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Chapter 345 - What Kind of Idiot Gave Up Their Reputation And Peaceful Life for a Few Thousand Yuan? (1)

Part of those who attacked Fang JunRong online were water armies and the other part were netizens that were guided by them. Most of them didn't really hate Fang JunRong to her guts.

They only attacked her for being selfish and stuck up in the past and, with what Boss Liu had shared, their arguments weakened and their points no longer stood.

Much like Boss Liu had said, would a selfish person offer up the White Jade Cream and Detoxification Pills? Everybody knew how profitable the two items were. The Zhang's medical cream did not remotely measure up to the White Jade Cream and they still asked for 10,000 yuan a bottle.

If Fang JunRong just wanted to make money without any regards, she could have built her own factories and pocketed all of the money herself.

In light of the truth, many went silent. In all honesty, if it was them, they wouldn't have been able to give up on such lucrative profits. Who doesn't like money? With the exception of a few naysayers, everyone had mostly dropped the issue of whether Fang JunRong was worthy of the title.

In fact, many started questioning the legitimacy of the video that started all these. It had all happened so quickly. Was there someone purposefully trying to smear Fang JunRong again?

At this very moment, Xichang City's local news station aired the interview with Mayor Mo.

Che Rongrong was a native of Xichang City. She had been watching the local news with her parents since she was a child and it was a habit of theirs to watch it over dinner.

What their family cared about the most right now was the situation in Dingyang Village. After all, the pictures that they had seen online were awful.

Her mother spoke as she switched to the right channel. "I wonder how the situation in Dingyang Village is right now. I heard the village was quite poor. Even our unit is having a drive so we can send some money over. Many of their houses were buried. They are going to need money to rebuild."

Che Rongrong set the table. "They were quite lucky this time, there were no casualties. One can always make more money but if you die, then it's all over."

"I can't believe there weren't any casualties. Didn't you see the pictures taken by the drone yesterday? Half the village was buried in mud. Did they all evacuate? They must have just said that so as not to cause a panic," said Che Rongrong's father, playing devil's advocate as usual with his what-I-say-is-always-the-truth look.

Che Rongrong did not bicker with her father but merely said, "They will be interviewing the local mayor today. Let's see what he has to say."

They had dinner while watching the news. The interview with Mayor Mo finally came on after half an hour.

The reporter: "It was so lucky that Mayor Mo had evacuated the villagers ahead of time. That was the reason why we have no casualties this time."

Mayor Mo shook his head on the screen. "I can't take the credit. I wasn't the reason behind this, it was Boss Fan. I am talking about Fang JunRong, the president of Meifang Corporation. She visited with a child from Dingyang Village and learned of the situation. She was worried that there would be a landslide so she came looking for me immediately. Under her advice, I had the experts look into it. We learned that the situation was not optimistic or I ordered an evacuation."

Reporter: "Was that the reason why the Dingyang Villagers knelt down in front of Fang JunRong? I have seen the video online as well. Many had a poor impression of Boss Fang because of the video."

Mayor Mo: "Right, right. After the villagers had learned of it, they felt that Boss Fang had saved their lives and insisted that they had to kneel to her and Boss Fang couldn't even stop them."

Mayor Mo looked angry from the television. "We have been very busy with handling the disaster in the last few days and had no idea that someone was attacking Boss Fang because of that. The one who filmed the video and smeared Boss Fang – are you not ashamed of yourself as a resident of Xichang City?"

"Boss Fang had been following up on the matters of disaster relief the last few days and she and her daughter have decided to build a factory here, to add some employment opportunities and even donate money to improve our road condition. She has done so much already, I don't know whether those who badmouthed her have a conscience, but you all owe her an apology!"



Chapter 346 - What Kind of Idiot Gave Up Their Reputation And Peaceful Life for a Few Thousand Yuan? (2)

His face was red, obviously pretty angry.

The reporter: "That's right, as a resident of Xichang City, I, too, want to thank Miss Fang for her generosity and her selfless assistance. Is there anything else you would like to share besides that, Mayor Mo?"

Mayor Mo: "Oh, I heard that Boss Fang had earned the title of Outstanding Entrepreneur: Congratulations! I hope that there will be more people like her in our society. Our country will certainly become a better one if that is the case."

Mayor Mo brought up the current local aid disaster relief situation that people cared most about. All in all, the situation was much better than imagined and that was reassuring for everyone.

Che Rongrong's mother lamented after the news, "It looks like there are some nice entrepreneurs out there. This Boss Fang looks to be a good one. Why was it that others were slamming her online? Us Xichang residents should not be so unconscientious."

Che Rongrong, too, was following what was going on on the net. She said, "Someone led the pace to slam her online intentionally because they were envious of her."

Who could still slam her after this?

Her father nodded, "I have been to Dingyang Village once before. Their lychees are very good but the road there was awful. It was so bumpy that I got sick from it. Their road situation really restricted their developments. Dingyang Village will benefit a lot once they have better roads. I'll take you there to have lychees once their roads are fixed up."

Che Rongrong felt that she should be doing something about it as well. Tell the truth, at the very minimum. She returned to her room and found the video online. Pondered over it some, she typed: "We need to thank her, and also apologize to her."

