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[?????? Is this fucking real life??]
Recording, photos, file transfers, chat records instructing script modifications, and so on; any of these could put Yuan Yinhai in a deadly situation.
Weibo has turned into a complete mess due to this series of explosive revelations.
Generally, people had seen plagiarism before and had also seen cases where academic dishonesty took advantage of students’ work, but this was the first time they had seen such a large-scale and long-lasting series of interconnected cases.
The person involved was a renowned and amiable screenwriter whose works were well-known to everyone!
From the very beginning, netizens were shocked to the point of being speechless, and now, even seeing Ruan Song speaking up, profanity was on the tip of everyone’s tongue.
In the midst of it all, Sun Kaizi didn’t mind the chaos and also joined in on the fun, followed along, and spoke up.
[@Sun Kaizi, who doesn’t want to be a director, is a great screenwriter: Didn’t I say my Ruan ge is amazing, why would he live incognito? Let’s just forget that I went to visit the hospital yesterday, old man on the subway looking at a cell phone]
As soon as these words were posted, this statement immediately made it clear to everyone what the main point was.
[So Yuan Yinhai used the screenwriting studio to allow students to practice and recruited students to complete projects for him. After that, he didn’t give them the right to authorship at all and pressured students. Is that what this means? Am I right??]
[The class representative above is right; moreover, this matter has lasted for at least ten or twenty years. Yesterday, didn’t the detectives online discover that since he became a university professor at A University, he has produced a stable amount of 2 works per year……]
[Even if Yuan Yinhai only enslaved one person a year, for such a long period, there must be at least ten or twenty outstanding future screenwriters’ who have been buried……]
[This melon shook up my entire family. Later on, everyone shouldn’t scold our domestic TV series for not being up to par, I suggest you directly scold Yuan Yinhai. Covers head.jpg]
[So Teacher Ruan has never used his name as a pseudonym……]
[Teacher Ruan wrote the work I love the most, ‘The Last Sunflower’…… I’m dumbfounded, really dumbfounded. I feel that I’ve wasted my four years as a college student. In the past, I truly felt that Dean Yuan was a good person. Pupils shaking.jpg]
[Me too; not long ago, I heard his lesson and became a fan. I even fought against other sisters on Weibo for him. Turns out the big idiot was me……]
[This kind of stuff happens all the time; it’s just that no one dares to say it.]
Among the people who broke through the defense among netizens, a significant portion were graduate students.
[This sense of immersion is too strong, guys. Just thinking about it is already suffocating, if you offend someone, you best hope it’s not your academic advisor. They’ll make it so you can’t graduate at all. Smile.jpg x3]
[Are there people who don’t know? Graduate students are migrant workers who work for their academic advisors, grits teeth.jpg]
[My god, my teacher also loved to pick on students with poor family conditions because we are obedient and easy to bully. I’ve made my secret public, goodbye.jpg]
[Going along with the wrong academic advisor can make you feel as if life isn’t worth living. I hope that before my fellow sisters pick your academic advisor, you must ask your senior brothers and sisters. No other undergraduate students; you have to directly ask the graduate students who are right under that academic advisor’s hands. There are indeed a lot of academic scumbags who are acting as film emperors (Don’t ask me why I know, happy.jpg]
The next Weibo posts could be described as a full-on attack by everyone.
Xu Lan, after observing the situation with her team, handed over the content for the next Weibo post to Ruan Song.
When Ruan Song received it, he had some doubts. “Sister Lan, is this post too controversial?”
Ren Qinming wasn’t worried at all. “It will be effective.”
Two minutes later, Ren Qinming’s Weibo was updated.
[@Ren Qinming: I am Ruan Song. Only after I received the contact information of my junior brothers and sisters did I learn that it turns out everyone is like me. From the second or third year of undergraduate studies, we were all coerced by Yuan Yinhai. I am once again ashamed that I was not able to summon up my courage to stand out and expose this matter.]
In other words, the severity of this incident involving Yuan Yinhai was not just about deceiving the graduate students under his control.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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[He’s a f*cking PUA!!!]
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[I’ve just burst into tears. Exactly what kind of hardships did Teacher Ruan have to endure, wuwuwu]
[Don’t apologize!! Mother won’t allow you to apologize!!! Originally, those who have no roots couldn’t overcome the strong!!!!!]
[Now, as long as I think of the fact that the screenwriter of my one true love, ‘The Last Sunflower’, suffered this kind of wrong, and it was even my Teacher Ruan, I feel as if I’m about to explode!!! Ahhhhh]
[The person who needed to summon up their courage wasn’t you; it’s a societal illness, crying.jpg]
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[Hard to imagine that you remembered his birthday just two days ago and saved his life. Just thinking about it makes me angry to death!]
