Chapter Summaries

After Feng Ziyi was taken to a psychiatric hospital, Lin Jia resolved to focus on her career and have Chen Cheng investigated for poisoning. Captain Liu arrived to arrest Chen Cheng, who was taken away after confessing she had given Feng Ziyi hallucinogens and claiming she loved him.

• Feng Ziyu agreed to have Feng Ziyi admitted to a psychiatric hospital, and doctors sedated and carried Feng Ziyi away.
• Lin Jia decided to devote herself to her career and told her staff to call the police about Chen Cheng’s alleged poisoning.
• The spectators called the police, and Captain Liu arrived to find multiple video recordings implicating Chen Cheng.
• Captain Liu told Chen Cheng to come to the station for questioning, and she confessed to giving Feng Ziyi hallucinogens while claiming she loved him.
• Captain Liu covered Chen Cheng’s mouth with black tape and took her away.

Chen Cheng was arrested, Feng Ziyi was sent to a psychiatric hospital, and Lin Jia took over Hongwei Investment Company. Song Yurou lost her system’s support and, after her fame value fell, decided to manufacture dirt about Song Shiwei.

• Captain Liu took Chen Cheng to the police station after the doctor exposed that his pregnancy was fake and he was a ladyboy.
• Song Yurou blamed the system for its inaccurate information, and it explained that the people had become awakened NPCs before going offline to hibernate.
• Song Yurou left the press conference and saw Jiang Xun feeding Song Shiwei, then learned that casting opportunities had been withdrawn and her viral fame value had dropped to 56%.
• Song Yurou realized she could gain fame by smearing Song Shiwei and decided to fabricate scandals about her.
• Lin Jia told Hongwei Investment Company’s shareholders that Feng Ziyi had resigned due to psychiatric illness and announced that she would manage the company.

After Lin Jia’s company went public, Song Shiwei unexpectedly joined a major investment deal and watched netizens celebrate Feng Ziyi’s downfall. As the second episode of “Let’s Gossip Together” began, jealous Song Yurou anticipated Song Shiwei’s humiliation, while Jiang Zhuxin discovered fans were urging her to cherish her sister-in-law.

• Lin Jia thanked Jiang Xun at the press conference, but Jiang Lanxin and Yun Xi hurriedly involved Song Shiwei in an investment partnership before Jiang Xun could intervene.
• Song Shiwei returned home stunned by the investment and saw netizens gossiping about Feng Ziyi and praising her knack for uncovering scandals.
• Song Yurou resented Song Shiwei’s popularity and hoped the show’s prestigious guests would make Song Shiwei’s persona collapse.
• The second episode of “Let’s Gossip Together” began with the cast traveling to a remote scenic town known for unusual melons.
• Jiang Zhuxin checked her flooded inbox and found fans telling her to appreciate and look after Song Shiwei.

Jiang Zhuxin celebrated her online comeback by showering Song Shiwei with affection, then followed her to the gossip courtyard, where Song arrived for the livestream with the new guests. Best actor Hua Tianyu dismissed Song’s reputation and expected the show to boost his spotless image, but the chapter ended with him bragging to Yu Chen about being a devoted boyfriend.

• Jiang Zhuxin thanked Song Shiwei for her online comeback by hugging and kissing her, declaring that she would stay with her even if she divorced Jiang Zhuxin’s brother.
• Song Shiwei and Jiang Zhuxin arrived at the gossip courtyard, where best actor Hua Tianyu, best actress Yu Chen, and Yu Xue had already gathered.
• The livestream audience surged to five million viewers as Song Shiwei entered and the chat anticipated her next piece of gossip.
• Hua Tianyu privately dismissed Song Shiwei’s track record and believed his clean public image would make him the star of the show.
• Song Shiwei and Jiang Zhuxin went upstairs to their room, while Hua Tianyu told Yu Chen that he was a devoted boyfriend and she should be glad to be with him.

