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The incident continued to escalate.

Most netizens believed, “The party involved liked it, so it’s solid proof, right?”

Some connected it to the several heartbroken Weibo posts Fu Xuan made a few months ago, leading to a sense of righteous indignation and pity for the “beautiful victim.”

As a result, many fans and curious netizens flooded the involved parties’ Weibo accounts with comments. Jiang Ying’s account, “Lawyer Jiang Speaker,” bore the brunt, with the hot comments filled with insults.

“Ugly people cause more trouble. Being a mistress and still jumping around showing off? Are you perhaps proud of it?”

“Fairy Xuan Xuan is so unlucky to be hurt like this by you! Shameless to ruin someone’s three-year relationship. Scumbag man and cheap woman!”

“So, whether love can last or be stable has nothing to do with whether a woman is beautiful. Men only like novelty; unheard-of shit always smells good.”

“If the mistress looks like the photo, she’s actually quite pretty, but she’s far worse than Fu Xuan. I really don’t understand what this Meng guy is thinking. Heh, men.”

“Trash, and a lawyer too, doing things like stealing someone’s boyfriend. Bah!”

“Onlookers say it seems the man is really rich... Fu Xuan loved to show off before they broke up, now it’s the newcomer’s turn, haha.”

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“Lawyer Jiang Speaker” remained silent amidst this storm of criticism.

At noon, the other party involved, Fu Xuan Larissa V, posted a new Weibo:

“I don’t want to bring this up again. I’ll just consider the past hurt as being bitten by a dog; since I can’t bite back, it’s better to gradually forget it. In fact, they have known each other for much longer than I have. I’m not clear when the deception started, and I have no desire to ask. Upholding kindness, sincerity, and being true to myself is more important than anything.”

This display of delicate tenderness and strength deeply resonated with her fans and sympathetic passersby. How could they tolerate their fairy being so humiliated? The insults grew even uglier.

Even Shufeng’s usually quiet official Weibo was affected. The top comments under the game’s promotional video, which were initially “I! CAN!” and “Ahhhh I love this art style! Want to play!”, changed to “You guys are okay with this? A cheating scumbag making a dating game, is the script based on his own emotional experiences? Shouldn’t he just disappear into the earth?” and “Are that slut and cheap dog showing off in front of their ex every day, please investigate?”

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Jiang Ying’s side was the absolute disaster zone. In such matters, the woman always faced more accusations. Some even dug up her previous comments under other popular Weibo posts to “whip the corpse.”

It was a news story about a legitimate girlfriend disfiguring a mistress with a knife. Many comments below said things like “the mistress deserved it,” “lucky she didn’t die,” and “karma, let’s see how she’ll seduce men now.” Jiang Ying couldn’t help but comment at the time, saying, “So now political correctness is greater than the law, and intentional harm is cheered? What a magical world.”

This comment had received many likes at the time, pushing it higher up, but now it was used to attack her—no wonder she spoke up for the mistress so much, turns out she was a mistress herself.

However, the netizens’ fervor was far from over. By the afternoon, an account named “JRSM917” actually dug up Jiang Ying’s real name and work information, posted her professional photo from the law firm’s official website, and also published Weihe Law Firm’s phone number, encouraging everyone to call and complain about her: “How can someone who is a mistress and has no basic moral bottom line be fit to be a lawyer?”

However, “JRSM917” had posted this in a comment, which initially only gained many likes and replies. Later, for some unknown reason, it suddenly received over six hundred reposts.

It was at this point that Jiang Ying finally posted her first Weibo update since the incident began: “Fabricated. The clear will clear themselves.”

This cold treatment made Fu Xuan completely relieved. She essentially confirmed that they had no leverage against her, otherwise how could they say such weak words? Since that was the case, this war would be dominated by her.

Soon after, she followed up with a post:

“What right does the perpetrator have to say ‘the clear will clear themselves’?! I didn’t want to talk too much about emotional matters, thinking that what’s past should be left in the past. But they have repeatedly challenged my bottom line! Jiang Ying, don’t you know what you’ve done? You had a crush on Meng Jingshu for years. When I was with him in senior year, you jealously questioned him, insulted my character, and even went crazy in the dorm, hitting me until I had a concussion. Have you forgotten?

