Lu Chiyan: "???"
Utterly exhausted, Lu Chiyan lazily lifted his eyelids and asked, "What am I trending for?"
"The formalwear," Qian Le said.
Lu Chiyan: "???"
"The formalwear?" Lu Chiyan sat up straight and opened his eyes. A little more awake now, he asked in confusion, "How could formalwear get me trending? Are they praising how handsome I look in it? I wouldn't mind trending for that!"
Qian Le said angrily, "See for yourself! We were still too polite to Li Jiao today. Shamelessness really does make you invincible. This has been a real eye-opener."
At that, Lu Chiyan could roughly guess what had happened.
He took out his phone and opened Weibo. Sure enough, it was pretty much what he had expected.
The top trending topic-#Lu Chiyan stole Zhou Zhicheng's formalwear#
Lu Chiyan: "???"
What now? What now?
How exactly had he stolen Zhou Zhicheng's formalwear?
He had paid real money for this outfit, okay!
Only after tapping into the trending topic and taking a look did Lu Chiyan learn how it had started trending.
That afternoon, Zhou Zhicheng had posted on Weibo. The post read-
[@Zhou Zhicheng: Looking forward to tonight! (Image attached)]
The attached image showed this very "Capital Orchid" outfit.
Zhou Zhicheng's fans had flocked to the comments to say how good the outfit looked and how perfectly it suited his aura, eagerly anticipating seeing him wearing it that evening.
But what happened? At that evening's launch event, the outfit that should have been on Zhou Zhicheng appeared on Lu Chiyan instead.
Naturally, Zhou Zhicheng's fans wanted to find out what had happened, so they asked him on Weibo why Lu Chiyan was wearing the outfit. To their surprise, Zhou Zhicheng replied beneath his own post with a remark that invited closer scrutiny.
Zhou Zhicheng: (Sigh) I suppose I can only blame myself for not being strong enough. I'm sorry, everyone. I'll keep working hard.
Though he had not explicitly said what had happened, his fans knew how to read between the lines and fill in the blanks. They immediately understood that their baby had been wronged: someone had snatched the outfit originally reserved for him.
How could they tolerate that?
And so Zhou Zhicheng's fans pushed the matter onto the trending list.
With all the major marketing accounts stirring things up as well, it shot straight to number one.
Lu Chiyan checked the timestamp on the post. It had been published at four that afternoon, long after he had already paid for the outfit.
And Li Jiao had watched him swipe his card with her own eyes.
They already knew he had bought the outfit, yet they had still posted something so suggestive. What could their intentions have been?
Wasn't this deliberately setting him up?
Moreover, Zhou Zhicheng had replied to his own post at eight, when everyone was at the event and no one was paying any attention to what was happening on Weibo.
Now that the event was over, the trending topic had already spiraled out of control. Even if Lu Chiyan did something now, he was already at a disadvantage.
Lu Chiyan casually glanced through the comments. Almost all of them were insults directed at him.
[Who is Lu Chiyan? If he hadn't exposed Jiang Zhinian making him the other man during that live broadcast, I wouldn't even have heard his name. Who does he think he is, snatching something from our Chengbao? He should take a good look at himself first.]
[How much self-respect could someone who talks about his private life like that on a livestream possibly have? I bet he's done plenty of disgusting things like this. Our poor Chengcheng has to swallow his grievances even after being wronged. My heart absolutely aches for him!]
[Zhou Zhicheng must be the hottest male celebrity right now, right? What kind of backing does Lu Chiyan have to be able to snatch an outfit from him? The more you think about it, the scarier it gets!]