Song Shiwei’s inner voice exposed Hua Tianyu’s contempt for Yu Chen and his family’s plan to ruin her reputation so he could pursue a marriage alliance. Yu Chen questioned Hua Tianyu’s excuses for refusing to move the luggage, while their fans argued in the livestream chat.

• Yu Chen moved the suitcases while Hua Tianyu stood by, believing she owed him for helping her career.
• Song Shiwei’s Gossip Compendium revealed that Hua Tianyu had never intended to marry Yu Chen and was already discussing marriage with his returning fiancée.
• Yu Chen stopped moving the luggage and asked Hua Tianyu to move it himself, but he claimed his hand hurt and urged her to rest before continuing.
• Song Shiwei’s inner voice revealed that Hua Tianyu’s mother planned to have Yu Chen abducted and disgraced to clear the way for Hua Tianyu’s marriage alliance.
• Hua Tianyu’s and Yu Chen’s fans argued over the luggage and their relationship in the livestream chat.

Yu Xue and Jiang Zhuxin pressed Hua Tianyu about his promise to marry Yu Chen, while the pair’s longtime fan factions fought in the livestream comments. Yu Chen waited for Hua Tianyu to answer, but he remained speechless as Yu Xue suggested they choose a wedding date, setting off another wave of fan outrage.

• Hua Tianyu’s fans and Yu Chen’s fans resumed their five-year feud in the livestream comments, trading insults over which star was more successful and whether Yu Chen wanted to marry into wealth.
• Yu Chen stopped what she was doing and asked Hua Tianyu whether he had promised to marry her after winning best actor; he faltered instead of answering.
• Yu Xue teased the couple about their promise and asked whether it had motivated Yu Chen to work so hard, and Yu Chen admitted it had been part of the reason.
• Yu Xue and Jiang Zhuxin mocked the low-rated dramas Yu Chen had filmed with Hua Tianyu and urged him to marry her in return for her support.
• Hua Tianyu remained silent under their questioning, so Yu Xue suggested choosing a wedding date, prompting his fans to attack Yu Chen in the comments.

Yu Chen confronted Hua Tianyu on a livestreamed variety show about his promise to marry her, while Hua Tianyu tried to deflect and preserve his interests. Song Shiwei discovered that Yu Chen was the hidden heiress of Hai City's powerful Yu Family, a truth Hua Tianyu apparently did not know.

• Hua Tianyu's fans attacked Yu Chen online, spread rumors about her, and reported her award-winning film to the film association.
• Yu Chen challenged Hua Tianyu in the Gossip Cottage to confirm whether he had truly promised to marry her after winning Best Actor.
• Hua Tianyu refused to answer directly and said they needed time to cool off, while privately worrying about his family, career, and business interests.
• Song Shiwei checked her Gossip Compendium and learned Yu Chen was the Yu Family's little princess, whose family had secretly protected Hua Tianyu from romantic scandals.
• Jiang Zhuxin and Yu Xue realized Hua Tianyu likely did not know Yu Chen's true identity, as Yu Chen listened to their thoughts with a bitter smile.

Yu Chen’s past revealed why she entered show business and how she came to love Hua Tianyu, who had once comforted her after Yu Yu’s death. During filming, Hua Tianyu tried to frame Yu Chen as pushy about marriage, while Yu Chen learned of his plan to ruin her reputation and leave her for the heiress of Weiyang Biotechnology Company.

• Yu Chen had defied the Yu Family to enter the entertainment industry, agreeing to return and inherit the family business after five years or after winning Best Actress.
• Yu Chen had pursued show business partly to seek justice for Yu Yu, who had died by suicide after years of bullying.
• Yu Chen recalled Hua Tianyu comforting her at Yu Yu’s funeral and later helping her at a party before they became a couple.
• Hua Tianyu claimed he would marry Yu Chen after winning Best Actor, then tried to make her look pushy in front of the cameras.
• Yu Chen heard that Hua Tianyu planned to turn public opinion against her, break up with her, and marry the heiress of Weiyang Biotechnology Company.

