The setting sun sank into the distant mountains, leaving a blood-red smudge across the sky.
Zhuang Li clapped his hands and laughed heartily, his spirits high. The computer before him displayed the final outcome of the war. Zhu Jianrui had lost, his weapons and armor utterly utterly routed. The MIK network he had rebuilt had been completely destroyed.
Zhuang Li tapped the keyboard lightly, and the data stream on the screen disappeared. A window floated in the upper left corner of the computer. It turned out to be the scene in MIK President's office.
At some point, Zhuang Li hacked into MIK's surveillance system and gained access to all surveillance cameras at any time.
In the window, Zhu Jianrui was smashing things furiously. Computer, keyboard, mouse, printer—all were smashed to pieces. As if that wasn't enough, he also toppled the filing cabinet, wine cabinet, bar, and refrigerator.
The once clean and bright office was now a mess, like a typhoon had passed through it. Zhu Jianrui grabbed his hair and slowly knelt down. He first roared to the sky, as if unable to accept his own defeat, then he put his hands on the ground and panted heavily like a stray dog.
The camera monitored him from above, unable to capture his expression, but able to capture his mentality on the verge of collapse through his violently trembling body.
For a talented young man who has never tasted failure, today will surely be a day he will never forget.
"Poor child, why are you crying? The real suffering has just begun." Zhuang Li stopped clapping, but the smile on his face took on a colder meaning.
Once you've seen Zhu Jianrui's eyes, no one will ever think of him as a child who knows nothing about the world. His gaze is sinister and venomous, like a cobra, hissing and humming, then taking the opportunity to bite you in the most fatal place and injecting venom.
The consequences of underestimating him are disastrous.
In the window, he was lying on the ground on his side like a dead dog, then slowly curled up his body and wrapped his arms around his knees, as if seeking the first and safest posture.
7480 started to cry as he watched. This was the Son of the World chosen by the Lord God! He should have been able to dominate this world, not suffer such a crushing defeat in his first attempt! How pitiful!
7480 also lay on his side in the small dark room, curled up into a shivering point, sobbing silently and restrainedly.
Too cruel, the host is really too cruel! He eats people without adding salt, and kills without shedding blood! He is the universe-level devil!
The more 7480 thought about it, the more resentful he became. However, he said weakly in the most cowardly tone possible: "Master, those hackers stole the information of all MIK stars. If it is leaked online, their privacy will be seriously violated, right? Their phone numbers and home addresses will be known to everyone. Sasaeng fans and anti-fans are not easy to deal with. What if they want to do something to these stars? Wouldn't it be easy to succeed? Master, you are committing a crime too!"
"Master, although you didn't destroy MIK, you did give it a push from behind. If any celebrity was harmed in this incident, wouldn't you feel guilty?"
Zhuang Li supported his forehead with his hand, his tone lazy and casual: "Why should I feel guilty?"
Having nearly wiped out the entire human race, he has absolutely no such weak emotion as guilt in his bones.
7480, who persuaded the other party with both emotion and reason, said: "..."
However, it didn't know that Zhuang Li had been tampering with the MIK network from the very beginning. He had encrypted and even destroyed data concerning celebrities and employees, leaving the hackers with mostly evidence of MIK's violations of laws and regulations.
As for the stolen films and TV series, I'm sorry, but they weren't Zhuang Li's property, and MIK didn't pay him a salary, so why should he protect them?
MIK is Zhu Jianrui's company. If he fails to keep the wealth, it is because of his own lack of ability and he cannot blame anyone else.
Zhu Jianrui in the window was still weeping softly, his body trembling, as if overcome with grief. Only then did he reveal a hint of the helplessness and vulnerability of a young man. A female secretary slowly approached him, patting his back...
This pitiful scene made the female secretary shed tears, but Zhuang Li looked at them without any guilt, then closed the window with boredom, drank the last cup of coffee, and stretched his body.
"Today was fun!" Zhuang Li walked to the edge of the balcony, watching, fascinated, as the last ray of blood-red afterglow gradually faded into the night. He smiled with pleasure, his narrow eyes curved. At thirty-two, his features still brimmed with the innocence of youth.
And his evil is just like that of a teenager: simple, innocent, and even more chilling.
Huddled in the small dark room, 7480 began to tremble violently, screaming helplessly in his heart: "Damn you, big devil! When will you get your comeuppance?!"
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At the same time, in another part of the city, someone hugged herself and cried, "Sister Fang, I've suffered retribution. In order to enter the entertainment industry, I almost angered my father to death and even severed ties with my family. I regret it so much, wuwuwu..."
The young girl raised her tear-soaked face, revealing red eyes. It was Yu Jin, another popular star of MIK.
Her agent, Fang Jie, was staring at her computer, her face a despairing sallowness. When they heard the news that MIK had been hacked, they initially took it lightly. After all, ordinary people are far away from that world, and for a moment they couldn't imagine the dire consequences of a hacker attack.
But they soon foresaw the tragedy that would happen to them through the cruel reality.
After sunset, many celebrities' negative news was exposed and spread to the Internet, attracting the attention of international public opinion.
Some of them take drugs, some engage in prostitution, some are pimps, some rape young girls, some evade taxes... and without exception, they are all stars under MIK.
It was not until this time that Fang Jie received a warning text message from a friend, saying that hackers had stolen the personal information and negative information of all MIK artists, which would be gradually exposed on the Internet, so her artists should be more careful.
Sister Fang felt her world spinning as she read the message. It was because MIK had a firm hold on Yu Jin, her only artist!
