The Heiress's Game

In Gu Hansheng's super topic, the usual busy rhythm of ranking and comment control has completely stopped today.

No one posted to urge for data, no one organized an anti-black campaign, and even the pinned sign-in post sank to the third page.

The entire super topic seemed to have been paused, with everyone gathering under the same topic. The trending topic with the "hot" tag was hanging high at the top of the list, with countless comments with crying face emojis scrolling below.

An old fan with the ID "Hansheng Rumenglai" was the first to post a long article in the discussion area. Her fan account had been checked in for more than 2,000 consecutive days and her words carried a lot of weight in the circle.

She wrote: Sisters, I have to say something. If my brother's first love was an ordinary person, I might already be typing out the most vicious swear words of my life. But that was Gu Yunjin.

Gu Yunjin – Daughter of the Gu family in Dahai City. The market value of the Gu Group is more than all the top celebrities we've ever followed combined.

Do you know what this means? It means that the balance in her card is probably longer than all of our ID numbers combined.

How can you criticize her? Criticize her for her privileged family background? Criticize her for her high level of education?

To insult her beauty? I'm sorry, I really can't bring myself to say that.

Less than half an hour after the long post was published, it was shared out of the super topic, and the comment section was full of voices agreeing with it. Occasionally, a few discordant comments were quickly suppressed by their own people.

"I could never imagine what it would be like for my brother to be in a relationship, but now that I see Gu Yunjin's photo, I suddenly think that if these two people were standing together, the picture would actually look quite nice."

Gu Yunjin's aura wasn't something she faked; it was the confidence and composure cultivated over generations in a wealthy family.

She doesn't need to ride on her brother's popularity; she is popularity itself.

"You've hit the nail on the head. There used to be some obscure internet celebrities who wanted to create a scandal with my brother. Fans could tell at a glance that they just wanted to climb the social ladder."

But does Gu Yunjin need to rely on her brother to rise to the top? She is the boss of Xingyao Media herself, and her programs are more popular than her brother's dramas.

Her husband is Bai Junze. Although it was an arranged marriage between families, do you know who Bai Junze is?

The founder of a Fortune 500 company, a recognized business genius in the business world—frankly speaking, putting aside the fan bias, Gu Yunjin marrying Bai Junze is, at least in a conventional sense, a perfect match.

A few voices in the discussion forum questioned Gu Yunjin's character, saying that since it was her first love, why couldn't she stick with it and why did she have to marry someone else?

But these voices were quickly drowned out by comments from more rational fans.

A verified fan account analyzed the inevitable ending of this first love, stating that for a daughter of Gu Yunjin's family background, marriage was never just a matter for her alone, but for both families.

The Gu family would never allow her to marry a celebrity in the entertainment industry, even if he is a top star.

This isn't a question of who's good or bad; it's a question of social class.

No matter how famous someone is in the entertainment industry, it's very difficult for them to truly enter the marriage alliances of top-tier wealthy families.

This is reality, not fiction.

After these words were spoken, the comment section fell silent for a long while.

Then someone cautiously asked, "So, is it because Gu Yunjin's father is trying to break up the couple?"

This sentence was like a match thrown into a gasoline can, instantly igniting the entire discussion forum.

Fans have found an outlet to vent all their emotions. It's not that Gu Yunjin doesn't love him, it's that her family won't allow it.

It wasn't that her brother wasn't good enough; it was the man standing behind her, controlling the entire Gu family empire, who personally tore this perfect couple apart.

"It must be Gu Zhenxing! Gu Yunjin's father! The head of the Gu Group! That kind of old-generation tycoon, whose sense of social class is so strong it can crush people."

In his eyes, no matter how famous his brother became, he was just an actor and couldn't compare to a family like the Bai family, who were a good match.

Think about it, Gu Yunjin and her brother got together in their early twenties. They were so young and innocent. If there hadn't been external interference, how could they have broken up?

Gu Yunjin initiated the breakup? Perhaps she had no choice! We've seen this scenario before: being forced into an arranged marriage by one's family.

"No wonder my brother has that scar on his wrist. He wasn't suicidal; he just loved her too much."

What kind of blow must it take for someone to suddenly announce a halt to all work at the peak of their career to make such a decision?

Cutting one's wrists may not be because one truly wants to die; it may simply be a way to suppress the pain in one's heart when the pain becomes unbearable.

I can't take it anymore; even typing these words makes my chest feel tight.

"So my brother really did cut his wrists on the day of Gu Yunjin's wedding? The details from that gossip account are so realistic, the timing matches perfectly."

Gu Yunjin held her wedding last October, and her brother stopped working last October; the timeline fits perfectly.

There aren't that many coincidences in this world. Every coincidence is a premeditated farewell.

The discussion forum was once again flooded with crying face emojis, interspersed with several "chains of evidence" pieced together by fans.

The week of Gu Yunjin's wedding, Gu Hansheng was photographed at the airport looking pale. He didn't update his social media for a whole month after he went abroad, and he has been wearing a wristband or watch ever since.

Every detail was scrutinized, every time point matched up, and the whole incident was gradually pieced together into a heartbreaking puzzle through the collective reasoning of fans.

"Stop talking, I'm really going to cry."

I used to think those melodramatic novels were too ridiculous, but now I realize that reality is a hundred times more ridiculous than fiction.

I only ask one thing, Gu Yunjin: that you be happy. Because if you're not happy, all the suffering my brother has endured over the past ten years will have been in vain.

Yes. No matter who she's with, I want her to be happy.

Because the boy I loved devoted his entire youth to loving her. That love deserves respect.

After a brief collapse, the super topic has miraculously regained its vitality.

A fan changed the pinned post in the super topic to a quote written by Gu Hansheng when he first debuted: "I hope that everyone who likes me can be happy, and I also hope that everyone I like can be happy."