[Teacher Ruan, you don’t have to feel ashamed! You are also a victim, kept in the dark thinking that he already turned over a new leaf, 15551]
[Our Teacher Ruan has always been very respectful towards his seniors. You could tell when he was video chatting with his mother before. In the past two days, he has also done his utmost to take care of that idiot, Yuan Yinhai, while in the hospital]
[Yesterday, Teacher Ruan could already tell something wasn’t right when he discovered that Fang Wei was unfamiliar with the situation. I reckon that he saw that Yuan Yinhai just had a stroke and was afraid that if he directly exposed the matter at that time, the other’s body wouldn’t be able to stand it, so he didn’t make it public]
[How can Teacher Ruan still think about others and feel apologetic to others when he has been harmed to this extent? I’m sobbing, wuwuwu]
[Damn, I can’t anymore. May I ask what hospital and which room Yuan Yinhai is in? I also want to go visit him, smile.jpg]
Of course, the “trolls” in the contingency plan were not absent, but the power of netizens alone could fend them off.
[I bet that the sisters who question the students for not speaking up when they have evidence are still young, right? In the past, the head teacher of the high school in my hometown directly forced a child to jump off the building as corporal punishment. After that, there was no compensation or punishment; they were simply let off with a light sentence saying that the student was clinically depressed and had psychological problems. It was all because that teacher had a relative who was a government official. Goodbye.jpg]
[Saying that a teacher can’t control a student, how indifferent can you be to human suffering?]
[Even though drama, movies, and TV literature are liberal arts majors, A University still has very high requirements for its culture score; you have to reach the first line at least. Everyone painstakingly studied to test into a famous school, believing that they can begin chasing their dreams, but as a result, this happens???]
[Meeting Yuan Yinhai is truly fucking bad luck……]
[The crucial point is that he even established a good character design for himself.]
[Damn……My hair is standing up already. Teacher Ruan, don’t be ashamed and don’t apologize. If you don’t become famous after participating in a variety show, no one will care about this matter. My niece is now in her second year of high school, and plans to test into A University’s Chinese Opera Literature……]
[When will Yuan Yinhai die? Can I go visit his grave this time next year? Cupping my fist.jpg]
The online condemnation of Yuan Yinhai almost caused Weibo to crash.
As for the scripts of Ruan Song, Xu Lan, and Ren Qinming, they were pretty much written up to this point.
The remaining detailed content and process of how Yuan Yinhai PUA’ed students were originally planned to be released later by Feng Xiao and others.
However, in this era of widespread internet connectivity, new victims quickly stepped forward to help them take this step.
They directly exposed a series of tactics used by Yuan Yinhai to select targets and isolate students.
[@The 10th Student of Yuan Yinhai’s Screenwriting Studio: My family conditions are very poor, and I went into debt to go to college. The two seniors working in the studio at the same time as I was were similar to me. At first, Yuan Yinhai would disguise himself with the persona of a kind teacher and helpful friend to get close to you, ask about your family conditions, confirm that you are easily manipulated, and then begin showering you with special attention, purposely letting your classmates exclude you, making everyone keep away from you until only he was left beside you.]
For students, it was a joyful thing to have their teacher recognize their skills and bring them into a studio to write scripts. However, Yuan Yinhai took advantage of their lack of social experience and deceived them.
He first used his role as a mentor to gain their trust, allowing students to participate in script production without signing any contracts. He only made empty promises about giving them credit and payment for their work.
During the production process, he generously taught techniques that were never mentioned in class and occasionally offered small favors to build relationships.
In the end, the most crucial step was to wait for the students to complete their scripts and then claim them as his.
If he was lucky enough to come across naive and easily deceived students, he would use excuses like “the producer doesn’t agree to credit an unknown writer” to deceive them for a second time.
But if he encountered someone who was highly alert, they would immediately confront him when he failed to fulfill his promises.
Ruan Song belonged to the second type, as he discovered the clues before even handing over all the scripts to Yuan Yinhai.
However, with the various personas that Yuan Yinhai had established, Ruan Song, like any other student who sensed something was off, initially doubted his judgement.
And once doubts arose, he would seize upon their “weakness” and exploit it.