Yu Chen discovered that Hua Tianyu planned to use her before discarding her, but she pretended to remain devoted so she could draw out Yu Xuexi. The chapter left Hua Tianyu anxiously asking whether Yu Chen had overheard his call, while she feigned confusion and asked if he had told his mother he would marry her.

• Yu Chen recognized Hua Tianyu's bullying tactics as similar to those used against Yu Yu and realized that Yu Xuexi had returned to the country.
• Yu Chen pretended to believe Hua Tianyu and moved the luggage while online users condemned her and praised him as a victim.
• Song Shiwei's inner voice revealed that Hua Tianyu was hiding in the storage room, plotting with his mother to use and discard Yu Chen.
• Yu Chen entered the storage room and heard Hua Tianyu say he would not give up Yu Xuexi to marry her, but she acted submissively and decided to keep using him to lure Yu Xuexi out.
• Hua Tianyu asked whether Yu Chen had heard his call, and Yu Chen pretended not to know before asking if he had told his mother he would marry her.

Hua Tianyu’s remark that he wanted to marry Yu Chen was overheard online, turning many supporters against him as they recalled his earlier insults and Yu Chen’s sacrifices for his company. His fans retaliated by circulating a misleading video that portrayed Yu Chen as a bully, leaving Song Shiwei, Jiang Zhuxin, and Yu Xue distressed as the online fight escalated.

• Hua Tianyu told Yu Chen’s mother that he wanted to marry Yu Chen, while Yu Chen misunderstood his words and relaxed.
• Netizens recalled Hua Tianyu calling Yu Chen an actress who would never enter the Hua Family and accused him of using her despite her support for his projects.
• Hua Tianyu’s mom fans defended him and spread a video claiming Yu Chen had bullied a minor actress on the set of "She in the Darkness."
• Hua Tianyu’s fans attacked Yu Chen online and demanded investigations into her Best Actress award, taxes, and endorsements.
• Song Shiwei, Jiang Zhuxin, and Yu Xue watched the accusations spread and recognized that the video was being used to falsely label Yu Chen a bully.

Song Shiwei uncovered that Hua Tianyu, Yu Xuexi, and Hua Tianyu’s mother had all helped torment Yu Yu, while Yu Chen pretended to remain devoted to Hua Tianyu. With Mrs. Hua and Yu Xuexi arriving at the village, Yu Chen resolved to make them pay.

• The film She in the Darkness sparked public outrage over bullying and intensified scrutiny of Yu Chen.
• Song Shiwei discovered that Hua Tianyu and Yu Xuexi had orchestrated years of bullying against Yu Yu, which contributed to her death.
• Yu Chen suppressed her anger and asked Hua Tianyu when they would marry, maintaining her lovestruck act.
• Song Shiwei revealed that Mrs. Hua had also humiliated Yu Yu when Yu Yu was twelve and had helped worsen her suffering.
• Song Shiwei learned that Mrs. Hua and Yu Xuexi had arrived at the village, and Yu Chen resolved not to let them leave unpunished.

Yu Chen revealed that she was the Yu Family’s eldest daughter and used her authority to end the Yu Group’s partnership with the Hua Group after Mrs. Hua insulted her. Hua Tianyu and his mother tried to exploit the revelation, but Yu Chen told them she had already broken up with him.

• Mrs. Hua arrived with Yu Xuexi and accused Yu Chen of seducing Hua Tianyu.
• Yu Chen insulted Mrs. Hua, slapped her when she tried to hit her, and claimed to be the Yu Family’s eldest daughter.
• Yu Chen called President Liu and ordered him to terminate the Hua Group partnership and withdraw the investment.
• Mrs. Hua received confirmation that Yu Chen had ended the partnership and realized Yu Chen was telling the truth.
• Mrs. Hua tried to arrange a marriage between Yu Chen and Hua Tianyu, but Yu Chen said they had already broken up.
• Hua Tianyu insisted he had never agreed to break up, and Yu Chen asked whether she needed his permission to dump him.

