Since Tao Mu appeared in the eyes of many netizens, he has always left a positive impression on the public, such as handsome, talented, young and promising, and approachable.
Now suddenly more than a dozen media outlets jointly broke the news that Tao Mu had been a MB before, and the first reaction of most netizens was to not believe it. Especially the many female fans who have already imagined Tao Mu as their ideal boyfriend, not only do they not believe it, but they will also fiercely refute those gossip media that talk nonsense online.
"Come on, our Mumu is only 18 years old this year. I found out that his birthday is July 7th, and he has just been an adult for three months. You actually said that our Mumu worked as a nightclub maid. That's hilarious. Which nightclub would use child labor as maids? Do you really think the law is just a piece of paper?"
"Our Mumu was able to create Feixun.com when she was only 18 years old. With such talent, why would she be a MB? She should be a sponsor of a MB."
"The guy upstairs, with our Mumu's looks, if she really likes someone, why would she need to support him? Just ask and countless girls will flock to her, right?"
"Second. Our Twilight would never do something like that!"
"I don't believe Twilight is that kind of person."
There are people who trust Tao Mu and support Tao Mu. Naturally, there were also people who didn't believe Tao Mu, thinking that so many newspapers and weekly magazines wouldn't team up to lie to people.
"I feel like there's something wrong here. As the saying goes, there's no smoke without fire. If there really wasn't such a thing, then the media wouldn't wrongly accuse someone who has no grudge against them."
"The newspaper also published photos of Tao Mu going in and out of the night. I know this shop. It can be said to be one of the largest nightclubs in Yanjing, and it is a chain store. There are shops in Gongti, Houhai, Sanlitun, Asian Games Village, and World Trade Center. It does provide that kind of service."
"But isn't Ye Se's boss Tao Mu's brother? Tao Mu said this himself."
"Isn't Tao Mu an orphan? Where does his brother come from? Besides, the boss of Ye Se is almost 40 years old. It's possible that he is Tao Mu's father. Is your information reliable?"
"The information above seems to be very rich. What else do you know? Why don't you tell us all?"
"The boss of Ye Se is Liu Yao. When Tao Mu came to Beijing Film Academy to report, it was Liu Yao who drove Tao Mu here. Tao Mu called him brother."
"What brother? I think he's the sponsor. I've always found it strange that an 18-year-old boy who just went to college and is said to be an orphan, how could he have the money to create Feixun.com and Danmu.com. Even if he is talented, does he really think that renting a server and a villa is free? How can an orphan like him have so much money! Maybe he is being kept by someone!"
There is no shortage of people in this world who have dark minds and like to assume the worst of others. Especially in the past few months, Tao Mu founded Feixun.com and launched Danmu.com. At a young age, he has extensive connections and can interact with industry leaders like Weibo CEOs. It can be said that he has stolen all the limelight.
We are all of the same age, why are you so outstanding and capable?
No one in this world can win the love of the whole world. Tao Mu's sudden appearance attracted many people's attention in a short period of time. Among these people, some like him, and naturally there are also people who dislike him. This psychological state probably stems from envy, jealousy and hatred. It’s just that they usually don’t have the opportunity to vent, and now that they have finally caught something, they all swarm around like flies smelling blood.
"It's disgusting. I really thought he relied on talent, but I didn't expect he relied on selling out."
"It's possible that Feixun.com and Danmu.com were not created by him. Maybe he served his sponsor well, so they gave him these two websites to play with."
"I'm disappointed. I never thought that I would fall in love with this kind of person."
"I was like a possessed person, trying to get people around me to sign up for Feixun.com. Now I think it's not worth it. You even dressed up as a woman and danced to celebrate when the number of users exceeded 100 million. Why don't you just do a striptease? Maybe it would be more eye-catching."
"It's disgusting. I've logged out of Feixun.com. I'll use Weibo again from now on."
In just one day, under the deliberate instigation of some people with ulterior motives, more than tens of thousands of netizens logged off Feixun.com. There are hundreds of thousands of messages from netizens under Tao Mu's Feixun account. Some believe in him and support him, some ask for explanations, and some abuse and slander him. Even the ongoing national campus beauty and campus hunk selection contest has been affected.
Some netizens rushed to the official account of the program group to scold the program group, saying that they were not selecting school beauties and school hunks at all, but selecting national gigolos and national princesses - "Do they have to put up signs to receive customers at night after selecting school beauties and school hunks?"
The matter became more and more serious and sensational. Some contestants' parents and family members also called to ask what was going on. Some people no longer trusted Tao Mu and Feixun.com, and asked their children to go home directly over the phone. Many contestants were affected and approached the program team to withdraw from the competition.
Among these hesitant contestants, Shen Yu, who kept jumping around, attracted everyone's attention.
"Don't talk about Mumu like that. Mumu will be sad. He is a very good person. He will definitely not be a MB. He just worked in a nightclub. An orphan grew up in an orphanage without parents and no one to support him. Is it wrong for him to work and earn money to support himself? Is it his own choice to have a bad background?"
