Chapter 38

In the early morning, Wen Zichen took the medicine and fell asleep.

Xia Ting entered the guest room late and looked at Wen Zichen, probably because he was still having a fever, Wen Zichen's face was still abnormally red, but his lips were bloodless.

He slept unsteadily, as if he had experienced something painful in his dreams, and from time to time his body suddenly trembled and his eyebrows raised in discomfort.

Xia Tingwan watched, a complex look gradually appeared in his eyes, and walked out of the guest room without a sound.

The doctor must have been busy cleaning the wound and bandaging it for a long time. When he came out tiredly, he told Xia Tingwan that not only did Wen Zichen have many small traumatic injuries, but also the laceration of his lower body was very serious. entered.

Xia Tingwan sat at the dining table and drank coffee while listening. Hearing this, he paused for a while, but in the end he just nodded.

He kept an eye on it, and didn't forget to tell Aunt Rong to wait for the police to come over to issue an injury inspection report, and then ask the doctor to write an injury inspection report, which might be used in the future.

Auntie Rong was a little surprised, and only responded after looking at him twice.

Xia Ting got up late and took a few mouthwashes. Looking at himself in the mirror, he only felt that his face was surprisingly calm.

He knew why Auntie Rong was surprised, but in just a few days, he had changed too much.

On the morning when Su Yan just disappeared, the scene of him kneeling in pain and collapsing in the snow was as distant as a dusty gray dream.

All those helplessness and sadness were contained in his heart, and then in the cold corridor last night, he silently exhaled with the choking smell of smoke.

When he returned to this world again, in front of everyone, he was so calm and indifferent that it was not like that Xia Ting Wan before.

Perhaps as Xu Zhe said, he is indeed sensitive and fragile, but in his bones, he also has a toughness that can't be crushed no matter what.

Xia Tingwan sent all the information that Wen Zichen told him orally last night to Secretary Lu, reminding Secretary Lu that Su Yan must take precautions against Ye Bingwen.

Secretary Lu replied that he had received it, but other than that, he had not given him any news of Su Yan.

However, Xia Tingwan seems to have been numb to this disappointment. After he dressed, he got into Zhao Nanshu's car to find Zhou Yang. Today is the time to start the team's counter-offensive public opinion. No matter how many other things have in mind, still have to meet Zhou Yang.

While in the car, he also sent a WeChat message to Xing Le: "I have to see you on something important, are you in City H?"

Perhaps feeling that Xing Le might not return just by saying this, he added: "I have something about you in my hand."

Xing Le's video is certainly useful.

Wen Zichen was probably confused and with an instinctive hatred, he dug out some things from Ye Bingwen's mobile phone and saved them. He knew that Xing Le was a star, that's all, he didn't know how to use this. video.

But Xia Tingwan is also in the circle. He knows how powerful the video in his hand is.

Just thinking that he could so calmly weigh and think about how such a video could be used for him, even Xia Tingwan felt a chill in his heart.

But if it is necessary, if Ye Bingwen will really threaten Su Yan, then he must be tough.

...

There were a lot of people coming and going in Zhou Yang's studio today. Xia Ting was too lazy to talk to anyone, so he hid in the smoking room and smoked quietly by himself.

After a while, Zhou Yang walked in with his notebook: "I'm almost ready, I let the team outside start?"

"Well." Xia Ting nodded late, put out the cigarette in the ashtray, and glanced at the laptop screen.

The above is his Weibo account of a long-time movie fan. It shows that a nine-picture long Weibo with rich pictures and texts was posted in the middle of the night last night, but after one night, there were only a dozen retweets, which looked very pitiful.

Zhou Yang nodded and sent a few words in the WeChat group: "Let's start."

"It was posted last night? But why didn't you start the operation right away?" Xia Tingwan asked suddenly.

"You're speaking in layman's language." Zhou Yang smiled slightly: "Since I chose to post from the angle of a fan account rather than an official statement, we must give people a sense that this public opinion outbreak is sudden and real. I feel that if a Weibo article of a few thousand followers is immediately retweeted, it would be too suspicious. It seems that we are manually controlling the field, even if we are not insiders, eating melons with a little brain. The masses will feel suspicious about this matter.”

Xia Tingwan nodded in agreement, opened the article and read it again seriously.

I found that the comparison articles that Zhou Yang and the others prepared to send out for a few days are indeed very detailed, and they are not from the perspective of professionals. There was an uneasy sound.

"It's really well written."

Xia Tingwan said sincerely.

"Well." Zhou Yang turned on the Bluetooth headset, apparently listening to the public relations team outside reporting the progress. He responded while looking down at the time on the watch.

