Chapter 15: Is Lin Huaizhi Your Dad?
Lin Huaizhi: “?”
Lin Huaizhi really admired Fang Mo’s thought process: “Everything requires evidence. It’s not like whatever you say is a fact just because your lips touch. Mr. Fang thinks I’m targeting you; may I ask how exactly I am targeting you?”
Fang Mo bit his lip.
He looked submissive with lowered brows, but as soon as he spoke, it sounded as if he had suffered a huge grievance.
“Su Rui and I clearly earned over a thousand, but now the program team says we didn’t earn a penny. If it weren’t for you, how could the program team deny the fruits of our labor?”
Fang Mo sniffled.
“President Lin, I know I’m a nobody and can be slaughtered by you at will, but nobodies also have personality and dignity. You can’t trample on me like a bug.”
“Lin Huaizhi, you really are too much. How can you bully Fang Mo?”
The voice arrived before the person did.
Lin Huaizhi looked at Chu Xiaoran standing in front of Fang Mo and wasn’t even surprised. Just as he was about to speak, someone spoke before him.
“He didn’t bully Fang Mo.”
Hearing the emotionless voice, Lin Huaizhi didn’t need to guess to know who it was. He glanced at the stern-faced Huo Chen and thought to himself that his flirting over the past few days hadn’t been in vain.
“Whether he bullied Fang Mo or not, do you know better than Fang Mo himself?”
Chu Xiaoran had a terrible impression of Huo Chen. With that appearance, no one would believe he wasn’t a murderer. He didn’t know where the program team found such a person. If this kind of person could be a guest, the program team really needed a good scolding.
Huo Chen seemed not to notice the undisguised rejection in Chu Xiaoran’s words and used Chu Xiaoran’s own words to block him.
“Whether he bullied Fang Mo or not, do you know better than Lin Huaizhi himself?”
He added another sentence.
“Could it be that you, who weren’t on the scene the whole time, know better than me, his dating partner who has been with him all day?”
【Who said Huo Chen and Lin Huaizhi aren’t shippable! Huo Chen looks so unapproachable, yet he spoke up for Lin Huaizhi!】
Chu Xiaoran: “…”
Su Rui also started to speak up for Lin Huaizhi: “He really didn’t bully Fang Mo. As his friend, you should clarify the facts before speaking.”
Chu Xiaoran suppressed his impatience and issued two consecutive questions: “Have you spent a long time with him?”
“Do you know what kind of person he really is?”
Chu Xiaoran’s tone was full of criticism and disapproval: “He is usually arrogant. Now that he’s on a dating show, he still bullies Fang Mo. It’s simply his nature being hard to change.”
After speaking, he looked at Lin Huaizhi again.
“Lin Huaizhi, you really disappoint me to the extreme. Apologize to Fang Mo immediately. Don’t make me look down on you.”
【Did you hear that, Lin Huaizhi! Apologize to our Baby Mo immediately!】
【Confirmed, Lin Huaizhi is Chu Xiaoran’s enemy. Without even asking the reason, he directly concluded that Lin Huaizhi bullied Fang Mo. If this isn’t an enemy, what is?】
【Wait, let me check the Huameng official website… It says the chairman is Lin Huaizhi. Why is Chu Xiaoran using such a commanding tone? I thought he was the boss and Lin Huaizhi was the employee.】
【Turning from passerby to hater. Can’t stand Chu Xiaoran acting like he’s on the moral high ground. If it weren’t for Lin Huaizhi, would he be where he is today? It’s a real-life version of The Farmer and the Viper.】
【My Xiao is telling the truth! Lin Huaizhi is just that kind of person! What do you keyboard warriors who don’t know the inside story understand!】
Zhou Mi didn’t mind stirring up trouble and chimed in with a grin: “Didn’t expect Boss Lin to be such a person. Indeed, one can’t judge a book by its cover.”
Xu Qiao scratched her head: “I think Lin Huaizhi isn’t that kind of person.”
” Saying I bullied him is fine.”
“Asking me to apologize is also fine, of course.”
Lin Huaizhi smiled charmingly, looking not the least bit angry. Before Chu Xiaoran and Fang Mo could react, he added lightly: “Of course, you have to produce evidence. Otherwise, asking me to apologize based on just words is a bit too demanding.”
