After Transmigrating, I Fell in Love with a Top-Tier Movie Queen - Chapter 97

Ye Linghua’s greeting completely stunned the entire live stream.

Forget the netizens and guests, even Yan Li, who only wanted to celebrate with Ye Linghua and incidentally spite Lin Wan, was utterly bewildered.

Lin Wan? Isn’t that the Lin Wan who was driven out of the entertainment industry by netizens?

How dare she still appear here? More importantly, how did Ye Linghua know the person opposite her was Lin Wan?

She had asked the administrator not to block the person beforehand, which could only mean one thing: Ye Linghua knew Lin Wan would come before she even appeared. Crucially, Ye Linghua knew Lin Wan’s secondary account name even before the broadcast started.

But how could an ordinary person know something like that? At least Yan Li felt he didn’t know, or that he didn’t have the means to find out.

So, how did Ye Linghua know?

Yan Li looked at Ye Linghua in disbelief. He didn’t understand, truly didn’t understand. More than the netizens who were curious if the person was Lin Wan, Yan Li was more curious about how Ye Linghua knew the person opposite was Lin Wan?

It was just a string of numbers, nothing unique. Was it the default name provided by the platform upon registration? It couldn’t be that simple.

Ye Linghua might be more incredible than he imagined.

Of course, while the netizens were stunned and the guests were confused, Lin Wan on the other side was no better off.

She wasn’t a particularly smart person, but she was a little princess spoiled by her parents.

Even during the days when her family was heavily in debt, she hadn’t endured much hardship.

However, her mental fortitude was genuinely low; a small setback was enough to make her collapse.

She was like this when she learned about Lin Xin’s existence.

She was also like this over the past two days while being attacked by Ye Linghua’s fans and fans from the entire entertainment industry.

How could she tolerate being defeated so thoroughly by an ordinary person like Ye Linghua?

Ye Linghua wasn’t even an entertainment industry insider!

Just thinking about this made Lin Wan feel a discomfort, as if three million ants were tearing at her body.

Yet, it was this ordinary person who had crushed her so badly in the ranking event.

And this incident was spreading across major forums, making her the laughingstock of the entire entertainment circle?

Lin Wan was on the verge of a breakdown that night. That’s why she couldn’t resist opening The Leisurely Courtyard‘s live stream.

But once she opened it, watching the sickening interaction between Ye Linghua and Lin Xin on screen, and then seeing the fans’ fervent screams in the chat, Lin Wan’s heart was filled with bitterness and swelling discontent. She began to feel unbalanced.

She couldn’t believe that after so many years in the entertainment industry, her own efforts were less effective than these two’s staged performance.

Yes, in Lin Wan’s view, these two couldn’t possibly be genuinely in love.

How great a vanity fair was the entertainment circle! How could there be pure affection in such a place?

How many CPs are there to date? Some were real, but which one didn’t end in a broken-up BE (Bad Ending)?

Even those who got married ended up divorced.

The entertainment circle was simply that kind of place. Not to mention, how could anyone like a cold person like Lin Xin?

She wasn’t likable, which is why she was always abandoned from childhood to adulthood!

But even if Lin Wan felt she saw things clearly, she thought the fans still didn’t. Now, the constant stream of messages on her screen and the fans’ brainless shouts of 【It’s real】【Rising Star must be real】 made her suddenly lose her mind.

Lin Wan decided that she had to let everyone know the true nature of Rising Star!!!

It was under this mindset that she finally couldn’t hold back and sent that comment.

Even though it was immediately covered by other comments right after she sent it, she desperately kept sending it. If it was pushed out, she would send it again.

She knew that as long as she kept sending it, it would eventually be seen.

Sure enough, the comment was finally seen. When she saw Ye Linghua’s rigid expression on the screen and the netizens’ comforting words in the comment section, Lin Wan was incredibly excited.

See? Everyone knows it’s not real; they’re just deceiving themselves! That’s why such a simple question couldn’t be answered.

Real is real, and fake can’t become real.

Lin Wan pressed her advantage. She only wanted to force Rising Star to admit, in this live broadcast and in front of all the netizens, that Rising Star was fake, that it was for business!

Just imagining the massive CP fan base collapsing and the kind of online abuse Lin Xin and Ye Linghua would suffer made Lin Wan incredibly excited. She even started laughing out loud.

However, the reality was not as simple as she thought. Ye Linghua always had an unexpected reaction. Ye Linghua didn’t panic; she was even relaxed, greeting her with confident smiles and calling her Miss Lin Wan.

