Rebirth: My Home Has Become a Gathering Place for Young Women with a "Crazy" Spirit

"Qin Lang, your account has too much negative news and a bad influence. It is clear that you are no longer capable of providing effective results for our company, and the cooperation must be terminated. Because it is your fault, according to the contract, you must compensate our company with double the amount of your payment, which is 100,000 yuan."

"You have three days to pay the compensation, otherwise our company will take legal action."

After glancing at Qian Hao's message, Qin Lang's lips curled up slightly, revealing a half-smile.

"What?!" Su Yue leaned closer to take a look and immediately exploded, "That money thing is so shameless!"

Ruan Zhihuan was also furious: "This is clearly taking advantage of someone's misfortune! Ten thousand yuan, he really dares to ask for that much!"

Xu Han didn't speak, but his brows were furrowed, and his gaze swept back and forth across Qin Lang's face, as if observing how he would respond.

Just then, his phone rang again. It was a message from Bilibili's official platform. Qin Lang assumed it was a response from the platform to his complaint, so he opened the message: "Dear 'Silly Shrimp,' due to the current dispute with your account, your withdrawal request of 195654 yuan cannot be approved at this time. We apologize for the inconvenience."

Upon seeing the message, Qin Lang didn't show much emotion. He calmly placed his phone on the coffee table and casually picked up the water glass in front of him to take a sip.

"Brother Lang, aren't you worried?" Seeing Qin Lang still so calm, Su Yue was extremely anxious. "Qian Hao wants you to pay 100,000 yuan in compensation! And that Mo G is spreading rumors over there, causing you to lose more and more fans..."

"What's the use of being anxious?" Qin Lang put down his water glass and said calmly, "When you encounter a problem, you should find a way to solve it."

He leaned back on the sofa, his fingers lightly tapping the armrest, his mind racing. In his previous life, he had spent nearly ten years in the short video industry, and he had seen far too many similar cases of plagiarism, extortion, and business disputes.

Now, he faces three problems: first, Mo Gtou and his online army are distorting the truth and harassing him online; second, Qian Hao is trying to extort money from him with the contract; and third, if the dispute with Mo Gtou cannot be resolved, the platform will not pay him.

At that moment, a passage came to Qin Lang's mind: In the development of anything, there are often many contradictions, among which there must be one principal contradiction. Its existence and development determine or influence the existence and development of other contradictions. When studying and solving problems, one must devote all efforts to finding this principal contradiction, because once this principal contradiction is grasped, all problems will be easily solved.

Therefore, the main problem he faces is the issue of plagiarism.

Once the plagiarism issue is clarified and it's proven that they are the original creator, the public pressure on Mo G will naturally ease. While Qian Hao's situation is troublesome, as long as the account's reputation is restored, even if they have to pay him 100,000 yuan in compensation, the profits from the account will far outweigh that.

The problem is, how do you prove it?

Relying on the platform? Although Qin Lang had already submitted a complaint on the platform, the process would take at least three to five business days.

Three days is enough to completely ruin an account.

Moreover, it's clear that MoGtou has a team operating behind him, so even if the platform accepts the report, the processing speed may not be fast enough.

More importantly, MoG has completely removed the original content tags and watermarks from the video and replaced them with their own logo. Based on the existing evidence, although it can be shown that Qin Lang's release time was earlier, the other party can easily argue that "the creation time was similar, and it was an independent creation," or simply say, "You copied me, you just released it earlier."

He had Qin Lang's creative process traces and screenshots of the original manuscript. But that wasn't enough; he needed more direct and compelling evidence—evidence that could directly prove that Mo G's video was copied from his video.

This involves the technical aspects.

Video tracing, digital fingerprint comparison, and even code-level analysis... He had only heard of these technologies in his previous life, let alone knew how to use them, he had never even seen them in person.

In other words, he needs a real computer expert.

Qin Lang closed his eyes, trying hard to search his memory of his past life. He vaguely remembered that there was a legendary figure in the industry, whose code name was "Old Z".

Old Z is a computer genius. He's said to be able to extract the creation timeline from video files and even compare the editing patterns of two videos to see if they match. Many content creators who have been plagiarized seek his help for technical verification.

"I think I first heard of this Old Z in my past life back in 2018. Now it's 2016, so he must be pretty powerful by now," Qin Lang thought to himself.

This man is extremely difficult to deal with, has a strange temper, and dislikes socializing. It's said he never takes jobs from strangers. Even when someone offers him a large sum of money for help, he won't even reply. However, if he encounters a job that interests him, he's willing to do it for free.

The content creators in the industry privately call him "the eccentric Lao Z".

Qin Lang had only heard of this person's name in his previous life, but had never had any contact with him. If he could find this person to help with this matter, things would be much simpler.

He opened his eyes, picked up his phone again, and scrolled to a colleague's WeChat. This colleague was someone he had met in his previous life when he was making short dramas; the two had even collaborated on a project and could be considered like-minded friends.

After his rebirth, when he started making silly animations, he added this person as a WeChat friend, and the two "felt like old friends and wished they had known each other for a long time".

Qin Lang: "Old Liu, I need to ask you something."

Do you know how to contact "Old Z the Eccentric"? He's the guy who's really good at technical appraisals.

Old Liu on the other end quickly replied: "You want to find him? That guy is hard to get an appointment with. I do have his QQ number, but whether you can add him or not depends on fate."

Immediately afterwards, Lao Liu sent another message: "By the way, it seems he's been working on some kind of web scraping project lately, and he's run into some trouble. He doesn't seem to be in a good mood. Good luck to him."

Qin Lang thanked him, copied the QQ number the other party had sent, opened QQ, pasted the number into the search bar, and indeed found a person nicknamed "Old Z".

After clicking "Add Friend," Qin Lang only wrote a few words in the verification message: "Hello, I have a technical question to ask, payment required."

……

Ten minutes passed, and there was still no response.

Twenty minutes passed, and still no response...

"How's Lang-ge doing? Did you add him?" Su Yue leaned closer to look at the screen, her face full of anxiety.

Qin Lang shook his head, put his phone aside, and said, "No rush."

At this moment, Xu Han, who had been keeping a cold face, spoke up: "How about we try a different topic? These tech geeks are usually not interested in money."