Buying trending topics? Uh... is that something to talk about?
Cut it out! Don't bring trouble to Xiaoman!
However, Jiang Xiaoman's fans thought about it carefully and felt that since the show had already failed so badly, even if Jiang Xiaoman was implying that Sina Weibo was selling trending topics, the other party probably wouldn't even know it!
So, Xiaoman's biological parents don't care about him?
They'll take care of it!
Fans rolled up their sleeves, ready to boost Xiaoman's data on various social media platforms, when they suddenly saw many people in the group constantly pushing the same blogger's Weibo posts.
What?! Was their fan group hacked?
Cautious fans were worried that this was some kind of virus or Trojan link and were hesitant to click on it.
The impatient fans clicked faster than they thought, and when they saw the words "Jiang Xiaoman's biological mother" in the title, they clicked on it without hesitation!
"Holy crap! It really is! Girls, come look, this woman is a spitting image of Xiaoman!"
Soon, fans shared the pictures from the blog post in the group chat.
Jiang Xiaoman's fan groups instantly erupted in excitement.
So alike! They look so alike!
If they weren't their own children, they would have chewed up the keyboard!
However, Xiaoman is a young man in his twenties, but the woman in the photo looks like a woman in her thirties. Could she be Xiaoman's older sister?
"No, no, the blogger said that he took this photo several years ago."
"And judging from the photo, the person in the photo is very rich. Rich people usually take good care of themselves and look younger than their peers."
So who exactly is she?
...
Netizens have always had unlimited potential when it comes to gossiping. If such a big piece of gossip falls out of nowhere and you don't understand it, you definitely won't be able to sleep well at night.
Soon, resourceful netizens discovered the woman's background in the photo.
"Holy crap! You'd never guess who she is!"
"She is Yan Susu, the wife of Chairman Jin of Jinyan Group. Her son, Jin Chengjie, is Kang Xinyue's boyfriend!"
What is that?
The fans immediately went wild.
Speaking of CEO Jin of Jinyan, let's put it this way: anyone who likes to gossip online knows about CEO Jin's many romantic escapades.
To paraphrase a line from Dream of the Red Chamber, in the past, perhaps only the two stone lions at the gate of the Jin family were clean...
Thinking of all the women that Old Jin has, more than ten fingers to count, and then thinking of Jiang Xiaoman's carefree and radiant smile, the fans almost had a heart attack from anger.
Fortunately, Xiaoman never intended to look for his biological parents. If he had actually found them, and discovered that his father was a shameless womanizer and his mother might have been a mistress (it's said that several of the wives that President Jin married later were mistresses who took over), then it would have been better to have no biological parents at all!
Now, even the netizens who had been urging him to find his relatives were speechless.
If you're stuck with a family with such a corrupt family tradition, you might as well stay with Jiang Youliang.
At the very least, although Jiang Youliang didn't have much money, he was a man of impeccable character and a national intangible cultural heritage inheritor!
Besides, who says that Xiaoman has to curry favor with the powerful and wealthy to live a good life?
Aren't they still here?
As long as Brother Xiaoman keeps making videos and live-streaming to sell products, as long as they have food to eat, Brother Xiaoman will also have food to eat!
Fans almost had a heart attack from following the gossip, and then they saw that the woman suspected to be Jiang Xiaoman's biological mother, Mrs. Jin, was more than 30 years younger than the old Mr. Jin. It was obvious that she was the mistress who dumped her ex and took her place. Longtime fans who knew Jiang Xiaoman well couldn't help but feel sorry for her and were almost in tears.
Why is Xiaoman's life so miserable?
It is said that no one can ever choose their family of origin. If they could choose, let alone Xiaoman, even they wouldn't want to be born into such a family, right?
Don't say the Jin family is incredibly wealthy; no matter how wealthy they are, they still belong to the Jin family.
Now that I think about it, maybe Jiang Xiaoman's biological father wasn't actually Old Jin?
So why did his biological mother have to go so far to abandon him after giving birth to him?
After all, S Province, where the Jin family lives, is practically "thousands of miles" away from Langshan. If Madam Jin had nothing to hide, why would she abandon the child so far away? Wouldn't it have been more convenient to just find a nearby orphanage and leave him there?
This shows that the woman is also very scheming. She is probably worried that the child will come to her when he grows up, and that getting close to him will make it easier to be exposed. After all, the Jin family is a big family in S Province. They are public figures who often appear in society. What if they are recognized?
It's just a pity for Xiaoman, who was abandoned by his own mother right after birth. If he hadn't met the kind and honest Jiang Youliang, who knows what would have happened to him.
