Chapter 12
The matter between Su Xingyao and Jiang Zihang was hyped up by both parties as if the whole world knew about it.
But in fact, without Jiang Zihang's crew, everyone felt much quieter and the filming efficiency was exceptionally high.
After finishing a scene in the afternoon, Ji Linghe sat next to Su Xingyao and handed him a glass of boiled water.
He picked up his phone and glanced at the black terms that were still on the hot search list, but in the end he couldn't help but ask Su Xingyao.
"Why doesn't your team come out and deal with this?"
Su Xingyao didn't seem to be too worried. She lowered her head, drank a sip of water, and then answered Ji Linghe's question.
“I don’t have a team.”
He smiled gently at Ji Linghe.
His parents had deliberately tried to use this method to force him to quit the entertainment industry, so his agent would not care about any negative news about him and would even allow such news to spread.
After hearing this, Ji Linghe just stood there in a daze.
Nowadays, even some 180-tier celebrities have their own teams that monitor public opinion in real time, and they will delete posts and ban comments as soon as there is negative news.
Su Xingyao is an actor of some fame after all, but she doesn't even have a public relations team.
He suddenly remembered the negative hot searches about Su Xingyao that often appeared in the front row in the past.
So it's actually because his agency doesn't care at all that he's like this...
After learning the truth, Ji Linghe felt a little scared.
He felt that it was really not easy for Su Xingyao to persist until now.
"Is this really okay? Everyone has misunderstood you."
Perhaps the surprise on Ji Linghe's face was too obvious, Su Xingyao smiled at him.
"It doesn't matter."
He has died once, so being blackened by the entire Internet means nothing to him.
There are so many people who hate him, it doesn't matter if there are more or less.
He is not a blank slate who knows nothing.
On the contrary, he knew before he whipped him that Jiang Zihang would definitely make a big fuss about this incident.
But he chose to do it anyway.
He didn't want Xiaoyu, a girl, to be harassed and bullied by them.
It doesn’t matter that she is set up to be disliked by everyone because of the plot, but she is innocent.
Ji Linghe looked at Su Xingyao for a long time.
He could see that Su Xingyao was not trying to be brave, but really didn't care about these things.
Ordinary people might have been troubled by this matter a long time ago, but he remained calm.
For a moment, Ji Linghe felt that Su Xingyao seemed to have a kind of indifference that seemed to have seen through the world.
His mouth opened, but he finally held it back.
In fact, he really wanted to ask Su Xingyao what he had experienced in the past.
*
At the same time, the person named [Wow, I'm so scared] was immediately scolded by Jiang Zihang's fans after he posted a Weibo post tagging Jiang Zihang.
His fans are now immersed in the joy of unilaterally pressing Su Xingyao to the ground and rubbing her, so naturally they cannot bear to hear any voice that speaks ill of Jiang Zihang.
His big fan even took screenshots and bitched the person up, and the fans cyber-bullied the person while trying to dox him.
However, [Wow, I'm so scared] doesn't seem to be afraid of these crazy fans.
No matter how the other party attacked his account, he simply ignored it. Instead, he posted a second Weibo post and continued to tag Jiang Zihang.
Wow, I'm so scared: Why has Su Xingyao been sick for a week, @蒋子航, won’t you come out and explain?
Jiang Zihang hyped this matter up so much that almost half of the people in the entertainment industry were eating into it.
In particular, many people who like to have fun would stay on the Internet almost 24 hours a day waiting to see new things to scold Su Xingyao, wishing they could dig out some other scraps to continue scolding.
Therefore, this Weibo post, which was obviously speaking for Su Xingyao, immediately attracted the attention of netizens.
After everyone read the content carefully, they immediately realized that something was wrong.
【What does this person mean? 】
[Family Man, let's just say that Su Xingyao was sick for a week. What does that have to do with Jiang Zihang? ]
[Does this mean you know something? It sounds like there's something big going on.]
[I'm making a sound of wanting to eat melons!! If you have any news, please reveal it quickly! ]
Because of the appearance of the Weibo post “Wow, I’m so scared,” the originally one-sided voice on the Internet suddenly changed.
Soon, some resourceful netizens dug up many complaints made by the crew of "Flowers Falling in Glass" more than ten days ago based on the fact that Su Xingyao had been ill for a week.
