[I said before that Jiang Yunli's gentle big-sister persona was fake as hell, and that Shen Yunzhi came from a village and was no match for her. I said Jiang Yunli probably had a hand in all the hate Shen Yunzhi was getting online, and you lot told me my mom was dead!]
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[Sorry.]
[Your mom has permission to return to the land of the living.]
[First class. On me.]
When Jiang Fans had been fighting online earlier, they had even used the excuse that An Zhizhi liked Chi Zong to explain why they kept bringing him up.
An Zhizhi's fans had been utterly disgusted.
Even An Zhizhi's haters had applauded in bewilderment.
However vicious they were,
they had never thought of using a tactic like that to disgust An Zhizhi's fans.
Once the video came out,
An Zhizhi's fans attacked en masse, adding fuel to the fire.
[Jiang Yunli is so vicious. She pushed someone and then blamed the victim.]
[Holy shit! She started playing innocent right after pushing Shen Yunzhi. Just go act in dramas. Why even bother with reality TV? That's best-actress-level acting right there.]
[She acted so pitiful before, but she's just a fake innocent who stabs people in the back.]
[Sure enough, nobody raised in a rich family from childhood is simple.]
[Other celebrities, watch out for Jiang Yunli. She's two-faced. Don't let her stab you in the back one day just because she doesn't like you.]
[Oh my god, oh my god! The more you think about it, the scarier it gets!]
Out for revenge, An Zhizhi's fans were practically pouring water into a vat of boiling oil.
They were afraid one stab wouldn't finish Jiang Yunli off.
They wished they could stab her a few more times.
In just one hour,
Jiang Yunli's public persona collapsed completely.
Her status as a rising young actress had been built through the expensive marketing Ji Nanxian had paid for.
The matter of the real and fake heiresses had also become a powerful tool for attracting fans to Jiang Yunli.
After living in a wealthy family for so many years, her circumstances had suddenly changed, and her biological parents had been found to be rural villagers. Yet Jiang Yunli hadn't wallowed in self-pity. She had worked hard to better herself and make her way out of the mountains, capturing the heart of a wealthy young heir who was willing to give everything for her.
She was resilient, kind, and gentle. Though she had been raised to the standards of a wealthy family's daughter, she had still retained those fine qualities after falling on hard times.
-That was the persona Jiang Yunli had established in the entertainment industry.
Quite a few of her fans had been drawn to her because of it.
But pushing Shen Yunzhi and then accusing her of doing it deliberately to seduce Xiao Yao had directly overturned every part of the persona she had built.
[Jiang Yunli really knows how to fake it. What a spectacular fake innocent.]
[I can't take this. If the production team hadn't had night-vision footage, Shen Yunzhi would've taken the blame again.]
[She already did. People were still trashing Shen Yunzhi earlier.]
[Holy shit, now that you mention it, who knows whether some of that dirt on Shen Yunzhi is even true.]
[I told you, people raised in rich families are full of schemes. How could Shen Yunzhi outmaneuver Jiang Yunli?]
For many fans who had kept defending Jiang Yunli, seeing this blatant video evidence felt like the sky had fallen.
In her fans' eyes, Jiang Yunli was a novel's heroine whose good fortune had been stolen by Shen Yunzhi.
Shen Yunzhi had stripped Jiang Yunli of her status as the Biological Daughter, and even the boyfriend she loved had become Shen Yunzhi's fiancé.
Shen Yunzhi had immediately become the target of the fans' venting and attacks.
On top of that, Shen Yunzhi's behavior had been unlikable to begin with.
She had promptly earned herself the hatred of the entire internet.
Even a passing dog would have spat at her.
But now that this had happened, the image of the fake innocent had shifted from Shen Yunzhi to Jiang Yunli in Jiang Fans' eyes.
[I'm losing my mind! What the hell is Yunli doing?! Why did she push Shen Yunzhi?]
[...Looks like we were used as weapons.]