While speaking, Zhou Yang cut the interface to a previously prepared Weibo page of an entertainment blogger with 70,000 to 80,000 fans. He didn't say anything about standing in line, but only sent a few words "Is there a reversal?" and then accompanied it with an emoji of eating melons.

Xia Tingwan carefully looked at the webpage with Zhou Yang. This entertainment blogger is usually very active. He often struggles in the front line of eating melons and writing jokes, and he has a lot of fans.

As soon as this Weibo was retweeted, more than 200 posts were retweeted in almost ten minutes.

Zhou Yang looked serious, refreshed the page to see the number of retweets, and then whispered into the earphone: "How's the reading volume?"

After hearing the numbers, Zhou Yang seemed satisfied, nodded and said in a low voice, "Let the Weibo on the first floor prepare to end according to the schedule."

"The first floor?" Xia Tingwan couldn't help being curious about this term.

"Yes." Zhou Yang lowered his head and quickly entered something in the WeChat group, and then raised his head and explained to Xia Tingwan: "We have to create a—how to say, a more realistic communication arc in terms of communication science. Line. The first person to post a comparison article was a movie fan with only a few thousand fans, so after more than ten hours, that is, now, we introduced an entertainment blogger who paid attention to this fan to forward it. This entertainment blogger has seven With more than 10,000 fans, we selected a few tubas from his interpersonal circle who were more influential than him and who interacted closely with him, and started to repost them. This is the first circle where we really began to spread radiation. At this level, we have a very tight grasp on the big Vs who make their voices, and even the time of their Weibo posts has been communicated in advance. "

Zhou Yang said and refreshed the Weibo page. After a while, the forwarding volume of that long Weibo was increasing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Zhou Yang glanced down at the watch again, and nodded with satisfaction while listening to the report of the team outside in the headset.

Xia Tingwan sat obediently beside Zhou Yang like a student. When he was done, he asked again, "So is there a second floor?"

"certainly."

Zhou Yang nodded, he seemed a little surprised that Xia Tingwan asked so carefully, and continued to explain in detail: "The first-level speeches arranged by us have spread, and the influence of these people is the first The audience radiated by time is the second floor. Ting Wan, please note that when we reach the second floor, we cannot strictly control everyone who makes a sound, because the news is too widely radiated. At this stage More big Vs will end, and so will the melon eaters. They will be affected and their remarks will cross each other. Therefore, after reaching the second floor, our strategy will change, from controlling to guiding public opinion. The previous arrangement A good navy will post comments on the more important big V's forwarding and control the field, and the likes and so on have already been bought, and I will monitor the whole process, don't worry."

Xia Tingwan had never listened to Zhou Yang's explanation of this matter so seriously. She was not interested in it before, and felt that it was unnecessary to know.

It was only now that realized that it turned out to be just a hot event operation, which required such a careful deployment.

Zhou Yang, who is sitting beside him, is like a central brain that is performing precise calculations, and instructions are passed down layer by layer like a flowing water.

In this small studio, a battlefield without gunpowder is going on.

Xia Tingwan stared blankly at the soaring forwarding and comments on the page.

At this moment, he should have been excited, but he felt dazed for some reason.

While waiting, Xia Tingwan unconsciously opened a long Weibo for comparison. He didn't know how to spread and how to control public opinion.

The only thing he can do is to prove himself as an actor.

In this brilliant article, the core point of view is what he provided to Zhou Yang before.

When an actor is performing, he can make the audience empathize with the play, and every subtle action must have an inherent emotional logic. This logic comes from the actor's understanding of the characters and the situation, and there must also be a director to give appropriate guidance and scheduling.

For a master director like Xu Zhe, for every scene of Xiao Xia in "Whale Talk", he can separate every minute and every second of the subtle emotional changes, and then feed it to Xia Tingwan little by little.

It is precisely because of this that Xiao Xia's subtle movements of tears in "Whale Talk" are definitely different from the real Xia Tingwan's true feelings in the interview, because the emotional logic in it is different.

Xia Tingwan had a keen insight into this after repeatedly watching the clips and tidbits of "Whale Talk".

In the movie, Xiao Xia's cry, chronologically speaking, is to lower her head, tremble all over, and after a series of struggles, she raised her head and shed tears directly facing the camera close-up.

Anyone who has watched "Whale Talk" can feel the inner context of this performance. Xiao Xia, who was repeatedly domestically abused, thought that the teacher was the only source of love in his life, but he didn't expect the teacher to choose after knowing his sexuality. Tell Xiao Xia's abuser's father, even knowing how badly Xiao Xia will be beaten.

