As things escalated, the livestream viewers began to lose their cool.
"Are they actually breaking up?"
"We were just stirring things up for fun! It was only a joke. Calm down, you two."
"Yeah, calm down. There's no need to actually break up."
"The joke went too far. We're screwed!"
"Can't they take a joke? Are they that fragile?"
"This is awkward. Looks like our big mouths got us into trouble!"
"Better to tear down ten temples than break up one marriage. You shit-stirring busybodies are going to get what's coming to you!"
"For a man, being cheated on is the ultimate humiliation. No woman should joke about cheating! And she called Master Xiao her husband in front of hundreds of thousands of people? Even fangirling should have limits!"
The livestream viewers who had been egging them on now began trying to talk them around.
Some kept making snide remarks and adding fuel to the fire, only to be muted outright by the moderators.
On his side of the screen, Xiao Yu's gaze moved back and forth between Xu Jie and Liang Jia on the other end of the camera.
"Could you two hear me out?"
"Miss Liang, although I'm very touched by how hard you tried to defend me, calling me your husband in front of hundreds of thousands of viewers really wasn't appropriate."
"Mr. Xu, I can accept reasonable doubts. After all, every livestream viewer here, including your girlfriend, didn't believe me at first. But refusing to let it go and stubbornly denying everything was wrong of you."
"Since you were both in the wrong, could you do me a small favor and make up here, and apologize to each other? How about it?"
Liang Jia reacted quickly.
Her lips parted and closed several times before she finally