AITFYMIBP Chapter 102

TL: Hua

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Under the push of Bai Tianyu’s team, the matter had reached a point where almost everyone knew about it.

Just when everyone thought the truth had come out, that Bai Tianyu was the perfect victim, and that Lin Yanran and Gao Zitai couldn’t overturn the situation no matter how they explained, Gu Siye actively stepped into the muddy water.

The moment the onlookers saw this Weibo post, their hearts skipped a beat.

Before this, many people tagged Gu Siye because they were worried about his reputation, hoping that he would quickly break off his friendship with Lin Yanran and not be deceived by this kind of person.

Others felt Gu Siye was unlucky; he had just finished filming “Imperial Power” with Lin Yanran when the other party had a scandal. They worried Lin Yanran would use the drama to leech off Gu Siye and whitewash himself later.

Netizens were worried sick, wishing Gu Siye would immediately block and delete Lin Yanran.

But they never expected the development to exceed everyone’s imagination.

At the eye of the storm, Gu Siye not only didn’t cut ties with Lin Yanran but still firmly chose to stand by his side.

He didn’t just stand by Lin Yanran; he directly stood up for him, going head-to-head with Bai Tianyu.

Netizens were impressed by Gu Siye’s blunt attitude in tagging Bai Tianyu. Although they hadn’t heard the recording, they had a feeling that this was going to be a much bigger scandal.

Thus, hearing that Gu Siye had joined the fray, netizens flocked to the post, their hands trembling as they clicked on the latest recording.

The recording was about seven minutes long, and the voices were recorded very clearly.

Through this recording, the netizens finally gained a complete understanding of the cause and effect behind the two videos the sasaeng fan had posted.

After the seven minutes ended, the netizens fell silent.

Only then did everyone realize what this farce was actually about.

They were all played by Bai Tianyu. He failed to pursue someone, so he bit back… directly splashing all the dirty water onto Lin Yanran!

After listening to the recording, the first ones who couldn’t accept it were a group of Bai Tianyu’s longtime fans.

Especially the fans who had mocked Lin Yanran for being low and had fought with Lin Yanran’s fandom for many years.

For all these years, these fans had been the vanguard for Bai Tianyu, tearing into Lin Yanran on his behalf with relentless ferocity.

However, Bai Tianyu himself, behind the fans’ backs, acted like a licking dog[1], constantly fawning over and pursuing the person the fans hated the most.

The key point was that the other party didn’t want to give him the time of day, yet he shamelessly fawned over him more than once.

This group of fans simply could not accept their idol’s backstabbing; they immediately turned from fans to fierce critics.

Following this group of fans came a massive backlash from the general public.

In particular, those netizens who had previously stood by Bai Tianyu with righteous indignation, crusading against Lin Yanran and Gao Zitai, reacted even more violently once they realized they had attacked the wrong people.

After all, very few people are willing to admit that they were used as tools because they lacked judgment and were too easily incited.

They now found Bai Tianyu utterly vile and disgusting, believing he had used selective omission to deliberately edit two videos to deceive everyone.

Infuriated, the netizens redirected tons of fury back toward Bai Tianyu.

All the filthy insults and personal attacks previously aimed at Lin Yanran and Gao Zitai now returned to haunt Bai Tianyu.

As Bai Tianyu’s reputation collapsed rapidly due to the recording, a small portion of fans who still chose to believe in him began to question the recording itself.

They suspected that Gu Siye’s recording was forged, questioning if it was a temporary synthesis made to intentionally frame Bai Tianyu. Many fans even threatened to sue Gu Siye for spreading rumors.

But clearly, compared to Bai Tianyu, Gu Siye’s reputation was ten thousand times better.

Almost the moment he personally appeared to support Lin Yanran, the public’s bias had already shifted.

Facing the fans’ stubborn attitude, everyone came out to slap them down.

[Bro, do you really think Gu Siye would personally step down to help clarify and then release fake evidence? Do you think everyone is as low as Bai Tianyu, harassing people and then deliberately releasing fake evidence to bite back?]

[I’d like to see you try to synthesize a recording like that in such a short amount of time.]

[Experts have already compared the audio to the video; they match perfectly. There is no forgery.]

Following Gu Siye’s move, Bai Tianyu’s fans couldn’t control the comment sections at all. Everywhere they went, they found people mocking Bai Tianyu.

In this chaotic moment, although many people had begun to turn and curse Bai Tianyu, his team did not want to give up yet.

