Chapter Fifty-One

  The Jiang Chuan incident has been a hot topic for many days, with people going to the entertainment circle every day to pay their respects and speculate about the circumstances. Online conspiracy theories have emerged one after another, to the point where anonymous insiders claimed that Jiang Chuan had someone backing him, with a background so red it was almost untouchable... However, this claim was quickly debunked - some people countered that although the person who threw eggs was extreme and brainless, his actions did not warrant death. If the person with the "red" background wanted to take care of him, they would not have used such a simple and brutal method.

  This is exactly what someone with a shady background would do.

  In the end, Jiang Chuan's various identities from Wulin Alliance Leader to Demon Cult Master were all fantasized about, and people couldn't come to a conclusion - this matter was quickly blown over, those who hated him continued to hate, and those who admired him continued to admire.

  Recently, the wind direction has started to shift towards "who cares what you say, Jiang Chuan is just a show-off" - otherwise, with his identity as a stunt double who had just returned from abroad, how could he possibly run to the hospital to protect Jian Ran despite not knowing each other?

  The fans were left speechless, while Hei was overjoyed. They had finally found a foothold. The worst part was that this question was even difficult for Jiang Chuan himself... As for Jin Yan, he first felt extremely guilty for not being able to jump out and help Jiang Chuan speak up against those people, and at the same time, he couldn't help but think that the person who first raised this question was simply absurd. It was as if they would do something like helping an old man cross the street on a whim. There was no need to discuss it further when looking at him.

  It's just like Comrade Li Dog said later: Don't even talk about whether what others do has a purpose or not, unless Jiang Chuan Sheng bought off a bunch of reporters to accompany him to Yuan Jinyan's hospital room and put on this farce... Otherwise, you guys should just shut up, regardless of whether they want to hype it up or not, at least they really did something good. Compared to those who hide behind their keyboards with a self-righteous face, you know what kind of people you are.

  These words are a bit harsh, but silently gave Li Gou a few hundred likes in his heart.

  The company is roughly starting to prepare for a press conference, summarizing and clarifying the recent messy things - but the idea is good, how to say it to convince everyone that this is a difficult problem.

  "Just say it's a coincidence," Jiang Chuan said. "Actually, that's really how it was. Who knew the reporter would go there that day?"

  "This doesn't make sense," Fang Yu said. "Let alone a stranger, even I feel like he's just bullshitting me, can't you be more sincere?"

  “………”

  "Think again."

  "I don't care anymore." Jiang Chuan covered his face with the script and said recklessly, "I just like to stir up trouble anyway."

  Fang Yu instinctively picked up the stool beside him, and then silently put it down again before he could smash it onto Jiang Chuan's head in a fit of impulse.

  Above.

  Between Jiang Chuan's unreliability, Yan Ran has recently started researching the high-difficulty problem of "how to return from a hamster's body back to his own body" - the task of whitewashing his foolish master is imminent, he really doesn't want to wait until another Entertainment Circle Exposer No. 2 or Egg Smasher No. 2 comes out and hurts Jiang Chuan again under the name of "Yan Ran replacing heaven".

  He hopes he can help Jiang Chuan.

  Actually, the best way to solve all problems is to appear hand in hand with Jiang Chuan at the press conference - I firmly believe that if he weren't lying in the hospital right now, the company would definitely have him do this too... But now, as Hamster Ah Fei, he can't do anything, and doesn't even have a way to tell Jiang Chuan what to do.

  He was so worried that he lost a few more hairs from his head.

  ……

  Putting aside the various annoying things on Jiang Chuan's side, the crew has also been quite troublesome lately.

  Jiang Luocheng even came to ask Jiang Chuan if it was his Ben Ming Nian one day... In fact, this is an exaggeration, because the crew's misfortunes have nothing to do with Jiang Chuan, who is still young and hasn't reached his second Ben Ming Nian. Since the planning of "Republic of China Strange Record", there has been a bloody and violent atmosphere from the press conference, and later, as one of the male leads, Jiang Chuan was constantly in the news, making this drama very topical.

