In the world of adults, there is no pure good or bad.
Lin Xiuxi's pressure to fire the top management may not be because she has a good heart and wants to help that girl get ahead, but she has indeed done a good deed.
Christine's refusal to testify against perjury is legally fair and just, but she was indeed condemned morally.
There is no pure good and bad in this world, nor pure black and white.
It has been so many years, and the dust has settled back then, and now there is no need to prove a correct result.
Zhao Yu just told her: "Tingting, you have to look forward."
Christine lowered her head, took two mouthfuls of soup and rice with a spoon, and stuffed them into her mouth, but tears fell into the bowl in big drops. Did she ever regret it? Maybe only she knows.
The three of them didn't speak any more, and they finished their meal in silence. Finally, Christine wiped away her tears and replied with a smile, "I will."
Lin Zhinan's desire to gossip was finally satisfied, but after hearing the ins and outs of this matter, she felt even more depressed. When he was taking a nap at noon, he sneaked onto Zhao Yu's bed with his pillow in his arms.
Zhao Yuzheng was in a drowsy sleep, and when he felt someone curled up next to him, he knew it was her.
Lin Zhinan poked her long and dense eyelashes with his fingers, and then asked in a low voice, "Yuyu, let me ask you. If something like that happened to my friend Tingting, will you perjure me?"
Zhao Yu still closed his eyes, and opened her fingers in disgust: "Is there any difference between your question and who I should save first when you and my mother fell into the water at the same time?"
Lin Zhinan strangled her neck: "Quickly answer!"
Zhao Yu said, "No."
Lin Zhinan was stunned for a moment, and then heard her say: "But I will chemically castrate those who hurt you."
She won't do nothing.
Lin Zhinan happily smacked her face.
Zhao Yu kicked her away with hands and feet: "Your saliva!!!"
The two of them stretched their teeth and clawed their hair for a while on the bed, and finally lay down side by side, staring at the ceiling in a daze. Lin Zhinan sighed and said: "Hey, although Ting Ting is very pitiful, it seems that Lin Xiuxi is right to target her because of this incident... just... I feel so complicated."
Zhao Yu counted the circles on the shade of the chandelier above his head: "It's not just because of what happened back then."
Lin Zhinan turned his head: "Huh?"
Zhao Yu said: "Lin Xiuxi is more angry that a commoner whose status is not as good as her own, but her popularity gradually exceeds her own."
Lin Zhinan thought for a while: "Yes, she is so proud." She turned around and hugged Zhao Yu: "Ah, it's so dangerous outside, I want to go home."
But everyone knows that with Shining Five's current momentum, the contract will definitely have to be renewed after it expires. The status of the national women's group is hard-won, and no one can guarantee whether they can maintain their current popularity after solo flight.
They became popular because of Shining Five, which is the result of the strength of five girls. They formed Shining Five, and Shining Five made them. This kind of relationship is inseparable. If they disband and develop independently, they will probably lose this advantage and become an ordinary member among many solo artists.
These are all patterns that can be followed in previously disbanded groups.
So as long as they still want to be popular and secure their national status, it is impossible to disband.
The nursing home incident did not cause any splashes on the Internet. After all, it has been many years, and the company's public relations have always maintained Christine's image very well.
After the concert, the idol drama that Christine starred in was also broadcast. Her character in the drama was very likable, and her popularity soared. During the period when the drama was broadcast, the discussion even overshadowed Zhao Yu.
This is the bonus that the film and television industry in this era can bring to artists. Most traffic idols cannot avoid the transformation of appearing in TV dramas.
Zhao Yu didn't care much about this, but Lin Xiuxi was quite angry. The TV series she participated in were not as popular as Christine's. Back then, she chose the rest of the company to give to Christine. Who would have expected the result now, and it was too late to regret it.
As a result, the conflict between the two became even worse when they got along in private. Christine avoided her before, and was just silent when she was bullied. Recently, I don’t know if it’s because of the skyrocketing popularity, but she suddenly became tougher. When Lin Xiuxi teased her, she would fight back.
Zhao Yu has to stop it every time.
Lin Xiuxi was a little afraid of her, after all, she couldn't beat her. Christine also listened to her and would be silent again. Zhao Yu felt that the company should really give him an old peace trophy.
Lin Zhinan often secretly sighed: "The group is so smoky, I really don't know how long we can go together."
But no one expected that the accident would come so quickly.
After Christmas, Shining Five's fourth album had just been released, and a scandal suddenly broke out on the Internet: a member of Shining Five had an underground affair with a company executive, and the unspoken rule was to compete for resources. And this high-ranking man is a married man, and the one who broke the news is the high-ranking wife.
