My capital is quite large.

On the screen, when Fan Jinjin's delicate, fair face was revealed in close-up.

The netizens who were laughing and joking were all shocked the moment they saw his face!

"Holy crap?! That face... that nose and those eyes, how come they look so much like Fan Xiaopang?!"

"Wait a minute, is this her son?! Is the rumor that she has an illegitimate child true?!"

The live chat was flooded with comments.

But soon, the background information displayed at the bottom of the screen by the program team revealed the answer—he is Fan Xiaopang's younger brother.

The initially excited onlookers were inevitably somewhat disappointed:

"Tch, turns out it's just a little brother."

"Although the two are more than twenty years apart, which is indeed rare in life, it is not unheard of."

However, in this internet age where entertainment is paramount and gossip can ignite at any moment.

Having finally found such an explosive topic, how could the media and netizens, who love a good show, let it go so easily?

Almost simultaneously with the broadcast of the program, several "experts" and veteran paparazzi accounts who are usually very good at breaking news began posting veiled comments in Weibo and various gossip forums.

The first thing to ignite public opinion was an anonymous post that topped the Tianya emotional gossip section:

The tone at the beginning of the post was quite realistic:

I have a friend who married a minor celebrity who had worked in the entertainment industry years ago.

During their marriage, he discovered that his wife was being excessively kind to her so-called "younger brother," giving him whatever he wanted, and even considering transferring the family property to him.

[Later, the man accidentally came across his medical records and personal household registration information, and had a paternity test done. He was shocked to discover that the "brother-in-law," who was more than twenty years younger than his wife, was actually his wife's biological son, born out of wedlock years ago!]

[She only entrusted her younger brother to her parents in the countryside overnight because she wanted to debut and become famous but couldn't do it publicly. My friend is currently going through a divorce with her...]

Originally, this was just a cuckold post that could be found anywhere in the relationship section.

But at this critical juncture, coupled with another revelation that was quietly disclosed online, the two events quickly became the subject of malicious associations in the minds of countless imaginative netizens.

The second post states unequivocally:

[You can look up Fan Xiaopang's biography and resume from back then.]

She debuted at seventeen and, starting in the late 20th century, maintained close ties with certain powerful figures in the Hong Kong entertainment circle.

Most importantly, around 99, her acting career was on the rise, but she suddenly and mysteriously disappeared from the public eye, "resting" for a full six months.

As for what she did during that six-month hiatus, those who know, know.

This baseless post was presented in such a detailed and convincing manner that many young netizens, especially those unfamiliar with Fan Xiaopang's early career, were left confused by the elaborate timeline.

Soon, some of Fan Xiaopang's rational fans also stepped forward to post and refute the rumors:

"Can you trolls stop spreading rumors? Fan Jinjin was officially born in 2000. You're nitpicking about her taking a six-month break in 1999, but that doesn't make any sense. Does having a baby only take six months?!"

But this seemingly reasonable debunking of the rumors was met with an even more convincing counterattack from conspiracy theorists in the next second:

"2000? That's hilarious."

"In the Chinese entertainment industry back then, was changing one's age or date of birth really anything new?"

"Let's not talk about anything far away, just talk about our sports world."

"How many years has the age-changing controversy surrounding Yi Jianlian, the basketball player, been being dug up on Tianya (a Chinese online forum)?"

"And then there's Wang Datou, who's been heavily promoted in the table tennis team in recent years. Back in the day, when he registered on social media abroad, his usernames clearly had the suffix '980511'."

"But now that he's back in the national team, he insists on saying in official records that he was born in 2000 and is a member of the post-00s generation."

"There are tons of people in the sports world who falsify their ages, let alone the entertainment industry back then, where regulations were chaotic and people relied entirely on connections to get residency permits?"

"How much of Fan Jinjin's birth date in 00 is actually fabricated? Who can say for sure?"

......

For a moment, was it son or brother?

This has turned into an unsolvable mess on the networks of both countries.

But while netizens were still trying to figure it out, another old rumor between Fan Xiaopang and Hong Kong action star Hong Yinbao was once again brought to the forefront by gossips.

Countless gossip bloggers began to provide detailed explanations of the timeline of Fan Xiaopang's men.

In the end, some netizens even took out a photo of Hong Yinbao's eldest son, Tianming, and compared it with Fan Jinjin on the screen from every angle.

Initially, after comparing the two posts on Baidu Tieba and Weibo, many people raised questions:

"It doesn't seem like it either."

"Tianming is tall and rugged, while Fan Jinjin is clearly a fair-skinned and delicate pretty boy. They look completely different. Haters, stop trying to find fault with him."

However, soon a detective well-versed in Hong Kong gossip loudly pointed the way from below:

"Don't look down on the eldest son! He looks just like his mother!"

"Go search for photos of Hong Yinbao's youngest son, and compare his facial features with Fan Jinjin's!"

Upon hearing this, netizens followed the clues and found recent photos of Hong Yinbao's youngest son.

And the moment the two photos were stitched together on the computer screen.

"Holy crap..."

"Hey! It really is exactly the same!"

These exclamations of "Holy crap!" flooded the comment sections of various forums.

The two people's eyebrows, noses, and even the curve of their mouths when they smile are so similar that it sends chills down your spine.

For a time, the highly insulting and sensational topic of "Fan Xiaopang and Li Jiaxin, who is the real rich man's 'public bus'?" was hotly debated online.

This also pushed the entire "Idol Producer" phenomenon, both its positive and negative aspects, to an uncontrollable peak.