Chapter 20
Regarding the company’s girl group matters, logically speaking, He Lingxing only needed to provide the money and sign the contracts. Most things did not require someone at her level to personally intervene.
But He Lingxing had given instructions before, and she would also go check on them from time to time, so when important matters came up, the person in charge of this section and the mentors would contact her.
Le Jiaxuan was the youngest pretty girl in that team. Although she was an Alpha, she had a face that could be both sweet and cool. Her personality was bright, lively, and likable, so He Lingxing also had a deep impression of her.
“How did she break her leg out of nowhere?”
She remembered that this group was about to start their first roadshow. Before officially debuting, girl groups usually accumulated popularity through various promotional methods. Their first public appearance was very important for every member.
Without Le Jiaxuan, the girl group could of course still perform as usual, but to Le Jiaxuan, who could not go onstage, it was undoubtedly an almost devastating blow. When the group officially debuted, her popularity would be relatively lacking. Especially if the injury was serious enough that she could not dance for several months, the consequences would be unimaginable.
The person on the other end roughly explained the situation at the time.
At the same time.
Inside a hospital ward filled with the smell of disinfectant, the slender girl was moved from the surgical trolley to the bed. Her bright, beautiful eyes had already filled with tears beyond her control.
The man in the neighboring bed was looking at her curiously. There was nothing lecherous in his gaze, only some surprise. But Le Jiaxuan, who usually loved socializing the most, did not notice his gaze at all. Her pale hands clenched into fists, and she could almost no longer suppress the tremble in her voice as she called out to the doctor:
“Excuse me… about how long will it take for this leg of mine to fully heal?”
“Fully?” Considering her identity, the doctor paused slightly, and a trace of sympathy entered his tone. “You can get out of bed and walk in half a month, but you’ll need someone to support you or use crutches. If you want to dance something more intense, you should consider it after at least a month and a half. Don’t force yourself to dance, or it might become more serious.”
A month… and a half?
Even half a month meant she would not be able to participate in that roadshow. A month and a half later, it would almost be time for the official debut. When they shot promotional photos, was she supposed to sit in a wheelchair?
Fear instantly grabbed her heart like dense thorns in a forest. Le Jiaxuan suddenly grabbed the railing on the bed and sat up. Because she used too much strength and pulled at her wound, her little face turned pale.
“Then is there any medicine that can make me recover faster? Any kind of medicine is fine. Money isn’t a problem…”
“I’m sorry, little girl, but a leg injury can’t make the bone completely heal as good as new in such a short time. If you want to recover faster, you can only rest quietly. You’d better not get so worked up either. It won’t do your wound any good.”
Le Jiaxuan only felt that her mind had become a blank numbness.
It was not until the doctor closed the door and walked out that the sudden aching pain belatedly reached her mind.
She had only helped an elderly person while crossing the road. Her movements had been just a beat too slow, and as a result, she was knocked to the ground by a motorcycle that suddenly rushed out from the side.
Its speed had been so fast that no one could see it clearly. And in the instant she was sent flying by that sudden, powerful impact, the strongest emotion in her heart had not been the instinctive fear of death, but worry over her injuries.
What she feared most was not death, but that her injuries would prevent her from continuing to participate in the upcoming activities. The instant she hit the ground, when piercing pain came from her leg, what hurt even more than the pain in her body was the spasm in her heart.
The olive branch fate had thrown her had seemed like a pleasant surprise, but in truth, the other side of it was a blood-drenched blade. She had thought that being selected for this girl group would be the truly perfect starting point of her life, but an unfair accident had stabbed Le Jiaxuan hard, forcing her to recognize reality.
Sure enough, just as her parents had said, she was a useless waste who could accomplish nothing. Keeping her at home only wasted food.
If that motorcycle had directly killed her at the time, perhaps she would not now be buried beneath this overwhelming misery.
