Chapter 97: Who Are You?
Yang Wanxiu followed Xuan Xia into the room, and halfway there she remembered to ask: “Xia Xia, have you seen the hot search?”
Xuan Xia said: “No.”
“Then how did you…” It must be that someone told her.
Thinking of this, Yang Wanxiu changed her words and said: “Then don’t look at the hot search. Brother Ji can handle it soon.”
She emphasized again that Ji Ziyao could handle it quickly, not knowing if she was saying it to Xuan Xia or to herself.
Xuan Xia glanced at her. Wasn’t this basically reverse persuading her to take a look at the hot search?
So Xuan Xia chose to take her mobile phone into the bathroom.
While washing up, Xuan Xia opened the hot search.
On the hot search list, the initial disclosure hot search was gone, and now prominently hanging there was her personal hot search, even marked with “exploding.”
However, the content of her personal hot search still used the paparazzi’s midnight disclosure content.
The popular content was all “what do you think” from different marketing accounts.
Xuan Xia just wanted to say, just look while holding the mobile phone.
She went through each of the 18 stolen photos used as disclosure evidence one by one.
The so-called evidence was just snapshots of her rehearsing scenes and acting opposite Jiang Feng.
Even the stolen leaks from last night’s Flying Page scene were included.
This was clearly looking at pictures and making up stories, yet so many netizens were sincerely blasting her in the comment section.
Moreover, the words used in the blasts were as if they wished her dead.
Xuan Xia expressed that she didn’t understand.
After scrolling through the comment section for a while, Xuan Xia couldn’t scroll anymore.
It wasn’t because the words were too vicious and made her depressed, but because she noticed these comments were too similar, like later people copying earlier people’s homework, with similar tones, no originality or variety.
As for her mood after reading the comments, Xuan Xia let out a short laugh.
Whether these strangers’ vicious curses were effective or not aside, if anyone really wanted her dead, she would definitely make them die first in return.
However, a few of those stolen photos’ shooting angles gave Xuan Xia some ideas.
When she finished washing up and went out, Ji Ziyao and Li Xinze had arrived at some point.
Seeing her coming out holding her mobile phone, Ji Ziyao asked with a disapproving expression: “You’ve seen the hot search?”
Li Xinze beside him also had a worried expression.
In the entire room, only the person involved, Xuan Xia, had a normal expression.
She smiled at Ji Ziyao; there was no need to answer such an obvious question.
Instead, she asked: “Is this hot search impossible to remove?”
Ji Ziyao’s expression immediately became serious as he considered whether to tell Xuan Xia the truth.
After weighing it, Ji Ziyao decided not to hide it from her: “Someone is pushing this behind the scenes.”
When he learned Xuan Xia was on the hot search, it was already past 5 a.m. that morning; the hot search had fermented for several hours but shouldn’t have reached such a high position.
After quickly reviewing the hot search content, he became suspicious and immediately contacted Jiang Feng’s side, the other party involved. Both sides mobilized and quickly took care of the hot search.
As a result, just as the so-called film crew disclosure hot search was removed, the single-person hot search suddenly shot up.
Moreover, this upward trend clearly showed someone had spent money to manipulate it.
Plus, the marketing accounts that had worked on the disclosure hot search earlier had all shifted to this single-person hot search to bustle about, making everything crystal clear to Ji Ziyao.
He tried contacting the operators again, but was told it couldn’t be operated.
If Ji Ziyao insisted on suppressing this hot search, he would have to offer a higher price.
Not just for the hot search operation, but also to grease the palms of the marketing accounts.
The problem was here: Xuan Xia was just a newcomer getting started, not really a resource person, so how could the company agree to spend money.
Ji Ziyao could only have the PR team do their best to turn it around, but the opponent had clearly deployed internet trolls, with much greater momentum than their own PR team. The PR team’s efforts were just a drop in the bucket.
So up to now, the hot search was still hanging high.
As for exactly who was pushing it, Ji Ziyao couldn’t find out and was still asking around through connections.
At this moment, he had already greeted the ancestors eighteen generations back of that mastermind in his mind.
Xuan Xia was not surprised at all.
“Oh dear, looks like I really offended someone.”
Hearing her indifferent sigh, the three people in the room all had expressions of wanting to say something but hesitating.
Xuan Xia thought of the other protagonist in the hot search and asked Ji Ziyao: “Is Teacher Jiang okay over there?”
He had been dragged down by her.
“You still have the mind to care about others.” Ji Ziyao irritably pinched the bridge of his nose. “His company is already drafting a statement and lawyer’s letter.”
Xuan Xia said “oh,” then asked again: “Will the statement and lawyer’s letter work? Current netizens don’t seem to believe these.”
“Even if they don’t believe it, we have to issue them; we need to show our attitude.” Ji Ziyao said: “I also had the company draft yours. Jiang Feng’s side will issue theirs at noon, and ours in the afternoon.”
Except for not having money to remove the hot search, Ji Ziyao was doing everything he could.
Xuan Xia believed he wouldn’t just sit idly by and sneered, then asked: “Alright then. So can I proceed with normal work later?”
Ji Ziyao looked at her, not knowing whether to be relieved by her calmness.
Celebrities should have strong hearts and not care about external criticism.
But after all, Xuan Xia’s relationship with him was different, so Ji Ziyao felt more heartache and displeasure.
He said: “The program group hasn’t said to cancel, and the film crew hasn’t either, so normal work.”
Xuan Xia nodded.
Then she said to the three: “Xiuxiu can stay, but can you two leave? I need to change clothes.”
Ji Ziyao and Li Xinze were thus chased out of the room by Xuan Xia.
Li Xinze was the most depressed; he hadn’t had a chance to say a word all this time.
He had wanted to ask Xuan Xia if she needed Mr. Qin’s help; Mr. Qin knew many people, and this kind of thing wouldn’t be difficult.
Unfortunately, no chance to speak.
He could only think that he must find an opportunity later.
Or, should he report it to Mr. Qin first? Mr. Qin was busy with Taoist Temple affairs all day and didn’t follow these things, so he certainly didn’t know about this yet.
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After lunch, Xuan Xia headed to the film crew as planned.
The film crew was quite busy with daytime filming; when she arrived, it wasn’t mealtime yet, and there weren’t many people in the makeup room.
Since the afternoon was mainly filming dating show content, Xuan Xia communicated with the makeup artist, changed into the costume first, and left her hair for now.
For makeup, they didn’t do the in-scene makeup; the makeup artist just did a simple base makeup.
Once the makeup artist finished, Xuan Xia’s mobile phone on the makeup table suddenly popped up with a message.
Xuan Xia picked it up and looked; it was from an unknown number.
“Unknown number: You’re on the hot search. The thing on the hot search is baseless, right? Do you need help?”
Xuan Xia pondered this message while making quite a few guesses in her mind.
But she felt none of the guesses were quite right.
She thought for a moment and replied with a message.
“Who is this?”
