Ms.CEO Falls in Love with Aloof Professor
Chapter 134 - 134 128 Should I confess to him

Chapter 134: Chapter 128: Should I confess to him? Chapter 134: Chapter 128: Should I confess to him? Song Xian was successfully led astray, “What you say seems to make some sense.”

Lu Jingyan looked down, dejectedly sipping his coffee.

“Still, what’s with Sheng Xian’s strange preferences, first recognizing someone as older sister and then as a younger sister?” Song Xian muttered, resting her chin on her hand. Seeing that Lu Jingyan across her didn’t utter a word for a long time, she reached out and tapped on the table in front of her, “Why are you so silent?”

“Annoyed,” Lu Jingyan said, stirring her coffee with a slim spoon and sighed.

Song Xian also heaved a sigh.

After a while, Lu Jingyan sighed again.

The two of them, unable to reach any conclusion after much discussion, went on sighing for a while. Song Xian couldn’t take it anymore, “Stop sighing. If you keep this up, it feels like I’m the one who’s heartbroken, even though I’ve never been in love.”

“Isn’t it because I’m annoyed?” Lu Jingyan held back another sigh that was at the tip of her tongue, and after a moment of silence, she spoke with a lack of energy, “Not seeing him for a few days is annoying, seeing him makes me quite happy, but afterwards, I’m still very annoyed. I really want to pry open his heart and see what he’s actually thinking. I dislike this feeling now. I want a clear answer on whether he likes me or not. By keeping me hanging like this, it feels terrible.”

With that said, Song Xian suddenly lifted her head, “Then why don’t you ask him?”

Hearing this, Lu Jingyan stopped stirring her coffee.

“If you want a decisive outcome, only Sheng Xian knows it. Just ask him directly.”

Lu Jingyan hesitated for a while before speaking tentatively, “Does that mean I have to confess to him?”

“…”

“What if I confess and he rejects me?” Lu Jingyan became more and more uncertain the more she thought about it, “By that time, won’t I not even have the chance to see him?”

“…” Song Xian sighed again at the question.

The two spent a good deal of time frowning and sighing until Song Xian received a call from her immediate superior, ending their meeting.

After Song Xian left, Lu Jingyan stayed alone in the café for a while, then called over a waiter to scan and pay the bill, and drove to the company.

Recently, the internet had been quite calm, unlike earlier in the year when the entertainment industry seemed to have stepped on a landmine, with shocking news exploding one after another.

After peace had reigned for a while, turbulence was bound to surface again.

Just before leaving work today, a hot search hastened up the charts—#SuJiu#.

Lu Jingyan had heard of the name Su Jiu, a very popular internet celebrity from the past two years. This popularity was extreme, at that time she could pretty much rival the popularity and buzz of all the most sought-after young actresses. Plenty of marketing accounts would use her to generate buzz, saying she was going to be signed by this or that film and television company, that she was going to star in certain dramas. In short, there was a period of more than a year when any slight association with Su Jiu meant associating with popularity and hot searches.

Su Jiu was passionate about running her boutique and selling her designs, not setting many trends online over that year, and in the end, no confirmed news about her signing with any film and television company ever came out.

People say that the rise of the internet heralds the arrival of the best era for humanity.

For the times when spreading a message required fast riders over eight hundred miles, the information era is indeed a great one.

But as with anything, we cannot judge solely based on appearances. It’s a good era, but at the same time, it’s also a terrible era.

The downsides of the internet’s rise are no less significant than its benefits. As long as you are online, you can see moral blackmail, slander, and an addiction to conflict every day. It’s as common and expected as the need for every person to eat daily.

Su Jiu was made by the internet, and she was destroyed by it as well.

As for why everyone started to criticize Su Jiu and then more and more people disliked her, Lu Jingyan was unclear. She didn’t even follow celebrities, much less internet celebrities. Anyway, there was a lot of negative material on Su Jiu, so much so that she was constantly reported and boycotted by the group that disliked her, until her online shop was closed, leaving her without a chance to defend herself, socially dead.

Public opinion on the internet can sometimes be terrifying. Those who proclaim justice gather together with power so strong that they can convict a person or event before the truth even emerges. They take fragmented information, link it with their imagination to form a narrative, and then weave a story that seems as though they personally witnessed it to execute you.

They don’t like you, so they don’t even allow you to exist.

They are people; they use the internet to defame others without cost.

It had been almost a year since Su Jiu last appeared on Weibo’s hot search.

The reason she appeared on the hot search this time was because of the court case she had brought against a netizen was about to be heard.

Lu Jingyan clicked in and roughly read through the netizens’ comments, which were mostly scolding Su Jiu.

See? This is the darkest side of the internet environment. I destroy you with my words but don’t allow you to pick up legal weapons to protect yourself.

If I think I’m right, then I am right. I don’t allow you any chance to defend yourself. If I think you’re wrong, then you are wrong, and anything you say is insignificant.

They believe in what they think is the truth, never the truth itself.

The heat over Su Jiu’s case grew larger and gathered more public attention, leading to more people being implicated.

Around ten o’clock at night, Lu Jingyan checked the hot search again and didn’t know when another tag had appeared—#SuJiu’sLawyer#.

Sometimes, the world is just that coincidental. Lu Jingyan never imagined that she would one day see Sheng Xian on the hot search list of her own website.

—It was seeing Sheng Xian being scolded.

The reason was simple: Sheng Xian was Su Jiu’s lawyer.

I don’t like Su Jiu, so you aren’t allowed to like her either. If you stand on her side, then you’re wrong.

Most people accuse others online, people with whom they have no real-life connections, just to vent their own negative emotions and dissatisfaction with reality.

Having been in the industry for a long time, Lu Jingyan was used to the numbing strangeness, but when all this speech was directed at Sheng Xian, she found she was still very affected.