Chapter 18 Chapter 18 Network
PUHB's official website released a statement: "It has been confirmed that the dress Mr. Jiang and Xia wore is PUHB's latest spring 2023 collection, and the label indicates it is custom-made. We thank everyone for their support of the original brand and deeply apologize for any inconvenience this has caused @Jiang and Xia."
What this means is that the clothes Jiang Yuxia is wearing are custom-made and authentic.
[Is this official puhb? If it weren't for the blue V, I would have thought it was a knockoff.]
[Wow, it's really PUHB officials, they personally came out to refute the rumors, huh?]
[…So we’re the ones who are saying it’s fake, right? This is a custom-made model! Do you understand what custom-made means?]
[The official has personally stepped in to combat fake news, hahahahaha, are Song fans going to come out and show off again?]
[Since they can't compare to others in terms of looks, they resort to this method. Now they're forcing the officials to take action. Song fans, you got what you wanted. Are you happy? Hahahaha.]
Song Mo: I told you guys to stop, stop, stop, but you kept going! Others have custom designs, while I have regular ones, and now I'm outshined! [Laughing and getting rich.]
[There was a similar incident last time, right? PUHB completely played dead, saying they wouldn't get involved in the fan war between the two groups. Isn't this a bit too quick to act? From the beginning to the current situation, it's only been an hour or two, and the official statement has already been released?]
[And as of now, Song Mo's commercial value is higher than Jiang Yuxia's, right? He's also a partner of PUHB. Emmm, this one is hard to judge.]
[puhb: I knock, you guys messed with my boss! ]
Who are Jiang Yuxia's company and agent? Her PR skills are impressive.
[As far as I know, the company and the agent are... well, you know.]
[The official statement was quite polite.]
Doesn't anyone know the threshold for this kind of customization? Diamond VIPs and Black Card members can't even get it, right? What's wrong with my little Jiang?
Sun Quan looked at the shining blue V and confirmed twice that it was indeed PUHB. He definitely didn't have this connection, it must be someone else.
But Jiang Yuxia said that he did not go to see Zhou Boye, so there is a possibility that he contacted the company.
With this feeling, Sun Quan called the company's vice president. "Vice President, this is Sun Quan. You know about the Jiang Yuxia incident, right? Could you please give me the number of the PUHB staff? I need to thank them in person."
After expressing gratitude, he has to climb up the pole. At this time, face is nothing. If he can get in touch with PUHB, he can instantly become a bootlicker.
Vice President: "...What makes you think I have that kind of thing?"
Sun Quan: “…” He overestimated it after all.
…
Song Mo's agency also saw the news online. What was originally just a matter of laughing it off has been escalated into what it is now by fans. It's really troublesome.
His situation is different from Jiang Yuxia's. When Jiang Yuxia was accused of wearing fake goods, he could respond. But when two fans were arguing with each other, he couldn't respond. Responding would only escalate the situation. He could only handle it calmly.
Song Mo always paid attention to the news on the Internet. It was certain that the fact that he and Jiang Yuxia wore the same clothes would cause discussion, but he didn't expect it to become like this.
He also thought the one Jiang Yuxia was wearing was a knockoff, but he didn't expect it to be custom-made...
Song Mo looked at the increasingly biased remarks, feeling a sense of depression hanging over his heart. Jiang Yuxia was just a newcomer, with less than one tenth of his Weibo followers. How could he be so superior to him in such a place?
"Song Mo, start filming." the director shouted.
"Oh, okay."
Song Mo responded, and when he turned around, all the depression on his face disappeared.
This kind of daily variety show means you are under the camera all the time, and any slightly wrong expression will be captured, so expression management is very important.
The next day, the first episode was broadcast.
Because of the controversy caused by the trailer yesterday, today's attention is unprecedented. Logically speaking, Yu Chi has the most fans, and they are always the ones who massacre the square.
But because of yesterday's show, they seemed to have entered the viewing mode, resulting in the focus of attention directly on Jiang Yuxia and Song Mo after the first episode came out.
It’s just that Song Mo occupies the upper hand, after all, the base is there.
【Song Ge is absolutely beautiful! 】
[Brother Song's stall is so funny, hahahaha. The way that elementary school student immediately took out his phone to take a photo, hahahaha.]
[Wow, I want to eat the pancakes you made yourself, too.]
[Who is Jiang Yuxia? Why is there no message in the barrage? I'm so happy.]
In a short while, the square and the barrage were contracted by Song Mo, using his strength to prove the fighting power of Song family fans.
Until the camera panned over the fruit farmers' wrinkled faces and the thousands of kilograms of mangoes with nowhere to sell. It showed the dozen or so gray-haired fruit farmers looking anxiously at Jiang Yuxia under the dim light, and the glint in their eyes after they received the money.
The camera captures an old man's calloused hands counting banknotes one by one before wrapping them in red cloth. A little girl stares blankly at the roaring truck, seemingly so insignificant beneath it, like a grain of sand among countless grains of sand beneath the wheel of time.
At that moment, the barrage of comments suddenly paused, and then flooded in like an overwhelming force.
[Jiang Yuxia is awesome!!!]
【The theme has been elevated! 】
[Fuck! Can I just switch from hater to fan?! I just can’t stand this!]
I cried and cried, and for a moment I didn’t know whether I was crying for myself or for them.
The production team should thank Jiang Yuxia for helping you reach new heights.
Is this a variety show?