Xiao Xia witnessed this scene through the crack of the door. She first bowed her head in pain and trembled, and then raised her head to look at the camera and shed tears. Nothing to say.

These tears are sad and tragic.

Because at this moment, Xiao Xia already has the death intention to jump into the sea in her heart.

So Xia Tingwan's performance was the same. He raised his head when he cried.

Facing the close-up teardrops is more like a metaphor for facing the last trace of warmth in the world and shattering it.

And this kind of performance, if it is like the editing and presentation of "On the Road" in the footage, it will be distorted.

The program crew first cut his defenseless conversation with Xing Le about his marriage with Su Yan in the front, but he didn't cry at that time, then cut his head down and trembled, then raised his head and stared at the camera in silence Cry for a few seconds.

This kind of clip, at first glance, will indeed be taken away.

But in fact, if you think about it carefully in the real situation, you will suddenly find that this does not conform to emotional logic at all.

When talking about emotional weaknesses in an interview, no normal person would choose to look up at the camera and cry for a few seconds after answering the question.

The response was too dramatic, too performative.

The very existence of the lens is a kind of torture, a searing gaze and attention.

People subconsciously avoid self-soft wounds under such attention. This is the instinct of self-preservation and the truth of human nature.

So if he really talks about Su Yan's tears on the show, he must have his head down or sideways to avoid the camera. It is absolutely impossible to look straight ahead and cry for a few seconds like Xiao Xia did. This is too contrary. human nature.

By comparing the two in this way, it is obvious that there are doubts about what is presented in the clip.

When he discovered this, Xia Tingwan was very excited. When he called Zhou Yang, although Zhou Yang praised him for being careful, he didn't seem to be particularly impressed by it.

He didn't think too much about it then.

Xia Tingwan refreshed the page, glanced at the amazing forwarding volume, and couldn't help but click on the comment.

He was worried that the hot comments were the operation of Zhou Yang's team, so he deliberately chose to display them by time, starting from those ordinary comments with 0 likes.

"Eating melons and watching, I feel that the fans' writing is indeed suspicious. If it was edited maliciously by the program team, it would be really disgusting."

"Wait for the reversal, in fact, even talking about the ex-husband's tears, it's not a big deal. Suddenly, it really feels like someone is leading the rhythm.

"Tell me weakly, it wasn't too dark at first, I thought it was normal for Xia Jiazi to be a little bigger, after all, is it the actor's first show in a variety show?"

"Reading this article reminded me of the shock of watching "Whale Talk" back then. I have to shout out - Xia Tingwan's absolute strength in acting, and now every popular niche student dares to boast that his acting skills surpass him."

"Finally waited until the reversal! I want to say that there have been people who have been scolding big names before, in fact, after Xia Ting became popular in the evening, he has always been that character, okay? They were originally talented actors who were arrogant and self-willed, but it's actually nothing good. Surprisingly."

"Xia Ting Wan Yan powder is here."

"To be fair, Xia Tingwan doesn't have anything else, only drunk driving is the biggest black spot, okay?"

Xia Tingwan quickly scrolled through the comments, only when she saw the one about drunk driving, did she suddenly feel shocked.

The Weibo page was left in the comment column, and he stared at the computer screen blankly, but felt more and more confused and empty.

"The wind comment has changed, right? Many people are starting to sway. At this time, no brainer and black comments will start to be trampled."

Zhou Yang saw that he was watching, a trace of satisfaction flashed in his eyes, and he said in a low voice, "This is just the first and second layers of public opinion radiating for a while, and we will release the batch of the official account at night, and the public opinion will still be there. It will continue to ferment under our guidance. When the time comes, the public opinion will force the program team to explain. Now the situation is generally under control. When the public opinion is completely overturned, everyone will have a better opinion of you than before you were hacked. Because it will feel like you are a victim and need to be compensated.”

"If you have nothing to do, you can go home and wait for the news. I will sit here."

Xia Tingwan raised his head and looked at Zhou Yang, his eyes were a little weird.

Zhou Yang couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong?"

"Zhou Yang, thank you for your hard work." Xia Tingwan stood up and picked up the coat hanging on the side: "It's just..."

"It's nothing, I just suddenly feel a little confused."

"You said...in the eyes of others, what should the real me look like? After being scolded by the whole Internet for so long, it looks like I can't turn over again, but even this can be seen in one day. It turned around. It seemed that all of a sudden, those things didn’t matter, and they passed by like the wind in my ears, not a big deal.”