[@The 10th Student of Yuan Yinhai’s Screenwriting Studio: Perhaps everyone doesn’t know about those with particularly difficult lives, but we study as if our lives depend on it to obtain a high grade in hopes that we will be exempt from school tuition if we win the national scholarship. It was very simple for Yuan Yinhai to threaten students like us; he just had to prevent us from receiving the scholarship. As for the two seniors I had at that time, one senior’s family owed a debt, and Yuan Yinhai helped them dodge their creditors. On the other hand, Yuan Yinhai helped the other senior’s brother find a job. All in all, he would find a way to control you before exposing his true face so that you have no way of rejecting him.]
When Ren Qinming saw this Weibo post, he was sitting next to Ruan Song.
The two of them sat together in the sunny garden of the hospital, with Ruan’s mother’s peaceful hospital room undisturbed in the background.
Ren Qinming turned his head and asked him, “Was it because of Auntie’s medical expenses? During our third year.”
Looking at Ruan Song’s demeanor, this was the only thing that could be used to threaten him.
Ruan Song shielded his eyes from the glaring sunlight and said, “Mmm, I just needed money.”
At that time, Yuan Yinhai was extremely patient, probably knowing that he was alert and sensitive. The other began getting close to him from his freshman year in university and invited him into his studio in sophomore year, and it wasn’t until junior year when his mother got sick and needed a lot of money that he finally seized the opportunity to turn on him.
If their sophomore year together was the happiest time for both of them, junior year was a nightmare.
“You were also taking on acting gigs because of my mom’s desperation.” Ruan Song shaded his face from the sun and furrowed his brows, turning to look at Ren Qinming. “He told me there was a great opportunity to study abroad around that time.”
He said that as long as he completed the ghostwriting for the script, he would be allowed to study abroad.
Ren Qinming initially started his career to take a shortcut, but later on, it became about earning money to support his mom’s medical treatment and because he wanted to send Ruan Song abroad to study.
He would tirelessly run between different sets, day and night. At first, he would only earn a couple hundred bucks a day as an extra, but later on, he managed to secure some proper supporting roles, and his income slightly increased.
Every day, Ren Qinming would come back to his rented place exhausted, looking like a dog. He would barely exchange a few words with Ruan Song before falling asleep on the living room couch. The fatigue was written all over his face.
The medical expenses were overwhelming. Ruan Song couldn’t even get him to take a break or rest. He would also go out with the reputation of A University and work as a tutor, providing extra lessons to high school seniors.
During that time, they were together and living together, but they hardly had any time to talk.
So when Yuan Yinhai said he could introduce a project to Ruan Song, he didn’t hesitate at all and agreed. The TV series had a total of forty episodes, and as a student, he was only offered three thousand per episode.
Ruan Song had no idea that Yuan Yinhai was being paid three hundred thousand per episode. He was just glad that three thousand per episode was enough to address her mother’s urgent medical needs.
Later on, Yuan Yinhai started paying him promptly, basically giving him the payment for each episode right after it aired.
Ruan Song knew that this was not the right way to do things, as Yuan Yinhai was privately covering for him, and he was very grateful for that.
It wasn’t until one day when he accidentally overheard Yuan Yinhai talking on the phone with the production team, trying to raise the price, that he realized things were not as they had agreed upon.
Not only was he the cheapest ghostwriter, but he wouldn’t even have the right to have his name credited.
Hearing all of this, Ren Qinming’s head drooped, and he leaned his head on Ruan Song’s shoulder, saying, “You should have told me.”
There were still many patients in the park, and Ruan Song didn’t push him away. “How could I have told you? You were so exhausted you couldn’t even procure the grain collected as tax. Did you forget that you tried undressing me several times but fell asleep halfway through?”
Ren Qinming rested his head on her shoulder, silent for a while, before saying, “Am I useless?”
He wasn’t there when Ruan Song needed him the most, and now he couldn’t help much in resolving the trouble.
Ruan Song still didn’t buy into his melodramatic act. “What else can you do? If I didn’t work as cheap labor for Yuan Yinhai, you would’ve ended up selling your kidney.”
Although his mother was in City B before and the cost of living wasn’t as high as in City A, a place like a hospital was still a money-draining place. Both of them were students with no income; it was simply something they couldn’t afford.
If they truly reach a dead end, Ren Qinming would be capable of doing something as foolish as selling his kidney.
And this time as well.
“If it weren’t for you, how could I have appeared on variety shows, gained popularity, and met Xu Lan, Sun Kaizi, and Jiang Zhi?” Ruan Song didn’t say it out loud, but his heart was like a mirror, and all of the other’s merits and demerits were recorded clearly.
Ren Qinming still felt a bit aggrieved. “But you should have told me later; I could afford to support you.”
