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Chapter 539 - 441 Cool Weather, Huo Po

Chapter 539: Chapter 441 Cool Weather, Huo Po

The news that Huo’s was holding a press conference today was all over the internet, and not every entertainment reporter or internet celebrity received an invitation from Huo’s.

Many who didn’t have an invitation card, both entertainment reporters and internet celebrities, thought that even if they couldn’t get in, they couldn’t miss out on such a hot event. So they arrived early at the Huo Company building to stake out a spot, setting up their phones to live-stream, hoping to catch a piece of the action—and they ended up catching the ambulance scene live.

The audience in the live-stream chat was insanely curious:

[What happened! What happened! Who had an accident?!]

[First there were police cars, now an ambulance. If I saw it right, one of the people just carried up looked like Huo Miao?]

[I noticed that too! Her outfit is exactly like the one in the Huo’s live stream just now!]

[Oh my gosh! Hurry, hurry, what on earth is going on, can we get a class rep to explain!]

[...]

The netizens were scratching their heads in desperation.

After the abrupt interruption of Huo’s live stream, everyone fluttered around like headless flies, hopping between various social media platforms, desperate to know what exactly happened at the Huo press conference.

It’s not that everyone was too curious—it was that the final scene before the interruption of the Huo live stream was too explosive.

Many netizens were quick to capture screenshots, and they firmly claimed that the people in them were Huo Song and Huo Miao.

Wow!

The relationship between Huo Song and Huo Miao shouldn’t need explaining.

While the netizens were shouting about how outrageous it was, they were also dying for this conclusion to be confirmed.

After all, these screenshots were passed around by netizens and hadn’t been confirmed by any official source.

Yet, after making rounds on the internet, they noticed that the more popular entertainment accounts and news channels were unusually quiet today; even those internet celebrities who boasted about receiving invitations from the Huo’s were in "submarine mode."

The only thing they could grab onto were the intimate snapshots of Huo Song and Huo Miao cuddling up.

The netizens felt as anxious as ants on a hot pan, bouncing around the internet, until they finally stumbled into these clout-chasing streamers’ live broadcasts.

Since they didn’t know what exactly happened inside the press conference, they might as well join the streamers in staking out the company gates.

The individuals attending the press conference couldn’t possibly stay inside the Huo’s forever, and maybe they could even catch a glimpse of Jiang Ning!

The viewership in these small streamers’ live rooms kept climbing. The sight of patrol cars outside the Huo Building was shocking enough, but then, unexpectedly, two ambulances appeared as well!

But that wasn’t all. After the ambulances took people away, the police also quickly emerged from the building, and they escorted two individuals—familiar faces to the netizens—into a police car.

[This, this, this... Has someone broken the law?]

[Isn’t that older one Jiang Ning’s scumbag dad? Who’s that younger one? He looks familiar.]

[Could he be any more familiar? That’s Jiang Ning’s lousy second brother, Huo Miao’s dear brother; they even appeared on a variety show together before.]

[Holy crap, why were these two taken away? What the hell happened at the press conference, and where’s Jiang Ning? Jiang Ning is okay, right!]

The netizens were on tenterhooks.

Little did they know, several reporters inside the Huo Building felt the same way at this moment: Where’s Jiang Ning? How did she disappear in the blink of an eye?!

Jiang Ning, with Qi Xingzhou at her side, skillfully navigated through the crowd, went down two floors by the stairs, then headed to the other side of the corridor and took the elevator to the underground car park—ultimately slipping smoothly into her car.

Jiang Ning took the driver’s seat, pulled out two unopened bottles of water, and casually handed one to Qi Xingzhou.

Qi Xingzhou took it but didn’t drink, instead lifting his eyes to gleamingly watch Jiang Ning, who was drinking her water.

Inside, the place was crowded, and Qi Xingzhou didn’t like crowds at all.

But, when Jiang Ning grabbed his hand and they dodged the entertainment reporters while running down the stairs, for the first time, Qi Xingzhou felt a thrill of excitement.

