CH 39.2

Lin Yu carefully cleaned her wound, put on a plaster, and reminded her, “Don’t get your finger wet for the next couple of days.”

Su Chengyang obediently nodded, “Can I go back to eat now?”

Lin Yu looked at her and said, “No.”

Su Chengyang’s face fell.

“What do you want to eat? I’ll have Lu Yin bring it over, and we’ll eat here,” he said.

Su Chengyang’s eyes lit up, looking particularly cute with her cheeks still a little flushed from crying earlier, “I want to eat a bowl of beef noodle, with two pieces of meat!” she said.

Lin Yu couldn’t help but want to laugh at her silly expression. He subconsciously reached out to touch her head, but when his hand was halfway there, he saw Su Chengyang bow her head as if avoiding him.

Lin Yu’s movement paused, and he immediately realized his mistake. He turned and took out his phone from the pocket of Su Chengyang’s coat hanging on her shoulder, then walked a short distance away to call Xiao Lu.

Su Chengyang saw Lin Yu’s series of actions and scolded herself in her heart for being so embarrassed. Just a moment ago, she thought Lin Yu was trying to touch her head, so she suddenly avoided his gaze. But it turned out that she had been overthinking it. Lin Yu just wanted to get his phone!

After a while, Lin Yu finished the call and returned to Su Chengyang’s side.

Su Chengyang wanted to return his coat, but Lin Yu stopped her, “It’s cold outside. Keep it on.”

“What about you?”

“I’m not cold.”

Su Chengyang blinked at him and wanted to suggest that they could go back to their room to eat so they wouldn’t be cold.

But for some reason, she didn’t want to bring it up.

While they waited for Xiao Lu to deliver their noodles, Lin Yu sat with her at the table.

Su Chengyang remembered the recent incident and hesitated for a long time before asking, “What about Tian Rong’s situation? It doesn’t have anything to do with Songxue and the others, but there were still many staff members at the scene. If it gets out, will it have a negative impact?”

Lin Yu said casually, “Did you do something wrong?”

Su Chengyang looked at him suspiciously, unable to distinguish whether he was being sarcastic or asking seriously, so she asked back, “So should I… have done something wrong or not?”

Lin Yu: “…”

Lin Yu paused for a moment and decided to phrase the question differently, “Do you think you did something wrong?”

Su Chengyang nodded honestly, “I don’t think so.”

“Since you did nothing wrong, why worry about the negative impact if the matter gets out? It should be Miss Tian Rong who should be worried,” Lin Yu nodded.

When Tian Rong was mentioned, Lin Yu’s expression became unclear and he seemed unhappy.

Seeing his expression, Su Chengyang thought he had a plan and couldn’t help but ask, “Manager Lin, what are you planning to do?”

Lin Yu glanced at her and said, “It’s not working hours now.”

Su Chengyang was stunned for a moment, then quickly changed her words, “Brother Lin, what are you planning to do?”

Lin Yu lowered his head nonchalantly and said, “Isn’t she looking to embarrass herself? Let’s just give her what she wants.”

“How are we going to do that?”

“After the first two episodes aired, the audience had some understanding of the nine guests to varying degrees. Your biggest characteristic is actually being ordinary and… “

Lin Yu paused for a moment before continuing, “simple, or to put it another way, stupid.”

Su Chengyang: “…”

“Would you like me to rephrase that?”

Lin Yu smiled and said, “Actually, it’s just naivete, the kind that doesn’t understand human nature. The flaws in each of you are obvious to the audience and have been accepted. In this situation, the series of behaviors you have shown in rejecting Miss Tian Rong is just your true nature. Miss Tian Rong’s current situation is not good, especially her popularity. I just need to spread the word before the program airs that Miss Tian Rong paid her way into the program team and is trying to whitewash herself using the program. After the program airs, her situation will only become a topic for the audience to talk about, a laughingstock.”

After hearing Lin Yu’s words, Su Chengyang was stunned.

Lin Yu continued, “Even if no one spreads the news about what happened tonight, I will make sure it spreads. She hurt you and should pay the price for it.”