"Do you know how hard Mumu works? He is very talented. He can sing, dance, and perform kung fu. He is also a stand-in for me when we were in H-town. Our director said that his acting is much better than mine. He also served as a stand-in for Wang Boyuan in the crew of Jianghu Zhiyuan. Some shots were taken by Wang Boyuan without his feeling. This was personally admitted by Director Cheng Baodong and Wang Boyuan himself. Director Cheng Baodong also said that Mumu's acting style is very similar to that of actor Yan Shengyan."
"Mumu is so talented because he is an orphan with no background or support. Did you know that he suffered a lot in H Town? When he was in our crew, he was harassed by the investors... He joined the crew of "Heroes' Tale" and even signed the contract, but was kicked out... I don't allow you to say that about Mumu..."
"Besides, Tao Mu has his own money, so he doesn't need to find a sponsor. Do you know how much he made in the stock market in July this year alone? The market is so unstable now, even my brother has lost a lot, and Tao Mu's return on investment is more than seven or eight times."
Shen Yu has a characteristic when speaking, which is that he particularly likes to find contrasts. In the eyes of others, it is just praising one and criticizing the other. The end result is that the more he jumps around, the more people hate Tao Mu. Even Wang Boyuan and Yan Sheng's fans, who originally had no feelings about this matter, developed an extremely repulsive attitude towards Tao Mu because of Shen Yu's words.
"How much benefit did Tao Mu give you to say such shameless words! Look at what he said. It's okay to say that Tao Mu is handsome and talented. As for whether he is good at stock trading, I don't know. Just say that he is a good actor. A freshman who has just entered university and has not attended classes for a few days has better acting skills than Wang Boyuan... Fuck, even Yan Sheng didn't dare to brag like this back then!"
"That's about the same. Didn't you see that he dared to brag that Tao Mu's acting skills were comparable to Yan Sheng's? I just want to know if Cheng Baodong, Wang Boyuan, and Yan Sheng himself knew what Shen Yu said?"
A group of netizens tagged Cheng Baodong, Wang Boyuan and Yan Sheng.
"You said he was trying to curry favor with Tao Mu, so he did. But he actually dared to step on Wang Boyuan and Yan Sheng. Is his brain filled with water?"
Some netizens also found suspicious points: "Hey, did you notice that Shen Yu meant that he and Tao Mu knew each other before? I said something was wrong. Shen Yu's presence was particularly strong during the recording of the show. I always feel that he has more shots than others and appears for a particularly long time. And he can also show his face when filming other people's shows. Do you think that the program crew knows that he has a good relationship with Tao Mu and deliberately takes care of him and gives him shots?"
"That's really unfair, isn't it?"
"I've been wanting to say this for a long time. I'm particularly annoyed with this Shen Yu. I don't know where he came from. He feels really good about himself and always likes others to flatter and please him. A man who acts like a spoiled child all day long, rubbing against anyone he catches, crying for twenty minutes when his legs are stretched, and even singing Pavarotti's tenor when he sees a wood louse, isn't this too feminine?"
"Just like a lapdog. Can't do anything except suck up!"
This sentence immediately angered Shen Yu's fans. Tao Mu knew from his previous life that Shen Yu's fans were very strong, and all of them were the kind of brainless fans who loved Shen Yu. It didn't matter that Wang Boyuan and Yan Sheng's fans despised Tao Mu, but they actually dared to mock Shen Yu. These fans immediately quit. First, he scolded all the fans of Wang Boyuan and Yan Sheng under Shen Yu’s Feixun, forcing the fans of the two groups to quit Feixun. In the end, they were still not satisfied and went to Yan Sheng and Wang Boyuan’s forums to make some comments (because of their image, neither of them registered Weibo or Feixun accounts). The fighting power of such a small group of fans finally succeeded in bombing the forums of two movie emperors and top-tier superstars. In an instant, even the netizens and entertainment media were shocked.
Many people's attention immediately shifted from Feixun.com and Tao Mu to Shen Yu.
During this period, Tao Mu did not respond. He asked the employees of Feixun.com to calculate the losses suffered by Feixun.com and Danmu.com since the news was leaked by more than a dozen media outlets. Take screenshots of the comments made by netizens who use extreme language online. Gather all the materials and hire a lawyer to file a lawsuit in court directly.
However, what Tao Mu didn't expect was that Liu Yao's action was actually one step faster than his. Moreover, Liu Yao not only sued more than a dozen media outlets that slandered Ye Se and Tao Mu, he also sued Yu Xiao Media, which was the mastermind behind all this. They even posted evidence on Feixun.com of how Yao Wenxiao hired a private detective to invade Ye Se's privacy and how he bribed more than a dozen media outlets to jointly discredit Tao Mu.
——As early as when Tao Mu reminded him that there was a problem between Yao Wenxiao and Shen Yu, Liu Yao and his wife began to prepare. Liu Yao sent his men to follow Yao Wenxiao 24 hours a day, and at the same time contacted the most powerful economic lawyer in Yanjing, so as to be prepared for the lawsuit at any time.
