The Villainous Celebrity Wife of the CEO - Chapter 184.1

Finale (Part 2)
It was as if a huge black hole had suddenly appeared in the void, swallowing up all the sounds.

Under the stage, the expressions of emptiness, bewilderment, shock, etc. were fixed on the faces of every guest.

The advertisers spilled their champagne; the media pens stopped; all the fans in the back row seemed to have forgotten how to breathe through their noses and kept their mouths wide open staring at the two figures on stage as if they were copy-pasted.

The spotlight converged on the stage. The two girls stood side by side, bearing the extreme silence and pressure.

Among the two, Su Jinqing was in a white veil, holy and noble, while Su Jishi was in black dress with the same cut, but she carried the style differently.

The big screen behind them was also divided into two, one left and one right with two cameras facing the two sisters. The most subtle expressions of the two were captured.

In such a contrast, the difference in temperament between the two sisters was unmasked. One looked like a bright sunrise, and the other was like a long moonlight.

All discerning eyes could see —— before participating in the Wilderness Winner recording, the one who relied on a geological hammer to make a piece of heaven was Black-dressed Su Jin; and the one who talked serenely and gently was the White-dressed Su Jin!

Pure cosmetic surgery certainly couldn’t achieve such similarity, so they were…twins?

Goddess Su Jin … was actually a twin?!

Unlike the silent venue, all the live channels on the internet exploded!!!

Countless bullet comments like a meteor shower flew by; hundreds of messages popped up every second, and people who were in front of the screen had no time to look at them.

[Ahhhhhhhhhhh]

[My God My God My God]

These two types of pop-ups occupied 80% of the screen space, while the rest were

[I don’t believe it! Jinjin must be joking!]

[Is Su Jin crazy? How could she admit this kind of thing herself????]

[Is today April Fool’s Day? This must be some kind of new scam!!]

Be it a forum, Tieba, Douban groups or Weibo, every time they were refreshed, countless related discussions popped up.

Many netizens were originally disinterested in Su Jin’s birthday party and didn’t watch the live broadcast, but when they opened the website they frequented, they saw [Ahhhhhhhhhh Su Jin Ahhhhhhhhhhhh] floating on the home page. Out of curiosity, they clicked it —— Then they, too, became monsters who would just ahhhh and scream, entering the live link with dumbfounded looks on their faces, trying to figure out how it all happened.

On the road, someone walking suddenly stopped and stood in the same place to scroll down her phone; on campus, the students who were making up for their classes lowered their heads at the same time, using their sleeves and desks to hide and carefully read posts on the Internet; in coffee shops, fast food restaurants, on the bus, on the subway … no matter where people were at, people talking about it could be heard!

For a while, the name Su Jin sprouted wings and flew everywhere!

In the backstage of the birthday party, the staff stared at several screens in front of them and spoke quickly to report the direction of public opinion to Fang Xie. The water army studio they contacted in advance also immediately came down to control the commentary.

Fang Xie’s face was solemn, and his phone kept ringing non-stop. Xiao Xia took a peek at the screen and saw one phone call after another, and hundreds of messages flooded her WeChat in an instant.

And these messages were both from the media who wanted an interview, and other agents messaging to explore the situation. More were from the circle of producers and directors, etc., expressing concern…

Fang Xie was distracted by the noise, so he lifted his phone and directly shut it off.

As a result, his side of the quiet transferred several calls and dripping noises on Xiao Xia. There were thousands of contacts in her phone, and eight out of ten were sending messages and calling her.

Xiao Xia gripped her shaking mobile phone, akin to holding a bomb, which was about to explode. She tremblingly asked, “Brother Fang… do you want me to answer?”

Before Fang Xie could answer, Ashan shouted, “Answer my ass! Do not answer. Let this group of busybodies cool their asses off somewhere!!”

Xiao Xia looked at Ashan in surprise.

Ashan: “What’s wrong?”

Xiao Xia: “Didn’t you say that good girls can’t talk dirty?… Oh no, you’re not a girl!”

Ashan: “…”

Xiao Xia: “At your age, you can be a young woman!”

Ashan was annoyed and ignored her.

The two were deliberately gagging and singing, trying to regulate the depressing and dull atmosphere. Unfortunately, it had little effect, as everyone only gave a couple of dry laughs to save face and immediately bet their eyes on the stage in front.

The silence in the flower room lasted for a long, long time.

So long…that Su Jinqing’s body on stage trembled, and was on the verge of collapsing at any time.

At the critical moment, Su Jishi decisively took her sister’s hand and held it firmly, transferring a constant source of strength to her.

