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

In fact, this is the set of actions that Su Chengyang is most used to taking.

Perhaps because of her past experiences, she cannot turn a blind eye to the suffering of others. Therefore, she sincerely hopes that everyone she meets can be loved by life.

But for those who are not worthy, Su Chengyang has no extra kindness.

After hearing Su Chengyang’s words, the crying person on the other end obviously paused.

Su Chengyang didn’t have much patience and said, “If there’s nothing else, I’ll hang up first.”

Hearing that Su Chengyang was about to hang up, Tian Rong’s voice became sharp: “Don’t hang up!”

Su Chengyang moved the phone away and asked, “So what do you want to say?”

Su Chengyang’s cold attitude made Tian Rong realize that her crying had no effect on her. She stopped pretending to be pitiful and directly said, “Su Chengyang, I apologize to you. Both Xiuyi and I are indeed sorry to involve you, but now Xiuyi has received the punishment he deserves. He has legal troubles and debts that he will never be able to pay off in this lifetime. Isn’t this enough?”

“That’s his own fault. What does it have to do with me?” Su Chengyang replied flatly, unmoved.

“Yes, it has nothing to do with you! But he and I have already received the punishment we deserve. Isn’t that enough? Can you please let me go? Can’t you show me some mercy and give me a way out? I promise you that as long as you help me once, I will never appear in front of you again or oppose you! I can swear… I can give you money… This incident has caused too much trouble. If I can’t turn things around, it will really be over for me! I beg you… can I kowtow to you?”

Listening to her plea, Su Chengyang unexpectedly found that she was not moved at all.

She only felt sadness and thought, why didn’t she think twice before acting?

Su Chengyang sighed and said, “It’s too late.”

“If you had said these words to me before the show, maybe I would have helped you, but what you did disgusted me, so I won’t help you. Miss Tian, it’s not that I’m not giving you a way out, it’s that you chose the wrong path.”

“Su Chengyang…”

“Good luck to you.”

After saying that, Su Chengyang hung up the phone.

Looking at the black screen of her phone, Su Chengyang felt a sense of satisfaction, but more than that, she felt a sense of loss.

This time, she seemed to have pushed Tian Rong too far, and she didn’t know if she would be retaliated against by her fans.

Not long after Su Chengyang hung up the phone, Xiao Lu, who she thought had already fallen asleep, suddenly screamed loudly, echoing in the silent villa.

Su Chengyang was in a daze and was startled by her scream.

She sat up in bed and looked terrified at the door. The next moment, Xiao Lu, with messy hair, burst into the room.

“Chengyang! Chengyang! Chengyang!”

Su Chengyang thought something supernatural had happened and looked at her in horror, unconsciously shrinking back a little. “W-What’s wrong?”

“Damn it!” Xiao Lu looked strange.

Su Chengyang’s eyes became hot, “Don’t scare me…”

“My cousin brother, he…”

“What happened to Manager Lin?”

Xiao Lu jumped into her bed, “My cousin brother is so amazing!”

“What?” Su Chengyang looked afraid and confused.

“He posted on Weibo!” Xiao Lu couldn’t be bothered with small talk and grabbed Su Chengyang’s tablet from her bedside, searched for Lin Yu’s name, and pulled up his Weibo.

After clicking on his Weibo, they discovered that he had posted a Weibo a few minutes ago.

Su Chengyang had previously browsed Lin Yu’s Weibo, and the last time he had posted was six months ago to promote his alma mater, with a low number of likes.

However, his latest Weibo had already received nearly 20,000 likes.

The Weibo post contains two video clips, and there is no other explanation provided.

“What’s this?”

Xiao Lu clicked on one of the videos, which seemed to be secretly recorded in some corner. “What else could it be? It’s about what happened between you and Tian Rong that night!”

Su Chengyang furrowed her brow. In the video, Tian Rong approached her with a glass of wine in hand. Although there was some background noise, nobody was speaking at the time, so Tian Rong’s voice was clearly recorded as she apologized and raised the glass to toast her.