Yu Chen broke up with Hua Tianyu, mocked him and Mrs. Hua, and revealed that he had secretly slandered her online. She exposed evidence linking his burner account to his apartment, leaving netizens to connect him to the accusations.

• Yu Chen told Hua Tianyu she had only treated him as a plaything and ended their relationship, while Mrs. Hua tried to stop her.
• Yu Chen rejected the Hua Family and mocked Hua Tianyu for expecting to marry into the Yu Family as its sole heir.
• Yu Chen reminded Mrs. Hua that the Hua Family depended on the Yu Family’s projects, then explained how Mrs. Hua had pressured Yu Xuexi into a marriage alliance using evidence of her role in Yu Yu’s bullying.
• Yu Chen told Hua Tianyu that she had heard his words in the storage room and that everyone online had heard them too.
• Yu Chen revealed that she had traced the burner account behind the exposé to Hua Tianyu’s apartment, prompting netizens to suspect he had slandered her.

Yu Chen was accused of bullying after an edited video circulated online, but the film production team released the original footage and Li Feifei confirmed Yu Chen had only coached her. Netizens turned against Hua Tianyu, whom they suspected of leaking the misleading clip to ruin Yu Chen’s reputation.

• Netizens praised Yu Chen’s response to Hua Tianyu and called on the film production team to verify the video.
• Director and Old Zhou confirmed the viral clip had been edited from their footage and quickly posted the original behind-the-scenes video.
• The released footage showed Yu Chen teaching Li Feifei how to act and performing her own demanding scenes with dedication.
• The director defended Yu Chen, explaining that she had not bullied anyone and had been teaching a young actress.
• Li Feifei stated that Yu Chen had not bullied her and condemned those who incited online attacks.
• Netizens realized they had helped spread Hua Tianyu’s alleged smear campaign and called for him to be investigated and blacklisted.

Yu Chen exposed Hua Tianyu’s bribery and confronted him and Mrs. Hua, then turned her attention to Yu Xuexi over her past as Yu Hui. Yu Xuexi denied responsibility for Yu Yu’s death and claimed her family had disowned Yu Hui.

• The Hua Country Film Association confirmed Yu Chen had won Best Actress fairly and stripped Hua Tianyu of his Best Actor title for bribing judge Chen Tianhua.
• Yu Chen predicted Hua Tianyu’s excuse about his housekeeper posting the message and warned that the Yu Family would sue him.
• Yu Chen confronted Yu Xuexi, asking whether she was Yu Hui, the person Yu Yu had written about in her diary.
• After panicking, Yu Xuexi claimed Yu Hui was her deceased older sister and said the family had cast her out for disgracing them.

Yu Chen confronted Yu Xuexi about Yu Hui’s disappearance and a photograph in Yu Yu’s diary that resembled her, leaving Yu Xuexi afraid that her role in Yu Yu’s bullying could be exposed. Yu Xuexi recalled how she had escaped blame, helped her father build a lucrative company, and returned to Hua Country intending to bully people and enter the entertainment industry.

• Yu Chen questioned Yu Xuexi’s account of her sister leaving home and pointed out that Yu Xuexi and the Yu Family’s first madam had gone abroad to the same place.
• Yu Chen said Yu Hui had been medically dead and revealed that a face in a photograph from Yu Yu’s diary looked like Yu Xuexi.
• Yu Xuexi feared that Yu Chen’s possession of Yu Yu’s diary could revive the old bullying investigation and reveal her involvement.
• Yu Xuexi recalled confessing to her father that she was a transmigrator and offering him ways to make money, after which he sent her abroad to protect her.
• Yu Xuexi remembered her years of being abused by roommates abroad and her eagerness to return to Hua Country.
• Yu Xuexi planned to bully people at home, build an online following, and use it to enter the entertainment industry.

Yu Chen offered a fifty-million investment to whoever first revealed what had happened in the past, after learning that Yu Xuexi had bullied Yu Yu and lab employees. The offer stunned everyone, while Song Shiwei and Yu Xueyue marveled at Yu Chen’s wealth.

