Chapter 21: Chapter 21: A Righteous Netizen?
But as soon as the thought surfaced, he dismissed it.
Han Ningzhen couldn’t even bear to keep her photo, so how could he possibly comfort her?
As soon as Su ixi got ho and pushed open the door, she was greeted by a wafting sll of delicious cooking.
Was Gu Wei making dinner?
She changed her shoes, put her bag in place, and then walked to the kitchen doorway.
Gu Wei, wearing an apron, was flipping a spatula over the stove.
He was stir-frying chili with pork, which had been fried to a golden brown and looked appetizing.
Seeing Su ixi return, Gu Wei turned off the heat and, while transferring the food onto a dish, said, “You’re back?”
Su ixi nodded and tried to offer him a smile, but it ended up looking worse than a cry.
Gu Wei noticed the look on her face and sensed that she had sothing on her mind.
He put down the spatula and approached her, asking, “What’s wrong? Did you have trouble driving?”
Su ixi didn’t want him to worry, so she said, “The drive was smooth, I suspect I have the potential to be a racing champion—I had a really smooth ride today and even overtook a few vehicles.”
“Oh, what kind of vehicles did you overtake?”
“Motorcycles.”
Gu Wei was amused by her humor for a mont and said, “Hungry, right? Let’s eat then.”
“Sure, I’ll go serve the rice.”
The two sat quietly at the dining table, eating their al.
Gu Wei kept feeling that Su ixi was preoccupied, but since she ntioned nothing, each ti she tasted a dish, she simply comnted, “This dish is nicely done, better than what I could cook.”
The more she acted this way, the more inscrutable she beca.
He felt he was losing his grasp on understanding won again.
Why are won’s concerns so difficult to guess?
When Su ixi was nearly finished eating, she turned to Gu Wei and said, “Gu Wei, could you teach so more advanced fighting techniques tonight, the kind that can really wear out?”
“You sure?”
“Absolutely,” Su ixi replied with a faint smile.
“Fine by , whatever difficulty you like,” Gu Wei responded.
After dinner, Su ixi insisted on washing the dishes and tidying up the kitchen.
Gu Wei checked his phone and saw a ssage.
It was from Uncle Quan: Second Young Master, the person in this video, do you recognize them?
Gu Wei usually indulged in very simple forms of entertainnt, like occasionally playing military gas; he never browsed short videos nor followed gossip news.
However, seeing the video where Fang Xin was accusing Su ixi, he was so infuriated he nearly crushed his phone.
No wonder Su ixi had been holding sothing back since she got ho—that she didn’t even utter a word about an issue so significant!
Doesn’t she consider him her husband?
He imdiately forwarded the video to Gu Cheng.
Gu Wei knew how to deal with bad guys and criminals, but for dealing with such shaless jerks, he thought Gu Cheng would have more experience since Gu Cheng had a specialized PR team and collaborations with these short video platforms.
“Brother, I want to help Ah Xi regain her dignity and punish those who made the video,” Gu Wei expressed his needs.
Before long, Gu Cheng replied: [Don’t worry, leave it to .]
While Su ixi and Gu Wei were practicing their fighting techniques, the tide of online public opinion had already begun to shift.
With just one order from Gu Cheng, his team sprung into action.
To restore Su ixi’s image, the approach wasn’t to suppress the original video, but to use evidence to change the public’s perception of her.
The first wave, the internet was flooded with videos about Li Jiekai committing cris and playing the hooligan. Li Jiekai was involved in organized cri and the sex trade, and he had harassed nurous won. Now, there were not only videos of his brawls, but also won coming forward to accuse him of harassnt.
As soon as these videos went viral, many netizens comnted,
“I knew it, how could a female doctor have the power to incarcerate soone for ten years? Do you think today’s police officers are incompetent? Can you just lock soone up because you say so?”
