Since we are both reborn, of course I would choose the rich woman!

Chapter 252 Let's see what our neighbors are talking about (6k views, please subscribe)

If you asked Lü Yao to talk about the different types of women and how to get along with different types of women, Lü Yao could definitely write a paper on it.

But if you ask him to talk about artistic creation... he doesn't know anything about it!

It's already quite an achievement that he can recall the plot of "Parasite," retell the general story, and write it down. Even the scriptwriting format was something he recently learned from a book.

Because of the omissions and errors in the details of the recollections, the script is clearly unpolished. Lu Yao failed to reproduce many wonderful or metaphorical details used for comparison in the original film.

no way.

He came back from the future, but he didn't bring any cheat codes with him.

So when Li Rongzhen said that there was some inaccuracy in this story, Lü Yao believed it. But he couldn't show his weakness at this moment, so after thinking for a moment, Lü Yao calmly said, "I have never been to Silla. I only saw on the Internet that the gap between the rich and the poor in Silla is very large, and the lives of the lower class and the upper class are very different."

"So I came up with this kind of contrasting story, and the inspiration for this story actually came not from daily life, but from the workplace."

Li Rongzhen asked in confusion, "Workplace?"

Lu Yao laughed and said, "Yes, in this story, after a family living in a basement suddenly found high-paying and respectable jobs, they couldn't wait to send their sister and parents there. Later on, they even wanted to steal the rich man's entire house for themselves."

"President Li, this kind of situation must be very common in the company, right?"

In a moment of inspiration, Lü Yao used the workplace as the source of inspiration for the story, instantly making all the explanations reasonable.

We're all in business, so we're no strangers to this kind of thing.

This kind of thing is commonly referred to as "nepotism".

Many emerging electric vehicle manufacturers in China have been harmed by "cronyism among executives," such as XY, JK, XPeng, and NIO. Once a company recruits one of these "supply chain parasites," more supply chain parasites will gradually enter the entire supply chain.

Then they would collude with each other to deceive the company's top management by falsifying data and inflating prices.

Jiyue was directly hollowed out and collapsed. Jiyue Motors stopped the loss in time, and Xiaopeng Motors pulled back from the brink. After the entire new energy vehicle industry is fully aware of these people, they will sneak into other industries like ghosts.

At this point, Lü Yao brought up the main point: "Just like when the male protagonist's father finally entered the secret passage of the villa and discovered the man who had previously lived under the mansion."

Eh!
Don’t say that!
Damn, it actually makes sense.

Is it that art has broad interpretability, or did this film originally use a similar concept?
After explaining, Lü Yao was almost convinced of his own point.

After Li Rongzhen finished speaking, she immediately drew inferences from one instance to another, saying, "Therefore, it is not possible to be a kind, naive, and idle mistress. Since it is your own home, whether you built it yourself or bought it, you must conduct a thorough investigation and have control over all aspects, both inside and out. Even if you don't do everything yourself, you must have a clear understanding of everything."

Li Rongzhen is indeed very intelligent; her awareness is truly remarkable.

Lü Yao agreed, saying, "Although wealthy people might not be so casual in real life, and the script might seem somewhat unrealistic, what if this kind of thing continues to escalate, extending to corporations, or even to the nation? What will ultimately become of this corporation and the nation?"

After listening to Lü Yao's bluff, Li Rongzhen actually fell into deep thought.

After a while, she looked at Lü Yao, her eyes becoming somewhat deep.

Li Rongzhen is not young anymore. Even though she takes very good care of herself, you can still see traces of time in the corners of her eyes and mouth. But these traces are not a disadvantage. On the contrary, they make her temperament more mature and gentle.

Even the way she looked at Lü Yao had a unique allure.

Lee Rongzhen said in a gentle and sweet tone, "It's my thinking that's not high enough. Your script is based on the workplace and focuses on the contrast between the rich and poor, thus implying a more profound meaning. It is truly a rare script."

