Chapter 17: I Should Go to the Hospital to See If Something’s Wrong with Me

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Although Wen Miaohan never said who was irritating her, everyone watching the livestream knew exactly who had been acting the worst today.

So the moment Wen Miaohan said those words, the first to lose their composure were the army of couple shippers.

[Wen Miaohan, what do you mean?]

[Damn, she’s personally tearing the couple apart now? Were my two and a half years of genuine feelings all for nothing?]

After the couple shippers began tearing into one another across the public chat, Zhuang Xu’s fans stopped lurking.

[Wen Miaohan, you’re the disgusting one. Your whole family is disgusting.]

[When promoting the drama, you clung to our brother and used the couple pairing to stir up attention. Now you’re calling him disgusting? Who, exactly, is the truly disgusting one? What an ungrateful dog who tears down the bridge after crossing the river.]

[Wen Miaohan, I hope your cancer cells explode this very next second and send you straight to hell.]

With both sides’ fans now at war, how could Wen Miaohan’s fans possibly sit quietly by?

[Are you couple shippers sick in the head? It wasn’t our darling Miaohan who forced you to ship them. What gives you the right to curse her?]

[Exactly. During the drama promotions, our darling Miaohan always kept the proper distance from Zhuang Xu. She never made a single inappropriate move. She made it so obvious, yet you still blindly insisted on shipping them. Who are you blaming now?]

[Zhuang Xu’s fans, watch your mouths. Who was pairing them up back then and who’s profiting from the pairing now? Anyone with eyes can see.]

While the public chat descended into a furious brawl, Wen Miaohan calmly dragged her mouse and opened the file she had prepared long ago.

“Stop arguing. I have something good to show you.”

The moment they heard there was something good to see, everyone immediately perked up, their eyes fixed on their phone screens.

Judging from Wen Miaohan’s performance yesterday, whatever she called “something good” was sure to be top-notch.

Amid everyone’s eager anticipation, the video finished loading and began to play.

It was assembled from numerous photographs and surveillance recordings. At first, there were only back-view shots of Zhuang Xu entering different hotels with different women. Later came clear frontal and side-view photographs, with the faces of both people in every image captured in perfect detail.

It was always a succession of hotels and women. The only constant was Zhuang Xu.

But that was not even the most explosive part. Later, there were scenes of Zhuang Xu entering upscale clubs with different men, as well as hotel corridor footage of him emerging from a room with his legs clamped together, walking in an extremely peculiar manner.

Sharp-eyed viewers also noticed the crucial detail in the video: the timestamps on some of the surveillance footage overlapped.

In other words, on certain days Zhuang Xu would enter a hotel with a woman clinging to his arm in the morning, only to end up beneath someone else that afternoon or evening.

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It was so explosive that the public chat went briefly blank.

At that moment, no one was hit harder than Zhuang Xu’s fans.

From the video, several of the women were recognized as his fan-site administrators. That meant Zhuang Xu had been secretly involved with his own fans.

As for how those fan-site administrators felt at that moment, they were probably even more disgusted than Wen Miaohan.

A boomerang only truly hurt when it came flying back and struck the person who had thrown it.

Just moments ago, they had been the ones cursing Wen Miaohan most viciously in the livestream.

Now, they felt even more disgusted than Wen Miaohan did.

Wen Miaohan had merely acted alongside Zhuang Xu in a drama. Even their kisses had been filmed through camera tricks, yet that alone had disgusted her so thoroughly.

And what about them?

Years of devotion had been wasted on a dog, and their bodies had been sullied by a man like this. They had even begun to worry that Zhuang Xu’s reckless behavior might have given him some disease.

Good heavens, they needed to go to the hospital and get themselves examined first.

Apart from Zhuang Xu’s fans, the second most wounded group was undoubtedly the couple shippers.

So it turned out his eyes looked deeply affectionate whenever he gazed at anyone. If a dog could offer him some benefit, he would probably gaze at it just as tenderly.

How disgusting. They truly felt sorry for Wen Miaohan.

[Wen Miaohan, the truth has finally come to light!]

[Oh my God, how much professional trauma must our darling Miaohan have suffered back then?]

[I knew it! Our darling Miaohan is such a dedicated professional. Even during the drama promotions, she refused to pretend to be intimate with him. If it were me, I’d probably be too disgusted even to stand beside him on the same stage.]

After taking a moment to recover, Wen Miaohan’s fans finally stood tall again, raising their heads with pride while fiercely sympathizing with her.

[Damn, I told you this woman’s destructive power had been off the charts these past two days! This scoop is absolutely brutal. I love it.]

The only people in the livestream who felt nothing but excitement were the purely curious spectators.

[When Wen Miaohan says she has dirt, she really has dirt! No half-measures.]

[Right now, I’m more curious about how Li Xing’s fans are feeling. Wen Miaohan’s revelations are the real deal. I wonder if Li Xing is panicking yet.]

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[I’m suddenly looking forward to Wen Miaohan exposing Li Xing too. The scandals in this entertainment industry are absolutely explosive!]

No one knew whether Li Xing was panicking, but his fans certainly did not dare show their faces or say another word.

[Wen Miaohan, when are you going to expose Li Xing?]

[I’ve consulted the heavens, and today is an auspicious day. Why not expose him too while you’re at it?]

Wen Miaohan happened to see that message. With a laugh, she scolded them, “An auspicious day, huh? Your little scheme is practically being shoved in my face. So that no one gets distracted and loses sight of the main point, I won’t expose Li Xing today.”

Upon hearing this, Li Xing’s fans let out a heavy sigh of relief. As long as she did not expose him, everything was fine. If she truly revealed something, Li Xing feared the women in the industry would tear him apart and devour him alive.

The atmosphere in Wen Miaohan’s livestream gradually improved, and the tense hostility from earlier vanished completely.

But Zhuang Xu, watching the livestream through an alternate account, felt as though the heavens had collapsed.

It was over. He was completely finished.

Apart from Zhuang Xu, there was another person whose world had not entirely collapsed but had caved in halfway: Li Xing.

After Wen Miaohan called out in the livestream that she would expose Li Xing, someone looking for excitement immediately clipped that portion of the broadcast. In no time at all, the video had shot to the top of the trending searches.

Li Xing himself saw the video.

No one knew better than Li Xing whether he had skeletons in his closet.

There was no such thing as a flawless wall in this world; every deed left behind traces. Li Xing was not afraid of Wen Miaohan, but behind her stood the Wen family. If the Wen family wanted to investigate something, it would take them only minutes.

Li Xing was convinced that everything Wen Miaohan had exposed over the past few days had been supplied by the Wen family. He therefore had no reason to doubt that her threat contained any bluff. At present, he was thinking only about how to stop her from exposing his secrets.

Li Xing frowned and looked at his agent. “Brother Wang, can you get in touch with Wen Miaohan’s people? I’d like to meet with her privately.”

The Wen family was not short of money. To buy Wen Miaohan’s silence, he could not simply offer her a little hush money. He would have to appeal to her particular interests.

The problem was that he had barely dealt with Wen Miaohan before and had no idea what she liked.

If he met her in person, perhaps he could use his famously irresistible face to win her favor and find a way to pry open the gates of the Wen family.