CSGM - Chapter 149

Chapter 149: Ironclad Proof

Click, click, click, click, click. A news intern on the street whipped out his phone and began furiously recording video and snapping photos.

He hadn't brought his professional gear with him, but making do with his phone was good enough!

But what made the scene even crazier was that a second gust of wind seemed to sweep past him.

A third girl was chasing the first two, shouting, "Please!! Don't run!!! Please, just let me hug you! I love you--!!"

Her tone sounded crazed with desperation, with even a hint of wronged grievance, as if she were about to cry.

The intern, still recording, thought: "???!!!"

What kind of major drama had he just stumbled upon? A love triangle?!

He'd captured enough of the drama. The next step was to "casually post it online."

He even had the perfect viral quote ready: "I saw it and thought it was pretty interesting, so I casually filmed it and posted it online. I never expected it to blow up."

After posting the video on DouDou Short Video, the intern even added a few melodramatic tags.

The video gained traction easily, quickly racking up several hundred likes.

Back home, the intern was still smiling as he reviewed the photos he'd taken that night.

Meanwhile, netizens were watching the video and photos he had posted online.

As they watched, many people on the other side of the screen—including the intern himself—began to realize that something wasn't quite right...?!

The woman carrying the other, and the one being carried... why did they look so familiar?

Even though both were wearing masks, and the woman being carried also had a hat on, they both looked stunningly beautiful!

Their eye-catching looks and auras were so striking that after everyone had a good laugh at the incident itself, their attention shifted to the two women's appearances.

Ren Zhi's face was not one that could be easily overlooked.

And Chu Xi was no longer the obscure, eighteenth-tier actress she had been last year.

By the time the netizens who stumbled upon the DouDou video had finished watching it, the intern had also come to his senses. He slapped his forehead in regret and deleted the post he'd thought was just a funny clip but was actually a massive scoop. However, it was too late to take it back!

Ah, shit!!! It was all his fault for being too smug, for getting carried away. Why hadn't he taken a closer look at the people in the video before posting it?!

This wasn't just some ordinary news!

It was a massive, breaking story, and in his smugness, he'd posted it as a funny clip just to "get a little bit of traction"!

While the intern was regretting his actions so much his guts turned green, the video and photos he had deleted had already been saved and spread everywhere by meddlesome netizens.

Female leads in picture one: Chu Xi, Ren Zhi.

Female lead in picture two: An unknown girl, running erratically.

Even though the intern's DouDou video had only been seen by just under ten thousand people initially, it was these very viewers who, upon realizing the protagonists were two major celebrities, spread the gossip with such force that the incident blew up across the entire internet that very night.

The hashtag #ChuXiCarriesRenZhiAndSprints# shot up the hot search rankings, tagged with a liver-red character for "Explosive."

Netizens who saw the hashtag were baffled. They clicked on it and saw—

???!

This wasn't clickbait?!

An even greater mystery emerged: the incident was actually real!

The photos and video were all there—pictures don't lie. Two of the biggest stars in the domestic entertainment industry were playing this on the street at night??!

Had the netizens had too much to drink, or had Chu Xi and Ren Zhi?

Judging by Chu Xi's frantic expression and panicked eyes, anyone who didn't know better would have thought she was being hunted.

That is, until everyone saw the second half of the video and the next photo.

——No one was hunting Chu Xi and Ren Zhi, but it was a close equivalent.

It was a sasaeng fan—a sasaeng fan in a complete frenzy.

Her hoarse screams in the video were so intense that netizens watching on their phones couldn't help but break into a cold sweat.

So this was the infamous sasaeng fan culture everyone had heard about for years—the very group celebrities had to go out of their way to avoid!

Holy crap, with that level of insanity, what else could they do but run? Were they supposed to confront her face-to-face?

She was clearly a decent-looking girl, but the way she chased after Chu Xi and the tone of her voice made her look like a zombie with its bloody maw wide open.

After watching the terrifying chase a few more times, netizens could understand why Chu Xi was running in such a panic.

Some netizens even suggested that the sasaeng fan might have some kind of mental illness and should see a doctor.

If you're sick, get treatment. This kind of behavior isn't just illegal; it's genuinely terrifying to witness!

Everyone understood why Chu Xi had to carry Ren Zhi and run so fast. People began to speculate that if such a "fervent" fan caught up to them, they might not have been able to escape at all.

Having survived the ordeal, Chu Xi carried Ren Zhi back home. She wiped the sweat from her forehead, and it took a long time for her racing heart to calm down.

She first helped Ren Zhi change her clothes, then carried her to the bathroom for a bath.

In the past, when Ren Zhi was drunk, Chu Xi was only allowed to help her wash her face and brush her teeth. Now, she could hold her baby and bathe her.

At this thought, Chu Xi nuzzled against Ren Zhi's fair, clean skin.

Jin Yuan was such a good assistant. Chu Xi now felt that everything she had said was right.

Sure enough, only as a girlfriend could she do all the things she couldn't do before.

How could the special treatment and privileges she enjoyed now possibly compare to when they were just friends?

While Chu Xi was happily lathering Ren Zhi up with bubbles, she had no idea that the two of them had already garnered tens of thousands of comments on Weibo, a mix of pity, ridicule, and suspicion from netizens.

Putting aside whether the sasaeng was chasing Chu Xi or Ren Zhi, the fact was that the two of them were together!

It was normal for celebrities of their caliber to have a few sasaengs.

What wasn't normal was why the two of them were wrapped in each other's arms so late at night.

After condemning the young woman for her immoral actions as a sasaeng fan—wasting her youth with such a muddled purpose—everyone's attention shifted to the more prominent victims.

There was no other reason for it—the two of them just seemed too damn suspicious!

The video was filmed at midnight. The two of them were on the same street, outside a residential complex. Then, the "microscope netizens" took a closer look at the expression on Ren Zhi's face as she lay in Chu Xi's arms—

In some frames, her eyes were slightly closed. In others, she was helping Chu Xi by looking back to see where the pursuing girl was. And in still others, she was simply gazing at Chu Xi, her eyes filled with what looked like some kind of impure affection!

The CP fans stood up, hands on their hips. "We told you there was something going on with them! You didn't believe us, did you? Well, look now!"

They had said before that the way Ren Zhi and Chu Xi looked at each other on the show was off, but no one believed them. People insisted they were imagining things, forcing a ship that wasn't there.

Well, now there was ironclad proof. Look how drunk and dazed Zhizhi was! They knew something was up.

The sense of accomplishment was like being back in school. You're the top student who solved a difficult problem, and you go around explaining your method and answer, only to be refuted and questioned from all sides by the slackers.

Then, the moment finally comes when the tests are handed back and the teacher announces the correct answer! A firework of vindication explodes in the top student's heart. They wish they could take the very problem they were challenged on and shove it in every other student's face—

"See? See? I was right all along, wasn't I? What do you have to say for yourselves now?"

The CP fans were both ecstatic and smug. After all, what kind of normal friends would be sprinting down the street late at night with one carrying the other?

And that posture—it was a princess carry, understand? A lover's embrace!

The "ChuChu dong Ren" CP began to attract faint suspicion from netizens on the hot search list—

Oh my god, could a ship between two top-tier, same-sex celebrities actually be real?

The sudden news left people not knowing whether to laugh or cry, and it made the career-focused fans on both sides, who hadn't even figured out how to distance their idol from the other, cry with frustration!

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