Xiaomi sighed deeply and said, "Okay."
If it says it's a nearby hotel, then it really is a nearby hotel.
Liu Fang drove for less than ten minutes to a very nice hotel. He helped book two rooms and handed the room keys to Xiaomi.
After helping Xiao Mi take Lin Leyao back to her room, Liu Fang and Liu Ai left.
On the way out, Liu Aimei held the new room key, looking puzzled: "Why didn't you take Sister Leyao to our hotel? All my clothes are there!"
Liu Fang asked, "Is our hotel very close?"
Liu Ai didn't understand: "What do you mean?"
Liu Fang tapped Liu Ai on the head with the room key and said, "Go to your room and go to sleep. I know you can hold your liquor well. Look at how red your face is from drinking. Aren't you feeling any discomfort?"
Liu Ai was pushed into the room by Liu Fang. Before closing the door, Liu Ai shouted, "I don't have any clean clothes!"
Liu Fang replied, "I understand, I'll go get it for you!"
Liu Fang went to the hotel where she and Liu Ai had stayed before and brought back a change of clothes.
After giving the clothes to Liu Ai, she took a bag and went to Lin Leyao's room.
Xiaomi was taking care of Lin Leyao in her room when she heard the knocking and quickly went to open the door.
As soon as she opened the door, she saw Liu Fang stuff a bag into her arms.
"Some changes of clothes also include hangover remedies."
Author's Note:
Ahhh, I didn't manage to update before midnight. This update is the second one from yesterday. There are two more chapters today to make up for Sunday's.
Thank you to all the little angels who voted for me or watered my plants with nutrient solution between 2022-03-21 20:09:27 and 2022-03-22 00:20:06!
Thank you to the little angel who threw the grenade: 55157345 (1 grenade);
Thank you so much for your support! I will continue to work hard!
Chapter 60
After giving Lin Leyao a change of clothes, Liu Fang went to Liu Ai's room.
Liu Ai seemed perfectly fine outside, but once she got back to the hotel and lay on the bed, the effects of her drunkenness kicked in.
She was lying on the bed, half asleep, playing on her phone.
Upon seeing Liu Fang enter, Liu Ai, still holding her phone, immediately sat up and asked, "Sister, do you know that this hotel is owned by Wang Baoliang?"
Liu Fang, who was boiling water, casually replied, "I just found out ten minutes ago."
Liu Ai asked, "Didn't you two have a falling out?"
Liu Fang replied, "It wasn't me, it was Lin Leyao."
Liu Ai had been drinking and felt extremely hot. She pulled at her collar uncomfortably, her face full of worry, and said, "What do we do now? Will this person deliberately cause trouble and mess with Sister Le Yao?"
Liu Fang flicked Liu Ai's forehead: "If you're drunk, just go to sleep and mind your own business. Your sister Le Yao's background isn't that simple; she won't let herself be wronged for no reason."
After encountering Lin Leyao and Wang Baoliang at the resort in the suburbs of S City, Liu Fang had a hunch from Wang Baoliang's angry words. Later, she began to investigate Wang Baoliang's company. After peeling back the layers, she felt that Lin Leyao was not an ordinary entertainment star, so she began to investigate Lin Leyao's family background.
After she used her resources to investigate, she discovered that Lin Leyao's background was truly extraordinary. This extraordinary background did not mean that she had discovered Lin Leyao's family background, but rather that she could not find out anything about her at all.
Her investigative efforts were hampered by various unforeseen circumstances.
There are many reasons why she was obstructed. In some cases, much of the information about Lin Leyao that was publicly available was false; in others, her in-depth investigation was discovered, and the other party prevented her from further investigating Lin Leyao's information.
She couldn't tell whether it was the work of the same person or whether two people were protecting Lin Leyao's identity.
Regardless, this shows that there are indeed people protecting Lin Leyao's information and wanting her to remain an ordinary minor celebrity in the entertainment industry.
However, the fact that the other party could so easily obstruct Liu Fang's investigation instantly aroused Liu Fang's curiosity and competitive spirit.
What can the other party do if they try to stop her? It's only a matter of time before she finds out Lin Leyao's background.
These thoughts flashed through Liu Fang's mind in the blink of an eye.
At this moment, Liu Ai, who was kneeling on the bed, was immediately angered by Liu Fang's rebuttal. She said angrily, "What do you mean by 'the background isn't that simple' and 'I won't let myself be wronged for nothing'? You're wrong! People have already been wronged and are heartbroken. Even if they retaliate later, it's just making up for it afterward, but the wounds have already been inflicted! We should start preparing as soon as we sense that something bad might happen, and prevent it from happening in the first place! That's called... that's called... prevention is better than cure!"
Liu Fang gave a cold snort and ignored Liu Ai.
Liu Ai grumbled for a while, then suddenly stood up from the bed and shouted, "I want to change hotels!"
As soon as she finished shouting, Liu Ai knelt down on the bed with a thud. The sudden movement of standing up made her head spin even more.
After that, Liu Ai quieted down. After a while, Liu Fang saw that she had finally fallen asleep before returning to his own room.
At that moment, in the hotel suite, a young woman wearing a bathrobe made a phone call.
"Hey, Uncle Luo, could you help me contact the manager of the Vanish Hotel?"
"Thank you, Uncle!"
Lin Leyao's memory of drinking was limited to the cup of wine she drank while recording a variety show; she knew nothing about what happened afterward.
In her sleep, Lin Leyao suddenly heard a rustling sound. She jolted awake and opened her eyes instantly.
After a while, her vision finally cleared, and she could see her surroundings clearly.
An unfamiliar hotel.
Lin Leyao's brows furrowed instantly, and the next second she saw Xiao Mi standing not far away holding breakfast.
