60: Throwing dirty water

"Damn, Lu Qingyu is definitely a relative of the boss."

The five of them exchanged glances, their minds already in turmoil, but the way they looked at Lu Qingyu was no longer as dismissive as it had been that morning.

Chen Ting: "What are we eating for lunch?"

Lu Qingyu: "Brother Su said I'm not allowed to eat junk food."

Chen Ting: "How about steak?"

Lu Qingyu: "Forget it, let's just have a bowl of Spicy Hot Pot. Eight dishes and a soup—it's economical, affordable, and nutritionally balanced."

Chen Ting: ———.

Because Lu Qingyu still hadn't responded, the matter online continued to ferment. After lunch, Lu Qingyu was waiting for a call, and Su Jixing came over to ask when he could issue a statement.

Just then, his phone rang. Lu Qingyu picked up the phone, and upon hearing the voice on the other end, a smile appeared on his face.

Hanging up the phone, Lu Qingyu said: "Brother Su, no rush. I'm just adding a little more fuel to the fire for you."

On such a good stage, the actors naturally need to be assembled before the play can begin.

Lu Qingyu had long since sent people to find Wang Xi. However, he hadn't expected Lu Jin to be even more anxious than he was. He had originally thought he would need to find a way to make Wang Xi come and cause a scene, but now, it saved him the effort.

Wang Xi had already arrived downstairs. She was making a scene at the entrance of Black Pearl, shouting that she was Lu Qingyu's mother and demanding to see him.

The reporters were already swarming downstairs at Black Pearl Entertainment, hoping to camp out for news. Now that they saw Wang Xi, they all started snapping photos frantically.

Lu Qingyu had already warned Su Jixing and the others. When Su Jixing heard Lu Qingyu say that Wang Xi would come to cause trouble, he hadn't quite believed it. Although Lu Qingyu wasn't her biological son, he had grown up by her side—could there really be no feelings at all?

It wasn't until he saw Wang Xi with his own eyes that Su Jixing couldn't help but spit in disgust. How could such a person exist?

Su Jixing and Chen Ting both stood by Lu Qingyu's side to keep him company.

Su Jixing: "This woman is too vicious. Does she have no conscience at all?"

Chen Ting also said: "Can we call the police? This could be considered a form of human trafficking, right?"

Lu Qingyu shook his head: "Calling the police is useless. Too much time has passed for this matter, and there is no evidence to prove that Wang Xi did it intentionally. She can easily claim that she didn't know or that the babies were swapped by mistake back then."

"But it doesn't matter. I have other methods."

To get revenge, you have to plunge the knife into your enemy's heart without letting them die easily. It was also a way to vent some anger for the Lu Qingyu of this world.

Lu Qingyu said to Su Jixing: "Brother Su, the public opinion isn't strong enough yet. I'll go down in a moment. Lu Jin will definitely hire people to buy hot search topics, so let's add more fuel to the fire."

Su Jixing understood what Lu Qingyu meant—it was to follow the trend while everyone was criticizing Lu Qingyu, because only then would the rebound be stronger once the truth was revealed.

However, Su Jixing felt a bit reluctant: "Are you prepared? You're going to be criticized very harshly."

Lu Qingyu walked downstairs with a carefree attitude. He never read malicious comments, but he would file lawsuits.

The security guards downstairs could no longer control Wang Xi. She was crying and shouting downstairs, accusing Lu Qingyu.

"Everyone, be the judge! I raised him with the best food and drink since he was a child, giving him the best of everything. In the end, just because I didn't give him money to buy cigarettes, he ran away from home. Now that he's become a big star and is famous, he wants to deny me as his mother."

The reporters' cameras were locked onto Wang Xi. A big star abandoning his own mother—such explosive news would definitely hit the trending charts.

Lu Jin sat in his car in the distance, watching the situation unfold. Let's see how Lu Qingyu turns this around this time.

When he called Wang Xi, he hadn't expected her to agree to help him so readily. That was quite unexpected.

An influencer called the "Entertainment Disciplinary Monitor" even started a live stream right there.

The Entertainment Disciplinary Monitor specialized in live-streaming celebrity scandals and gossip, camping out with paparazzi and entertainment reporters.

Originally, he hadn't paid much attention to an artist like Lu Qingyu who had debuted less than two months ago. Who knew that the moment he mentioned Lu Qingyu while scrolling through Weibo hot search topics on his live stream, his chat room would be flooded with messages about Lu Qingyu.

The Entertainment Disciplinary Monitor then hyped up the stream by saying he would go camp out for Lu Qingyu. That single sentence caused his live stream reservation count to immediately break 600,000.

The Entertainment Disciplinary Monitor was overjoyed and immediately went to camp out for Lu Qingyu.

He had been live-streaming and camping out all morning like the other reporters with nothing to show for it; Lu Qingyu hadn't come out at all after arriving at the company. Just as he was about to leave, a woman arrived claiming to be Lu Qingyu's biological mother, accusing Lu Qingyu of being heartless and insane. The number of viewers in his live stream instantly topped one million.

"Is this person Lu Qingyu's biological mother? What is she doing?"

"Is what she's saying true or false? Lu Qingyu not acknowledging his own mother? He really doesn't look like the type."

"Can the threshold for celebrities nowadays be raised? Someone who doesn't even acknowledge their own mother can actually still be a star."

"Yesterday he said the Lu Group chairman was his biological father, and today he doesn't acknowledge his commoner mother. This is top-tier gold digging."

"With this kind of character, how can Lu Qingyu compare to Lu Jin? Just get out of the entertainment industry."

"Is Lu Qingyu not going to come down and explain?"

The Entertainment Disciplinary Monitor was incredibly excited looking at the viewer count in his live stream; he hadn't had such high viewership in a long time.

The Entertainment Disciplinary Monitor: "It's already one o'clock in the afternoon. Lu Qingyu is still hiding in the company and hasn't come out, and the people at Black Pearl Entertainment haven't made any response to the outside world."

"Babes, don't just casually stan people of unknown background; it's really easy for their house to collapse. What's the use of being good-looking if you aren't even filial to your own mother? That's just a wolf in sheep's clothing."