When Yu Jin first debuted, she had a boyfriend. They were very close and even lived together. He was an ordinary man with a modest family background, and in the eyes of others, he had no redeeming qualities. But Yu Jin loved him dearly, and even when the company pressured her to break up, she refused.
But after Yu Jin became famous, the man ran away.
He used Yu Jin's photos and videos to blackmail MIK for five million. He knew that he was a commoner and could not compete with MIK, who had extensive connections and abundant capital. He knew that he would be forced to break up sooner or later anyway, so he might as well sell Yu Jin for a good price.
Yu Jin's loyalty and love for him were only rewarded with betrayal and a pile of negative information left in the company's database.
It was precisely because of these negative news that Yu Jin was forced by the company to sign the most demanding contract, receive the smallest commission, do the hardest and most tiring work, and stayed in MIK for ten years.
The ten-year contract was about to expire, and the company offered her a twenty-year contract with even less commission. However, as long as the company still had the negative information, Yu Jin had no choice but to sign the contract.
But now, the company's database has been stolen by hackers, and MIK's artists have been exposed to scandals one after another, and Yu Jin must be the next one.
After struggling in the quagmire for ten years, Yu Jin finally felt the bone-chilling cold and exhaustion.
"Sister Fang, forget it. There's no need to ask your friends for help. Let them expose me. I don't care." Yu Jin slowly lay down on the bed and let out a long sigh: "From now on, I'm free."
Her boyfriend betrayed her and left her, leaving her with a heavy yoke. She stumbled under these shackles for ten years, a whole decade, the best years of her youth consumed by pain. She was also a person of flesh and blood, capable of being crushed, struck down, and killed.
She just wanted to lie down for a while and wait for the final judgment in silence.
As if she had thought of something, she pulled out her phone and sent a text message to her friend Anna, reminding her of what was about to happen. It seemed likely that any artist who had negative information about them would suffer the same fate.
Anna's experience was similar to Yu Jin's, both were betrayed by the people closest to them.
Her response was also very calm: "I understand. I'm fine now. Don't worry. We will face this together. This day will come sooner or later anyway."
There are many artists who are just as helpless and hopeless as them. They have never done anything wrong, but have been pushed into various quagmires and stained by the people around them. Stars, on the other hand, are not allowed to have any stains. In the eyes of their fans, they must be perfect gods.
As I waited, the night gradually deepened.
The hacker is still exposing the truth, and MIK’s artist has dominated the headlines of major news pages tonight and has even attracted the attention of national agencies.
But after ten o'clock, the noisy internet suddenly returned to calm, just like the weather at sea: when the wind rises, it is thundering, and when the wind goes away, it suddenly stops, without the slightest sign.
The marketing accounts targeted by the hackers haven't released any new explosive material. When curious netizens inquired about the situation, the administrators of the marketing accounts could only helplessly reply: "Everyone, go away. There's no new material!"
Netizens waited for an hour or two without giving up, but no new information was released.
The carnival is finally over.
Sister Fang waited almost breathlessly. Half an hour later, she refreshed the webpage and collapsed on the bed, panting, "Your dirty laundry hasn't been exposed."
Yu Jin, who had already prepared herself for disgrace, sat up in disbelief, "How could it be? Let me see!" She moved her laptop over, opened the Weibo page that she had not dared to open before, and then kept searching for keywords.
No, there is nothing on the webpage.
No, not really. The ten-year contract she had signed before and the twenty-year contract she was about to sign next month had been exposed by hackers.
Anna's twenty-year indenture was also exposed.
MIK exploited them to death. The only way to change their fate was to find a powerful financial sponsor to help them retrieve the negative information and then offer a high price to terminate their contract. However, this option was also a bad one, as it would only lead to jumping from one pit of fire to another.
Yu Jin, who had initially thought he'd be burned to death, quickly scrolled through the webpage, a look of disbelief on his face. Why hadn't the hacker exposed me? I'm so popular, such a big star, and my persona is so pure and perfect, so my negative information should be very explosive, right?
These inexplicable thoughts were churning in her mind.
Sister Fang also came over and whispered, "Look, there's no negative information about you on the Internet. Don't scare yourself."
"Why not? Didn't they say that all of MIK's information was stolen by hackers? The company's recently produced movies and TV series have all been turned into torrents for people to download at will!" Yu Jin said, pointing to a website specifically for downloading torrents.
"I don't know either. Are you just particularly lucky?" Sister Fang muttered.
Just then, Yu Jin's phone rang. It was a text from Anna: "Jin'er, I just checked all the major entertainment news pages, and none of our negative material has been exposed. I asked other people, and those in similar situations are all fine now, nothing's happened at all. I think I'm starting to see something. The artists exposed by hackers have either violated the law or committed serious moral violations, causing harm to others."
"Those hackers didn't touch victims like you and me. They just released our contracts to show everyone how shady MIK is. Jin'er, I have a feeling we're finally free! Jin'er, my fans are all fighting for me, urging me to terminate my contract with the company. Jin'er, let's leave together, and get out of this hell! We're free!"
Yu Jin put down her phone and, heart pounding, opened her Weibo account, only to be met with a flood of support and encouragement. Fans' anger towards MIK had reached a peak after the two contracts were revealed. Even if she resolutely left next month, no one would accuse her of ingratitude, nor would anyone post a few unsightly photos to warn her to think it over.
Is she free?
Is all this true?
Hope was just within reach, but Yu Jin covered her face and burst into tears.
However, she didn't know that this turning point was not brought to her by hackers, but by a person who had completely deleted these crimes that should not have existed long before the hacker attack.
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