ABBWW Chapter 25: Young Master (25)

The atmosphere in the room gradually improved a bit.

When Shi Rongqing and Shi Jingge came in just now, the room was very tense, like a tight string, as if it would suddenly snap at any moment.

Now, this tight string finally loosened a bit.

Shi Jingge breathed a sigh of relief.

As soon as he turned his head, he saw Hua Mingyi's phone in her hand.

He hesitated for a moment, then hid behind Shi Rongqing and turned off his own phone.

Shi Rongqing caught a glimpse of his movement and was puzzled.

Then he saw Shi Jingge stride towards Hua Mingyi.

"...My phone ran out of battery." After holding back for a long time, the young master squeezed out a sentence with difficulty, then shook his phone in front of Hua Mingyi. "Can I use your phone?"

Hua Mingyi nodded and handed her phone to the young master without hesitation.

The young master quickly took the phone and walked quickly to Shi Rongqing's side.

Shi Rongqing realized what was going on.

This was to prevent Hua Mingyi from seeing those bad public opinions on the internet.

But the next second, Shi Rongqing was stunned.

Shi Jingge stuffed that phone into his pocket.

Shi Rongqing: "?"

Shi Jingge coughed lightly and backed away a few steps. When he was far enough from Shi Rongqing, he pointed at Li Zhuoyun.

He meant to let Shi Rongqing give the phone to Li Zhuoyun.

Shi Rongqing smiled bitterly, but also understood Shi Jingge's intention.

This phone belonged to Hua Mingyi after all. They were two men, and it was not good to take a girl’s phone. But Hua Mingyi’s mental state was not very good at the moment, and if she came into contact with those negative messages, it would definitely be bad for her.

But everyone also knew that when a person was at the center of public opinion, it was hard not to pay attention to the outside voices.

Moreover, just now, Hua Mingyi had opened Weibo.

So giving her phone to Li Zhuoyun was naturally the best choice.

The two girls lived together and had a good relationship. Hua Mingyi encountered this incident, and Li Zhuoyun actually had a way to get herself out of it and stay away from the center of the storm, but she didn't do that. Instead, she stayed with Hua Mingyi and faced everything together.

This shows that the two girls' feelings are really good, and Li Zhuoyun's character is also impeccable.

But the problem was, why didn't Shi Jingge give the phone to Li Zhuoyun himself?

Shi Rongqing looked at him.

Shi Jingge looked at the sky and the ground but not at Shi Rongqing, and took another step back.

Shi Rongqing: "..."

Maybe he was really scared by Li Zhuoyun's reaction just now.

Shi Rongqing was a bit helpless, but in the end he stepped forward and quietly handed Hua Mingyi's phone to Li Zhuoyun.

When she received the phone, Li Zhuoyun was stunned for a moment, but she quickly reacted.

She also didn't want Hua Mingyi to look at the phone. She had persuaded her many times, and Hua Mingyi agreed verbally, but as soon as she couldn't see her, Hua Mingyi would open Weibo.

Hua Mingyi was not very old, and she was a bit timid. She couldn't bear this kind of explosive public pressure, but she insisted on looking at it. Li Zhuoyun was anxious but had no good way.

The young master had a way.

Li Zhuoyun put the phone in her pocket and breathed a sigh of relief.

...Everything will get better, right?

Li Zhuoyun took out her own phone and opened an app. "I recorded the whole game at that time. It was almost nine hours long. It's all here."

"Brother--" Shi Jingge turned his head and looked at Shi Rongqing. "With this, can we get the hotel surveillance records and prove Hua Mingyi's innocence?"

Shi Rongqing shook his head. "They dared to use this to deal with Hua Mingyi. The hotel surveillance must have been cleaned up long ago."

He paused and then said, "I contacted them as soon as possible."

Shi Jingge bit his lower lip.

"But--" Shi Rongqing changed his tone. "Do you remember your assistant Wei Han?"

Shi Jingge blinked. "Didn't you replace him?"

"He was planted by Mu Jincheng next to you." Shi Rongqing said lightly. "He would report your whereabouts and such to Mu Jincheng."

Shi Jingge was stunned. He took a step back, opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but he didn't say it in the end.

He just looked so pitiful.

He looked like an abandoned, homeless kitten.

How could Shi Rongqing bear to bully him anymore?

"But this may not be a bad thing."

Shi Rongqing quickly opened his mouth and spoke very fast.

"He had more than one sponsor besides Mu Jincheng. You also know that you have millions of fans on Weibo, and you still have some popularity, so he sold your information to other people as well."

"So that day, from the moment you left the hotel, someone followed you all the way."

"I was investigating Mu Jincheng and found out about Wei Han, so I traced the video back."