From the perspective of the video, the person filming was likely standing near the entrance, and could clearly see Su Chengyang’s face.

In the video, Su Chengyang whispered something to Tian Rong, then downed the contents of her glass.

Tian Rong was momentarily stunned, but then suddenly lashed out. She grabbed the wine bottle from the table, took a gulp from it, slammed the bottle onto the table, and the shattered glass hit Su Chengyang’s food plate, causing her expression to darken.

“Do you know that wasting food is a shameful thing?”

In the end, Su Chengyang’s emotional defenses crumbled as she looked at the food that Han Songxue had given her, now stained with her own blood from her injured finger. Tears fell from her eyes, and then Lin Yu led her out of the room.

Xiao Lu clicked on the second video, which was surveillance footage from the hotel restaurant, and showed the scene that had occurred in the room.

After watching the videos, Su Chengyang looked utterly bewildered. “Where did Manager Lin get these videos?”

Xiao Lu shook her head indicating that she didn’t know, “It should be one of the program’s staff members who took the video. As for the hotel’s surveillance video… My cousin brother has been extremely busy these days. He may have gone back to the hotel to buy it.”

“Ah! What did you say to her at the time? Why was she so angry?”

Su Chengyang shrugged helplessly, “I didn’t say anything, I just didn’t want her to lose face.”

“I have to say, my cousin brother can really hold back. The online comments were so unfavorable to you for the past few days, but he didn’t release the video until tonight.”

Su Chengyang knew that once the video came out, Tian Rong would have no chance of redeeming herself.

She habitually clicked on the comments and scrolled down:

【Translation by the expert lip reader: Baby Chengyang probably said, “I won’t accept your apology, but I’ll drink this glass of wine.” She didn’t want to embarrass Tian Rong too much, so she drank the wine Tian Rong offered her.】

【Oh my god! Is the top comment translation real? Tian Rong is so disgusting, how dare she humiliate my female goose?】

【Hey, a few days ago she was still swearing that the rumors were fake and that she would sue. Now where is she? Speak up! I suggest the female goose sue Tian Rong for defamation!】

【So everything the rumors said was true! Tian Rong just wanted to drag down the entire team of <Travel> to wash herself clean?】

【Ah, Han Songxue and my female goose are so cute, I’m going to be killed by their cuteness.】

【My poor female goose cried when she said she hadn’t eaten enough. How could anyone want to hurt my female goose? Ahh!】

【Seriously, Female Goose and her manager are having a good time! Female Goose acts like a spoiled child who has found a backer.】

【I am about to die from excitement! Did you notice how nervous everyone at the table became when Female Goose got injured? And they didn’t even notice that Tian Rong was also hurt! Did I really find true friendship in the entertainment industry during my lifetime?】

【I knew they had a good relationship since the first episode! I thought everyone except Tan Qi was foolish, but it turns out Tan Qi is also a fool. It must be fun for them to be together.】

【I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s third episode!】

【+1】

. . . . .

Su Chengyang looked at the constantly refreshing comments section and felt a strange feeling in her heart.

She felt like everyone around her loved her.

After Lin Yu’s Weibo post was released, it skyrocketed to the top three hot searches within a few minutes. Netizens were completely boiling, and no one could sleep.

【You guys have no morals to be up so late! Can’t we wait until daytime to reveal any gossip?】

【Woo hoo, I’m so excited I can’t sleep.】

【This is the first time I’ve had this kind of gossip that turns every minute.】

【Get out of the entertainment industry, you scumbags!】

【You can always trust Starlight Entertainment. They will always protect their artists (here refers to artists who are not demons).】

【Starlight Entertainment is awesome! I hope my favorite idol can sign with them too.】

. . . . .

The online public opinion gradually settled, and there was no response from Tian Rong’s side. Everything was considered settled.

In this battle, Starlight Entertainment fought beautifully.

Xiao Lu was too lazy to go back to her room, so she lay next to Su Chengyang and browsed Tian Rong’s super topic, occasionally letting out a few gloating laughs.

