Tian Xiaole was with Xu Baichang, You Ziang, and Yin Xingzhi;
Zhou Tong spoke to Xiao Shulang, Qin Shuang, and Luo Tian.
As soon as everyone sat down, Zhou Tong pointed directly at Xiao Shulang: "As your relationship advisor, my advice to you is to let go of past relationships and look forward."
These words instantly changed the previously relaxed atmosphere.
Tian Xiaole inwardly cried for help. Zhou Tong was truly a simpleton. She gently tugged at Zhou Tong's arm. Zhou Tong, puzzled, asked, "Hmm? What kind of snack do you want? I'll get the ones you can't reach."
Tian Xiaole: "..."
She forked a piece of cake and stuffed it directly into Zhou Tong's mouth: "Try this, it's delicious."
You should just shut up!
Xiao Shulang took a sip of his black tea before calmly replying amidst the fragrant aroma: "Advisor, the so-called inability to let go usually refers to lingering feelings for a past relationship and an inability to sever ties. I don't have this problem, so you can rest assured."
Zhou Tong hurriedly swallowed the cake, but even eating couldn't shut him up. He was quite a fool: "Then what did you mean by what you said online? You dated Luo Tian, so you should know his character best. He's a super nice person. Why didn't you help explain when Director Gao misunderstood?"
Oh my god... Tian Xiaole wanted to cover her face in embarrassment.
The director and the audience, however, just wanted to applaud, say more, and dig out everything they wanted to say!
Xiao Shulang: "Because Director Gao was telling the truth."
"Why would he need you to support his career?" Zhou Tong felt he had figured it out. There was no misunderstanding between Xiao Shulang and Luo Tian. It was Xiao Shulang who was deliberately causing trouble. He was definitely going to help his brother!
"Brother Luo himself comes from a very good background. For example, he owns a trendy brand store in the Silver Building, which he bought outright. Do you know how much a store like that in the Silver Building is worth? You..."
"Five million two hundred thousand."
“That’s right! So you—wait, how did you know?” Zhou Tong suddenly stopped. He didn’t even know the exact price, only that it was very expensive.
Zhou Tong noticed that Xiao Shulang's eyes suddenly lit up, as if he had discovered a new continent. "What... what's with that look in your eyes?"
"It doesn't mean anything." Xiao Shulang's eyes shone brightly, and he smiled genuinely. "Thank you for reminding me."
Zhou Tong was completely puzzled. What had he reminded him of?
Although Xiao Shulang inherited all of the original owner's memories after transmigrating, the amount of memories was too large, and some content was inevitably blurry. It was easy to forget what was in his mind, so he needed a keyword to unlock it.
Zhou Tong has now successfully extracted a piece of his memory from him.
Xiao Shulang's eyes were full of smiles. This was the first time he had been so kind and gentle to Luo Tian since their breakup. Luo Tian was momentarily stunned, almost thinking that they had gone back to the way they were when they were dating.
Unfortunately, the beautiful illusion was just that—an illusion. The reality was that Xiao Shulang could never treat him the same way he used to.
Xiao Shulang looked at Luo Tian with a very handsome smile: "The shops in the Silver Building were bought for you by me. At the time, you were out of town, and to make it easier to handle the formalities, all the contracts were signed in my name. I am the real owner of the shops, right?"
Luo Tian's hand trembled. In the past, Xiao Shulang would never have asked for anything back, but now—
Xiao Shulang spoke gently under his shocked gaze: "Look at my memory, I almost forgot I had a shop. Now you can return it to me, Luo Tian."
Xiao Shulang's voice at this moment sounded like a gentle spring breeze to others, but to Luo Tian it was like a whirlwind whipping around him, catching him completely off guard.
Zhou Tong: "..."
Luo Tian: "..."
What a terrible teammate!
A note from the author:
Update is here!
Chapter 17 Go ahead and make things up, I'll eat my hat if I can't expose you.
The comments section was still filled with opinions on Zhou Tong's performance, but the show was full of surprises, with the style of the episode changing from one moment to the next so unexpectedly.
There are just too many flaws; one keyboard isn't enough!
Holy crap, they just handed over a multi-million dollar store like that!
Five hundred and twenty, plus ten thousand—is this the romance of the rich? It's a kind of happiness I can't even imagine.
I know Luo Tian's streetwear brand; they also have an online store. He once posted pictures of the physical store. So it was a gift from Xiao Shulang?
Xiao Shulang had given Luo Tian quite a few things, but he didn't keep receipts or documents for everything. Even if he went through the legal process, he couldn't get many things back.
Zhou Tong's words prompted Xiao Shulang to dig out the shop from the original owner's memories.
