Chapter 64

Chapter 64

“Young man, what you said makes sense! I really was foolish before! It doesn’t matter if I have to suffer a little, but I have to think about my child’s future!”

The woman sighed, the gloom in her heart swept clean away.

Everyone: “…”

“I’m sorry for interrupting your filming. I’ll leave now. Li Xiangdong, find a time for us to get divorced. As for everything else, we’ll talk later.” With that, the woman turned to go.

The director immediately let out a breath of relief. There was a bit of a stain on the production now, sure, but at least no one had been taken in.

But then, someone couldn’t help speaking up.

“You’re just going to let it go like that? Aren’t you going to ask for compensation?” a girl on the crew asked, unable to hold back.

Before the woman could reply, Li Xiangdong blurted out, “Compensation for what? After being with her all these years, didn’t I waste my youth too? My youth is extremely valuable. She got to marry me for free-that’s already a huge bargain for her, okay? Besides, back then, she supported me of her own free will. I didn’t force her. It’s only tens of thousands of yuan. I’ll just give it to her.”

Li Xiangdong spoke with disdain. But his face was full of terror, because those were all his true thoughts. Right now, he couldn’t control himself at all.

And his words completely enraged the woman.

“Fine, Li Xiangdong. Since you’re saying that, I won’t keep covering for you anymore.”

“What are you trying to do?” Li Xiangdong instantly had a bad feeling.

“Heh. Don’t think I don’t know. That university you attended? You stole someone else’s identity to get in!” the woman said.

Everyone: “…”

In other words, this guy had repeated the entrance exam for five years and still hadn’t gotten in!

“I knew there was no way that IQ could get into college,” Liu Ye said, speechless.

[I remember his profile said he went to Huicheng Jiekou Vocational Technical College, right?]

[Isn’t that college a diploma mill?]

[Yeah. When people found out back then, some fans even said a golden phoenix had flown out of the chicken coop.]

[The key question is, if he’d already decided to steal someone else’s identity, why steal it for a school like that?!]

[Try to be understanding. With his IQ, it’s already impressive that he knew to use that method.]

[Wait. Under our country’s laws, stealing someone else’s identity like that gets you jail time too, right?]

[Good lord, another one.]

[No, can you let us catch our breath? We seriously can’t eat any more of this melon!]

[Boss Liu Ye is awesome!]

As expected…

“Whee-woo, whee-woo…”

The police cars came again. Again. Again.

The police looked at the people in the room and were utterly speechless.

“Seriously, if any of you have anything else going on, can you just turn yourselves in directly? You might even get leniency. Good grief, one day of your show has filled a month’s worth of our quotas.”

You think we wanted this?!

Everyone roared inwardly.

Then they all looked toward Liu Ye.

Liu Ye quickly said, “You can’t blame me this time! I even helped you defuse the situation successfully.”

The director and the others thought about it. That was true.

Could everything before really have been a coincidence?

But just then, the woman said to Liu Ye, “Young man, thank you so much! If it weren’t for you, I would still be kept in the dark.”

“No, don’t say things like that! Be careful, or I’ll sue you! What does this have to do with me?!” Liu Ye hurriedly said.

“Young man, it really is because of you. When I was working, I accidentally glanced at a coworker’s phone and saw your livestream. That’s how I found out he was so close to me. His stomach isn’t good, so I wanted to bring him a meal. If not for that, who knows how much longer I would have been kept in the dark. Thank you so much!”

Liu Ye: “…”

Off to the side, the director was frantically slapping his own mouth. He regretted it so much. Why had he been unwilling to part with that fifty million back then? If only he’d just given it to him. Now look what had happened.

“Director…”

“Don’t call me director!”

The director flung the script in his hand away, his whole body blazing with anger. If things kept going like this, there was no way the show could continue.

“You bastard, someone sent you here to mess with me, didn’t they? Fine, aren’t you capable? Then go on. If you’ve got the ability, get me sent to prison too!”

