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Chapter 57: News

Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

However, Jiang Se wanted to leave after the policemen departed.

Nie Dan's hand was raised in the air and he wanted to run after her, but Pei Yi held him back. "Call someone to pick us up!"

"Brother Yi, wait...wait up…"

The more he struggled, the harder Pei Yi restrained him. He glanced at Jiang Se's back and was reminded about the day he had a fight with Feng Nan. His eyes darkened and he looked away.

Jiang Se got a call from Dai Jia shortly after she left Ruiji Hotel.

"Are you alright?" Dai Jia asked directly.

Dai Jia might not be the only one who could guess why Yao Xiang had been in the same elevator as Jiang Se. Perhaps most of the crew members who knew about Yao Xiang's character could take a stab at the truth.

Alas for Yao Xiang, not only did he not get his way, but he was beaten up as well.

When Dai Jia saw the sorry state he was in when he was carried onto the ambulance, she could not hold back her laughter, even now.

"I'm fine." The water stain on her dress had not dried up yet. She instinctively held her knitted cardigan with one hand when she heard Dai Jia speaking into the phone.

"You should be careful of Yao Xiang when he's discharged. He might get you into trouble."

Jiang Se chuckled. "Don't worry." She had been there when Pei Yi hit him, so she knew how hard Pei Yi could hit another person.

He had been filled with rage when he hit Yao Xiang, and he did not hold back. When Yao Xiang was carried onto the ambulance, he was not in a good state. Although he would not die from this incident, she reckoned that he would be hospitalized for quite some time.

Moreover, since he had offended Pei Yi, he might not even be able to establish his career in the imperial capital anymore.

Jiang Se had expected this outcome when she came up with this escape plan. Yao Xiang had his eyes on her. A petty man like him was a troublesome person to deal with. She knew that it would be best for her to think of some way to take care of him once and for all.

When she thought about Pei Yi, she stopped in her tracks despite herself, but she did not turn around.

What kind of relationship would they be in now? She was no longer Feng Nan. They had been so close together before. Sadly, he did not even recognize her although they were in such close quarters.

Therefore, when Nie Dan took care of the incident, she turned around and left. After all, she would just be a stranger even if she stayed behind. She would have nothing to say to him.

There was something different about her tone and this did not escape Dai Jia's ears. However, she merely thought that this was a result of the shock she was in after tonight's incident. She offered her some consoling words and decided not to bother her any further. Then, she ended the call.

It was nearly 10 o'clock at night when Jiang Se returned to her rented house. The first thing she did was take a shower. When she was toweling her hair dry, she hesitated slightly before switching on the computer.

She had been staying on campus lately, and there were no computers available there, so she was completely oblivious about the happenings of the outside world. She wanted to search for anything about Feng Nan and the Jianghua Group.

To Jiang Se's surprise, when she opened the webpage, she was greeted with news of the fight in Ruiji Hotel tonight from various major media outlets.

She clicked on one of the links at random. The headlines read: "A mysterious man lashes out for love. Famous producer loses his teeth in an elevator scuffle." There were several photos accompanying the article, including photos of Yao Xiang being carried onto the ambulance.

Jiang Se scrolled further down and saw another blurred photo. The media had circled a person in red and labeled him as the "mysterious man". The man's flashy blonde hair was discernible through the blurred photo, but Pei Yi's face could not be seen. Jiang Se sighed with relief at this.

These reporters truly had remarkable abilities. When she left Ruiji Hotel, they were clearly kept at bay outside the hotel. However, the news had made it online by the time she got back home.

It read: "At seven o'clock tonight, a fight broke out in Ruiji Hotel. The alleged victim was a famous film producer. Sources say that 'Pretense to Reality', the film directed by Gu Jiaer, has finished filming. The production team held a party in celebration of this at Ruiji Hotel…"

Up to this point, the news article did not stray much from the truth. However, the writer began entertaining his own fanciful imaginations after this.

"The producer was hospitalized after suffering a heavy beating from the assailant. His fate is yet to be determined. The assailant is a mystery man who is believed to have acted wildly out of love."

When Jiang Se read this, her lips twitched. She scrolled down further.

"When the fight broke out, the girl at the scene is believed to be a member of the 'Pretense to Reality' cast. She's believed to be the mystery man's lover. Tianyi Entertainment will continue to follow this matter and keep our readers updated on any latest information."

Jiang Se did not know what to make of what she had just read.

She opened several other webpages. The articles they published were similar to the one posted by Tianyi Entertainment. Most of them guessed that the man had "acted wildly out of love" and seriously injured the producer Yao Xiang in a fit of anger.