"This way, even if we don't have the hotel surveillance records, we can still explain it."

"But..." Shi Jingge pursed his lips. "I always feel...like..."

"Hmm?" Shi Rongqing looked at Shi Jingge.

"I don't know, I can't describe the feeling," Shi Jingge scratched his head. "But based on my observation of the entertainment industry for so many years, this seems...not very effective..."

"You finally know how to use your brain." Shi Rongqing tapped Shi Jingge's head. "Although you didn't figure out anything."

Shi Jingge looked up and glared at Shi Rongqing, but he held back.

"Indeed," Shi Rongqing said calmly. "If we were on our side, as evidence, releasing this would not have a very good effect, and it would cause all kinds of conspiracy theories."

"The most important thing is that we don't have the hotel surveillance records."

"The best way, actually, is to use this as a scoop and expose it directly, pointing the finger at you."

"Then use the video in Li Zhuoyun's hand to clear things up."

"No way!" Before Shi Jingge could speak, Hua Mingyi was the first to stand up, with some moisture in her eyes.

She took a deep breath. "Young Master Shi saved me and helped me all the way. If this matter involves him again, what kind of person would I be?"

"Just release those things directly. I think they can prove my innocence. Those who are willing to believe me will eventually believe me, and those who are not willing to believe me will never believe me."

"I have a clear conscience, and that's enough."

Li Zhuoyun put her hand on her shoulder and patted it lightly, as a comfort.

Shi Rongqing looked at Hua Mingyi deeply and relaxed a bit.

This little brat, this time he made a good friend.

"You don't have a say." Shi Jingge raised his head and said arrogantly. "It's my stuff, I have the final say!"

"Sorry," Shi Rongqing interrupted Shi Jingge. "The stuff is mine."

Shi Jingge: "..."

He failed to act cool, and Shi Jingge gritted his teeth and looked at Shi Rongqing.

The atmosphere was tense just now, but it seemed to fade a lot.

Shi Rongqing remedied. "But I listen to you."

The young master was overjoyed.

Hua Mingyi looked at the young master and was about to speak, but she heard the young master say decisively. "Do you think I'm doing this for you?"

"It's not for you!"

"I just want to curse people!"

The young master raised his head high, arrogant and domineering.

“Those people who cursed me when I made my official announcement, and then there were so many who cursed me during the live broadcast, so many water armies and haters cursed me, and I didn’t have time to fight back. Why?”

"Now I want to curse them all back!"

"Why should I, Shi Jingge, be cursed and not fight back?"

"But it's been so long, and if I reply to them now, it will make me look so petty."

"How can I ruin my brilliant and heroic image for them?"

"But now, I can openly curse them to death!"

"Don't think I'm doing this for you."

The young master sneered and rolled his eyes.

"Who are you to me? How could I possibly do this for you?"

"You're really giving yourself a lot of credit!"

Hua Mingyi looked at Shi Jingge steadily.

She had actually seen this kind of arrogant, unruly, overbearing and wicked appearance of the young master.

He was like this when he saved her.

He brought her here and handed her over to Li Zhuoyun like this.

He asked her to take out her phone like this.

He threw the key to them like this.

He was always like this.

He used all kinds of wickedness to cover up his gentleness, as if he was afraid that his kindness would bring trouble to others.

But in fact, if he wasn't doing this for her, who else could he do it for?

He was the young master of the Shi family. Did he like to go out and look for trouble?

Back then, when the young master threw the key over, he fooled her with this kind of wickedness.

But now, this old trick couldn't fool her anymore.

Hua Mingyi felt a sourness in her heart. She pinched her palm with her fingertips. The grievances, worries, fears, and anger mixed with shame that she had endured these days hit her chest one by one, making her unable to bear it any longer. She covered her mouth and cried.

The young master was dumbfounded.

He immediately jumped to Shi Rongqing's side, grabbed Shi Rongqing's sleeve, and pushed Shi Rongqing in front of him.

Shi Rongqing: ???

The young master closed his eyes, stiffened his neck and shouted. "Don't think that I will change my mind by doing this!"

"I won't!"

"Why should you--" The young master shrank his head. "Why should you ask me to change my mind!!"

"It's my stuff, I have the final say!"

"You can't control me!"

After throwing out the last five sentences, the young master took a big step back, then pulled Shi Rongqing back a step, and honestly hid behind him.

Shi Rongqing: "..."

Was he being used as a shield?

Hua Mingyi cried harder.

Li Zhuoyun hugged her and tried to comfort her.

The young master felt like his scalp was about to explode. He pulled Shi Rongqing's clothes back and forth, and finally couldn't help but leaned into his ear and whispered. "You hurry up, hurry up and make her stop crying!"