Su Chengyang had always known that Lin Yu was decisive in dealing with these matters, but after hearing his words, she couldn’t help but feel some sighs in her heart.

Lin Yu not only acted decisively in handling problems, but was also very ruthless.

Tian Rong’s current situation is already precarious. If she loses more popularity, she will have no chance to turn things around and her career in the entertainment industry will be over.

But Su Chengyang didn’t think it was a pity, nor was she afraid of Lin Yu’s way of handling things.

Maybe because Lin Yu has been helping her all along, or maybe because she actually trusts Lin Yu a lot, she didn’t feel afraid.

Lin Yu looked at her stunned expression and asked, “Was my approach too heartless?”

Su Chengyang wanted to shake her head and say no.

But before she could answer, Lin Yu spoke again.

“Don’t be afraid, I will never treat you like that.”

He flashed a gentle look in his eyes and looked straight into Su Chengyang’s heart.

Su Chengyang didn’t understand why he had to explain to her, why he had to say this reassuring sentence.

When her heart rate became unbalanced because of his words, Su Chengyang knew that any emotion related to Lin Yu would no longer be under her control.

On a moonlit night with sparse stars, on a deserted terrace with a cool breeze passing over the mountaintop, under the soft and bright yellow lights, Su Chengyang’s heart crossed a boundary.

She didn’t cross Lin Yu’s safety distance, but she crossed her own safety distance.

Fortunately, only she herself suffered the agony. Lin Yu would never know about this matter, and she couldn’t cause any trouble for Lin Yu because of her thoughts.

This was an absolute prohibition that Su Chengyang had set for herself on this incredibly beautiful night.

Facing Lin Yu’s delicate gaze, Su Chengyang smiled and then naturally looked away.

“Brother Lin, I will never hurt you,” Su Chengyang said.

When Xiao Lu found the two of them, Su Chengyang and Lin Yu were sitting opposite each other, chatting about nothing in particular, and the atmosphere seemed quite good.

Xiao Lu smiled when she saw them from afar and then put the food aside and took two photos of them with her phone.

Soon, Su Chengyang heard footsteps behind her and turned around to see Xiao Lu walking towards them with the food.

Xiao Lu put the steaming beef noodles in front of her and asked, “Chengyang, how’s your hand?”

Thinking about what had happened earlier, Su Chengyang felt a little embarrassed and thought thankfully that the recording of the show had already ended; otherwise, she would have been embarrassed beyond words.

She shook her head and said, “I’m fine, but my emotions got the better of me for a moment. Did I scare them?”

Xiao Lu said, “Don’t you know them by now? They are carefree and forgetful. They are already planning how to have fun tonight.”

Su Chengyang breathed a sigh of relief but hesitated and asked, “What about Tian Rong…”

“She…” Xiao Lu hummed lightly, “probably felt like she had lost face, so she didn’t say anything and went back to her room.”

Su Chengyang nodded and, under the gaze of the two, picked up her chopsticks and ate slowly.

The reason Su Chengyang ate slowly was not to maintain her good image, but because the wound was on her index finger, and any slightly larger movement would cause pain.

Xiao Lu cursed Tian Rong a few times on the side, while Lin Yu smiled at the two of them.

After finishing a bowl of noodles, Su Chengyang’s gloomy mood finally disappeared along with her filled stomach.

She took a sip of the soup, let out a satisfied sigh, and then heard someone calling her from below the terrace.

Su Chengyang ran to the railing and looked down.

Han Songxue was standing downstairs, waving at her and shouting, “Su Chengyang, let’s go play!”

Jiang Shanqi and the others were standing next to her, all looking up at her.

“Wait for me!” Su Chengyang waved at them and then returned to the dining table, handing her coat back to Lin Yu and saying, “Brother Lin, I want to go down and play with them for a while.”

As she spoke, her eyes were bright, like a child asking an adult for candy.

Lin Yu took the coat from her hand and, under her sincere gaze, nodded slightly and reminded her, “It’s windy on the mountain, so wear a jacket when you go back.”

