Trending Search Explodes: Bai Ziyu Attempts to Murder Jiang Fang

The next day, at dawn.

The sky had only just begun to brighten, and the camp was silent. No one had gotten up yet.

Jiang Fang, still bleary-eyed, struggled to get out of bed.

He suddenly regretted agreeing to Bai Ziyu. No matter what, he should have set the time for the afternoon.

Jiang Fang thought hazily.

The thought of sacrificing his sleep just to deal with that white lotus made Jiang Fang want to be even harsher when he taught him a lesson.

He got up without making a sound, moving slowly for fear of waking Qin Yan.

Because the rainstorm had come so suddenly, no one had expected the tents to break. They had originally thought they could make do for a while until the director sent supplies and new tents. Who would have thought the director would say the Wilderness Survival variety show was being cut short and tell everyone to just deal with it?

So Qin Yan had naturally settled into Jiang Fang's tent.

Jiang Fang carefully put on his clothes, watching to see whether Qin Yan had woken up as he dressed. By the time he was fully clothed, he was sweating.

Good. He hadn't woken up.

He slowly braced a hand against the ground and pushed himself up, moving like the sloth from Zootopia, inch by inch.

Suddenly—

"Meow~" Startled awake by Jiang Fang's movements, the kitten let out a drowsy meow.

"Shh!"

Quickly covering the cat's mouth, Jiang Fang signaled for it to be quiet, then immediately turned his attention to Qin Yan.

Qin Yan moved, rolling onto his side to face Jiang Fang. If he opened his eyes, he would immediately see what Jiang Fang was doing.

Jiang Fang did not dare move.

He froze in place, one hand braced on the ground, not daring to lower it or rise any further as he stared at Qin Yan.

The kitten tilted its head and blinked beside him. Was Big Cat playing a game where no one was allowed to make a sound?

So the kitten obediently remained silent.

Good kitten! Jiang Fang patted its head.

After a while, Qin Yan did not move.

He wasn't awake. Great.

Jiang Fang pushed himself up and carefully opened the tent flap.

"Ziiip—" The zipper sounded.

With everything around him so quiet and Jiang Fang feeling guilty as a thief, the sound seemed especially loud.

Jiang Fang's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately turned to look at Qin Yan.

No movement.

Phew—

Good.

Slowly closing the tent, Jiang Fang finally straightened up and let out a long breath.

The tent across from his seemed to have heard the noise and stirred as well.

The moment its flap opened, Jiang Fang met Bai Ziyu's gaze.

Bai Ziyu nodded at him without saying anything, then walked straight toward the cliff.

Jiang Fang did not follow immediately. Instead, he carefully washed up, ate a sweet potato buried in the fire, and only slowly headed up the mountain after finishing breakfast.

—

Bai Ziyu reached the top of the cliff and looked around. To the west was a small forest—the place Jiang Fang had pointed out before. The cliff top was seven or eight meters above the forest floor. The south side, however, was entirely different. Looking down, there was only a sea of clouds and mist, with no bottom in sight.

Bai Ziyu threw down a stone but heard no sound.

The north side was slightly better. It was a steep slope, higher than the small forest to the west but safer than the southern side.

Only the east side had a path down the mountain.

Bai Ziyu stood there blankly as one thought after another flashed through his mind.

He had been impulsive last night. He could not make a move on Jiang Fang yet. If anything happened to Jiang Fang here, those ambiguous words Jiang Fang had said before would undoubtedly push him into the eye of the storm. They might even catch the attention of those people.

But he could not give Jiang Fang a chance to speak, either.

A hint of viciousness flashed through Bai Ziyu's eyes.

Then an idea suddenly crossed his mind.

Got it!

Looking at the steep northern slope, which would not kill anyone but would at most cause a little suffering, he began making his calculations.

"Jiang Fang, Jiang Fang, I'll make sure you can't explain yourself even if you have a mouth!"

"What?"

A familiar voice came from behind him. To Bai Ziyu, it was nothing less than a bolt from the blue.

When had he arrived?

Bai Ziyu's heart jolted. He turned around and looked at Jiang Fang uneasily.

How much had he heard?

"When did you get here?" Bai Ziyu probed.

Jiang Fang lowered his head with a smile. "Don't worry, I only heard the part about making sure someone couldn't explain himself even if he had a mouth. What, has the great star Bai changed his mind?" he teased.

Bai Ziyu let out a breath of relief.

"How could I dare change my mind? Jiang Fang, you've really misunderstood me. I really didn't push you, but with only the two of us here, I truly can't clear my name."

Bai Ziyu put on a helpless expression and added, "But if it would make you feel better, I'm willing to jump down from here."

He spoke righteously, but his heart was full of malice.

Once the show ended, it would be the day you, Jiang Fang, became a rat crossing the street, hated by everyone!

Bai Ziyu thought he had concealed it well, never realizing that every expression on his face was exposed before Jiang Fang.

But Jiang Fang did not care.

He had originally thought Bai Ziyu would be driven desperate enough to get rid of him, this potential threat, here and now. He had not expected this guy to still have some sense left!

Jiang Fang knew perfectly well what Bai Ziyu wanted to do.

Nothing more than a self-inflicted injury scheme. He would roll down from here, then use Jiang Fang's previous suspicions about him being the culprit to stir up public opinion. He would cry before the cameras and play up his misery. Then, once the forces behind him got to work, if Jiang Fang really had been the kind and innocent college-bound student the original owner was, he would have been dragged through the mud with no chance of recovering.

Vicious enough.

Unfortunately for Bai Ziyu, the one standing here today was Jiang Fang—the Jiang Fang who had fought through the business world and experienced all the evils of human nature.

