Easily Set Aflame

Chapter 7.3 - A Sudden Rumoured Romance (3)

The number of reposts had already soared to more than thirty thousand.

Following beneath that photo was a simple line of words: The night before last, I couldn't sleep and was taking in some air on the balcony, and then, totally surprisingly, I saw Wu Zhilun's girlfriend who's been keeping invisible! Oh, and also, the owner of that house is no ordinary Joe either. But he's my idol, so I won't give the gossip on that.

A line of small words that was so frightful to behold.

Jia He was frozen in shock for a long time before finally speedily sending Xiao Yu a question: How did you manage to see this?

Xiao Yu sent over an animated sticker of a rabbit that was continually wagging its bottom, then her reply: Just look at the number of reposts. That's just the number of times the original post was reposted. There are also countless second-hand and third-hand reposts. My co-worker's Weibo had this on there too. I got such a scare I nearly went into cardiac arrest.

Jia He's chest felt tight as she sent her message: I'm going to go into cardiac arrest soon, too...

And then nothing more came from Xiao Yu. She did seem to truly be in a meeting. All that remained now was that chubby, white bunny happily wagging and wagging this way and that.

Jia He chucked aside her mobile phone. Less than half a second later, though, she was hastily picking it back up again and staring at that photograph, examining it carefully. Despite being taken from a very far distance, the side view of her face could be seen in it. This absolutely was not something a mobile phone camera could do.

It very much appeared to be the work of an SLR camera. Jia He's smile was wry. Nowadays, even the gossip scoop sourced from common folk was so professional.

Before she had the chance to come up with words to comfort herself, her phone was already ringing with all its might.

"Go online." Qiao Qiao's words fired tersely and rapidly. "Go look at the entertainment news."

Jia He was dumbstruck.

"Are you online yet?" Qiao Qiao continued hurrying her.

"It has nothing to do with me, right?" Jia He desperately prayed.

Qiao Qiao gave an "Ah?" and asked, "You know already? Weibo is honestly so scary. I'm looking at a post that's exposing dug-up info on you. Basically, it's pretty darn close to the mark. It's a good thing the people who actually know you are showing bit of mercy when it comes to their tongues. There are only some 'persons in the know' who are trying to colour the situation and add some spice."

Jia He cried a tearless cry. "Have they dug up my real name yet?"

"Don't panic. Wu Zhilun just clarified things on his Weibo, saying that you're just friends. Everyone's already starting to try to get the scoop on whom that villa belongs to."

"Thank goodness." Jia He exhaled with relief. Yet when she heard the last half of Qiao Qiao's words, she unexplainably grew uptight again.

Qiao Qiao snorted. "Don't be happy too soon. There's already someone saying she saw Wu Zhilun on Huaihai Road with a girl. She even took a picture with her mobile. Even though we can't see your face, the car and clothes are the same. Just think, Wu Zhilun came here to Shanghai all low-key, and then from Huaihai Road all the way to Pudong he's with a woman. And what's more, they're driving a toy-looking MINI Cooper. You're going to have enough trouble with just the things filled in by people's imaginations. He's got a movie hitting theatres soon, so it may be that in just a bit he's going to start zipping his lips and not replying to media. If that's the case, it'll get even more interesting."