The Villain Runs Wild

emed that his parents had left behind a considerable inheritance which had been invested by Yan Qin.
But the story of the original book had been mainly focused on how Yan Qin rose to the top again, so these things weren’t really described.

As for the previous Yan Qin who didn’t have roles to perform or even an assistant, it was just that Yan Qin was used to being low-key, and he was picky when it came to scripts.

In Lin Sui’s view, there was a difference between sharpening and grinding.
Weren’t the choices Yan Qin made now much better than the ones he made in the original book?

But this was just the beginning.
Lin Sui lowered his eyes, looking out at the boundless radiance of spring, and blinked.

When Lin Sui had gathered enough evidence, Fu Nai opened a Weibo for Lin Sui’s studio and began promoting it.

At the same time, the Ying Ziyu, Ji Ying, and Yan He’s company certification on Weibo changed, and they reposted the studio’s first post.

The related terms rose to the top of the list one after another, and the hashtag #Lin Sui’s Studio# was even marked with the word ‘explosive’.

Most people clicking in were asking questions, even Lin Sui’s fans were not an exception.

@Hit Yao Brag First: Shit, a few months ago I brushed off the raising gu thing as a joke, but it turned out to be real, holy shit holy shit holy shit, Lin Sui is insane, even if Ying Ziyu and Ji Ying are fine, there’s also Yan He, couldn’t he have rejected an actor with such bad reputation?

Below the post, it could be said that a war waged on with all kinds of people.
Most were asking who Yan He was, some explained things, some scolded Yan He, and some even tried to start fights with the die-hard Yan He fans; Some Ying Ziyu fans thought it wasn’t good for her to stick to Lin Sui, so Lin Sui’s fans retaliated, and Lin Sui’s anti-fans fanned the flames.
In short, it turned into a complete, sensational mess.

Lin Sui was actually glad to see this happen.
In this era of extremely developed news, having topicality and being talked about was the only thing that could get you into the public consciousness.

Among the fans in the brawl, the most peaceful ones were Ji Ying’s fans.
There weren’t many of them, and they had all been ridiculed for the failures back then, so they had been laying flat3 for a long time, thinking change boss if you want to, just do whatever you like, and occasionally intervening in quarrels, treating Weibo like an outdoor plaza, rocking on their chairs with some herbal tea.

One would say the fans followed after the original, Ji Ying was also an optimistic person with good attitude, and he had a very funny character, it was just that his acting skills were really disappointing, and it seemed to Lin Sui that there was not much difference between him and this body’s original owner.

Lin Sui specifically chose to make the announcement at 7 PM, this way it would boil overnight, and then Lin Sui had people release the evidence from back then in a steady trickle.

For things like debunking, one always had to make sure the melon-eating crowd4 first understood the antecedents of the matter, then proceed with the reversal after stirring up their emotions.

Although it had already been a very long time since the matter happened, there were many people with insider knowledge who’d kept some proof, and Lin Sui purchased evidence from the woman's personal assistant at the time, and didn’t even let minor details slip by.

The netizens turned into badgers in the melon fields, eating happily.

There were recordings, witnesses, and pictures from that time, everyone knew Yan He wasn’t a cheating scumbag, and everyone ate to their heart’s content once it was reversed.

As these things happened, Lin Sui didn’t keep an eye on them, he didn’t even care that much.

Fu Nai had accepted a guest role in a drama for him, he was playing a big celebrity.

He didn’t have many scenes, the female lead was his fan, something happened to her on the way to meet him and she had a confrontation with the male lead, and after that she stumbled to see him.

All he had to do was act like a big celebrity, take a photo with the female lead at the male lead’s request, and give the female lead his autograph and one of his figurines.
Even if he was only on for a moment, the salary he was getting was considerable.

After Yan He had been completely cleared, Lin Sui had Fu Nai start to arrange work for him, conveniently setting up a collaboration between Yan He and a certain variety show where he became a new guest to settle down the current fervour.

Lin Sui didn’t pay much attention to what happened afterwards, because “The Stand-In” had finished being edited and reviewed, and it was ready to begin promotion.

Liu Buqun could really manipulate a shot, he still had a certain standard as a famous director, so the promotional clips that were released were particularly attractive.

Ruan Qingqu and Shu Tang’s scenes intertwined on the screen, it was clearly the same face, but there was a difference in attitude.

As Lin Sui’s die-hard fan, Suisui immediately opened the video and was surprised to find that the wife’s acting skills had greatly improved, and that he was a completely different person from the one that acted in that costume drama.

His passionate look could charm one’s soul straight through the screen.

In the promo video, the detective was saying ‘You’re actually…’, then the screen turned, and he was on the ground, and the camera panned upwards with his line of sight.

The clothes of the young man sitting on the bed slid down onto his arms, revealing his collarbones and shoulders, and he looked down with a cold appearance, indifferent and malicious, as elegant as a blade, as bright as the flare-up of oil being cooked on a blazing fire, or like a posy of fresh flowers pinned on an embroidered brocade5.

“Come.”

“Crawl over.”

In a split second, the screen turned black, and the words “The Stand-In” appeared in white over the black background, followed by the release date.

Suisui stared blankly for a few seconds, then angrily hammered down on the table twice.

@It’s Suisui Ya: Is this a cliffhanger?! Show me the next part! Aaaaaahhhhh my wife is humanity’s Gu King aaahhhh, I’m gonna blow my load aaaaahhhhh! Fuck so sexy and horny, Xu Shuangxing, you’re not a real man if you don’t do it!

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1 He changed the forest ‘lin’ in his username with Lin Sui’s ‘lin’ so I just changed the reading to both their names.
Also, the ‘returns to’ part can also be translated as ‘belongs to/is part of’, but I went with ‘returns’ bc I liked it better. Top.

2 Cover the sky with one hand (and pretend it’s not there), a metaphor for a person with power acting to hide things from the public. Top.

3 An expression that means to stop trying, to lay down flat on the ground and stop putting effort in, usually as a counter-response to the work grind hustle culture. Top.

4 The people who sit by and engage in gossip from the sidelines.
I would’ve just translated it as “peanut gallery” and not included this footnote but the eating metaphor is expanded on later (the badger thing means there’s lots of gossip going around) and I couldn’t think of anything similar to relate back to the peanut expression lol. Top.

5 Passage from “The Dream of the Red Chamber” by Cao Xueqin. Translation by David Hawkes. Top.