Chapter 44 Violet "He's the one I'm keeping."...
The video was playing, cut off at the beginning and end, with a hissing static sound, but the conversation between Ji Jiazhen and Wen Siyu was exceptionally clear in the enclosed space.
"I wish everyone could see it."
"What do you see?"
"See, I'm your dog."
The thirteen-second video ends with her taking the initiative to kiss Wen Siyu.
Ji Jiazhen clicked on the comments section of the video, and a flood of speculations and sarcasm came into view, including many insults.
Some people speculated that Wen Siyu might be her boyfriend, but others disagreed, saying he didn't seem like a boyfriend, but more like a friend with benefits.
Some say she's quite the womanizer, and they suspect all those rumors about her in the past were true.
Some criticized her for being hypocritical, saying that she had previously boasted at the airport that she had no messy private life, and now she's got the evidence she asked for.
Her head was hot, her hands were cold, her thoughts were sluggish, and she felt as if she had fallen into an ice cellar. Her phone slipped from her hand, but Xu Yanning picked it up, put his arm around her shoulder, and said to contact the company's emergency public relations department first.
Ji Jiazhen looked bewildered, not understanding why this video existed.
It wouldn't matter if the photos were taken anywhere else, but she didn't understand why it had to be Wen Siyu's house.
The camera position was so good, and the location was so close together.
Why.
"Why aren't you saying anything? Is this question so difficult to answer?"
Wen Siyu's voice came from the phone.
The call between them continued, and he was still waiting for a reply on the other end of the line.
Ji Jiazhen's mind was in turmoil, with too many things she couldn't understand, yet it seemed that hearing his voice gave her some clarity. She met Xu Yanning's gaze, then her eyes slid back to her phone. She picked it up, held it to her ear, and spoke in a slightly trembling voice.
"What kind of relationship do you hope we will have?"
He was smiling.
"Boyfriend? Husband? I'm fine with either one, you choose."
Ji Jiazhen's chest heaved, her breaths grew heavier with each breath, and her eyes felt hot, but it was definitely not because she wanted to cry.
She took a deep breath and replied sternly, "I choose your grandpa!"
He then hung up the phone, still angry, and slammed his phone against the back of the passenger seat, where it fell to her feet.
Xu Yanning looked at her with a worried expression, "Calm down first, stabilize public opinion, and then investigate what exactly happened."
Ji Jiazhen told herself the same thing: don't be impulsive, don't act rashly, and don't lose your temper.
But I just can't calm down, I can't help but get angry.
He was the one who couldn't wait to text her asking to sleep with him, and he was also the one who suddenly wanted to play a trick and tie himself up with a rope.
She didn't believe that someone could install surveillance cameras or cameras in his house without his knowledge.
The most heated online discussion is whether the two of them are friends with benefits or lovers, and now he's asking them what their relationship is.
That's too much of a coincidence.
Wen Siyu was probably half-sobered up by her scolding, and the phone rang again.
Ji Jiazhen answered the call, not giving him a chance to speak, her voice cold: "Is this how you want a title?"
Even though he was completely bewildered, he knew something must have happened, and asked her, "What's going on?"
"Trying to force me to abdicate, huh? Wen Siyu, you've got guts."
Unable to suppress the fire in his heart, he shouted at the other end, "You fucking have guts!"
I hung up the phone and blocked his number.
As she did this, Xu Yanning whispered a reminder: "What if it's not him..."
She said coldly, "What if it's him?"
It's better to be wrong than to be wrongly believed.
What if it's him?
She went over those four words in her mind again and was startled to find her left hand trembling.
I'm afraid you'll regret it.
"I never regret the choices I've made."
As soon as she finished speaking, she blocked and deleted Wen Siyu's WeChat account.
*
Wen Siyu intercepted Ji Jiazhen downstairs at her house.
