TL: Hua

Chapter 107: The deserved retribution

This drama involving Lin Yanran had been unfolding continuously, starting from Bai Tianyu, then reversing all the way until his relationship with Xuan Yihan and the Xuan family was dug up.

This time, not only were netizens eating melons on the front lines, but even industry insiders were staring at this gossip, unable to stop.

Those with no connection to Lin Yanran treated the gossip as a topic for afternoon tea.

Those with resource conflicts used the opportunity to muddy the waters and take a jab at him.

But those who truly cared about him stood up one after another to support him after reading that long Weibo post.

Song Yingming had been on the front lines of the drama the whole time.

He knew a bit about the grudge between Xuan Yihan and Lin Yanran; after all, the Xuan couple had directly threatened him before, demanding he kick Yanran out of the show.

Thinking back to that high-and-mighty look the couple had, Song Yingming still felt nauseous even after all this time.

They were arrogant and overbearing.

He initially thought they were just arrogant rich people and were just being unpleasant. But he never expected their character to be so vile or that they had treated Yanran so cruelly in the past.

Song Yingming stared at the long Weibo post and read it again.

On second thought, given that couple’s lack of character, it wasn’t surprising they could do such a thing.

After all, when Yanran was already so destitute, they showed no sentimentality and even tried to block his last path forward.

Song Yingming felt a lingering fear just thinking about it now.

If he had actually listened to them back then, what would have happened to Yanran?

As someone who was always shrewd and unwilling to get involved in storms, Song Yingming felt a surge of compassion.

He and Yanran could be considered friends. Besides, Yanran had been very generous and helped him out many times.

Having been in the industry for a long time, Song Yingming knew exactly how important this PR battle was for Yanran.

Song Yingming touched the top of his head, specifically the little bit of new hair that had recently grown after using the “Duang Duang Duang” hair growth liquid recommended by Lin Yanran’s fans. After making his decision, he quickly went to find a video he had unintentionally saved.

It was footage captured by the cameras when the Xuans had come to cause trouble for Lin Yanran.

During the post-production editing, the staff had asked him what to do with the footage. At the time, he had been cautious and cut the video out to save for himself.

He never imagined this video would come in handy today.

Of course, a shrewd man like Song Yingming knew that stepping forward personally at this time wouldn’t be good for either himself or Lin Yanran. So, he set up a new account and leaked the video.

While Song Yingming’s video was still uploading, the trainees from the original Super Idol also stood up one by one to support Lin Yanran.

Dreamjuvenile-Qiao Ye: During countless setbacks and low points, you were the beam of light that illuminated me. Life ahead will be even more wonderful, and you will always be the sun I follow unconditionally.

Dreamjuvenile-Xia Xingxing: Rumors and insults are the fig leaf of despicable people. I will always support my idol!

Dreamjuvenile-Ji Shuai: Teacher Yanran is the gentlest and most charismatic person I have ever met, without a doubt. I will support him forever!

Dreamjuvenile-Ye Xiyuan: I have eyes, and I can see for myself. I believe in Teacher Yanran!

These trainees from the DJ group came out in unison to post on Weibo expressing their support for Lin Yanran, which immediately made the matter even more explosive.

After all, almost anyone who follows celebrities knows that these idols who came out to post are all Xuan Yihan’s own teammates.

Yet now, these teammates, instead of saying a single good word to help Xuan Yihan, stood directly on the opposite side to back Lin Yanran up and support him firmly.

Such blatant disrespect is truly rare. In the eyes of netizens and fans of the show, this move by the boys was essentially a series of loud, consecutive slaps to Xuan Yihan’s face.

Xuan Yihan’s fans were naturally aware of this, so they were absolutely livid when they saw these posts. They began attacking these idols as well, cursing them for being heartless, backstabbing their teammate, and having no regard for the bond of the DJ group.

But were the popularity and fanbases of these idols anything to sneeze at?

Especially Qiao Ye; as the first-place center of the group, he already had the momentum of a top-tier star, so his fans were naturally fierce and powerful.

Seeing their idol disregard everything to take a side for Lin Yanran, they quickly stood by their idol’s side.

