Chapter 700: Chapter 43: The Cannon Fodder Actress Opposing the Slacker Female Lead (Part 43)

Lu Huan saw the news online and immediately threw her phone, screaming and roaring in anger.

"These people are idiots!! Any random video can lead them astray!! Doesn’t Jiang Lai’s good performance just prove that she has connections and already knew the lines?!!"

She went berserk; the whole room could barely contain her.

Mrs. Lu stood beside her with a gloomy face.

"You still have the face to say this? Didn’t you also know the lines?! You knew them, so why were you so much worse than her?!!"

She accepted that their resources were not as good as others’.

But she had also made sure Lu Huan got the lines in advance, giving her ample time to prepare.

And the result?

Once on stage, her tongue seemed to get tied up, her expressions were all over the place, and she fumbled her lines!

"Mom! How is this my fault? If Jiang Lai wasn’t manipulating things, the role would definitely be mine!"

Mrs. Lu looked at her with a face full of cold indifference and disappointment.

"How did I give birth to such a daughter? A useless waste!! You’ve ruined the whole family!!"

They sold the house, sold the car, all in the hopes Lu Huan could successfully venture into Hollywood, so they could move the whole family to the United States and never suffer here again.

But now?

The money’s gone, the role is gone, and there’s nowhere to file a complaint, all hope is lost!!

"Mom, think of something for me."

"The only solution I can think of now is to sever ties with you."

"Mom!! How can you say such things!! Am I not your real daughter?"

"Is there a daughter like you who brings such trouble to her mom? I’ve given you the best from childhood till now, made things easy for you in this industry, and what’s the result? You’ve been in this mess all along!!

From now on, I’m not your agent, nor your mom!! Do whatever you want!!"

Lu Huan was completely done for.

She won’t have any sparks in her life.

They invested heavily in making both siblings main characters in a variety show, only to end up helping Jiang Lai and her brother shine.

This time, too, they went broke trying to get her into Hollywood, only to pave the way for someone else.

Mrs. Lu couldn’t help but wonder if Lu Huan was cursed to only bring bad luck to her.

Lu Huan was utterly dumbfounded.

She sat on the ground, tears streaming down her face, staring blankly at her phone.

"How could it be like this... why..."

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Having dealt with Lu Huan and Liu Mengru, Jiang Lai wasn’t idle either.

She handed all the evidence she collected previously to the police.

After the blockchain lock, those who posted negative comments wanted to delete them, only to find they couldn’t at all.

Now, the internet isn’t that lawless place it once was; any sentence can be permanently recorded.

And so, the largest defamation lawsuit on the entire internet was opened.

Jiang Lai took over a hundred people to court.

She wasn’t afraid of spending money or getting into trouble; she stayed up all night to collect all the evidence, determined to get them all.

Those who stirred trouble behind their screens were dragged into the light, exposed to the sun.

Jiang Lai firmly refused to settle.

Thus, over thirty people got detained for a month for slander and causing significant public opinion damage, and had to pay Jiang Lai emotional damages.

The rest had to hand-write apology letters and record videos reciting the apology content, followed by compensation.

This way, Jiang Lai received hundreds of apology videos and over 300,000 in total compensation.

That money wasn’t even enough to cover her lawsuit expenses.

But Jiang Lai didn’t care; she wanted those people to face her directly and to let them experience firsthand the cost of being keyboard warriors.

After Jiang Lai’s actions, the previously messy internet surprisingly stayed clean for quite a while.

Jiang Lai even earned the title of "Internet Cleaner Warrior."

The matter was satisfactorily resolved, and in late August, she was about to head to the U.S. to film. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

Before leaving, she used a small account to sell a video to three paparazzi.

Then she instructed Jiang Qu to study hard and caught a flight out.

Rather than filming, it would be more apt to call it a vacation.

Because in the previous world, Jiang Lai was very familiar with this country, with no barriers in communication or culture, and with her Chinese martial arts skills even astounding the martial arts instructor, her filming progress was extremely fast.

The scenes with the male lead weren’t difficult.

Because the male actor Bob was secretly gay, so filming with Jiang Lai was exceedingly harmonious.

The two directly referred to each other as sisters.

On the surface, one was an American macho man, the other a Hua Country sweetheart.

Behind the scenes, they shopped for clothes, watched movies, and did beauty treatments together, and were captured countless times by the foreign media entering and exiting public places.

Thus, the news of Jiang Lai and Bob’s relationship spread like wildfire.

They were pretty much confirmed to be together, and since neither of them denied it publicly, Jiang Lai just ended up with another boyfriend.

Jiang Qu’s call came in the morning, and his first question was.

"Are you in a relationship?"

Jiang Lai didn’t answer him directly.

"Why are you asking about this? Why aren’t you asleep yet, it’s so late."

"Can’t sleep, worried you might get deceived by foreigners."

"Weren’t you the biggest fan of his superhero movies before, with so many of his figurines collected?"

Jiang Qu’s voice was sullen.

"That’s not the same thing; movies and reality are two different matters, just because he’s good on screen doesn’t mean he’s good in person.

Foreigners are generally quite flirtatious, you have to be careful."

"Just focus on your studies, sleep now, I’m coming back at the end of the year."

At this point, Jiang Qu added another sentence.

"Do you know, Lu Ming got into trouble, remember that mountain climbing task we had on the variety show?

He buried a Beast Trap on a must-pass path and used a flag as bait.

The video of it got leaked, and he was taken away while class was still in session."

Jiang Lai wasn’t surprised at all.

"Isn’t that a good thing?"

"He’s even worse than I thought, but as it happens, he just turned sixteen a few days ago, so he’s now liable for criminal charges, and I hear he will be detained."

Jiang Lai calmly took a sip of coffee.

"People need to be careful about their actions if they don’t want others to find out, just manage yourself and don’t concern yourself with others’ business."

"Oh, then I’ll come find you during winter break."

He couldn’t go more than three sentences without mentioning visiting Jiang Lai.

If she didn’t stop him, he’d probably want to transfer schools to study in the U.S.

After hanging up the phone, Jiang Lai half-laid on the chair, basking comfortably in the sunlight.

"The sunshine is really nice."

Little Buding snorted.

"You sure know how to enjoy life, I haven’t basked in the sun in ages."

"Why don’t you go outside and bask, who’s stopping you?"

"Heh... easy for you to say."

Sitting in this little square compartment, how can one bask in the sun?

Forget it, this is something he couldn’t say to Jiang Lai.

"If it weren’t for me, you wouldn’t have gotten the video of Lu Ming’s crime; he almost destroyed the evidence, but luckily my technology is more advanced."