Ke Yanan intended to use the CCTV footage of Lou Wei’s encounter with him to damage the reputation of Yuancheng Technology and LouV Gaming Studio by manipulating the context of the footage. At the same time, he could make use of Lou Wei, the top game developer of Z country to help him rise to fame. He was confident that Lou Wei wouldn’t retaliate as he was unable to produce real evidence, and at the same time, he had to be careful not to leak any information about the new game, “Compagnon” to the public.

Moreover, this sort of dirty job is already a common tactic in the entertainment industry. A lot of people had suffered loss from it, so it’s not a big deal for Lou Wei to suffer a loss.

But he was wrong. Lou Wei is definitely not the kind of person that he could mess around as he pleased.

Lou Wei picked up his other phone and called Lin Xiao.

Ke Yanan wanted to use him as a stepping stone to rise to fame, but it also depends if he is able to move forward or not.

By the time Lou Wei called Lin Xiao, Lin Xiao had already contacted Yuancheng Technology’s marketing, public relations team, as well as the company’s lawyers. When he received the call from Lou Wei, he took a deep breath to suppress his nervousness.

To be honest, all this while, Yuancheng Technology maintains good relationships with celebrities whom they wish to engage as spokesmen. This is the first time that they have encountered this kind of situation. Not only did they fail in the business negotiation, but they were also framed and had a sour relationship with the other party.

After all, he is only a young man in his early twenties. Lin Xiao had a feeling that if he failed to deal with it properly, it would have an incalculable impact on the company. His voice trembled a little when he spoke.

Lin Xiao, “President Lou, I’ve already contacted Sina to restrict their internet traffic… But…” Lin Xiao hesitated briefly, “The person who is in charge of Weibo informed us that Ke Yanan bought the hot search before us. It would be difficult to stop it from trending.”

Lou Wei listened quietly.

Wen Fan on the other mobile phone watched Lou Wei’s movements and his worries were instantly eased.

He heard Lou Wei say to Lin Xiao, “I’ll send you something.  Let them post it on the Internet.”

He doesn’t sound anxious at all. His voice was like a tranquilizer shot and lin xiao quickly nodded.

After Lou Wei hung up, Wen Fan saw him click on an audio record from the phone he was holding and sent it to Lin Xiao.

Wen Fan immediately figured out the content of the audio file without hesitation, “Is this the recording from this morning?”

“It is the recording of Zhang Xuan’s conversation with Ke Yanan,” Lou Wei glanced at him from the corner of his eyes, “Fan Fan is really smart.” He looked at him as if he was teasing him. The rigid atmosphere that lingers ever since they got him after seeing Ke Yanan a few hours ago disappeared in an instant.

For no reason, Wen Fan felt as if a big rock was lifted from his chest. He felt a lot relieved in an instant. He flapped his tail and leaned on the phone screen, tilting his head as he listened to the audio clip that Lou Wei sent.

Lou Wei requested Zhang Xuan do a voice recording from the moment she do the business deal with Ke Yanan. He didn’t do any post-editing of the audio clip. After sending the clip to Lin Xiao, he sat in front of the computer desk with Wen Fan, waiting for the news from Lin Xiao and the PR department.

Lin Xiao took action fast.

In less than ten minutes after Lou Wei sent the voice clip to Ke Yanan, there was a big V on Weibo. It was suspected that there’s a leak of information from the recording studio of Mingxi Entertainment and they had obtained  ‘insider info’. The audio clip of Zhang Xuan dealing with Ke Yanan was uploaded the audio clip. Ke Yanan’s unique voice was heard from the audio clip and there was no doubt that it was his voice.

The public relations team led by Lin Xiao effectively controlled the comments on the internet, putting an end to the further deterioration of Lou Wei’s reputation from the hot search. They began to restore the truth and explained that because Ke Yanan showed discrimination against female employees of the company, the chairman of the company went to look for him personally. They never expect Ke Yanan to make things more difficult without even taking into consideration his image as a public figure.

The Weibo netizens who stood on one side spitting on Yuan Cheng Technology because of Lou Wei’s rejected confession to Ke Yanan started to regroup and take their sides, running around in chaos like a pot of ants.

Wen Fan found it hilarious.

Those on the internet who self-proclaim themselves as ‘rational people’ who commented that Lou Wei was a perverted gay who couldn’t handle a rejection had now started to point their gun barrel at Ke Yanan. They bombarded him for being a rhythm idiot, total b*tch, and disrespectful to females. The words that they use were comparable to what they used on Lou Wei just now. 

