Male Sing and His Pet Owner: Chapter 56

The video spread quickly. When Zhao Kaile saw the title, he thought it was some internet influencer pretending to be Gu Shanshan to act and ride the wave of popularity. But when he opened the video, he was stunned.

This was actually her!!!

“Gu… Gu…” He pointed at the screen and said to Zhan Hang in disbelief: “Gu…”

Zhan Hang nodded calmly, as if he wasn’t surprised at all.

Zhao Kaile then gasped at Xiao Wen: “Gu…”

“Gu Shanshan!” Xiao Wen helped him finish.

“Holy shit!!” Zhao Kaile finally remembered how to speak, holding his head in shock: “How did Sister Li do it!”

Zhan Hang felt a bit more relaxed, sat on the swivel chair beside him, and mocked: “Making a fuss over nothing. Did you think Bai Li just sits there collecting money?”

Although Gu Shanshan was crying pitifully now, the face she showed when demanding all sorts of fees from him was still fresh in his memory, so Zhan Hang didn’t feel any sympathy for her.

Zhao Kaile was completely too busy to talk back. He and Xiao Wen sat there scrolling through comments, each more excited than the other: “Amazing, so amazing… turned back several percentage points, my god… a huge wave of people are cursing Li Yang!!”

Xiao Wen: “How come this bastard doesn’t dare to come out and speak now!”

“I want to see how he whitewashes this time!” Zhao Kaile gritted his teeth, as if the one being scolded was himself: “Evil is rewarded with evil! Gu Shanshan was at least his wife for a day! And he just sold her out like that!”

The number of comments under the video grew rapidly. Countless fans, anti-fans, and passersby flocked in. Various PR teams and water armies entered the fray, stirring up whatever rhythm they could and riding whatever heat they could, not missing a single opportunity for exposure.

Apart from the main talking points like “Li Yang is the biggest villain in the whole situation, Zhan Hang was wronged,” “The woman isn’t a good thing either, a piece of trash,” and “Zhan Hang gave her too much, so the woman came out to act for him,” there were even more imaginative conspiracy theories like “Li Yang’s private life is a mess, he once cuckolded Zhan Hang, so Zhan Hang bore a grudge. This whole chaos is probably a joint hype by Gu and Zhan to bring down Li Yang.”

In Gu Shanshan’s room.

“Did you and Li Yang ever talk about things related to Zhan Hang?” Before leaving, Bai Li asked such a question.

Gu Shanshan’s eyes were still red, and she spoke with a nasal tone: “He copied those photos from my phone while I was asleep. I didn’t give them to him.”

“I know.” Bai Li said: “I’m asking, did you talk about that incident from a few years ago?”

Gu Shanshan lowered her head somewhat guiltily: “We talked about it.”

Bai Li asked: “What did you say?”

“I didn’t say it obviously.” Gu Shanshan hurriedly said: “I only said that I extorted money from Zhan Hang.”

Bai Li gestured for her to hand over her phone to take a look. Gu Shanshan said fearfully: “I’ve already cleaned mine… I don’t know if Li Yang still has records.”

Lu Jiayin frowned slightly upon hearing this, feeling a vague sense of foreboding. Bai Li shook her head at her in a small motion.

After signing a contract with Gu Shanshan, the two drove away and returned to the company. Lu Jiayin was busy handling various matters on hand while also contacting video platforms to control the various comments under the video, overwhelmed with work.

Fortunately, as long as the general trend could be reversed, it counted as success. The dissenting opinions of the weaker side would always be buried in the louder torrent, insignificant.

Of course, the unluckiest ones in this whole affair were the production team and investors of “Langya Pavilion.” The male lead and supporting actor had both been exposed with black material, one was almost hammered to death, and the other almost couldn’t be whitewashed. Whether this drama could air smoothly was a problem.

After several people returned to the company to hand over work, it was already past eleven at night. The entire floor of the company was still brightly lit, working overtime for Zhan Hang alone.

“Originally it was a bad thing, but turning it around became positive traffic.” Bai Li sent a red envelope in the work group to several people, and said to Zhan Hang: “Your new drama is coming out next year, so follow up with another wave of topics in a few days, the heat will be just right.”

Zhan Hang also sent one, then looked up at her and Lu Jiayin: “You’ve worked hard.”

“Not hard.” Bai Li sighed exaggeratedly: “Just cause less trouble for me on set in the future.”

Lu Jiayin patted Zhao Kaile’s shoulder and said seriously: “Lele, on matters of principle, you can afford to have a bit of temper.”

Zhao Kaile nodded repeatedly.

“…” Zhan Hang looked at the three of them expressionlessly, thinking to himself that he had really given them too much face.

When going home, Zhao Kaile felt physically and mentally exhausted. Staying up all night with Zhan Hang on set wasn’t this tiring. He was brushing fur in the cat room when he collapsed halfway onto the cat tree, closed his eyes, and started snoring.

After washing up, Zhan Hang called for him but got no response. He came over in slippers to take a look and couldn’t help but laugh and cry.

KIKI shot to the door, lying on the glass and wagging its tail at him. Zhan Hang had to go in and pet it a couple of times, then quietly walked to Zhao Kaile’s side, squatted down, and looked at him.

