Chapter 44 : Patron, Please Keep Me 24 (1/2)

The Little Meatball fans immediately burst out and suppressed those who were prepared to laugh at Shi Sheng. ‘Look see, even if he doesn’t have a verified account he is still awesome as balls! This is what our Little Meatball’s patron has to be!’

Fang Liqiu ‘V’ : Patron-sama, please keep me too! // Jiang Wan ‘V’ : Goodnight patron-sama Lu Qingyun.

Su Yixiu ‘V’ : Patron-sama, please give me my salary // Jiang Wan ‘V’ : Goodnight patron-sama Lu Qingyun.

These two posts immediately caused yet another wave of uproar online.

Fang Liqiu had quite a lot of fans too. Their thoughts upon seeing her post went something like: ‘Our goddess is openly begging to be kept on Weibo? Goddess, even though you’re very… open, but please be more conservative, okay?

And isn’t Su Yixiu the boss of Youjian Entertainment? If even he’s asking for a salary, doesn’t that mean this guy is the boss’ boss? Heavens, what is happening? Someone come and tell us who Lu Qingyun is!!!’

Some people wanted to find out who he was but they couldn’t dig up anything on him at all. After all, there was just a name and a blurry profile. There wasn’t even a phone number, how were they supposed to investigate him? Even if it was possible, it wouldn’t be completed in a short amount of time.

Hence some people started to say that all of this was staged and that the followers list was faked.

This was immediately rebuked with, [Then you fake a followers list filled completely with verified accounts!]

The online community was on the verge of breaking out into a full-blown flame war yet there was still no reaction from Lu Qingyun. People who had some technical skills started investigating the last time the Weibo account had been logged on yet they found that the one and only time he had logged on was to send that post with a link in it.

Everyone pretty much just stared stupidly at their screens. ‘What happened to the promised patron? How come he’s just gone poof?’

……

While Shi Sheng’s page was rowdy, Xia Xuan’s troubles hadn’t ended. Because the studio had stated that they weren’t done, quite a few people were waiting for more information. Not long after Shi Sheng’s Weibo posted that message, the studio updated too.

The contents were a bit special this time. It was a group photo. Everyone in it was very young, around the age of University students. The background was one of the Universities in the country. Xia Xuan was standing in the middle, looking cheekily adorable and lively. This looked like a normal group photo, nothing seemed out of the norm. However, Xia Xuan gasped upon seeing this. If she had still held some hope before, then now it was completely gone, leaving only endless fear.

Xia Xuan’s hands trembled as she dialled her mother’s phone number. Only after a few tries did she finally manage to make the call.

“Xuanxuan, it’s late. Why haven’t you slept yet?” Her mother’s warm and gentle voice could be heard.

“Mom, have you investigated it yet?” Xia Xuan’s voice was shaking, revealing how insecure she felt right now. “There’s s-someone on the internet… wh-who exposed the group photo of me and those people… They definitely know what happened back then. Mom, save me! I don’t want to be arrested!”

Strange sounds could be heard on the other end. Xia Xuan could hear her father’s unhappy grumbling as well as her mother attempting to soothe him before it quietened down. “Xia Xuan, just who have you offended? Do you know how serious this is?”

“I haven’t…” Xia Xuan weakly denied before Jiang Wan’s face floated in her mind. ‘Could it be her? Would she really have been able to dig out what happened so long ago?’

“Xuanxuan, think harder. Who have you offended? Those people back then all had a part in that matter so they definitely couldn’t have been the ones to reveal it.”

“There are still their family members. Could it have been them?”

It went silent on that end for a while. The only thing Xia Xuan could hear was her mother’s slightly heavy breathing. Xia Xuan was on the verge of full-blown panic as she spoke in a voice filled with sobs and begging, “Mom, say something. I don’t want to be ruined, come and save me…”