The gaming fans of Lou V Gaming Studio who supported Yuan Cheng Technology from the very beginning found their backbone. They left comments on the audio clip posted by big V, expressing their gratitude that Lou Wei chose not to cooperate with a person such as Ke Yanan, otherwise they would find it utterly disgusting.

They completely overruled those fans who tried to redeem Ke Yanan’s reputation. Even if they were unable to suppress the comments from Ke Yanan’s fans, they replied to every comment, restoring the truth behind the audio clip.

Ke Yanan fans who domineeringly accused Lou Wei just now were all howling in Weibo,

 ‘Is this cyberbullying? ! Why are you treating our An An like this! What did our An An do wrong? Why are you publicly criticizing him like this? Is it wrong not to like someone?’

‘Yeah! ! [Cry.jpg]’

‘Poor An An. Popular people tend to attract trouble. How can a mere lousy game developer casually badmouth our An An? (wailing.jpg) This is sad, we’re really devastated.’  

Based on their comments, it seemed as though they didn’t get the content in the audio clip and their hearts were still blinded by delusions.

Lou Wei read their childish comments. He smirked as if he was watching a sixteen-year-old teenager still gathering for a playhouse.

It didn’t seem to bother him at all, but Wen Fan couldn’t stand it. He couldn’t understand how those netizens could simply curse a stranger whom they never met with such malicious words. How could they curse Lou Wei as a gay man who should be dead and use all kinds of disgusting remarks to insult him and his family! When Wen Fan thought of this, he felt nausea.

He copied hundreds of comments that criticized Ke Yanan’s brainless fans and the summary of the truth behind the incident. He then closed his eyes and connected himself with Weibo’s data network. He pasted those comments and summary as a reply to all the comments from Ke Yanan’s fans who insulted Lou Wei.

The efficiency of his actions was far higher than that of the public relations team of Yuancheng Technology.

Lin Xiao, who was still on the phone, noticed the few hundred thousand new comments on the screen. He thought his eyes were playing tricks on him. He refreshed the webpage and noticed that those comments had increased to more than a million! And they were increasing exponentially.

Lin Xiao couldn’t keep his cool when he talked to Lou Wei, “President Lou, it seems that someone is helping us to suppress those negative comments.”

Lou Wei glanced at Wen Fan on his other mobile phone, who had finished dealing with the comments from those brainless fans. The little mermaid was still hugging his arms, facing Weibo with his back toward Lou Wei. He flapped his tail aggressively, his tail rolled up waves that crashed against the phone screen. It appeared as if he was declaring the anger in his heart

“Well,” Lou Wei smiled secretly, “Perhaps the public relations department has improved on their efficiency.”

Lin Xiao, “?”

I’m standing right next to the group of people in the public relations department, how come I didn’t know about this?

Regardless of what, those who at first denounced Lou Wei on Weibo have begun to change their stance. There’s no need for Lou Wei to take care of the rest personally. He hung up the phone and let Lin Xiao get back to work.

At first, Wen Fan wanted to continue to monitor the situation on Weibo. But he was afraid that he might get real mad from reading those comments posted by Ke Yanan’s brainless fans on Weibo, so he decided to close Weibo.

After he closed Weibo, he started to get bored. He swam around the phone screen, doing somersaults in the water and pierced the small bubbles created by his somersaults.

Lou Wei could tell that Wen Fan is bored. He kept quiet as he thought hard on what they could do to help Wen Fan ward off his boredom. After a long while, he opened his mouth, “Fan Fan.”

Wen Fan stopped poking the colorful bubbles and tilted his head to look at him.

The voice from the man outside the phone said, “Are you bored?”

When Wen Fan was about to nod, Lou Wei said, “Let’s play chess.”

Wen Fan, “.” 

Does it seem like we have some age gap? 

He was aware that some of his classmates are into playing chess, but…he was expecting that Lou Wei, who is a game developer would come up with something more interesting.

 Luckily, Lou Wei sensed that this suggestion was inappropriate. He paused briefly and tried his best to recall the only suggestion from Weibo that was left in his mind.

“Or, shall we watch a movie?”

Wen Fan immediately raised his hands and agreed!

Lou Wei secretly let out a sigh of relief. He turned on the movie player on his computer and connected the home theater projector set. He let Wen Fan choose the movie that he wanted to watch..

Wen Fan chose a suspense reasoning movie.

Lou Wei placed the phone with Wen Fan facing the projection screen and adjusted it to the best viewing angle. He turned off all the lights in the room, and started watching the movie with Wen Fan.