In several well-known forums, crew members successively borrowed accounts to disclose the incident during those two days.
Although each person describes it in different words, they basically express the same meaning.
Jiang Zihang deliberately pushed Su Xingyao into the water many times in the cold weather under the pretext of filming.
Afterwards, he deliberately made Su Xingyao soak in the water and not let him get up. After several hours of NGs with various reasons, Su Xingyao had a fever of 41° on the set, and the wounds on his body were infected. He fainted on the set and stayed in the hospital for a week.
In order to avoid getting into trouble, most people spoke very tactfully and didn't even mention the initials of the two people's names.
But there are still some people who are not afraid. One of the staff members directly mentioned the names of Jiang Zihang and Su Xingyao on his trumpet and complained:
sxy fainted and went to the hospital for emergency treatment. He looked so miserable, his face turned as white as paper. It was really bad luck for everyone to encounter this NG monster jzh.
Everyone posted or complained about the same thing at about the same time a dozen days ago, and everyone said similar things.
Although netizens have a bad impression of Su Xingyao, it does not affect everyone's rational analysis of this matter.
[I have seen this revelation. The other party was so vague at the time that I thought it was made up.]
[So Jiang Zihang deliberately made Su Xingyao sick by doing some NGs, and Su Xingyao came back to take revenge on him after she recovered?]
[I think the tone of the whistleblower is that he feels sorry for Su Xingyao when he complains about Jiang Zihang. He must have been really tortured.]
After these clues were dug out, marketing accounts followed up in various ways, and the public opinion on the Internet began to subtly change.
Everyone's focus shifted from Su Xingyao whipping Jiang Zihang to Jiang Zihang deliberately making trouble for Su Xingyao.
Although Jiang Zihang’s big fans and fans didn’t know what happened that night, they knew that Su Xingyao went to the hospital.
As soon as they saw everyone starting to dig into this matter, they felt the situation was not good and quickly stepped out to stop it. They began to distribute brainwashing packages saying that these were all fake and that they must be the Internet army hired by Su Xingyao to whitewash and divert attention.
Jiang Zihang's fans followed closely and formed a group to attack the staff who broke the news, and directly labeled those who suspected Jiang Zihang as water army.
However, passers-by who had already noticed the clues and were in high spirits were not buying it at all.
After all, they knew very well that whose navy was so powerful that they could predict what would happen in a dozen days and leak the information in advance?
But unfortunately, although netizens tried very hard to dig deeper into this matter.
But after digging around, they could only find the parts that the staff complained about.
As for the more intuitive pictures and videos of the scene, they couldn't find any because the crew was very strict.
So things reached a bottleneck here.
Jiang Zihang's fans, who were previously waiting to see which way the wind would blow, suddenly became arrogant when they saw that no one could find any solid evidence.
[I said Su Xingyao was using a new way to whitewash herself]
[Brother, stop it. Everyone knows you are vicious.]
However, the fans had not been happy for a few minutes before a marketing account directly released a few GIFs.
It clearly recorded the entire process of Jiang Zihang deliberately pushing Su Xingyao down during the filming.
This gif was immediately shared on various forums.
[I didn’t believe it at first, but Jiang Zihang’s push in this gif was really deliberate]
[I can feel Jiang Zihang's efforts even through the screen]
[Don't talk nonsense, it's just a normal filming scene. The purpose of this scene is to push people down.]
[Do fans know that there is a thing called borrowing positions? Who asked you to really push it?]
[Su Xingyao looked like she had fallen badly, her clothes were all wet, no wonder even the staff couldn't stand it]
As this video from the set leaked, Jiang Zihang’s fans could no longer laugh.
Jiang Zihang himself was caught off guard and was a little panicked.
He never dreamed that Su Xingyao's team, which had always been indifferent to everything, would come out to do public relations at this time and use the previous NG incident to whitewash themselves.
After all, he dared to buy hot searches to attack Su Xingyao so high-profilely because he was sure that the other party would never respond and he could manipulate public opinion at will.
But now the development of things is a little different from what he expected.
As soon as Jiang Zihang's team saw that the wind was blowing in the wrong direction, they quickly began to prepare a whitewashing statement to clear themselves.
However, before he could issue the statement, Ji Linghe added fuel to the fire.
Ji Linghe directly liked the Weibo post that posted the gif of Su Xingyao being pushed into the water with his real-life account.
