“Director Wang! Look at the comments!”
A backstage crew member hurried to call Director Wang over, gesturing for him to look at the live stream screen and the netizens' comments scrolling across the public chat.
Director Wang leaned in close to the phone, watching the lively public chat in Xie Bei’s stream channel.
His face gradually darkened.
But after a moment, he regained his composure.
“Let it ferment. We'll see what the Lu family does. If we shut it down too early, it'll only make us look like we're hiding something.”
Director Wang was right. Shutting it down now would only confirm the fact that Lu Yinghan had been beaten.
Xie Bei’s grip on the blanket tightened.
However, the timid look in Lu Yinghan’s eyes made him loosen his hands after all...
“Alright, I understand. But I need to apply ointment to the injuries on your arm, okay?”
In the end, he still stepped forward to ask Lu Yinghan, gently and carefully patting her head.
A violent glint began to gather in the depths of his eyes...
Lu Yinghan glanced at the staff members still standing outside. After hesitating for a moment, she nodded.
Xie Bei immediately asked the crew for ointment. The staff tacitly said nothing and tilted the camera slightly away.
They prevented the viewers in the live stream from seeing them apply the medicine clearly.
【Huh? Why aren't they letting us watch them apply the ointment?】
【It's just applying medicine to her arm, what's the point of moving the camera?】
【Isn't this basically a dead giveaway?】
【So was Lu Yinghan really beaten?】
【I don't know, but looking at the child, she might really have been.】
【Don't talk recklessly. If she wasn't, and your words get spread around by someone malicious, you know what will happen to you.】
【...】
After the initial wave of excitement, the netizens had their spirits dampened by that remark.
They all chose to keep quiet.
Xie Bei took the ointment from the crew and came up to Lu Yinghan. Lu Yinghan, huddled in the blanket, obediently reached out her arm.
Without saying a word, Xie Bei knitted his brows and carefully applied it bit by bit.
This arm didn't just have the one wound he had noticed earlier; there were other bruises of various sizes elsewhere on it.
Now that he was looking closely, how could he not understand what had caused them?
A heavy gloomy aura instantly enveloped the dirt house.
Feeling a bit guilty, Lu Yinghan looked at Xie Bei carefully applying the medicine to her and opened her mouth.
She realized she didn't know what to say.
In the end, this incident still blew up completely on the internet.
Lu Yue, still fast asleep, was awakened by an urgent and continuous ringing of his phone.
Struggling to sit up, a storm of anger flared inside him from being woken up.
“What is it?”
After uttering those three words irritably, Lu Yue wanted to lie back down.
Regardless of Lu Yue's mood, the person on the other end of the line spoke softly in a panic, “President Lu! This is bad! The matter regarding Miss Lu's injuries is blowing up all over the internet right now! People are demanding to know if the injuries on Miss Lu were caused by a beating, and they're even saying... asking if the Lu family is abusing the child or something...”
Now, Lu Yue wasn't sleepy in the slightest anymore.
The metaphorical bucket of cold water poured over his heart completely wiped away his drowsiness.
“What did you say? Our Lu family is abusing a child???”
Smart as he was, he could already guess what was going on.
“Tsk! How is this Lu Yinghan so good at stirring up trouble? Does she love seeking attention that much???”
Lu Yue was truly furious.
If their dad found out about this, the show would definitely be cancelled immediately!
Putting on a coat, he went to the door of Lu Jiansen's room.
“Eldest Brother! Eldest Brother! Are you awake? I have an urgent matter to discuss with you!”
The door to Lu Jiansen's room opened quickly.
Lu Jiansen, who was tying his tie, glanced at Lu Yue, whose hair still looked like a messy bird's nest.
“What is it? What brought you to see me so early in the morning?”
Lu Jiansen spoke casually, but Lu Yue was anything but calm. He quickly explained how the situation started.
Before he even finished speaking, Lu Jiansen's face darkened completely. He didn't even want to finish tying the half-tied tie anymore.
He tossed it aside, sat down in his chair, and looked at Lu Yue scrutinizingly.
“You clearly knew she was injured, yet you still let her go film a variety show?”
“Eldest Brother...”
“I don't want to hear your excuses right now. As far as I know, you intended to give this show to Yaoyao, but because you considered the conditions too poor, you delayed it for a long time. Since you could delay it for so long for Yaoyao's sake, was it really that hard to let Yingying go after her injuries healed?! She's your sister too, do you realize that?!”
Lu Jiansen hadn't been in a good mood watching the live streams these past few days anyway, and now that something like this had happened, he completely exploded, berating Lu Yue.
As he spoke, he grabbed the documents from his bedside table and threw them forcefully at Lu Yue.
His chest heaved with agitation as his mind replayed Lu Yinghan's attitude toward him versus her attitude toward Xie Bei.
The contrast made Lu Jiansen's mood plummet even further.
Knowing he was in the wrong, Lu Yue didn't dodge the documents Lu Jiansen threw at him.
“Now the matter has blown out of proportion. Everyone on the internet is discussing whether the injuries on Lu Yinghan were inflicted by our Lu family. Luckily, Dad doesn't know about it yet, so we still have time to resolve this.”
Seeing his younger brother standing silently with his head bowed, acknowledging his mistake, Lu Jiansen ultimately softened up.
He let out a heavy sigh, ultimately deciding to help Lu Yue resolve the issue.
Noticing that Lu Jiansen was willing to help him, Lu Yue felt slightly relieved in his heart.
“Then... Eldest Brother, I'll go have my people handle public opinion first.”
Without waiting for Lu Jiansen's reply, he immediately turned tail and fled the room.
Lu Jiansen rolled his eyes at his second brother and immediately pulled out his phone to call his secretary.
“Investigate who bullied Miss at school. Look up all their family backgrounds thoroughly and send them to me.”
The secretary was completely dazed after being assigned this task by his boss so early in the morning, but he still foolishly accepted the job.
It wasn't until he saw the trending story spiking online that he realized the gravity of the situation.
He sped up his search, determined to deliver a satisfactory result to his boss.
At the exact same time, the curly-haired woman was also awakened.
She was sound asleep, but the ringing phone charging at her bedside completely shattered her slumber.
“What is it?! Can't you say whatever it is at school?!?!”
“No, no... I didn't mean to wake you up... Things have blown out of proportion!”
The curly-haired woman calmed herself, but only the last sentence registered in her head.
“Blown out of proportion? What do you mean?”
Right now, among their clique of girls, the biggest deal was the fact that they had beaten up Lu Yinghan.
Did "blown out of proportion" mean they were caught?
The curly-haired woman's limbs instantly went cold...
She lay motionlessly on the bed.
Her mind was a complete mess, and for a moment, she didn't know what to say.
As if trying to discern the truth of this matter.
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