Wen Fan was taken aback, “IRS?”

Forgive him for his ignorance and inexperience, but he really never heard of this term before.

Lou Wei nodded, “This is an online organization that has been declared on Bloomberg that was under pursuit. They often donate funds for reactionary organizations in various countries that violate social order. The police have been searching for their whereabouts but they never found them.” Lou Wei lowered his head and gazed at Wen Fan.

Bloomberg is an international public platform that provides information on global business, finance, and economic information. When Bloomberg released the information, every country was looking for the whereabouts of this IRS, but found nothing. However, it is obvious that although Wen Fan wasn’t able to use his ability on the internet outside of the firewall, he still has the ability to search the IP data within the country that those people couldn’t stop him.

The information that Wen Fan passed to Lou Wei about Huazhong Jinxiang happened to allow Lou Wei to find out the real name and actual identity of the real investor abroad, the person in charge of the finance, and the participation from the IRS. This information is enough to shut down and start an arrest warrant to the company. 

Lou Wei also used the information from the overseas Dealogic database and the domestic financial data to carefully check the share of Huazhong Jinxiang. He roughly confirmed that there were five companies that had frequent business transactions with Zhonghua Jinxiang were small companies and they were non-listed small companies that were established within the past one year. The top management of those companies and the investors of Zhonghua Jinxiang were the shareholders of each other’s companies.  

Wen Fan used the names of the companies provided by Lou Wei to track the IP addresses and dug out information on the internet regarding the source of their funds and the list of their recent customers. 

Besides Ke Yanan, he also discovered that there were three more celebrities that were almost blackened by the internet recently, eventually stuck back from adversity, and made a comeback. Moreover, the way they made a comeback is very similar to what Ke Yanan is doing now.  

When they were blackening the celebrity on the internet, they published information about how the celebrity was being persecuted by their investors, inciting fans and unaware bypassers, leaving negative remarks, destroying the credibility of state personnel. They even went beyond the firewall to publish the information about the celebrity being ‘persecuted’. They then created hype on new topics and diverted the focus to recent hot news of other celebrities. Once the traffic dies down after a few days, they would once again publish the news of fans that were also ‘persecuted’ previously to further influence another round of public discussion.

In the end, they would make a comeback and whitewash the celebrity with dark history to a celebrity who was framed for their dark history. And most importantly, marketing companies like them will also simply publish negative remarks of how others were being persecuted on foreign social platforms, harming the reputation and image of Z Country abroad. They would also go as far as to maliciously photoshopped pictures and spread rumors about the government colluding with investors, publishing negative remarks, and destroying the citizen’s trust toward the government. 

Moreover, the contracts they signed were all kept digitally on the company’s intranet. The scanned contracts all clearly stated the harmful impacts on the Z Country government’s credibility and stability of the people’s patriotism toward the country. However, the three celebrities and Ke Yanan still proceed to sign the contract without hesitation. 

Up until this point, Wen Fan is already convinced that the reason why Huazhong JinXiang Marketing Company is able to charge a low fee is that their main objective is to drive a mass reactionary discussion.

Wen Fan’s and Lou Wei’s eyes met and they both saw the anger in each other’s eyes.

At first, Ke Yanan’s incident was just a one-off event of a domestic celebrity. But now, because of Ke Yanan and Huazhong Jinxiang’s deliberate course of action, this has turned into a big matter that endangered the country’s image.

Lou Wei opened Facebook, Twitter, ETtoday, Instagram, Kakaotalk, and other international social network platforms. Sure enough, Ke Yanan’s incident has already steered toward the direction of conspiracy theory and is constantly developing. From the entertainment industry, crossing over to unspoken rules, and from there crossing over to political standpoints..

The internet is in fact a platform for making friends and exchanging information speedily. Ke Yanan’s incident flooded the internet at an extremely fast speed because of the deliberate inducement of public opinion and also of the netizen’s thirst for gossip. The news of Ke Yanan suspected of being forced to comply with ‘unspoken rules’ immediately topped the Weibo chart after its release. 

It dominated Weibo once again.

In addition, a lot of pictures of Mingxi Entertainment suspected to be involved in the ‘unspoken rules’ leaked on the internet. There were even videos of Liu Jinxing hugging a few second and third-line celebrities. Liu Jinxing’s face was shown clearly on the videos and the few celebrities were also dragged into this scandal news. Mingxi Entertainment’s public relations team quickly got to work, but their official blog couldn’t escape the fate of being bombarded. With the video serving as conclusive evidence and pictures that were not known if they were photoshopped or not, all the netizens started to believe that Ke Yanan was being ‘forced’ to become like this.

Even in just one hour, Weibo was blown to nothing by the surge of traffic. By the time it was able to re-enter the homepage of Weibo, Weibo had almost been dominated by Ke Yanan and Mingxi Entertainment. Mingxi Entertainment was overwhelmed by public opinion. In the previous pictures and videos, the Weibo that Ke Yanan sent directly to the male and female celebrities who were dragged down by the Huazhong Jinxiang in the pictures and videos were also bombarded indiscriminately.

 The internet was swarming with news of how Ke Yanan used to pour in so much effort to fulfill the jobs that he accepted, how he put in a dozen times more effort compared to others because he wasn’t major in acting. accepting jobs and also how he had difficulties in finance turnover and hence was forced to bow down to ‘unspoken rules’ by investors and his agency, eventually landed in the fate of being abandoned. 

His fans were wailing while clasping onto him, passerby apologized to him through his Weibo account and some gaming fans even started to doubt their own perceptions. Seventy percent of the netizens all felt Ke Yanan is no longer ‘the despicable one’ but had become ‘the one who was being forced.’ He gradually became the poor young bloke who was trapped in the swamp in the middle of the rain. 

At this moment, the term white lotus cannot be used to describe Ke Yanan. He is simply the white lotus fairy who leaves a bunch of white lotus seeds wherever he goes.      

Meanwhile, Ke Yanan who sat beside the computer was staring in the direction of the discussion threads. He finally couldn’t hold back and let out a disdainful laugh. Those who stood tall under the name of justice at the peak of morality and logical thinking were nothing but a pawn in the hand of a public opinion player like himself.  

Moreover, they are good chess pieces no matter where they were placed.      

While they were seeking justice for himself who was being forced into ‘unspoken rules’, they didn’t protect the other celebrities who were in the arms of Liu Jinxing, suspected of being forced into the ‘unspoken rules’. Such justice was promoted in an appropriate manner and they were advertised by the desire to gossip concealed under the mask of justice.

That distraught expression that he had early on disappeared without a trace as he thought about this. Ke Yanan was like a camel who finally found an oasis, catching a glimpse of hope with just a little source of water. 

However, at this instant, the news of ‘Compagnon’ was completely forgotten as everyone was focusing on Ke Yanan’s gossip. Only a handful of netizens who were totally chill were paying attention to the news of ‘Compagnon’ excitedly. Although Huazhong Jinxiang also published the news about ‘Compagnon’, it was obvious that people are more into gossip. Yuancheng Technology was outcast in a corner, almost forgotten.

Ke Yanan felt that it was a pity, between Yuancheng Technology and Mingxi Entertainment, he was already very delighted to be able to destroy Mingxi Entertainment and use Liu Jinxing as his stepping stone. Ke Yanan was no longer greedy and he was very satisfied with the outcome. He fixed his stare on the screen, looking at the numbers of his fans increasing on Weibo and the comments saying that they will support him. The smile on his face widened and it even appeared a little hideous. 

 

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