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Chen Ruoxi nodded seriously: "I have a question for you. If you have two news stories, one is a neutral, positive report, and the other is a novel and sensational negative report, which one would you prefer to read? The positive one or the negative one?"

Yang Shoucheng was silent for a moment, then lowered his head and whispered, "It should be negative, right?"

Chen Ruoxi shrugged: "Look, you're like this, and so are everyone else. You like to see this kind of news, and we make this kind of news just to satisfy your needs."

Yang Shoucheng stammered, "But...but...that can't be separated from the basic facts."

Chen Ruoxi smiled and said, "It's no use telling me. That's just how things are in the industry."

"Let me tell you a secret to doing news these days: if you want your news to be popular, the less rational, professional, and conciliatory the reporting, the better."

"The more the more infuriating, melodramatic, sentimental, and trouble-making the better."

Yang Shoucheng was dumbfounded: "How could this be? What's the point of reporting this? What's the difference between this and a garbage can?"

Chen Ruoxi smiled, looking at him with a strange expression: "So? What do you think!"

"Look at the forums, what topics are usually the most popular? Look at the news websites, how many of the most clicked news articles are positive and full of positive energy?"

"Bizarre, sensational, sensational, exaggerated... even fabricated, all sorts of news gossip. You can say that what he writes is nonsensical and ignores the facts, but such articles are popular, and netizens and viewers just love to read them."

"As journalists, we are just following the trend. Don't put all the blame on me."

Looking at her silent boyfriend, Chen Ruoxi let out a long breath, feeling a sense of relief.

He snorted and said, "Yang Shoucheng, don't think that Ye Lanqiu suffered an undeserved disaster or that she lost out. In fact, she gained a lot."

Yang Shoucheng stared at her in shock: "You distorted the facts, deliberately targeted her, made her suffer online bullying, and then said she got the better deal. You..." He didn't know what to say.

Chen Ruoxi smiled faintly: "You think what I said is bizarre, that's because you haven't thought it through."

"Without our coverage, Ye Lanqiu's case would have been treated as an ordinary news story and would have passed without anyone cyberbullying her or paying attention to her. No matter how beautiful she is, she would have remained unknown."

"Now! The whole internet knows about it, its popularity rivals that of a celebrity, and its image has been completely rehabilitated. So, do you think it's a win or a loss?"

Yang Shoucheng shook his head: "They would rather not have this attention than be slandered by you and cyberbullied by netizens."

Chen Ruoxi said, "How do you know they don't want to? What era are we living in? It's an era where people laugh at poverty but not prostitution. So many people are desperate for fame, and so many people use all sorts of methods to gain attention."

“There used to be a method called ‘becoming famous by stripping.’ When everyone was stripping, people switched to ‘becoming famous by criticizing.’ When everyone was criticizing, all sorts of methods to become famous started to come out at once.”

"Ye Lanqiu became famous so easily, so many people envy her, she's hit the jackpot."

Yang Shoucheng said, "You almost drove them to their deaths, and you still say they made a huge profit."

Chen Ruoxi sneered, "Dead? Besides, there's always the option of dying to become famous!"

Yang Shoucheng said speechlessly, "You really want to force someone to their death? What good is fame if they're dead?"

Chen Ruoxi laughed and said, "Why wouldn't I want to? There are many kinds of death, including suicide and homicide, real death and fake death."

Yang Shoucheng said, "Whether it's real death or fake death, it's a great loss of morality to force someone to this point."

Chen Ruoxi didn't care at all, and said thoughtfully, "Actually, it's quite an achievement to be able to drive someone to their death in journalism."

Yang Shoucheng said, "What realm? What bullshit realm, the realm of eating human blood buns."

Chen Ruoxi glanced at him and gave a cold laugh: "You're such a grown man, yet you're still so naive. Do you think the world is as simple as you think?"

Yang Shoucheng said, "It's not that simple, but it's not as complicated as you think either. There are still more good people in the world."

Chen Ruoxi laughed and said, "So, you're a really good person, and I'm the bad one, huh? When you were so eager for fairness and justice and wanted to take advantage of me, why didn't you refuse?"

Yang Shoucheng was speechless for a moment. He suddenly remembered that the two of them had never bought tickets to concerts before, and Chen Ruoxi had always gotten them from somewhere. Even the most sought-after train tickets during the Spring Festival could be bought by Chen Ruoxi through connections.

Even when it comes to flying, you can get a much lower price than through normal channels by buying tickets through her.

She could also easily obtain all sorts of in-demand items.

In the past, Yang Shoucheng sometimes felt that this resourceful way of life seemed unfair to others. But after spending more time with Chen Ruoxi and becoming a beneficiary of this unfairness, he gradually got used to it and even felt a little smug about it.

Looking back now, it's quite ironic; perhaps I wasn't as upright as I thought.

Yang Shoucheng sighed softly, no longer wanting to argue.

Chapter 255 Sending them in

In the morning, the weather was sunny and the breeze was gentle. Li Mu accompanied Ye Lanqiu boating for a while before returning home satisfied.

At the resort villa, Li Mu opened the notebook and handed it over.

"You are allowed to go online today; you can look at whatever you want."

Ye Lanqiu was somewhat surprised. In order to protect her feelings and prevent her from being influenced by outside opinions, Li Mu had not allowed her to watch TV or go online these days.

what is it today!

Ye Lanqiu didn't ask any more questions. Feeling a little nervous, she opened her browser, and the next moment, a news recommendation flashed up.

"The incident of not giving up a seat caused a stir; the old man was actually a customer of prostitutes."