The feeling of being pulled by Jiang Ning, striving together to get away, leaving everyone behind...

He was even a bit reluctant to have it end and wanted Jiang Ning to pull him along for such an escape again.

Jiang Ning, however, hadn’t noticed Qi Xingzhou’s mood. After she finished her water and screwed the cap back on, she placed it aside, pulled her seatbelt with one hand to buckle up, turned the ignition key with the other, and reminded Qi Xingzhou, "Fasten your seatbelt, we need to get out of here."

"Okay."

When Jiang Ning drove off, she could still see countless entertainment reporters at the Huo Company building, still holding their cameras and microphones, incessantly questioning Huo Li.

Huo Li’s perennially stoic face was now severely darkened, anyone could tell he was on the verge of losing control.

Apart from these reporters, there were also plenty of people holding their phones up on selfie sticks, seemingly live streaming the event, apparently trying to cash in on the current buzz.

Seeing this scene, Jiang Ning felt somewhat amused.

These streamers, wanting to ride the wave of popularity, were like flies on the internet, swarming to any explosive hot spot the moment it appeared.

Only when the buzz faded would they pack up and leave, then continue to lurk in the corners, waiting for the next big scoop.

Paper can’t wrap fire. Even though Huo Li had just sternly warned at the meeting room not to publicize the incidents that transpired there, there were so many people on-site. How many could actually keep it to themselves?

Once everything was exposed, no doubt the Huo’s would become the sacred ground for countless streamers’ broadcasts for the next while.

Jiang Ning stepped on the accelerator and drove away.

Huo Li, who was surrounded by reporters both inside and out, noticed Jiang Ning’s car speeding away on the main road and thought about the myriad of troubles he would have to face next, which made him so irate he felt like cursing.

He thought the situation at the Huo’s had been bad enough before, but now he was about to deal with a real mess!

...

Jiang Ning had guessed correctly.

Within almost no time at all, everything that happened at the Huo’s press conference was spread by various means.

Screenshots of chats were just the minor stuff, the unexpected turn was that someone had released a complete video!

The video lasted over half an hour, documenting every single moment of the press conference.

Although it was obvious from the visual that the video was taken covertly, it was unclear what kind of phone was used; even though it was filmed from a distance, every frame was captured with exceptional clarity.

Especially the part where Madam Huo violently beat up Huo Miao and scratched Huo Song’s face, even the voices in their conversation were recorded crisply clear.

Netizens, upon seeing this clip, were like mice who had fallen into a vat of rice, faces full of bliss:

[Holy shit! Holy shit! My dear God, where did this living immortal come from!]

[Worthy of our deep-cover agent at the Huo’s press conference! Deep indeed!]

[This is a solid hammer blow]

[I knew it, I wasn’t wrong, Huo Song and Huo Miao were indeed together!]

[It’s not just that, they even made things lethal! Ugh!]

[Madam Huo passed out too quickly, someone should interview her about her feelings then]

[Huo Miao ascending, a family in love and harmony]

[...]

Netizens commented while watching, but the System said to Jiang Ning: [Host, commissioning someone to secretly record is illegal.]

"La la la, I’m not listening, a toad preaching."

Jiang Ning raised her hand and silently gave the video a tip of one hundred thousand likes.

System: [...]

Until half an hour later, when the original video was deleted and the account owner disappeared after deleting their account, whatever needed to be spread had already been spread, and many savvy netizens had long since downloaded backups on their phones.

And lots of marketing accounts also came forward, eager to edit and disseminate the story in one go.

The big screen’s surprise revelation, Huo Song and Huo Miao’s immoral behavior, Huo Song’s bribery, Madam Huo catching them in the act, Huo Miao’s miscarriage, Madam Huo fainting, Huo Song, and Huo Ziheng getting arrested... What would usually be enough to trend for a month on the internet took the Huo family members only a few hours to achieve.

Topics related to the Huo’s dominated half the internet today.