APCF -Chapter 24 (2)

Director Zhao first subjected him to a torrent of scolding, and once he finished scolding, he flung the ashtray down onto the floor: “Tell me, you had deliberately planned for Zhou Yu to follow you to the drying yard, right?”

The video recording was complete and comprehensive; Director Zhao had mixed in the entertainment circle for so many years, he could make out the secret trick among it from just using a bit of his brains. Qi Xingchen also did not bother denying it: “That’s right, I did it deliberately.”

Director Zhao choked, and felt resentful towards him for not meeting expectations: “Qi Xingchen ah, Qi Xingchen. We just started filming the second stop for two days, and the temporary guest has gotten injured, do you know how much trouble it will cause for me? He cannot be filmed, where are you going to have me find another temporary guest at the last moment? What’s more is that Zhou Yu is someone squeezed in by a sponsor, if he really became blind or disabled, the other party will file a lawsuit! Can you bear this responsibility?…… Nevermind.”

The matter had already developed this far. Director Zhao knew that the most important thing to do at the present stage was not to hold someone accountable, but to solve the problem. He sucked in a deep breath, then pointed at Qi Xingchen: “You better stay put here, without my orders, you are not allowed to move. I’ll go give the sponsor a call.”

Once he was finished, Director Zhao walked a distance away, hung a smile on his face, and dialled the sponsor’s number.

In actual fact, he quite liked this kid Qi Xingchen, thus when he gave an account to the sponsor, he had purposely made it somewhat vague: “…… It’s on me, I didn’t watch over…… It certainly is, I did not know prior to this that Qi Xingchen’s older sister and Zhou Yu had this type of relationship. If I had known, I would not have let that girl come over…… Zhou Yu ah, Zhou Yu’s eyes seemed to have been injured, I am currently preparing to send him to the county hospital…… Yes, he has not gone yet…… What— Remove Zhou Yu, and publish the video recording?”

It was probably because he had heard some kind of strange instruction, Director Zhao’s voice even changed its key. He continued talking as he walked out of the compound.

When Director Zhao came back again, the clouds of worry had completely dissipated from his face, and he gave an excited smile: “Alright, Xingxing, there is no need to bother about it anymore. Not sure what the sponsor was thinking, he let me remove Zhou Yu immediately, and the post-production will deal with the mosaic. The person and public relations can all be handed to them. By the way, he had also allowed me to publish the earlier video recording! Heheheh, I was just worrying about having no popularity, and the popularity just fell on me with a patter. Say, isn’t this such a coincidence?”

“Aiyah, that’s great.” Qi Xingchen pretended to be relieved from a burden as he nodded.

He didn’t have the nerve to tell Director Zhao that the sponsor was actually his oldest brother, Qi Yunxiao.

…

With one order from Director Zhao, the post-production supervisor spurred his horses as fast as possible and trimmed the clips, placing a thick layer of mosaic on Qi Yuji. Zhou Yu was only pixelated at the indecent places, and the rest of the parts could be described as “original and authentic”.

It was Saturday today, and the site traffic was not bad. Carefully setting an auspicious date does not beat seizing an opportunity; Director Zhao instructed the cameraman to use his own personal account and send out the video as a melon-eating onlooker. The cameraman released the video as instructed, then Director Zhao called on the operating official account to give it a like.

The news of Zhou Yu joining 《Budget Travel》was disseminated long ago, seeing the like records of the official account, fans of the guests of《Budget Travel》as well as fans who were interested in variety shows all curiously tapped on it to enter. They were immediately stunned into silence by the strange material.

Such a pretty and classy girl was this fearsome when it came to tearing the scumbag apart; shocked by this, the netizens readily forwarded it like crazy, and just like this, the video spread like fire outside of the circle.

The main thing was that: there were countless scumbags, and innumerable girls have been hurt by these scumbags.

But amongst all these victims, how many of them were able to be like Qi Yuji, and seek justice for themselves?

And how many of them have been wounded with cuts and bruises all over, but they could only hide under the covers late at night, secretly letting the tears fall, all alone?

Qi Yuji’s actions could be said to bring great satisfaction to everyone.

Qi Xingchen opened the comments section:

【Refreshing, refreshing, refreshing! Who else here thinks it is absolutely refreshing?】

【In university, I met this kind of scum too, but unfortunately I was too young, and not as awesome as the beautiful jiejie. If I run into him again now, I just want to say, human scum must maintain 300 yards when they step out of the house!】

【A level with a distorted view, I also want to live to be as beautiful and rich as the jiejie in the green dress】

【Another level with a distorted view, the little handsome guy at the start of the video is good looking! Is he a Budget Travel guest? Give me the entire portal7……】

…

The incident was finished satisfactorily. Qi Xingchen did not feel like looking at Zhou Yu and handed him to Director Zhao to deal with.

