At first everyone was just joking, but when some netizens compared how Lin Momo looked like when she first participated in the show [Living With Dad] to the figure in this photo, the netizens could not stay calm anymore:

[Fuck, they are exactly the same, this is really Lin Momo!]

[Even the clothes are the same!]

What really made everyone certain that the person in the photo was Lin Momo was the clothes she was wearing: the faded sweatshirt worn by the girl in the photo had also been worn by Lin Momo in one episode when she was recording [Living with Dad]. She had worn it at the time for convenience since she was cleaning their house.

[Maybe this is part of the recording process of the show] someone speculated, but this was quickly denied by others.

[Wasn’t this taken half a year ago? The variety show wasn’t even on at the time.]

[I watched all the livestreams and didn’t miss any of them. I’m very sure that there was no such portion where this photo could have been taken!]

[So it was really taken before?]

[I thought Lin Momo sold scraps on the show because of their family’s strict living conditions for that week. Does this mean Lin Momo really lived that kind of life before she appeared on the show?]

[It shouldn’t be like that. Lin Cheng is a star after all. No matter how miserable he is, he wouldn’t let his daughter pick up garbage and sell scraps.]

[Then how to explain this photo?]

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

Just when netizens were deeply puzzled, another netizen who claimed to be a parent of a student from Lin Momo’s school jumped out.

[There is a student in my daughter’s class named Lin Momo. She can’t be said to look very similar to Lin Momo in [Living with Dad], but that she looks exactly the same. Before, I was afraid of being criticized by others, and I also sometimes suspected that I had made a mistake in identifying her, so I didn’t dare to say it until I saw this photo. Everyone is now saying that this is Lin Momo in the photo, so I finally dared to recognize her.]

[The Lin Momo in the photo is my daughter’s classmate in XX Primary School. This child has a very withdrawn personality. She doesn’t play with anyone in the class. She doesn’t like to talk much and has no friends. I heard that her family conditions are not very good. I don’t know what the actual situation is, but no parents have ever come to attend the parent-teacher meetings, and she often picks up garbage outside at night.]

[By the way, the school organized a summer camp for students this holiday break. In my daughter’s class, it seems that Lin Momo is the only one in the whole class who didn’t sign up to participate.]

This additional information seemed to confirm the time frame when Lin Momo was participating in [Live with Dad].

But all these still couldn’t make netizens believe it.

Until this ‘parent’ posted a few more photos below.

These were a few class photos taken in front of the school showing other second-grade students of XX Primary School. Their faces were all mosaicked. There was only child whose face was not covered and could be clearly seen standing in the corner—it was Lin Momo.

[Originally, every child had to pay for the class photo, but the teacher said that she couldn’t find Lin Momo’s parents, so the other parents helped her pay for it.]

Now, the netizens finally believed it:

[Oh my God…]

[How could this happen? ]

[Even if it’s tragic, it shouldn’t be this tragic…]

While everyone was still unsure about what’s happening, more and more people who said they knew Lin Momo jumped out.

A person who claimed to be Lin Momo’s neighbor also posted a photo where they said Lin Momo was accidentally captured in the frame. They explained: [I used to live in the same small residential area as Lin Momo. Her grandmother has no job, she only relies on community support and picking up recyclable waste for a living.]

[What about Lin Cheng?] Some netizens asked.

The poster immediately replied: [There is no Lin Cheng. Everyone knows that Lin Momo was picked up by her grandmother back then when she was picking up waste. Because it was only a small community and there were not so many rules at the time, she was able to register the child under her household registration. Anyway, there has only been Lin Momo and her grandmother in her family all these years, and I have never seen even a shadow of any Lin Cheng. If this matter has not been exposed, I would not have believed that the celebrity child in the show and the child I knew as Lin Momo were the same person.]

This person answered everyone’s questions with clear words.

[No wonder… I was wondering how Lin Momo knew so much in the show, and how she was so familiar with selling scraps, it turns out…]

[Although I liked watching their livestream, I still want to ask, why was Lin Momo adopted by the scrap seller before? Where was Lin Cheng?]

[I’ve never heard that Lin Cheng has ever married, could it be that Lin Momo was born because of some accident?]

[If that’s the case, could it be that Lin Cheng was irresponsible and made a woman pregnant, and then the two of them were not together, and Lin Cheng didn’t want the child, so he threw her away?]

[Fuck, this is abandonment! It’s illegal!]

Just as everyone’s speculations were getting more and more terrible, finally one netizen couldn’t help but say the truth that she knew: [Don’t guess blindly, Lin Cheng said during the recording of a show today that he had just found Lin Momo not long ago. Knowing this, Lin Momo might have been abducted or lost before.]

She was one of the audience members at the [Entertainment Forum] recorded earlier today. She was able to get a special ticket to watch and although the program crew had instructed all of them not to leak the program content online before the episode was broadcast, she couldn’t help but tell the truth when she saw that netizens were getting more and more outrageous in their speculations.

However, some netizens still didn’t buy it: [How do you know that the child must have been lost? What if she was really abandoned? ]

[Are you stupid? If she was really abandoned, would Lin Cheng dare to say it out loud on the show?]

[That’s right…]

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

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T/N: This Sun Yanzhou guy is really annoying. Leave our Little Momo alone! 😑

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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
Chapter 101.2 — The Truth Is Revealed
Chapter 101.3 — The Truth Is Revealed