placed the phone at the coffee table as she sat up straight. Her eyes staring deep into Manager An's as if she was staring right into her soul. The amusement she previously had, clearly wiped off her face.
"Isn't it?" Questioned the actress.
"…"
Manager An's silence was the answer. Agent Yan, who was her direct boss and also the agent Viviana was under, had already been contacted by Han Jun's Studio regarding the matter. With Han Jun being the main character and the cause of the scandal, they explained the situation and was ready to send out the clarification statement.
But Agent Yan had another plan.