When we returned to China in the middle of last year, you must have been restless since then. I felt his growing coldness towards me but didn’t know why, thinking I wasn’t good enough, desperately trying to win him back. It wasn’t until the night of September 17th that I couldn’t reach him all night, and he only came home the next afternoon. After that, we had a huge fight, and he decisively wanted to break up. It’s laughable that I only recently found out about your relationship. Do you dare to say where you were that night, with whom, and what you did? Do you still dare to say you’re ‘clear’? Do you dare?! @LawyerJiangSpeaker”

Attached to the long post were long-saved WeChat screenshots: Jiang Ying’s angry questioning and criticism of Fu Xuan’s character. There was also a medical record showing Fu Xuan diagnosed with a mild concussion, with the date matching the description.

Ironclad evidence confirmed Jiang Ying’s various misdeeds.

For a time, Fu Xuan received countless support from fans, passersby, and many influencers in the industry, such as Feng Xirou and others, as well as some friends she had collaborated with or met at events. Even Hong Binyu helped repost,

“I’ve known Xiaoxuan for quite some time now, and she’s a good girl. First, congratulations to her for escaping the scumbag’s clutches, and I wish her never to suffer such grievances again. Second, to her fans and the wider internet, just scolding the scumbag is useless. It’s better to take practical action and boycott his company’s products.”

Many people were awakened by him, rushing to the official Weibo of “Stars Turn for You” with their keyboards to scold them again.

This matter stayed on Weibo for most of the day, with increasing popularity. Several related topics even made it into the top ten trending searches.

More “righteous passersby” flocked to the involved parties’ Weibo accounts. Of course, there were also some dissenting voices, notably from a netizen named “Give My Phone Back to Gege.”

“Give My Phone Back to Gege” left a comment under Fu Xuan’s Weibo: “I thought it was something big, causing a fuss all day, and it’s even trending at #5. Not a celebrity, just an nbcs (nobody cares) influencer, yet everyone is so agitated. Heh, if you didn’t know, you’d think that woman surnamed Jiang cheated on tens of thousands of people.”

His remarks angered the enraged netizens, leading to another fierce battle in his comment thread.

Those who supported Fu Xuan said,

“Who are you? If you don’t like it, don’t watch. If you don’t understand the beauty industry, get lost. Xuan Xuan is still an nbcs? I think you’d be an nbcs even if you died!”

“Are you a paid troll hired by that cheap Jiang woman? Speaking against your conscience!”

“Hope you’ll be just as indifferent the day you get cheated on.”

However, this “Give My Phone Back to Gege” was not someone to be trifled with. Probably angered by the fans’ extremism, he decided to blame Fu Xuan. He went to influencer exposé forums and various other forums to dig up dirt on Fu Xuan, splitting it into many explosive posts. The comment section became a complete mess. What was originally a comment with only a hundred or so likes quickly climbed higher with rapidly increasing replies.

At its most exaggerated, Fu Xuan’s name rose to the second spot on the trending search list, and her Weibo followers increased by hundreds of thousands within a few hours.

Around 7 PM, dinner time had passed. Everyone thought the “scumbag man and cheap woman” had been thoroughly beaten down and wouldn’t dare to speak again. They suddenly felt that all their angry words had hit cotton, leaving them feeling somewhat empty.

At 8 PM, prime time. At this moment, “Lawyer Jiang Speaker,” who had been verbally attacked all day, suddenly posted a video.

“@FuXuanLarissa You are the one who has been challenging my bottom line. Since you’ve brought up such old matters, let’s just make everything clear.

To satisfy everyone’s curiosity, I also have some things to clarify.

This is the first point. In my senior year, I did indeed get into a fight with her in a fit of anger, but her concussion was definitely not caused by me. There is surveillance footage from the dorm building as proof. If I had truly hit her hard enough to cause a concussion, and if she had wanted to, I would likely have a criminal record, which would disqualify me from practicing law. This is common sense, please be aware.”

The video clearly showed the two of them, after a few words, getting into a brawl after Jiang Ying slapped her. Soon after, another girl rushed out of the dorm room and pulled them apart. At this point, they were separated by two or three people, visibly still arguing while panting. Fu Xuan emotionally tried to rush forward again but accidentally slipped and hit the back of her head hard on the ground. Clearly, this impact was the “head trauma” mentioned in the medical record.

Police records cannot be privately kept, and for such a small incident, trying to re-investigate it now would be like looking for a needle in a haystack. That’s why Fu Xuan thought a few words could convict her, unaware that Jiang Ying had already obtained this surveillance footage from the dorm manager right after the police mediation that year. Having experienced such a false accusation, she felt lingering fear and understood that talking more was useless; only evidence mattered.

Netizens weren’t mindless. Apart from Fu Xuan’s fans, others who watched the video had a less aggressive tone than initially. However, most reactions were still, “Even if you didn’t cause the concussion, you were the one who started the fight, right? Doesn’t that prove you had feelings for her boyfriend long ago?”

