Chapter 356: Why are you all not saying anything anymore? (Thanks to Wugoufei)

Zhong Le, also known as "Zhong Ai Yisheng," felt extremely good about himself, and he felt that the words he had just spoken flowed perfectly—they were truly imposing!

He was someone very skilled at stirring up this kind of sentiment; he had done so before on Zhihu and in many other places.

Especially regarding internet celebrities who, in his words, had a "tendency to flaunt wealth," he could use such words to leave them speechless!

If you have money, does that mean you can spend it however you want?

Especially the group of internet celebrities!

Once you have money, you should do more things that are beneficial to society, but instead, you are spending so much money just to vent your anger, and you have always done this in the past!

And while you have so much money, you don't take it out for charity; I've looked for a long time and haven't found you donating money to children in mountain areas. You absolutely must be brought down, and you must be trampled underfoot by ten thousand people.

You don't say, when it comes to other forms of moral kidnapping, many people are dismissive, but when it comes to the rich being unkind, everyone must condemn it!

"Shanhxia Yizhi E": I think so too. I said a long time ago that this Up Master is always seeking Legal Aid and being pedantic, and who knows how much money he has spent, but has he ever done any charity or donated any money?

"Look at so-and-so; every time there is a major disaster, they are the first to donate. Yes, they did sell some fake goods, but that was only because of lax oversight. Now look at this one; he talks about the law for everything, but is being law-abiding the same as being a good person?"

"Tianya Haijiao Kan Danshengou": I couldn't support this more. Being so rich and not donating money, and this Up Master's fans are like lunatics; you can't even say one bad thing about this Up Master. They keep calling others a 'fan circle,' yet they are the best at creating a fan circle themselves!

These were all classic lines, and the flavor was so strong that when Zhou Mouren's audience saw them, they felt like the feeling was back!

After several large-scale Litigations, these people on the internet had become like turtledoves; even if they spoke, they didn't dare to do so openly, only daring to make a few snide remarks in the shadows.

And if they saw a possibility of something going viral, they would delete it themselves, leaving them with no opponents to bicker with.

As it turned out, no one expected that this person called "Zhong Ai Yisheng" would actually succeed in stirring up the sentiment!

Soon, someone replied: "Here we go again, moral kidnapping. Isn't it right for A Yi to seek Legal Aid according to the law? Others donating is their own business; does A Yi donating or not have anything to do with others donating?"

Unfortunately, as soon as these words came out, they were directly retorted.

We don't dare to bash A Yi, but we don't dare to bash a small fry like you?

"Well said. Then why doesn't he donate money? I'm not just some random passerby; I'm a fan of Wang Yun. She is also an internet celebrity, so why does she donate so much?"

"To put it bluntly, if A Yi doesn't donate money, he should stop talking nonsense here!"

Similar remarks emerged one after another, and basically, such remarks appeared under every one of Zhou Yi's videos.

In a word, you are wasting money by being so pedantic, and if you don't donate money, you are in the wrong.

It was just that the heat was relatively high this time.

Actually, if things continued to develop like this, it wouldn't matter; after all, it's not that easy to generate heat.

But no one expected that something would happen that very evening.

Lao Xi, a live-streaming Anchor under Wang Xuan's Company, was also known for stirring up sentiment. In his daily live streams, he would often read some inexplicable bullet comments.

Then, after triggering the heat, he would look blank and say: "This isn't what I said; it's what the bullet comments said!"

There was no 'then' after that. With so many bullet comments at the same time, no one would stare at them constantly; perhaps the Anchor really saw something he hadn't.

Today was also a very normal day, with the usual product promotion, but as he went on, that Lao Xi started reading bullet comments.

"Why doesn't A Yi donate money when he's so rich? Whether A Yi donates or not has nothing to do with us, and we can't force him to donate, right? However, I think that as an internet celebrity, one shouldn't just focus on making money. Once you have money, you should still give back to society, right?"

A short sentence directly stirred up the sentiment in the live-streaming room, leading to a debate.

Negative publicity is still publicity; this is why many stars and internet celebrities do some inexplicable things, because having people scold you is still traffic, which is better than not having anyone scold you at all.

He only said this one sentence, but with the help of many people dissatisfied with A Yi, topics like "A Yi must be banned" directly started to skyrocket in heat!

We really don't dare to scold A Yi now, but we can report him and use various methods to get the authorities to ban him.

The reason? He is a stingy miser despite being rich; he wastes social resources and judicial resources, and many, many more.

The main thing is still not donating money.

As for his various efforts to collect evidence and try to fight against those mobile phone Manufacturers with pre-installed software, what does that have to do with us?

Isn't it just taking up a bit of memory? He is just being pedantic to vent his own anger, so this time he must be brought down!

The sentiment came too fast, so fast that people couldn't react at all. Zhou Yi felt like he had just applied to the Handong Provincial Consumer Protection Committee, and suddenly everyone on the internet was calling for him to be beaten.

It seemed that in everyone's eyes, his failure to donate money was more harmful than those mobile phone Manufacturers creating all kinds of undeletable pre-installed software...

