Luo Jingxuan was silent for a long time, so long that Li Xi thought he had become numb, although Luo Jingxuan was indeed a little numb at this time.
"Do you want to expose it, or do you want to use this as a handle to make the Hua family behave themselves?"
"I don't know." Li Xi confessed honestly, "I don't know what to do. Not to mention that Mian Lao Si hasn't got the evidence yet, I think it's a bit unethical to bring this up."
Luo Jingxuan chuckled, "The culprit of this incident doesn't think he's immoral, so how can you be considered immoral? However, this must be a huge blow to the person involved."
"So I'm thinking whether I should take advantage of them. People are suffering enough, why should I stab them again?" Li Xi was a little depressed.
"In an emergency, I'll just have to make do. When I really need to use it, I won't care about so many things. But it may not be necessary. You can think about it again. Zhuang Tianxin probably hasn't told her family about the exposure yet, right? It's not easy for them to deal with it."
"Yeah. Her family really loves her."
"Um."
While they were talking, the wontons Auntie Lin had prepared were ready. Perhaps because she saw Li Xi still talking to Luo Jingxuan, Auntie Lin thoughtfully prepared a bowl for Li Xi as well. Looking at the bowl of wontons filled with love, Li Xi said, "I'm not hungry, I'm full. Thank you so much."
However, seeing Aunt Lin's eager eyes, Li Xi still picked up the spoon, and when Aunt Lin turned back to the kitchen, she gave half to Luo Jingxuan. Not wanting to let Aunt Lin know, Li Xi even winked at Luo Jingxuan for a long time, signaling with her eyes that he should finish eating!
Luo Jingxuan looked at the pile of wontons in the bowl, then at Li Xi's lively expression. He lowered his head and silently finished a bowl of wontons which was obviously a bit too much, and burped in a very ungraceful manner.
It was rare to see Luo Jingxuan in such an embarrassing state. Li Xi was almost dying from trying to hold back her laughter, but on the surface she pretended to be calm and collected. "Auntie Lin made these wontons, they're delicious. We can have them for breakfast tomorrow."
"Yeah." Luo Jingxuan glanced at Li Xi lightly, without saying anything more. He just wiped the corner of his mouth elegantly, then stood up and left the table.
Li Xi felt sick, as she could actually sense a hint of tsundere in Luo Jingxuan's back. After spitting at herself, she sat back on the sofa, hugged a pillow, and continued watching the meaningless reality show.
Oh, of course not the one she accidentally showed up in. Due to Lin Yuanzhou's scandal, the reputation of "Happy Inn" has declined somewhat. The production team, assessing the situation, has simply removed several episodes featuring Lin Yuanzhou. Consequently, the recording time for this season has been extended. According to the production team's Weibo post, approximately 12 episodes will be re-recorded.
The episode featuring Li Xi was naturally removed. Furthermore, not long after the episode aired, Li Xi began exposing negative information about Lin Yuanzhou. Netizens, drawn to Li Xi's beauty, quickly shifted their focus to Lin Yuanzhou. Discussions about Li Xi were rare, and by the time they'd recovered and wanted to watch some beautiful women, the episode featuring Li Xi had already been removed.
After the screenshots circulated online for a while, Li Xi had Mian Laosi find a way to delete them. Indeed, Mian Laosi had a hacker mastermind on his side; not only could he delete photos online, he could even rob a publicly listed company. However, Mian Laosi generally kept him out of the field, keeping him at the base. When needed, Mian Laosi would go in on his own, using his limited hacking skills to sift through chat logs and identify those behind the network cables. That was more than enough.
Li Xi wanted to delete all photos of herself online and on friends' phones, but Mian Lao Si wasn't technically capable of doing it, so it was the boss who finally took action. It was also the boss who uncovered the Hua family's smuggling ring. The Hua family has been operating in secret for so many years, and this is evident in the fact that it took so long for the official investigation to uncover even a sliver of information.
But the boss was so impressive that, with a few quick taps on his keyboard, he uncovered the Hua family's smuggling operation and handed it over to the government. However, the evidence obtained through hacking techniques could give the relevant authorities a reason to investigate the Hua family, but it couldn't directly arrest anyone. To put it bluntly, the evidence obtained using this method was illegal.
Li Xi was a complete novice in this area. Although he had learned some "reconnaissance" techniques from Mian Lao Si, he knew nothing about hacking. It's not that he hadn't considered learning from Mian Lao Si, but he simply couldn't understand what he was saying, what he was listening to, or how to learn, so he gave up in the end.
Most other reconnaissance techniques required hands-on work. Li Xi could get information from him, but tracking and infiltration were out of the question. The timing, the face, and the identity weren't right. So, by now, Li Xi had given up on investigating on her own. If she needed any evidence or information, she'd just go straight to Mian Lao Si. After all, the more capable you were, the more work you'd get. And she'd never treated Mian Lao Si unfairly financially.
The only problem is that "Rich Family Gossip Talk" barely makes any money! The money spent on investigations is spent like water, and the revenue is practically zero. The small revenue from readership and tips from netizens for fun is nothing compared to the money paid to hire a detective.
Li Xi and Su Yu weren't short of that little money, but who would complain about having too much? Besides, Li Xi's future goal was to make her own media a career, so not making money was a must.
However, given Li Xi's personality and the nature of her account, she could only monetize through traffic and advertising. Advertising aside, with the shadow of her previous "resigned woman seeking a child online" incident, Li Xi felt she could put advertising on hold for now.
Li Xi and his team had already been experimenting with monetizing their traffic, even before the Lin Yuanzhou scandal. Besides Weibo and official WeChat accounts, they also opened accounts on self-media platforms with lower barriers to entry, syncing their content from their main accounts. Those platforms essentially generate revenue as long as there's traffic, and while it might not be much, every little bit counts.
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