"Was that a dig at me?"
Yan Qingdu looked at Ye Yizhou and asked with a very serious expression.
Ye Yizhou burst out laughing. "Are you really that self-aware now?"
Yan Qingdu nodded solemnly.
"It wasn't a dig at you. I had some time and felt like it recently, so I settled accounts with all the trash who'd provoked me before."
The corners of Ye Yizhou's mouth lifted, and he was in a good mood. "I sued some people, took down a few paid-troll companies, and implicated several celebrities' teams who'd been slinging mud and deliberately inciting online harassment. Weibo is quite lively right now."
Ye Yizhou handed his phone straight to Yan Qingdu, inviting him to admire his handiwork with him.
Yan Qingdu scrolled through a few comments on the phone. When he saw one of them, he raised an eyebrow slightly, parted his thin lips, and slowly read aloud:
"I never expected all that dirt on Ye Yizhou to be fake. The rumor spreaders only have themselves to blame for getting exposed and sued. Almost all the celebrities who trended alongside Ye Yizhou before have had their reputations ruined, except for one person. Know what that proves?"
That piqued Ye Yizhou's interest. Lying on his side, he propped his head on one hand and looked at Yan Qingdu, curious about what came next.
"Who's this talking about?"
"It proves that our darling has always been honest and aboveboard in everything he does. Ye Yizhou was the one who kept pestering him and leeching off his popularity. Since that's the truth, even Ye Yizhou can't refute it. Putting on an act by inventing some first love on a dating show and grabbing some ugly creep who won't even show his face to play along-does he really think that'll erase