Shen Ting and Bai Yuanyuan kept talking even after getting into the car. Only when they returned to the villa did they reluctantly stop, still wanting more.
As soon as they walked through the door, they saw three people sitting on the sofas, each drinking tea.
Yan Yi smiled and waved when he saw Shen Ting.
Shen Ting smiled back and waved at the man he had decided was his banter buddy.
Su Weiwang sat quietly in an armchair.
Bored, Meng Yun looked left and right, then sprawled one way and the other. His eyes lit up when he saw the two of them.
"You're finally back! I was bored to death." Meng Yun leaped excitedly off the sofa.
"Why is it just you three? Where's everyone else?"
Shen Ting sat down on the sofa, picked up an apple from the table, and started munching on it.
"No idea." Meng Yun scratched his head. As far as he was concerned, two of them had gone out, and two had come back.
"Bro, tell me what happened on your end. Why did you come back alone?" Shen Ting turned sideways and leaned toward Yan Yi.
"Su Yu fainted from fright and was taken to the hospital," Yan Yi said cheerfully, looking at the slightly twitching ear in front of him.
"He fainted from fright at the zoo? That takes talent," Shen Ting remarked as he ate his red apple.
While they were chatting, Xiaoyue hurried in from outside.
"Everyone, we've just received notice that you need to pack your luggage tonight. We'll be changing filming locations tomorrow."
"Um, can I ask where my brother is?" Shen Ting raised his hand.
"Mr. Shen, a minor incident came up during Mr. Si's filming, so he needs to discuss it with the team. He'll arrive at the destination on time tomorrow, so there's no need to worry, Mr. Shen." Xiaoyue sounded strained, and her eyes kept straying toward Su Weiwang, filled with pity. What a poor little thing. This is awful. He's the real heir, yet that impostor has been throwing his weight around on borrowed authority.
[A minor incident, a minor incident. Just casually gave us the number-one trending topic, that's all.]
[The Su Family's official account is still playing dead. They even disabled the comments. I'm really ***]
[I've really liked Su Weiwang since this show started. One look and you can tell he's socially anxious like me, but he's so cute about it.]
[Is nobody going to apologize to Shen Ting? So many people cursed him out when he said it.]
[You're dreaming, commenter above. Just look at whose fans were doing the cursing. Both fandoms are playing dead now.]
[I've already returned every Su Family product I bought. If they don't clear this up, I'm blacklisting them from now on.]
[Same, same. If their personal character is that bad, then I'm absolutely suspicious of the products their company makes.]
Shen Ting looked from Xiaoyue to Su Weiwang, his expression thoughtful. Don't tell me the truth about the Su Family's real and fake heirs got exposed? No, that's not right. According to the plot, that whole scandal only fully blew up midway through the story. Isn't this a little early?
Su Weiwang also keenly noticed Xiaoyue looking at him. He tugged his hat down farther. You can't see me. You can't see me.
In the hospital, Su Yu slowly regained consciousness.
Jin Wang sat beside the hospital bed with a phone in his hand, his face dark.
"What's wrong? Why the long face, even around a patient like me?" Su Yu rubbed his brow.
"We're in trouble! You think I want to have a long face?" Jin Wang hadn't slept all night, and dark circles clung tightly to the skin beneath his eyes.
"What happened? Did the fans kick up a fuss about me being hospitalized? Isn't that a good thing? It'll put some pressure on the production team." Su Yu waved dismissively.
"Pressure on the production team? Your own family's blowing up, and you're still talking about pressure?" Jin Wang's nerves had been stretched taut all night. The slightest spark would set him off.
"What exactly happened?" Seeing Jin Wang's contorted expression, Su Yu finally stopped smiling. Something serious must have happened.
"Shen Rui revealed the truth about you and Su Weiwang being the fake and real heirs on the livestream." His head aching, Jin Wang tugged at the few hairs he had left. What a mess. Before joining this show, we'd planned to use it as a stepping stone. Now look-it's become a stumbling block.
"What?! What's happening online now?" Su Yu anxiously pushed himself upright, grabbed the phone from the bedside table, and opened it.
#The Su Family's real and fake heirs#
#Boycott the Su Family#
#Apologize to Shen Ting#
Several trending topics clearly unfavorable to Su Yu occupied the top three spots.
Su Yu's vision darkened again as he read them. He wished he had never woken up.
Su Yu hurriedly called his parents.
The phone rang for a while before someone answered.
"Mom! Have you seen the trending topics online?"
At the Su Family home, his mother sat on the study sofa, watching her husband pace back and forth on the phone nearby.
"Your father and I both know. We're working on it. Keep yourself out of trouble for now, too. Your father is very unhappy about what happened today. Once this blows over, you'd better hurry up and do something to please him."
Thinking of how frightening his father was, Su Yu couldn't help shrinking back.
"Got it, Mom. I'll ask Si Chen for help, too." With that, Su Yu hung up.
At the Su Family home.
As soon as Su Yu's mother hung up, his father walked over.
"Was that Su Yu calling you?" His tone was particularly unpleasant.
"Yes. From the sound of it, he called us as soon as he woke up. Have you figured out what to do about this?" She walked behind him and massaged his shoulders.
"I'm still thinking." He rubbed his temples, his head aching.
"Why not have Su Weiwang clear things up?" She frowned at the thought of her timid biological son.
"Have him clear things up? Would he obediently do that? Don't forget, the moment we brought him home, he acted like he wasn't close to us at all. He even moved out the next day. He'd rather work than come home. Do you have something on him, or can you make him listen?" The thought of Su Weiwang made his head hurt even more. He should never have listened to Su Yu and let Su Weiwang join this show.
At that, she fell silent.
"In a little while, have the company's PR team issue a statement saying that Su Yu is indeed not our biological child, but we've raised him since he was little, so naturally we're attached to him. We've raised both children as our own. As for why we never took Su Weiwang to any events, say he didn't want to attend," he said after thinking for a while.
"But we never even asked Su Weiwang about those events." She withdrew her hands and sat down on the sofa.
"Isn't everyone online saying it? He's socially anxious. We were simply accommodating him." He waved a hand.
"Will that be enough to quiet things down online?"
"It's not that simple. Didn't Su Yu say he'd ask Si Chen for help? We'll find something else to push this off the trending list. Once some time has passed, it won't be so hard to deal with." Having made up his mind, he called the company's PR department.
After giving all his instructions, he slipped his phone into his pocket and turned to his wife.
"If he weren't close to that Si Family boy and still of some use, I'd have kicked him out long ago."
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