Chapter 93: Kicking someone when they are down is the norm
◎ When it comes to shamelessness, some people can always refresh your horizons.◎
Her eyes were fixed on the phone screen, filled with shock, fear and disbelief, as if everything on the screen was a nightmare.
As long as she closed her eyes and opened them again, it would disappear.
But it didn't happen. Not only did assistant Huahua receive inquiries on her phone, but the small pop-up windows on Song Yu's phone screen were also pushing various breaking news messages crazily.
When I swiped open the top page, the messages that came out were all about one person's name, about the Korean star Kwon Ji-yong who was in the urgent breaking news today.
This feeling is not unfamiliar. A few years ago, when a former teammate of his team got into trouble, the same situation occurred.
No matter where you are in the world, as long as your mobile phone can connect to the Internet, you will be unable to escape the information reception. This is a kind of sadness for artists.
Regardless of whether the revelations are true or false, the large amount of information pushed through the Internet will be widely publicized to the whole world.
Song Yu was in a complicated mood at that time, as if he had seen bad news about an acquaintance. After all, they did know each other once, but they had not been in contact for a long time after leaving that circle.
Not to mention the Korean entertainment industry, even in the domestic entertainment industry, even if you have collaborated on a drama or appeared on a common variety show, as the schedule ends, you will go your separate ways.
In the busy schedule of artists, many of the relationships they meet are just chance encounters.
This kind of understanding is closer than the relationship between fans and idols, but that's all. It would be more appropriate to describe it as a relationship of former colleagues.
So when you see news about a former colleague committing a crime or seeing such a scandal happening to them, you are likely to feel sad and speechless.
Some people fall into depravity as time goes by, which is nothing new in their circle.
But Quan Zhilong, how is that possible?
Since they met at the beginning of the year, they can be said to be the people who contact each other most frequently.
And they are now in a romantic relationship.
Song Yu didn't believe that her boyfriend was a drug addict as reported in the news.
Only at this time did she remember to click in to read the full text of the news report. She urgently needed to confirm the content of the news.
The woman with a sullen face sat on a chair in the waiting area, concentrating on reading the news on the social media platform. She didn't even care that the account she logged into was her main account.
At this time, Song Yu had no time to think about these small details.
His name was the number one trending search on domestic social media platforms, followed by a big "explosion" character. When Song Yu clicked on it, he found that the third-rate tabloid news he had thought was just some rumor was actually being brought back to China.
Some kind of artificially fabricated false information or bad news, or a rumor-mongering mistake about exporting something to sell domestically, such things have happened before.
But the first content that caught my eye was a report from Korean media news1 on the Korean Internet.
[Kwon Ji-yong is under investigation by the Incheon Metropolitan Police Agency for suspected violations of drug control laws.]
The huge title was translated verbatim. Song Yu stared at the Korean characters on it. She could understand every word, just like the Chinese translation of these marketing accounts.
Browsing further, it was all about reposting the news, some vicious remarks that quickly followed suit, flattering remarks, and reposting the latest comments from Korean websites... Song Yu didn't want to read them at all. He could tell with his toes how bad Kwon Ji-yong's reputation would be at this time.
It's all useless information. She might as well go to the Korean website and read it herself.
Recently, she has become very proficient in using the techniques of climbing over the wall.
Sure enough, when I entered the world of Korean Internet, some confusing ideas became clear.
Recently, a drug-related incident involving a big actor in the Korean entertainment industry has caused a lot of controversy. The case is still under investigation. While tracing the mobile phone information of a person involved in the case, the name of Kwon Ji-Dragon was found in it. The police used this as a reason to investigate the case of this equally famous artist.
But...something strange is revealed there.
Logically speaking, if the police have opened a case for investigation, shouldn’t the news be official news from the police?
But now on the Korean Internet, Song Yu kept checking the news, and all the source information about the investigation was quoted from the Korean media news1 that had just started reporting.
When will the reports from the Korean media become the truth that can be cited?
Are we using the words from the media to convict people?
Song Yu has been in this circle before, so he should not be too familiar with their style and methods.
Although they are all entertainment reporters, the status of reporters in the Korean entertainment industry cannot be compared with those marketing accounts in the domestic entertainment industry. What they write with a pen can erase a person.
In the past, an important step before a singer’s comeback was for the company’s agent to establish media relations in advance and arrange for the reporters who would be reporting on the incident.
Because SM is a big company, many reporters who have close ties with it will write good reports about it.
In this capitalist country, where politics and business are inseparable, the reputation of the artists of the company that year as revealed by the reporter's pen can most directly show where they stand now.
Is it the upwind or the downwind?
To put it bluntly: a group of well-raised dogs.
After being released, the dog's movements at any time are to wait for the owner's instructions.
They can bark when their masters want them to, bite when their masters want them to, and remain silent when their masters want them to shut up. In the online world, only the slanderers can make their voices heard, and the victims have no way to speak up to defend themselves.
They hold your throat where you speak.
They are all dogs with owners.
You think that in a certain social or entertainment case, a good reporter who upholds justice and is not afraid of darkness is actually on the side of evil forces in the next news fight and report.
How ironic!
There are no such things as messengers of justice. They just belong to different camps and receive funding from different financiers.
Their pens have never been a window of justice, but rather the embodiment of interests.
"how so?"
They had already boarded the plane. Song Yu, who was being pushed forward, sat in the cabin in a daze, probably forgetting what time it was.
The young assistant followed her closely, and their seats were right next to each other. She could only see the incomprehensible Korean characters on Song Yu's phone screen, but from the accompanying picture and the English name in the title, she knew it was news about Kwon Ji-yong.
She also has to be vigilant at all times to see if there are any suspicious people taking secret photos around her. If Song Yu is photographed on the plane, she will be browsing the news about Korean star Kwon Ji-yong.
