Film and Television World Life Record

"Yang Jiaqi, can't you use your brain? What we need is sustained popularity."

"You hastily released an apology video to clarify the matter, but the anger of netizens and viewers has been vented. Who will still pay attention to this news? Where will the popularity come from?"

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"Sister Xi, let's keep this apology video for future reference and release it when the hype has died down."

"Take it away, this video is unusable."

"Why, Sister Xi?"

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"Isn't this a good thing? Ye Lanqiu is innocent. We've used her to generate so much buzz for so long, it's good to clear her name now."

"If public opinion reverses, wouldn't it be good to generate buzz if we just seize the opportunity?"

"Jiaqi, a certain reversal can indeed increase the popularity and benefit us, but if the reversal is too big, it will backfire."

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"If Ye Lanqiu clears her name, then the video our TV station aired will be in big trouble. Why was it edited like that? Netizens will definitely look for reasons and find someone to take responsibility. Who will take responsibility? Or will I?"

The audio finished playing very quickly.

Yang Jiaqi spoke again: "After listening to the recording, everyone should know what happened in the Ye Lanqiu incident. It was all orchestrated by Chen Ruoxi for the sake of generating buzz."

"In order to get promoted, Chen Ruoxi had no bottom line. She used a fabricated video to target the innocent Ye Lanqiu and mobilized the entire internet to cyberbully her. I am ashamed that a media person would do this."

"The Ye Lanqiu incident is just one of the many news stories about Chen Ruoxi distorting the truth. I interned with her for several months, and this kind of thing happened several times."

“I couldn’t stand it anymore. I was afraid that if I stayed by her side for too long, I would become like her, without any bottom line and vicious. So she found me more and more unpleasant.”

“Our differences grew, I wanted to leave, we argued, and she started to hate me too.”

"She was a senior media professional and my supervisor. I was an intern, and the conflict between us resulted in what you probably know: I was fired."

"However, even after I was fired, Chen Ruoxi still did not intend to let me go. She used the public media resources she controlled to start creating public opinion online and cyberbullying me."

“In the past two days, I have been receiving a lot of criticism online, and my personal information has been exposed. I know that Chen Ruoxi is behind all of this.”

"She thought I would give in and swallow my anger, but she was wrong. Ever since I found out what kind of person she was, I have been wary of her and afraid that this day would come."

"I have to thank the man who stood up for Ye Lanqiu on the bus. After he learned about this, he reminded me to be careful of Chen Ruoxi and to keep some evidence of everything I did so that I wouldn't be blamed in the future."

That's how this video came about.

Chapter 264 Public Opinion Boiling Point

Ye Lanqiu watched the video quietly, listening to Yang Jiaqi continue, "Everything I'm doing now is actually to atone for some of the mistakes I made in the past few months. During the time I was with Chen Ruoxi, I had no choice but to do a lot of things that were detrimental to her for the sake of my job and to get a permanent position."

“I feel deeply guilty about this, especially Ms. Ye Lanqiu. It was the video I filmed that was used by Chen Ruoxi, which led to what happened later.”

“I am ashamed of my cowardice at the time. I was eager to get a permanent position and failed to stop Chen Ruoxi’s evil deeds and prevent this from happening.”

"The reason for posting this video today is twofold: first, to clear Ms. Ye Lanqiu's name, as she is a complete victim and an innocent person; second, to expose Chen Ruoxi, for allowing such a person with no bottom line to control public media resources and public opinion is a trampling of morality and humanity."

"Today, in front of all the netizens and viewers, I want to publicly report and expose Chen Ruoxi. Such a vicious and unscrupulous person does not deserve to be a media professional, let alone a journalist."

"Please support this video and share it so that certain people can be held accountable."

After watching the video, Ye Lanqiu's eyes welled up with tears. All her grievances vanished, and she felt completely relieved.

However, the comments section was also in an uproar after watching the video.

"Holy crap, is the media industry this chaotic these days? They actually produced someone like Chen Ruoxi?"

"Damn it, Chen Ruoxi is disgusting. She's willing to abandon all principles for ratings."

