Jiang Yunli became a laughingstock everyone despised

As he spoke under everyone's scornful gazes, his voice grew quieter and quieter, his confidence draining away.

Shen Yunzhi actually laughed. "Don't you think that's ridiculous? Do you treat Shen Yaozu the way you treat me?"

Wang Dezhen spoiled Shen Yaozu the most.

After all, he was the family's only male heir.

He would carry on the Shen Family line.

Wang Dezhen snapped, "What did Yaozu ever do to you?! Yaozu is smart. Our Shen Family is counting on him to bring honor to our ancestors! Why don't you reflect on why you're just a worthless little girl!"

Shen Yunzhi said, "Your Shen Family? Is your surname Shen?"

For a moment, Wang Dezhen had no idea how to retort. "..."

Shen Yonggui: "..."

The comments were practically seething with anger at this shameless couple.

[Holy shit, holy shit, holy shit, holy shit!]

[This is the first fucking time I've understood what it means to be so angry your hands shake while typing!]

[So having a dick makes you precious, huh.]

[I support Yunzhi picking her own ancestor. Go with a T. rex. At least that's an actual tyrant.]

Shen Yonggui was red-faced and furious. "Who told you that you could talk to your mother like that?! The only reason we didn't strangle you back then was because we wanted a boy and a girl for a 'perfect pair,' so we spared your life. Instead of being grateful, you're being an ungrateful wretch!"

Shen Yunzhi said, "Why don't you hang yourself from a tree and make a dangling dick instead?"

Shen Yonggui: "..."

As though afraid she might not anger Shen Yonggui and Wang Dezhen to death, Shen Yunzhi added sarcastically, "That Shen Yaozu of yours didn't even need to take an entrance exam for his junior college. You paid a little money, and he got in."

"Then he didn't even finish junior college before going off to start a business with his head in the clouds. He lost the savings you'd scrimped together over half your lives. Now he's spent two years lying around in a rented room without going out to work, scratching his feet, gaming, and taking out online loans to buy gifts for female streamers all day."

"If that counts as bringing honor to your ancestors, then I have nothing to say."

Wang Dezhen sprayed spit everywhere in her fury. "He's still young! Don't look down on a young man for being poor!"

"Yes, yes, yes," Shen Yunzhi replied perfunctorily. "Don't look down on a poor young man, don't look down on a poor middle-aged man, don't look down on a poor old man, and speak no ill of the dead."

Everyone else: "..."

Sure...

But...

This was clearly a situation that should have inspired sympathy, so why did Shen Yunzhi keep ruining the atmosphere?

Shouldn't she have been sobbing her eyes out and then condemning their behavior?

Instead, Shen Yunzhi took on both of them single-handedly.

She didn't need anyone else to speak up for her at all.

Shen Yunzhi felt that was about enough.

She didn't want to waste any more words on these two, either.

She said coolly, "You had the nerve to come cause trouble during a livestream. You knew there would be lots of people watching and wanted to force me to give in. But everything you've said can be used as evidence in court."

Shen Yonggui and Wang Dezhen had still been throwing their weight around a moment earlier.

When Shen Yunzhi suddenly delivered that last sentence, both realized something was wrong.

Wang Dezhen's aged face trembled, and even the bank card she had been clutching like a treasure fell to the floor.

In the aftermath of this incident.

The couple had immediately fled the scene.

They hadn't even dared leave any parting threats.

There had already been plenty of viewers in the livestream.

Once public opinion erupted online, countless netizens uploaded clips from the stream, tagging the local police, the local women's federation, and so on.

Once the matter blew up, even the pace of the investigation picked up.

That very night, Shen Yonggui and Wang Dezhen were taken away by the relevant authorities for investigation.

Twenty-four hours later.

The authorities' official media accounts released the evidence from the investigation in full.

Their long-term domestic abuse of Shen Yunzhi, their exploitation of her as a child, and their forcing her to perform all kinds of physical labor inappropriate for her age were all undeniable.