Ji Linghe is Jiang Zihang's CP in the drama and the other male lead in "Flowers Falling in Glass". Now he has come out in person to like the post, and public opinion has exploded.
[Ji Linghe is siding with Su Xingyao in disguise, right?]
[Su Xingyao has such a bad reputation that most people would not even have time to stay away from her, but Ji Linghe directly liked it. It seems that this is 100% true]
[So Jiang Zihang was the one who flirted with her first, and then Su Xingyao got so angry that she took revenge on him after she was discharged from the hospital? ]
[Jiang Zihang is so funny, he is not clean himself but dares to buy hot search and play sympathy? ]
[After all, Su Xingyao is full of negative information. Even after the gif came out, few people were willing to believe him.]
[Oh my god, this melon is really exciting. How can we shoot this drama after you guys tear it apart like this?]
Netizens’ concerns are not wrong.
It is true that Jiang Zihang will soon be unable to shoot this drama.
Because Qin Mingchuan found out that he bullied Su Xingyao on the crew.
Qin Mingchuan was able to know what happened thanks to Jiang Zihang’s fans.
Because after Ji Linghe liked the post, Jiang Zihang's fans should not be angry that the other party, as Jiang Zihang's CP in the drama, not only did not come out to defend Jiang Zihang, but ended up coming out to boost their own brother's support.
Since the couple is doomed, Jiang Zihang’s fans simply stop pretending to be fans.
They directly spread the war to Ji Linghe and scolded him harshly.
After scolding them, they immediately made up a story about Su Xingyao, saying that she was Ji Linghe's mistress, and they also said with certainty that the two of them must have an improper relationship, and that Ji Linghe took the blame for love, etc. They kept making up obscene rumors about the two of them...
How could Ji Linghe's fans tolerate this? They immediately dug out the photos and medical records of Su Xingyao being sent to the hospital.
[Everything matches up with what was revealed]
[Fuck, Su Xingyao, this is really pitiful. If the wound is infected by the river water, it can be fatal if it is serious...]
[They all fainted and went to the hospital for emergency treatment. How cold must they be?]
As Jiang Zihang saw that more and more details were being uncovered and public opinion was getting a little out of control, he quickly issued a statement, saying that he and Su Xingyao were just filming normally, and that he was not in good condition that day and did not do any NGs on purpose.
As for Su Xingyao's cold, it was caused by the low temperature and had nothing to do with him. As for Su Xingyao's wound inflammation, it was because he accidentally got wet during filming and had nothing to do with Jiang Zihang.
In short, he tried every means to clear himself of all charges.
When things got to this point, Jiang Zihang knew that he would be in trouble if he continued making trouble, so he started to find ways to delete posts and reduce the heat.
But the heat has already risen, and it is not something he can end just because he wants to.
Soon another staff member came out anonymously and repeated what he and his assistant had said in front of Su Xingyao that day.
Not long after, someone kind-heartedly played the recording.
Although the recording is missing the first few sentences, it does not affect everyone's understanding of what they mean.
So overnight, the sarcastic and malicious conversation between Jiang Zihang and his assistant swept all major social media platforms.
Bullying by the crew, humiliation in person, insults to women, calling people dogs...
[I really vomited after hearing this. How can there be people with such poor quality?]
[Their tone is so mean, listening to it for one more second is an insult to my ears]
[So the bad guy is the first to complain? Jiang Zihang is the bully on the set, right?]
[I saw that some staff members said that Su Xingyao beat him because they humiliated Su Xingyao in person after she was discharged from the hospital, and also called her assistant a dog in person...]
[I think Su Xingyao has a very good temper. If anyone dares to say such a mean thing in front of me, I will give him a big slap in the face]
[Not only that, people at the scene also said that Jiang Zihang's assistant wanted to hit Su Xingyao's female assistant, but was stopped by Su Xingyao]
[How can such a bastard have the nerve to play the victim? What's the big deal about bullying a girl? ]
[Although I am Su Xingyao's hater, I stand with him this time]
[How dare they imply that Su Xingyao is a sissy? Do they think that just because she is pretty, she is a sissy? I say that ugly Jiang Zihang should stop being so jealous.]