This matter was getting out of hand. The netizens were having heated discussions about this on various portals. This news was pinned to the top of the entertainment news headlines. Its popularity skyrocketed. Many guessed Pei Yi's identity. There were also those who wondered about the identity of the lady for whom he had acted so wildly for.

Many of the actresses of the cast had issued public statements to vaguely deny that they were directly involved in this incident.

On Weibo, the keywords "Pretense to Reality", "Ruiji Hotel", and "producer beaten up" were the hottest right now.

The netizens were speculating about the truth of the matter. Some of them commented jokingly: [I don't want to care about the condition of the producer who's been beaten up. I'm more interested in the identity of the actress who made the guy fight for her. I wonder how she looks like.]

This single statement sparked a flurry of conversation. The curiosity of many other netizens was piqued, and they offered their guesses.

On Weibo, a user called "Thousand Catties Roof" wrote his analysis in a comment.

[I guess that the actress must've been beautiful for the two men to fight over her. Currently, among the list of actresses involved in "Pretense to Reality", the female lead, Zhao Ruoyun, and the supporting actress, Xue Danying, have issued statements denying that they were involved in this. I've gone through the remaining names on the list and searched for each and every one of them. There were only three actresses who fulfill such a criterion. One of them is a new actress who has just debuted this year, Zhou Yihuan. Another actress is a rising star, Huang Xiaoyou, who belongs to the same talent management company as Zhao Ruoyun, Huaxing. The final candidate is the new actress Guo Ruiqi, promoted by Jiayi Workshop.]

[Among these three, Zhou Yihuan is the most beautiful. Her company is packaging her as a refreshing female star. Forgive me for being blunt, but I don't think that she's at a level to be a source of calamity. I'm sure that the actress involved in this incident is another person. If she's from the "Pretense to Reality" cast, she must be playing one of the minor roles in the film, one whose actress hadn't been decided on in the early stages. I'm convinced that she joined the cast halfway through the production.]

[I'm looking forward to Director Gu's latest film, "Pretense to Reality", now. When it premieres, I want to see for myself if the production team has been hiding a beauty from us.]

Other users on Weibo either praised Thousand Catty Roof's lengthy analysis or said that his comment was a load of nonsense. There was another lengthy discourse between the supporters and the naysayers, but most of the other netizens agreed that they would also like to find out if the production team had been hiding a beauty from them when the film premiered.

To Gu Jiaer, this was the silver lining in this entire affair.


Chapter 58: Headlines

Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Although this could have turned out to be a scandalous event that affected the film's reputation right when the production was completed, it was fortunate that the media had put their own twist on things and there had been no mention about Yao Xiang's attempted vile act. Therefore, the production team was not overly affected by this.

On the contrary, the people grew more curious about Jiang Se as the days went by. Gu Jiaer's Weibo page was bombarded with comments asking him about the truth behind the incident.

Jiang Se noticed that Gu Jiaer did update his Weibo, but he did not address the netizens' questions directly. This made them all the more curious about the matter.

Somebody asked if the production team had been hiding an actress whose beauty surpassed Zhao Ruoyun's. He merely posted a smiling emoji and replied, "You'll find out in the cinemas."

Naturally, this comment stirred more netizens into restlessness. They pestered him with questions asking if "Pretense to Reality" would be aired during the summer vacation next year.

Naturally, many of Zhao Ruoyun's fans were convinced that this was merely a publicity stunt the production team pulled. They would not believe that there was another actress who was more beautiful than Zhao Ruoyun.

Jiang Se scrolled through the comments for a while longer. She found that the incident was not dying down at all. In fact, it seemed to be picking up heat.

Many curious netizens started guessing about the alleged victim, producer Yao Xiang's identity. Some of the reporters even sneaked into the hospital and tried to interview some of the doctors there.

Yao Xiang was in bad shape. His rib bones were broken, and he showed signs of concussion. He would have to be hospitalized and observed for now.

Although things were quite serious, Jiang Se was not worried. It was too easy for the Pei family to make this go away with their resources.

When she looked at the time, it was already eleven. She switched off her computer, blew dry her hair, and went to bed. When she reached for her phone to switch it off, her old phone rang.

It was a member of the "Pretense to Reality" production team. The crew member was vaguely trying to find out about Pei Yi and Nie Dan's identities from her.

News reports about this incident were getting serious online. The production team must have been worried that things might take a turn for the worse for them, so they were trying to get their stories straight even if they had to work through the night.

However, the production team had no way of establishing the identities of the assailants. When the production team reached out to the hotel management to request the security camera footage, the latter had told them that the police had taken the footage away.

