Reborn As the Ex-wife of the Paranoid Male Lead

Jian Shiwu was...dumbfounded.

Before Lui Heng could contact anyone, he hurriedly pulled the him back: "Hey, wait!"

Lui Heng looked at him curiously and said, "What's wrong?"

"Just take it easy." Jian Shiwu gave him half of the peeled melon seeds in his hand, and tugged on his arm, "If you let your artists help, and ‘she’ finds out..."

As expected, Lui Hen’s face changed a lot at the mention of that woman. He bristled, "So what if she knows, can she still come and beat me up?"

Jian Shiwu was in tears.

Lui Heng’s family was in a special situation, his father Gu Zhiping had married another woman after the his mother had passed away, this cheap stepmother could be said to have made Lui Heng suffer a lot, she couldn't treat him well and was tripping him up in secret, if Lui Heng used the family's contacts this time, it was bound to cause that woman's discontent again.

Jian said softly, "I'm afraid she's secretly try to trap you.”

As a result, before Lui Heng could say anything, Qiao An, who was sitting on the carpet eating a cake not far away, asked, "Who is this ‘she” you're talking about?"

Jian Shiwu hesitated a little.

Qiao An said, "Are they looking for trouble?"

Then, the older boy, who had always looked sunny without darkness, said carelessly, "Do you want me to get someone to take care of it?"

......

The living room was quiet for a moment.

Shen Cheng slowly flipped through a page of a book, the only person in the room who was as calm as Qiao An. As if the conversation was about what to eat tonight, except Jian and Lui Heng, two good boys, had a cold sweat on their backs.

After awhile, Lui Heng wiped the sweat off his face: "Thanks, no need for now."

Qiao An smiled, "You're welcome."

Suddenly Jian Shiwu felt that he couldn’t go on with the conversation any longer, otherwise it would only get more dangerous.

Lui Heng was already using his WeChat contacts to help promote him, so he typed as he said, "Don't worry, that woman can't protect herself now, I heard she recently lost a suite in a poker game with some wife and is thinking of how to get it from my dad."

Only then did Jian Shiwu feel a little more at ease: "Alright then, thanks."

"You're still being polite to me, stop it."

"Yes, after all, you've eaten so much of my roast pork."

"Ah, is Auntie home today, can I come and have dinner?"

"You're so bad..."

Just as they were talking, Lui Heng’s circle of friends already had a few likes in response, as, Wang Jianan's fans were still blowing off Wang Jianan's good popularity.

~

Weibo suddenly had a few traffic stars who usually don't post much dynamics retweet and like Jian Shiwu's voting page!

"Very cute brother, go for it."

"Looking forward to the public benefit film that my brother is shooting."

"He looks a bit like me in high school, I like it!"

A few of these celebrities who retweeted and posted the news were stars of the same calibre as Gu Jiajia, and a few had even gained momentum recently and were more well known than Gu Jiajia.

Wang Jian'an had been carried by Gu Jiajia for a long time to promote him, but Jian Shiwu, an amateur whom fans looked down on, was retweeted by several stars at the same time.

Now the fans were dumbfounded.

Where was the promised lack of backers? Where was the promised amateur? This is completely different from the script that was agreed upon!

Not only were they stunned, even Wang Lina froze, she had investigated the Jian family, Zhen Meilie had retired from the industry a long time ago, surely not many people remembered her, how could Jian Shiwu know anyone else apart from his mother, how could there be... so many people promoting for him. Hadn't Zhen Meilie stopped being in the entertainment industry a long time ago, where on earth did they get the contacts?

Wang Jian'an was beside him, "Mom, didn't you say that the Jian family wasn't capable at all, what's going on?"

Wang Lina patted her head with a bit of a headache, "What's going on? Mum doesn't know what's going on either, these artists all seem to be Morning Star artists, but how could the Jian family be related to a big company like Morning Star..."

Wang Jian'an got a little worried: "Mom, does Jian Shiwu have some big backer ah, look at that X who gave him extra tickets yesterday, I don’t think he run out of money. Is it because we stopped today that he didn't continue to add tickets? I suspect that if we continue to buy stationery tickets, he can really line up against us to the end. "

Wang Lina's face didn't look good either.

After all these years and she still couldn’t forget the shame she felt back then.

At that time she was also an artist and had not yet retired to the background as an agent, she had been the most popular actress until Zhen Meilie had come out and everything changed.

Zhen Meilie was beautiful and very capable. Everywhere she went, she was the centre of attention and she was instantly overshadowed.

She still remembers how happy she was when Zhen Meilie married a nerd and announced that she was retiring to become a full-time wife, she didn't sleep for a whole week!

But what she didn't realise was that even after Zhen Meilie was gone, she hadn't been able to make it again. The market seemed to have forgotten about her, they were all lamenting the departure of that jewel, no one cared about her, she hated it, if it wasn't for Zhen Meilie, she would have made it big. She would never allow this woman's son to ruin her future!

...

She said to her son, "What are you worried about, he can only know these few people at most. Your mother is the one who is still in the business, are we not as good as those who came out half way?"

Wang Jian'an stopped talking.

Wang Lina contacted her own company's public relations team to check Jian Shiwu's black material, she clasped her arms and sneered, "Even if the Jian family is really prepared to pay to bargain with us to the end so what, if a child’s past is not clean, I just don't believe he can still get such a public benefit piece."

......

As of 3pm, a huge gap had opened up in the votes.

