Chapter 82 Kidnapping (ETL) Part 1
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Chapter 82 A Car of Human Traffickers
The comments online can no longer be controlled. So many celebrities and their fans got together to speak out for Gu Ye. Xia Shiwen originally wanted to clear her name, but she didn’t expect that it would be better if she didn’t say anything. Once she opened her mouth, she was completely hunted down by the entire network and her reputation was stinking all over the country.
Almost everyone who goes online knows that Xia Shiwen proposed to 3 people within the same day. Netizens jokingly call her the new generation of Her Highness. But she sure has a good vision because all the men she picked for her harem are top-notch men!
Some people also want to stand on the side of the weak. They feel that it’s a bit pitiful for Xia Shiwen, a little girl, to be scolded so badly by the entire network. So they told Xia Shiwen not to be afraid and to say publicly that she didn’t like those 3 people at all. Also, she should show evidence of being cursed.
[Aren’t you very rational now? Prove it for yourself now!]
However, Xia Shiwen couldn’t even say “I don’t like them”, because the moment she denies the feeling, the Love Gu would backfire. It’ll be just like how Qin Xu experienced, she would get angina (chest pain) and couldn’t breathe.
Without Xia Shiwen’s evidence, the people who spoke for her now wanted to drown her with a mouthful of spit (scold her). [You can’t even produce a little evidence. The moment you open your mouth, you are already cursed. Is your face 1.8 meters wide?! (shameless)]
Xia Shiwen was completely confused. She didn’t know how she became the person scolded by the entire Internet. She called Director Qian anxiously, begging her uncle to save her. Her aunt answered the phone instead, and she scolded Zia Shiwen right away: “Your uncle was sent to the hospital because of your mother and you! If you have a little filial piety, let your uncle go!”
In short, Director Qian’s side can’t do anything about her problem.
Xia Shiwen was completely desperate. Her uncle didn’t care about her, so who else could save her? How could she be famous? How could she be the center of attention?
In this matter, the more people participated, the more things happened. Some people even found Director Qian’s bad news and tried to control the flow of comments, trying to take the opportunity to ruin his reputation. After 2 days of tossing and turning, Director Qian couldn’t stand it anymore. Hesitating for a long time, he finally took the initiative to find Gu Ye and said regretfully, “I should have listened to you at the beginning. I really don’t understand this niece.”
Gu Ye smiled and said, “It’s normal. After all, you guys don’t live together. Even some parents don’t know their child that much, not to mention you are just an uncle.”
Director Qian realized that Gu Ye didn’t vent his anger on him, and asked tentatively, “Master Gu, can you tell me how to solve this problem?”
Gu Ye was about to go to class and didn’t have time to be polite with the other party. “Director Qian, I have clarified the matter for you on Weibo. You should go and make a closure. Then this matter will be solved.”
Director Qian excitedly logged into Weibo and found that Gu Ye had just posted a post: [Xia Shiwen was wrong, not Director Qian. I hope everyone will not vent their anger on innocent people and respect a respected senior who has provided us with so many good works over the years. @Director Qian Xian]
Because of Gu Ye’s Weibo post, many netizens temporarily remained silent. They felt that it was indeed as Gu Ye said. What kind of era they are in now? They should not implicate the innocent. Moreover, Director Qian had indeed made a lot of contributions to the Chinese film industry. It should be fine if he doesn’t promote or criticize Xia Shiwen, but just kick her out.
Thus, many celebrities reposted Gu Ye’s Weibo post. Anyway, they supported whatever Gu Ye said. Except for those with bad intentions who wanted to use this incident to make trouble, other rational fans followed their idols’ footsteps to do the right thing. Soon, the public opinion on the Internet was quickly reversed.
Director Qian took the opportunity to issue a notice: [We’ll terminate the labor contract with the second female lead Xia Shiwen in the movie and replace her!]
Netizens were satisfied. Wouldn’t it have been over if this was done earlier? Why let a white lotus bitch ruin the crew?
Director Qian saw that the public opinion had changed, and wanted to continue filming while the heat was on, to reassure everyone. Unexpectedly, the previous investors saw so many people on the Internet declaring that they wouldn’t watch the movie even after it had finished filming. They were afraid that the investment of 100 million or 200 million yuan would be wasted, so they hesitated on the issue of funds.
And so, the filming of this movie still cannot be continued!
Director Qian is actually a very superstitious person. It can be seen from the fact that he asked Gu Ye to choose actors that he is still very fussy about these things. Now that many things are not going well, he is worried that maybe this movie is unlucky. He asked Gu Ye to calculate again, “Do we need to offer sacrifices to the gods and worship the sky?”
The suggestion amused Gu Ye because Director Qian was even more superstitious than him. Gu Ye immediately called his second brother and said, “Brother, if you buy ‘An Lushan Rebellion’, you will definitely make a lot of money!”
Gu Lin was not short of the 200 million yuan anyway, so he bought it on the same day. With this, the investor of the movie was immediately replaced and the funds arrived the next day. President Gu said, “Continue shooting! If the movie didn’t sell, the loss would be under me!”
Director Qian was relieved and thanked Gu Ye again and again for solving his urgent problem. In short, he owed Gu Ye a great favor.
As for Xia Shiwen, she completely ruined a good hand of cards by herself. With her uncle’s support, she would definitely have plenty of resources. As long as she worked hard, her uncle would definitely bring her to the top. The trophy of Best Actress was not out of her reach. Now, she just made her name notorious!
