Seeing that Sister Wang didn’t answer, Yu Jiaojiao asked again, “How much money would it take to make Chen Yizun get out of the entertainment industry?”
Seeing how serious she was, Sister Wang felt a pang of sympathy in her teeth—this was definitely a problem!
“Jiaojiao, where did you hear that Chen Yizun wants to kick you off this show?”
Yu Jiaojiao thought for a moment. “I heard it from Sun Yu. Oh, and her too.”
“I… I’ll look into it for you. If it’s true, the company absolutely won’t stand by and do nothing. Don’t worry, Chen Yizun doesn’t have enough influence to just casually dictate what a show does.” With that, Sister Wang stepped out to make a phone call.
There were still a few idle netizens hanging out in the Gossip Manhua livestream. Suddenly, they heard the mental conversation between the system and Yu Jiaojiao and felt that something was off.
【Yu Jiaojiao knows about Sun Yu and Chen Yizun’s affair, so why can’t she talk about it? And who the hell is she even talking to? Why can’t she reveal their existence? Aren’t they a paparazzo?】
【There’s a lot of information in these words. Based on the context, there should be other people around, so why can the livestream only hear Yu Jiaojiao and some other person’s voice from beginning to end?】
【Wait, is Yu Jiaojiao stupid? She knows about Chen Yizun and Sun Yu’s relationship and that he wants to kick her off the show. Why doesn’t she just spill everything? Why hide it? Is she trying to blackmail Chen Yizun? Then what’s the point of this livestream?】
【If it’s true, the best way to handle this is to tell Chen Yizun’s wife and the media about his cheating. Once Chen Yizun becomes a tainted artist, his wife will probably retaliate, and he definitely won’t be able to survive in the entertainment industry anymore.】
The system, having followed gossip for years and knowing the entertainment industry far better than Yu Jiaojiao, had also thought of this.
“Host, actually, the best way to drive Chen Yizun out of the entertainment industry is to expose his affairs with Sun Yu and the others.”
“How do I expose it? Weren’t you the one who told me not to say anything?” Yu Jiaojiao felt wronged.
The System was momentarily choked up. “Well, you can’t just make baseless claims! Oh, right—didn’t Chen Yizun text Sun Yu to meet him at Hailan Hotel tonight? This is the perfect chance to catch them in the act!”
“You want me to go catch them?”
“Either hire a private investigator or leak the information to the paparazzi.”
“That’s too much trouble. I might as well just use money.”
The system: “…”
Barrage: “…”
In the end, some gossip-loving netizens, thoroughly hooked by this scandal, went ahead and contacted a paparazzi team on their own.
Upon receiving the tip, the paparazzi team’s eyes lit up, and they immediately began making plans.
Time quickly reached five o’clock. Yu Jiaojiao and the other female guests were invited to a group dinner.
In the middle of the meal, Sun Yu received another message from Chen Yizun.
The system still wanted Yu Jiaojiao to seize this opportunity. “Chen Yizun sent Sun Yu the room number: 0819. Host, are you really not going to send someone to catch them?”
Yu Jiaojiao simply ignored it.
The gossip-loving netizens who had stayed in the livestream, hoping to catch more information, quickly forwarded the room number to the paparazzi team.
Although the paparazzi team was a bit skeptical that the tip might be fake, they decided to operate on the principle of “better to catch a false lead than miss a real opportunity.” They set up several pinhole cameras around room 0819 at Hailan Hotel and hid the rest of their team nearby.
After finishing the dinner with the production team, Yu Jiaojiao got straight into a car and went home.
Sun Yu, on the other hand, parted ways with the others, dismissed her assistant, disguised herself, and took a taxi to Hailan Hotel.
Meanwhile, Chen Yizun, also in disguise, entered the hotel through the underground parking garage and went straight to room 0819, swiping his key card to open the door. The move was captured by the pinhole cameras the paparazzi had set up earlier.
Less than half an hour later, Sun Yu appeared at the entrance of Hailan Hotel. She quietly made her way up to the eighth floor, walked to room 0819, and knocked on the door.
Chen Yizun, wearing a mask, welcomed her inside. He then peeked outside, confirmed that no one had noticed, and closed the door behind them with relief.
The paparazzi team was absolutely ecstatic when they received these images.
But they didn’t make a sound. Instead, they waited patiently.
And wait they did—through the entire night.
A little past five in the morning, a disguised Sun Yu walked out of the room. About half an hour later, Chen Yizun also emerged.
After confirming there was no further activity, the paparazzi rushed to retrieve the cameras and began processing the footage they had captured.
Just before six o’clock, a news story about Chen Yizun’s affair with Sun Yu suddenly broke online, complete with full videos of the two entering and leaving the room one after the other.
With the spread and amplification of the story by online trolls and “water army” bots, the news shot straight to the top of the trending searches.
Gossip-loving netizens who saw the trending topic stared wide-eyed in disbelief.
“Holy crap!! It’s actually real!!”
“Who would have thought?!”