“What else happened?” Lin Cheng asked.

Yang Xiyu shook her head, unable to think of any more details.

“Oh, by the way,” Yang Xiyu had thought of something, “I seemed to have met your junior brother at the hotel that day.”

“Le Bai?”

“Yes, that’s him!”

At that time, Le Bai, as Lin Cheng’s junior, was often bundled with him and promoted as such by the company. As a fan of Lin Cheng, she also paid special attention to this newcomer.

“That’s all I can think of.

“Please forgive me. I really didn’t plan for all that to happen. I just thought… I was led on, and that’s why I became obsessed with doing it,” Yang Xiyu said in a miserable voice.

Suddenly, Yang Xiyu seemed to have grasped some key point and exclaimed, “My goodness, yes! I really was instigated!”

“What did you remember?”

“I joined a group at that time…”

In order to get more information about Lin Cheng, Yang Xiyu joined many groups, many of which were formed by people who were also fans of Lin Cheng. Among these was a small group with only a few dozen people in it.

“There was an older sister in the group who claimed to be your big fan. She could get first-hand information about you and she was very popular in the group. Later, we saw that she often shared your private photos and even behind-the-scene rehearsal videos in the group. So we really believed in her.

“She also often shared your itinerary information with us.”

At first, the people in the group were dubious, but when they chased their idol according to the information given by this older sister, they actually encountered Lin Cheng as promised. Everyone who has tasted the sweetness began to become more and more crazy.

Everyone was complacent because they could see Lin Cheng before others could, like they were favored fans, and they came to believe in that ‘older sister’ more and more. They didn’t know that the other party was already instigating them to become improper fans bit by bit.

After listening to Yang Xiyu’s words, Lin Cheng and Wang Yu narrowed their eyes at the same time: this so-called ‘older sister’ may not be that simple.

“Can we still find that person?” Lin Cheng asked.

“I don’t know. I never used the previous account anymore after what happened.”

Yang Xiyu thought for a while and then said. “But we chatted a lot on my previous computer. I kept that computer at my family’s home before going abroad. A lot of information should still be stored in it. How about we go look for it, then you will believe that I was really instigated when you see for yourself what’s inside.”

“Okay.”

… …

Lin Cheng and the others followed Yang Xiyu to the house where her family lived before, and there they found the computer she had been using during that period of time.

They brought over technical assistance and the computer was quickly opened. They easily found the old fan group that Yang Xiyu had joined, as well as a lot of dialogue information that Yang Xiyu had specially saved and collected through screenshots—including a lot of Lin Cheng’s photos and some of his rehearsal videos and itinerary.

“This fan group has not been used for a long time, and the account that posted the message should have been abandoned a long time ago. However, key information is stored in the server and can be traced back all the way to 30 years ago—at the very least we can find out the phone number that was used when the account was first opened.  You can check who was using this number at the time,” the technician said.

Lin Cheng and Wang Yu looked at each other—but they already had suspicions in their hearts.

There was only one person in the entire entertainment company who could obtain so many unpublished photos of Lin Cheng and who could provide such a detailed itinerary list of Lin Cheng, even down to the room number—that was Lin Cheng’s original manager, Sun Yanzhou.

“Can the information be restored?” Lin Cheng asked.

“Most of the information in the computer is cached and can be restored directly. For other information, if you need to restore it 100%, you can use the service provider to retrieve the information about this account. From what I can find so far, this account posted many similar messages in other groups as well.”

In other words, Sun Yanzhou used his identity as a big fan to publish information about Lin Cheng’s itinerary to many improper fans and, in this way, cultivated many improper fans. His purpose in doing so was obviously to use the improper fans to destroy Lin Cheng’s career.

Hearing this, Wang Yu sneered, “They provided anti-fans and improper fans with your detailed itinerary, and instigated improper fans to sneak into your room and commit misdeeds against you…”

Once these evidence were exposed, the rumors about Lin Cheng on the Internet could immediately be traced back to Sun Yanzhou. Not only will Sun Yanzhou be forced out of the entertainment circle as an agent, but he would also most likely face criminal liability.

Lin Cheng did not speak but looked at Yang Xiyu again.

“What else do you want to say?” Lin Cheng asked.

“I, everything I know is already here.”

“And what else?”

“Also… if you need it, I can try my best to cooperate. I just hope you can let me go and don’t let my family know about this. I was really wrong about that matter before, but can you please not pursue it anymore.”

Lin Cheng watched coldly as Yang Xiyu babbled incoherently about many things—but did not mention a single word about the child she had thrown away.

Lin Cheng sneered and asked, “Why shouldn’t I pursue it?”

Hearing this, Yang Xiyu was shocked.

But Lin Cheng slowly spoke again, “Even if I don’t pursue it, the law can still pursue you for abandonment of the child.”

Lin Cheng’s last few words were like a heavy hammer, defeating the last line of defense in Yang Xiyu’s heart.

Thinking of something, Yang Xiyu suddenly looked at Lin Cheng with wide eyes and asked, “How do you know? That child— the child you brought to the show, Lin Momo, is she…”

“No, that’s my own child.” Lin Cheng lied on this issue.

And when he finished saying this, he could clearly see the look of relief on Yang Xiyu’s face.

When Yang Xiyu dumped Lin Momo in the garbage dump, although there was a slim chance that the child survived, in Yang Xiyu’s consciousness, she had already concluded that the child would not survive. That child would have died quietly, covered up in that garbage dump.

Lin Momo didn’t look like her at all, and Yang Xiyu thought that the incident back then was done very covertly, and there would be no such accidental  coincidence.

Therefore, when she saw Lin Momo with Lin Cheng on TV, Yang Xiyu didn’t connect that happy child with the newborn baby she had abandoned at all.

At this moment, after hearing Lin Cheng’s answer, Yang Xiyu relaxed a little. Just thinking of what Lin Cheng said about child abandonment, Yang Xiyu’s face turned ugly again, and she began to tug at Lin Cheng to beg for mercy.

“I’m really ignorant about that matter. I don’t know how you found out about it, but I beg you, please don’t tell anyone. We can pretend that nothing happened. Someone wanted to harm you, and they let me in your hotel room to create black material. I can also help you clarify…”

Lin Cheng ignored Yang Xiyu and turned to leave.

Serve as Contrast Team in a ‘Dad with Baby’ Show translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

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T/N: Zeth pointed out something in the previous posting: Lin Momo was found in the garbage with a note saying her surname was ‘Lin’, not just thrown away. This woman seemed like she wanted the child to die and would probably not have put a note. Otoh Sun Yanzhou knew where to find Lin Momo—he was the one who pointed Chen Yu in her direction when they were looking for a child to play Lin Cheng’s daughter. Perhaps he or someone from his team was also the one who left the note? Either that or the author forgot about it haha.

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com