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Chapter 25
Under Shen Yichen's deliberate manipulation, the hot searches related to Shen Yue and Zou Xuerong did not rush to the front, just occupying a place at the end.
On the contrary, those topics that exposed the inside story of Four Seas School and the overbearing power of the Shen family firmly occupied the top three hot searches after fermenting overnight.
In the hashtag #Four Seas School is just a game for capitalists#, anonymous students kept speaking up.
Someone said she was stripped naked and thrown onto the rooftop.
Someone said he was asked to kneel down in public during class time but the teacher turned a blind eye.
Someone said he got beaten every day when he went to school, and got beaten again when he left.
Someone said he suffered relentless verbal abuse from his classmates all the time.
Among these words, some were true and some were false. The true parts did happen, while the false ones were spoken by perpetrators posing as victims.
They were the ones who committed these wrongdoings, but they hid behind the identity of netizens, trying to dump all these dirty water onto the Shen family.
Those teachers who were fired by Shen Yichen due to misconduct issues also took advantage of the muddy waters, portraying themselves as tall.
They didn't even dare to breathe heavily in front of Shen Yichen, but they dared to fabricate lies after lies online, scolding Shen Yichen as blind to right and wrong, bullying the weak, arrogant and rude, indulging the shamelessness of his family members.
It really felt like the Internet was beyond the law.
The Shen family was now flooded with abuse, stock prices plunging sharply within just a few hours.
But sitting in his office, Shen Yichen was most concerned about Shen Yue's situation as he watched the bloody rains on the Internet.
"President Shen, the PR team has prepared and is now guiding public opinion towards school violence itself. The family behind the whistleblower is Zhao Yongning. The Shang family also provided some help. Here are the related materials."
"Okay, release some more negative news about the Shen family. Closely monitor the live stream room. Clarify when someone goes over there."
"Do we need to control the rhetoric in the live stream room?"
"No need to control, but you can guide the live stream viewers to look at the hot searches."
"Alright. There should be records of planning this incident within the Zhao's Garden Co., Ltd. Do you want me to send hackers to steal the information?"
Hearing this, Shen Yichen looked up at his secretary with puzzlement in his sagacious eyes, "Have you been watching too many TV shows? We don't need any hackers for some materials from the Zhao family. Just ask Li Zhuangzhuang and the others to go get it directly."
The secretary quickly acknowledged and left with the documents.
As he ran, he regretted - when he was at his previous company, they would often carry out server attacks, so why were they using such primitive methods now that he was at an even bigger conglomerate like the Shen Group?
He didn't even have the nerve to convey President Shen's original words. You said go get it? It's clearly snatching!
However, although the secretary had been complaining about his boss in his heart all this time, he still contacted Li Zhuangzhuang and others who were on standby downstairs as instructed, and went to the Zhao company with them.
After the office quieted down again, Shen Yichen opened the hot searches and took a look at the comments. It was horrifying, to say the least.
Today, their Shen family's ancestors must have been cursed relentlessly by netizens down there.
The previous comments were all scolding the Shen family, nothing worth looking at. But the latest few had new voices.
"Found her, Shen family's little daughter Shen Yue, goes to the same school as the original poster's child. She is currently participating in a variety show with her second brother."
"Thanks for the doxxing. Shen Yue is still a child. Don't let her off. Brothers, charge!"
"What charge? Can today's netizens please use their brains? I'd believe it if you said the Shen child bullied someone, but I'd doubt the authenticity if you said it's Shen Yue."
"How much did the Shen family pay you upstairs? Take me to earn money too!"
"Shen Yue is a well-behaved, gentle and kind child who would never bully others! (Copy-pasted statement, $0.5 each)"
"Wait, you mean Shen Shuangyi is from the Shen family? Fxxk! My brother turned out to be an heir of a prestigious family instead of a civilian!"
"Don't stray from the point upstairs. The focus now is whether capital can do whatever it wants."
"The show is called Strive for Rome. Brothers, charge!"
Shen Yichen frowned as he read the comments. Although everything was going according to plan, he still felt irritated inexplicably when seeing people mention Shen Yue.
End it quickly.
On the other side, the show crew was preparing the surprise for this morning when a group of people suddenly swarmed into Shen Yue's live stream room and started scolding vulgarities without a word.
When the staff noticed something was wrong, they immediately reported it to the director. But the director said, "Don't mind it. You guys should be very clear about what kind of person Shen Yue is after these days. The daily audience know even better."
So Shen Yue's live stream room just became a battlefield like that.
The battlefield consisted of two sides. One side was made up of the self-proclaimed justice netizens who found their way here based on the doxxing information. The other side was Shen Yue's assorted fans who had been staying in her live stream room (mommy fans, true love fans, knowledge fans etc.).
After reading the hot search contents, some of the live stream fans still chose to believe in Shen Yue after judging. First of all, Shen Yue revealed that she was bullied at school earlier than the time when the accusation against the Shen family appeared online.
Secondly, Shen Yue's gentleness towards Zou Xuerong and tolerance of Dong Nuo allowed people to feel that she was a good child.
The people who reached the live stream room thinking they could easily scold and exercise their righteous rights were met with huge resistance, contrary to what they had imagined.
Those who had been watching Shen Yue these days could no longer sit still either. They started getting active on Weibo too, not only explaining things to those who scolded Shen Yue as a bully, but also recommending everyone to watch the replay of Strive for Rome.
【You will know Shen Yue is really not the kind of person who would bully others just by watching this show. She's even the one being bullied.】
【I'm not speaking for the Shen family. I just feel Shen Yue must be somewhat wronged in this.】
【Shen Yue is just an autistic girl. Can you grow a brain before slandering others? Reasonable suspicion - the Shens offended someone.】
【I see many of the accounts helping Shen Yue don't seem like water armies. What they say makes sense too. I'm uncertain now. I'll keep watching.】
【I won't take sides for now either. The development of this bullying accusation seems not so simple.】
【I've been surfing the Internet for so many years, first time seeing someone defending the bully.】
【But have you noticed, among those speaking for Shen Yue, there is a professor from a prestigious university!】
In summary, after some of Shen Yue's small but elite fanbase joined in, the seemingly one-sided online trial took a dramatic new turn.
The Shen family's PR team looked at each other in blank dismay over the suddenly reversed situation.
"Did you guys hire more water armies?"
"No, who would dare hire without the boss's order?"
"Then what's with these people?"
"Fxxk, the one helping is a professor from the Military Academy. Turns out they are not water armies!"
That day, the Shen family's PR team came to a conclusion.
Miss Shen Yue is awesome.