Others were fine, but many Employees of Tengda Company truly felt it was not worth it for their boss.

He spent both money and effort, just wanting to be pedantic about this kind of unfair phenomenon, but in the end, people didn't care about that at all; instead, they seized upon the donation issue to criticize him in every way.

They even said he had always wasted money like this before... Are people blind?

Those times he was pedantic before, did they not enjoy the dividends?

Setting aside the Criminal Private Prosecutions for his own Legal Aid, just look at the confrontation with those big companies. Look at it now: Qiyi Company has stopped the Paid Advanced On-Demand practice, and major platforms are not as unscrupulous as before regarding the collection of personal information.

Dreamland allows people to bring their own food into the park.

Not to mention Pinduoduo, which now doesn't dare to talk nonsense in its promotions for fear of being caught by others.

After doing so much, he only got a "waste of money" evaluation.

However, when Chu Lan hesitated again and again, preparing to go talk to her boss, she found that her boss was still the same as always.

"President Zhou, are you... alright?" Looking at Zhou Yi sitting there with a relaxed expression, Chu Lan was very surprised.

Such a huge sentiment, and it even started to implicate Tengda Company again. Some people were even shouting that such an unkind rich person should have his company closed down so he could experience the feeling of being poor; only then would he donate money!

Chu Lan had seen many people before—big stars, big internet celebrities, and even big bosses—and when they fell into a public opinion crisis, their personal state would always be affected in one way or another.

Zhou Yi looked at Chu Lan with a suspicious expression: "Should I be alright?"

"Isn't the internet saying that you donate..." Chu Lan hesitated and said.

"If people have mouths on their faces, let them talk. I can't stop them."

"No, President Zhou, I mean, you clearly did things for everyone's good before, but now they treat you like this, saying you are wasting money..." Chu Lan said again.

Zhou Yi wouldn't be affected by public opinion; after all, he was a mature internet celebrity.

But this time it wasn't just public opinion. You say you have good intentions and do good things, but in the end, people don't understand at all and instead scold you, saying you shouldn't have done it—how would you feel!

To say nothing else, Chu Lan knew the Qiyi Company matter inside out; she knew better than anyone how much of a price this President Zhou had paid.

Clearly, he could have received a large sum of money just by accepting the Mediation from Qiyi Company!

In any case, Chu Lan felt that if this were to happen to herself, she would truly have the urge to go on a rampage.

Zhou Yi smiled upon hearing this and said, "Manager Chu, this is where you don't understand me. When I am being serious, it is never for the sake of anyone else; I only do it so that I can feel at ease!"

It was like this in the past at Yuefu Residential Quarter, and it is the same now that I have arrived at Guangming Peak Residential Quarter.

"Ah?" Chu Lan was stunned there.

"However, regarding this matter of donations, they did get it wrong," Zhou Yi continued.

You see, this whole mess—originally, he did not want to expose this matter so quickly, but since others kept mentioning children in mountainous areas with every breath, if he didn't bring out some evidence, his reputation would likely truly be ruined.

Seeing that Chu Lan looked puzzled, Zhou Yi walked to the window, looked at the world outside, and said, "Just wait and see!"

Originally, mobile phone manufacturers similar to Oupian had already begun preparing to respond properly; after all, this matter was truly not small, and it would not look good if it triggered public opinion and was discovered by the "daddy" above them.

By now, in fact, many people know that various industries have their own "biological fathers"—for instance, the postal service is to express delivery what the Market Supervision Department is to all operational industries: a "godfather."

Likewise, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is the "biological father" to mobile phone manufacturers and major carriers.

The "biological father" has already specified the corresponding standards, which is to tell you that you must follow these standards.

Of course, spoiled brats certainly won't listen easily, because if they don't do so, they can earn more money.

This matter would eventually be exposed; it was just a matter of dragging it out as long as possible.

Originally, he thought something would go wrong this time, but he discovered that A Yi was now being besieged himself!

This is what is meant by "those who follow the Dao have much support, while those who lose the Dao have little"; this is it. Letting you, A Yi, be so jumpy before, roasting this person and that person—those who don't know might think you're so impressive!

It's just that although mobile phone manufacturers like Oupian Company had relaxed a little, they were still preparing to respond properly. The test video was always there, and they had originally thought about contacting Bilibili to ask the other party to take it down.

It's just a pity that the other party is very tough now, saying there are no violations.

A Yi has long since stopped cooperating only with Bilibili; after a few rounds of rhythm, he began posting videos on other platforms as well and had his own accounts.

Of course, the conditions remained the same: no signing of exclusivity; I will post wherever I want to post.

Basically, the platforms he had grudges with before would not refuse him. There was no way around it—what is called a unique resource? This is a unique resource!

Contacting other platforms yielded the same result. If it were any other situation, then saying "take it down" would mean it gets taken down.

Because the pressure from the manufacturers' side is very high!

