AITFYMIBP Chapter 103

TL: Hua

Compared to the fame of Lin Yanran and Bai Tianyu, Shang Chengcheng was a 38th-tier nobody in the entertainment industry.

If Bai Tianyu hadn’t mentioned him in the recording while harassing Lin Yanran, most people wouldn’t even know who he was.

When people first heard that he posted on Weibo, they all thought it was some obscure celebrity trying to get some attention by jumping on the bandwagon.

But when they reached his Weibo and read his words, they realized it was something else entirely.

Shang Chengcheng: After watching a whole night of true and false news, I couldn’t help but look back at the only New Year’s greeting on my phone from a friend. He told me: [The future is beautiful, and you deserve it].

Even though he lived through such hardships, even though he once felt so depressed and hopeless that he contemplated suicide, and even though he was betrayed by a friend…

Once he walked out of the darkness, he still didn’t forget to pull back the friend who was once falling into the abyss.

I don’t know if I’ll ever have the chance to embrace the future again, but right now, I want to share some things from the past.

Actually I don’t know where to start, so I’ll start with my ex… although he probably never wanted to acknowledge my existence. But he was my only boyfriend, and I only sent him the breakup text right before posting this.

Yes, a boyfriend.

Ever since I became aware of my gender, I’ve realized I’m different from others. I’m attracted to the same sex, and I like my neighbor.

I lived in an unhappy home; my parents were controlling and prideful, and their relationship was toxic. They were rarely home, and no one cared for me. After learning about my situation, he always took care of me, accompanying me to school, waiting for me to finish homework, playing with me, and even fighting others for me.

He was afraid I’d go hungry, so he specifically learned how to cook. He was afraid I’d be scared alone at home, so he spent countless lonely nights with me.

This was the first time I had felt love from someone who wasn’t a relative. He was like a ray of sunshine, illuminating the dark corners of my life.

For so many years, I have been incredibly greedy for that past warmth, unwilling to let go.

Later, my parents discovered my sexual orientation. They, who had never cared for me, suddenly showed concern.

They thought I was sick and sent me to an internet addiction treatment center for electroconvulsive therapy.

Electrotherapy can’t cure homosexuality, but it really, really hurts.

Being tied up in a small dark room, unable to move, yet clearly feeling the electric current surge through your body, stinging every inch of skin…

In those days when I was more dead than alive, I was lucky enough to meet this friend.

We had different “sicknesses,” but the same experience. He told me his parents didn’t want him anymore. I told him I was the same. My parents loathed me because I am gay.

So, two children about to be abandoned, in that period of eternal darkness, were like two stray dogs huddled together licking each other’s wounds.

When the pain became unbearable, we tried our best to be the only flickering match in each other’s world.

We would smile at each other before going in for treatment. We would wait for the other to come out just to give them the first clean tissue. We dreamed of a beautiful future once we got out and imagined being friends for life.

Eventually, we cut ties with our parents and “graduated” from that “school.” With no relatives left, we became each other’s only family. Naturally, the first thing I did was introduce him to my ex-boyfriend.

I didn’t realize that was the start of the nightmare.

Later, to make a living, I participated in “The Best Male Voice.” But having been locked up for six months, I was terrified of contact with strangers.

My friend, who also disliked strangers, offered to join me for support.

After we signed up, my boyfriend joined for the same reason. The three of us seemed blessed; we all advanced together, and our popularity was great. My friend was in the top three, and my boyfriend and I were in the top ten, just enough to debut and sign a contract.

At the time, I felt that all the hardships I had endured were nothing at all and that I was actually the luckiest person in the world.

Until one day, I saw with my own eyes my boyfriend trapping my best friend in a corner out of camera range, attempting to force a kiss on him.

My gentle friend, who almost never used foul language, was red-eyed with rage after breaking free, pointing at him and calling him trash.

At that moment, I finally understood why he had always been so repelled by my boyfriend and why my boyfriend always kept track of where the cameras were.

I’ve seen many people asking why Yanran didn’t come out to clarify things back then.

Because the cameras only caught the sentence where he called his harasser “trash,” but they didn’t record the process of him being molested and harassed.

And the only eyewitness, the only one who could prove his innocence, his most trusted friend, shamelessly took advantage of their friendship to beg him to remain silent and let the man go.

Because that scumbag knelt and promised his friend he would change and live a good life with him. The scumbag said he didn’t want his career ruined and to live in the shadow of people’s judgment if his orientation was revealed.

Between love and friendship, his friend ultimately chose love.

So, for the sake of his only friend’s happiness, the victim chose to endure it.

Consequently, he became the target of cyberbullying. His popularity plummeted, his life turned upside down, and he became so depressed he attempted suicide.

Meanwhile, the shameless perpetrator gained the netizens’ pity and sympathy, hiding his filthy heart while his career soared. In a flash, he turned into an idol for countless people.

I’m sorry, Yanran. I’ve owed you these words for a long, long time.

You gently fulfilled my despicable romance, and I selfishly destroyed your bright future.

I know everything is irreparable now, and I have no right to call myself your friend. But I still hope you can give me a chance to return this long-overdue justice to you.

I am sorry.

Shang Chengcheng didn’t hire any PR; he typed every word himself.

After finishing, he mustered the courage to reply to Lin Yanran’s New Year message.

Under the phrase [The future is beautiful, and you deserve it], he solemnly replied with six words.

Shang Chengcheng: I am sorry. Thank you.

