74: Chapter 74 SM Lawyer's Letter? We're Not Afraid!

Lijiang Bus Station.

The morning mist carried a chill, and there weren't many people in the waiting hall.

Yan Yu clutched three bus tickets to Shangri-La, sitting on a plastic chair.

"Buzz——"

The phone vibrated continuously.

Yan Yu unlocked her screen and opened the email.

A PDF attachment.

The header featured huge bold characters in both Chinese and Korean.

Sender: The China Representative Office of South Korea's Sejong Law Firm. Fully entrusted by SM Entertainment headquarters.

Yan Yu quickly scrolled down the screen.

The charges filled an entire page.

Fabricating facts, infringing on reputation rights, malicious rumors, and leaking core commercial secrets of a multinational corporation.

Her gaze lingered on the Arabic numerals on the last page.

Claim amount: 20 million RMB.

Demands: Delete all related videos, roadmap, and long analysis articles across the entire network within twenty-four hours, and record an apology video of no less than three minutes pinned to the top of all networks.

Otherwise, multinational judicial proceedings will be initiated immediately, and asset freezing will be applied for.

After reading the last line of text, Yan Yu's hand stayed on the screen, trembling uncontrollably.

Twenty million.

She was just a student at the Dance Academy.

Brother Cai was a dancer who shot short videos, and A-Li was a photographer.

This number was simply too much for them!

"What's wrong?" Brother Cai sensed something was wrong and turned to look at Yan Yu.

A-Li leaned over, glanced at the numbers on the screen, and gasped.

...

At the same time.

Shanghai. Inside the e-sports room.

Wang Wenjian's live broadcast room had just been unbanned for less than ten hours.

Facing the microphone, he was organizing the overseas support videos received yesterday when a system mail window suddenly popped up in the bottom right corner of the computer.

Opening it, it was shockingly an identical cross-border legal notice.

Claim amount: 15 million.

Not just him.

Bilibili music section Top 100 UP host "Acoustic Madman", the big V on Zhihu who dug out SM Entertainment's financial report data, those fansites who organized "Su Chen's Wandering Roadmap", and even the former South Korean employee on the foreign network who exposed secrets using a meal card.

All of them received this legal document stamped with a red seal.

SM Entertainment launched the ultimate contingency plan.

Using capital to pile up a massive multinational legal machine, directly bypassing the network platform's post-deletion mechanism to implement targeted strikes on all core voicing nodes.

They were unreasonable and disregarded their reputation.

They just smashed money.

The news spread rapidly across the entire network.

Wang Wenjian directly projected the legal notice onto the very center of his live broadcast room.

Hundreds of thousands of online water friends looked at that terrifying claim figure, and the public screen experienced a brief stagnation.

Oppressive.

Suffocating.

[Are they playing for real? Fifteen million, isn't this trying to kill someone!]

[This is the confidence of a multinational chaebol. They have dozens or hundreds of full-time lawyers to accompany you in lawsuits every day, and ordinary people can't even afford lawyer fees.]

[Wang, stop broadcasting, hurry up and delete the video to stay safe. If this kind of lawsuit drags on for a few years, it will drag people into bankruptcy.]

[I just forwarded the video of Dali in my WeChat Moments, will I also be sued? I'm panicking, brothers.]

[What do ordinary people have to go head-to-head with capital? God Su was forced to sign fifty billion back then, and now it's our turn.]

[...]

Panic began to spread.

Cracks appeared in the voices of crusade.

When facing the threat of losing everything, shrinking back is an instinct.

This was precisely the effect Kim Young-min wanted.

Strike down the leaders, and the rest will naturally shut up.

Bus station waiting hall.

Brother Cai looked at Yan Yu's trembling hand and cursed foully.

"What the hell is there to be afraid of? I'll go back and sell my house in Shanghai to pay this money for you."

A-Li gritted his teeth: "At worst, I'll abandon my account and fight them to the end."

Yan Yu took a deep breath.

Staring at the "20 million" on her phone screen.

Flashes of the footage from Banxia Bar's surveillance last night crossed her mind.

That figure in a black windbreaker sat alone in the corner drinking plain water. Borrowing an old guitar with a broken string, he finished playing the tune, put down the money, and walked into the wind and rain.

Back then, what he faced was fifty billion South Korean won, plus joint lawsuits that ruined the futures of his junior labelmates.

When he signed the slave contract, did his hands tremble?

When he was moving bricks at construction sites and fixing gearboxes at auto repair shops, did he ever think of backing down?

Yan Yu's finger pressed the screenshot button.

Opened her Douyin homepage.

Clicked to publish a new post, uploading the legal notice screenshot.

There was no need to write a long essay or make excuses.

There were only two words and a punctuation mark in the text box.

[Bring it on!]

The moment this post was published, it was directly captured by the platform's algorithm and pushed to the trending list.

...

Yanjing.

Junhe Law Firm.

Senior Partner Zhou Zhengdong didn't sleep all night.

The ashtray on the table was stuffed with cigarette butts.

He stared at Yan Yu's updated post on the computer screen and stubbed out the half-smoked cigarette in his hand into the ashtray.

He stood up, picked up the suit jacket on the table, and put it on.

"Notify the whole team." Senior Partner Zhou Zhengdong looked at his peers in the conference room. "Let's get to work."

Two minutes later.

A forwarded post with a golden V certification appeared below Yan Yu's [Bring it on!] post.

"[Beijing Junhe Law Firm Senior Partner Senior Partner Zhou Zhengdong]: This legal notice is full of format loopholes and the applicable legal provisions are wrong. You call this a legal notice? I treat it as toilet paper. I'll take this case. For free."

A single stone stirs up a thousand waves!

Followed closely behind.

"[Shanghai Fangda Law Firm Partner Li Wei]: The letter received by Acoustic Madman is suspected of intimidation. I'll take this case. For free."

"[Guangzhou King & Wood Mallesons Senior Counsel Chen Ming]: Wang Wenjian's live broadcast room case, I'll take it. For free."

"[Shenzhen Zhong Lun Law Firm Wang Jian]: Let me popularize some knowledge. Without a judgment from a Chinese court, a cross-border legal notice has no mandatory enforcement power at all. SM Entertainment extensively sends letters without factual basis, interfering with the freedom of speech of our country's netizens. The fifty-person legal team hereby declares: All netizens who received legal notices for speaking out are all included in our joint agency list. Not only is it free, but we will also add accusations of 'abuse of litigation rights' against you in the counter-complaint."

Fifty top-tier senior lawyers ranked at the forefront domestically.

Fifty gold V-verified accounts.

Lining up to reply in threads beneath the voices on major platforms.

They didn't even need the victims to contact them proactively, directly and publicly announcing they would take over.

The internet, which was filled with panic and deathly silence a few minutes ago, was completely detonated at this moment!

Emotions rebounded from rock bottom, turning into a carnival wave that swept away everything.

[Did you see that! What is called a national-level backing!]

[Fifty senior counsels from Red Circle firms fighting for free, what do you SM Entertainment use to play!]

[Bringing a piece of scrap paper to China's territory to scare Chinese people? Do you think our legal team is a pushover!]

[What about multinational capital? China's top elite team will rub you against the ground!]

[Long live the legal team! I'm going to repost the Dali surveillance video right now, if you have the guts send a letter to sue me! I have fifty senior counsels behind me!]

[Did God Su see this! No one will back down! Welcome him home!]

[Welcome him home!!!]

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