Chapter 121: The Tide of Public Opinion Turns

“Follow every step as I say, don’t rush. This time, ride the current wave of attention and traffic to make Starlight Live truly known…” Su Juanmo pondered deeply as she devised her strategy.

Lin Fan had no choice but to obey; the situation was unfavorable for him and he could only play dead for now.

After Su Juanmo finished her arrangements, Lin Fan and Zhu Ruoxue split up to act. Fortunately, he still remembered where Chen Wei had worked before. He immediately tracked down those people, bribed them, and instructed them to release various questioning videos later in the evening.

As expected, everything unfolded exactly as Su Juanmo had predicted. At eight o’clock that night, Chen Wei started posting videos. The first was edited footage showing Lin Fan and Chen Wei exchanging insults. The third video featured Chen Wei and Zhu Ruoxue’s parents confronting each other, questioning why the bride price had changed repeatedly—from the promised three hundred and eighty thousand to five hundred thousand, and finally claiming that Zhu Ruoxue didn’t want to marry.

Clearly, Chen Wei’s earlier harassment of Zhu Ruoxue’s parents had been scripted and rehearsed in advance. Chen Wei’s intention was simple: expose Zhu Ruoxue and Lin Fan, and turn himself into a web celebrity like Chen Yanzi.

That very night, Lin Fan and Zhu Ruoxue’s names soared to the top of Doujin’s trending searches. Once Lin Fan was exposed, many dug up his information and discovered he was actually the owner of a live-streaming company, a man of some means—completely different from the scoundrel Chen Yanzi had described.

Within five hours, Chen Wei’s exposé on Lin Fan surpassed ten million views, with over three hundred thousand comments. And this was after Su Juanmo had leveraged her connections to limit the spread. Without those limits, the frenzy would have been unimaginable; Lin Fan might have become notorious as the nation’s ultimate villain.

Moreover, with Lin Fan’s identity as the boss of Genesis Entertainment revealed, crowds flocked to the female hosts’ live rooms to join the spectacle—only to find none of them were streaming that day.

Netizens continued to dig deeper into Lin Fan’s background. Around ten that night, a clip from a charity auction featuring Lin Fan surfaced, stunning everyone—he was, in fact, loaded.

Soon, various individuals claiming to know Chen Wei began releasing videos questioning whether Chen Wei had been paid to smear Lin Fan’s reputation. The masses were instantly drawn to these videos, sparking waves of skepticism.

But Lin Fan was well prepared.

Once doubts began to emerge, the digital mercenaries from the agency started posting counter-questions beneath those comments. The exposure’s heat soared, and the siblings Chen Yanzi and Chen Wei found themselves thrust back into the spotlight.

From the next day, Zhu Ruoxue and her parents successively released clarification videos, complete with surveillance footage and chat logs. As voices questioning the siblings grew louder, public opinion began to shift dramatically.

That afternoon, Lin Fan, following Su Juanmo’s instructions, released the video he had recorded. Its impact was immediate: the crowd finally saw Chen Wei’s ugly true colors. Realizing they’d been manipulated, viewers flooded Chen Wei’s video comments with condemnation and insults.

Not until the fourth day did Lin Fan formally appear, releasing his first public clarification video online—all lines vetted and carefully crafted by Su Juanmo.

In his second video, Lin Fan announced donations to several charities in impoverished regions and urged viewers not to be swayed by malicious actors.

Over the following ten days, Lin Fan, led by Su Juanmo’s team, traveled to the southwest and northwest, personally delivering donations to charitable organizations. These authentic actions completely transformed public perception.

By the time Lin Fan returned from his charity trip to Hang City, the internet was filled with praise—commendations for his integrity and commitment to giving back to society.

In contrast, Chen Wei vanished after those three videos, ceasing all updates, as if he’d disappeared from the world.

Late October, on the second day back in Hang City, Lin Fan visited Su Juanmo’s home to report on the charitable deeds of the past two weeks.

“It’s only been a week and the heat’s already faded? You had me running around for half a month—wasn’t that overkill?” Lin Fan hadn’t expected the outrage to cool so quickly.

Before he set out for the southwest and northwest, the online abuse had been relentless, and even the female streamers at Genesis Entertainment hadn’t resumed their broadcasts. Now everything was back to normal, and he felt his efforts had been wasted.

“If you say it, you must follow through. Empty words mean nothing. If netizens don’t see your real actions, they’ll keep doubting you. Now you’ve travelled so many places and donated face-to-face, your image has shifted—it’s a good thing.”

“More importantly, if Chen Yanzi and her brother release more videos questioning you, you won’t need to respond at all. The netizens will use your good deeds to slap them down.”

“I suspect that woman regrets it now—regrets not recognizing your worth. If her peculiar parents hadn’t interfered, she would have become a well-known wealthy lady in Hang City’s elite circles by now...” Su Juanmo’s tone carried a hint of mockery.

Hearing this, Lin Fan shook his head and laughed quietly. “You don’t know her at all. With her vindictive nature, this isn’t over. I bet she’s still scheming something.”

“So, is this hatred born of love?” Su Juanmo was surprised; she hadn’t expected to encounter a woman she couldn’t read.

She’d always prided herself on her sharp instincts and rich experience, confident she could see through Chen Yanzi.

But Lin Fan insisted she didn’t understand her at all.

“This woman’s lost all sense of boundaries. Since exposure didn’t work, she’s likely to resort to extreme measures,” Lin Fan hinted.

He’d seen through his system that Chen Yanzi’s purity score had dropped from ninety-one to eighty-eight over the past two weeks. In other words, she’d met three new men and slept with all of them.

Moreover, her affection for him had plummeted to minus seventy—deep hatred, sworn enemies.

“You need to be careful—she might go after your parents. There’s a saying, ‘the most poisonous heart is a woman’s.’ If she truly resorts to dirty tricks for revenge, she could target your parents,” Su Juanmo mused.

“Don’t worry, I’ve already taken precautions. I hired a skilled protector to watch over my parents. She should be the one worried—no matter who she sends to my hometown, they might not return…” Lin Fan grinned darkly.

He’d sensed Chen Yanzi’s growing hatred days earlier and anticipated she might retaliate against his parents.