CH 24.2

Perhaps Lin Yu only saw her distress and offered a solution. Su Chengyang didn’t think much of it and quickly shifted her attention to the delicious meal in front of her.

When she took the first bite of the juicy meatball, Su Chengyang couldn’t help but sigh, “This taste, it’s exactly like the taste I dreamed of.”

The three of them smiled.

While Su Chengyang was enjoying her meal, she noticed that Lin Yu hadn’t eaten much and had been drinking a lot of tea. She asked, with food in her mouth, “Manager Lin, don’t you like spicy food?”

Lin Yu glanced at her, her cheeks bulging like a hamster, “You can’t speak while you eat.”

“Oh…”

Su Chengyang continued eating with her head down.

After a few bites, Su Chengyang felt a bit guilty. Although Lin Yu didn’t reject Chinese cuisine, he probably couldn’t handle spicy food like they could. Su Chengyang had ordered a fully spicy hot pot. So, she put down her chopsticks and left the private room.

A moment later, Su Chengyang walked in holding a bowl of water.

“Chengyang, where did you go?”

Su Chengyang placed the warm water in front of Lin Yu and said, “I noticed that Manager Lin might not be able to eat spicy food, so it might be better to rinse the food with water before eating it.”

Xiao Lu looked at her cousin brother in surprise.

Her cousin brother couldn’t eat spicy food? Why didn’t she know about this?

“No, it’s not一”

Before Xiao Lu could finish her sentence, she suddenly felt the gaze of Lin Yu and quickly shut her mouth, agreeing with Su Chengyang, “Yes, cousin brother, rinsing with water will be better.”

Lin Yu lowered his gaze and smiled at Su Chengyang, “Thank you.”

“You’re welcome.”

Su Chengyang sat back in her seat, picked up her chopsticks, and was about to continue eating when Assistant Xu’s phone suddenly rang.

He frowned and picked up his phone, then looked at Lin Yu and said, “Mr. Lin, it’s President Lu calling.”

Lin Yu nodded. “Go ahead and answer it.”

The room suddenly became quiet, and Su Chengyang was affected. She paused her chopstick movements and looked at Assistant Xu with hopeful eyes, wishing he would hang up the phone soon.

Assistant Xu answered the phone under pressure. “Hello, President Lu.”

“We’re having dinner outside, and Mr. Lin is here too.”

The person on the other end of the phone seemed to have asked something else, and Assistant Xu looked at Su Chengyang and said, “Chengyang is here too.”

Su Chengyang opened her eyes in confusion. Why was she being mentioned?

After hearing what President Lu said, Assistant Xu’s face turned ugly. He said, “Okay, I understand. We’ll immediately…”

Lin Yu interrupted him with a hand gesture, seemingly knowing what he was going to say. “Let’s finish eating and then go back.”

Assistant Xu choked and looked embarrassed. He nervously told President Lu, “President Lu, Mr. Lin has been working all day and hasn’t had much to eat… we should be able to return before 8 pm”

It must be said that having been around Lin Yu for a long time, although he greatly admires his ability to take action, it also has to be acknowledged that Lin Yu can be quite stubborn at times.

Once was when he decided to sign Su Chengyang, and now is another.

After hanging up the phone, Lin Yu glanced at Su Chengyang and said, “Keep eating.”

Su Chengyang immediately relaxed. Whatever it was, there was nothing more important than filling her stomach at the moment.

Then Lin Yu looked at Assistant Xu across from him and asked, “What did President Lu say?”

Assistant Xu glanced at Su Chengyang, who was enjoying her food, and said, “Chengyang is trending on hot search again because of being scolded.”

Su Chengyang was startled and looked up in confusion, “Me?”

Did she get scolded by the public for her lousy reason for rejecting the guy earlier?

Xiao Lu was also puzzled and took out her phone from her bag and opened Weibo.

After coming to this world, Su Chengyang had long been accustomed to being scolded. Even when they nervously checked Weibo, she took the opportunity to lower her head and put the shrimp on her chopsticks into her mouth.

