Chapter 205

The collapse of Ma Zhiyuan's reputation became the biggest earthquake today.

It wasn't until 8:00 PM that Star Entertainment issued a statement, explaining that this girl was not Ma Zhiyuan's girlfriend, just a friend, and that she wasn't the only one who went to Ma Zhiyuan's house that night; there were many friends together.

Once this statement came out, it immediately hit the hot search.

However, the content of this statement didn't make many people buy it.

Many people didn't believe it, Ma Zhiyuan's fans didn't believe it, and the gossip-eating masses believed it even less.

Columnist Mao Yu, who often comments on entertainment news, posted an update: "Who are you fooling? Late at night, Ma Zhiyuan alone held that girl upstairs, there was no one else around, and she didn't come out all night. You thought for so long just to come up with such an excuse? Fooling people isn't done like this. As one of the most popular idols right now, Ma Zhiyuan hasn't had a single response since the incident. Hiding behind the company, he's probably doing the same as before, cold-treating it for a few days, waiting for the heat of this incident to pass, and then running out, saying it was a friend and that marketing accounts were spreading rumors."

This post by Mao Yu received nearly ten thousand comments within an hour.

Nearly half of them were there to curse her.

—When his company didn't respond, you said he didn't respond. When they responded, you don't believe it. Isn't it common for good friends to play all night at home? Or is it that someone with a foul mouth like you has no friends at all?

—It was clearly malicious marketing accounts deliberately only taking photos of the two of them together, creating the feeling that there were only the two of them. Can you discuss this issue rationally?

—Ma Zhiyuan has always been a hardworking, diligent, humble, and kind high-quality idol. Why does the world have such great hostility towards him?

—Mao Yu, how much money did you take?

—The blogger is a dog that rubs off on popularity everywhere; the whole internet has known this for a long time.

Mao Yu saw herself being cursed to the point of being covered in blood and was speechless with anger, but she had long known that commenting on this incident would definitely be attacked by Ma Zhiyuan's fans and was mentally prepared.

Mao Yu had long disliked Ma Zhiyuan, and now that she had the opportunity to criticize him, she definitely wouldn't miss it.

She couldn't understand even more how Ma Zhiyuan had obviously brought a woman home, yet his fans could still deceive themselves and believe the company's PR rhetoric.

She wasn't maliciously smearing him; she knew what she said was right.

Just as she was scrolling through the comments online, a phone call suddenly came in.

It was an unfamiliar number.

Mao Yu answered the phone, "Hello, who is this?"

"Teacher Mao, hello, I am Zhou Ping'an, Ma Zhiyuan's agent. Let's have a chat, are you free?"

No drinking at night.

After eating and drinking their fill, Chen Ziyan and Li Zhenzhen arranged to go shopping, and the three of Li Zhibai went back first.

"Sister Ziyan would actually go shopping with someone?" Yan Liang was a bit surprised.

Li Zhibai said, "Sister Ziyan is doing it to get on good terms with Li Zhenzhen, so that PD Li can take better care of Yan He in the future."

Yan Liang was even more surprised. "Does such a powerful agent as Sister Ziyan still need to curry favor with a young variety show director?"

"Isn't this the most powerful thing about Sister Ziyan? She never treats herself as a very powerful agent. Even if she wasn't our agent, she always gives us pointers, not to mention that like tonight, when she treats PD Li to dinner, she also brings us along. If it were Zhou Ping'an treating Li Zhenzhen to dinner, look and see if he would call Old Lu." Li Zhibai's words revealed his admiration for Chen Ziyan.

Lu Yan He nodded and said, "Sister Ziyan really never treats herself as a very powerful agent; she is very sincere to people."

"This is the reason why she can reach such a powerful position today," Yan Liang sighed.

The three of them went back, and as usual, Li Zhibai drove.

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 entry was #Mao Yu comments on Ma Zhiyuan's scandal#

But what Yan Liang didn't expect was that when he clicked into this hot search, he found that the real-time news had become someone else's Weibo, a screenshot. The content on the screenshot was the update Mao Yu had previously posted, while on Mao Yu's personal homepage, the content of this update was already gone.

"Got PR'd, obviously," Li Zhibai said. "Isn't Zhou Ping'an the best at doing this?"

"However, Mao Yu deleting her own update doesn't seem to have brought down public opinion. Instead, many people are saying that Mao Yu was cyberbullied by Ma Zhiyuan's fans and deleted it because she couldn't withstand the pressure," Yan Liang said. "Now several big Vs have stood up to condemn Ma Zhiyuan's fans, cursing them for being crazy, and some even say his fans are like a locust plague."

