CH 13

The day after ‘Wanted’ was finished, Liang Xincheng accepted a job from a fashion brand to promote the brand’s new products this season. A large number of fans and reporters gathered at the event and a short media group visit was arranged at the end.

Liang Xincheng coped with the various questions thrown out by reporters one by one with ease, with a formulaic smile on his face. At the same time, he promoted the movie that had finished filming.

Towards the end, a reporter squeezed in the back row suddenly sent the microphone forward, almost hitting Liang Xincheng’s face. The reporter raised his voice and asked abruptly: “Xia Yuanhang’s WeChat voice chat history just broke out on Weibo. He said that he is not even an ordinary friend with you. The previous interaction was all done by the agent for hype. Do you know about this? What is your opinion?”

As soon as this question came out,the reporters at the scene and the fans at the back were a bit stirred up. Liang Xincheng was taken aback for a moment and subconsciously glanced at Liu Fan who was standing not far away. Liu Fan nodded at him to confirm that something was wrong. Liang Xincheng’s eyes sank. Facing the countless cameras and microphones that were staring at him, he couldn’t show anything. After a pause, he replied coldly: “I don’t know.”

“Is it because you don’t know about this, or because you don’t know Xia Yuanhang’s definition of your relationship? Are you really not even ordinary friends, just hype?”

Liang Xincheng glanced at the slightly excited reporter, frowning and saying: “I don’t know what he thinks, but I have never thought about hyping our relationship. I make friends with my heart. I have never asked my agent to do it for me.”

The reporter wanted to ask again but Liu Fan had already squeezed over to interrupt them. He ended the group interview ahead of schedule and walked away quickly protecting Liang Xincheng.

After getting in the car, Liu Fan breathed a sigh of relief and gave Liang Xincheng a thumbs up: “The response on the spot was good. The answer was very good just now. I was really afraid that you might make a mistake.”

Liang Xincheng asked in a deep voice: “What the hell is going on?”

“The paparazzi studio’s Weibo exploded, you can see for yourself. Now the Internet is about to crash. This time it is indeed a bit troublesome.”

Liang Xincheng clicked on Weibo and the source was from a famous paparazzi studio, even the preview didn’t have a video that came out half an hour ago. The chat history was of Xia Yuanhang and whoever it was. The other party’s mobile phone was leaked. The WeChat remark1WeChat’s remark: when you add someone on WeChat, there is this function where you can save their name, so in the chat, it’ll display the saved name instead of the name they set, and the remark is only visible to you for Xia Yuanhang was ‘Yuanhang-ge’, and all Xia Yuanhang sent to him was voice notes. His voice was very recognizable. He mentioned the name of Liang Xincheng several times; the voice really sounded like him. The avatar of the other party was mosaiced and the content of the reply was all text. He didn’t know if the other party was the person who gave the information to the paparazzi, or if the phone was taken by someone who had the intention to record the screen.

Things had been fermenting for more than half an hour and there had indeed been a riot on Weibo. The fans on both sides tore each other apart, while CP fans removed their fans’ badge and stepped back. There was also the opportunity to take the rhythm of fishing in troubled waters.2Taking advantage of an accident to steal sth. It was said that Xia Yuanhang was flirting with his girlfriend while belittling his partner. They tried to find out who the other party was. However, it seemed that the screen recording was just one part of the chat record. There was too little useful information. There were a lot of suspected partners, but none of them could be confirmed.

Liang Xincheng clicked on the screen recording and listened to it from beginning to end. The screen recording was actually very short. There were only a few words in total, but every sentence was heartbreaking.

“Who told you that if you have cooperated, you will definitely have a good relationship. I have worked with many people, but not everyone has a good relationship. To be honest, I am not familiar with him. Liang Xincheng, that person…is too complicated; he has so many thoughts,3basically means he’s very good at thinking when encountering bad things, but he used it not in a good way here, not suitable for deep friendship.”

“Everyone gets what they want, proper hype is necessary. Liang Xincheng and I really don’t have any personal relationships. The interactions on Weibo are all done by the agent. We are not even ordinary friends.”

“You have to pay attention to fate to make friends. He is not the kind of person I like.”

“If he looks good, then you must like him? How can he be as cute as you?”

Liang Xincheng lowered his head and remained silent for a long time, so that no one could see the emotion in his eyes. It was so long that Liu Fan felt that something was wrong, so he patted him on the shoulder: “What are you thinking?”

“It’s nothing,” Liang Xincheng raised his head and smiled at his manager. “I didn’t expect him to be so stupid. Someone actually recorded him saying such things”

“That’s right, he doesn’t look like such a careless person, I really don’t know what he’s doing.”

Liang Xincheng sneered in his heart; if he wasn’t careful, he would have told the public who he was chatting with. It was not unreasonable to say ‘lust made people dizzy’. Other people couldn’t guess, but who Xia Yuanhang was sending the WeChat to, he immediately had the answer in his heart.

“What should we do now?”

Liu Fan said proudly: “Your answer in front of the media just now has already cleared the relationship. The next step is to sell your misery. With so many CP fans, how long will it take if you don’t purify it now?”

Liang Xincheng closed his eyes and asked Liu Fan: “What do you want to do?”

“Unfollow each other on Weibo too. Clear up all the previous interactions with him on Weibo, and the next wind direction will be easy to guide.”

Liang Xincheng regarded Xia Yuanhang as a friend and treated him sincerely, but Xia Yuanhang tricked Liang Xincheng behind his back. Even the interaction with Liang Xincheng on Weibo was done by the agent, all for the sake of hype. One was sincere but was paid wrongly,4Internet slang. Meaning to give all your heart to someone, and it turns out that it is paid wrongly. Here, ‘paid wrongly’ means: give wrongly. This word is an Internet slang, often used to describe the disappointment of someone. the other was playing the double game.5两面三刀: to play a double game. Basically two faced Now Liang Xincheng had recognized Xia Yuanhang’s true face and he was determined to draw a line with him out of heartbreak. This rhythm was so good. Liu Fan thought about it and felt that Xia Yuanhang’s wave was simply giving them a head. It really didn’t hurt them too much.

Liang Xincheng didn’t object and threw the phone to Liu Fan: “You can do it, whatever you want.”

Not long after the incident happened, Xia Yuanhang received an apology call from Ding Yao. Ding Yao repeatedly said ‘I’m sorry’, but he didn’t know who took his mobile phone to record the screen. The whole person was confused: “Why don’t I come out and explain it for you? At least it can prove that you were not sending the WeChat message to your girlfriend…”

“Forget it, it’s useless. You will only make things more and more complicated when you come out. That’s it, don’t worry about it.”

The recorded chat history was indeed just one part of it. It started when Ding Yao asked him why his relationship with Liang Xincheng was not good and ended when he teased Ding Yao for being cute. The content that could reveal Ding Yao’s identity information was cut off. Xia Yuanhang believed it was not Ding Yao who did it, but ninety percent would be the people around him.

When the chat history was suddenly exposed, Xia Yuanhang was indeed very angry, but Ding Yao wasn’t intentionally doing it. He couldn’t say anything serious. He could only think that he was unlucky.

Xia Yuanhang’s manager contacted him as soon as the incident broke out. After learning that Ding Yao was involved in the incident, he immediately felt that the situation was very difficult and said that he would report to the company.

After Xia Yuanhang hung up the call with Ding Yao, his manager called again and asked him to go to the company now.

“Don’t make any response yet, let alone mention Ding Yao. Come to the company, let’s talk to each other in person.”