Can you really hire someone to fill in for you and slack off during a live PK battle?
Why would he be angry about something so good?
In the live stream, the anti-fans who had infiltrated were waiting for Wei Sheng and Jiang Xiaoman to have a falling out. They even had their script ready: "Top star Wei Sheng's live stream was overshadowed by an ordinary internet celebrity, and he immediately turned on her!"
Aren't you royalty? How can you lose to an internet celebrity? Aren't you ashamed?
Wei Sheng said he felt no shame at all.
He even took the opportunity to drink a large cup of herbal tea!
Jiang Xiaoman's homemade Langshan traditional herbal tea tastes much better than those two red canned herbal teas sold in supermarkets!
Moreover, it's said to contain herbs that can help with weight loss and reduce belly fat. If you drink more of it, won't you be able to have a late-night snack?
Xiaoman's late-night snacks are super delicious too!
The haters were stunned. Kang Xinyue, who had finally climbed to the top of the list, couldn't care less about the hater war. When she saw Jiang Xiaoman waving at her in front of the camera, Kang Xinyue quickly grabbed her phone and started typing a comment.
"Brother Xiaoman, I heard you were adopted. I don't mean anything by it, but now that you're all grown up, making money, and have so many fans, have you ever thought about finding your biological parents?"
Fans: "..."
Holy crap! Which mental hospital escaped from?!
Are you sick in the head?
They certainly knew that Jiang Xiaoman was adopted, especially the longtime fans, who basically all knew that Jiang Youliang was not Jiang Xiaoman's biological father.
So what if they're not my biological child?
In this world, there are heartless beasts who abandon their own flesh and blood.
Of course, there are also good fathers like Jiang Youliang, who, despite not being related by blood, have always treated Jiang Xiaoman as their own daughter.
What does it mean to ask, "After making money, have you ever thought about finding your biological parents?"
Oh, when he was little, they didn't want to raise him, so they just dumped him at the market.
Now that Jiang Xiaoman has grown up and finally earned money through his own efforts, does he really expect to bring back those two beasts who abandoned him and treat them the same as Jiang Youliang?
On what grounds?
These days, netizens have seen it all. How could they possibly be manipulated by this kind of saintly, innocent-looking person?
Before Jiang Xiaoman could even organize his thoughts to answer the question, his fans were already giving him a sharp rebuke in the live chat.
"Are you alright? If you're alright, stop showing off here. Save your money and buy yourself some plums!"
"Since you're so eager to provide for these animals in their old age, then head over to Langshan Elementary School. The school has a few big pigs that need you."
"Hey upstairs, stop insulting the pig! What did the pig do wrong? The pig feed cooked by this kind of person must be poisonous!"
Jiang Xiaoman's fans were so angry they were almost incoherent.
They all watched Jiang Xiaoman grow from a poor mountain girl who couldn't even afford to take the high-speed rail to achieve what she has today through her hard work.
To put it bluntly, the Jiang family's current wealth, brick by brick, was earned by Old Man Jiang and Jiang Xiaoman through their own hard work. It has nothing to do with their biological parents who abandoned them.
The poor fans were still frantically spamming the bullet comments to retaliate against the malicious number one on the leaderboard.
The wealthy fans started showering gifts like crazy, and before long, the top-ranked donor in Wei Sheng's live stream was no longer visible.
Seeing that the new list was full of their own people, Jiang Xiaoman's fans applauded the tycoon while comforting Jiang Xiaoman, telling her not to take his words to heart.
Since his biological parents abandoned him back then and haven't paid a single penny in child support over the years, why should he go looking for them now that he's making money?
Finding these scumbag parents will only add countless burdens to Jiang Xiaoman!
What if his biological parents have a few more younger siblings... Holy crap! Wouldn't that mean there would be an extra bunch of burdens waiting for him, the older brother, to take care of them?
Everyone thinks that the person who ranked first on the leaderboard just now must be a hater.
However, to their surprise, there were actually a few self-righteous, good-natured people in the live stream who thought Jiang Xiaoman should go find her biological parents.
What if they had their reasons for abandoning Jiang Xiaoman back then?
