Chapter 206

Chapter 206

Liu Juanhua and Wang Li repeatedly tried to stop their colleagues from searching, but it was too late. The guy with the slicked-back hair and makeup, looking like he stepped out of a Korean drama, was the first to find their video account and gasped when he saw what was on the screen.

Immediately after, everyone crowded around to look at the man's phone screen, and sure enough, they saw a loving couple who looked exactly like their mom and Wang Li!

If this were just a coincidence, the world would be one strange place!

Seeing that the truth was already exposed, Liu Juanhua and Wang Li stood there, red-faced, under everyone's gaze.

"Mom, how did you guys…"

The troublemaker looked at his mom, who was forcing a smile, and then at Wang Li, who had unexpectedly become their new "dad," feeling instantly unwell.

"Ahhh!! What's going on between you two?!?"

"Wang Li, are you out of your mind? How could you do something like this to Mom?!?"

"That's disgusting, Wang Li!"

Though they tried to keep their voices low, all the former coworkers glared at Wang Li with accusations.

Wang Li knew that Liu Juanhua held a mother-like status in all their hearts, so it was understandable that they would have a hard time accepting the truth.

Thus, he simply lowered his head and remained silent, allowing his former brothers, who were like family, to vent their dissatisfaction.

However, Liu Juanhua stepped in to stop the other coworkers who looked like they were about to attack, placing herself in front of Wang Li and saying seriously, "Wait, this was my idea. Don't blame Wang Li!"

Hearing Mom say this, the coworkers gradually calmed down, though some dissatisfaction still lingered in their hearts.

How could Wang Li do something like this to Liu Juanhua, who was like a mother to all of them?

This was practically incestuous!

Liu Juanhua cleared her throat and said, "After we left the old life behind, we still needed to make money. Nowadays, with the internet being so developed, using this kind of gimmick to earn some cash isn't that strange!"

The once agitated coworkers gradually quieted down, as everyone knew how hard it was to make money these days.

Since this kind of attention-grabbing method helped Mom and Wang Li make a living, they couldn’t really argue with that.

"Alright, Mom, we understand."

The slick man put away his phone and looked up at Mom, like an obedient child.

The troublemaker also nodded, "Sorry, Wang Li, we misunderstood you."

Wang Li smiled slightly and spoke calmly, "I understand how you feel. If I were in your place, I'd find it hard to accept too."

Seeing that the atmosphere among the coworkers had finally settled, Liu Juanhua and Wang Li breathed a sigh of relief inwardly.

But what they didn't know was that Yi Tiantian’s thoughts started causing trouble again.

"Hmm? The fact that Liu Juanhua and Wang Li are a fake married couple for show has been discovered!"

"But they’ll never admit that they’ve actually grown close to each other!"

"After they left the old life behind, Liu Juanhua used her savings to open the tea house, but Wang Li hadn’t saved a single penny over the years, so Liu Juanhua pitied him and let him help out at the tea house!"

"Wang Li, being savvy, knew that without any savings, he wouldn’t inherit the tea house if anything happened to Liu Juanhua." So he came up with a plan to secure his future…

Upon hearing this, the escorts had already sensed that something was wrong.

Their clients were wealthy older women who were successful in business but unlucky in love.

So, fulfilling their emotional needs was a very important task.

And Mother Liu Juanhua was exactly like that!

Over half a century old, yet there wasn’t a single man by her side. Mother must have felt very lonely all these years!

So this no-good Wang Li...

The escorts looked at each other and finally glared angrily at Wang Li, who was pretending to be innocent with a shameless look on his face.

"Wang Li sees Liu Juanhua as the last client in his career!"

"He decided to deceive Liu Juanhua into marrying him, and then naturally inherit her estate!"

"What a parasite! His calculations are slapping me in the face!"

Yi Tiantian didn’t look down on escorts, but he really despised this kind of two-faced gold-digger!

The escorts, having heard their inner thoughts, clenched their fists tightly under the table, their eyes filled with anger, and some were on the verge of exploding.

"My goodness, how did new gossip surface again?!"

"It turns out that Wang Li not only wanted to inherit the estate but also to keep a young mistress!"

"Liu Juanhua recently felt that she was aging very quickly, but what she didn’t know was that Wang Li had been putting slow-acting poison in her tea!"

"Wang Li wanted to quickly obtain the estate, so he had been planning to kill Liu Juanhua!"

"Betrayed by the 'son' she had mentored, Liu Juanhua probably never expected this!"