Zhao Kaile’s forehead hair was slightly long, a few strands drooping over his eyebrows and eyes. His eyelashes were lowered, casting a shallow shadow under his eyes, making him look especially innocent.

“You’ve worked hard too.” Zhan Hang said softly.

Zhao Kaile made a “mm” sound, not sure whether he heard it half-awake or was dreaming.

The room was quiet for a moment. Zhan Hang looked at him for a while, then leaned in a bit closer.

TITI stood coolly atop the cat tree, staring at KIKI from above and below, as if brewing some emotion. Sure enough, the next second, TITI pounced down and sprinted toward KIKI. KIKI immediately ran for its life, circled around the floor once, then used Zhao Kaile’s head as a pivot point, climbed up to where TITI had just been standing in a few steps. So the two cats stopped chasing, switched positions, and continued staring at each other.

Zhao Kaile was stepped awake and looked at Zhan Hang blankly.

“…” Zhan Hang backed away and explained: “The cat stepped on you, I didn’t touch you.”

Zhao Kaile touched his own head and yawned: “I haven’t finished brushing… I don’t know how I fell asleep.”

“Tomorrow then.” Zhan Hang stood up, turned, and left the room: “You go sleep first.”

He told Zhao Kaile to go sleep, but he himself had some insomnia, sleeping and waking, barely getting through the night.

In the dead of night, this night was destined to be unsettled.

What goes around comes around. This time, the ones waiting for the main character to respond under Weibo became Li Yang’s die-hard fans.

They couldn’t sleep and waited eagerly, until dawn when they finally got news from their gege. Li Yang’s Weibo first responded to the multiple cheating affairs. There was no washing this clean, so he could only focus on having a sincere attitude. Then to respond to the honey trap incident, he dropped another bombshell: the chat records between Li Yang and Gu Shanshan.

Early the next morning, before Bai Li even opened her eyes, she was woken by her phone ringing. When she heard Lu Jiayin’s urgent voice on the phone, she immediately woke up and hurriedly hung up to scroll through Weibo.

In the chat records, Gu Shanshan was practically debauched, not only taking the initiative to seduce Li Yang but also boasting about the honey trap incident when explaining it to him, with a rather proud tone. She was the very image of a wicked woman.

The wind in the comments shifted again. Most arrows were pointed at Gu Shanshan again. Female fans already had enormous malice toward women who had improper relations with their idol, and now they cursed without restraint, a sea of filthy language that was simply unbearable to look at.

Bai Li touched her face, pondered for a moment, and edited a paragraph of text. However, before she could even send what was in the dialog box to Lu Jiayin, Gu Shanshan herself called in a panic: “That really wasn’t me! I never sent him those messages!”

“Don’t panic.” Bai Li said: “Whether you said it or not doesn’t matter. WeChat chat records can be forged, not to mention he still has your real information.”

Upon hearing this, Gu Shanshan immediately said excitedly: “Right! Right! These are photoshopped by him! Li Yang photoshopped them! He must have imitated my WeChat ID and had a conversation with himself!”

“Shanshan, listen to me. Delete all contact methods with Li Yang, block him. Also, don’t go out during this time.” Bai Li said: “Wait for this wave of heat to pass, and I’ll bring you to Qihua.”

Gu Shanshan: “Okay… I understand, don’t worry, I won’t say anything to Li Yang. He and I absolutely won’t have any more contact.”

Bai Li hmmed, hung up the phone, added a few sentences in the dialog box, and clicked send. Lu Jiayin saw the reply and with strong execution, immediately contacted several big V accounts and released another batch of marketing accounts, having them lead the rhythm of “The evidence Li Yang posted is photoshopped, not real hammer.”

As for the fact that Li Yang had previously claimed he didn’t know Ms. Gu Shanshan, but today he slapped his own face by posting chat screenshots with Gu, sharp-eyed netizens had already pointed this out below, directly getting liked to the top comment. So Li Yang’s credibility in the public eye dropped sharply again, falling to rock bottom.

However, the people at the center of the storm had no mind to care about these anymore, directly sleeping until noon.

Zhao Kaile had already served him a bowl of rice and sat beside him continuing to scroll through comments.

“Stop looking.” Zhan Hang took a sip of soup and said without much expression: “There will definitely be follow-up effects. From now on, whenever people see my name, they’ll think of those bed photos.”

Zhao Kaile looked at him listlessly: “Then what do we do…”

“Nothing.” Zhan Hang said: “Stay off the hot search less. Everyone has a scale in their heart. Let my works speak, and they’ll naturally know what I’m worth.”

Don’t mention it, but mentioning it made Zhao Kaile even more worried: “Then what if Langya Pavilion can’t air?”

“If it can’t air, it can’t air. Every year there are countless dramas stuck in review. The production team should be the ones worrying.” Zhan Hang said: “What are you blindly worrying about there.”

Zhao Kaile closed his mouth with a pained expression, thinking to himself but your look in that drama is really good! It blows Li Yang out of the water!

Zhan Hang snatched his phone over and said fiercely: “Stop playing, eat quickly.”