With the release of twenty-seven photos and one explosive video, the rumors collapsed on their own.
President Zhang was dumbstruck. He mechanically raised his head to look at Xie Mi, who sat across from him calmly eating, and swallowed with difficulty.
"How can anyone... be this lucky?"
She had happened to leave behind three-person selfies and video evidence at the very moment the paparazzi took their most controversial set of photos.
She had cleared her name at absolutely no cost, and in a way that left the other side utterly speechless.
That was almost absurdly good luck.
Hadn't Love Watch said Teacher Xie was the unluckiest person around?
At his words, Xie Mi merely picked up the glass of water on the table and took an unhurried sip, keeping silent to play the mysterious expert.
Was it really just luck?
As the dating reveal and its lightning-fast reversal gained traction, sharp-eyed netizens soon spotted another issue.
[Lingna Beier]: So here's the question. If three people went out together every single time, why did the paparazzi only photograph two? Was that deliberate or an accident?
[Only Interacts with Puppies]: A deliberate accident, probably.
[The Country Doesn't Protect Useless People]: Teacher Xie really is famous now. People are even trying to sabotage her.
[Master Kong's Escaped Beef]: This incident was obviously planned. The moment the photos came out, dozens of clickbait accounts started pushing the narrative, and some of the comments were clearly from paid trolls. No idea whose interests Teacher Xie stepped on, but could you be any more underhanded?
[Sweet Dog]: Three people went out, yet they somehow photographed only two. Friends hanging out somehow became a date with her non-celebrity boyfriend. What's even funnier is that the guy isn't actually a non-celebrity either, but Teacher Xie was the