At that moment, Shi Rongqing felt that his stupid younger brother was about to cry.

"Don't cry." Shi Rongqing sighed. "If you keep crying, my stupid one will cry too."

Shi Jingge: "???"

At the moment when Shi Jingge raised his hand to hit him, Shi Rongqing said again. "My little brat, this time he makes sense."

"I know you don't want to implicate him, but if you don't do this, will you not implicate him?"

"From the moment these videos were released, from the moment the water armies and haters started to set the tone for you, they would inevitably involve Xiao Ge."

"Rather than that, it's better to follow Xiao Ge's idea, so as not to be labeled with other hats."

He paused and softened his tone. "We didn't do anything wrong, and no one can put the blame on us, right?"

"Right!"

Before Hua Mingyi could speak, the young master shouted loudly.

Then he shrank back.

"I'm not doing this for her, I just want to curse people--"

Shi Rongqing hit him on the head. "Shut up."

Hua Mingyi's tears hadn't stopped yet. She took a deep breath and bowed very solemnly to Shi Jingge and Shi Rongqing.

She bowed ninety degrees and stayed for a while, scaring Shi Jingge.

At that moment, Hua Mingyi had a lot of things to say, but she felt that they didn't need to be said.

She would always remember this moment in her heart.

"Thank you."

Hua Mingyi said solemnly.

A thousand words were hidden in these two words.

Her eyes drifted over Li Zhuoyun, Shi Jingge, and Shi Rongqing one by one, and suddenly felt that all the self-pity and resentment she had always had disappeared at this moment.

Maybe, everything she had encountered in the past twenty-something years was for meeting them.

She was really lucky.

Luckier than many people.

At that moment, Hua Mingyi felt that it was so silly and foolish to want to use death to prove her innocence.

"Then..."

In the silence, the young master secretly peeked out his head. When he saw the tears on Hua Mingyi's face, he quickly shrank back.

"...And what about the hitting thing? How do we clear that up?"

"That thing," Shi Rongqing said casually. "There are often many valuable props in the crew, so some places have surveillance cameras."

"She came out of the dressing room and passed by some places, smiling a bit crazily."

"We can clear that up together later."

"Then, when do we start fighting back?" Shi Jingge urged.

"What's the hurry? Are you in a hurry to be cursed?" Shi Rongqing said with a smile.

Shi Jingge said confidently. "I'm in a hurry to curse back. I'm good at nothing, but I'm the best at cursing. You know that."

"Who can curse better than me?"

He raised his head, very proud.

Shi Rongqing looked at him expressionlessly, then slapped him on the head.

The young master widened his eyes, and finally couldn't bear it and fought back, but he was suppressed by Shi Rongqing's strong force.

The atmosphere in the room suddenly relaxed.

Li Zhuoyun happened to poke the phone in her pocket. She smiled slightly and put the phone in Hua Mingyi's hand.

Hua Mingyi was a bit surprised at first, but when she saw Li Zhuoyun pointing at the young master, she quickly understood.

Hua Mingyi clenched her phone and felt like crying again.

But she held back in the end.

Don't scare the young master anymore.

Wait until he leaves and then cry.

Shi Rongqing was very efficient in his work. The Shi family had an entertainment business, so they acted quickly.

The next morning at eight or nine o'clock, during the peak of human traffic, a topic dropped on the hot search and quickly climbed to the first place.

--【Young Master Shi Keeps a Female Star, Pure Female Star’s Image Collapses!】

This scoop was not only explosive, but also had solid evidence!

There was a video.

Even though the video was very blurry, but who didn't have a pair of sharp eyes in the entertainment industry?

Soon everything in the video was dug out, and the people who came down from the car one after another were Shi Jingge and Hua Mingyi.

And at the beginning, the car appeared at that hotel, which was also dug out by the omnipotent "netizens". They confirmed that Hua Mingyi and Mr. Zhang's "ambiguous photo" location was this place.

So, in fact, Hua Mingyi and Mr. Zhang had no ambiguity at all. The one who kept her was Shi Jingge. Mr. Zhang was hit by a black pot that fell from the sky!

And this Mr. Zhang, his reaction was also fast. He immediately let his own marketing accounts clear his name for him.

He was originally very worried and didn't know who had plotted against him, and dragged him into this mess. Even if he wanted to teach Hua Mingyi a lesson, he didn't want to get himself involved!

Mr. Zhang suspected one person after another, and hated them so much that his teeth itched.

But at this moment, he felt overjoyed.

- It turned out that the person behind the scenes who wanted to harm by that person was Shi Jingge!

