Xia Chi's originally hopeless brain was instantly given a shot of chicken blood. He straightened his spine and stared at the screen.

Wow! The trending search list looks like it was hit by an atomic bomb.

#Su Mei cheated on her brother-in-law# (exploded)

#Insider reveals that Su Mei and her husband are suspected of having a relationship change# (boiling)

#Internet celebrity Pan Miaomiao cries about a sudden breakup after drinking (hot)

#Netizens transform into Sherlock Holmes digging graves in Bali# (New)

#Su Meizhisandangsan# (hot)

#Uncovering the history of Su Mei's rise to power#

…

Xia Chi spent half an hour and finally finished eating the whole melon.

It turns out that this matter has been fermenting on the Internet for some time.

The story begins a month ago.

Douyin internet celebrity Pan Miaomiao got drunk during a late-night live broadcast and cried about her sudden breakup. She has not yet gotten over the shadow of the broken heart, which immediately caused her fans to feel distressed. The barrage of comments was instantly flooded with "Hug Miaomiao" and "Scumbag biss".

Pan Miaomiao was originally just an ordinary vocational school graduate, a livestreamer selling goods. With her beautiful looks and eloquent voice, she had amassed a million followers on livestreaming platforms. That night, her drunken sobs and venturing out of frustration seemed like a fleeting ripple in the vast ocean of the internet—until an eagle-eyed netizen discovered that the "cold-blooded ex" she was referring to was actually Luo Liang, the second son of the Luo family.

The name Luo Liang may not be familiar to the public, but his father Luo Jian is an internationally renowned director, and his brother Luo Ming is the eternal white moonlight in the hearts of a generation. This second-generation star, born with a silver spoon in his mouth, is usually low-key and almost mysterious, but a sweet photo with internet celebrity Pan Miaomiao was dug up, causing netizens to exclaim that it broke the dimensional wall.

But Luo Liang wasn't Luo Ming, after all. He was nowhere to be found in the industry, as unassuming as his appearance. Not even Baidu Encyclopedia had a description of him. The story seemed poised to fade into oblivion, like countless other pieces of internet gossip.

However, several of Pan Miaomiao's fans turned into online tomb raiders and dug deep into the ground to find Luo Liang's overseas Instagram account, which didn't even have a profile picture. They spontaneously examined the pictures and text information one by one, and finally found a clue.

A photo on Instagram has a cinematic quality—against a backdrop of azure sea and sky, a leaning palm tree sways in the wind. In the tree's shadow stands a blurry figure in a scarlet slip dress, wearing a wide-brimmed straw hat and facing away from the camera, the hem of her dress lifted by the sea breeze.

The accompanying text is more profound: Whose chaos and disorder?

The time of release coincided with the time when Pan Miaomiao mentioned the breakup while crying.

Pan Miaomiao's fans quickly posted this important discovery on social platforms and mobilized netizens to offer a reward for the woman in red.

First, a travel blogger identified the filming location as a resort on Paris Island based on the outline of a volcano and the shape of palm trees in the distance. Then, netizens dug out the check-in photos of tourists from the same period on Xiaohongshu. In the background of one of the selfies, they suddenly caught a glimpse of a scarlet figure: the same wavy long hair, the same wide-brimmed straw hat, the same slender figure.

Although her face was only shown from a 45-degree angle, her sexy red lips and European-style double eyelids were enough to make people recognize her. She was Su Mei.

Although Su Mei is not a top star, she has become a well-known actress in the circle. She is also Luo Ming's wife and the daughter-in-law of the Luo family.

The incident immediately became a big deal, and more netizens joined the archaeological excavation team and found a photo of the beach scenery of the same resort on Su Mei's Xiaohongshu, which showed two red wine glasses clinking together.

The timing just matched.

The public was in an uproar, and Su Mei was pushed to the forefront.

That night, the entry #小花苏梅issuingcheatingonherbrother-in-lawinBali#topped the hot search list.

【After all, the truth will eventually come out.】

Xia Chi put down his phone and shook his head.

【What is coming has finally come...】

******

"Sister Ya, do you still remember? When Su Mei just graduated, she played your maid. She chased after you and called you sister all day long. Later, I don't know how she got involved with Director Luo Jian's son. She was like a different person. Tsk - when we met at the film festival last year, she didn't even look at you."

The filming of "Monster Hunting in Mountains and Seas" is nearing its end. While waiting for the scenes, assistant Xiaoqian complained to Senya.

Sen Ya tiredly adjusted her hairpin in front of the mirror. The face in the mirror showed fatigue. She carefully fiddled with her bangs, trying to cover up her slightly swollen cheeks due to hormonal changes during pregnancy.

The filming will be wrapped in the next few days. The little life in her belly makes her more tired than ever. She has already declined the next role she was originally scheduled to take. Now she just wants to go home and lie down.

"People come and go in this circle, and that's just how it is. You've seen it all, so you just get used to it."

Sen Ya forced herself to stay alert, as she was a frequent visitor to trending searches but had no interest in them.

Xiao Qian curled her lips and handed Sen Ya some water. "But then again, Luo Ming has the looks and the resources, so why is Su Mei so desperate to hook up with her brother-in-law? I see Su Miaomiao's fans are all digging up the story, saying that Luo Liang is just a worthless person - he got a fake diploma abroad, and after returning to China, he's been idle all day, and all the expenses for his dates are paid by Pan Miaomiao, that love-brained guy."

Sen Ya didn't comment, but suddenly remembered the last time Su Mei walked the red carpet with Luo Ming on her arm at the film festival. It seemed perfect, but she always felt that the couple were a little deliberate, like a carefully prepared performance.

Although it is common for couples to show affection to attract attention, I always feel something is wrong.

Senya picked up her phone and went to the Weibo search page.

