Chapter 40

Thus, the editor began to search for Tang Feng's high school classmates, but the result showed that there was no female classmate surnamed Dong among Tang Feng's high school classmates.

However, while collecting information, the editor accidentally discovered a very coincidental matter: the newly crowned Golden Dragon Film Empress Dong Bingbing had once been the school beauty of Nanzhou City's Seventh High School.

This led the editor to have some speculations: could Dong Bingbing be the Dong Miss in question?

Dong Bingbing, originally named Dong Yu, is from Nanzhou City, Tianan Province, and attended Nanzhou City's Seventh High School during her high school years.

The information the editor subsequently found also confirmed this speculation. Below is a group photo from an activity at Nanzhou City's Seventh High School, where both Dong Bingbing and Tang Feng appear. Here is the group photo.

The investigation could not proceed further because the editor could not interview Tang Feng's classmates or Tang Feng himself, or Dong Bingbing, in a short time.

However, the editor tagged Tang Feng and Dong Bingbing on WeChat! Neither of them responded to the matter, and the editor will continue to investigate...

When this post appeared, it was widely reprinted.

Then, the speculations about the prototype of "Dong Miss" became even more numerous.

Some people with extensive connections even found Tang Feng's former high school classmates and obtained information from someone claiming to be Tang Feng's high school classmate, revealing that Tang Feng had once had a crush on Dong Bingbing, and that the two indeed knew each other, and so on.

Some people even broke down the lyrics of Tang Feng's "Dong Miss" and proved from various aspects that Dong Miss was Dong Bingbing, for example, the line "Dong Miss, you extinguish the cigarette," was accompanied by a photo of Dong Bingbing smoking, and there were countless such examples.

All at once, the voices of doubt turned around and began to dig deeply into the rumors about Tang Feng and Dong Bingbing.

The larger media outlets were relatively factual, while the entertainment tabloids were outrageous, even fabricating stories that Dong Bingbing had once been in a passionate relationship with Tang Feng and then abandoned him for fame.

Some people speculated that the core lyric in "Dong Miss," "I fell in love with a wild horse, but my home has no prairie," was the root cause of Tang Feng and Dong Bingbing's breakup...

Tang Feng found this both laughable and exasperating. In short, the doubts about Tang Feng that Yan Jianghua and others had fabricated had completely lost their market. The media that had questioned Tang Feng the day before now turned their guns and began discussing the rumors about Tang Feng and Dong Bingbing.

When Tang Feng opened WeChat, he found that those who had originally questioned him and demanded a direct response had all disappeared. Some even apologized for not believing him before. However, Tang Feng never expected that the problem he had struggled to solve would be resolved so easily, which was truly incomprehensible.

On the other side!

When Yan Jianghua and Chen Meimei learned how the situation had developed, they were also stunned. Who could have thought that things would end this way!

The overwhelming doubts had been silenced by a rumor, and the media seemed to have all suffered from amnesia, forgetting how they had attacked Tang Feng the day before?

"Bang!" Yan Jianghua slammed his fist on the table in anger.

"Damn it, how can this guy be so lucky? Our plan was almost successful, but then a rumor came out and turned everything we did into a waste of effort. Not only did we fail to completely tarnish his reputation, but we even boosted his popularity. It's driving me crazy!" Yan Jianghua said furiously.

"Darling, calm down! No one could have predicted this outcome! But we still have a chance. As long as Dong Bingbing denies knowing Tang Feng, and then we can stir up the rumor that Tang Feng fabricated the story about the prototype of Dong Miss to divert attention from the doubts..." Chen Meimei said.

"What if Dong Bingbing admits to knowing Tang Feng?" Yan Jianghua asked.

"Well, that's unlikely, right? If the two really had that kind of relationship, Tang Feng wouldn't have been in such a dire situation. After all, admitting it would bring no benefit to Dong Bingbing. And I think she probably won't respond to this at all," Chen Meimei said.

At that moment, in Tianhai City, at the Tianhai Film City, during the opening ceremony of the "Manjianghong" film production, Dong Bingbing was being interviewed by a journalist.

"Miss Bingbing, have you heard the song 'Dong Miss'?" a journalist asked.

"I've heard 'Dong Miss'! I think it's very beautiful!" Dong Bingbing said with a radiant smile.

"Regarding the online rumors that the singer and original creator of 'Dong Miss,' Tang Feng, is your schoolmate, and that 'Dong Miss' was created based on you, is this true?"

As soon as the journalist asked the question, Dong Bingbing's agent's face changed, and she quickly interjected before Dong Bingbing could speak: "Today is the opening ceremony of 'Manjianghong.' Bingbing will not answer any questions unrelated to the film."

"Cough! I can answer this question!" Dong Bingbing's voice suddenly came.

"Bingbing, you..." Dong Bingbing's agent looked at her in surprise.

"It's fine, Sister Cao! I know what I'm doing!" Dong Bingbing said with a smile.

"I can answer the question you just asked. I know about the news regarding 'Dong Miss.' To be honest, I don't know if 'Dong Miss' was created based on me. You'll have to ask him about that. However, I do know Tang Feng, and he is indeed my schoolmate. Is my answer satisfactory?" Dong Bingbing said with a smile.

Hearing Dong Bingbing's response, the journalists became excited and started asking questions: "There are rumors that you and Tang Feng were once in a relationship, and that you abandoned him for your career. Is this true..."

"Please..."

The journalists' questions became increasingly outrageous. This time, Dong Bingbing did not answer any more questions, and her agent blocked them all.

After the journalists left!

"Bingbing, didn't you know that your response would affect you?" Dong Bingbing's agent, Sister Cao, asked.

"Affect? Haha, do you think I'm afraid of this?" Dong Bingbing said confidently.

"I don't understand why you're helping this Tang Feng! As far as I know, you don't really know him," Sister Cao asked.

"Indeed, we're not very familiar, but he is my schoolmate. As an upperclassman, what's wrong with helping a junior?" Dong Bingbing said casually.

"You... you didn't even tell me beforehand. Now those journalists will write all sorts of things!" Sister Cao said with a hint of complaint.

"Write all sorts of things? Haven't they written plenty of false news about me before?" Dong Bingbing's lips curled into a charming smile, revealing a hint of disdain and mockery.

"Also, what they say might not be entirely false. Maybe Tang Feng really had a crush on me back then!" Dong Bingbing said a sentence that made her agent, Cao Yang, roll her eyes.