Chapter 107: Love Variety Show Strategy System (25)

Although she hadn't done anything bad, she felt an inexplicable sense of having her cover blown at this moment.

Xie Yang hurriedly cued the Main System: I wanted to ask just now, didn't you boast about having all-around navigation and tracking/anti-tracking functions? Why didn't you warn me when someone came?

The Main System felt quite aggrieved: 【I asked you, Host, before we set off if you needed to spend some points to make things easier for yourself, and you said you didn't.】

Xie Yang: So it's still my fault?

But there was no point in dwelling on who was responsible now.

"Cough, why did you guys come too? That, uh," facing the live-streaming device beneath the camera, Xie Yang quickly reacted, "The stream isn't still on, is it? Turn it off, quick!"

"……"

It was only at this moment that Zhou Hanqing remembered the production team was still live-streaming.

While Jiang Tuo was dancing, he had been accidentally bumped into by children chasing and playing; the popsicle in a child's hand had smeared onto his elbow, and feeling uncomfortably sticky, he had gone to the public restroom to wash it off.

When he came out, he happened to see Xie Yang's figure quietly leaving the scene. Linking this to her outfit, which looked like night-traveler clothes, and her unusual reaction earlier that afternoon at the entrance of that dilapidated little courtyard at the Ancient Village Site, he thought for a moment and followed her.

Who would have thought Xie Yang could run so fast.

He, a grown man—and one who liked fitness, with a physique that looked lean but was definitely not weak—couldn't actually outrun her.

At first, there was only a forty or fifty-meter gap between them, but as they ran, the distance grew larger and larger.

Fortunately, he vaguely knew the direction she was heading, so he didn't lose her, but by the time he arrived, Xie Yang had not only finished rescuing the person but had also beaten the villain until he was spitting out teeth.

Now, prompted by Xie Yang, he finally remembered the live stream hadn't been turned off……

【Don't! I want to stick around for the follow-up!】

【That scene just now truly shocked me! Has my Sister Xie practiced martial arts? Watching her beat someone up was so damn satisfying!】

【Sister Xie is mighty! This kind of scum, this animal! Living is just a waste of food, should've beaten him to death!】

【Can't beat him to death! If she beats him to death, my Sister Xie will have to take responsibility. A good beating to vent is enough, leave the rest to the police!】

【Say, don't you guys think the girl Sister Xie saved looks familiar?】

【Ahhh! Gu Qiaoxi! How is she so similar to the stunning beauty Gu Qiaoxi who burst onto the scene four years ago? It can't really be her, right? But didn't she commit suicide by jumping into the sea due to depression?】

【What? It's actually Gu Qiaoxi? I remember the night of the girl group finale four years ago; if she hadn't been absent, with her popularity, the championship would have been hers. It's a pity... wait, didn't she jump into the sea? How could she be...】

【Holy crap! Is it what I think it is? She didn't jump into the sea at all; she was kidnapped by this animal and has been locked up here the whole time? The outside world thought she was depressed and jumped into the sea, and the police closed the case based on that. My god! If it weren't for my Sister Xie! Wouldn't she have...】

The barrage stopped abruptly.

The live-streaming room had already gone black.

The director, who had just reacted while sitting in front of the monitor, cut the live stream in time.

But the scene of Xie Yang beating the man, as well as the clear, beautiful face revealed when she helped her up and brushed back her hair to show a palm-sized heart-shaped face, had been screenshotted and forwarded by many netizens, and public opinion fermented uncontrollably.

#Gu Qiaoxi suspected of being kidnapped, not suicide#

#Xie Yang's actions are deeply satisfying#

#Sister Xie's combat power is maxed out#

#The Love Variety Show I'm watching has turned into a suspense blockbuster#

These topics hit the trending searches in minutes.

In Chunhe Ancient Town, with such a major incident occurring, the recording couldn't continue.

Multiple police cars with flashing lights and blaring sirens broke through the cover of night to seal off the entrances and exits of the Ancient Town, temporarily forbidding anyone from leaving for fear that the suspect might have accomplices.