I'm still a bit drunk and have a headache, but I know I need to resolve things as soon as possible and clear up any misunderstandings quickly, because if it festers, it won't just be a misunderstanding anymore.
Ji Jiazhen was a little better off than him; he was also completely soaked in alcohol and was somewhat drunk.
Wen Siyu stood there watching her, struggling internally. He wanted to help her up, but then he remembered how she had just scolded him without explanation, and he was still a little angry. In the end, he couldn't resist the urge and walked towards her, pretending to be reserved as he only reached out to support her arm.
But he missed his target; Ji Jiazhen wouldn't let him touch her at all.
He got angry too. The more she tried to stop him from touching her, the more he wanted to get closer, grabbing her wrist, pulling her close, and holding her waist tightly.
"It wasn't me."
Ji Jiazhen was pinned down by him, and her anger flared up.
"open!"
He not only wouldn't let go, but also took a step forward, pressing his chest against hers.
"I don't know where the video came from."
She glared at him, "If you don't let go, this will be the last time we see each other."
Wen Siyu stubbornly met her gaze and repeated the same sentence: "It wasn't me."
After saying that, he released her and took a step back.
The first thing Ji Jiazhen did after breaking free of his restraints was to hit him.
She slapped him across the face; the irregularly patterned ring on her hand, with its sharp corner, cut a gash on his face.
Her hand was trembling a little after she hit him, but not wanting him to see it, she lowered her hand to her side and hid it behind her back.
Wen Siyu tilted his head, lowered his eyes, and remained silent, his face stinging and numb.
A strand of Ji Jiazhen's hair was blown across the tip of her nose by the wind. She reached out and brushed it aside, saying, "I won't believe a single word you say until you produce evidence."
“Ji Jiazhen, have some conscience.”
"Who doesn't have a conscience?"
"When something went wrong, the first thing they did wasn't to ask me, but to suspect me, yell at me, and curse at me. Ask yourself honestly, after all I've done, do I need to resort to such despicable means to gain recognition?"
He unlocked his phone and showed her the WeChat interface, where a bright red exclamation mark stood out.
"You didn't give me a chance to explain at all, and you blocked me before I even understood the situation. Fine, then I'll come find you and talk to you face to face, and this is the attitude you show. I said it wasn't me, but you didn't believe me; I said I didn't know, but you didn't believe me. I've been by your side for so long, and you're not even willing to give me the most basic trust."
He took a breath, his voice choked, and quickly wiped his eyes away as he met her gaze, his eyes weary.
"Is my sincerity worthless to you, or was all your talk of 'liking' a lie?"
Ji Jiazhen remained unmoved and continued to look at him coldly.
"Then find evidence, show me the evidence to prove that the video has nothing to do with you."
She paused for a moment, then pursed her lips.
"If you have it, then you should just die."
*
This is easy to solve. As long as Ji Jiazhen admits that they are in a romantic relationship and that Wen Siyu is her boyfriend, then no amount of online speculation will matter. But the problem is that if Wen Siyu orchestrated this, then his goal is to let everyone know that they are a couple, and Ji Jiazhen's admission would fulfill his wish.
She didn't want to.
So she didn't respond for a long time. The company contacted her several times but she didn't give an answer. Even Duan Qiyin asked her how to handle it, whether to admit it or clarify it.
In her frantic state, she didn't forget to curse, "You're sick! How can you admit it without even understanding the situation? Clarifying it only confirms that you two are friends with benefits."
The trending topic was indeed removed, and it's obvious that Wen Siyu was behind it. However, the video had been up there for so long that it had already been saved and circulated on countless phones.
Uncovering Wen Siyu's identity is not difficult, or even necessary, since he was trending on social media three years ago. His face is not unfamiliar now, and many people recognize him.
His name once again topped the trending searches, still linked to Ji Jiazhen.
Someone dug up information from three years ago and found that the timeline matched perfectly: Wen Siyu's car accident occurred around the same time that Ji Jiazhen was embroiled in a scandal.
