He Jinxia left ng Wan’s place when it was already evening.
She called for a car and finally had the chance to check the ssages on her phone while sitting in the vehicle.
Luo You had sent several ssages telling her to call him if there was any issue, to which He Jinxia replied with a "no issues".
The rest were greetings from so celebrities, asking when she would return to Huaxia, as well as when she would have so free ti to get together and share weight loss tips and other various topics.
He Jinxia replied to each one, regardless of the fact that so ssages were already several days old.
She wasn’t powerful enough in the circle yet, so she had to remain humble all the ti.
After she finished replying, He Jinxia had also arrived at Dongting Lake Garden. As she got out of the car, her phone "buzzed" with a vibration. It was a ssage from Sheng Yan—
[Are you okay?]
He Jinxia’s thoughts suddenly beca complicated, and without thinking, she dialed his number.
Only after hearing the unique international long-distance dial tone did she snap back to reality, realizing Sheng Yan was still in the ’M’ country. She wanted to hang up, but the person on the other end had already picked up.
"Hello?"
The man’s voice was low and llow, striking a chord in her tender heart.
He Jinxia walked circles in a nearby park and asked him, "What ti is it over there in ’M’ country? You should be sleeping by now, right?"
"It’s not late, I can make ti to chat with you."
He Jinxia also inquired about his schedule for the day, and after a brief conversation, she brought up the matter of ng Wan wanting to leave JY, feeling sowhat emotional,
"I’ve always been at odds with JY. I’ve suffered a lot of unfair treatnt within the group. Once I went solo, I thought that if one day I beca famous, I’d dismantle JY and leave those who bullied with nowhere to turn. But now that the group is truly facing disbandnt, I feel lost."
It was that sense of bewildernt that ca from not having applied much effort before the huge obstacle in front of her ca crashing down.
What she thought was an impregnable wall turned out to be a shoddy construction project—barely touched and it crumbled apart.
Sheng Yan’s voice was refreshing, "Do you want JY to stay together?"
He Jinxia ca back to her senses and shook her head, "No, better not to keep it."
Zhang Yingru, Li Zimu, and Wen Ningning were not kind. The other mbers weren’t as pure as she had imagined. They were like a tumor, and the sooner it was removed, the sooner a wish would be fulfilled.
She spoke to Sheng Yan about ng Wan and ntioned her ideas.
Sheng Yan responded indifferently, and after she finished talking, he said, "She’s older than you. She must have given this decision a lot of thought, so don’t worry."
He Jinxia smiled, "I’m not worried about her, I’m thinking about how to reply to her family. Believe it or not, it won’t be long before ng Wan’s family cos looking for ."
ng Wan had clearly stated her intention to rest for a while, which ant temporarily saying goodbye to the entertainnt circle. Leaving the entertainnt circle left her naturally heading ho.
Based on her limited previous interactions with her family, He Jinxia felt they would definitely co to understand the reasons for ng Wan’s departure from the industry.
Sheng Yan’s voice ca through the phone, "Do you need my help? I have business dealings with her brother."
He Jinxia, "No need, this is my battlefield."
Sheng Yan’s eyes flickered with a smile, agreeing with her, "Hmm, your battlefield, I won’t interfere."
He Jinxia’s eyes glinted with slyness, "But you’re my little soldier, right?"
Sheng Yan went with the flow, "Then I’ll be at your beck and call."
He Jinxia: "Won’t this make look like a heartless person, using you and then discarding you?"
Sheng Yan: "You can’t throw away. The mont you used , I beca tightly entwined with you."
He Jinxia blushed and asked a question that had been stifled in her heart for a long ti, "Have you really never been in love? Are all n this talented, coming up with sweet nothings on their own?"
Sheng Yan’s voice ca from afar, each word etching itself into her heart, "No, you are the first one."
He chuckled, "Jinxia, this is an instinct that is elicited in males when they face females. You can think of it like this, these are all mating instincts."
He Jinxia blinked, and it took her several seconds to understand what Sheng Yan ant. She imdiately hung up the phone with a "snap."
She looked around, her heartbeat a bit fast, and found herself alone, but for so reason, she felt like a thief.
This scoundrel is speaking more plainly by the day. Where is the cold and abstinent Sheng Yan of before?!!
So it’s true, people should interact more to see each other’s "true nature" ah~~
The next day, the internet was still in a fernt over the issue of JY disbanding, with fans and onlookers arguing for a week, until yesterday when ng Wan officially announced her departure via her Weibo, pushing the whole affair to another climax.
By then, the fervor had died down a bit, but JY seed to treat the matter as a publicity stunt. Seeing that ng Wan was leaving, they decided to go all out. mbers of the group began to bad-mouth her en bloc.
But in the entertainnt circle, no matter how much you hate soone, you can rarely tear into them openly. Apart from those who boldly take the "love and hate" image, other stars never step on potential landmines carelessly. Even if JY was slinging mud, they did it in a veiled manner.
Starting from seven in the morning, each mber of JY would post a long Weibo every hour on the hour.
On Weibo, they talked about the bits and pieces of their tis with ng Wan, from the struggles they faced after first forming the team, to the team’s developnt over five full years. There were too many words and events to recount.
He Jinxia read two of their press releases. On the surface, they seed to be reminiscing about ng Wan, unwilling to let her go, but a careful analysis of the details revealed many of ng Wan’s shortcomings, such as not valuing activities, lacking patience, being playful, and not having team spirit, among other things.
She shook her head and scoffed inwardly, nibbling on the heart-shaped pancake that Mrs. He had made, scrolling through the comnts.
Sure enough, the direction of the comnts had changed.
In the press release from the first mber, all the comnts were nostalgic about ng Wan, saying they didn’t want her to go.
But in the press release from the second mber, people began to question whether ng Wan deserved to be a girl group mber.
[After gaining fa, she abandoned the team to go solo. Forgive my bluntness, but such a person shouldn’t be a girl group mber.]
[Whether she can or can’t is soone else’s business. Aren’t you all being too ddleso?]
[It turns out that public personas are all manipulated by the company. So this is the real ng Wan. I feel so played!]
[Whimper, whimper, Wanwan, please don’t leave the group, I only stan you!!]
[Lacking team spirit and soul, it’s better for her to leave.]
...
He Jinxia browsed through several rounds of comnts but found them uninteresting, so she returned to the Weibo hopage.
Truths and lies within the entertainnt circle are interwoven, and Weibo is yet another place governed by public opinion. Rumors repeated by many can turn into truths; it’s strange and twisted.
At first, she found it amusing to follow, but after seeing more and more, she lost interest.
Casually scrolling, she happened to catch it right on the hour, and another mber of JY was starting to release a press statent reminiscing about their days with ng Wan.
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