Was she a paparazzo too? Or a villager from around here?
Meanwhile, after the system introduced her identity, Chu Xiyue's eyes lit up!
Before Wu Taotao could figure out how to start the conversation, she suddenly heard the other woman's restrained yet excited voice. "Are you Wu Taotao, the famous paparazzo from online?"
Wu Taotao had not expected someone here to recognize her. Judging by the excited tone, this woman seemed to be her fan, so she modestly waved her hands. "I'm not that famous..."
Chu Xiyue hurried forward, warmly took her hand, and asked excitedly, "Was that thing you posted on Weibo last week true? The boy band captain and a member fighting over a girl?"
Wu Taotao: ?
This was a little different from what she had imagined.
Feeling Chu Xiyue's eager gaze, she answered instinctively, "That's right. Let me tell you, it started because the boy band's Captain A and Member B were both pursuing the same girl, but the girl liked Member C!"
"Wow! It was a four-way relationship? What happened next?" Chu Xiyue looked at Wu Taotao expectantly.
Unable to resist that look, Wu Taotao continued, "C rejected the girl. After getting her heart broken, the girl started seeing both A and B at the same time. A and B both knew about each other, and they fought because they were competing for her affection."
"Gasp! That relationship is so complicated! So thrilling!"
They gossiped as they walked, and when they reached a brighter area, Wu Taotao suddenly realized that this "fan" looked rather familiar.
"Chu Xiyue?! Why is it you?" Wu Taotao was startled.
"Hm? What's wrong with me?" Chu Xiyue was confused, but she did not dwell on it. Instead, she continued asking, "Is that gossip true about the
Best Actor
who marketed himself as a good man but was actually cheating on his assistant behind the scenes?"
#Good Brothers Become the Third Party for Love#
At the sight of Chu Xiyue's expectant eyes and her stunningly beautiful face, Wu Taotao immediately forgot who she was speaking to. Her cheeks reddened slightly. "Th-that news is definitely true! Let me tell you, you'd never guess who that Best Actor is. It's Guo Jingfeng, the one who spends all day on Weibo promoting his good-man image! He's been sleeping with his assistant all along. Not long ago, his wife caught him in bed with her brother, and his face was slapped so badly it swelled up. He ran out of the hotel room wearing nothing but his underwear. If he hadn't borrowed a set of clothes from a waiter afterward, Guo Jingfeng would have made the headlines the next day!"
Chu Xiyue gave a wow. "Well done!"
"What happened afterward? Did they get divorced?"
"Guo Jingfeng had been promoting that good-man persona for so many years and benefited greatly from it, so of course he refused to divorce. They're currently in divorce proceedings. Guo Jingfeng's wife was the one who asked me to expose this gossip. She said she wanted to ruin his reputation..."
Chu Xiyue agreed. "That's right. A scumbag like him deserves to have his reputation ruined!"
Wu Taotao seemed to have found a kindred spirit. She grabbed Chu Xiyue's hand and shook it up and down. "Sister, you get me! Men like that, who market themselves as good men on the surface but actually drink, gamble, sleep around, and do every rotten thing imaginable, should have their true faces exposed to the public. Let's see how they keep using their status to deceive and harm girls after that."
Chu Xiyue glanced at Wu Taotao.
Wu Taotao lowered her voice and asked, "Sister, how did you find out about He Jinyuan and Wan Zhen's affair? Do you know something? Can you tell me? I promise I won't tell anyone else."
Everyone knew that people who said that usually ended up spreading the news everywhere, not to mention that Wu Taotao was a paparazzo. How could anyone trust a paparazzo's word?
Seeing that Chu Xiyue remained silent, Wu Taotao assumed she did not want to talk. Remembering how enthusiastic Chu Xiyue had been about gossip earlier, she added something Chu Xiyue could not refuse. "I can tell you who Boy Band Members A and B, the ones who fought over affection, are."
Chu Xiyue: Oh no, this is the feeling of falling in love!
Although Chu Xiyue had bound herself to the Gossip-Eating System, there was one restriction on its gossip: the subject had to be someone Chu Xiyue had met—because gossip about people you knew was tastier!
But that did not mean other gossip was not delicious.
"Who? Who are they?"
"Both of them are members of Azure Sea Entertainment's newly launched WED Boy Band. There are seven members in total. A is WED's captain, while B is its main dancer. Back in college, they were even dormmates."
Chu Xiyue: They had been dormmates in school, then became teammates after graduation, only to fall for the same girl and even become the other man for love?
Even more exciting!
After hearing the gossip, Chu Xiyue kept her promise and enthusiastically shared the unspeakable details of He Jinyuan and Wan Zhen's relationship with Wu Taotao: their thrilling Fourth Love in a hotel, their secret flirting right in front of the wife, and even the story of He Jinyuan and the wine bottle.
Wu Taotao had initially only wanted to dig up some details about He Jinyuan from Chu Xiyue. She had not expected to hear even more explosive gossip from her. Compared to that, the affair between He Jinyuan and Wan Zhen was rather bland.
Her eyes shifted as she asked Chu Xiyue, "Sister, do you have any evidence? I can pay a high price for it."
Chu Xiyue raised her brows without speaking, and Wu Taotao understood. Chu Xiyue had no evidence.
That made sense. He Jinyuan was so cautious that many paparazzi did not even know about him and Wan Zhen. How could he possibly leave evidence behind so carelessly?
She took a deep breath and hugged her camera tightly. "No matter what, thank you for telling me about this."
"I'll report everything I photographed tonight exactly as it happened."
The villa was close. Wu Taotao left with her camera in her arms, while Chu Xiyue entered the villa.
The system spoke then: [Wu Taotao once had a younger sister who was an artist under Azure Sea Entertainment. She dated a male celebrity from the same company, but he was an expert at PUA. After getting together with him, her sister developed depression. Later, that male celebrity dumped Wu Taotao's sister. Heartbroken, she jumped off a building and could not be saved.]
[In order to protect that male celebrity, Azure Sea Entertainment bought online trolls to slander Wu Taotao's deceased sister. Wu Taotao became a paparazzo because she wanted to clear her sister's name, ruin that male celebrity's reputation, and make Azure Sea Entertainment pay the price.]