Chapter 55

Chapter 55

“…”

The scene fell instantly silent.

The director covered his face. I did ask you to cover for him, but I never asked you to cover that thoroughly.

“Ahahaha… He… he said professor! Haha, he’s got a bit of an accent. Yes, he’s a professor!” Li Yifan hurriedly patched things up from the side.

“Right, professor! All the students I taught ended up losing weight.” Liu Ye touched his mouth. That was way too close. He’d almost given himself away.

The netizens watching online also came to a sudden realization.

[Scared me for a second. I thought the entertainment industry had gotten so open that people could just openly call themselves beasts now.]

[But judging from the way he looks, he studies archaeology, right?]

[No way. What kind of professor can he be at his age? Is this another fake persona?]

The host asked curiously as well.

“What do you teach?”

“Uh, he teaches minority-language literature!”

Li Yifan quickly answered for him. He didn’t dare let Liu Ye speak anymore.

“Right. I mainly teach the language of the Republic of Labulaxi,” Liu Ye said nervously, hugging his knees.

“That country really is pretty obscure. Is it easy to recruit students for your major?”

Liu Ye: “…Well, yeah, pretty easy. Enrollment is around ten or twenty thousand!”

“Huh?”

“No, no, he means one or two thousand. Over four years, one or two thousand in total!” Li Yifan hurriedly said.

The director behind them let out a long sigh of relief. But then he was speechless again. Who exactly was covering for whom here?

The host was only asking casually anyway. His main target was Li Yifan.

“Then, Yifan, back to the question from earlier. Have you ever been married?” The host once again revealed that sinister smile.

[Why is this host like this? He keeps asking Yifan questions like that!]

[Exactly! Is the production team deliberately trying to smear our gege?]

[Sisters, hurry up and dox him!]

At that moment, Li Yifan’s mind was also spinning at top speed. He analyzed the pros and cons in front of him. If he lied now, then given the current situation, he might run into even harder questions later.

But if he didn’t lie, this question would be very difficult to answer. If he told the truth, he would probably lose a huge batch of fans.

After weighing the pros and cons internally, he slowly said, “I’ve been divorced once.”

[What? Gege was actually married?]

[Impossible! Gege is lying to me!]

[I don’t believe it!]

[Fan turned hater!]

The online comments flooded the screen. The director sharply sucked in a breath and quickly looked toward Liu Ye.

Seeing this, Liu Ye immediately crossed his legs and said, “What’s the big deal? I’ve been divorced six times.”

Everyone: “…”

But believe it or not, the online topic really did get derailed in an instant.

[Even someone like him managed to get married six times???]

[What did those women even see in him?]

[Bro, we don’t want to know how you got divorced. I just want to know how you got married.]

Li Yifan breathed a sigh of relief. Although some fans were still refusing to let it go, there were also some who thought it was just part of the show.

It wasn’t that he didn’t want to say a few polished PR lines, but as soon as he thought about it, his mind would remind him that those all counted as lies. So he didn’t explain.

He could only wait until this matter was over and have the company explain it afterward.

In any case, once the time came, he could just play the victim a little. Those brain-dead fans would believe it.

Li Yifan was still very confident about that.

Fortunately, after the host finished asking that question, his body trembled, and a confused look appeared in his eyes.

Clearly, this round had already passed.

Just then, two men and one woman entered the villa. Liu Ye turned around and took a look. Oh? A familiar face. Wasn’t this the guy from a few days ago who had tried to kill himself over three eggs?

When Xiaoshuai saw Liu Ye, he was dumbfounded too. He never would have expected to run into him here.

After all, once their operation at the hospital failed, the higher-ups had flown into a rage and prepared to retaliate against Liu Ye.

After investigating him, they discovered that Liu Ye worked at an entertainment company.
At the time, they had believed this had to be one of Liu Ye’s important strongholds.

So they immediately sent a large number of people to attack the place.

And sure enough, that day, they encountered a high-level Fiend there.

