TRMP Chapter 87

Jiang Yifeng lowered his eyes, still looking well-behaved.

He held a cup of milk tea, and when he drank it, his cheeks puffed up into round little balls, making him look obedient and quiet, which made Luo Qi feel even more sorry for him.

Luo Qi didn’t press Jiang Yifeng for a response, but turned to look at Guan Yiqiang: “Is there really no way to deal with them? Just a simple clarification, is that it?”

“Of course not.” Guan Yiqiang looked at Jiang Yifeng, then at Luo Qi’s indignant expression, and felt a little dazed for a moment.

Seeing that Jiang Yifeng had no intention of explaining, he turned his head and said helplessly, “Let the clarification ferment for a while… the internet army has already started helping to spread it.”

Luo Qi didn’t quite understand Guan Yiqiang’s actions.

But when it came to public relations, as a third-rate agent from a third-rate company, he was completely an amateur.

The first lesson he learned entering the entertainment industry was that amateurs don’t interfere with professionals.

Jiang Yifeng put down his milk tea, smiled at Luo Qi, and his expression relaxed.

“What was the reaction from those two marketing accounts that were locked in the square before?” Jiang Yifeng asked.

“Nothing, they also noticed the clarification, but they probably saw that your clarification wasn’t very effective, so they didn’t make any further moves.” Guan Yiqiang crossed his legs, shrugged, and looked relaxed: “The people behind it probably only found out about the news online, and didn’t expect that you started paying back the money so early, so they didn’t make any further moves.”

“But they’re still waiting to see the effect of the public opinion… But the current state of passersby ignoring it and not forwarding it should be very much to their liking.”

Jiang Yifeng wasn’t anxious at all.

He and Guan Yiqiang discussed the content of the next response.

Luo Qi listened from the side, completely confused.

Guan Yiqiang listened to Jiang Yifeng’s reply, and his eyes couldn’t help but narrow. “Push the responsibility onto the marketing accounts, separate the big Vs from ordinary people, and then cut the big Vs off from each other…”

The more he listened, the more his eyes towards Jiang Yifeng carried scrutiny.

Jiang Yifeng’s face was very beautiful. Looking at it simply, he seemed like a complete pretty waste.

He also did things very cleanly.

Silently gritting his teeth to pay back the money, saving money for several years to pay back the money and adding interest, he was obviously stubborn and clean.

Guan Yiqiang originally thought that doing public relations for Jiang Yifeng would take a lot of effort, at most just to prevent Jiang Yifeng from leaving the circle—being able to befriend his stupid and kind younger brother, he was probably even stingy with the most basic means of revenge.

However, Jiang Yifeng not only wanted to block all the knives, but also stab them fiercely into the enemy’s chest.

Luo Qi didn’t understand.

“Why put the responsibility on yourself? You want to apologize to those idiots, saying that you didn’t respond in time and caused public misunderstanding? Saying that those idiots were misled and misunderstood you? Why?”

“It’s already been clarified, even if they don’t apologize to you, they definitely know it’s their fault, why do we need to apologize? Is it your fault? What’s the point of clarifying if you apologize after clarifying?”

Jiang Yifeng looked at Luo Qi’s indignant expression, his eyes softened, and the corners of his lips curled up.

Luo Qi was genuinely angry for him.

“It’s precisely because they know they’re wrong that we must first help them clear their responsibility.” Jiang Yifeng held the milk tea cup, he looked sweet, smiled happily, but there was a hint of sharpness hidden in his eyes: “No one wants to admit that they’re wrong. If they really carry the knowledge that ‘I’m wrong’, their first reaction will never be to admit their mistake, but to find trouble with me.”

“Every word I say and everything I do in the future will be magnified. As long as there is negative news about me, whether it’s true or false, they will infinitely amplify and spread it. Because they were ‘wrong’ this time, they can’t be wrong, they have to prove that they are attacking a villain.”

“Only by proving that they are attacking a villain can they be good people, can they have no blemishes, can they be upright people.”

“My public image will become very poor. All the passersby who participated in spreading rumors will be waiting for my black material. In the future, whether it’s fabricated or real, as long as it can blacken me, they will unconditionally help spread it, because I must be wrong.”

“If I’m in the entertainment circle, it’s easy to fabricate a few rumors about me being a diva, and I won’t even be able to clarify.”

“Brother Luo, if it’s not someone else’s fault this time, then no matter what happens in the future, it will only be my fault.”

Jiang Yifeng looked at Luo Qi’s expression, watching him go from shock to anger, and felt a softness in his heart.

“It’s okay, Brother Guan is here, he will help us handle it.”

“The public relations methods and public relations strategies are all following your plan, and the guiding direction is all based on what you decided. You say I’m helping you handle it, I don’t even dare to agree.” Guan Yiqiang put a cigarette in his mouth, smiled and patted Jiang Yifeng’s shoulder: “Don’t be in the entertainment circle, I think you’re a public relations genius… every step is based on people’s hearts.”