Su Chengyang clicked back to her Weibo homepage, and her fans had already exceeded five million, approaching six million.

As a new actor without a representative work, it was almost unprecedented for Su Chengyang to have so many fans.

Since this incident happened, Su Chengyang has not made any response, but at this moment, she urgently wanted to vent her emotions.

She chose a relatively subtle way, like others, by posting nine group photos with the promotional copy of the third phase of the program and the movie <Sludge>.

After selecting the photos, Su Chengyang returned to the editing page, and coincidentally, the only group photo of her and Lin Yu was right in the middle.

Su Chengyang hesitated whether it was too obvious, but then she felt it didn’t matter, after all, it was just a photo.

After posting the Weibo, Su Chengyang’s heart was like water being boiled by a warm fire, constantly boiling, and there was even a moment when she felt that she might, perhaps, never be able to stop boiling.

But so what? She was confident that the water would only boil in her heart.

That night, Su Chengyang and Xiao Lu slept very late.

Early in the morning, they heard a knocking at the door and both woke up groggily from their sleep.

Xiao Lu stayed up later than Su Chengyang the night before and couldn’t even open her eyes, so she let Su Chengyang answer the door.

Su Chengyang rubbed her sleepy eyes and went to the front door. When she opened it, a figure at the doorway made her eyes unable to focus. After realizing that the person was Lin Yu, she awkwardly tugged at her hair and mumbled, “Manager Lin, why are you here?”

Lin Yu was wearing a white suit, carrying a plastic bag filled with delicious smelling buns and holding a flower that Su Chengyang can’t name in one hand.

“I’m here to bring you breakfast,” Lin Yu said.

Su Chengyang invited him in, and Lin Yu put the flower aside and walked into the kitchen with the plastic bag. He put the steamed buns in a plate and placed it on the table.

Seeing Su Chengyang standing stupidly in the same spot, Lin Yu smiled and asked, “Aren’t you hungry? Wash up and change your clothes, then come down and eat.”

“…Oh.”

Su Chengyang turned and went to the bathroom to wash up. By the time she returned to the living room, Xiao Lu had already woken up and was talking to Lin Yu about what had happened last night, asking him how he got the video and surveillance footage.

Lin Yu said, “The video was taken by Miss Tian’s assistant, who I caught in the act. I spent some money to buy it from her. As for the surveillance…that hotel is owned by Jiang Shanqi’s father’s company. She found me a couple of days ago and gave me the footage.”

Xiao Lu was surprised and said, “Jiang Shanqi’s family owns a hotel?”

“I’m not sure, it’s probably just one of their businesses,” Lin Yu replied.

Su Chengyang overheard the conversation between the two people and thought that she should go and thank Jiang Shanqi later.

She found that she had been very lucky since coming to this world, winning without even trying.

This feeling made her feel both at a loss and relaxed at the same time.

Especially when everyone around you is so nice to you, Su Chengyang can’t help but have a thought 一 whether she deserves their kindness or not.

After finishing breakfast together, Lin Yu went back to the company.

According to Xiao Lu, there were many scripts and endorsements that came knocking on their door during this period of time, and Lin Yu had to personally screen them. They might accept a few endorsements first and then consider joining the cast.

Due to the incident last night, the heat for the <Sludge> crew was soaring on Weibo. They timely announced that the filming had wrapped up.

This movie had already been scheduled for mid-November while they were only halfway through the filming. That was why they were so anxious when Tian Rong quit. They needed at least a month for post-editing, dubbing, and a series of promotional activities.

The fourth episode of <Travel> was filmed on the day after the previous episode was aired, so Su Chengyang had nothing to do today.

During the day, she chatted with Jiang Shanqi for a while. Jiang Shanqi said that she couldn’t be contacted for a few days because her manager took away her phone and changed all her social media passwords. She only got them back after reporting to the police.

Since they were going to record the program tomorrow, everyone didn’t have much work to do today. Han Songxue was extremely pleased in the group chat. After Lin Yu’s video was posted last night, her fans increased by more than 400,000, praising her for being particularly cute.

