The incident of the person dying from eating at Sun's Restaurant was left unresolved, but the restaurant's reputation plummeted because of it.
Although the police have already given the result that there is insufficient evidence and Sun's Restaurant does not need to pay compensation, the public's trust will never be restored.
Some believe that this lack of evidence doesn't guarantee the restaurant is innocent, much like the principle of "innocent until proven guilty" in criminal law. Others suspect the Sun's Restaurant used its financial muscle to suppress the incident, leaving the deceased's family impoverished and unable to resist, effectively blaming themselves for their bad luck.
So when Sun's Restaurant reorganized for a period of time and reopened, its business was not as good as before. The surrounding big hotels and small restaurants were very happy. Diners who went to other restaurants to eat still talked about Sun's Restaurant.
Furthermore, online discussions about this incident have been heated for a long time. The deceased's son, daughter-in-law, and grandson have all used this incident as a gimmick and become internet celebrities.
At this time, they no longer focused on the fact that they failed to use the death of the family members to extort huge compensation from the Sun's Restaurant, but instead reached out to the pockets of the majority of netizens. The focus of the discussion also shifted from that incident to the local reputation of Sun Aimin and Yuan Jie, as well as the current sensational case of child swapping.
This family has become the main force in the online crusade against Yuan Jie and Sun Aimin, with people accusing them of wielding a vast fortune yet neglecting their adopted son's life; of being selfish and cold-blooded, cutting off contact with their adopted son immediately after recognizing him as their biological parent; and of deliberately making things difficult for the adopted son's impoverished biological parents.
This brought Yuan Jie and Sun Aimin into a new round of greater online violence, forcing them to publicly appear online and deny the false statements.
However, this bland defense did not quickly reverse his reputation, but instead attracted more people to pay attention to the incident.
In this society, there are many poor people, and the rich have become the thorn in the eyes of many poor people. The widening gap between the rich and the poor has also caused the hatred of the rich to spread rapidly.
Although Yuan Jie and Sun Aimin cannot be considered a wealthy family, they are considered middle class. Their family conditions make many netizens feel unbalanced.
Especially after their adopted son and his biological parents raised donations through various channels for his medical treatment, Yuan Jie and Sun Aimin's reputation took a sharp turn for the worse. The statement that they would not pay for their adopted son's medical treatment was recognized by many people.
Yuan Jie and Sun Aimin were forced to find other ways out of this predicament. On the one hand, the younger generations of the Yuan and Sun families were responsible for collecting evidence of the rumors, slander, insults, and threats spread by online trolls. On the other hand, Yuan Jie and Sun Aimin reported their inability to visit Sun Xiaohao and their loss of contact with him to the police, hoping to break the deadlock.
However, after investigation, the police responded that Sun Xiaohao himself did not want to see them at the moment, so they were powerless to do anything about it.
Why was this happening? Yuan Jie and Sun Aimin were baffled. They believed they had done nothing wrong to Sun Xiaohao, so why would he hide from them at this moment? Could he truly be completely devoid of affection? Or perhaps he had been bewitched by his biological parents into distancing himself from this world?
Sun Xiaohao was in a good mood at the moment. The internet was full of people sympathizing with him and praising him, while at the same time, many people were criticizing Yuan Jie and Sun Aimin. This was exactly what he wanted to see.
From childhood to adulthood, they had always criticized and blamed him for the smallest of things. How much psychological trauma had they caused him? Even when he believed his actions were perfectly normal, he still had to endure unwarranted lectures. He had endured them for so long.
This time, it’s time for them to have a taste of what it feels like to be denounced and criticized.
Although his heart was pounding when he first saw the news that someone was killed in the Sun's Restaurant, he was also frightened by the bold actions of Zhan Jinhua and Qian Jindou.
But after just a few days, the matter was no longer a problem, and his inner guilt completely disappeared. Looking at the direction of public opinion on the Internet, his mood instantly improved, and he felt that all the uncomfortable feelings in his body were not so obvious.
But there was one thing that made him not very satisfied.
The house that Zhan Jinhua promised to give him had not been delivered yet.
He called to press the issue, but they kept making excuses. It looked like they were playing a game of infernal affairs with him. He figured it was time to use his trump card to force them.
He once asked Lin Ning, "Reporter Lin, why can't I find the video of the reunion interview online? I still want to keep some video footage of me and my parents, but I don't know where to find it."
Lin Ning replied: "Xiaohao, I'm sorry, this is what our leader wants. If you want the video, I'll send you one later."
Just like that, these family recognition videos disappeared inexplicably before the majority of netizens could react, but after they fell into the hands of Sun Xiaohao, they reappeared in the public eye.
Of course, this video was not posted online by Sun Xiaohao himself. Instead, he selected several big online anchors who were currently paying attention to the child-swap case and asked them to edit it appropriately, trying to cut out the shots related to Yuan Jie and Sun Aimin, and then posted the video.
However, two big anchors did not follow the instructions and sent out the video as it was, which received a large number of likes, comments and reposts, pushing the situation to another climax. Some anchors also analyzed the video and found some tricks in the recognition video.
For example, the interaction between Yuan Jie, Sun Aimin, Sun Xiaohao and the two children was very cordial and natural. At that time, Sun Xiaohao praised the two of them and said that they spared no effort to save her.
Zhan Jinhua and Qian Jindou did not show the excitement of recognizing their own children and grandchildren. Instead, they were very calm and said some inappropriate words that made people feel very uncomfortable.
In this way, although Sun Xiaohao's action achieved his desired goal of pushing Zhan Jinhua and Qian Jindou to the forefront, it also quickly reversed the reputation of Yuan Jie and Sun Aimin.
This kind of result is not what he wants. He wants both sets of parents to be caught in the whirlpool of public opinion and criticized by the majority of netizens. He himself is the most innocent and pitiful. Why don't things go in the direction he preset?
At this time, he had not yet foreseen that this action, which he thought was clever, brought him one step closer to death.
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