[Xiao Fa Cai, Su Xingyao is a man enough to protect his assistant directly, but what about you Jiang Zihang and your dog? You are just "masculine" boys who only know how to beat women]
The appearance of this recording is like Thor's hammer, which directly hammered Jiang Zihang to the point where he could not recover. It is more useful than him issuing a hundred statements.
So netizens finally understood that this time everyone had really blamed Su Xingyao wrongly, and he was the victim.
Jiang Zihang, who was playing the victim, was just taking advantage of public opinion and using netizens as a shield. He wanted to use everyone's power to carry out even greater cyber bullying against Su Xingyao.
The netizens who reacted were so angry when they found out they were tricked that they attacked Jiang Zihang’s Weibo without saying a word.
The more successfully he sold misery before, the more serious the backlash is now.
[Everyone in the crew said that Su Xingyao didn't provoke you the whole time. No matter how bad his reputation is, it's not a stepping stone for you to maliciously step on to get promoted.]
[You deliberately failed to send someone to the hospital for emergency treatment, and then humiliated them in person after returning... I'm sorry, but people who have been maliciously bullied in the workplace will feel physically uncomfortable after seeing this. It's so uncomfortable to put yourself in their shoes. You are so disgusting]
[The funniest thing is that the bully is the first to complain, pretending to be bullied by the victim]
[I say don’t be so obsessed with acting, brother. If you put all your little thoughts into acting and facial expression management, you won’t cry so ugly after being whipped.]
[Sisters, please stop deceiving yourself. Let me tell you, Jiang Zihang, your acting is terrible and he maliciously bullied Su Xingyao on the set. Choose one for yourself.]
Jiang Zihang was completely screwed.
Not only did the car overturn, but his recording was also heard by Qin Mingchuan.
Although Qin Mingchuan saw Su Xingyao faint with his own eyes that day, he did not ask the reason at that time.
In addition, Su Xingyao was taken away in front of Lu Jiuxu. He was so embarrassed that he was angry for a long time and never cared about Su Xingyao again.
I didn't expect to hear from him again in this way.
Looking at the tragic experience of Su Xingyao being bullied by Jiang Zihang on the crew, which was summarized by netizens, Qin Mingchuan's eyebrows twisted into a ball, and his heart felt as if it had been stabbed.
Su Xingyao's pale face that night kept flashing through his mind.
He was completely exhausted and seemed like he would leave this world completely in the next second.
Qin Mingchuan sat alone for a while and finally calmed down.
He asked his assistant to make two calls, one to Jiang Zihang's agent and one to Su Xingyao's agent.
*
Jiang Zihang has suffered a big setback this time. In addition to being scolded by netizens, all his previous stupid remarks were also dug up.
In just two days, he was completely unable to adapt to the sudden change in public opinion. Angrily, he lay on the bed and buried himself with a pillow.
The agent kicked his door open, threw away his pillow and dragged him up.
"I told you to stop causing trouble but you didn't listen. So you asked the fan club to post these things behind my back..."
"Are you sick? What good will it do you if this gets out?"
Jiang Zihang felt very upset when being asked this question. Obviously his agent didn't say anything yesterday...
Now that things have gone wrong, you blame yourself.
However, he didn't dare to say these words, and could only explain feebly, "Doesn't he have a PR team... Who knew it would be like this."
The agent got even angrier when he heard this, "He doesn't have a PR, but there are so many people in the crew who have eyes! Do you know how he got hammered this time?"
Jiang Zihang didn't dare to say anything more.
The agent took a deep breath, suppressed his anger, and then spoke again, "Now the investors know about this, and they're asking you to get out."
Upon hearing the news, Jiang Zihang jumped in front of his agent in shock, looking incredulous, "Why?"
He didn't understand. Su Xingyao was just a minor supporting role. Why would investors favor him?
Seeing that Jiang Zihang didn't understand anything, the agent reminded him, "Do you know which company Su Xingyao works for?"
He nodded, "Movie star."
Of course he knew it since he was in the same company as Shen Huaixi.
"You still go to provoke him knowing that. Do you know who the boss of the movie star is?"
Jiang Zihang shook his head.
"Boss Qin!"
…
After receiving Jiang Zihang’s call for help, Shen Huaixi called Qin Mingchuan immediately.
The purpose of his call was not to plead for Jiang Zihang, but to find out why Qin Mingchuan suddenly changed his temper and defended Su Xingyao so much.