Lin Wan was completely bewildered for a long time after that, but fortunately, she reacted quickly, immediately replying: 【You must have the wrong person? Hahaha, how could I be Lin Wan?】

Yes! Yes! How could it be her?

Everyone thought so, and netizens couldn’t help but discuss it.

【Lin Wan wouldn’t be so shameless as to come to the live stream, would she?】

【Isn’t she already shameless enough? It wouldn’t be surprising if she came.】

【No, no, no. The key is, how did Ye Linghua know it was Lin Wan?】

【Yeah! That’s the real point. But our Xiao Qiming is a smart person!】

Lin Wan: 【Hahahaha, a “smart person.” So smart people don’t need to provide evidence, right? I’m just an ordinary fan who asked a simple question, and you’re leading your fans to cyberbully me! Xiao Qiming isn’t an industry insider, but she uses these tactics quite well.】

Yan Li looked at Ye Linghua. While he trusted Ye Linghua—he knew what kind of person she was after spending so much time with her—he knew she wouldn’t name names on screen without absolute confidence.

However, Lin Wan also had a point. Without evidence, this incident, with a little guidance from other companies, would turn into a story of Ye Linghua leading fans to cyberbully an ordinary person.

If they couldn’t explain it clearly, Ye Linghua would be in deep trouble.

Did Ye Linghua know the rules of the entertainment industry? Did she know how to handle this? How could she dare to say such things in a live stream, in front of tens of millions of viewers?

Aside from everyone else, Lin Xin was nervously rubbing her fingers together, clearly unsettled.

She trusted Ye Linghua but was afraid Ye Linghua was acting impulsively.

Under Lin Wan’s accusations, the entire live stream finally cooled down. No one dared to discuss loudly, and even the speed of netizens sending messages slowed down.

The camera focused on Ye Linghua. Her charm and confident composure had always been like this. Even now, facing Lin Wan’s accusation, she remained the same.

She didn’t panic or appear guilty. She just offered a slight smile and slowly said, “Miss Lin Wan, don’t rush to deny it. If you speak too definitively and are exposed later, it won’t look good.”

Lin Wan was momentarily stunned. Looking at the confident Ye Linghua in the video, she couldn’t tell what was true and what was false.

But if she didn’t reply, the audience would think she was guilty.

Lin Wan could only steel herself and continue to shout: 【I’m just an ordinary fan. You’re falsely accusing me like this; why don’t you show your evidence!】

Then she realized something was wrong! How did the topic shift to whether or not she was Lin Wan? And the topic of whether they were faking their relationship had been completely diverted?

This is all harm and no benefit to me! What a formidable tactic.

So, Lin Wan added: 【Don’t try to change the subject! You and Lin Xin are fake, right? Otherwise, why change the subject? You keep saying I’m Lin Wan just because you don’t want to admit you and Lin Xin are for business, right?】

【How could you be their fan? If you were their fan, you wouldn’t say those things. CP fans would never admit to the ‘for business’ thing!】

As soon as “for business” was mentioned, the fans, especially the CP fans, immediately jumped out to loudly scold her.

Lin Wan could only explain: 【I was a fan! I just asked casually at first, but I never expected Ye Linghua to falsely accuse me, an ordinary fan, just to change the subject. I was wrong about them. How could I continue to fan them?】

Lin Wan was unusually clear-headed, refuting the fans’ doubts one by one. This caused many passersby to look at this “little troll” with suspicion, starting to wonder if what this person was saying was true.

However, Ye Linghua only allowed her to jump around a bit, giving her no chance to whitewash herself.

Seeing that netizens were already being confused by Lin Wan’s words, Ye Linghua calmly said, “Miss Lin Wan, I actually do have evidence.”

Lin Wan: “…”

【Wow, this is exciting. Is she going to reveal the evidence now?】

【If the evidence is revealed and it really is Lin Wan, that will be even more exciting.】

Lin Wan continued to brazen it out: 【If you have evidence, then show it!】 She refused to believe it. This phone contained none of her personal information; how could simply registering an account with it prove her identity?

【So confident?】

【If Xiao Qiming says it’s Lin Wan, I believe it’s 8 or 9 out of 10.】

【Indeed, I still trust Xiao Qiming’s ability.】

【But Lin Wan is so confident, maybe she really isn’t Lin Wan?】

【Upstairs, do you even hear yourself?】

Ye Linghua took out her phone, casually adjusted the screen, and said: “The private phone you’re using for this account, you registered it not only on DouDou Live but also on the foreign Nit forum, right?”

