Chapter 968

Ma Zhiyuan sat in front of the camera.

The livestream had already been turned on a minute ago.

He remained silent for a full minute.

The comment section was scrolling frantically, with hundreds upon thousands of messages popping up.

And his silence was puzzling.

——Are you not going to say anything?

——What's the meaning of just staying silent?

——What exactly happened between Lu Yan He and Zhou Ping'an?

……

Suddenly, Ma Zhiyuan picked up his phone, confirmed something, and nodded.

"Lu Yan He hasn't contacted me. Alright, the half-hour is up." Ma Zhiyuan took a deep breath. "You all don't know how many people have been looking for me, calling me, in this past half-hour. I thought Lu Yan He was just being stubborn, but I didn't expect him to be this tough."

"Lu Yan He once terminated his contract with Star Entertainment, before his agent became Chen Ziyan." Ma Zhiyuan put down his phone and started speaking directly.

"If you go search Star Entertainment's official website and Lu Yan He now, you should be able to find some reports from that time. Star Entertainment's official website had once removed Lu Yan He. Although those few reports didn't stir up much attention. This wasn't some technical error; Lu Yan He really did terminate his contract with Star Entertainment. It's just that he seamlessly re-signed a new contract with Star Entertainment, and his agent became Chen Ziyan."

"As for Lu Yan He, I can't say I like him or dislike him. I mainly just dislike Li Zhibai, who relies on his family's wealth and high popularity to be arrogant. Because Lu Yan He is close to him, I've come to dislike him by association." Ma Zhiyuan shrugged his shoulders. "Who would have thought that later on, Lu Yan He would become the most successful of the three."

——His heart is truly filthy; he doesn't forget to sow discord even at a time like this.

Ma Zhiyuan happened to see this comment.

He rolled his eyes and continued.

"To those saying I'm sowing discord, let me tell you, I haven't even mentioned that when Lu Yan He was being suppressed by Star Entertainment and they wanted him to leave the entertainment industry, Li Zhibai didn't do a single thing."

"With such a fiery temper and such a well-crafted persona, it's as if he can't stand any injustice, but in reality, when his good brother was being suppressed so severely by the company back then, he didn't even dare to let out a peep."

In the comment section—

——He's having another episode.

——I thought he had calmed down a bit and become normal, hahahaha.

——Still the same old flavor, the Ma Zhiyuan we know.

——I'm really curious, does he love and hate Li Zhibai and Lu Yan He at the same time?

Jiang Yuqian pressed Li Zhibai back onto the sofa.

"Don't be impulsive!" She looked helplessly at Li Zhibai, whose eyes were red with rage like a bull, and said, "Lu Yan He is on a plane right now. Do you want to have to clean up the mess for him after he lands?"

Li Zhibai: "Ma Zhiyuan is a fucking idiot."

Jiang Yuqian: "You already know he's an idiot, so why are you taking it so much to heart?"

Li Zhibai: "You know a dog can't stop eating shit; does that mean you get used to watching a dog eat shit?"

Jiang Yuqian: "……"

Li Zhibai saw the murderous look in Jiang Yuqian's eyes and immediately backed down.

"I was wrong." He apologized immediately. "I just got carried away by the conversation."

Jiang Yuqian gave a light huff.

"Ma Zhiyuan is a madman; don't fall for his trap. With people like this, you just stay away and let him go crazy. Once you respond, you've been dragged into the pit." Jiang Yuqian reminded him, "What kind of person you are, what you've done, and how you treat Yan He—Yan He knows best himself. Yan He has always regarded you as his closest brother over these years; that is the best retaliation."

Li Zhibai: "Ma Zhiyuan really has something wrong with his brain."

"But, aren't you all very curious why Star Entertainment and Zhou Ping'an wanted to drive Lu Yan He out of the entertainment industry?"

Ma Zhiyuan finally got to the point.

"At that time, Lu Yan He was almost invisible. He had debuted for three years, and his popularity was lower each year. Why were they so insistent on forcing him to terminate his contract? Don't you find it strange?"

——It is indeed very strange. Moreover, in Lu Yan He's third year of high school, he won two banners for righteous acts and even sang his own composition, "Commemoration," on a program. His popularity had actually already started to recover.

——How short-sighted was Zhou Ping'an to terminate the contract of an artist who got into Zhenhua University on his own merit?

——Could it be that Lu Yan He's own situation had improved at the time, so he wanted to change his agent?

