Rich Side Character Goes Viral for Gossiping on a Laid-Back Reality Show Ch. 100

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Yu Qianxia set down her chopsticks and wiped her mouth with a wet wipe. She left the table first and went to sit on the living room couch.

Yu Qianxia: [Yan Zhirou's only got her die-hard fans left now, right?]

System: [Exactly! Especially her fan club president—total delulu fan!]

Yu Qianxia's eyes shifted slightly. [Then let's dig into this fan club president's gossip.]

[Alrighty!] the system replied and immediately went off to dig.

Not long after, the system reported back with the melon,
[Host! This fan club president is named Cheng An'an. Not only is she a fan of Yan Zhirou, she also runs an entertainment media company called Manduo Entertainment. She often uses her connections to secretly get Yan Zhirou gigs and even spends her own money to hire fake commenters to clean up her image and clear her name of all kinds of scandals.]

[Plus, as a fan, she regularly steers public opinion and manages the fanbase from within. The reason Yan Zhirou still has over 300 die-hard fans is all thanks to her tight management. Those fans have been constantly working on their own to do PR for Yan Zhirou and help her gain more followers.]

Yu Qianxia frowned a little. [She's an adult, and even a company owner, and she still falls that hard for a female celeb?]

[Does Cheng An'an not have any rational judgment at all? She just believes in her like that?]

If she hadn't already known the second person who got "paperized" was Yu Guangyi, she would've almost thought Cheng An'an got paperized too—otherwise, how could she completely lose her sense of judgment and treat Yan Zhirou so wholeheartedly?

The system went on,
[There's actually a reason why Cheng An'an likes Yan Zhirou this much!]

A flicker of curiosity passed through Yu Qianxia's eyes. [What reason?]

The system's voice drew out,
[Well, it all started five years ago. Back then, Yan Zhirou hadn't entered the industry yet—she was still a college student. She saw a classmate share a fundraiser on her Moments.]

[It was a Waterdrop fundraiser for a guy who'd been in a serious car accident. He was one of the top students at Jing City Film Academy. Before the accident, he was handsome and had lots of girls chasing him at school. But after the crash, his face was severely disfigured, he lost too much blood in the brain, and his internal organs were badly damaged. He was kept in the ICU for seven days but still didn't wake up!]

[The boy's family had already spent everything they had to save him, but the treatment costs were like a bottomless pit. They borrowed money from all their relatives, even started selling their house, but there was no way to gather that much money in such a short time. So the boy's older sister—Cheng An'an—posted a Waterdrop fundraiser, asking for help from countless netizens!]

Hearing this, Yu Qianxia had already roughly figured out where the story was going.
[So, it was Yan Zhirou who reached out and helped?]

System: [Yep! Yan Zhirou felt really sorry for what happened to the guy. She directly transferred a million yuan to Cheng An'an and saved the guy's life!]

[A million?] Yu Qianxia frowned slightly. [Yan Zhirou had that much money?]

Yu Guangyi always made sure they didn't grow up spoiled or spend money recklessly. Their allowance was actually about the same as any regular college student's—around two thousand yuan a month.

Yan Zhirou was still a student back then. Where would she get a million yuan?

The system looked deeper into it and said, [She asked Yan Yanhua for it. Yan Yanhua sold her jewelry and gave her the money.]

[She sold her jewelry just to save a stranger?] Yu Qianxia found it kind of odd. [Since when did Yan Zhirou become such a bleeding heart?]

System: [What I found is that Yan Zhirou really pitied the guy...]

The system suddenly paused and then exclaimed, [Wait—could this have been covered up by the Fortune-Stealing System?]

Yu Qianxia's expression grew serious. [It's not impossible. Yan Zhirou's definitely not the kind of person who meddles in other people's business.]

The two of them fell silent for a moment.

After a long pause, the system continued,
[That's how Yan Zhirou and Cheng An'an met. Since Yan Zhirou saved her brother's life, Cheng An'an's been absolutely loyal to her ever since.]

Spending a million to buy someone's absolute loyalty—definitely worth it.

System: [Oh, right, Host. Cheng An'an has another identity.]

[What identity?] Yu Qianxia asked quickly.

The system let out a deep sigh.
[She's also your number one anti-fan.]

Yu Qianxia blinked, then gave a small tug at the corner of her lips.
[Honestly... not even that surprising.]

System: [She's Yan Zhirou's biggest fan in public, but in private, she's your top hater. A lot of the smear campaigns against you were stirred up by her. Like that whole mistress rumor, or the one about you mistreating your assistant. And those random times you got snapped by paparazzi? That wasn't just bad luck—it was all secretly arranged by Cheng An'an!]

Yu Qianxia nodded. A lot of things suddenly made sense.
[Yeah, true. Yan Zhirou's previous manager was from Xingmang Entertainment—no way she'd do something so petty that wouldn't even benefit her. Yan Zhirou definitely needed someone she could use directly.]

System: [And remember when you first debuted, that anti-fan who stalked you and tried to hurt you?]

Yu Qianxia froze for a second and then let out a laugh.
[Wait—was that Cheng An'an too?]

System: [Yup! That was her. No idea what she was thinking—she just wanted to teach you a lesson and force you to quit the entertainment industry early.]

Yu Qianxia let out a cold laugh in her head.
[What else could it be? With her being that close to Yan Zhirou, she was obviously egged on by her.]

[Seriously, the lengths they'll go to—coming up with stuff like this.]

Just then, another thing popped into Yu Qianxia's mind.
[Oh right, isn't Cheng An'an's anti-fan ID "Chenpi Hawthorn Candy"?]

System: [Huh? Yeah! Host, how'd you know that?]

Knew it!

Yu Qianxia gave a slight tug at the corner of her lips.
[Of course I know. I'm still in her anti-fan group chat right now.]

Just then, something crossed her mind. She pulled up the system interface to check her luck value and saw that it was still stuck at 98. That number hadn't budged in a long time.

Logically speaking, she'd been gaining more and more followers lately, public opinion about her had been great, and all the old dirt had long been cleared up.

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