Jiang Shanqi sneered and said, “Sorry, my fans increased almost 700,000 last night.”

Other people in the group also made a lot of money and everyone seemed very happy.

Su Chengyang chatted with Liu Wen and Tang Yue for a while. The two had asked about Su Chengyang’s situation a few days ago, but Su Chengyang hadn’t checked her phone much and hadn’t replied. After receiving her reply, the two smiled and said they had seen the message last night. Finally, Su Chengyang also interacted with Tang Yue on Weibo.

Tang Yue has been doing well recently and the two agreed to go eat street food together when they have time.

In the afternoon, Su Chengyang and Xiao Lu spent time at the gym.

Recently, Lin Yu had not forced her to control her diet much, and as expected, Su Chengyang gained a few pounds.

After spending a few hours at the gym, they returned home near dinner time, and Xiao Lu made some food for them. Then they watched the third episode of <Travel> on the projector.

Coincidentally, at this highly anticipated moment, the video platform they were using went down.

Despite the scheduled broadcast time passing, the third episode of <Travel> had not yet been updated, and angry netizens flooded Weibo with complaints about the video platform.

Finally, amidst the angry criticism of the crowd, the video platform released their third episode, but what surprised everyone was that they actually released two episodes at once! One part and one part below, and the duration of each part was not short!

After the sudden update of two episodes, netizens who had previously cursed the video platform turned around and praised it to the skies.

The third episode began with an advertising segment from a sponsor, then the screen went black, and a string of black numbers began scrolling frantically across the screen, bringing to mind the day when Tan Qi was criticized on a variety show.

“Sister Chengyang, do you think Sister Tan Qi would really do that?”

Qin You’s voice sounded and the next moment, a video appeared on the projection.

Su Chengyang and Qin You were sitting in a car discussing Tan Qi’s affairs.

Barrage:

【Screen-on beauty attack!】

【The female goose is so pretty!】

【Youyu is so obedient in front of her sister, even attending online classes. The child is so serious.】

【Stick to me, my two treasures.】

. . . . .

The two chatted normally for a while, and then the camera showed Tan Qi and Han Songxue slowly approaching the car from outside.

Suddenly, a special effect “Danger is approaching” appeared on the screen.

Hearing Han Songxue’s voice, Su Chengyang jumped out of the car like lightning.

“Sister, don’t worry, I’ll make sure… woo woo!”

Han Songxue hadn’t finished speaking when Su Chengyang covered her mouth and nose and dragged her backwards.

Barrage:

【Hahaha.】

【Han Songxue, don’t say anything, you’re definitely adding fuel to the fire.】

【Female Goose is so prescient.】

. . . . .

Su Chengyang dragged the person to the back to criticize and educate her before returning to the carriage.

The barrage burst into laughter.

There weren’t many shots of the guests on their way to the destination.

When they arrived at their destination, the assistant director introduced them to the special effects of Sichuan, and everyone tempted Qi Fu, the big muscular man, to speak Sichuanese words with repeated syllables. The barrage went crazy, and Su Chengyang almost didn’t recognize the word “ha.”

But during the game before dinner, when the others cooperated with Tan Qi to confess what had happened to her in the game, everyone couldn’t help but shed tears.

After dinner, everyone returned to their rooms. Nine different camera angles were given, and each guest was watching Weibo in their room, wanting to know the netizens’ attitude towards Tan Qi’s confession as soon as possible, because it meant whether Tan Qi could continue to stay on the show.

“What are they saying? Are they cursing at me?” Tan Qi threw her phone aside and asked anxiously.

Manager: “They cursed at you.”

“…How many?”

“Quite a lot.”

“What did they curse about?”

“They said you have water in your brain.”

“If you’re going to be a loser, then don’t aim for the top-tier.”

Tan Qi: “?”

Barrage:

【Hahaha, LOL】

【You guys have taken all the bamboo shoots on the mountain1.】

【These netizens are too harsh.】

【I hope Sister Tan Qi can send the scumbag to prison.】