"What's it to you?! Yu Can hasn't even said anything, so why are you talking to him? Mind your own business!" Chen Rui was so angry that she almost cursed, but when she thought about how they were in front of the camera and that Chu Mo was also there, she restrained herself a little.
Wasn't this how Ji Nanshu criticized others in another variety show? Ji Nanshu didn't get criticized, so she certainly won't. She just didn't expect that someone would register a fake account and expose everything Chen Rui did in high school and before, one by one, with incomplete evidence and witnesses, causing an uproar online.
[Holy crap, Chen Rui is so vicious! To do these things in elementary school, she must be a born bad seed!!]
[Let me see, poking eyes with a fountain pen, pushing pregnant women, breaking legs after a failed confession, scratching a classmate's face out of jealousy... Is this really something a girl in her early teens would do?]
[When I was in elementary school, getting into a fight in the mud was considered a serious offense, enough to get me a scolding when I got home. What are Chen Rui's parents doing?]
[She's the eldest daughter of the Chen family in the Imperial Capital, she's rich! So what if she's vicious? She can just use money to settle things!]
[Pah! Get Chen Rui out of the show! Boycott this scoundrel!!]
By the time the Chen family learned about this, the situation had escalated to the point of a nationwide boycott of Chen Rui and the Chen family business.
Chen Anbang had been investigating what his younger sister had done, but he hadn't been able to find out who was interfering. When the revelation came out, he was so shocked that he didn't know what to say. He knew his sister had a capricious personality, but he had never thought of her in such a bad way.
No, this matter must be suppressed. The Chen family absolutely cannot be implicated because of what Chen Rui did!
After discussing it with Mr. Chen, he sent his most capable assistant, Secretary Jin, to handle the matter and instructed Chen Anbang to get Chen Rui out of the program recording.
Chen Anbang immediately flew to the location where Chen Rui was recording the program, and ignoring Chen Rui's crying and fussing, he directly ordered his bodyguards to tie Chen Rui up and put her in the car.
While being tied up, Chen Rui cried out, "Brother Chu Mo, Brother Chu Mo, I don't want to go back! Talk to my older brother! Waaaaah..."
Chu Mo was puzzled by Chen Rui's plea for help. "What does it matter to me whether you go back or not?"
Chen Anbang glared at his younger sister, apologized to Ji Nanshu and Chu Mo, and then dragged Chen Rui back without stopping.
On the way back, Chen Rui couldn't help but complain, "Big brother! Do you know that Brother Chu Mo is about to fall in love with me?! You're ruining my plans!!"
Chen Anbang had a feeling something was wrong. How could Chu Mo, with his personality, possibly fall in love with her sister!
"What did you do to Chu Mo?!"
Chen Rui said triumphantly, "A master gave me a potion, and I gave it to Brother Chu Mo! After drinking it, he will slowly fall in love with me!"
Chen Anbang was speechless. What kind of potion in the world could make someone fall in love so easily? He had only ever heard of the Miao people's "Heart-Connecting Gu" having that effect! Wait a minute—
"You cast a spell on Chu Mo?!"
Chen Rui was a little stunned by her older brother's outburst, and wrinkled her nose as she said, "What 'poisoning'? It's just a potion!"
"Potion? I've been in the Celestial Master world for so long, and I've never heard of a potion that makes you fall in love with yourself after drinking it! The only thing with that effect is the Miao people's Heart-Connecting Gu!!" Chen Anbang had a headache. Even if he didn't want to abandon his sister, he probably had no choice now.
Chen Rui scoffed, "Brother, is it possible that you're just ignorant?"
Chen Anbang didn't say anything more. After returning to the Chen family, he told his father about the whole thing.
Chen Rui, however, continued to argue, "Dad! As long as Chu Mo falls in love with me, what's there to be afraid of? Don't you think the Chu family and the Chen family can suppress these issues?"
Hearing this, Chen's father swallowed the rebuke he was about to utter. Chen Anbang knew he absolutely couldn't let his father hear Chen Rui's words. While his father was thinking, he decisively spoke up, "Dad! We absolutely cannot listen to Xiao Rui on this matter! Ji Nanshu is a Innate Realm; he is extremely skilled at dispelling Gu poison. If Chu Mo truly loves her as Xiao Rui claims, then I will definitely not be able to bring Xiao Rui back today!"
After a moment of silence, Mr. Chen said, "Xiao Bang, take your sister back and lock her up. She's not to be released until this matter is resolved."
Chen Rui started crying again, "Dad!! I don't want to! I want to go back to find Brother Chu Mo! I don't want to stay at home! If you don't let me go, I'll kill myself!!"
Crying, making a scene, and threatening suicide are Chen Rui's usual tactics in front of her mother. Unfortunately, after this incident, Chen's mother was also held accountable and ordered not to go out or contact the outside world, leaving her in a precarious situation.
Seeing his unreasonable sister, Chen Anbang was so angry that he slapped Chen Rui across the face and called his bodyguards to lock her up.
Meanwhile, things aren't going too smoothly for Secretary Kim either.
He couldn't find any information about the whistleblower, and after consulting with Mr. Chen, Secretary Jin directly contacted Weibo staff to remove the trending topic. Money was spent, the trending topic was removed, and the account that broke the news was banned, but the final result was that the whistleblower simply used another account to post another Weibo message.
[Do you think removing the trending topics and banning my account will make this all over? Chen Rui, this lawless beast who disregards national laws, has harmed so many people. How dare she live in this world? You wait, this isn't over. You don't think I only have this little bit of weak evidence, do you?]
At this point, the Chen family realized that this was a conspiracy against Chen Rui and the Chen family.
After much thought, Chen Anbang ruled out Ji Nanshu and Chu Mo as the people behind it all. He couldn't imagine anyone else with such power that they couldn't find the whistleblower.
Chen Anbang said to his father, "Dad, it's highly likely that Ji Nanshu and Chu Mo did this."
Mr. Chen pressed his throbbing temples. "If someone else had done this, it would be manageable; we could have suppressed it. But if it's Chu Mo... it's enough to give our Chen family a run for our money. Ji Nanshu is nothing to fear; he alone can't represent the Ji Family."
Chen Anbang was helpless. He had repeatedly emphasized Ji Nanshu's identity as a Innate Realm, but his father and grandfather seemed to have no belief in Ji Nanshu's prowess.
"Dad! This isn't a problem with the Ji Family!! Don't you know how powerful a Celestial Master at the Innate Realm is?!"
Mr. Chen said, "He's only so young to be at the Innate Realm. What if it's fake? Besides, even if it were, so what? Hua Country has other Innate Realm Celestial Masters!"
"But he won't be twenty for another month."
Mr. Chen snapped impatiently, "Alright! Am I the father or are you the father?! It's none of your business how I behave!"
Seeing his father's expression, Chen Anbang suddenly lost his temper. Oh well, whatever. He had originally planned to "give up" Chen Rui if the matter couldn't be suppressed, but now it seemed unlikely. His father definitely wanted to arrange a marriage alliance with the Chu family.
Let's take it one step at a time; maybe things aren't that bad yet.