I was exposed for adding my female boss to my group of female friends.

A notification appeared on the screen indicating that the connection time had expired.

Duncan quickly asked, "By the way, how is JX? Where is he now?"

Gao Xiaobo said to the screen, "We don't know where JX is, we don't even know who JX is, he has never revealed his true identity."

Duncan Jones sounded somewhat surprised: "Really? I thought he was a household name in China."

“No, no,” Gao Xiaobo said. “He has many aliases in China, and we don’t even know how many songs he has written abroad. Mr. Jones, may I ask, did he really write that many songs?”

Duncan Jones frowned; he didn't understand what Gao Xiaobo meant.

He hadn't read "The Poetic Life," so naturally he didn't know about the private music collection, nor what people were suspecting.

So he asked, "What are you talking about?"

“It’s just…” Gao Xiaobai didn’t know how to express it, scratching his head, unsure of how to put it.

Seeing that he couldn't speak, Duncan Jones said:

"I really want to see Mr. JX again. If you know where he is, please tell me!"

“Well, we know even less than you do,” Gao Xiaobo said. “We only discovered his private music collection, which contains many albums and records…”

Duncan suddenly became excited on the other end of the phone:

"Can you tell me the location of the private collection?!"

“Uh,” Gao Xiaobo looked around, “It is possible, but it has to be in China.”

"Even in Kathmandu, it's worth a visit!"

"Hmm, this is..."

Gao Xiaobai had just finished giving the address when the off-site assistance time ran out, the call was interrupted, and the screen returned to black.

……

Taylor's eyes widened when she saw the contacts on her phone.

After apologizing to Lu Yu, he left the camera's view and then answered a phone call.

"Hello? Is this Adam? Why are you contacting me all of a sudden?"

On the other end of the phone, Adam, the lead singer of Maroon 5, spoke:

"Taylor, I have some really exciting news for you: JX isn't dead! We've found his trail!"

Taylor Swift straightened up abruptly: "What?"

"Are you in China? He just contacted Duncan and gave him an address. If you go there, you might find clues about JX!"

Chapter 166 Confession and Farewell (Thanks to the Alliance Leader, Yearning for the Evening Breeze Under the Setting Sun)

Taylor Swift walked a little further away, still holding her phone.

"You're not kidding me, are you? Do you think JX would just stay at one address and wait for someone to come looking for him?"

"No..." the voice on the other end of the phone said, "It's not JX's address, it's the address of his private music collection!"

"A Private Music Collection..."

Upon hearing this, Taylor's memories were quickly awakened.

Almost everyone who has worked with JX knows that he has a private music collection.

Within a small circle of the American music scene, quite a few people have gathered to discuss this place.

It was during that group discussion that they calculated that JX's private music collection contained at least 50 albums and over 2000 singles from at least 20 bands and 30 artists.

These albums were all collaborations between JX and those bands over several years. The sheer volume of output was astounding, and the quality was astounding.

This is why JX was able to quickly rise to the top of the Western entertainment industry.

From the perspective of modern music history, that private music archive must be a place of extraordinary significance, and everyone in the music industry wants to visit it.

Just like Atlantis, people only know that the place exists, but they don't know its exact location.

No wonder Adam was so excited after learning the address of that place.

But Taylor Swift still had a slight regret. More than a private music collection, she wanted to know where JX was.

At least thank him in person.

"Hey, let me ask you something," the voice on the other end of the phone suddenly became serious, "If you found JX, would you get back together with him? Or would you beat him up?"

“I…” Taylor opened her mouth, only to realize that she hadn’t considered this question.

“I definitely won’t beat him up,” Taylor said, “because I can’t beat him.”

"I'll send you the address right away," the person on the other end of the phone said. "This matter has been talked about by the big mouths all over the place. I guess musicians will be heading there in groups. You'd better hurry!"

After hanging up the phone, her phone chimed with a notification that she had received an address. Immediately, Taylor turned and rushed to Lu Yu's side.

"Lu, tell me, what is this address?"

...Ten minutes later, Taylor Swift was sitting in the car on her way to the private music archive.

Lu Yu and the photographer followed behind, looking embarrassed.

She had a bad feeling—her job was in jeopardy again.

Just now, Taylor spent ten minutes, almost in a fit of rage and relentless pleading, convincing everyone, including herself, to go with her to a small village on the outskirts of Jiangcheng.

And coincidentally, that village happened to be the filming location for "A Poetic Life"—a show that Lu Yu had always considered her biggest competitor.

She now has a feeling that the future is bleak.

Moreover, Taylor was holding "The Poetic Life" and reading it despite the language barrier, sometimes crying and sometimes laughing. I don't know what she was seeing.

Lu Yutang's own show, yet the guests are watching other shows during the program—is there anything more humiliating than this?

However, the fact that her show's ratings seemed to have skyrocketed as a result gave her a lot of comfort.

The live stream chat was flooded with comments, all sorts of opinions, and they were making up all sorts of absurd things with great conviction. Lu Yu had no idea where they got these ideas from:

"I'd like to ask Taylor Swift, was her hit song 'Love Story' written for JX?"

"Lu Yu, ask Taylor, how far have things progressed between her and JX? Who broke up with her?"

"It must have been Taylor Swift who dumped JX. Damn, such a great girl. If JX had broken up with her, I would have killed him with a knife."