Lu Yao blushed and said, "You flatter me."

Although the film "Parasite" swept major awards in the Silla film industry after its release and received excellent international reviews, the current script is simply copied from the future by Lu Yao, and many details are not good enough.

That's really too much to bear.

If this movie is really going to be made, Lü Yao might have to invite the main creators of the movie to come.

The script for this film was an original work by the main creators, and the project was initiated several years later. After production was completed, it was released in mid-2019. However, the box office results were relatively average. The film's theme and metaphors were good, which sparked a lot of discussion and controversy, making it a critical success but a box office failure.

Coincidentally, this film was also produced by Shilla CJ Group.

Samsung and CJ, which belong to the same parent company, are essentially two separate entities, very closely related, but the relationship between the top executives of the two companies is extremely poor.

It wasn't until several years later, after Lee Jae-young became the new owner of Samsung, that the relationship between the two groups began to ease.

Li Rongzhen smiled at Lü Yao's modesty and said, "As the president of the company, it is already very impressive that you can take the time out of your busy schedule to write such a profound script. I knew before I came that you wrote your own speeches for several of your press conferences. And the effect of each of your press conferences is very good, which shows that you are very talented in writing."

Lu Yao was so flattered that he felt embarrassed.

Then he became a little wary. Could this be a case of praising someone to death?
Indeed, the more beautiful a woman is, the more likely she is to deceive people; similarly, old ginger is spicier—and these two worldly axioms are simultaneously manifested in Li Rongzhen at this moment.

Lu Yao immediately became wary; this woman was quite formidable.

He spoke in a soft, gentle tone, yet he could subtly lower one's guard, even making a cunning old fox like Lü Yao feel a little smug.

Many people might think that "praise to death" is nothing special, just flattery and bootlicking. They might wonder, "Can't you even recognize something so obvious?" This leads many to think, "If it were me, I definitely wouldn't fall for this kind of trick!"

But when the praise actually comes down, they all rise to the top faster than the last.

For example, if your car gets rear-ended, and you angrily confront the other driver, you might find that the person in the car behind you is a delicate-looking girl. While you're still angry, she stares at you and says, "You're so handsome!"... This simple act of flattery can win over 80% of men.

So Lü Yao responded, "There is still a gap compared to professionals. I plan to wait until after Silla and ask the professional screenwriters and directors there to take a look."

As he spoke, Lü Yao raised his wrist to check the time and said, "I think it's about time; it's your turn to perform."

Lee Yong-jin raised an eyebrow slightly, then smiled gently and said, "Okay, I'll be returning to Silla tomorrow after this trip. See you in Silla."

Lu Yao stood up with Li Rongzhen, extended his hand to shake hers, and said, "Then I'm sorry I can't see you off this time. Also, you can say a bad thing about us in front of the media, but don't say it too badly."

Lee Yong-jin smiled and said, "President Lee, don't worry, I have a lot of experience in this."

After the conversation ended, Li Rongzhen tidied her appearance and expression. Gradually, her expression became cold and gloomy, and the aura around her became dark and suffocating.

The assistants and translators following behind her acted even more dramatically, their expressions becoming humble and fearful, as if they were afraid that their master would take his anger out on them.

Li Rongzhen's visit to Lü Yao's company had already attracted the attention of Shangnan Financial Media, so many reporters were waiting outside the company building. When Li Rongzhen came out, these reporters swarmed around her, wanting to interview her.

But Li Rongzhen's bodyguards cleared the way, and her assistant and translator protected her as they quickly left with cold expressions.

Lee Yong-jin didn't say anything, but her expression and attitude as she left made the reporters think they had caught something.

That evening, reports that Li Rongzhen's cooperation negotiations with Shangnan Company had reached a stalemate and that the two sides seemed unable to reach an agreement began to circulate rapidly on the Internet.

