Soon, Lin Cheng received a call from Shu Yimeng.

The two agreed to meet at a teahouse designated by Lin Cheng.

When they entered a booth in the teahouse, Shu Yimeng frowned and looked around. He asked with some concern, “Is this place safe? I don’t want our topic to be on the hot search news halfway through our conversation, and I believe you don’t want it either.”

Faced with the other party’s concerns, Lin Cheng just replied lightly, “It’s fine,” and then raised his hand, making a ‘please’ gesture, indicating that the other party should sit down.

“You are quite calm,” Shu Yimeng muttered and sat down opposite Lin Cheng.

Lin Cheng did not answer Shu Yimeng’s words.

It wasn’t that he was calm, but that this place was one of Lin family’s properties.

“Tell me, what is the purpose of your visit to me,” Lin Cheng asked without nonsense.

“It’s nothing serious, I just want you to see something.” As he spoke, Shu Yimeng took out a mobile phone from his pocket and handed it to Lin Cheng.

A video played on the phone—or more precisely, a short clip from a longer video.

This video was shot from a weird angle, but the figures of Sun Yanzhou and Le Bai inside the lounge could still be clearly seen.

In the video, Le Bai was pointing at Sun Yanzhou with an excited expression, accusing Sun Yanzhou of using him to do things.

“… yes, I wanted to replace Lin Cheng at that time, but do you dare to say that you didn’t plan the whole thing behind the scenes and used me, so that I could do things I did? It was you—“

The video clip stopped here.

Shu Yimeng took the mobile phone from the table, lowered his gaze, and smiled softly. He said, “The whole video contains too much information, so I only cut out a small part to show you.

“To be honest, I’m shocked.”

This part was true.

After learning that Lin Cheng was once an artist under Sun Yanzhou, Shu Yimeng looked up matters about Lin Cheng and also learned about his ‘black history’ from the Internet.

At the beginning, when Lin Cheng was at the peak of his popularity, so many black materials were exposed. Shu Yimeng had no doubt that someone must have deliberately framed him behind the scenes, but what he never expected was that the person behind the scenes was actually Sun Yanzhou. 

It would be strange if Lin Cheng didn’t get into trouble when his own agent personally harmed him, his artist.

“If the two people in the video hadn’t revealed the reason to each other, I wouldn’t be able to understand why Brother Sun did this.” 

Shu Yimeng said this then looked up at Lin Cheng.

But he was quite surprised at what he saw: after watching this video and hearing what he said, Lin Cheng just raised his eyebrows slightly, and the rest of his expression remained calm.

“The person who harmed you back then was Sun Yanzhou—aren’t you surprised?” Shu Yimeng asked subconsciously.

Lin Cheng’s reaction was beyond his expectations. Shouldn’t Lin Cheng’s expression be surprised and angry after knowing this piece of news?

Thinking of something, Shu Yimeng suddenly raised his head and looked at Lin again, blurting out, “Did you already know about this?!”

“If you mean that Sun Yanzhou used Le Bai to create black material for me, I should know things more than you,” Lin Cheng replied.

Hearing this, Shu Yimeng was shocked and couldn’t help but ask, “Since you already know everything, why haven’t you done something?”

For Lin Cheng, revealing this matter was definitely a chance to whitewash himself and salvage his career.

Shu Yimeng didn’t understand what Lin Cheng was waiting for.

“Could it be…” Thinking of a possibility, Shu Yimeng’s eyes lit up again. Looking at Lin Cheng, he asked, “Perhaps you do know, but you have no evidence?”

Lin Cheng did not comment on Shu Yimeng’s speculation.

At this time, Shu Yimeng smiled, pointed to his mobile phone, and said, “How about our cooperation?

“Although the video in my hand cannot completely restore the truth of what happened back then, as long as it is released, everyone will know that Shu Yimeng and Le Bai deliberately framed you for profit.”

Originally, cooperating with Lin Cheng was not within Shu Yimeng’s consideration, and he didn’t even think about making a big deal out of it. His original plan was to use this video to put pressure on Sun Yanzhou and make the other party favor him more and provide him with better resources.

But later, after those two had that quarrel, Sun Yanzhou and Le Bai seemed to have reached a certain ‘tacit understanding’, and the resources Sun Yanzhou gave to Le Bai increased instead of decreasing.

Even though he had already announced that Shu Yimeng was the main artist, he actually gave priority to Le Bai everywhere.

Shu Yimeng really resented these two people in his heart.

At this time, Lin Cheng, who had always been obscure, unexpectedly became popular again with [Living with Dad].

So Shu Yimeng rethought his plan—he decided to give this video to Lin Cheng and let him expose the matter.

With Lin Cheng’s current popularity and this video, it would not be difficult to finish off those two people.

He could just stand back and enjoy the results behind the scene. Just like how Le Bai had once taken away all of Lin Cheng’s resources, Shu Yimeng would now take over all of Le Bai’s resources.

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

Shu Yimeng thought that Lin Cheng would not refuse such a cooperation, but there was one thing he didn’t know: the person who gave Le Bai those resources was none other than Lin Cheng himself. 

For this matter, Lin Cheng only copied what Sun Yanzhou had planned for him back then: increase Le Bai’s popularity, then—at his height—expose the old incident and use public opinion to punish him.

However, Lin Cheng did not expect that this move he made casually would make Shu Yimeng come to him. This was quite an ‘unexpected harvest’.

Looking at the video clip playing on a loop on Shu Yimeng’s mobile phone, Lin Cheng suddenly smiled softly.

“Why should I cooperate with you?” Lin Xiao Cheng asked, looking at Shu Yimeng.

Shu Yimeng was stunned but soon adjusted his expression and said, “Because that would be beneficial to both you and me, won’t it?

“Of course, you can also refuse.”

But of course, Shu Yimeng thought that he had a sure win and Lin Cheng would definitely not refuse. However, he was slapped in the face the next second.

“Then I refuse,” Lin Cheng said.

“?!”

Hearing this, Shu Yimeng’s expression completely froze: when he thought of this plan, he had never once considered that there would be such a result.

After a while, Shu Yimeng said with a dark face, “Of course you can, but I hope you don’t end up regretting it.

“I can expose this information in my own way, but the effect at that time may not be as you expect.”

Facing Shu Yimeng’s threat, Lin Cheng only said to him, “You can try.”

Shu Yimeng didn’t understand why Lin Cheng had the confidence to give up this opportunity, but there was no doubt that Lin Cheng’s attitude made him panic.

Originally, Shu Yimeng always thought that he would have the upper hand in this negotiation, but somehow things went contrary to his expectations. He found that since he came here, he had always been the one being led by the nose.

This discovery made Shu Yimeng unhappy, but facing Lin Cheng, he was somewhat helpless.

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

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Chapter 97.2 — ‘Unexpected Harvest’
Chapter 97.3 — ‘Unexpected Harvest’
Chapter 98.1 — Recording the Show
Chapter 98.2 — Recording the Show
Chapter 98.3 — Recording the Show