Fans are still happily celebrating the launch of the fourth album, and are working hard to hit the charts. The number one hit is the news of the album. Unexpectedly, in the blink of an eye, the popularity of the album was replaced by this scandal.
The revelation was made by the high-level wife herself on INS.
A woman's intuition is sensitive. She smelled the strange perfume on her husband's body and the long hair on his shirt. She suspected that her husband was cheating, so she hired a private detective to investigate secretly.
Detectives captured photos of executives out and about with a woman.
The girl in the photo was wearing a long khaki coat with the collar turned up, and a black scarf wrapped around the lower half of her face. She wore a mask and a hat with the brim pulled down so that her face could not be seen at all.
The photo was taken in the hotel garage. When the senior manager opened the door for her, the two embraced intimately and walked into the elevator arm in arm. And the last one is the high-level people sending people home. The girl is still fully armed and walks into the small bungalow where Shining Five lives.
The senior wife said that she hoped that this member would take the initiative to stand up and apologize to herself, otherwise she would never let it go.
One stone caused a thousand waves, who cares that Shining Five releases four albums today, everyone poured into the news, wildly guessing who the person in the photo is among the five.
Because the other party was fully armed, and the photos were blurry, and he was wearing thick clothes in winter, so he couldn't judge by his figure. Only the last photo of walking into Shining Five's dormitory confirms that this is indeed one of the five.
However, sharp-eyed netizens soon found out that this khaki coat was worn by Lin Zhinan when he attended an endorsement event not long ago.
Almost relying on just one piece of clothing, netizens quickly identified the person in the photo as Lin Zhinan.
It was already night when Zhao Yu knew about it.
She recorded an indoor interview variety show. After five hours of recording, she felt bored when she came out. As soon as she left the recording studio, the assistant told her about it.
Zhao Yu was stunned: "How is it possible? Nannan is impossible! Give me the phone! Why didn't you tell me earlier?!"
The assistant said with a sad face: "I want to too, but I don't allow me to interrupt your recording."
Zhao Yu rushed to the dormitory while calling Lin Zhinan.
On the third call, someone answered the phone.
Zhao Yu said anxiously: "What's the situation now? Are you in the dormitory? I'll be right back. Have you contacted the company to refute the rumor?"
The other end was silent for a while, and finally Lin Zhinan's deep voice came: "It's useless."
Zhao Yu had a bad intuition: "What's useless..."
The assistant next to him yelled anxiously: "The company just issued a statement! Open... expulsion of group member Lin Zhinan...?! The senior executive also apologized on INS, saying sorry to everyone!"
Zhao Yu's heart sank severely.
Lin Zhinan's voice was very low, "They took back all my overseas social accounts and changed the password. The only thing I can log in now is Weibo. But it's useless. No one will believe me if I explain it. They use The way to fire me has confirmed this scandal, and I have no evidence to prove that it is not me."
It has been several hours since the news broke, and the higher-ups should have known about it a long time ago. I also learned from my wife that the only evidence she has is these photos.
The wife didn't know who the cheating partner was, so she asked the other party to come forward and admit it.
Because of that coat, netizens now believe that it is Lin Zhinan.
And Lin Zhinan was the least popular in the group. Putting her in the place of this scandal and then removing her from the group is the best way to keep Shining Five.
Now the company's dismissal statement and the high-level apology without excuse are all a disguised acquiescence that she is the person in the photo.
No one would believe her verbal and unsubstantiated explanations.
The girl in the photo must be a member of Shining Five, and this person can only be Lin Zhinan.
Zhao Yu slammed the phone against the car window.
The driver drove her back to the dormitory at full speed.
When I got off the car, there were many reporters squatting outside. As soon as they saw Zhao Yu, they swarmed up.
Zhao Yu walked in under the escort of his assistant, and suddenly heard a reporter asking loudly: "As the only Chinese member in the group, do you have anything to say to your teammates for doing such shameless things?"
Zhao Yu turned his head abruptly.
The flash was more dazzling than ever, capturing her angry and cold expression, she said, "The person in the photo is not Lin Zhinan."
"Who is that?!"
"Who else but her? Who do you think?"
"The company has already made a statement of dismissal, and the facts are so, why do you still defend her?"
Zhao Yu wanted to rush up and smash their cameras.
The assistant cried out anxiously: "Let's go! Come on, don't quarrel with them, it's important to see Nannan first."
Zhao Yu finally turned around and walked quickly towards the dormitory.
The lights in the living room are on, Lin Xiuxi and Heya are out on location today, only Christine is there. The people from the company just left, taking away the termination agreement that Lin Zhinan had already signed.