The first place, Jiane Shiwu, had 57,890 votes, while the second place, Wang Jianan, had 31,099 votes. With each hourly increase, Jian Shiwu had almost twice the number of Wang Jianan.

This vote lasted nearly a week. It was the fifth day, which means if Wang Jianan doesn’t overtake in the next two days, then the dust has basically settled.

At 4pm, Jian shiwu was on the hot search!

The reason for this is that nearly a dozen of the hottest celebrities are advertising for a amateur, shocking the netizens with a search titled: #I want to be a younger brother too.

Netizens said:

"Sour, I'm really sour."

"I want to be my family's love interest's younger brother too."

"First of all, you have to be this good-looking.”

The popularity of Jian Shiwu was so intense that it was embarrassing for fans of Wang Jian An, who were busy blowing the drums on him in the first place, and they always felt stifled these days, and the pressure from someone they once looked down on was even more deadly.

Fans didn't want to admit their idol's failure, so naturally some investigated the darker side of the story and started distributing Jian’s story all over Weibo, even bringing up old stories:

"He used to look ugly.

"He used to look ugly, and rumour has it that he's suspected of having plastic surgery."

"He was involved in a mob fight, before the school sports day in a secondary school, in an alleyway, and someone caught him on camera."

"Playing the big shot, I heard that he wore a mask to school after the sports day."

In order to discredit Jian Shiwu's image and promote Wang Jianan, fans have been doing everything they can, even the marketing numbers behind were also pushing the stories, originally Jian Shiwu was on the hotspots, which were already very hot and there were many people discussing him, now these dark stories being released on purpose and naturally they became the focus of hot discussion.

Those who praised him also immediately backtracked.

"Why is there a girl in the photo? the little girl?"

"Why can such a person also run for the public’s image of good?"

"I think the little brother in second place is fine."

"Yeah, I've even seen him play little Yang Guang."

"An An has been growing up pretty since he was a child, unlike that plastic surgery monster."

The marketing accounts and water armies carried the rhythm. It is quick to raise a person up and quick to break them down, public opinion can have a huge impact on a person, and in an era of rapid information development, people are only willing to believe what they see with their own eyes, regardless of the truth.

It is very lively to on the Internet here, but in reality, the Ji family's old house was quiet.

"Wow, that's nice to hear."

"Shiwu is great!"

"Absolutely fantastic!"

Sitting in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, Jian Shiwu finished playing a piano piece, he stood up from his seat and bowed to the crowd, smiling, "I'm sorry."

All the children who were sitting on the sofa except the one in the middle applauded.

The person in the middle of the room was the old lady, who was in the mood for practice today, so the group sat on the sofa and listened as if they were listening to a concert. They all knew that Jian played the piano very well, but they didn't expect to see such an improvement in just a short time!

The old lady nodded her head, and her face was full of approval: "Well, that's good, that's really good."

Jian smiled, "You flatter me."

He was very well behaved in front of his elders, much to the approval of the old lady, whose family was once a family of scholars and who had a close relationship with Jian’s parents.

The old lady was very concerned about rules and now that she sees Jian Shiwu and finds that he is a child of rules, she is naturally happy. In addition, she has long seen that her grandson likes Jian Shiwu, so she is of course more satisfied with this granddaughter-in-law.

The old lady looked at her granddaughter-in-law, and she said, "Come on, today you will all stay and have a meal with me, an old woman."

Jian Shiwu went to sit down in front of the old lady and said, "Thank you, Grandma, but my mother said she might come to pick me up ....."

The old lady patted his hand and said, "Don't worry, this kind of thing is still in the hands of this old lady."

Jian Shiwu had to nod his head.

The old lady wanted to take him to the big living room at the front to rest. Lui Heng and Qiao An had already gone first, only Shen Cheng was still standing at the door waiting. Jian Shiwu said softly to the old lady, "Grandma, you can go first, I still want to practice the piano again."

The old lady raised her eyebrows: "Oh, why are you working so hard?"

Jian Shiwu didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, "Because I'm in the running for a public interest MV movie recently, and the competition is pretty intense, so I have to work hard."

"Film, showbiz?"

The old lady's graceful face appeared faintly displeased: "Jian, what's so good about participating in this kind of showy activity, not that grandma is saying you should find a serious job, but it’s not good, just stay at home, our family isn't short of that money."

......

What?

Jian Shiwu felt that something was wrong.

But he didn't think much about it, he just said, "No, it's fine, Grandma, I like it, it's not hard work, don't you worry about it."

The old lady sighed, if it was in the past she would never have agreed to this, in the future Shen Cheng would inherit the family business, Jian Shiwu would be the young head of the Ji family, what would it be like doing this kind of work in the limelight?

But how many people are older and have broader hearts, and didn’t want to worry about their children's affairs.

The old lady, looking at the well-behaved child in front of her, said in a low voice: "Who is that director? Still campaigning for something, I’ll have someone go over and say something about it."

?

Jian Shiwu was stunned.

He had always known that this old lady was quite capricious, and also knew that the Ji family was rich. Probably because Shen Cheng was usually too low-key, so it caused him to often forget that the Ji family was a century-old gentry, one that compared him and Lui Heng’s family to a small family.

Jian Shiwu pursed his lips, stammering because he was so nervous, he hurriedly said, "No no, I still want to get my grades on my own merit, and it's not very nice to let you go and say something, it's too much trouble, you don't have to be so polite"

Originally, he had thought that the most shocking thing had been nothing more than the above’s remark.

But the old lady gave a "tsk" sound: "Look at that, you kids are still so raw, a family member still talks as if we are two families!"