Chapter 427: Digging Up Dark History
The onlookers were very concerned about this matter, although it didn’t have much to do with them. But this was, after all, a rare juicy tidbit about the popular Shion-sensei, who was currently in the limelight. Everyone was very concerned. They all wanted to know about their idol’s private life.
Although everyone had said they had forgiven Shion-sensei, and that it was not her fault alone, they were still very curious about Shion-sensei’s private life.
The woman in the video seemed to be Shion-sensei’s guardian, and she had also been cursing Shion-sensei for being heartless, for forgetting her after she had become famous. Although what she had said was well-founded and had also indirectly proven that she was Shion-sensei’s guardian, the one thing that everyone found strange was, why would this woman who claimed to be her guardian curse Shion-sensei for being an orphan, for having no parents? Wasn’t that a bit too much? That woman, looking at her, didn’t look like Shion-sensei’s parents. She should be a relative, but how could the words she had said be so harsh?
All of these had become doubts in the netizens’ hearts.
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“Yu girl, you bastard! I’m going to expose you online and let you be cursed to death! Let’s see how you’re going to make a living in the future!”
When she saw Tong Lili again, Yu Linna had not brought Wu Siyu with her. She had decided to go and see her by herself. Before going out, Yu Linna had put on sunglasses, a hat, and a mask, covering herself up tightly, until she met with Tong Lili.
“I’ve already given you what I should. What else do you want?”
Yu Linna took off her sunglasses and said faintly.
Tong Lili was so angry she couldn’t find a place to vent. She didn’t care about that much and just started to curse.
“You have to give me a hundred thousand yuan, or I’ll go around and tell others about your past. I believe you don’t want others to know about the things you did in the past, right? You are a big star. To let others know that you have such a disgraceful past would really affect your image.”
“To let others know that I have a guardian with such a face, it would also be very pitiful, right?”
“What did you say!”
“Auntie Tong, I’ve already said it. You have not raised me, nor have you fulfilled a single one of your responsibilities. I have no reason to thank you. And besides, weren’t you the one who told me not to come and see you again?”
“…”
“Auntie Tong, you have your own child. You should be more concerned about your child. Your child is different from me. He has you.”
Yu Linna didn’t want to say too much in front of her. She wouldn’t give her a single cent, and there was no need to.
This woman, Tong Lili, was just a passerby in her life. Back then, this woman had gone through the guardian procedures and had become her legal guardian. But so what? She had not raised her. In terms of her actions, she could totally sue her, but Yu Linna had not done so. She just didn’t want to waste her time on such a scumbag.
Most importantly, she was also an adult now and had her own home. Why should she waste her time on this person?
Not long after Yu Linna had come out, a group of paparazzi had immediately drilled out of the bushes. They were crazily taking photos of Yu Linna and also pointing their microphones at her.
“Shion-sensei, can you please tell us, are you and Miss Tong really relatives?”
“Shion-sensei, is Miss Tong really your guardian? What kind of conflict do you have between you?”
“Shion-sensei, please answer our questions.”
These paparazzi…
Yu Linna thought that she probably couldn’t escape the hot search either.
These people, all of them only cared about her private life, but not a single one of them cared about how she was doing.
What a bunch of ugly-faced people.
“I’m sorry, no comment.”
Yu Linna squeezed past these people, hailed a car, closed the car door tightly, and had the driver drive away, shaking off these shameless paparazzi. The driver seemed to know her and gave her a friendly smile.
“You are Shion-sensei, right? My daughter particularly likes you. Can you give my daughter an autograph?”
Yu Linna glanced at the reporters who were chasing after her from behind and pressed her temples.
“If you shake them off, I’ll give your daughter an autograph.”
“Alright, hold on tight.”
…
That night, Yu Linna was on the hot search again.
This time, the title was “Shion-sensei’s relationship with her guardian.”
The reporters had turned their spearhead on her and her guardian, Tong Lili, and had also found out Tong Lili’s name and family. Only then did everyone discover that this woman named Tong Lili had a house, a car, and a child in Shanghai. Her husband was also in business, and their income was still passable. But no matter how everyone investigated, they did not find any record of her having lived with Yu Linna these past few years.
According to the reporters’ investigation, Tong Lili had been living in Shanghai all these years, while Yu Linna had been in Guangnan. Why were they living in two different cities? And investigating further, they had also discovered that Yu Linna had often worked part-time during her middle and high school years. Many of the bosses who had once taken in Yu Linna had said that this girl had worked at their place, but had often asked for leave and had been absent from work, so they had had to fire her.
Wasn’t Tong Lili her guardian? Why didn’t she take care of her?
These discoveries had made people’s jaws drop. They had discovered that the comments online that had been furiously flaming Shion-sensei for being unfilial, for arguing with her guardian in public, and for forgetting her roots after she had become famous, were simply untenable. Not to mention that Tong Lili was not Yu Linna’s mother, and couldn’t even be considered her adoptive mother, because she was really just a nominal guardian.
The reporters’ tears had fallen. They had written the report with an angry heart and had published it.
The next day, a headline titled “Shion-sensei’s bitter story, what is a relative? I’m afraid they can’t even be considered relatives” occupied the headlines. The reporters had used words to introduce the story of Tong Lili’s rise in Shanghai these past few years, and then had changed their tone and had written in detail about Yu Linna’s life in Guangnan, writing in a way that made one’s eyes sour.
