After Being Blackened All Over the Internet, I Ruled the Military Variety Shows
Chapter 322: Don’t Mess With Me

Chapter 322: Chapter 322: Don’t Mess With Me

Lu Zhengzheng was anxiously pacing around, "It’s clearly some shady deal between Jing Huai and Xu Qingmei, if anything were to be exposed, it should be about them. But somehow a bunch of brainless fans just happened to connect you and Jing Huai just because you’re from the same company, claiming that the reason it wasn’t public before was that Xixi, your fame isn’t as big as Jing Huai’s. They say Jing Huai wanted to protect you. Now they think, since your status is rising, you two decided to make it public. Ugh, I really don’t know what’s wrong with their logic!"

"Now that Jing Huai’s brainless fans have pretty much been swayed, what are you going to do, Xixi? No way, I’m going to call Sister Tong, she might not know about this yet!"

Jiang Lingxi took the phone from Lu Zhengzheng’s hand and immediately saw that it was trending third on the hot search list.

#Popular Costume Drama Star’s Relationship Exposed, Involves Jiang Lingxi from the Same Company#

A blazing red ’Explosive’ tag was appended at the end.

With a calm face, she tapped on it, seeing the topic reading count approaching ten million, with thousands of discussions already.

The first thought that crossed her mind: The data is abnormal!

Not to mention her, she’s only currently filming "Empress of the Yuan Dynasty," and her latest public appearance was in "Inheritance · Go," which mostly attracts viewers interested in Go.

She shouldn’t be generating this much buzz online.

Let’s talk about Jing Huai. Even though he’s more famous than her, he’s only a second-tier actor at best, far from reaching first-tier or top stream status.

For the two of them to be tied together, having this kind of news could’ve barely scraped a spot in the hot search by the end of a night, yet now it’s ranked in the top three!

Isn’t this a bit too over the top?

Tong Yue, who lived on the same floor, was urgently dragged over by Lu Zhengzheng. After browsing on her phone for almost ten minutes, she finally spoke up, her face gloomy, "Someone is targeting us!"

Jiang Lingxi met her gaze and nodded lightly.

Just so, she thought the same.

Lu Zhengzheng looked from one to the other and ruffled her hair into a mess, "Then, who could it be? Doing such a despicable thing!"

"Took one night to push this hot search to third place, with ten million reads and thousands of comments," Jiang Lingxi tapped the sofa armrest with her fingers, "they surely spent a fortune."

Tong Yue nodded in agreement instinctively and then glared at her, "Don’t take this lightly this time. Jing Huai’s fans are pretty fierce, many of them are impulsive minors. There was an actress once who was accidentally filmed in a scene with him, and his fans threw a water bottle at her. I will apply for two bodyguard-type assistants for you; you can’t refuse this time. We’ll discuss after this is over."

Jiang Lingxi had no choice but to swallow her words of refusal.

"But what does Xu Qingmei really want out of this?"

Seeing Tong Yue frowning and unable to figure it out, Jiang Lingxi shared her guess, "Yesterday, Zhengzheng and An’an accidentally overheard Jing Huai and Xu Qingmei’s phone call. We know they have tendencies to fall out with each other. Maybe after yesterday, the two actually fell out like we guessed."

"Xu Qingmei might want to completely disassociate herself from Jing Huai and drag me down with her, so she achieves two goals at once."

Tong Yue couldn’t help but nod after listening, "Thinking about it like this, it makes sense. When did your analytical skills become so sharp?"

"When Zhengzheng went to get you just now."

Actually, once you have a suspect, tracing it back, a simple scheme like this doesn’t require much brainpower for her.

Hearing her name, Lu Zhengzheng just snapped out of her confusion, "Sister Tong, Sister Xixi, so the hot search thing is Xu Qingmei’s doing?"

"Thinking about it, she’s probably the only one with such wide connections to make everyone believe in such a non-existent matter overnight." Tong Yue sighed, "I planned on guarding against her targeting you, but she still caught us by surprise with this!"

"For her, it’s a good opportunity. She wants to completely break away from Jing Huai, and just right I am the only other actor from the same company on the same show with Jing Huai among seven guests; there are too many articles to write on this."

Tong Yue, lowering her eyes, noticed Jiang Lingxi’s calm and even slightly sneering expression, and was taken aback.

She had rushed over with Lu Zhengzheng, fearing her artist might do something impulsively upon discovering she was suddenly trending for being in a relationship.

What she didn’t expect was to find a calmer Jiang Lingxi than herself, analyzing the behind-the-scenes manipulation as if talking about someone else’s issue.

She couldn’t help but regain her composure, "Let’s not talk about other things for now; the main thing is we need to make a statement first."

"I already made a statement."

"Huh?"

Tong Yue took the phone Jiang Lingxi handed her and saw a post already published a few minutes ago on her artist’s account.

[#Popular Costume Drama Star’s Relationship Exposed, Involves Jiang Lingxi from the Same Company# Ridiculous!]

Attached below was an image, a recently popular meme, ’Don’t Mess with Me’!

Tong Yue couldn’t help but tug at the corner of her mouth, commenting, "This statement is not bad!"

Because the hot search was booming, the post got a lot of hits right after being published, and every refresh showed an increasing number of comments.

Tong Yue hesitated, about to check out netizens’ reactions to this post, when her phone rang first.

She glanced at the caller ID, "Xiao Xi, it’s your brother." Saying this, she handed the phone back to Jiang Lingxi, then took out her own phone.

Jiang Lingxi remained on the sofa, directly answering the call and wisely holding the phone a little further.

Jiang Lingxu’s loud voice was clear enough even without the speaker on, "What’s going on, Sis? Why am I seeing news on the hot search that you’re in a relationship with a company actor? Brother-in-law is such a nice guy; you can’t do this to him."

"I looked up that Jing Huai guy’s photo, and he’s just like that. Doesn’t compare to brother-in-law at all, not in looks, not in physique, and not in aura. Sis, what did you see in him?"

"Sis, sis? Why aren’t you talking; your silence is making me anxious!"

Jiang Lingxi couldn’t help but take a deep breath, swearing she wasn’t as emotional when she saw the hot search as she is now, purely frustrated by her silly brother.

"Did you give me a moment to speak? If you had spent time checking my latest post, you wouldn’t need to waste so much hot air. Okay, you’re dismissed!"

After finishing, she hung up decisively.

"Don’t hold it in, laugh!"

After all, she was nearly amused to tears.

Lu Zhengzheng couldn’t help chuckling while watching Jiang Lingxi, who finally had some annoyance on her face, "Sister Xixi, it seems Xiao Xu is quite attentive to you; he knew about this first thing in the morning and called you immediately."

"What’s going on?"

The three of them in the living room turned back, seeing Xu Ling’an standing at the bedroom door, with two red marks on his face from sleeping.