61: Reversal

While Entertainment Disciplinary Monitor was speaking, the entertainment reporters around him suddenly turned their cameras. He looked over with his phone and saw—ha, Lu Qingyu had come out.

"Babes, look! Lu Qingyu is out!"

Security guards followed to protect Lu Qingyu's safety. They blocked the reporters who tried to get close, but they really couldn't stop Wang happiness—she was the star's mother, after all.

Wang Xi was stunned for a moment when she saw Lu Qingyu. She knew he had changed his image after becoming a celebrity and no longer had that head of yellow hair, but seeing him in person, the difference was still quite striking.

But after only two seconds of dazing, Wang Xi immediately tried to lunge at Lu Qingyu.

"Lu Qingyu, how can you treat your own mother like this? I worked three jobs to raise you. I gave you whatever you wanted as a child! How can you refuse to acknowledge me?"

Seeing Wang Xi lunging over, Lu Qingyu dodged to the side. 'Don't touch me; my clothes are new.'

Lu Qingyu: "Have you caused enough of a scene?"

Lu Qingyu's tone was cold and devoid of warmth. The way he looked at Wang Xi was not at all like looking at a relative; it was almost like looking at an enemy.

Wang Xi was a bit unaccustomed to being treated like this. When Lu Qingyu arrived in this world, he had received the memories of the original Lu Qingyu.

He remembered how much the young Lu Qingyu had longed for the love of a relative. He was sensible and obedient, helping Wang Xi with housework. At a young age, he went out to collect bottles to save money to buy Wang Xi a cake, only for her to throw it directly into the trash, hitting him, scolding him, and often denying him food.

The little Lu Qingyu had tried hard. He didn't care if the family had money. If Wang Xi could have treated him well like a normal mother, he wouldn't have cared at all whether he was a rich man's son.

Unfortunately, there were no 'ifs.' People like Wang Xi deserved to die. She selfishly let Lu Jin occupy Lu Qingyu's life and even wanted Lu Qingyu to die; 'vicious' was no longer enough to describe her.

But the public didn't know the truth. Entertainment Disciplinary Monitor was still constantly narrating in the livestream.

"What this mother is saying seems to be true. Lu Qingyu really seems to be very cold toward his mother."

Netizens watching the drama couldn't help but kick him while he was down:

"His mother carried him for ten months to give birth to him. Treating his mother like this is heartless."

"A son like this deserves a miserable end."

Seeing that the public was on her side, Wang Xi then said:

"I am poor, but you can't just randomly claim someone as your father. We've never had any interaction with Chairman Lu of the Lu Corporation in our lives. You can't just make up lies on the internet because you're jealous of Lu Jin."

The livestream of Entertainment Disciplinary Monitor said: "The biological mother has come out to hammer him. It's true that Lu Qingyu was obsessed with wealth and wanted to claim someone else as his father."

"Is there something wrong with Lu Qingyu? He's dreaming that he's Lu Jin, even wanting someone else's father to be his own."

"This person must be crazy for money."

"We've encountered a lunatic. Our baby Jin is a bit unlucky this month."

The reporters' cameras were flashing frantically at Lu Qingyu. Wang Xi kept adding fuel to the fire, intent on branding Lu Qingyu as an ungrateful, money-grubbing liar. This wave of operations was meant to completely destroy him.

Looking at Wang Xi, Lu Qingyu became even more determined about what he was going to do next.

"You are not my mother."

Wang Xi was stunned again upon hearing this, a sense of panic surging in her heart. Because she knew clearly that Lu Qingyu's 'not my mother' wasn't the public's understanding of refusing to acknowledge her, but that he knew—he knew the truth that he wasn't her biological child.

With the added momentum from Lu Jin and Su Jixing, Lu Qingyu's hot search topics had already exploded into the red.

At this moment, Wang Xi was still sitting on the ground. Lu Qingyu had no intention of helping her up, and overwhelming accusations were being hurled at him.

Seeing that the time was about right, Lu Qingyu spotted Entertainment Disciplinary Monitor's livestreaming phone. He walked up to it and said, "Please do not blindly believe others' words. Do not spread rumors."