They guessed that the two knew each other back then, and even wondered if Wen Siyu's car accident was related to Ji Jiazhen.
Ji Jiazhen felt like she was seeing a ghost. She herself had only found out not long ago, and they had guessed it correctly.
When people online saw that she wasn't responding, they assumed she was guilty and tacitly admitted it. Their speculations became increasingly outrageous, until finally, they drew a definitive conclusion:
The real benefactor was someone else; Ji Jiazhen and Wen Siyu were in a sugar daddy/sugar baby relationship.
The key point is that a lot of people believed it and thought it made sense.
Ji Jiazhen was so angry she wanted to kill someone, and smashed a vase in front of Fang Wei at home.
She's both a sugar daddy and a sugar mommy.
Anyway, no one believes she got to where she is today because of herself; they all think she got there because of men, right?
Ignoring the relationship between Fang Wei and Wen Siyu, she asked Fang Wei, "Look at that video, who looks like the sugar daddy, me or him?"
She thought these people were all blind. What kind of sugar daddy would call a canary a dog? No matter how you look at this video, Wen Siyu looks like the one being kept!
Fang Wei pointed at her and said, "You look like her."
Ji Jiazhen nodded, she was really angry. After smashing the vase, she started typing and replied to the message that Wen Siyu was her sugar daddy.
"He's the one I'm keeping."
After she finished typing, she showed the screen to Fang Wei.
Fang Wei raised an eyebrow after reading it, thinking that this response might be a good idea.
"Send it."
Okay, she sent it, and she did feel much better the moment she sent it.
That comment quickly became a trending topic, and around the same time, she received a text message from an unknown number.
Please, take me in as your sugar daddy/sugar baby.
It was sent by Wen Siyu.
They had just had a fight, and he was already texting her like nothing had happened.
Instead of looking for evidence to exonerate himself or investigating how the video was leaked, he had the leisure to send her this text message.
What's most baffling is that he actually let the trending topic about his identity remain unaddressed and allowed it to remain there.
This puzzled her.
This confusion lasted until 9 p.m., when it was dispelled by a newly trending topic. After that topic appeared, the discussion about her dropped by more than half, but Wen Siyu's name was still on it, sparking a new wave of more intense discussions.
The trending topic was:
#Wen Siyu Mengxu's son#
Ji Jiazhen had been with Fang Wei the whole time, so she saw it, and Fang Wei saw it too.
All day long, Fang Wei didn't say a word for Wen Siyu, or even mention his name. She remained as calm as ever, as if the whole thing was a low-level joke to her.
Her expression changed when this trending topic appeared.
For over twenty years, no one has doubted that Wen Siyu is Meng Xu's son, yet today he suddenly became a trending topic without any warning, and there wasn't even a hint of it before he became a trending topic.
However, the unpredictable nature of the internet gave them no chance to react. Before they could even address this issue, another trending topic shot to the top of the list.
#Mengxu has passed away#
Ji Jiazhen looked solemn as he examined the images and text evidence trending on social media, the ever-increasing popularity of the topic, and the shock of everyone involved in the discussion.
Every trending topic today carries a sense of momentum, and their relationships are too progressive, as if there is a mastermind controlling everything behind the scenes.
This idea made Ji Jiazhen frown.
It was only then that she truly realized that the trending topic about her and Wen Siyu was just the fuse; she was merely a decoy, a tool used to attract attention.
If someone did this intentionally, then they were targeting Meng Xu.
But Meng Xu has been dead for over twenty years, so there's no reason to target her.
Targeting Meng Xu will only make the two of them angry and upset.
Fang Wei and Wen Siyu.
If their target is both of them.
So, who is TA?
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Author's Note: I have to go on a business trip unexpectedly, so the promised extra chapter for 1000 nutrient solution will be posted tomorrow night.
Thank you to every baby who watered the butterfly with nutrient solution^^
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