Chapter 338: Mo Bai

There was only one nameplate on the platform.

Chu Yao, holding her skirt, sat down, and the flashing cameras below flickered incessantly, but she didn’t even blink.

“Miss Chu, thinking of making a comeback right after being released from prison, aren’t you being too hasty?”

“Three years ago, when you became popular, there were rumors that a backer openly supported you.

Has your backer changed now?”

“I heard you were jailed for drunken driving that left a girl disabled.

Is that true?”

“Why were you only sentenced to three years?

Who is protecting you?”

The journalists were quickly becoming aggressive, each camera aimed at her.

They wanted to capture even the slightest microexpression on her face, easily scribble something with a pen, and worry not about the traffic they’d get.

Chu Yao just smiled silently, her icy gaze fixed on the journalist who had last asked the question, and chuckled lightly, “Which organization are you from?”

“I,” the journalist glanced at the badge hanging around his neck, mischievously pursed his lips, “Please answer my question directly.

Do you have a backer?

Did money buy a life for you?”

“Aren’t you afraid of retribution with such high-profile accusations?”

Some journalists at the venue tried to provoke Chu Yao, hoping she would show her emotions and give them a sensational story.

However, Chu Yao remained unfazed, resting her chin in her hand, leisurely watching the crowd below, with the smile on her lips deepening, “This is live.

Maybe consider your words carefully, those planning to frame me will find no doors open here.”

It was a live broadcast!

No wonder Chu Yao was so composed; since it was live, there was no possibility of constructing rumors.

Chu Yao, with her fingers propping her chin, tapped in the air and said quietly, “Enough, I’m not here to answer your questions today.

I just have two things to say.

First, I have already chosen my first script for my comeback.

Second, at the year-end award ceremonies, please make sure to capture me beautifully.”

The journalist asked, “You’ve already chosen it?

That was quick.

Could it be that you hastily accepted any random script because you are eager for a comeback?”

Chu Yao’s lips slowly curled into a smirk, “The Empress’s Killing, would you dare say it’s just any random script?”

Hearing this, a buzz stirred among the journalists.

The Empress’s Killing is a palace-maneuvering manhua with early plots focusing on domestic disputes, middle plots on palace struggles, and later, the female protagonist conquering the world riding alongside the emperor.

The character is liked by fans, and the plot is exciting.

It has been serialized for three years, producing only two chapters a month, garnering high reader engagement, and has a vast fan base.

There have been rumors about directors wanting to adapt it into a film or series.

The mysterious manhua author had never shown his face, sending his manuscripts anonymously to the editor’s inbox and having them self-destruct after being received.

Some bored folks tried to crack the author’s encrypted code, only to have their efforts backfire.

Nobody could contact the person, and the manhua agency could only wait for the author to reach out, but undoubtedly, it was a massive IP.

This showed just how impactful Chu Yao’s statement was.

A journalist immediately raised a doubt, “Nobody can contact the author of The Empress’s Killing.

Miss Chu, how did you secure the adaptation rights?”

“Adaptation rights?”

Chu Yao chuckled softly, her fox-like eyes slightly glancing downward, looking towards Nan Jiaojiao sitting in the first row, the laugh lines around her eyes deepening, “That has always been mine.

Remember Mo Bai?”

“Mo, Mo Bai!”

“The one who brought Chu Yao to stardom, the top screenwriter Mo Bai?”

“After Chu Yao was imprisoned, didn’t he vanish from the scene, and no scripts came out in these years?”

Nan Jiaojiao raised her eyes, meeting Chu Yao’s mocking gaze, and sighed inadvertently.

She knew she couldn’t escape it!

She had given herself many names, Sweetheart, Little Princess, but only as a screenwriter did she use Mo Bai, with every script she took since Chu Yao’s debut written by her.