My heart aches, watching Xia Xia reduced to a dusty figure. He's been loading boxes of mangoes onto the truck in the wee hours of the morning, sleeping on the back of the truck. You can tell he's put all his heart into it. Heizi, do you really care?
Locals, fruit is really hard to sell this year. It's not due to natural disasters but man-made disasters. Prices are being pushed down endlessly, directly causing fruit farmers to lose money.
[I'm genuinely asking, can I buy this online? I can't offer much help, but buying a few pounds of mangoes is still possible.]
[These are all mangoes. Xia Xia said they were super sweet on the show. I want some too. How about the local government just set up a platform to help farmers?]
[Yes, there is strength in numbers. Family members help each other. We need to eat fruit every day anyway. It’s better to eat these than imported ones.]
In an instant, the barrage and the square were swept by passers-by and Jiang Yuxia's fans, so much so that even Song Mo's shadow could not be seen.
The passerby plate is always the largest. When fans fight, whoever can control the passerby plate can basically determine the winner.
However, no one remembered to mock Song Mo at this time. The local agricultural assistance team immediately contacted the program team and jointly launched a live broadcast platform, taking advantage of this trend to bring the long-unsold fruits to the Internet.
Originally, they thought they would sell as many as they could, but in the end, tens of thousands of kilograms of fruit in a county were sold out as soon as they were put on the shelves. Some netizens who didn't get the fruit kept urging them to put more on the shelves.
Seeing the invalid link, the head of the working group's eyes turned red. He had begged many people and ran to many places, but no one wanted this batch of fruits. He was afraid that the fruits would rot in the fields and the farmers' year's hard work would be wasted. He was so worried that he couldn't sleep every day.
That's all right. That's all right.
"Thank you all for your support. I would like to thank you all on behalf of the fruit farmers in our county." He said as he bowed to the camera.
But that’s all in the past.
On the other hand, when several parties involved saw the news, it was already a few hours after the variety show filming was suspended.
Qian Jingjing glanced at it briefly and patted Jiang Yuxia's shoulder. "You're great, you did a really cool job. Why didn't you ask me to join you?"
Jiang Yuxia also looked at the news online and replied softly, "I didn't think too much about it."
He scrolled through the comments, then looked at the official PUHB statement. His fingertips paused for a moment. This must have been Zhou Boye who contacted him. It hadn't been that long since he'd been accused of wearing fakes. Did he get the news so quickly? Did he discover it himself?
Is Zhou Boye looking at him?
Thinking of this possibility, Jiang Yuxia curled her fingertips slightly and subconsciously looked at her clothes. It should be... okay.
Hearing Qian Jingjing's words, Yu Chi smiled proudly and said, "I will invest in it later."
Song Mo couldn't even hold back his expression this time. He was quite popular in the entertainment industry, but he was actually suppressed to this extent by an unknown newcomer...
He laughed and said, "Why didn't you ask everyone to come together before doing this? Isn't this making things difficult for us? We're all in the same production team, so we can definitely do this together."
“…”
Jiang Yuxia glanced at him and said, "The village is right there. Did I stop you?"
Song Mo's expression remained unchanged, and he even had a smile on his face. "After you found out, you could have asked us to do it together, or do you just want to establish this persona?"
If the tone of his words just now was still polite, this time it was a bit sarcastic.
Everyone was silent for a moment.
Jiang Yuxia was speechless. He stared at him, "Does it matter to you whether I want to establish a character?"
Song Mo: "I..."
Song Mo clenched his fists a little tighter.
"Okay, whatever you want."
After he finished speaking, he left. Yu Chi put his arm around Jiang Yuxia's neck and said, "He's quite petty. You should be on guard against him. You should always be on guard against others."
Jiang Yuxia nodded.
Less than a few hours after Yu Chi finished speaking, several marketing accounts suddenly collectively released so-called inside information about Jiang Yuxia's "helping farmers" incident.
"Shock! Actually, the agricultural assistance project wasn't initiated by Jiang Yuxia at all."
"Explosive! Jiang Yuxia is buying fruit at prices even lower than those offered by local vendors in order to win the competition, completely disregarding the farmers' livelihoods."
"Is it 'help' or 'harm'? An investigation into the Jiang and Xia agricultural aid incident."
"Celebrities, please don't reach out to farmers just to establish your image as helping farmers."
Is this true? Is it all a show?
[Heh, these days, there are still people who believe the images on screen, reality shows and so on, they are all fake.]
[Come on, I just wanted to chase a star, and you tell me it’s fake in the blink of an eye?]
[Wow, so disgusting! If these revelations are true, Jiang Yuxia, you should just quit the entertainment industry. Even scolding you is too much.]
[Hey, I was saying, he's just a newcomer, but he's been jumping around so much these past few days, so it makes sense that he's just hyping himself up.]
[This was intended to market a beautiful and kind persona, and then it backfired?]
[Jiang Yuxia, do you have any heart? Exploiting left-behind elderly people and children for hype? So disgusting! I was just speaking up for you, but now I feel like throwing up.]
…
As the news spread on the Internet, a large number of media gathered outside the program team, all clamoring to interview Jiang Yuxia. The program team had tried their best to stop them, but the scene was still a mess.
Yu Chi looked at the media gathered outside and said, "They are all those who like to join in the fun and exaggerate."
He retracted his gaze and said, "Xia Xia, don't go out yet. Otherwise, I will go and help you explain."
Jiang Yuxia shook his head. There was no reason to let others bear the responsibility for the trouble he had caused.
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