I've already reached the Nascent Soul stage, and you're saying I didn't time travel?

Chapter 36 of the program has been approved!

Seemingly noticing Sun Weike's confusion, Xue Cheng didn't try to be mysterious and immediately explained:
“Sun Ji, you’ve been to Qi Xuan’s hometown, so you should know that his family isn’t wealthy.”

"Actually, my family wasn't well-off when I was a child. We all lived in the same tenement building, which was close to each other, and we went to the same kindergarten. So we got to know each other over time."

"Later, when I started elementary school, my dad made a fortune in the building materials business, and I had more pocket money. Spending money at school was too conspicuous and attracted attention. I was blackmailed by a group of older students who made me buy food and drinks."

At the time, I was naive and only felt upset. I didn't think about revenge. But when Xuanzi found out, she couldn't sit still and started fighting with someone on the spot.

He was young and weak, how could he be a match for them? He was surrounded and beaten up.

How could I stand by and watch my friend get beaten? So I joined in, and now there's another person getting beaten up.

"After being beaten several times, we learned our lesson and stopped fighting back. After school, we would go outside, get some fecal matter, wrap it in a plastic bag, and throw it at them as soon as we caught them."

After several rounds of this back-and-forth fighting, they couldn't take it anymore and chose to stop fighting.

Nobody wants to be walking along when two people suddenly jump out of the bushes and soak them completely; they'll have to sleep smelling like that tonight.

Xue Cheng seemed to have entered a state of rapt attention, speaking fluently and at length:
"By the time they got to junior high, fighting became even more common. Junior high schools in the county were not like they are now; they were very chaotic. Fighting, brawling, prostitution, and sugar daddies were not uncommon, if not everywhere."

At that time, we got into trouble with another gangster. The reason was simple: he couldn't stand my rich and arrogant attitude. Then, a female academic star he had his eye on fell for our Xuanzi. That's how the feud started.

They outnumbered us, but we weren't intimidated. We fought back and forth more than a dozen times, breaking several chair legs in the process. Xuanzi and I were hit all over our bodies, but that guy didn't fare well either, because we were always the ones who attacked him during the group fights.

Later, when my dad found out about it, he was furious. Without doing anything else, he just had me and Xuanzi lead a group of workers to surround that guy and teach him a lesson.

Xue Cheng sighed again as he finished speaking:

"To be honest, both I and Xuanzi are quite disgusted by his interference in this matter. We feel that calling the parents is a bit of a violation of the rules, since the other side didn't call their parents, did they?"

But it really worked. After that, that guy stayed far away from us. Later, I heard he dropped out of school to work, and I don't know how he's doing now.

Seeing the reminiscing expression on his face, Sun Weike couldn't help but ask:
"What about Dong Zitao? He's thin and small, he couldn't have provoked you on his own, could he?"

"Dong Zitao?"

Upon hearing this, Xue Cheng couldn't help but let out a cold laugh:
"It's true that he's small, but what he did was even worse than what those people did!"

"Dong Zitao's father runs a stall near our school. He cheats people on weights and measures and has a bad reputation. He often promotes his father's business, saying how poor his family is and asking everyone to help support his business."

Later, on one occasion, a kind classmate listened to him and bought a bunch of freshly squeezed juice from his father's stall to treat everyone. As a result, the group suffered food poisoning and were rushed to the hospital.

"At the time, Xuanzi and I, along with a few classmates, were playing basketball outside. Luckily, we didn't get infected. After hearing about what happened, we ran overturned the fruit stand."

Dong Zitao blocked our way and accidentally revealed that the fruit being juiced was rotten fruit that had been cut up. He knew perfectly well that those things were inedible, but he sold them to his classmates just to make more money, which resulted in such a big incident.

After learning the truth, we beat him up on the spot. Do you think there was anything wrong with what we did?

Sun Weike was speechless upon hearing this. Thinking back to the time in the nursing home when Dong Zitao and his son used their old injuries to accuse Qi Xuan of being so violent, the contrast made the whole world seem surreal.

"and after?"

Sun Weike continued to ask:
"Didn't Dong Zitao cause you any trouble afterward?"

"Looking for trouble?"

Xue Cheng leaned back, a sneer on his face:
"After causing such a huge mess, he still dared to cause trouble for us? If he hadn't voluntarily dropped out of school to quell everyone's anger, he and his father might still be in prison now."

"To be honest, so many years have passed, I had long forgotten about this matter. If you hadn't brought it up now, I would have almost forgotten that such a person even existed."

Now it seems that Dong Zitao and his son are incredibly cunning. They only dared to come out and distort the truth because Xuanzi is still in the air and can't come down yet, attempting to use CCTV to nail him to the pillar of shame and provide so-called evidence for others to smear him later.

At this point, Xue Cheng looked at Sun Weike and said meaningfully:

"If you ask me, it's you journalists who should be more careful. You need to distinguish between true and false information and confirm the facts before you can report to the public."

Otherwise, if problems arise, not only will your platform's reputation be severely damaged, but you might even lose your own job. There are countless examples of this that have already occurred.

"Mr. Xue, please rest assured, we will report the facts as they are."

Even if Xue Cheng hadn't said anything, Sun Weike still planned to find the people involved to find out the truth indirectly.

After all, the interview content just now was only Xue Cheng's one-sided statement and was not enough to be completely trusted. We must combine information from multiple sources to uncover the only truth.

Afterwards, Sun Weike asked some other questions related to Qi Xuan.

The interview didn't finally come to an end until after 9 p.m.

After the interview, Sun Weike did not rest, but instead organized the interview content and contacted subsequent interviewees.

Qi Xuan's high school classmates are mostly scattered across the country, making it difficult to contact them. Even if they were contacted, they might not be willing to appear on camera. In addition, she couldn't travel all over the country, so she conducted remote video and telephone interviews, which roughly confirmed the authenticity of Xue Cheng's words and obtained a lot of detailed information about Qi Xuan.

A more fully fleshed-out character gradually took shape in her mind.

After working all night, she submitted the first draft she had edited to her supervisor early the next morning. However, her supervisor said that the content of the draft was too sensitive and that it would be reviewed by the military, the Ministry of State Security, and the propaganda department after it was submitted. She was completely dumbfounded.

Just as she was feeling uneasy, the review results came down. Apart from some minor changes and modifications, the main body remained unchanged, which made Sun Weike breathe a long sigh of relief.

However, even minor changes are still changes. She went through five drafts, which made her feel like she was ascending to heaven. Finally, the manuscript was approved and was able to be broadcast on television.

But Sun Weike no longer had the energy to watch it, so she went directly to find Qi Xuan's recording of that day, intending to relax.

However, only five seconds after the recording started, Sun Weike was completely stunned.

(End of this chapter)