The staff reported the news to the person-in-charge.

“You said he refused the interview?” the person-in-charge frowned.

The staff nodded, “Lin Cheng’s attitude of refusing was very firm.”

“He’s likely protecting Lin Momo and wants to prevent her from being talked about because of this issue,” the staff guessed.

The person in charge denied her guess, “Impossible.”

“If he didn’t want the incident to be talked about, there was no need for Lin Cheng to expose the matter at all on that show,” the person-in-charge said, analyzing the situation. He didn’t believe that Lin Cheng would be so stupid as to accidentally let the information slip while recording the show.

There must be other reasons…

“This is not over yet. Let’s wait and see, there may be a bigger melon exposed later.” The person-in-charge analyzed it using his many years of experience in the industry, then looked at the subordinates in front of him and said, “The content of this episode should be edited well, I feel it will bring us huge ratings later.”

… …

On the other side, once the recording of the [Entertainment Forum] episode was completed, as a senior executive of Lin Cheng’s agency, Sun Yanzhou quickly got his hands on footages of Lin Cheng’s recording and clearly saw what happened.

When they learned that Lin Cheng had revealed Lin Momo’s life experience in the program without any prior warning, Sun Yanzhou and the other people in the know were also very surprised.

In the secret meeting room, looking at the message sent by Blue Channel, Le Bai frowned and said unhappily, “What does Lin Cheng want to happen by exposing his matters in the program like this?”

“Could it be that Lin Cheng knows the real situation behind what happened that time?” Thinking of this, Le Bai’s face suddenly became ugly.

Ye Yun¹, who was sitting across him, also showed a dissatisfied look. She questioned Sun Yanzhou, “Does he know that you framed him behind his back?”

“It’s possible,” Sun Yanzhou nodded, but then he said, “But so what if he knows? The evidence back then has been handled cleanly. Even if he knows that we want to harm him, it’s useless if he can’t produce evidence to support it.”

Sun Yanzhou analyzed the situation and speculated, Lin Cheng either learned the whole story behind his so-called ‘illicit affair with fans’ back then and was planning to take this opportunity to whitewash the scandal from that year; or he realized who wanted to harm him and he now planned to take the initiative, revealing part of the ‘truth’ before they broke the news themselves in order to reduce the impact when the black materials were leaked out.

“There’s nothing wrong with all of this.

“It’s just…” Sun Yanzhou narrowed his eyes and said in a deep voice, “His actions have disrupted my plans somewhat.”

It turned out that Sun Yanzhou’s plan was to ride the momentum of [Living with Dad] and help boost Lin Cheng’s popularity even more. After Lin Cheng appeared on [Entertainment Forum], he would instigate a scenario of ‘quarrel between celebrities’—he planned to release news that Lin Cheng obtained a guesting at [Entertainment Forum] by improper means, and that Lin Cheng deliberately pushed his alternative episode to replace the main episode. This way the fans of the first-line stars who recorded the main episode and Lin Cheng’s ‘fans’ would naturally be embroiled in a war of words.

In this way, whether he won or lost, Lin Cheng’s good impression with passers-by would definitely ruined. Even if his identity as someone with a backing was exposed, it would not help as it would only mean he used his background to step on others.

When that time comes, Sun Yanzhou would release black materials on Lin Cheng along with information that would prove the true life experience of Lin Momo. At that point, everyone would believe that Lin Cheng had illicit relations with a fan, abandoned his child, and then deceived the audience just so he could go on the show. Lin Cheng will be completely finished.

“What should we do? We have been preparing for so long, we won’t just let him go, right?” Le Bai asked in a deep voice.

“Let him go and let him cause trouble for us?” Sun Yanzhou rolled his eyes at Le Bai. He lowered his gaze and thought for a moment. After a while he said, “The plan continues.

“Lin Cheng revealed Lin Momo’s life experience in the program. This is hot stuff for Blue TV. With this as the lead, it is unlikely that we can still hype the main episode and alternative episode fake drama to get Lin Cheng embroiled in public opinion storm².

“Let’s just skip this step and directly expose the information about Lin Momo. As long as the public opinion heads towards the direction we want, it will be useless no matter how many vaccinations Lin Cheng gives the public in advance,” Sun Yanzhou said with a sneer.

By then, Lin Cheng’s career reputation would collapse and he would be blacklisted by the whole industry. It would be hard to say whether the Lin family would still have the courage to let a person who was criticized and boycotted by the whole industry to inherit the family business.

Moreover, once it became a hot topic, and with the urging of public opinion, Lin Cheng’s ‘child abandonment’ would definitely be investigated. As long as he couldn’t provide evidence to prove that he did not abandon the child, he may face legal sanctions.

“The power of public opinion is very strong and cannot be underestimated,” Sun Yanzhou said leisurely, looking at Ye Yun across him.

Ye Yun didn’t care about Sun Yanzhou’s plan at all.

“I don’t care how you do it, I just want to see the result.

“Whether he is condemned or arrested, I don’t want to see him have any chance to jump around in front of us again.”

This time, with the support of her husband, Ye Yun no longer had any concerns. Her attitude was firm: she wanted to make sure that Lin Cheng would never have a chance to recover and never have the opportunity to compete with them for the Lin family’s properties.

However, she had no idea that the real misfortune was about to befall her.

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

Sun Yanzhou and his group acted quickly.

That very night, #This looks like Lin Momo# landed on the hot search.

This was a Weibo post by an unknown blogger. 

The Weibo post included a photo. The background of the photo was a narrow, backstreet alley. The night market in the alley had just ended. The whole alley was dirty and messy. There were wine bottles, beverage bottles, and disposable lunch boxes left after the night market closed which the cleaners had not yet cleaned up.

In the photo, a group of people were picking up bottles and lunch boxes.

Among these people, there was a thin figure who looked very conspicuous. Most of her face was exposed. It was undoubtedly Lin Momo.

Under the photo, the blogger left a message: [I went there half a year ago to scout for something fun. Today I remembered to sort out the photos I took before, and what did I find? Everyone, look, does the one circled in this photo look like Lin Momo?]

After this Weibo post was published, others initially thought that the blogger just posted the photo for fun, and they all started to make jokes:

[Lin Momo: Can you be more polite? ]

[Lin Momo: Be more confident, remove the word ‘like’, isn’t this me? ]

[Haha, Lin Momo was often treated as a beggar in [Living with Dad] because she was too down-to-earth, but now there are pictures and the truth is known!]

[Where did you get the photo, Lin Momo is so cute.]

========

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

---

If you’re enjoying my translations, do consider buying me ko-fi and get access to advance chapters as reward. Thank you for your support! ☺️
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

FOOTNOTES:

1. It’s been a while so in case you forgot, Ye Yun is Lin Cheng’s stepmother. ↩︎
2. The ‘truth bomb’ that Lin Cheng dropped during the recording was so spicy that the program team themselves would choose to show Lin Cheng’s episode over the ‘main’ episode. It wouldn’t be at Lin Cheng’s instigation anymore, so the fans of the other celebrities can’t blame him.   ↩︎