While the two were watching a movie, the QQ penguin who had been hiding sensed that the atmosphere surrounding them had returned to a harmonious level. It cautiously walked out from behind the APP shelf and picked up the net bag and took out a small red bucket and wooden stool from behind its *ss. It sat on the wooden stool and used the net bag to catch the fish swimming. It put the fish that it caught in the red bucket behind him and continued to catch the next fish.

However, the screen space is at the bottom of the ocean. They were surrounded by seawater. The fish that it caught just now swam out of the red bucket by flicking its tail and returned to the ocean on the phone screen.

The penguin wasn’t aware of anything wrong at all. It continued to catch fish. Until it caught the next fish and was about to put it in the bucket, it finally realized that there was something wrong with the quantity of fish inside the bucket. It held the wooden bucket upside down and it was obvious that the bucket was empty.

The little yellow bird on ‘Dao Dao Diary’ APP above poked its head out and blinked its eyes while staring at the penguin. It took out a notebook from the drawer and started to write on it.

“Can’t even catch a fish, might as well return to ‘Township’ to do farming.’

It then raised the notepad in its hand so that the penguin could see it.

Underneath the fat yellow bird, the bull with big horns of ‘Township’ rolled its eyes. It stuck the word ‘Fu’ (T/N: means fortune in chinese language- 福) on its head, and shot a speech bubble, “Fortune is here, we won’t accept others. The only person we accept is none other than the Mayor.”

Penguin, “QuQ!!!”

The penguin walked slowly to Wen Fan, feeling aggrieved. It hugged Wen Fan’s giant fishtail and tilted its body to watch the movie with Wen Fan.

‘Meituan’ Kangaroo, ‘Rightest’ little octopus, ‘Jingdong’ dog and the other animals were all lying on their APP shelves, watching the movie attentively.

Wen Fan has always been a fan of suspense reasoning movies that test one’s thinking and logic. But a well produced suspense reasoning movie is often accompanied by bone chilling background music during scenes of burying or discovering clues.

When Wen Fan heard those music, he couldn’t stop his shoulders from shivering. He no longer flicks his tail but cuddles it close to his body. Although Lou Wei was watching the movie, he had been paying attention to Wen Fan. Seeing the little mermaid on the screen shivering, he clicked on a pair of mermaid winter jacket from the wardrobe APP and placed it around Wen Fan’s shoulder.

It’s a pity that the little mermaid was so indulged in the movie that he didn’t realize what Lou Wei had done. He had a tight expression and he was staring straight at the suspect on the big screen.

He was so nervous that the fin of his tail was pointing upward.

The animals on the other APP shelves were also shivering, especially the owl of ‘Zhixue.com’. When the suspect’s face suddenly appeared from the shade, the scene frightened the owl so much that even the two fur sticking out on top of its head fell. The boy wearing orange headphones from ‘StarKnight’ mobile game pulled the dimly lit backdrop behind him closer.

The light on the backdrop was extremely dim, and it didn’t affect Wen Fan and the others watching the movie. Only the owl beside ‘StarKnight’ could feel it. The owl hurriedly rescued its two short furs from the air. It nestled beside the horseman of ‘StarKnight’ while trembling in fear. The animals beside them also rushed beside them, cuddling onto each other. They stared straight ahead on the big screen in front of them, watching the movie.

When the movie was about to reach its climax, Lou Wei’s phone suddenly rang.

Wen Fan quickly told him to pause the movie and answer the phone.

Lou Wei glanced at the caller ID and found that it was Lin Xiao calling him.

As soon as he answered the call, Lin Xiao’s voice was heard. Wen Fan was surprised to find that Lin Xiao didn’t sound more relaxed but seemed to sound more tense than just now. “President Lou. Check out the hot search on Weibo now, hurry!”. 

Wen Fan quickly clicked on ‘Weibo’. ‘Weibo’ blinked its eyes, and displayed the main page..

Wen Fan clicked on the hot search page and found that there were two more hot searches on the topic related to Lou Wei.

Previously, there were only three topics no.2, 4, and 6. Now there are two other hot searches,  third place ‘3. LouV CEO Lou Wei maliciously edited the audio clip to slander Ke Yanan’ and the seventh place ‘7. Gay man failed confession resorted to frame superstar but was taken down by Mingxi Entertainment.’

After reading such disgusting hot search titles, Wen Fan’s anger that he tried hard to extinguish began to soar.

Especially on the seventh hot search. After clicking on it, it turned out that Ke Yanan’s agent personally released the test report on the audio clip that Lou Wei uploaded. According to the report, the audio had been post-edited was processed. In addition, they also uploaded the relevant records of Yuan Cheng Technology’s audio editing.

