Chapter 52: Chapter 52: Restless People Don’t Deserve a Good End Chapter 52: Chapter 52: Restless People Don’t Deserve a Good End On the last day, Xu Zishen finally managed to secretly bind Shen Yan in an underground romance.
He had pondered this with his agent the night before.
Stirring up this scandal with Shen Yan held quite a few benefits for him.
His agent also relented, handling the operations from the outside, forking out cash to push the buzz up the trending searches.
Xinyu’s public relations were no less impressive.
They actually smothered the ripples that had just begun to spread, leaving only a few minor splashes bouncing about.
Xu Zishen emerged in the morning and ran into Shen Yan, greeting her with a smile that was both sunny and tender.
Before Shen Yan could react, he eagerly leaned in closer.
“Shen Yan, don’t eat instant noodles again today, give me a chance to show off my skills!” Xu Zishen said, “My cooking may not be spectacular, but it won’t taste too bad.”
Shen Yan responded indifferently, “Is that so? Then you should invite everyone to try.”
“This…” Xu Zishen certainly didn’t want to cook breakfast for everyone; his culinary skills weren’t that outstanding, managing to make one good meal would be quite the feat.
“If you can’t prepare it for everyone, then I’ll just stick to instant noodles,” Shen Yan said as she turned and walked down the stairs past him.
“Of course, I can do it for everyone! I’ll get started right away!”
In that instant Xu Zishen turned to head downstairs, a phone slipped out of his pocket like a piece of silk, deftly landing in a pair of fair and flawless hands.
Shen Yan turned around, “You’ve dropped something.”
Xu Zishen, caught up in figuring out how to show off, hadn’t noticed Shen Yan returning to her room.
*
Meanwhile, online.
Xinyu directly released an official recording.
It was the conversation between Liu Su and Li Kunzhe that had previously taken place.
Li Kunzhe had approached Liu Su on the first day to talk about pairing up for a “CP” stunt.
Liu Su, fearless of offending anyone, went straight ahead and released the recording.
Once this recording was out, it once again stirred up a storm on the internet.
The onlookers, thinking the show was over, were surprised to find a new melon to peel, excitedly analyzing it inside out.
[Tsk tsk, a shocking bombshell!]
[Never thought there would be such a twist, Xu Zishen, what were you thinking, rubbing off Shen Yan in such a ridiculous way.]
[Xu Zishen’s agent must be a joke.]
[Fake Princess: I never imagined that one day, I’d have a little traffic-seeking actor using my popularity.]
[Fake Princess: Feeling high and mighty now!]
[See, I told you Xu Zishen’s performance yesterday was fishy; even Fake Princess disdains interacting with him.]
[Fake Princess: Didn’t expect this, right? I only love Mu Jincheng, this man!]
Li Kunzhe, after listening to the recording, turned green with rage.
He hadn’t expected Liu Su, that old fox, to have recorded their talk!
“Snap!”
Li Kunzhe, irritated, slammed his phone onto the desk.
Now, how to salvage this.
Had he known Liu Su was recording, he would never have made his intentions so clear.
It was now impossible to erase it.
As one wave settled, another rose.
An anonymous account posted a long string of conversation screenshots, unabashedly uncensored.
It revealed Li Kunzhe’s name directly, and the person speaking with Li Kunzhe was none other than Xu Zishen.
While the content of the conversation wasn’t explosive, it was quite interesting nevertheless.
The screenshots from the anonymous account were rapidly shared, pushed out, and then soared straight onto the infamous trending searches!
Netizens even went out of their way to pull the recording from Xinyu and place it below, stringing together the entire spectacle.
[Laughing to death here, Xu Zishen has fallen so low as to grub for traffic from Shen Yan.]
[No wonder I felt Xu Zishen’s performance on the love show was off, turns out he harbored such sordid thoughts, ugh! Truly sickening!]
[Seriously, is Xu Zishen out of his mind? Why would he do such a stupid thing?]
[Zishen isn’t that kind of person; it must be the agency forcing him to do this.]
[Xu Zishen’s fans sure are bold to whitewash this, ironclad evidence is unshakeable.]
[This drama will have me laughing for a whole year.]
[Yanyan already said she isn’t considering romance; she’s still a university student, and her studies take priority.]
“I had almost forgotten Shen Yan was still a student.”
