After Being Blackened All Over the Internet, I Ruled the Military Variety Shows-Chapter 84 Unfollowed

Jiang Kaiyuan returned to his resting place in a daze, feeling the echo of Jiang Lingxi’s compliment in his mind.

Was he praised well? Was this encouragement for him to keep praising on and off?

How should I put it, kind of cute.

He seemed to have discovered another side of Jiang Lingxi, beyond the calm and strong exterior.

Thinking about it, he couldn’t help but laugh out loud.

Xu Zhao was awakened by his laughter, "What’s with the happy dream?"

"Sorry, Brother Xu, I woke you up. I just suddenly thought of something amusing, you go back to sleep."

For some reason, Jiang Kaiyuan didn’t feel like sharing his discovery this time.

*

The airport was still brightly lit late at night.

But perhaps because it’s just a small airport, there weren’t many passengers coming and going.

Jiang Xiyu was awakened by the driver in front, and turned to look out the window, realizing they had arrived at the airport.

She reached into her bag for a mask to wear before getting off the car, but couldn’t find it.

After all, in the past, she only needed to ask her assistant Xiaotao for help. There was no need for her to—

"Driver, do you have a mask?"

"No."

The blunt response made Jiang Xiyu frown.

"Can I make a call from the car first?"

She didn’t even know if that girl Xiaotao had arrived.

"Miss Jiang, this is someone else’s car, and our show crew is just borrowing it. I need to hurry back to return it. If you’re worried about being recognized by other passengers without a mask, I think there’s no need. This small airport probably doesn’t have many people who know you, and besides, the way you look now is quite different from when you came to film the show. No one would really see you as a star."

The response was a loud door slam.

Jiang Xiyu stood by the car, her chest heaving, struggling to swallow her anger.

After getting out of the car, the driver took the luggage out of the trunk and placed it in front of Jiang Xiyu, then checked the door that was just slammed before returning to the driver’s seat and starting the car.

Jiang Xiyu watched as that junky car left, leaving her in a cloud of exhaust, and she almost fainted in anger.

Just then, her phone rang. She glanced at the caller ID and answered, not waiting for the person on the other end to speak, she unleashed her frustration, "Where the hell were you, calling me only now? Do you know I’m the only person on the roadside this late at night? If you don’t want to work, just say so sooner!"

At the airport, a girl holding a phone suddenly started sprinting through the crowd. The people nearby could still hear her apologizing on the phone while running, "Sorry Xi Yu sis, I just got off the plane, please tell me your location, I’ll come find you right away."

"How should I know where I am? The driver just left me here. I’m standing by the roadside, there’s just a streetlight and a sign next to me."

"What does the sign say?"

Jiang Xiyu looked up, and after seeing the content displayed on the sign, she couldn’t help but grit her teeth.

She couldn’t figure out what kind of advertisement it was, but she definitely couldn’t mistake the face on the screen.

"Jiang Lingxi."

"Ah, Xi Yu sis, what did you just say, it was a bit noisy here and I didn’t hear clearly."

"I said Jiang Lingxi, the person on the sign is Jiang Lingxi, can you hear me now?"

"I heard, I heard. Xi Yu sis, you stand there and don’t move, I’ll come find you right away."

Jiang Xiyu hung up the phone and couldn’t help but look up at the advertisement screen again. After a while, she realized it wasn’t a commercial ad at all, but a public welfare video promoting a backward area.

She scoffed, "Just like this crappy place, poor and pathetic!"

As soon as she spoke, a slightly surprised voice came from behind, "Jiang Xiyu?"

She instinctively turned her head and saw a few college students with backpacks standing in front of her.

"Ah, yes, I am." Jiang Xiyu said, flipping her hair, "Are you my fans? Do you want..."

Before she could finish saying ’autograph’, the short-haired girl in front, who seemed to be the leader, interrupted, "No need. Though I used to be your fan, but coincidentally," the girl pointed to the advertisement screen above, "that poor and pathetic place you just mentioned happens to be my mother’s hometown, and we just came back from traveling there. It’s beautiful, just as beautiful as in the promotional video. I believe its poverty is only temporary. Sorry, Jiang Xiyu, I’m unfollowing you."

Jiang Xiyu’s face instantly turned a shade of green.

Watching the group of students leave, she couldn’t help but kick the luggage beside her, then quickly opened her phone to check her own account page.

Seeing the fan count displayed on the screen, she couldn’t resist exclaiming in shock, "How did I lose so many!"

In a hurry, she scrolled down, and clicked on the latest post to check the comments below.

— "How should I put it, kind of disillusioning. You used to be gentle yet strong, committed to work, but in this Wilderness Survival, your performance was worse than amateurs and new rookies. Where did your consistently serious attitude towards work go?"

— "With just a little skin damage, you want to quit? Despite the prior poor performance, this time I really can’t understand it. I used to watch live streams day and night without sleep, only to see you quit halfway. Fine, I’m tired too!"

— "I always heard that reality shows like Wilderness Survival act like a mirror for celebrities, reflecting their true selves. I didn’t believe it, thinking you definitely wouldn’t be like that. Well, I slapped myself this time, goodbye!"

...

Reading the numerous comments of people unfollowing her, along with the group of college students unfollowing her right in front of her eyes, Jiang Xiyu felt she might really faint.

So when Xiaotao finally rushed to Jiang Xiyu, she was confronted with a volcano on the verge of erupting.

"Look at the time now, I’ve waited for you for half an hour! Are you a dead pig? Running so slowly, when you have nothing to do, don’t you think about losing some weight? Just looking at you pisses me off." When Xiaotao went to grab the suitcase, Jiang Xiyu waved her hand, "Wipe the sweat off your hands and face first, you’re stinking up with sweat, you know that?"

After Xiaotao found tissues and wiped her hands and face clean, Jiang Xiyu, seeing her unflinching expression, got even more frustrated and simply slapped her, "You’re disgusting!"

Xiaotao licked the inside of her cheek with her tongue, having grown numb to the stinging pain, knowing full well that Jiang Xiyu was just taking out her anger meant for someone else on her.

After all, this wasn’t the first time.

Once Jiang Xiyu finished venting, she finally asked, "Xi Yu sis, should I book tickets back to the Imperial City now, or stay here for a night to rest before leaving?"

"What’s worth staying in this crappy place, where there’s nothing at all?" Jiang Xiyu waved her hand, took the mask Xiaotao handed her, and wore it. She was about to say return to the Imperial City but then, recalling her recent streak of bad luck, quickly changed her mind, "Wait, don’t go back to the Imperial City yet. Book us two tickets to my aunt’s, the fastest ones there!"

Jiang Lingxi’s change was making her panic, she needed to ask her aunt what’s going on!