  For most directors, this is a good thing, free publicity and all that --- but Jiang Luocheng has a bit of an arrogant and condescending attitude, so every time someone says to him in a roundabout way that Director Jiang's publicity stunt was quite successful, Jiang Luocheng doesn't have a very good expression.

  By the end of April, "Republic of China's Strange Record" had been filming for two whole months, with one-third of the play completed. The shooting work of the prologue was finished early, and the actresses in the crew, including Xu Qianqian, had already completed their shooting tasks and left; Luoni, because her father was an investor himself, and she was also in her graduation internship period, didn't rush to leave after finishing all her scenes - every day, she would sit next to Jiang Luocheng with a small stool, holding her face and watching them film, under the guise of "learning".

  It's actually just to see Jiang Chuan.

  But no one was idle enough to expose her either.

  Compared to Loni, Xu Qianqian, who had already left the crew of "The Legend of Mi Yue", seemed more subtle in her attitude - on the internet, she kept updating her blog and Weibo at a certain frequency, but when it came to promoting "Republic of China Mystery Record", she was very cold, any promotion even if the official Weibo @her, she just forwarded Weibo after Wang Mo, without writing a word, quite perfunctory.

  Jiang Luocheng had always been dismissive of online promotions, but he couldn't take it when Xu Qianqian did this to him. One day, he finally couldn't bear it and called her. On the other end, she was very calm and said: "I only have less than five episodes in this drama, but you guys keep promoting me as the female lead... Not to mention that this will give people a false impression, when the drama airs and everyone sees that I only acted in five episodes, they won't sympathize with me thinking I was used for promotion. They'll just think I'm shameless for calling myself the female lead after acting in just five episodes."

  Later, what Xiu Qianqian said was unknown to everyone.

  Because of this, Jiang Luocheng had already hung up the phone without any hesitation.

  Everyone looked at each other in dismay.

  "Is she sick or something?" Jiang Luocheng said, "She's acted in a few movies and really thinks she's a big shot? And to make false propaganda, damn it, I'm going to rely on her name to cheat for ratings?! Go ask the vegetable vendors at the market, who knows who Xu Qianqian is! I'll buy out the entire vegetable market!"

  Everyone: "......"

  In order to scold Xu Qianqian, Director Jiang didn't hesitate to position his audience as vegetable-selling aunties at the market. You're quite bold, Director Jiang.

  At the same time, the hamster was squatting on its owner's shoulder. Recently, due to the "Brave Protection of Master" incident, it had been living a more comfortable and carefree life. With an air of mockery, it used its small paws to fiddle with its owner's earlobe, saying: Why be so excited? What was that phrase again? One night as husband and wife, a hundred days of kindness... Hehehehehe.

  Retribution.

  Serves you right.

  Everyone knew that Jiang Luocheng had a conflict with Xu Qianqian, and they didn't dare mention this woman in front of him. When the crew's official blog promoted the show, they also didn't bring her up - after a long time, careful paparazzi noticed something was off, so the title "Xu Qianqian acts like a big shot, offends director Jiang Luocheng" successfully hung on the wall along with "Jiang Chuan loves to hype". In recent months, the headlines of major media outlets can be said to be a festive couplet of the cast members of "Republic of China Strange Record", thinking positively, the promotional effect is really great. Except for Director Luo's daughter who was also hung on the wall for a while, all the investors are thrilled to death.

  After going on the wall, Xu Qianqian asked her broker to call and ask Jiang Luocheng to clarify, although Jiang Luocheng didn't directly hang up on her, but just perfunctorily responded with his mouth, and continued not to bring her to participate in the remaining promotional activities.

  At this time, Li Gouhai, who was afraid of nothing but chaos, jumped out and said that Jiang Luocheng's movie, which was scheduled to start filming at the end of the year, originally had Xu Qianqian as the standby female lead, but now due to Xu Qianqian's insufficient schedule, she has been replaced by someone else. This guy really knows everything. As soon as this news came out, the entertainment weekly in P City was excited, and a reporter from G City Entertainment 100% got Jiang Luocheng's private phone number through an intermediary and called him to ask if it was true. On the phone, Jiang Luocheng smiled and said: "Yes, it's really unfortunate that we can't continue to cooperate with Xu Qianqian."

