I met my whole family through Baidu Tieba.

When Fang Huiwen saw a post on the Yangbei Forum about how the forum only charged money and didn't provide any gameplay, Li Xian, who was working in room 305 of the Yangcheng Business School Entrepreneurship Base, also saw it.

However, Li Xian saw a different post.

"Yangbei Forum Only Charges Money and Doesn't Play Games: Is This a Loss of Humanity or a Decline in Morality?"

Upon clicking through, it became clear that the original poster and the "shocking post" were the same person, and the content was identical. Even those who noticed the similarities would assume that the original poster was so indignant after being scammed that they posted several threads to tearfully accuse the Yangbei Forum.

"Boss!"

After glancing at it twice, Li Xian immediately looked up at Zheng Changhao, who was sitting at a workstation not far away. "There are already posts on the forum saying that we only charge money and don't play GG."

Zheng Changhao was also staring at the computer screen in front of him, without looking up. "I know, I saw it too."

This was within his expectations.

He had already clashed with Shen Kang before during the laundry room incident, and had witnessed Shen Kang's methods. Therefore, Zheng Changhao had long anticipated that once he started taking action, Shen Kang would definitely not let go of this opportunity to spread public opinion.

He had already made arrangements for this.

"Everyone, proceed according to plan."

Jung Chang-ho said this.

"Received." "Received." ...

Several "received" sounds rang out from various parts of office 305. Besides Li Xian, there were three other newcomers.

These three new people were all temporary workers hired on short notice.

In fact, after Yangbei Forum unified the Beilu District, it was just simple daily operations. Many tasks could be handled by issuing "administrator" titles, allowing Yangbei Forum's deep users to operate them for free. So Zheng Changhao started laying off staff at that time to save costs.

The staff of Yangbei Forum is now extremely streamlined, which is sufficient for daily operations, but they are short-handed when faced with emergencies like this—a fact that was exposed in the previous incident of someone fraudulently claiming clothes from the laundry room.

Therefore, after anticipating Shen Kang's potential offensive, Zheng Changhao had already hired three more temporary workers in advance.

Crackling and popping...

Under Zheng Changhao's orders, Li Xian and the three temporary workers began their work, but not by deleting posts.

After the last incident, Zheng Changhao learned his lesson and will never delete posts so easily again. Otherwise, it might force many people to go directly to the Beiming Community to read the posts and follow the development of the situation, and then stay on the Beiming Community, turning from users of the Yangbei Forum into users of the Beiming Community.

Therefore, we cannot blindly block, but must fight back.

Soon, new posts appeared in the various campus sections of the Yangbei Forum, responding to the posts that had appeared in those sections...

Fang Huiwen was still browsing the Yangbei Forum, following the latest gossip about "Yangbei Forum only takes money and doesn't play games".

Judging from the comments and replies of those who left the thread, she also sensed that a wave of public opinion was forming.

"I'm a bit shocked. Does Yangbei Forum not even have basic business credibility?"

"Could there be some kind of engine inside?"

"Engine? I'll give you the gearbox!"

"Then I'll install the car's air conditioning."

"I used to like Yangbei Forum quite a bit, but I never expected them to do such disgusting things."

……

Overall, public opinion is rapidly shifting in a direction unfavorable to the Yangbei Forum.

Like many commentators, Fang Huiwen felt that Yangbei Forum's actions were unethical and wrong. Coupled with the widespread criticism of Yangbei Forum, this atmosphere intensified Fang Huiwen's aversion to the forum.

It was at this moment that Fang Huiwen came across a new post.

The Truth Behind the So-Called "Taking Money Without Playing the Game"

The truth behind charging money but not playing the game? Is this a response from the Yangbei Forum? Fang Huiwen immediately clicked on it and saw the content of the post:

"Recently, there have been accusations against the Yangbei Forum, claiming that they only charge fees and don't provide any assistance. There's more to the story. I'm aware of this, and I'm simply stating the facts here; please use your own judgment..."

Then, the post contacted "a certain second-hand website" and asked Yangbei Forum to "go badly." As a result, not long after they actually started "going badly," "the certain second-hand website" launched a campus forum and put the link to "the campus forum" on the homepage of the second-hand website, which effectively drove traffic from Yangbei Forum to "the campus forum."

Yangbei Forum believes that this was a trap set by the other party when signing the contract, deliberately concealing the fact that the other party was about to open a campus forum, which ultimately damaged the interests of Yangbei Forum.

Despite Yangbei Forum's very sincere negotiations, offering to refund all GG fees and provide additional financial compensation, the other party still refused to cancel the contract.

