ATLAS TRANSLATES

The director deleted this comment and instructed the PR department to monitor online discussions.

Both Sun Dan from Black Water Street and Yan Lu were part of the same network – how could the show’s production team have such connections? If they did, they would have invited celebrities like Gao Shu and Wei Xiyuan as regular guests.

“They even dare to mention Lawyer Zhao,” the assistant director spoke up. “They’re not afraid of getting a cease and desist letter from him.”

“The attention is too much…” the director gripped his phone, looking toward the door. “At this critical moment, I don’t know if we can continue with this show.”

The official website’s video was quickly re-edited and reuploaded. The footage of Bai Lian and Chi Yundai was also cut down as they tried to minimize the situation.

The online controversy seemed to die down.

Meanwhile, on Bai Lian’s side.

She and Jiang Fuli didn’t think there was any issue. Neither of them spent much time online. After watching TV, Jiang Fuli took his coat and left, while Jiang He stayed behind with Ji Heng. When he returned to Jiangjing, he hadn’t brought his Lego set, which he had secretly kept at Ji Heng’s place.

After everyone left, Jiang He went to get his Lego set with his bag.

Ji Heng brought over his small pajamas and took him to bathe. Though Jiang He was old enough to bathe himself, Ji Heng worried he might be scared alone, so he sat on a small stool by the tub to wait.

Jiang He was well-behaved during his bath. Ji Heng had bought him a rubber duck to play with in the tub.

However, Jiang He was always withdrawn and never played with the duck.

While Ji Heng was looking at his drawings, Jiang He, seeing that Ji Heng wasn’t paying attention, reached out with one short finger to poke the duck’s head underwater, then watched it bob back up. He did this over and over about a dozen times.

After maintaining the same position for five minutes, Ji Heng’s neck was getting stiff. Seeing Jiang He still poking at the duck, he gave a small cough.

Jiang He immediately let go of the duck and splashed some water on his face.

Ji Heng slowly looked up. “All done?”

Jiang He nodded.

Ji Heng brought him a dry towel. After Jiang He put on his pajamas himself, Ji Heng glanced at Bai Lian’s small room.

Bai Lian was in the adjacent room with the light on. Through the door crack, he could faintly see her busy silhouette.

Ji Heng suddenly lowered his voice, “Little He, do you know about wave functions?”

Jiang He looked up at Ji Heng and blinked in confusion.

Ji Heng: “…”

Well, he didn’t know.

Ji Heng was puzzled – wasn’t this child supposed to be a genius?

He gave Jiang He a look of disappointment.

Jiang He: “…”

He silently finished putting on his clothes.

In the small room.

Bai Lian was carefully polishing a piece of jade with a triangular file. Water dripped slowly from the jade’s edges onto the machine. One foot of the qilin was starting to take shape.

She polished it a couple more times, then held it up to the light to examine it slowly: “Not bad.”

What would take a master just a few days to polish had taken her a month, and it was still barely acceptable.

Fortunately, only Jiang Fuli’s piece was urgent. There was no rush for Ji Heng’s piece.

This gave her time to work on it slowly.

Monday, classes resumed as usual.

Some students in Class 15 were discussing yesterday’s show. Yang Lin had arrived very early. When Bai Lian arrived, she was already focused on working through practice papers.

Bai Lian pulled out her chair and sat down, taking out a notebook from her bag and pushing it toward Yang Lin.

The notebook bumped Yang Lin’s elbow and she turned her head.

“Notes, for physics and math,” Bai Lian said simply as she put her bag down.

Checking her phone, she saw He Wen had sent her a document.

He Wen: [It’s been too long since the college entrance exam, just take a look] He Wen: [The results from last time’s experiment were a bit strange]

He seemed very busy and kept his messages brief.

Bai Lian opened He Wen’s materials to look them over, then forwarded them to the class group chat.

The last results were strange? She pondered this while taking out her pen and practice problems. She had already finished the weekend’s assignments.

Senior year was just endless practice problems and finding one’s weak points.

Bai Lian had almost stopped reviewing physics and math, focusing instead on chemistry, biology and English. The countdown on the bulletin board showed less than sixty days until the college entrance exam.

Lu Xiaohan and Wen Qi ran into each other at the school gate and came to class together. They saw Bai Lian, Yang Lin, Ning Xiao and others already buried in their work.

