Chapter 68: Chapter 68: This Slap Comes Out of Nowhere
Editor: Atlas Studios
The next day, Xia Weibao was woken up by a series of notifications from her cellphone.
Glancing at the WeChat message alerts on her phone screen, she hazily remembered that last night Xu Jiayang had added her to the “Allure” drama crew’s WeChat group.
Ever heard of WeChat? The kind you can chat with through the air. Heard it’s pretty advanced and awesome. Maybe you haven’t used it, but it was also her first time.
As she watched the chat history constantly refreshing, Her Majesty the Empress was a little excited.
Emma, modern stuff is just great, way more convenient than the ancient pigeon mail.
While she was thinking about this, she saw someone share a news link.
Xia Weibao clicked on it and her eyelid twitched fiercely.
Last night, Li Cheng fucked a dog on the roadside in the wee hours.
Yeah, you read that right. He was hugging a female dog and, well, cough cough, then…
Then he got overly excited and went limp.
The incident blew up and made it to the top news.
Xia Weibao covered her face, insisting it wasn’t intentional, it really wasn’t intentional.
A few days ago, bored from nursing an injury, she researched some self-defense drugs, one of which was cough cough, somewhat like an aphrodisiac… not exactly, but it did have some sort of stimulating effect. However, this drug had a cough cough side effect, namely that afterward it wouldn’t stand up ever again.
Last night when Li Cheng came charging over looking for trouble, she just thought of using him to test the drug.
She didn’t expect it to be that fierce, and that it would actually…
Xia Weibao silently lit a candle for Li Cheng, it’s not my fault, you’re not picky about your food, even going after a dog, it’s not a problem of the drug being too strong.
After a moment of silence, she opened Weibo and saw that the hot topics were all dominated by Li Cheng.
Suddenly she felt a bit relieved. It’s not easy, Her Majesty finally is not the top news anymore!
While she was engrossed, another news story popped up: apparently, Li Cheng couldn’t withstand the public pressure, so he fled the country to seek refuge.
Just by chance, he was spotted by journalists at the airport and then surrounded.
Li Cheng scrambled away like a rat crossing the street, tumbling and crawling.
Seeing this, Xia Weibao was dismissive.
He couldn’t even handle this much?
She was still standing strong despite being the daily top news, what a wimp!
(Reader’s inner thoughts: That means you have thick skin, Your Majesty!)
“What?! What do you mean Li Cheng ran away?”
Lin Mier just woke up from her agent’s bed and heard the explosive news, distorting her face with anger.
Brother Wang hung up the phone with a heavy expression.
“It’s said that he got drunk last night, wanted to find a woman, but ended up with a female dog instead, and couldn’t handle the public pressure, so he fled abroad.”
Lin Mier clutched the blanket tightly, “What about the filming of ‘Imperial Harem’ then?”
Brother Wang spread his hands, “The director has run off, what else could we do? It’s probably over now.”
“Bastard!” Lin Mier was so angry that her bare chest heaved intensely.
Being replaced in “Allure” had already been embarrassing enough, but she had finally landed a role in “Imperial Harem” that could have redeemed her image somewhat. Now “Imperial Harem” was gone too.
Losing two leading roles in one go, what would others say about her? Bad luck charm? The black hole of lead actresses?
Just thinking about the kind of comments that might appear online made her head spin with anger.
Last night, she had just boasted about “Imperial Harem” in front of Xia Weibao, ridiculing how low-class “Allure” was.
And just like that, “Imperial Harem” was gone.
Lin Mier felt like her face had been slapped swollen.
“Don’t worry,” Brother Wang soothed, caressing her sleek shoulder, “‘Imperial Harem’ is just a small production. As long as you can win ‘Dance into the Future’ and become a disciple of Yin Mulan, you will be beyond what any top actress could compare with. Why bother about such insignificant benefits?”