"An ordinary video was completely distorted by Chen Ruoxi, turning innocent people into targets of cyberbullying. It's terrifying that someone like her can so brazenly control public opinion. If ordinary people encounter someone as ruthless as Chen Ruoxi, they might not even have a chance to turn things around."

“One of the most important functions of the media, especially public media, is to protect the weak, promote justice, and punish evil. However, now everything is reversed, and public opinion has become a tool for some people to attack the weak. If we do not reflect on this, the social atmosphere will deteriorate.”

"How could there be such a trashy person as Chen Ruoxi!"

"Severely punish Chen Ruoxi; such a heartless person should be dragged out and shot."

"It's a tragedy for the Chinese people that a media professional would go so far as to distort the truth for the sake of so-called popularity and ratings!"

"Upstairs, what's even more tragic is that such trash can become a leader and rise through the ranks. It's like a clown in a palace, while the master is ignored."

"Holy crap! The truth is actually like this. Chen Ruoxi, that heartless bitch, should be dragged out and shot."

"Is the moral standard of the media really that low these days? Well, if someone as disgusting as Chen Ruoxi can rise to such a position, you can imagine the chaos in the media industry."

"I'm disgusted by Chen Ruoxi, she must be severely punished."

"Now I finally understand why there's so much cyberbullying. It's not that netizens have low moral standards, but that the media has no bottom line. They're always spreading rumors and making things up. They cut out the beginning and end of news stories, editing a good person into a bad one. Netizens are led by the nose by the media every day. They make us hate whoever they want, and they make us curse whoever they want."

"There's nothing we can do. What we see is just what the media makes us see. They've already considered how we'll react after seeing the news when they're writing it. Through all sorts of tones and embellishments, all sorts of word choices, they can make you have two completely opposite opinions about the same thing. The same person can make you like it or make you hate it. A pen can speak volumes, it all depends on how they write it."

"As someone in the media industry, I can only say that while such cancers as Chen Ruoxi are rare, they do exist. The image that all media professionals work together to maintain has been ruined by this few scumbags. As a media professional, I also support severely punishing Chen Ruoxi to purify the media environment, which is a good thing for those media professionals who are dedicated to their work. It allows those with integrity and ability to rise to the top."

"Chen Ruoxi has utterly disgraced the term 'media professional.' Does she even deserve to be called one?"

"After watching this video, I'm too lazy to scold Chen Ruoxi, because there are many similar cases. What you see is not necessarily the truth, what you know is not necessarily the truth, and what you understand is not necessarily the whole truth. Black and white are just colors in your eyes, and you have no way of knowing the twists and turns, right and wrong. In fact, you know nothing."

"Same as the comment above. I can only lament that in this era where true and false information are flying everywhere, we can't believe everything the media says. We need to make our own judgments and have our own independent thoughts and opinions. Before the truth comes out, why rush to resort to cyber violence? Give things some time, let things play out, and the world will judge for itself."

"As a writer, I understand the importance of integrity. The same event or person can be described from different angles, making everyone like or hate them. The media is probably the same. Without good integrity, it's like history—just a little girl who can be dressed up by anyone. So we must pay more attention to things that trample on morality and humanity. People like Chen Ruoxi, who have no integrity or bottom line, must be severely punished to purify the domestic public opinion atmosphere."

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When Yang Jiaqi's video first went viral online, Chen Ruoxi, who had previously cyberbullied Tang Xiaohua and then Yang Jiaqi herself, was riding high on her success.

Those who offended her, or rather, those who betrayed her, all met with bad ends, which made her feel particularly at ease.

In the morning, Chen Ruoxi arrived at the program production center just in time, in a good mood, humming a song as she walked into the program team.

Upon seeing her arrive, the noisy commotion inside immediately subsided, and everyone's eyes turned to her.

Chen Ruoxi felt that everyone was acting strangely today, and the way they looked at her was odd. She had a bad feeling, but she couldn't figure out what it was after thinking about it for a long time.

He glared at his team members and said, "What are you all doing? Aren't you working properly? Have you finished your tasks?"

