The morning after Lu Shouyue’s birthday, Lin Wanwan discovered she was trending again, thanks to a foreign friend of Lu Shouyue posting a few photos from the yacht party.

In one of the pictures, Lin Wanwan happened to be part of the background scene.

It’s not that Lin Wanwan, as a minor internet celebrity, has suddenly become famous overseas, but rather because Lu Shouyue’s foreign friend happens to be Celine, the daughter of SV’s CEO, a wealthy heiress worth billions of US Dollars, who naturally garners high media attention.

Celine is the foreign equivalent of Wang Bocheng, one of the few heiresses actively discussed by netizens on foreign social networks.

Perhaps because she is the youngest daughter and doesn’t have to bear the burden of inheriting the family business, her life is incredibly free-spirited.

She is tall and beautiful, with one of the world’s top billionaires as her father.

If she chooses to make herself known publicly, it would be surprising if she wasn’t in the spotlight.

But even though Celine has a high profile, she and Lin Wanwan are worlds apart.

Since the last time Lin Wanwan caused a stir on the internet because of Wang Bocheng’s birthday party, she hasn’t trended again.

The buzz back then was due to Wang Bocheng, not Lin Wanwan, who steers away from the entertainment industry.

In truth, if not deliberately hyped, Lin Wanwan’s organic traffic alone wouldn’t be enough to make her trend.

So this trending topic is quite strange, and the content is unfriendly, with some netizens’ comments being downright unbearable—calling it online violence wouldn’t be an exaggeration.

Whenever a beauty and a mega yacht are mentioned together, scandalous news naturally follows: yacht parties, business models, dining with millionaires, sleeping with billionaires, and other sordid comments flooded the trending section.

In the mouths of netizens, Lin Wanwan has become a high-class gold digger, scheming to break into the upper circles and climb the social ladder.

Le Pen’s book on the psychology of crowds describes well why as an isolated individual, one may possess distinct personality traits; but when blending into a crowd, those traits get drowned.

Crowds tend to be blind, impulsive, fanatical, and credulous, characteristics that perfectly describe the swarm of netizens rushing towards trending topics, always easily swayed by narratives and manipulated by marketing accounts.

There were surely pace-setting water armies at the beginning of this trending topic. Once they set the rhythm, it became a carnival for the crowd.

Seeing the content on the trending topic, Lin Wanwan found it infuriating yet amusing.

She didn’t waste words and directly called Tan Qinghui, asking him to gather evidence from Twitter accounts with over 500 retweets or likes and gear up for a lawsuit.

Lin Wanwan didn’t want to engage in a war of words with the mob. She decisively chose to raise her legal weapon and sue those who were most voraciously consuming traffic.

After all, with Tan Qinghui and his law firm handling it, all she needed to do was pay the fees.

The rich fear lawsuits the least, having enough funds to hire a team of lawyers to deal with those who are unpleasant.

Lin Wanwan happened to be a little rich now too, and since someone had stepped up to her, she certainly wouldn’t show any courtesy.

She saw the trending topic, so the star of yesterday’s party, Lu Shouyue, naturally wasn’t oblivious—he was always surfing the net.

In the car back to the hotel, Lu Shouyue asked Lin Wanwan, "Wanwan, can I go public?"

Lin Wanwan was silent for a while and said, "Is it really necessary? Is your company publicly listed?"

If the company is listed, the boss’s every move cannot be as they please as they’re responsible for all shareholders.

His privacy would no longer just be his own.

"It’s not listed." Lu Shouyue understood Lin Wanwan’s point. "Wanwan, I can pay to remove the trending topic, and suppress this matter from high to low. But doing so would be too abrupt, not a wise approach."

Last time when Wang Anni smeared Lin Wanwan, Lu Shouyue chose to respond with an official media blitz.

While the effect was immediate, after the heat faded, it still became one of Lin Wanwan’s black marks.

From this trending topic’s plaza, many obscure stories about tycoons and mistresses can be seen circulating.

The last bombshell subject, with official media dispelling rumors, inevitably led the public to associate Lin Wanwan with the elite.

What other rumors could there be about beauties and elites? It was all quite unsavory.

So this time, Lu Shouyue didn’t want to handle it this way.

Lin Wanwan shrugged, "I don’t care about what the mob says about me, I’m not a female star. I can choose to disconnect for a few days, wait for the storm to pass, since netizens forget quickly."

Lu Shouyue held her hand, turned to look at her, and said, "Wanwan, I officially proposed to you yesterday, and you officially accepted."

"Huh? Oh." Lin Wanwan was baffled, why suddenly mention this?

Lu Shouyue smiled, yet his tone was very serious: "So now you are officially my fiancée. I said, I’ll protect you for a lifetime."

Lin Wanwan slightly opened her lips, stunned.

"Leave it to me," Lu Shouyue said.

Lin Wanwan held his hand: "Don’t look at me as seemingly fragile and unable to take care of myself, because I’m actually very strong. Online comments can’t hurt me. Last time, radicals sent me funeral clothes, wreaths, and dead rats, and I wasn’t scared. This time, it’s just a few irrelevant remarks online, nothing serious to me. You also shouldn’t take it to heart."

Lu Shouyue pulled Lin Wanwan over and placed a kiss on her forehead: "Am I really that shameful? Making you afraid to go public?"

Lin Wanwan wiped her kissed forehead and murmured, "You know I didn’t mean that."

Back at the hotel, Lin Wanwan started packing while Lu Shouyue stood by the window and made a few phone calls.

"Alright, everything here is packed up. I need to go back to the ancient island to sort things out," Lin Wanwan clapped her hands, standing up and speaking to Lu Shouyue, who had just finished his calls.

"The world fourteen hundred years ago is unsafe, make sure to wear your protective gear and bring weapons before going."

Lin Wanwan laughed, "Don’t worry, already suited up! No worries, when I travel through, I’ll be indoors, accompanied by my people outside, there won’t be any issues."

"Alright," Lu Shouyue had no reason to stop her, "I’ll wait for your return."

As Lin Wanwan openly activated the Space-Time Gate to travel through time back to the ancient era for final arrangements.

Lu Shouyue had just instructed his executive assistant to post an announcement on the official social media accounts of their auction house including Twitter, Instagram, and certain international versions of Douyin.

The accompanying image was a photo of Lu Shouyue kneeling on one knee proposing.

Both he and she were only shown in profile.

The photo was taken with great clarity, naturally as part of his proposal arrangements.

Such a happy moment, Lu Shouyue naturally had hired professionals to help capture the memory.

Now using it as the announcement graphic was perfectly fitting.