“Ring, ring, ring…”

His phone rang. He picked it up.

“Boss… What? That matter… All right… I understand.”
The director lowered the phone as if his soul had left his body. He gave Liu Ye a long, searching look, sniffled, then walked over to the police car and said to Li Xiangdong inside,

“Scoot over. Make room for me.”

Everyone: “…”

At that moment, every celebrity’s phone began ringing. They had all received the news: the investigation into Wang Yang’s tax evasion had ended up exposing the boss behind the show as well. The director was involved too, so the entire company had now been sealed off.

The show had also been ordered to stop broadcasting.

Of course, this was actually John’s handiwork.

Because he saw that Liu Ye was still sending people out one after another, he analyzed the situation again and came to a conclusion: Liu Ye was giving them a hint.

He had been wondering why Liu Ye wanted to send everyone to prison. It was only just now that he understood. Liu Ye wanted the show taken off the air. As long as the show was canceled, this mission could no longer continue.

John guessed that this mission probably had an objective along the lines of completing the show.

So he immediately had someone shut down the show’s company.

And the truth was exactly as he had thought. The instant the show was announced to be canceled, the mission should have been considered complete. But the Fiend hiding in the dark was not happy about that. How could he possibly tolerate the show ending just like this?

So, in the instant before the settlement was finalized, he took action.

“Perfect timing. The order from above was to test this anyway…”

He took out a vial of serum. Inside, a strand of pink aura writhed constantly.

He stabbed it straight into his neck, and the aura around him surged.

In that instant, every celebrity in the house felt their body tremble.

Their eyes all turned pink at once.

“Heh, Li Yifan! You could say Lei Long only solicited a prostitute… attempted to, anyway. But you? That’s not your case, is it? Every place you went, you did the deed. You even created a group chat and uploaded the videos there. Am I wrong?” the remaining entrepreneur said.

“And you have the nerve to talk about me? Your company’s products were counterfeit and shoddy. They caused the buildings constructed with them to collapse, leading to massive casualties. You pinned all the blame on your subordinates, then changed your identity and kept running companies.”

“Lu Qian, I was clearly the daughter of the Lu Family! You stole my identity, then killed your own parents to keep it secret!”

“Don’t talk about me. You seduced my husband and even tried to kill my son, you vicious snake of a woman!”

…

All the celebrities began frantically exposing one another’s secrets. And it wasn’t just them-even the crew on set was affected.

The netizens watching online were absolutely feasting.

This time, everyone’s fan count dropped to zero.

Xiaoshuai was no exception. He was just a little better off than the others, able to control his mouth to a certain degree and keep his revelations limited to celebrity gossip. He did his best to avoid leaking anything about the Illuminati.

Meanwhile, the Fiend in the shadows gave a cold sneer. His original goal had been to use this show to harvest those fans. The frenzied souls of fans were the most delicious of all.

Unfortunately, all of it had been ruined.

Since that was the case, there was nothing else he could do.

Everyone’s fan count had fallen to zero. He could move freely now.

He floated to the door, grabbed the handle, and twisted hard.

Click, click!

The door did not move.

The Fiend: “…”

Click, click, click, click…

He twisted it a few more times, only to find that the door still would not open.

After a second of silence, the Fiend roared in a rage,

“What immoral bastard locked the basement door?!”

He kicked the door, but a burst of white light surged up and slapped him straight back.

The Fiend sat blankly on the floor. Then he got up and began pounding madly on the surrounding walls. The result…

“Aaaaaah! I can’t get out!!!!”

That night, after the aura dispersed, everyone finally calmed down. But they were slumped on the floor, the light gone from their eyes.

It could be said that their futures were already over. They had spoken aloud every dark thing hidden in their hearts. There was only one fate waiting for them.

“All of you, come over here. There’s still room on this side,” the director said with a sigh.