After clicking through and reading the content, Ye Lanqiu was dumbfounded and stood there stunned.

A few days ago, she was cyberbullied because of this incident, attacked by everyone online, and even her high school alma mater had to speak ill of her.

The root of all this was the elderly man who told her to step down, who launched a vicious attack on her in front of the media, even saying to the camera, "What do you take me for? A client of a prostitute?"

Ye Lanqiu remembered all of this clearly. At that time, she felt utterly heartbroken and extremely depressed. If it weren't for Li Mu, she didn't know what the outcome would have been.

Looking at the comments section, filled with insults directed at the old man and expressions of understanding and support for her, Ye Lanqiu's heart suddenly calmed down, feeling both joy and relief.

With little time left, she longed for peace and joy in the remaining days and didn't want these things to disturb her tranquil heart.

Seeing that she was in a good mood, quietly surfing the internet, Li Mu smiled faintly and went to arrange lunch.

A few minutes later, when he returned to the living room, he found that Ye Lanqiu was not in a good state. She looked dazed, her fingers were trembling slightly, and her eyes were staring at the computer screen with fear.

Li Mu was startled. Public opinion had reversed. Had something unexpected happened again?

It seems Chen Ruoxi, whom he intended to deal with slowly, has started causing trouble again! If that's the case, he'll have no choice but to act sooner rather than later.

He slowly walked behind Ye Lanqiu and looked at the laptop screen. The browser tab was Ye Lanqiu's Weibo.

Her selfie was covered with a bloody handprint, the background of the page was eerie black, and the words "Die, mistress" were written in red in the upper right corner.

Bowen's posts were all replaced with the words "I deserve to die," and even his personal photos were distorted beyond recognition. One picture of him holding a Pekingese dog had its face cut out and replaced with Shen Liushu's face.

The whole scene appeared eerie and chilling.

Ye Lanqiu stared silently, her expression growing increasingly downcast, and tears unknowingly streamed down her face again.

Li Mu slammed the laptop shut and gently hugged her: "Don't worry, things have been cleared up. Everyone knows you're innocent, it wasn't your fault."

"As for some bad apples, they have no bottom line and take pleasure in hurting others. Don't worry, I will make anyone who tampered with your Weibo account pay the price."

After comforting her for a while, Ye Lanqiu's expression improved. Lunch was also ready, so they went to eat lunch together.

After lunch, I watched Ye Lanqiu go into her room for a nap, her expression still somewhat downcast and sad.

Li Mu sighed and walked to the notebook with a livid face. He remembered that there was indeed such a scene in the drama, but Ye Lanqiu's matter had been clarified, and he thought that this matter would not happen again.

I never expected it to happen.

In the drama, Ye Lanqiu originally still had the will to live, but after seeing her Weibo post, she was stunned for a long time and almost collapsed. Her will to live diminished even more.

It can be said that the person who altered Ye Lanqiu's Weibo account was also one of the people who pushed her to her death.

If the other party hadn't done that this time, Li Mu wouldn't have intended to pursue the matter. What didn't happen in the first place couldn't be investigated anyway.

Now that the other party has actually done it, and even after the Ye Lanqiu incident has been clarified, it's no wonder that Li Mu took action.

Anything that happens online leaves a trace, especially for Li Mu, who has mastered cybersecurity technology for the next decade and is now considered one of the top hackers of our time.

Li Mu returned to his bedroom with his laptop, prepared snacks and drinks, checked and restored all intrusion traces, bypassed layers of proxies, and conducted reverse tracing.

This hacker was quite skilled and operated very carefully, leaving few traces. Li Mu worked for more than two hours, bypassing more than a dozen proxies, and finally locked down his IP address.

The computer was on, and Li Mu silently infiltrated it using the common operating system vulnerabilities he knew.

Hey! There's a lot of stuff inside: source code for cheats in some popular online games, compromised and sold botnets, a large number of unpacked and decrypted software files, and dozens of folders marked as Trojan and virus source code.

In another folder, there were hundreds of thousands of pieces of citizens' personal information, clearly intended for sale; that alone is enough to warrant a few years in prison.

Li Mu flipped through the files again and found some transaction records. He had to admit, they were incredibly audacious, thinking that because of their superior skills, no one could trace their IP address, they stored these things on their hard drive.

Having preserved the evidence and cleared away all traces of the intrusion, Li Mu quietly withdrew.

After checking the address to which the IP belonged, Li Mu anonymously reported the case to the local Public Security Bureau's Cyber ​​Police Division and sent the evidence he had to them via email.

Selling botnets, acting as an agent, selling personal information, creating cheats for popular games, spreading malware to steal accounts, cracking genuine software, setting up private servers... these are all easy and quick ways to make money, but they are also illegal.

Once the facts are verified, the other party won't be able to escape.

The next day, Zhu Tao leisurely arrived at the company. He was the head of the security department of a fairly large internet company, and he had a wife and children.

Besides his official income, as a hacker, he also had a large amount of illicit income, which allowed him and his family to live a comfortable life.

Hacking into Ye Lanqiu's Weibo and altering its content was just a whim for him, a way to show off his skills; he simply picked a popular target.

As for Ye Lanqiu's matter, it has already been clarified. What does it have to do with him? Does he expect him to change it back? Brother Zhu always keeps his word. Whoever suffers, suffers. It's none of his business.

In the morning, police, armed with a search warrant and based on the IP address, arrived at Zhu Tao's home. They found substantial evidence of online crimes on his computer and immediately detained his wife and children to prevent them from alerting him.

Meanwhile, another group of police officers rushed to Zhu Tao's workplace.

When the company's head led the police to Zhu Tao's office.