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Chapter 306: Chapter 212_2 Chapter 306: Chapter 212_2 ‘Disgusting, switching to the dark path, if you want to make a movie, just go make one. No one is stopping you. Day in, day out you buy drafts to trash talk others, claiming they’re not good at this or that. I’ve never seen a female star like this, desperate for fame.’

…Such heated debates played out every day.

Wenyan’s fans naturally believed in her character.

Even when she had a fierce online feud with Fu Yiqing, she never bad-mouthed him, and she didn’t promote her own acting skills when she won the award for “Voiceless.”

How could she possibly stir up such trouble now that she’s collaborated with Director Zhou on a short film?

Her fans organized themselves to explain the situation.

‘It’s not like that, don’t be misled. Wenyan would never do such a thing. As everyone knows, she hasn’t even signed with an agency to this day and doesn’t have an agent.’

‘Since entering the industry, she’s had only one assistant! Now, she and her assistant have followed the crew into the deep mountains, how could she possibly buy the kind of paid posts you’re talking about?’

‘She’s been targeted because she’s too popular and blocking someone else’s path!’

Though Wenyan gained quite a few fans over the year, compared to the joint forces of so many other fan groups, she was still a minor player.

Her fans’ clarifications didn’t even get a chance to surface.

No matter what they posted, their content was quickly drowned out by the high-engagement comments from other fan groups.

Some even called out.

‘If you say it wasn’t your idol who did it, then let her come out and clarify. If she doesn’t clarify, it means she agrees, it means it’s true.’

The Yan fans were both amused and frustrated.

‘We’ve said that she’s in the mountains without a signal, how can she clarify? She doesn’t even know what’s happening.’

‘Hahaha, so now not having signal in the mountains is an excuse? When my idol was filming in the mountains, she still checked in on social media every now and then to reassure us. Only your idol is different, right?’

‘No, are you guys even reasonable? It’s not just her; not a single person from the entire crew has posted anything. That means they all don’t have a signal!’

However, to other infuriated netizens, the fans’ defense was nothing but ‘excuses,’ and nobody was listening.

And this was only the first step in their attempt to bring down Wenyan.

Subsequently, a slew of posts marketing Wenyan as a “rich and beautiful” persona flooded the internet.

These posts exaggeratedly praised Wenyan to the skies, employing the same tactic of dragging others down.

They chose a few female stars from poor rural families for comparison, successfully infuriating their fans.

These days, netizens who love gossip didn’t do much else but watch Wenyan get bashed every day.

Poor Wenyan was still in the mountains, braving the cold and gnawing on steamed buns.

Forget about going online; she couldn’t even get a cell phone signal.

To make matters worse, Wenyan’s brothers from the Shen Family were either abroad on business trips or filming in remote areas, unaware of her situation.

The fans were desperate to make contact with her but had no way to reach her.

Outside, only her ‘Yan fans’ stood isolated, fighting the battle alone.

The ‘rich and beautiful’ persona that was being marketed made the Yan fans furious.

‘We’ve said it thousands and thousands of times: she doesn’t have a team, she couldn’t possibly be behind this type of marketing. Why must you all choose to be selectively blind?’

‘When has she ever marketed herself as being rich and beautiful? She’s been in the industry for so long, why hasn’t she marketed herself earlier or later, but only when she’s being attacked by the whole internet? Is she a fool?’

‘Please, open your eyes and see. Every time Wenyan appears in public, she has never claimed to be rich and beautiful. The only time she mentioned her family was at the “Voiceless” premiere when her fans celebrated her birthday, and she said she would have dinner at home that evening.’

‘And about that bracelet the marketing accounts talked about, come on, she’s a female star, okay? What’s wrong with having a few valuable pieces of jewelry? Can’t she buy them herself? How does that make her a spoiled rich girl or the persona of a wealthy second-generation?’

This point made by the fans was true.

Wenyan truly never disclosed anything about her family or family members in public.

Rational gossips actually tended to side with the fans’ clarifications.

But just then, another voice burst onto the scene.

‘Hahaha, I’m dying of laughter. Aren’t there plenty of scandals in the entertainment industry where celebrities got what they asked for? You Yan dogs are here desperately washing your idol’s image, but it’s too bad that your master dares not to speak up.’

‘Also, your idol’s face is about to be slapped really soon! She’s bragging about being rich and beautiful now, but she’ll cry even harder when she crashes.’