Chapter 13 The villainous supporting character tries to smear others but gets beaten up instead…
Meng Huaiwen was so angry at the system's mutterings that he almost spoke up to it.
Damn it, what does it have to do with him? Lin Ke is so cunning, how could he possibly bully or bully her?
As expected, fans are just like their idols; Lin Ke's fans are just as crazy as Lin Ke herself, unable to distinguish right from wrong!
Lin Suxing remained silent: "So you mean, they knew the situation might not be like that, but they still made a big deal out of the bullying incident to save Lin Ke's face because she didn't get the center position?"
System sweating soybean.jpg: "Although it's a bit unethical to say this, it's really to save face. Help! Public opinion is starting to be swayed by the online trolls hired by Lin Ke!"
It's not our Gege's fault that he didn't get the center position. Of course, it's because the other teammates ganged up on him and bullied him, which is why he was marginalized. Waaah!
Upon hearing everything, Yu Yicheng's vision went black: ? ? ?
Yu Yicheng originally thought that Lin Ke was just willful and would occasionally make some excessive demands, but he did not expect that this crazy Lin Ke would completely disregard the consequences and was going to ruin the show!
The current social atmosphere is already very sensitive to bullying. If the public opinion really gets out of control and it's said that the show's producers condoned several contestants ganging up to bully another contestant, it would be more than just making it into the entertainment news!
Yu Yicheng was so anxious that he didn't even have time to wait for Lin Suxing to speak: "Let the election officer take you there, I have something to do."
He rushed to the closed room and dialed the program's public relations and anti-blacklisting hotline: "Someone posted online, revealing that Lin Ke was bullied by Meng Huaiwen and his group from Group D, and that Group D ganged up to grab the center position by having more people. Go and shut down the post now, and report and delete any reposts. We absolutely cannot let this news spread! Go now!"
After the public relations and anti-blacklisting teams started working separately, Yu Yicheng didn't leave the room immediately. Instead, he anxiously picked at the pimples on his face while searching for the term "Produce producer bullying".
The topic wasn't very popular yet, so Yu Yicheng forced himself to calm down and not rush into the recording studio to grab Lin Ke and question her.
But with the show's reputation at stake, how could Yu Yicheng not be angry!
It's standard practice for the production team to control the contestants in talent shows, but in his first time as a producer, he encountered contestants who put pressure on the production team instead.
This kind of troublemaker should really be kicked out of the competition and forced to withdraw from it!
Yu Yicheng received feedback from the production team that their efforts to contain the spread of rumors had been effective, and his tense nerves gradually relaxed. He then called the Produce production and editing team: "You need to cut out the segments where the groups choose the center position in the first performance right now. Make sure to highlight that the production team did not interfere at all, and that the contestants voted to choose the center position themselves. We'll use this to generate hype for next week's main episode. We need to be quick and release it at 2 PM."
Having been in the industry for several years, Yu Yicheng had seen countless shameless people. He knew exactly how to bring such people to justice and how to break their defenses.
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"OK! Once this part is finished, we can go eat together!" The video PD looked at Lin Ke, the contestant he was filming, with a hesitant expression. He only breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that the other party was not unhappy.
He wished he could film the good-natured contestants like other PDs, instead of this idiot!
One minute she's saying her photo of his left profile doesn't look good, the next she's saying she needs to fix her hair before continuing to take pictures...
The PD who recorded the video had worked with many celebrities on variety shows before, and after comparing them, he felt that Lin Ke was even more arrogant than some of the stars who had been in the industry for many years! She was a complete diva!
On the other hand, Lin Ke felt that she had no obligation to care about the PD's life or death.
Today was probably the happiest day of his life in the past few days.
Without Lin Suxing and Meng Huaiwen present, Lin Ke, having participated in the spin-off program, finally swept away yesterday's gloom and felt like she was back in the spotlight.
Thinking about what happened a few days ago, Lin Ke felt wronged and upset, with a feeling that "the whole world is on the opposite side of this immortal man, making things difficult for him."
He doesn't want much, he just wants everyone to put him in the center position, why is that so difficult!
As Lin Ke savored the comfort of how everyone had been accommodating to him in today's spin-off program, and as he thought about how he had instructed his assistant to expose the matter on Douban, and how public opinion would soon explode and Lin Suxing would be subjected to online harassment, he felt even more pleased.