Many did the same as Che Rongrong and many from Xichang City also uploaded videos to clarify the situation after they saw what was going on online.

As such, right when the trend on Fang JunRong had died down a little, she went right back onto the most trending list.

The number of videos that had been uploaded on her in the last few days made many celebrities envious. And, among them, a particular film empress.

She had wanted to get on the top of the most trending list but she failed again!

Many left messages under the video clips.

[As someone who had slammed Fang JunRong along with the others, I owe her an apology.]

[No wonder the villagers were kneeling to her; she saved their lives. I would do the same if it was me! Not only would I get down on my knees, I would even touch my head to the ground.]

[From now on, I will report any negative post on Fang JunRong for free. Just like what Mayor Mo had said, anyone that could smear someone like her is truly unconscientious. That's it for now. I need to go report the fool who first posted the video and smeared her!]

[Am I the only one who suspected that this has something to do with the boss of the Su Corporation? The first article smeared Fang JunRong while praising him, right? I have seen this strategy being adopted to gain fans many times in the past.]

Su Teng was never a smart one and what he had done could not withstand the netizen's investigation. The netizens, realizing that they had been used as weapons for him, eventually followed the trail of breadcrumbs back to him.

As such, Su Teng landed himself a spot on the most trending list from being slammed by the netizens. He had also experienced what it was like to be asked to leave the country by many.

A philanthropic act was praise-worthy but not so much when the purpose of that was to smear an innocent person.

Su Teng had used the public opinion to attack Fang JunRong and, now, this same knife had finally pointed toward him.

Everybody rushed to his Weibo and cursed him to h3ll. Xu Jin, the first to post the video, was not treated any kinder.

Even though he had apologized, the netizens did not feel that that was sufficient. They reported him to the point that his account and website had been shut down.



Chapter 347 - What Kind of Idiot Gave Up Their Reputation And Peaceful Life for a Few Thousand Yuan? (3)

Xu Jin, who had only been sought after for just a few days, felt very indignant.

Sure, he made a mistake when it came to Fang JunRong but he had already apologized for his mistake, hadn't he? Why did Fang JunRong's fans have to be so aggressive? As for Fang JunRong sharing her two formulas, he felt that was not a big deal. She was so rich already. Shouldn't she share some things? It wasn't like she shared the formulas for Beautify Pills and Hair Growing Cream also.

The only saving grace were the money that he had earned from the for-profit account for the right to repost. He made several thousand yuan just from that – the equivalent of one month's salary for him.

He patted his pocket and decided to go get some crawfish and some beer.

The rain in Xichang City had stopped in the last few days and the weather had been so hot that nobody wanted to leave the house during the day time.

The heat from the road enveloped everything and made them feel sticky all over. Crawfish and beer were the best combination for this weather.

He went over to the crawfish shop that he frequented and said to the boss just like any other time, "Give me 3 lb of crawfish, numb and spicy flavor."

The shop owner, who had always been friendly to him in the past, looked angrily at him this time and he sounded like he was about to unleash on him, "Hoho, I am not going to sell you any."

Xu Jin, too, was annoyed. "Whatever. I'll just get them somewhere else."

This was his favorite crawfish place but he wouldn't say it was irreplaceable. Nevertheless, after hitting several places, Xu Jin learned that most of the shops had turned him down.

The only place that would sell to him was so nasty that he wouldn't take them even if they were free.

He was angry but also very baffled. He hadn't done much the last few days so why was it that everybody was annoyed at him? To the point that they would turn down his business.

Finally, when he walked past a shop where a few neighbors were chatting, he caught his own name.

"Did you see that? That is Xu Jin. He is a shameless one. He smeared Fang JunRong online for money. You know who Fang JunRong is, right? She was the one that Mayor Mo talked about nonstop during his interview."

"How could anyone smear someone as nice as her? His conscience must have been eaten by dogs."

"On top of that, he bragged about what he had done. If I was him, I'd be too shamed to show my face. It was him who ruined the reputation of all of us at Xichang City. Any one who didn't know better would think that we are all like him."

What they said enraged Xu Jin. He stared at them angrily. These people had already seeb him and kept on badmouthing him right in front of him.

When the few who were talking saw Xu Jin, they showed no guilty conscience for being caught red-handed by the person in question. Instead, they pointed straight at him and said, "Look, that's the one."

"What do you think you are looking at?!"

Considering that he was way outnumbered, Xu Jin had no choice but to retreat.

He regrets it now. He had let the incident get to his head and had bragged about it when he was out drinking the last few days.

Now everyone around here knew that he was the one who posted the video. That was just the beginning. Now whenever he walked outside, others would point at him and talk about him.

They said he was the man who betrayed his own conscience for money and that he was a terrible person.

The girl that he was to have an arranged date with straight up hung up on him when she heard his name, stating that she would not want to be seen with him.

He realized that he was well-known in his area now but not in the way that he had wanted.

He regretted it to no end.

He had sacrificed his own reputation and peaceful life for just a few thousand yuan.

What an awful tradeoff!


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