Her nails dug fiercely into her palm, but the pain they brought was not even one ten-thousandth of the pain in her heart. The champagne-colored manicure she had just gotten was pressed so hard it was about to snap, yet Le Jiaxuan seemed completely unaware as she stared at the empty white wall in front of her, feeling her vision begin to darken.
It was at this moment that a gentle, low male voice entered her ears, opening in such a cliché way:
“Hello. Is there anything I can help you with?”
After receiving the young girl’s polite refusal, Murong Feng did not lose heart. Instead, he bent one hand and lightly touched her shoulder with his knuckles. His gentle voice was like the final straw offered to a drowning person—very light, but enough to give rise to the fiercest desire to survive.
“If it’s a money problem, I think I may have a way to help you resolve your urgent need.”
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One of the members of the girl group preparing to debut suddenly getting into a car accident was not a devastating blow to the company’s important plan, but it was still enough to make many people frantic.
Fortunately, this girl group was not debuting through a public voting survival show. Otherwise, once the fans who had worked hard to vote and spend for their idol found out that she had gotten into an accident, all kinds of things would happen. However, back then, in order to accumulate popularity, they had long released silhouettes of the girls. Now, finding a replacement was the most important matter.
This was also the handling method most companies would use.
Captain Lin Qingyan, who had a very good relationship with Le Jiaxuan, was so anxious she almost got inflamed. The other members were anxious too, but they could not blame her. After all, Le Jiaxuan had not wanted anything to happen to herself. They even knew that Le Jiaxuan longed more than anyone to stand on that stage.
There were actually quite a few people who could replace Le Jiaxuan. Outstanding trainees were not truly one in ten thousand. The more difficult part was only coordinating with them in such a short time.
He Lingxing had already agreed to let the mentor and person in charge choose another trainee, but she still had doubts in her heart about Le Jiaxuan suddenly encountering a car accident.
The book had very little description of “He Lingxing’s” storyline. Lin Qingyan and Le Jiaxuan, who would become part of the male lead’s harem, were actually only cannon-fodder characters and did not appear much either. But it had never mentioned Le Jiaxuan getting into a car accident.
This should be a plotline that suddenly appeared later.
Naturally, He Lingxing sued the perpetrator in court, but drunk driving, when it had not caused a loss of life, would only lead to a few years in prison at most. It could not repay the young girl’s future at all.
Of course He Lingxing knew that these girls practiced day and night in order to shine brilliantly onstage. But fate played tricks on people. As CEO, she could not act emotionally and delay the girl group’s debut plan for the sake of one Le Jiaxuan. She could only find a replacement first.
This gloom of things slipping out of her control rose another level a week later because of the appearance of a new trending topic.
The tag #ShuMinglanMistressTakingTheTopSpot had already seized third place the moment it appeared. Under netizens’ constant clicks and marketing accounts’ rapid rhythm-setting, it even rushed to the “throne” of first place, with a red 爆 “explosive” label behind it.
The trending Weibo post had also been made by a marketing account. First, it used a long post to sarcastically criticize Shu Minglan’s title as the “national first-love Sister,” then directly “dropped evidence.”
A married male actor and a woman in a trench coat stood ambiguously at the entrance of a hotel. The slender woman stood on tiptoe, hooked her arms around the other person’s neck, and kissed him on the mouth. The two kissed as if they could hardly part, completely unaware of the hidden camera secretly filming them.
The person in the trench coat was not wearing high heels. Through the difference in their figures, even though she wore loose clothing, her height could roughly be judged. The camera was clear enough that even the expression on her face could be seen clearly. The person in the image had her eyes closed in enjoyment, and that face, so familiar to everyone, was Shu Minglan’s.
Her looks were not the kind that stunned everyone at first glance, but she truly did have the ability to make most people remember her after seeing her once.
The internet was in complete uproar. Fans from both sides and passersby were tearing into one another without pause.
The cursor moved beside the black-red label. He Lingxing gripped the mouse tightly.
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