“I feel so sorry for my goddess. Her hand must’ve been bleeding so much.”

“We don’t know if her injury will affect her playing in the future.”

“Since she’s outstanding, then it’s normal for Tang Tu to like her.”

“However, there’s a difference between her knowing how to play two instruments and her seducing Tang Tu. There is no contradiction. Many talented people in the entertainment industry have problems with their morality too.”

“Shen Mozhen is the real victim. Her boyfriend got snatched away. As a result, the mistress is still doing her best now. She is beautiful and talented. Shen Mozhen is probably so angry right now she’s going to vomit blood.”

Two minutes after this comment got sent, someone replied, “Who told you that I am angry?”

After receiving a reply notification, the netizen who posted the comment took a closer look.

“Shen Mozhen just replied to your comment.”

!!!

He couldn’t believe his eyes, so he rubbed them and looked again. It was Shen Mozhen, for the account got authenticated with a V.

Wasn’t Shen Mozhen the kind that didn’t use Wei Bo? Every since her Wei Bo was signed up, it hadn’t been posting a single piece of content as if it was dead.

What surprised netizens the most was when, after five minutes, Shen Mozhen posted her first post, which was also a long post:

“Hello everyone, this is Shen Mozhen. Someone told me today that there were negative remarks about me, Tang Tu, and Liu Man on the internet. Because I rarely log on to Weibo, I just saw those descriptions. There are three things I want to clarify here:

First of all, I broke up with Tang Tu peacefully on February 3rd this year. It was not Tang Tu who, as rumored on the internet, dumped me, but I am the one that broke up with him. The reason for our breakup was we started spending more time apart than together. I realized then that he doesn’t suit me, and he doesn’t like me as much as I thought. I didn’t want to waste the time of both parties, so I directly proposed a breakup. After the breakup, I am now very happy. Please don’t describe me so miserably, thank you!

Secondly, although I don’t know Liu Man, and I have never met Liu Man before, I always believe that she has not taken the initiative to seduce Tang Tu. The reason is simple. Tang Tu is still single. According to the chat history released on the internet, Tang Tu put his posture so low to beg her. If it was Liu Man who seduced him, Liu Man should have thrown herself into his arms long ago. Is this a trick to waste time? No, I guess she doesn’t like Tang Tu at all;

Thirdly, I have known Tang Tu for four years. I think I know him very well. He is a very principled person. Even if he met Liu Man during his relationship with me and started liking her, I still believe he didn’t do anything out of the line before the breakup.”

Shen Mozhen’s explanation made this entangled triangle even more mysterious.

“Shen Mozhen was the one who broke up with him! It is very surprising for me.”

“It’s so strange. Why do I feel like Shen Mozhen is clarifying it all for Hanfu Goddess?”

“Mhm, I also feel that way. She’s trying to implicate Hanfu Goddess is innocent.”

“Her second point and third point were admitting Tang Tu started liking Liu Man even when he was still in a relationship with Shen Mozhen. Doesn’t this mean Tang Tu is an unloyal playboy?”

“It seems like it.”

“No! I don’t believe it! How can my Tutu be a playboy?!”

“Tutu is the best man on Earth!”

Tang Tu’s fans began to whitewash their idol under Shen Mozhen’s Wei Bo, and the only way to whitewash Tang Tu was to slander Liu Man.

They pulled out Shen Mozhen’s previous performance videos. Shen Mozhen dressed in Hanfu while playing the Guzhen solo in the middle of the stage. Her temperament was very similar to Liu Man’s, and she looked elegant and free.

They put forward a new point of view: “Shen Mozhen was the one Tang Tu liked all along. The Hanfu Goddess has ulterior motives and deliberately imitated Shen Mozhen before finally attracting Tang Tu. She then began to play a trick pretending to be reserved, and she confused Shen Mozhen.”

It was unclear whether these so-called fans were Tang Tu’s true fans, his haters, or other people with ulterior motives. At this moment, they continued to fight.

Some people on the internet were very persuasive and believed in this idea.

“Elegant people are different from normal people, even if they pull tricks.”

“But Hanfu Goddess does seem similar to Shen Mozhen; I don’t mean they have similar looks, but they have a similar temperament. They are all that kind of classic beauties.”

“Maybe Tang Tu just has a taste for this kind of girl?”

…

At the same time, Tang Tu had already come back to Shanghai. He locked himself in his Quan Jing Hotel room. His agent had already called him several times, but he declined them all.

On his way back to Shanghai from the Capital, Tang Tu stayed in a dispirited mood. To prevent himself from being recognized, he intentionally hunched over as if he was a nomad.

He finally got back to his hotel. Countless people tried calling him, but he didn’t pick up any of them.

He sat on the couch, and his entire mind focused on what Liu Man was doing. How could such a powerless, pitiful girl like her respond to such horrible rumors and still perform at the ensemble concert?

And then, Tang Tu saw Liu Man’s performance on the internet. He rewatched it over and over again, like an idiot. Just like the others, he had never expected Liu Man to know how to play Guqin.

Tang Tu still remembered when he first saw Liu Man at the practice rooms and how he felt the kind of classical beauty temperament on her. So, it wasn’t his delusions after all. The piano wasn’t her best instrument; she had saved something. Guqin was more of a match to her temperament, and it was also what she was the most talented at playing. Tang Tu, purely from a musician’s perspective, thought Liu Man had even more folk song talents than Shen Mozhen.

He only hated himself for not being there. At the same time, his guiltiness decreased a little. Liu Man succeeded in relying on her skills, and her grades were not affected because of her connection with him.

Right then, another call came. Tang Tu wanted to hang up before he saw the Caller ID: Tang Daqing, his father…

Tang Tu picked up, and his father’s elegant and gentle voice flowed out,

“Tu, do you need our help with the things on the internet?”

“No, I’m fine. I can solve it myself,” Tang Tu didn’t want to trouble his parents. He wasn’t a giant baby, and he didn’t want to stay under their protection anymore.

“You’re always so competitive and stubborn, and you must’ve made an enemy to have such a farce,” Tang Daqing said, “Since your mother and I didn’t disagree with you entering the entertainment circle from the start, we won’t disagree with you now. We only wish you would grow up a bit. You are already an adult, but you still get dumbly manipulated by people. I don’t even have the guts to declare that you are my son.”

Tang Daqing was strictly scolding Tang Tu, but his words were very gentle. It was his style all along, “If you can’t stay in the entertainment circle anymore in the future, then come back. We will give you a random job. You can do chores, clean the bathrooms, pour tea; at least you won’t get starved to death.”

“Father, I know it’s my fault,” Tang Tu lowered his head.

“Then tell me: Who framed you?”

Translated by: Sydney