  ...although no one could hear any hint of regret in his tone of voice.

  Along with Xu Qianqian's conflict with Jiang Luocheng, facing various news of "playing big cards and entering the cold palace" and "the crew stealing old things again, this person is just not good at people", Xu Qianqian looked at her own empty schedule for the second half of the year and fell into deep thought - in a short period of time, Xu Qianqian's topic almost surpassed Jiang Chuan.

  "Is someone else spreading rumors again?" Jiang Chuan asked.

  "Some of it was done by us," Fang Yu said with a smile, "and the rest was done by Xu Qianqian's company Dongxing Entertainment themselves - those rumors that don't make sense and are just for show, they must have been released by them. Haven't you seen that Xu Qianqian just landed another high-end cosmetics endorsement recently? Keeping herself in the conversation, healthy every day."

  Jiang Chuan was taken aback for a moment, feeling he had grasped the key point: "IM company?"

  "You're not awake yet," Fang Yu said with a speechless face, "Now the domestic entertainment media companies IM and Dongxing are two giants that have stood firm - of course we can't bring those with too strong backgrounds, cough, just from this aspect, we are competitors... ...think about it again, since Jian Yan's incident, including her brother, how many times have we offended Xu Qianqian? Offending her is not a big deal, the problem is that she is now Dongxing's cash cow..."

  "Isn't Xu Wenjie an IM?"

  "The contract is terminated, and the last time Xu Qianqian stole something was a bottom line. This matter will be mentioned from time to time after this incident - it's not that IM leaked the news, after all, so many people were watching that day, it's hard to quibble, but Dongxing thinks we did it anyway."

  "Oh."

  "You've been played for so long and you still don't know who's playing you, I'm speechless."

  "You didn't mention it, I thought you didn't know either."

  "I didn't mention it because I thought this nonsense wasn't worth mentioning," Fang Yu patted his thigh, "Haven't you seen the boss of Dongxing being all smiles these past few days? It's because he's enjoying the internal fan wars between our IM artists."

  “……”

  ……

  Just as the entire entertainment industry was in a mess due to all sorts of gossip, IM Company and Dongxing Entertainment were both beaten with fifty big sticks, suffering dual losses.

  At this time, the crew encountered the biggest problem since filming began: the producer received a file from the top saying that someone had reported that the intention and theme of "Republic of China Strange Record" were problematic, which would affect the positive psychological health, social views, values, and outlook on life of contemporary young people, so they required re-submission of the script for review.

  Jiang Luocheng's face turned green.

  The night he received the news, Jiang, who had never been fond of feudal superstitions, was so angry that he wanted to drag a fire basin to the hotel entrance and beat the little people with his slippers.

  In the following days, Jiang Luocheng basically had "I'm going to fuck", "I'm going to die" and "the most poisonous woman's heart" hanging from his mouth as a sentence ending.

  It's okay, the producer is an old-timer in the industry, knows a lot of people, and although he really wants to tell Jiang Luocheng that this plot is just gay, but at the critical moment, he still chose to protect his own - so after rushing around for several days, the producer came back with a flourish, threw the script in front of Jiang Luocheng, saying that the higher-ups said either add romance between the male and female leads, or add romance between the secondary characters, otherwise don't film it. In short, the two male leads can't be single dogs hanging out together without any shame.

  At this point, the play has been shot for almost half a year, and it is absolutely impossible to stop shooting.

  Adding a plot... just adding some emotional lines, it's actually not a big deal. Jiang Luocheng thought for a moment and agreed - to add a plot for the sake of today's youth's three views.

  As for adding someone's drama——

  Just had a conflict and was reported, although Xu Qianqian may not be so stupid to cut off her own path, but what if she is? So Jiang Luocheng would rather dress up as a woman himself than give her more scenes; the male and female leads can't make it, then start with the supporting actors - finally, Luo Ni, who finished filming his own scenes but stayed in the crew without leaving, inexplicably picked up a ready-made bargain.