During the consultation, the lawyer also mentioned that generally, when an artist sues the media, even if they win the case, they can only get symbolic compensation. Those media outlets use the method of consuming artists to gain huge publicity and attention. Even if they apologize in the newspaper in the end, the profits they gain are insignificant compared to the loss of face.
Besides, Tao Mu will definitely be an actor in the future and enter the entertainment industry. It is not a good thing if the relationship with the media is too strained.
However, Liu Yao and Meng Qi are confident that with Tao Mu's ability, even if he enters the entertainment industry in the future, he will definitely not be constrained by these unscrupulous media. The lawyer had to find a way to come up with a plan, so that if there were unscrupulous media framing Tao Mu in the future, they could teach those rumor-mongering media a heavy lesson. And they promised that if the lawyer could satisfy them, Liu Yao would be willing to give them one million as a reward.
Faced with the huge reward, the lawyer tried his best. It took me nearly half a month to look up laws and cases, and I finally came up with a solution. So half a month later, when Yao Wenxiao really joined forces with more than a dozen media outlets to spread rumors and slander Tao Mu and Yese, Boss Liu, who had been prepared, took the advice of his lawyer and directly sued more than a dozen media outlets together with Yuxiao Media for defamation, unfair competition, spying on business secrets, and illegally using Tao Mu's portrait rights and Yese trademark to obtain huge profits.
——If the case is won, it is estimated that these dozen media outlets will at least have to pay a huge loss before they can get away with it.
As for Yuxiao Media, it is not that bad. After all, Yuxiao Media is backed by the Sheng'an Group, and they have a lot of blood!
At the same time, Shen Yu, who had been fighting on the front line, realized that the reason why Tao Mu, whom he wanted to make friends with the most, was so miserable was because of his childhood friend.
"How could you do this!" Shen Yu was extremely shocked and ran back to the hotel without paying attention to the filming period, blocking the anxious Yao Wenxiao: "You obviously know that I want to make friends with Tao Mu. Why did you hurt him like this? Don't you know that Tao Mu will never forgive me for doing this? Why did you do this?"
Yao Wenxiao looked at Shen Yu with a look of devastation. He didn't expect that his every move would be seen by Liu Yao. Now Liu Yao has taken him and a dozen other media outlets to court, with irrefutable evidence. The matter has become so serious that Yao Wenxiao definitely cannot handle it on his own. But if he asked his family for help, he would probably disappoint his grandfather. By then, he would be one step further away from the position of heir to the Saint Ann Group. After all, the Yao family has more than one grandson.
What made Yao Wenxiao feel even more aggrieved was that at this critical moment, Shen Yu actually came to blame him: "You still blame me? Look at the photos Liu Yao sent. We have been targeted by them since we entered Beijing. That Tao Mu doesn't believe you at all. That's why he sent people to keep an eye on me. You are obsessed with making friends with others, but who are they to take care of you? Now you are blaming me for him, are you out of your mind?"
Shen Yu looked at Yao Wenxiao in jealous shock: "Are you mean to me?"
"You're so cruel to me?"
"It's obviously you who did something wrong. How dare you call me stupid? How can you be like this?"
"I--" Seeing the grievance in Shen Yushui's bright eyes, Yao Wenxiao immediately put out the fire. He stepped forward and held Shen Yu's shoulders: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean it. I was just too anxious."
Yao Wenxiao paused, and wanted to blame the problem on Tao Mu again: "It's all his fault. If they hadn't deliberately set me up and hired someone to keep an eye on me, things wouldn't have developed to this point. That Tao Mu didn't like us from the beginning. He was deliberately calculating us. Xiao Yu, you don't know that my current situation is very difficult. Liu Yao and Tao Mu got evidence of my bribing the media and sued me. If I lose the lawsuit, Yuxiao Media and I will be finished."
"Then why did you do this?" Shen Yu looked at Yao Wenxiao in a daze: "If you didn't target Mumu, didn't discredit him, deliberately exposed the fact that he worked in Ye Se, and distorted the fact that he worked in Ye Se, he wouldn't sue you."
"I'm doing this for you." Yao Wenxiao blurted out, "You always care so much about that guy named Tao, I'm jealous. And I always feel that he will hurt you in the future."
"Then you can't do this! It's wrong to hurt others." Shen Yu blinked his eyes, still feeling sorry for his childhood sweetheart: "Otherwise, go and apologize to Tao Mu. Just say you were wrong, and beg him. Ask him to forgive you this time, okay?"
"I will never beg him!" Yao Wenxiao was instantly furious: "I, Yao Wenxiao, will never beg him."
"But if you don't ask him, you will lose everything if you lose the lawsuit!" Shen Yu blinked his eyes: "Aren't you afraid of making your grandfather angry and your grandfather not accepting you as his heir?"
Yao Wenxiao: “…”
Shen Yu sighed softly: "Forget it, you don't want to beg him. I'll beg for you."
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