The live stream's comment section was flooded by mindless fans, almost freezing into a slideshow.

Perhaps they were truly brainwashed successfully, or maybe it was just a show of force, but the backlash was severe, filled with insults.

They even resorted to classic sayings like "only the unloved ones are mistresses."

On Weibo, multiple trending topics exploded with criticism. Even Qin Zhao's massive fan base couldn't fully withstand it.

However, different voices soon began to dominate the screen.

People aren't stupid. When Ji Fei was calling them out, she laid out the logic clearly for everyone. Unless one was in denial, anyone could see through it.

Looking at it this way, the Best Actor's team's explanations simply couldn't hold water. They relied entirely on emotional appeal and couldn't withstand logical scrutiny.

The audience watching the backstage live stream looked at the faces of the two and couldn't help but criticize.

"Unfaithful men are the best at making excuses for themselves. Watching their performance just now felt morally off. If you truly don't love someone, why enter into marriage?"

"Exactly, if you're married, control yourself and don't cheat. Using 'true love' as a shield is exhausting and disgusting."

"If what's portrayed here is true, it shows that Ruan Jia wasn't just a useless rich housewife. She accompanied her husband through the hardships of starting a business, stabilized the home front, allowing the Best Actor to focus without worries. After establishing their empire, she didn't cling to power but let others develop while she went to care for her parents. This led to her gradual disappearance from the public eye, allowing the Best Actor's team to freely smear her, as it would be difficult to find evidence."

"I used to be a fan of Wang Jiani. Thinking back, she left the country with everyone's well-wishes and blessings. She got a big production in the first year, but married in the second, and then disappeared from the news. You could say her initial resources were completely fine, so how can she blame others for her own incompetence and difficulties?"

"I'm stunned listening to this. If it's really like this, how can Sheng Wenyue make up such lies? Doesn't his conscience hurt? This is such moral depravity. I can't believe I used to like him so much."

"I have to say, the top stars' team is really bold. Who gave them such courage?"

Qin's Father and Qin's Mom, sitting among the crowd, listened to the surrounding discussions gradually leaning towards Ji Fei and Qin Zhao, and raised their heads proudly with satisfaction.

Meanwhile, in the waiting area, the gazes of everyone made the two in the center feel like they were under scrutiny.

Sheng Wenyue, bombarded with criticism, felt his head buzzing for a long time, never having felt so embarrassed before.

His mind was in complete chaos, not even bothering to dwell on whether these might be fabrications by Ji Fei and Qin Zhao.

He couldn't help but turn to Wang Jiani. "Didn't you say Ruan Jia drove you away?"

Because of this, Sheng Wenyue, seeing his junior who ended up in such a bad state later, always felt guilty. He always felt that it was Ruan Jia who overreacted and became jealous for no reason, ruining Wang Jiani's life, when he had never thought of cheating at that time. How could he not feel guilty towards this innocent girl?

Wang Jiani, her eyes already filled with venom, trembled uncontrollably with anger. She couldn't understand at all how Ji Fei and the others knew so much.

Some things were just what she had thought in her heart.

Could it really be a coincidence?

When she realized Sheng Wenyue was asking her, her eyes showed a flash of panic. Her lips quivered, her eyes red, as she said pitifully, "Those elders came to me, saying it was for sister-in-law. Wasn't that sister-in-law forcing me to leave?"

Sheng Wenyue opened his mouth but couldn't refute. He only felt his headache worsening, even breathing became difficult. "So Ruan Jia might really not have known you?"

Wang Jiani, however, said defiantly, "Our CP was so popular at that time, how could sister-in-law not know? Wasn't she managing the company? Shouldn't she have known about the company's artists?"

Wang Jiani still believed it was Ruan Jia who instructed those four elders to come.

But Sheng Wenyue choked. That period was when Ruan Jia was busiest, as she was in the process of finding someone to take over management and handing over affairs. Even he couldn't say for sure that Ruan Jia had paid attention to his matters during that time.

He couldn't help but lean towards Wang Jiani's version in his heart. Ruan Jia was his wife, she loved him so much, and it was a nationwide CP craze, she must have known, right?

"Why doesn't he ask his own parents for the truth?" Suddenly, a voice came from behind.

It made the sensitive Sheng Wenyue and Wang Jiani turn around abruptly, as if their shame had been exposed.

But they found everyone was looking at the big screen above, as if they weren't talking about the two of them at all, but discussing the stage play just now.

"Even if his parents told him, do you think this man who's already completely biased towards his mistress would believe the truth? He might even think his parents are lying to cover for his wife."

Sheng Wenyue suddenly felt as if all the blood in his body had frozen.

He had indeed fleetingly thought about asking his parents just now, but the next second, he felt his parents might not tell the truth.

"Not trusting his own parents, not trusting his own wife, but trusting an outsider, that's really... tsk tsk tsk."

Sheng Wenyue felt inexplicably guilty and ashamed.

"Isn't the key point that the mistress chose to leave on her own? According to their performance, the mistress never even contacted the man."

Sheng Wenyue's face changed dramatically, but he remembered that he had indeed asked Wang Jiani before why she didn't contact him earlier. Wang Jiani said she didn't want to burden him.

At that time, Wang Jiani seemed to be hinting at something, reluctant to speak. They had a kind of ambiguous relationship, more than friends but not quite lovers, just that the thin paper hadn't been pierced yet.

Sheng Wenyue felt that Wang Jiani liked him but didn't want to destroy their family, so she didn't contact him. This made him even more sympathetic towards her.

But now... he began to waver.

"She came back because her original path didn't work out, wanting to eat the old rice? Stealing someone else's husband. That's really something, clearly it's her own incompetence, but she won't admit her own failure. She came back to mislead others and pretend to be a victim because she wants someone to pay for her failed life. She probably even righteously believes she's the real victim."

"Indeed, she's quite shameless."

"You all!" Wang Jiani seemed to finally not be able to bear being mocked like this. She directly spoke up, tears about to fall this time.

But the person speaking looked innocent and said, "We're discussing this play, what's wrong?"

"Ji Fei acted well." Someone blatantly lied, praising Ji Fei's fake acting skills, which were purely based on emotion, without technique.

In their live stream area, as long as they didn't turn on the microphone, no sound would be transmitted out. The cameras were all focused on Sheng Wenyue and Wang Jiani, with others just in passing. So the audience could see Wang Jiani's almost out-of-control expression management and Sheng Wenyue's uncontrollable look of disappointment.

This seemed to further corroborate certain things indirectly.

The manager was anxiously trying to communicate with the director and producer backstage, wanting Wang Jiani and Sheng Wenyue to come down first. They needed to discuss how to deal with public opinion later.

But even if Ji Fei and Qin Zhao acted out the truth, so what?

Do they dare say it's the truth? Without evidence or proof, be careful of being sued.

In the hospital room, although Qin Yan, like other members of the Qin family, already knew the general truth through Ji Fei's inner voice, seeing Ji Fei and Qin Zhao act it out for real still felt extremely satisfying. Even the lawyer representing Sheng Wenyue couldn't help but stare, forgetting to complete his work.

And Ruan Jia on the hospital bed just stared at the screen with fixed eyes.

"That's right... What did I do wrong? It was always them who were wrong, it was them... Why am I the one being punished?"

At this moment, the final act on the stage began.