When he said this, he lowered his eyes, smiled bitterly, and said softly: "Then what I said to them before, so-called big-name, black-faced mistakes, is really that serious? It's not what I did wrong, right? Well, drunk driving and drunk driving hurt people, although they don't meet the standard of criminal responsibility, but this is my biggest mistake, but Su Yan covered up the hurting part for me, right?"

Zhou Yang was stunned.

Xia Tingwan didn't wait for him to speak any longer, patted Zhou Yang on the shoulder, turned around and walked out of the room.

Now he thinks he understands a little bit. Although Zhou Yang thought the idea he pointed out was good before, he was not very surprised.

Because for Zhou Yang, his ideas are just icing on the cake. Even if he can't find anything, Zhou Yang has his own resources and operation methods to control public opinion.

His observations and contributions may really be less important compared to large-scale commercial operations.

What can really control speech is the layer after layer of dissemination and radiation that Zhou Yang has carefully deployed, the public account promotion by Su Yan and Zhou Yang's professional team, and the generous funds, and the likes of the water army.

At that time, he needed to be reviled by the public, because it was a hot topic, traffic, and business.

Just like today, the masses behind Weibo accounts need a reversal and a more eye-catching public opinion feast.

But what about him.

He is actually an alien outside of reality.

He only knows how to play.

In the play, there is not only floating life like a dream, but also true feelings.

He thought it was enough that he understood the "true". But in fact, he is true, and people in this circle have never been able to detect the falsehood.

While waiting for the elevator, Xia Tingwan leaned against the wall wearily.

During the few years of marriage with Su Yan, Su Yan always held his hand and walked forward.

In the dark night, he never felt afraid, because he knew that by Su Yan's side, he was always safe.

But in the few days when Su Yan was away, he had to grow up alone at an unprecedented speed.

He could almost feel that his fragile skin couldn't keep up with the too-rapidly growing skeleton inside.

The bones pierced his flesh violently, leaving him to walk crippled in this pain.

He vaguely felt that even if public opinion was completely reversed, and even if he finally won the audition for "Xun", those worldly achievements might not be his smooth path after all.

But he was alone and didn't know where to go.

Can't help but think of what Su Yan said to him - it's like walking back and forth in a small alley, and it's dark at either end.

...

The two WeChat messages that Xia Ting sent in the evening quickly worked. At noon, he received a brief reply from Xing Le: "I'm in City H, see you in the afternoon."

Xia Tingwan took a deep breath, silently looked at the chat interface that had almost no other content except those few lines, and replied the word "OK".

After thinking about it after posting it, in fact, he has known Xing Le for more than ten years.

At the end of the previous two years, when WeChat came out to summarize the social circle, he suddenly remembered that Xing Le was his first WeChat friend.

At that time, Xing Le smiled on his mobile phone to and from WeChat, and then the two-line operation to add friends to each other's WeChat is still vivid in his mind.

He changed his mobile phone several times in the past few years, and he and Xing Le almost stopped talking privately.

Looking back on those past events now, suddenly feel a deep sadness from the bottom of heart.

While having lunch with Zhao Nanshu, Xia Tingwan received a call from an unfamiliar number. He was sullen and didn't care about anything, but after hanging up, the number called in with perseverance.

Xia Ting took it over and gave Zhao Nanshu a look: "Is it someone you know?"

Zhao Nanshu shook his head, but seeing that Xia Tingwan was in a bad mood, he put the phone over to his ear and connected: "Hello, who is it?"

As soon as he answered, Zhao Nanshu's expression changed, he covered the microphone and came over and said, "It's Ye Bingwen."

Xia Tingwan's movements froze.

His face became extremely bad, and he took the mobile phone: "What's the matter with you?"

"Where's Wen Zichen? At your place?"

As soon as Xia Tingwan heard this person's gloomy and cold voice, she felt disgusted.

He thought of the appearance of Wen Zichen, who was trembling all over and ran to Xiangshan last night, the look on his face when his fingernails were ripped off and grasped him helplessly, as if a cool poisonous snake was running behind him, and he couldn't help shivering.

"Don't pretend, who else can Wen Zichen go to besides you and Su Yan? He doesn't know anyone, only you guys dare to help him."

Ye Bingwen couldn't hear Xia Tingwan's answer, and continued: "What? Are you still planning to protect him? Don't you know that I only beat him for an hour, and he vomited everything he knew. Is it clear? This little bitch who can betray and inform at any time, why do you bother."

"Ye Bingwen, I'm not like you."

Xia Tingwan gritted his teeth and said word by word, "You are a beast, do you know that. Anyone with a bit of humanity would not do something like you. What if he said it? He didn't say wait. Are you tortured to death by you alive?"

