Chapter 32

Thinking that, he felt much more at ease. The fist in his hand clenched, then loosened. Looking at Chen Yi, he pressed his lips together and lowered his head to apologize with extreme caution. "Yiyi, did I do something wrong and make you angry? Don't be mad. I'll change."

Jiang Beinian already had the refined looks of a scholarly gentleman. With his eyes lowered now, he carried a somewhat dejected air that made people feel sorry for him.

At the very least, viewers in the barrage were asking things like, "Could there be some misunderstanding?"

Chu Xiyue quietly watched him perform, still in the mood to chat with the system. "Jiang Beinian's acting is pretty good. As expected of a professional. I wonder if he acts this well when he's working."

The system cracked sunflower seeds. [If he had acted this well while filming, the Best Actor trophy would've been his ages ago. I'm telling you, in that movie he made with Chen Yi back then, he was the only weak point in the whole film. Chen Yi held back while filming so she wouldn't damage his confidence, yet he still had the nerve to buy promotional posts calling himself the number-one male lead in campus romance novels.]

Chen Yi looked at Jiang Beinian. They had been together for nearly eight years, and she knew him too well. To put it crudely, she could tell whether Jiang Beinian needed to take a shit or fart just by the way he stuck out his ass. Jiang Beinian might not even know it himself, but he clenched his fists whenever he felt guilty.

Chen Yi lowered her gaze and glanced at his hands. Thinking of what Chu Xiyue had just told her, she had considered exposing Jiang Beinian's plan in front of the cameras. But she knew that without solid evidence, Jiang Beinian would never admit it.

Only after Jiang Beinian carried out his plan would it be more convincing for her to step forward.

Chen Yi was an extremely calm and rational person. The most irrational thing she had ever done in her life was probably letting love cloud her judgment and marrying Jiang Beinian. Now that she no longer loved him, reason had gained the upper hand.

She quickly made the choice most beneficial to herself.

She took a deep breath, suppressed her anger from earlier, and gave Jiang Beinian a soft laugh. "Look at you. Why are you so nervous? I was only trying to scare you."

"Scare me?" Jiang Beinian was dumbfounded.

Although Chen Yi had not acted for a long time, her acting skills could still easily crush Jiang Beinian's. "Of course. Xiyue told me earlier that we should test you, to see whether you really liked me."

"Before we left, I had a fight with your mother, but you sided with her against me. You really have no conscience."

So that was what she meant—the argument with his mother before they left.

Jiang Beinian quietly let out a sigh of relief. Though he still found it a little strange that Chen Yi was bringing this up now, he ignored that odd feeling when he thought of his plan. Patiently, he comforted her. "Yiyi, I'm sorry. I was wrong. If my mother says anything about you again, I'll definitely stand by your side unconditionally."

Chen Yi's expression eased, as though she were very satisfied with his answer.

The director beside them also quietly sighed in relief. He had thought another couple was about to break up today. If this pair fell apart too, his show would really turn from a marriage-and-romance variety show into a married-couple brawl show.

At that moment, a barrage comment quietly drifted by:

[Doesn't anyone think Chen Yi's explanation is a little far-fetched? And Chu Xiyue too—I keep feeling like that expression she had earlier meant she knew something.]

*

The filming tasks for this dating show were not particularly demanding. At noon, they worked together to make lunch as required by the production team. In the evening, they each did a post-filming interview. Once they had recorded enough material, filming for the day ended.

That night, a relatively well-known gossip paparazzi account posted a teaser on Weibo.

@Old Wang Loves Gossip V: At nine tomorrow morning, a huge cheating scandal involving a two-character post-90s young actress. Everyone can guess who it is.

This Old Wang Loves Gossip Weibo account often exposed gossip about celebrities in the entertainment industry—some true, some false. The account had several million followers. Since the post went up late at night, and with certain people deliberately stirring things up, a topic called #Post90sActressCheatingScandal# quickly parachuted into Weibo's top fifteen—Ning Shuixin and Wen Yan's scandal still occupied the top ten, and pushing past them would cost more money.

Because Weibo had been especially lively lately, the post gained quite a lot of attention.

There were so few post-90s young actresses in the entertainment industry who already had boyfriends that they could be counted on one hand. Restricting it further to names with two characters left even fewer. Every two-character young actress, single or not, was brought up.

[Could it be that XX who was photographed having dinner with an unfamiliar guy last time?]

[I think it's probably that XX who already broke up with her boyfriend. Their breakup was so sudden—maybe she cheated, so they split up.]

[It can't be Chen Yi, right? Chen Yi was still on a dating show with her husband today. They're a loving couple; it doesn't look like their relationship is bad.]

Everyone else thought it could not be her either. Over the years, the image of Chen Yi and Jiang Beinian as a loving couple with a harmonious family had been deeply ingrained in people's minds.

However, the fans who had watched the livestream that day felt an inexplicable sense of foreboding. That feeling reached its peak when the paparazzi "accidentally liked" the comment mentioning Chen Yi, only removing the like two minutes later.

A topic titled #ChenYiCheating# quietly appeared at the bottom of the trending list, though it was soon pushed back down.

At nine the next morning, the paparazzi account directly released two photos. The first clearly showed Chen Yi being held in a man's arms. The two behaved intimately, and their relationship was obviously anything but ordinary. The man was not Jiang Beinian.

The second photo showed Chen Yi and that man entering a hotel room together.

Weibo exploded.

Not long after The One She Loves Most livestream began, a crowd of gossip seekers flooded into the stream. The number of viewers shot upward. The director sensed something was off about the numbers and casually asked about it.

A staff member beside him handed over a phone. The director took one look and saw the four words #ChenYiCheating# prominently sitting at number three on Weibo's trending list, followed by an [Explosive] tag—the first and second spots were still occupied by Ning Shuixin and Wen Yan.

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