The *jianghu* is not just about fighting and killing; the *jianghu* is about human relationships and worldly wisdom. How much advertising they place with you in a year—what kind of existence is this? This is a "gold-daddy," okay!

Now that the "gold-daddy" is asking you, this little punk, to handle a matter, and you don't do it, that is not giving them face!

Others can be denied face, but the "gold-daddy" must be given face!

If you don't give the "gold-daddy" face, they will turn around and give that sky-high advertising fee to someone else.

However, this time, it wasn't just Bilibili refusing; all the platforms that could be counted as notable refused.

Because this is A Yi, this is A Yi, the number one honey badger in the short video field!

So at this moment, inside Oupian Company, President Kang looked at the man in front of him with a suspicious expression and said, "What's the situation? They didn't agree? Is it only Bilibili?"

The man replied, "President Kang, it's not just Bilibili. We have basically contacted all the platforms we currently cooperate with, and none of them agreed."

Of course, no matter which one it is, they certainly won't refuse you point-blank; they will use all sorts of ways to drag it out for you.

But listening to the tone, everyone is a thousand-year-old fox, so there's no need to play *Liaozhai*; it's a matter everyone understands—if they didn't agree, that is a refusal.

Still the same saying: if it were one platform refusing, then it would be easy to talk, but if all well-known platforms refuse, then it's not their turn to speak.

Not to mention that his Oupian Company's Oupian Phone has no irreplaceability; the market is already extremely competitive, and if there is no more of this exposure, then it really can't go on.

President Kang was silent for a long time, and finally said, "Keep thinking of ways. I don't believe it. Can we find trouble for the other party from a legal perspective?"

This was to be handed over to the Legal Department of Oupian Company.

The heat kept increasing. It was already afternoon, and it was just hanging there on the hot search. Although it hadn't reached the point of public opinion boiling over, it could be considered as letting many people know that the internet celebrity named A Yi never donates.

Zhong Le was very happy; he was going to have a good feast today!

Never expected that he was so jumpy before but couldn't get popular, yet after spraying a few words like this, he inexplicably became popular.

Sure enough, riding the coattails of trends is the shortcut to success.

"You say A Yi has donated, right? Bring out the evidence! Don't just blindly 'bb' there without proof. I can tell you responsibly that I have already searched through the donation records of the last few years, this association and that association, but I just couldn't find any records of him, A Yi!"

"So since you are now saying he has also donated, then bring it out!"

On the other side, the young girl Fang Miao felt like she was going to explode with anger. She also felt indignant and said a few words, just saying that it wasn't necessarily true that A Yi didn't donate at all.

As a result, she was directly targeted by others and blasted in every way.

This looked like she was young; the others just wanted to chat with you about whether there were donations, and once you said that, it played right into their hands.

The key was that Fang Miao had no way to refute, because she was an honest kid. Honest kids didn't go to check those materials, so it was impossible to say anything else directly. She could only sulk there, scrolling through her phone pages out of boredom.

While scrolling, she suddenly discovered that a piece of news had appeared online.

"A Yi didn't donate? Then where did these records of donating to schools come from? Additionally, to that person who said they searched through the donation records of the last few years and said this association and that association didn't have them—we won't take the blame for that. Some things cannot be erased!"

The one who stood up to speak was a relatively well-known charity foundation, quite old-school. One couldn't say it was entirely convincing, but it was still pretty good.

The key was that the other party didn't just post a message; they also posted various corresponding photos!

The name "A Yi Hope Primary School" was very eye-catching, and there were as many as ten photos of similar Hope Primary Schools.

That is to say, A Yi had donated to build at least ten Hope Primary Schools in these two years!

Not only that, there were many other donation items, each one clearly visible!

"We originally did not intend to make these matters public. After all, before donating, A Yi told us that there was no need to publicize it, and not even a need to tell others that it was his donation."

"But now, seeing a person who has donated so much money being so misunderstood online, we really couldn't hold back. A good person who has done many good deeds—is it just because he chose not to publicize it widely that he deserves to be scolded?"

"We have reason to suspect that if he could have been completely anonymous, A Yi would definitely have donated anonymously without leaving a trace of his name. But unfortunately, rules are rules; donations of this kind must have records."

"Since when did this so-called donation become a mandatory item?"

There wasn't much text in the message, but there were many photos. Besides the photos of the Hope Primary Schools, there were also photos of the internal environments of the primary schools and the students. Looking at them one by one, one knew that this absolutely could not be fake.

After this message was posted, the various words online denouncing A Yi suddenly fell silent, as if a nuclear bomb had been dropped into the internet world.

Nearly a five-thousand-character long chapter, there's more, don't go away.

Thanks to another newcomer brother, Brother Jijuha, Brother Feimaowuyu, Wenchidage, Brother Wugou Feijian, Brother Aibzai, Brother Xingqu Shiran De Shenchougou, and Brother Dudunangnang; thank you all brothers for the tips, especially thanks to the big boss Wugou Feijian, you've spent too much, really too much... For the misplaced affection of the big boss, I can only repay it with a burst of updates.

(End of this chapter)