Chapter 27

Chapter 27

If she had that much money, why would she still be acting?

Was she giving herself trouble?

He Wei froze for a moment, then very honestly shook her head: “It’s not me.”

The balance in her bank card had just barely crossed six figures. There were still many places she would need to spend money in the future; this little bit of money probably couldn’t even fill a gap between teeth.

Besides, the trending topic had just gone up—she had no connections at all. Even if she had money, it was impossible to make a Weibo trending topic disappear just like that.

He Wei exited Weibo in disbelief, then opened it again.

The trending list was once again peaceful; the storm from earlier seemed as if it had never existed at all.

Jiang Jingyue had already received the video. She roughly watched it once, then turned to look at He Wei: “She was much more ruthless than you.”

That slap from He Wei would at most make her face swell for a few days, but Mu Sheng’s slap—if He Wei hadn’t dodged in time—might have scratched her entire face into a tabby cat.

He Wei’s gaze was still fixed on the phone screen. As soon as she heard this, her face seemed to sting again.

Jiang Jingyue carefully looked at her face. “Is it really okay to wear makeup with an injury on your face?”

Her makeup was applied thickly; the marks left by Mu Sheng’s fingernails on her face were mostly covered, only two scratch marks as thin as strands of hair could be seen.

He Wei touched her face and said, “For this advertisement film, apart from me, everyone else’s schedule was squeezed out.”

In other words, she had no choice at all.

Her co-stars and the cinematographer were all big names. One minute probably cost tens of thousands.

The little girl frowned, her expression carrying an indescribable grievance. Jiang Jingyue reached out and patted her hair soothingly: “Don’t worry for now, I’ll get a few well-connected big V accounts to post first.”

He Wei responded, “Thank you, Sister Yue.”

“I know a few marketing companies on my end too. I’ll see later if we need to buy reposts and comments.”

As Jiang Jingyue spoke, she quickly started contacting people. She worked fast, finishing in just a few minutes. “By the way, Weiwei, aren’t you in Director Cheng’s crew?”

He Wei turned to look at her.

“Could it be that Director Cheng had someone take down the trending topic?”

What Jiang Jingyue said was not unreasonable.

Although it was a conflict between He Wei and Mu Sheng, the trending topic directly carried the title of “The Empress Daughter.” This drama had been in preparation for a long time, and now it had not even finished filming when such a scandal broke out. There was a high chance it would negatively affect the drama.

He Wei sent Cheng Nuo a message asking.

There was no reply for a long time on that side.

Instead, Jiang Jingyue had some movement. She patted He Wei’s wrist: “Those big V accounts all have private connections. Let’s wait half an hour first. If the heat isn’t enough after a while, then we’ll buy marketing.”

She pinched He Wei’s thin chin: “This is good too, saves you some money. Eat something good, Weiwei, look how you’ve gotten skinny.”

“……”

He Wei’s mouth twitched.

Since she transmigrated into the book, she really did seem to have lost a few pounds compared to the original host.

The original host originally had baby fat, but now He Wei didn’t have it anymore. Her entire face had shrunk by a small circle.

Jiang Jingyue was, after all, someone working in this industry, and He Wei listened to her without question.

She agreed without hesitation when she said to wait half an hour.

During that half hour, the two of them went to a small restaurant to solve dinner.

After dinner, He Wei checked the trending topics again.

The reversal of the “assault incident” had already climbed to fortieth place.

She looked at Jiang Jingyue across from her: “Sister Yue, do we still need to buy promotion in this situation?”

“No need,” Jiang Jingyue understood the tricks very well. “My guess is Mu Sheng will issue a statement soon, and then the heat of this trending topic will skyrocket very quickly.”

He Wei let out a breath of relief.

At that moment, Cheng Nuo’s message also came through. It was a response to her earlier question about Cheng Yan:

【I just told my brother, he said he hadn’t even had time to find someone to take it down, and it was already gone…】

Cheng Nuo: 【Weiwei, is there some wealthy young master from a rich family secretly in love with you?】

He Wei: “……”

She roughly knew who it was.

Since He Wei had entered this book world so many times, this was the first time she had experienced what it felt like to be protected by someone.

She couldn’t quite describe the feeling; she just felt her head heat up, as if there was a buzzing sound in her ears.

When Jiang Jingyue looked up again, she noticed the girl’s face was red.

“……”

What was there to blush about?

Jiang Jingyue coughed lightly. “Weiwei?”

He Wei immediately snapped back to her senses.

Jiang Jingyue pointed at her phone. “Mu Sheng has issued a statement.”

He Wei touched her ear and found Mu Sheng’s Weibo, clicking in. The statement was very long—pages of words basically full of self-pity. The general meaning was that after being slapped by He Wei, she thought her face was going to be disfigured, so she lost control of her emotions and slapped back.

In short, she was still an innocent white lotus.

He Wei looked at it expressionlessly.

She skimmed through it quickly, then checked the trending list again. “Mu Sheng hits someone” and “Mu Sheng statement” were ranked first and second, with hundreds of millions in heat.

