Li Yang’s fans were wealthy.
They bought trending topics and hot searches, quickly pushing “Li Yang’s Misfortune” to second place.
Many casual followers clicked in and saw Strawberry Ice Cream’s analysis, which was thoroughly convincing. The second half of the show had disappointed fans, and now seeing this analysis post made everything clear.
“Come On, Friends” had high viewership, and many people watched the livestream. Everyone remembered the segment where Bai Lian discussed the questions with Ning Xiao.
But the program team had deleted the footage of the later question.
Deleting hot searches and footage was clearly suspicious behavior. Most people who were skeptical before immediately believed the truth when they saw how the program team handled things.
[I knew it, why did the program team only delete “Miss Bai,” “Lawyer Chi,” and the high school senior’s Weibo posts? So this was why]
[Does the program team think viewers are stupid?]
[Sorry sorry, I was also criticizing Li Yang last week]
[Looking at it now, Li Yang is truly pure as a lotus rising from the mud. There aren’t many artists like Li Yang in the entertainment industry]
[…]
As the online discussion heated up, Yan Lu, Mei Yi, and the program team all faced varying degrees of criticism.
Many people asked on Li Yang’s official Weibo—
[Li Ge, is this true?]
Li Yang’s manager received a call from Sister Xin.
“Sister Xin.” Li Yang’s manager walked to the window and answered the phone. “What brings such a busy person to call me?”
“Let’s be straightforward – those things on Weibo were done by your team, right? What will it take to get you to remove them?” Sister Xin was direct. “You know better than me why Li Yang didn’t make it into the program.”
Li Yang’s manager played dumb, feigning confusion: “Sister Xin, what are you talking about? What’s happening on Weibo?”
Sister Xin pressed her temples, “What do you want? Money or resources? Those kids are really high school seniors about to take their college entrance exams. What you’re doing will affect their scores.”
Li Yang’s manager smiled, speaking unhurriedly: “Sister Xin, I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
With the Weibo topic trending so high, he didn’t want Li Yang to give up this heat easily.
He hung up the phone.
“Should we not respond?” The assistant held their phone, asking Li Yang’s manager.
Li Yang’s manager looked at Weibo and put his phone down. “Leave it for now. We’re not getting involved. This wave isn’t doing Li Yang any harm anyway.”
You can’t catch a wolf without using a child as bait.
At Wang Xin’s place.
“They won’t back down?” The director sat in a chair, so anxious that cold sores appeared on his lips.
Bai Lian and Ning Xiao were being mocked by the crowd, the martial arts hall was being questioned, and so was Chi Yundai.
The program team was suspected of promoting Xiangcheng.
“Right,” Sister Xin put down her phone and reopened Strawberry Ice Cream’s Weibo post, unable to think of a good solution for the moment. “I’ll ask Yan Lu’s side what they think.”
She made a call to Yan Lu.
Chi Yundai’s situation wasn’t a big deal, but Bai Lian’s side was hard to resolve.
The show’s popularity was too high.
At eleven at night, Lu Xiaohan was about to go to bed when she saw the notification.
She frowned and clicked to read the comments—
[Read more books, normal high school seniors do these kinds of questions [screenshot]]
[Don’t compare everyone to Lawyer Zhao, okay?]
A WeChat message popped up from someone in Class 15. Many people must have seen Li Yang fans’ Weibo posts.
Lu Xiaohan screenshot these contents and sent them to Chi Yundai—
[Lawyer Chi, aren’t you going to sue them?]
Chi Yundai was reviewing case files at home.
He held a pen in his right hand, marking a symbol on the file.
Seeing Lu Xiaohan’s message, he was surprised.
He didn’t care about netizens’ comments about him, and even felt amused when they praised his cooking.
Lawyer Chi: [Too bad I couldn’t show off my cake]
Lu Xiaohan: […??]
Lawyer Chi: [.]
Chi Yundai coughed, guessing that Bai Lian was one of the two students mentioned by netizens. He thought for a moment and made a phone call.
At Xiangcheng Research Institute.
It was eleven o’clock, but Jiang Fuli wasn’t planning to go home tonight.
He had just finished work and was walking past rows of tall machines toward the exit. Passing a steel door, he scanned his fingerprint on the side, and the door opened from both sides.