Zhao Yu went straight to Lin Zhinan who was sitting on the sofa.
She sat with her head bowed, her expression was very flat, but there was deep weakness and exhaustion in her eyes. For so many hours, she must have struggled, resisted, and argued, but in the end she still signed the contract termination document.
The world of capital is unreasonable.
Seeing her coming back, Lin Zhinan raised his head and tried to smile at her.
Zhao Yu clenched his fists.
She closed her eyes, turned around slowly, and looked at Christine who was sitting next to her: "It's you."
Christine looked up sharply, staring at her with wide eyes.
Zhao Yu said word by word: "The person in the photo is you, right?"
The room was so quiet that even the sound of breathing could be clearly heard.
Christine stared at her, as if frozen.
Zhao Yu walked over step by step, picked up the mobile phone she had placed beside her, and handed it to her: "Log in and tell everyone that the girl in the photo is not Lin Zhinan, but you."
Under the gaze of those emotionless eyes, Christine's calm expression finally collapsed slowly.
She lowered her eyes, curled her lips, and laughed self-deprecatingly: "You never really regarded me as a friend, did you?" She slowly raised her head, and the smile spread on her lips: "Only Lin Zhinan is yours." friend, isn't it?"
Zhao Yu closed his eyes tiredly: "I don't want to discuss this matter with you now, either you explain it or I explain it."
Christine jerked her hand away.
The phone flew out of Zhao Yu's hand and fell hard to the ground.
Christine's eyes were red, and she was almost hoarse: "Are you only worried about her?! You let me explain, you let me admit it, don't you worry about me being destroyed?!"
Zhao Yu looked into her eyes: "Tingting, you did this, and you should bear all the consequences instead of letting others take the blame."
Christine gritted her teeth and retorted: "It's not me!"
Zhao Yu's tone was very calm: "It's you. When you went out wearing that coat that day, I just went back to the dormitory to pick up the documents, and I saw it. Because of the incident in the nursing home, you became very vigilant, so you went out wearing her clothes , and fully armed yourself, you have already made a plan that you will never admit it even if you are photographed, am I right?"
Christine's pupils widened and stared at her.
Zhao Yu took out his mobile phone from his pocket.
Christine stood up abruptly and grabbed her wrist.
Zhao Yu looked up at her, the girl in front of her was still innocent and harmless, her eyes were so red that blood was about to drip, but her lips were trembling, begging her very gently: "Please, Yuyu... Please, don't do this."
Zhao Yu was indifferent, and opened her hand finger by finger.
She looked at her for a long time, and finally saw her determination in those eyes.
Christine suddenly gave a strange laugh, "You explain, you go and tell, who do you think will believe it? Who doesn't know that you have a good relationship with her? She has already terminated the contract, and she will only drag you into the water. Didn’t you say that you want to become a top class that no one can shake? Only I can accompany you, and only the existence of Shining Five can make your dream come true. Do you want to destroy me? Do you also want to destroy your dream? "
Zhao Yu looked at her like a stranger. Shocked, disappointed, and disgusted.
Christine was familiar with that look.
Many people used to look at her like this, causing her to break down and cry for countless nights.
She obviously did nothing.
Is she wrong for not wanting to testify? Is it wrong that she doesn't want to offend the higher-ups and affect her life? Does she not want to be bossed around by someone like Lin Xiuxi anymore? Is it wrong for her to want to get more resources to completely change her humble origins
But everyone thought she was wrong.
Now even her only friend sees her that way.
Deep resentment welled up in the girl's eyes, and as if she finally collapsed, she pushed her away hysterically: "If it weren't for you, I would have been with An Zewen a long time ago! How could I be reduced to climbing a four-year-old now?" The bed of a ten-year-old man! You killed me! Why are you accusing me now! Ah?! Why are you?!"
Zhao Yu staggered two steps by her push.
When I looked up, I saw snow outside the house at some point.
Zhao Yu suddenly remembered that it was Christmas three years ago, and she and Lin Zhinan boarded the plane to Korea together with big dreams in mind.
At that time, they must have never imagined that they could go so far.
Lin Xiuxi didn't know when she came back, so she stood at the door, leaning against the wall with her hands clasped, looking at them as if she was watching a play, with a smile that was not a smile, and she didn't hide the slightest bit of schadenfreude.
Zhao Yu seemed to hear her saying: I warned you.
She looked around the room slowly.
Teammates who watch dramas, teammates who are crazy, and teammates who are silent.
At that moment, Zhao Yu suddenly realized.
It's not necessary anymore.
There is no need for this regiment to exist.
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In the early hours of Christmas, Zhao Yu, a member of Shining Five, announced his withdrawal from the group on major social platforms.