Sophie
莫艳琼, Sophie, Monica, Weibo name 香瓜子 Guazi, previously used the handle 俊哲香瓜子 when she first entered the Word of Honor fandom as a JunZhe fan. Wife of Umbrella. They share several social media accounts and photos of them and their son can be found on many platforms. Sophie and Umbrella own companies together. Her QQ email account was previously published by a member of the fan group she has been a part of since August 2021.
Role in WPW Rumors
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In July 2021, Zhang Zhehan was rumored to be in a secret relationship with a model named Wang Peiwen. Sophie was one of the accounts instrumental in spreading these rumors, posting a video of Zhang's birthday in which she claims a nondescript woman in the back is Wang. Alleged chatlogs between Wang and Zhang's studio emerged. Coincidentally, the tagline of the WeChat account attributed to Wang is the same as Sophie's WeChat, which is tied to the phone number of her companies and her QQ number.
Sophie spreading WPW rumors
Sophie's WeChat
Alleged WPW WeChat
Alleged chatlog between WPW and ZZH studio
When her WeChat account was exposed, Sophie posted chatlogs that she claims were between her and a fandom friend last August, discussing the Wang Peiwen chats. However, an emoji seen in Sophie's chatlog was only released by Weibo in March 2022, proving that the date of the chatlogs Sophie posted are falsified. Sophie subsequently deleted the post but not before it was captured in screen recording[1].
Sophie's post denying the alleged WPW's WeChat belongs to her
Falsified chatlog posted by Sophie
One of many Weibo posts in March announcing new emojis
In August 2022, a Weibo account that claims to belong to Wang Peiwen began making defamatory posts against Zhang Zhehan, claiming that she was forced to sign an agreement with his studio to delete her social media, that they were engaged but he broke off the engagement, that she never received financial compensation from him, that they lived together for a short while and he made her do all the chores, etc. These details correspond strongly with Sophie's life story as told by herself on Tianya, when she became the mistress of a wealthy businessman shortly after graduating high school. She also expressed unhappiness in her current marriage.
Sophie Baidu account
Sophie Tianya account posting her email with same username as her Baidu
Sophie Tianya post
Sophie Tianya post
Activities in Zhang Zhehan's Fandom
Sophie first appeared in the Word of Honor fandom in March 2021, shortly after the show exploded in popularity. After 813, Sophie and her husband Umbrella were core members of a group of fans advocating for being vocal about clarifying for Zhang Zhehan (now referred to as the clarification gang). Sophie encouraged fans to pester official departments and organized offline meetups. Umbrella himself sent out a list of group members last year.
Umbrella showing clarification gang
Members of clarification gang vouching for Sophie
Umbrella talking about Sophie's offline activities
A fan talking about meeting Sophie
Umbrella giving his account to Sophie
In September 2021, when Zhu Yilong was under attack for praying at a Japanese shrine, Sophie sent out four different talking points to Zhang Zhehan fans directing them to defend Zhu and linking his incident to Zhang, despite the two being vastly different in nature, as Zhang had never set foot in the shrine he was accused of praying at.
In February 2022, Tantan, a marketing account turned JunZhe fan, revealed that he had previously been contacted by someone who claimed to be in direct contact with Zhang Zhehan. They provided him with material that initially convinced him of their legitimacy, and asked him to publicly support Zhang Sanjian. However, Tantan soon began to question the validity of their claims and refused to continue working with them. The profile photo of the person who contacted him appears to match Sophie's QQ profile.
In April 2022, Sophie made a post on Weibo equating the legitimacy of many scam ring accounts with Li Xuezheng and Zhang Mama. In this post, she inadvertently confirmed the real names of Su Shifu and Ma-ge, and also revealed that Su Shifu no longer worked at his previous podcast and was now a freelancer/unemployed. In November 2022, Ma-ge (aka military intern) publicly admitted that he had been solicited by Sophie and 妙啊啊 last August to join their group.
Sophie confirming scam ring identities
Ma-ge admitting he was contacted by Sophie
Role in Smear Campaigns Against Gong Jun
Sophie frequently used a method in which she makes a relatively mild post, then after it has been widely reposted, editing the post to make it significantly more slanderous. She used this method to smear both Zhang Zhehan last year (with the Wang Peiwen rumors) and Gong Jun this year. In one instance, she started with one photo and a cryptic line that doesn't name any names, and ending with a post that contains 9 images, two smear tags, tags two police units, includes Gong Jun's full name, and falsely accuses him of using drugs. She edited the post a total of 26 times[2].
Beginning post
Ending post
Involvement with Zhang Sanjian
In May 2022, Sophie made a post simultaneously denying involvement with Xie Yihua and defending her. However, she previously posted screencaps that showed she was in direct contact with Xie.
Sophie denying contact with XYH
Sophie conversation with XYH
On March 31, the first EHzZ product, a baseball cap, was released for preorder. That day, Sophie replied to a fan that she had bought a black one. On April 2, the brand's official account posted photos of a man and a woman wearing the hat, long before it was received by customers. The woman closely resembles Sophie. On April 21, Sophie made a post claiming she had not been able to buy a hat and that another fan was intending to gift her one, but it had yet to arrive.
On June 12th, 2022 at around 4:30pm-7pm, Sophie was present at a golf range in Shanghai with a man who resembled Zhang Zhehan from certain angles, but was clearly not him. They were captured on the golf range's surveillance video. Sophie and the man created content for the Zhangzhehan_super3 Instagram account that was released on June 14th. There were multiple witnesses who saw them enter and leave the range, and the surveillance video has been obtained by the police.