Meanwhile, some street vendors, financial bloggers, and opinion bloggers began to speculate based on the reports and photos disclosed by the media in Shanghai.

Based on Li Rongzhen's expression when she left Lu Yao's company, they deduced that they had a very heated conversation. Some even dug up the changes in Li Rongzhen's clothes between the past and the present, speculating that Li Rongzhen may have been subjected to some very rude treatment.

The evidence is that before Li Rongzhen joined the company, her clothes were impeccably tailored, with her cufflinks and collar buttons fitting perfectly.

But when Li Rongzhen left, her collar was a little disheveled, and one of the cufflinks on her sleeve had fallen off.

Given that Lü Yao himself has a very bad reputation on the internet, some netizens began to speculate whether Li Rongzhen was sexually assaulted while she was at Lü Yao's company.

Li Rongzhen is quite popular on the Chinese internet. There is even a super topic group for her on Weibo. The administrators of this super topic often repost Li Rongzhen's updates back to China. If anyone reposts without crediting the author, Li Rongzhen's fan group will attack and criticize them.

Even though Li Rongzhen is not a fan of any particular fandom, and may not even know that such a fan group exists, this fan group idolizes Li Rongzhen exceptionally.

They would fight directly if someone copied Li Rongzhen's videos without crediting the source, let alone now that Li Rongzhen might have been sexually assaulted offline!

The one who molested her was the notorious scoundrel Lü!
Can they tolerate this?
Lü Yao! You've disgraced us internationally!

"Lu the scoundrel, you owe your true fans an apology."

It's true what they say about the internet being a mixed bag, with both good and bad people. They managed to make something out of nothing sound like the truth by spreading rumors and making it sound like the truth. Looking at the enthusiastic fans who flooded his Weibo, Lü Yao chuckled and reposted the comment: "Even Li Rongzhen wouldn't dare talk to me like that. Who are you guys?"

This amused Lü Yao's fans.

Yes.

Li Rongzhen is in Shangnan. She just met with our President Lü today. She hasn't even publicly asked our President Lü to apologize yet, and you're already making a fuss. How many dishes did you have to drink to this extent?
So Lü Yao's fans started mimicking his tone and using sarcastic remarks.

"You guys have swooned over a Korean girl? Who knows if she even knows you guys are like that, hahaha."

"The fan leaders of young male celebrities in China can make money, and the fans can occasionally get autographs or something. What do you guys have? You're paying for everything yourself?"

"The current technology for preventing miscarriage is still too good." When it comes to sarcastic remarks, Lü Yao's fans are definitely in the top tier on the internet. After all, many of Lü Yao's fans came from Tieba in the early days, and everyone on the internet knows how foul-mouthed the Tieba guys are. In addition to fans from Tieba, there are also many netizens who criticized Lü Yao in the past, and then became fans.

These netizens may not be very bright, but they definitely have foul mouths; not only are they foul-mouthed, but they also talk very fast, to the point that they often make statements that seem to be a battle between their left and right brains.

Lü Yao didn't care.

Simply engaging in cyberbullying cannot erase his essential nature as an internet user.

Although he wasn't as disgusting as Kongkong Diary, his inner resilience and strength far surpassed those of other internet celebrities like Kongkong Diary and Mao Yibei.

Kongkong Diary was criticized by the entire internet for so long, yet it was able to delete its previous apology posts and start updating again as if nothing had happened. Lü Yao was even more able to laugh and joke amidst the online criticism.

As a result, his Weibo followers often fluctuate like a rollercoaster.

Just like this time.

Because of online speculation and Lü Yao's own response, his fan base has been declining, dropping by nearly 10,000 to 20,000 since the online controversy began.

During this period in China, the trend of idolizing Korean and Japanese culture was still very strong, especially the idol dramas of Silla and the anime culture of Japan, which attracted many young people. Under the cultural invasion of idol dramas and anime, young people had a very good impression of Japan and South Korea.

