Chapter 41

"I'm not into girls, thanks." Chu Xiyue replied calmly, then liked the video on her phone of a dancing young man, his white shirt soaked with sweat and the beautiful lines of his muscles faintly visible.

The Gossip-Eating System was only teasing. As a gossip system, it naturally knew that both Chu Xiyue and Mo Xiang were straight as an arrow.

It glanced at Chu Xiyue's phone. [Host, you like this type? Tsk, look at that waist twisting, look at those clothes. Not a shred of male virtue!]

Chu Xiyue appreciatively watched the short video another two times before swiping away. "You don't understand. This is called a male bodhisattva."

The next video was of a boy band dancing energetically. Sure enough, the algorithm understood her!

After scrolling through videos of male bodhisattvas on the internet, Chu Xiyue saw a message from her manager, who had been dead silent in her WeChat list for ages. Her manager reminded her to make a Weibo post to promote the show, and only then did Chu Xiyue remember that today was the broadcast date for the second episode of "The One She Loves Most."

Her manager's WeChat message had arrived nearly two hours ago, and the episode had already finished airing. Still, Chu Xiyue unhurriedly opened Weibo and logged into her account. Then her phone froze.

Chu Xiyue:?

Fortunately, her phone's specs were high enough. After a while, it returned to normal, and she found the reason it had frozen—her Weibo DMs had exploded.

Her Weibo follower count had gone from a paltry hundred thousand or so—half of them bought followers—to over five hundred thousand. She had more than a million DMs. Chu Xiyue nearly thought she was being cyberbullied, but when she opened them, she found that most were asking whether some celebrity's tax evasion was true, whether some actor had secretly married and had children, or simply thanking her for reasons she did not understand.

Chu Xiyue clicked into the trending searches and finally learned why.

The cause was still the second episode of "The One She Loves Most." Because of He Jinyuan, the first episode had been edited into a mess. However, the grudges and entanglements among the three of them had been too fascinating. Even though the main episode did not have much footage of them, and footage that could not be edited out had to be blurred, the first episode's viewership had still been quite high.

The first episode ended with He Jinyuan and the other two leaving the show. By the second episode, after much consideration, the director ultimately did not cut Miao Qingran and Wei Shaolin's scenes. Instead, he presented all of their footage in its entirety.

At the beginning of the second episode, the sweetness between Miao Qingran and Wei Shaolin stood in sharp contrast to their breakup after the show ended. This theatrical turn of events sent the second episode trending as well.

Miao Qingran and Wei Shaolin's situation had trended once before, but at that time, the gossip surrounding He Jinyuan, Wan Zhen, and Xu Wenchong had been even more explosive. Only their CP fans paid attention to Miao Qingran and Wei Shaolin, and that trending topic soon faded.

But with the broadcast of the second episode, the production team edited in every detail of what had happened. Miao Qingran and Wei Shaolin's story was brought up again, and this time, it finally drew more discussion.

[I went to the same high school as Miao Qingran. Back then, she held the top spot in our grade for three straight years. With her ability, getting into Tsinghua should have been guaranteed. No one expected her not to get in in the end. We all thought she'd messed up the college entrance exam, but I never imagined this was the reason behind it.]

[Oh my God! The person who hurt you was actually the one you trusted most beside your pillow. Who could have imagined that?]

[Good thing Miao Qingran saw that scumbag's true colors before they got married and broke up in time to cut her losses. Otherwise, if she only found out after getting married and having kids, the losses would have been far greater.]

[Has anyone noticed that Chu Xiyue seemed to be the first person to realize something was wrong with that scumbag? After watching the edited version, I realized Chu Xiyue had been cold toward him the whole time. Even what she said during the games seemed pointed.]

[Look at the scene at 41:36. Aren't those people on the terrace in the background Chu Xiyue and Miao Qingran? When the game ended, Miao Qingran and Wei Shaolin were still perfectly normal. Two minutes later, Miao Qingran came out of the terrace looking off, and her eyes were a little red, like she had just cried. In between, Miao Qingran had only interacted with Chu Xiyue. Maybe Chu Xiyue knew about what Wei Shaolin did and told Miao Qingran.]

[Do you all remember what happened with Chen Yi and Jiang Beinian a while ago? I watched the livestream. Chu Xiyue not only knew Jiang Beinian was a mama's boy, but she also said Jiang Scum would suffer financial losses. Sure enough, Jiang Scum was later scammed out of eight million! And Chen Yi's attitude toward Jiang Scum changed after Chu Xiyue said something to her too!]

At that moment, Miao Qingran herself stepped forward to @Chu Xiyue and posted a long Weibo message thanking her, further confirming the netizens' guesses.

[I've figured it out. Wherever there's gossip on this show, Chu Xiyue is there. Is there any gossip in the entertainment industry that Chu Xiyue doesn't know?]

[Now that you mention it, I remember that Wei Shaolin, Wen Yan, and Jiang Beinian were all considered good men with great reputations before appearing on the show. Yet after going on it, they all showed their true colors. One could be a coincidence, but all three? I refuse to believe Chu Xiyue had nothing to do with it. Chu Xiyue must be an undercover agent in the entertainment industry, specializing in exposing scumbags.]

[Ordinary people are still debating whether it has anything to do with Chu Xiyue. Smart people have already followed Chu Xiyue and are waiting to eat gossip!]

The hashtag #ChuXiyueEntertainmentIndustryUndercoverAgent trended again. On top of that, there was another topic: #ChuXiyueScumbagCrusher.

Although the topic was absurd, when netizens thought of all the recent explosive gossip—

Chu Xiyue gained another title besides entertainment industry undercover agent: Scumbag Crusher.

Chu Xiyue, seeing the trending searches: ...

Why did anyone believe such an absurd rumor?!

Chu Xiyue made a promotional Weibo post for the second episode of the variety show. However, the comments below were not fans flooding the replies with compliments—Chu Xiyue did not even have a fan support club, let alone people controlling the comments. The top comments under her Weibo were all fans asking whether the various bits of gossip were true.

Ranking List

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Transmigrated into a Book

Entertainment Industry

Female Supporting Character

Romance: Transmigration and Rebirth

Tu Yanyan

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