She believed that it would only make the situation worse.
'Sister, it's okay, I believe he is not that kind of person.'
"This is fake news! Korean media often spreads rumors about him, and this time, it must be the same."
"Don't worry, this news just came out. His company will definitely respond, and when they say it's fake news, the truth will be revealed."
Words like these went around in her mouth again and again, but she could never express the comfort she was looking for.
Her intuition told her that this incident was really different.
Just like a few months ago, when Song Yu's resources were being taken advantage of, the breaking news came suddenly and violently, like a basin of dirty water falling from the sky without warning, first making you stink and dirty, but after all, it was also entertainment gossip.
They reacted quickly to these shady tactics in the domestic entertainment industry and are quite experienced.
But in the Korean entertainment industry, this kind of news involving social issues is "toxic" to everyone's bottom line.
A person who, in the eyes of outsiders, has a "criminal record", and his former teammates, who were already wearing tinted glasses, now look at him in black.
Regardless of whether it is true or false, it will not be easy for Quan Zhilong to get away with it. With the current public opinion, on the first day after the news broke out, all kinds of follow-up public opinions and criticisms from passers-by have already convicted Quan Zhilong.
They are eager to sentence the person involved as soon as possible to complete and conform to the carnival climax of this public opinion storm.
No one cares whether he is the one who was wrongly accused.
Kicking someone when they're down is the prevailing theme, and even some of his fans...seem to be swayed.
The staff on Song Yu's side are not members of the other team and cannot do any public relations work for Quan Zhilong.
As the plane broke through the clouds and sailed steadily across the sky towards Beijing, the cabin fell into a quiet atmosphere, and the occasional voices of people talking were very soft.
During the few hours of flying back to Beijing, this place should have been a corner forgotten by time.
There is no hustle and bustle of the city, no troubles of life, only endless tranquility and peace. Every passenger is immersed in this tranquility. After being isolated from the outside world, they enter a peaceful world that belongs only to them. Song Yu always had this idea in mind every time he traveled by plane.
Only this time, her mind was completely occupied by the turmoil of the outside world. She had never felt this way even when she was in the news.
Until she finally put down her phone, she finished reading the last message, leaned her head weakly on the seat, closed her tired eyes, and Huahua, the assistant closest to her, only heard a sentence that Song Yu seemed to be mumbling to herself.
“That’s amazing!”
When it comes to shamelessness, some people can always refresh your horizons.
The power of kicking someone when they are down comes in different sizes. Quan Zhilong is used to the attacks from netizens.
So... what about from the company where he had worked for more than ten years?
YG company's act of kicking someone when he's down is like sentencing Kwon Ji-yong to death in public.
Before Song Yu's phone screen went out, the assistant clearly saw a message on it: South Korea's YG Entertainment quickly issued a statement through the media, "G-Dragon is no longer an artist under the company," thereby dispelling any connection with drug use.
In my thoughts a few months ago, Song Yu also became a prophet.
When Kwon Ji-yong is completely "dead" and some major scandal is exposed, making it impossible for him to recover, he will become a hot potato that YG will want to deal with but will find it too late. The company will naturally take the initiative to cut off ties with him.
Look! It’s done!
This is a great opportunity, and I can also take the opportunity to "whitewash" the company's impression.
It was clear that the contract was to end in June and would not be renewed, but they hid the information and did not announce it. They also knew for sure that Kwon Ji-Dragon himself would not come out to announce the news first. They continued to play deaf and dumb, enjoying the stable stock price of the company with artist GD, and did not delete any information from the official website, confusing the public.
A PR department was set up in less than a day? They quickly jumped out to distance themselves from the matter.
Song Yu feels that compared to the online public opinion attacks that have been going on for more than a decade, the denial news released by YG is not as severe as the one against Kwon Ji-yong.
What a big kick in the face of adversity!
He was afraid that at this moment, he would not be able to kill Quan Zhilong, the former God of Wealth and now the down-and-out "God of Plague".
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After landing in Beijing, everyone was afraid that Song Yu would do something impulsive. Her agent, Sister Lin, almost suggested that they go back and stay overnight with her.
Song Yu, who had noticed it in advance, was the first to refuse.
"What are you thinking about~"
Song Yu scoffed, "Why? Are you afraid I'll act rashly and send him a denial first?"
Little did he know that this sneer-like expression cast an even darker shadow on the young assistant.
Just now on the plane, her sister was sneering like this the whole time!
Although she was also angry and speechless when she saw YG's denial PR article, stopping the boss from doing stupid things was one of her job responsibilities.
Fortunately, Song Yu closed his eyes and rested throughout the whole process.
"Yeah, I'm really scared."
The honest agent Sister Lin answered truthfully.
Song Yu was helpless. Although she really wanted to, she was not mentally retarded, okay!
Didn’t you see that she stopped contacting the other party after Quan Zhilong sent her a message saying “Don’t worry!”?
At this time, her urgent and caring behavior will only become a pressure for her lover far away in South Korea. Instead of asking Quan Zhilong to comfort her, it is better to give him time to deal with his own crisis.
Without the company's help, he really had to fight alone.
Song Yu wanted Quan Zhilong to handle everything with peace of mind. When he was overwhelmed, her best support was to not disturb him.
…………
After returning to her home in Beijing alone, Song Yu waited until the next time Quan Zhilong sent her a message. It was already early morning.
It was twelve o'clock in the morning Beijing time, one hour's time difference, which was one o'clock in the morning Korean time. The person on the other end of the phone seemed to know that she must not have fallen asleep.
Quan Zhilong: "Don't worry, my world is not falling."
He won't collapse either, because the people he needs to protect are too important.
【Author’s words】
The modern Holy Father is none other than this dragon!
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