In a short span of time, Ye Tianming, who was originally the subject of the revelation, was untouched, while Yan Yue ended up being the scapegoat.

Su Manman and the others looked worriedly at Yan Yue. Even An Xiaoyu blamed herself. If it wasn’t for her sister’s situation, Yan Yue wouldn’t have been questioned about publicity stunts, nor would she have been subjected to insults from Ye Tianming’s fans online.

Seeing An Xiaoyu’s guilty expression, as if she had something to say, Yan Yue smiled and handed her a piece of paper. As she replied to the “Rich and Powerful Little Gossip,” she said, “What are you all doing? Don’t tell me you think I didn’t anticipate this? They can clarify their side, and we can continue with our exposé. Whether those fans choose to believe the photos they’ll see later is up to them.” She paused for a moment and then joked, “Besides, I have to admit that I am using this as a form of promotion. I’m riding on my own popularity to reveal some gossip. In the process, my work’s vote count is rising. The Ye family’s PR strategy wasn’t entirely off.”

She appeared relaxed, unaffected by the situation. Only then did everyone put their worries to rest.

But An Xiaoyu still felt somewhat guilty. If Yan Yue hadn’t stepped in earlier, she would have been discovered by Ye Tianming long ago. Moreover, despite knowing her sister’s situation, Yan Yue had not only kept the secret but had also been helping to find solutions.

Seeing An Xiaoyu hesitating as if she wanted to say something, Yan Yue casually pulled out a sheet of paper and handed it to her while continuing to reply to the “Rich and Powerful Little Gossip.” She said, “Consider this my apology for my previous actions. So, don’t feel guilty. There’s no need for it. This is what friends should do for each other.”

Upon hearing the word “friends,” An Xiaoyu was taken aback for a moment, then smiled knowingly. “After this is over, Xiaoyu and I will treat everyone to a meal.”

Yan Yue immediately agreed, “Sure.” Then she raised her head. “Alright, the ‘Rich and Powerful Little Gossip’ just released the second wave. It will probably be deleted quickly, so I’ve asked them to repost it. I’m also going to post it on the First Military Academy forum. As long as the public sees it, our goal will be achieved.”

Yan Yue’s plan was to expose Ye Tianming’s true face to the public.

However, she hadn’t anticipated that the second wave of revelations, which had just been released, would quickly soar to the top of the trending topics. This trending topic exploded onto the scene extraordinarily quickly. As someone familiar with the entertainment industry, Yan Yue could immediately tell that someone had intervened to buy this trending topic. Not only that, they managed to secure the top spot for it. It was a purchased explosion!

She looked at Shuishui with mild surprise.

Shuishui immediately shook her head.

She turned to Fang Ji.

Fang Ji denied any involvement.

Even An Xiaoyu couldn’t have been responsible.

Wu Hua didn’t even know about An Xiaoyu’s sister, let alone have the ability to buy trending topics…

So, who could it be? Regardless of the culprit’s identity, Yan Yue decided to dedicate a song of gratitude to them—《A Heart Full of Thanks》! This trending topic had come at the perfect moment! Even if the Ye family managed to delete the post now, with this top trending topic, many onlookers would save the screenshots and images from the post. The Ye family could delete a post, but they couldn’t possibly erase the screenshots and images the spectators had shared. Even if they could, with the current rate of growth in views for the top trending topic, it was impossible for the Ye family to keep up, even if they formed an entire team dedicated to deleting posts!

Timely! This trending topic was incredibly timely!

Meanwhile, in the Special Office for Screenwriters at Emperor Entertainment Network, an assistant said to a man, “It’s trending first.”

The man nodded. “Good. Did they delete the initial post? Do we have screenshots? If we do, let’s buy another trending topic.”

The assistant hesitated slightly. “But this scoop is related to the Ye family. If they find out that we manipulated the trending topics, will it…”

The man replied, “Oh, it’s about the Ye family, huh? Never mind then. Yan Yue isn’t worth going up against the Ye family for.”

Assistant: “So, what should we do about this current trend…”

Man: “…It’s too late to retract now. Just let it be.”

So, through a series of coincidences, Yan Yue managed to score a trending topic for free. And it wasn’t just any trending topic—it shot straight to the top in no time!

As for the revelations about the “real-life” Gu Chen, they quickly entered the public’s view.

Within less than five minutes, the topic’s views and reads had exceeded one hundred million, and the numbers were still growing exponentially!

The spectators had initially believed this was a fake scoop. After all, Anna had recently posted about her loving relationship, directly addressing the “Rich and Powerful Little Gossip” and showing everyone that she was still in love with Ye Tianming, and that she trusted he wouldn’t cheat.

However, if Anna believed that Ye Tianming wouldn’t cheat, what did the recent revelation from the “Rich and Powerful Little Gossip” mean?

The picture showed a tall man in white military attire, cradling a petite girl in his arms. He was looking down at her with tender and affectionate eyes, his free hand resting on her neck, as though he was about to kiss her.

