novelinnhs Chapter 104 The Impending Smear Campaign
Chapter 104 The Impending Smear Campaign
Honor of Kings has just been launched, and this mobile game, which is expected to be the most popular game in the next decade, is still quite rudimentary.
Su Peixue's League of Legends King-level hand speed and understanding are like a game-changing attack.
He waved the invitation in front of her. "Guishu County invites you to be a cultural and tourism ambassador. Would you like to?"
Su Peixue tilted her head, her eyes still glued to her phone screen. Without even asking what a "cultural tourism recommendation officer" meant, she simply said, "If the owner is willing, then it's fine."
Lin Ran sat back down in her chair.
He now roughly understands Su Peixue; she has absolutely no plans for the future and never thinks about what will happen later.
It feels like she's given herself all the power to make decisions. If she's told to go, she goes; if she's told not to go, she doesn't go.
"Then let's accept. The recommending officer doesn't need to do anything else, just cooperate with Guishu County to shoot some promotional videos for their official WeChat account, it's very easy. We have a meeting scheduled for tomorrow, let's go together."
"Uh-huh!"
Su Peixue's almond-shaped eyes sparkled; she could go on a date with her zookeeper tomorrow!
In the years that followed, culture and tourism became an important part of economic development. During the years when local culture and tourism bureaus were all the rage, even a county's culture and tourism ambassador could become a trending topic on social media.
Although Guishu County is small, it still has official backing. For Su Peixue, this adds another layer of prestige and protection. From now on, anyone who wants to harm her will have to think twice about the titles she carries.
Of course, the more of these halos the better.
Meanwhile, in a dark rented room.
Xiao Zhe sat in front of the computer, a cigarette dangling from his lips. The light from the screen shone on his face, revealing his stubble and sunken eyes.
After being released from the detention center, A-Yi was ruined. He had a criminal record, and his status at Shengxing plummeted. He had nowhere to go; no agency would hire someone with a criminal record. He was left to be controlled by Zhou Ruian for life.
He took a drag of his cigarette, stubbed it out in the can already overflowing with cigarette butts, and continued scrolling through videos.
It's all Su Peixue's fault!
Blame her!
Xiao Zhe bit his cigarette hard. If it weren't for her, he would still be the chief agent of Shengxing Entertainment, holding onto A Yi, his cash cow, with annual dividends starting at seven figures.
And now? He lives in a rented apartment, eats takeout, and even his former interns dare not reply to his messages.
Now I have to watch videos intensively and scout out promising new streamers to scam, otherwise my salary will be reduced!
While scrolling through the video, Xiao Zhe came across a trending video: Su Peixue's honey osmanthus cake!
His hand trembled, and the cigarette butt fell onto his underwear with a hissing sound, causing Xiao Zhe to yell loudly.
What the hell!
After convulsing for a long time, Xiao Zhe gritted his teeth but still clicked to take a look.
The video quality is really high!
Even if he hated Su Peixue and harbored resentment towards her, he had to admit that her videos, with this style, were of a unique and high quality!
Suddenly, Xiao Zhe noticed that a shared bike was displayed below the video!
He dragged it to the bottom and saw that the shared bikes were sold out, with a lot of positive reviews in the comments section.
Then he suddenly had an idea. A wicked glint flashed in his eyes!
He opened an anonymous webpage and logged into a chat window with a black mask avatar.
"Let's smear Su Peixue again. This time, we need a trending topic about Su Peixue selling toxic honey, and make it stay in the top ten for a whole day."
The main issue circulating online is that her previous donation was a publicity stunt to create a certain image, and this time she's using the product to scam people by selling substandard, toxic honey, causing food poisoning. I'll provide the text, images, and medical videos.
Mask quickly replied. "We guarantee the production of fake medical videos, guaranteed trending, and guaranteed comment control. Spreading rumors about food safety is riskier than what you did last time. 50,000 RMB for an hour on the trending topics, starting at 500,000 RMB."
Xiao Zhe paused in his typing. He couldn't afford the money right now. The money he used to buy the photoshopped images was from Shengxing's internal funds, and he was no longer authorized to access that account.
He leaned back in his chair, staring at the screen in silence for a long while. Then he slowly typed out a line of text.
"I suggest you watch Su Peixue's videos first. This kind of high-quality blogger in the cultural sphere has unlimited potential. Do you want to see her grow into a big star?"
The masked man didn't reply. But Xiao Zhe knew that the other party must have seen it, or rather, must have paid attention to it.
He knew these people were rife with online trolls, and their activities were deeply entrenched. Xiao Zhe closed the webpage. He'd said enough. If Su Peixue were targeted by those people, she would be relentlessly attacked and vilified.
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In the Rongdian canteen, siblings Yuan hope and Yuan Wang were eating lunch. Several steamed buns were on the table. Yuan Xi ordered a chicken leg and pushed it towards her brother. Yuan Wang shook his head, "If my sister doesn't eat, I won't eat either."
Yuan hope remembered her grandfather calling to say that the honey had been sold and they had earned more than 20,000 yuan. She hadn't heard her grandfather so happy in a long time.
She went to the window and ordered another chicken leg. The siblings each had one and ate steamed buns with homemade pickled vegetables.
"Thanks to Su Peixue's video." Yuan Wang finished gnawing the last bit of meat off the chicken leg bone. "Otherwise, how could our honey have sold so quickly? Grandpa said the honey in that video was sold out in less than two days."
Yuan hope nodded, "Yes, we should thank her properly when we have the chance."
"I also heard from Grandpa that because of Sister Xue's video, a boss wants to invest in beekeeping in our county, and he even asked Grandpa to be his beekeeping instructor. He gets four thousand a month!"
Yuan hope smiled and asked, "How's your part-time job search going?"
"Found one." Yuan Wang took out his phone and waved it. "It seems to be for helping people boost comments. Anyway, it's pretty simple. The group owner will post the tasks, and you get several cents for each comment."
Yuan hope had her doubts, but before she could speak, Yuan Wang's phone vibrated. A task had arrived in the group chat. "We've got news! Sis, let's boost the comments together and earn double the money!"
Yuan Wang opened the mission details, and the excitement on his face froze.
The task posted by the group leader was to smear Su Peixue on various forums, portals, and video websites—claiming that the honey sold by Su Peixue was of inferior quality and that some people had been poisoned and hospitalized after consuming it.
The video footage for the task was a clip of a woman lying in a hospital bed having her stomach pumped, with noisy and melancholic background music playing in the background, and the caption "Su Peixue's poisonous honey kills people."
The template posted by the group admin was: Su Peixue donated money last time to create a persona, but this time she's just trying to make money by selling inferior honey, and someone got food poisoning and was hospitalized.
Yuan Wang's hands began to tremble. Yuan Xi took the phone and read it from beginning to end, her fingers swiping faster and faster on the screen. After she finished reading, she slammed the phone on the table, causing the steamed bun to roll halfway around.
"Sister Xue is such a good person, how could she be smeared like this! Whose interests did she threaten?"
"What should we do?" Yuan Wang asked anxiously. "If these people who flood the comments section with negative comments smear Xue Jie across the internet, she'll be universally condemned, and the boss definitely won't invest anymore!"
"The chat history in this group is the evidence. Record it all."