AITFMIBP Chapter 105

TL: Hua

After Shang Chengcheng posted on Weibo, Lin Yanran’s fans, family, and lover were all doing everything possible to protect his past, not wanting him to be hurt again.

However, Xuan Yihan’s fans acted as if they had discovered some shocking secret, tirelessly seizing on the keywords “abandoned by parents” and “internet addiction treatment center” to dig for clues.

The competitive nature of fans is very intense. Especially at the beginning of Super Idol, Xuan Yihan’s starting point and family background were much better than Lin Yanran’s. But now, after debuting, Xuan Yihan was inferior to Lin Yanran in every way. When their idol doesn’t fare well, the fans naturally project that resentment onto Lin Yanran.

So, while normal netizens sympathized with Lin Yanran’s past experiences upon seeing those revelations, this group of fans believed Lin Yanran was hypocritical and malicious, claiming this unexpected turn of events was just him selling a sob story. They insisted there must have been something seriously wrong with him to be treated that way.

After all, what normal person gets sent to an internet addiction treatment center for reformation by their parents only to have them loathe and discard him?

Thinking they were onto something big, Xuan Yihan’s fans actually stayed up all night digging through Lin Yanran’s past scandals while livestreaming the process in their own super topic, eager to dig up Lin Yanran’s ancestors eighteen generations back to flog their corpses.

Many of these fans were old hands at this, particularly skilled at digging into celebrities’ privacy.

Through their relentless efforts, they actually managed to unearth Lin Yanran’s past information very quickly.

This group not only found the treatment center he was in but also uncovered his former schools, photos, and the fact that his name used to be Xuan Yanran.

When they discovered Lin Yanran’s previous surname, Xuan Yihan’s fans were thrilled.

Yanran, Yanran… he was clearly called Xuan Yanran before, but now he’s just Yanran… obviously he just dropped the surname!

So, Yanran’s past was exactly as Shang Chengcheng said: he was kicked out of the house by his parents, and they wouldn’t even let him keep the surname!

After mocking him for a while, the fans realized Lin Yanran’s former surname was the same as their own idol’s, which they immediately found somewhat unlucky.

However, they didn’t think much of it and continued following the clues.

Continuing down the trail of the name Xuan Yanran, they soon discovered that Lin Yanran and Xuan Yihan were actually alumni. Furthermore, in a photo from the freshman year parent-teacher meeting file, Lin Yanran’s mother looked exactly like Xuan Yihan’s mother!

When Qiu Yayu’s photo was unearthed, Xuan Yihan’s fans were completely stunned…

Not only were they stunned, but even the spectating netizens were dumbfounded.

Wasn’t it said that Xuan Yihan was the pampered young master of a wealthy family, while Yanran was a miserable orphan with no parents since childhood?

Could people even have matching mothers these days?

Netizens were shocked, but they weren’t stupid, especially since Lin Yanran’s old name was Xuan Yanran. Combined with Xuan Yihan’s very rare surname, calling this a coincidence would be too much of a stretch.

Realizing there was a problem, Xuan Yihan’s fans hurriedly deleted their posts and stopped digging.

But having reached this point, how could the netizens let it go? Since the fans stopped, the public took over.

Lin Yanran’s side had already been thoroughly picked over by Xuan Yihan’s fans, so this time, they went to dig into Xuan Yihan.

Good heavens. They didn’t know until they looked, and the results were startling.

It turned out that the wealthy flower and rich young master Xuan Yihan, as described by his fans, wasn’t a wealthy heir at all before the age of sixteen. His father was a gambling deadbeat burdened with debt, and his schooling relied entirely on the support of kind donors!

Meanwhile, Lin Yanran, who was the same age, seemed to have lived quite a good life before sixteen, a part of his life people hadn’t known about. He even had luxury cars picking him up and dropping him off at school!

The same mother, but reversed fortunes before and after…

Were Lin Yanran and Xuan Yihan biological brothers? Or was this a real-life version of the wealthy family baby swap?

The netizens, having made new discoveries, were as excited as if they’d been injected with chicken blood.

However, because Lin Yanran had already severed ties with the Xuan family, and Shang Chengcheng had mentioned that the Xuan parents didn’t want him, people were more inclined to believe it was a swapped-at-birth incident!

The swapped child trope has always garnered massive attention, but this time it was even more dramatic than usual!

Not only was it the cliché of wealthy children being switched, but both were now celebrities who had recently participated in the same show together!

One was a mentor, the other a trainee. How come they didn’t get into a physical fight on set???

The situation between Lin Yanran and Xuan Yihan was simply too surreal.

Netizens were extremely focused on it; even with Xuan Yihan’s camp desperately trying to control the comments, enthusiastic netizens pushed it onto the trending searches.

Soon, the hashtags #YanranXuanYihanSuspectedFormerBrothers and #YanranXuanYihanWealthyFamilyBabySwap were hanging at the top of the rankings.

As the incident expanded, many former classmates and alumni of Lin Yanran and Xuan Yihan came forward to reveal information.

Xuan Yihan had changed his name in the past, as had Lin Yanran; combined with the fact that their appearances had changed significantly, many people hadn’t realized they were people they once knew.

