Title: The Villain's Contract Lover
Translator: Fringe Capybara
Chapter 38 - An Abrupt Turn of Event (“Both her and her fox belong to me.”) (3)
Everybody knew that Chang XiaoYa and Xu WanZhi hadn't gotten along since the very first day. And most of the back-stabbing incidents were done by Chang XiaoYa, so nobody was surprised to hear that.
Chang XiaoYa paused for a second; clearly she hadn’t expected that Xu WanZhi would notice that it was her who took the pictures. But then, she thought to herself, so what if she knew? Xu WanZhi was well hated by most and didn’t have a lot of authority. Even if Xu WanZhi was to say something negative about her on Weibo, nobody would believe her. As such, Chang XiaoYa curved her lips again and mocked. “True. WanZhi-jie probably had never been that high up on the most trended searches before. No publicity is bad publicity, right?”
Xu WanZhi nodded and went along with what Chang XiaoYa had said, “You are most certainly right. This is just the beginning. We don’t know whether it is going to be good or bad publicity just yet.”
Xu WanZhi’s nonchalant mannerism baffled Chang XiaoYa. Even though Xu WanZhi had been scolded by the entire internet quite often since her debut, this time there was quite a bit of profanity in the comment section. It just wasn’t normal that she was so…. chill about all this.
Chang XiaoYa changed the direction of the conversation abruptly and dragged out Mu ZhenYu. “Well, as long as WanZhi-jie didn’t do anything wrong, I guess it didn’t matter that some of your pictures were posted… I wonder what Mr. Mu would say when he sees this trended search. You think what you have said about being by his side no matter what would still hold?”
Xu WanZhi cocked her head nonchalantly and smiled at her. “Who knows?”
Suddenly, her phone rang. She waved it in front of Chang XiaoYa and said, “I need to take this. Laters.”
It was Fang Lin who called her. Fang Lin’s very solemn voice came over the phone as soon as Xu WanZhi picked it up. “WanZhi, what’s with the trended search today? It was so sudden that it caught me off guard.”
Xu WanZhi was calmed and confident. “Nothing serious. All we need to do is to wait for Jiang YueXian’s response.”
Fang Lin didn’t follow and raised her voice. “Jiang YueXian? You meant to wait till he says something else to take a shot at us too? By then it’d be too late!”
“Don’t worry. Fang-jie. I got dirt on him. He won’t take a shot at all. Quite the contrary, he will clarify things for me and faceslap everybody else online.” Having said that, Xu WanZhi saw from a distance the director waving at everybody to get ready for filming. She stood up and said, “I need to start working. Don’t worry, Fang-jie. Just wait and see.”
She hung up the phone, straightened out her hair, and walked over to her spot in a charming and graceful manner.
Looking at her from afar, Chang XiaoYa balled her hands into fists.
By 10 AM that morning, Jiang YueXian finally spoke up. He even reposted Chang XiaoYa’s Weibo and called her out:
[Chang XiaoYa, this was not Miss Xu WanZhi trying to scam me. I hope you will learn the truth before you speak up and not encourage rumors. I reached out to Xu WanZhi last night to discuss some work matters. Miss Xu wasn’t trying to leech off of my popularity. Regardless of whether you are a fan of mine or just a bystander, I hope the attacks toward Miss Xu would cease immediately. Otherwise, I would assist Miss Xu in prosecutive the culprits unconditionally.]
The abrupt change of event caused the mouths of everyone who read the message to drop.
This was big.