This person is clearly a male protagonist in a female-oriented novel, yet he is excessively lucid.

Yu Chenzhou's final words in court were like ice cubes thrown into boiling water, quickly causing a huge uproar online. Various discussion posts and trending topics flooded the internet, maintaining high popularity.

Yu Chenzhou did lose the lawsuit, but he lost in terms of personal relationships; what he gained was morality.

In contrast, Qin Yu, even though he won the verdict based on legal principles, lost the hearts of the people due to his own words and deeds, and became an object of contempt by everyone.

Qin Yu's outrageous behavior over this period of time has made the entire school's teachers and students unable to tolerate it any longer.

The students spontaneously distanced themselves from him, walking around him and avoiding talking to him, expressing their resistance through silent alienation.

In addition, he had publicly insulted Eastern classical culture in public, and his words were extreme and harsh.

Even the school's teachers disliked him quite a bit.

Even when his parents angrily complained to the education bureau, claiming that their child was being subjected to collective bullying at school, it was to no avail.

When education bureau staff asked each student why they were distancing themselves from Qin Yu, the answers they received were all the same:

"A person who wantonly slanders the culture passed down from their own ancestors is not worthy of being my friend."

Children also have their own social autonomy. This is something that teachers, and even parents as guardians, can only guide, not forcibly interfere with or deprive.

As for the parents who had previously caused a great uproar online, they have now fallen silent, their former arrogance gone.

This is probably the huge gap between ideals and reality:

Many people like to use idealized moral standards to constrain others, demanding that others be selfless and uphold their bottom line, while they themselves are deeply mired in realistic utilitarian calculations, prioritizing their own interests in everything.

When it doesn't involve their own children, they all act like saints standing on a moral high ground, readily blaming others in the name of justice;

But once it involves their own children, they immediately throw their previous principles to the wind and change their logic. This extreme double standard is astonishing and frustrating.

In a short time, the focus of online discussions gradually shifted to the judicial level, with many pointed questions sparking heated debate across the nation:

"Should minors who commit crimes always be treated leniently without exception? How should the boundaries be defined?"

"Everyone is said to be equal before the law, so why is the concept of 'vulnerable groups' mentioned separately? Won't this create an imbalance of rights?"

"Did the first-instance verdict in the Qin Yu case truly balance legal principles with common sense and achieve absolute fairness?"

"The concept of 'law enforcement with compassion' is well-intentioned, but does it need to be redefined to prevent its abuse?"

Due to the high level of public attention this case has garnered, many senior lawyers in the legal field have publicly spoken out, analyzing the details of the case and stating that if the defendant continues to appeal, the probability of a reversal in the second instance is extremely high, based on the existing evidence.

Unfortunately, the defendant ultimately chose to drop the appeal.

Many people see this outcome as a subtle irony of the existing judicial process.

Why must a problem that could have been clarified in the first instance be dragged out until the second instance to be corrected?

Is the existence of the first instance trial merely to provide a "training and trial-and-error" opportunity for new judges or irresponsible practitioners?

Yu Chenzhou had long since lost interest in the various controversies online. After the trial, he completely faded from the public eye, and he would deal with all the subsequent troubles with his newly acquired protagonist aura.

In fact, under the implicit influence of the protagonist's halo, those who should have borne legal responsibility and paid the corresponding price are relatively "lucky".

Because the law still adheres to legal principles and reason, giving people a chance to defend themselves and correct their mistakes, while the punishment of the protagonist's halo never shows mercy, let alone considers feelings.

The first to be affected by the protagonist's halo was Dewey, who had been jumping around the most enthusiastically.

He has long relied on a fabricated persona to impersonate a tycoon, purchasing a large number of secondhand luxury goods through various channels. However, he deliberately concealed the source of these goods during his live streams, selling them at high prices as secondhand items used only by himself, thus deceiving his fans into trusting him and spending his money.

As his persona of a nouveau riche was completely exposed and collapsed, his long-term fraudulent activities were also revealed, sparking strong dissatisfaction among fans.

To make matters worse, in order to retaliate against Yu Chenzhou, Dewey maliciously leaked Yu's address online, which also exposed his own real location.