Director Zhao also did not wish to take over this hot potato, instructing his assistant to help Zhou Yu treat his eyes that had swelled into the size of walnuts and not cause anyone’s death. Afterwards, they waited for the sponsor to send someone to fetch him.

The person sent by the sponsor arrived very quickly, they not only took Zhou Yu, but also stopped by to bring Qi Yuji away — the incident was made to be extremely unsightly; Qi Yunxiao definitely wanted to question her properly. Hence, Qi Xingchen let her bring the gifts he bought for his father and older brother back with her.

After finishing all of this, the guests who had seen the video flocked over to him as a group to do melon-eating. Qi Xingchen simultaneously faced the mirror to stick on band-aids and dealt with the torturous questioning of the guests: “That girl is my friend, she was passing through Guizhou and came over to visit me in passing. I don’t know why on earth Zhou Yu would go to the drying yard, everything is all a coincidence, hiss—”

Bo Ye frowned: “Better to go to the hospital to examine your nose bridge bah.”

“It’s alright, I fell down many times before. From experience, there definitely isn’t any fracture.” Qi Xingchen had stuck an “X” on his nose bridge and turned around.

All the guests: “HAHAHAHAHAH……”

Qi Xingchen was depressed by their laughter, but more importantly, he was dreading their continued close questioning, and found an excuse to make an escape.

Once everyone was done laughing, Liu Ziyu could not help but gossip: “Say, why would Xingxing help the female fight for her justice, is it possible that…… he really has feelings for her?”

“That is very possible!” Tao Tao analysed, “with the little sister looking that pretty, few boys would be able to resist her charm ah.”

“From what I see, both of them seem to be quite well-matched. Eh? Look at Weibo, they actually have the same surname, aren’t they too fated for each other!”

“If I didn’t know that Xingxing was from an ordinary family background, I would have suspected that they were from the same family……”

The three female comrades started to discuss excitedly, the continuous chatter made its way into ears. Bo Ye knitted his brow, getting up.

“Bo Ye, didn’t you just come back? Why are you going again?”

“Returning to my room,” Bo Ye said, “I’m kind of tired, I’ll go rest for a bit.”

…

Disposing of Zhou Yu was akin to severing the plotline of Qi Yuji blackening and transforming into a malicious cannon fodder from its source, which was also akin to preserving this little life of his. Qi Xingchen woke from his sleep relaxed and alert.

Taking advantage of the fact that the other guests had yet to get up, he hurriedly drew water to wash his face. Once he had finished washing, he discovered Little Tie clinging onto the mental door of Zeng’s house while sticking his head out to look around. Waving at him while smiling, he said: “Are you looking for me? Come in bah.”

Little Tie complied and flashed through the entrance, with an exercise book in his hand: “Xingxing-ge, I have a question to ask you.”

The cameraman who got up even earlier than the rooster yawned: “Young lad, your Xingxing-ge hasn’t had breakfast yet, come over when he has finished his breakfast.”

“It’s okay,” Qi Xingchen shook his head, “One question is just a matter of a few minutes, let me have a look.”

He took the exercise book. He said it would take a few minutes, and it really only took a few minutes. Not only did he solve for the answer, the entire reasoning for solving the question was also written out in a few scritches.

Little Tie stared at him putting his pen to paper and realised that the question he did not understand was actually this simple, rejoicing, “Xingxing-ge, my classmates would also like to ask you some questions. You go eat first, I’ll let them wait for a bit.”

“No need.”
Yangshan village was not big; how many children of similar age could there be? Qi Xingchen was refreshed from solving the question, “let them all come in bah, I can settle it in 20 minutes.”

“Alright, thank you Xingxing-ge,” Little Tie faced outside and shouted, “All of you can come in!”

Afterwards, one, three, five, eight of them…… stood in a queue and walked in in succession.

……A f*cking total of more than 40 came in!

The following shot assistant buried his head in his hands: “Oh my god, how many students are here?”

“42 of us.” Little Tie said bashfully.

The following shot assistant: “How many students do you have in your grade altogether?”

“Our school doesn’t separate by grade, 8 towns in the 10 li radius pooled together two classes, there are less than a hundred students.”

Altogether there was less than a hundred; today, 42 of them came, so half the school already turned out in full strength!

The following shot assistant did not know whether to cry or laugh; the heroism on Qi Xingchen’s face also gradually stiffened, changing into bewilderment and a forced smile.

He ran up to the table, grabbed a steamed bun to hold in his mouth, and as if he was a hero going to be killed for a righteous cause: “Bring it on!”