Chapter 2698 - 2760: Stand Up to Him to the End

"I watched almost the entire thing last night: Ning Xin’er, that old soldier, and the Twitter posts from a few celebrities today. One question that bugs me—what exactly are they trying to convey? Is it distraction? The video is clearly exposed. I watched it three times and confirmed it’s Ning Xin’er. Such a scandal is out, yet she doesn’t admit her fault or apologize to the public. This woman’s character is really questionable. I can’t believe I used to like her so much back in the day—totally blind!" An ’outraged’ netizen expressed.

Of course, his remarks were quickly attacked: "Are you blind? Does that woman in the video even look remotely like Ning Xin’er? Apologize to the public? Pfft, did you read books inside a dog’s stomach or what? A graduate student researching brain-dead stuff? Not to mention that person in the video isn’t her, even if it were, why should she apologize? The ones who should apologize are the people who recorded the video, the ones who spread it, and the despicable people such as yourselves who watched the video and come out shamelessly to curse."

"Go to hell, who do you think you are? Your attempt at covering things up is pathetic! How is that video not Ning Xin’er? What proof do you have? Have you seen her body? Let me tell you, I compared it, that profile is Ning Xin’er’s face. Why shouldn’t she apologize to me? I’ve liked her for so long, supported her for so long, now this slut’s video is out, I’m hurt by this, why shouldn’t she apologize?"

"You son of a bitch, your brain-dead level is beyond measure, I don’t know what words to use for you, let’s just call you a protozoan, you look like a single-celled organism without any brain or self-thinking ability. Me covering up? If I’m covering up, then may your whole family curse crack open!"

The two started arguing, no, should say started cursing each other aggressively, impolitely, collecting a bunch of likes, though who’s right or wrong seems pretty clear.

Of course, also those who wholeheartedly support that vase, these people aren’t trolls, just genuinely support the other side, no matter what thing happens they support it, such people are not scarce online, also common in life—follow the crowd, use a single point to cover a spectrum, lack of thinking, live complexly but with simple brains.

Shouldn’t mention positions now, standing from Li Yifei’s perspective, he is unconditionally supporting Ning Xin’er, especially given this dispute’s outbreak was entirely because of the opposite side, all faults are theirs, so yielding is impossible.

The internet boiled over, even platforms like Twitter experienced short-term crashes due to the sudden surge in traffic causing the servers to require urgent maintenance.

In the circle, connections matter, small circles matter too, that’s why many celebrities huddle together and form small groups just in case something happens they cover each other; however, this is idealized, realistically there are few who would actually stand up for you when you hit trouble.

Yet after the fake video emerged, five or six female artists surprisingly stepped up to speak for her, and this was all without any collaboration from Ning Xin’er—this situation is so rare and somewhat touching, not that those who speak up for you now are worth befriending, but to Ning Xin’er, this feels like a ray of warmth.

Of course, as for those who speak up, which side they belong to behind the scenes doesn’t currently need consideration or investigation; Ning Xin’er silently says thanks in her heart, hoping to repay them when the opportunity arises.

A big Internet Celebrity specializing in entertainment penned a post summarizing the events that have transpired thus far, compiling them into a collection for uninformed netizens to browse. Without stating who’s right or wrong, merely organizing the events and with a chronological thread, readers naturally analyze and determine, hence... many people immediately understood what happened and began condemning Summer Entertainment Company, saying their actions were too excessive—hiring an online troll factory to smear a comeback female star, such deeds aren’t just despicable but unforgivable!

This is absolutely abominable, the kind of abominable that can’t be forgiven! Many netizens are enraged, wishing they could personally step in to defend Ning Xin’er.

However, the matter didn’t end here; within half a day, Summer Entertainment’s frontline actors, singers, and several key personnel began posting on Twitter. Seemingly aiming to dominate the discourse, including the two trending fresh meats in their company. These two rely on their looks and packaged personas, successfully attracting a large batch of female fans. Many fans spend days across various platforms refreshing their photos, videos, and crazily shouting "husband", "do me" and so on. As for these two’s acting...what’s acting?