"I didn't expect the great star Bai to be the sort who wouldn't turn back until he hit a wall, or give up until he saw the coffin," he said.

Bai Ziyu was not angered by this. At that moment, excitement made his scalp tingle, his mind filled with images of Jiang Fang kneeling on the ground and begging for mercy.

"Jiang Fang, you're the one who won't give up until you see the coffin. Remember, you brought all of this on yourself."

After saying that, he lifted a leg and headed toward the northern slope. Just as he was about to fall down, Jiang Fang suddenly said something behind him.

Bai Ziyu's movements stopped instantly.

He turned to Jiang Fang in disbelief, the bloodshot veins in his eyes seeming ready to burst.

He heard Jiang Fang say—

"As long as I find them, what kind of public opinion can't I handle? Not to mention what will happen to you, great star Bai. Isn't that right?"

Jiang Fang seemed entirely unaware of how significant his words were. He snapped off a foxtail grass stem and played with it in his hand, looking as relaxed as though he were merely sightseeing.

"Y-you, what did you say?"

Bai Ziyu strode toward him, his expression instantly turning incomparably savage.

Jiang Fang smiled at him without any intention of answering.

"What did you just say?!"

When Bai Ziyu did not get the answer he wanted, he gradually began to lose his mind.

Jiang Fang watched the scene with calm composure.

"You know what I mean, don't you?"

Bai Ziyu's eyes widened abruptly. "No! Impossible! How could you know? How could you possibly know?"

Jiang Fang watched his expression, his brows drawing together slightly.

He had only had some suspicions. Perhaps the original owner's background had something to do with Bai Ziyu, but he did not know the details. Judging from Bai Ziyu's reaction now, though, it seemed there was something even more unexpected?

"Why can't I know? Or did you do something shameful?" Jiang Fang tested him.

Perhaps the words "something shameful" provoked Bai Ziyu. He had clearly lost all reason, his gaze toward Jiang Fang filled with ruthlessness and murderous intent.

"If I kill you, they won't find out. It's all mine! All mine!"

Before anyone could react, Bai Ziyu reached out and shoved Jiang Fang hard toward the slope.

But Jiang Fang had been prepared. He only slowed for a second when he saw the northern slope.

It was precisely because of that second that Jiang Fang failed to avoid Bai Ziyu's force, and he was about to fall.

"Watch out—"

A faint woody fragrance reached him. A large hand gripped Jiang Fang's wrist, then yanked him fiercely into a scorching, fragrant embrace.

Bai Ziyu's attempt to shove him failed, and he rushed right past him. The momentum broke his balance, and he instantly fell, tumbling down the slope.

Everything happened in the blink of an eye.

"Jiang Fang? Are you alright?" Qin Yan anxiously held the person in his arms, terrified that he might be hurt somewhere.

No one knew how panicked he had been just then.

Ever since he had accidentally overheard Jiang Fang and Bai Ziyu's conversation that day and learned Jiang Fang's parachuting accident had not been an accident but deliberate, he had known Bai Ziyu would not let things go.

So he had kept an eye on Bai Ziyu's movements.

When the director announced that Wilderness Survival's livestream would end early, he knew Bai Ziyu was probably about to make his move.

Only Jiang Fang foolishly believed Bai Ziyu would truly jump off the cliff to atone for his sins.

Sure enough, Jiang Fang had gotten up unusually early that morning, sneaking around like a thief. Qin Yan had already been awake then, but seeing how hard Jiang Fang was trying not to wake him, Qin Yan had obligingly continued pretending to sleep.

He listened carefully to the movements outside. Once enough time had passed, he followed after him, with the livestream equipment trailing behind him up the mountain.

He had not expected that as soon as he got up the mountain, he would see Bai Ziyu looking somewhat crazed. The two were standing by the cliff's edge in a dangerous position.

Qin Yan's heart jolted, and a terrible premonition suddenly rose within him. He hurried over, not even having time to put away the livestream equipment.

He had only made it halfway when he saw Bai Ziyu move.

This was bad!

Alarm bells blared in his mind. He ran over, barely catching Jiang Fang's wrist and pulling back the person who had still been frozen at that critical moment.

After doing all that, Qin Yan's heart pounded wildly. Looking at the steep slope, lingering fear filled him, and cold sweat soaked his back.

After a while, a scream came from the bottom of the cliff.

The scream woke the people still sleeping in the camp and also woke the viewers and fans who had watched the entire scene unfold in the livestream.

For a long time, the livestream comments fell silent, with none of their previous bustle remaining.

After a while, someone finally spoke.

[So... was that attempted murder just now?]

One sentence stirred up a thousand waves.

[Holy shit! How did Bai Ziyu dare? He dared do that right in public, so was that parachuting incident before really true?]

[If Brother Qin hadn't arrived at just the right time, Jiang Fang would have been shoved down again, right? What kind of grudge does Bai Ziyu have against him?]

[So terrifying. Bai Ziyu has gone insane, hasn't he? That expression and those eyes just now—oh my god, I was scared to death. Jiang Fang is really miserable too. And according to rumors, Jiang Fang is an ordinary person. The reason he got into this variety show was because Bai Ziyu recommended him to the director.]

[??? What kind of plot is this? Why can't I understand it? So Bai Ziyu and Jiang Fang used to have a pretty good relationship?]

[Heh, think about it. Before the variety show even started, Jiang Fang nearly died. Then combine that with the previous video and what Jiang Fang said. Think about it! Think carefully!]

The internet moved fast. In less than half an hour, Weibo's trending searches exploded—

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