[Bro, have you been offline? This is the brand-new variety show "Investigating the Strange." They found traces of the serial killer Diao Huaqing in the very first livestream and helped the police catch him. Episode two is streaming on Qingji Mountain right now-yeah, the Qingji Mountain where five hikers died recently.]
[No special effects, no special effects. All the footage above features special guest appearances by actual vengeful ghosts.]
[Special guest appearances, my ass.]
[??? What the hell? You're saying there are real ghosts on this show???]
[Really? I don't believe it.]
One minute later, the same person: [I've learned my lesson. Please spare me.]
[What? Diao Huaqing got caught? I really have been offline too long. I'm completely out of the loop.]
[As someone from Birch City, I'm genuinely grateful to the production crew for helping catch Diao Huaqing. I'm going to watch the livestream now and give them a little more traffic.]
Of course, some people had also dug through Sha Chuan's past after seeing the second-ranked trending topic, decided this influencer was both handsome and devoted, and become his fans.
There were quite a few of them.
Plenty of men and women had also been moved to tears by his heartfelt posts and praised him lavishly.
Lili and the other two had originally intended to find a suitable moment when Sha Chuan was getting plenty of attention to expose his cheating. They had never expected Qi Gu to send the buzz through the roof by catching Wine Ghost, bringing Sha Chuan along for the ride and landing him in second place on the trending list.
They immediately decided to start a livestream and show all the viewers Sha Chuan's ugly side.
Lili had money to burn. As soon as she started streaming, she promptly topped up her account and paid for promotion, pushing her stream into the platform's top slots to draw traffic.
[Holy crap, fifty thousand on promotion! Rich girl, let me snuggle up to you~]
[Wow, all three ladies are so pretty! What are you streaming?]
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Lili smoothed back a stray lock of hair that had fallen loose. Her smile was beautiful, her eyes bright beneath the lights. "Exposing Sha Chuan's scumbag behavior, of course."
Xiao Mo and Xinxin spoke up at just the right moment. "We only just found out that all three of us were fish in Sha Chuan's dating pond."
[??? He just started trending and you're already chasing his clout. Have you no shame?]
[LMAO, Sha Chuan is so devoted to his girlfriend. How could he possibly get three new girlfriends and cheat on them?]
[You'd be better off saying Qi Gu cheated. I might actually believe that, since he has a history.]
Seeing someone insult Qi Gu, Lili immediately muted them. "Stick to the matter at hand. Insulting Master Qi isn't allowed in our stream. If Master Qi hadn't said on the show that Sha Chuan had plenty of romantic prospects, I wouldn't have realized I was being cheated on. Master Qi is a benefactor to all three of us."
[What can I even say? You'd rather believe some charlatan than your own boyfriend?]
[Stop analyzing it, commenter above. These are obviously small-time influencers chasing clout.]
[But this girl looks really familiar...]
[They already said she's an influencer. Of course she looks familiar.]
The power of gossip-hungry netizens was boundless. Before long, someone dug up Lili's, Xiao Mo's, and Xinxin's accounts on the streaming platform and discovered what the three had in common-they were all major donors in Sha Chuan's livestream, each having tipped him over five hundred thousand.
[Can't roast them for this. They're genuinely rich.]
[Oh my god... Three big donors all together. Could there really be something wrong with Sha Chuan?]
[Maybe none of them managed to win over Sha Chuan because he's so devoted to his ex, and they finally lost it and decided to gang up on him?]
[Damn, could they be that vicious?]
[Well, this is some juicy gossip. I'm camping out in this stream.]
Lili did not rush to explain the whole story. Instead, she patiently waited until the hashtag #ShaChuanIsAScumbag also climbed onto the trending list before showing the camera all sorts of chat records proving Sha Chuan's cheating, the timeline, and the various gifts the three of them had given him.
The viewers were utterly stunned and eagerly volunteered to take his place.
[Girl, why don't you just keep me instead? I absolutely won't cheat, and I'll cook you three meals a day without repeating a dish!]
[Holy crap, so not only was Sha Chuan dating all three of you at once, he was also passing the things you gave him and the things you said on to the others... What a tangled romance.]
[I'm kind of shipping you three now.]
Because the evidence Lili and the others provided was so detailed and impossible to deny, Sha Chuan's newly acquired fans quickly turned into haters. They wanted to slap themselves for having just been moved by his love for his ex-girlfriend that supposedly transcended life and death.
[Sha Chuan, how dare you make a fool of me!]
[If I don't roast you off the internet today, I lose!]
[Holy shit, those three beautiful ladies got such a raw deal, and so did his ex. She already killed herself, and this asshole still keeps exploiting her. She can't even rest in peace.]
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[Who was Sha Chuan's ex-girlfriend?]
[I think she went to Q University. Didn't they go to the same school? Later, the girl got depressed and killed herself after failing the postgraduate entrance exam.]
[Huh, I go to Q University too. I've heard about Xu Xue, the older student who killed herself over the postgraduate entrance exam, but I've never heard of Sha Chuan going here.]
[Xu Xue was my college roommate. She was a very good, kind person who loved life. I've never believed someone as sunny and cheerful as her would kill herself. Could the host let me join the stream? I'd like to say a few words to the viewers too.]
The commenter was Jiang Huaguo, Xu Xue's roommate of four years and her closest friend.
After Xu Xue died last year, she had refused to accept reality, avoiding everything connected to Xu Xue for fear of stirring up painful memories.
Only this year had she recovered a little. Looking back on the past, she finally began to notice things that seemed wrong, but her other friends all said she was overthinking it. Xu Xue's autopsy report had concluded that it was suicide.
Xu Xue's parents were forensic pathologists themselves. They had personally examined the body of the daughter they had treasured for over twenty years, struggling to hold back their grief. How could they possibly have falsified anything under those circumstances?
Jiang Huaguo also thought she was overthinking it, but she still could not let it go.
She feared there really was something wrong, and that dismissing it on a mere thought would leave Xuexue forever unable to have the truth of her death brought to light.
So when she saw this livestream, she finally gathered the courage to post what she had just said.
Lili had not expected there to be more to the story. Realizing how serious the situation was, she immediately connected Jiang Huaguo to the livestream.
On the other side of the camera, Jiang Huaguo wore black-framed glasses and looked like a quiet, well-behaved girl. The first thing she said upon joining the stream was, "I've seen a lot of people saying Sha Chuan went to Q University, but he didn't. Sha Chuan only attended a second-tier university. The Q University student ID he used in his photos before was stolen from Xuexue."
Her words struck like a thunderbolt, a shattering revelation that immediately drove the scumbag exposé livestream's popularity even higher.
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