“Wait a minute…” The person at the other end of the phone heard Liang Ge's words and was suddenly distracted. “Why are you talking about Shi Xue? Don’t tell me you didn't see what's on the Internet?”
Hearing this sentence, Liang Ge obviously felt something was amiss. He hurriedly hung up the phone, and then went on Weibo.
Seven of the top ten Weibo hot searches were about 《Three-Day Challenge》's Ye Shaohua.
Originally, with Bai Ran, the program's popularity was not low. The spectators were almost all here to look at him. At the beginning, the official blog was full of scoldings. The most popular comments were also ones scolding Ye Shaohua, that person.
Once the program reached about one third of its runtime, that person who wrote the number one most popular comment came back to comment a sentence.
“Sorry, my face is swollen. I'm a bit skeptical about the rumors online about her entering by the back door, our family's little Shaohua is obviously so handsome and so beautiful! Obviously she would mix well with Bai Ran. Why can't I stop looking at her when she is standing right next to my Male God?!”
“In this lifetime, I was actually able to see bashfulness on my male god Bai's face?! WTF? I have no choice but to say that you, Ye Shaohua, are f***ing beautiful!”
“Is this really Ye Shaohua? Is D language really slipping out of her mouth better than when I, this D language expert, speak it?…”
“Repair a car?! Goodness her, she could even repair a car?1 Not only the fact that she is this skilled is obvious, she also didn't expose it. Ye Shaohua, you tell me, in this world, what can you not do?!”
“You all step aside! Foggy grass2, Ye Shaohua's handsomeness is taking me over? Foggy grass, I am a girl, all alone, looking at her screen with a perverted face, what should I say?!”
“You’re not alone……”
“+2”
“…”
In the first 20 minutes of the show, the popular Weibos were still about the "Rising newcomer, the little morning flower3 Shi Xue", and all of the other popular weibo searches were dominated by Ye Shaohua, and the popular 123456 places all went to her, it was all her!
It was all her!
008 had no choice but to sigh, Ye Shaohua was Ye Shaohua.
Occasionally, passers-bys said, “Isn't this too exaggerated? Aren't you embarrassed to buy so many hot search?”
But when they clicked into the program, each of them came back after watching it. "I am sorry, my face is swollen. Upstairs, let me recover some face…”
Although there was black powder, there was no doubt that at this time, all the people on the whole network were discussing the《Three Days Challenge》's Ye Shaohua..
Of course, there were also discussions about Shi Xue, but most of them were comparing her to Ye Shaohua. At the time, the three-person group separated because Ye Shaohua disbanded it. Most people stated that once Shi Xue left Ye Shaohua, this blackening system, she would be able to go very far.
But now, a part of the netizens started questioning this statement.
After all, these two person worked together as teammates, and more coincidentally, in order to gain more heat, Liang Ge chose the two person to appear in different variety shows at the same time.
Originally, it was for the sake increasing the hype for Shi Xue's “Rising newcomer, little morning flower” title, and Shi Xue's performance was indeed pretty good.
If there was no Ye Shaohua, constructing her public persona would have been successful. But now a Ye Shaohua withdrawn from worldly affairs was filling the atmosphere. Even the reserved and full of self-control Bai Ran couldn't help but forward(@) her official weibo account, let alone those netizens.
Compared with Ye Shaohua, Shi Xue really had no advantage.
Hanging at the seventh place, her Rising newcomer, little morning flower hot search instead…. Looked even more awkward and ridiculous.
Upstairs, Shi Xue and her assistant also sobered up seeing the netizens criticizing her appearance with not one good point.
This was the first time for her, who had always rode the wind and the current, to be spoken of this way by people. Feeling wronged, she stood up in an instant.
“Xue-er, Ye Shaohua is bullying too much!” The assistant was so angry that she wanted to smash the phone. “Just because she has money, she can buy the hot search to blacken you? And there is also Young Master Qi too, obviously you have more potential compared to her, but he let that 'going through the back door' person cooperate with Bai Ran. At least they should be fair and just, right?”
After hearing this sentence, Shi Xue's face also turned white. "Shao… Shaohua can can have it today, I am also very happy."
“You are really stupid ba!” The assistant looked at the Shi Xue and sighed. This child was too simple. “Xue-er, you listen to me, these things can’t be let alone like this…”
Shi Xue bowed her head, there were glistening teardrops in her eyes.
She held her mobile phone and felt that she was very very very wronged. She knew of Ye Shaohua's strength, and Ye Shaohua was basically not her equal. It was impossible for her program to have such a big effect.
After a long while, she wrote a text message to Qi Zihua —— 【Is this society like this? After working hard for so long, I'm not as good as other people throwing money? 】
In the parking lot, they finally saw this scene on Weibo.
Liang Ge looked at Qi Zihua with some disbelief. “Chief Qi, did you buy hot searches for Ye Shaohua?”
Qi Zihua looked at the program on his mobile phone with a profound gaze.
The Ye Shaohua he saw on the screen was completely different from Ye Shaohua he knew, who could only resolve things with money. Even he couldn’t help but put his gaze on her.
It was at this time that Shi Xue's text message arrived.
He put on a clear expression and suddenly raised his head. “The activity on Weibo, is it what you made?”
Ye Shaohua was originally getting on her car when she heard this sentence, she could not help but slant her head.
Looking at Qi Zihua, “Yes ah, my dad bought me the hot searches. What, you allowed hyping Shi Xue's show, but you don't allow my dad to buy me hot searches?”
In reality, part of these hot searches were bought by He Muyun, but most of them were hyped by the netizens themselves.
Her ah, Ye Shaohua ah.
Originally, even if she just put on glasses, she could dominate the lead stories of the whole network. There was no need to buy hot searches.
“You are arguing that I have given you too little resources?” Qi Zihua sneered when he heard Ye Shaohua's words. “You, don’t forget. At that time you could join our company only because of Shi Xue. After me signing you, you now feel like forgetting favors and violating justice4?”
“Zihua, you are my boyfriend.” Ye Shaohua looked at Qi Zihua deeply. Her eyes were excessively penetrating and her voice was very undisturbed.
Upon hearing this sentence, Qi Zihua reacted. It turned out that Ye Shaohua was trying to stimulate him.
Having seen a lot of women’s plans on him, Qi Zihua naturally thought that Ye Shaohua’s intention was to draw his attention.
Qi Zihua had always hated these plans and looked at her impatiently. “Ye Shaohua, I have already told you that Shi Xue has potential. She doesn’t have a rich father like you, so the company treats her well like this. Do you know, your appearance of being jealous and fussing over minor matters like this, is especially ugly.”
Footnotes
1. 修车？！神吧她，连修车都会？而且还这么熟练明显就不是摆姿势。↩
2. wo cao = f*** ↩
3. it's written huadan = role of vivacious young female in Chinese opera, which also mean morning flower, I'm not sure which one is the right title, it will probably come to light in the next chapters↩
4. Ingratitude to a friend / to kick a benefactor in the teeth ↩
Translator note
Happy new year!