Translator: Vian
Editors: celes, namio
[I had just graduated five years ago but was fortunate enough to debut with a role in "Musheng". From that point on, I entered the entertainment circle. However, being an actor is not as glamorous as it seems on the surface. I once had to film an action scene hanging from a wire late at night when it was minus thirty degrees; I also had to be wrapped up in a cotton coat in the middle of summer once and was covered in sweat.
When I was having lunch this afternoon, a friend told me that I had made the headlines.
Being able to make the headlines in this circle is considered as something rare. I took a look, and I just want to say——
Justice is in People's Heart.
I do not want to have a debate over today's matter, but I want to say thank you to my fans. I am currently filming and will reciprocate your feelings with my best work yet.]
The whole statement was just a little over a hundred words and didn't explain the whole situation at all, but a discerning eye could see at a glance that Han Yanghao was talking about the "poser act" that was raging all around online today.
"Justice is in People's Heart"; Han Yanghao's response to this matter was the same as the title of this statement. Once this sentence was said out loud, there was a certain elegant demeanor of a gentleman's magnanimity. Many passersby saw this statement and were a bit stupefied. They didn't know Han Yanghao that well, and most only watched a few of his dramas. Now that they read this statement…
[Han Yanghao doesn't seem to be that bad of a person ah, the statement is written very simply.]
[Who knows what's the truth, eating melon.]
[It's better not to get mixed up in this, I'll just watch and wait for the results~]
Within an hour, this statement was forwarded over one hundred eighty thousand times and had two hundred thousand comments and over a million likes! Even if it was Han Yanghao, he rarely had such a popular post. In just thirty minutes, the tag #JusticeIsInPeoplesHeart placed second on the trendings search and was followed by a single word "Explosive".
It was also worth mentioning that number one was #HanYanghaothePoser.
In an instant, among the top twenty trending search topics, nine of them were about Han Yanghao! Aside from number one and two, there was also #Ambush, #ChangeActor, #RongXu, #GreekRabbit, and other hashtags. Many of the small Weibo accounts that exposed news about Han Yanghao had also entered the trending searches such as this "Greek Rabbit". She was one of the crew members that was dismissed from the "Ambush" crew by Han Yanghao.
It was human nature to gossip. The reason why the matter of Han Yanghao's poser act became so big was not only because major marketing and media accounts all posted statements condemning him nor was it just because of the fights and arguments between the fans. It was because many passersby were extremely curious about the truth of the matter.
When Han Yanghao's statement came out, his fans originally had already been ridiculed and poured all over with dog blood with no way to refute the fans of Rong Xu and Zhang Tongtong (and all the stars who had once cooperated with Han Yanghao). Now that they saw this post, Han Yanghaos' fans suddenly seemed to have received a golden insignia.
[Look! Ah Hao definitely never did those kind of things. It's possible for anyone to splash dirty water! Anyone can blacken someone! You're just saying whatever nonsense that comes to mind, who would believe you!]
[Ah Hao is so good, he's gentle and handsome. This must have been because someone was jealous of you and felt that you're blocking his way that they acted like this. He he, as for who's way you're blocking, that's the justice in people's hearts!]
[Who were those idiots that wrote bad about my family's Ah Hao, come out to this old lady! You're all…]
All sorts of colorful words flew out the mouths of Han Yanghao's fans. They had just been surrounded and beaten up by every family's fans and couldn't resist at all, now when they saw their family's Master send out a post standing up for himself, they immediately acted high and mighty.
They first went to every family's fan support groups' official Weibo to curse at them, then they went to Rong Xu's, Zhang Tongtong's, and others' Weibo to curse them and create such a colorful scene till one couldn't bear it. They even demanded that Rong Xu and Zhang Tongtong come forward and issue an apology to Han Yanghao!
During this whole incident, Rong Xu and Zhang Tongtong were the only stars who were specifically mentioned, particularly Rong Xu. Since the beginning, the news that was first brought out was that Han Yanghao wanted to drive Rong Xu out of the "Ambush" cast; that was the fuse for this entire situation.
