CP promotional photo

The clip of their livestream immediately spread online. The whole thing was so dramatic that it shot straight onto Trending Search.

The #Lu Yiyi Innocent Campus Beauty Devilish Figure# topic that Lu Yiyi's agency had paid to promote had yet to reach the top when a new topic rocketed into first place.

#Lu Yiyi Bra Pads#

#Lu Yiyi Innocent Campus Beauty Devilish Figure#

The two wildly different topics appeared on the trending list, leaving spectators and netizens exclaiming, "What a drama!"

The humiliation had hit like a tornado. It was a spectacularly satisfying case of marketing backfiring.

Anyone with eyes could tell that the company had bought the second topic. Together, the two topics thrust Lu Yiyi into the eye of the storm.

Lu Yiyi had successfully broken out of her usual audience in the most mortifying way imaginable.

Some netizens who loved stirring the pot even took screenshots of the livestream and turned them into all kinds of ridiculous memes.

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The company had only just paid to push her onto Trending Search, and now it had to scramble to pay to take her off it.

Lu Yiyi, with her innocent campus beauty persona, became the laughingstock of the internet.

Not only that, plenty of casual viewers and fans watching the livestream noticed that something was off between Lu Yiyi and Luo An, and took frame-by-frame screenshots as evidence.

[Look, she was clearly about to hit someone! Even Luo An's expression changed.]

[And Luo An has always been the one giving in to her. If he hadn't stopped her this time, embarrassing herself would've been the least of her problems!]

[That swimsuit stayed on through all that? Can someone give me a link?]

[Doesn't anyone find it strange? She's only been in the industry a few years, but she's always had good opportunities!]

[After all this, surely there aren't still CP fans shipping them!]

[It's obviously fake. I can't believe Luo An has put up with it. Hurry up and vote to set the poor guy free.]

[I'm sure Lu Yiyi has someone backing her. Otherwise, Luo An would never put up with this much from her.]

With the netizens' mountain of evidence, the Yi-An CP fans had no way to defend them.

Most Yi-An CP fans had come from their drama. They wanted to watch the footage to clear their favorites' names, but the production team used high-definition cameras, and every move Lu Yiyi made had been recorded.

Without the drama's soft-focus filter, Lu Yiyi was nothing.

For a while, Lu Yiyi's reputation plummeted. Fans and CP fans either left outright or moved on to other favorites.

After enjoying the spectacle on Weibo, netizens and casual viewers slipped back into the show's livestream to keep watching.

The production team had no idea how to handle the situation with Luo An and Lu Yiyi.

All they could do was turn the cameras away and send female crew members to retrieve the things floating on the water.

Although Lu Yiyi was angry, she wasn't worried about this incident at all.

As the young lady of the Lu family behind New City Entertainment, she naturally had people to clean up after her. How could they possibly fail to handle this little mishap?

Losing opportunities would only be temporary. As one of the country's four biggest entertainment companies, New City Entertainment had countless resources. As long as it stayed standing, she would be perfectly safe.

The atmosphere between the two was strained, but filming was still underway. Even if they were only acting, they had to see it through, pretend nothing had happened, and start the challenge again.

On another stretch of beach, Song Yunxing also noticed the commotion in the shallows.

"What happened over there?"

Shen Yanci glanced over the task card and placed it in his hand.

"Focus on the task first. This one will probably be hard for you to complete."

Song Yunxing lowered his eyes to the task card, his body gradually stiffening.

{Dear rumored couples, welcome to the second event: taking a romantic CP promotional photo.

This time, we've specially invited four real couples from the island. They are respectively in the just-started-dating stage, the passionate love stage, the newlywed stage, and their third year of marriage.

Choose a couple at random and copy their assigned pose. Complete the shoot to receive a lavish lunch for free.}

Song Yunxing looked up and surveyed the four foreign couples standing hand in hand on the beach, lost in thought.

There were no outward clues. How was he supposed to tell what stage their relationships were in?

Logically, the shorter they've been dating, the simpler their pose should be, right?

Song Yunxing approached the first couple and asked tentatively, "Hello? How long have you been together?"

The first couple didn't understand Chinese and stared at him blankly.

Song Yunxing blinked, trying to work out their nationality.

Shen Yanci gave the man a brief glance and said in English, "He's asking how long you've been together."

"Us? About three months." The man told him directly, making no attempt to hide it.

Song Yunxing's eyes lit up. He moved on to the next couple and asked the same question again in English.

Whether the second couple understood him or not, neither could tell what they were trying to say through their stumbling replies.

Shen Yanci glanced at the woman on the right, who looked a little anxious, and repeated the question in Chinese.

The woman smiled at Song Yunxing. "No need to go out of your way to speak English. We understand Chinese. We've been together for about a year."

Song Yunxing nodded awkwardly, unsure how to respond.

Behind him, Shen Yanci's lashes stirred, and he couldn't help curling his lips.

As though sensing his amusement, Song Yunxing drove an elbow hard into Shen Yanci. "If you're so good at this, you do it! You ask the next one!"

Clutching his stomach where he'd been struck, Shen Yanci strolled lazily over and questioned the couples one by one.

[Hahaha, how did he manage to fail at communicating with every single person?]

[Xingxing: Nationality prediction failed. Embarrassment turned to anger!]

[Shen Yanci's powers of observation are incredible. How did he know what languages they understood? He switched between them so smoothly, too.]

After they finished asking everyone, it turned out that the couples' relationship lengths essentially increased from left to right.

By ordinary logic, the first couple should have the least intimate pose.

Song Yunxing hesitated for a moment. Just as he was about to choose, Yu Wan and Shi Jinyan approached from nearby.

"Phew! I'm freaking exhausted! I'm definitely going to... take out that guy in the little red trunks!" Yu Wan looked a mess. Her carefully styled long curls had clumped together like seaweed.

Beside her, Shi Jinyan didn't seem particularly affected. Seawater still clung to his short black hair, dripping steadily.

Shi Jinyan's skin tone stood out among the others. He seemed to have deliberately tanned it to a dark bronze, and the muscles of his upper body were sharply defined, developed to an almost intimidating degree.

"Ms. Yu, Mr. Shi." Song Yunxing had barely greeted them when someone caught his face in a hand.

"Where are you looking?" The man's brows drew tightly together as he stared into his eyes.

Song Yunxing was utterly baffled. Where was I supposed to look?

While the two were still having their bewildering discussion off to the side, Yu Wan had already finished reading the task card.

"That's it? Hurry it up, I'm starving!" Yu Wan put down the card and pointed straight at the first couple. "You two."

Song Yunxing turned to look and was just about to stop her.

The first couple reached out and embraced each other. The tall man lowered his head and, without the slightest hesitation, kissed the petite woman.

Song Yunxing: !!!