Early the next morning, Xie Qi sat in his hospital bed and opened the hospital terminal, eager to see the results of the fermentation that had occurred overnight.
To his surprise, information on StarNet spread more than twice as fast as it had on Earth; in a single night, it had burned through events that would have taken a month to play out back home. First, there was the spectacle of Xie Qi suddenly appearing at the wedding, followed by the public’s outrage and condemnation. Immediately after, the Ye Family was humiliated, losing all face.
But soon after Xie Qi was taken away by the Xia Family, the situation took another sharp turn. The Ye Family launched a rapid PR campaign, throwing out a shocking claim: the Nether Ghost Flower brought back by Xie Qi was a forgery, and that, in reality, the Nether Ghost Flower did not exist at all. They argued that it was logically impossible for Xie Qi to have found in a mere three months a flower the Empire had been desperately seeking for centuries. Everything Xie Qi said, they claimed, was a lie. His true motive was simply to sabotage Ye Meng'en’s happy marriage, out of jealousy that Ye Meng'en was doing well, while refusing to take responsibility for his own actions.
Chapter 99