After all, Gu Siye had only released a recording without visuals; they still had a chance to exploit the loopholes.

The PR team quickly devised a strategy for Bai Tianyu.

They planned to divert the netizens’ attention and blur the core conflict between the two.

Using the reason of Bai Tianyu’s fans leaving the fandom as a breakthrough point, the PR team quickly established a persona for Bai Tianyu as a deeply affectionate licking dog who had been thinking about Lin Yanran for six years.

The team rapidly wrote many soft articles and prepared hashtags such as #TheIdolYouLongForIsAlsoSomeoneElsesLickingDog#WhoIsntALickingDog.

Their logic was clear: they wanted to tap into the public’s dissatisfaction with fan circles. By mocking the useless fans who had already left, they hoped to squeeze out every last drop of value from them to divert the main conflict.

In the process, they used the term “licking dog,” which has a high level of public acceptance, to bridge the distance between Bai Tianyu and ordinary people.

After all, no matter how big the issue, as long as it becomes a joke or an internet meme for netizens to play with, the core conflict of the event will be diluted and forgotten. By then, people wouldn’t care about Bai Tianyu harassing Lin Yanran; they would only think of him as a licking dog no different from anyone else.

Compared to an artist’s reputation collapsing and their persona crumbling, the negative impact of neutral internet memes and mockery is much lower.

In addition to this marketing plan, Bai Tianyu’s team seized on the final moment of Gao Zitai pushing Bai Tianyu, attempting to create a hashtag #EvenIfYouRejectAConfessionDontGetViolent# to shift the blame onto Gao Zitai’s physical altercation.

This would allow them to continue subtly painting Bai Tianyu as a victimized licking dog who was rejected by Lin Yanran and then had the bad luck of being beaten.

Bai Tianyu, who often played with fire, had experienced close calls before.

But every time, the situation was suppressed by his god-tier PR team.

In the past, even if someone came forward to accuse him, it would create no ripples online, and the victims would instead be cursed to death by his fans.

This time, his team prepared to use the same old tricks to minimize the major issue into a minor one.

However, just as they had finished discussing their tactics and were preparing to deploy the water army for the whitewash, they discovered that someone had already blocked all their paths.

While Gu Siye was releasing the recording, Zhong Xiao directly contacted their marketing accounts and water army to spread the soft articles they had prepared long ago.

The reason Gu Siye had delayed releasing the recording for so long tonight was that he had anticipated Bai Tianyu’s tactics from the start and had prepared a contingency plan.

The vast majority of netizens don’t actually listen to recordings very carefully; they generally only get the gist. Compared to audio, they prefer direct text.

Therefore, Gu Siye’s side seized the golden opportunity for clarification. Before Bai Tianyu’s PR team could rush to whitewash, they found many people to extract Bai Tianyu’s words from the recording and turn them into text across all platforms, even providing thoughtful interpretations.

[It’s obvious this isn’t the first time Bai Tianyu has harassed Yanran. You can tell from Yanran’s warnings that he has definitely been harassed many times before.]

[Bai Tianyu repeatedly mentioned “that incident from before.” So what was that incident exactly?

Actually, before the recording was exposed, Bai Tianyu’s fans had already educated everyone repeatedly: the incident he was apologizing for was when Yanran participated in The Best Male Voice and was filmed calling Bai Tianyu trash, leading to him being cursed by the whole nation for lacking character.

On the basis of this event, isn’t everyone curious? Why would Yanran curse him, and why would the “victim,” Bai Tianyu, instead apologize to Yanran? Doesn’t the logic here fail?

So please listen carefully to what Bai Tianyu said at the 3:48 mark: “When I kissed you that time, you probably thought it was abrupt, but I’ve really liked you for a long time.” And at 3:55: “Don’t listen to Shang Chengcheng; he was always jealous that I liked you and tried to stir up trouble between us.”

Based on these words, it’s not hard to deduce why Yanran cursed Bai Tianyu back then. It’s because this bastard went and sexually harassed him even then. Please put yourself in his shoes: if a disgusting creep suddenly walked over to harass you, wouldn’t you want to call him trash?]

[Someone asked why Gao Zitai’s reaction was so agitated?

I listened carefully after turning up the audio volume. At 4:17, Bai Tianyu’s voice is noticeably louder than before, indicating he suddenly got closer to Yanran’s position.

Five seconds after Bai Tianyu’s voice got louder, Gao Zitai’s voice appeared. Listen closely; his voice goes from far to near, clearly showing he ran over after seeing something from a distance. The sound of him panting while speaking afterward further proves this.