She clicked into the top trending topic and opened the most-liked comment—

Today Forgot to Take My Medicine: 【Now I don’t even dare to pick a side when eating gossip anymore. Who knows if there’ll suddenly be a reversal?】

Little Black Duck: 【The person who got hit by my Sheng seems to be called He Wei. I once bought a magazine where she was on the cover—she looked super gentle. Hmm… you really can’t judge a book by its cover.】

Dragon Fruit Sweet Sweet: 【I said long ago Mu Sheng isn’t some easy character either.】

Jade Spirit: 【Saying this with a helmet on… Mu Sheng’s expression looks so ferocious, it reminded me of drug addicts… running away quickly with my helmet!】

……

Nine-Nine Eighty-Two: 【Not to mention anything else, He Wei is so pretty. What a god-tier face, sobbing!】

He Wei scrolled through dozens of top comments before finally seeing one that wasn’t criticizing her.

But when she clicked into the replies under that comment, all of them were insulting the original commenter for being blind.

“……”

She felt a bit embarrassed, so she clicked into that person’s profile. After hesitating for a few seconds, she still sent them a private message:

【Sorry, thank you. I hope you’re happy every day.】

The other side didn’t reply.

He Wei scrolled through Weibo for half an hour, completely without any sense of direction.

Unlike Mu Sheng, she didn’t have her own agent or company, nor a professional PR team. She was practically isolated and helpless, with only Jiang Jingyue able to help her.

He Wei sighed. “Sister Yue, am I going to be finished?”

Jiang Jingyue shook her head. “Just from how fast that trending topic was taken down earlier, you’re not going down. And I just searched that topic about you hitting Mu Sheng on Weibo again—guess what happened?”

What else could it be—

“Did I get flamed into a sieve?”

“NONONO.” Jiang Jingyue raised her index finger and shook it. “The topic got banned.”

She leaned back in her chair and stared at He Wei’s face. “Weiwei, tell your sister honestly—have you been taken a fancy to by some big shot?”

He Wei: “……”

“Removing a trending topic isn’t hard, but directly banning a topic isn’t something that can be solved with money alone.”

He Wei’s eyelid twitched slightly. Letting Jiang Jingyue stare at her, she lowered her head to avoid her gaze and searched that topic on her own phone as well.

A blank page—“topic not available yet.”

Jiang Jingyue kindly reminded her, “Replace the ‘Empress Daughter’ ‘huang’ with the ‘huang’ from ‘locust’.”

He Wei: “……”

After changing it, the topic indeed appeared.

The highest-ranked post immediately came into view—

【Holy crap, holy crap, holy crap! Brothers, did you see this? This newcomer’s background is not simple at all! The trending topic stayed at number one for half an hour and then instantly disappeared! And the topic got banned too! I thought this kind of plot only existed in novels! Now let’s do a prize guessing game—guess who this newbie’s big backer is!】

To show excitement, the blogger used an exclamation mark after every sentence.

He Wei’s eyes were dazzled. When she opened the comments, there was a whole row of exclamation marks—

【I bet a spicy strip it’s Director Cheng Yan of The Empress Daughter!】

【I heard she recently got a Feli endorsement, I bet a bottle of “happy fat soda” it’s some young rich heir from Feli!】

【XX Real Estate’s CEO!】

【The only son of XX Commerce!】

【I guess it’s the little girlfriend of XX Weibo CEO!】

He Wei’s expression gradually became wonderfully complicated.

Jiang Jingyue guessed what she was looking at and asked tentatively, “So? Did anyone guess right?”

He Wei shook her head. Scrolling further down, she saw Cheng Yan comment: 【It’s not me, don’t drag me into this, thanks.】

Behind it was another reply from the legendary XX Weibo CEO: 【It’s not me either, please everyone stop dragging me into this, thanks.】

“……”

Jiang Jingyue had also read the comments. Although many names were repeated, there were still dozens of different guesses overall.

Still, it was strange—none of them were correct.

“Who exactly is it?”

After a half-second pause, Jiang Jingyue felt this question wasn’t very appropriate, so she added: “Three characters or two characters?”

He Wei finally answered her directly this time: “……Two characters.”

Jiang Jingyue leaned back into her chair, looking completely lifeless. “Our Weiwei is finally going to be taken by a pig.”

He Wei: “……”

She guaranteed Jiang Jingyue would regret saying that in the future.

Those two trending topics stayed on Weibo for a full three days.

The Empress Daughter crew was barely affected; they filmed whatever scene was scheduled, and the progress wasn’t delayed at all.

After three days, He Wei instead felt much calmer.

Because during these days, every time she asked the system, the system’s response was always the same: “Host, this doesn’t count as a torture point.”

Although the system was usually unreliable, it was still very skilled when it came to identifying “torture points.”

After repeatedly asking a few times, He Wei finally felt relieved and went back to eating and drinking as usual every day.

Three days later, Jiang Jingyue sent her a message that made her jaw drop—

【Weiwei, we just received a piece of intel on our end. Give me a few minutes to digest it.】

A few minutes passed.

Jiang Jingyue: 【Alright, I’m back. Onto business—Mu Sheng and Song Zhenzhen actually… are using drugs… oh my god, this is terrifying!】

Jiang Jingyue: 【The most terrifying part is, just now our boss, after drinking a bit too much, casually blurted out that the ones who are going to expose those two… are actually their own company… I can’t take it anymore, I feel like our boss was just drunk and making things up.】

【Why would Yan Huai have a problem with his brain and go after artists from his own company?!】