The two fresh meats posted on Twitter consecutively, and their positions naturally deviated: directly naming and criticizing Ning Xin’er — for instance, fresh meat W stated, "The gap between big-budget and low-budget films isn’t trivial; in film, you get what you pay for. Can’t afford good actors, can’t produce good effects, can’t buy a good script—the outcome is bound to be criticized, nothing unacceptable about it, doesn’t need this kind of hype at all!"

The other fresh meat beginning with Y posted a piece of poetry, writing: "Outside the pavilion, alongside the ancient road, fragrant grass stretches to the heavens!" Don’t play the innocent, though he doesn’t name names, as a signed artist of Summer Entertainment and one of the leading male artists in the company; a triple threat in film, TV, and music—surely this poem isn’t scolding his own, therefore he’s also attacking Ning Xin’er.

Internet sensation again, if disregarding duplicate counts, the combination of these people’s fan bases could reach maybe four to five billion.

Surely, the calculation can’t be that simple, but four or five billion nearly covers Huaxia’s netizen population, indicating the massive impact and broad scope of this matter, truly unprecedented.

"In the entertainment world, seniority and ranking are emphasized; irrespective of who’s right and who’s wrong, Y and W, both of you have just a few years since debut and you’re evaluating a female artist? Criticizing a senior, especially W—didn’t you spend some years in Korea where respecting seniors is taken more seriously? Did you learn nothing but this over those years?"

"What do you care about what my husband learned? Not directed at you, who do you think you are—an idiot, that woman dared do it, we dare curse and gonna curse passionately."

"Exactly, the commenter is also a moron. Do you think you’re the richest’s son? Want to intervene in everything; why not piss and take a look at yourself!"

Perhaps there’s a little book where names began to be recorded, both sides: theirs and ours. Li Yifei already has evidence, Dumb Guy didn’t fail, captured the person hiding in some office building who uploaded that video; after some simple questioning, gained some information. The person is from Summer Entertainment Company, concocted this mud-slinging tactic after spotting the video in some forum, coincidentally upon discovering discussions about hiring troll factories to blacken Ning Xin’er, ’lifted a finger’ and devised this plan to spread the video.

But he neglected one thing: though careful, uploading from inside the office makes tracing the IP address easy to pinpoint location. This task for Chu Xiaoyao is a breeze—in fact, even hacked his computer, extracting some evidence.

Holding this evidence, it’s like the two’s card play, though it’s not an absolute trump card.

That afternoon, Ning Xin’er received some calls, from friends, from family—everyone learned of the happenings through the internet. Ning Xin’er’s friends uniformly expressed support, but hoped she would protect herself; friendly advice, logically infallible.

However, family had unclear attitudes, even advising Ning Xin’er to hold back, don’t react strongly! This left Ning Xin’er puzzled—upon inquiry, family disclosed the truth: Ning Jia isn’t top-tier family in Capital City, reaching Ning Xin’er’s generation there’s even some gaps, whereas Xia Hai—his elder was on verge of retirement and now there’s sudden news of ascending further into power center, a massive boon indeed. If truly ascended, it would mean Xia Family’s second rise, possibly propelling them into one of the most powerful families.

So it’s unwise to offend Xia Hai now, despite Ning Xin’er being backed by Li Yifei, as this relates to power core—a tremendously elevated level.

"No wonder Xia Hai is so arrogant!" Ning Xin’er hung up the phone, said puckering her lips. Li Yifei overheard the call contents, his eyebrows twitched—in Huaxia, no family or individual could possibly contend against the nation. That’s not courage, that’s courting death! Naturally, the majority of families are inseparable from the country’s powers, as witnessed with Flying Hawk Squad’s matter—even major incidents like this, Li Yifei couldn’t directly confront the people behind, no matter his prowess, Li Yifei wouldn’t do that.

And if Xia Hai’s elder could enter central power, Xia family in the next eight years could be a top family in Huaxia.

But it’s not Xia Hai entering power core, at best he’s a junior; Li Yifei wouldn’t fear him anyway, so he soon said: "Go for it! No one can bully my wife, damn it, isn’t it just Xia Hai? We’ll make him really ’go to sea’—ignoring upright paths to embrace wicked ways, what kind of crap, babe, let’s fight him!"

"Pfft!" Ning Xin’er originally had concerns, fearing actions would trouble Li family—yet hearing Li Yifei’s overwhelmingly gangster words, she got amused instead.

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