When Xiao Mi saw Lin Leyao sit up in bed, she ran to the bedside and said, "Sister Leyao, you woke up so early. I was just about to wake you up."
Lin Leyao nodded, then paused for a few seconds before asking, "Why did we stay here last night?"
“Last night, after you got drunk, I was waiting with you for the driver to come, but the driver’s car was blocked by another car and couldn’t come to pick us up quickly. Luckily, we met Miss Liu Ai and Mr. Liu, and they helped us take us to a nearby hotel to rest.”
Lin Leyao nodded, looked around, and said, "Where's my phone?"
Xiaomi helped Lin Leyao take the phone out of her bag and handed it to her.
Lin Leyao opened WeChat and saw the message Xin Ying had sent her the night before.
【get off work.】
Have you had dinner yet?
I'll be going to Hong Kong on a business trip in a couple of days, and I might be very busy that day and unable to reply to you promptly. I'm letting you know in advance.
I'm going to rest now after my shower. Goodnight, sweetheart.
Looking at this series of messages, Lin Leyao couldn't help but smile slightly.
She tapped the screen to edit the message and sent it.
I accidentally drank some alcohol last night and went to bed early, so I didn't see the message. Good morning!
Xin Ying replied very quickly.
Good morning~
After washing up, Lin Leyao said goodbye to the Liu sisters, Liu Fang and Liu Ai, and then took the van directly back to the film set in the film studio to begin filming.
Three days passed peacefully, then one morning, a video link suddenly appeared on the forum.
The scene in this video is a hotel corridor, and the person in it is someone everyone is familiar with—Lin Leyao.
The other person was unfamiliar to most people who don't follow celebrities or like to read gossip online, but as people explained the situation on the forum, they quickly learned that this person was an investor in the drama that Lin Leyao was currently filming.
This video appears to be from the hotel's security camera. It shows the time: around 10 PM, Liu Fang appeared at the door of a hotel room, and the door was quickly opened from the inside. The next few seconds show the following morning, when Lin Leyao opened her room door and walked out.
Some sharp-eyed netizens on the forum recognized that the clothes Lin Leyao wore in the morning were from the same brand as the bag Liu Fang was carrying last night.
The first forum user to post the video used a particularly exaggerated title.
[Video evidence! Lin Leyao can't clear her name this time!]
The video quickly sparked a storm on the forum after it appeared.
Soon the post was moved to Weibo and various short video platforms, and the rumors about Lin Leyao and Liu Fang spread like wildfire.
With so many onlookers, many marketing accounts, in pursuit of popularity, dug up Lin Leyao's past scandals and gossip, even fabricating numerous stories about Lin Leyao and other male celebrities in addition to her previous rumored relationship with Wang Baoliang.
Immediately, many netizens flocked to Lin Leyao's Weibo, and everyone believed it to be true.
Previously, many netizens, amidst the numerous fabricated negative stories about Lin Leyao, felt that the allegations were exaggerated and remained supportive of her. However, with the release of this scandalous video, many have wavered. Furthermore, with various platforms and marketing accounts overwhelmingly criticizing Lin Leyao, many malicious netizens have begun relentlessly attacking her.
Previously, Lin Leyao's fans could control the comments on their own Weibo accounts when facing rivals.
However, this time there were too many netizens watching the drama, and fans couldn't even get a front-row seat under many marketing accounts. Some marketing accounts had already been occupied by Lin Leyao's fans, but the marketing accounts would delete comments that spoke up for Lin Leyao in order to gain popularity, leaving only those that insulted her.
The storm of public opinion arose suddenly, and Su Wenyu's fans seized the opportunity to protest on the official Weibo account of the TV series "Palace Prisoner", demanding that the production team replace Lin Leyao.
When the rumors surfaced, Lin Leyao was filming, and the set was filled with whispers and unsolicited glances. This time, Lin Leyao didn't need to guess; she already knew that some kind of scandal or gossip was brewing again.
But she hasn't been in contact with anyone lately. Who could this person be?
Without asking what had happened to Xiaomi, Lin Leyao directly asked Xiaomi for her phone. Xiaomi handed it over, looking worried.
Xiaomi hesitated for a while before saying, "It didn't trend on Weibo, but the rumor spread like wildfire. It's everywhere on short videos and Weibo too."
Lin Leyao gave a faint "hmm," logged into her Weibo side account, and clicked into the homepage of a marketing account.
Upon entering the marketing account's homepage, Lin Leyao could already fully sense the other party's "liking" for her. This marketing account posted six Weibo posts about Lin Leyao in a row, all of which were summaries of Lin Leyao's various past scandals and gossip, as well as various netizens' comments.
Lin Leyao finally saw the source of the scandal: the hotel she stayed at the day she got drunk.
Lin Leyao knew nothing about what happened at the hotel on the day she got drunk. Xiao Mi hadn't told her much about Liu Fang before, so now Xiao Mi was quietly explaining it to her.
Liu Fang was also a victim. She had simply come to deliver a change of clothes that day, and the person who opened the door was Xiao Mi from the room. Liu Fang hadn't even entered Lin Leyao's room that day.
The video was edited to omit Xiaomi's face, deliberately misleading viewers into believing that Lin Leyao was the one who opened the door. This kind of rumor has absolutely no impact on Liu Fang, but for Lin Leyao, if the public outcry escalates and she faces a nationwide boycott, it would severely damage her career.
Clearly, the person who orchestrated this dislikes her intensely.
Lin Leyao frowned, staring at the video for a while before asking, "Didn't it trend on Weibo?"
Xiaomi nodded: "Sister Yan called while you were filming. It was probably the Xin family's doing. It didn't trend on any major platforms. Luckily it didn't, otherwise the public outcry would have been much bigger."
Xiao Mi looked anxious and felt very uneasy.