Ultimately, those who had been deceived by him and suffered financial losses came to his door demanding an explanation.

Because there were too many people, the property management couldn't stop them.

As a result, his mother suffered a high blood pressure attack from the noise and was hospitalized.

Secondly, there are the online trolls who participated in this controversy and maliciously smeared Yu Chenzhou.

They were hired and paid to do things, so from a legal perspective, the direct responsibility they need to bear is relatively light. However, online trolls are a shady group in the entertainment industry.

Those within the industry both rely on them to create public opinion and guide public opinion, yet they also generally despise this group, regarding them as a stain on the public eye.

Yu Chenzhou's lawsuit directly led to the public exposure of the real identities of countless online trolls, completely shattering their anonymity.

In other words, these people will now face retaliation from the fan groups of the celebrities they have maliciously smeared, and their days ahead are destined to be filled with turmoil.

Ultimately, the major live streaming and short video platforms were implicated and rectified.

These platforms exist only as information dissemination mediums. According to existing legal provisions, Yu Chenzhou has almost no way to pursue their direct legal responsibility. However, the inability to pursue them does not mean that they have no responsibility for dereliction of duty in supervision.

Qin Yu's case also exposed the problem of minors being easily influenced by harmful online comments.

Thus, with the joint appeal and promotion of a large number of parents, calligraphers, artists, medical professionals, and professionals in the field of intangible cultural heritage protection, the government has taken action.

The Cyberspace Administration of China, the State Administration of Radio and Television, and other departments responded quickly, launching cross-sectoral collaborative supervision and a comprehensive rectification campaign targeting the chaos on online platforms.

Under this indiscriminate and strict regulation, countless violating self-media accounts have been permanently banned, and many bloggers who rely on traffic for a living have suddenly lost their jobs, causing shockwaves throughout the industry.

Of course, there are some innocent people who occasionally slip up and are implicated as a result.

However, the demise of many unscrupulous self-media outlets that relied on spreading negative news, fabricating false statements, and maliciously stirring up trouble to gain traffic can be seen as a purification of the online environment.

For a time, the cyberspace, which was usually filled with hostility and false information, became unusually quiet.

After Yu Chenzhou resigned from the hospital, the person who suffered the most and felt the most regret was Chen Xiaoxiao.

She never imagined that her momentary selfish calculations would trigger a series of chain reactions, ultimately causing her to completely miss the only chance for a full recovery.

As the saying goes, some opportunities only come once in a lifetime, like sand slipping through your fingers; once missed, they can never be recovered.

What plunged her into despair was that Yu Chenzhou immediately canceled his work phone number after resigning and cut off all public contact methods. Now she doesn't even have a way to contact him for help.

For the sake of her illness and her future, Chen Xiaoxiao had no choice but to use all the connections she could to search for Yu Chenzhou's whereabouts.

Persistence pays off, and with the help of a golden dragonfish, she finally appeared before Xiao Tianhe.

Initially, Xiao Tianhe was unwilling to meddle in other people's business, and even less willing to introduce Yu Chenzhou to Chen Xiaoxiao. After all, his relationship with Yu Chenzhou as prospective father-in-law and son-in-law was not yet fully settled, and he did not want outsiders to cause trouble.

But then he thought, this was the perfect opportunity to reveal his daughter Xiao Yilin's little secret, which she had kept hidden in her heart for many years, to his future son-in-law Yu Chenzhou.

This approach would both resolve the potential problems logically and ensure that Yu Chenzhou wouldn't harbor resentment for being deceived, so he immediately agreed.

He contacted his wife, Song Shuwan, immediately to tell her his thoughts, and Song Shuwan also expressed her deep agreement with her husband's considerations.

Because the time bomb that Xiao Yilin planted was already on the verge of exploding.

If the issue isn't addressed proactively at the right time, and it's accidentally triggered at the wrong moment, years of nurturing the relationship might be destroyed beyond repair.

After making their decision, the two of them took Chen Xiaoxiao and headed to the villa where Yu Chenzhou and Xiao Yilin were currently living.