So let’s think about it: what did Gao Zitai see? At 4:23, Gao Zitai said, “Fucking let go of him!”

Combining this sentence with the full audio and comparing it to the video released by Bai Tianyu’s side, when Gao Zitai rushed over, Bai Tianyu’s hand was gripping Yanran’s wrist. This shows that his sudden approach to Yanran was an attempt to sexually assault him, but he was accidentally caught by Gao Zitai. When Gao Zitai saw his friend being harassed, could he not be angry?]

[So the final summary is: Bai Tianyu harassed Yanran six years ago. At that time, Yanran called him trash and warned him to stay away. Six years later, this bastard got a taste for it and continued to arrogantly do the same thing. Only this time, he was caught by Gao Zitai, stopped in time, filmed, and posted online. However, listening to his final threat to Yanran and Gao Zitai, he seems very experienced.]

Netizens are accustomed to reading text summaries and receiving ready-made information.

After seeing this final summary, everyone finally understood all the ins and outs. The truth behind Lin Yanran randomly cursing Bai Tianyu all those years ago was finally brought to light.

Now, the netizens were even angrier.

Sexual harassment by a greasy creep is a major trigger for the public, regardless of gender.

And this man, Bai Tianyu, had done it more than once.

The most frustrating part was that even though Yanran was clearly the victim, Bai Tianyu had used his powerful PR and various despicable means to make everyone wrong Yanran once six years ago, and six years later, he tried to pull the same stunt again.

This was simply too arrogant and lawless!

[Yanran is truly so miserable, being stuck with a piece of trash like this for so many years.]

[I finally understand why Bai Tianyu dared to bite back so shamelessly. Turns out he had tasted the sweetness of success before, guiding a nationwide cyberbullying campaign against Yanran…]

[After being rejected by Yanran, he decided to destroy what he couldn’t have? Bai Tianyu is truly a piece of trash.]

[F*ck, this disgusting pervert actually dared to harass my baby. Drop dead already!]

[In the middle of that recording, this piece of garbage even mentioned the scene Yanran filmed with Gu Siye, thinking he could do it too. I’m actually going to vomit. You idiot, do you really think you’re in the same league as Gu Siye?]

[This is too sickening, too sickening. The thought of Yanran, the victim, being cyberbullied by this guy’s fans for so many years made me want to cry. Yanran has suffered so much. Back then, he was clearly the TOP in terms of popularity on The Best Male Voice, but because of this incident, he was cursed by the whole internet and had his career leeched off by Bai Tianyu… After that, his vitality was so drained that he could only sign with a trash company, which then sucked him dry too. His career was a mess, he couldn’t take the college entrance exams, couldn’t go to school… Thinking about this makes me so angry and sad. I really want to travel back in time and give him a hug…]

[I always said baby Yanran is so gentle, there’s no way he’d scold someone for no reason… So that’s why wuwuwuwu]

[So the black history that haters have used to attack Yanran for all these years… this is the truth behind it. My heart is breaking wuwuwuwu]

[Little brother Zitai, I’m sorry. I misunderstood you before. You are truly amazing.]

[Gao Zitai was still too lenient. If it were me, I’d kick this idiot’s thing so hard it snapped off so he’d never dare harass anyone ever again.]

Gu Siye’s two-pronged attack took direct control of the public discourse, catching Bai Tianyu’s supposedly top-notch PR team off guard.

They now had nothing to whitewash his image with, and even the old scandals from years ago were being unearthed.

Netizens have already formed their opinion.

The victim from start to finish was Lin Yanran, and Bai Tianyu was nothing but a total piece of trash.

Aside from a few of Bai Tianyu’s brain-dead fans, everyone online was leaning overwhelmingly toward Lin Yanran and Gao Zitai.

While Bai Tianyu was being relentlessly attacked online, Lin Yanran’s Weibo, super topics, and other social media platforms were filled with sympathy from fans and netizens alike.

But every time this topic came up, one question remained.

Why didn’t Lin Yan come out to clarify this matter back then and instead chose to silently bear everything on his own?

Intuition told netizens there was more to the story, but seeing how much he had suffered, they felt it would be cruel to tear open his wounds by asking.

Just as everyone was speculating, Shang Chengcheng made a Weibo post.

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[1] 舔狗 Licking dog is a popular internet slang term referring to someone who shamelessly grovels and fawns over others. A similar slang in English would be “simp” but I don’t like using that.

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