The Villainess's Maniacal Aesthetics - Chapter 10

In the end, the engagement party was canceled.

Lu Zichen and Jiang Huaning had gone viral. Completely and utterly viral.

Right now, you couldn’t open a single group chat without seeing something about them. Complete with pictures and detailed descriptions. It had already spawned countless memes and jokes.

I looked at the trending topics, a smile playing on my lips, almost laughing out loud.

LuZichenCheats

BrotherInLawOpenUpItsYourWifesSister¹

LuZichenBeerBottle

JiangHuaningTheBackstabber

PoorJiangYongning

As netizens dug deeper, Jiang Huaning’s identity as the “maid’s daughter” was exposed. She had been taken in by the Jiang family, only to steal her adoptive sister’s fiancé. It was a perfect real-life version of The Farmer and the Viper². The comment sections were filled with people cursing her out.

Of course, I was the one who leaked all this information.

I hadn’t slept all night. I sifted through the flood of comments, extracting key information to create a clear timeline of Lu Zichen and Jiang Huaning’s affair. I even made a PowerPoint presentation for the gossip bloggers, highlighting all the crucial points to ensure that everyone got the full, juicy story.

To avoid disturbing anyone’s sleep, I waited until nine in the morning to unleash the massive promotional push.

As expected, public opinion was overwhelmingly on my side.

The Jiang and Lu families’ PR teams went into a frenzy, trying to remove trending topics, delete posts, and control the narrative. But they quickly discovered that this time, the story was too big to be suppressed. The scandal was so massive it had surpassed the control of corporate interests.

Every social media influencer was gleefully reposting it. Comedians were having a field day, and memes were popping up everywhere. Even the beer bottle manufacturer was tagged and joined in on the fun.

[XX Beer: Has my time to shine finally come?]

[The Lu Corporation should just switch to wholesale beer bottle distribution. The ad campaign is already perfect!]

And me? I became the “pitiful soul” the entire internet sympathized with. A tragic heroine betrayed by her fiancé and schemed against by her sister. It was all so tragic. So tragic that even I almost believed it.

To make the act more convincing, I verified my social media account and posted a short statement:

[Thank you all for your concern. I will face this with strength.]

The post instantly blew up. My follower count skyrocketed from zero, hitting over a million in just a few hours. The comments were filled with messages of support:

[Stay strong, sis! Please post daily updates, we’re all behind you!]

[Now writing the screenplay for Rebirth of a Beer Bottle God’s Ex-Fiancée. DM me when you post an update, thanks!]

[Gender isn’t a barrier, sis, look at me! I eat when I’m hungry, sleep when I’m tired, and my bathroom habits are perfectly normal!]

[So what brand of beer bottle was it? The quality must be amazing!]

…

I had to admit, the netizens were a lot friendlier than the original comments.

Footnote:

1. 1. BrotherInLawOpenUpItsYourWifesSister(姐夫开门，我是我姐): This is a reference to a very famous and viral Chinese internet story/meme about a man caught cheating with his wife’s sister. Using it as a hashtag implies a similar scandalous affair.

1. 1. The Farmer and the Viper(农夫与蛇): The original text uses a Chinese fable, “Mr. Dongguo and the Wolf,” which has the same moral: kindness to an evil person will only result in your own harm. The Farmer and the Viper is the direct Western equivalent.