137: Chapter 137 The Entertainment Industry's "Complete Internet Ban"

Sun Qian's voice wasn't loud, but it carried an irrepressible excitement.

She shoved her phone screen in front of a few girls; the bold black headline was exceptionally glaring.

"Shocking! Out-of-town tycoon brings underworld forces into the capital, beats up actress Liu Feifei in the street!"

Below it were several paparazzi photos taken from tricky angles.

In the pictures, Chen Fan's figure was blurry, but the image of Liu Feifei crying while covering her face was captured clearly.

Dozens of bodyguards in black stood in a row, which further confirmed the claims of "underworld involvement."

The comment section had already exploded.

"Investigate! Must investigate thoroughly! Since when is it the capital's turn for such people to run wild?"

"Heart aches for Feifei, it's not easy for a girl."

"@PeacefulCapital, time to get to work!"

The girls looked on with delight.

"Serves her right! Let her use Kangkang as a seat cushion, now she's suffering the consequences!"

"These nouveau riche have no substance. They get a little money and forget their own name. How dare they be so arrogant in the capital?"

Sun Qian retracted her phone, looking at Chen Nianyao, who was still sketching not far away, a look of undisguised mockery on her face.

"Just wait and see. The waters in the capital run deep. Her family won't be able to jump around for much longer."

Chen Nianyao didn't hear their discussion, but her phone kept vibrating.

It was a message in the dorm group chat; several roommates were frantically tagging her, sending all those news links.

She clicked to take a look, and her brows furrowed.

How could these people spout such nonsense?

Dad was clearly just protecting Mom.

She put away her drawing board, picked up the bag that had been used as a seat cushion, and walked quickly toward home.

...

In the courtyard, the atmosphere was somewhat heavy.

Su Wanqing was holding a tablet, her chest heaving with anger.

She was pregnant, so her emotions were already sensitive, and seeing the unsightly insults online made her eyes redden.

"How can they twist the truth like this? Fan Zi, we must issue a statement to clarify immediately!"

Chen Fan was sitting by the fish pond in the courtyard, slowly scattering fish food.

The koi in the pond scrambled for the food, creating ripples on the water's surface.

He turned a deaf ear to the storm online.

"Clarify?"

Chen Fan smiled, scattering all the fish food in his hand into the pond.

"Why reason with a group of flies paid to do a job?"

He stood up, walked over to Su Wanqing, took the tablet, and casually turned it off.

"Don't look at this garbage, it affects the prenatal education."

He helped Su Wanqing sit on a stone bench, then took out his phone and dialed the number of the Legal Department director of Huihuang Group.

"Old Zhou."

A steady voice came from the other end of the line: "Boss, what are your orders?"

"Initiate the 'Skynet' plan."

Chen Fan's tone was as flat as if he were talking about the weather.

"I want all false statements about me and my family online to disappear within half an hour."

"Understood. Should we follow the traditional PR process and send lawyer letters as a warning?"

"Lawyer letters?"

Chen Fan scoffed.

"Those are for civilized people. To deal with mad dogs, you need a stick."

He looked at the centuries-old locust tree in the courtyard, his voice turning cold.

"Notify everyone; the Legal Department will work overtime. Lock onto the two thousand marketing accounts and internet trolls that have posted, reposted, or commented on this incident over five hundred times. Don't bother with warnings; file lawsuits directly with the Internet Court and calculate the compensation amount to the maximum."

Old Zhou on the other end gasped.

Two thousand lawsuits at once?

This workload was equivalent to using the entire Legal Department as a server.

"Boss, this... the cost is too high."

"My time cost is more expensive than the lives of all of them combined."

Chen Fan interrupted him.

"Also, notify all media platforms, video sites, and social apps that have advertising partnerships with us. Within half an hour, block all films, variety shows, and songs produced by Huaying Media. For those that can't do it, Huihuang Group will permanently terminate all cooperation with them and withdraw all advertising placements."

Old Zhou was silent for three seconds, and then a spirited response came.

"Yes! Boss! Guarantee to complete the task!"

Hanging up the phone, the Legal Department of the entire Huihuang Group headquarters was brightly lit, like a war machine instantly activated.

Countless lawsuits were generated as templates and poured into the Internet Court's servers through dedicated lines like a tidal wave.

At the same time, the top twenty app operators in the country received an "ultimatum" from Huihuang Group almost simultaneously.

At the headquarters of a certain short video platform, the operations director looked at the strongly worded email, cold sweat dripping.

"Director, what should we do? Huaying Media is our top content provider, and Liu Feifei's exclusive live streaming contract is still with us."

"What should we do?"

The director slapped the table.

"Huihuang Group spent nine hundred million on information feed ads with us last year! You ask me what to do? Take them down immediately! All of them! Not a single one can stay!"

A similar scene played out on all major platforms simultaneously.

The #Out-of-town tycoon involved in underworld# hashtag, which was hanging at the top of the hot search list a second ago, disappeared without a trace from the list the next second.

Countless netizens were enjoying the drama, but when they refreshed, the posts were gone.

Searching for the keywords yielded no results.

They turned to check the video sites to watch the brainless drama starring Liu Feifei, only to find the search results blank.

"What the hell? What's going on? Are my eyes failing me?"

"Was Huaying Media sucked into a black hole? I just topped up my membership!"

The online world was in an uproar.

Meanwhile, the culprit, Liu Feifei, was triumphantly applying a face mask in the nanny van, waiting to watch Chen Fan's reputation be ruined.

At this moment, her phone rang.

The caller ID was her real backer, the chairman of Huaying Media — Chen Tianba.

"Feifei, you went a bit too far this time."

The voice on the other end carried a hint of dissatisfaction.

"Godfather! He hit me first!"

Liu Feifei acted spoiled.

"Besides, public opinion is on our side now. He's from out of town; can he really turn the world upside down?"

Chen Tianba snorted coldly, his tone full of the arrogance of a local tyrant in the capital.

"Turn the world upside down? He can't even stir up a wave."

"I just received news that he had his people take all our company's works off the entire network. Heh, it's laughably childish. Does he think this is playing house in Yunzhou? This is the capital!"

Liu Feifei laughed after hearing this: "Exactly! Who does he think he is?"

"Don't worry about it."

Chen Tianba's voice held a hint of ruthlessness.

"If he wants to play, I'll play with him. An out-of-towner dares to run wild on my turf?"

He paused and said in a tone of passing judgment.

"Tell him the game has just begun. Tomorrow morning, I want him to come and beg me on his knees."