Chu Xiyue stopped in her tracks, looked in the direction Wu Taotao had left, and asked, "Was that male celebrity He Jinyuan?"
[Not him. Ordinary people are not blessed enough to handle a sleazeball like He Jinyuan. That man was Azure Sea Entertainment's top star, Feng Xiuzhuo, who has tens of millions of fans. Wu Taotao simply disliked every male celebrity who was different on the surface than underneath.]
[Wu Taotao had just posted a teaser on Weibo. She was going to expose a major scandal tomorrow.]
Chu Xiyue was immediately intrigued. "What Weibo post? Let me see!"
If the joy of enjoying gossip alone was only a 1, then enjoying gossip with someone else was a 10!
Chu Xiyue's phone had already been confiscated, so the system brought up the Weibo interface in her mind.
Wu Taotao's Weibo account was called Taotao the Little Detective. A minute ago, she had posted a teaser.
@Taotao the Little Detective V: Tomorrow at 8:00 a.m., I'll expose the forbidden romance between a young H-surnamed male star and his wealthy female patron.
After posting on Weibo, Wu Taotao turned off her phone. She returned to her place, transferred the videos and photos she had taken that day to her computer, and began editing.
Wu Taotao was one of the more famous paparazzi in the entertainment industry. She had not become a paparazzo for money, so when she caught a major scoop, she would not send the photos to a celebrity's studio like other paparazzi did, hinting that they should pay to buy them off. She never took money. If she did not make a move, that was one thing; when she did, it was always a big one.
Just as Wu Taotao was focused on editing the video, her teaser post made the trending searches.
[An H-surnamed young male star? As far as I know, there are only a few H-surnamed young male stars in the industry. Is it He Xiang? Or Huang Jiangwei? Or Han Su? He Jinyuan?]
[Don't let it turn out to be another self-proclaimed "young male star" from a paparazzo, when no one in the industry has even heard of him.]
[I think the H-surnamed young male star is He Jinyuan. Everyone in the industry knows He Jinyuan plays around, and he has more than one or two patrons behind him. It wouldn't be strange at all if a paparazzo exposed him now.]
[The person above is spreading rumors out of thin air! May your whole family die! Our Yuanbao is still a pure, innocent young man. He keeps himself clean and has never even touched a girl's hand.]
[Everyone, please watch Yuanbao's newest variety show, "The One She Loves Most." He Jinyuan, the pure and devoted homemaker type, is worth having.]
# He Jinyuan's Late-Night Tryst with a Married Rich Woman
Wu Taotao edited the video she had taken earlier, uploaded it to Weibo, and scheduled it to be posted at 8:00 the following morning.
The next day was a workday. At eight in the morning, many office workers were still on the subway, holding their phones as they scrolled through Weibo and read novels.
Suddenly, a topic quietly climbed onto Weibo's trending searches, carrying an especially eye-catching title.
# He Jinyuan's Late-Night Tryst with a Married Rich Woman
The dreary mood of going to work like going to a funeral was instantly replaced by the thrill of juicy gossip. They clicked into the topic with a slap—very quickly.
The pinned Weibo post under the topic was Wu Taotao's post.
@Taotao the Little Detective V: #He Jinyuan's Late-Night Tryst with a Married Rich Woman# The woman is a non-celebrity married rich woman. The two shared a passionate kiss in the wilderness. Is it a distortion of human nature, or a loss of morality? [Video link]
The video showed what had happened in the small pavilion the previous night.
That night, Wu Taotao had arrived even earlier than Chu Xiyue. She had been focused on filming He Jinyuan at the time and had not noticed that Chu Xiyue had arrived as well. In the footage, He Jinyuan was alone in the dimly lit pavilion. Worried that viewers would not understand the full context, Wu Taotao had specially added narration.
"Hello, everyone. This is Taotao the Little Detective. Today's scoop concerns the forbidden romance between He Jinyuan, the entertainment industry's 'single' young male star, and a married wealthy woman outside the industry known as Z."
"According to reliable sources, He Jinyuan and Z met at a banquet a month ago. After some deep interaction, Z could not forget He Jinyuan's young body, and she often carried on an affair with him behind her husband's back."
As Wu Taotao narrated, a fashionably dressed woman appeared in the footage. Her face was mosaicked, but every interaction between them was truthfully recorded by the camera.
The woman covered He Jinyuan's eyes from behind, hooked his chin flirtatiously, pressed him into a chair, kissed him, caressed him... The sexual tension overflowing from the screen was practically tangible. Anyone with eyes could tell that in the relationship between the man and woman in the footage, the woman held the dominant position.
Wu Taotao's commentary was perfectly timed. "As we can see, the woman in the footage is this scandal's female lead, wealthy woman Z. After chatting with He Jinyuan for a while, Z began touching him all over. She seemed to like He Jinyuan's body very much."
"The two kissed for over twenty minutes, but the rich woman clearly still had some concerns and did not put on an adults-only, unsuitable-for-children performance right there."
"If the woman did not have a husband, I would actually be quite willing to ship this older-woman-younger-man couple. But as the saying goes, a ship can be unpopular, but it cannot be immoral."
The edited video was not long, only a little over two minutes. It ended with He Jinyuan and the woman leaving the pavilion one after the other.
The internet exploded.
Although the netizens who had seen the teaser the previous night had guessed several names, all of them were famous young male stars in the entertainment industry. But they had eaten too many fake scoops from other paparazzi before—so-called top stars from the eighteenth tier, post-85 leading actresses whose names no one had ever heard, popular young actors who had only starred in two flop dramas. They had not held much hope for Wu Taotao's scoop.
Who would have thought? Who would have thought! This time, they had gotten fresh, piping-hot, firsthand gossip! When she said young male star, she really meant a young male star!
In the comments, someone posted a screenshot of last night's teaser comments and sneered: [Tsk, tsk. I mentioned He Jinyuan's name yesterday, and his fans chased after me to curse me out. Where are the fans who cursed me yesterday? Come take a look. This is your pure, innocent young man, the entertainment industry's last virgin. He really does keep himself clean—he has never even touched a girl's hand.]
[Holy shit, I haven't had gossip this exciting in ages. Taotao really releases the goods when she has them. Do you have any more? Give us more, give us more! This kid loves to eat!]
[Honestly, this scoop really is explosive. It can count as the biggest scandal in domestic entertainment this year. By the way, who exactly is this Ms. Z? Internet sleuths, why haven't you dug up Ms. Z's identity yet?]
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