Furthermore, because of the past incident where Pei Luo and Xuan Yihan teamed up to steal Qiao Ye’s center position, they already had an old grudge against Xuan Yihan’s fandom. Seeing this group of idiots come out to provoke them again, they directly protected Lin Yanran and Qiao Ye, tearing the opposition into unrecognizable shreds.

Now you want to talk about “teammate friendship”?

Their baby, Qiao Ye, has friendships with the other members’ fandoms, but Xuan Yihan’s fandom isn’t worthy!

After these debuting traffic idols came out to support Lin Yanran, it was like a signal had been fired. Many of the non-debuted trainees from Super Idol also immediately followed suit, reposting Lin Yanran’s Weibo to show their support.

Fans of various stars counted the names and numbers of idols in Lin Yanran’s reposts while marveling at his incredible charisma and popularity.

Out of the 100 trainees who originally participated, nearly forty had come out to express their support for him.

The show fans were wide-eyed at the spectacle.

After all, since Super Idol ended, the trainees had mostly been doing their own separate activities.

It was rare to see so many names from the original show appearing together at the same time.

But today, they saw it on Lin Yanran’s Weibo…

The names of the trainees were lined up neatly, looking like a massive Super Idol reunion!

Overnight, fans felt like they were dreaming back to the days of Super Idol.

Except this time, everyone was working together with one heart to hammer Xuan Yihan.

The water army Xuan Yihan hired hadn’t even made a ripple before they were suppressed by the show fans.

At this moment, Song Yingming’s video was finally released on his fake account.

Once the video was posted, it was immediately reposted tens of thousands of times.

Netizens could finally see with their own eyes just how arrogant and vile the Xuan family of three had been when they bullied Lin Yanran.

There was no sound in the video, but one could see Qiu Yayu using her fingertip to unceremoniously poke Lin Yanran’s chest. Her expression and gaze made it look as though she were scolding a disobedient dog.

And Xuan Yihan, whom people previously thought might be somewhat innocent in this matter, was hiding behind his parents and laughing quite happily after seeing their uncivilized behaviors.

What everyone found most unacceptable was that in the video, Xuan Hongwei actually tried to slap Lin Yanran in the face.

If Gu Siye hadn’t stepped in to stop him in time, that slap would have landed hard.

Even though the relationship had been severed, he could still be so blatantly overbearing in trying to discipline Lin Yanran.

Once this video came out, combined with Song Yingming’s subtle leaks about the Xuan family threatening the Super Idol production team to replace Lin Yanran and Xuan Yihan framing him for theft, the evidence was overwhelming. Those who previously thought Lin Yanran might have been exaggerating in his descriptions no longer questioned him.

After all, Xuan Hongwei’s slapping motion was so practiced, and Qiu Yayu’s scolding aura was so arrogant.

It was clear this wasn’t the first time the two of them had done this to Lin Yanran.

Domestic violence, gaslighting, child abuse…

With these things stacked together, anyone with a conscience would not side with the Xuan family.

Qiu Yayu’s Weibo post, which was meant to whitewash her image, was immediately bombarded with over a hundred thousand comments from angry netizens.

[I checked the time of this video. You guys had just received 5 million of Yanran’s hard-earned money, and you immediately wanted to cut off his livelihood and slap him?]

[This whole family basically wants Yanran dead, don’t they?]

[What sin did Yanran commit to be so unlucky to encounter a family like this?]

[Still trying to whitewash yourself? Go to hell for all the bad things you’ve done.]

Aside from Qiu Yayu being attacked, things were just as bad for Xuan Yihan.

The old comments telling Lin Yanran to “get out of the entertainment industry” now completely backfired onto him.

[Truly, apples don’t fall far from the tree. Your white lotus act makes me want to vomit.]

[Hurry up and get out along with your scumbag parents.]

Looking at the overwhelming abuse online, Xuan Yihan couldn’t even post the pre-written PR script he had prepared, which claimed everything was his parents’ doing and had nothing to do with him.

He truly didn’t expect the Super Idol production team to be so bold as to keep the recording of that incident and to capture his smirking expression so clearly…

Now his persona had collapsed, and he had lost a massive number of fans.