  Jiang Luocheng directly threw the script to his apprentice to modify, saying on the surface that it was to let her practice, but in reality everyone knew that when the time came and the annoying male and female supporting characters' emotional scenes were suddenly added to the play and scolded, Jiang Luocheng would shamelessly come out and say "The apprentice handled it improperly, please forgive us".

  It's just so shameless.

  Jiang Luocheng's apprentice was also a young girl from the directing department, named Xiao Qiao, who was only a few years older than Luo Ni. When she became Jiang's apprentice, everyone envied her and said that she must have accumulated good fortune for several lifetimes to win over Director Jiang... In fact, at first, she thought so too, but in the end, she found out that she had no idea what kind of karma she had created in her past lives to fall into such an evil clutches.

  Why say that?

  For example, putting aside the possibility that he might be pushed out to block the gun in the future, Jiang Luocheng's standard for this script modification is: not abrupt, not dragging on, reasonable and consistent with the plot, and also, it can't make him look bad.

  The first few are easy to achieve, but the last one is really... hard to put into words. It's roughly similar to "Happy people are all alike; every unhappy person is unhappy in their own way."

  When the news of revising the script came, guessing that the major problems were almost solved, the actors immediately put their minds at ease and continued filming according to schedule. Jiang Luocheng's apprentice was responsible for holding a pen and a laptop every day, taking over Luo Ni's position, squatting beside him with a small stool, watching while sitting in a dead dog posture on the computer desk, thinking about how to stuff two or three sections of abusive scenes into the script full of romantic feelings.

  "This is too torturous," said Xiao Qiao, "knowing that I'll be scolded but still having to grit my teeth and do it."

  "Cut the crap," Jiang Luocheng would say at this time

  The Mice's Magical Journey

  Hurry up and change it."

  Jiang Chuan and Wang Mo finished filming relatively quickly, sometimes after finishing their own scenes they would sit on the side and watch. Since the revised scenes were all about Jiang Chuan and Luo Ni's emotional scenes, Jiang Chuan would occasionally ask about the progress... So that day, when Jiang Chuan asked Xiao Qiao again, the latter was holding a pen with a look of distress, tapping his head in thought. After thinking for a moment, he turned around to ask Jiang Chuan: "Brother Chuan, can you handle kissing scenes?"

  Jiang Chuan thought for a moment and said, "Depends on who you're with."

  Who else can you follow? Xiao Qiao's lips twitched, and before she could respond, she heard Jiang Luocheng muttering behind the monitor: "Who else can you follow, who else do you want to follow, can you even mention Wang Mo's name?"

  Jiang Chuan took a glance at Wang Mo, who was seriously casting a spell with his hands in the distance, and replied seriously: "Can't swallow it."

  Jiang Luocheng shouted "Ka" and made a hand gesture to indicate that Wang Mo could rest for a while. He then turned his head and gave Jiang Chuan a strange look with his eyes. Jiang Chuan turned his head away, smiling at him - for a moment, the atmosphere was a bit strange, Jiang Luocheng's face stiffened, Fang Yu also had an expression of "tsk tsk tsk", Jiang Chuan smiled but didn't speak, only the hamster on Jiang Chuan's shoulder who wasn't very smart looked confused: What does it mean? What happened?

  The director, who had been listening to this group of people's absurd conversation, finally couldn't bear it anymore and hit Jiang Luocheng with a rolled-up script: "If Huaijin and Qiaosheng kiss, forget about broadcasting this play."

  Jiang Luocheng: "Artificial respiration won't work? Arrange a scene where Qiao Sheng is drowning —"

  Teacher: "Are you kidding me with your review?"

  Jiang Luocheng: "......"

