Chapter 206 Late Night Storm
The collapse of Ma Zhiyuan’s house has become the biggest earthquake today.
It was not until eight o'clock in the evening that Star Entertainment issued a statement explaining that the girl was not Ma Zhiyuan's girlfriend, but just a friend. She was not the only one who went to Ma Zhiyuan's house that night, but many friends were with her.
As soon as this explanation came out, it immediately became a hot topic.
However, not many people bought into the content of this explanation.
Many people don’t believe it, including Ma Zhiyuan’s fans and the onlookers.
Mao Yu, a columnist who often comments on entertainment news, posted a status: "Who are you trying to fool? Late at night, Ma Zhiyuan went upstairs alone with that girl in his arms. No one was around, and he didn't come out all night. It took him so long to come up with such an explanation? You can't fool people like this. Ma Zhiyuan is one of the most popular idols right now, and he hasn't responded to the incident yet. He's hiding behind his company. I guess he'll do the same as before, keeping it quiet for a few days, and then come out again when the heat has died down, saying it was just a friend and a marketing account spreading rumors."
Mao Yu's speech received nearly 10,000 comments within an hour.
Nearly half of them were here to curse her.
When his company didn't respond, you said he wouldn't respond. And when he did respond, you didn't believe him. Isn't it common for good friends to stay up all night together? Or does someone as rude as you have no friends at all?
——It’s obviously a malicious marketing account that deliberately only took photos of the two of them together to create the feeling that there are only the two of them. Can we discuss this issue more rationally?
——Ma Zhiyuan has always been a high-quality idol who is hardworking, diligent, humble and kind. Why is the world so hostile to him?
——How much did Mao Yuni charge?
——The blogger is a dog who is trying to gain popularity everywhere, and the whole network has known it for a long time.
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Mao Yu was so angry that she was speechless when she saw herself being scolded. However, she had already known that she would be attacked by Ma Zhiyuan's fans if she commented on this matter, so she was mentally prepared.
Mao Yu has disliked Ma Zhiyuan for a long time, and now that she has the opportunity to criticize Ma Zhiyuan, she will definitely not miss it.
What she couldn't understand even more was that Ma Zhiyuan had obviously taken a woman home, so how could his fans still deceive themselves and believe the company's public relations statement?
She wasn't being malicious, she knew what she said was right.
While I was reading the comments online, my phone suddenly rang.
It's an unfamiliar number.
Mao Yu answered the phone, "Hello, who are you?"
"Hello, Mr. Mao, I'm Zhou Ping'an, Ma Zhiyuan's agent. Let's chat. Are you free?"
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No drinking in the evening.
After eating and drinking, Chen Ziyan and Li Zhenzhen made an appointment to go shopping, and Li Zhibai and the other three went back first.
"Sister Zi Yan actually goes shopping with others?" Yan Liang was a little surprised.
Li Zhibai said, "Sister Zi Yan is probably trying to build a good relationship with Li Zhenzhen so that PD Li can take better care of Yan He in the future."
Yan Liang was even more surprised and said, "Sister Zi Yan is such a powerful agent, does she really need to curry favor with a young variety show director?"
"Isn't this the most amazing thing about Sister Zi Yan? She never thinks of herself as a great agent. Even though she's not our agent, she always gives us advice. For example, when she invites PD Li to dinner tonight, she will also bring us along. If Zhou Ping'an invites Li Zhenzhen to dinner, do you think he will invite Lao Lu?" Li Zhibai revealed his admiration for Chen Zi Yan in his words.
Lu Yanhe nodded and said, "Sister Zi Yan really never thinks of herself as a great agent. She's very sincere to people."
"This is probably the reason why she was able to reach such a great position today." Yan Liang sighed.
The three of them went back, and Li Zhibai was still driving.
Yan Liang saw the company's response in the car and also saw Mao Yu's name on the hot search list.
The hot search term is #毛雨评论马志远恋爱#
However, what Yan Liang did not expect was that when he clicked on this hot search, he found that the real-time message had turned into someone else's Weibo, which was a screenshot. The content on the screenshot was the update that Mao Yu had posted before, but the content of this update was no longer on Mao Yu's personal homepage.
"It's a PR thing." Li Zhibai said, "Isn't Zhou Ping'an the best at this?"
"However, Mao Yu's deletion of her status didn't seem to calm public opinion. Instead, many people said Mao Yu was cyberbullied by Ma Zhiyuan's fans and deleted the post because she couldn't handle the pressure," Yan Liang said. "Now several big Vs have come out to condemn Ma Zhiyuan's fans, calling them crazy. Some even say his fans are like locusts swarming across the border."
