Chapter 98: To Tell The Truth
After sending the message to Xuan Xia, she waited a moment but didn’t see any new reply from that number.
Xuan Xia also didn’t have much patience to give to this unknown stranger number, whether friend or foe, and was about to give up waiting when the stranger number finally hesitantly replied with a message.
“Stranger number: Qin Yi.”
Xuan Xia: “…”
She directly flipped her mobile phone face down on the vanity.
Why couldn’t some people learn to act like they were dead?
What did it have to do with him? He even used a stranger number to seek attention!
Xuan Xia frowned and inwardly grumbled fiercely for a while before picking up the mobile phone again and sending a message back.
Just three cold words, “Not needed.”
She actually wanted to bluntly send words like “None of your business” or “Get lost as far as you can,” but thinking about it, if she really sent that, wouldn’t that idiot think her emotions were affected by the hot search?
She absolutely could not let him have that wrong idea.
But she still underestimated Qin Yi’s brain.
As soon as her message came back, the stranger number sent several messages in a row.
None of them were words Xuan Xia liked.
No matter what she replied, he was convinced that Xuan Xia was currently weak, pitiful, helpless, and in need of help.
And he was the one who could help her.
This was completely impossible to communicate with, so Xuan Xia could only follow her heart and send him a single “Get lost.”
She also added that number to her blacklist.
As soon as Brother Ji came in, he saw her staring at her mobile phone with deeply furrowed brows and a very bad mood, and immediately said suspiciously, “Did you go on Weibo again?”
Before Xuan Xia could open her mouth to retort, Brother Ji had already turned to Yang Wanxiu and said, “Take her mobile phone. No phone today.”
Yang Wanxiu quickly came over to carry out the task.
Xuan Xia glanced at her mobile phone again, thought about it, and simply decided out of sight, out of mind, and obediently handed it over.
Brother Ji looked at Xuan Xia and comforted her with a mindset of finding joy in bitterness: “Think on the bright side, black-red is still red, and you have a name now. These people cursing you are indirectly boosting your data for you.”
“Your data index now is even higher than some second- and third-tier artists.”
What Brother Ji didn’t say was that although the data index was high, it was all negative index, with no benefit at all to Xuan Xia’s future development.
Even the fans she had gained before were almost all scolded away.
The light luxury endorsement he had originally wanted to fight for for Xuan Xia couldn’t continue now and could only be put on hold temporarily.
“Then I should thank that person for spending money to boost me such a big wave of fame.” Xuan Xia sneered mockingly.
Brother Ji: “…”
Sigh.
Brother Ji said: “I’ve already indirectly asked around, and the hot search targeting you won’t last until tomorrow; at the latest, it will drop by midnight. So don’t overthink it, just focus on work.”
Even this information was something he had gone to great lengths and pulled many strings to find out.
Now he could confirm that the person behind this was indeed aiming to completely trample Xuan Xia and force her out of the industry.
A top hot search for a whole day— the other side was really willing to spend the money.
But Brother Ji was truly puzzled; whose path was Xuan Xia blocking to deserve such a vicious move from that person?
He had no clues at all.
Xuan Xia, however, had a suspect in mind.
At this time, Yang Wanxiu walked to Brother Ji’s side and said: “Brother Ji, Jiang Feng’s team and the film crew have both issued statements. But… the situations aren’t great.”
She handed the mobile phone to Brother Ji to look at.
Brother Ji took the mobile phone, and Yang Wanxiu showed him the film crew’s statement.
After roughly reading the statement, he immediately started scrolling through the comment section.
The film crew’s statement was only targeting the paparazzi’s sneaky filming behavior, as it involved leaking plot filming.
However, under this statement that merely condemned the sneaky filming as unacceptable, the netizens’ views weren’t about boycotting the sneaky filming, but boycotting Xuan Xia continuing to stay in the film crew.
A uniform wave of “If Xuan Xia is there, I won’t watch.”
The phrasing was uniform; clearly internet trolls taking on a mission.
Xuan Xia leaned over to look and saw exactly these contents.
“Xia Xia…” Yang Wanxiu wanted to stop her, but it was too late.
Brother Ji looked up, his line of sight meeting Xuan Xia’s eyes exactly.
Xuan Xia looked into his eyes and said: “Want me to give you an idea?”
Brother Ji: ?
Xuan Xia took the mobile phone from his hand, quickly found the photo used in the paparazzi’s disclosure, flipped to one of them, and handed it back to him, “Go ask Lu Mindan.”
Hearing Lu Mindan’s name, Yang Wanxiu also crowded over, and together with Brother Ji, looked at the photo Xuan Xia had flipped to.
After seeing the photo, Yang Wanxiu asked incredulously: “Xia Xia, do you mean Sister Dan—no, the hot search was done by Lu Mindan?”
After Xuan Xia named her like this, she couldn’t continue calling Lu Mindan “Sister Dan.”
In Yang Wanxiu’s perception, Lu Mindan had always been someone who wouldn’t do major evil deeds, only play small tricks. But this big wave of blackening targeting Xuan Xia today could rank among the major evils.
Xuan Xia didn’t speak.
Brother Ji pondered for a moment, nodded, and said: “I understand.”
“Oh right.” Xuan Xia suddenly thought of something, “When you issue a statement for me, will you send a lawyer’s letter?”
“What’s up?” Brother Ji asked.
Xuan Xia said: “Shouldn’t that paparazzi who disclosed it be sued?”
“You want to sue him?”
The paparazzi who disclosed Xuan Xia was a professional in the industry, often disclosing artists, and many artists disliked him.
But no artist had really sued him yet, not for any other reason, just because he was a tough nut to crack.
Afraid that suing him would make him double down on targeting people, and things like slander and throwing dirt would be minor; they feared he would do 24-hour tracking and sneaky filming.
But Xuan Xia’s attitude was very firm, “Sue.”
Defamation and spreading rumors—if not suing him, were they keeping him for New Year?
“…Alright. Got it.”
Xuan Xia thought again and reached out to Yang Wanxiu: “Xiuxiu, give me the mobile phone first.”
Brother Ji asked: “What for?”
“Forgot to reply to a message.” Xuan Xia made up a random reason.
Brother Ji gave Yang Wanxiu a look, signaling her to return the mobile phone to Xuan Xia.
As soon as Xuan Xia got the mobile phone, she walked to the side.
She directly logged into her Weibo account, and as soon as she did, the private message notifications made her mobile phone lag for a few seconds. Finally recovering, she clicked in and saw—wow, all messages “greeting” her.
If she were a bit more fragile…
Luckily, she wasn’t fragile.
She exited the private messages and switched directly to her homepage, pulled up the document editor, and immediately edited a post and sent it.
A few minutes later.
“Xuan Xia!!” Brother Ji looked at the notification popping up on his mobile phone and immediately directed Yang Wanxiu again, “Take her mobile phone. What are you doing?”
Xuan Xia obediently handed over the mobile phone again and said innocently: “Just making a self-introduction.”
Brother Ji: “…”
To be honest, I have a Daoist Temple.