As he went out, he took off his blue radiation protection suit.
His knuckled hands casually held the clothes.
The laboratory lights were always on, and the cold-toned light shining on him made his skin appear even paler.
His phone rang in his pocket.
It was Chi Yundai.
He looked down and answered.
“Young Master Jiang,” even over the phone, Chi Yundai couldn’t help standing up from his chair. He put down his pen, “It’s like this, there’s something happening online.”
He summarized the situation and reported everything to Jiang Fuli.
Jiang Fuli’s footsteps paused slightly. His focus was always different from ordinary people. “The netizens said that question was difficult?”
Chi Yundai: “…Yes.”
“I see.” Jiang Fuli walked to his rest room, casually pushed open the door, turned on the lights, opened his computer to check the online messages. He didn’t care about the ones regarding the martial arts hall and Chi Yundai.
But regarding Bai Lian, his light-colored eyes fixed on one comment—
[This Miss Bai and Student Ning are really pretending]
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Jiang Fuli coldly typed out a string of code, deleted that comment, then sent Bai Lian a message—
[What are you doing?]
Bai Lian replied promptly, sending him a picture: [[Image]]
She was writing reduced-character notation.
Student Bai: [Your typing seems very cold]
Even through text, she could feel he was angry. Jiang Fuli’s hand paused, he didn’t mention the online situation, only replied—
[The people in the research institute are too stupid]
Student Bai: [Try to understand them]
Jiang Fuli replied to her: [Oh]
His hands lazily finished typing the reply, but his gaze at the computer screen was particularly cold as he opened Academician Ma’s WeChat.
The next day, seven in the morning.
Most people were just getting up to prepare for work.
Li Yang put on his mask and left surrounded by a group of assistants.
The manager hung up the phone and smiled at him: “The ‘Green Mountain Ballad’ production team sent news last night, asking you to come for an audition next week.”
Li Yang’s team had previously communicated with ‘Green Mountain Ballad’, but they hadn’t agreed, preferring Mei Yi’s acting skills and popularity.
Today they agreed, only because they valued Li Yang’s current popularity.
Last night’s trending topic worked out beautifully.
Li Yang’s expression also softened.
Just then, Li Yang’s phone rang. It was his boss.
Li Yang answered directly, and the other party started scolding without waiting for him to speak: “Li Yang, has your brain stopped working? How dare you ride any trending topic! I told you not to provoke the ‘Come On, Friends’ program team’s people, but you didn’t listen. Now what are you going to do?”
Li Yang’s footsteps faltered. He had tacitly approved last night’s events.
Hearing his boss’s words made him sense something was wrong. He stopped to open his phone.
“What’s wrong?” The manager looked at him puzzled.
Li Yang shook his head without speaking, just opened Weibo. Weibo was a bit slow, he waited for it to respond before clicking, “Check what Yan Lu’s side did…”
The trending topics had changed to “Zhao Jingzhou” and “Jianjing Preparatory Camp.”
The general public was still discussing the gossip, while people in Yan Lu’s fan groups were wailing, saying they didn’t believe it and were waiting for Yan Lu to clarify.
But after a whole night, Yan Lu hadn’t made any response.
She even posted a “sun” photo at six in the morning, making fans almost desperate.
Until now, when Yan Lu reposted three Weibo posts. Fans clicked in with a defeated attitude.
Her first repost was— The official “Come On, Friends” account reposting and commenting on Strawberry Ice Cream’s Weibo: [[Image] Congratulations to Teacher Xu He for joining the Yiyi Martial Arts Hall]
The image showed Xu He’s sixth-dan certificate.
The second was— Zhao Jingzhou reposting and commenting on Strawberry Ice Cream’s Weibo: [Lawyer Chi is my teacher]
He was always concise.
The third was— Jianjing Research Institute reposting and commenting on Strawberry Ice Cream’s Weibo: [[Screenshot] Let us introduce the Jianjing University Preparatory Camp app]
Jianjing University Preparatory Camp? What was that? Ordinary people had never heard of this app.
Top comment: [Let me explain, Jianjing University Preparatory Camp is for top students. Each year, the top twenty in the province can get a spot, the top two hundred can enter Jianjing University, and the student in this screenshot is NO.14]
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