Chapter 264: Chapter 264: Always Stand By Her Side
"Got it, got it! I’m not a pig, you know. I can still tell what’s important." Lu Ye impatiently brushed off his agent with a few words.
The agent looked at Lu Ye, who didn’t seem like he was about to cause trouble, and finally felt reassured enough to sit back down properly.
Lu Ye straightened the backrest of his seat and sat up rigidly.
He thought to himself how utterly masochistic he was. Not looking at it felt unbearable, but once he did, it felt even worse.
For example, right now, he was being a masochist clicking into the comments on that post from earlier, reading one after another.
Originally, he planned to listen to his agent and just swallow his anger for now, but as he read through those unbearable comments, he felt like he was about to ascend out of sheer rage.
[Hahaha, the creator is truly talented. The comparison in your video is just too obvious. If Qingyue is a swan, then Lu Ye is the ugly and hideous toad.]
[When’s the ranking for ugliest men in entertainment this year? With Lu Ye’s face, he’d absolutely top the list.]
[Thank you, Lu Ye. Your overwhelming ugliness cured my appearance anxiety!]
The more someone lacks something, the more sensitive they are about it. They’re even more likely to be emotionally shattered because of that particular thing.
That’s exactly how Lu Ye felt right now. He had been called ugly by others ever since he was a child.
Despite his outward appearance of arrogance and cockiness, it was all a front to cover up his deep-seated insecurity.
Lu Ye was completely shattered now. These sharp-tongued netizens could say he had connections, or that his acting was bad.
But calling him ugly? That was absolutely intolerable!
He couldn’t handle or stand the word "ugly"!
Fine, it seemed like his grudge with Qingyue was now thoroughly cemented.
Lu Ye exited Weibo and opened his phone’s album, starting to search for older photos and videos.
He remembered that when he was bored in the rehearsal room, he had secretly filmed everyone’s performance clips.
It seemed there was a clip of Sang Ning acting as Jiuqiansui among them. This unedited clip could practically be called Sang Ning’s highlight reel.
As long as he uploaded this clip of Sang Ning playing Jiuqiansui online, anyone with eyes could see that it was clearly Qingyue who stole Sang Ning’s role.
Lu Ye flipped through photo after photo, video after video, but he just couldn’t find that particular video.
Dammit!
He cursed under his breath. Could he really have deleted something so crucial?
It was so unfair. Even heaven seemed to be favoring Qingyue.
After failing to find it on his first try, Lu Ye started to grow irritable and restless.
Still nothing after the second try—he was about to explode.
Lu Ye didn’t have the patience for a third attempt. He picked up his phone, wanting to hurl it at the car door to vent his anger.
But just as he raised it, an idea suddenly struck him like a lightning bolt.
He froze, holding his breath as he opened his phone’s cloud storage, squinting his eyes to barely leave a sliver of space to read the text.
The cloud storage had tons of photos and videos. He scrolled through one by one, and finally... he found the video!
Lu Ye downloaded the video onto his phone. In a moment of heated impulse, he wanted to post it on Weibo.
But his body instinctively stopped his mind from carrying out that thought—his fingers paused.
Lu Ye thought this might be one of the rare times he actually used his brain.
The production team had already maliciously edited the footage to smear Sang Ning in order to favor Qingyue, which meant the production team had fully sided with Qingyue.
If he uploaded this video that revealed the truth to Weibo now, wouldn’t that be an outright slap in the face to the production team?
Lu Ye hesitated. His uncle may have spoiled him, but there were limits to that indulgence.
If his reckless move today ended up offending Hai Chuan, his uncle might wash his hands of him for good.
At this thought, a chill ran down Lu Ye’s spine.
After the brief wave of fear, though, a sense of frustration clogged his chest. He was absolutely furious. Was he really going to let that two-faced Qingyue run wild unchecked?
Lu Ye opened Weibo and typed Sang Ning’s name into the search bar. The first result that popped up was Sang Ning’s post claiming to have video proof of the truth.
He hadn’t even noticed that Sang Ning had posted such a tweet earlier; he’d been too distracted focusing on how the netizens were roasting her.
Lu Ye froze. Sang Ning had video proof?
Where could she have gotten her hands on such footage? There’s no way it was from the production team, right?
Wouldn’t this footage now be practically classified as top-secret material by the production team and Qingyue?
Lu Ye found it odd and quickly opened his WeChat, locating the small group chat from before.
This small group chat had been set up temporarily for their team to coordinate during rehearsals. The group admin was Xi Meina.
Qingyue was also in this group chat, but when Lu Ye clicked in, he noticed that the number of participants had decreased by one. Looking further, he realized Qingyue was no longer in the group.
Lu Ye: ???
Did Qingyue leave on her own, or had the admin kicked her out?
It didn’t matter. As long as Qingyue wasn’t in it, he wouldn’t have to look at her and get annoyed.
Lu Ye tried to add Sang Ning on WeChat but found out she had her privacy settings enabled, preventing him from adding her through the group.
He was speechless. If he had known, he would’ve casually added Sang Ning on WeChat earlier.
[Sang Ning, I need to talk to you urgently. If you’re there, please add me on WeChat. I can’t add you!]
Lu Ye sent the message, but Sang Ning didn’t respond.
Instead, Xi Meina chimed in with a comment.
[Lu Ye, are you pissed after seeing the trending searches online and came to comfort Sang Ning?]
Lu Ye: [??? How many faces does Sang Ning have? Comfort her? More like bury her!]
Xi Meina: [Haha, I see your true colors. You must be in cahoots with Qingyue. I just kicked Qingyue out, so I might as well boot you too!]
Lu Ye: [Wait, hold on—]
Before he could finish typing, a notification popped up: [You’ve been removed from the group by the admin.]
?!
"What the f***!" Lu Ye finally erupted, swearing out loud.
Who did Xi Meina think she was? Kicking both him and Qingyue—was she planning to fly up and rub shoulders with the sun?
She must have a death wish!
Xi Meina, of course, had heard by now that Qingyue’s backers were far more powerful than she could’ve imagined—a force she could not afford to offend.
But she had developed a strange sense of confidence lately, one rooted entirely in Wen Jiu.
Right now, as Wen Jiu’s artist, and with Wen Jiu having promised to protect them by any means necessary, she didn’t feel the least bit scared of that "damned Birdman" Qingyue.
Go ahead and try blacklisting her!
After kicking both Qingyue and Lu Ye out of the group, Xi Meina felt a surge of pride. She quickly called Sang Ning to share her excitement, wanting her to know that she would always be firmly on her side!