When Lü Yao was so arrogant and rude to Lee Yong-jin of Samsung, it naturally aroused the resentment of many netizens.

Lü Yao himself doesn't care about the loss of these fans.

However, the online crowd of people who are fans of Korean culture has made those who dislike Korea restless. As a result, netizens who hate Japan and Korea have started to dig up all the embarrassing things that Japan and Korea have done in recent years.

"What kind of trash are you, Han, that you deserve respect?"

"Han's sportsmanship is a joke worldwide, okay?"

"Do they even know how much stuff those bastards next door have stolen from us? They even got the Dragon Boat Festival listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site! They're utterly shameless!"

A large number of embarrassing things Silla did were dug up by these anti-Korean netizens, allowing more netizens to see the ugly nature of this country. Because of their dislike for Silla, some more honest and simple netizens developed a liking for Lü Yao.

Why should we give someone from that country a friendly look?

Looking at the heated online debate, Lü Yao was speechless.

What was originally just a collaboration between them and Li Rongzhen's side gradually turned into a mutual attack on the character of people from both countries due to netizens' distorted views.

As for whether the national character of the Silla people was good or bad... when Lü Yao saw netizens tagging him and commenting, he laughed.

Standing in front of his laptop screen, Lü Yao shook his head and sighed, "Learning to set aside good and bad and to look at problems from the perspective of advantages and disadvantages is the first step towards maturity."

But it has taken too long to get to this point...

Lü Yao only learned to consider the pros and cons after being severely hurt.

After considering the pros and cons, one must learn to "know and do".

The intricacies of this are profound, and even after returning to start over, Lü Yao still hasn't fully grasped what true "knowledge and action" really means.

While Lü Yao was monitoring online public opinion, Li Rongzhen, back in her hotel suite, was also keeping an eye on online trends. Using webpage translation software, she was able to browse the dynamics of Chinese internet communities.

Even late at night, Li Rongzhen's hotel suite was filled with the strong smell of office furniture.

Dressed in suits and looking quite elite, the clerical staff were constantly gathering intelligence and spreading information about their situation in Sangnam online through Lee Yong-jin's media channels in Silla.

Lee Yong-jin's online image in Silla is also very complex. Some criticize her, saying that she would be useless if she hadn't been born into a chaebol family, while others praise her outstanding business acumen and say she is a role model for female empowerment.

Overall, Lee Yong-jin's online reputation in Silla was more positive than negative.

She's at least better than her brother, Lee Jae-yong.

Therefore, when Lee Yong-jin returned and saw that there was so much discussion about this matter on the Chinese internet, especially the dislike of Silla by anti-Korean netizens, Lee Yong-jin keenly sensed that this was an opportunity.

She could stir up the emotions of Silla netizens towards Dongdaemun, and then she could come out and establish a persona to garner a wave of support.

The support of the Silla people can greatly influence the company's decisions. If an incident becomes big enough, even the government will have to find a way to appease the people at the bottom of society.

That's why Lee Yong-jin called her assistants over in the middle of the night and asked them to organize the discussions, posts, and screenshots on the Chinese internet and forward them to Silla.

As a Silla person, Lee Yong-jin had a very thorough understanding of the Silla people.

Most Silla people have an inherent arrogance stemming from their inferiority complex, and they especially like to bluff and bark loudly in safe places. This is related to their country's national conditions and history.

Li Rongzhen herself doesn't possess many of these traits, so she feels no pressure at all in utilizing the traits of her compatriots.

Silla's internet is relatively small, and its time zone is similar to Dongda's. It's currently evening, when the internet is most active. As Lee Yong-jin leverages her media influence, posts such as "Lee Yong-jin's Humiliation at Dongda," "The Tragedy of the Eldest Daughter of the Samsung Empire," and "The Harm Caused by Dongda's Thousand-Year Arrogance" begin to spread rapidly in Silla's internet community.

Netizens from any country may argue amongst themselves in their own little world, but when things escalate to a certain level, netizens from all countries become surprisingly united.