The popularity and sales of Wei Sheng's live broadcast room are rising at an alarming rate.
The number of online users increased from over 30,000 at the beginning to 50,000, 80,000, 140,000...
The local specialties from Langshan that were displayed on the shared bikes were snapped up by fans almost instantly before they even had a chance to be introduced. If you're not quick enough, you might not even see the stock when buying things in this live stream.
This made Wei Sheng wonder if he had actually listed the product.
The production team was also completely baffled.
Jiang Xiaoman's mouth seems to have been blessed; he said he wanted to get on a free trending topic, and he actually did!
And it wasn't one of those paid-for trending topics; it jumped straight to third place on the trending list!
What the heck?
They spent so much money inviting celebrity guests, and not a single one of them has reached this high level of trending topics.
Did Wei Sheng and Jiang Xiaoman engage in some inappropriate behavior during their live stream?
That's quite possible, after all, these days many netizens reportedly enjoy shipping couples.
But this is a legitimate poverty alleviation program, so bran and the like are absolutely unacceptable!!!
Thinking about this, director Chen Shu felt a chill run down his spine, and with trembling hands, he clicked on this terrifying trending topic...
Huh?
What?!
Has Jiang Xiaoman found her biological mother?
Or is she the current wife of Mr. Jin, a famous tycoon in S Province?
Holy crap!!!
No wonder all those gossip and entertainment accounts are scrambling to repost it!
After all, when there are no explosive news stories in the entertainment industry, "family feuds" are one of the news stories that paparazzi and gossip marketing accounts love to spread the most.
People are naturally curious, especially about the gossip surrounding the wealthy and powerful. How could ordinary people possibly have access to such gossip in their grand mansions? Once they finally manage to catch one, like the dramatic inheritance battle of a certain gambling tycoon's family years ago, it becomes a veritable soap opera for news fans…
Moreover, Jiang Xiaoman herself is a popular internet celebrity with tens of millions of followers. Fans had always thought that their Xiaoman was just a powerless mountain boy. When they first heard that Xiaoman's biological mother was actually a wealthy businesswoman, not to mention fans, even passersby who had never followed Xiaoman couldn't help but click in to see what was going on.
Upon closer inspection, wow!
Is there any need to do a paternity test?
With these two screenshots, even if they aren't biological mother and son, they are definitely close relatives by blood!
Kang Xinyue never expected that the leverage she had been so desperately trying to use to threaten her future mother-in-law would be exposed by netizens with their incredible resourcefulness...
I'm so angry, waaaaaah o(╥﹏╥)o
Chapter 231
Jiang Xiaoman couldn't possibly be unaware of the matter, given how big it had become.
Jiang Xiaoman fell silent after seeing the facial feature comparison photos made by netizens.
To say he never thought about what his biological parents were like? How could that be?
But I only think about it occasionally.
People only become obsessed with something when they can't get it.
But Jiang Xiaoman is different.
He was simply curious about what his biological parents were like, but he never thought about going back to them.
The reason is simple: Jiang Youliang gave him too much love.
There were so many of them that we almost wanted to bury them.
Jiang Youliang felt deeply guilty because he had no mother since childhood. He even secretly learned needlework from an old woman in the village so that when he sewed clothes for his son, his son wouldn't be laughed at by his classmates because the stitches were too ugly.
So you see, Jiang Xiaoman has everything that other children have.
Jiang Xiaoman has things that other children don't.
His only obsession with his biological parents is probably wanting to know why they didn't want him in the first place.
He never lacked anything else, like fatherly or motherly love.
But then again, is this Mrs. Jin really his biological mother?
...
What Jiang Xiaoman didn't know was that at this very moment, back in S Province, Madam Jin of the Jin family also saw this trending topic.
Moreover, it was seen on her husband's assistant's phone.
Mr. Jin is just getting old, not senile.
What's more, Jiang Xiaoman's face looks exceptionally young, even a little younger than Jin Chengjie, the youngest son born to Madam Jin. This made President Jin feel as if a faint green light was rising from the top of his head...
"Tell me, what exactly happened to this child?"
Mr. Jin didn't even do a paternity test, because Jiang Xiaoman in the photo looked exactly like Mrs. Jin when she was young.
Yan Susu swallowed hard.
She knew Mr. Jin's abilities better than anyone else present.
She lost her child back then and ran away to S province with her fellow villagers to work. She never dared to dream that she would marry into a wealthy family.
She was afraid of living such a hard life all her life, having several children at a young age, toiling in the fields her whole life, and looking like a sixty-year-old woman before she was even thirty...