In a short twenty minutes, Rong Xu's most recent post had been commented on more than a hundred thousand times. About four to five hundred thousand of them were originally comments by Rong Xu's fans, the other four to five hundred thousand of them were vivid curses by Han Yanghao's fans.
Han Yanghao's fans' outburst was abrupt, and it seemed that they had been preparing for this since long ago, but Rong Xu's fans immediately reacted too.
[Who can tell me, was there any real evidence in that statement? Including the punctuations, there were a total of 185 words, which eyes of these brain-dead fans saw Han Yanghao come up with actual evidence to prove his innocence? He didn't even dare to post a fake lawyer's letter. You guys said anyone can splash dirty water, then I'll have to reply: Anyone can speak empty words! Bring out evidence if you have the ability!]
[Excuse me?! How did this group of fans suddenly get high? Black question mark.jpg]
[The amount of water army tonight is a bit overdone ah, it's the middle of the night, how much's your guys' pay? For it to make you guys stay up all night?]
Within twenty minutes, they could comment over four to five hundred thousand curses, and this was only on Rong Xu's Weibo. Zhang Tongtong, Yi Lan, and other stars also had tens of thousands of comments on their Weibo.
[Han Yanghao doesn't even have ten million fans and now you're telling me that a statement he posted at 11pm that could get his fans to reply to over 50,000 comments? Does his family's fans have something against the water army ah, everytime they buy the water army it's always so exaggerated. I'm too lazy to even expose them, pity like 1s.]
[Did they not learn their lesson from the last voting incident? I seriously want to make another Excel spreadsheet to let you guys see exactly how fake the water army you bought is.]
[Hey, how come I feel like I keep on bumping into the water army these past two days… Ah that's right! When my family's Rongrong was splashed with dirty water by someone yesterday, weren't they all this laughably obvious water army? They can't be the same group of people, right?]
For the time being, regardless of whether Han Yanghao's fans were true fans or the water army, Rong Xu's fans were originally still a bit angry at these filthy curses and comments. But soon, in Rong Xu's official fan forum, the moderators guided the fans to the right approach to handle this——
Directly report it and ignore this group of mental patients.
The blackspots still needed to type to curse. After all, they didn't dare copy and paste the same sentence over and over again this time lest Rong Xu's fans make another Excel spreadsheet, telling them how to properly act like a real person. However, the fans only needed to move their fingers to easily report them.
Because the matter was so blown up, Weibo's speed at handling this was also very fast. Han Yanghao's fans had just posted a hundred comments on Rong Xu's Weibo when Weibo had already deleted two hundred. Their efforts were falling short of the results, and within an hour, Rong Xu's Weibo returned to its original state.
At the same time, in S-City's Film City, the farewell party had finally ended. Rong Xu returned to his room and finally had time to carefully look at Han Yanghao's response.
Looking at this short "Justice is in People's Heart" statement, the youth raised an eyebrow while his lips curved into a smile: "He wrote this?"
Luo Zhentao was talking with the company's PR department when he suddenly heard this. He also laughed: "If I didn't know what he was like, I also might have thought that this statement was written by him. Only a bit over a hundred words and written cleanly and simply, but to be honest… I don't think this written by Han Yanghao. You should know Xiao Xu, Han Yanghao, this kind of person, shouldn't be able to write something this eloquent. It was probably a ghostwriter."
With the smile on his lips deepening by a few degrees, Rong Xu poured some tea as he reread those five words "Justice is in People's Heart", becoming lost in thought as he read over it twice.
This behavior amused Luo Zhentao: "He only dared to post this kind of statement but didn't dare to do anything else. I think he probably knows that we're behind this." Pausing a bit, Luo Zhentao backtracked: "That's not right, Han Yanghao definitely wouldn't be able to guess that it's us, but his team certainly can."
Who else could expose the things that happened during "Ambush"'s filming period? If it wasn't Rong Xu, then it was other members of the crew.
Not to mention, Han Yanghao had a guilty conscience. He just blackened Rong Xu yesterday and had almost dragged the "Black Clouds" crew into the water. Now that this happened, he obviously would doubt whether or not Rong Xu already knew the truth — knew that it was him setting him up from behind.