He had been very unhappy with himself since he found out about this a few days ago, but he knew that Ruan Song didn’t like to dwell on past matters, so he didn’t express it.
Although he had a tough time in the earlier years, by his senior year, he got selected by Zhongrui, and his income level went up. So much so that when Ruan Song was in his first year as a graduate student, Ren Qinming had already won his first award as a film emperor.
He didn’t make that much money, but at the very least, he now had a reputation and could help Ruan Song from fretting too much about Aunty’s medical fees.
Ruan Song grabbed his ear and said, “Are you trying to argue with me again? When I sleep with you, I want a boyfriend, not an ATM. Even if it’s a sugar daddy arrangement, I haven’t seen anyone like you who only gives money without caring about the person.”
Even Ren Qinming’s face was rare enough.
Just like his and Yuan Yinhai’s relationship in the later stage. They only met just to pay for the script.
For some matters, once you miss the opportunity to bring up certain things, it would become so troublesome and tiring to talk about them from beginning to end. In addition, Ruan Song felt his own mood was very unstable at that time. After that period of joy from receiving money for the first time, all that was left was an oppressive pressure, and he felt as if he was irascible and easily angered.
Even if Ren Qinming came back to accompany him, he couldn’t restrain himself from using harsh words and arguing about everything.
And every time, it was Ren Qinming who took a step back first.
After a while, Ruan Song suddenly started to dislike himself a bit, feeling that he had become the person he hated the most.
And then it became a vicious cycle.
The time they could have a normal conversation became less and less, and Ren Qinming kept standing him up repeatedly because of the deliberate scheduling by his manager.
The emotions accumulated until Ruan Song’s second year of graduate school, when the situation with Fang Wei happened, and the conflict completely exploded.
The reality was far from what Ruan Song said on Weibo. Yuan Yinhai promised that there would never be another victim and it would be so beautiful.
At that time, Yuan Yinhai was determined to ruin him, fearing that he would become more successful in the future and have the opportunity to come forward and accuse him of his crimes.
The concept of “First-Class Doctor” was Ruan Song’s, and he wanted to participate in the competition himself.
But Yuan Yinhai, under the guise of being a mentor, manipulated Fang Wei into writing something similar, claiming it was plagiarism.
If you don’t obey, they won’t give you the master’s degree certificate.
Ruan Song felt so wronged at that time, while Ren Qinming was busy filming on set. Every call he made was answered by his manager, and he could never reach him.
Later on, when Ren Qinming came back from filming, he excitedly told him that the film had a high chance of winning awards. However, he had already become numb and calmly broke up with him.
Ruan Song remembered that Ren Qinming was completely dumbfounded at that moment, staring at him in disbelief for a while.
His first reaction was to ask if something had happened to his mother. He was extremely anxious, tightly holding onto his hand and saying, “I have money now, Song ge! Auntie’s illness is not a problem. For the next year, you can rest at home, and if I work harder, I can even afford to send you abroad to study. We don’t lack money anymore.”
Ren Qinming kept mentioning “money” over and over again, and Ruan Song couldn’t help but see Yuan Yinhai’s face in his mind. Suddenly, he felt annoyed and forcefully let go of his hand.
“I don’t want your filthy money,” he said at that moment.
That night, he packed his suitcase and booked a ticket from Ren Qinming’s rental home to his hometown, Xiliu, in City B. No matter what Ren Qinming said, he was unwilling to meet again.
Ruan Song knew that he had truly been ruined by Yuan Yinhai, and Yuan Yinhai had achieved his goal.
He never once imagined that he could turn the tables one day.
“Fortunately, you didn’t look for me to borrow money.” Ren Qinming suddenly muttered.
Ruan Song chuckled. “You have some sense in your head.”
When they parted ways and said those words, if he was forced to borrow money from Ren Qinming, their relationship would be over for good in this lifetime.
Thank You for the new chapter ( ∩ˇωˇ∩)♡
We finally got to know why they broke up.
Thank you for the chapter!
Thank you for the chapter.
This is distressing 😭😭 hopefully they will get back together for real this time…
Ahhh. This part looks to be wrapping up, and we get to see more of their relationship. I’m curious as to the rest of the variety show they have to film and how their relationship goes from here. Obviously, they didn’t communicate with each other before.
Thank you for translating! I was so sad it wasn’t updated in a long time.
It all boils down to how everything that could’ve gone wrong went wrong during ruan song’s 2nd year as graduate student. I’m just so glad in the end they both managed to pull through and be by each other’s side again 😭