Xiao Lu opened Weibo and scrolled from top to bottom until she finally found a related entry about Su Chengyang in the middle of the page.

She clicked into the entry and quickly skimmed through it, then looked up at Su Chengyang and asked, “Chengyang, did you mix up the account?”

“What?” Su Chengyang looked at her in confusion.

Xiao Lu turned her phone around to face Su Chengyang, and there it was right under her name 一 a series of familiar illustrations.

“I posted on the wrong account,” Su Chengyang said with a dazed expression.

The illustrations were the ones she drew last night, showing her ham sausage being stolen by a mouse, and then the mouse being eaten by a cat.

Xiao Lu said helplessly: “Yang Xiuyi’s fans have been monitoring your Weibo account closely. Back then, some of his fans bought your illustrations and they recognized your art style, moreover your two accounts have the same IP address. They think you’re playing with them and intentionally mocking them by saying that this illustration series was a reference to the infamous ‘Shang Xingyu Incident’.”

Su Chengyang looked bewildered and asked, “Who is Shang Xingyu?”

Assistant Xu said with a pale face: “It doesn’t matter whether you know her or not, the point is that she forwarded your Weibo…”

“I don’t even know her, how can I mock her?”

Lin Yu frowned and said, “The point of the problem is not whether you mocked her or not, but whether she and her fans think so. If Shang Xingyu reposted your Weibo, it means she was indeed influenced by it.”

Seeing that Su Chengyang didn’t seem to understand, Assistant Xu explained, “A few years ago, Shang Xingyu picked up a role from the same company’s artist, but unexpectedly the role became a hit. She won several awards as a result and even won the Flying Fish Best Actress Award for a movie she starred in later. However, at this year’s Flying Fish Film Festival, she lost to another artist from the same company by a few votes. So…”

Xiao Lu continued, “So, your drawing of a mouse stealing food and then turning into big cat’s food perfectly symbolizes Shang Xingyu’s situation.”

Su Chengyang fell silent for a moment and looked at Xiao Lu, “Please don’t use the word ‘perfect’ at times like this.”

“Chengyang, you’re about to be in the top ten of hot searches,” Xiao Lu reminded him.

Su Chengyang helplessly said, “Can I still delete it now? I really didn’t mean it.”

Lin Yu pondered for a moment and asked, “What was your original intention for creating this series of illustrations? If it’s reasonable, maybe we can still salvage the situation.”

Su Chengyang fell into a strange silence again, while the other three people stared at her without blinking, expecting her to say something like “I just drew them randomly” or “I just wanted to express how difficult it is to survive in the entertainment industry.” However, Su Chengyang lowered her head nervously and stammered, “Because the last ham sausage I hid in the room was eaten by a mouse.”

Xiao Lu: “…”

Assistant Xu: “…”

Lin Yu: “?”

“If you say that reason out loud, you’ll definitely be scolded even more,” Xiao Lu said.

Su Chengyang didn’t even dare to look up at Lin Yu, feeling dejected as she said, “But it’s true…”

Lin Yu helplessly rubbed his forehead and said, “Assistant Xu, call President Lu back and take down the hot search. We’ll head back to the company immediately.”

Su Chengyang was taken aback, “You don’t need to take it down.”

Looking at her, Lin Yu said calmly, “Give me a reason.”

Su Chengyang looked up at him, feeling a bit scared even though Lin Yu didn’t show any reaction or scold her.

<Travel> had already been promoted outside, but with this sudden situation with Su Chengyang, the program team had no way to promote it and it only attracted a lot of criticism.

Su Chengyang said, “This is actually a free publicity opportunity. We can negotiate with the program team and ask them to edit my situation into the program. When the program is broadcasted, it will be cleared up.”

Xiao Lu slapped the table and said, “Right! There are cameras in the room!”

Assistant Xu looked at Su Chengyang’s uneasy appearance and also felt a bit sorry for her, saying, “Chengyang is right. We can indeed use this opportunity to promote. The program team should be willing to cooperate.”

After all, being able to get traffic without spending money is something that the program team desires.