Wen Qi opened his mouth: “When I woke up, I saw that Sister Lian was still answering the study rep’s questions in the group chat at 1 AM last night?”

They’re already here working so early? The PE rep put his arm around Wen Qi’s shoulder, “That’s what top students are like. Beibei, learn from them.”

Wen Qi said nothing, looking toward Yang Lin. Bai Lian and Ning Xiao were fine, they didn’t have to worry about other things.

But Yang Lin was also working part-time, she was really pushing herself too hard.

Beside Bai Lian, Yang Lin bent her head and focused intently on her practice papers. When fighting with everything you have for both survival and the college entrance exam, no one feels tired.

“Xiaohan, how’s the progress on our graduation uniforms?” A female student sat at Lu Xiaohan’s desk, asking about the uniforms.

The school would soon be organizing graduation photos.

Lu Xiaohan took out her phone, scrolled to her chat with Ji Heng and showed a new picture he had sent: “This is the pattern…”

The girl’s eyes lit up, then she remembered something. “Xiaohan, in last night’s show, was that the study god and Sister Lian?”

The two heads huddled together, keeping their voices low to avoid disturbing Bai Lian and Yang Lin behind them.

Thanks to Wen Qi’s promotion, everyone in Class 15 had watched “Come On, Friend”. Though the high school seniors’ faces weren’t shown, their backs, arms and feet appeared.

Bai Lian and the others hadn’t worn microphones, but her presence was too distinctive – those who knew her could tell it was her.

Lu Xiaohan didn’t directly confirm, but the girl understood: “So it really was you guys… I knew ordinary high school seniors couldn’t solve those kinds of problems.”

If it was Bai Lian, then it wasn’t surprising.

She breathed a sigh of relief.

Meanwhile.

At Jiang Fuli’s place, he had gone to the lab.

He wasn’t interested in cryptocurrency unless there were cutting-edge technology auctions or antiques he wanted.

Xu Nanjing couldn’t get much useful information from Jiang Fuli. Holding fish food, he said: “Looks like I’ll need to make a trip back to Jiangjing.”

Xiao Bingwen nodded.

Beside them, Ming Dongheng stared at the water’s surface, his cold face tinged with frost and brows furrowed.

“Still worried about your little martial arts gym?” Xu Nanjing didn’t care about the small gym, just found Ming Dongheng’s concern amusing. “Lay low for a while, that’s how public opinion works.”

Ming Dongheng naturally knew this. “The gym is accepting art exam students for the first time. Because of this incident, no students have come to register lately. Miss Bai will surely be disappointed.”

“Little sister Bai Lian?” Xu Nanjing was startled. He sat up straight and raised his hand. “What does this have to do with her?”

“The gym reopened with her support,” Ming Dongheng looked up and explained.

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Xu Nanjing drummed his fingers on the railing.

He took out his phone and sent a message to Gao Yan: [Find a martial arts instructor with six or seven dans. Need them to lend their name. Little sister Bai Lian’s martial arts gym]

Jiangjing. Xu family home.

Gao Yan sat in her seat, looking at the people before her. Her gaze fell on a bearded elderly man in the middle: “Old Xu, I heard your eldest son has seven dans?”

Every major family kept some trusted followers, and the Xu family was no exception.

These were Xu Jueling’s strongest batch of people.

“You flatter me, Madam. Yes, that’s my son Xu Jiang,” the old man nodded, then looked to his left. “Xu Jiang.”

Xu Jiang stepped forward, suppressing his excitement: “Xu Jiang greets the First Madam.”

Was Gao Yan going to give him an important position?

Behind him, the others looked at Xu Jiang with hints of envy in their eyes.

“I need you to go to Xiangcheng. This matter is very important to me,” Gao Yan looked at Xu Jiang. “Your salary will be doubled.”

“Xiangcheng?” Xu Jiang was taken aback.

Beside him, his father guessed: “Is it to protect the Third Young Master?”

“No,” Gao Yan didn’t hide it from them. She picked up her teacup and slowly skimmed off the tea leaves. “It’s to lend your name to a martial arts gym in Xiangcheng. It won’t take long. The Third Young Master recently accepted a sister, this gym is hers. You just need to follow her instructions when you get there.”