……

Ma Zhiyuan teased the audience for several minutes. After the discussion in the comment section had continued for a while, he said with an air of mystery: "From the very beginning, there were people who didn't want Lu Yan He to enter the entertainment industry."

"What did you say?" Chen Pinhe widened his eyes in disbelief.

Zhang Yuezhen: "I've been waiting for you to tell me about Lu Yan He, but you kept silent. Did you think that when I was with you, when we got married, I wouldn't have investigated your situation beforehand?"

"I didn't even know of Lu Yan He's existence at that time. I only found out after I married you; she was already pregnant when she broke up with me." Chen Pinhe said in a deep voice.

"I know you didn't know. I deliberately hid this news so you wouldn't find out." Zhang Yuezhen said bluntly. "Once you knew, you would have left me; I knew that."

Chen Pinhe remained silent.

"You've been behind my back, trying to hide Lu Yan He's existence. You were afraid someone would see through the trickery, so you went to great lengths to make him leave the entertainment industry and not appear in front of the public. I know all of this." Zhang Yuezhen said. "But, on one hand, you had to keep it hidden and not let the scope of knowledge about this matter expand, so your actions were always constrained. He was lucky; he turned the situation around several times, and in the end, it developed into a situation we can no longer control."

Chen Pinhe: "What have you done?"

"You don't need to ask me what I've done." Zhang Yuezhen said. "Although I am already disappointed in you, you are, after all, Lululu's father. If something really happens one day, we can't both end up in trouble."

Chen Pinhe: "What exactly—"

"Chen Pinhe, you don't have to care about me, but Lululu is your child, a child who grew up by your side." After saying this, Zhang Yuezhen hung up the phone without waiting for Chen Pinhe's reply.

"Are you all very curious? Who exactly didn't want Lu Yan He to enter the entertainment industry?"

"At that time, Lu Yan He hadn't even shown his current talent at all. Acting, screenwriting—those were all things that came later."

"At that time, Lu Yan He hadn't even shown his talent in his studies. No one thought he could get into a decent university. Zhou Ping'an, in order to persuade him to leave the entertainment industry, even hypocritically told him to go back to school and study hard."

"He even had the audacity to tell people that Lu Yan He being able to do so well in the college entrance exam and get into Zhenhua was actually due to his prodding. This person can be hypocritical to this extent."

After Ma Zhiyuan finished this sentence, he immediately spat.

The comments in the section became even more spectacular.

"Logically speaking, Lu Yan He just came from the countryside. Who would want to suppress him and drive him out of the entertainment industry when he was already struggling?"

"Could it be that one of us is a reincarnated person who wants to eliminate this future competitor?"

Ma Zhiyuan nodded.

"Maybe Lang Xia is the one who was reincarnated." After Ma Zhiyuan finished, he shook his head. "No, if he were really reincarnated, he wouldn't have made the decision to leave He Yingzi and come to Zhou Ping'an. Coming to Zhou Ping'an is not a good thing."

Ma Zhiyuan just kept talking on and on by himself.

The sudden mention of Lang Xia made the comment section even livelier. "By the way, there is one more thing that I'm afraid none of you know." Ma Zhiyuan said. "This is also something I heard from Zhou Ping'an."

"On Lu Yan He's eighteenth birthday, he almost died."

"Someone asked him to go to the riverside and pushed him into the river. He almost, almost drowned to death. He doesn't know how to swim."

This piece of news exploded by Ma Zhiyuan instantly ignited the internet.

Lu Yan He had indeed never told the public about the time he almost drowned.

This matter was only known within a small circle.

When everyone learned of this, while shocked, they couldn't help but be led by Ma Zhiyuan's words into wild speculation.

Someone once wanted to push Lu Yan He into the river and wanted him to die?!

Is this true or false?

Is Ma Zhiyuan just talking nonsense?

This is too unbelievable, right?

It's like a thriller suspense novel.

However, the things Ma Zhiyuan said didn't seem like lies.

Especially after Ma Zhiyuan finished speaking, Chen Ziyan and others, including the official Weibo of Lu Yan He's studio, did not come out to refute the rumors.

Li Zhibai had already come out to film.

Jiang Yuqian stayed in his lounge to wait for him.

As a result, Ma Zhiyuan suddenly started his livestream again—

Work on the set had already stopped.

Everyone was watching Ma Zhiyuan's livestream.

Because their producer and lead actor, Li Zhibai, had been following this matter the whole time and had waved his hand ten minutes ago to stop work and take a break.

