Chapter 391 - Chapter 391: Are You Crazy?
Chapter 391: Are You Crazy?
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
In the evening, it indeed became a hot topic. Entertainment reporters truly live up to their reputation. The news was vividly written, filled with rumors and juicy gossip. While Gu Chuyun resided in a small villa by herself, her parents and brother lived in an old, run-down house. They actually wanted to claim that Gu Chuyun was renting it, but the Housing Bureau quickly exposed the truth. Gu Chuyun owns several villas, all of which are up for rent. She purchased these properties a few years before the Gu family’s bankruptcy and has been renting them out ever since. Talk about a fallen heiress making a comeback! Who else has a billion-dollar real estate portfolio?
“Fallen heiress, I’m laughing so hard! Fans of the heiress, how much is your monthly salary? Can you afford even one of your lady’s villas?”
“I’ve been saying that Gu Chuyun was bound to have a downfall. What’s wrong with marketing? Does the internet have no memory? She’s getting a taste of her own medicine now.”
“A starving camel is still bigger than a horse. Gu Chuyun, you’re so wealthy, why pretend to be poor? Her fans are truly pitiful, showing empathy for a capitalist. Hilarious.”
“Didn’t Gu Wenliang owe a huge sum of money? Why aren’t Gu Chuyun’s properties being seized?”
“Before the bankruptcy, maybe he transferred all the assets to Gu Chuyun.”
“Poor creditors, it seems the debtor is quite the big shot!”
“Gu Chuyun’s life isn’t pitiful at all, is it? She enjoyed a life of luxury for eighteen years, the apple of her parents’ eye, influential and powerful. Even if she’s bankrupt now, she can be a landlady and support a small company with the rent. She doesn’t need a comeback; isn’t lying low just fine?”
The focus on Gu Chuyun’s property was more captivating than Gu Wenliang’s gambling escapades.
Gu Ci and Qin Wan were drinking tea in the courtyard, casually browsing through the gossip. Qin Wan remarked, “The popularity just won’t go up.” “They must be spending money on public relations,” Gu Ci chuckled.
“In that case, I’ll let them spend their money in vain!” Qin Wan grabbed the computer, blocking out the platform’s watered-down data and leaving only the real metrics. Some of the data was directly tampered with by the platform’s programmers, but Qin Wan quickly corrected it.
The platform’s programmers were no amateurs, so they reverted the changes promptly. Qin Wan, in response, continued to correct it. The result was a fluctuating popularity: it would suddenly shoot up to first place, then drop to thirtieth place a few minutes later, even though there were no significant new developments. It would then miraculously return to the top spot.
Qin Wan became irritable. “Forcing me to pull out all the stops, and where is Ziyu when I need him?”
“He’s asleep!” Gu Ci looked up at the second floor, where the lights had been turned off early.
“He’s such a night owl, and he’s already asleep at this hour. It’s not even ten o’clock.”
“He’s been busy lately and quite exhausted. Little kids should go to bed early.”
As Qin Wan grumbled, Gu Chuyun’s trending topic remained firmly in first place, never dropping, even when a top-tier celebrity couple was exposed at 10 o’clock. Her scandalous topic still comfortably occupied the top three.
“Interesting, money can indeed move mountains,” Qin Wan commented as she manipulated the data, which also cost money. Even the news of a top-tier celebrity couple dating couldn’t dethrone her. “It must be the mastermind behind this, and he has a history.”
“Brother takes care of so many things. How could he do something like this?” “He did something similar to Gu Chuyun before, didn’t you know?” Qin Wan said. “He shamelessly exposed a lot of celebrities’ news too.” Gu Ci chuckled, “For me?”
“Who else?”
Qin Wan’s words warmed Gu Ci’s heart. She knew that this wasn’t the work of Jiang Junlin. Jiang Junlin was too busy to follow news and gossip. As for Lu Zhiyuan, he was recovering from an injury and had just finished a meeting with the Black Hawk Nine Corporation’s CEO. He idly glanced at the news and saw the trending topic about Gu Chuyun.