"What nonsense about your excuses!" Wei Sheng, who had returned sometime earlier, glanced at the comments section on his phone for a while, then suddenly flew into a rage. He pushed Jiang Xiaoman aside, abandoning all concern for his image, and launched into a beautiful speech in Chinese right before the camera—
"It seems that the top-ranked person just now really enjoys taking care of the elderly?"
"What a coincidence! There are many elderly people in Langshan Town who are living in dire straits. Why don't you take them into your home? If it's inconvenient, that's fine too. How about you donate a few hundred thousand yuan to build a nursing home in Langshan Town?"
"Don't advise others to be kind if you haven't experienced their suffering! You have your reasons? If you have your reasons, can't you send the child to an orphanage? Why do you have to abandon him in a remote mountain village like Langshan? Do you know what kind of life Xiaoman has lived since he was a child?"
“I heard Uncle Youliang say that his family was also very poor back then. They couldn’t even afford milk powder. If they wanted to cook some rice porridge for Xiaoman, they had to go to town to set up a stall and earn money first. A pound of potatoes cost two cents, so they had to sell ten pounds of potatoes to buy a pound of rice. He couldn’t bear to eat a single grain of rice himself and would only cook a little bit each time to feed Xiaoman.”
Where were his biological parents at that time?
"Oh, now that you see Xiaoman has started her own business and made money, Uncle Youliang, who has suffered all his life, can finally enjoy the blessings of his son, so you want to come and pick the fruit?"
"I seriously doubt whether you're Xiaoman's biological parents."
"If you've got the guts, come out and confront me! If you dare to admit it, I'll respect you as a real man!"
"Anyway, Xiaoman is doing very well now and doesn't need any biological parents."
"Trying to get a bargain? Fine, see you in court! First, let's calculate how many years you'll get for abandonment, and then we'll calculate the child support payments you've made over the years!"
"If you're short even a penny, I'll pay for a lawyer for Xiaoman myself and sue you to death!!"
Wei Sheng's fans: "..."
Brother, do you even remember that you're a public figure?
To publicly curse at people in the live stream, do you think our anti-black team has had it too easy lately?
Chapter 230
Seeing that things were going wrong, Kang Xinyue quickly logged off her alternate account. After thinking for a moment, she asked her assistant for a new account, intending to go into the live stream to see how Jiang Xiaoman would respond.
She didn't believe it. She had heard that many of Jiang Xiaoman's fans were middle-aged or elderly people. Weren't these people very traditional in their thinking?
How can someone not acknowledge their own biological parents?
Isn't that unfilial?
However, it would be even better if Jiang Xiaoman showed even the slightest hint of wanting to find her biological parents.
Kang Xinyue has already had her agent pull strings with J Province TV station to prepare for her to be a guest on the third episode. Once she meets Jiang Xiaoman, she'll definitely take the opportunity to get some of his hair or blood to try and get a paternity test done with Yan Susu.
If Jiang Xiaoman really is Yan Susu's illegitimate child, would Yan Susu still dare to disobey her?
Mr. Jin is indeed old, but he's not dead yet.
Given his fiery temper in his youth, if he found out that his wife had cheated on him, what good would Yan Susu do?
Kang Xinyue made this move with two plans in mind.
If Yan Susu intends to keep this scandal a secret, then her marriage into the Jin family is a foregone conclusion. However, after marrying into the family, she will still find a way to let President Jin know about her mother-in-law's illegitimate child, and it would be best if President Jin divorced this woman. When President Jin gets old and there is no mistress in the house, after he dies, wouldn't the entire Jin family be hers?
If Yan Susu refuses to accept the threat, then she doesn't need to be polite and can encourage Jiang Xiaoman to go find Yan Susu, her biological mother.
No matter how rich Jiang Xiaoman is, can she be as rich as the Jin family?
How much money can a mere internet celebrity earn?
She had inquired and learned that President Jin was very generous to Yan Susu, his last wife. When they got married, he gifted her a fully paid luxury villa and an office building in the city center, as well as countless pieces of jewelry, luxury cars, and designer bags.
