[Well said!]
[Zhuang Luo, don't go soft! Sue him even if he apologizes! Trash who lies through his teeth like that deserves a few years sewing in prison!]
[That scared me to death, scared me to death. For a second there I almost thought Xu Su was telling the truth. Li Weizhou is the only idol I stan. He can't turn out to be a fraud!]
[Get the fuck out of showbiz, you lying bastard!]
"What's going on?"
Li Weizhou, who had disappeared into the latrine for ages, now came charging back reeking of shit.
Noticing something off about the atmosphere, he asked Zhuang Luo what had happened.
Zhuang Luo cut out the beginning and end and gave him a brief, concise account: "&...%￥#!@#￥%&￥...*%!@￥..."
Li Weizhou immediately flew into a rage after hearing it. He glared furiously at Xu Su and demanded that he apologize at once!
Xu Su said nothing.
Only after calmly taking out his phone while staring Li Weizhou down did he drawl:
"But I have proof."
Zhuang Luo and Li Weizhou both caught their breath. "What proof do you have?"
Xu Su flashed a restless, eye-catching smile. "Nothing much. Just a few recordings of Zhuang Luo encouraging me to pursue you, plus footage of you two getting a room at the Yaris Hotel over six months ago, and you two four months ago at..."
"Enough, Xu Su!"
Li Weizhou panicked.
He hadn't expected Xu Su to actually have proof!
He and Zhuang Luo had both concealed themselves so well when they got a room that even the paparazzi hadn't noticed. How had Xu Su found out?!
And how did he know so much detail?!
Had Xu Su fallen so deeply in love with him that he was stalking him around the clock?!
Was he that much of a pervert?!
And what were those recordings supposed to mean?!
There were too many unanswered questions. Li Weizhou couldn't make sense of it.
But he knew perfectly well that this wasn't the time to delve into them. The priority was stopping Xu Su from spouting nonsense!
He strode forward, snatched Xu Su's phone, and smashed it hard against the floor. "That's enough out of you!"
"..."
The entire room fell silent, everyone's eyes settling on Li Weizhou with complicated looks.
For the first time since the livestream began, the barrage of comments also went silent-the viewers were all stunned!
Only several seconds later, when a long comment appeared, did the viewers snap out of it.
[OH!!!!!!!!!! MY!!!!!!!!!! GOD!!!!!!!!!!]
#Xu Su drops a massive bombshell#
#Zhuang-Zhou CP's romance storyline exposed as fake#
#Li Weizhou & Zhuang Luo cash in on fake single personas#
#Zhuang Luo is a hypocrite#
Xu Su single-handedly shook up the trending chart again and single-handedly forced this variety show, which had only been airing for two days, off the air for half a day.
-The boss of Zhuang Luo and Li Weizhou's agency personally called Director Yu and told him to suspend filming, or he would expose the fact that Director Yu had been scammed out of 3,800 yuan in an online romance!
Under that tyrannical threat, Director Yu could only swallow his anger and agree.
But even the agency's emergency PR efforts couldn't stop the online uproar from rapidly escalating:
[Despair Duck Neck]: I figured having all three of them together would be dramatic, but I never imagined it would be this dramatic.
[Uproot All the Fish Mint in the World]: People are actually still saying Xu Su is spreading rumors?? Li Weizhou felt so guilty he smashed the phone, and you're still calling it a rumor??
[Successor to Socialism]: If Li Weizhou hadn't smashed that phone, I would've trusted him completely. Now... sigh! The more I say, the more I want to cry. That's it. Unstanning, unstanning.
[How Many More Years Will Those Distant Mountains Call Me]: Never imagined Zhuang Luo was this kind of person in private. Disgusting! And my six girlfriends all liked him so much! Fuck! I'm dumping every last one of them!
[First Day on the Job, First Day Wanting to Quit]: I seriously suspect a lot of the dirt on Xu Su before this was paid for by Li Weizhou and Zhuang Luo!
[A Life of Sparkling Insanity]: Those two fucking scumbags! They've actually been together for two years! And they lied to us that they'd only just gotten together! I spent over a hundred thousand yuan chasing after Li Weizhou a year ago because of that! Motherfuckers!
[Sexy Female Rat]: Just for daring to speak up today without being afraid of getting blacklisted by the money behind Zhuang-Zhou, I'm stanning Xu Su!
[The World's Strongest Hairstylist]: My man Xu Su, brave and fearless! Taking on two all by himself! (Xu Su fans +1)
Back at the set.
In the kitchen, Huo Yuchen had finished cooking.
Taking a wooden tray he'd dug up somewhere, he placed the three dishes and two steamed buns on it and carried it to the dining table.
Then he pulled out the chair closest to Xu Su and sat down, asking as he did, "I forgot to ask earlier. How did you know I could cook?"
His tone was casual and his manner composed, as though he hadn't noticed the strange atmosphere around them at all.
Looking at the Garlic Butter Shrimp, Luffa Egg Drop Soup, and Stir-Fried Corn Kernels before him, all looking, smelling, and tasting wonderful, Xu Su was practically drooling for miles.
With no time for much explanation, he hurriedly dug in first.
Only after popping a second springy, delicious shrimp into his mouth did he mumble, "I guessed. You look so good at keeping house, you must know how to cook!"
Huo Yuchen raised his brows slightly. "Really?"
Xu Su nodded. "Of course!"
Of course that was a lie.
Xu Su wasn't sure whether Huo Yuchen could cook. He was simply certain that absolutely no one in the world could make food that tasted worse than his, which was why he'd tried every possible way to get Huo Yuchen to do it.
As for just how terrible his cooking was, he couldn't describe it precisely in words. All he could say was that the only two times he'd been hospitalized in his life had been because he'd eaten his own cooking, and the symptoms had been food poisoning.
The two ate as though no one else were there, completely ignoring Li Weizhou and Zhuang Luo's extremely ugly expressions.
Shen Chuanzhu and Lu Jing had gone out along with the camera operators when Director Yu had told them to withdraw earlier, leaving only the four of them in the dining room.
Seeing Huo Yuchen there, looking as though he wouldn't leave until he'd finished eating, Li Weizhou knew it would be difficult to negotiate with Xu Su like this. He said to Xu Su, "Let's talk outside."
Xu Su: ?
After I finally waited for this delicious food to be ready, you want me to go outside?
How is that any different from having a perfect, muscular top lying naked on the bed, only for you to tell me to clench my ass cheeks and get lost?
You must be joking.
Swallowing the food in his mouth, Xu Su was about to refuse.
But just as he was about to speak, a clear, slightly deep voice rang out on its own. "Talk right here."
Xu Su: ?
Li Weizhou: ?
Xu Su shifted his gaze toward the speaker. His expression was as calm as ever, and he kept eating, looking nothing like someone about to meddle.
Yet those words had indeed come from his mouth.
A little strange.
But Xu Su didn't dwell on it, since he hadn't intended to go outside anyway.
So he followed Huo Yuchen's lead. "Hear that? The crown prince has spoken. We're to talk right here."
He really was borrowing someone else's authority to throw his weight around, but Li Weizhou also knew perfectly well that Huo Yuchen wasn't someone he could afford to offend. Since he'd said so, there was naturally no going against him.
Besides, given Huo Yuchen's character and status, even if he learned about their private affairs, he wouldn't go gossiping about them later. There was nothing to worry about.
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