This is to prove that Yuan Cheng Technology is fully capable of producing audio that sounded exactly the same as the real conversation. It was flawless and others wouldn’t be able to detect any abnormality. They had once again thrown the ball to Yuan Cheng Technology.

Of course, Yuan Cheng Technology’s gaming fans desperately tried to protect Lou Wei, ‘Is LouV Technology the one to be blamed for their high technology capability? I’m sorry but I think you guys are so pathetic in trying to make others take pity on you!’

‘Sisters upstairs+1. Why is Ke Yanan still so f*ck up today? !’

‘You’re suspecting that the audio clip is fraudulent? We suspect that your video is not showing the full story! What’s the use of showing just half of the video? If you have nothing to hide, just show us the full video!’

Wen Fan was still burning with rage from reading the comments from Ke Yanan’s fans attacking Yuancheng Technology’s fans. Lin Xiao said, “President Lou, the company’s helplines were already ringing off the hook. And… Ke Yanan’s manager and departmental head of Mingxi Entertainment would like to meet you.”

Lin Xiao paused briefly before saying, “They would like to discuss the collaboration deal with Ke Yanan. President Lou. Do you wish to meet them?’

When Lou Wei was about to speak, a resolute voice from a young man was suddenly heard.

Wen Fan stared at the phone in Lou Wei’s hand with a profound expression. His cute puppy eyes were filled of cold aura, “Tell him that you’re not going.”

Even the APPS behind him nodded vigorously. The penguin behind Wen Fan flapped its little wings, trying to roll the tips of its wings into small fists, with an angry expression on its face.

Lou Wei raised his eyebrows and stared at the young man on the screen.

There was an unspeakable emotion that rippled in his dark eyes.

Lin Xiao was taken aback when he heard an extra voice beside Lou Wei, “President Lou, who’s talking?”

Lou Wei immediately reacted, “No one.”

Lin Xiao: “…” Something’s wrong with my hearing?

However, Lou Wei’s next statement made him ignore the extra voice that he’d heard, “Tell Mingxi Entertainment that I’m not going. We will not collaborate with their company anymore in the future.”

Lin Xiao frowned and pushed his spectacle up his nose. Although he agreed that Ke Yanan is a scumbag, will cutting off ties with Mingxi Entertainment ruin the reputation of President Lou and Yuancheng Technology completely?

“President Lou…”

Lou Wei didn’t change his mind. He asked him to convey his message.

Lin Xiao relayed Lou Wei’s words to Zhou Jian. As he was relaying the message, he said it in a polite manner in order to protect Yuancheng Technology’s reputation. After he finished relaying Lou Wei’s messages, Zhou Jian hung up on him immediately. 

Lin Xiao, “…” F*ck!

Two minutes after Lin Xiao relayed the message to Zhou Jian, his phone rang again. When he answered the call, the voice of a middle-aged man was heard on the other end.

“I’m Liu Jinxing, the chairman of Mingxi Entertainment. Can you tell me… Yes, Lou Wei’s contact number.”

Lin Xiao, “…” What kind of a stupid idiot is this?

Is the face of the boss of an entertainment company so big nowadays?

Just when Lin Xiao was about to reject his request, he received a WeChat message from Lou Wei.

President Lou, ‘If someone is looking for me, give him my work phone number.’

Lin Xiao gritted his teeth and endured it. He passed Lou Wei’s mobile phone number to Liu Jinxing. But he was wiser this time. He hung up the phone as soon as he finished reading out Lou Wei’s contact number.

Lin Xiao, “Rubbish company!”

Meanwhile, Lou Wei is listening attentively to the ‘lecture’ from the little villain on his mobile phone.

After Wen Fan finished his lecture, he realized that Lou Wei was still looking at him in silent. He patted the seawater vigorously with the tail behind him, “Are you listening?”

When Wen Fan was angry,  his voice wasn’t too low. However, it’s a pity that his voice is not strong enough. Even if he raised his voice, he still sounded like a youngster with a heavy nasal tone, and it didn’t sound any deterrent. Moreover, he had a natural speaking habit where he made slightly longer pronunciations at the end of every word, making it even less deterrent.

To Lou Wei, who was used to being yelled at by his father since he was a child, Wen Fan’s sounded as if he was acting coquettishly to him right now. 

Lou Wei nodded, “Yes, I’m listening.”

When Liu Jinxing called, Lou Wei looked at Wen Fan on his personal phone and answered the call.