I heard that Yan Susu likes to grow vegetables at home, and even specially set up a suburban farm for her. If Jiang Xiaoman were a little more sensible, she would cling to her mother's golden thigh. If Yan Susu were to let a little bit of her money slip through her fingers, it would probably be enough for Jiang Xiaoman to save several years of hard work.
When Yan Susu is preoccupied with Jiang Xiaoman, she will naturally have no time to nitpick at her daughter-in-law.
Kang Xinyue had a good plan, but unfortunately, Jiang Xiaoman never even considered finding her biological parents!
He's not Tang Sanzang! In a society governed by the rule of law, his biological mother probably wouldn't have been kidnapped by bandits like Tang Sanzang's mother, forcing her to abandon her child...
She deliberately ran away to a poor, remote place like Langshan to abandon him, clearly because she didn't want him to have the chance to find her when he grew up.
He must be out of his mind to think he could get maternal love from someone like that.
He was lucky to be found by Jiang Youliang, who not only treated him like his own son but also sold everything he owned to support his schooling, which allowed Jiang Xiaoman to escape the mountains.
If it were someone else who found him, they would have their own biological children. Why would they support an adopted child to go to university?
If someone else had picked him up, Jiang Xiaoman could foresee that his life would have been one of aimless drifting through junior high school, then going out to work with the other villagers, and if he was lucky, perhaps he could get married, have a few children, and spend his life toiling away in the mountains growing potatoes, only to go to the city to work during the off-season...
Jiang Xiaoman doesn't actually hate his biological parents who abandoned him; on the contrary, he's quite grateful to them.
Rather than staying with irresponsible parents, it would be better to be taken in by Jiang Youliang as his son.
His father is so good! He's skilled in everything: farming, fishing, beekeeping, and tea picking. He's also an inheritor of bamboo carving, a non-hereditary art. Most importantly, his father loves him the most!
However, you can't say that in the live stream.
Having spent so much time online, Jiang Xiaoman knows better than anyone that there's always a small group of people online who, despite never having experienced the suffering of others, like to stand on a moral high ground and forgive this or that person.
Classic lines include "They gave you life after all," "We're all family, why bother?" and "Your parents are doing this for your own good. Even if they did something wrong, how can children not acknowledge their own parents?"
If he dares to say today that he doesn't want to go find his biological parents because Jiang Youliang is good to him, he'll definitely be criticized again.
It's better to avoid trouble, and he didn't want to involve his father in such a distressing matter.
After thinking for a moment, Jiang Xiaoman looked earnestly at the camera, her expression showing a hint of melancholy and sadness.
"I appreciate everyone's kindness, but which child doesn't want to be with their biological parents?"
"I just read the comments and I think one fan made a good point. My biological parents must have had their reasons for abandoning me. So why should I disturb their peaceful life now?"
"Besides, I'm all grown up now. Whether or not my biological parents are around doesn't really affect my life. But think about it, what if my biological parents have already broken up or started new families and have new children?"
"Now that I'm searching for my relatives, I have no regrets, but have you ever thought that this might hurt the other children?"
"That's it. Let's leave it at that. I won't hate them, but I won't disturb their peaceful lives anymore."
"I remember when I was taking a literature appreciation class, our teacher once said something like this: There is no such thing as a life without any regrets in this world, because the absence of regrets is itself a kind of regret. Everything we experience in this life, from the highs to the lows, every step we take is a different landscape, a different harvest and a different regret."
“I regret that I was not able to grow up with my biological parents. When I was little, I would feel sad when I saw that other classmates had mothers but I didn’t. I would even hide and cry. But although my father is not my biological father, I am his only child in this life. He gave me all his love without reservation.”
"So, you see, my life isn't actually that bad, right?"
"So I hope everyone will stop worrying about this for me. If you really want to help me, how about helping me get on the trending topics list? Please, please! Our show is really too poor! We can't afford to buy trending topics! The show's popularity depends entirely on everyone manually posting, thank you!"
One second his fans were moved to tears, and the next they couldn't help but burst out laughing, snot bubbles flying from their noses.