After Bankruptcy, the Billionaire Asked Me to Marry Him!
Chapter 379: The First Rule of Husband and Wife

Chapter 379: Chapter 379: The First Rule of Husband and Wife

[Lizi, our studio has been hacked!]

The alarm rang, and Ye Li opened WeChat, immediately seeing the message from Wan Mingyi.

Then she went on Weibo and saw the top trending search.

From Tiantian’s public declaration of love to allegations of a rigged competition, it all happened overnight.

Ye Li logged into her studio’s Weibo account, the inbox had 999+ private messages.

All of them were insults.

The few expressing doubt weren’t questioning how a mere student without a degree could deserve a gold award, but rather sarcastically mocking her boldness.

It seemed like everyone already assumed that the gold award was an added perk for getting close to Fu Yanci.

Seeing too much affected her mood, so Ye Li decided to ignore it.

She washed up.

Ate breakfast.

And calmly went to the classroom as usual.

The bustling classroom felt like it was hosting a debate.

"It’s clear that Ye Li has good grades, but ’Shining Star’ is a competition with talents from all over the country. Ye Li hasn’t even finished her professional studies and yet beat those with heaps of design experience. Who can be convinced by this?"

"Haha... By that logic, let’s eliminate all entry requirements for big competitions, and we college students shouldn’t register at all! So what if Ye Li won a gold award? Why are you so bitter? Is it really that hard to admit someone is excellent?"

"If she truly is excellent, I’d be the first to admit it! But the question is... is she genuinely excellent?"

"If she’s not, are you? All I know is that during her first year, at the ’Shining Night’, she won the gold award. Even the talent scout from Star extended an olive branch only to Ye Li."

"... Who knows when she hooked up with that Uncle Fu. The power of capital is evident, so what, should she have reported to you before getting involved?"

"..."

When Ye Li entered, the classroom fell silent.

Pretending not to hear any of the conversations, Ye Li sat in her usual spot in the first row.

Answered questions.

Analyzed creativity.

Ye Li acted as if nothing had changed, unaware of the online dirt or the earlier discussions.

In the back row, Jiang Chengcheng felt indescribably excited.

"Didn’t you say Ye Li stole the opportunity and glory that should’ve been yours?"

"Do you want a chance to take it back?"

If she didn’t know before what Mr. Lin wanted her to do, Jiang Chengcheng vaguely understood now.

The thought that one day Ye Li would fall from grace and all her glory, including Uncle Fu, would be hers, made Jiang Chengcheng overly excited.

She looked at her phone, the trending topic was still there.

Past nine o’clock, yet neither the "Shining Night" organizers nor Uncle Fu had done any PR, as if they weren’t aware of it, completely silent.

An hour passed.

Two hours.

...

New gossip kept emerging, and the trending topic of competition scandal moved from first to sixth, but remained high on the trending list.

Just as everyone thought the organizers were conceding, the official Weibo of "Shining with You" made a move.

[Shining with You V: Response as follows. Image1.jpg, ... Image10.jpg]

In Image 1, the organizers’ official response was shown.

It expressed the aims and principles of the "Shining with You" contest and listed the brilliant achievements of every gold award recipient from the first edition to present.

In the nine-square grid of photos, the most prominent had already become an internationally renowned jewelry design master.

The others were all shining designers in the industry, still actively participating in numerous jewelry exhibits and industry symposiums.

Except for the not-yet-graduated Ye Li.

The response’s final sentence was powerful: We provide this stage for talented designers, and you, are responsible for shining bright!

Not a single mention of Ye Li, but the stance was clear: Ye Li has a promising future, casting doubt on us having a scandal? Ha, just wash and sleep!

Following closely, Fu Group’s legal department posted on Weibo.

[Fu Group Legal Department: In response to the defamatory actions by "Avocado Smoothie," "Caramel Pudding," and "Dark Every Day" against @Ye Li’s Studio, the lawsuit is as follows! Image.jpg]

The image listed over a dozen people, the ones who had been the most active in the Weibo comment sections yesterday afternoon.

They all spoke as if they were at the competition scene and personally saw Ye Li bribing the organizers to award her the gold.

Yet now, the one filing the lawsuit was not Ye Li herself but Fu Group’s famed gold-standard lawyer team in the Imperial City.

Jiang Chengcheng felt her vision go dark.

Though those accounts facing accountability didn’t include hers, her alternate account had been fanning the flames as well.

Panic-stricken, Jiang Chengcheng hurriedly deactivated her alternate account.

Looking again at the official Weibo of Ye Li’s studio, Jiang Chengcheng’s face darkened several shades.

She had learned various self-media operations tactics and invested a lot of money, running it for over two months, and only reached over a hundred thousand followers.

But Ye Li’s studio’s official Weibo, overnight, the followers surged from less than ten thousand to over fifty thousand.

Even Ye Li’s "One Little Pear Blossom Ah" alias gained tens of thousands of followers.

Yes, there are differences between people, but this is impossibly large, isn’t it???

On one hand, feeling that these are all hate-followers who will lose interest soon.

On the other hand, thinking that Ye Li turned misfortune into a blessing.

Looking up at Ye Li’s back, Jiang Chengcheng’s slender nails screeched on the phone screen.

She expected the "Shining with You" organizers to respond, after all, the scandal was fake, and the organizers wouldn’t allow netizens to maliciously speculate about the fairness of the competition.

However, Ye Li didn’t expect Fu Group’s legal department to make such a grand gesture.

Especially since she had previously spoken with Fu Yanci.

[Fu Yanci, what’s the first rule of the couple’s code?]

[Whatever my wife says is right!]

[If it’s right, why break it?]

After a brief silence, Ye Li’s phone rang.

The call was connected, on the other end, Fu Yanci’s voice was helpless, "Ah Li, I promised you I wouldn’t intervene in your work, but I couldn’t just watch those people smear you. If you want to punish me, I’ll accept it. You decide, what’s my penalty?"

Ye Li smiled wryly, "Then... should I punish you by making you kneel on durian shells?"

"Okay."

Fu Yanci replied swiftly.

Ye Li was taken aback.

Then she heard him laugh, "Then I’ll come pick you up, and kneel at home for you to see."

Ye Li: ...

In the afternoon, a few designers were supposed to come to the studio for an interview, and after hanging up, Ye Li went straight to the studio.

Ding.

Exiting the elevator, the hallway was silent.

Pushing the door open, she saw Wan Mingyi standing forlornly by the floor-to-ceiling window.

PM.

PM.

PM.

Way past the scheduled interview time, yet none of the invited had shown up.

Even when Wan Mingyi called them, there was only an endless busy tone.

Knowing this was the effect of the scandal, they both shook their heads and smiled bitterly.

No comfort needed, they both immersed themselves in work as usual.

The doorbell rang when they realized night had fallen.

Thinking it was Yanci coming to pick her up, Ye Li went to open the door.

Meeting eyes, both were equally stunned.