After Being Blackened All Over the Internet, I Ruled the Military Variety
Chapter 651 - 641: What Did Jiang Lingxi Do?

Chapter 651: Chapter 641: What Did Jiang Lingxi Do?

Jiang Lingxi took the phone that Shen Yunqing handed over and opened the message Tong Yue had just sent her.

[!!!]

Before she could ask what those three exclamation marks were supposed to mean, another screenshot popped up.

Opening the screenshot, she saw a trending topic related to her.

Jiang Lingxi: "..."

The current netizens sure know how to create content!

Tong Yue’s intention in sending the message was to have her artist reflect a bit.

Why does her trending topic have to be so unique?

Soon, she received feedback.

The phone buzzed with a notification: [Jiang Lingxi V, someone you follow, just posted a new update].

Tong Yue immediately felt her heart skip a beat, having a bad feeling, she quickly opened it.

Jiang Lingxi V: Response, not familiar.

Just four simple words and a punctuation mark made Tong Yue feel her vision darken.

Netizens doubted her interpersonal skills, asking if she meant there’s no need to mind manners with someone she’s not familiar with.

Is that what it means? Isn’t it? Isn’t it?

The fans who received notification of their idol’s new post expected to see a wave of beautiful red carpet photos when they opened it: "..."

So bold, so straightforward!

They had to give it a thumbs up!

After posting the update, Jiang Lingxi closed the page as well.

Whether people liked it or not didn’t matter to her; she just wanted to express her stance.

After bustling around, she finally turned her head to look over.

The gaze coming from behind wasn’t exactly as sharp as a thorn in the back, but it was somewhat uncomfortable.

Gu Qiantong and Vini, not expecting Jiang Lingxi to suddenly look over, instinctively stiffened.

Vini reacted first, pulling a smile, raising her hand, and greeted, "Hi, Miss Jiang, nice to see you again. What a coincidence that we’re seated so close."

Jiang Lingxi nodded at her, "Miss Vini."

Then she looked at Gu Qiantong, "Miss Gu, is there a flower on me?"

The two stared at each other for a moment. In the end, it was Gu Qiantong who couldn’t hold it and shifted her gaze while tightly pursing her lips.

Vini: "..."

A complex mood.

She previously only knew her friend wasn’t on good terms with this Miss Jiang, thinking it was just a minor disagreement between them.

But now, she probably understood why.

Feeling incredulous and at a loss for words.

It’s the first time she saw Gu Qiantong this jealous over a man, losing all her usual nonchalance.

But Miss Jiang and this gentleman seemed to share a deep bond, so no matter what, her friend shouldn’t get involved!

But matters of the heart, having grown up in the Aibosi family, she had seen plenty.

Many people can’t be persuaded, let alone a friend with such a strong and stubborn personality, who won’t stop until she hits a wall.

After much consideration, Vini decided to stay silent.

Hopefully, her friend could let go, otherwise, the consequences would be hard to say.

Especially since the rival was this Miss Jiang, regardless, she held little hope for her friend.

*

Zhou Lingyue finally moved when the staff was ready to forcibly take her into the inner hall, lifting her skirt and walking in.

"Give me the phone."

Her assistant, standing at the entrance with numb legs, quickly handed over her phone.

Once led to her seat by the inner hall staff, Zhou Lingyue anxiously opened her phone and began refreshing.

Having taken so many photos on the red carpet, there should be countless beautiful photos of her online by now.

Her smile ceased the moment she opened the trending topics.

She scrolled from the top of the trending list to the bottom, struggling to find her name in the second-to-last spot.

Yet it was written as: #ZhouLingyueNailedToTheGround#

With trembling hands, she clicked open and indeed found photos on the red carpet, but ahead of them were mostly screenshots or videos of staff urging her to move quicker.

Then she saw an even more vexing post comparing her to Jiang Lingxi.

[Official precise data incoming. Reportedly, the international fashion gala red carpet is 110 meters long. Normally, it takes about a minute to walk. But considering major celebrities need to stop for media photos, organizers have allocated three to five minutes to complete the walk. However, our Miss Zhou Lingyue took nearly eight minutes, equivalent to less than fifteen meters per minute, or two steps for an adult, practically turtle-like!]

[Hilarious, the turtle step description is just too accurate!]

[Jiang Lingxi indeed had to be told to slow down by staff; aside from coordinating for a few photos, she walked faster than anyone, taking only two and a half minutes.]

[The time Zhou Lingyue took to walk the red carpet is almost enough for Jiang Lingxi to make two round trips.]

[These two are truly like one nailed to the ground, the other with feet of wind!]

...

Zhou Lingyue looked at the increasingly harsh words on the phone screen, itching to throw it to the ground and stomp on it.

Raising her head, she saw Jiang Lingxi sitting across from her.

Still in the front row!

Meanwhile, she was only in the third row, and not even in the best position!

Why Jiang Lingxi?

The vibrating phone pulled her attention back to reality.

It was a message from her manager.

[Lingyue, pay attention to your facial expressions.]

Zhou Lingyue quickly lowered her head, took several deep breaths, and felt a bit better before looking up again.

"Sister Xi is across?"

"Sister Xi is in the front row, let me wave at her."

Zhou Lingyue turned her head towards the two talking.

It was Wei Minmin and Kai Yuan, who had just sat next to her, eagerly waving at Jiang Lingxi across from them.

They sat right next to her, as if they couldn’t see her.

"Hey, Sister Xi saw me."

"I wondered why I didn’t see Sister Xi on the red carpet earlier, turns out I was late. What a shame we couldn’t take a photo together."

"It’s not too late to take a photo after the show."

"That’s true!"

Zhou Lingyue, who was rejected for a photo op on the red carpet: "..."

Were these two seated next to her just to stab at her heart?

As the seats around the show venue gradually filled, the official live broadcast’s main camera shifted from the red carpet outside to inside the venue.

The screen at the show subtly lit up, drawing everyone’s attention.

Jiang Lingxi looked up with the crowd.

The screen was playing the classic shows and works Mr. Casuo established in his lifetime.

Seeing this, whether they knew the theme of today’s show beforehand or were completely clueless, now had some idea.

Jiang Lingxi received a message from Mr. Casuo and shifted her gaze from the screen, handing her phone and Buddha Beads to Shen Yunqing, and quietly got up, "I’m going backstage."

Although she left quietly, many people at the scene and in the live broadcast space noticed her departure.

"The show is about to begin, where is Jiang Lingxi going at this moment?"