Chapter 540 Hundred Billion Subsidy "I've said it a hundred times, no, none, no, zero, does not exist."
Shang Yechu's eyes were lifeless, his expression blank, and his tongue had become numb from repeating himself over and over again.
“Take a good look for yourself,” Shang Yechu said weakly, dragging the mouse to freeze the most popular “relationship timeline” on the trending search list at a certain second. “Isn’t that Xiao Luo from our company in that photo at three minutes and five seconds?”
Ji Juntao asked with some skepticism on the other end of the video call, "Is Xiao Luo really that strong?"
Shang Yechu said angrily, "This picture is from Ye Ya's candid shot, so of course I have to Photoshop it to make my figure look better. Ye Ya is kind-hearted, so she also Photoshopped Xiao Luo to look more muscular, so that his fans wouldn't be disappointed by seeing a skinny guy like him. Is it wrong to help the company's idol maintain his image?"
“And this, this, this,” Shang Yechu paused again at several points, “Isn’t that half-shoulder in this picture Sister Liu’s? Have you forgotten Sister Liu’s ugly suit?”
"I just went downstairs to buy food and met some fans. I just signed autographs for them. How did it turn into me holding hands intimately with a mysterious man?"
"This is the back of Shao Guangji's head."
"This is Zhuang Sheng's back view."
"This picture is infuriating! That's Li Yi—good heavens! He was the one who did five more takes for that scene, which meant I had to rehearse with him after filming wrapped, and I didn't even get to eat dinner. What a load of rubbish about 'late-night rendezvous' and 'sweet play'! So it wasn't the paparazzi who starved to death!"
Because she was worried about developing a verbal tics, Shang Yechu rarely swore, to avoid embarrassing herself on camera later. But this time, she was so angry that she didn't care about anything else.
Seeing that things were going badly, Ji Juntao quickly tried to appease him, saying, "Calm down, calm down. Why are you so anxious? I'm not blaming you. As expected of an actor, you have a good memory; you even remember all these random people. We'll sort it out later so the company can clarify things."
With her vision blurring, Shang Yechu let out two long breaths, uttering an exhausted sigh: "Look, this so-called timeline is all a smokescreen. From the back of his head to his shoulders and even his back, it's all someone else's. This mysterious boyfriend is just a cheapskate who got a billion-dollar subsidy. It's one thing for others to be surprised, but Lao Ji, why don't you believe me?"
Shang Yechu felt utterly powerless, furious, bewildered, and incredibly aggrieved. What did Ji Juntao take her for? What did her team members take her for? Was she some kind of octopus, secretly having a relationship with a good friend while openly having one with Yang Huanyi?
If her affair with Yang Huanyi were to be exposed, Shang Yechu would certainly be terrified and nervous, but she would never feel wronged. What's done is done; one should take responsibility for one's actions, and that wouldn't be unjustly burdened with a false reputation. But what is this? A piece of fabricated information, cobbled together from various sources, with 80% fabrication, has somehow propelled Shang Yechu to the top of the trending searches. It has even fooled all her relatives and friends.
“I’ll leave the rest aside,” Ji Juntao probed, “What about the two videos at the beginning and end? This… can’t be faked, right?”
President Ji had known Shang Yechu for a long time and was quite familiar with her figure and gait. Furthermore, calculating the timeline, the person in that blurry surveillance video was undoubtedly Shang Yechu.
Shang Yechu shook her head: "The two videos are of two different people—the first one, I was unconscious at the time, so I don't know who he was. The second one is a blind man I met at the beach. I was heartbroken at the time and went to the beach to relax, and I met this blind man listening to the sound of the waves. I was a little moved. I thought that even blind people haven't lost hope in life, and I was just heartbroken, so I had to cheer up. So I treated him to a bowl of soup."
The second half is obviously made up. If Ji Juntao knew that Shang Yechu jumped into the sea for Yang Huanyi, he would definitely climb over the internet and strangle the top sister with his own hands.
"Are they really two people?" Ji Juntao asked suspiciously. "They walk like they were copied and pasted."
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