“So Li Jiekai was a half-brother with different mothers, huh? Being such a ss, he must have bullied a lot of girls, right? It’s only right for soone like him to be in prison!”
“I just saw a video where Su ixi’s neighbor speaks out, the guy tried to force himself on soone, go check it out!”
However, there were also contrarians online who said, “Li Jiekai may be at fault, but Dr. Su abandoned her own mother!”
…
Once public opinion had sufficiently fernted, a second wave of videos appeared online.
Su ixi’s teachers and neighbors were interviewed by the dia, saying that Su ixi’s grandfather took care of her during her primary school days. After her parents divorced and her grandfather passed away, she started living alone since middle school with no one else in her family to take care of her.
Then there were loan docunts for Su ixi’s university scholarship and videos from her part-ti jobs over sumr and winter vacations. From the age of 18, she’d been supporting herself.
At this point, netizens generally leaned towards believing Su ixi was innocent.
“You gave birth to her, but then you abandoned her. Now that she’s grown up, you co back asking for money and goods, why should she care about you?”
“If it wasn’t for these videos, wouldn’t she have been destroyed by her own mother’s accusations?”
“Dr. Su has such a beautiful daughter, if she were born in our family, we’d pamper her. You guys don’t even cherish her. Dr. Su, I live at XXXX, please co over to my place for a al when you’re free.”
Of course, so people were concerned whether the quick reversal of public opinion was orchestrated by soone behind the scenes. It’s very likely that this person is Su ixi’s boyfriend.
So ti later, there was a photo shared online showing Su ixi dining with a man.
The man’s silhouette revealed that he was around 30 years old, certainly not so old geezer.
But no further news ca about his identity.
The video controversy ca to an end here.
…
It was now 10 PM.
Han Ningzhen was lying in bed continuously scrolling through videos.
When she saw how public opinion had shifted, she was infuriated.
These interviews with elentary and junior high school teachers, as well as the videos of working part-ti jobs—digging them up after all this ti surely indicated manipulation behind the scenes.
This person was most likely Su ixi’s boyfriend!
Was this guy that influential?
Or did he have experience working with online dia?
Beside her, Qi Anran was reading a book.
Being a doctor ans constantly learning and advancing, especially when qualifying for professional titles, which required both exams and writing papers, sothing he never dared to slack off on.
While reading, he occasionally glanced over at Han Ningzhen.
Seeing her getting angrier the more she watched, he asked, “What are you watching that’s making you so mad?”
Han Ningzhen replied angrily, “That matter with Su ixi has been reversed now; netizens are all sympathetic towards her.”
Qi Anran thought to himself: Of course, they would be, anyone who takes the ti to understand Su ixi’s upbringing would feel sympathy.
But without wanting to offend Han Ningzhen, he said, “Netizens are sympathetic towards her? It seems that society’s morals are really declining.”
“I’m so mad, I can’t watch this anymore, I’m going to sleep!” Han Ningzhen angrily put down her phone and buried herself in the blankets.
…
Fang Xin lived with her current husband in an old residential building on the west side of the city center. This building, a family inheritance spanning three floors, ca without the burden of a mortgage and could sell for millions if put on the market.
Chen Jingbing was a driving school instructor, and Fang Xin worked as a quality inspector in an electronics factory. Logically speaking, the two should have had a decent life. But Fang Xin was always comparing herself to her ex-husband, whose child attended a key junior high school. She wanted her son, Xiao Zhuang, to do the sa, often paying hundreds of yuan per tutoring session.
Moreover, with Chen Jingbing’s son being a wastrel, constantly taking things from the house, life was a struggle.
That afternoon, they released an accusatory video against Su ixi, and many self-dia people interviewed them. So even brought food, clothes, and study materials for Xiao Zhuang to their ho.
She was elated, continually saying to Chen Jingbing, “These short videos today are really great, just making a short video can bring justice. The netizens, ah, they truly understand righteousness, and are so noble!”
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