[Just for this show alone, how many times have I fought her haters and other celebrities' fans for her? I stayed up all night voting for her, and this is how she treats us like idiots?]
[Wow, what a fucking fraud. I'm actually crying. My first time becoming a fan of a celebrity, and I picked this thing.]
Many of Jiang Yunli's most prominent fans also couldn't bear the fact that the celebrity they had supported for so long was actually this kind of person.
Their faith shattered on the spot.
Some stopped being fans, while others turned against her.
Jiang Yunli learned about it two hours later.
Such was the power of things spreading online.
In just two hours, the persona Jiang Yunli had painstakingly maintained for so many years was brought to the brink of collapse.
Jiang Yunli's manager called to ask her what to do.
At first, she didn't believe it. She hurriedly hung up on her manager and opened Weibo.
The moment she saw the trending topics,
Jiang Yunli's vision swam, and she almost couldn't hold on to her phone.
Night-vision footage?!
What the hell was this fucking variety show trying to do?!
Why would they release a video like this?!
What kind of production team would dare offend her like this?!
Ji Nanxian had paid Jiang Yunli's way into the entertainment industry.
Everyone knew Young Master Ji was Jiang Yunli's financial backer.
Her career in the entertainment industry had always been smooth sailing.
Even when the industry's most sharp-tongued host had interviewed her, the host hadn't dared ask her any particularly sensitive questions.
How could she have known this fucking variety show really would break all the rules!
Facing the biggest scandal she had ever experienced, Jiang Yunli barely dared look at how people were attacking her in the comments.
Her hands and feet were ice-cold.
All she could think of at first was finding Ji Nanxian to work out a solution.
Jiang Yunli stumbled off to find Ji Nanxian. The moment she saw him, she could no longer hold back her tears and burst out crying.
"Nan Xian, I really only pushed her over by accident because it was too dark. Now everyone online is saying I did it deliberately to hurt her."
Of course Ji Nanxian couldn't stand seeing Jiang Yunli cry.
Once he had learned what had happened, his brows drew into a deep frown.
"What the hell is wrong with the production team?"
Jiang Yunli shook her head, crying. "Normally, a variety show like this wouldn't deliberately release footage like that to smear a guest."
Jiang Yunli paused, then added between sobs:
"I don't know, either. I haven't even offended the director..."
Ji Nanxian said, "What does offending anyone have to do with it? It's not as if taking money to do something like this is an uncommon tactic."
At the mention of taking money,
Ji Nanxian immediately thought of Shen Yunzhi.
After all, in his eyes, it made perfect sense for Shen Yunzhi to bribe the director to release footage like this to smear Jiang Yunli because of him.
After all, Jiang Yunli often told him that Shen Yunzhi targeted her at the Jiang family home.
Jiang Yunli was already living under the Jiang family's roof at their mercy, so she had kept giving way to Shen Yunzhi in everything.
If Shen Yunzhi really had bribed the director to smear Jiang Yunli,
then he absolutely wouldn't let Shen Yunzhi get away with it.
Holding back his anger, Ji Nanxian first offered Jiang Yunli a few words of comfort before saying to her with a grim expression:
"I'll go find Shen Yunzhi and make her post a clarification. Don't worry. I'll make sure you get an answer for this."
Ji Nanxian settled Jiang Yunli in his room.
Then he immediately scurried off to clean up Jiang Yunli's mess.
As soon as Ji Nanxian left, the tearful look on Jiang Yunli's face turned cold, though she still couldn't hide her anxiety over public opinion online.
So fucking annoying.
How could something like this happen?
Ji Nanxian had no doubt that Jiang Yunli had pushed Shen Yunzhi deliberately.
He charged straight into battle for love, coming to settle the score with Shen Yunzhi again.
Standing outside Shen Yunzhi's room, he banged loudly on the door.
"Shen Yunzhi! Get out here!"
Ji Nanxian's voice barely concealed his anger.
He had completely forgotten how viciously Shen Yunzhi had kicked him in the groin before and had come empty-handed just like that.
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