Chapter 35 As long as he's not implicated, what Gu Shaonan does is none of his business.

He wondered what idea Zhou Ze had come up with now.

By the time the group returned from lunch, Gu Shaonan's emotions had stabilized, but he kept staring at Ling Yue with a sinister gaze, letting out cold sneers from time to time as if he had a thick glob of phlegm stuck in his throat.

Ling Yue found it amusing; Gu Shaonan was always confident that he could manipulate everyone. She wondered if his sycophantic tactics would still work after this.

Feeling a bit mischievous, she lifted her phone and gave it a gentle shake toward Gu Shaonan, her bright smile full of the cunning of a successful plan.

Gu Shaonan's heart tightened.

He had a bad premonition.

"Gu Shaonan, come here for a moment!"

It just so happened that Supervisor Liao Yifeng suddenly called his name. His tone sounded like a brewing storm, causing Gu Shaonan to feel apprehensive instantly.

Inside the small group chat.

Watching Flowers and Sea: Holy crap, have you guys seen TikTok China?

Bababoei: What?

Huai: ???

Watching Flowers and Sea forwarded a short TikTok China video to the group.

The video content was exactly the entire process of Gu Shaonan acting out and making wild statements at the Western restaurant at noon.

The likes had reached 500,000, with 40,000 comments, almost all of which were cursing Gu Shaonan.

: Useless trash, only knows how to make things difficult for waiters.

: Can't women go to Western restaurants to eat? Just because someone has a bit of money, they get slut-shamed by a person like you. This is fucking disgusting!

: A total loser, what are you shouting for?

: He's useless and trashy himself, only knows how to bully vulnerable groups. A typical bully who preys on the weak, a cancer of society.

: Do you fucking think you're God? Everyone has to yield to you?

: Isn't your mother a woman? Your mouth is so foul, did you eat shit?

: A mad dog barking.

: This kind of man is the most disgusting. He's filthy and wretched himself, so everything he sees is dirty.

: Die, stinking man!

: The restaurant did the right thing. This kind of person should be kicked out; he's defiling the restaurant's environment!

The comments continued to increase, and some people even tracked down his workplace using the ID badge on Gu Shaonan's chest.

Dageng Media had its own video account. At this moment, the comment sections of all short video content on their account were under siege, filled with a chorus of curses.

The matter was escalating.

It had gradually escalated from the fault of one person, Gu Shaonan, to the level of the company having poor judgment and tolerating a malicious employee.

A company and its employees achieve success together.

An employee, by developing on the company's platform, has a channel to improve their experience and receive compensation, which becomes a plus when switching jobs.

And a company, likewise, will be labeled as malicious because of one malicious employee!

There is a mutual influence between the company and the employee.

Dageng Media itself was in the self-media industry and noticed something was wrong the moment the matter blew up. Now public opinion was overwhelmingly one-sided. While the video content itself was infuriating, the fact that it could ferment in such a short time suggested there might be support from competitors.

But the most important thing right now was not to investigate who started this; the root cause was to deal with the culprit who triggered this incident!

Only by soothing the netizens' emotions and proposing a solution could they safely weather the crisis.

However, the higher-ups had guessed one thing wrong.

The one who created this crisis wasn't the so-called netizens or competitors.

It was...

Seeing Gu Shaonan enter the supervisor's office, Ling Yue picked up her phone again.

She found Qu Shu on WeChat: Keep buying Dou+ promotions.

After saying that, she transferred another 50,000 yuan to Qu Shu.

Qu Shu replied: Received!

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"What's wrong with you? You can't even control that foul mouth of yours while eating!" Supervisor Liao Yifeng was naturally furious.

Gu Shaonan was an employee under him. As soon as the incident happened, he had been called to the Vice President's office and given a harsh scolding!

This matter had a very negative impact on the company.

If it wasn't resolved properly, not only would Gu Shaonan lose his job, but he, as the supervisor who couldn't manage his subordinates, might also have to pack his bags and leave!

"Did Ling Yue complain to you?" Gu Shaonan thought to himself. This Ling Yue—didn't she look down on him for complaining to Supervisor Liao Yifeng? Now she had learned this trick too.

Supervisor Liao Yifeng's eyelid twitched wildly. It turned out this person involved was actually completely clueless and didn't even know what the current situation was!

He pulled up the short video on his phone and slammed it onto the table with anger, "See for yourself!"

Gu Shaonan was startled.

He didn't know why Supervisor Liao Yifeng was throwing such a big tantrum.

Gu Shaonan picked up the phone in confusion. When he saw the video content, he only frowned, but as his eyes darted around and saw nearly 600,000 likes, his face instantly turned pale.

He clicked into the comment section. Before he had time to scroll through the comments, he saw 'Everyone is searching for: Dageng Media'.

He tremblingly clicked the keyword, and it jumped to Dageng Media's video account page.

He saw that the videos, which had always had only a few hundred likes and dozens of comments, now had tens of thousands of likes and comments!

His brain exploded with a roar!

Even as slow as he was, he realized that netizens had found his workplace through the short video. The current situation was that because of the netizens' anger, the company's video account was being swarmed.

"How... how did it turn out like this?" Gu Shaonan was both anxious and afraid, his lips trembling. "Boss, I only said a few words back then. I don't know why the video was uploaded."

"Who exactly were you talking about back then?" Supervisor Liao Yifeng was exasperated. In just one noon, he was so angry that he had broken out in pimples!

"Ling Yue! She was also at that restaurant at the time!"

"Then take a close look and see if you can see her in the video!"

Gu Shaonan picked up the phone. The video was five minutes long in total. The camera was facing his table directly. Ling Yue's table could also be seen, but it was blocked by several bouquets of flowers. From beginning to end, only Ling Yue's hand could be seen, but not her face.

Therefore, the effect presented by the video was that he had made things difficult for the waiter and then pointed toward Ling Yue's direction and cursed like a madman, like a lunatic who hated the rich and was misogynistic. But Ling Yue... she hadn't talked back from the start; she had simply called the manager over, and after that, the manager kicked him out of the restaurant.

In the comments below, many people supported 'Ling Yue's' actions, saying she had sought justice for women.

"The group's higher-ups already know about this. Tell me the situation first. When the general meeting is held later, I will fight for lenient treatment for you."

Supervisor Liao Yifeng only wanted the matter to be properly resolved. Only by understanding the entire process of the incident could he know how to extricate himself and propose a plan to minimize the impact on the company so that he could be safe.

As for lenient treatment?

That was all bullshit.

As long as he wasn't implicated, what happened to Gu Shaonan was none of his business.