I Want To Retire From the Circle but Become Famous by Acting Poorly

After returning to the hotel, Su Chengyang took a shower with a feeling of sadness and lay on the bed, feeling her round belly.

Although she could be satisfied with fruits and vegetables, Su Chengyang was a meat lover. Even though she had turned her sorrow and anger into appetite and ate like crazy until Lin Yu stopped her, she still felt hungry. Of course, it wasn’t real hunger, just a subconscious craving for meat that made her feel like she wanted to eat something.

In the battle between reason and desire for food, reason eventually won.

“Forget it!” Su Chengyang grumbled and covered her head with the blanket. “It’s only a one-year contract anyway.”

Su Chengyang forced herself to sleep, and after dozing off, she dreamed that Lin Yu took her to a famous steakhouse and ordered all the restaurant’s signature dishes, coaxing her to eat them all.

Su Chengyang woke up laughing about the dream. But when she opened her eyes and looked at the hotel’s white ceiling, she felt lost for a moment.

At 8:30, Xiao Lu brought her breakfast, and Su Chengyang numbly took the meal box and mechanically put it in her mouth.

“Su Chengyang, what Boss Lin said is right. Now netizens have dug up Yang Xiuyi’s timeline with his girlfriend and your former crew members have come out to clarify that you barely spoke a few words to him and that he often left the set without permission, delaying the shooting progress for many people.” Xiao Lu lay on the sofa, browsing Weibo on his tablet while eating an apple, his eyes gleaming.

“Moreover, many artists and crew members have come out to criticize Yang Xiuyi for being arrogant. It seems like the whole world is against him now.”

After the interview program aired last night, Su Chengyang hadn’t paid attention to the online discussions.

In fact, she wasn’t very interested. As long as she could prove her innocence in this way, it was enough for her. After all, she had inherited the assets of ‘Su Chengyang’, which were enough for her to go home and open a bookstore and not care about how the outside world would comment on her.

Anyway, she had achieved her goal of signing with Starlight Entertainment now. As long as Su Chengyang followed the company’s arrangements, she could do whatever she wanted after the contract expired in a year. By then, she would definitely spend a period of time indulging in food and turning herself into a chubby person!

The more she thought about it, the more Su Chengyang found it difficult to swallow the food in front of her, but she couldn’t help it. After all, she couldn’t starve herself, right?

“Yang Xiuyi has shifted the blame to you, and coupled with last night’s intentional pouring of water on you, which caused a quite strong public reaction. Netizens have exposed all of his dirty secrets, saying that he dated a D-list actress a few years ago and dumped her after he got famous. She was even pregnant with his child at the time. I think it’s impossible to salvage the situation now. I don’t know how the company will handle it.”

Su Chengyang bit an apple and mumbled, “Will the company sidelined him?”

Xiao Lu turned to look at her and said in surprise, “How is that possible! Do you know how much the company paid him in signing fees? How could they spend so much money and sidelined him? I think if the chairman deals with this matter, he will probably demand that Yang Xiuyi terminate his contract and pay the penalty. However, it seems that the chairman wants Boss Lin to handle this.”

Upon hearing this, Su Chengyang asked curiously, “How much is his penalty for breach of contract?”

Xiao Lu shook his head, “I’m not sure, but it’s definitely several tens of millions or even a billion.”

Hearing this astronomical figure, Su Chengyang couldn’t help but inhale sharply.

Because she still had one year left on her contract with her former company, she negotiated to transfer it to Starlight Entertainment without receiving a single penny of the signing fee or several million in breach of contract penalties. Just hearing the tens or hundreds of thousands made her scalp tighten, let alone if it was several tens of millions or even billions in breach of contract penalties. Su Chengyang would rather die, tire herself out, or even do whatever Lin Yu told her without saying a word.

Anyway, this matter had settled for Su Chengyang. She didn’t pay attention to her fans comments on Weibo anymore. When Lin Yu called her to post a daily photo and interact with her fans, she asked Xiao Lu to take a picture of her eating. In the photo, she looked unwilling while staring at a plate of food with hardly any meat.

After posting on Weibo, Su Chengyang also checked her private messages and fan count. She received many comforting messages, but some of them also came from fans with Yang Xiuyi’s profile picture, questioning why she didn’t speak up for him, even though he gave her the chance to sign with Starlight Entertainment. Su Chengyang didn’t even blink at those comments and quickly left. She went to her homepage and found that her fan count was about to exceed 80,000.

For a relatively unknown actress, having 80,000 fans is not bad, and most of them are active fans. As soon as she posted on Weibo, she immediately received comments and likes.

“Chengyang seems to be very disgusted.”
“Poor sister, doesn’t the company give you any good food? Why is it all vegetables and fruits?”
“Congratulations to Sister Chengyang for signing with Starlight Entertainment. It seems that Starlight Entertainment is very reasonable. I wish you a bright future!”

. . . . .

After browsing for a few moments, Su Chengyang exited Weibo, finished the food in her lunchbox in two or three bites, rested for an hour, and then was pulled by Xiao Lu to the gym.

Two days had passed since the incident, yet the heat surrounding it had not died down.

During these two days, Su Chengyang did not return to the company, and the company did not contact her either. Most of her time was spent in the gym with Xiao Lu.

