145: To get to the bottom of it

Yang Shengli's voice trembled again.

"So, we treat her like the apple of our eye, the flesh of our heart."

"We want to bring all the good things in this world to her."

"We just want her to live a little happier, a little more joyful, in her limited life."

"But we never imagined..."

His tone suddenly shifted, and that heartache instantly transformed into towering rage!

"That someone would use such malicious rumors to ruthlessly stab her already fragile heart!"

Zeng Qifang, beside him, could no longer hold back.

Tears streamed down her face like broken pearls.

She grabbed a tissue, wiping frantically, but couldn't wipe them away, eventually covering her face with suppressed sobs.

Yang Shengli also took a tissue and fiercely wiped his reddened eyes.

His voice was no longer choked, but filled with icy shards.

"I'm saying this today."

"This malicious rumor-monger, this thing hiding in the gutter..."

"Our Kangyang Group will pursue this to the end! To the death!"

A surging killing intent almost burst through the screen!

Everyone was so intimidated by this aura that they dared not speak.

Yang Shengli paused, every word seemingly squeezed through gritted teeth.

"It's not just me!"

"Zhi Xia's biological parents will certainly not let him off either!"

He suddenly let out a cold laugh, filled with endless contempt and chill.

"It's just that for some matters, her parents find it inconvenient to step forward."

"So, I, her Godfather, will do it!"

Boom!

These few words were like a depth charge, completely detonating in the live stream!

After a brief silence, the bullet comments instantly went wild!

【Inconvenient to step forward?! What does that mean?!】

【My scalp is tingling! Chairman Yang means that Miss Shen's biological parents' background... is terrifying?】

【Chairman Yang just said Zhi Xia's father is his good brother, a comrade-in-arms... Holy crap, no way? I thought of a possibility!】

【From the military-political system? That's why it's inconvenient to show their faces in public?! My goodness!】

【No wonder Chairman Yang and his wife are so tough; with this background... those rumor-spreading Marketing Accounts must have poked a hornet's nest!】

At the same time, Lin Chao and Shen Zhixia were also staring at their phone screens.

Hearing Yang Shengli's pointed words, Lin Chao's gaze subconsciously turned to Shen Zhixia beside him.

His heart inexplicably pounded.

"Your parents..."

Shen Zhixia's face was still a bit pale, and her eyes were a little moist as she looked at her Godfather and Godmother on the screen, who were supporting her completely.

She coughed softly, her voice not loud, but it exploded in Lin Chao's ears like a clap of thunder.

"My father is a Division Commander in a certain Group Army of a certain Military Region."

Lin Chao's pupils suddenly constricted.

Before he could digest this information, Shen Zhixia calmly added another sentence.

"My mother is the Executive Vice Governor of Donghai Province."

Lin Chao: "???"

Lin Chao: "!!!"

He was completely dumbfounded.

His mind was blank, as if struck by a bolt of lightning, scorched on the outside and tender on the inside.

Military Region Division Commander?

Third-in-command of the province?

Now, only one thought remained in his mind.

That idiot Guo Fandong... this time, he's really kicked a thirty-meter-thick stainless steel plate.

And the kind with high voltage.

Just as Lin Chao was still reeling from the immense shock, the online storm, with the end of Yang Shengli's live broadcast, entered its next, even more violent stage!

The live stream closed.

But the battlefield of public opinion instantly spread from one point to the entire Chinese internet!

On the Weibo hot search list, eight out of the top ten were related to this matter!

#Kangyang Group Chairman Live Streams to Clear His Daughter's Name#【Explosive】

#We Just Want Her to Live#【Explosive】

#Shen Zhixia Congenital Heart Disease#【Explosive】

#Please Apologize to Shen Zhixia#【Hot】

#Evil Marketing Accounts#【New】

Yang Shengli's live broadcast, a mix of love, anger, and heartache, was like the sharpest knife, cutting open everyone's hearts!

Those keyboard warriors who had been the most vocal and abusive before now became the most devout penitents.

Countless people flooded the official Weibo of Kangyang Group and Shen Zhixia's Weibo (where comments had long been disabled), frantically typing the same sentence.

【I'm sorry!】

【Miss Shen, we were wrong, we were truly wrong, we're sorry!】

【I'm not human, I'm just an idiot used as a tool by Marketing Accounts, I kneel and apologize to you!】

Even more netizens, their sense of justice ignited, turned like an angry tide, surging towards the several Marketing Accounts that had initially published the exposé!

The comment sections were instantly overwhelmed!

【Come out and die!!!】

【You dog! Spreading rumors about a seriously ill girl, are your hearts black?!】

【May your sons be born without anuses! Your traffic is stained with blood!】

However, amidst this overwhelming wave of apologies and condemnations, some twisted, discordant voices stubbornly emerged.

【Apologize? Apologize for what?】

【So what if she has heart disease? Does having heart disease mean she can't have a chaotic private life?】

【Heh, what about those blurred photos? They can't be fake, right? Bad heart, but still knows how to have fun!】

These sarcastic comments were like ice water dropped into boiling oil, instantly causing the entire public opinion arena to explode once again!

However, before angry netizens could organize an effective counterattack.

An astonishing reversal, without any warning, arrived!

Just then, Lin Chao's phone vibrated softly.

The screen lit up with a push notification from an encrypted app.

The sender was just a single letter.

【K】

The message content was equally simple.

【Done.】

Almost simultaneously.

A blogger named "Code Knight," with millions of followers, known for exposing dark secrets in the tech world, suddenly posted a new Weibo!

The Weibo title was full of provocation and disdain.

【With such amateur Photoshop skills, you dare to come out and make a fool of yourself?】

【Come on, grandpa will teach you what 'un-blurring' is!】

Attached below the Weibo was a set of comparison images.

A nine-grid layout.

On the left were the maliciously blurred, suggestive "evidence" photos from the exposé.

On the right were the completely restored, perfectly clear original photos!

The first picture.

Left image: Shen Zhixia's mouth slightly open, a long, strip-shaped object by her mouth heavily pixelated, the pose ambiguous and highly suggestive.

Right image: The pixelation gone, Shen Zhixia holds a silver fork, on which is a perfectly cut, steaming hot sirloin steak!

She was simply enjoying a perfectly normal dinner at a restaurant!

The second picture.

Left image: Shen Zhixia with her eyes closed, her face splattered with a white, sticky liquid, also pixelated, the scene appearing sordid.

Right image: The pixelation gone, in front of Shen Zhixia stands a small boy, about four or five years old, holding a water gun, and the liquid on her face is nothing but clear, ordinary water droplets!

She was merely playing a water gun fight with a relative's child from her Godmother's family!

The third, fourth, fifth pictures... all the "intimate photos" that had been maliciously misinterpreted, after the pixelation was removed, revealed their purest forms!

The most intimate contact was merely Guo Fandong holding her hand while crossing the street.

The most over-the-top action was nothing more than a polite hug on a park bench when the two confirmed their relationship!

Pure and innocent!

Open and aboveboard!