Even After My Death
Chapter 302 - 219: Chen Jia’s House Collapse

Chapter 302: Chapter 219: Chen Jia’s House Collapse

Director Chen sat up in bed like a jolted zombie, his eyes wide open.

He held his phone as if doused with a bucket of cold water, his mind completely alert.

The staff member repeated everything earnestly to Director Chen before hanging up the phone.

Chen Jia... arrested for patronizing prostitutes?

Director Chen couldn’t believe it.

As for what film producers and directors fear the most, the first is not being able to pull in investments, resulting in scripts dying in the womb. The second is casting a notorious actor as the lead; a film that was difficult to make may face a permanent broadcasting ban before it even premieres.

Director Chen was particularly cautious in this area, which is why he had spared no expense in hiring top-tier celebrities like Chen Jia and the entertainment industry’s rising star Hao Manman for his film.

He had high hopes for Chen Jia, a promising seedling with great acting skills, high appeal, and a top status in the circle. How could his career just collapse like that!!!

Director Chen wiped his face, feeling his heart about to leap out of his chest.

The phone he had just set aside buzzed, a call from the assistant director.

As soon as he answered, the assistant director’s voice shot out of the phone, "It’s over, it’s all over, Chen Jian, Chen Jia has been arrested! Our movie is done for!!!

"Really arrested?" Director Chen tried to recall what the staff member had just told him, "Prostitution? Is there evidence?"

Chen Jia was only in his mid-twenties. Setting aside his status in the entertainment industry, just with his superior looks alone, if he really wanted a woman, all he had to do was snap his fingers to get a girlfriend. Why would he need to patronize prostitutes?

Director Chen had his doubts.

"The evidence is conclusive! The Q City Public Security has issued a notice! It’s not just prostitution, he’s also been sleeping with fans! And not just one! Some of them are as young as our daughters! If he’s so insatiably lustful why doesn’t he just go die!" The assistant director’s voice sharpened with rage, at this moment wishing he could flay Chen Jia and pull out his tendons.

The entire film crew, over two hundred people, had their efforts and hard work of more than six months gone to waste!

Hearing the assistant director’s words struck Director Chen like a hammer blow.

His phone kept ringing with calls, from the producer and the company—clearly, the news had spread.

Director Chen opened Mengbo, and without even having to search for the official Weibo of Q City Public Security, the homepage’s top search terms were a stab to the heart:

#ChenJiaArrestedByQCityPolice![Explosive]

#ChenJiaSolicitsTwoAtOnce[Explosive]

#ChenJiaSleepsWithFans[Explosive]

#MensWardrobeClaimsToTerminateContractWithChenJia

...

The trending searches were overwhelmed with news about Chen Jia’s arrest, while entries related to Hao Manman seemed to have been buried in some obscure corner.

Seeing the bold red characters, Director Chen almost wished he could black out and faint on the spot.

This this this... Although he wanted a star to share the public’s attention, he certainly didn’t wish for that person to be Chen Jia!!! (God of Prayer: Just say it, have I done my job or not?)

Compared to Director Chen’s state of collapse, the night owls who hadn’t yet slept at midnight, upon discovering this scoop, instantly lost all sleepiness, their faces lit with thrill and excitement:

[Whoa!! Am I seeing things!!!]

[Front row selling sunflower seeds, peanuts, roasted chestnuts, fresh and hot right here!]

[Damn, damn, damn, dropping a bombshell in the wee hours, Chen Jia? Prostitution? Sleeping with fans?]

[I was about to go to sleep and you hit me with this? Who can sleep after this!]

[Fans of Chen Jia wake up! Your top-tier brother’s house has collapsed!]

[Impossible! How could brother Chen Jia’s house collapse! Must be a namesake, slander!]

[My brother being involved with his fans? What a joke; he debuted as an idol and has a contract that requires him to stay pure and not date. Plus, he said before that he wouldn’t flirt with any girl for ten years and would always be the best brother in our hearts.]

[Yeah, right, so he didn’t flirt with women or date them; he went straight to bed with them!]

[Wow, the entertainment circle has fans’ dreams collapsing again~~~ Oh, turns out it’s my dreams collapsing...]

[Impossible, right? My God, Chen Jia actually did this? My sister was just playing his music yesterday!]

...

The comment section was a complete mess.

Chen Jia debuted with a boy band and later went solo. As a top figure in the circle, his fanbase was not to be underestimated.

After these hot searches surged, countless netizens flocked to rubberneck and munch popcorn, but many fans still chose to believe in Chen Jia.

Even when netizens slapped screenshots of the Q City police report in their faces, these fans were still determinedly convinced that Chen Jia was innocent.

There were even a good number of fans who went to the official Weibo to leave comments threatening to release Chen Jia immediately to clear up the misunderstanding!

The actions of these fans made the bystanders watching the drama exclaim at the absurdity.

After the official news was released, not only were all of Chen Jia’s music, film, and variety show works pulled from everywhere, but those brands that were collaborating with Chen Jia also issued termination statements one after another, pulling down any advertising images related to Chen Jia overnight.

The capitalists’ move was so obvious it couldn’t be more clear.

And then there was the official endorsement.

Chen Jia was done for.

Completely done for!

Soon, everyone discovered that Chen Jia’s account had disappeared. The celebrity account followed by tens of millions had turned into a gray avatar and a string of random ID code.

The speed at which Chen Jia’s house of cards fell was beyond everyone’s imagination.

[This... it’s this serious?]

[How many fans did he take advantage of? Even his right to speak is gone...]

[Insider news, it’s said that there were more than thirty, and more than half of them were fans.]

[Geez, that’s kind of disgusting. His fans are young; preying on fans’ adoration and naivety to satisfy his own greed; these fans are really toxic.]

[Exactly, I just don’t know what those fans who are willing to be his secret lovers are thinking. Strip away the spotlight, and he’s just an ordinary man.]

[Yesterday, he was a top star in the circle; today, he’s become a rat on the street that everyone shouts at.]

[Impossible! My brother would never do such a thing; it must be slander!]

...

More and more netizens started paying attention to this matter, even many who had gone to sleep were woken up by friends calling them to join in on the scoop.

Especially Chen Jia’s fans, who were devastated after finding out their idol was in trouble, cried and yelled, a million times in disbelief.

The comments section was a hotbed of chaos, and in the end, it was directly turned into a 404 by the overwhelming power of net users, as the Mengbo Company’s page couldn’t withstand the enormous traffic and crashed overnight...

That night, who knows how many people lay awake and how many slept soundly.

Jiang Ning and Qi Xingzhou were among the latter.

Given Zhang Lang’s call from last night, during breakfast, Jiang Ning took out her phone, looked at it, and then raised an eyebrow with a smile.

Overnight, Mengbo Company’s programmers had worked overtime to restore the page, and Mengbo was back to normal. Chen Jia’s topic was still trending hot on the search charts, fermenting continuously.