He thought of the humiliation that Shi Jingge brought him that day, and Mr. Zhang couldn't sit still.

Why wait any longer to kick someone when they are down?

T/N: 这个时候不落井下石痛打落水狗还等什么时候？, this is a common Chinese idiom that means to take advantage of someone’s weakness or misfortune.

Marketing bloggers, get on it! Where are the water army? This is not enough! Buy more, buy more! He must drown Shi Jingge!!

The time for revenge had come!

Shi Jingge was eager to fight back against the water army and the haters at first, but when he opened Weibo and saw the fierce scene under Weibo, he gave up on the spot.

Shi Rongqing raised his eyebrows. "What, are you scared?"

Shi Jingge said righteously: "What nonsense are you talking about?"

"I'm a big man, how can I be scared?"

"I'm not wasting my time on useless people."

"This is called wisdom!"

He looked at the speed of his Weibo comments rising.

He probably hadn't typed a word yet, and there were thousands more comments cursing him.

The young master considered himself a fair person. If he wanted to curse back, he would curse back at everyone, or else he would simply not curse.

Otherwise, some people would curse him and get cursed back by him, but some people would curse him and not get cursed. That would be unfair, wouldn't it?

Shi Jingge lifted his foot and prepared to run away.

And at this moment, his phone rang.

It was Wen Xusheng.

Shi Jingge answered it. "Hello? What..."

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Wen Xusheng. "Are you at home?"

The young master was stunned. "Yes."

"Hmm." Wen Xusheng replied, and then hung up the phone.

The young master: "?"

Shi Rongqing walked over and asked, "What's wrong?"

"I don't know either," the young master scratched his head. "Wen Xusheng called me and asked me if I was at home, and then he hung up."

"Oh." Shi Rongqing said, and then shouted, "Aunt Bai! Aunt Bai!"

Aunt Bai came over and stuffed an egg yolk pastry to the young master with distress, before saying, "Eldest Young Master, what do you need?"

Shi Jingge lowered his head and nibbled on the egg yolk pastry.

Shi Rongqing glanced at Aunt Bai and confirmed that there was really no share for him, then withdrew his gaze.

Shi Jingge finished the egg yolk pastry and gave a thumbs up. "Delicious."

Aunt Bai smiled and stuffed another one to him. "Then eat more, Young Master. You've lost weight."

"Thank you, Aunt Bai!" Shi Jingge took the egg yolk pastry and was happy.

Shi Rongqing: "..."

So, what about me?

Forget it, I won't compete with the brat for food.

Shi Rongqing said indifferently: "Notify everyone, no matter who comes today, don't let them in."

The young master looked up and said: "Who's coming?"

Shi Rongqing gave a fake smile and said: "No one."

Although he knew this couldn't stop Wen Xusheng from coming in, at least he could vent his anger!

And half an hour later, Wen Xusheng really came to the Shi family.

"Here." Wen Xusheng looked a bit dusty, and when he saw Shi Jingge, he handed him a USB drive.

Shi Jingge was stunned. "What is this?"

Wen Xusheng curved his lips. "This is something that can prove your innocence."

Shi Jingge looked at Wen Xusheng in astonishment.

"I couldn't get the hotel surveillance, but I found all the people who were at the drinking party that day."

"It's a coincidence, but there was a director who had a grudge with Mr. Zhang, and he happened to bring a recorder, so he recorded a lot of things."

"From Mr. Zhang flirting with Hua Mingyi, to her escape, to you saving her, he recorded everything."

"There's also your game record, but this will definitely be argued that it was someone else playing online for you, but it doesn't matter, I'm still collecting evidence, and I'll ask Li Zhuoyun or Hua Mingyi if they have any screen recordings or something."

Wen Xusheng said it lightly, but it was obvious that this was hard to get.

Otherwise, Shi Rongqing wouldn't have failed to get it.

And from the time Shi Jingge got on the hot search until now, it was only a few hours, but Wen Xusheng had gotten something that could prove Shi Jingge's innocence in these few hours.

Shi Jingge stared at him blankly.

This expression of Shi Jingge fell into Wen Xusheng's eyes, and made his heart melt like water.

Wen Xusheng sighed softly, hugged Shi Jingge in his arms, and gently stroked his back, as if he wanted to drive away all the bad emotions from Shi Jingge.

"Xiao Ge, I'm here for you."

"Don't be afraid."

Author's Note:

Shi Rongqing: With me here, is my brother afraid of ghosts?

Shi Rongqing: And there's more! Who let this guy in? There’s no point for me in talking in this house, is there?

Shi Jingge: ...It was me.

Shi Rongqing: ......

Thank you very much for your support, I will work harder!

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