Su Jinqing looked sideways at her sister beside her. She remembered that twenty years ago, on every night when her parents quarreled, her sister held her hand like this and soothed her: It’s okay. It’s okay.

And now, she had grown up and could no longer shrink behind her sister.

But Su Jinqing didn’t know —— In fact, Su Jishi was also afraid.

With so many eyes watching her, standing up and taking responsibility, as well as admitting her mistakes, Su Jishi was far from being as laid-back as she appeared to be.

In the past few days since she decided to come clean, she had been thinking over and over again every night about where her path lay in the future and where Jinqing’s path would be.

After today, they could still go back to their original life paths. Su Jishi would go to work as a geologist, but would Su Jinqing retreat to the mountains?

But if they weren’t honest, and even if Su Jin faded out of the entertainment industry, this matter would still become a knot in their hearts three years later, five years later, ten years later, twenty years later, reminding them of how many fans they had cheated off their feelings.

So, they stood here.

That was why they cut themselves open and bring out their truest thoughts to all those who loved them.

Su Jishi exhaled deeply and opened her mouth, facing the audience on stage decisively: “As you can see, we are twins —— We took different paths in life twenty years ago because our parents divorced. I studied in the United States, while my sister, Jinqing, stepped into the entertainment industry to raise money because of our mother’s serious illness. However…”

“However,” Su Jinqing picked up her sister’s words. The strength that was buried in her heart finally overcame her timidity, “Our mother died last year because of her illness, and I suffered from severe depressive symptoms. I had several emotional breakdowns at the time, making it impossible for me to continue working in the showbiz. After I left, my sister returned from the United States and replaced me … as Su Jin.”

A few simple words summarized Su Jishi’s turbulent showbiz life. But what happened behind the scenes was simply not the hardships and complexities that ordinary people could imagine.

The sisters revealed such a shocking truth in front of everyone on their birthday, without any thoughts of throwing their weight around. They weren’t expecting forgiveness and understanding from everyone. It was just to not let this group of lovely fans down.

However, their honesty had caused a great backlash.

The first to react were the media.

There were at least 20 invited media, and every reporter was desperately handing their recorders to the front as countless questions pressed down.

“Su Jin … No, I mean Miss Su Jin in white, is that your real name? Is the other one your older or younger sister? What is her name???”

“May I ask, in which hospital was your depression diagnosed? Where did you go for treatment?”

“Did you swap identities at the agency’s behest?? Did you know that this is commercial fraud??”

“You’re back now, so have you recovered? Why did you choose to tell the truth??”

“Not long ago, the media received a tip that you didn’t support your father and clashed with your father at the interview site. May I ask which Su Jin was present? Or were you both involved?”

“Su Jin, why did you mention your mother’s death? Are you trying to win the sympathy of your fans?”

“Have you thought about what the fans and investors will think after you admitted everything today?”

“Su Jin, are you really sick? There is speculation on the internet that you actually went abroad to give birth. May I ask how you plan to explain? Why did your sister or sisters, who left her studies behind, come back to help you?”

“Su Jin…”

“Su Jin…”

“Su Jin…”

The reporters threw one question after another, some of which they had expected beforehand and were able to deal with with ease. But there were more questions that were extremely tricky, as if to deliberately provoke the sisters.

But the always grumpy Su Jishi did not get angry. She took out full patience to answer the reporters’ questions, because she knew that countless fans and netizens were watching the live broadcast, and these were the questions they desperately wanted to know.

As she expected, the internet has exploded.

It was like a dynamite was thrown into the water, blowing up countless startled fish. Weibo collapsed under this traffic onslaught early on. Everyone was discussing the matter, and the hot search list was completely butchered by the sisters. Within Su Jin’s official forum and webcast, the administrators expanded the speaking interval to 1000 seconds, but countless new discussion threads still topped up every second.

[Is she crazy?]

[I feel like I fell in love with the wrong person. I liked her different image, and now I’m told there’s actually two people?]

[This is outright deception!!]

[Su Jin is also very poor, okay? As a depression patient, I really understand! The mother Jinjin depended on died. Her motivation to enter the entertainment industry disappeared, and her sister replaced her. I can accept it.]

[As a fan of Wilderness Winner, this got me confused.]

[Let’s discuss rationally. Su Jin, who survived in the wild, is 10000 times more popular than little white flower Su Jin?]

[Some haters shouldn’t fish in troubled waters lest you step on a crab.]

[I want to review all of Su Jin’s videos for the last year and slowly watch them all over again. Will Sherlock Holmes join me??]

Just as the online network was getting out of hand, a piercing cry of woe cut through the air in the flower room.

——”Why???? Why on earth would you admit that??”

A girl sitting in the front row stood up and before she could speak, tears fell in bunches.