Lin Wan was stunned, her heart sinking. How did she know?

Ye Linghua’s phone displayed two screenshots. One was the background of the current account, showing the bound phone number. The other was the background of the Nit account, showing the bound phone number.

The two phone numbers were identical. This proved that the fan in the DouDou Live room and the Nit secondary account were the same person.

What was even more surprising was that the phone number was not domestic; it seemed to be the number Lin Wan used while studying abroad.

Ye Linghua mused: “You might have thought that Nit is a foreign website, making it difficult to find a handle on you, right? And by using that number to register a DouDou Live account abroad, only the phone number information would show up when you logged in domestically, so there was no way for anyone in China to trace you, correct?”

【Wow, a DouDou Live account registered with a foreign phone number is essentially a foreign mobile, which is hard to trace domestically.】

【Registering abroad and then logging in back home. Plus, the phone has little personal info, so it’s indeed hard to trace.】

Lin Wan: 【What, what do you mean?】

Seeing that she wouldn’t shed a tear until she saw the coffin, Ye Linghua continued to explain: “That account you have on Nit! You posted quite a lot about yourself. Your itineraries should all match up, right? After all, your time studying abroad isn’t a secret. Comparing it with the itinerary on your main Nit account should easily reveal similarities. Most importantly, Lin Wan! The information you registered on your Nit secondary account included your university information from your time abroad. You originally created it just for venting, never expecting a situation like this. So, the personal school information you left during registration—that’s irrefutable proof, isn’t it?”

Lin Wan’s words of denial were suddenly silenced in the face of this absolute proof.

She was not a big star, and when she left the country to study abroad, she didn’t receive much attention.

But she still had a few loyal fans, so she couldn’t post any unsavory comments on her main foreign account. She specifically applied for a secondary account, where she dumped all her emotional garbage.

The secondary account had numerous posts. Comparing them to her main Nit account would easily show that the two accounts belonged to the same person.

She initially thought that since the platform was foreign, domestic authorities couldn’t reach it.

Her naive understanding made her feel like a person stripped naked and thrown before the public—so awkward and terrified.

Ye Linghua, across the screen, couldn’t sense her current state of mind. She even managed a gentle smile and explained, “Oh, by the way, this screenshot was also sent to me by someone else. I didn’t hack into anyone’s back end to get it.”

【Hahahaha, so, our Xiao Qiming doesn’t break the law, right?】

【Hahahaha, law-abiding Xiao Qiming.】

As if that wasn’t enough, Ye Linghua added: “You asked me for evidence, so I had to show it to everyone.”

Lin Wan: “…”

Ye Linghua looked utterly composed, her words like a scythe-wielding grim reaper, giving Lin Wan no chance to breathe.

Yet, even so, Lin Wan still didn’t know how to reply. Watching the netizens laughing online, she felt herself tremble all over.

Seeing no further reply from Lin Wan, Ye Linghua chuckled and continued: “If you don’t reply, I’ll take that as an admission.”

Lin Wan paused, reflexively wanting to type, but saw a message pop up from her manager, who was again going crazy.

“Don’t reply to her! Haven’t you embarrassed yourself enough? She has photos; are you afraid she doesn’t have other evidence? The key now is your secondary account. How much content is on it? Is it appropriate? If it’s not, hurry up and delete it!”

The manager practically wanted to scold her for not knowing what was important. How could she still be confronting Ye Linghua at a time like this?

Lin Wan finally realized that the secondary account was a complete trash bin. It contained countless vulgarities, jealousy, and shameful moments.

All the darkness behind the main account’s glamour was in that secondary account!

Lin Wan quickly exited the DouDou Live stream, jumped into the Nit app, logged into her secondary account, and began frantically deleting posts.

Meanwhile, in The Leisurely Courtyard‘s live stream, all the fans erupted in laughter.

【It was already embarrassing enough when Lin Wan’s back-end fraud in the Pengjie Purifier ranking was caught by a fan who was live-streaming on a forum. I never expected anything more embarrassing (crying-laughing emoji)】

【Quick, look! She’s frantically deleting posts.】

【(Screenshot) (Screenshot) (Screenshot) Holy crap, holy crap, holy crap! Her words are too nasty!】

【Damn it, she even insulted my goddess?】

【That’s so disgusting! It’s one thing that she’s not popular, but she’s jealous of others’ success and curses them.】

【I found her diary entry from the day she returned to China. How dare she say she’s back to find true love (vomiting emoji).】

【My God, she’s almost done deleting! Good thing I was quick with the screenshots.】

【It’s trending, it’s trending! Lin Wan is trending again today because of this stunt! Lin Wan is amazing!!!】

Watching the comments constantly update the situation, everyone was shocked and looked at Ye Linghua. Where did you get this kind of information from???