The group members exchanged glances, wanting to say something, but ultimately kept quiet and stopped looking at her. They pretended to be busy with their own work, and many even wore gloating expressions.

Chen Ruoxi sat down and dealt with her work for a while. Finally, a trusted team member whispered a few words in her ear and then hurriedly ran away.

Chen Ruoxi's expression changed drastically. She found the video posted by Yang Jiaqi, suppressed her anger, and watched it. A chill ran down her spine, and she became even more furious.

She knew that if this video became real, she was finished. What about promotions and raises? She might even lose her job.

Chapter 265 Chen Ruoxi in Despair

Chen Ruoxi immediately called Yang Jiaqi, wanting to question why she had gone so far, but no one answered.

After several attempts, I finally got through.

Her voice was hysterical: "Yang Jiaqi, is it necessary to go to such extremes? I'm Yang Shoucheng's girlfriend, your future cousin-in-law. Haven't I taken care of you before? You're trying to ruin me. How can you be so vicious?"

Yang Jiaqi sneered, "You call me vicious? Why don't you look in the mirror and see who's vicious? Besides, did I say anything wrong in the video? Wasn't Ye Lanqiu's affair orchestrated by you? You instigated public opinion to cyberbully an innocent person, and you still call me vicious? Don't you have any self-awareness?"

"Besides, stop saying you took care of me at the station, it's disgusting. Who took away all the articles I wrote, all the news highlights and materials I shot, all the results of my work? I worked so hard for so long, and I didn't even have any right to be credited. It all became yours. I interned for so long, and I didn't have anything worthwhile to show for it."

"This is what you call 'care'? To call exploitation 'care'—only someone like you has the audacity to do that."

Chen Ruoxi's lips trembled with anger: "Yang Jiaqi, you learn so fast! You've surpassed your teacher, how ruthless!"

Yang Jiaqi said with a smug look on her face, "No matter how ruthless I am, I would never hurt innocent people for no reason like you do. At least I have a bottom line. Only people like you who have no bottom line have no bottom line. This is called 'evil begets evil.'"

"Actually, what grievances do you have? Haven't you been mobilizing the media to cyberbully me these past two days? A few days ago you were also cyberbullying Tang Xiaohua, not to mention you were mobilizing the media to cyberbully Ye Lanqiu."

"What are you complaining about? It's just that I'm letting you personally experience the online bullying you caused Ye Lanqiu, me, Tang Xiaohua... and you can't handle that? You feel wronged?"

"Isn't this retribution? He deserves it!"

Chen Ruoxi was enraged by what she was said: "Yang Jiaqi, you're really ruthless? You just wait, you..."

Yang Jiaqi sneered, "Thank you for the compliment, I learned it all from you. Goodbye... well, let's not see each other again. I don't want to deal with someone like you anymore."

Without waiting for Chen Ruoxi's anger, he slammed down the phone.

Hearing the dial tone, Chen Ruoxi slammed the phone down on the table. Watching the video go viral online, its popularity soaring, she couldn't sit still any longer.

Make phone calls immediately, mobilize all your connections and resources, and hope to suppress the matter.

"Hey Lao Liu, could you do me a favor and get that... taken down from your website? We've known each other for so long, can't you do me a favor? Sorry to bother you, I'll look for someone else."

"Hey, Lao Sun, could you do me a favor and get your website... hello... hello..."

"Old Li, could you do me a favor... Hey, Old Li, hello..."

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A dozen minutes later, Chen Ruoxi hung up the phone dejectedly. Sure enough, there are no friends in the workplace, only interests.

They used to say such nice things and act like they were so loyal, but when trouble comes, you realize it was all a lie. Most of the time, when I receive a call from her, she hangs up after only a few words, making up an excuse.

Only a few close friends offered him a few words of comfort and expressed their inability to help.

Chen Ruoxi could also see that everyone was gloating and wanted to see her make a fool of herself!

This situation left her somewhat bewildered, as she had never encountered anything like it before. She spent half a day in a daze at the station when the station director suddenly called her to come to his office.