Ultimately, Yangbei Forum, left with no other option, initiated legal proceedings and is currently in the process of filing a lawsuit against the other party for breach of contract. Furthermore, in accordance with relevant legal grounds, the other party's GG (Golden Got Talent) has been temporarily removed from Yangbei Forum's homepage.

After reading it, Fang Huiwen was somewhat surprised. She hadn't expected there to be such a thing in it, and now she felt that what Jueyangbei Forum did seemed somewhat understandable.

They deliberately dug a pit and refused to negotiate a solution, so it's understandable that Yangbei Forum would do this, right?

Looking at the comments section of this post again, there were already quite a few replies in a short period of time.

"It's a reversal!"

"So it really does have an engine? And is there a gearbox too?"

"First, they buy GG on another website, and then use this website to drive traffic to their forum. How could a certain secondhand website be so malicious!"

"Now I support Yangbei Forum."

……

Netizens are truly unpredictable. Just a moment ago they were vehemently criticizing Yangbei Forum, and now, in a complete reversal, they're all starting to understand and support it.

Amidst the renewed support for Yangbei Forum, some voices also mentioned "a certain campus forum".

"So which forum is 'a certain campus forum'? Does anyone know? I'm going to go and give this website a good scolding!"

"Upstairs, I actually know it, bmn.cm."

"Then I'll go and criticize them too!"

"Let's go together."

……

Fang Huiwen couldn't see those annoying posts on the Yangbei Forum homepage—she directly set the Yangcheng Normal University campus section on the Yangbei Forum as a tag, and every time she used the Yangbei Forum, she would directly click on the tag to enter the Yangcheng Normal University section.

Therefore, Fang Huiwen had never seen the GG on Xianyu.com, nor did she know about Xianyu.com or Beiming Community.

It was only after seeing these posts that she learned that a second-hand website had been penalized on the homepage of Yangbei Forum, and that a new, despicable campus forum had appeared in Beilu University Town.

Fang Huiwen also decided to check out what was going on with this new, despicable campus forum, so she entered the URL she saw in the replies into her browser and entered the Beiming Community.

Upon entering, Fang Huiwen was immediately struck by the website's completely different layout from the Yangbei Forum.

Because the website's page layout was very simple, completely user-friendly, and easy to understand, Fang Huiwen found her target directly—the "square" in the very center.

This thing looks like it's similar to the "You, Me, and I" section of the Yangbei Forum.

This can be seen from the content currently displayed in the central plaza on the "three-screen homepage"—several popular posts are displayed there, which are complete copies of those posts from the Yangbei Forum:

"Yangbei Forum Only Charges Money and Doesn't Play Games: Is This a Loss of Humanity or a Decline in Morality?"

Shocking! I paid to play GG (game progression) on the Yangbei Forum, but the forum only charged me and didn't actually help me?!

……

These titles are exactly the same as those posts on the Yangbei Forum, word for word.

Even posts refuting these claims were prominently displayed.

The Truth Behind the So-Called "Only Take Money, No Game Play"...

Fang Huiwen was somewhat surprised.

She wasn't surprised that the posts attacking Yangbei Forum appeared here; what surprised her was that the posts refuting them and telling the truth were also thriving here.

Based on those rebuttal posts, she thought this new campus forum was extremely despicable and shameless, and that even if someone copied these rebuttal posts that spoke the truth, they would be deleted. But they weren't.

Surprised and relieved, Fang Huiwen clicked into the plaza and glanced around. She discovered that all the rebuttal posts she had seen on the Yangbei Forum were indeed here...

Yangcheng Business School Entrepreneurship Base 305

Li Xianzheng was engrossed in his work.

Zheng Changhao, sitting at his workstation not far away, was also staring at his laptop screen, looking at the Beiming Community website. Suddenly, he looked up in Li Xian's direction and called out, "Li Xian!"

Upon hearing this, Li Xian looked up.

Zheng Changhao said somewhat displeased, "Didn't I tell you to delete all those posts on the Beiming Community? Why are they still there!"

The "posts on the Beiming Community" that Zheng Changhao mentioned are those posts that tell the truth and refute Shen Kang's attacks.

……

After Shen Kang's people posted on Yangbei Forum, Zheng Changhao immediately arranged a counterattack and even expanded the response by sending people to Beiming Community to retaliate.

As Zheng Changhao expected, Shen Kang also sent someone to post in the square of the Beiming community, saying that the Yangbei Forum only charged money and did not play games.

So, under Zheng Changhao's arrangement, these people from Yangbei Forum posted a rebuttal thread in Beiming Community.

