The Heiress's Game

The third group of Wei Xi's fan club in East China has more than 400 members and is known as the "Xi Family Army - East China Iron-Blooded Camp". The online rate has been maintained at over 80% for many years. They are famous in the fan circle for their strong fighting ability and fast response speed.

Someone posted a screenshot in the group chat with the caption: "Attention, ladies in the group! Someone is maliciously attacking Xixi online. Please spread the word and expose this."

The group chat exploded within three seconds.

The first reply was only three words: "Who is this??" Then came the second, the third, and the fortieth-something replies.

Following this account, some people dug up related accounts on other platforms and found the previously screenshotted post that said, "Some people rely on their abilities, some people rely on sleeping around."

In less than an hour, a complete exposé map was created as a long image, accurate to the location of every watermark and the time interval between each deletion.

"Ningville. The daughter of Ning Limei, the mistress from Clearwater Bay. The one who flaunted her wealth by driving a Cullinan."

"Hilarious! So she's the Qingshui Bay princess who was kicked out of the Gu family. Her own mother was a mistress for twenty-three years, and she has the nerve to call others sluts?"

"Insulting Wei Xi? Who does she think she is to even mention Xi Xi's name? Her face looks like it's been melted apart from all the plastic surgery."

"Go look at her mother's 'Clearwater Bay Lady' account. She was living a peaceful life, reading scriptures and drinking tea every day, but Gu Zhenxing took back the villa. The mistress finally got her comeuppance."

After Ningweier's alternate account was exposed, Wei Xi's fans were not to be trifled with.

They dug up all her publicly available information from birth to the present, including her social media accounts from high school, the location she once posted on a trip abroad, and the unwitting revelations from her "friends" in the comments section.

Fans followed Ning Limei's account and took a screenshot of her latest post, "My 51st birthday wish - peace and contentment," and turned it into an emoji with the caption, "The philosophy of mistress: contentment brings happiness, be a mistress."

She re-edited her tea ceremony picture, replacing the sky-blue Ru kiln cup with a broken bowl, and replacing all the pomegranate fruits outside the window with green lemons.

Even the picture of her copying scriptures that she posted in her early years was dug up, and the comments section was filled with "Can copying scriptures eliminate extramarital affairs?"

Ningweier went from being the "Princess of Clearwater Bay" to the target of ridicule across the internet overnight.

Although her main account was set to private, her follower list and mutual followers were completely exposed. A group of people tagged her in the gossip posts, saying, "Teacher Ning, stop hiding."

In the Gu family home, Wang Manyun sat in the living room looking at her phone. Her expression changed from surprise to schadenfreude. She looked up and called out to the upstairs, "Jin'er, come and see."

Gu Yunjin came down the stairs, took the phone, glanced at it, her expression calm as always, then widened her eyes slightly and asked, "Who is Wei Xi?"

Wang Manyun mentioned a popular actor, and then briefly recounted how Ning Weier had offended Wei Xi's fans. At the end, she couldn't help but laugh out loud—it was unclear whether she still held a grudge against Ning Limei from back then, or simply felt that Ning Weier had brought it upon himself.

Gu Yunjin nodded without commenting further. She handed the phone back to Wang Manyun, saying, "Well, she's quite pitiful," before taking her water glass upstairs.

The cyberbullying lasted for nearly a month.

Ningweier's social media search terms were subsequently polluted, and no matter which alternate account she opened, her fans would be able to track her down.

Her previous photos of limited-edition handbags were used to mock her for "spending someone else's dad's money" in a nine-grid photo collage. A video of her blowing up a champagne tower on her birthday in Paris was dug up and captioned, "What kind of wish did she make? She probably never thought she'd end up like this."

Ningweier finally gave up completely and stopped even logging into his alternate account.

For a whole week, reporters and internet celebrities flocked to the villas in Clearwater Bay, with some even livestreaming their "check-in at the former residence of a mistress in Clearwater Bay" on their phones.

During this period, Ning Limei was photographed leaving Qingshui Bay with her face covered by a scarf. She was in a ride-hailing car, and only half of her face could be seen in the reflection of the car window, which was tucked into the seat.