  The teacher gave a warning glance to Xiao Qiao and Jiang Luo Cheng, who exchanged a look that seemed to wither away like frost on eggplants. Jiang Luo Cheng's disheveled appearance was quite rare, and it made her feel especially happy. However, before she could savor the moment for more than two seconds, she heard Xiao Qiao say beside her, "Let's change it this way: Huai Jin and Qiao Sheng have a falling out, and they part ways unhappily. Huai Jin comes to the lotus pond where he first sensed the demonic energy on Qiao Sheng's body... Uh, uh, and runs into Xiao Fei Ke Xin, who doesn't know about Huai Jin's bad mood and teases him about his own family's affairs - this is almost exactly what Qiao Sheng said earlier! Huai Jin becomes agitated and angry, stretches out his hand to press Ke Xin against the pillar of the pavilion... Ahhh!"

  Xiao Qiao let out a low-pitched shriek, covered her face and stomped her feet.

  Clutching the master's ear and standing still in shock, it was simply unbelievable that the master's first kiss on the silver screen had ended like this - with him of all people!!! Why!!!!

  Kang Chuan sincerely commented: "This plot is a bit weird."

  "The weird thing is, when Huai Jin strongly kisses Ke Xin, who do you think he's thinking of?" Jiang Luo Cheng lazily teased from the side, then snapped his fingers and patted his own apprentice's head, "Good, change it like this."

  Xiao Qiao stuck out her tongue, happily opened the computer, and clacked away at a blank document, typing a few lines before deleting them, then retyping, and repeating this process. Finally, she stopped, furrowed her brow, and stared blankly at the empty document. After a moment, her scrunched-up eyebrows relaxed, and with a gentle tap of the pen tip on the keyboard, a line of text slowly appeared on the screen: Huai Jin arrived at the lotus pond in high spirits, unaware that two other people were also approaching from different directions...

  Jiang Luocheng stretched his neck over and took a look, then smiled and said: "Hua Jin's strong kiss was seen by Qiao Sheng?"

  Xiao Qiao responded with a sound, still not lifting her head and burying herself in typing. Jiang Luocheng withdrew his head with satisfaction.

  At this time, someone informed Jiang Chuan that he could prepare for the next play. The man took down the hamster from his shoulder and placed it on the table, just about to turn around and leave. At this moment, however, he saw that his own hamster seemed to have been possessed by a demon, its small green eyes flashing back and forth as it stared intently at Little Qiao, who was tapping randomly on the keyboard with a ballpoint pen.

  "Ah Fei?"

  The hamster, having heard its master's call, subconsciously turned its head around and only then discovered that Jiang Chuan had already crouched down by the table. At this moment, that handsome face was right in front of it, almost level with the tabletop. The hamster scurried over, embracing its master's high nose bridge, and gave a quick peck on the lips.

  Jiang Chuan slightly narrowed his eyes: "Ah Fei is in a good mood today."

  The hamster chirped twice, to show that it was indeed in a good mood, and then rubbed its head against the owner's head several times - until Jiang Luochen couldn't bear it anymore and shooed him away to go film elsewhere, saying he would buy rat poison if he continued to pester him. Only then did Jiang Chuan stand up and leave.

  ……

  The next day, Jiang Chuan got up and tried to take the hamster out for a walk as usual, but found that today's hamster was particularly uncooperative, shrinking in the wooden house and refusing to come out... At first, Jiang Chuan was worried that the hamster might be uncomfortable somewhere, after all, it had been bathed with water some time ago, which is not supposed to be done for hamsters. However, later seeing the hamster crawling out by itself, eating a hearty breakfast, drinking some water and nibbling on yesterday's leftover apple, its belly round and full, before crawling back into its cage, Jiang Chuan finally let out a sigh of relief.

  He realized that Ah Fei was not in the mood to go out today, and there was nothing he could do about it. He simply said "be good" and left under Fang Yu's impatient urging, who had been waiting outside for a while.

  ……

  When Jiang Chuan returned home in the evening, he found a strange email in his private mailbox.

  The title is: About Yuan Jinyan's secret that everyone doesn't know, if you reveal it, your troubles will be solved.

  Out of curiosity, Jiang Chuan clicked in.

  ……

  Three days passed again.

