Translator: Atlas Studios
Editor: Atlas Studios
But it was too late. No one could stop such a dogged heart!
Leng Yan stood up with a jolt, with one foot on the sofa.
“Who’s afraid to make a bet? I’ll do it! If you can prove yourself innocent, I’ll strip off my pants and run around the Capital!”
Xia Weibao’s furrowed her eyebrows. “That’s a deal! Let’s seal this promise!”
Xu Jiayang covered his face.
Xia Weibao raised her hand, clapped his palm three times to seal the promise and laughed.
However, Xu Jiayang was still looking to help prove her innocence. Even if it was just to decrease the negative implications just a little.
So, he composed a Weibo post.
The crew of “Fallen City”: One smile can kill a city, another can kill the whole country — Li Qingcheng @XiaWeibao
There was a video attached below, showing the edited footage of Xia Weibao auditioning the previous day.
In the video, Xia Weibao was dressed in a white dress. When she leaped up from the ground, four white sashes trailed behind her elegantly. She looked powerful and elegant simultaneously.
Yet, she had the aura of an immortal. Although she was filming a martial arts movie, it was as elegant as a fairy’s.
Coupled with that exquisite face, it was a feast of beauty.
Xu Jiayang had initially thought that this video would make people realise that Xia Weibao was more suitable for the role of Li Qingcheng than Lin Mier.
Even if it was just a normal dress, she could beat Lin Mier in just a second.
Yet, he had underestimated the blind logic of fans. After the video was uploaded, the comments that he received were not all praise. Instead, they were even crazier and more absurd defamations.
The issue of Xia Weibao’s plastic surgery was mentioned again and again, and accusations of heavy photoshopping cropped up again and again.
All in all, fans did not believe that this was Xia Weibao’s true self, and unanimously agreed that it had been artificially touched up.
Xu Jiayang was disappointed.
Xia Weibao also felt a slight headache. People nowadays are really ignorant! She thought.
Yet, just as everyone had lost all hope, she found that the number of views and downloads were rapidly rising. Not only that, but the number of fans on Xia Weibao and the “Fallen City” crew’s Weibos were also coincidentally changing…
Great.
This phenomenon. Denying verbally, yet being very honest physically could still miraculously lead to the intended outcome!
Although they were all scolding her and saying that she was a plastic surgery monster, their hands were very faithfully repeatedly playing back the video to see that beauty.
The ends of Xia Weibao’s lips curled into a smile. How could they be so adorable?
If they want to look, then they should just do it openly. Why be so secretive? She thought.
Xu Jiayang tilted his head and happened to see her pleased smile.
He stopped for a moment, then reaffirmed his own decision. Xia Weibao’s popularity will skyrocket. It will definitely skyrocket!
Xia Weibao and Lin Mier were two extremes.
In order to achieve her own goal, Lin Mier made use of her fans’ support and even thoughtlessly took advantage of her fans’ trust.
If there came a day where her true self was exposed to the public, there would be a disaster awaiting her!
But Xia Weibao was different. She adored her fans and tolerated all their mistakes.
Even if everyone stood in front of her and scolded her in her face, she would just view them as children throwing tantrums and would readily forgive them.
If there was ever a day where she finally broke free from all her shackles, all those fans that had once fought against her would become her most loyal supporters.
Xu Jiayang’s eyes darkened. Based on Xia Weibao’s generosity and calmness, he would put all his hopes on her!
Taking the script from the coffee table, Xu Jiayang passed it over to Xia Weibao.
“Read and analyse the script closely. We’ll film the outdoor scenes first tomorrow.”
Lifting up her head, Xia Weibao’s gaze met with Xu Jiayang’s.
She understood his gaze. This script held all his hopes.
“Fallen City” was her opportunity for a comeback, and his as well.
The building had been completely surrounded, so they could only secretly leave from the underground carpark.
Xia Weibao’s car had already been moved to the carpark by a staff member. Sister Tong eyed the car. “Don’t drive in the future, darling. You’re now a public figure. You have to refrain from doing certain things.
Xia Weibao was embarrassed.
Lu Hualiang had done a great job in keeping her discharge from the mental hospital a secret.
Outsiders only knew that someone had taken her out, but no one knew who.
So in the eyes of everyone, she was being taken care of as a mistress.
“I understand.”
Xia Weibao said awkwardly.
She guessed that no one would believe the situation between her and Lu Hualiang, even if she were to confess to it.
One was Emperor Hualiang of the Three Kingdoms of Army, Business, and Government. The other was an infamous, scandal-ridden movie queen. There was no way to link them together.
Besides, she had signed a confidentiality agreement to keep the marriage a secret.
Lu Hualiang was probably ashamed of her.
In his eyes, she saw disgust.
She did not understand. If he hated her, why did he marry her?
When she reached home, Xia Weibao settled into the couch in her room and took out her laptop to watch the video.
This was taken from Sister Tong. The video that ruined her life three years ago.
At the start of the video, there was a woman with disheveled hair sitting on the sofa, convulsing. Her hands were holding a syringe and injecting it into her own arm.
Then, it was as though her body went through sudden pleasure and slowly relaxed.
She raised her head and leaned back against the couch.
It was only then that Xia Weibao saw her face closely. She did indeed resemble her exactly!
Not long after, a few men appeared in the video. Bast*rd 1 smiled leerily as he caressed and stripped the woman.
The woman did not resist, but instead welcomed it with a smile.
Xia Weibao’s whole face flushed red. To an ancient person, such an extreme video was simply too much for her to handle.
Yet, she had no choice but to watch it. This concerned her innocence. If she wanted to prove her innocence, she had to dig out the truth of that year!
Watching the video from the beginning again, Xia Weibao turned as red as a lobster. However, she still could not find any evidence. From the appearance of the woman, it was indeed Xia Weibao! Not only that, the background was also Xia Weibao’s villa!
Xia Weibao felt her head throbbing. Who had such great skill to find a woman so similar to her to take such a video? And in her home, no less!
She thought of one person, her ex-manager He Xin.
She had been Diyu’s hot shot, so the company had given her a standalone villa. Other than her, only He Xin had the key to her villa.
After the scandal broke, He Xin was the first to contact her and tell her to be cautious, and that the company would handle the matter.
Yet, that wait brought nothing but Diyu’s unreasonable contract termination!
After that, He Xin was assigned to take on a newcomer, who became Diyu’s number one and the hottest star in the country!
And He Xin rode on the laurels of Yan Weiyang, becoming Diyu’s golden manager.
Xia Weibao furrowed her brows in deep thought. The way she saw it, He Xin was the most suspicious.
But she could not jump to conclusions.
She was a little troubled. In this unfamiliar world, it was too inconvenient to do things. She could not even check up on some matters. It seemed to her that she needed an assistant.
Thinking back to the year when she took control of the harem, she had a guard at hand to work for her.
But it was not easy to find a guard. It all depended on fate.
She decided to put this matter aside. She took out the script for “Fallen City” and she fell in love with it at first sight.