“The Shion-sensei that everyone is familiar with, her real name is Yu Linna. Actually, everyone doesn’t know that a long time ago, she was abandoned in Guangnan by her guardian, Miss Tong, while Miss Tong was living very well in Shanghai. Yu Linna, on the other hand, was living in dire straits. I can’t believe how a child who was only twelve or thirteen or fourteen years old at that time had grown up without a guardian’s care. You may not believe it, but after the reporters’ visits, we have discovered Yu Linna’s experience of working and living in Guangnan these past few years. We have been to every place that had once taken her in.
After her guardian had abandoned her and left, Yu Linna had not asked for help, nor had she begged for help. She had relied on herself. She had run all over Guangnan, had worked in many places, and had even lied about her age, just to live. According to the boss who had once taken in Yu Linna, when Yu Linna was working at her place, because her salary had not been paid to her, and the shop did not provide meals, Yu Linna had secretly run to the garbage can behind to rummage for the customers’ leftover food. This writer has been to the back of this shop. Those leftover food that gave off a sour and smelly smell, this writer really finds it hard to imagine that someone could swallow it. The boss also said that at that time, seeing her pitiful, she had given her a few meals to eat.
This writer feels very sad. An age that should have been enjoying care was forced to go out to make a living like an adult, living a life worse than a pig or a dog!
Yu Linna had once been admitted to Guangnan City Experimental High School with a high score, but the principal of the First Municipal High School had recruited Yu Linna with the condition of waiving three years of tuition and miscellaneous fees. If Yu Linna had a choice, would she still have gone to this place?
Don’t look at Yu Linna as if she is now famous and successful, but before she was famous, what kind of life did she live? This writer does not know if Yu Linna’s biological parents are no longer here, but this writer believes that since Miss Tong had handled the guardian procedures, she should have exercised the rights and obligations of a guardian. But she had abandoned a child in a big city and had her own family outside! Now that Yu Linna is famous, she has shamelessly run back to ask her for money. Do you think this is reasonable!”
As soon as the news was reported, it immediately bombed the internet.
Yu Linna’s popularity was still very high. Many people loved to read her works, and she had also gained a large number of fans with her super cute appearance. Everyone only knew that this likable loli was a popular author, a super screenwriter, but no one knew about her private life. What everyone knew was that Shion-sensei’s name was Yu Linna, a student at Guangnan University, the top scorer in the gaokao, and Little Angel’s roommate.
But no one had ever said that she had lived alone in Guangnan for so many years, and had been abandoned by her guardian.
When the reporters had exposed the places where Yu Linna had once worked, the garbage cans she had once rummaged through, the slum houses she had once lived in, and the high school she had once attended, the fans’ eyes had all become wet.
“Is this even a human being? To actually abandon such a small child in a big city! Where’s your conscience!”
“Holy crap! A teenage girl, running to rummage for food in a garbage can? Just how hungry must she have been? Was there nothing left in her stomach but stomach acid to have forced her to do this! I can’t even watch anymore!”
“Shion-sensei is 20 years old now. In all those years of her life, did her guardian fulfill her responsibility! No!”
“Damn you! If you don’t want this child, why did you have to adopt her? If you don’t want her, give her to me! I’ll definitely raise her to be white and chubby.”
“Wuwuwu, I want to cry.”
“I am a mother of a child. If I let my child live such a life, I would rather go and hang myself. Just how cruel must a person be to do such an inhumane thing!”
“And you still have the face to ask Shion-sensei for money? You should ask your mother!”
“I am particularly unconvinced by some of the haters. You tell me, what need does Shion-sensei have to be filial to her guardian? Why can’t she curse that bitch in front of so many people? Besides, Shion-sensei only cursed two sentences. You watch that video for yourselves. How ugly that bitch’s curses are!”
“This is the tragedy of human nature!”
Just a few days after the video incident, the matter of Yu Linna online had had a reversal. The reporters had found out about her past life in Guangnan and had properly written about how she had grown up alone in Guangnan, and had also written about Tong Lili’s wonderful life in Shanghai. Such a comparison had made many fans, and even passersby, angry.
Weibo was directly flooded.
Even people who didn’t read novels and were not in this circle were shocked. They didn’t care about that much and directly turned their spearhead on Tong Lili, furiously flaming her online. Some well-known figures, after seeing this report, had angrily said that Tong Lili’s behavior was illegal and extremely immoral.
And Yu Linna, because she had lived alone in Guangnan for all these years, supporting herself, had won the sympathy of many fans. They found it hard to accept that the so cute Shion-sensei had actually been treated like this. Angrily, they had even said that they would report to the police and have this bastard arrested.
It was a good thing that Yu Linna was famous now and had become a great author. Otherwise, she might still be living a life of having one meal and not the next, as before. But the fans could not forgive Tong Lili, could not forgive this scumbag for everything she had done to Yu Linna. The key was that this bitch had no remorse at all. Plus, she was not on Weibo and had not shown any indication at all, which had caused a public outrage.
Because of this incident, Yu Linna was known to everyone and was even on the national news, becoming the biggest hot topic in the country. The few people who knew Yu Linna, after seeing this report, their eyes had all turned red, and they had all stood up to speak for her.
But this news was only very popular in the country. The heat of this news would probably die down in a week or two. People who didn’t watch Weibo and the news probably didn’t know much about this matter.
Even An Xiayue, who was far abroad, had only seen this report after a long time. At this time, the heat was long gone. After she had finished reading it, she had only sighed with emotion a few times and had decided to bring more food when she went to see her next time.
And Yu Linna herself, who was in the midst of the incident, felt that it was extremely troublesome. She just wanted to write her novels in peace.