Su Mei dominated half of the top ten hot searches, even Pan Miaomiao's name was on it, but the Luo family's father and son seemed to have disappeared.

That's not right.

When I clicked on the trending searches, I saw that the comments were truly disgusting.

"Su Mei, get out of the entertainment industry."

"I knew it wasn't a good thing."

"Ming Shuai, with his thick eyebrows and big eyes, how come he is also cuckolded?"

"This is my brother Ming, and this is my sister-in-law, hey."

"Nothing tastes better than dumplings, and nothing is more fun than my sister-in-law..."

"You guys in the entertainment industry really know how to have fun."

“…”

Sen Ya speculated that the Luo family had used their connections to remove the trending search. She was all too familiar with those shady backroom maneuvers, especially by an old-fashioned person like Luo Jian, who valued his reputation above all else. It was just that the wave of public opinion was so overwhelming that the matter couldn't be suppressed, so the Luo family simply gave up Su Mei as cannon fodder.

It was clearly Luo Liang who caused the trouble, leaving Su Mei's Weibo in a sea of slut-shaming.

Senya's fingertips paused, and a few fine lines appeared between his brows.

Didn't Su Mei just give birth to a son for Luo Ming? This shows her true status in the Luo family.

"Don't jump to conclusions." Sen Ya still didn't want to believe that Su Mei would cheat: "What if Luo Liang took the photos secretly out of wishful thinking? It's too easy for women to be slandered, but men can easily avoid it."

"Isn't it confirmed that a single man and a single woman traveled to Paris Island? Look at this—" Xiao Qian was indignant as she enlarged the photo on Su Mei's Little Red Book. Next to the open-air swimming pool of the Bali Resort Hotel, two red wine glasses were emitting an ambiguous glow in the sunset, and there was half a lip print on the edge of one of them.

After staring at the bright red for two seconds, Senya turned away: "What else can it prove? There are too many groundless speculations. Let the bullets fly for a while."

It is possible that Guanghui Media is secretly doing something to suppress the scandal.

Senya put her phone upside down on the table, feeling panicked.

This matter started to become a big deal last night, and the hot searches this morning were tampered with. The Luo family reacted very quickly, and even Pan Miaomiao was covered up. They allowed such a large amount of traffic, and suddenly interrupted the live broadcast a week ago. Luo Liang also logged out of Instagram at the same time.

There's a strange feeling that there's something fishy going on here, as if all this had been predicted.

Just as Sen Ya expected, someone spoke out at noon.

The one who spoke out was Luo Ming. He suddenly updated his Weibo after being silent for many years and posted a standard group photo - in the photo, Luo Ming, Luo Liang, Su Mei, an assistant and a nanny, six or seven people stood in a row, making tacky scissors hands gestures to the camera, with the background being the Balinese landmark Tanah Lot Temple.

The accompanying text revealed the perfunctory attitude of an old cadre: "I went on vacation with my family last year, let's go our separate ways."

The real person personally took off the hat, public opinion reversed, and the comment section was flooded with messages of love for men in the blink of an eye.

"Ming Shuai is such a man! He personally came out to refute the rumors!" (82,000 likes)

"So it's a family trip. Why didn't you tell me earlier? Netizens just have too much free time."

"You've wronged my sister-in-law. I told her she wouldn't be so short-sighted."

"Everyone knows Ming Shuai is a homebody. He only stayed in the hotel in Bali. Is there anything wrong with not liking to go out?"

"Just a few photos can make you fantasize about so many things. You're afraid that the world will not be in chaos. Brother, comfort your sister-in-law and make sure she's well fed and well-drinking. Even if you have to stay at home and pick your feet, we will wait for you until you're old, skr~"

"I see, it's my brother-in-law who's obsessed with my sister-in-law."

…

The wind direction suddenly changed, and netizens were holding up the moral stick but couldn't find a target. Luo Liang had already deleted his Instagram account completely, and netizens who had nowhere to vent their sense of justice flocked to Pan Miaomiao's Douyin comment section.

Pan Miaomiao herself did not respond, and the latest video was still stuck on the segment of last week's live broadcast of selling goods. Once the traffic dispersed, the popularity on Weibo decreased slightly. Except for Luo Ming's statement, other hot searches fell out of the top ten.

The originally blood-red #苏梅出查# entry was like a chewed piece of gum, stuck to the end of the list.

The storm soon subsided, with only a small group of netizens refusing to buy it and insisting on finding fault with it. Some even used microscopes to study the group photo.

"Although my sister-in-law was standing in the middle, her center of gravity unconsciously leaned to the right, and her non-pivot foot was facing the direction of the second child."

"You, Ming Shuai, are like an outsider. Even though you smile brightly, your body is stiff, your hands are clasped behind your back, and you're subconsciously avoiding your wife. You seem to be standing together, but in fact, you're not even touching."

"What nonsense are you talking about upstairs? If they are not good enough, how did they give birth to the child?"

“Well, that’s indeed a problem.”

"Ming Shuai, you have to be careful of the second brother. There must be something fishy going on between them..."

"Maybe your Ming Shuai already knew about it. He's such a pale person, a pale green person."

"I'm willing to swear on my gay face that handsome is gay."

…

By the afternoon, the farce had almost subsided, with only a few scattered entries interspersed among the hot searches.

#Insiders reveal that a well-known director slapped his youngest son at the full moon banquet, with pictures and the truth#

#Digging up those unknown romantic stories of famous directors#

#Celebrities who accidentally appeared in tourist photos in Bali#

However, another piece of news exploded like thunder out of the blue, quickly sweeping the hot searches and completely overshadowing the Luo family.

Netizens' attention was quickly attracted.

Public opinion was in an uproar.

#Senya is pregnant#