The girl’s face was blurred out, but based on the school uniform she was wearing, it was evident that she was from the First Military Academy. However, it was unclear whether she was a student or a teacher at the academy. The photo intentionally obscured the girl’s face, but the man’s features were unmistakablyclear!

Who else could it be but Ye Tianming?!

Seeing this photo, everyone was even more shocked than when they read the text-based rumors.

Nothing had a stronger impact than real photos or videos!

In an instant, the entire trending topics plaza exploded:

“What the heck!! Is this really true?!”
“Oh my god????”
“What’s going on here? Wasn’t it said to be fake? Didn’t Anna just post about her relationship? What’s the story behind this photo??”
“The blurring on the girl is really thick. Could this photo be photoshopped?”
“I’m feeling a bit disgusted for some reason. I don’t know why, but Ye Tianming’s gaze in the photo feels really creepy…”
“One second, I thought he was Gu Chen from ‘Interstellar Temptation.’ Help, there’s actually a real-life Gu Dog like this in the world!”
“Hold on, is anyone not reading the complete post from ‘Rich and Powerful Little Gossip’? This photo was only released with the girl’s consent… Anyway, my filter’s shattered on the ground now…”
“@First Military Academy, where’s the school’s response? Are you going to let this behavior by one of your professors slide? How do you plan to handle it?”
“@Anna, big sister, come take a look…”
“My world view has completely collapsed. This can’t be my beloved Professor Ye! Give me back the gentle Professor Ye, ah!”
“The trending topics plaza is in shock. Can anyone believe that Ye Tianming, a person even more skilled at disguises than Qin Zhenyun, would be like this? How is that possible? Ye Tianming has been at the First Military Academy for five or six years. During these years, he has always been affable, good-natured, and polite in front of everyone. Even if someone is good at disguises, they couldn’t have maintained it for so long, right? What’s more, even though others couldn’t see through his disguise, what about Anna, his fiancée who’s closest to him? Could she have been completely unaware? Is it all fake? Is it all fake?”

However, this photo was like Mjölnir, Thor’s hammer, that nailed Ye Tianming to the pillar of “cheating.” Especially for those in the know, they had scrutinized whether the photo was manipulated and the answer was: it wasn’t.

The photo wasn’t manipulated! It was real!

Soon, some observant individuals noticed something even more peculiar—the angle of the photo seemed off:

“Why does it feel like this was taken outside a restroom?”
“Oh my god! It really is a voyeuristic angle outside a restroom… Wait a minute, voyeurism from outside a restroom?”
“I’m a student at the First Military Academy. There were rumors before that Yan Yue was peeping at Ye Tianming outside a restroom. I believed it at the time, until I saw this photo. Now I think I might have wrongly accused Yan Yue.”
“Can anyone knowledgeable determine when this photo was taken? If it’s true, doesn’t that mean Yan Yue was wrongly accused?”
“We can’t determine the exact time the photo was taken, but didn’t the rumors about Yan Yue’s peeping incident get cleared up a long time ago? It was Ye Tianming’s fans who kept accusing Yan Yue of peeping, right? Peeping at what? Peeping at the perverted professor’s methods of seducing students?”
“Uh, is there a possibility that both parties were willing participants, like a mutual agreement?”

When the post implying the girl in the photo was a willing participant was made, a student who claimed to be from the First Military Academy responded:

“I know the person in the post. She’s my roommate. I can guarantee that she’s not the kind of person who would knowingly get involved with someone who has a fiancée. Seriously, she’s really focused on her studies, and she’s a bit naive. She wouldn’t do something like this!”

As soon as this roommate spoke up, she captured everyone’s attention! Everyone rushed to ask her about her roommate’s current situation. Did this revelation affect her? And was she genuinely a willing participant in releasing this photo?

There were too many questions. The student who claimed to be the girl’s roommate couldn’t keep up with the questions and responded in unison, “I don’t know if she willingly released the photo. I also don’t know if she’s seen this revelation. She fell ill and asked for leave a couple of days ago. She hasn’t been to school for two days.”

Upon seeing this student’s response, Yan Yue’s brow furrowed, and she felt a bad premonition.

A week ago, after they returned from the First Military Academy, the five of them had discussed revealing some information during the peak of the hype around the finale of “Interstellar Temptation.” However, whether the photos taken by the original owner were taken covertly or with consent, depended on whether the other party agreed to them being revealed. So, Yan Yue had preemptively inquired about the girl in the photo. She found out that the girl was similar to An Xiaoyu’s sister and couldn’t have engaged in something like getting involved in someone else’s marriage. Yan Yue had found it somewhat suspicious at the time, but without concrete evidence, she had dismissed the somewhat unrealistic idea.

After that, she had actively approached the girl in the photo. After meeting with her, Yan Yue had delicately approached the topic of her and Ye Tianming, and the girl had been shocked and then saddened. She had confessed that she had made a foolish mistake. Weighing her options, Yan Yue had eventually revealed Ye Tianming’s true face to her. Surprisingly, the girl hadn’t seemed too surprised and had only asked Yan Yue what she wanted. Yan Yue had explained the situation with the photo, and the girl had ultimately agreed to the revelation. The girl had said that she didn’t want others to be as clueless as she had been.