Once it was confirmed that Shen Yunzhi had no blood relation to the couple, their demand for reimbursement for raising her became extortion.

Numerous villagers and the local health clinic also confirmed that the two had abused Shen Yunzhi for years.

What Shen Yunzhi had endured over the years was so miserable it could have filled a book.

The couple even had the gall to ask Shen Yunzhi to sign a letter of forgiveness.

Shen Yunzhi replied offhandedly:

"No forgiveness."

How many years the couple would ultimately spend in prison still depended on a further court ruling.

But the Shen Fans were already celebrating.

Especially after Jiang Yunli and Ji Nanxian's behavior had made them targets of universal condemnation online, many Shen Fans were so delighted they wanted to perform a whole military boxing routine on the spot.

The die-hard fans who had spoken up for Jiang Yunli truly wanted to cry but had no tears left.

After all, both of Jiang Yunli's scandals had been entirely of her own making.

So many viewers had watched her put on an act in the livestream, only to be proven wrong in the end.

Time and again, they had believed Jiang Yunli wasn't that sort of person and charged into battle for her.

Yet Jiang Yunli had played them all for fools.

Jiang Yunli's reputation collapsed across the board.

Her studio was panicking.

Even invoking Ji Nanxian as her financial backer did no good.

Artists and brands that had previously worked with Jiang Yunli cut ties with her at lightning speed.

They were terrified of being tainted by association.

Even having powerful financial backing was no use!

Jiang Yunli's public appeal and reputation were already in tatters.

Who would still buy into her?

And there was something even more laughable.

It became the final stone that crushed Jiang Yunli's reputation.

-the legal demand letter Jiang Yunli's studio had previously sent to Lüelüelüe.

The legal letter was fucking useless.

By now, everyone knew those things were only good for intimidation.

Who could have expected Lüelüelüe to turn around and sue Jiang Yunli's studio, claiming it had infringed on her right to reputation and encouraged numerous fans to cyberbully her?

With Ji Nanxian backing them, the studio hired a formidable lawyer from the Ji Family to defend the case.

Since someone had a death wish, they would make an example of her.

The studio had thought victory was assured.

Who could have expected Lüelüelüe to bring in an entire legal team?

The studio: "..."

The key was that they couldn't even find out who that legal team belonged to.

That meant Lüelüelüe had connections in real life, too.

They had meant to pick on an easy target.

Who knew that supposedly soft target would turn out to be solid all the way through?

Who could have imagined such rotten luck? They had picked some random netizen to settle a score with and ended up picking someone they couldn't afford to mess with.

The studio had no choice but to grit its teeth and go to court.

The burden of proof lay with whoever made the claim.

Lüelüelüe sued the studio, stating that her posts about "Jiang Yunli hiring paid trolls to defame Shen Yunzhi" and related matters were all true, yet the studio had used its artist's influence to amplify the matter and encourage fans to cyberbully her.

Lüelüelüe also produced a huge pile of evidence proving that every statement she had posted was true and none had been fabricated.

Well, there it was.

To deny the cyberbullying, the studio would have to deny that statements such as "Jiang Yunli hired paid trolls to defame Shen Yunzhi" were true.

Wouldn't that be fucking perjury?!

Who would dare?!

Since they didn't dare, they had no way to refute Lüelüelüe's claims.

This lawsuit was downright hilarious.

By this point in the proceedings, netizens were laughing their heads off.

Lüelüelüe had made the lawsuit's progress public from beginning to end.

Now things were entertaining.

Every netizen now knew that many of the paid trolls and trending terms attacking Shen Yunzhi earlier had been paid for by the studio.

As a result, Jiang Yunli had become a laughingstock everyone despised.

This time, Jiang Yunli really was on the verge of developing depression.

Looking as though she were off to a funeral, she went crying to Ji Nanxian again.