Even in less developed countries, they will stand tall and fight back against criticism from netizens in other countries.

As a result, various sarcastic remarks about Dongda University began to emerge in the Silla online community.

"Damn it, I don't understand what those backward guys at Dongda University are doing. In the information age, is it about land area? It's about high-tech, damn it!"

"How dare a country where not everyone can afford kimchi be so arrogant! Our princess must rise up and fight back!"

"A country that even plagiarizes our ancient Chinese characters dares to look down on our conglomerates? This is simply outrageous!"

"Dongdae's economy is indeed better than before, but that's all because of trade with us. If Silla companies withdraw from Dongdae, Dongdae's economy will regress by twenty years! Fellow countrymen! Let's urge our companies to withdraw from Dongdae!"

Lee Yong-jin's public opinion campaign was indeed quite successful, immediately causing Silla netizens to jump up in anger.

Seeing the outrageous comments posted by netizens on the Shilla Internet Community, even though there were no outsiders in the hotel suite, Lee Yong-jin covered her face in shame, hoping that her partner would not see the discussions on the Shilla Internet Community and that Dongda University's internet firewall would be more effective!
Unfortunately... Li Rongzhen's wishes were destined not to come true.

As a veteran marketer, Lü Yao pays close attention to the dynamics of the global internet, especially after 2020. At that time, Dongda University had accumulated an exaggerated amount of capital due to the demographic dividend in the early stage and the real estate economy that took off later.

The University of Tokyo has become the only country in the world with all industrial sectors, and after acquiring all industrial sectors, the University of Tokyo has begun to strive for high-end industries.

At that time, Tokyo University will face off against the Land of Light, and the blond-haired guy in the Land of Light is best at governing through the internet, so the dynamics of the internet will become increasingly important in the future.

Lü Yao's emphasis on international online information can be seen from the QQ battle robe industry alone.

Therefore, Lü Yao is very familiar with how to bypass the Great Firewall.

Having spent too long in the cesspool of the Chinese internet, with all sorts of vulgar language giving Lü Yao a headache, he opened his VPN and translation software to see what netizens on the neighboring Silla were talking about.

After finally arriving at Silla's internet community, Lü Yao frowned after browsing for a while.

Then his brows furrowed deeper and deeper.

After browsing several popular social media platforms in Silla, Lü Yao leaned back on the sofa, then sat up again, still not believing in the hype, and continued browsing the outrageous comments from Silla netizens. After reading for a long time, Lü Yao gave his rating – "6".

Isn't kimchi a regional food? Besides, he remembered that Silla's kimchi was all exported from Shandong province.

And then there's this post about a Korean entertainment company withdrawing from Dongda University... Lu Yao was so angry he almost laughed. This netizen will get his wish next year, and hopefully he won't lose his job because of it.

As for the post criticizing the University of Tokyo for plagiarizing the Chinese characters they abandoned, Japanese netizens couldn't sit still and posted online saying: "I'm just saying, is it possible that Chinese characters were originally transmitted from the University of Tokyo? We used to be a vassal state of the University of Tokyo, and Chinese characters were learned by our ancestors who traveled across the ocean and went through great hardships to bring them back?"

A Silla fan commented: "Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

Japanese netizens: "Impossible my ass! You bunch of Silla pigs!"

Then netizens from Japan and South Korea started arguing on the Shilla Internet Community...

Seeing such a surreal scene, Lü Yao was so angry he laughed.

Although he also disliked the Japanese, the Japanese really went all out when it came to criticizing and insulting the Silla people, and Lu Yao had to give them credit for that.

After watching for about half an hour, Lü Yao couldn't stand it anymore. He removed the ladder and sent a message to Li Rongzhen: "You're pretty quick."

Li Rongzhen's heart skipped a beat, and then she covered her face in despair.

Lose your face!

That's so embarrassing!
(End of this chapter)