They thought it was just a simple drama, but they never expected such a dark backstory!

"Liu Juanhua is truly pitiful—she really paid the price for not knowing how to use a smartphone!"

"If she had checked Wang Li's phone, she would have found the poison purchase records and his messages with his mistress!"

Yi Tiantian lowered his head and sipped his tea. By this time, the actor on stage had stopped singing, and the sweet love song had been replaced by a classical dance about a heartless man and a devoted woman.

The entire crew felt that today’s performance was incredibly fitting.

This Wang Li really deserves to rot; the saying 'bite the hand that feeds you' fits him perfectly!

The escorts, who viewed Liu Juanhua as their mother, finally lost control.

In the melodious tune of the classical dance, the escorts stood up and knocked Wang Li to the ground. The slick-haired escort quickly pulled Wang Li’s phone out of his pocket.

After all, the mysterious voice had mentioned that Wang Li’s secrets were in this phone. If they found evidence, he would end up in jail!

Liu Juanhua was stunned. She didn’t know why the once-peaceful escorts suddenly turned violent and started beating Wang Li like a gang of thugs.

At that moment, the large tea house was filled with the escorts' curses and Wang Li's screams. He was pinned to the ground, unable to fight back.

The other viewers watched in shock, and realizing she couldn’t stop them, Liu Juanhua rushed to find the security guards.

But the crew knew exactly what was going on. They sat back, enjoying their snacks, as the drama unfolded.

"It seems that the escorts truly care for Liu Juanhua and genuinely regard her as their mother!"

"After discovering Wang Li's intentions, the escorts found the evidence in his phone and showed it to Liu Juanhua, who then came to a realization."

"She had been in the industry for so many years, but she never thought she'd be betrayed by one of her own!"

"In the end, Liu Juanhua sold the tea house and found a quiet village to live in, and these escort 'sons' would visit her from time to time."

"As for Wang Li, he was finally sent to jail for poisoning, receiving the punishment he deserved!"

Yi Tiantian noticed that the system had already provided the follow-up to this incident.

"This ending is pretty standard, with nothing particularly new or exciting about it."

"However, today is the last day of the tea house's operation. The red bean pie here is really something else. I wonder if I'll ever get to eat it again..."

The people from the cast were relieved to hear the outcome of Liu Juanhua and Wang Li's story.

Now that the escorts had escorted Wang Li out and the tea house was in chaos, the show was forced to terminate early.

"It seems we’ll have to call it a day."

Director Xiao He, feeling very satisfied after finishing the gossip, stretched her arms and prepared to stand up.

Everyone else was also reluctant to leave the tea house, but since the main parties involved in the big gossip had already left, there was no reason for them to stay.

Gang Fengxing also quickly stood up and said, "Then let's go back and rest! We've been gossiping, I mean, drinking tea and eating snacks all afternoon. We’re probably all exhausted."

What made Gang Fengxing happiest was that the group of well-dressed escorts had finally left. If they had stayed any longer, who knows what they might have done to Tiantian!

Yueyue and Yang Yang also prepared to stand up and leave with Yi Tiantian, as all the scenes had been filmed, and they would be leaving the cast early the next morning.

However, Yi Tiantian was not in a hurry to leave, because a new piece of gossip had appeared in the system!

And this gossip was actually related to the Dusk Society!

"It turns out there's a reason why so many small stars became escorts!"

"A large portion of them actually didn't want to take this path initially but were forced into it out of desperation!"

"The influence of the Dusk Society has now completely permeated the newcomers in the entertainment industry. Except for Gang Fengxing's company, the first requirement for newcomers selected by the other major entertainment companies is to voluntarily join the Dusk Society!"

Hearing these familiar keywords, Yueyue and Yang Yang sat back down.

It seemed this piece of gossip was even more explosive than the previous one!

"But many of the newcomers who voluntarily joined the Dusk Society never returned! They vanished without a trace."

"Gradually, people started noticing a pattern, and to protect their own lives, as well as to pursue their dreams of stardom, many small stars chose not to join entertainment companies and instead went solo!"

"But individual power cannot compete with capital, and to chase their dreams, many small stars were forced into resorting to survival sex work!"

Yi Tiantian shook her head in disbelief. "Fortunately, when I debuted, there wasn't such bizarre nonsense..."

"But why is the Dusk Society doing this?"

"Why are they going to such great lengths to take over the entertainment industry? Is it really for that absurd doomsday prophecy?!"