After hesitating for a moment, Xiao Lu said, “Cousin Brother, then I too…”

Su Chengyang immediately said, “Let Xiao Lu go with me. She doesn’t have anything to do tonight anyway.”

Lin Yu looked at her and suddenly asked, “Why didn’t you invite me to go together?”

Su Chengyang’s heart trembled, “So…are you going?”

Lin Yu regretfully said, “I really want to go, but I still have some work to do.”

Su Chengyang didn’t know if she was relieved or disappointed, but thinking of Lin Yu coming to accompany her to record the program in the midst of his busy schedule, her mood became a bit complicated. She said, “Brother Lin, don’t work too late. If you’re busy next time, just let Xiao Lu accompany me.”

Lin Yu smiled faintly, “It’s okay, go have fun and be safe.”

Xiao Lu hugged Su Chengyang’s shoulder and saluted Lin Yu, “I promise to bring Chengyang back safely.”

Lin Yu laughed and waved his hand, “Go ahead, don’t keep them waiting too long.”

Su Chengyang and Xiao Lu left the terrace side by side, and Xiao Lu kept talking in her ear, “I’ve been wanting to try the roller coaster during the day. It feels so exciting.”

As soon as she finished speaking, she heard a cold and ghostly voice behind her say, “You’re not allowed to ride the roller coaster.”

The two of them trembled and quickly nodded to show that they understood.

After leaving the terrace, Xiao Lu whispered to Su Chengyang’s ear, “Is my cousin brother particularly timid?”

Su Chengyang was confused, “Does he not like roller coasters?”

“No, when he was a child, he had an accident on a roller coaster and was left hanging in the air for over an hour until the firefighters arrived to rescue him. Since then, he never rides roller coasters and doesn’t allow anyone around him to ride either.”

Su Chengyang was a bit stunned after hearing this. She couldn’t imagine that Lin Yu had such a side to him. She couldn’t even picture what he looked like as a child. She had a feeling that he was a little troublemaker.

That night, Su Chengyang and the group visited all the amusement facilities in the mountains. She followed Lin Yu’s advice and didn’t ride the roller coaster.

They played until late at night, and then everyone went back to their rooms.

The next day, when they were recording, it took Tian Rong half a day to come out of her room.

She didn’t look well, her hand was wrapped in gauze, with bloodstains seeping through. When she saw everyone, she lowered her head and didn’t stand in the center like yesterday, but rather stayed on the edge of the crowd very conscientiously.

After a day of recording, Tian Rong barely spoke. Because of what happened last night, including Jiang Shanqi and the other guests, no one spoke to her. No matter where they went, she always followed behind the crowd, looking mentally unwell.

Su Chengyang felt disgusted with her and acted as if she didn’t exist throughout the whole time.

This episode of the show was one day longer than the previous two, supposedly because the second episode was edited too short and the audience criticized the show’s team, so they decided to make the third episode longer.

However, at present, Su Chengyang feels that there are many highlights in this issue, especially with Tian Rong. If all of it is edited, the length will definitely not be less than three hours.

After the recording ended, they returned to the capital, and it was already one day later.

After the program team’s preview was released, all the guests forwarded it, and within half an hour, it rushed to the hot search.

Xiao Lu is a gossip lover. She lay on the sofa in the living room with Su Chengyang and showed her the Weibo messages from netizens.

“The program team is being criticized so badly,” Xiao Lu said gloatingly.

Su Chengyang was applying a facial mask and glanced at her phone.

【Is the program team crazy? They knew that my female goose was criticized all over the internet because of TR, yet they still let TR be a guest? Are they trying to court controversy? Don’t they care about my girl’s reputation?】

【What the hell? Did you intentionally make TR disgust my sister? So damn unlucky!】

【So disgusting. Do they still expect my sister to welcome her with a smile?】

【Tian Rong’s current popularity is not as high as Su Chengyang’s, right? Why offend Su Chengyang for a washed-up artist like TR?】

【Sister, terminate the contract! Don’t collaborate with this garbage program!】

Xiao Lu handed the phone back to Su Chengyang after scrolling down some more. “Look! Tian Rong should have bought water army.”

