Chapter 27,Part 1: — Vote - Family Background
Zhou Ming hesitated again and again but finally spoke, “Old Master.”
“If you have anything to say, just say it,” Old Master Lin said, glancing at the assistant beside him.
“It’s like this,” Zhou Ming coughed lightly and continued, “Yesterday, when Wang Yu and the eldest young master were in the car together, they talked a little about that child’s life experience.”
“What did he say?”
“In the eldest young master’s mind, he didn’t seem to think that Lin Momo is related to him by blood…”
When talking, Wang Yu had carefully brought up the night when Lin Cheng had that unfortunate incident in the hotel.
It was just that as soon as Wang Yu mentioned it, Lin Cheng’s expression grew cold at a speed visible to the naked eye. Obviously, he didn’t want to recall what happened that night at all. Seeing this, Wang Yu had no choice but to give up.
Zhou Ming mentioned this to Old Master Lin now, just to remind the old man in a subtle way: Lin Momo was not necessarily Lin Cheng’s child.
However, upon hearing Zhou Ming’s words, Old Master Lin just snorted coldly and said with much disdain, “What could that brat know? If he could think even a little bit, he wouldn’t have been involved in those messy rumors back then.”
Zhou Ming: “…”
If Lin Cheng—the very person involved—couldn’t even know if Lin Momo was his child, then who else could know?
Zhou Ming could only complain silently in his heart.
Before he could respond the old man threw him another question, “What’s going on with the things you were asked to investigate?”
Hearing this, Zhou Ming’s expression tightened, and he replied, “Still investigating.”
He carefully reported the progress of the investigation to Old Master Lin: At present, apart from finding some information about Lin Momo’s current situation, they have not made much progress in the investigation of the incident that led to Lin Momo’s birth.
Hearing Zhou Ming’s report, Old Master Lin frowned, showing clear dissatisfaction on his face, “You’ve been investigating for so many days, and this is all you found?”
“It’s really not easy to investigate,” Zhou Ming explained in a low voice.
Old Master Lin asked them to investigate what really happened behind Lin Cheng’s exposure to black propaganda ten years ago, especially the matter of him allegedly deceiving fans for immoral activities.
As soon as he received the mission, Zhou Ming arranged for his men to go to the hotel where Lin Cheng’s accident happened and tried his best to collect supporting information that had been ignored before.
However, it has been ten years since the incident and many clues have already been lost. It was not so easy to find out the whole truth.
“Where is the child’s mother?” Old Master Lin asked.
“We haven’t found her yet.”
Hearing this, Old Master Lin frown got even deeper. “Did that brat really do something worse than a beast?”
“Probably not,” Zhou Ming said after a slight pause. “Judging from what we have investigated so far, the fact that the eldest young master was suspected of luring fans in the hotel was most likely a frame-up.”
Not only that, the other party involved seemed to have deliberately covered up the truth and created a lot of confusion and ‘false truths’, which was one of the reasons why their investigation was proving so difficult.
“However, during our investigation, we did find something very strange.”
“Tell me.”
“I asked the people below to check the birth records of all hospitals across the country in the year Momo was born, but there was nothing in them about her. No piece of information matched her circumstances.”
There were only two possibilities for this situation: either Lin Momo was not born in China, or Lin Momo’s birth did not take place in a hospital and, thus, did not enter the records at all.
Of course, there was another possibility: they were mistaken about Lin Momo’s life experience, and she had nothing to do with Lin Cheng at all.
Old Master Lin’s eyes darkened slightly, “Then what?”
“There is no more for now…”
“Continue to check.”
“Will do so.”
After thinking about it, Zhou Ming asked another question, “Do you want me to hasten matters? Should we have the people at the scene find a way to take some samples from Momo for DNA testing.”
He was concerned that the old man would be impatient to know his great-grandchild and wanted the old man to know the results as soon as possible.
However, Old Master Lin waved his hand and said, “This is not urgent.”
He could see that their family’s little Momo was very dedicated to participating in the recording of this program. The old man did not want this incident to affect the recording.
“Isn’t it the same whether we check in the morning or check in the evening?” Old Master Lin muttered, his tone calm, as if he firmly believed that Lin Momo was definitely his good great-grandchild.
Thinking of something, Old Master Lin suddenly took out his mobile phone.
“By the way, Zhou Ming, you young man, show me what’s going on with my phone. Why can’t I click on this to vote?” Old Master Lin anxiously handed the phone to Zhou Ming.
At this time, the program team launched a voting event in the livestream channel: among the five teams of celebrity families, the family with the highest number of votes will receive an additional 5-minute easter egg segment when the main episode was broadcast.
Last night, the old man was going to vote for Lin Momo and her team, but the phone said he could not vote, and the same thing happened even when he changed to his tablet.
Later, the old man renewed his membership for another year, but it still didn’t work.
“Let me take a look.”
Zhou Ming took the phone, clicked on the voting channel for [Living with Dad] and studied it. He soon knew the reason.
“Old Master, not everyone can vote. You need to watch ads on the app to get them.” For every 30 seconds of watching an ad, you can get 1 vote.
“Advertisement? Where is the advertisement? Open it for me.”
Hearing the old man’s words, Zhou Ming’s eyeballs almost fell off, but when he saw the old man’s expression of ‘I’m not joking’, he thought about his own salary, and Zhou Ming could only open the advertisement for the other party and teach him how to click into the advertisement channel.
[ADC brand milk powder, specially contains… ingredients, let your child win at the starting line…]
[Good home appliances give you a better life…]
Various advertising sounds rang inside the car.
Zhou Ming carefully glanced at the old man. At this time, the old man was watching the advertisement seriously. After every 30 seconds of watching, he would get 1 vote. The old man would exit and go to the livestream channel to vote for Lin Cheng and Lin Momo. One vote at a time.
Zhou Ming opened his mouth, hesitating whether to tell the old man the truth.
The other celebrity family teams have dedicated fans to vote for their idols, and the number of votes they could get in a few hours could reach tens of millions. However, the total votes of Lin Cheng and Lin Momo’s group so far was only more than 4,000 votes.
Even if the old man stayed up 24 hours a day to vote for them, the effect would be negligible.
At this moment, the old man suddenly raised his head and looked at Zhou Ming.
“Did you bring your cell phone?”
Zhou Ming nodded, “Yes.”
What was this ominous premonition?
“Then you go and watch too.”
Zhou Ming: “…”
So, the advertising sounds in the car turned into a duet.
T/N: It’s not socially acceptable for East Asia celebrities to do the whole ‘sex, drugs, and rock&roll’ routine. Celebrities are expected to be clean-living—even ascetic—and sex groupies aren’t really a thing. The scandal that Lin Cheng faced 10 years ago involved him ‘luring’ fans to a hotel and doing the deed—as if being a fan makes you braindead and unable to consent (oh wait…).
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Because of her age and the circumstances, Grandpa Lin suspects that Lin Momo was conceived during that period. It’s a specific window of time and directly relates to the third possibility that Assistant Xiao Zhou thought of: if they were mistaken (they only have Lin Momo’s late registered records to go on) and Lin Momo was actually older or younger than they thought, then she could not possibly be Lin Cheng’s child.
I’ve already said that I love grandpa Lin right? ??
Footnotes
This is the same long-suffering assistant as the previous chapter: Assistant Xiao ZhouI don’t think an assistant to a head of a prestigious family would be in his 20s. He’s likely older—it’s only that Grandpa Lin is in his late 70s and everyone else is ‘young’ to him.
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