The topic fluctuated up and down, and he pinpointed Qin Wan’s location at the Blue Fields Villa, so he guessed it was Gu Ci. If technical prowess could be defeated by money, it wouldn’t be Gu Ziyu. So, he decided to lend a hand.
“Gu Chuyun still hasn’t disappeared!” Lu Zhiyuan sneered. After regaining his memory, he had been dealing with a series of major events and didn’t have time to handle Gu Chuyun. In this lifetime, she wouldn’t pose a threat to Gu Ci either. But when he thought about Gu Chuyun’s mindset of destroying things in his name if she couldn’t have him, causing harm to Gu Ci and Ziyu, he didn’t want to let her off so easily.
She was living such a comfortable life now, but she would have to pay back tenfold for the suffering Gu Ci endured in his previous life.
This incident with Gu Chuyun had a significant impact. Her manager, Yu Fei, was furious. “You still have so much property, and you didn’t tell me?”
“I didn’t think anyone would investigate. It must be Gu Ci. I saw her on campus today, and I’ve been avoiding her. Why won’t she leave me alone?” Gu Chuyun lost her composure, throwing things and shedding tears. The popularity she had worked so hard to build up had been undermined by this incident. Gu Ci was like her nemesis, and as long as she was around, she couldn’t have a good life.
“The mistake in this matter isn’t that someone dug up your scandal. It’s that you didn’t honestly admit it. If you had confessed early on, I wouldn’t have let you market yourself as the heiress making a comeback. Even if we did market it, we would have found a way to navigate it. Now, you’re being mocked by the masses, and it’s a total disaster. Why are you so foolish?” Yu Fei scolded her.
“I didn’t expect it to turn out like this. I thought it was a minor issue,” Gu Chuyun cried.
Yu Fei was genuinely angry. He was a top-notch talent manager, specializing in creating stars. He had brought top-tier celebrities to fame and cultivated numerous rising stars. When he was first asked to manage Gu Chuyun, he wasn’t willing. He had heard some rumors about this young lady’s reputation, and she had a severe case of “celebrity disease.” However, the conditions offered were too generous, and she was quite assertive. Yu Fei reluctantly agreed.
Fortunately, Gu Chuyun was aware of her situation and had improved her temper. She was obedient in public, and her foundation was solid. She had genuine musical talent, even though she wasn’t a prodigy. Marketing her as a musical talent was no problem, especially since she was from A University’s music department. With a strong hand of cards, there was no way it would fail. Gu Chuyun’s rise was indeed swift, and her reputation had turned around. However, who could have predicted such an incident? Yu Fei liked artists who were obedient; being a bit foolish wasn’t an issue. As long as they were cooperative and didn’t cause trouble. But Gu Chuyun had truly disappointed him.
“You should release a statement, stating that after your father’s bankruptcy, all your assets were mortgaged to the creditors, and your current efforts to earn money are solely to repay those debts,” Yu Fei suggested.
Gu Chuyun’s eyes lit up. “Then 1 can bite back at Gu Ci. Among the three siblings, the debt distribution between me and my brother is terribly unfair. Gu Ci is also a child, and she ignores our father’s life and death, forgetting the favor of upbringing. Since she won’t let me off, 1 won’t let her off either!” “Are you out of your mind?” Yu Fei frowned. “Gu Ci is not part of the entertainment industry. What’s the benefit of marketing her? Besides, she’s Jiang Juniin’s sister. Are you trying to drag us all down together? Can you afford to offend Jiang Junlin? She’s also in a relationship with Lu Zhiyuan. Between Jiang Junlin and Lu Zhiyuan, which one can you afford to offend? How did you become so foolish?”
Gu Chuyun roared in frustration, “Am 1 supposed to let her bully me without fighting back?”