After thinking for a moment, Rong Xu handed a cup of tea to Luo Zhentao, saying: "Let's just leave this matter as it is for now. Even if he denies it, the majority of the fans already believes the situation. Luo ge, we still don't have the ability to go against Han Yanghao head-on. Now that this has already left such a big impact on him, we can stop it here."
Hearing his, Luo Zhentao sighed in relief: "Just right, I also wanted to say that we can temporarily stop this. We can't truly stand up and confront Han Yanghao, the "Ambush" crew also can't stand up and denounce Han Yanghao. We can't move against them. Tomorrow, I will inform Director Liang that Han Yanghao was the leaker and discuss how the "Black Clouds" crew should deal with him. Then it will be the crew's matter and have nothing to do with us. And if everything really goes public, that matter would bring a lot of trouble and Han Yanghao might become desperate. What was that saying again… a cornered dog will jump over the wall?"
Rong Xu sipped his tea, chuckling as he shook his head.
Luo Zhentao quietly looked at the youth in front of him. He carefully observed this strange but familiar Rong Xu and suddenly felt that the past six months passed by a bit like a dream.
He still remembered the first time he saw Rong Xu. At the time, the youth still had his hair dyed multiple colors with his bangs covering half his face and dressed in tattered clothes like a beggar, always looking down on people all day.
But now, the gap was really too big.
Luo Zhentao couldn't help but rejoice a little that he recognized a pearl back then and signed Rong Xu.
The two chatted for a while before Luo Zhentao quickly left, reminding Rong Xu to remember to rest and that a few days after the filming was finished, he would take him to record the song. They naturally didn't know that just in the room a wall away, Qin Cheng was sitting on the sofa with a hand supporting his chin, calmly looking at the water army accounts' ridicule.
[Rong Xu is an idiot, shameless, loose goods!]
[What kind of dogs was raised is kind of person its master is, damn shameless @Rong Xu]
[Ugly enough to make people cry, the whole person is just a little white face! @Rong Xu's shameless and ugly, stupid fool!]
Even though Rong Xu's fans were quick to report, and Weibo was fast in deleting comments, there would still be some fish that slipped through the net and didn't get deleted the first time.
A man's dark eyes reflected these dirty and unpleasant words, and sometimes he would see some sarcasm from Rong Xu's fans. These sarcastic comments would never have a single dirty word, but they could shut the blackspots up till they couldn't refute even a word.
The winner was obvious.
But…
The distinct eyebrows slightly knitted, and his lips pressed into a thin line. When he saw a particular comment, a certain man finally couldn't help but reply.
[Lotus Seed Paste and Orange Stuffing replied to What it means to be Chaotic: He's ugly? He's short? He doesn't have a good figure? You tell me clearly, who's ugly? Who did you call ugly! How is he short! He has a great figure!!!]
Unexpectedly, that blackspot actually replied: [What? Did saying the truth hit your sore spot? Rong Xu is ugly! Slit eyes! Upturned nose! Ugly ugly ugly ugly ugly! Ugly and fat! Ugly enough to make people cry!]
Immediately after this blackspot replied, seven or eight other water army accounts echoed it's words and kept on replying to "Lotus Seed Paste and Orange Stuffing". They used all sorts of vocabulary to curse at Rong Xu and even scolded "Lotus Seed Paste and Orange Stuffing" in passing.
Qin Cheng: "…!!!"
Half a minute later, in B-City, Xu Jin was preparing to go to bed when he suddenly received a message: [How did you deal with that Han Yanghao?]
Xu Jin was confused and subconsciously replied: [I saw that Han Yanghao seemed to have posted some statement, but the matter wasn't really handled well. After this incident, it will be very hard for Han Yanghao to return the front lines. The momentum he gained through "Ambush" is also gone so I didn't do anything else. I communicated with officials from Weibo to have them help delete the water army comments and ban their accounts.]
Without anyone doing anything behind the scenes, how could Weibo delete the comments and ban accounts so quickly?