A person who is not short of money can be happy to suddenly find a few dozen dollars in their pocket while doing laundry. How would a person who is short of money feel if they suddenly found that they had more than five million dollars in their possession?
Xiao Shulang tells you that it's tons of happiness!
If there's any regret, it's probably that no rental contract was signed; otherwise, he could have collected another rent payment.
"I've given you the original documents after they were processed, so it would be convenient for your business at the time. After the show is finished today, contact your staff and send them to my agent. Don't try to hold onto the originals, after all, the property rights belong to me, and I can just reissue them later."
Xiao Shulang was in a good mood, and he spoke to Luo Tian with a smile on his face, extremely amiable: "I'll give you three days to get the shop ready, isn't that plenty of time?"
Zhou Tong was still completely out of it. He stared blankly at Luo Tian: "Didn't you say that shop was opened by your parents for you to play around with..."
"You must have misheard me, I didn't say that." Luo Tian quickly salvaged the situation, suppressing the urge to beat up his teammate and shut him up before things got any worse, so he took the stage himself to battle.
"Xiao Shulang, are you trying to settle accounts with me about the money we spent on our relationship? You gave me gifts, but I never gave you anything in return?"
Xiao Shulang countered, "Yes, I packed everything up and threw it in the trash. The total price came to 20,000. I already transferred the money to you. I still have the transfer record and notes. Do you want me to post it on Weibo for everyone to see?"
The original owner of the body threw things away and transferred money. He took advantage of the fact that he still had money in his account to clear himself of this debt, and he did not owe Luo Tian anything.
If Xiao Shulang were to say it, he's too soft-hearted. If it were him, he would at most send everything back to Luo Tian, and even send it with cash on delivery, without paying the shipping fee for this scumbag. Luo Tian shouldn't even think about getting a penny more.
The 20,000 yuan saved can be used for living expenses, so I won't have to eat instant noodles for several days in a row.
But this is also the difference between having feelings and not having feelings. After all, the original owner liked Luo Tian, unlike Xiao Shulang, who was completely indifferent to Luo Tian.
Luo Tian's fans had already started to defend him, trying to attack Xiao Shulang for being stingy. Before they could get the argument going, Xiao Shulang shut Luo Tian down, and the bystanders also suppressed their anger.
[I'm begging you, Xiao Shulang can just casually buy a shop worth millions, while all of Luo Tian's stuff is only worth 20,000, and yet they still market him as a rich second-generation every day?]
[Yeah, yeah, it's one thing if she doesn't have money, but she herself is very expensive in terms of clothes and food, yet she can't bear to buy her boyfriend more things. That's just too unfair.]
[Either Luo Tian isn't a rich second-generation at all, and his career was built on Xiao Shulang's connections, and what Director Gao said is true!]
"Settle accounts? What are you going to use to settle accounts with me?" Xiao Shulang plunged his fork into the small cake on the plate, the sound of metal hitting ceramic echoing his voice.
"Take the sports car I bought you, or the watch I gave you?" Xiao Shulang lazily raised his eyebrows, but his eyes below were sharp as torches. "Do you know why I didn't let you return these things? It's because I didn't keep the receipts. I knew you would renege on your debts and never return them, so I didn't bother."
Xiao Shulang picked up a small piece of cake with his fork: "Weren't your words just an attempt to stir up trouble and imply that I'm stingy? Your fans are probably already spamming the comments section. You act in real life, but when you're acting, I don't see you putting in this much effort."
Look at the comments now, Xiao Shulang was absolutely right, isn't he? It's incredible!
"Excuse me, my family is on the verge of bankruptcy. If asking for my own things back is considered stingy, then so be it. I'm so poor I'm eating instant noodles, and my ex is making money off my shop. Gentlemen, why should he?
Even though the guests couldn't see the actual comments, Xiao Shulang seemed to be interacting directly with them. Seeing Luo Tian's expression change drastically on the screen, many of Luo Tian's fans were stunned by Xiao Shulang's barrage of comments.
They were stunned, and the bystanders started to speak more.
[That's a direct confrontation! So cool, I want to be a fan!]
Luo Tian's expression contorted; was he speechless from being rebuked?
[You guys are saying you don't want sports cars or luxury watches, but you still call yourself stingy for bringing back a store with your own name on it? How generous are you?]
Luo Tian's expression was indeed distorted. Since Xiao Shulang had openly confronted him, he no longer needed to pretend to be happy.
Luo Tian's anger was now written all over her face. She didn't back down and made her lies sound like the truth: "Xiao Shulang, I didn't want to hold it against you because of our past friendship. But you're quite good at making things up. All the things I gave you are only worth 20,000? You're not only stirring up trouble online, but now you're trying to smear me, aren't you?"