Even so, Xuan Yihan hadn’t quite given up and was still thinking of how to salvage his image.

But unfortunately, someone online directly exposed his parents and the Xuan family.

[Netizen: I’m dying laughing. Xuan Yihan’s fans are still stubbornly pushing the narrative that the “little young master” can just go home and inherit a multi-billion dollar estate if he leaves the industry. Don’t you know your little young master’s parents are just “wealthy beggars”? They survive on family trust funds and allowances from the eldest brother. If they were really that rich, why didn’t they buy a center debut spot for him? Also, your little young master’s family is failing now. The Xuan Group’s stock has been a sea of green for days, and many projects have flopped. Truly, if you do too much evil, retribution will come. I reckon if this keeps up, they’ll be bankrupt soon.]

This netizen clearly had inside connections. After hearing this, people dug around based on the clues provided and found that it was exactly as stated.

Xuan Yihan’s parents were fake wealthy, and the Xuan Group they relied on had been plagued by bad luck recently. Not only was the stock market volatile, but also several promising projects had been swallowed up by competitors.

The most damaging was a tourism project worth billions that was suddenly halted today, causing billions to go down the drain.

The Xuan Group was a new money upstart that relied entirely on the previous generation and the eldest brother to prop it up; it didn’t have the deep-rooted foundations of old-money families.

Thus, after being smooth-sailing for so many years, the Xuan family fell into a slump after its first major blow.

Xuan Hongwei and Qiu Yayu didn’t even dare to leave the house these past few days; as soon as they stepped out, people threw rotten eggs at them. Not only were they being cursed online, but the eldest brother, Xuan Fangze, had directly cut off their allowance.

Qiu Yayu had cried until her eyes were swollen before she finally managed to wait for the eldest brother to return home.

“Brother…”

Xuan Hongwei stood up and had just walked in front of Xuan Fangze.

Pia! A loud, sharp slap landed squarely on Xuan Hongwei’s face.

Xuan Hongwei was left dazed by the slap.

Qiu Yayu didn’t dare cry anymore and immediately scrambled up. “Bi—Big brother, what’s wrong…”

Xuan Fangze didn’t bother arguing with them and threw the cup in front of him at Xuan Hongwei’s face. “From this day forward, both of you get the hell out of the Xuan family!”

In all his years, this was the first time Xuan Hongwei had seen his brother this furious.

He hurriedly knelt before Xuan Fangze to beg for mercy. “Brother… don’t do this. How am I supposed to survive if I leave the Xuan family?”

Xuan Fangze kicked him away. “I don’t give a damn if you live or die! From now on, I am reclaiming all the assets under your names. Get out now! The further, the better!”

Terrified, Qiu Yayu also knelt before the eldest brother and sobbed, “Brother, you’re siblings after all, why so suddenly…”

Xuan Fangze didn’t want to hear it and kicked Qiu Yayu aside as well.

“You offended the Lin family! If you don’t get lost, I’ll be dragged down with you!”

The couple stood frozen on the spot.

“What?”

The next day, those who had been keeping an eye on the Xuan couple noticed that the pair had been kicked out of the house like stray dogs.

When they left, they didn’t even have a car. They walked down the road in a state of utter wretchedness and disarray, their former arrogance completely vanished.

Their son, Xuan Yihan, was also directly expelled from the DJ group by the company, citing damage to the group’s reputation as the reason. The DJ group was reduced to eight members, and all his related audio and video materials were deleted.

Furthermore, because his previous actions caused significant negative impact, he was sued for damages by the company according to his contract and subsequently blacklisted.

Xuan Yihan’s persona as a rich young master collapsed. Fans who had followed him for that image felt cheated and turned on him, joining the ranks of those attacking him.

With both his dreams of wealth and stardom shattered overnight, Xuan Yihan was pointed at and even insulted to his face wherever he went.

Unable to face the immense pressure of public opinion and the constant abuse in his private messages, he could only flee abroad in shame to hide.

As for his idiotic parents…

He didn’t bother with them at all. In fact, he now wished they would get into a car accident and die so he could at least collect some compensation.

The three members of the Xuan family finally received their well-deserved retribution.

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