While everyone was resting, Lin Ke immediately took out his phone in the bathroom and started searching for the hashtag #LinSuxingBullying# on Weibo. Several hours had passed since he had instructed that the story be posted on Douban, and public opinion should have started to ferment by now.
Even if Lin Ke doesn't trust others, she still believes in the fighting power (and the extent of their fanaticism) of her fans.
Once they find out that he didn't get the center position, his fans will definitely think that the show was rigged, so they will definitely believe that he was bullied!
Even though the full truth about the incident has not yet been revealed, his fans will still frantically repost this revelation because they believe he was born to be in the center position, and there must be some hidden reason why he is not.
The Weibo page loaded for a long time under this entry, but there was still no post.
Lin Ke looked closely and noticed a line of small text on the gray page: [No one has posted this entry yet~ Be the first to do so!]
Huh? There's nothing here!
Lin Ke closed Weibo in disbelief, then reopened it and searched for the term.
The grayed-out page still shows that the term is unused.
Lin Ke opened Douban with trembling hands, only to find that the bullying post she had saved that morning had been deleted!
"How could this happen!" Lin Ke exclaimed in bewilderment, immediately dialing her assistant's number. "Hey, why was the post deleted! What are you doing?!"
The assistant was clearly in a panic: "Brother Ke, we've reposted it several times, but it gets deleted instantly every time. Both of my accounts have been banned by the platform for 30 days now, and your fans' reposts on Weibo are also being deleted instantly. I guess the show's official team has stepped in to combat the negative publicity!"
"Damn it!" Lin Ke cursed. "I've never seen them this efficient before, but now they're so eager to mess with me, huh?!"
The cheeks, distorted by excessive injections of hyaluronic acid and Botox, appear even more ferocious when one is angry, and are particularly terrifying when reflected on the reflective tiles.
"What use are you guys, you piece of trash! I don't care, keep posting until the production team can't delete your posts anymore! The entire talent show circle has to know that it was Lin Suxing who bullied me and stole my center position!!"
As Lin Ke spoke, he lost control of his volume, and his angry roar almost pierced the walls.
He Jiayang, who was using the toilet in his stall: "..."
Although I knew Lin Ke was no good, I never expected her to use the selection of the center position to distort the truth and smear Lin Suxing!
In order not to alert Lin Ke, He Jiayang quietly walked out of the restroom, only to run into Lin Suxing and Meng Huaiwen, who had been brought to dinner by the selection committee.
He Jiayang pursed her lips, her good intentions clashing fiercely with the "don't meddle" philosophy she had developed after years of working in the entertainment industry.
He remembered Lin Suxing speaking up for him that day.
He came from an ordinary family and was used to being looked down upon and despised in circles dominated by the privileged.
In all this time, there haven't been many people who have spoken up for him or stood up for him, and Lin Suxing is one of them.
He Jiayang gritted her teeth and sat down in the seat next to Lin Suxing: "Suxing..."
"Hmm?" Lin Suxing turned to look at him.
At this point, the two groups recording the spin-off program split into two tables, with a huge amount of food laid out on the tables, creating an impressive display.
Lin Suxing didn't have a cell phone, so although she felt a bit annoyed and anxious listening to the system's angry roar, she couldn't immediately understand the current public opinion situation.
He was planning to quit, but that didn't mean he was willing to let Lin Ke smear him!
However, the system suddenly said: "Huh? All the posts have been deleted! The authorities have also intervened to control public opinion?? How come it's so fast this time!"
He Jiayang sat next to Lin Suxing and listened to the system's message. He immediately withdrew a call to Lin Suxing: "Nothing, just wanted to ask when you guys arrived. We arrived just in time for hot pot, what a bargain, haha."
One side of the copper pot is covered with thick, creamy beef tallow, its surface densely covered with red dried chilies and brownish-red Sichuan peppercorns, each roll releasing an even more intense aroma; the other side is a clear broth made from bone marrow, milky white, steadily bubbling with fine bubbles, a few pieces of scallion and a few goji berries bobbing up and down, the broth already beginning to simmer.
