After running into Jiang Shu and He Gu at the club that day, Sheng Nian kept coming across online exposés about the two going everywhere together.
A paparazzo even sent him a private message with photos of the two entering a hotel together.
When Sheng Nian saw them, he cursed, "Lunatic."
But somehow, Jiang Shu found out about this and, for once, actually contacted Sheng Nian to explain.
[He Gu's current agent and company are unreliable, and the contract he signed when he entered the entertainment industry had very harsh terms. I only borrowed my family's lawyers to help him terminate it. Don't read too much into it.]
[You saw what happened at the club that day too. If I don't help him, no one will.]
He rolled his eyes at that. What did he mean, no one else would help? That lunatic second male lead, Ye Heng, was still waiting in the wings. Besides, He Gu wouldn't suffer any losses over this at all.
In the original plot, he had been unhappy about Jiang Shu running around to help He Gu terminate his contract and had hired people to throw obstacles in their way.
He Gu had somehow found out that he was interfering and leaked the information to Jiang Shu and all the major media outlets.
For a time, he had been thoroughly branded a scheming, vicious Omega, while He Gu had used the incident to grow closer to Jiang Shu, deal his former company a vicious blow, and successfully sign with Starlight Media, the company Jiang Shu belonged to.
Not to mention that he had also used it to put his fans through an emotional wringer and win sympathy from a huge number of casual onlookers, taking the opportunity to firmly establish his image as a delicate,