"Yo, scold me."

Ye Bingwen smiled: "Xia Tingwan, it's so cute that you are angry with me righteously. Why don't you think about it, if it wasn't for you-how would I know the relationship between Wen Zichen and Su Yan? If it weren't for you , Wen Zichen wouldn't have been made like this by me."

"what are you saying?"

Xia Tingwan stood up suddenly.

His heart was like a splash of hot oil on Mars, making his throat and eyes hoarse.

"Su Yan started to have fun, of course I can't sit still. When I checked him, I found that he and his new love were in the newspaper once after their divorce from you. When I first saw that, the new love looked like Wen Zichen. , I played with him for a while before, but that's it, I didn't take it too seriously, and the photos were too blurry and the distance was too far, so I couldn't be sure, so I called him over to ask. Wen Zichen didn't admit it, saying it wasn't him, and he didn't know Su Yan either. I didn't take it too seriously, anyway, this kind of shit, at most, it was Su Yan's cheating in the end of the investigation. Not a big scandal."

"But I was so annoyed that I wanted to play with Wen Zichen two more times. He was reluctant at first, but then he agreed, scoff, the little bitch's trick of raising the price with me. No, I'll go to the hospital to pick him up from get off work, I happened to meet you and blocked him there, and asked him for Su Yan's secret. - If you didn't happen to go to Wen Zichen, I really can't guess he lied to me."

When Xia Tingwan heard the end, she couldn't help but swayed, but she still managed to stabilize Zhao Nanshu's hand.

It turned out that all that Wen Zichen endured was also related to him.

He straightened his back stubbornly, but his trembling body revealed his grief and pain.

Ye Bingwen seemed to feel Xia Tingwan's discomfort when he heard these words, and the more he spoke, the more proud he became: "That's why I said, I have to thank you, Xia Tingwan, the more I think about it, the more I feel that there are many things I have to do. Thank you. Just like now, I'm worried that I can't find Su Yan's handle, cheating is boring, but you are drunk and hurt people, Su Yan pays to cover up the hurt for you, this is the real It's a big event. Su Yan divorced you on the surface, but in fact, he asked Wen Zichen to help take care of the child, and he was reluctant to tell you that it made you feel uncomfortable. I was so fucking moved when I heard it, really, the whole high-class circle has not seen it. I've passed someone as stupid as Su Yan."

Xia Tingwan's fingers were trembling all the time, but she couldn't say a word.

"You said, I released the news in my hand, what can Su Yan do?"

Ye Bingwen said: "When he controlled Hengtai to the death, I didn't dare to do it, but now? As soon as this matter went out, the major shareholders of other factions within Hengtai were even more eager for Hengtai to immediately follow up with him. He has cut off the relationship, and at that time, he will not be able to step down if he wants to."

Ye Bingwen said, he couldn't help laughing, and whispered: "Xia Tingwan, in fact, I don't care where Wen Zichen is, really, he said everything he should say, it's useless. I'll call You, I just want to tell you this. It's a pity, I can't see your current appearance, but it's okay, after a while, when I bring Su Yan down, I can do whatever I want with you."

"You fucking dare!"

Xia Tingwan suddenly yelled at the phone.

His eyes were red, and he said every word: "I told you Ye Bingwen, I also have your handle in my hand. Listen carefully, as long as you dare to explode Su Yan, I will hold a press conference immediately, and it will take an hour. I will let the entire Chinese community know that your unspoken actors are still brutally sexually abusing the same sex."

"you……"

Ye Bingwen's laughter stopped abruptly, and he said hoarsely: "What are you doing, don't you mean Wen Zichen? He doesn't dare to testify."

"I'll tell you a little news." Xia Ting said coldly in the evening: "The last time I met you at TBN, I have already recorded it. Do you not remember what you said? As for what else? The handle, think about it for yourself - get out."

Xia Tingwan said this and hung up the phone.

His voice seemed to be calm, but in fact he felt that a heart was about to jump out of his chest, he looked at Zhao Nanshu with a pale face, took a deep breath, and said hurriedly, "Go, hurry up and look for it. Xing Le."

Even in the case of extreme emotional shock, he did not reveal that he had Xing Le's video in his hand, but instead gave another relatively insignificant news-he had a recording in his hand.

Although the recording was useful, it was far less effective than the video that Wen Zichen gave him.

He is misleading Ye Bingwen, but this does not buy too much time. Once Ye Bingwen becomes alert and starts to check all the bedmates in the entertainment circle, it will be difficult for him to take the initiative.

He must race against time to see Xing Le right away.