Chapter Seventeen

  That night, while Jian Yan was deep in thought on how to take down his imaginary enemy, the backup tire, with a burning passion, under Fang Yu's enthusiastic guidance, Jiang Chuan applied for a Weibo account.

  "I know that in your country, there is also this thing, it's a must-have, Instagram, Twitter and whatnot... We have it domestically too - Weibo! Recently, the proportion of online popularity has been increasing, our company is also starting to pay more attention to this area, having a powerful propaganda tool at a low cost."

  "Good things don't come cheap."

  Fang Yu pretended he hadn't heard anything and continued to ignore Jiang Chuan, saying: "You see, basically all the online water armies, black fans, and fanboys are gathered on Weibo..."

  Jiang Chuan: "Black?"

  Fang Yu: "A strange creature, they hate you as if you dug up their ancestors' graves, from your appearance to your breathing——"

  "I told you, you get what you pay for."

  Anyway, I realized that I shouldn't have bothered with this guy in the first place, so I wiped my face and skipped over this topic, continuing to introduce: "So you need to apply for a Weibo account, it's convenient for later use, after handling it well, your fans will think you're good, kind, lovely... just like Jianran - although this might be a scam - still just like Jianran."

  Jiang Chuan: “......”

  Jian Ran: "......"

  Fang Yu: "I'll go apply for some funding for you tomorrow to buy a few hundred thousand zombie fans, and then after you finish filming the TV series Jiang Luo Cheng and gain popularity, we can buy a few million more... But remember not to post anything casually, show me before posting, don't argue with others casually, and also - no matter what content of private messages, absolutely do not reply personally, this is the rule."

  "Why?"

  "Square."

  "Oh."

  Jiang Chuan lowered his head and poked at the iPad screen, absent-mindedly listening to Mr. Jing's chatter and easily accepting various unreasonable and unexplained "rules". He himself was browsing Weibo with a fresh expression, looking left and right, when suddenly he seemed to have seen something, pointing at a comment from an unknown passerby saying: "Mr. Fang, someone here is asking if the mysterious person is Yuan Jinran's boyfriend."

  "Just call me Fang Ge, I'm older than you." Fang Yu responded with an "ah" and said nonchalantly, "There are always many people online who like to talk nonsense, don't mind it."

  "No, she's got a point," Jiang Chuan said with a serious face, "'Yuan Jinyan has been in the entertainment industry for so many years and hasn't had any scandals, if it's not because he can't do it then he must be gay, agree with me and give a like' - what is a like? That big thumb? I clicked on it and it lit up"

  "Shut up! Cancel it for me now! Forget it, I'll just register another one. This number is no good anyway. Luckily, I haven't applied for the yellow V authentication yet!"

  "But many people have already pointed it out."

  "Take your hands off! What are you blindly grasping at?!"

  Jian Ran: "......"

  Jiang Chuan tilted his head and asked: "So, Yuan Jinran really likes men?"

  Jian Ran: "......"

  "…………" paused for a moment, then looked at Jiang Chuan with an alienated gaze and asked, "Who is this? You believe whatever he says. Do you know her?... There's no such troublemaker on foreign social media?"

  "I don't know, I'm too busy to go online," said Jiang Chuan. "What's a troublemaker?"

  "You'll know later," Fang Yu snatched back the iPad, "Don't look anymore."

  "You haven't told me my account password yet..."

  "For your personal safety, I've decided not to tell you."

  "But that's my number..."

  "Is it you or the company's?!" Fang Da's agent scowled, "What's with your Weibo account?!"

  Jiang Chuan thought for a moment and didn't seem to find any loopholes in Fang Yu's words, so he simply stopped struggling. He stood up and poured some more food for his hamster and changed the water. As he was changing the food, the hamster sat by the food bowl, looking at him with its head raised - the hamster and human had a deep gaze for about thirty seconds. After a moment, the hamster saw its owner's thin lips open, let out a sigh, and said: "Ah Fei, you can eat so much, I won't be able to afford to raise you."

  Jian Ran: "......"

  Jiang Chuan: "Eat less, look at your chubby face."

  Jian Ran: "......"

  "You can put it out every night to forage and exercise, if it really has the IQ of a six-year-old child, maybe it will come back knocking on the door tomorrow morning," Fang Yu said sarcastically while sending tonight's information to the company's high-level officials via WeChat, "Isn't this how mice are raised?"

  Jian Ran: "......"

  "Your family's mouse is raised like this!"

  He raised his head and saw that Jiang Chuan had actually revealed a thoughtful expression - as if he was indeed considering the feasibility of this matter. After a moment, he shook his head: "No, there's a cat upstairs."

  "Maybe it doesn't eat hamsters."

  "What if I eat it by mistake?"

  "Consider your hamster unlucky." Fang Yu said very irresponsibly, then after a brief silence in the room, Fang Yu suddenly closed the cover of the iPad and said, "It's done."

  "What?"