Li Zhibai: "Tsk tsk."
Lu Yanhe couldn't help but sigh and said, "Sister Zi Yan was telling Sister Zhen Zhen this afternoon that everyone should try their best to manage their fans."
"Don't worry, Zhou Ping'an will never do that. He has always believed that being popular is also popular. Artists are not afraid of being criticized, but they are afraid of losing popularity." Li Zhibai vowed, "Ma Zhiyuan is involved in this kind of trouble. Believe it or not, although he is a little annoyed, he is definitely annoyed by Ma Zhiyuan causing trouble for him, not by Ma Zhiyuan being criticized."
Lu Yanhe and Yan Liang couldn't help laughing.
Because they knew what Li Zhibai said was right.
"How much impact will Ma Zhiyuan's incident have on him?" Yan Liang asked.
"Who knows?" Li Zhibai said, "But the fan club is about to disband. This is more serious than I thought."
"But there are still many fans who believe in him."
"There's always one."
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However, no one expected that Ma Zhiyuan's incident would affect Lu Yanhe.
Late in the evening, a popular blogger with millions of followers suddenly wrote a eloquent article asking, "Why is it that Ma Zhiyuan, both idol artists, frequently gets exposed for negative news, while Lu Yanhe continues to gain popularity?"
In the article, the blogger seriously analyzed Ma Zhiyuan's performance since his debut, and described him as "a top star who was too well protected by the company and too lucky to know how to cherish it", while Lu Yanhe was "a high-quality idol who suffered a decline in popularity upon debut, was almost forgotten, and turned the tide with his own hard work and efforts."
Only those who know how to cherish opportunities can stand longer and more steadily.
The article itself was not too biased, but it angered Ma Zhiyuan's fans. Many of Ma Zhiyuan's fans even thought that Lu Yanhe saw that Ma Zhiyuan was in trouble, so he took the opportunity to step on Ma Zhiyuan to get to the top.
While Lu Yanhe was still asleep, the internet was already buzzing with activity.
The absolute number of Lu Yanhe's fans is not on the same level as Ma Zhiyuan's fans.
Lu Yanhe’s social media account was bombarded with nearly 100,000 insults in just one night.
The contents are similar, all saying that Lu Yanhe has bad intentions. When an artist from the same company fell into a public opinion crisis, he not only did not help speak up, but also added insult to injury.
Lu Yanhe doesn't have as many fans as Ma Zhiyuan, and his ability to argue online is not as good as those of Ma Zhiyuan's battle-hardened fans.
It's almost a one-sided situation.
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Chen Ziyan was woken up by a phone call at three in the morning.
The person who called was her old friend Lu Qingzhen from the company.
"Zi Yan, Lu Yanhe was subjected to massive cyberbullying by Ma Zhiyuan's fans." Lu Qingzhen said directly without any further ado.
Chen Ziyan woke up instantly.
"What's going on?"
Lu Qingzhen briefly explained, "I got up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and checked my phone when I saw that Lu Yanhe's homepage had been hacked."
Chen Ziyan had already sat up from the bed and turned on the bedside lamp.
"I see, thank you, I'll take a look right away."
After hanging up the phone, Chen Ziyan searched for relevant information with an expressionless face. After understanding the general situation, she called the company's public relations department.
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For Star Entertainment’s public relations department, this was the craziest and most headache-inducing day.
After dealing with Ma Zhiyuan’s public opinion crisis for the entire day, I finally had a chance to rest, but was woken up by Chen Ziyan again.
Late at night, at four in the morning, several people met in the company building.
You can't even get in through the main entrance, you can only go through the underground garage.
Chen Ziyan had her makeup and hair done up exquisitely, and there was no trace of sleepiness in her eyes, as if she had not just woken up from a dream.
Compared to her, Zhou Ping'an on the other side had a corner of his hair sticking up, looked haggard, and pale in comparison.
"I don't want to discuss other matters. If Ma Zhiyuan's fans' massive attacks on Lu Yanhe don't stop by tomorrow morning, I'll sue the ringleaders. Don't use the fact that you're both artists from the same company to plead with me," Chen Ziyan said coldly. "You have three hours left. Contact those ringleaders and make them delete that content, no matter what method you use. Otherwise, Ma Zhiyuan will be cursed back at just as Lu Yanhe was cursed."
After saying that, Chen Ziyan sat down, took out her cell phone, and looked at her phone silently, as if she was too lazy to discuss with them anymore.
