64: Shallow essays illuminate the dark life

"Oh?" Director Wang's gaze slightly narrowed.

"Tell me the entire development and process of this matter, from beginning to end!"

Chief Editor Liu quickly recounted the words Cai Chenggong had said when he came to find him, then how he wrote the article, all the way until the popularity inexplicably fermented online.

From beginning to end, he didn't dare to omit a single detail, telling Director Wang everything.

After hearing Chief Editor Liu's words.

Director Wang leaned back in his chair, his pen gently tapping on the desk.

He was silent for a long time.

"It seems there's a master at Liyang Middle School!" Director Wang sighed, speaking slowly.

"What??" Chief Editor Liu was slightly stunned, looking at Director Wang beside him with some confusion.

Director Wang's expression was slightly solemn as he spoke to Chief Editor Liu beside him.

"Liu, have you never thought about why this matter suddenly gained popularity online?"

"Your meaning is?" Chief Editor Liu's expression also gradually became serious.

"Public opinion needs to be guided!" Director Wang looked deeply at Chief Editor Liu.

"Liu, you are one of the Master's Students in Journalism, you should understand this kind of thing better than I do!"

"I understand." Chief Editor Liu nodded.

"Then it seems this matter was most likely done by Qian Cheng from Liyang Middle School." Chief Editor Liu's face didn't look good.

"You made the first move, are you not allowing others to retaliate?" Director Wang glanced at Chief Editor Liu.

Chief Editor Liu's expression froze slightly.

"Alright, stop saying useless things like holding grudges. First, think of a way to shift the popularity. Also, remember to call that Cai Chenggong and explain the situation clearly."

"After all, his brother-in-law's rank is high enough. If we can avoid offending him, try your best not to offend him!" Director Wang said indifferently to Chief Editor Liu.

"Understood!" Chief Editor Liu nodded.

"Alright, go think of a solution!" Director Wang also had a headache.

This kind of matter was truly very troublesome.

The internet is an emerging media. While their traditional print media has greater authority, in terms of reach and influence, it is far less influential than the internet, especially compared to their local print media.

What's more, they, as a local media outlet, had no way to interfere with things on the internet.

Furthermore, having fermented to this extent, it had already attracted the attention of the higher-ups.

What should he do?

Director Wang sighed slightly, helplessness showing in his eyes.

His position as director was really too low in administrative rank.

It always attracted all sorts of messy, nonsensical matters. What could he do?

He had to find a way to suppress the messes created by the people above, otherwise, his time as director would be over!

On the other side.

Chief Editor Liu returned to his office and pondered for a moment.

He dialed Cai Chenggong's number.

"Hello!" After connecting, Chief Editor Liu roughly explained the online situation and Director Wang's guess to Cai Chenggong.

Then he subtly hinted to Cai Chenggong that now was the time to let his brother-in-law step in, if this matter couldn't be resolved as soon as possible.

It was very likely that Cai Chenggong would also be dragged down by the popularity.

After hearing Chief Editor Liu's words, Cai Chenggong was silent for a long time.

"I understand." Without making any special moves, Cai Chenggong simply responded coldly.

Chief Editor Liu was slightly stunned. He had originally thought Cai Chenggong would reprimand him. He didn't expect to be let off so easily?

At this moment, Chief Editor Liu cautiously wanted to say something else.

Over there, Cai Chenggong had already hung up the phone.

Hearing the sound of the phone hanging up, Chief Editor Liu felt somewhat annoyed, but also relieved.

Serving this kind of person was originally an extremely troublesome matter.

If he didn't want to deal with him, wasn't that a good thing for himself?

The problem now was how to eliminate the impact.

Chief Editor Liu somewhat irritably opened his computer and logged into Weibo.

His Weibo account, which only had a few hundred followers before, now had thousands, but the private messages cursing him had long since reached 99+.

Chief Editor Liu didn't even dare to open his Weibo to look at the messages, afraid his mentality would explode.

Those netizens really cursed without using vulgarities, but they would bring up family members at the drop of a hat.

He couldn't stand this.

Truly vicious!

Chief Editor Liu sighed with emotion about that Qian Cheng.

The means of counterattack were decisive and sharp; he didn't hold back at all.

Amazing, truly amazing.

However...

At this moment, Chief Editor Liu suddenly thought of something.

In the future, won't this kind of online attack method start to become widespread?

Then, at that time...

Thinking of that kind of future, Chief Editor Liu broke out in a cold sweat.

Cai Chenggong's face was gloomy.

Actually, he didn't need Chief Editor Liu to call him; he had been keeping an eye on this matter all along.

Moreover, in the versions circulating online, he had been mentioned quite a few times, so he couldn't escape at all.

He called his brother-in-law, who said he had specifically sent someone to investigate.

This matter exploding in popularity was indeed being pushed by a force behind it.

However, that force was very mysterious, and even his brother-in-law couldn't trace the person behind it, but Qian Cheng was definitely one of the main people responsible.

Furthermore, according to his brother-in-law, this trending topic on the internet was difficult to remove.

If this trending topic was removed, it was very likely to trigger a wave of traffic rebound.

The best method was to reduce the popularity and handle it coldly.

But Cai Chenggong couldn't swallow this anger!

Qian Cheng!

This guy actually dared to refute him!

No way!

He had to think of a way to attack Qian Cheng!

The best method was to denounce that essay as utterly worthless!

As long as that essay was worthless.

Then Qian Cheng, who insisted on giving that essay a perfect score, would naturally be the biggest clown!

So how could he make that essay worthless?

He should find a certain big V to stand up for him!

Analyze the problems with that essay!

Use the big V's influence to kill that son of a gun!

Having thought this through, Cai Chenggong's face became slightly twisted.

After pondering for a moment, Cai Chenggong called a certain big V. That big V was quite famous on the internet and was also a local from Gan Province, but had been doing very well in Shanghai these past few years.

It was said he had well over a million followers on Weibo.

He was also previously an editor at a TV station.

After Cai Chenggong spoke with that big V on the phone and clarified his needs and problems.

The big V immediately agreed completely.

Of course, money couldn't be less.

After all, they needed to eat!

Soon, that big V posted a public relations article.

"A Shallow Essay Reflects a Bleak Life."

In the long article, Lu Xiaoxu said that he had seen that perfect score essay online, and with curiosity and anticipation for the title, he opened the essay.

The result was that he only saw empty words and an article completely lacking in substance and meaning.

Is this the perfect score essay from Gan Province?

In this long article, Lu Xiaoxu deeply analyzed Guo Hao's essay.