Although the incident was still the talk of the town, Su Chengyang’s Weibo followers did not increase significantly because most people’s attention was still focused on Yang Xiuyi. After the initial outpouring of sympathy for her, people lost interest in her as a minor character.

Su Chengyang was happy to live freely and had hardly heard any news related to Yang Xiuyi since then.

Many people on the internet are curious about what kind of reaction Starlight Entertainment will have after this incident, so every day there are people waiting for updates under the company’s official account. Some have even dug up information about Lin Yu, who briefly appeared in a live stream, and are checking his posts for any updates.

That night, the two of them went for a run and returned to the hotel. Xiao Lu didn’t feel like going home, so she decided to stay over at Su Chengyang’s place for the night.

Although Su Chengyang’s body is a few years younger than hers, they are peers mentally and can chat easily. Xiao Lu is a talkative and straightforward girl, while Su Chengyang is more reserved and sometimes reacts in unexpectedly cute ways. Xiao Lu likes to tease her, and as they spent more time together, their relationship grew closer.

After taking a shower, they each lay in bed with their phones. Xiao Lu is a bit of a gossip and spends her free time scrolling through Weibo, while Su Chengyang checks her secondary account to see if anyone has ordered her illustrations. However, as most people on the internet are focused on this incident, there aren’t many orders for her artwork. She rolls her eyes and logs out.

“By the way,” Su Chengyang suddenly remembered something and looked up at the Xiao Lu beside her.

Xiao Lu had medium-length hair, with a little moisture at the ends, and was wearing a white tank top. Her skin was tanned, and her arms were covered in muscles. She glanced at Su Chengyang and asked, “What’s up?”

“Does this matter have any impact on Tang Yue?” Su Chengyang asked.

Xiao Lu was startled for a moment, thought for a moment, and said, “Are you talking about the little artist who initially accused Yang Xiuyi of wrongdoing and then was heavily criticized by his fans?”

“Yes.”

Xiao Lu said, “She’s doing well. She was the first one to stand up and accuse Yang Xiuyi, although she was later badly criticized by Yang Xuiyi’s fans. But after this incident came out, she gained a lot of followers.”

Hearing this, Su Chengyang breathed a sigh of relief. “That’s good.”

Xiao Lu looked at her strangely and asked, “Are you very close with her?”

Su Chengyang hesitated for a moment and said, “Not bad? At that time, she was the one who told me about Mr. Lin’s audition.”

“Oh…” Xiao Lu suddenly dragged out the tone and raised her eyes, “So compared to me, who has a better relationship with you? Is it her or me?”

Su Chengyang: “…”

She thought for a moment and said seriously, “If you can secretly stuff a big chicken leg into my lunch box in the future, you and I will be the best in the world. Nobody can compare to us.”

After speaking, she looked at Xiao Lu expectantly.

Xiao Lu’s expression became even stranger, and finally she couldn’t hold back and laughed, “I was just teasing you, Su Chengyang. Do you think I’m a three-year-old child?”

Su Chengyang’s face drooped, “Oh…”

She turned over and covered her face with the blanket.

Xiao Lu poked her waist from behind the blanket and said, “Don’t be angry.”

“I’m not angry.”

I’m not angry with you.

Whenever Su Chengyang feels unsatisfied with her appetite, the little black figure in her heart will come out and criticize ‘little’ Mr. Lin.

“Okay, let’s talk business. Xu Yang knows we’re staying together tonight and sent me a message saying that Boss Lin requested all contracted artists in the company to repost the official blog’s Weibo post tonight at midnight. It should be about how to deal with the Yang Xiuyi incident.”

Su Chengyang turned around in surprise, “All contracted artists in the company are reposting? It’s so grand?”

Xiao Lu said, “After all, Yang Xiuyi has been an artist the company has invested time and energy in. After such a big incident, the company will definitely sound a warning to others, so that everyone can take it as a lesson.”

“Then why is it midnight? I remember the last announcement was also at midnight.”

“To prevent an explosions.”

“Oh.”

While waiting for the official announcement on Weibo, Xiao Lu played games with Su Chengyang. Su Chengyang wasn’t interested in the game and soon began to doze off.

“Chengyang! Chengyang! The Weibo post is out!”

“Huh?” Su Chengyang was pulled out of her sleep by Xiao Lu and groggily grabbed her phone, opening it and entering Weibo in one smooth motion.

After logging into Weibo, she didn’t know what to do for a moment and subconsciously clicked on the hot search. After scrolling from the bottom up for a while, she saw a topic and muttered, “Starlight Entertainment officially sues Yang Xiuyi…”

“Starlight Entertainment is actually suing Yang Xiuyi?!” Su Chengyang shuddered all over and sat up from the bed.

Beside her, Xiao Lu also looked incredulous. “Boss Lin…he’s really ruthless.”

“Quick, help me take a look. How much money do they have to pay? I dare not look.” Su Chengyang immediately locked her phone, looking shocked.

Perhaps it was because Lin Yu always talked about breach of contract, so Su Chengyang subconsciously put herself in that position.

Xiao Lu swallowed her saliva and opened the Weibo topic. After a moment, she looked at Su Chengyang with her mouth wide open and her words a bit unintelligible.

“Four…four billion yuan…”

Su Chengyang’s breathing stopped.

“This includes compensation for breach of contract, damages to the company’s reputation and interests, as well as compensation for you.”

Su Chengyang was stunned.