“Shen Yan goes to Shencheng University, right? Anyone who can get into Shencheng University must have good grades.”
“No way, are the Fireworks fans now trying to sell Fake Princess as a top student?”
*
Xu Zishen, who was still recording the show, had no idea about the earth-shattering changes happening online.
He was still eagerly leaning in close to Shen Yan, trying to show their closeness.
His phone slipped out of his pocket and back in just as stealthily, everything so quiet.
At this moment, Xu Zishen’s behavior, in the eyes of the netizens, was disgusting and cheap.
There were many bullet-screen comments cursing Xu Zishen in the live broadcast, and the Fireworks fans originally wanted to join in, but in the end, they held back their revulsion towards Xu Zishen and focused on their own broadcast.
Several guests seemed to have realized.
Xu Zishen was pursuing Shen Yan.
As for this, everyone just watched tacitly without getting involved, only occasionally laughing ambiguously at the interaction between the two.
Xu Zishen felt a bit smug about this.
Little did he know, he had outsmarted himself.
*
At night after the show ended, Shen Yan slowly walked out. Xiao Zhao, who came up to meet her, looked back at her with a somewhat angry expression.
“Shen Yan! Wait up!” Xu Zishen rushed over, completely unaware of the looks people outside the venue were giving him.
Shen Yan turned around, and before she could speak, Xu Zishen’s assistant, with an ugly look on his face, ran over, pulled Xu Zishen aside, and whispered a few words. Xu Zishen’s eyes suddenly widened, then he took out his phone anxiously, and just as he turned it on, his face turned several shades, from pale to flushed.
His figure swayed, almost collapsing.
“Yanyan,” Xiao Zhao protected Shen Yan, watching Xu Zishen behind her warily.
“Let’s go,” Shen Yan said, taking Xiao Zhao with her. They said hello to Director Du and prepared to leave.
Director Du looked at her hesitantly.
Shen Yan knew what Director Du wanted to say, but she didn’t plan to stay, saying a few words before leaving.
“Shen Yan, I think you did great on the romance show, are you interested in coming back for another episode?”
Shen Yan glanced back at the dispirited and somewhat angry Xu Zishen and said, “If there’s a chance, I will come to work with Director Du again.”
Director Du understood her meaning.
She didn’t want to participate anymore.
Director Du was a bit disappointed.
*
Liu Su personally came to pick up Shen Yan.
As soon as Shen Yan got into the car, Liu Su asked, “Did you open that secondary account?”
“Eh?”
“Wasn’t it Miss Shen?” Liu Su frowned.
“No.”
Shen Yan didn’t admit to it.
Liu Su thought for a moment and his eyes brightened slightly: “Maybe it was one of Miss Shen’s hacker fans who did you a big favor!”
Xu Zishen had been recording all day; it was impossible for anyone to get his phone, so this was the most reasonable explanation.
Shen Yan silently sat in the back seat without saying a word.
“This time, Xu Zishen is completely done for,” Liu Su’s eyes darkened and he chuckled coldly, “Those who don’t behave shouldn’t expect to end well.”
The latter sentence had a bit of a ruthless taste to it.
Shen Yan couldn’t help but lift her eyes to look at Liu Su.
Xiao Zhao shrank into a ball, quieting his breathing as low as possible.
Shen Yan said, “It’s just a small matter that doesn’t really hurt or itch; Uncle Liu doesn’t have to get mad about it.”
Upon hearing this, Liu Su looked at Shen Yan and asked uncertainly, “Miss Shen, about this Xu Zishen…”
“Don’t overthink it, Mu Jincheng isn’t my type, and he isn’t even worth considering as scraps,” Shen Yan felt Liu Su’s concerns were really unnecessary.
Liu Su laughed happily, looking very pleased.
Although he didn’t believe Shen Yan had completely let go, he was still happy.
Xiao Zhao was dropped off halfway, given money for a cab, and the car zoomed off.
On the road.
The car’s radio was broadcasting news about a disaster currently happening in a certain country.
Shen Yan, who had been sleepy in the back seat, suddenly opened her eyes, sat up slightly, and her dark pupils focused ahead, her beautiful brows lightly furrowing.
The moment she heard the news broadcast, she had a very strange feeling.
In the pages of the book, there was no description of this country…