Gu Jiaer had been in the industry for many years. Naturally, he had his connections. On top of that, the production team did not want to let the entire incident blow up in their face. Therefore, they were coming up with a plan to retrieve the footage.

However, the police seemed to be under pressure by someone else. Gu Jiaer and the major investors of "Pretense to Reality" production team tried everything they could, yet they could not get their hands on the footage.

By this time, the production team could naturally guess that Pei Yi and Nie Dan, the duo who beat Yao Xiang up, had come from unordinary backgrounds.

When the crew member could get nothing out of Jiang Se, he had no choice but to let the matter go. At the end of the call, he vaguely instructed her to not contact any entertainment media outlets to hype this up. He told her to wait for this matter to die down.

In truth, the crew member who made the call did not think that Jiang Se would agree to this request before he brought it up.

After all, Jiang Se needed to be the topic of the day's conversation and maintain some degree of popularity if she wanted to enter the entertainment industry.

Now that the incident was hyped up with various major entertainment news outlets writing about it, the production team was not sure that Jiang Se would let this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity slip through her fingers.

To his surprise, the words had barely left his mouth when Jiang Se agreed to his request. He had not even begun to persuade her.

"I know what to do."

This outcome surprised the person on the other end of the phone call very much. After a moment of stunned silence, the crew member seemed to have difficulty in believing what he had just heard. He asked her again, "Miss Jiang, are you sure?"

Jiang Se replied surely, "Yes, I am." Although she wanted to enter the entertainment industry, she had never thought of shooting to fame with a method such as hyping up an incident.

Moreover, the Pei family would be doing all they could to make this matter go away as quickly as possible. Even if she wanted to hype this up, she might not be able to.

If she was not reasonable about this, she would easily offend the production team and end up in Gu Jiaer's bad books. Instead, if she behaved herself this time, she might be able to gain something in the future.

After Jiang Se gave a definite answer, there was some noise from the receiver. Jiang Se could vaguely tell that the crew member had covered the microphone on his end and was talking to someone else.

Sometime later, the crew member spoke into the phone again.

"Miss Jiang, sorry for the wait. Director Gu is grateful for your cooperation. Director Lin Xiwen is preparing for an upcoming movie. He's a friend of Director Gu's. They've discussed the matter briefly before this and he thinks that there's a role that suits you very well." It was clear that the production was returning her favor of cooperating with the production team's request, and they were now recommending her for an audition of their own accord.

"I'll give you the number. Just call it tomorrow to inquire about the audition."

Jiang Se grunted in reply. The crew member read the number and had Jiang Se repeat it. When he confirmed that she had gotten the correct number, he ended the call.

Jiang Se proceeded to save the number into her phone. She had just pressed the first few numbers when her phone rang, interrupting her actions.

She quickly rejected the call.

Her phone was an old model, so when she rejected the call, the numbers that she had just typed were not saved. She retyped the numbers, and before she could save it, the rejected caller made another attempt to contact her.

Jiang Se rejected the call again. She wanted to retype the phone number again. This time, the caller was quicker. With a sigh, she got off her bed to look for her pen. She scribbled the phone number down on a piece of paper and accepted the call.

"Jiang Se!" came the caller's voice through gritted teeth. Jiang Se searched her memory for a long time before remembering Nie Dan, the person who had been beside Pei Yi.

He had been Pei Yi's accomplice in beating Yao Xiang up. She guessed that he was calling her to deal with the aftermath.

"Speak." She returned to her bed.

On the other end of the phone, Nie Dan paused before asking, "Aren't you going to ask who I am?"

"You're the one who beat the guy up in the elevator just now."

Jiang Se's answer made Nie Dan touch his own nose. He turned and glanced at Pei Yi who was seated beside him. "Brother Yi, the girl's smart."

Pei Yi said nothing.

It was almost as Jiang Se had expected. Pei Yi was responsible for beating the person up while Nie Dan was responsible for dealing with the aftermath. He had called her to tell her not to stand out before the media for the time being.

Unlike the production team who called her to discuss this, his words were more of a notice than anything else.

Jiang Se knew about Nie Dan's background. However, when Nie Dan saw her in the past, he had always been polite and reverent. He never put on this arrogant air before her. Nie Dan hung up after saying what he wanted to say.

Nie Dan had originally invited his friends to gather at Ruiji Hotel tonight. However, due to the incident whereby Pei Yi beat someone up, they naturally changed the location of their gathering.

Cheng Runing was among those invited to the gathering. Perhaps because Pei Yi had vented his anger onto Yao Xiang, Cheng Runing sat in fear and trepidation for a long time and was not hit by Pei Yi yet.


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