"You'd better delete all these posts we made..."

This is what Zheng Changhao was thinking when he saw one rebuttal post after another appearing in the Beiming Community.

If Shen Kang really deletes these posts, it will be the same thing Zheng Changhao did in the laundry room fraud incident, which will anger some users and cause them to turn to Yangbei Forum.

Unfortunately, Shen Kang did not delete the post.

After observing for a while, Zheng Changhao noticed that Shen Kang had not deleted the post. Although he felt a little regretful, he had another trick up his sleeve.

He immediately issued a new order to Li Xian and the others: "Delete all the rebuttal posts you made on the Beiming Community!"

When Li Xian and the other temporary workers heard the instruction, they were all taken aback.

However, what Jung Chang-ho said next made them understand what was going on.

"After deleting it, post on the Beiming Community again, saying that your post was deleted by people from the Beiming Community, that the Beiming Community controls speech and doesn't let people speak, and that letting people speak won't cause the sky to fall, etc. That's the general idea, but you can elaborate on the specifics yourself."

Li Xian and the others immediately understood that this was an attempt to smear the Beiming community.

So they immediately took action and actually deleted those posts that had already garnered a lot of likes and comments in a short period of time.

Then, as Zheng Changhao instructed, they started posting new threads on the Beiming Community, angrily accusing the community of not allowing freedom of speech and deleting all the posts that told them the truth.

Li Xian also mentioned in the post that Yangbei Forum would not delete these posts, and that if people wanted to know the truth, they could go to Yangbei Forum to see.

Then, Li Xian posted his new message.

It was at this moment that Li Xian heard Zheng Changhao calling him, saying that his post was still there and had not been deleted.

……

"Still there?"

Li Xian was puzzled. "That's impossible. I already deleted it. Just to be sure, I even checked my profile to make sure it was gone. Boss, are you seeing things?"

Zheng Changhao tapped his knuckles on the table, sounding somewhat impatient: "Take a look for yourself!"

Li Xian, filled with doubt, refreshed the page in the square and, sure enough, found a strange thing.

The Truth Behind the So-Called "Taking Money Without Playing the Game"

"?"

Li Xian was stunned.

This post was written by Li Xian, but didn't I just delete it?

Puzzled, Li Xian clicked on it and found that the post was exactly the same as his own, from the title to the content!

If it weren't for the fact that it wasn't Li Xian's Beiming account that posted it, he would have suspected that he had accidentally deleted the post.

"They posted it!"

Li Xian immediately realized what was happening: "They copied our rebuttal posts, we deleted them ourselves, and they immediately reposted them, attacking themselves!"

Li Xian continued speaking along the lines in his mind, feeling a bit numb—that Boss Shen is such a pervert, criticizing himself!

Zheng Changhao became increasingly agitated. He talked to the temporary workers again and discovered that their posts on the Beiming Community had been copied after they were deleted.

While Zheng Changhao was talking to the temporary workers, Li Xian was looking at his copied post.

The post itself can be copied, but the replies and comments from the previous post cannot be copied.

Therefore, the replies and comments under this new post have become somewhat off-topic:

"No, did I get a Sharingan? I think I just saw the exact same post, and then I clicked on it, and it was exactly the same as now!"

"I just saw the exact same post, and I even replied, but now I can't find my reply."

"Damn, me too!"

"Is this the legendary Mandela Effect?"

"What is the Maillard effect?"

"It's the Daliyuan effect."

"The Mandela effect means that many people remember Mandela as dead, but the fact is, Mandela is still alive. In fact, our country also has a similar phenomenon. Many people remember the lyrics of 'Love My China' as 'fifty or sixty ethnic groups, fifty or sixty flowers,' but it is actually 'fifty or sixty constellations, fifty or sixty flowers.'"

"Nonsense! There are no 'fifty-six constellations'! They're clearly fifty-six ethnic groups!"

"I copied it! I checked, and there really are fifty-six constellations!"

"Impossible! I also remember it being 56 ethnic groups! There must be something wrong with the information!"

"Yeah, fifty-six constellations is too weird. Fifty-six ethnic groups would make perfect sense. I also remember there are fifty-six ethnic groups!"

……

Li Xian rubbed his head and stopped watching.

Good grief, where has this all gone?

At this critical juncture of online debate, are these netizens still capable? Can't they talk about something more reliable?

Li Xian sighed, then looked at Zheng Changhao not far away and asked, "Boss, do you still remember the first line of the lyrics to 'Love My China'?"

"..."

Jung Chang-ho was speechless, but calmly looked at Lee Heon, though his eyes were burning with anger.