• Yu Xuexi recalled orchestrating the bullying that led to Yu Yu’s death and warned Mrs. Hua not to implicate them.
• Song Shiwei read gossip about Yu Xuexi bullying a lab employee and using banned ingredients in skincare products.
• Yu Chen decided to use her influence with the Hua and Yu families to make them choose between protecting the bullies and protecting their business interests.
• Yu Lihuai sent Yu Chen an acquisition agreement for the Yu Family’s company, an investment agreement for Weiyang Biotechnology, and a proposal that she marry him.
• Yu Chen offered fifty million to whoever first told her what had happened in the past, leaving those present and the viewers astonished.

Yu Chen confronted Yu Xuexi, Mrs. Hua, and Hua Tianyu about bullying her younger sister Yu Yu, who had died at fifteen, and offered one hundred million for the first person to confess. After they stayed silent, Yu Chen brought Yu Lihuai and the heads of the Hua and Yu families into a video call, presenting herself as the Yu Family’s heir and raising the prospect of an investment.

• Yu Xuexi, Mrs. Hua, and Hua Tianyu denied knowing anything about Yu Chen’s questions and refused to confess despite her offer of one hundred million.
• Yu Chen revealed that Yu Yu had endured five years of school bullying before dying at fifteen, and demanded to know how the three had bullied her.
• Yu Chen messaged Yu Lihuai, who arranged for Hua Shaolin and Yu Chengguo to join the group chat.
• Yu Lihuai introduced Yu Chen as the Yu Family’s heir, surprising Hua Shaolin and Yu Chengguo.
• Yu Chen said she had contacted the two family heads to discuss an investment, and they eagerly asked whether she was serious.

Yu Chen secured Yu Lihuai’s backing to offer the Hua Family and Yu Family investment or acquisition contracts, then demanded answers about Yu Yu’s death. As Hua Chenglin disowned Hua Tianyu and Yu Xuexi, Song Shiwei’s gossip revealed more secrets about the families, and Yu Chen pressed Hua Chenglin to confirm who had arranged the bullying.

• Yu Lihuai declared that Yu Chen was the Yu Family’s heir and that her decisions did not require his approval.
• Yu Chen offered Hua Shaolin and Yu Chengguo a choice between investment contracts worth one billion and acquisition contracts, and they chose investment.
• Yu Chen asked whether anyone from the Hua Family or Yu Family had been involved in Yu Yu’s death, and the two men hesitated as she warned the Yu Group would proceed with an acquisition if they refused to cooperate.
• Yu Chen offered one hundred million to anyone who spoke up, and Hua Chenglin claimed Hua Tianyu was not his biological son and disowned him and Song Shiwei.
• Song Shiwei’s gossip revealed that Hua Tianyu and Yu Xuexi had orchestrated the bullying and that Yu Xuexi was not Yu Chengguo’s biological daughter.
• Yu Chen asked Hua Chenglin to confirm whether Hua Tianyu and Yu Xuexi had arranged the bullying incident.

Yu Chen confronted those responsible for Yu Yu’s bullying and suicide, forced them to confess, and demanded they kowtow to Yu Yu’s grave before receiving her promised money. The chapter ended with the livestream viewers supporting Yu Chen’s punishment, while the chapter’s ending notice indicated that Yu Xuexi would be stabbed and fall to the ground.

• Hua Chenglin revealed that Hua Tianyu had searched Yu Yu’s body for evidence after her death, and Yu Chen confronted Yu Chengguo about the family’s retinol.
• Hua Tianyu, Yu Xuexi, and Hua Tianyu’s mother confessed to their roles in destroying Yu Yu’s belongings, spreading rumors, and bullying her.
• Song Shiwei and Jiang Zhuxin restrained Yu Chen as she trembled with grief and rage over Yu Yu’s suffering.
• Yu Chen offered the three people one hundred million but demanded that they travel to Yu Yu’s grave on their knees, kowtowing and repenting 1,825 times.
• Yu Xuexi protested that they could die, but Yu Chen warned them not to challenge her, and viewers in the livestream applauded her demand.