Li Zhibai: "Tsk tsk."

Lu Yan He couldn't help but sigh and said, "Sister Ziyan was still telling Sister Zhenzhen this afternoon to let everyone try their best to manage their fans."

"Don't worry, Zhou Ping'an will absolutely not do this. Doesn't he always have a concept that 'black red' is also red? Artists aren't afraid of being cursed, they're afraid of having no heat," Li Zhibai said confidently. "Ma Zhiyuan is involved in this kind of trouble. Do you believe it? Although he is a bit annoyed, he must be annoyed that Ma Zhiyuan poked a hornet's nest for him, not that Ma Zhiyuan is being cursed."

Lu Yan He and Yan Liang couldn't help but laugh.

Because they knew Li Zhibai was right.

"How much impact will this incident have on Ma Zhiyuan?" Yan Liang asked.

"Who knows," Li Zhibai said. "However, the fan club wanting to dissolve is more serious than I imagined."

"But there are still many fans who say they believe him."

"There always are."

However, no one expected that Ma Zhiyuan's incident would spread to Lu Yan He.

Late at night, a big V blogger with millions of fans suddenly wrote a long article, writing "Why is it that both are idol artists, yet Ma Zhiyuan is frequently exposed for scandals, while Lu Yan He is becoming more and more popular?"

In the article, this blogger analyzed Ma Zhiyuan's various performances since his debut in a serious manner, incisively describing him as "a top-tier star who is too well protected by the company and has too much luck, so he doesn't know how to cherish it," while Lu Yan He is "a high-quality idol who suffered a popularity slump upon debut, was almost non-existent, and made a comeback against the wind through his own desperate efforts."

Only those who know how to cherish opportunities can stand longer and more steadily.

The article itself didn't have much bias, but it angered Ma Zhiyuan's fans. Many of Ma Zhiyuan's fans even thought that Lu Yan He saw Ma Zhiyuan in trouble and was taking the opportunity to step on Ma Zhiyuan to get ahead.

When Lu Yan He was still in his dreams, the internet was already in an uproar.

The absolute number of Lu Yan He's fans compared to Ma Zhiyuan's fans was not on the same order of magnitude.

Lu Yan He's social media account was bombarded with nearly one hundred thousand insults overnight.

The content was much the same, all saying that Lu Yan He had a sinister heart, and that when an artist from the same company fell into a public opinion crisis, not only did he not help speak up, but he also kicked them while they were down.

Lu Yan He's number of fans was not as many as Ma Zhiyuan's, and his ability to argue online was even less than Ma Zhiyuan's battle-hardened fans.

It was almost a one-sided posture.

Chen Ziyan was woken up by a phone call at 3:00 AM.

The person who called was her old friend at the company, Lu Qingzhen.

"Ziyan, Lu Yan He is being massively cyberbullied by Ma Zhiyuan's fans," Lu Qingzhen said directly without any nonsense.

Chen Ziyan woke up instantly.

"What's the situation?"

Lu Qingzhen explained in a few words, saying: "I got up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, scrolled through my phone, and saw Lu Yan He's homepage being bombarded."

Chen Ziyan had already sat up from the bed and turned on the bedside lamp.

"I know, thank you, I'll take a look immediately."

After hanging up, Chen Ziyan searched for the relevant situation with a blank expression. After understanding the general situation, she called the company's public relations department.

For Star Entertainment's PR department, this was the craziest and most headache-inducing day.

After dealing with Ma Zhiyuan's public opinion crisis all day, they finally managed to rest a bit, only to be woken up by Chen Ziyan again.

In the middle of the night, at 4:00 AM, several people met at the company building.

They couldn't even enter through the main entrance and had to walk from the underground garage.

Chen Ziyan was already exquisitely dressed and made up, with no signs of sleepiness in her eyes, as if she hadn't just been startled out of her dreams at all.

Compared to her, Zhou Ping'an on the other side had a corner of his hair sticking up, looking haggard and inferior.

"I don't want to say much about other things. If the large-scale attack by Ma Zhiyuan's fans on Lu Yan He doesn't stop tomorrow morning, I will directly sue those ringleaders. Don't come to me to plead for mercy using the excuse that the two are artists from the same company," Chen Ziyan said coldly. "You still have three hours to contact those ringleaders. No matter what method you use, make them delete those contents. Otherwise, Lu Yan He will be cursed, and Ma Zhiyuan will be cursed back the same way."