However, now, the girl hadn’t attended school for two days.

Was she truly ill?

Or was there another reason…

Shaking her head, Yan Yue pushed away the jumbled thoughts in her mind. Hopefully, she was just overthinking things.

However, after the results of the competition were announced tomorrow, she intended to visit the First Military Academy…

At this moment, discussions about Ye Tianming’s cheating scandal were raging online.

Meanwhile, Ye Tianming himself had received a summons from the school, instructing him to immediately visit the campus!

Ye Tianming’s face didn’t reveal much emotion, but upon closer inspection, one could sense the turbulent emotions beneath his facade.

“Bang—”

Ye Tianming hurled the water glass he held against the wall, shattering it upon impact!

Hearing the noise, Chen Linshan rushed over to clean up. She didn’t dare to lift her head, afraid of further angering this young master.

The more she tried not to think about anything, the more things seemed to come her way.

Then, the young master suddenly spoke, “You, come here!”

Chen Linshan’s movements, as she was cleaning up the shattered glass, froze. She crouched on the ground, not daring to move, fearing that she might provoke this young master even further.

An unfortunate reflex, it was.

At this moment, Chen Linshan thought about the times when she faced the young master. Wang Yi was always by her side, and she felt that Wang Yi was accustomed to attending to the young master. It was at this instant that a thought flashed through her mind like lightning:

Could it be that Wang Yi was always protecting me?

Once this thought took root, it couldn’t be suppressed. It accompanied fear and grew uncontrollably in Chen Linshan’s heart.

Chen Linshan was terrified, and in her heart, she screamed for Wang Yi!

Wang Yi! Please come and save me, Wang Yi!!

However, all her screams were powerless. Her mouth and legs seemed as heavy as lead, incapable of making a sound or moving even half a step!

As the footsteps approached her, Chen Linshan, filled with fear, stared at the glass shards on the ground. Tears fell from her eyes in rapid succession.

Suddenly, the footsteps stopped. The next second, Ye Tianming forcibly pulled her up by her arm.

Though the person was the same as before, the way Ye Tianming looked at this moment terrified Chen Linshan beyond measure.

Ye Tianming was extremely irritated. “Didn’t I tell you to come here?!”

Chen Linshan trembled and stuttered, “Y-Y-Young master, I—”

Before she could finish her sentence, Ye Tianming pressed her against the table!

Chen Linshan’s pupils shook. No matter how she thought about it, she hadn’t anticipated that Ye Tianming would dare to do this at the Ye family’s residence, with his fiancée present.

She struggled with all her might, attempting to free herself from Ye Tianming’s grasp, trying to escape.

The more she resisted, the more determined Ye Tianming seemed. He clutched her throat even harder!

His eyes were pitch black, like an abyss. He seemed to have lost his sanity, and his smile grew increasingly sinister!

“Why didn’t you come when I told you to?”

“You’re really disobedient.”

“And them, daring to plot behind my back.”

“Ridiculous, truly ridiculous.”

“She’s not as disobedient as you all are!”

“You all need to obey, to be good…”

“No crying! She never cries! You’ll look even less like her if you cry!”

Chen Linshan was on the brink of insanity. She was on the verge of being choked to death. Yet, this crazy man was still spouting nonsense! Damn it! Wang Yi! Wang Yi, come and save me!

Miss Anna! Save me!

Where were the people in this house? Wasn’t there anyone left alive in this house?!

Chen Linshan’s consciousness gradually became hazy. Just as her vision was fading and her eyes were about to close, the hand gripping her throat suddenly relaxed!

She was like a dying fish that had found water, taking in deep, gasping breaths!

She wasn’t dead!

She wasn’t dead!!

Meanwhile, downstairs, Anna watched the scene before her, covering her mouth in disbelief. She exclaimed, “Tianming, what are you doing?!”

Startled by her voice, Ye Tianming snapped out of it. He looked at the heavily breathing Chen Linshan and then turned to look at the tearful Anna. He also noticed Wang Yi rushing toward Chen Linshan…

He lowered his head and looked at his own hands…

Had he lost control again?

Suddenly, Ye Tianming raised his head. His cold gaze was like an arrow, shooting through the air, aimed at Anna not far away. His voice was ice-cold, his expression dark, and his imposing manner oppressive as he questioned, “What’s that in your hand? Live streaming?”

Anna seemed taken aback by his reaction, retreating repeatedly. “I… They suspected you were cheating, so I… I wanted to do a live stream to clear your name… Tianming, is everything just a misunderstanding, Tianming?”

At this moment, the online audience saw Ye Tianming striding toward Anna, his presence so intimidating that it felt suffocating even through the screen.

Soon, they heard a scream, and immediately after, Anna’s live stream went black!

Everyone: ? What the hell! Call the police! Call the police now!!