Lin Cheng’s words instantly made the audience explode:

“What the hell! What’s going on?”

“Did I hear correctly? Does Lin Cheng mean that he only found Lin Momo before he went on [Living With Dad]?”

“I don’t understand, then what about before that?”

“Could it be that Momo is not Lin Cheng’s biological daughter and was found specifically for the purpose of going on [Living With Dad]?” some people speculated. 

After all, before this, let alone having a child, they have never even heard of Lin Cheng getting married.

Such speculation was quickly denied by other people.

“No, from what Lin Cheng said, Lin Momo should be his child, but he just found her.”

“How is this possible?”

“Yeah, this doesn’t make sense at all…,” the audience muttered. 

Someone suddenly thought of something, and the man’s eyes widened and he exclaimed, “Could it be that Lin Cheng abandoned her before?!”

“Wow! If that’s the case, that would be too terrible…”

“The question is, if he really abandoned her back then, how could Lin Cheng dare to reveal it now?”

“Or is there another hidden story?”

..….

Just as everyone in the audience was talking, the host on the stage looked at Lin Cheng with a confused face.

The pilot episode of [Living with Dad] introduced the family situation of each team of celebrity families, but due to Lin Cheng’s poor popularity at the time there was very little information mentioned about him. Except for his name and a few words about his songs, there was almost nothing else.

In the minds of netizens: Lin Cheng was a patient and responsible father, and the relationship between Lin Cheng and Lin Momo was just like that of an ordinary father and daughter.

Now, Lin Cheng has come out and revealed that his daughter was a newly-found one. Who could bear such a ‘truth’?

Even if he wanted to show his real personality and junk the company’s pre-set one, he couldn’t possibly do it this way!

This was clearly courting career suicide!

The host howled and complained in his heart and secretly thought, Could it be that Lin Cheng doesn’t want to mix in the entertainment industry anymore?

… …

Not only the host, but Chen Yu and others in the dressing room backstage were also beginning to think so.

Staring at the live recording being broadcast in the monitor, Wang Xi was dumbfounded. She opened and closed her mouth for a long time before she managed to utter a shocked, “What’s going on?

“Why did Brother Cheng reveal Momo’s true situation?!”

After Lin Cheng became famous, the process of how they found Lin Momo and her true life experience before that became a minefield that they absolutely could not reveal. They have been trying every means to figure out how to clear this minefield—they didn’t expect Lin Cheng himself to directly expose it.

“Brother Cheng’s fans originally increased from watching [Living with Dad]. If everyone knew that Lin Momo was found by us just to appear in the show, they would definitely stop being fans in an instant. They might even turn against us,” Zhou Qi analyzed with an unpleasant expression on his face.

Hearing this, Wang Xi became even more anxious, “What should we do? Brother Cheng’s fanbase is not stable to begin with. With this revelation, he would lose all his popularity among passers-by, how then can he gain a foothold in the entertainment industry in the future!”

“Maybe he wants to quit…”

Listening to the conversation between Wang Xi and Zhou Qi, Chen Yu on the side suddenly had this idea in his mind: Lin Cheng dared to expose himself like this, maybe he just didn’t want to mix in the entertainment industry anymore.

“What?! Brother Chen, you said Brother Cheng wants to quit the circle?”

“Why?”

… Because he is going back to inherit a family fortune of hundreds of billions.

Chen Yu did not say this to the two of them.

However, there was still some doubt in Chen Yu’s mind: If Lin Cheng was not planning to quit the circle, then why did he choose to say this? If it was just to make Lin Momo’s identity legitimate, divulging it this way seems to make more trouble than it’s worth and was really unnecessary.

Chen Yu was puzzled.

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On the other side, on the stage.

The host has been through a lot over the years, so after a moment of stunned silence, he finally recovered his expression.

“Is that so…” The host looked at Lin Cheng and Lin Momo and asked, “So Momo was lost when she was a child?”

“Oh, I feel so bad,” the host sighed again.

“She didn’t get lost, she was lost to me,” Lin Cheng corrected, paused, and explained, “It was because of some things that happened back then and my own personal negligence.”

Hearing this, the host suddenly thought of the negative news about Lin Cheng that had been flying all over the place: Lin Momo said she was 9 years old, and this time frame seemed to coincide with the time when Lin Cheng was exposed as having improper relations with fans…

The host looked at the Chief Director in the audience imperceptibly and saw the meaningful look in his eyes, asking him to continue digging deeper, so he looked at Lin Cheng and asked casually, “What happened back then? Is it…”

Lin Cheng didn’t say anything more but just said concisely, “I don’t want to say more.” What mattered was that he found Lin Momo, and Lin Momo was still fine.

Seeing that he couldn’t dig deeper, the host felt a little unwilling, but he had to end the topic. He smiled and nodded, echoing Lin Cheng’s words, saying, “Alright, the baby and dad are now happy together, that’s all that matters.”

Hearing the host’s words, Lin Momo also smiled and nodded, saying, “I’m very happy every day now!”

“Haha, we can all see it. No matter what, happiness is the most important.”

“Yeah.”

The conversation between the two eased the topic that was originally a bit tense, and the atmosphere on the scene returned to the previous relaxed state.

The host glanced at the card in his hand and began to lead everyone into the next segment.

Although there were no more explosive points in the latter half of the recording session, there were no accidents either. They did three more games, and then with the final performance from the artists, this episode was successfully recorded.

After the recording of this program, Lin Cheng received another recording invitation from Blue Channel.

This time, it was an interview program.

Lin Cheng immediately guessed the reason why the other party invited him: they just wanted to dig deeper to find out the story behind Lin Momo’s life.

Lin Cheng refused the invitation.

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

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Chapter 99.2 — He Wants to Quit?
Chapter 99.3 — He Wants to Quit?
Chapter 100.1 — Just Like In The Dream
Chapter 100.2 — Just Like In The Dream
Chapter 100.3 — Just Like In The Dream
Chapter 101.1 — The Truth Is Revealed