The guy had even stubbornly claimed he didn’t know any Liu Ye. The fact that he was covering for Liu Ye like that only proved even more that he was one of Liu Ye’s people.

So they had sacrificed more than half their forces before finally taking down that Fiend, and they had even blown up Liu Ye’s company.

What he hadn’t expected was for Liu Ye to get the news so quickly. In just a few short days, Liu Ye had found out they were behind it, tracked him down, and started taking revenge.

Sweat broke out all over Xiaoshuai.

Online, meanwhile, the comments had exploded into shrieks.

[Xu Fei! It’s Xu Fei!]

[Ahhh!!! He’s here too!]

[It’s over, I’m going to die!!!]

[How much money did the production team spend on this?]

That was right. In the real world, Xiaoshuai was a superstar-one famous even internationally.

When Li Yifan saw Xu Fei, he hurriedly stood up.

After all, to him, Xiaoshuai was a major senior in the industry.

“Brother Fei! You’re here too.”

Li Yifan went up and hugged Xiaoshuai. Xiaoshuai forced himself to pull together enough to deal with him. Right now, he didn’t even dare breathe too loudly, afraid Liu Ye would make a move and finish him off on the spot.

“Yeah, I just… came to have some fun.”

Just then, a woman beside him suddenly spoke up.

“Oh? And who is this? He sees our Brother Fei and doesn’t even say hello?”

The woman who spoke was Bai Hehua, also one of the country’s top A-list actresses. Her reason for coming on this show was the same as Li Yifan’s.

However, she had her own plan. The mission had only said they couldn’t tell lies related to their own past. It hadn’t said they couldn’t lie at all.

So to prevent any accidents, she would first lower one person’s status-and Liu Ye was that person.

She would set him up as the target first, pinning the label of “disrespecting seniors” onto him.

That way, with him drawing fire in front, they would be much safer. In a sense, her thinking was very similar to the director’s. The director wanted Liu Ye to passively serve as a safety net, while she wanted to attack proactively.

And sure enough, her words had an effect.

[Seriously, I wanted to say this earlier. This guy is so rude. He didn’t greet Yifan either.]

[You can tell a person’s character from the details. One look and you know this guy isn’t much.]

[Heh. He wants to build a persona of being busy with his career, but his morals aren’t there. Now he’s just making people hate him.]

[Sisters, dox him!]

Online, the fans all began speaking up for Xiaoshuai.

But Xiaoshuai’s face had turned green. Damn it, if you people want to die, don’t drag me down with you!

He was just about to speak when he saw Liu Ye quickly stand up and say with a cheerful smile, “Brother Fei, sorry about that. I didn’t react just now. I never expected to see you here.”

It was over. Those words made it painfully obvious. Liu Ye had come specifically for him!

Thinking about it, it made sense. Who told him to be the one Liu Ye recognized the most?

“Brother Liu, you’re too polite.”

Xiaoshuai’s voice was already on the verge of tears.

“Look at you, you’ve made our Brother Fei cry!”

Bai Hehua quickly pulled out a tissue and attentively wiped Xiaoshuai’s face. She was still hoping to stir up a little scandal with him.

“Can you shut up?”

Xiaoshuai said through gritted teeth.

“Brother Fei, I understand. You’re kindhearted and can’t bear to say anything to him. But indulging him like this is actually hurting him. Today, this is a small matter, but what if he really runs into some important occasion in the future? Then it would become a big problem. I’m doing this for his own good!”

“Hiss!”

Xiaoshuai covered his face and took a deep breath. He had decided. Before he died, he was definitely taking this woman with him!

“Oh, enough already. Stop standing here talking. Let’s hurry inside. My legs are killing me.”

A boy in a skirt beside him spoke up.

[Wow, it’s Yangyang! He’s seriously too cute.]

[This show is definitely going to blow up! My god, the production team’s budget is insane!]

[Wow, Yangyang is so pretty, just like a Doll!]