The press conference was over, and the truth was finally revealed.

The complete reversal of events was truly jaw-dropping.

As a ‘powerful’ actor with a reputation as a ‘good guy’, Le Bai has always been incredibly popular in the entertainment industry. However, after this incident, aside from a few idiot fans who clamored that ‘Le Bai was wrongly accused’ and were quickly banned by moderators, almost no one dared to speak up for Le Bai.

[I didn’t even have a chance to speak up for Le Bai before the house collapsed¹.]

[I was blind.]

[I’ve always considered myself a high-quality fan, someone who wouldn’t backstab² someone I used to like even if I quit, but this time, I can’t help but backstab someone.]

[Backstab freely, this guy deserves it.]

As big fans started to backstab him, Le Bai’s previously hidden negative information was gradually exposed. Overnight, the national actor was denigrated into an unethical and illegal artist, subject to widespread condemnation.

The entire incident was catapulted to a climax when a Reuters photo of Le Bai being escorted by police surfaced online.

… …

While criticizing Sun Yanzhou and Le Bai, netizens couldn’t help but exclaim at the sheer spectacle of the entire incident:

[As a casual observer, I just want to say, Wow! That was brilliant!]

[Lin Cheng’s ‘Jedi counterattack’ was truly incredible.]

[He’s truly my go-to guy!]

[He’s truly a man who earns hundreds of millions a week, haha.]

[This is definitely the biggest melon I’ve tasted this year!]

[This melon will keep me going for a year.]

[This melon is not only huge, but also sweet and crisp!]

… …

As netizens were still reminiscing about this awesome sensation, a news item titled #Hongye Group Chairman Murders His Wife# quietly appeared at the bottom of the trending searches.

The first half of the news report mentioned that ‘Lin Mouhong’, chairman of the Hongye Group, lost control of his temper after learning that his wife had been having multiple affairs behind his back, assaulted her, and pushed her down the stairs, leaving her paralyzed. However, the real excitement came in the second half of the news report, when the police released a case report detailing the murder of Lin Mouhong’s first wife 10 years ago, wherein he and his current wife conspired to murder her.

The news immediately sparked heated online discussion:

[I haven’t finished the last one, and now there’s another?]

[Hongye Group? Seems like it’s quite big, right?]

[Yes, it is. LIOU shopping malls are Hongye Group properties, and I heard they have other properties as well.]

[No wonder all the LIOU here closed down a few days ago. Apparently, the chairman was arrested.] 

[This guy is so heartless! He hasn’t even divorced his original wife yet, but he actually brought his mistress into his home. To help her get promoted, he even teamed up with her to drug his original wife to death. This guy deserves to go to hell.]

[Hongye Group is backed by the real estate tycoon, right, the Ye family? This man obviously made his mistress his wife just to gain the Ye family’s support.]

[The funniest thing is that this man was actually cheated on by his mistress, haha.]

[And judging by the news reports, it must have been going on for quite a while, and probably with more than one person.]

[This is what they call karma…]

[If it’s murder, that will be death penalty, right?]

[Of course it is, but a life sentence would be even better. These two people, one paralyzed, the other driven mad, wouldn’t it be better to let them live like this for the rest of their lives? ]

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

[Under normal circumstances, even if this news wasn’t a huge hit, it would have at least been in the top three trending searches. What a shame!] someone lamented.

With the Lin Cheng and Lin Momo being targeted and the big actor’s scandal, this piece of news seemed less prominent, and netizens, when discussing it, simply treated it as a piece of casual news.

Suddenly, another bombshell was revealed.

An anonymous netizen revealed another layer of Lin Zhenhong’s identity in the comments section: [You may not know this, but the chairman of Hongye Group is Lin Cheng’s biological father, and the poisoned wife is Lin Cheng’s biological mother. Also, let me point out that in that video released in Lin Cheng’s press conference, his former agent and Le Bai mentioned that the person who wanted to harm Lin Cheng was surnamed Ye. The chairman of Hongye Group later married his mistress, who also had the surname Ye.] 

As if fearing that people wouldn’t believe, the anonymous netizen uploaded a photo after posting this.

It was a photo of an older couple. The others in the photo were censored, but Lin Zhenhong was clearly there. In the corner stood a teenager whose facial features revealed him to be a young Lin Cheng.

The news instantly sent the internet into a frenzy:

[Oh shit, shit, shit… There’s even this!]

[Just when I thought I’d seen the whole story, it turns out I’d only just scratched the surface.]

[Is today Chinese New Year?! I didn’t expect it to be a linked melon!]

[Wait, that’s a lot of information, let me sort it out.]

Some netizens connected the two events, concluding a single truth: Lin Zhenhong and his mistress conspired to murder his original wife, and this same stepmother, Ye Yun, had been secretly been suppressing and framing Lin Cheng for years. This time, in the Lin Momo incident, it was the scumbag father and stepmother who were working together to harm Lin Cheng.

Sorting out this logic, everything seemed to make sense.

[Damn, I knew this thing with Lin Cheng being targeted was a serious matter. It couldn’t be anything so diabolical as digging up ancestral graves, murdering people, or setting fires for revenge, right?]

[It turned out the stepmother was trying to kill her stepson.]

[This Ye family member is so cruel ! They’ve been plotting for years just to make Lin Cheng’s life miserable.]

[Lin Cheng is so miserable.]

[I feel so bad for Lin Cheng.]

[On the show, Lin Cheng looked like he’d been through a lot. At the time, I was puzzled. How could a celebrity have experienced all that? Now I understand. It must be that his stepmother treated him badly after his biological mother died.] 

[But why would the mistress do this?] someone asked, noticing something suspicious. 

Others chimed in, [They’ve already killed the original wife, so why would they not even spare the stepson?] 

[Yeah, if she simply disliked the stepson, she wouldn’t have gone to such lengths to plot for so many years.]

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

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Chapter 102.2 — How Did You Do That?
Chapter 102.3 — How Did You Do That?
Chapter 103.1 — Welcome to My Home
Chapter 103.2 — Welcome to My Home
Chapter 103.3 — Welcome to My Home
Chapter 104.1 — Online Homework
Chapter 104.2 — Online Homework
Chapter 104.3 — Online Homework

FOOTNOTE:

1. House collapsed. When your idol’s reputation goes down the drain because of a scandal. ↩︎
2. Backstab in this sense because big fans would sometimes be privy to special information they would otherwise not release because it would damage their idol’s reputation. But now that their idol has fallen in a bad way, they are upset enough to release the information and add to the collapse. ↩︎