Thinking that, he felt much more at ease. His clenched fist tightened, then loosened. Looking at Chen Yi, he pursed his lips and lowered his head to apologize with a cautious expression. "Yiyi, did I do something wrong and make you angry? Don't be mad. I'll change."
Jiang Beinian already had the looks of a refined scholar. With his eyes lowered now, he carried a dejected air that made people feel sorry for him.
At the very least, viewers in the bullet comments were asking things like, "Could there be some misunderstanding?"
Chu Xiyue quietly watched him perform, even chatting with the system. "Jiang Beinian's acting is pretty good. As expected of a professional. I wonder if his acting is this good when he's working."
The system cracked sunflower seeds. [If he acted this well while filming, he'd have won a Best Actor trophy long ago. Let me tell you, in that movie he made with Chen Yi back then, he was the only weak point in the whole film. Chen Yi held herself back during filming so she wouldn't hurt his confidence, yet he still had the nerve to buy promotional posts calling himself the number one male lead in campus 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, if Jiang Beinian so much as stuck out his ass, she would know whether he was about to shit or fart. Jiang Beinian might not even realize 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 concrete 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 probably done in her life was letting love cloud her judgment and marrying Jiang Beinian. Now that she no longer loved him, reason had the upper hand.
She quickly made the choice that benefited her most.
She took a deep breath, suppressed her earlier anger, and chuckled at Jiang Beinian. "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 in a long time, her acting skills could still easily crush Jiang Beinian's. "Of course. Xiyue told me just now that she wanted to test you and see whether you really liked me."
"Before we left, I had an argument with your mother, and you sided with her against me. You really have no conscience."
So she was talking about the argument with his mother before they left.
Jiang Beinian quietly breathed a sigh of relief. Though he still found it strange that Chen Yi was bringing this up now, he ignored that odd feeling when he thought of his plan and patiently comforted her. "Yiyi, I'm sorry. It was my fault. If my mother says anything about you again, I'll definitely stand by your side unconditionally."
Chen Yi's expression softened, as if she were very satisfied with his answer.
The Director beside them also quietly breathed a sigh of relief. He had thought another couple was about to break up today. If even this pair split, his show would really turn from a couples dating variety show into a couples fighting variety show.
At that moment, a bullet comment quietly drifted past:
[Doesn't anyone think Chen Yi's explanation is a little forced? And Chu Xiyue too—I keep feeling like her expression just now looked as though she knew something.]
The filming tasks for this dating show were not demanding. At noon, they worked together to make lunch according to the production team's requirements. That evening, they each did a follow-up interview. Once they had recorded enough material, filming for the day ended.
That night, a fairly well-known gossip paparazzi account posted a teaser on Weibo.
@Old Wang Loves Gossipv: At nine tomorrow morning, a huge cheating scandal involving a post-90s actress with a two-character name. Everyone can guess who it is.
This Old Wang Loves Gossip Weibo account often exposed gossip about entertainment industry celebrities, some true and some false. The account had several million followers. Since the post had been made late at night, along with the efforts of certain interested parties, a topic called #Post90sActressCheatingScandal# quickly parachuted into the top fifteen on Weibo—the top ten were still occupied by the scandal involving Ning Shuixin and Wen Yan, and buying a higher position would cost more.
Because Weibo had been especially lively lately, the post gained quite a lot of traction.
There were only enough post-90s actresses in the entertainment industry with boyfriends to count on one hand, and even fewer had two-character names. Every two-character young actress, single or not, was mentioned.
[Could it be that XX who was photographed having dinner with some random guy last time?]
[I think it's probably the XX who broke up with her boyfriend before. Their breakup was too sudden. Maybe she cheated, which was why they broke up.]
[It can't be Chen Yi, right? Chen Yi was still on a dating show with her husband today. They're such a loving couple—it doesn't look like their relationship is bad.]
Everyone else thought it was unlikely too. 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, for some reason, fans who had watched the livestream that day had a bad feeling. That feeling peaked 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 searches, though it was quickly pushed down again.
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 it was obvious their relationship was unusual. That man was not Jiang Beinian.
The second photo showed Chen Yi entering a hotel room with that man.
Weibo exploded.
Not long after The One She Loves Most livestream began, a swarm of gossip-hungry viewers flooded in. The number of people watching surged. The Director felt something was off about the numbers and casually asked about it.
A staff member beside him handed his phone to the Director. The Director took one look and saw that the third topic on Weibo's trending list was #ChenYiCheating#, followed by the word [Explosive]—the first and second spots were still occupied by Ning Shuixin and Wen Yan.