The stage performance continued, with supporting actors coming on stage to play the roles of elders from both families, standing to the side and clapping happily.

...

The young man knelt on one knee, "Marry me, be my wife."

The young woman was surprised, "But isn't it better for an artist's career to marry later?"

The young man replied: "Anyway, it's definitely going to be you for this lifetime, sooner or later is the same. Besides, we can have a secret marriage, though it will be hard on you."

The young woman hesitated for a moment, but both families were very happy, and the young man was very sincere, so she finally nodded in agreement.

In an instant, the life images of the female lead on the right side of the large screen in the back suddenly turned into fragmented black and white pictures, then continuously shrank and moved upwards. New images began to appear below, resembling various data charts of company stocks.

The young man began performing with a group of people on one side of the stage, acting out scenes of filming, while the young woman sat in an office, making phone calls and handling documents. It gave the feeling of a couple working together to manage their careers.

But the couple's performance came to an abrupt halt. All the lights disappeared and then focused entirely on Ji Fei. Ji Fei stepped out of her original role, came forward, and slapped the face of Qin Chaoling in the darkness, the sound echoing throughout the venue.

It was as if her future self had rushed back to slap the scumbag.

"When you proposed to me, it was only because you were worried I would pursue my dream of photography, travel the world, and never come back. You were afraid you couldn't keep me. You clipped my wings, made me live dependent on you, to be your capable assistant. I was stupid, thinking true love meant sacrifice, compromise, and giving in. But why, after sacrificing my dreams for your career, did you abandon me! Where's your conscience, did a dog eat it?"

...

Ji Fei shouted hoarsely, delivering a cathartic tirade of accusations.

Although the performance was still awkward, the audience was completely drawn in. Even if they couldn't distinguish between truth and fiction, everyone was willing to indulge in conspiracy theories.

So it's very likely that it wasn't the parents of both sides pushing for marriage, nor was it the film star casually going through the motions of his own marriage. It was actually the film star himself who proposed, asking her to sacrifice and stay for him. Afterwards, he never wanted a divorce, and she didn't cling to him but wholeheartedly assisted him.

How could this be called reaping without sowing?

Not feeling indebted? This is a huge debt, okay?

If the top-tier group's performance is the truth.

Then the so-called clarification statement from the film star's group is too disgusting, isn't it? It's completely distorting the facts, spreading rumors and defamation.

Is it true that the most poisonous is an ungrateful heart?

She gave everything for him, but he throws her under the bus for a mistress?

Not only were the people at the scene full of shock, but even the tone of the bullet screen comments had twisted.

Half were curses, while the other half were filled with doubts, discussions, and speculations.

On Weibo, people started looking for evidence everywhere.

In the hospital room, Ruan Jia listened to Ji Fei's final monologue, as if being scolded awake, her eyes widening in disbelief.

Yes, at that time she was planning to leave, she hesitated because they were truly in love then, but why was she the one sacrificing from the beginning? If Sheng Wenyue really loved her, shouldn't he have wanted to support her in pursuing her dreams, just as she supported him?

But Sheng Wenyue never mentioned it from beginning to end, he completely ignored that her dream was also her career.

People often say that some things shouldn't be calculated too meticulously, like cold math problems, because once you start thinking from both sides of the scale, life becomes impossible to live.

But when a person gradually becomes numb to your sacrifices, ungrateful, and takes them for granted and forgets, this person is no longer worth sacrificing for.

At this moment, Sheng Wenyue in the waiting area felt as if he had been slapped countless times from afar. When the clear and explicit comparison appeared before his eyes, he almost stood up in anger and shame, losing his composure.

At this point, he gradually overlooked the anger of having the truth exposed, he just wanted to refute, he felt that he wasn't as Ji Fei described, loving and staying together always requires one person to give in, right?

How else can you become husband and wife?

He loves acting, he only wants to act, he had no choice...

Qin's Father and Qin's Mom watched as the surrounding audience began to whisper, some people were watching the live broadcast from the waiting area at the same time, able to see the cameraman very rebelliously pointing the camera directly at Sheng Wenyue and Wang Jiani.

Everyone analyzed their facial expressions frame by frame. Was this because they were guilty of having the truth exposed, or angry at being wrongly accused?

On stage, a special female guest was seen coming up to assist in the performance.

Everyone immediately held their breath, even the bullet screen comments paused for a moment, as if everyone realized who this person was going to play.

Everyone watched nervously.

Backstage, the staff brought by each team were all gathered here eating melon seeds and watching the drama unfold.

Qin Rong was watching with her little face flushed red, very excited, but when she saw Brother Gao beside her looking like he had given up on life, she asked Xiao Tao next to her with some concern.

