Chapter 260: Chapter 260: Just Give Up on Me
"I know, it’s Hai Chuan Group." Sang Ning’s tone was extremely calm.
But her agent was practically losing it.
"Ahhhhhh!!!"
"Sister, are you doing this on purpose? You knew we couldn’t afford to provoke Qingyue, so why did you go ahead and do it? You finally landed a leading role in a big production film, and now it’s all gone down the drain."
"It’s not even just about losing the film role. What about your future? You’ve offended Hai Chuan Group! Who in the industry would dare work with you after this?"
Sang Ning held the phone away from her ear as her agent’s anguished yells were so loud they almost made her eardrums burst.
"I don’t care about other companies. I just need to know if our company will still dare to work with me." Only after the agent calmed down did Sang Ning slowly bring the phone closer again.
"They... probably will..." The agent sounded completely unsure.
Their company’s newly invested shareholder seemed pretty powerful—at least according to the rumors, allegedly on par with Hai Chuan Group.
But it felt like wishful thinking. The agent had never heard of any group that could match Hai Chuan’s level.
Yet he couldn’t let such a brilliant star like Sang Ning fall so easily. Deep down, he clung to a sliver of hope: what if this new shareholder really was capable of pulling off miracles? Then Sang Ning could be saved, right?
"Alright, as long as the company doesn’t abandon me, I won’t abandon the company. Calm down a little. Whether you rant or not, what’s done is done." Sang Ning’s voice was so unnervingly composed it made her sound like she wasn’t even part of this mess.
"There’s still something we can fix!" The agent quickly chimed in, "Sister, as long as you delete that Weibo post you just made and issue an apology instead, we can negotiate with Qingyue’s agent. Maybe they’ll forgive you, and we can resolve this peacefully, okay?"
The agent tried to coax Sang Ning into taking the conciliatory route.
But Sang Ning simply responded with a faint, "Oh."
"If I have to swallow my pride and beg, then I might as well just ask the company to give up on me now."
Apologize to Qingyue? What a joke.
"I..." The agent was rendered speechless. Sang Ning’s unyielding attitude, no matter the circumstance, was endlessly exhausting to deal with.
All he could do now was hope that new shareholder really was as formidable as rumored.
The conversation with the agent ended on a sour note, and continuing it wouldn’t accomplish anything, so Sang Ning decisively hung up the phone.
Next, she reopened Weibo, only to find that the long-form post she had painstakingly written earlier had already been deleted automatically!
Sang Ning was furious. She tried posting again, but her new post was censored immediately. No matter how many attempts she made, she couldn’t post anything—it was as though her account had been restricted.
With her posts mysteriously disappearing, some conspiracy-theory-prone netizens began to criticize Sang Ning online.
[Sang, you Bitch is just lying to herself, isn’t she? Wrote a bunch of wordy nonsense, but not a single shred of proof like photos or videos—just pure fabrication.]
[But why does this feel like Sang Ning is being suppressed by capital forces? That Weibo post of hers got taken down so fast—it’s suspicious.]
[Or maybe it wasn’t coercion. Maybe Sang Ning was guilty all along? She could’ve made up all that nonsense because she had no evidence to back it up.]
Scanning the comments, Sang Ning laughed coldly.
So they thought she didn’t have an alternate account, huh?
If her main account was blacklisted, she could just use her alternate account. She wanted to see just how far capital power could go against her.
Sang Ning’s alt account was registered under her real name. She brazenly joined the top-trending discussion thread and published her long-form post there.
Netizens quickly recognized it as Sang Ning’s alt account, throwing everyone into a state of hesitation and confusion once again.
[If Sang Ning is so ruthlessly going up against Qingyue, could it be that Qingyue is actually in the wrong? Maybe that’s why her attitude is so unapologetically bold.]
[I think so too. If all Sang Ning wanted was to explain the situation, she could’ve just used her main account. There’s no need to use an alt account unless the main one had been restricted. The very fact she’s on this alt tells us her main account is probably locked.]
[If that’s true, this is terrifying! The entertainment industry’s capital forces really are lawless. They’ll even silence someone by shutting down their accounts.]
The tide of public opinion began to shift slightly in Sang Ning’s favor, but Qingyue’s side wasn’t going to just let her win.
Qingyue’s PR team was top-tier, and they quickly pinned Sang Ning with the accusation of baselessly tarnishing others’ reputations with nothing more than a lengthy rant.
If she had the guts, why not provide photo or video evidence to back up her claims, instead of relying on words to smear others?
Words alone wouldn’t hold up. Some people who had considered siding with Sang Ning started doubting her motives after the PR team and the hired Water Army drove the narrative.
What if Sang Ning really was exploiting the public’s sympathy with fabricated claims? That thought unsettled people, and many began to feel uneasy about supporting her.
Soon, netizens turned against Sang Ning, criticizing her for recklessly accusing others without proof. To them, it seemed as though she was deliberately pushing Qingyue into a corner.
Qingyue’s PR team had undeniable clout. It didn’t take long for online sentiment to completely shift, with the Water Army accusing her of being vicious and manipulative.
No matter how many long posts she wrote to defend herself, netizens refused to side with her.
Instead, they hurled vile insults at her, the kind of insults that would make anyone’s blood boil.
But this was exactly what Sang Ning wanted—push them to the brink before watching them unravel.
Did Qingyue seriously think that with Hai Chuan backing them, they could crush her without lifting a finger?
At the peak of the public backlash, Sang Ning posted another Weibo update using her alt account.
[I share the same doubts as everyone else—why haven’t I posted the video yet, and why am I still rambling here?
Let me clarify: I do have a video of Qingyue throwing their weight around. I’ve kept it private so far to give Qingyue one last shred of dignity. Whether they’ll apologize for falsely accusing me remains to be seen.
But based on what’s happening, it doesn’t seem like Qingyue has any real intention of resolving this.
So don’t blame me when I release the footage of your antics. I’ll give you one day—until this time tomorrow—to issue an apology. If not, I will share the video and let the public judge for themselves.]
Truth be told, Sang Ning didn’t have any video. She was bluffing, exploiting the fact that people with guilty consciences tend to panic.
Sure enough, shortly after she published the post, someone claiming to be an executive secretary from Hai Chuan Entertainment reached out to her.
"Miss Sang, may I ask, is it true that you have video evidence?"