  Gang Chuan suddenly told Mr. Agent without warning that the press conference can be prepared.

  Fang Yu said inexplicably: "You opened your mouth, what are you going to say? - Don't take out that purely coincidental broken excuse from last time to scare people, if I were a reporter, I would smash the camera in your face on the spot."

  Jiang Chuan didn't explain, just said it was ready, as for what to say, he himself had a measure - as for his measure, Fang Yu was very distrustful, but in the end, she also didn't know what Jiang Chuan and Luo Cheng said. As a shareholder of IM company, Luo Cheng waved his hand and personally approved this matter that sounded particularly unreliable.

  Fang Yu felt that his career as an agent was almost at its end.

  A press conference was scheduled for early May, just half a month after Jiang Chuan was attacked by Yuan Jingyan's fans - and under the circumstances of another behind-the-scenes manipulation, this incident did not gradually fade away as Fang Yu had worried. The egg-throwing guy seemed to have given some good inspiration to the black forces, and Jiang Chuan kept receiving threatening letters or bad things, some of which were sent directly to him and others to his company.

  The man remained relatively calm and just said: "This thing should have an end."

  Jiang Chuan is as calm as Fang Yu is annoying.

  Because Jiang Chuan didn't tell him, or anyone else for that matter, what he was going to say on the day of the press conference - the company's prepared script he just glanced at casually, and didn't even know if he had memorized it.

  ……

  Finally, the day of the press conference arrived. Facing a room full of reporters from various media outlets, Fang Yu felt for the first time the pressure that public opinion brings to celebrities - at this moment, Jiang Chuan was sitting quietly on the side drinking coffee. Fang Yu was like an ant on a hot pot, sticking his head out to look at the sea of reporters outside, then shrinking back to look at Jiang Chuan's expressionless face. After some thought, he walked up to Jiang Chuan and said: "If we don't answer well today, tomorrow we'll be drinking northwest wind."

  "Uh-huh."

  Fang Yu: "Have you memorized the script?"

  Jiang Chuan put down his cup and nodded: "Don't worry, it's nothing."

  How could Fang Yu possibly be at ease, so after the press conference started, he still followed him out - at the moment when Jiang Chuan appeared, the flash didn't stop, this year's man was wearing a thin knit shirt and casual pants, with casual shoes on his feet, looking very casual. When he came to the front of the reporters, he ignored the microphones and cameras in their hands, and the various questions that were thrown at him by the excited reporters who were about to pounce on him, directly pulled open a stool and sat down, coldly watching the IM company security personnel loudly scolding the reporters to sit back in their seats.

  Fang Yu wiped the cold sweat on his forehead with a handkerchief beside him, muttering "my mother" in a very uncalm manner.

  It took fifteen minutes just to maintain order.

  Fifteen minutes later, the press conference officially began.

  Journalists can ask questions in turn.

  Firstly, it was the first thing mentioned, which was previously about wearing Jiang Chuan belt to enter the group.

  "It's true, when I was abroad, I watched Jiang Luocheng's movie and liked it very much. This time when I returned to China, I thought that if there is a chance to cooperate with him, it would be great."

  "Then may I ask Mr. Jiang, previously there were rumors online that the person who helped you get in touch with Director Jiang Luocheng was actually Mr. Luo Chengluo, one of the shareholders of IM company, is this true?"

  "Yes."

  "Excuse me, you and Mr. Luo——"

  Friend.

  "After that, there were rumors that you actually didn't bring capital into the group, but rather to be with Miss Luo Ni, the daughter of the wealthy Luo family, for the role in Director Jiang Luocheng's play. And coincidentally, the Luo family had invested a large sum of money in 'Republic of China Strange Record'..."

  Just as Jiang Chuan was about to speak, Fang Yu raised his hand to stop him. The agent, who had been extremely nervous earlier, spoke in a particularly stylish tone: "The online user who initially spread this rumor has already been jointly sued by our company and Luo Shi for defamation. Here, I would like to remind those online users who intentionally guide malicious rumors that the internet is a great new media platform, but please don't think that hiding behind the internet means you can speak irresponsibly. After all, this is still a society governed by law where words have consequences."

