Chapter 49 Chapter 49 Fangs
Lu Yao's performance of the second song was equally good, so good that when Shen Sisi returned to the hotel after the concert, she couldn't help but start crying while looking at the only two videos in her camera.
Lu Yao's performance was perfect, but this crappy company only gave Lu Yao two programs. Minghui Entertainment has no intention of suppressing him so blatantly.
She felt sorry for Lu Yao.
The more she thought about it, the angrier she became. While the video was being exported, Shen Sisi went on Weibo to comment and defend her rights.
As soon as I clicked on the hot search, I saw two topics.
#Luyaobullying#
#LuyaoReturn#
Shen Sisi felt as if her heart had stopped for a moment. She clicked on the first topic in disbelief. The introduction read, "Lu Yao, a fifth-generation member of the training system, bullies teammates." At the top of the topic was a video that was less than ten seconds long.
In the video, Lu Yao and Wang Mingzhi were standing face to face. There was no sound, and they could only be seen facing the camera sideways. Lu Yao said something to Wang Mingzhi with an expressionless face. Then Wang Mingzhi replied with an angry and unbelievable look, and then left the screen.
"He usually acts so well-behaved in his videos, but now that no one's around, his true colors show. Look how scared the carefree Wang Mingzhi is. He's only fourteen, and he dares to treat others like this in front of the camera. Look at that look in Lu Yao's eyes, he's a real thug, he looks like he's about to attack any second. This is bullying, everyone! And Lu Yao has been practicing martial arts since he was a child. If he were to hit someone, who could stop him? How dangerous! How can such a dangerous person be a training-based trainee? What is Minghui Entertainment trying to do?"
Click on the comment section and you will see a series of responses below.
"I was scared just watching the video, the expression was too fierce"
"Is this fourteen years old? It doesn't look like that at all."
"I'm seeing the scumbag who bullies my classmates in our school. This is his expression."
"It wouldn't be out of place if this clip were cut into a bullying scene in a movie."
"Random, is this a development-based system? Why is it different from what I remember? Is this the style of development-based systems now?"
"Who is this guy? He looks fierce."
“The person who left looked so pitiful.”
Shen Sisi quickly glanced at the comment section, then looked at the video again in disbelief.
She had a vague impression of this video. It seemed to be the latest material uploaded last night, the scene of the trainees selecting songs and forming groups in the second quadrant assessment in EP07. Thinking of this, she quickly opened the video software, found yesterday's material, dragged the progress bar, and quickly found this clip.
The picture shows a complete practice room. The trainees are standing in groups of three or four in different corners, talking to each other. Although there is no sound and only BGM, it can be seen that they are discussing the song selection. In a corner, Lu Yao and Wang Mingzhi are talking.
From what Wang Mingzhi said when he walked over to find Lu Yao, to Lu Yao standing up and replying to Wang Mingzhi, Shen Sisi dragged the progress bar again and again, then zoomed in on this corner, and watched it repeatedly, she could not see the fierce expression described in the Weibo post and the comments below, nor the fear on Wang Mingzhi's face.
She could only see that it was Wang Mingzhi who found Lu Yao to talk first, Lu Yao responded, and then Wang Mingzhi left angrily.
Even if Lu Yao said something that made Wang Mingzhi unhappy, it was Wang Mingzhi who started it.
Teenagers are prone to conflicts and quarrels are common. This group of trainees have been living in front of the camera. How can this seemingly discordant scene, which appeared for just a few seconds, be captured by the camera escalate to bullying?
Shen Sisi didn't understand.
She left the topic and clicked on another one.
#LuyaoReturn#
"A new trainee from the fifth generation of the training system was suspected of bullying his teammates and was sent back."
Just by reading the introduction, Shen Sisi was so absurd that she laughed out loud.
Let’s not talk about the ridiculous conclusion of being returned, let’s first talk about "bullying teammates", which is completely unfounded.
A casual glance under this topic revealed several highly-rated and liked Weibo posts. They were analyzing the ten-second video she had just seen at length, taking screenshots frame by frame, trying to show that Lu Yao was threatening and bullying Wang Mingzhi. They also used the fact that Lu Yao only had two stages in this concert to prove that Lu Yao was punished by the company for bullying Wang Mingzhi.
Looking further down, Shen Sisi even saw a lip reader adding subtitles to Lu Yao's words.
The video itself has no sound, and Lu Yao is facing sideways to the camera, so how is it possible to read lips?
But when you open the comment section, the comments below are as if you heard them with your own ears. They believe the subtitles without a doubt and swear that Lu Yao did say these threatening words to Wang Mingzhi.
Looking further down, the latest Weibo post even captured a scene from previous materials where Lu Yao was standing alone in a corner.
"For so long, I've never seen Lu Yao play with anyone. We can only see the edited footage, but the trainees are the ones who spend time with Lu Yao day and night. No one plays with Lu Yao, and isn't the reason obvious? No one wants to play with him! As for why they don't want to play, do you have to tell me? Because Lu Yao is a bully!"
If you look for evidence with a conclusion in mind, you will find clues everywhere.
