An outdoor streamer came to expose a fake

[Yaoyao's Little Red Riding Hood: We're on your side, Yaoyao! Have you forgotten your 0-10-2 record?]

[Celestial Master Chen Fan Club: If you've got nothing to stream, show us Celestial Master Chen! Get Hao on camera! We want to see Celestial Master Chen!]

[Want to Watch Hao Shower: +1! +10086! Let Hao show his face! We're not picky!]

Chen Siyao burst out laughing at her viewers' comments and patted the sofa. "My brother's resting upstairs! He just got back, so don't bother him! Isn't chatting with me good enough?"

She had just finished adjusting her game settings and was about to start a round of Honor of Kings when the chat suddenly flooded with messages.

A swarm of unfamiliar usernames poured in, all posting the same kinds of comments:

[User76231]: Outdoor Xiao Yang wants you to join a call and confront him!

[User87459]: Come out and explain yourself, scripted streamer!

[User99201]: If you've got the guts, get on a call with Outdoor Xiao Yang!

[User45278]: Stop hiding and playing dead!

Chen Siyao froze.

"What... what's going on?"

The regulars in her stream were just as baffled:

[Xiaoke: Holy shit, are we getting spammed?]

[Yaoyao's Little Red Riding Hood: Outdoor Xiao Yang? That outdoor streamer who was pretty popular before?]

[Airfreighted Soy Sauce: His followers are raiding the stream!]

[Snow All Over the Sky: Yaoyao, ignore them. Just kick them out.]

[Warehouse Keeper: Yeah, just kick them. Don't engage.]

But the flood of spam only grew worse, drowning out every other message.

As Chen Siyao read those mocking comments, her expression grew uglier and uglier.

"Scripted streamer," "fucking idiot," "confront him if you've got the guts," "feeling guilty, huh?"...

Every sentence stabbed at her heart like a needle.

The things she had experienced herself, the Secret Realm she had seen with her own eyes, the stone gate she had touched with her own hands, the Jade Pool she had personally bathed in—

What right did they have to call it all fake?

What right did they have to slander her like this?

She took a deep breath and told the camera, "Guys, I'm opening a call right now to confront that Outdoor Xiao Yang!"

[I Am Ying Zheng: Yaoyao, don't be rash!]

[Yaoyao's Little Red Riding Hood: Exactly, ignore them. Let them play by themselves!]

[Snow Blows at the East Gate: The more attention you give people like that, the worse they get.]

Chen Siyao shook her head. "No. I'm going to show him that everything I said is true."

She opened the call feature, found Outdoor Xiao Yang's account, and sent him a request.

Three seconds later, he accepted.

A young man in his twenties appeared on the screen, wearing glasses and a smug smile.

"Well, well, Chen Siyao? Finally willing to come out?" Yang Feifan sneered. "What, scared?"

Chen Siyao suppressed her anger and tried to stay calm. "Yang Feifan, right? You said my Secret Realm was fake. What evidence do you have?"

"Evidence?" Yang Feifan laughed. "The video I posted is evidence. I went to check out your so-called Secret Realm entrance myself. It was just a barren mountainside. Your stream showed a valley, and my footage showed a barren mountain. Doesn't that tell you something?"

He immediately picked up the tablet beside him and held it up to the camera, displaying his own footage alongside a clip from Chen Siyao's stream.

"Take a good look, everyone! This is the footage I shot on location using clips from your stream as a reference! And this is the exterior from your stream! The exact same mountain, the exact same trees!"

"But I searched everywhere, and there was no sea of clouds, no temple, no Jade Pool! It was all special effects! All scripted!"

"You even had someone take my video down!"

"Can you honestly say this wasn't CG made by your production team?"

Chen Siyao immediately replied, "That's because my brother set up an Illusion Array at the entrance to the Secret Realm. Ordinary people can't see it at all!"

"An Illusion Array?" Yang Feifan roared with laughter, turning toward his own camera. "Did you hear that, guys? An Illusion Array! It's the twenty-first century, and people still believe this stuff!"

His stream's chat filled with mockery:

[Xiao Yang's Fan: Hahahaha, I'm dying! An Illusion Array!]