The moment the call was connected, Lou Wei remembered Teacher Wen Fan’s ‘lecture’. Without waiting for the other party to say anything, he fired, “Yuancheng Technology will put an end to any future collaboration with Mingxi Entertainment from now on. If President Liu is contacting me because of Ke Yanan, I don’t think we have much to talk about.”

“You!” Liu Jinxing obviously didn’t expect Lou Wei to say such a thing. To him, Yuancheng Technology is just a small gaming company that has just been established for a few years, with a mere achievement of being awarded with the don’t know what no.1 game developer. In all, it’s all down to no competition in their industry. Furthermore, what is the prospect of developing a game? Isn’t the entertainment industry the most profitable industry now?

But Lou Wei is the director of Yuancheng Technology, there’s no way that he could talk to Lou Wei the same way as how he talked to Lin Xiao. Therefore, the man who is almost fifty years old, whose body figure looks a little out of shape, chuckled. He let out a fake smile with a blank expression, “President Lou, we can’t leave the matter like this. I have a good idea.”

Lou Wei kept quiet. He exchanged glances with Wen Fan and let out a casual reply, “Huh?”

 “…” Liu Jinxing gritted his teeth and continued, “This is all a misunderstanding. An An is still young. You shouldn’t be dealing business with him. As long as…as long as your company announces that this incident was due to mishandling by the staff, leading to the failure of the contract negotiation. As for the compensation, we’ll give you half price on An An’s copyright fee. President Lou, this is a favorable offer. After all, you can get your hands on An An’s image copyright for your little mobile game. It’s rest assured that it would earn you a lot of traffic and fans.”

Wen Fan listened to the suggestion from Mingxi Entertainment’s boss through Lou Wei’s phone. He really wished he could teleport through the mobile network to electrocute him.

Liu Jinxing had indeed weaved an excellent plan. Previously, the manager of Ke Yanan, Zhou Jian issued a notice saying that the audio clip posted on Weibo is fake, and it was post edited by LouV. If Lou Wei admits that the company’s employee caused the failure of the project execution, Lou Wei would become the scapegoat for the whole incident.

Do you really think that Yuancheng Technology would take the blame while Ke Yanan still continues to receive a 30million dollars deal?

However, Wen Fan had already discussed with Lou Wei about their plan just now. They both agreed that it would be too easy if they punished Liu Jinxing and Ke Yanan in a straightforward manner. Since they intended to give Yuancheng Technology a hard time, Lou Wei and Wen Fan would certainly love to make them pay back twice as much. 

Wen Fan nodded to Lou Wei.

Lou Wei immediately rejected Liu Jinxing, “Sorry, the board of directors is not convinced that Ke Yanan is worth the price. The transaction ends here.”

Liu Jinxing finally couldn’t help but yell, “Do you know who you are talking to? You refuse to reconcile? How long do you think your lousy company can sustain?”

Lou Wei said before he hung up, “Our society is abided by rule of law.”

“Why you!” Liu Jinxing howled, “Very well, since you refuse to reconcile, don’t blame me for being rude.” At first, he intended to put a stop to this unsightly event, thus he decided to make this call. Now, it seems that the small sapling of Yuancheng Technology is not worthy of his subsidy. They are stubborn and lack vision.

Liu Jinxing hung up the phone. He kicked the office chair next to him. He never mentioned that the reason he wanted to contact Lou Wei is because he is worried that Yuancheng Technology, the high-tech game and software company, would pull some tricks behind his back. He’s really furious now. He rolled up his sleeves and called the marketing and public relation team, “Post it! Post them quickly!!”

Wen Fan was already familiar with Liu Jinxing’s tactics that were usually used in the entertainment industry. He watched as there were a lot of new videos popping up on Weibo. He couldn’t conceal the sneer across his face.

Sure enough, this is the only counter tactic that Mingxi Entertainment has on their sleeves. It was exactly what he had expected.

The new video that they posted was one part of the CCTV footage extracted on the day Lou Wei and the others went to find Ke Yanan. However, this was the footage recorded from another angle by another CCTV. It showed the part where Lou Wei said he offered Ke Yanan eighty million!

Because of the camera angles, the video showed Lou Wei looking at the earring on Ke Yanan’s right ear, but the audience could only see the back of Lou Wei’s head and it seems as if he was looking directly at Ke Yanan. Netizens couldn’t see Lou Wei’s expression but they could only see Ke Yanan looking astonished.

And this time, the video was uploaded with sound. When Ke Yanan was looking shocked then embarrassed with anger, the video showed Lou Wei’s voice which should have appeared before this scene, “Eigthy million. I’ll buy you…” 

 

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