But Qin Cheng who saw this message: "..."
Xu Jin's message just came in when a new reply popped up on top of the phone——
[What it means to be Chaotic: Lotus Seed Paste and Orange Stuffing, you're disgusting or are you disgusting! Your family's Master is so tragically ugly! You're better off quickly realizing reality haha!]
Qin Cheng: "!!!"
After a while, Xu Jin received a message: [You go contact the "Ambush" crew to expose everything, no need to leave that Han Yanghao any face.]
Seeing this message, Xu Jin was stunned and was just about to ask what happened, but another message came in.
Xu Jin: "..."
After a long while: [Great Young Master Qin, I recall that you already have over three hundred million fans, and each time you post there will be at least be six digits of forwards and comments and seven digits of likes. What is it… that made you want to buy fans and the water army?]
A minute later, a phone call came. The man's low, magnetic voice came through the phone, sounding heavier and colder by a few degrees: "Send it over."
Xu Jin shuddered: "…Okay." What happened this time, he seems to be a bit angry today?
Ten minutes later, that "What it means to be Chaotic" was smug that so many of Ah Hao's "fans" came to help her scold this "brain-dead fan" of Rong Xu's, but didn't think that suddenly! Dozens of Weibo accounts suddenly appeared and rained down rebuttals on her akin to a bombing. She was completely lost about what was happening and how the situation changed so fast.
How would she know that the water army accounts that helped her only numbered to around ten while the water army accounts that were currently scolding her added up to more than thirty!
Wanting the water army to yell at people in the dead of night meant spending money.
How much can Han Yanghao afford to buy?
Lotus Seed Paste and Orange Stuffing can buy twice as much as him! And the quality brought was also much higher than his!
***
At the same time, Director Zheng who was resting at home suddenly received a phone call. He immediately got up from bed, went to the balcony, and talked with the other party for over half an hour. When he returned to the room, Director Zheng's wife drowsily opened her eyes and asked: "Who was it ah?"
Director Zheng mysteriously shook his head: "Don't worry about it. I won't be sleeping tonight, there's something I have to do."
Half an hour later, the "Ambush" crew's Weibo which was inactive for a month suddenly posted!
["Ambush" crew: But those who have it, has no conscience.]
The netizens who hadn't slept yet were in an uproar.
Justice is in People's Heart.
——But those who have it, have no conscience.
The author has something to say:
Qin Orangeorange: Baby was scolded! Baby was scolded! Baby was scolded! She called Baby disgusting, she actually even dared to call Rongrong ugly (┙>∧<)┙へ┻┻ !!!
Translator's Corner:
Vian: Lmao and the MVP of this chapter goes too——
namio: I wake up every day for the sole purpose of seeing how much more cutesy Qin Cheng dares to be
Ugly – The raws[吃藕 – Chī ǒu] trans. to "eat lotus root" and it sounds like ugly[丑 – Chǒu] , I also found this cute picture. Some netizen misspelled it and it just stuck around.
Eating melon – Many of you guys should be familiar, it's the same as eating popcorn
Golden Insignia – In the olden days, the Emperor can give someone a golden insignia that can exempt them from death, even if it was the Emperor who ordered it.
185 words – In the original it was 186, but here it's 184, not that far off :v
To reply – [屠版 – tú bǎn] In order to improve the popularity of a post, the poster would reply to all comments to improve the ranking of the post. Another instance would be when someone is spamming a post to "bump it up". It's kinda the same thing where the more likes, views, and comments a post gets, the algorithm would think it's popular and recommend it to more people. It's considered a violation of the forum rules, but under special circumstances where Baidu allows it, it can continue on
So what the netizens is saying, it that since Han Yanhao doesn't even have 1 mil. fans, his fans were probably replying to previous comments to make it look like he received much more.
1s – 1 second
Ugly enough to make people cry – Ugly cry[丑哭 – chǒu kū]; Meaning changes a bit depending on who says it. If you say it yourself, it's more of a joking tone where you say you're ugly enough to want to cry. But it someone else says it, they're insulting you and that you're "ugly enough to make people cry"