Lu Hanbing sat back in his chair in the quiet and dimly lit study, rubbing his tired eyes, reddened from hours of staring at the computer screen.
He felt a headache starting to spread across the back of his head.
For hours now, he had been reading online reports, forums, and social media threads, trying to make sense of the peculiar rumours surrounding him, Elian, and Hirvan.
The situation was escalating rapidly. Initially, Lu Hanbing thought this was a standard smear campaign, someone attempting to tarnish his or Elian's reputation. Eventually, the scope of it began to expand, and Hirvan accidentally was caught in the middle. But when instead of them, Hirvan was under fire, he figured out the target from the start was not them. Anyway, he was not worried much about it and believed the situation would be resolved quickly.