After saying this, Lu Qingyu went straight upstairs. The drama-watching public responded:

"I only believe what I see with my eyes."

"Do not spread rumors? She's your mom, isn't she? Buddy, those words are just embarrassing."

"Stop talking. You're speaking without thinking; you're just attracting hate."

"How can he treat his own mother like this?"

Lu Jin laughed maniacally as he looked at the comments about Lu Qingyu online. This time, even Su Jixing won't be able to save you.

Lu Guozhong also saw the news online. Lu Qingyu was the dark horse of the entertainment industry yesterday, yet today he had become someone everyone wanted to beat up.

Hmph, what a pity. A waste of resources. Lu Qingyu was too ungrateful. If he had just cooperated obediently, it wouldn't have come to this.

Now, he has become a discarded pawn.

To stabilize its stock price and strike while the iron was hot, the Lu Corporation's legal department filed a lawsuit against Lu Qingyu, accusing him of damaging Lu Guozhong's reputation.

Once this statement was released, everyone knew that Lu Qingyu was finished.

However, Lu Qingyu smiled when he saw the statement: "Brother Su, we can take action now."

Su Jixing nodded immediately. The official website of Black Pearl Entertainment, the Lu Qingyu Studio managed by Su Jixing, and Lu Qingyu's own Weibo account all posted an image simultaneously.

Everyone clicked on it with a drama-seeking mindset, wanting to see how Lu Qingyu could still struggle, only to find themselves consuming an even bigger piece of drama.

"Holy crap, holy crap, holy crap!"

"Damn, my eyes have truly been opened."

"Lu Qingyu, I'm sorry. I deserve to die for cursing at you."

Lu Qingyu posted on Weibo: "I'm really sorry for taking up public resources, but I feel everyone should know the truth."

"When I was eight years old, I ran away from home for the first time because I learned a truth: I am not my mother's biological son. Once when she was drunk, she told me something shocking while hitting me. I am not her biological son. When she gave birth, she saw a wealthy family also had a son. To give her own son a good life, she swapped me with that child."

"The first time I ran away, I wanted to find my biological parents. Later, because I was too young, I wandered outside for a month before finally being sent home by the police. I originally thought that if Wang Xi could treat me well, I could give up my identity to her child. But the moment I returned home, her eyes were filled with disappointment, and she even asked why I hadn't died out there."

"Later, a director from the Lu family found me. He showed me a paternity test report, but that report was from five years ago. In other words, he knew the truth long ago but refused to acknowledge me because I wasn't successful enough at the time, so he preferred to keep Lu Jin."

"I hereby declare that Wang Xi is not my mother. Furthermore, the Chairman of the Lu Corporation has already clarified that we have no relationship. Therefore, from now on, he is not my father either."

The attached image was a paternity report from five years ago belonging to Lu Qingyu. In one corner of the report, Lu Guozhong was present.

This photo was taken secretly by Lu Qingyu. In the top left corner of the image, half of Lu Guozhong's face was visible. Although it wasn't very obvious, fans were all detectives; they directly compared it with Lu Guozhong's photos online in the comments section, and the match was 100%.

"Holy shit, people can actually be this shameless."

"People like Wang Xi should just go die. she swapped someone else's child and then abused the child of the people she loved."

Lu Qingyu had previously sent people back to where he used to live to interview neighbors who knew them about how Wang Xi treated Lu Qingyu. These were also made into a video and released together.

Neighbor Grandpa A: "It's a miracle that child lived to eighteen. Wang Xi didn't care about him at all."

Kind Auntie: "Lu Qingyu, oh, I know him. He even ate at our house. He was primary school classmates with my son. Once I was picking up my son from school and they were walking the same way. I didn't expect the child to faint from hunger on the way home. After asking around, I found out his mom didn't give him lunch at all. While other kids were eating at noon, he just sat there watching."

Neighbor Auntie A: "This child was so good when he was little. I remember once I gave him a steamed bun, and he went to the mountains to dig up half a bag of wild vegetables for me in return."

Neighbor Elder Auntie A: "His mom dressed herself up beautifully every day, but she wouldn't buy him new clothes even when his were too small."

"I don't know what happened to have him stuck with a mother like that."