Xu Wang tapped straight into the first trending topic.
Xu Wang skipped the embellished text and swiped straight to the photos with his right hand. Sure enough, they were photos of him and Pei Yanchuan that afternoon.
Xu Wang raised an eyebrow. Since Pei Yanchuan had held him completely in his arms, his full face was not visible in the photos at all, only his forehead. Had Pei Yan really been that careless when looking at them?
Beside him, Pei Yanchuan hung up the phone.
"Xu Wang, Miao Yi has named the mastermind behind this. To protect himself, he even handed over a recording he had. This will be resolved very soon."
A recording? Miao Yi was pretty smart. No wonder he had left the country immediately after appearing in just one plot point in the original novel. So he had gotten enough money.
Pei Yanchuan kept his word. Once Assistant Yang received clear instructions, he quickly got to work.
At the Zhong Family home, Zhong Ran happened to have come home that day. Wearing pajamas, he walked onto the balcony while talking to his manager on the phone.
"I think I can post it. I know Pei Yanchuan. He would never do something like this. If I speak up for him now, I can steer public opinion, too."
"Seriously, have you gone crazy chasing traffic? It took all these recent trending topics to finally bury that hotel incident with you and Young Master Leng."
Zhong Ran clenched one hand into a tight fist. He had not wanted things to turn out this way either. With the Leng Family's resources and prestige behind him, he could have soared to success, but those two elders of the Leng Family were very much against him working in this industry. Word of their views had leaked over the past few days, making all the people who had fawned over him instantly retreat into their shells.
Getting no response, his manager sighed. Just as he was about to agree, the screen of the computer in front of him suddenly began scrolling rapidly again.
"Well, Zhong Ran, even if I agree now, it won't do much good. The Pei Corporation Group's PR really is top-notch."
What? Zhong Ran quickly opened his phone. The trending list, which had been blowing up earlier, had been completely refreshed.
#Pei Corporation's legal notice#
#Dangerous recording#
#Recording of Pei Family daughter Pei Yan#
#Trending topic fabricated out of thin air#
Zhong Ran's fingers instantly tightened around his phone as he read. "*!"
[Oh my god, this is a whole TV series.]
[No, the person above has it wrong. It's a short drama.]
[Hahaha, that sister up there made such a heavy topic feel a lot lighter.]
[Pei Yan is President Pei's younger half sister. She sounds so vicious in that recording.]
[Sure enough, "people die for wealth, birds die for food" has never been truer.]
[At the end of the day, it all comes down to one word: money.]
[Wait, sisters, hurry over to Gossip Little Doubao's post. I'm laughing my head off. We spent two hours worrying over one photo, and it turns out that photo was actually food for our souls (don't know whether to laugh or cry).]
[??? Sis, what are you talking about? Isn't this a photoshopped picture?]
In an instant, countless fans, ship fans, and casual onlookers clicked on Gossip Little Doubao's post out of curiosity.
Gossip Little Doubao was a very cute-looking girl. In the video, she wore glasses with mosquito-coil spirals for lenses and held a little black pointer, glaring fiercely into the camera.
"Hello, everyone, welcome to Gossip Little Doubao's classroom. Something huge happened on the trending list at nine tonight. As a ship fan who only just got into the Pei-Xu Couple, I, Little Doubao, felt like I'd taken a direct hit from a bomb and been blown to pieces."
Little Doubao's opening line sent many of the fans and casual viewers watching the video into laughter.
"Little Doubao may be angry, but we still have to get our facts straight first. Little Doubao spent nearly two hours studying the photos carefully. I would never have known if I hadn't looked, but once I did, Little Doubao was absolutely overjoyed."
"Enough talk. Let's bring out the pictures and the evidence." Little Doubao pushed up her glasses and waved the little black pointer through the air. Two photos appeared in the video.
The first was the photo of the two embracing from the trending topic, while the other was the photo Xu Wang had posted in the comments.
"Sisters, I realized we were all led astray by those clickbait accounts' captions. Let's take a close look at these two pictures and carefully examine every detail. I'm sure the observant sisters have already noticed something is off."
Little Doubao fell silent for a few seconds, then reached up with her right hand, took off her glasses, and flung them onto the floor.
In the video, Little Doubao looked excited, the little black pointer in her hand flailing wildly.
"You're seeing that right! The person in President Pei's arms is clearly Xu’s Wife! Look at the clothes, the hairstyle, and then the lovey-dovey photo Xu’s Wife posted this afternoon. It all proves this is Xu’s Wife! Do you clickbait accounts have nothing better to do? Can't sleep at night? Do you know that slander and spreading rumors are against the law?"
Red circles automatically appeared on both photos, marking the matching details.
Gossip Little Doubao's video racked up tens of thousands of views in just a few minutes.
The fans who finished watching the video sent the comments into an uproar. They had never imagined such a dramatic turn of events.
[Oh my god, the thing that kept me up half the night was actually food for my ship?]
[I don't know whether to blame the clickbait accounts or not. If I blame them, they did give us ship content. If I don't, they really did make us stay up late.]
[I can't with them. Can they post this stuff during the day next time (death smile)?]
[Those clickbait accounts have made a complete joke of themselves this time.]
[A big, capitalized "I give up" for them.]
Xu Wang also came across the video in his recommendations and gave it a like.
With that like, the video's traffic hit another high.
Pei Yanchuan was right beside Xu Wang and saw the video too. Smiling, he held Xu Wang in his arms.
"Xu Wang, time to get some rest. We still need to go out and buy a few things together tomorrow. Filming for the show's second episode starts the day after tomorrow."
Pei Yanchuan's voice was very soft, and it successfully brought out Xu Wang's drowsiness. He turned, hugged Pei Yanchuan, and buried his head against him. "Okay. Good night."
"Good night."
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