Su Chengyang took off the face mask and threw it in the trash, then picked up her phone.

【What? Su Chengyang was previously criticized online because of Yang Xiuyi and what does that have to do with Tian Rong? Wasn’t she a victim?】

【Please, can you all clarify this? Tian Rong released chat records where she told Yang Xiuyi not to do it, but Yang Xiuyi did it anyway without her consent.】

【Tian Rong and Su Chengyang are both innocent. I just like seeing beautiful girls loving each other and dumping bad guys!】

【Tian Rong is really innocent. She didn’t want this to happen, it’s just that Yang Xiuyi didn’t want to clarify the situation. She’s bound by the company’s contract, and she can’t do anything without the company’s approval. Don’t blame her, okay?】

【Tian Rong participated in the show as a guest because of the program’s invitation, right? If you want to criticize the program team, go ahead, but why criticize Tian Rong?】

【Did you not see the preview? Tian Rong was always walking behind. Isn’t it Su Chengyang who brought their personal feelings into work and isolated Tian Rong from others? Disgusting!】

Su Chengyang was expressionless as they scrolled through Weibo, not feeling anything.

Just as netizens were arguing fiercely, the official Weibo account of <Travel> that was previously criticized by netizens posted a tweet claiming that they had never actively invited any artists from Qingyan Entertainment.

After the tweet was posted, the controversy was reignited.

Qingyan Entertainment is the agency where Jiang Shanqi and Tian Rong are signed.

Furthermore, during the previous recording sessions, Jiang Shanqi openly stated that she had paid to participate in the show.

The statement from the official Weibo account is undoubtedly like throwing a bomb into the crowd. They never invited Jiang Shanqi, so she joined the show by paying for herself. Similarly, they didn’t invite Tian Rong, so why did she appear on the program?

Of course, it’s because she is paying for herself too!

As soon as the news broke, the entire internet was in an uproar!

【Tian Rong has gone crazy? Did she voluntarily participate in <Travel>? Doesn’t she know that her relationship with Chengyang is sensitive?】

【Isn’t it obvious? She’s just trying to generate buzz, create public opinion. Doesn’t everyone know how many endorsement deals she lost because of Yang Xiuyi’s incident? How many drinking events did she attend to please the capitalists? She even pushed several scripts because of those events. And now she’s deliberately approaching Su Chengyang, it’s really disgusting.】

【Help! Have you seen the water army’s Weibo? Someone actually said that Su Chengyang and Tian Rong have a good private relationship. Is she planning to hype up some sisterhood on the show and then wash herself clean?】

【Wouldn’t the Female Goose disagree? When Yang Xiuyi offered her a 500,000 hush fee, she didn’t agree, so how could she hype up some sisterhood with her?】

The online comments were endless. A senior gossip blogger posted a Weibo analyzing why Tian Rong would pay for herself to participate in a variety show. The content was similar to what Lin Yu said: either to hype up a sisterhood relationship with Su Chengyang or to play the victim and be isolated on the show, then take the opportunity to clear her name.

At the end of the Weibo, the blogger added a note saying, “You should know that I also need to earn a living, but I never take false orders or spread rumors. Everything I post on Weibo is true, so enjoy the show. And according to relevant staff, Tian Rong even injured Su Chengyang’s hand during filming.”

The blogger is a self-proclaimed expert, and followers have benefited from his expertise. Therefore, after he posted on Weibo, it caused quite a stir online.

There were even some netizens who carefully examined the trailer frame by frame and finally, from a brief shot of less than a second, spotted the bandage on Su Chengyang’s right hand.

Su Chengyang suspects that some of Lin Yu’s hired internet water army is mixed in, but the result is surprisingly good, and the topic is trending without much manipulation.

#Tian Rong’s whitewashing attempt failed#

#Su Chengyang’s finger injury#

#The dog-like couple get out of the entertainment circle#