Contract Lover - L.K Adaptation

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Chapter 39 - Cuteness ("But I am interested in you") (1)

It had only been ten minutes for a new tag #Jiang Taehyung #Xu Lisa to get onto the top trending list.

That's the way of the entertainment circle. Things
came fast and ended fast. The Weibo user that
started the trend #Xu Lisa blatantly scamming a
few entertainers# immediately deleted her original
post and replaced it with the clarifying message
from Jiang Taehyung. And, she stated her stand along with the new post [Fighting Internet Violence Starts with you and me].

The poster stooped arguably lower than Xu Lisa
did when she was forced to leech off Jiang Taehyung's popularity by posing as a couple with him.

Audiences on the internet were no dummies. They
immediately took screen captures and paste them
together. One even made an advertisement out of it.

"A second ago, it was fighting blatant scamming, a
second later, fighting internet violence. You're a true
professional flip-flopper."

While the internet bystanders were mocking
this flip-flopping actress, Jiang Taehyung's fans
instinctively rejected him standing up to speak for
Xu Lisa. His fans quickly came up with all sorts
of speculations as to how that could have happened.

Some of them said that Xu Lisa's team had
hacked into Jiang Taehyung's Weibo, other said that
Lisa's team had infiltrated Taehyung's team, which would also explain how she was able to know his agenda so well in the past, others gone as far as speculating that Xu Lisa had casted a spell on Jiang Taehyung, as that'd be the only reason he'd do this thing this was the handwork of Xu Lisa's marketing team. They must have paid Jiang Taehyung's team an exorbitant amount to save her reputation.

That's why Taehyung had updated his Weibo against
his own will.

As for Xu Lisa's end, even though "Blossoming
Us" hadn't started filming for very long, the frequent posting of behind-the-scenes news on both her personal and official Weibo had gained her quite a bit of followers. And now, they were standing up to speak up for her.

[The fans of the film emperor are all film emperors. A spell? I say it looked more like a spell was casted on all of you conspiracy theorists.]

[Our Lisa-jie is the real deal. She didn't need
to scam the film emperor to boost her popularity and her continuous improvement speaks for itself.]

[Are all of Jiang Taehyung's fans delusional? Is it time to go seek professional help?]

[Ugh, your marketing team is so classy. How'd they
possibly accept money from another party? Are you kidding me?]

[One true fan can resist ten black fans. Now off you go.]

Over time, even some of the bystanders started
siding with Xu Lisa and started criticizing Jiang Taehyung's fans, facing resistance from multiple directions, were isolated.

They finally resorted to foul languages and personal attacks.

After the issue had marinated a bit, Jiang Taehyung
couldn't remain silent anymore and posted another
message.

[I posted that Weibo message personally and am
asking my fans to please stop with the speculations
that resulted in all kinds of conflicts.]

Along with the post, there were three selfies, all
taken using his cellphone Weibo app. They more than sufficiently supported that fact that he was, indeed, aware and agreed with what was going on.

Afterward, he further proactively hired a team to
control his fans and successfully suppressed all the
fans that were overly aggressive and spieling foul
languages.

His quick and concise response earned him another
round of new fans. even some of Xu Lisa's fans
spoke up to praise him, that's how an idol should
behave.

By the evening, the waves online finally started to
calm. Xu Lisa's negative publicity of "blatantly
scamming the film emperor" was successfully
quelled.

Chang Yuqi's head had turned into the size of a
pig head from all the face slapping. Xu Lisa could
clearly sense that in the span of a single day's from
"Speak up and fight scamming" in the morning to
"Like stirring up sht and scheming" in the evening,
the way the crew members looked at Chang Yuqi had flipped altogether.

At the end of the day, even Zhang Han, Chang Yuqi's agent, who didn't show up very often, was there.

The director, fanning himself with a hand fan as he
was on his way out, ran into Zhang Han right away.

He immediately walked up to her, snickered, and said,

"Miss Zhang, do you think you should try to rein in
your actress some? We are still filming right now and she was backstabbing someone on the same crew like mad. This is very bad for teamwork. How am I supposed to keep filming?"

Zhang Han was one of the best agents in the
field but even she was speechless in front of the
director's harsh words. She had no choice but to bow and apologize to him.

The director, his face cold, crossed his arms in
front of himself and carried on, "As you know,
we are only filming part 1 of 'Blossoming Us' right
now. If Yuqi is not going to learn her lesson going
forward, I just might have to consider talking to the
screenwriter and change things up a bit. Her role,
after all, is not that vital."

As he was still talking, it so happened that Xu Lisa
and Chang Yuqi walked out one after another.

Chang Yuqi was half listless when she saw Zhang Han. She walked over to greet her with her head
lowered. Zhang Han paid her no attention. She
quickly walked up to Xu Lisa and said to her
politely, "I apologize, Miss Xu, for all the troubles that we have caused you today. Our company didn't do the best job on following up. Please forgive us."

Having said that, she turned toward Chang Yuqi and
said to her sternly, "Come over here and apologize to Miss Xu now."

Chang Yuqi stared at her from afar. She only
wishes that she could do her harm from just her
stare alone.