Qin Mingchuan's slight change made him feel very uneasy.
He felt as if something had gotten out of control since Su Xingyao left home...
The call was connected quickly.
However, before Shen Huaixi could speak, Qin Mingchuan told him in a cold voice, "If you are here to speak for Jiang Zihang, then you don't have to say anything more."
This was the first time Qin Mingchuan had spoken to him like this in all these years.
Shen Huaixi felt choked and uncomfortable, but still tried to control his emotions and asked in a concerned tone.
"No, I just want to ask Xingyao..."
"I can't contact him either." Qin Mingchuan's tone was still not good.
"Mingchuan...are you in a bad mood?"
Shen Huaixi's cautious words made Qin Mingchuan realize that his attitude towards him just now was a bit excessive.
So he suppressed his inner irritation and softened his voice before answering, "Nothing... I'm just a little busy. Let's leave it at that for now."
After hanging up Shen Huaixi’s call, Qin Mingchuan immediately asked the driver to take him to the movie star headquarters.
He founded this entertainment company.
But apart from the day when Shen Huaixi signed the contract, he came here for the second time today.
When he pushed open the door of the top-floor office, Liang Yifan was already waiting for him inside.
"sit."
He simply threw a word to the other party and sat down in the office chair.
Liang Yifan followed and sat down.
He glanced at the gloomy man in front of him and felt a little uneasy.
Sure enough, Qin Mingchuan asked him as soon as he sat down.
"Last time I asked you what happened to Su Xingyao's injuries..."
Liang Yifan's heart tightened when he was asked this question, but he quickly put all the responsibility on Su Xingyao.
"I don't know. He disappeared for a while and no one could contact him. He must have been injured during that time."
Qin Mingchuan had no expression on his face, and asked him indifferently, "As his agent, didn't you ask him later?"
Liang Yifan was silent and couldn't answer at all.
He certainly didn't ask, and he didn't even know.
Qin Mingchuan did not ask any more questions, but just glanced at Liang Yifan, and recalled what his assistant had told him two hours ago, about the bad things that Su Xingyao had encountered at the hands of Liang Yifan.
Qin Mingchuan became even more upset.
He frowned, and when he spoke again, his voice was eight degrees colder.
"You don't know about this, but do you know about the things that happened to him on the set recently?"
Liang Yifan remained silent.
Now he finally understood that Qin Mingchuan came to him to call him to account.
The more silent Liang Yifan was, the clearer the answer became in Qin Mingchuan's heart.
He continued to interrogate the other party like a judge from above.
"Have you done any PR for him in the past few days?"
"He was clearly right, but he was scolded for three days for no reason."
"In the end, it was others who helped him and the rumors were cleared up."
"As his agent, what were you doing during this time?"
Speaking of this, a set of data came to Qin Mingchuan's mind.
The assistant told him that Su Xingyao had been at Yingxing for two years and had only accepted fifteen resources, but had been on the hot search list seventy-two times.
And every hot search is negative.
As his agent, Liang Yifan has never done any positive public relations for him and has always taken a tacit attitude towards these negative hot searches.
It was precisely because of Liang Yifan’s negative public relations that Su Xingyao was misunderstood by everyone for so long, which led to her being blacklisted by the entire network later.
Qin Mingchuan became furious when he thought of this.
He now finally understood why Su Xingyao was so weak when she woke up that night, but the first thing she said when she saw him was to terminate the contract.
No one can stand this kind of situation.
But he suffered for two years.
Qin Mingchuan looked at Liang Yifan, the culprit, and the disgust in his eyes was obvious.
Liang Yifan remained silent in response to Qin Mingchuan's repeated questioning.
After learning that he would definitely be fired by Qin Mingchuan today, he simply stopped struggling.
"None of what you said is true. I admit that I failed in my duty towards Su Xingyao."
Qin Mingchuan was a little surprised that Liang Yifan admitted his mistake so readily.
He looked up at the other person, only to see that he was also staring at him.
After the two looked at each other for a few seconds, Liang Yifan continued to speak.
"But Mr. Qin, before you blame me, have you ever thought about..."
He raised the corners of his mouth in a strange arc, stared into Qin Mingchuan's eyes, and asked him word by word.
"Without your acquiescence, would the people below dare to do this to him?"
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