Hearing this, Xu Jiang’s smile became hesitant.

He had thought he would be protecting Xu Nanjing, since everyone knew Xu Nanjing was Jiang Fuli’s brother.

But he hadn’t expected to be sent to a martial arts gym in Xiangcheng. Xiangcheng was so far away – would he be able to come back after going there?

And the Third Young Master’s adopted sister – how long would the Third Young Master’s interest in her last?

More importantly, going so far away, wouldn’t he be cut off from the Jiangjing circle when he returned?

Xu Jiang’s father had great ambitions to keep climbing higher, and Xiangcheng was too risky. He lowered his eyes, “First Madam, Xu Jiang has no experience teaching people, but his younger brother should be able to.”

It wasn’t easy for a Xu family branch member to be cultivated. Xu Jiang had a bright future ahead, he couldn’t go to Xiangcheng.

Gao Yan could see that Xu Jiang didn’t want to go. She set down her teacup, “Where is his younger brother?”

Xu Jiang’s father looked behind him, “Xu He, come greet the First Madam.”

A man in a gray coat came forward, very respectfully: “First Madam, I am Xu He.”

“What’s your martial arts rank?” Gao Yan looked at his honest face and nodded inwardly. This person wasn’t bad.

Not too cunning.

“Six dans.”

His ability also met Xu Nanjing’s minimum requirements.

“Are you willing to go to the martial arts gym in Xiangcheng?”

“Xu He is willing.”

Gao Yan was satisfied. “Good, pack your things and go to Xiangcheng tomorrow. The Third Young Master’s people will receive you there.”

Northern City. That evening, at Li Yang’s place.

Many people in Li Yang’s fan groups were discussing the “Come On, Friend” show. Industry insiders knew that Li Yang was originally supposed to be the show’s guest.

However, he was afraid Yan Lu would affect his pretty boy image, so he didn’t go.

After the show became popular, Li Yang was also mocked online, with people saying he had lost the forest for the trees.

His super fans all knew about this.

Li Yang’s manager saw people constantly @ing him in the group, so he went to check. It was one of Li Yang’s wealthy female fans, Strawberry Ice Cream—

[This damn show even edits footage. Did “Come On, Friend” want to create a god out of Brother Li, but he refused and that’s why he withdrew? It’s not about putting someone down to lift others up like the internet rumors say.]

[Brother Li was terribly smeared last week.]

The manager looked at the messages in the group but didn’t deny them or stop the fans’ speculation.

The popularity of “Come On, Friend” was still growing.

Internet users loved to create gods, but they loved destroying them even more.

The show had been highly praised for these two episodes, but in the latter half, it didn’t meet netizens’ expectations and was being criticized. Li Yang inevitably got caught up in this.

Strawberry Ice Cream was wealthy. Li Yang’s fans listened to her more than the studio.

They would attack whatever she pointed at.

As a super fan, her commands were more effective than Li Yang’s. These past two days since “Come On, Friend” aired, people had been attacking Li Yang for putting others down to lift himself up, making him the target of mockery from passersby, and many fans had left the groups.

Strawberry Ice Cream looked at the edited footage and immediately contacted her entertainment industry connections, cutting together a PR statement—

v Strawberry Ice Cream: [#LiYangSufferedUnfairly ##ComeOnFriendDeletedScenes# @ComeOnFriendOfficial, can you address netizens’ questions? Why does the Xingyi Martial Arts Gym’s master only have five dans? As everyone knows, a gym’s instructor is very important – how can you promote on TV when you don’t even have a six dan instructor? Isn’t this fraud? @XiangchengPolice Second, can the show find someone with a bit of culture? Which high school senior does these kinds of problems nowadays? Yan Lu and Mei Yi keep calling her “Miss Bai” – please read more books, ok? Think deleting this segment can hide your stupidity? [screenshot] Finally, don’t treat viewers like idiots. Yan Lu says Lawyer Chi is amazing, but I don’t see what’s so amazing about him? His cooking is amazing? Is the show trying to create a god like @LawyerZhaoJingzhou? Simply ridiculous – why don’t you search Lawyer Zhao’s credentials online?

Just because Brother Li wouldn’t go on your show, he got attacked for a week. Are you going to apologize?]