Chapter 637: Chapter 637

Li Zimu clamped her mouth shut and nodded heavily, amidst her slightly swollen eyes, a glimmer of hope flashed through—JY finally seemed to have hope of making it through!

For six years, she had served as the team leader, treating the group as her own career and fighting for it. She was someone whose career ambitions ran deep and didn’t want JY to disappear without a trace.

Similarly, Zhang Yingru was cut from the same cloth; both viewed JY as their life’s work, striving to elevate JY to A-list status and create a golden era for Huaxia girl groups!

Sometimes, Li Zimu wondered whether her ambition had helped or harmed her.

Especially with the sharp opinions of some netizens on the internet lately, she constantly reflected on her actions over the years, questioning if they had been right or wrong—particularly with how she had handled the matter with He Jinxia.

Back when He Jinxia started to gain weight, if she had had more patience, guiding her step by step towards healthy weight loss and helping alleviate her psychological stress, perhaps He Jinxia could have slimmed down successfully...

If she hadn’t been so impatient and arrogant back then, not making a rash decision to administer drugs to He Jinxia, which only made her gain more weight and using public opinion to force her to leave the group voluntarily—would JY have become a top girl group by now?

But how could she blame her past self?

She was too young back then, and indeed, a ten-member girl group was simply too large; among them, He Jinxia was the most mediocre. She couldn’t sing as well as some of the members, let alone dance, she had the fewest fans, and even looked the most ordinary.

When Zhang Yingru proposed to reduce the number of members in the group, the first person Li Zimu thought of was He Jinxia.

Because of contractual issues, they couldn’t simply fire a member. She had even discussed it with He Jinxia, who reacted extremely irrationally to the idea of leaving the group, to the point of threatening her with a knife!

If He Jinxia had used that pressure as motivation to improve, that would have been something, but she indulged herself even more after that. She didn’t put her heart into dancing or singing and ate recklessly—wasn’t this a downfall?

It was precisely because He Jinxia wasn’t making any effort that Li Zimu consulted with the agent and decided to administer drugs to her.

Li Zimu’s thoughts grew hazy, and slowly, her doubts began to dissipate, replaced by certainty.

Yes, she hadn’t done anything wrong, not the slightest bit!

Even if she had to do it all over again, she would act the same way!

Back then, He Jinxia had a gloomy personality. It wasn’t that the members ostracized her; she pushed them away, and continued to eat unhealthily. Even if Li Zimu hadn’t drugged her, He Jinxia’s weight would have shot up regardless—she merely accelerated the process!

She had just wanted He Jinxia to give up, without any intention of harming her. She simply wanted her to take the initiative to leave the group—the group truly didn’t need her.

Look at how well she was doing after leaving the group. She should actually be thanking Li Zimu for forcing her to leave!

Li Zimu took a deep breath, suppressing her panic once more. She wasn’t afraid—so long as JY existed, she feared nothing!

In her ear, Zhang Yingru’s voice slowly came through, "Have you calmed down now?"

Li Zimu let out a long sigh and said embarrassingly, "Compared with you, I’m still too naive."

Zhang Yingru’s mouth curved up slightly, her smile faint as she comforted her, "JY will be fine. You better head back and rest, it’s getting late."

Li Zimu nodded at her and left the dorm room—this was the agent’s dorm.

After Li Zimu had departed, Zhang Yingru withdrew all the money from JY’s account. What Li Zimu didn’t see was that the liquid funds in the JY account were much more than what she had seen—there was a full two million!

All this time, the JY members had seen fabricated figures for the group’s liquid funds!

Zhang Yingru transferred three hundred thousand to Wen Ningning, and after getting the other party’s affirmative response, she picked up her phone and dialed another number:

"Hey, President Li, is it true that the company is preparing a big girl group reality show lately?"

"No, no, no, JY is already a mature girl group, I won’t let them participate. I just want to see if there are any promising newcomers in the show, aiming to pick a few stars to form a new group."

"JY? JY are my artists too, I wouldn’t neglect them. Since there are not many girl groups in the company, there are also few agents with experience managing girl groups, and it just so happens that I’ve been managing JY for a full six years, so I have quite a bit of experience in this area."

"Moreover, the entertainment circle needs fresh blood in the field of girl groups, and I think this reality show is a great opportunity. It can be seen as the rise of a new generation of girl groups..."

The next day, He Jinxia woke up and turned on her phone, but before she had a chance to check out the Weibo hot topics, her WeChat was buzzing with a barrage of messages.

He Jinxia thought something had happened and hurried to check, only to find it was Yu Yanyu jumping around the most in the group chat, sending messages on and off since six in the morning, a real chatterbox, and kept going until past seven!

He Jinxia suddenly felt that the ’Do Not Disturb’ feature on WeChat was especially nice, as it was always this feature that ensured she got enough sleep.

Yu Yanyu: "Get up, everyone, the sun is nearly shining on your butts! How come there’s not a single person up yet?"

Yu Yanyu: "Get up! Get up! [gong and drum.jpg]"

Yu Yanyu: "As someone who is woken up by his own handsomeness every day, I’m telling you, lying in, staying up late, and pulling all-nighters are bad habits, early to bed and early to rise makes the body awesome!"

Yu Yanyu: "Damn, am I the only big shot alone here? You bunch of mortals, what are you sleeping for? Get up and cultivate immortality!"

Yu Yanyu: "I get it, you’ve all blocked this group, haven’t you? Blocked me... That’s too much. Why would you block someone as adorable as me?"

Below, Yu Yanyu, the little cutie, talked to himself, asking and answering his own questions dozens of times.

He Jinxia scrolled through them one by one and finally reached the last message when her WeChat buzzed again. It turned out that Qin Siqin had been successfully woken up and sent a huge eye-rolling emoji.

Qin Siqin: "You have ten seconds to appear before me, I promise I won’t beat the shit out of you!!"

Yu Yanyu: "Oh heavens, finally someone’s paying attention to me, even if it’s an aging witch with a nasty temper. I’m still kind of moved."

Yu Yanyu: "Hey hey hey, have you guys seen the explosive topic being discussed in the group?" Check latest chapters at N()velFire.net

Qin Siqin: "What explosive topic?"

Yu Yanyu: "We’re all in the same Huaxia, sad because you’re in the city and I’m in the countryside. Hurry up and update your messages, the countryside’s online now, hello, JY girl group has monopolized the recent hot topics!"

Yu Yanyu: "The reason I was following this at first is because Sister Jinxia is with JY group, but I woke up this morning to such a juicy story."