"Wow, so you're already putting on an act?" Xiao Shulang said leisurely after taking a bite of cake. "Alright," he continued, "then tell me, what good things have you given me?"
Luo Tian was hot-tempered, but he knew he couldn't admit defeat at a time like this, so he blurted out, "The necklace I gave you before was worth fifty thousand!"
Xiao Shulang quickened his pace: "You can tell me the brand and style of the necklace within three seconds to prove you're not making this up!"
When a person's emotions are high, they are easily stimulated and guided by external factors. Luo Tian was already lying, his heart was racing and his mind was racing. The "three-second" time limit came through his ears, and he subconsciously blurted out: "Aimeida's Autumn Maple Dream!"
Luo Tian almost bit his tongue over the last word, but it was too late to take it back: his nerves finally realized he had been tricked and he had said the wrong thing!
Xiao Shulang's speech returned to normal, and he jokingly said, "Using the necklace I gave you as a substitute, if you're going to make something up, at least make it believable. You even wore this in a photo shoot; some of your fans will still remember it."
Luo Tian's fans can certainly attest to this.
[Isn't Autumn Maple Dream the necklace that Brother Luo Tian wore at the fan meeting? Everyone said it was beautiful, and it was he who explained it to us that we knew the necklace had such a lovely name.]
Yes, I still have all the photos from the event saved; they're my screensaver now.
Luo Tian forced a smile and tried to salvage the situation: "I did wear one of them, but it's true that I bought a matching pair for couples and gave the other one to you!"
He spoke with such confidence that someone unfamiliar with the Aimeida brand might have been fooled. But there were several people with decent spending power sitting here, not to mention jewelry experts among them. This lie was easily exposed.
You Ziang: "Aimeida only makes handmade jewelry, and they don't make couple's pieces."
Luo Tian didn't chat with the others last night, so he didn't know about the family background that You Ziang had already talked about. He remembered that when Xiao Shulang gave him the necklace, he told him that it was a niche luxury brand with only one physical store in the world. He was angry right now and would lash out at anyone who came near him: "Have you even bought it before? How can you say that?"
You Ziang couldn't stand his bad temper: "Heh, I bought it. I even studied with their designer for two months. After the live stream, I'll call them and check your purchase history. They keep records of every item they sell, so I can find out who bought the necklace."
The edited version has only aired one episode, and viewers haven't even seen yesterday's edited version yet. Like Luo Tian, they also don't know You Ziang's identity. Luo Tian is so angry that his heart, liver, spleen, and lungs ache. Why is everyone here to cause trouble today? Zhou Tong is such a terrible teammate, and so is You Ziang. Why is he interrupting when he's arguing with Xiao Shulang?!
After remaining silent for a long time, Yin Xingzhi finally got his chance to speak and smooth things over: "Uh, everyone, please calm down first?"
Yin Xingzhi was doing it on purpose. Now that he knew You Ziang's identity, he had one more target to hunt. In this dating reality show, he would be fine as long as he could catch either You Ziang or Luo Tian. Luo Tian had already made his presence known for several days, so he had to leave a good impression on You Ziang as well.
But the transition can't be too abrupt, otherwise it would be too fake to like Luo Tianxia one second and You Ziang the next.
He wanted to avoid offending either side, but Xu Baichang suddenly blurted out, "I know Amida, they really don't sell couple's items."
The aggressive Luo Tian seemed to be suddenly paused. He stiffly turned his head and looked at Xu Baichang in disbelief.
Xu Baichang lowered her head to drink water, remaining silent and avoiding his gaze.
Xiao Shulang finished the small cakes on his plate and put it down: "Three to one, Luo Tian, are you still making things up?"
Zhou Tong was clearly caught off guard by this turn of events. He opened his mouth as if to say something, but Tian Xiaole grabbed his wrist and pulled him back, preventing him from speaking in time.
Xiao Shulang: "Oh right, speaking of matching items, I bought the engagement ring too. Give it back to me. You didn't throw it away, did you? If you did, give me the money back. I still have the receipt for the ring, so you can't deny it."
Of course, Luo Tian wouldn't throw away a ring worth 300,000 yuan. The more convincing his lie was, the more awkward he became. Not only was the lie of the Amida store exposed, but it was also exposed by several people in succession. What he couldn't understand the most was that even Xu Baichang was standing on the opposite side.
Why?
But after just one night, it feels like the world has changed completely?
The online public opinion hadn't been completely suppressed, Xu Baichang's attitude changed, and Xiao Shulang confronted him directly, even causing him to lose a store!