"What are you saying? Who is JX? Taylor would never say she wants to break up, okay?"

"Relationships aren't about who's more famous. I'm just really curious how the two of them got together."

"The timeline has been drawn up. A year after Taylor was cyberbullied, JX came to the United States, and the two met at the funeral. After JX stood up for Taylor, the two started dating. That must be it."

"What you said earlier is wrong. The funeral was in 18. JX was almost leaving the United States by then, so their relationship must have started before that."

……

"Taylor..." Lu Yu looked at the screen full of confused comments, trying to salvage the increasingly chaotic show, "How exactly did you and JX meet? Uh, can you tell me? Everyone's really curious..."

Taylor sat in the front row, holding her phone. She didn't answer immediately, but stared at the screen, laughing and crying at the same time.

She saw the title of the program: "Confessions and Farewells".

Almost instantly, she understood what it meant.

Because what she and he experienced was a confession followed by countless farewells.

……

Richard King Hotel, Texas.

It felt like all the rock fans in Texas had gathered here; the hotel and even the streets were noisy and chaotic.

Taylor, who lived in room 303, walked into the hallway looking haggard. As soon as she pushed open the door, she saw the door two rooms away suddenly kicked open, and a bunch of white feathers flew out.

"What happened?" Taylor asked the people outside.

“It’s Roger from The People,” the waiter shrugged. “Their people are all a little bit abnormal.”

From the other room, someone started yelling, "I said I don't want to share a room with him! Otherwise, I'll throw the TV into the swimming pool outside!!"

Taylor frowned slightly in annoyance and closed the door.

She's a little annoyed today.

Her concert and The Who's concert are both scheduled for tomorrow, both in Texas, and coincidentally, they've booked the same hotel.

No one would believe this if it were told, since large venues that can host concerts are not easy to find; a city is lucky if it has one.

Who would have thought that one would be located in NRG Park and the other in the Acacia Centre? She was naturally upset to have stumbled upon such a rare occurrence.

Another thing that made her uncomfortable was that she couldn't help but look at social media.

Even though she knew that those online trolls wouldn't say anything nice about her concert, she still couldn't help but check how they were criticizing her every now and then.

This mentality is like being disgusted by the stench of excrement but still wanting to see the shape of it, wanting to die knowing why.

However, after opening her social media account for the twenty-eighth time today, she immediately regretted it.

My own tweets are still full of comments about snakes, just like always.

Taylor collapsed onto his bed.

She was targeted by cyberbullying because of something that happened a year ago, or even earlier, three years ago.

Three years ago, she had just debuted and her first album won the MTV Video Music Award.

Unexpectedly, as she went on stage to accept her award, Kanye West suddenly rushed onto the stage, grabbed the microphone from her, and said:

“Taylor, I’m happy for you. I’ll let you finish speaking in a bit, but I have to say, Beyoncé’s music video is the best ever! The best ever!”

After saying that, she stood there awkwardly, while countless camera flashes went off, exposing her embarrassment and helplessness to the world.

Ultimately, she couldn't say her acceptance speech because her mind had gone completely blank.

That year, she was 17 years old. In the entertainment industry, she was just a newcomer, a nobody.

Because she was relatively unknown, she was nothing compared to a big star like Beyoncé. After Kanye West said that, many people applauded and agreed, believing that the award should not have been given to her at all.

Who is Taylor? Just a country singer, nothing compared to Beyoncé.

Although Kanye apologized to the media afterward, and she decided to let it go and publicly stated that she was a fan of Kanye, the impact of this incident on her was irreparable.

This was the first lesson the entertainment industry taught her: here, only the strong deserve respect.

If you are nothing, no one will care about you.

Two years later, Kanye West was still the same Kanye West. He called me and asked for my opinion:

"Taylor, I wrote a song with a diss track about you. I just thought it was cool, but I wanted to get your opinion, so I decided to call you anyway."

It must be said that Taylor was very happy when she received this call.

What made her happy was that Kanye actually thought to ask for her opinion before dissing her, which showed that he wasn't uncommunicative and that the two might still have a chance to become good friends.

So she and Kanye West exchanged their thoughts on the lyrics. The call lasted a full half hour, and she dares to say that at the time, it was one of the most wonderful half hours of her life because the atmosphere was so harmonious.

Little did she know that just a few months later, those half hours would become a nightmare that would haunt her forever.

After Kanye West's new song was released, people were surprised to find that he was incredibly outspoken.

He sang in the song:

"Taylor should have slept with me. It was me (grabbing the microphone) who made this bitch famous..."

Taylor Swift was devastated; he never mentioned those lyrics on the phone!

So, when interviewed by reporters, she said that she did not agree to Kanye writing such lyrics and that she was very unhappy.

This matter caused quite a stir in the city.

Many of her fans went to Kanye's Twitter account to mock him, and some even started hurling insults.

A month later, Kanye's wife, Kim Kardashian, stepped in.

Taylor never dreamed that her phone call with Kanye would be recorded in its entirety.

Furthermore, Kardashian edited the entire process into more than 20 segments and posted them online one by one.

She also publicly denounced Taylor Swift on Twitter as a heartless and manipulative woman who always portrays herself as a victim but is actually a scheming woman who agreed to the lyrics but then turned around and cyberbullied her.

As a result, public opinion reversed in an instant.