Zhou Ping'an looked at Chen Ziyan with fear, wanting to have a good talk with her, but in the end he decided not to do such a futile thing.
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After all, Star Entertainment is a big company and has cooperated with major social platforms. It still has channels to contact partners to reduce the popularity and delete some popular content involving personal attacks. It just depends on whether they want to do it and how much effort they are willing to put into it.
As for those fan leaders of Ma Zhiyuan who were leading the trouble, Zhou Ping'an had to work very hard to deal with them because he had just taken over Ma Zhiyuan not long ago. He deleted the posts of those who wanted to make trouble and tried to calm down those who wanted to.
At seven o'clock in the morning, most of the mighty noise had dissipated, with only a few still jumping around. Chen Ziyan had no intention of finding fault.
She looked at Zhou Ping'an, who looked tired, and said, "We didn't ask anyone to post this provocative post. Who deliberately put Lu Yanhe and Ma Zhiyuan together to stir up a hot topic war at this critical moment? Is it to gain popularity or do they have ulterior motives? I suggest you investigate thoroughly."
Zhou Ping'an looked at the woman who still had a delicate face impatiently, and all kinds of horses were running in his heart.
It sounded nice, but he was the only one here who led people to put out the fire all night, and she had been sitting on the chair playing with her cell phone, and even took a short nap in the middle. Now she was reminding him lightly and with good intentions.
But after Chen Ziyan left, her words popped up in Zhou Pingan's mind again.
What Chen Ziyan said might not be unreasonable. If it was a marketing account trying to capitalize on the popularity, that would be fine. But what if someone had ulterior motives and was deliberately using Lu Yanhe to step on Ma Zhiyuan?
Zhou Ping'an still believed that Chen Ziyan would not use such means to help Lu Yanhe.
He was asked to work on an e-magazine, but what's the point of him carrying a sedan chair?
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So, after a night, when Lu Yanhe woke up and learned what had happened last night, the storm had already passed while he was sleeping.
He looked blankly at the comment section of his "Feng Guo Liuhen" and the number of fans that had increased by nearly 30,000 overnight, and didn't know what to say.
Li Zhibai and Yan Liang were shocked when they learned about this.
The matter was resolved in one night. Chen Ziyan's method was so swift and decisive that they couldn't believe it.
The same goes for Lu Yanhe.
At ten o'clock in the morning, Chen Siqi sent him a message, saying: Were you cyberbullied last night?
Lu Yanhe: It seems so. I don’t know what happened. When I woke up, many people told me that I was being cyberbullied on a large scale, but I hardly saw those comments. If someone hadn’t taken screenshots, I wouldn’t have known about it.
Chen Siqi: There’s really something wrong with Ma Zhiyuan’s fans, they’re like mad dogs.
Lu Yanhe: Yeah, but it’s okay now.
Chen Siqi: Do you want to have lunch together later? Do you want to deal with this matter?
Lu Yanhe: Let’s eat together. I don’t have anything to deal with. When I woke up, my agent had already dealt with everything. There is nothing to do at all.
Lu Yanhe didn't know how to describe his feelings.
Half of me was shocked, half of me was moved, and some of me was angry after seeing the contents of those screenshots.
But this is not important. What is important is... is Sister Zi Yan's processing speed so exaggerated?
Wearing a hat and a mask, Lu Yanhe walked through the scorching July sun to meet Chen Siqi at the hotel.
When the latter saw him and saw that he looked energetic, he knew that he was indeed not affected at all and he breathed a sigh of relief.
Before meeting him, Chen Siqi was worried that Lu Yanhe's relaxed and nonchalant tone was fake.
It seems that everything is really fine.
"If we can continue to produce this book, we must do an issue in the future to discuss how wrong this kind of online violence that attacks people on a large scale without any discrimination is," Chen Siqi said confidently.
Lu Yanhe heard her concern.
He laughed and said, "Okay."
Chen Siqi: "Order first, and then discuss our progress after we finish eating."
"good."
Two people, two dishes, one meat and one vegetable, totaling twenty-seven. The boss looked at Lu Yanhe with a look that was hard to describe. The gist of it was: You're a well-dressed guy, and you're treating your girlfriend to dinner, and you only order two dishes. How can you be so shabby? How can you possibly win over a girl like that?!
Lu Yanhe was at a loss whether to laugh or cry.
But eating two dishes together has become a habit between him and Chen Siqi.
Don’t waste, don’t overdo.
Chen Siqi also doesn't like waste.
Be despised if you want to be despised.
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