I hired you to work, what are you doing? Studying song lyrics now! Do you even want to keep your job?!

Lee Heon, however, lacked tact and failed to notice Jung Chang-ho's anger. He even started singing on the spot, "Is it 'Fifty-six ethnic groups, fifty-six flowers'? Or 'Fifty-six constellations, fifty-six flowers'?"

Zheng Changhao grew increasingly furious, though his voice remained calm. Beneath that calm, however, surging anger threatened to erupt at any moment: "The nation. What's wrong?"

Li Xian shook his head repeatedly, "No, it's 'Fifty-six constellations.' I also remembered it as an ethnic group, but after checking, I found out it's actually a constellation!"

Zheng Changhao, who was about to explode, paused upon hearing this and instinctively said, "Impossible, I clearly remember it's ethnicity!"

His family was not well-off when he was a child, and there wasn't much other entertainment. His favorite form of entertainment was watching TV.

Zheng Changhao's family didn't have cable TV, or even a satellite dish. They could only rely on the TV's own antenna to receive the signal, so the channel they watched most often was CCTV.

He often heard this song there, and he remembered it very clearly; it was definitely a folk song!

"It really is a horoscope, you can look it up if you don't believe me," Li Xian said.

With some skepticism, Zheng Changhao began checking on the laptop in front of him.

After a while, Jung Chang-ho suddenly looked up, his eyes wide with shock: "It really is a constellation?! But I clearly remembered it as an ethnicity!"

The three temporary workers overheard their conversation and joined in.

"I remember it being an ethnicity." "How could it be a zodiac sign?" "Zodiac signs are completely illogical!"...

Then, the three temporary workers also started investigating, and after they finished, they were just as shocked as Zheng Changhao.

"So it really is based on zodiac signs?!"

Lee Hyun, who was the first to bring it up, asked with a puzzled look, "So what exactly happened?"

Zheng Changhao pondered silently.

One of the three temporary workers offered his perspective: "This phenomenon of memory confusion actually has a scientific basis. From a physiological perspective, it's possible for people to store things that didn't happen, things they've imagined, as memories. But that's an individual level issue. It's strange that so many of us are experiencing the same memory confusion."

Another temporary worker started talking about the occult: "Could it be some kind of mysterious force that has altered all of our memories?"

"What mysterious power? Aliens?"...

As they chatted and explored, they even pulled Jung Chang-ho into the conversation. "Senior Jung, do you think some mysterious force has affected all of our memories?"

After pondering silently for a long time, Zheng Changhao finally spoke. His words, however, were astonishing.

"I think parallel universes might really exist."

Jung Chang-ho looked serious and earnest. "We are very likely people from a parallel universe who entered this universe for some unknown reason. And we in this universe went to the universe we came from before."

"In these two parallel universes, most things develop in the same way, except for the lyrics of 'Love My China'—in our original universe, it's 'ethnicity,' while in this parallel universe, it's 'constellation.'"

"You could even say that. Originally, there was only one universe. It was at this point in the lyrics of 'Love My China' that a difference arose, splitting into two parallel universes. It was this newly split spacetime instability that threw us from the universe of 'nation' into the universe of 'constellations'."

"That's why we remember it as an ethnic group, but it turns out to be a constellation."

Zheng Changhao delivered a profound speech.

Everyone present understood, their eyes lighting up. They felt that Zheng Changhao's theory sounded much cooler than their own reasons, and was even quite logically sound! — If it could be proven that parallel universes really exist.

"Awesome, Senior Zheng!" "I think this parallel universe theory actually makes a lot of sense." "I still think it was aliens."...

Hearing the praise and flattery from everyone present, Jung Chang-ho smiled slightly, feeling quite pleased. However, he immediately thought of something, and his expression suddenly changed.

"no!"

Jung Chang-ho slammed his fist on the table. "Are we here to discuss parallel universes or to work?! No more discussions, let's get to work!"

Seeing that the boss was angry, everyone realized what was happening, quickly shut up, and got back to work.

Zheng Changhao looked at the group of people and sighed inwardly: What kind of rotten fish are these under his command? Working and then chatting about all sorts of nonsense!

The same thing happened in the laundry room incident; it was due to Wei Mingrui's incompetence.

It's all because these employees are incompetent; they've dragged us down...

While Jung Chang-ho was sighing and lamenting, Lee Heon was getting back to work.

He ignored the off-topic replies and scrolled down, looking at the replies, when he suddenly noticed one.

"The person who posted the previous thread has reposted it elsewhere, saying that his previous post was deleted by the administrator here."