I’m sorry I destroyed your beautiful future. Thank you for being willing to turn back and pull me up.

At this point, the truth of what happened between Lin Yanran and Bai Tianyu during The Best Male Voice was finally clear to everyone.

Previously, everyone had only been making guesses based on the recordings without any concrete evidence; some even remained skeptical.

However, Shang Chengcheng’s Weibo post had revealed the truth about what happened back then, completely clearing Lin Yanran’s name regarding those past events.

After reading the Weibo post, netizens discovered that Bai Tianyu was an absolute piece of trash.

He had maintained a bachelor persona while secretly being in a relationship and even emotionally cheated on his partner.

He used his boyfriend to help turn his own crises into safety, only to turn around and continuously sexually harass his boyfriend’s friend.

With one incident piling on top of another, Bai Tianyu thoroughly disgusted everyone to the core.

Shang Chengcheng’s Weibo post quickly exploded to the number one trending spot.

When Bai Tianyu saw it, he was livid.

Anxious as an ant on a hot pan, he called Shang Chengcheng directly.

“We’ve been together since high school. Are you really going to disregard all these years of feelings? Delete the post quickly; don’t be like this. Everything is a misunderstanding. I’m being framed by Yanran’s people right now; he’s intentionally taking revenge on me.”

Bai Tianyu had always known exactly how much Shang Chengcheng loved him.

That was why he never expected that at this critical juncture, it would be Shang Chengcheng who stepped forward to expose him.

However, even though Bai Tianyu wanted to strangle Shang Chengcheng more than anything, the situation was urgent, so he could only use a gentle tone to play the emotional card and continue his deception.

But this time, Bai Tianyu’s manipulation didn’t work.

With tears streaming down his face, Shang Chengcheng shook his head, still choosing to stand on Lin Yanran’s side.

“We were the ones who wronged Yanran in the first place.”

Hearing this, Bai Tianyu could no longer maintain his facade of tenderness. He questioned Shang Chengcheng in a fit of rage: “Do you want me to die?”

“I’m tired.”

Shang Chengcheng felt truly exhausted.

People change, but he had stubbornly trapped himself in the tenderness Bai Tianyu had shown him back in high school, refusing to move on.

But now, he didn’t want to persist anymore.

Upon learning Shang Chengcheng’s attitude, Bai Tianyu hung up the phone immediately.

“F*ck you, psycho!”

The disaster this time was so severe that it brought up old grievances, leaving Bai Tianyu with a terrible headache.

Seeing that he couldn’t handle Shang Chengcheng and that public opinion was worsening, he had no choice but to have his PR team issue an emergency response.

They claimed everything Shang Chengcheng said was false and implied that Shang Chengcheng and Lin Yanran had conspired to frame him with rumors, stating they would pursue legal responsibility.

However, his statement was completely useless this time.

In the midst of the chaos, someone released a secretly filmed video of him taking a minor celebrity to a hotel.

Following that, another person stepped forward to reveal that Bai Tianyu had drugged and raped him two days ago under the guise of starting a relationship.

The other party revealed that after his audition, Bai Tianyu told him that he looked beautiful in traditional style and even made him wear an outfit similar to the one Lin Yanran wore in “Imperial Power” before ultimately drugging and raping him.

When this news broke, everyone was utterly shocked!

If the previous scandals involving Bai Tianyu were merely about a collapsed image and a ruined persona, this subsequent revelation pushed him toward becoming a criminal…

Because it was so shocking, netizens felt the whole thing was surreal.

What was even more surreal was that someone soon exposed a video from two days ago showing Bai Tianyu supporting a drunk person as they entered a hotel room.

The clothes the man was wearing were exactly as described—a cosplay of the outfit Sheng Zhao wore while imprisoned in “Imperial Power.”

Although the video only captured them entering the hotel, the thought of the victim’s description made netizens feel disgusted to the core.

They felt disgusted for the victim and disgusted for Lin Yanran.

Lin Yanran’s styling in “Imperial Power” was very beautiful, and many people would cosplay his look when filming videos for fun.

But no one had ever encountered such a disgusting use of cosplay…

Just as netizens were preparing to attack this piece of trash, Bai Tianyu, they discovered that at least ten more victims subsequently came forward anonymously to share their experiences of being assaulted.

Without exception, these people had been lured, raped, or drugged by him…

Because there was no surveillance, no recording, no evidence, and even because they were of the same sex, they could only suffer in silence for many years.

A few brave ones had tried to expose him before, but it never gained any traction.

If it weren’t for the fact that Lin Yanran’s situation had become such a massive deal, they might never have dared to come out and expose him…

At this point, as the number of victims grew, everyone realized the severity of the problem.

Bai Tianyu wasn’t just guilty of sexual harassment; he was a suspected rapist!

Weibo nearly crashed because of the Bai Tianyu incident.

Soon, netizens discovered that Bai Tianyu had been taken into custody for suspected crimes, including rape, drugging, drug use, and trafficking.

Bai Tianyu affair began with a bizarre start and ended with an equally bizarre conclusion, both incredibly dramatic and swift.

Afterwards, while netizens were vehemently condemning the scumbag and rejoicing that he had finally been brought to justice, they were also relieved that Lin Yanran’s years of injustice had finally been cleared.

Lin Yanran’s fans were heartbroken.

They weren’t happy because their idol had cleared his years of injustice; instead, they burst into tears because of his past experiences.

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