Even those who did recognize them never imagined their life stories would be this dramatic. Thus, no one had thought to leak anything before.

But now that netizens were digging, many insiders came forward with details: their schools, classes, names, personalities, grades, and more…

Although the details varied, the final result indirectly confirmed to everyone that before age sixteen, Lin Yanran and Xuan Yihan lived completely different lives.

One was a pampered young master, the other a destitute, poor student. But after sixteen, their lives switched entirely.

The truth seemed to be right before their eyes, yet it remained blurry.

Every netizen who saw it felt an itch in their heart, desperately wanting to know what exactly happened back then!

The sudden exposure of the matter was noticed not only by Lin Yanran’s team but by Xuan Yihan’s side as well.

When he learned that this had been dug up by his own fans, he wished he could strip those pig teammates of their fan status.

Digging this up at such a sensitive time was equivalent to telling the world that his parents were heartless people who sent their son directly to an internet addiction treatment center.

Seeing that what he feared had happened, and terrified that Lin Yanran would come out to condemn his parents and himself, Xuan Yihan frantically found his manager to help him suppress the matter through PR.

Xuan Yihan currently shared a manager with the other eight members of the DJ group.

When the manager asked what was really going on, he remained cautious, pinning everything on his parents and claiming he was an innocent victim who had no idea what happened back then.

When Xuan Yihan emerged from the room after talking to the manager, he found Qiao Ye, Xia Xingxing, Ji Shuai, and Ye Xiyuan sitting in the villa’s living room, all looking at him with very strange expressions.

These four had been personally mentored by Lin Yanran.

Although their relationship hadn’t been great before, they were at least in the same group; at most, they didn’t speak much, but things hadn’t reached a breaking point.

But now, these people had likely seen the online revelations and were well aware that he had previously framed Lin Yanran for stealing a necklace. Xuan Yihan suddenly began to feel guilty and inexplicably felt that he would have a harder time in the group in the future…

However, he didn’t have time to worry about that yet. He had to call his useless parents to coordinate their stories; if the worst happened, he at least had to protect himself.

After Xuan Yihan left, Ye Xiyuan whispered to the other three, “”Could Teacher Yanran really be brothers with this guy?”

Ye Xiyuan had a look on his face as if he’d seen a ghost, unable to believe it.

Qiao Ye glanced at him and said coldly, “Don’t you find it unlucky?”

Xia Xingxing nodded in agreement. “My idol’s surname isn’t Xuan. What the hell does he have to do with them? Those trash don’t deserve to be associated with him!”

Xia Xingxing’s logic was simple and very typical of a fan.

To him, Xuan Yihan and his parents were all trash!

Many netizens felt the same way as Xia Xingxing.

After all, the Xuan couple was supposed to be wealthy, yet they committed a brain-dead act that no normal person would do—sending a minor to an internet addiction treatment center. Combined with Shang Chengcheng’s earlier Weibo foreshadowing and the suspicious timing of Xuan Yihan being recognized by the wealthy family, many people began to speculate given the numerous coincidences.

They felt that the couple did this to abandon Lin Yanran, or rather, to kick him out of the wealthy family.

However, everyone still found it bizarre and didn’t understand why a family of such high social standing would act so ungracefully.

Consequently, the number of people mocking the Xuan couple continued to grow.

Xuan Hongwei and Qiu Yayu weren’t celebrities and didn’t have Weibo accounts, so netizens rushed to Xuan Yihan’s Weibo to demand an explanation.

Of course, precisely because no one could make sense of the situation, not everyone was on the same side.

There were still some of Xuan Yihan’s fans, or people who held a “rich family filter” regarding the Xuan couple, who felt things might not be so simple and tried desperately to whitewash the situation.

[I’m dying of laughter. Your child was switched at birth and ended up in such a terrible family, making your child’s life so miserable. You wouldn’t actually want to help a gambler’s child, would you? Are you some kind of saint or a relic?]

[Surely there’s something wrong with Yanran himself? Doesn’t he have depression? I feel like his mental state wasn’t normal before either. Otherwise, why would such a rich family worry about supporting one child?]

[Could it be that @Yanran stole my Yihan’s life as a rich young master for over ten years and now wants to stubbornly cling on and refuse to leave?]

Lin Yanran saw all sorts of things being said online.

People cursing him, cursing the Xuan couple, cursing Xuan Yihan, and even digging up their past scandals…

Lin Yanran didn’t care about what the netizens were saying.

He simply felt that after waiting for so long, he had finally found the right opportunity.

An opportunity to help the original owner of this body thoroughly expose the true face of those disgusting foster parents.

When he first arrived, he was covered in scandals, and no one believed a word he said.

Public opinion at that time was very hostile toward him, so he knew that even if he took extreme measures, like directly releasing the original owner’s diary, no one would sympathize. Instead, they would feel that a vile person like Yanran deserved whatever happened to him.

But now it was different. Plus, Shang Chengcheng’s Weibo post had unintentionally helped pivot the public’s focus toward the Xuan couple.

Having endured the Xuan family for so long, he could finally tell everyone about the sins committed by that trash couple on behalf of the original owner.

In the midst of the chaos, everyone noticed that Lin Yanran, who never clarified anything for himself, had posted on Weibo for the first time.