Chapter 341
Chapter 341
Su Yi had written the script.
If he had nothing to hide, he would not be concealing the truth from us.
By now, everyone could tell something was wrong with him.
“Su Yi!”
The director stormed over, grabbed him by the collar, and cursed. “What the hell did you do? I, Hong Gang, have always treated you well! I’ve paid the highest market rate for every script you wrote. Are you trying to ruin me?”
Su Yi suddenly raised his head, his eyes red. “I wasn’t trying to ruin any of you. I didn’t know anything would happen.”
I advised him, “Then tell us exactly what happened. Say everything you know so no one misunderstands you.”
The director released him. Su Yi wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and said, “I did have a younger sister. Her name was Su Lan. She graduated from an arts academy and was very beautiful. She was even considered the campus beauty.”
“She studied classical dance. After graduating, she joined a dance troupe with some reputation in the industry. Whenever a television show or movie needed a classical dance scene, they would invite my sister’s troupe to participate.”
“One day, her group was invited to perform classical dance for a movie. The male lead in that film was Lu Yihao.”
By this point, we already understood.
“That was where your sister met Lu Yihao?”
“No.”
Su Yi said, “My sister, Su Lan, had been a devoted fan of Lu Yihao since he was an internet celebrity. She was still a student then and spent half her monthly living allowance on his livestreams.”
“After Lu Yihao entered the entertainment industry, his status rose and his following grew. The public image he cultivated was that of a diligent, positive, sunny young man, both kind and gentle. As a result, most of his fans were girls in their teens or early twenties. Su Lan was one of them.”
“Holy shit!” Even the director laughed. “How many celebrities are actually good people? Their public images are packaging. They’re nothing more than tools for capitalists to make money. Your sister might not know that, but you work in this industry. Didn’t you warn her?”
“I did!” Su Yi became agitated. “I told her countless times to stop acting like a mindless fan, but she refused to listen. Because of that movie, she finally met the idol of her dreams, and they remained in contact privately.”
“Later, she told me she was dating Lu Yihao. The way she spoke, you would have thought she’d won tens of billions.”
Sun Yuan could no longer bear listening. “Brother Yi, do you know what people called Lu Yihao when he was an internet celebrity? The Cannon King. After he became a star, they gave him a new title: the Cannon Immortal…”
Su Yi clenched his fists and said with bitter disappointment, “Of course I knew. But Su Lan wouldn’t believe me. Nothing I said could persuade her. Worse, my parents supported her. Their daughter was dating a major celebrity. They thought she’d be set for life, and they could brag about it to everyone.”
The assistant director sighed. “I’m guessing none of you ever met your sister’s celebrity boyfriend.”
Su Yi nodded. “We never did. My sister said Lu Yihao was busy and his schedule was packed. He kept postponing it day after day until, eventually, my sister became pregnant.”
I quickly asked, “What happened next?”
Su Yi shook his head, his eyes turning red again. “There was no next. Around April of last year, my sister suddenly lost contact with us. No matter what we tried, we couldn’t reach her.”
Sun Yuan’s eyes widened. “April of last year? I remember Lu Yihao was exposed for sleeping with a fan early last year, and the scandal destroyed him. Don’t tell me the woman who exposed him was your sister…”
“That’s right…” Su Yi clenched his fists until his knuckles cracked and ground his teeth. “He got my sister pregnant, refused to accept responsibility, and threatened to break up with her unless she aborted the child.”
Hearing that and seeing Su Yi’s reaction, I could not help asking, “Were you the person who exposed him?”
Su Yi drew a breath and lowered his head. “I was. I provided all the evidence to the paparazzi.”
Every one of us was shocked.
Su Yi really had destroyed Lu Yihao’s career.
“Impressive.” Sun Yuan gave him a thumbs-up. “His public-relations team is famous throughout the industry, yet you actually managed to bring him down.”
The director snorted. “Don’t be naive. If he had truly been destroyed, he would have vanished completely. The people who really dealt with him were the investors and management behind him. They were afraid that if he caused a major scandal in the future, it would affect every other artist at the company. So he wasn’t defeated by the allegations. The capital backing him abandoned him.”
“But Lu Yihao climbed up from the bottom, and he’s shrewd. By the time the scandal broke, he’d already gotten involved with the daughter of our movie’s investor. He prepared his escape route in advance.”
“Do you think he’d let your sister give birth and jeopardize his future?”
I had to admit, Lu Yihao might have been the most successful pretty boy in history.
Even after capital abandoned him, there was no need to panic. He simply slept with a capitalist’s daughter.
I asked Su Yi, “Your sister Su Lan refused to break up with him, didn’t she?”
Su Yi nodded. “My sister loved him beyond reason. She was completely consumed by the relationship. But she had made her own calculation too. If the child was born, she would at least have leverage over Lu Yihao. If she aborted it, Lu Yihao could abandon her whenever he wanted, and she would have no recourse. So she refused to terminate the pregnancy.”
“Then, in April of last year, she disappeared.”
The director asked, “Didn’t you call the police?”
“We did,” Su Yi said. “During that period, my parents and I went to the police station almost every day. We even provided a lead, telling them my sister’s disappearance had to be connected to Lu Yihao. But what use was that?”
“Without hard evidence, how could the police seriously investigate Lu Yihao?”
I said with regret, “Lu Yihao must have harmed your sister. She was so persistent that he could never have allowed her to remain alive. If she lived, how could he become the son-in-law of a wealthy family?”
“But how exactly did you come to write this script?”
Su Yi’s eyes were red. “I wrote it after being inspired by my sister.”
His words startled all of us.
Su Yi continued, “For a while, I dreamed of Su Lan constantly. She would be holding a baby inside our family’s old home. But the dreams were hazy. All I knew to do was ask her to come home and tell her how much our parents missed her.”
“But Su Lan kept telling me there was a rope around her neck. She was in terrible pain. She wanted to come home, but she couldn’t.”