Not to mention, several people in the break room right now are members of the "Yiyi Fan Club Starlight Branch".

Just because Xie Yizun is the boss’s little brother-in-law, the elite group at Starlight thinks they can’t just stand by and watch the little brother-in-law get smeared over such a ridiculous reason.

Their own kid can’t be subjected to such inexplicable grievances.

Using the Weibo video link Cathy sent, everyone clicked in to leave angry comments, but soon withdrew.

"We’re not helping by doing this." Andy covered his phone, looking serious as he addressed the now composed colleagues beside him, "I just saw that the video of Yiyi being taken advantage of by the boss is already at number twenty-six on the hot search."

"It’s at twenty now," someone corrected.

Andy picked up his phone, took a glance, and found it was indeed true, "Clearly, someone intentionally released this dirt, and even paid for a hot search to defame our Yiyi."

"Your analysis makes sense," said a young man with glasses beside Cathy, "We need to nip this in the bud."

"How do we stop it?" someone asked.

"Did you forget? Our company is a major shareholder of the platform!" The young man with glasses smiled.

With his reminder, everyone reacted, "Right, we can just check who bought the hot search."

"All right, send a representative to report this to Assistant Jin now."

"Haha, I’ll go, I’ll go!" Cathy rose excitedly.

Discovering dirt on the big boss and the little brother-in-law, and coming up with a plan to stop it from spreading, would definitely be a great achievement.

...

"Please go back and thank everyone for me, say I’ll treat everyone to afternoon tea," Assistant Jin said, surprised yet speechless, after hearing Cathy’s report. "I’ll go report to President Shi now."

"Okay, okay, Assistant Jin, please quickly get our little brother-in-law’s hot search removed~" Cathy spoke rapidly, obviously not wanting to waste a second of Assistant Jin’s time.

...

A few minutes later, in Shi Wangyue’s office.

"I’ve had the blacklist applied across the platform," Assistant Jin stood in front of Shi Wangyue’s desk, "Indeed, someone bought the hot search to slander the young master."

"Found out who it is?" Shi Wangyue, holding chopsticks, asked calmly.

"We found out, the money came from a company called ’New World Media Culture Company’. The boss of the company is named Liang, who owns several media companies. New World Media Culture Company was established six years ago, specifically as an MCN organization promoting internet celebrities." In a very short time, Assistant Jin had gathered all the necessary information.

"Who’s managing the company now?" Shi Wangyue continued to ask in a calm voice.

"It’s this Boss Liang herself," Assistant Jin said.

While Assistant Jin was cleaning up the related content across the platform, Lemon Entertainment’s crisis PR quickly followed up.

This PR was simple, formally stating that legal measures have been taken to protect the personal reputation of their trainee, while sternly rebuking netizens for spreading these untrue reports online.

However, such "official clarifications" couldn’t completely dispel the netizens’ doubts,

Because soon netizens found that all of Xie Yizun’s dirt had been completely deleted online.

[If there’s no hidden rule, why delete the posts?!]

[Feeling guilty, aren’t you? Without a benefactor, how could Xie Yizun appear on "Life of a Salted Fish"?]

[To the one upstairs, "Idol 6688" and "Life of a Salted Fish" have a fixed partnership, please get informed!]

[Don’t smear blindly if you don’t understand the situation, okay? Our Yiyi went to "Life of a Salted Fish" purely for face value, Lemon Entertainment’s trainees have previously gone for face time before attending talent shows, and you didn’t smear them then. Why target our Yiyi this year?!]

[I think the benefactor behind this surely has a great background, Lemon Entertainment had to bow down!]

[Who wouldn’t agree, Xie Yizun is indeed good-looking, moreover young, the boss must be intrigued right now~] [Go find a part-time job outside, even that requires a resume, don’t trainees attending talent shows need background checks?! Idol 6688 hasn’t happened yet, I see it’s doomed to fail!]

[...]

National Science University Library.

Ning Youguang took advantage of the fewer people at noon in the library to look for materials, but as she was about to leave after finding them, she suddenly heard faint crying.

She quietly peeked over and found a girl lying on the table, crying.

The girl sobbed so much her body was shaking, yet her sound was intermittent.

It was obvious she was suppressing her voice, not wanting others to hear.

Ning Youguang stood by quietly for a while, then took out a sticky note from her bag, tore off a pink one, and wrote on it with a pen ––

"I don’t know what sadness you’ve encountered, but everything will pass, remember to have dinner after crying. This is the only sweet thing I have with me, eating it will lighten your mood, cheer up duck!"

With just a few strokes, she drew a simple duck at the end of the sentence.

After putting the surplus sticky notes and pen back in her bag, she took out a piece of chocolate from the outer layer, gently walked over to the girl, placed both the note and chocolate down, and left.

The girl, crying uncontrollably, heard the noise and lifted her head, only having time to see a graceful silhouette disappearing at the library door.

...

Eager to gather materials, Ning Youguang, upon leaving the library, planned to look around the nearby canteen for food, when she suddenly received a call from Xie Yizun.

"Yiyi?"

"Sister––" the voice of a child came through the phone, sounding full of grievances.

"What’s up?" Ning Youguang slowed her pace, "Have you eaten?"

"Haven’t eaten." Xie Yizun’s voice was filled with weakness.

"Why haven’t you eaten?" Ning Youguang still didn’t know about her brother being smeared, "Are you upset about anything?"

Xie Yizun said angrily, "I and brother-in-law made it to the hot search!"

"You made it to the hot search?" Ning Youguang said in surprise, "What happened?"

"Yesterday brother-in-law came to the dormitory to pick me up, someone leaked it," Xie Yizun huffed. "That person idiotically said brother-in-law is keeping me."

"..." Ning Youguang really didn’t know what to say, "Did your company handle PR?"

"Handled it." Xie Yizun felt complicated, "News on the platform is also being removed."

"Oh." Ning Youguang said, "This will surely pass quickly, it’s normal for celebrities, the ups and downs, you’ll get used to it after seeing it more."

"But they don’t believe it." Xie Yizun minded about this, "They still say really nasty things."

"Did mom find out?" Ning Youguang asked.

"She did." Xie Yizun said, "I just called her."

"What did mom say?"