  He glanced at Fang Yu and then turned his gaze to the reporter who was standing there in a daze, saying lightly: "That's all, I'm just ordinary friends with her, we're just acting as opponents in the new play, that's all, don't write nonsense, it's not good for the girl's reputation either."

  The reporter sat down with a sulk, and the next one stood up to ask about Xu Qianqian. Jiang Chuan directly replied "not clear". When asked again about Xu Qianqian's theft, he just gave an evasive answer: "At that time I was just taking back my hamster, my hamster bit her, for which I still feel very sorry."

  Later, the reporter also heard a series of events about the high school exam paper and taking pictures with hamsters. Jiang Chuan answered one by one. When answering questions about the test paper, he was the same as when he first answered Fang Yu's question "How can you not get the test paper dirty while writing on it". The reporter who asked the question seemed to believe his statement and asked Jiang Chuan with a smile before sitting down: if he took out a new question now, could he do it? Jiang Chuan replied: Come on.

  As a result, the reporter really pulled out a neatly stacked test paper.

  Fang Yu's eyes were about to spew fire - but before he could transform into a fire-breathing dragon, Jiang Chuan stopped him with just one glance. Then, under the gaze of everyone present, Jiang Chuan solved that problem in less than a minute - including the entire process of writing down the answer. In other words, as soon as Jiang Chuan saw the problem, he quickly found the solution.

  The reporter from "New Joy Media" who raised the question is notorious for being picky, so it's unlikely that IM Company would try to buy them off - they'd rather expose a scandal like "IM Company tried to bribe us". As for the trivial matter of "not bad IQ", IM Company wouldn't bother taking the risk and spending money to buy someone off. So when this happened, everyone present was convinced about Jiang Chuan's educational background.

  When the press conference reached its midpoint, the atmosphere was still okay. After those not-so-painful questions earlier - accompanied by "New Media" handing over topics for Jiang Chuan to answer, the reporters slightly relaxed - and were arranged in order, the media representatives who came out to ask questions next were increasingly sharp-tongued. As expected, it didn't take long before someone stood up and asked about the incident where Jiang Chuan was hit by eggs some time ago.

  "I don't think that's something a fan of Yuan Chenyan would do," Jiang Chuan said, "The sentiment of loving an idol shouldn't be so extreme, as for who did it, you figure it out yourselves."

  "So, may I ask about the origin of this matter that triggered anger among some fans - the rumor that you initially went to Yuan Yuyan's room to make a protective gesture just for publicity, is this true?"

  "No."

  Fang Yu nervously looked at Jiang Chuan, according to the company's announcement, this side is letting Jiang Chuan say that he and Jin Ran are friends who have known each other for many years, they just communicated online before - even those communication emails were fabricated in advance, when the time comes, they will be shown vaguely and briefly to the reporters, of course, they can't look at them for too long because after all, it's fake and will be exposed...

  This move is very risky.

  But there's no way around it either.

  "Mr. Jiang, under normal circumstances and not for publicity purposes, I'd like to ask: what kind of psychological state would a newly risen star be in to quarrel with another unfamiliar star and major media outlets?"

  “……”

  The scene fell into an instant silence due to the reporter's impolite response.

  At this moment, the reporters suddenly saw that Jiang Chuan, who had been answering questions with a somewhat cold and stiff expression since the press conference began, suddenly sat up slightly straighter. He lowered his eyes, and those long and thick eyelashes covered all emotions in his bright blue pupils. At the same time, everyone heard the man's low voice rise -

  "Who says we don't know each other?"

  Fang Yu silently let out a sigh of relief.

  But hadn't had time to catch his breath yet.

  Suddenly saw Jiang Chuan raise his head and flash a warm smile at the camera —

  "I've been pursuing Yuan Jinyan for a long time, and I'd like to ask, under normal circumstances, seeing the person you like lying in bed, powerless and being bullied by others, as a normal man, how could I possibly shrink away and watch coldly?"