Zhang Ruozhi was sitting right beside Li Zhibai.

She asked in a low voice: "Is what Ma Zhiyuan said true?"

Li Zhibai sighed and nodded.

"Back then, we investigated this matter for a long time, but there were no clues. I didn't expect Ma Zhiyuan to have learned about this from Zhou Ping'an."

Zhang Ruozhi showed a look of surprise.

"How could this happen?!"

Li Zhibai looked at Zhang Ruozhi, wanting to say something but stopping.

Lu Yan He's secrets, including who might be the person behind pushing him into the water, Li Zhibai had guesses, but he couldn't say them.

He fell silent and took a deep breath.

"I don't know the specifics of this matter. Maybe when we find that person later, we'll know what's going on."

Zhang Ruozhi: "I didn't expect Little Brother Lu to have experienced such a thing."

"He used to be so miserable; others couldn't even reach his level of misery when they tried to sell their sob stories."

"I don't understand why Ma Zhiyuan started this livestream to say these things."

"He was provoked." Li Zhibai said. "His target isn't Yan He; it's Zhou Ping'an. He wants to destroy Zhou Ping'an."

"So, why did Lu Yan He immediately choose to terminate his contract with Zhou Ping'an and seamlessly sign with Chen Ziyan?" Ma Zhiyuan shook his head. "I think the truth behind it is already self-evident."

As the voice fell, a knock on the door suddenly came from Ma Zhiyuan's livestream room.

Before he could react, his room door suddenly opened.

People in police uniforms walked in.

Ma Zhiyuan looked panicked and at a loss.

"How could you break in—Liu Lu, you opened the door for them without my permission?!"

The person in the police uniform walked over, operated something, and the livestream ended instantly.

Ten minutes later, the trending search about Ma Zhiyuan being arrested by the police appeared on social media platforms.

Zhou Ping'an's name was also hung on the internet, bombarded by all kinds of news.

Many people were questioning him about what exactly was going on.

Many even started accusing him directly of being a murderer.

What surprised many was that Zhou Ping'an didn't play dead.

He updated a post just thirty minutes later:

——We live in a society ruled by law; murder is illegal. I am a law-abiding citizen. Those who don't follow the law have already been arrested by the police. Can you please not believe rumors? You believe the words of a madman?

Zhou Ping'an's response naturally caused more people to bombard him.

Someone asked, is it true that Ma Zhiyuan said Lu Yan He was pushed into the river and almost drowned?

Zhou Ping'an also replied: There was such an incident. I called the police that very night, and I learned about it immediately and assisted in handling it, but at the time, we couldn't find any clues to lock onto a suspect.

Someone asked, since you say Ma Zhiyuan is slandering you, then was the matter of you suppressing Lu Yan He fake? Lu Yan He did indeed terminate his contract with you very quickly.

Zhou Ping'an replied: Regarding this matter, I will organize the situation later and explain it to everyone. I just want to say one thing: if I really did something fundamentally wrong, do you think Lu Yan He would still cooperate with me after terminating his contract? My artist Meng Li even participated in the spin-off movie of "Seventeen Layers," which is enough to explain many things.

Someone asked, then it's a fact that you used Ma Zhiyuan's salary to seek opportunities for others under your banner, right? The recording is out.

Zhou Ping'an replied: A manager's duty is just like that. When I swapped Li Zhibai and Yan Liang's resources to give him opportunities before, why didn't I see him refuse?

Someone asked: So is this the reason why Li Zhibai and Yan Liang left you one after another?

Zhou Ping'an replied: The reasons are very complex. This is one of them, but not all, nor is it the decisive factor. I said, for an agent, how to coordinate the resources under one's hand is a very normal thing. I will swap A's resources for B today, and I will swap B's resources for A tomorrow. Everyone's schedule and suitability will affect these things. It is very unreasonable to talk about problems while ignoring the specific situation.

Someone said: Then do you owe Lu Yan He?

Zhou Ping'an: I owe him, but to tell the truth, in many cases, I also protected him as much as possible.

Someone immediately said: You are truly shameless.

Zhou Ping'an said: I am telling the truth, without a word of falsehood.

Someone: Hehehehehehehehehe.

Zhou Ping'an: Don't hehehe. I did try to make Lu Yan He leave the entertainment industry, but whenever someone wanted to use means that crossed the bottom line and principles, I blocked them. Otherwise, do you think that for a teenager, who was almost pushed into the river and drowned, others wouldn't dare to use other means? ===== CHAPTER 969 =====