Translated by Team DHH at http://dhh-workshop.blogspot.com.
You’re Beautiful When You Smile
Chapter 41 Part 3
“Where were you photographed in the hotel?” Ruan Yu panicked: “What's the situation now? Have the pictures been published by the media yet?”
“Not yet. But no doubt it’s me in the pictures. You should take a look at Weibo and notify Lawyer Xu as well.”
Ruan Yu glanced at Xu Huaisong whose eyebrows were tightly knit and said: “Ok.”
“Don’t worry too much. Nothing happened and they can’t make up stories. I’ve already arranged for someone to get the surveillance tape from the hotel and we’re preparing a statement too. We’ll clarify the situation the first moment we get. The thing is that I don’t know what exactly they got in the pictures and worry that someone would dig up who Xu Huaishi is and cause trouble for her at school. If it’s convenient, we should meet later and bring Lawyer Xu with you.”
Ruan Yu agreed and hung up the phone. Xu Huaisong commented with a dark face: “Look what the entertainment business is all about.” He went back to the bedroom to get his own cell phone.
Ruan Yu followed him and watched him make two phone calls. The first one was to his mother, Tao Rong, telling her to confiscate Xu Huaishi’s cell phone so she wouldn’t see any news. The other one was to Liu Mao, asking him to draft a statement in case they would need it later on.
After making the calls, he turned to look at Ruan Yu: “I’ll go wash up and you go change.”
Ruan Yu was quiet for a moment before lowering her head to say: “I’m sorry……”
Xu Huaisong raised his hand and used his thumb to rub her bangs: “Things have their priority. Under the circumstances, was there anything wrong with going with the police? Could you have brought Huaishi with you at the time?”
Ruan Yu answered in a low voice: “En.” She went to get dressed and went out of the door with him. On the way, she logged on Weibo to check.
As Xu Huaisong was driving and Ruan Yu informed him as she checked Weibo: “It’s a new paparazzi guy who imitates other professional paparazzi where they set a scheduled release date for breaking news. He posted at 9 o’clock last night that the breaking news will be released at 9 this morning. Then at 8:50 just now, he released a headline as a warm up.”
“What's the headline say?”
“That there’s a certain actor who's been really busy lately, who just got into a relationship dispute not too long ago and now again……”
Ruan Yu didn’t read through it because the wording was too suggestive. The headline actually said– – “again, shows up with a female student at a hotel.”
The announcement of the scheduled release last night was very vague. By the time Li Shican suspected that the news was about him this morning when the headline was posted, there was only ten minutes left for him to react.
It was 8:59 AM.
Ruan Yu still hoped that Li Shican’s team could intercept the news release in time. Nonetheless, one minute later, she saw a few pictures posted. It seemed that there wasn’t enough time for Li Shican’s team to do anything.
There were four pictures; two of them were of Li Shican and Xu Huaishi waiting for the elevator at the corner of the hotel lobby and the other two were of the two of them at the underground parking lot of the hotel.
Xu Huaisong glanced at the pictures and said: “Call Li Shican for me.”
Ruan Yu hurriedly made the call.
Xu Huaisong had his earphones on and asked the other side briefly: “This is Xu Huaisong. When can you get the surveillance tapes?”
“Within half an hour.”
“Then, have your team repost this guy’s Weibo post with the line: Refer to Criminal Law Article 246, Section 1; after being reposted over 500 times, we’ll gladly see you in court.”
Xu Huaisong took off his earphones after speaking and stepped down on the accelerator.
Translated by Team DHH at http://dhh-workshop.blogspot.com.
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