“Don’t you think?”
Hu Xiaoxu was very rational: “We weren’t on the scene when it happened, and we can’t just listen to one side of the story. I think President Lin is right; asking him to apologize requires evidence.”
Chu Xiaoran appeared even more impatient: “What more evidence do you need? Lin Huaizhi, can you stop struggling and quibbling? Can’t you just honestly apologize and admit your mistake?”
Chu Xiaoran was a bit overly agitated.
Or perhaps not entirely overly agitated. When he first stepped into this circle, he was trembling with fear, but before he could experience the darkness of the entertainment industry, Lin Huaizhi appeared and became his umbrella.
Because of Lin Huaizhi, he had a green light all the way in the entertainment industry.
He labeled himself an actor, not a star, yet he had very few presentable works. Every time he chose a script, he was extremely picky. On set, he had the most assistants, and even directors had to watch his mood.
Over time, he began to feel that he was very capable and that everything he had was obtained through his own strength.
So his temper grew bigger and bigger.
He increasingly liked to act like a diva.
His feelings toward Lin Huaizhi also changed from initial gratitude to later disgust and aversion, feeling that Lin Huaizhi had no ability and only succeeded due to sheer dumb luck. If he had those opportunities, he could do it too.
His current attitude toward Lin Huaizhi was merely a concrete manifestation of his desires breaking free from constraints.
“That really won’t do.”
Lin Huaizhi replied unhurriedly. Compared to Chu Xiaoran’s attitude, he could be called amiable: “The law says whoever makes a claim must provide evidence. Fang Mo says I targeted him, so he has to produce evidence. Otherwise, I won’t apologize.”
After speaking, he looked at Fang Mo.
“What do you say, Mr. Fang?”
“If you really can’t find evidence, the micro-camera on your chest and the one on mine should serve as evidence. Also, all the netizens in the livestream can serve as your witnesses.”
Fang Mo stammered and couldn’t utter half a word.
Those red eyes instantly aroused Chu Xiaoran’s protective instinct. He shielded Fang Mo behind him. “Lin Huaizhi, that’s enough! I didn’t expect you to be so aggressive. I really misjudged you all these years!!”
Lin Huaizhi: “…”
Being in the entertainment industry, he had also read many novels and scripts. He knew, he understood, that there would always be that magnetic field of mutual attraction between the Protagonist Top and Protagonist Bottom—something like “my body chose to protect you before my brain did.”
But this trope has been used to death, dammit!
Could the idiot author who wrote this novel read more books and think of some normal and logical plot?
Chu Xiaoran is so damn arrogant he’s practically brainless!
But it’s normal.
After all, the author is an idiot, so the protagonists in the novel will be idiots too.
Lin Huaizhi really didn’t want to communicate with Chu Xiaoran. “Stay away from me, idiot… stupidity is contagious.”
【Hahaha! I seriously suspect he wanted to say ‘stupid c*nt’! But he swallowed it back at the end!】
【Who exactly said Chu Xiaoran and Lin Huaizhi are friends? Chu Xiaoran hasn’t said a single word for Lin Huaizhi the whole time. Instead, he stood on the opposite side accusing Lin Huaizhi. Is this how friends act?】
【If I were Lin Huaizhi, I’d kick him twice directly, then ban him! Give him a little face and he forgets who’s the boss!】
【What’s wrong with friends! Friends should be like this! It was Lin Huaizhi’s fault to begin with. My Xiao was helping the weak and acting bravely for a just cause!】
Chu Xiaoran’s face was ashen.
He gritted his teeth: “Lin Huaizhi! Can you…”
“He can’t!”
The director finally couldn’t bear it anymore. If his boss hadn’t signaled him not to intervene earlier, he would have scolded these two until they were soaked in dog blood!
“Can you and Fang Mo stop staging the drama of the protagonist being bullied by the villain here! I’m filming a dating show! Not a revenge power fantasy! I said Fang Mo’s group got zero points. If you want to find someone, find me! Why find Lin Huaizhi!”
“Always ‘Lin Huaizhi, Lin Huaizhi’!”
“Is Lin Huaizhi your dad?!”
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