Sweating bullets now, buddy?

Ye Lan was still agonizing over his wording, wondering how he should answer when accepting and refusing both seemed wrong, when Ye Xunzhi jumped in first.

She declared firmly, "I refuse."

Bai Zhao seemed to have anticipated that Ye Xunzhi might jump in. She bit her lower lip, tears welling in her eyes at such a blunt rejection.

"Little Sister Little Xun, I don't think I've ever offended you. Why do you always have to..."

Before she could finish with "pick on me," Ye Xunzhi mercilessly interrupted her.

"Stop crying. Your Great Qing fell ages ago. I just hate you."

Bai Zhao's expression froze. "..."

Damn it, I've spent so many years working in show business. Whatever people were like in private, who wasn't perfectly polite on camera?

Who was like Ye Xunzhi, who wouldn't even wait a day to say she hated someone?

Had heaven sent Ye Xunzhi to ruin my working experience?!

Still, this works too. It'll be even better if I can get her to bring up what happened between Ye Lan and me.

Bai Zhao looked utterly aggrieved. "Little Sister Little Xun, I really don't know what I did wrong."

People always instinctively sided with the weaker party. Seeing Bai Zhao looking so pitiful broke their hearts, especially her fans'.

In the livestream-

[Does this Ye Xunzhi have any manners? Does she know how to respect her elders? And to think I actually liked her a little before!]

[Bad people really are rotten from childhood. She's already this aggressive at her age. What'll she be like when she grows up?]

[This is too much! Zhaozhao just wanted to take good care of the little girl, and this is how she gets treated? Damn it!]

[Poor Zhaozhao. Hugs. I'm going to be a Ye Xunzhi hater for life now.]

Ye Xunzhi didn't have to think to know that the livestream chat must have erupted, but she had nothing to lose.

She wasn't going into show business or planning to make a living from it, so naturally, she did whatever made her happy.

Ye Xunzhi folded her arms, forming a stark contrast with the fragile-looking Bai Zhao, and spoke bluntly:

"You don't know what you did wrong? Then surely you know you're about to go to jail for trespassing."

Bai Zhao's pupils contracted. Her first thought was that Ye Xunzhi actually knew. Then Ye Lan...!

No, that's not right. If he knew, he would definitely have done something. So it's very possible that only Ye Xunzhi knows.

And I've already deleted that day's surveillance footage. Even if she asks to retrieve it later, there won't be any evidence.

In that case, she's made completely the wrong move.

Having worked everything out under pressure, Bai Zhao steadied herself again.

She believed that with no evidence, the netizens would definitely take her side.

Bai Zhao sniffled, looking like a startled fawn. "Little Sister Little Xun, don't make things up. Why would I trespass in someone's home?"

Just as she had expected, the livestream viewers were furious at this baseless accusation-

[This girl is disgusting. Now she's spreading rumors about someone going to jail.]

[Got any proof? Running your damn mouth without evidence? You really think Ye Lan can shield you while you do whatever you want?]

Ye Xunzhi said, "Of course I have proof."

With that one sentence, the words [Ye Xunzhi, get out of show business] that the haters had typed on their keyboards suddenly seemed so feeble.

The barrage of comments abruptly fell silent too.

That's impossible! Bai Zhao nearly blurted it out.

Ye Lan also stared at his sister in shock, triumphant laughter ringing in his ears.

[Hahaha, sweating bullets now, buddy? You thought I wouldn't have a backup plan when I knew my brother was going to be in trouble?]

[A whole month ago, I scraped together everything I had and paid a security guard at Cloud Forest Residential Community a whopping ten thousand yuan. Whenever he saw you show up, he was to copy that day's footage for me before it got deleted.]

[Boo-hoo, ten thousand yuan! All for one day's surveillance footage. It hurt so much!]

Ye Xunzhi wasn't exaggerating at all. For some reason, the Lin Family had always been incredibly stingy with her.

Before Lin Ranran returned, aside from keeping up appearances, they gave her only two hundred yuan a month for living expenses.

After Lin Ranran returned and framed her a few times, even that two hundred yuan disappeared. They simply left her to either get out or fend for herself.

Ye Xunzhi really had scraped together everything she had for her second brother.

Ye Lan was deeply touched. What a good little sister. When something happens, you really do step up!

I'll reimburse you later, along with the money for cards and board games.

Taking her phone out of her pocket, Ye Xunzhi deftly opened a video titled "Ten thousand yuan."

Director Mi, who had been watching from the sidelines, immediately smelled views. He shot the cameraman a look, and the cameraman instantly understood, charging over with the camera on his shoulder.

Bai Zhao wanted to stop them, but unfortunately, it was already too late. The viewers had seen the entire video.

In the footage, Bai Zhao was easily recognizable despite wearing a mask. Someone dressed like a paparazzo followed behind her, and she beckoned to him.

He immediately rushed over, found an angle, and started shooting. After posing for a few pictures, Bai Zhao took a key out of her pocket and went inside.

The paparazzo didn't go inside. Instead, he went around to a window of the villa, seemingly photographing a figure behind the curtains.

The address could also be quickly deduced from the surveillance footage.

In the livestream-

[Holy shit, there's actual video evidence.]

[Thank goodness I wasn't as fast at typing as those keyboard warriors. I nearly made a fool of myself.]

[Is that... Cloud Grove Villa? Oh my god, isn't that one of the properties Best Actor Ye previously revealed? What the hell is she doing?!]

[So Bai Zhao really did trespass in Best Actor Ye's home and take pictures there. But, but how did his sister know? And what does Best Actor Ye think about this???]

Didn't Bai Zhao always love taking advantage of people not knowing the full story to twist things out of context and make things up?

As if anyone couldn't make things up.

Ye Xunzhi put on a look of lingering fear:

"A month ago, my school had an event nearby. Since it was close to Cloud Grove Villa, my second brother said I could borrow the villa, because no one usually lived there anyway, so I moved in."

"But after I'd stayed there for two days, I came home one day and found that someone had moved things around. Nothing was missing, though. Things had just been moved, so I hurried to the property management office to check the surveillance footage."

Ye Xunzhi patted her chest. "Probably because I got there early, I managed to get a copy of the video. But I didn't recognize this person, and I was afraid of alerting them, so I spent the night at a hotel."

"The next day, I went back to the property management office to see whether they'd come again that day, only to find that the previous day's footage was gone. Even the person at the office had been replaced by someone I didn't recognize."

"I was so scared. I thought it was better to avoid trouble, and since I'd finished what I needed to do, I hurriedly moved out. I thought that would be the end of it. I never expected..."

Ye Xunzhi's gaze landed on Bai Zhao. Everything went without saying.

The livestream viewers were stunned by this truth.

[What kind of horror story is this? Imagine finding out at fourteen that someone had sneaked into your house without you knowing... That would honestly scar me for life.]

[Adding to the comment above, what's even scarier is, could Little Sister Little Xun have recognized her? Is that why she was resisting so much?]

[That makes her behavior understandable. But Little Sister Little Xun, if you were that scared, you should've called the police! The police would protect you!]

[Actually, it's not that hard to understand. Look at school bullying. Those kids don't call the police either. Little Sister Little Xun might really have been terrified.]

[When you put it that way, Bai Zhao did something like this and still has the nerve to play the victim here? What exactly is she trying to do? How scary!]

[Why do you people believe everything you hear? What evidence proves the person in the pictures is our Zhaozhao? Maybe she just looks like her!!!]

[Exactly. If it really isn't Zhaozhao, then Ye Xunzhi is still an ill-mannered girl who casually slanders people.]