Chapter 102
In the venue filled with reporters, flash lights flashed non-stop and the sound of shutter clicks continued to capture the posture of You Jiyuan who was kneeling on the stage.
Assistant Dong, who was standing beside the stage, glanced up and saw that the time was almost right, so he put on a panicked expression and stepped onto the stage. Following Bai Peilan, he easily lifted You Jiyuan's arm and pulled up the grieving father.
Assistant Dong smoothed the hem of You Jiyuan's suit, and then faced the reporters in a very professional manner and said loudly, "Sorry, everyone, it's best not to send out the photos just now."
You Jiyuan covered his face and coughed a few times, his eyebrows drooping and he said in a deep voice: "I lost my composure."
Assistant Dong and several other staff members who rushed to the stage helped You Jiyuan and Bai Peilan to sit back at the long table. Then, at the prompt of Xiuming staff, the press interview session finally began.
Several entertainment reporters who had been arranged in advance raised their hands first and directly asked the explosive questions that had been decided in advance.
"Mr. You, is the continuous plunge in Xiuming's stock price today related to what you just said? Or can I ask if it is because of your son You Mian that Xiuming's corporate trust crisis this time?"
The young assistant Dong stood up and said in a reprimanding tone: "I'm sorry, sir, this kind of question..."
Before he could finish, You Jiyuan, who was standing beside him, put on a friendly look, nodded tiredly, and confirmed on the spot: "Yes."
The atmosphere on the scene instantly reached a climax again. In the chaos, the emotionally excited reporters no longer asked questions one by one in the order they had arranged in advance, but directly threw a large number of doubts and threw them heavily on the stage.
"You Mian posted an agreement online not long ago, with your signature and Xiu Ming's seal on it, confirming that he no longer has any connection with the You family. Excuse me, you are aware of this, right?"
You Jiyuan's pupils shrank, and before he could react, sharp questions came to him one after another.
"An insider revealed that your biological son Bai Lin received an elite education abroad and attended a prestigious school. He paid for his personal oil painting exhibition while in school at a cost of tens of millions... But as far as everyone knows, Bai Lin had not yet been recognized by the You family at that time, and Bai Lin did not have any nominal adoptive parents. So was the money he squandered given by you?"
The microphone was held high.
"So you have been secretly providing financial support to Bai Lin before we met?"
"Why didn't you acknowledge him as your biological son when you knew you had him?"
"You are biased between You Mian and Bai Lin."
"Please answer directly..."
Seeing that the situation was about to get out of control, You Jiyuan and Bai Peilan looked at each other hurriedly. The chairman's assistant who stood up beside them had already raised his hand high in panic and made a gesture of pressing down to signal silence.
"We understand everyone's emotions. We are holding this press conference today to answer everyone's questions. We beg all media friends to give Xiu Ming a chance to clarify. We will ask them one by one!"
You Jiyuan raised his hand towards the security guard standing next to the stage, and several burly men in black suits approached the side of the venue, causing the reporters who had been extremely excited just now to sit down instead of standing.
Assistant Dong had a smile in his eyes, and he no longer pretended to be a snake. He just pointed from a distance and called the reporters who had been arranged in advance.
The man stood up and immediately changed the subject, asking, "Mr. You just emphasized the twenty years of raising me, and every word was heart-wrenching. I'm sure you felt sad when You Mian directly released that recording and video, emphasizing that you no longer had anything to do with each other, right?"
The situation was finally brought back to normal. You Jiyuan breathed a sigh of relief, nodded, and said in a deep voice, "Yes, I believe that I have not treated him unfairly in terms of property in the past twenty years. Xiao Mian has lived a superior life in the You family that ordinary people cannot achieve. I have provided him with the best environment for growth and the best educational resources."
"I have a clear conscience about this!" You Jiyuan said in a sonorous and powerful voice.
The sound of shutter clicks rang out wildly, and one after another, questions that had been arranged in advance were asked in public. After the press conference that lasted more than an hour, You Jiyuan walked out of the hotel lobby and stepped into the back seat of a luxury car.
Bai Peilan and Dong Zhu were already sitting on the leather sofa.
You Jiyuan swept away the humble look he had just shown in front of the camera, and became fierce and ruthless again the moment the car door closed.
"Have all the reports been sent out?" You Jiyuan asked after taking the tablet handed to him by Assistant Dong.
Assistant Dong nodded and said with a smile, "The copywriting was all written in advance by our public relations team. They agreed to publish it according to what we wrote. Now public opinion has begun to gain momentum. This is the first batch of articles that have been published. Mr. You, please take a look."
You Jiyuan followed his words and clicked on the article link on the tablet in his hand.
Bai Peilan smiled happily, took out a bottle of champagne from the small refrigerator in the car, clinked the glass with her lotus-pink nails, and asked with a smile: "Are you celebrating Xiuming's resurrection?"
The three people present had no doubt that after today's press conference, even if You Mian had hundreds of mouths, he would not be able to wash away this dirty water.
What PR tactic is more powerful than a father kneeling down and crying?
Bai Peilan felt that they had made a brilliant move and couldn't help but want to celebrate.
But just as she unscrewed the champagne glass and the bubbles started to pop, You Jiyuan, who was sitting next to her, frowned and asked, "Why is the Internet so slow in the car?"
You Jiyuan stared at the buffering words on the tablet for about five or six seconds.
Upon hearing the sound, Bai Peilan and Assistant Dong leaned over to take a look.
Three seconds later, the page that had been in the buffering stage was finally refreshed.
[This content involves spreading rumors and has been deleted. Please correct it. 】
The three people gasped at the same time. The internet army had been sent out, but the articles did not follow up. This was a major mistake!
You Jiyuan's fingers clenched the tablet so tightly that they turned white, and wrinkles formed at the corners of his eyes.
He shouted loudly: "What's going on?! Give me an explanation!"
Assistant Dong was so scared that his hands were shaking. He quickly took the tablet from You Jiyuan, picked up his phone and started making a call.
Before the call was connected, Assistant Dong looked at You Jiyuan and said soothingly, "Don't worry, Mr. You. They must have encountered some banned words that were scanned by the platform's machine. This happens all the time. Just change it and it will be fine."
Bai Peilan held the champagne glass with her heart pounding, thinking that this was not a good sign.
She was not in the mood to drink champagne, so she quickly took out her phone and opened Weibo and several other news platforms.
She looked through the hot search list from top to bottom, only to find that several entries related to Xiu Ming that had been hyped up before the press conference had all disappeared!
Bai Peilan tried to type the word "Xiu Ming" in the search bar, but apart from some show reports from half a year ago, she could not see any news about this morning's press conference.
Her breathing rate began to quicken and her fingers began to tremble. She immediately tried to search for You Jiyuan and Bai Lin's names again, but the results were the same as before. She could not find any blog post with the word "press conference" written on it!
Bai Peilan's expression was too ugly. You Jiyuan frowned angrily when he saw it. "What? The entries have also been removed?"
This kind of publicity PR had been discussed in advance. Unless the platform went back on its word, it would be impossible for JL to suppress it all even if they wanted to.
You Jiyuan had guessed this and decided to hold a press conference, so his question was just a casual one as a joke.
But after You Jiyuan finished speaking, Bai Peilan did not respond for a long time, but stared at him in a daze.
A feeling of being out of control suddenly weighed down on the heads of the three people in the car. If they couldn't even send out the articles and entries, today's press conference would become a joke like playing house.
You Jiyuan swallowed his throat and asked again: "Was it really taken down?"
Bai Peilan nodded hesitantly, "All gone."
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