Chapter 531: Tong Junhui?! Life Is Brilliant Even Without Acting!

Qin City, hotel room.

Xiao He, who had started investigating this matter as soon as he returned to his room, found it to be more complicated than he had imagined.

Especially this foreign live streaming software; it had numerous IPs attached to its backend. He had to doggedly trace and analyze it, finally discovering the address of this behind-the-scenes team on the other side of the ocean.

A preliminary analysis showed that the team maintaining and operating it was in a neighboring country. Cross-border arrests would be relatively easy, but the shell software and the ultimate beneficiaries were on the other side of the ocean.

However, this had nothing to do with Xiao He. Catching people wasn't his job.

After organizing a series of incriminating evidence against Rongding Media, Xiao He frowned slightly again.

This stuff wasn't convenient to hand directly to the police...

Hesitating for just a second, Xiao He found his tool person—Zhou Junhao!

It was already 2 AM at this point, and Xiao He wasn't sure if Zhou Junhao was resting.

XX: I'm fine. This stuff is evidence I've recently compiled. See what can be handed over and what can't.

Zhou Junhao: Holy crap, didn't you not want to get involved? I remember your project there was still profitable?

XX: It was a side thing. We're planning to take down and re-edit that project ahead of schedule.

Zhou Junhao: Impressive, thank you, thank you. I've also gotten some offline physical evidence now. Combined with this supplemental stuff you gave, it'll be even more explosive! But guess who I ran into this time?

XX: ?

Zhou Junhao: Tong Junhui!

Seeing this name, Xiao He thought for a moment that his eyes were playing tricks on him.

Huh?

Who?

Tong Junhui?

Was it the one he knew?

Why would this person suddenly be connected to this case?

Xiao He frowned, instinctively thinking the other party had been tricked again.

XX: Why was he there?

Zhou Junhao: Teacher Tong seemed to go there on purpose. He didn't give me the details.

The origin of this matter had to be traced back to Tong Junhui withdrawing from the industry again.

The previous incident had already concluded, with all those deserving punishment receiving it. Tong Junhui also suddenly lost his goal to strive for, feeling life had lost its value.

At the same time, seeing the fans within the industry circle feeling disappointed and saddened by his departure again, Tong Junhui deeply felt he had let down his past fans.

And right at this moment, Rongding Media approached him, wanting him to switch careers and become an internet celebrity.

Although Tong Junhui couldn't exactly be called a disgraced artist, he was certainly no longer suitable to appear on the big screen now. However, the threshold for live streaming was relatively much lower, with far fewer rules and restrictions. If he could leverage his past popularity for live commerce, transforming into a livestreamer who sells products, Tong Junhui could still make a fortune in the future.

Tong Junhui wasn't originally interested. He had his own pride. Even if he couldn't return to the big screen, he didn't want to become an internet celebrity, showing his downfall in front of those from his past.

But before Tong Junhui could reply, someone else got anxious first, rushing over to warn Tong Junhui: absolutely do not join Rongding Media, just live your life well, don't go back.

—The girl who came to leak the secret was Tong Junhui's fan, even a major fan. Tong Junhui still remembered the first time he won the Award-Winning Actor title, seeing her on the roadside, her eyes shining brightly as she looked at him.

Yet that little fan from back then had now become a different person, her face ruined, with only those eyes that still looked at him with joy, making him feel inexplicably sad.

So after all these years, everyone had changed, unable to go back...

Tong Junhui didn't know what he was thinking either.

Perhaps for the sake of this fan who, despite her own difficult life, still came to warn her idol, or perhaps to find some purpose in his own life, Tong Junhui started staking out and investigating Rongding Media.

Thanks also to his past experiences, Tong Junhui now had contacts on both sides of the law. Leveraging old connections and leads, Tong Junhui successfully infiltrated a branch company of Rongding Media, becoming a virtual livestreamer. Relying on a voice that was "like an old acquaintance's," he successfully rose to the top ranks of the livestreamer charts at this small company.

During his time at the branch, he also discovered that Rongding Media really had major problems!

By now, Tong Junhui had seen plenty of dirty dealings, and his sense of smell was unusually sharp.

If Zhou Junhao hadn't suddenly appeared and disrupted the rhythm, Tong Junhui was also planning to stir things up, directly igniting Rongding and exposing all their affairs.

But now... with Zhou Junhao here, he had more options and didn't need to try to blow himself up in the cesspool.

Truly something to celebrate.

Xiao He twitched the corner of his mouth on the other end of the computer.

One could only say, were they all Sister Liu's strictly selected artists?

First-rate in doing things, and also first-rate in causing trouble.

It seemed among the group, only Shu Han was the honest one.

Oh, wait, that honest guy later went abroad and almost didn't come back.

Xiao He suppressed the impulse to go next door and call Liu Rulan over to gossip, continuing his chat with Zhou Junhao.

XX: Now that you have both online and offline evidence, hurry up and pull out. Don't stay there too long. The police probably won't take much longer to show up.

The incriminating evidence handed over to Zhou Junhao was extensive.

There was evidence of Rongding Media's tax evasion, evidence of Rongding Media investing in unscrupulous medical institutions, deliberately pulling people in to earn plastic surgery fees, even evidence of luring people into cosmetic loans. There was also evidence of Rongding Media using livestreamer fan groups to contact fans for offline pimping and other illegal paid services...

Basically, there was nothing they wouldn't do, only things you couldn't imagine.

Xiao He was nearly exhausted just categorizing and organizing the evidence.

He felt that after the hotel incident, this company could become another classic case within the industry circle, prompting the police to dedicate a whole lesson to them, covering all possible illegal and criminal activities that contemporary internet celebrity companies might engage in, and the various illegal behaviors the involved internet celebrities might be implicated in.

Just based on this "richness," even Xiao He, an industry insider and Little Black, couldn't help but shake his head.

Moreover, this industry tumor had ruined many people, men and women, countless in number. Even though some internet celebrities stood up and resisted, they were all suppressed by Rongding Media. As a professional internet celebrity agency, they even raised a large water army themselves, responsible for stream pushing and stirring up drama, helping the company's internet celebrities gain heat and protect their interests. And once these people became disobedient, they could turn around and use the water army accounts to destroy them...

There were simply too many cases that had occurred; Xiao He couldn't even read through them all. But he knew that Li Hanyue had tried to do the same thing not long ago, wanting to expose them but instead being labeled by online marketing accounts as the "plastic surgery white moonlight," with her old and current photos widely circulated and constantly mocked, using public opinion to drive her to the brink of madness.

Li Hanyue was lucky.

She met Xiao He.

But before Li Hanyue, young lives had already been lost because of this.

Yet the chief culprit remained arrogant.

Xiao He found it quite laughable.

Zhou Junhao: Don't worry, I'll keep a portion for reporting and hand the rest over to the police.

Zhou Junhao had a brother-in-law who was a bureau chief, so Xiao He felt relatively reassured.

But regarding Tong Junhui, Xiao He hesitated for a moment before asking: What are Tong Junhui's plans afterwards?

It was really hard to imagine that the former big star would voluntarily go undercover.

But honestly, Tong Junhui's profession, going undercover to act, was practically a perfect match. If his mental fortitude was a bit stronger, he might even get really into the role.

After all, didn't he... directly make it into the top three of that company?

With that ability, his life could be brilliant even without being an actor!

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