Chapter 709: The Truth System of the Entertainment Industry (Volume Complete)

Just as Lou Yiling was suspecting Xie Yang and wanting to observe further whether she possessed a treasure as magical as her own Black Crystal, Director Hu's wife brought people to her door.

"Slut!"

As soon as Lou Yiling opened the door, she was slapped loudly across the face by Director Hu's wife.

"You, who are you? Why are you hitting people randomly!"

"So what if I hit you? Slut! You're young, why not do something decent instead of stealing someone else's husband? You think it's over with just one slap? Let me tell you! This is just the appetizer!"

While cursing, Director Hu's wife grabbed Lou Yiling's hair and slapped her twice more, *smack, smack*.

Several middle-aged women who came with Director Hu's wife also stepped forward one after another to join in.

Lou Yiling was completely stunned by the beating.

Ever since she entered the entertainment industry, she had been very restrained in her diet, calculating calories for every meal, but she didn't exercise on a daily basis, doing at most a little yoga. Therefore, after being grabbed by the burly Director Hu's wife and her friends, she had no power to fight back.

"Stop! All of you, stop! Be careful, or I'll call the police!"

"Call them! Go ahead and call! If you don't call, I want to! Everyone, come and take a look! This little slut thinks she's in the right for stealing someone else's husband!"

Director Hu's wife shouted at the top of her lungs, calling out the neighbors to the left and right, and the residents upstairs and downstairs.

The apartment Lou Yiling was currently living in was a furnished apartment Director Hu had helped her find, only a few hundred meters away from the Film and Television City's shooting base, making it very convenient for daily filming. However, this also meant that most people living in this area were people in the industry—either photographers, makeup artists, and other staff members who pursued quality of life, or C-list celebrities with decent family backgrounds.

Hearing that there was a mistress in the building who had broken up someone else's family and was being beaten up by the original wife who had brought people to her door, their inner gossip ignited, and they all walked out of their doors to watch the spectacle.

Some even filmed this scene and forwarded it to their social media feeds.

While Lou Yiling was wretchedly enduring the attacks from Director Hu's wife and her friends, she suddenly noticed a camera shutter flash.

It's over!

She thought to herself.

At this moment, her hair was being tightly pulled by Director Hu's wife, and to avoid pain to her scalp, she had to lift her face, causing her entire face to be exposed under the camera flash.

In normal times, when she was dressed up beautifully and walking with a graceful sway, she would have been extremely happy to be secretly photographed. But in this situation, being secretly photographed meant that her scandalous affair with Director Hu was about to be exposed.

But looking around, there were many people watching her make a fool of herself, yet not a single one of them could she name.

No! There was still one!

"Sister Yiling!"

Lou Yiling's newly hired assistant stepped out of the Elevator with packed food in her hand. Seeing this scene, she hurriedly stepped forward to help.

"Chen Shuangshuang!"

"Chen Shuangshuang!"

Lou Yiling shouted at her one after another.

Just as she was about to shout the last time, the Elevator door opened again, and Xie Yang's graceful figure caught Lou Yiling's eyes.

She paused abruptly.

【Host, you arrived just in time; a moment later and this little assistant would have been in big trouble.】

Xie Yang ignored the Main System and pulled Chen Shuangshuang behind her, blocking Lou Yiling's line of sight.

The little assistant didn't know she had almost been in big trouble. Thinking Xie Yang had rushed over to help her employer, she took out her phone and retreated to the stairwell to call the police.

Lou Yiling glared at Xie Yang with secret hatred.

Almost, just a little bit more, and she could have successfully offloaded her bad luck.

It was all Xie Meini's fault for meddling!

"Xie Meini, Xie Meini, Xie Meini!"

She shouted at Xie Yang three times in frustration.

She roared in her heart: Work! Give me an effect!

But it was as if there was a natural barrier between the Black Crystal and Xie Meini; no matter how many times she glared at Xie Meini and shouted, the bad luck landing on her was not transferred away.

She was still being pinned down and beaten by Director Hu's wife and the people she brought.

By the time the police received the report and arrived at the scene, the topic of her interfering and ruining the marriage of Director Hu and his wife had already reached the trending list.

Her ex-boyfriend, a rich second-generation heir, also jumped out to expose her past behavior.

Good news stays at home, while bad news travels a thousand miles.

She became someone everyone in and out of the circle wanted to beat up.

Her former classmates recognized her, and paparazzi who lived off gossip sniffed out the scent and dug into her background and family situation.

Lou Mu and the father of the Lou Family didn't know until this moment that their daughter's so-called "preparing for graduate school" was just a cover. Not only did she not take the exam, but she also brought such huge trouble to the family; the face of the Lou Family had been completely lost by this disgraceful daughter.

The couple was both ashamed and angry, declaring that they didn't have such a daughter: "From now on, whether she does well or poorly has nothing to do with our Lou Family!"

Even Lou Yiling's younger brother angrily stated that he didn't recognize this sister: "Don't even mention her! She has no shame, but I still want mine!"