Su Chengyang secretly glanced at Lin Yu, and dared not to speak anymore.

After a while, Lin Yu nodded and said to Assistant Xu, “Give President Lu a call. We will rush back before 8 pm. We don’t need to respond to the hot search for now. Let the program team promote as usual.”

“Okay.”

Su Chengyang finally breathed a sigh of relief, and just at this moment, a hand reached out next to her and took away the dipping plate in front of her. The person then put a plate full of fruit in front of her and said to the other two people, “Let’s keep eating. We’ll rush back to the company before 8 pm.”

Su Chengyang stared blankly at the fruits in front of her, then looked at the hot pot steaming in front of her, and realized keenly that her reward had been mercilessly taken back. Despite being falsely accused and scolded on hot searches, Su Chengyang remained indifferent. However, at this moment, she lowered her head, her nose becoming sour, but she didn’t dare to say a word, as she knew it was her fault.

Su Chengyang lowered her head and took small bites of the papaya, tears rolling in her eyes. Why didn’t she check carefully before posting her Weibo? Now, everything was ruined.

Wu wu wu…

She felt like crying.

Su Chengyang was angry, aggrieved, and guilty. She was angry at herself and felt wronged because she was falsely accused over a few rough drawings. It even ruined her chance to enjoy her favorite hot pot properly. It was too much! Absolutely too much!

Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Lin Yu picking up a plump and tender piece of meat with his chopsticks, rinsing off the oil in the hot pot and putting it in a bowl beside him. Her mouth watered with desire. She hadn’t eaten enough, not even a little bit!

However, the next moment, Su Chengyang watched in disbelief as Lin Yu put the bowl full of food rinsed off with oil in front of her.

Su Chengyang trembled and looked up in shock.

Lin Yu put down his chopsticks and met her red eyes with a silent smile. He said, “It’s not that I can’t eat spicy food, I’m just thinking about something else.”

Su Chengyang couldn’t help but ask, “Manager Lin, what are you thinking about?”

Lin Yu smiled and replied, “I’m thinking, if you eat until you’re sick, can I still get the breach of contract compensation? So, tonight you can only eat what’s in this bowl.”

Su Chengyang’s eyes were brimming with tears, but this time it was tears of gratitude. She quickly lowered her head and wiped away the tears. “I thought you were angry and wouldn’t give me a reward,” she said.

“It is indeed a little bit angry,” Lin Yu looked at her meaningfully and said, “If it was just one ham sausage, you didn’t have to hide it from me. I wouldn’t have made things difficult for you.”

Su Chengyang: “…”

At this moment, Su Chengyang miraculously remembered the box of food that had been searched and confiscated from her on the show.

She was now thinking about whether or not to confess again about the snacks she had hidden from Lin Yu. Maybe he still didn’t know how many she had hidden? Should she take this opportunity to confess again?

Feeling even more guilty, Su Chengyang asked, “What if there’s more than one ham sausage?”

Lin Yu looked at her suspiciously and asked, “Su Chengyang, are you trying to push your luck?”

Su Chengyang: “…”

Su Chengyang silently closed her mouth, pretending she hadn’t said anything, and looked down at the colorless food in her bowl.

Even though it had been rinsed off in warm water and probably didn’t have any hot pot flavor, Su Chengyang still felt moved.

Lin Yu must be the legendary angel.

If after the show aired, he didn’t ask Su Chengyang for breach of contract compensation.

TL/Note: Hello, I want to straighten out something. if you have read the synopsis and realized that there is a character named ‘Golden Horse Best Actress’, the original synopsis that I obtained uses the word ‘金马’ (Jīnmǎ), which can be translated as ‘Golden Horse’. However, in the novel from beginning to end, there is no character named ‘Golden Horse Best Actress’, but rather ‘Flying Fish Best Actress’, which is translated from the original text using the word 飞鱼 (Fēiyú), which means ‘Flying Fish’. So, my conclusion is that ‘Golden Horse Best Actress’ and ‘Flying Fish Best Actress’ are the same character. Her name is ‘Shang Xingyu’.