The level of Love Gu in Xia Shiwen’s body is lower than that of male Gu. Not being able to see her beloved caused her to suffer from ‘the pain of missing him’ every day. Xia Shiwen is now like a rat from the street, and everyone wants to scold her. So how could she dare to go to the crew to meet 3 big-name movie stars? The consequence of not following the Gu’s requirement is that the love Gu will bite back, devouring her heart, and the pain is excruciating. Albeit unseen, the cause-and-effect cycle is moving on course. She almost killed Qin Xu, and now she has fulfilled Gu Ye’s words, trying to live and atone for her sins.
After Xia Shiwen’s incident, the male stars who owed money to Gu Ye paid back the life-saving fee money. Gu Ye really made a fortune this time. He gave 3 million yuan to his ‘terrible’ friend Ge Qiaojun and donated 2 million yuan to the Hope Project in the mountainous area, leaving him with 3 million yuan in hand.
Zhao Pengyu and XiaXiang had heard about the happenings online. They didn’t know how much money Gu Ye made from fortune-telling but Xia Shiwen did reveal that Director Qian gave Gu Ye a 3 million yuan consulting fee. After the online discord died down, Zhao Pengyu went to Gu Ye and said, “Little Aunt, I heard you made money! Let’s go out for a big meal this weekend!”
Gu Ye felt a chill when he heard the address ‘Little Aunt’.
“Friggin Little Aunt?! Can you be more serious?”
“What’s wrong with Little Aunt? I’m changing how to address you in advance so I can adapt earlier.”
At first, Zhao Pengyu also thought that this greeting was too shocking. But after calling out a few more times, he found that it had become tolerable. Also, seeing how poorly Gu Ye reacted to it, Zhao Pengyu found it interesting instead and became more and more excited to greet Gu Ye.
“Little Aunt, I have changed my greeting. Where is the red envelope?”
[Banana – Senior will give angpow/money packet to junior in the family when meeting for the first time(?) or something like that. Banana never questions the intention so dunno what’s the meaning of this lol]
Gu Ye grinned in disdain, “Have some shame!”
“This has nothing to do with shame. Give me the greeting change fee!” Zhao Pengyu shamelessly hooked Gu Ye’s neck and refused to let him go without money.
Xia Xiang couldn’t stand it and kicked Zhao Pengyu, “You shameless bastard!”
“Little Aunt! Money!”
Gu Ye slapped away the claws on his shoulder in disdain, “Okay, I’ll give it. Ain’t just a red envelope, I can afford it!”
Gu Ye sent Zhao Pengyu a red envelope of 2501 yuan on his mobile phone. Then, squinting his eyes, he reminded Zhao Pengyu, “Xia Xiang is my brother, so you should call him uncle from now on.”
Xia Xiang touched the back of Zhao Pengyu’s head, “Aiya, my big nephew!”
Zhao Pengyu never won a quarrel, so he reached out to pinch Gu Ye’s neck in anger but Gu Ye pushed him down on the desk. Xia Xiang rolled up his sleeves and helped Gu Ye beat Zhao Pengyu. After the beating, Gu Ye decided to treat them to beef noodles together!
“You are too stingy! You made 3 million yuan, and yet you just treat us to beef noodles?” Zhao Pengyu struggled to get up and waved his hand in disdain, “No! I want to go to a Michelin restaurant!”
With a serious tone, Gu Ye deceivingly said, “I will take you to eat the best beef noodles in the country. It tastes like something that even five-star restaurants can’t make. Then we’ll add 2 more eggs, a plate of braised beef, and 2 side dishes. It’s a real delicacy! It will take me 2 hours to drive you there and we have to go around half of the capital to get it, you know.”
When the two heard that it was so far, they were also tempted. If it’s not delicious, why would Gu Ye travel so far to go there? And so, the Michelin restaurant was happily replaced by a beef noodle restaurant.
It was still the same street, the same restaurant, and the 3 of them drove a sports car here just to eat a bowl of beef noodles. When getting out of the car, Xia Xiang said, “If someone takes a picture of us now, we will be seen as the most down-to-earth rich second generation!”
Gu Ye laughed and said, “People ah, it’s best to just live happily, and don’t care what others think.”
After a year of operation, the decoration/maintenance of this store is getting better and better. Gu Ye brought Zhao Pengyu and Xia Xiang to the store and found that the business was very good, but there were no tables. A young man was newly hired in the store. He said embarrassedly, “Sorry, there are too many people in the store now. Can you three wait a moment?”
The boss lady took a look and recognized Gu Ye at once. She ran out of the kitchen excitedly, “Aiya! The little Master is here!”
The boss lady said enthusiastically, “If there is no table, let’s go upstairs. There are tables upstairs!”
Gu Ye smiled and said, “Boss lady, your business is good!”
“All thanks to you, little Master!” The boss lady happily led Gu Ye and his friends. Upstairs was where the couple lived. No guests were allowed to come up, so it was very quiet. “Since the small bottle you gave me was hung up, there has been no trouble in the store. Business is getting better day by day. My husband and I have always wanted to thank you, but unfortunately, we can’t find you.”
Gu Ye smiled, “If we are destined to meet, we will meet. Aren’t I here now? Anyway, please give us 3 bowls of noodles, a plate of braised beef, and 2 side dishes.”
“Okay!” The boss lady hurriedly made tea, “Wait a moment, I’ll make it for you myself!”
After the boss lady happily went down, Zhao Pengyu raised his eyebrows, “It seems like you won’t have to pay for this lunch? How much favor does she owe you actually?”
Gu Ye said seriously, “Don’t talk nonsense, we are not people who eat for free.”
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