Chapter 146 You Kept Swearing
Ten minutes later, they arrived downstairs at the TV station.
The indignant voice of Lloyd sounded from the back seat, "Get out of the car."
Ebony was still trying to convince him, "It's really useful. Health is very precious. Isn't health the most needed thing in your life?"
Lloyd repeated, "Get out of the car."
Ebony suggested anxiously, "Lloyd, how do you know whether it's useful if you don't have a try? I'm sure you won't be hurt when using acupuncture. I am good at finding the right acupuncture points..."
"Get out of the car!" Lloyd raised his voice at this time.
Ebony dared not to speak for a short while. She looked at Lloyd resentfully, grabbed the corner of her clothes, and pushed open the door, saying, "Then tell me if you change your mind."
Ebony got out of the car silently. But she insisted in standing beside the car and was reluctant to leave for a long time. She kept peering into the window of the car.
Lloyd was almost driven crazy by her.
He leaned back in the seat, heaved a long sigh, and said to Ivan, "Go."
Watching the car gallop away, Ebony felt very pitiful.
She had to turn around and walked to the TV station. She met two staff members in the elevator,.
They greeted her, and Ebony also said hello to them.
After a while, one of the two staff members suddenly asked, "Miss Gibson, what makes you so happy?"
Ebony looked at her in astonishment.
The staff member smiled, pointed to the mirror in the elevator, and said, "You have been smiling since I saw you just now."
Hearing her words, Ebony looked at herself in the mirror.
A smile curved her lips and eyes. It was indeed a hearty smile.
Ebony thought about it for a while, and said with a gentle face, "Something happy happened to me just now. I found the person who had helped me before. I was looking for him, but I couldn't find him. But today I knew who he was."
The two staff members hurriedly said, "Congratulations."
Ebony sighed, "But he didn't accept my repay."
One of the staff members said, "As for some noble people, they don't help others for money."
Ebony nodded, "So I didn't give him money. I gave him my blessings."
The two staff members, "..."
Ebony said sadly, "Would you give me some advice? How should I repay him? What can I do to let him accept my repay?"
One of the staff members said after a short hesitation, "Why don't you give him some money? Maybe he wants you to repay him with money?"
Ebony shook her head, "It won't work, because I am not able to solve things that can be solved with money."
The staff members, "..."
Ebony continued, "And he is the kind of person with noble character as you said. If I give him money, wouldn't it be an insult to him? I can't do such a thing!"
The staff members, "..."
The staff members didn't want to say anything to her.
Ebony was still worried about how to repay Lloyd after getting out of the elevator.
In the evening.
After work Ebony returned to the hotel and was about to talk to Lloyd.
But she heard that Elvin and Lloyd had already left.
They originally came to visit her on the way. After seeing her, they had to go to film additional shots of Pledge.
Being very disappointed, Ebony kept sighing in her room.
Janet, holding an iPad and sitting next to Ebony, asked, "Ebony, do you want to watch the first episode of The Shining Light now?"
Ebony raised her head and asked, "What is The Shining Light?"
Janet replied in surprise, "It's the variety show you participate in!"
Ebony remembered it after hearing Janet's words.
She only said "I remember now", then wriggled her body, came to Janet's side, put her chin on Janet's shoulder, and looked at the iPad.
Janet was like a mobile phone stand of Ebony. Then the two of them watched the show together.
The show was pretty good in general. The crew had enough money to promote the show. So as soon as it began to be broadcast, the times of being viewed skyrocketed and it got a lot of bullet screens.
After watching it for a while, Ebony felt it was incredible that the crew did a kind editing.
She said to Janet while pointing at the progress bar, "I actually scolded someone here, but it was cut off. I also scolded someone here, here, here, here and here..."
Listening to Ebony for a long time, Janet couldn't bear it anymore and asked, "When did you not scold others?"
At this time, Stella appeared in the show.
Ebony said, "I didn't scold Stella."
Stella danced the dance that was the one performed by Ebony in her previous video. The audience immediately commented, and there were many "Ebony" among the bullet screens.
Stella danced really well. After the dance, she expressed her appreciation for Ebony.
Ebony said to Janet, "Belinda and Victor will give Stella a low score, but this part will definitely be cut..."
When she was reminding Janet, Belinda happened to speak in the show, "I'm not professional, so I don't dare to give grades randomly."
Then she gave Stella a B grade.
Ebony was stunned.
This part that destroyed Belinda's public persona was not cut?
The audience obviously did not expect Belinda to say that and give such a grade to Stella. The screen was filled with question marks all of a sudden.
Then, the climax came.
Victor gave Stella a C grade and said, "I don't think this dance is suitable for you."
Then Belinda and Victor got in trouble.
The audience began to complain.
-- [They're aiming to Stella too obviously! I know they and Ebony don't get along well, but what did Stella do wrong?]
-- [Stella is on the wrong team. Victor and Belinda are judges, and Ebony is only a reference. Even if Stella really likes Ebony, she's supposed to keep it a secret. The judges have the final say!]
-- [Damn it! Are they insinuating my Ebony?]
-- [Not suitable? I think it's very suitable. But it's a pity that Stella won't dance at Victor's funeral!]
The audience were all scolding Victor.
Ebony only felt suspicious after finishing watching the show, asking, "All the shots of me scolding others were deleted, while the parts that Belinda and Victor aimed at Stella were reserved? What's going on?"
Janet said, "I heard that Victor and Belinda will be replaced."
Ebony frowned.
The crew didn't inform her of that.
Could it be because she hurt Victor and scared Belinda into hospital?
Ebony was silent for a while, and decided not to talk too much, lest the crew asked her to compensate it to make up for the lost caused by replacing the judges!
The next day, Ebony was eating breakfast when she suddenly heard Janet say that something serious had happened.
Ebony asked confusedly, "What happened?"
Janet replied, "The show has been scolded since it was broadcast yesterday. It became a trending topic."
Ebony gloated, "Did the audience scold Victor and Belinda?"
Janet glanced at her, fell silent for a while, and then said, "They were scolding you."
Ebony was stunned and asked in astonishment, "Me? Why did they scold me? What's wrong with me? I watched the show yesterday. It's just a program lasting an hour and a half, and I only have ten-seconds scenes at most! I just have one sentence in the show!"
"Yup." Janet nodded and said, "So both of your fans and anti-fans couldn't bear it. They asked the crew why your part in the show was so small. The crew replied that you originally had 20-minutes scenes, but the director asked to cut your swearing part, so you only had ten-seconds left."
Ebony, "..."
Janet glanced at Ebony, "In 20 minutes, you were swearing for 19 minutes and 50 seconds. Your anti-fans and fans thought that you failed to live up to their expectations, so they began to scold you. The number of the comments scolding you increasingly reached tens of thousand, so then scolding you became a hit."
Ebony was a little speechless. She took her own phone and looked through Twitter. She found what Janet said was true.
But Ebony was thick-skinned enough to ignore the fact that she was scolded.
She took out her hamburger and said, "I can't do anything to deal with it. They just like to scold me without any reason. But it's not a big deal. I'm used to being scolded."
Janet said, "I'm not talking about this. Something serious refers that the money spent on removing the hot searches is twenty thousand dollars. Dolores informed that it would be deducted from your salary. She said it was a lesson for you."
Hearing Janet's words, Ebony was lost in shock. A piece of the hamburger in her mouth fell to the ground.
She raised her head, looked at Janet, and asked incredulously, "What ...did you...say?"