Even though it was already late at night, the square was lit as bright as day by ignited torches and floodlights set up by the police.

The residents of the Ancient Town, the friends and family of the bride and groom who came for the wedding, and the people from the production team were all called one by one into a temporarily erected tent to give statements.

Those who finished their statements left from another direction, while those who hadn't waited in the square; the two groups couldn't meet, so naturally, they couldn't whisper about this and that.

Those who hadn't reached their turn to give a statement and knew nothing about the matter were both nervous and bewildered by the sudden arrival of the police.

This included guests like Xie Danni and Lu Ming, who had previously been dancing around the bonfire in the square.

Jiang Tuo was the only one in the know; when he discovered Xie Yang was missing, he rushed to find the director and happened to see the scene of Xie Yang beating the man on the director's monitor, with a certain comment from a netizen echoing in his mind—"Damn, that's cool."

Fu Yichen vaguely sensed something, because when the director announced the live stream was paused and told them to hurry to the designated assembly point, Xie Yang and Zhou Hanqing were not there.

It wasn't until the police cars arrived that he saw the two of them arrive late.

Both of them had serious expressions, and standing beside them was a young woman with a strange face, wrapped in a thin blanket Xie Yang had fetched from the guesthouse, head bowed, following closely behind her.

"Xie Yang! Xie Yang! We're over here!"

Jiang Tuo wanted to go over directly, but he was stopped by a guarding police officer, so he had to wave at her to signal.

Xie Yang was comforting Gu Qiaoxi, telling her not to be afraid, to boldly go give her statement to the police, and to say whatever she knew; telling the truth was the best revenge for her own experiences over these past four years.

Hearing Jiang Tuo's voice out of the blue, Gu Qiaoxi subconsciously looked up.

The next second, she rushed toward Jiang Tuo and his group.

"Xiao Qiao..."

Xie Yang didn't manage to grab her in time, but she did pull off the thin cashmere shawl from the other woman's shoulders.

And Gu Qiaoxi had already rushed in front of Lin Xiaoning, using all her strength to give her a fierce slap.

Lin Xiaoning was completely stunned by the blow.

"What? Don't recognize me anymore?"

Gu Qiaoxi sneered; her voice, half-muted by poison, was hoarse and unpleasant, but she felt no inferiority at this moment, questioning with undisguised anger:

"Why! Why didn't you call the police to save me back then! You saw me being abducted with your own eyes, you saw it!"

"Don't deny it, I even made eye contact with you at the time, and I didn't call for help because I was afraid he would discover you. But I thought you would call the police; even though we were competitors, you said we were best friends! But, I treated you as a true friend, and you? What did you do?"

"That devil told me later that everyone in the outside world thought I couldn't take it and jumped into the sea, and the surveillance footage circulating online only captured me walking toward the sea, not me being abducted, and he even played your hypocritical interview video for me to watch..."

"So, Lin Xiaoning, why didn't you call the police! Why did you say those ambiguous things to mislead everyone! Why!!!"

Lin Xiaoning was frightened back a few steps by Gu Qiaoxi's repeated questioning, clearly having recognized the other woman. With the final question, her face instantly turned deathly pale.

"Holy crap!"

Jiang Tuo was the closest and heard it the most clearly, and at this moment, he couldn't help but blurt out a profanity.

Four years ago, he was still a member of a trainee boy band.

On the night of the peak final battle for that year's girl group, his boy band had even gone on stage as invited guests to perform a hot dance, so naturally, they had also heard about the disappearance case of Gu Qiaoxi.

Everyone around him, including himself, thought that she had truly suffered from depression and, unable to see a way out, had jumped into the sea.

Because of this, the company he was in even hired a psychologist for them, who came over every week to provide counseling so that they wouldn't be under too much pressure and follow in Gu Qiaoxi's footsteps.

Never in a million years did he expect that the truth was even more cruel than what they had known!