[Fraud-Busting Warrior: Is there something wrong with this woman's brain?]

[Righteous Passerby: Superstition gets people killed.]

[New User5486: Confirmed! The comparison footage is right there!]

[New User4841: So it really was fake! Disgusting!]

Chen Siyao's face flushed red with anger, but she insisted, "It's real! I saw my brother set up the array with my own eyes! The stone gate, the murals, the Jade Pool—they're all real!"

Yang Feifan sneered. "With your own eyes? Of course you'd say that. Do you have evidence? Can you prove that place exists?"

Chen Siyao opened her mouth, but no words came out.

How could she prove it?

Suddenly, she felt helpless.

Just as Yang Feifan was basking in his triumph, certain he had won, a golden official verification badge flashed across the stream's public chat.

[Capital City University_Professor Li (Officially Verified): I am Li Zhengdao, a professor in Jing University's archaeology department. I can offer some professional opinions regarding the Queen Mother of the West's hidden realm.]

Yang Feifan froze. "A professor from... Capital City University?"

Professor Li continued posting:

[Capital City University_Professor Li: First, several experts in ancient scripts and I have examined the writing on the stone gate shown in Ms. Chen Siyao's stream. It is indeed writing from the Primordial Era, and the oldest form of writing discovered to date. It is absolutely not something modern people could forge.]

[Capital City University_Professor Li: Second, the depiction of the Three Blue Birds in the murals perfectly matches the descriptions in the Classic of Mountains and Seas. The archaic painting style indicates a history of at least three thousand years.]

[Capital City University_Professor Li: Third, we identified several extinct species from the Primordial Era among the plants beside the Jade Pool. If this was scripted, where exactly did the production crew find these extinct plants?]

Those three consecutive messages left Yang Feifan utterly dumbfounded.

Immediately afterward, another officially verified message scrolled past:

[Huaxia Archaeological Research Institute (Officially Verified)]: Our preliminary assessment indicates that the ruins shown in Ms. Chen Siyao's stream possess exceptionally high archaeological value.

[Huaxia Cultural Relics Protection Association (Officially Verified): Assessment: The Queen Mother of the West's Temple, its architectural ornamentation, and its totemic styles fully match records of excavated artifacts from the Primordial Era's Kunlun civilization. There are no traces of special effects or compositing. The Secret Realm footage is 100% authentic.]

The moment that message appeared, the entire chat exploded.

[I Am Ying Zheng: Holy shit! Even the Archaeological Research Institute and the Cultural Relics Protection Association are here!]

[Yaoyao's Little Red Riding Hood: Official verification! Let's see what you have to say now!]

[Snow Blows at the East Gate: Yang Feifan, didn't you want evidence? Here's your evidence!]

[Dream of the Red Chamber: That slap in the face came as fast as a tornado!]

Yang Feifan's expression turned ugly.

He had never imagined that official organizations would step in to back her up.

He gritted his teeth, still trying to fight back. "Even... even if those ruins are real, you found them beforehand and then pretended to explore them live! How is that any different from a scripted show?"

Chen Siyao laughed in anger. "Found them beforehand? Do you know how hard it is to get into that Secret Realm? Do you know how heavy that stone gate is? Do you know how many dangers are inside? If it weren't for my brother, we'd have died in there long ago!"

Yang Feifan opened his mouth, still wanting to say something, but the mood in his chat had already turned completely against him:

[Passerby A: Stop talking. You're only embarrassing yourself more.]

[Popcorn Spectator: The official organizations have backed her up, and you're still doubling down.]

[Once Upon a Time: Xiao Yang, you were wrong this time. Just admit it.]

Yang Feifan's face turned livid. At last, he forced out, "Fine. You're amazing. I admit defeat."

Then he abruptly ended the call.

Chen Siyao's chat erupted in cheers:

[I Am Ying Zheng: We won! Yaoyao won!]

[Yaoyao's Little Red Riding Hood: What a slap in the face! So satisfying!]

[Snow Blows at the East Gate: Yang Feifan took a massive loss here. His career's over.]

[Let's Go: Official backing! A perfect play!]