"Brother Gao, are you okay?"

Xiao Tao glanced over, knowing that the script Ji Fei and Qin Zhao were performing actually concealed a part from Brother Gao, and felt quite sympathetic about this. After all, Brother Gao wanted to trick more staff to come over for the studio.

But now, who would dare to take on such troublemaking artists?

She could only sigh and say: "Some people look peaceful, but they've actually been gone for a while."

Nearby, the female manager of the ancient costume idol looked at Gao Hao and couldn't help but mock: "Your artists are performing so well, do they not want to live anymore?"

Just as she was speaking, Sheng Wenyue's manager rushed over to Gao Hao, fuming with anger, "What exactly are you trying to do! Stop it now!"

It looks like the mistress is about to come on stage! Are they planning to act out everything?

Gao Hao came back to his senses, coughed, and although he really wanted to pull the ears of those two up there, he couldn't lose face for his own people.

"Oh my, it's all just acting. You're cruel and disregard the law, we're shameless and lack quality. Not much difference."

With one sentence he insulted even himself, directly leaving the other party speechless.

Other people secretly gave Gao Hao a thumbs up.

This face-to-face confrontation was quite explosive even in the entire entertainment industry. The director and producer were almost getting Parkinson's, and the bullet screen comments were going crazy, shaking all over the place.

Gao Hao continued to rub salt in the wound: "Fortunately we were chosen, and provided with such good material. We can only thank Mr. Sheng and Ms. Wang for sending us this heaven-sent fortune. Especially you, senior, you deserve to be enshrined in the imperial ancestral temple."

If someone wasn't holding him up, the manager could have fainted, but he had no right to faint because an even more explosive performance began on stage.

...

Only to see a distinctive second female lead appear on the male lead's side, the two of them filming together and interacting intimately. The female lead on the other side was still working, her back turned to everything.

Although the male and female leads would occasionally be together, they gradually lost common topics of conversation.

The male lead talked about romance and the halls of art.

The female lead discussed stocks, management, and experiences with employees.

"I feel like you're full of the stench of money now," the male lead said, then turned and walked into the filming set, happily chatting with the second female lead again, even saying to her: "You have an artistic aura, you're very talented."

The second female lead giggled, "Thank you, senior."

Meanwhile, the female lead was still busy working, seemingly unaware of what was happening.

Suddenly, four elderly people appeared in front of the second female lead.

The male lead continued acting, seemingly not noticing anything unusual. The second female lead then left the stage. After discovering the second female lead was gone, he was distraught for a while but didn't show much reaction.

The female lead continued to work hard, but as the documents piled up on her desk more and more, she became overwhelmed. Finally, she brought in many people to share her workload. Gradually, she exited the stage, and the company chart on the big screen changed to her parents' hospital room.

The female lead appeared again, this time taking care of her parents in the hospital.

Until her parents exited the stage, the second female lead reappeared, crying as she threw herself into the male lead's arms. Then they both turned to look at the female lead who had appeared, glaring at her angrily.

At this moment, the lighting changed again, and Ji Fei jumped out of her original position, delivering another slap.

"You heartless beast, what do you mean we have nothing in common? It's you who didn't want to have anything in common with me. I could have been an artist, it was you who made me reek of money. How dare you come and despise me, justifying your change of heart and affair? If you don't have the determination to restrain yourself, don't enter into marriage and harm others."0

Another slap!

"You say I used my power to drive her away? I didn't even know her back then! She keeps yelling that I owe her - I don't owe her shit! She was from our company, she knew you had a wife, and she still seduced a married man. How dare she act righteous? Can an immoral love be called true love? Soulmates? Your souls are truly filthy!"

After berating one side, she turned and slapped the other. Another resounding smack.

"And you, you're really something. Even the Master Sword Forger would have to admire how despicable you are. Was it really others who forced you to leave? It was the elders who saw your intention to destroy someone's family, wanting to be a mistress. They were defending their home and gave you a choice. You chose to go abroad for better opportunities. If you were truly forced, couldn't you have contacted this scumbag for help even once? Did you ever do that?!"

Another slap.

"You had such great resources abroad, but you couldn't make a good life for yourself. So you came back and dragged this scumbag along to blame me? What? Are you upset that I didn't make room for you, a wannabe mistress? Or that I didn't pave the way for you to become a movie star in the foreign entertainment industry? I really didn't know how I've wronged you! To think I need to be made to compensate for my husband's soulmate!"

...

The livestream froze, Weibo servers crashed, the audience area erupted in chaos, and everyone in the waiting area turned to look at the two people in the center.

Those four slaps seemed to land on their faces too, making them alternately pale and flush.

They swayed, their pupils shaking.