Before Fu Xuan could react, “Lawyer Jiang Speaker” posted another Weibo, with extremely sharp words:

“Reply to the comment on the last Weibo: Even if I have feelings for a married and child-having Daniel Wu, as long as I don’t commit any substantial acts of interference, that’s my freedom, and no one can control it.

This is the second point. @FuXuanLarissa You look closely at every picture, every word. You, and my boyfriend, who exactly was the one cheating?”

There weren’t many words in this Weibo post, but it contained nine legitimate picture and text explanations. And it was this Weibo post that directly sent Fu Xuan’s name to the top of the trending topics, briefly exploding for several tens of minutes.

The first two pictures were screenshots from another surveillance video. Fu Xuan, wearing a goose-yellow camisole dress, was seen holding the arm of a tall, strong man. They were walking together from the hotel lobby to take the elevator upstairs. The man’s face was heavily blurred with mosaic, making it impossible to distinguish his features, but his build and thick hand clearly indicated he was not Meng Jingshu. The video’s timestamp showed it was June of last year. To prevent netizens from speculating about the authenticity of the time, the third picture thoughtfully included a comparison image from Fu Xuan’s Weibo, showing her in the same clothes and with the same bag on the same day.

Ironically, the caption for that Weibo post was: “Going home to visit Mr. M’s grandma~ But he went drinking with his brothers the next day and wouldn’t accompany me, so sad shopping alone~”

The next few pictures featured a different male lead: an Italian guy named Celio, permanently located in the US, whose Instagram profile indicated he was a few years younger than Fu Xuan and her companions. He had brown curly hair and blue eyes and smiled beautifully. However, his emotional life was not as pure as his smile; his Instagram contained many intimate photos with women of different skin colors and types, including hugs and kisses.

Among them was a woman with red lips as her profile picture, named San, who often communicated with him affectionately. Starting from the year before last, they had many outings and dates, but strangely, there was not a single group photo showing both their faces. The only truly intimate photo was one taken by Celio of himself kissing San’s dark hair from behind, showing half of his face and half of San’s ear and earring. The last Instagram post screenshotted in the long image was a photo of Celio leaning on the hood of a red Maserati, dated late May last year, captioned: “Lovely angel San’s gift. Thank you and miss u every second baby.”

Finally, there were photos of the identical earrings from Fu Xuan’s Weibo, and a Weibo post from her birthday the year before last showing the same car as a gift: “Mr. M’s birthday gift, so happy! Thank you soooooooo much!!”

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Seeing this, Fu Xuan’s heart completely sank. Unbelievable... They actually knew everything, but pretended not to! When she returned to Nanqing last year, she had been lonely because Meng Jingshu neglected her and had met that man... Later, she found out he was married and stopped all contact.

And Celio, they met at a party. She was truly too lonely abroad, and Meng Jingshu was always so busy, never having time to accompany her, which is why...

Celio was a sunny and handsome boy, four years younger than her, but they were so sweet. He always praised and cherished her in every way; she simply couldn’t let him go. To keep it a secret from everyone, she created a secondary Instagram account. Foreigners couldn’t pronounce “Xuan,” so she chose “San,” a similar-sounding name. That period was the happiest time of her life. So, before returning to China last year, she lied and said her car was stolen, when in fact, she secretly gave it to Celio as a farewell gift.

Jiang Ying knew everything... It was Meng Jingshu, Meng Jingshu told her! He had known all along! That’s why he was so cold to her!

Fu Xuan was in her studio, and everyone was in chaos... What to do!

She had always been worried, unsure if they truly knew nothing. She had only intended to curse and then let it go, not wanting to blow things up so much. It was all Feng Xirou’s fault; she suggested doing it this way, saying it was a good opportunity to regain lost popularity and also suppress that couple. Feng Xirou said Hong Binyu would be their backing, which is why she acted so recklessly!

Feng Xirou, yes, call her quickly, maybe she has a solution!

Fu Xuan called her, but it kept going to voicemail. She then called Hong Binyu; he also didn’t answer. What were these two doing?! At around six o’clock, they said they were going to celebrate crushing Shufeng and getting their revenge. It had been over two hours, they should have finished whatever they were doing!

Just then, Assistant Xiao Xiao answered a call and ran back, flustered, saying, “What do we do! The people from Oxx said they’re not shooting the new lipstick swatches the day after tomorrow!”

Fu Xuan’s vision blurred. It was all over!