Chapter 269: Chapter 269: Hello everyone, let me introduce my dear niece to you all!

The next morning, Shen Lan’s personal account posted a Weibo.

[Shen Lan V: Thanks everyone for your concern about our show. Jiang Li and Director Sun are indeed innocent, but I am not entirely blameless, because she’s my niece.

She was indeed placed on this variety show by my arrangement, because as everyone knows, the production of this show had not been going smoothly. Just one month before the scheduled broadcast we signed contracts with two of the guests, so to be on the safe side and to enhance the show’s effect, I arranged for my nephew and niece to come and fill the numbers.

I didn’t disclose it to everyone in advance because I was afraid it would affect their transformations. From Director Sun to the staff, no one knew about our relationship. However, I did not expect this well-intentioned lie to cause them and everyone such great trouble. So, after much thought, I decided to make it public.

The people who previously spread rumors and slander have also been caught, they have acknowledged all of their crimes and have been handed over to the police for handling. I hope everyone can restore my niece and Director Sun’s innocence and that you will pay more attention to the show itself. Xingmei Entertainment will continue to produce more refined works to repay everyone.

@JiangLiV @Jiang YanV]

As soon as the Weibo was released, it exploded again.

After a night’s digestion, netizens thought the affair had concluded, but the next day they woke up to such a huge bombshell.

—-Jiang Li turned out to be the niece of Shen Lan, the former entertainment broker and ace agent of Xingmei Entertainment?!

No wonder despite the Jiang Family not being famous, they raised such an all-around talent like Jiang Li.

So she has a relative like Shen Lan in her family!

The people who went to bed early last night and missed the clarification were gradually waking up. They were dumbfounded the moment they opened their phones and saw the trending searches.

What?! In just a few hours when Jiang Li was missing they caught several “Poachers” and even received a personal medal of honor from the police?!

Another look, what?! Director Sun and Jiang Li weren’t related at all, their cohabitation was really just about discussing official business?!

Another look, what?! Jiang Li really did get in through nepotism, because the show’s chief person in charge was her own aunt?!

What puzzled the netizens even more was that Shen Lan, the former workaholic and “female devil,” had actually had a secret marriage and married into the Jiang Family?!

Life in showbiz is truly amazing!

[I’m shocked, Jiang Li is actually Shen Lan’s niece! Now, let’s see who can still accuse Jiang Li of using back doors, what’s wrong with a family member joining a family member’s show? Especially since Jiang Li was Shen Lan’s reinforcement.]

[No way, I thought Shen Lan was Jiang Li’s aunt. I saw the surname didn’t match, she’s actually the aunt by marriage? When did Shen Lan get married, how come there was no news at all?]

[Over a decade ago there was a journalist who exposed that a top agent was secretly married, also to someone from the industry. At that time, people guessed it was Shen Lan, and there were even photos of her taking a child in and out of the hospital, but then the matter just faded away.]

[Thinking about it, it makes sense there was no news online, that’s Shen Lan we’re talking about, a veteran agent in the entertainment industry. Naturally, she would keep the news sealed tight and not let it slip out, but I really want to know who her husband is, who is the man that made such a powerful woman willingly get married and have children?]

[Indeed, the fate of powerful women is to marry into wealth.]

[Are you okay upstairs, how can you call it marrying into wealth? Shen Lan herself is pretty awesome, don’t forget that the once Heavenly God, Jiang Yu, came from her management. Now she has started her own company and successfully transitioned completely. The Jiang Family is not some prestigious clan, marrying her is their honor, okay.]

[Exactly, just look at Shen Lan still working hard on her career now, you know that the Jiang Family’s foundation can’t be that solid. I bet Jiang Li’s uncle-in-law is a freeloading man, otherwise, wouldn’t there be information about him online?]

Shen Lan’s Weibo successfully shifted the netizens’ attention from Jiang Li to herself.

No one was hung up on whether Jiang Li had used nepotism to force his way into the show anymore.

This was a variety show organized by his own aunt, and even the staff members weren’t aware of their relationship, which goes to show how meticulous Shen Lan was.

But this was very much in line with Shen Lan’s usual style.

— Indifferently sending her own nephew and niece on a makeover reality show, abandoning them in the mountains to fend for themselves, without the slightest hint of sympathy.

Auntie was cold-blooded, one only had to see how Jiang Yan suffered daily to know that, how could anyone expect her to provide special treatment for Jiang Li?

Not a chance!

On the other side, Shen Lan couldn’t help but laugh at the various speculations netizens had about her husband while stuffing pastries into her mouth and venting to her best friend He Wen,

“If they knew that this so-called ‘kept man’ is their beloved Heavenly God Jiang Yu, they’d probably be scared to death, right?”

He Wen nodded in agreement.

“Exactly! More than just scared to death, they’d be beyond saving even by an ambulance, considering how crazy your brother-in-law’s female fans were back in the day–”

Thinking of something, the smile in Shen Lan’s eyes slowly faded.

Realizing she had misspoken, He Wen hastily switched topics, “But Sister Lan, didn’t you always say you wanted to keep your work and family separate? Why have you suddenly gone public with your relationship with Jiang Li now? If your brother-in-law gets exposed, won’t all your previous efforts have been in vain?”

Shen Lan’s gaze fell on the family portrait on the table.

It had been taken when Shi Xu was one year old; she and Jiang Mingyu were standing side by side, embracing him, their faces beaming with both shy and joyful smiles.

It seemed that ever since she began to focus on her work, such smiles had never returned.

“Sometimes I really feel that my great-niece has changed too much,” Shen Lan said with profound sentiment. “It’s also her words that enlightened me, people can’t live without family. If a family wants to thrive, it can’t do without the effort of each family member. I was just too concerned about my own gains and losses, too selfish before, which led to the situation earlier.”

“But thankfully, I’ve pulled back in time, and I’ve really reaped a lot. You must have noticed recently, right? I’m in a much better state than before.”

Good family relationships are the fundamental source of saving a person and the basic pillar of happiness and joy.

Even a child like Jiang Li could see that clearly, yet she had only just begun to truly realize it.

…

On the other side of the ocean, Jiang Mingyu, who had just come out of the police station, also saw the Weibo post sent by Shen Lan.

Surprised, he felt a surge of excitement.

Was Shen Lan finally starting to accept his family?

Without thinking, Jiang Mingyu liked Shen Lan’s Weibo post.

Too excited to remember to switch to his alternate account, he inadvertently reignited a “storm of blood and controversy” on a post that had been gradually quieting down.