After leaving the police station and moving to a new place, Lou Yiling hid in her room and spent a lot of time scrolling through comments about her online. When she saw the video of her family, she was so angry that she swept the bottles and jars off her vanity.

What kind of lousy family is this! Not recognizing her just because of this little thing!

Fine! Later, when she strikes it rich, they shouldn't even think about basking in her glory!

But she had miscalculated the netizens' hatred for mistresses. Even if this circle didn't explicitly ban her, it was practically the same: in the days that followed, except for cheap background roles where she didn't show her face, she could barely get any acting work.

As time went on, she returned to the stage of a "nobody" just entering the circle, and was even worse off than when she first started.

At least back then she was young, and had just had plastic surgery and fillers; although her face wasn't original, it was tender, pure, and very photogenic.

Now, without money to continue getting expensive beauty injections, her face was gradually becoming bloated and "steamed-bun-like." A perfectly good young face was ruined by her own tossing, making her look over a decade older, and because of this, she could get even fewer roles.

If she couldn't get roles, she couldn't make money. Without money, even her basic life was strained, let alone maintaining her face.

She wasn't willing to leave this circle and find another job in a low-profile way.

Thus, year after year, she lingered in the Film and Television City, taking the cheap background roles she once looked down upon, dreaming the sweet dream of "suddenly becoming famous."

Every time this happened, she was especially jealous of Xie Yang.

Especially when seeing Xie Yang frequently appearing on the screen, from an unknown C-list actress to the queen of the highest-rated TV dramas; from a background extra with no lines to the female lead with the most lines... she was so jealous her eyes turned red.

They were so jealous that they would burn incense to curse the movies and Television shows Xie Yang participated in to flop.

However, whether it was because Xie Yang was lucky or because these production crews were strong, in short, not only did they not flop, but they also became exceptionally popular. Even if there were actors who flopped, they were exposed before these crews started filming, which did not affect the entire crew and instead served as indirect publicity.

This made Lou Yiling even more jealous and hateful.

How could Xie Meini's luck be so good!

Did she actually have something like a Black Crystal on her?

But now, let alone getting close to Xie Yang, she couldn't even get close to the production crews Xie Yang was in.

And she had no money to hire internet trolls.

She could only vent her anger by posting a few anonymous essays, pointing out Xie Yang's abnormalities.

But the netizens of this generation were like they were blind; they turned around and scolded her: "Which artist hired these trolls? So unprofessional," "If you have the ability, show your real identity and throw out evidence," "Anonymous small account, if not a troll then a keyboard warrior"...

It made her so angry that she smashed her phone.

The next morning—

"Ah—where is the crystal! Where is my lucky Black Crystal! How did it disappear?"

Lou Yiling clutched the chain around her neck that was specifically for the Black Crystal in terror; the chain was intact, but the Black Crystal had vanished into thin air.

"How did it disappear? The chain didn't break, so how could it just disappear?"

She searched everywhere like a madwoman and desperately tried to recall where she had been during this time and whether she had dropped it outside, but her memory told her: she hadn't gone anywhere because she couldn't get work, and she had been staying in her rented room recently; the Black Crystal seemed to have evaporated and just disappeared like that.

"Ahhh—"

She held her head, unwilling to accept the fact that the Black Crystal had disappeared, while praying that it would appear again.

But day after day, year after year, no matter how she prayed, the vanished Black Crystal never appeared again...

On that side, Xie Yang fulfilled the original body's dream of being an actor, climbing step by step from a bit player with no lines and no face shown to the peak of the entertainment industry.

This circle, if one says it is pure, it is pure; there are plenty of people who focus on studying acting and love the acting profession just like the original body, but if one says it is complex, it is truly complex; there are always those with impure motives who don't want to put in the effort and only want to take shortcuts.

With so many bad apples, it inevitably gives the outside world a bad impression that "this circle is foul and there is no pure land."

Xie Yang would spend a few seconds of Truth Duration from time to time, making those bad apples perform a confessional self-exposure.

China Entertainment ushered in an unprecedentedly clear and bright wind.

Netizens gradually discovered, when did this big melting pot of China Entertainment become so clean? The artists were all self-disciplined and dedicated to their work.

The artists shed bitter tears: Is it possible not to be self-disciplined? Who knows which day they might end up in a four-cornered cage just like those first or second-tier big stars who, with a twitch of their mouths, blurted out all the "good deeds" they had done; isn't that just courting their own destruction?

By the way, does the spotlight of China Entertainment have some kind of magic?

Why do people often go on stage in glory and end up in the station in misery?

At that time, Xie "Magic" Yang, who was already holding the Best Actress trophy, smiled slightly, hiding her merit and fame...

{End of this volume}

?? For some reason, this volume kept having content censored, so let's end it here ┭┮﹏┭┮ Starting the next volume tomorrow~

? PS: After the Spring Festival, there isn't a single chapter of backlog left, and since my cornea hasn't fully recovered, I don't dare to use my eyes for long periods, so please allow me to continue with single updates for a while o(╥﹏╥)o