The beef and lamb rolls are piled up in a red and white mound, the tender beef slices pre-mixed with chili powder are blood red, the white and crisp beef throat, the dark red and trembling duck blood, the thin and translucent kidney slices, the handmade shrimp paste garnished with orange crab roe, the lush green lettuce and potato slices, the golden and fluffy fried bean curd sheets, and the dried gongcai and tengtengcai that will be added to the pot at the very last moment.
Several contestants at the table, who had been controlling their weight and dieting for a month, had tears welling up in their eyes.
Mentioning hot pot, Lin Suxing beamed with joy: "It's been so long since I've had something so delicious! I definitely have to come! I'm going to have a feast later!"
The system waited for him and He Jiayang to finish speaking before continuing, "Lin Ke also mobilized a lot of marketing accounts; the program's PR team is really effective, hehe! Now you don't need to worry, host~"
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As the hotpot meal was nearing its end, a selection officer came over and asked Zhang Xiyi, "Where's Lin Ke? Hasn't he come over yet?"
Everyone had noticed that one person was missing from the table, but no one brought it up because the absent person was so annoying.
On the contrary, I think the atmosphere is better without Lin Ke.
Zhang Xi nodded and replied, "He said he was going to the restroom before we ate, and he hasn't come back. But he just said he doesn't eat these things because he thinks they're too oily and salty and unhealthy."
Upon hearing this, Meng Huaiwen and Lin Suxing rolled their eyes in unison.
Haha, give him a fancy air and he'll put on airs!
Hot pot, butter hot pot, tripe, beef slices, and fish roe dumplings—it's one of the best foods in the world!
Seeing that they didn't know either, the selection officer quickly ran over to call for help to find Lin Ke.
While Lin Suxing was happy, the system took the opportunity to remind her: "Host, please don't forget your main quest: obtain the Lan Dai live stream slot!"
Lin Suxing pretended not to hear.
Even after the hotpot meal ended, on the way back from the same route, Group D was still chattering away: "Done! We can get some big gossip about one of the top 5 players! Don't you want to know at all?!"
The system kept nagging and rambling on until Meng Huaiwen was sick of it and wanted to just agree on Lin Suxing's behalf.
Lin Suxing glanced at Meng Huaiwen discreetly, thinking that he really didn't want to know.
One of the top 5 contestants, of course, refers to Sun Xin, but what's the use of knowing the big scandal? Meng Huaiwen will only say, "Of course I'll forgive him!"
To be honest, Sun Xin's singing and dancing skills are not enough to beat other trainees who have trained for longer.
However, Meng Huaiwen begged the executives of Xinghe Entertainment to give Sun Xin a huge boost in popularity. Before the show even aired, Sun Xin had already released several videos showcasing her good looks, and two of her a cappella videos had over a million likes.
Having the advantage of going first allowed Sun Xin to remain firmly in the top five despite not receiving an A grade in the initial stage performance.
The system shook its head and sighed, looking very regretful: "Actually, if it could be revealed, he would definitely withdraw from the competition, and then all the debut positions could be moved forward. The contestants who were stuck in the position would be ecstatic, right?"
Lin Suxing strongly agreed with the system's idea: "Indeed, if these fan site admins knew, they would probably try every means to make him expose the scandal, after all, it would be better to have one less strong competitor."
Did you hear any strange noises just now?
"Yes, yes, sisters, yes!"
"What melon?"
"I really want to know! Is it okay to just ask directly?!"
The fansite admins at Ke Heng's site instantly lit up, like a car with a thousand lights: one of the top 5 contestants actually has a bombshell that could disqualify him from the competition!
If someone withdraws from the competition, wouldn't that give your own child, who secured a spot, a chance to enter the top 11?
The fansites of Jiang Siyu and Qian Lan's fan sites share the same idea.
These three are ranked 10th, 11th and 12th respectively in the real-time rankings. If they don't put in enough effort later, they are very likely to fall out of the debut positions.
The fewer people ahead of them, the higher their ranking can be.
Qian Lan's fansite admins were the first to make a decision: It's just a matter of voting! They're experts at this! Luckily, the voting in Lan Dai's live stream wasn't limited to a single person; all accounts could cast two votes. So, all they had to do was get their fans to vote for Lin Suxing, and they'd have it in the bag!
Lin Suxing was unaware that her ranking in the popularity poll for Lan Dai's live stream was subtly changing... (a reference to a meme about a woman who is secretly dating a man who is secretly dating ... woman
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