Chapter 36

The day after leaving the reality show, Chen Yi posted a photo of her divorce certificate on Weibo.

At this point, most netizens thought the drama was over. Honestly, if a male celebrity's affair had broken out at any other time, it would have been enough to keep people talking for a while. But after the massive love-triangle scandal involving He, Wan, and Xu, as well as the legal scandal surrounding Wen-Ning and her husband, everyone's threshold had risen. Looking at this scandal now, they could only think: That's it?

Still, netizens were very clear about who they loved and hated. This scandal might not have been exciting enough, but that did not stop them from condemning the cheating scumbag. Jiang Beinian and Chen Yi's CP fans, especially, were all dropping the fandom and turning on him. Not only did they flood Jiang Beinian's topic page, they also pushed #JiangBeinianCheatingScumbag into the top ten trending searches.

Just as netizens were gradually being distracted by fresh gossip, those who had followed Chen Yi suddenly noticed that she had liked an official Weibo post.

@Peaceful Sea City V: Recently, Mr. Jiang, a resident of our city, met a "wealthy and beautiful girlfriend" on a dating site. After gaining Mr. Jiang's trust, the other party successively defrauded him of more than 8 million yuan under such pretenses as project financing, purchasing a marital home, and needing advance payment for her grandfather's critical medical expenses.

Sea City police would like to remind everyone to exercise caution when making friends online. Do not blindly trust an "online girlfriend" when it comes to stock investments or money transfers. Download the [National Anti-Fraud App] to protect your property.

At first, this news had not attracted much attention. People who saw it merely sighed that the victim had more money than sense. But after Chen Yi liked it, some netizens could not help but read more into it.

The male lead in this story happened to have the surname Jiang. Netizens also went back through the chat records between Jiang Beinian and the other women that had been exposed earlier and found one conversation in which the woman mentioned investment and buying a house to Jiang Beinian.

[I have a bold guess: Could the Mr. Jiang in the news be Jiang Beinian?!]

Chen Yi liked this comment.

[Hahahaha, the cheating scumbag was ultimately brought down by an online romance scam. He lost both his money and his woman—instant karma! This is the most satisfying news I've seen all year!]

[Sure enough, it takes evil to deal with evil. I hope every cheating scumbag in the world eventually meets the scammer meant for him.]

Because this story was so bizarre and its protagonist was someone everyone knew, the topic #JiangBeinianVictimOfOnlineRomanceScam quickly made the trending searches.

The system laughed wildly: [Now the entire country knows Jiang Beinian got scammed in an online romance scam. This news has even been reposted by major official media outlets and promoted as a classic example of online fraud. Jiang Beinian has been socially executed now, hahahaha!]

Jiang Beinian had not been blacklisted, but he was practically no different from someone who had.

Meanwhile, The One She Loves Most had contributed four huge scandals to the internet, and the first episode's view count shot up rapidly. Every time netizens rewatched it, they discovered something new, sending related topics onto the trending searches again and again.

But the director could not bring himself to be happy—

At present, the only couple on the show who had not crashed and burned was Li Fan'er and Zhao Xizhou. Other than them, only Chu Xiyue remained—Chen Yi had voluntarily paid the breach-of-contract penalty and terminated her contract with the production team. The system told Chu Xiyue that after divorcing Jiang Beinian, Chen Yi had gone to the film studio, intending to start over with supporting roles and rebuild her former career.

A reality show with only three guests could not continue filming. Since the production team had been constantly running into trouble lately, the investors had also begun withdrawing their funding.

There were no filming assignments these past few days, so Chu Xiyue got up a little late. When she went downstairs, she accidentally overheard the staff discussing whether the show could continue.

The livestream was not on today. The director stood in the courtyard, smoking gloomily. Chu Xiyue walked over and asked, "Director, can't our show continue anymore?"

The director stubbed out his cigarette. He turned and gave Chu Xiyue a resentful look, then glanced at the empty display cabinet behind her. It had originally held products from their sponsors, but the sponsors had withdrawn their funding, and the products were gone too.

The director sighed. "Little Chu, I won't hide it from you. We do have plans to wrap things up. The production team is nearly out of money. Once we finish filming this episode, we'll disband. Don't worry, even though the investors have pulled out, your pay won't be reduced by a single cent."

Chu Xiyue frowned slightly at that. Honestly, after filming for so long, she had grown attached to this show. More importantly, without this reality show, where would she go to enjoy gossip?

Chu Xiyue looked at the director and asked, "How much money are you short?"

"Hm?"

"If we want to finish filming the show, how much would we need?"

The director casually gestured a number. The filming progress was already more than halfway complete, but if they wanted to finish the reality show, they would need to invite new guests. Venue fees, labor costs, guest appearance fees, and so on would all amount to an astronomical sum.

Anything less than a nine-figure sum would not be enough.

Chu Xiyue thought for a moment, then took out her phone and made a call. Not long afterward, she put down her phone and told the director, "I've already solved the investment problem for you."

The director said, "Hm?"

Chu Xiyue smiled modestly. "My dad runs a small company. It just so happens that he can invest in our production team."

The director asked, "Your honored father is?"

"Chu Lingyun."

The director: !!!

The director suspected that he was so desperate for money that he had started hallucinating. Otherwise, how could he have heard Chu Xiyue say that the chairman of the Lingyun Group, one of the top ten companies in the country, was her father?

He pinched his thigh. It hurt a little, so it seemed he was not dreaming.

"My dad said he could invest, but the show's rules need some reforms."

"We can invite divorced couples from the industry, or celebrities who have already broken up, onto the show and randomly pair them up to compete for spots. Besides that, we can invite some relatively famous married couples and celebrity couples to take a compatibility test on the show. Finally, we can invite some microexpression experts to comment on them."

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