Shen Sisi was trembling with anger. Lu Yao had only been a member of the Fifth Generation for two months, while the others had already been friends for four or five years. Under such circumstances, what could Lu Yao do to join the original group and become friends with them? Forget a fourteen-year-old child. Even if an adult were faced with such a situation, he wouldn't be able to do any better than Lu Yao.
Shen Sisi started to report these Weibo posts one by one with trembling hands, but every time she refreshed the page, more and more Weibo posts were loaded. She watched helplessly as these two topics climbed higher and higher, and soon became high-ranking hot searches.
Lu Yao itself is a very unfamiliar name, but when it is linked to the word "bullying", it immediately attracts the attention of countless passers-by.
Bullying has always been a very sensitive topic. When seeing these two words, everyone will think of their school days and click on this trending search. Then, when they see the video that has been cut, enlarged and slowed down, and accompanied by those "lip reading subtitles", Shen Sisi dare not even imagine how many people will believe it.
She clicked into Lu Yao's super topic, and all the posts were filled with questions about the two trending searches and anger about the two topics.
The super topic data group quickly captured the complete video clip, gave a detailed explanation, and released a rumor-refuting Weibo. Fans immediately forwarded, liked, and commented on it, but the rumor-refuting Weibo and the rumor-mongering Weibo that was currently ranking high on the hot search list had completely different popularity. After Shen Sisi forwarded it several times, she saw that the comments under the rumor-refuting Weibo had just exceeded a thousand, and immediately turned to the team that reported the rumor-mongering Weibo.
When Song Rui came out of the bathroom, she saw Shen Sisi holding her phone and reporting while crying.
"What’s wrong with you?"
When Shen Sisi heard Song Rui's voice, she cried even harder, "Look."
She held the phone in front of Song Rui, and Song Rui saw the four huge words "Lu Yao Bullying" at a glance.
"What is this?" Song Rui immediately took out her mobile phone and clicked on the trending search. Lu Yao's name was extremely prominent in the third and eighth places.
Song Rui clicked on a few of the posts and said in disbelief, "Isn't this just a fabrication? What can a single screenshot like this prove? There's not even any sound, it's all just pictures. How can anyone believe this? This even made it to the third most searched topic? This is a complete rumor!"
"That's right!" Shen Sisi couldn't help but tremble all over when she thought of the comments she had just reported. "What did Lu Yao do that these people would interpret it so maliciously? How could they say such vicious words to a fourteen-year-old child? Are they still human?"
Song Rui wanted to speak to comfort Shen Sisi, but as a fan for many years, she knew that it was easy to spread rumors but difficult to refute them. Now that "Lu Yao bullying" was the third most searched topic, it was impossible to refute it. Although the word "bullying" was completely unfounded, after watching the video and the seemingly well-reasoned analysis, passers-by would not even think about whether this matter was reasonable or not.
First there was the intercepted video, and then there was the fact that Lu Yao's concert only had two stages. This group of rumormongers has developed their own logic: bullying → punishment → two stages → evidence of punishment → evidence of bullying, forming a perfect closed loop.
When passersby see this, they will only exclaim in shock, thinking that the training system is becoming more and more useless. They will leave a comment in agreement, then exit the topic and click on the next hot search, leaving the impression of Lu Yao bullying in their minds.
Words were pale at this moment. Song Rui joined the reporting team. The two shared links with each other and reported one by one. In the hotel room late at night, the faint light from the mobile phone became the only source of light.
Song Rui didn't remember when the two of them fell asleep. She only remembered that her phone ran out of battery and she charged it, and then charged it again and ran out of battery. Shen Sisi cried until her eyes were red, and the trash can was filled with tear-soaked paper. Then Minghui Entertainment's statement came late, leaving a Weibo post that said something to the effect of "There is no bullying, the stage is a physical issue" and then disappeared again. Only fans forwarded the statement over and over again, refuting the rumors and controlling the comments on Weibo under the hot search.
When she regained consciousness, Song Rui saw Shen Sisi's red eyes and the phone screen held in front of her.
"I know, I know why those people are so crazy! Look!" There were red bloodshot in Shen Sisi's eyes. She looked like she hadn't slept all night, but she was extremely excited.
Song Rui rubbed her eyes, sat up from the bed, and took the phone from Shen Sisi.
It's a short video.
Lu Yao was singing while holding the microphone.
'The wind whispers a reminder in my ears'
His voice sounded like a clear spring flowing into the hearts of the listeners.
"One million likes!" Shen Sisi slid the screen and the next video appeared.
In the video, Lu Yao sang a line, took off his earphones, and then sang another line.
After the video finished playing, Shen Sisi couldn't wait to speak up. "Two videos with a million likes in one night, what a load of gold! Do I need to tell you?" Shen Sisi's face was completely devoid of the anger and helplessness she had felt the previous night. Her expression now held a mixture of pride and disdain. "Why are those rumormongers so crazy? Ha, because they're scared."
"Lu Yao is not wrong. He's just too good. So good that they're afraid and terrified, and feel threatened." Shen Sisi stood up straight. Song Rui looked up at her. The upward angle of her gaze made Shen Sisi look condescending and arrogant. Shen Sisi sneered, "So they are showing their fangs, trying to repel Lu Yao's attack. But it's useless. Lu Yao will win, he will achieve victory, and he will trample them all under his feet."
"Everything they do is just—"
"It's useless."
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