Chapter 15: The Weibo War

Ling Xiaoli didn’t give Wang Yun a chance to say anything. She decisively hung up the phone, feeling satisfied from head to toe, as if her very soul had been elevated!

Ever since learning about the original owner’s situation, Ling Xiaoli had been holding a grudge deep inside.

She didn’t know whether it was the lingering influence of the original owner’s soul or simply her own sense of justice acting up.

In any case, from planning to execution, Ling Xiaoli had never been this efficient in her entire life!

Now that everything had settled, how could she possibly describe the feeling with just one word:爽!

While Ling Xiaoli was feeling absolutely fantastic, the entire internet was exploding.

It was as if someone had thrown a live, enormous grass carp into a wok of boiling oil. At that very moment, the end of the world couldn’t have been much worse.

The first to bear the brunt were the countless viewers in her livestream. They had been enjoying the spectacle when the screen suddenly went black.

—[Holy crap, it’s gone?]

—[What happened? Black screen? Lili, are you okay?!]

—[A livestream accident?]

—[Hey, this is interesting. I’m going to Weibo to watch the drama!]

—[Not every contract is valid. If deception, coercion, or similar circumstances existed during the signing process, the contract may be deemed invalid. I provide professional legal services 24 hours a day!]

—[Count me in, fellow lawyer! Let’s go watch the drama together!]

……

The viewers dispersed, but the news spread like a virus.

When Ling Xiaoli’s challenge began, some people had already started taking screenshots or recording the livestream.

Photos of Ling Xiaoli’s real face spread everywhere in an incredibly short amount of time.

Then Weibo exploded too. Related posts shot up the trending searches at an astonishing speed.

Three of the top fifteen trending topics were related to Ling Xiaoli.

3. #Lili’sRealFaceRevealed#

7. #LittleTownJiangnanSoundsSoGood#

15. #SkyHighContractTerminationFee#

The seventh and fifteenth topics aside, the third one continued to rise at a speed visible to the naked eye, looking as if it was headed straight for the number-one spot.

—[Damn, someone this beautiful was forced to get plastic surgery? Am I the only one who can’t keep up with the times?]

—[Everyone, I have a bold idea.]

—[An internet celebrity revealed her face and didn’t get exposed as a fraud!]

—[She probably turned off one filter and turned on another, right? How am I supposed to believe a woman can naturally look this good?]

—[Are you all blind? It’s obviously confirmed plastic surgery!]

……

But just as Ling Xiaoli’s trending topic was gaining momentum, the company made its move.

First, the trending topic about the “sky-high contract termination fee” disappeared completely.

Then, negative stories about Ling Xiaoli suddenly began appearing all over the internet.

Although most of them were old rumors.

—[I have a friend who went to university with Ling Xiaoli. They told me she was already fooling around with multiple guys back in college. Her boyfriend had no idea how many times he’d been cheated on. If Ling Xiaoli hadn’t eventually become someone’s kept woman, her boyfriend probably wouldn’t have even brought up breaking up!]

—[Hey, I happened to be passing by a Home Inn that day and saw Ling Xiaoli entering with Mr. W from ZY.]

—[Everyone in the livestreaming circle knows this, okay? Ling Xiaoli has a fixed price. Pay enough, and you can sleep with her.]

Of course, there were also some new rumors among the negative stories.

For example: The company had worked hard to cultivate her, but Ling Xiaoli was an ungrateful ingrate who turned her back on the company as soon as she became successful.

Accompanying this message were supposedly internal documents and data, presented with such convincing detail that quite a few people believed them.

Finally, when news broke that a certain celebrity in the entertainment industry was suspected of being pregnant, Ling Xiaoli ultimately failed to push her trending topic to the number-one spot. It stopped at number two on the trending list.

After all, this wasn’t a livestream fiasco. If she had truly embarrassed herself on camera, the attention would have been much greater, and she would have been almost guaranteed the top spot.

Even so, the incident had caused a certain degree of impact.

In the eyes of most people, neither internet celebrities nor major companies were particularly trustworthy. So instead of taking sides, they chose to criticize both.

Fans and haters alike were going at each other in the comments under the Weibo account Meng Meng Meng Ya Li.

But that Weibo account belonged to Maoya Company, so Ling Xiaoli was happy not to see any of it.

In fact, Ling Xiaoli didn’t really care what others thought of her, because her primary goal had already been achieved.

She had increased her screen time.

She had participated in the storyline involving Little Cutie’s new song release.

And finally, she had taken the opportunity to disgust Maoya Company on behalf of the original owner.

Absolutely perfect!

As for the “war” between her and the company, there was still plenty of time for that!