  "What you did to offend the reporter today," Fang Yu said, "the company has arranged for someone to buy off tomorrow's 'G City Entertainment Morning Post' reporter. They will work with us to restore the truth of what happened at the hospital during the day and guide public opinion. Starting from the point where the reporter burst into Tian Ran's ward and tried to disturb his family, let the water army attack those stupid X's - and take the opportunity to promote your new image as a fearless newcomer in the entertainment industry before you are exposed by those awakened entertainment reporters."

  "What they say is what others believe?"

  "Although people nowadays love to watch various entertaining gossip and scandals," Fang Yu said, "when a pile of identical negative news is placed in front of them, if a burst of positive energy suddenly appears, that energy will explode and become unstoppable - human nature is inherently good, that's the principle."

  "Oh," Jiang Chuan nodded, "I don't understand."

  "I didn't expect you to understand, foreign friend."

  Just as Fang Yu was saying that, his phone in his waist pocket rang - he took it out and looked at the incoming call prompt, and his originally calm face suddenly became like he had eaten rat poison. His tone on the phone was even more unpleasant, and he didn't even bother to introduce himself with a simple "hello". After listening to the other person speak for a while, Fang Yu's already unattractive face turned dark and stormy, and he cursed, "Those damn bastards!" He then added impatiently, "Got it, I'll try my best", before hastily hanging up the phone.

  Jiang Chuan shook his wrist, and the hamster that was dangling from his fingers swung back onto the thick layer of wood shavings at the bottom of its cage. As the hamster fell onto its back with its belly up, Jiang Chuan withdrew his hand from the cage and turned to look at Fang Yu, who indeed looked unwell, saying: "It's Jiang Luocheng."

  Jiang Chuan blinked his eyes.

  The hamster, who was originally flipping over on the wood shavings with its belly up and happily pedaling its paws back and forth, stopped. With a flip of its body, it got up with a serious face.

  Fang Yu said: "Jiang Luocheng called to greet us, the investor's intention is that they can wait for a few more days to see if he can wake up, but considering that no one knows when he will wake up and even after waking up, he cannot immediately join the group. So they intend to replace the male lead - everything is almost ready, and every extra day is just wasting money."

  Jian Ran: "......"

  Although hearing such news is complicated, it can also be considered as expected - people leave and tea cools down, which is most obvious in the entertainment circle. Today, his Weibo post about entering the hospital may have been forwarded tens of thousands or even hundreds of millions of times, with every household discussing him, lamenting him, and fans being heartbroken to the point of despair...

  But life goes on, and no one will stop because of this.

  The TV series investors asked to prepare for a replacement, this is just the beginning - next are those movies, endorsement commercials, various business performance appointments, and they will come to his brokerage firm one after another to discuss countermeasures. Those who want to replace him will pay the difference to replace him, and those who don't want to replace him will directly cancel the cooperation project.

  After several months, fewer and fewer people will be discussing "Yuan Jinyan".

  In less than a year, probably no one will mention him again.

  At most, someone will sigh on his birthday or death anniversary: Yuan Jinyan, what a pity.

  By then, "Yuan Jinyan" may still be relying on the hospital's instruments to maintain breathing, but he is actually dead.

  The hamster in the cage was quiet for a while, then suddenly turned around and jumped into the food bowl to start eating melon seeds. Jiang Chuan stretched out his hand to rub its ears, but seeing that the hamster was disdainful and dodging to the side, he withdrew his hand.

  He said with a dark face: "Let me take you there tomorrow and retake the test."

  "Okay," said Jiang Chuan with a nod.

  Fang Yu stood up and told Jiang Chuan to come pick him up at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning, first go to the company for handover and recognition work, then go to Jiang Luocheng's place in the afternoon, and then leave... Jiang Chuan moved a chair over, leaned against the hamster cage, staring at his own hamster for a while, only to find that it was eating melon seeds on one side while frantically blowing tears, its cheek hair wet and shiny, its cheeks still rapidly chewing food...

  "What's with the tears again... got something wrong with your eyes?"

  She gave him a cold glance with her three whites of her eyes, turned around, and continued to gnaw on the vegetable ring in her hand with her backside facing him.

  After a while, I felt my butt being lightly poked.

  He shook his buttocks slightly and still didn't turn around.

  After a long while, he heard the man behind him let out a soft sigh of helplessness: "Stop crying, I'll take you out to play tomorrow."

  The hamster's chewing motion paused, its ears perked up, and that little head without a neck slowly, slowly turned back just a bit.

  Butt was poked again - this time with a bit more force, and the hamster-like ball was poked forward, while hearing someone behind him say faintly: "Go see my trial mirror, go or not? Three seconds to hesitate, one... two..."

  “…………………”

  The hamster fell silent for a second, then decisively threw away the vegetable ring in his hands. Before the sound of "three" rang out, he turned around and hugged his owner's fingers with one hand, rubbing against them doggedly.

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