Ye Linghua felt everyone’s gaze, pressed her lips into a smile, and could only explain: “She forced me to do it.”

Everyone: “…” Didn’t you tell the administrator not to block her? That doesn’t look like being “forced”!

Lin Xin was also looking down at the Nit app. Most celebrities registered on Nit as well, but domestic fans rarely paid attention to it.

Meng Keling had registered one for Lin Xin, too, but Lin Xin usually just copied her Weibo content over.

Looking at Lin Wan’s Nit username, which was “Three Lifetimes Love,” she just felt sick.

It’s one thing for you two to genuinely love each other, but you broke up, one went abroad, and the other married me, yet you made it seem like I was the one who broke you up.

Looking through the content of “Three Lifetimes Love,” although Lin Wan was constantly cursing, she never named names.

Most people would just assume the netizen was dealing with something unpleasant in real life.

But now, knowing she was Lin Wan and combining it with the events in the domestic entertainment circle, it was easy to match her rants to whichever domestic female celebrity she was cursing.

The one cursed the most was, of course, herself, the “sister.”

From being a mistress, forcefully stealing love, to various misfortunes being karma, Lin Wan’s hatred toward Lin Xin was displayed vividly.

Lin Xin wasn’t hurt by the ugly words. Looking at it now, this was not only Lin Wan’s desperate roar from before but also her cry of failure now.

Though she herself wasn’t hurt, the hand beside her still reached out and firmly grasped her own.

Lin Xin was startled and looked at Ye Linghua beside her.

Ye Linghua looked at her reassuringly and said, “I will certainly clear your name.”

Lin Xin: “Huh?”

Ye Linghua squeezed her hand and said, “Everyone needs to know about the things Lin Wan and Zheng Lanwen falsely accused you of.”

It wasn’t your fault, and you shouldn’t have to carry that past burden.

The netizens who have been scolding you every year need to know how terribly wrong they were.

Lin Xin’s eyes reddened. Those past events were vivid in her memory.

She had suffered and hated.

But Ye Linghua’s appearance allowed her to see the world anew.

She had already moved on from the past, but the matter itself had always remained ambiguous. Why…

Why make Ye Linghua endure these accusations again?

Lin Xin could only say: “…You don’t have to.”

Ye Linghua: “Of course, I do. This isn’t your burden. What they owe you, they must repay.”

Ye Linghua understood people’s hearts, just as she could practically predict all of Lin Wan’s actions.

Lin Wan indeed came back, landed on the trending list, and was mocked by everyone. Even though it wasn’t the first time, this time was particularly humiliating.

Everyone has privacy, and everyone fears their inner secrets being exposed.

Lin Wan was a strong-willed person. Ye Linghua had exposed her dark thoughts, which were now being judged by everyone. The trending topic was displayed, and the forum posts were being streamed in real-time. Even before those posts were deleted, they had hundreds of comments.

She had nowhere left to hide!

【So, the person who was making a ruckus online just now really is Lin Wan!】

【She even purposely came to the live stream to spite Lin Xin and Ye Linghua.】

【Incredible! After all that, she still dares to come in front of Lin Xin. I wasn’t a fan of Lin Xin, but I felt terrible for her when I watched the live stream back then.】

【Is she obsessed with her? She’s haunting her.】

Lin Wan watched as the comments started to bombard her with insults. She ignored her manager’s texts and calls. She had already been completely exposed. What else did she have to fear?

Lin Wan sneered, no longer caring that her identity was exposed. Anyway, it couldn’t get worse than this. She ignored her manager’s plea to play dead and insisted on posting in the chat: 【Ye Linghua, no matter how much you try to humiliate me, the fact that you love a mistress won’t change. I’m a bad person, but Lin Xin is trash too.】

【Damn, she’s back.】

【She actually dares to come back, and she just admitted it.】

【She has completely lost all shame.】

【She’s trying to drag Lin Xin down to cover up her own disgust, right?】

【At least Lin Xin’s relationship with Zheng Lanwen was out in the open.】

Lin Wan sneered: 【Out in the open? Stealing someone else’s lover, getting married. Does a process like that count as being out in the open?】