After speaking, Chen Ziyan sat down, took out her phone, and silently looked at it, with an attitude of not wanting to discuss it with them anymore.

Zhou Ping'an glanced at Chen Ziyan with trepidation, wanting to argue with her properly, but in the end, he didn't do such a futile effort.

Star Entertainment was a big company after all, and they had cooperation with major social platforms. They had channels to contact partners to suppress heat and delete some popular content involving personal attacks; it just depended on whether they wanted to do it and how much effort they were willing to spend.

As for those fan ringleaders who were causing trouble for Ma Zhiyuan, Zhou Ping'an had spent a lot of effort to deal with them because he had only just taken over Ma Zhiyuan, so those who deleted updates deleted them, and those who calmed things down calmed them down.

At 7:00 AM, the massive momentum was mostly removed. For the remaining ones still jumping around, Chen Ziyan didn't mean to be nitpicky.

She looked at the exhausted Zhou Ping'an and said, "This provocative post wasn't posted by someone we found. Who is it that, at this critical moment, deliberately put Lu Yan He and Ma Zhiyuan together to stir up a topic war? Whether it's to rub off on popularity or if there's an ulterior motive, I suggest you check it carefully."

Zhou Ping'an looked at this woman who was still exquisitely dressed with impatience, various curses running through his mind.

It sounds nice; he was the one here leading people to put out the fire all night, while she just sat on the chair playing with her phone, even taking a nap in the middle, and now she was reminding him lightly and with fake kindness.

But after Chen Ziyan left, her words popped up in Zhou Ping'an's mind again.

What Chen Ziyan said might not be unreasonable. If it was just marketing accounts wanting to rub off on popularity, that's fine, but what if someone had an ulterior motive and deliberately used Lu Yan He to step on Ma Zhiyuan?

Zhou Ping'an still believed that Chen Ziyan wouldn't use such means to lift Lu Yan He up.

She already let him go do an electronic magazine, what kind of lifting is that.

Thus, after a night passed, when Lu Yan He woke up and learned about what happened last night, the storm had already passed while he was sleeping.

He looked blankly at his comment section that left traces after the wind, as well as the fan count that had increased by almost thirty thousand overnight, and didn't know what to say.

Li Zhibai and Yan Liang were both shocked after knowing about this.

Solving this incident in one night, Chen Ziyan's methods were so swift and decisive that they found it hard to believe.

Lu Yan He was the same.

At 10:00 AM, Chen Siqi even sent him a message, saying: You were cyberbullied last night?

Lu Yan He: Seems so, I didn't even know what was going on. I woke up and many people told me I was massively cyberbullied, but I didn't see those comments much. If it weren't for someone taking screenshots, I wouldn't have known.

Chen Siqi: Ma Zhiyuan's fans really have problems, like mad dogs.

Lu Yan He: Mm, but it's fine now.

Chen Siqi: Are we still eating together at noon later? Do you need to handle this?

Lu Yan He: Let's eat together. I don't have anything to handle. I woke up and my agent had already handled everything. There's nothing at all.

Lu Yan He didn't know how to describe his mood.

Half shock, half moved, and some anger from seeing the content of those screenshots.

But this wasn't important, what was important was... did Sister Ziyan's processing speed have to be so exaggerated?

Lu Yan He wore a hat and mask, crossed the scorching sun of July, and went to the restaurant to meet Chen Siqi.

The latter saw him, saw his spirited face, knew that he really hadn't been affected at all, and silently breathed a sigh of relief.

Before seeing him, Chen Siqi was still worried that Lu Yan He's relaxed, indifferent tone was faked.

It seems he was really fine.

"If our book can continue to be made, we must do an issue of content in the future to properly discuss how wrong this kind of cyberbullying is, attacking people on a large scale without distinguishing right from wrong," Chen Siqi said with good reason.

Lu Yan He heard her concern.

He laughed and said, "Okay."

Chen Siqi: "Order food first, discuss our progress after eating."

"Okay."

Two people, two dishes, one meat and one vegetable, totaling twenty-seven. The boss looked at Lu Yan He with an indescribable expression, the gist being: You are a handsome boy treating your girlfriend to dinner, and you only order two dishes, how stingy! How can you even chase a girl like this?!

Lu Yan He was between laughter and tears.

But two people eating two dishes was already a habit formed between him and Chen Siqi.

Don't waste, don't order too much.

Chen Siqi also didn't like wasting.

Let them be despised if they are to be despised.

Second update! Asking for monthly tickets!