Chapter 63: Trouble
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
The two of them quickly took out their phones and started looking at the trending topics. Indeed, the direction of public opinion had changed.
First, a veteran blogger in the entertainment industry posted on Weibo: [Chu Mei’s child might be related to the company’s CEO?]
Then, there were many photos of Chu Mei and Gao Shan attending the banquet together.
The netizens didn’t care about the relationship between Gao Shan and Chu Mei at all. Instead, they started to dig up dirt on Gao Shan. He had been married to the eldest daughter of the Li family, Li Ran, for many years. School romance and other hashtags appeared on Weibo.
Hence, the topic changed from Chu Mei to Gao Shan and finally to the Li family.
[The Li family? The family of the munic.i.p.al secretary?]
[So the officials and businessmen are colluding? The family of an official can’t be involved in the business world, so Li Ran married a businessman-]
[Is there anyone who can investigate the Li family?!]
The Li family was in the political world, so it wasn’t a good thing for them to attract too much public attention.
Therefore, the Li family also had paid posters to try to control the comments, but it was completely useless. Instead, the topic became increasingly debated.
Shi Lu’s mind raced, and he finally realized the purpose of this conspiracy.
This mastermind wanted the Shi family to break off ties with the Li family!
The Li family’s mistress would ensure that the Shi family was slandered and the Shi family, who was completely out of the loop, would be dragged into the mess. After Yuan Shu forced Chu Mei to clarify, the Li family would receive more attention and the Li family would definitely think that Yuan Shu was helping the Shi family.
Shi Lu himself was the most important part of this plan! He was a member of the Shi family, so this ensured that the Shi family wouldn’t stay out of it! “d.a.m.n it!” Shi Lu gritted his teeth. This person was really sinister!
It would have been fine if Shi Lu had made up his mind and left the production team, but now, he couldn’t figure out what the mastermind’s plan was. If there were more tricks waiting for them, they would be at a disadvantage.
“No, I can’t be led by the nose.” Shi Lu decided that the first thing to do now was to make that person’s plan impossible to carry out. Then, he would lure the snake out of its hole and turn the situation around.
With this thought in mind, Shi Lu wanted to call Chu Mei to stop her from holding today’s press conference.
However, at this moment, Chen Sheng had already brought the makeup team in. He didn’t give Shi Lu and Zhang Chao a chance to speak at all. As if he was monitoring him, he explained the script to him and instructed the makeup artist on how to achieve the makeup effect he wanted.
As soon as he finished putting on makeup, Shi Lu was dragged to the set by Chen Sheng. During the entire process, they didn’t even give him a chance to look at Zhang Chao.
Shi Lu was angry, so he wasn’t very engrossed in acting and kept getting NGs. Zhang Chao could tell that he was anxious and went to tell Chen Sheng to let Shi Lu rest, but Chen Sheng rejected him with the excuse of delaying the production team’s progress.
When it was almost noon, Shi Lu still didn’t achieve the effect Chen Sheng wanted. Shi Lu knew that he must have done it on purpose. Even if he was immersed in the role, Chen Sheng wouldn’t let him deal with the problem before the press conference started.
During the last part of this scene, Shi Lu slammed himself against a pillar at the side.
Coincidentally, there was a crack on the pillar. The edge was very sharp, and Shi Lu was quite strong. With this collision, his clothes were torn and his arm was cut. Blood flowed out.
When Zhang Chao saw this, he immediately understood and rushed forward to hug Shi Lu as he shouted at Chen Sheng, “If you don’t want this to appear in the headlines, send Shen Lu to go to the hospital and bandage him up!”
Chen Sheng didn’t expect this pampered young master to be so ruthless as to hurt himself in order to escape. A ruthless look flashed across his eyes, but no matter how angry he was, he could only give up and reluctantly let the production team end work.
On the way to the hospital, Shi Lu called Chu Mei and told her not to say anything.
Based on Chu Mei’s reaction when he saw her, he guessed that Chu Mei was only being used. The main reason was that the mastermind was so scheming that he definitely wouldn’t use a stupid person like Chu Mei.
Moreover, Chu Mei was pregnant with a child now, so she definitely wouldn’t be willing to be discarded just like that. Now was a good time to make use of her..