“I just understand people’s psychology better, but I don’t like to speculate about what people are thinking all the time.” Jiang Yifeng wrinkled his nose, his appearance even a little innocent: “I think it’s so dirty.”

Guan Yiqiang hummed.

He didn’t quite dare to believe Jiang Yifeng’s words now.

“Then why didn’t you let your company do public relations in your way from the beginning…”

“At that time, my part-time job hadn’t been exposed yet. The highest penalty for breach of contract was 20 million. I would have to take on 20 million in debt to clarify…” The poor Jiang Yifeng felt a toothache just thinking about 20 million. “Besides, at that time, the public’s emotions hadn’t reached their peak at all, and my public relations methods were useless. Even if I clarified, the public’s emotions wouldn’t rise, and they would at most just watch it as a joke. Moreover, with our company’s public relations methods, they couldn’t wait for me to spend time sorting out the evidence, nor could they wait for me to slowly sort out and observe public opinion, they would only express their feelings and issue press releases saying how hard I was to pay back the money, and how painful it was to bear the pain of my father’s death…”

Guan Yiqiang raised his eyebrows, looked at Jiang Yifeng, and shook his head helplessly.

“You lost several years of time. If you had come to my company to do public relations as soon as you dropped out of school, you could have paid off the money in less than a year.”

Jiang Yifeng also smiled: “I’m so good-looking, it would be a pity not to be a star.”

“You’re really joking.” Guan Yiqiang only thought that Jiang Yifeng was joking.

But he didn’t know that Jiang Yifeng was always sincere when he said he was good-looking.

“First look at the public opinion situation, and when the time is right, you can send a response. This time, no one will leak the information again.” Guan Yiqiang stared at the data curve, not blinking his eyes.

Jiang Yifeng’s new reply caused a great uproar.

It was clearly just a few simple sentences blaming himself for not clarifying to the public in time because he was organizing evidence, which caused the public to misunderstand, and at the same time questioning that big Vs had wide channels, but still chose to mislead the public even when they knew the truth.

However, the internet, which had been calm, suddenly exploded.

Overwhelming anger instantly surged towards the several big Vs and marketing accounts that Jiang Yifeng had screenshotted.

“You said that you learned through special channels that the matter was true, then didn’t your special channels tell you that he started paying back the money a long time ago? Can the garbage marketing accounts die sooner?”

“When nothing happens, you pretend to be industry insiders, and when something happens, you pass the buck. Is this all the garbage marketing accounts and garbage big Vs know? Are you playing with us?”

“Why are marketing accounts so cheap? They don’t even want their own mothers for the sake of traffic.”

“Are marketing accounts spreading rumors like this because orphans don’t accumulate virtue and aren’t afraid of hurting their families?”

“Jiang Yifeng dared to take responsibility and come out to work and pay back the money when he was only in college. The Sima marketing account said that he deserved it, and even cursed his father who died of a serious illness. They really don’t have any face.”

“I thought there was something fishy before. Jiang Yifeng is so good-looking and doesn’t look like that kind of person. As a result, when we waited, it really reversed. Garbage media should die sooner.”

“Those fools who were guided by reporters to Jiang Yifeng’s comments section to scold him, who doesn’t know that there’s not a word of truth in the mouths of garbage marketing accounts? You’ve been deceived so many times and you still don’t listen to advice, you deserve it.”

“They said that Jiang Yifeng paid back the money because he became popular and wanted to make money. He started saving money to pay back the money before he became a star, okay? And looking at the timeline, he paid off the money before ‘Mu Yu Ge’ was released. How could he be popular at that time? So popular that he was repeatedly slandered and stepped on by Chen Ruiyang and Su Xiaoyu?”

When Jiang Yifeng helped them establish a seemingly opposing enemy, they immediately stood on Jiang Yifeng’s side.

Even those who originally questioned the authenticity of Jiang Yifeng’s evidence seemed to immediately prove the authenticity of the evidence through “special channels” and turned to attack the big Vs for disregarding the facts.

Those marketing accounts and V accounts that were riding the coattails of popularity were quickly occupied by righteous passersby, and all the insults and accusations turned their guns.

Luo Qi was a little irritable when he saw the direction.

“They believed those marketing accounts themselves. When you put out the evidence yesterday, they were still saying that you were photoshopping and spreading rumors to whitewash yourself, or that you were paying back the money to make more money! Don’t they need to be scolded?”

Jiang Yifeng patted Luo Qi’s shoulder.

He advised Luo Qi to be calm and not be impatient: “Spreading takes time…”

His public relations methods didn’t let anyone go.

After the public scolded the big Vs, their anger didn’t stop.

So the personal accounts that originally forwarded Jiang Yifeng’s rumors also suffered. Righteous passersby immediately forwarded and commented on their blog posts in turn, demanding an apology.

Those who were accused either shrank back like turtles or angrily replied, “I was also deceived by XX!”

But the righteous passersby who demanded an apology didn’t care whether the other party was deceived or not. Even if they were one of the deceived, they would righteously demand an apology from the other party.

Those who were forced to apologize didn’t vent their anger on Jiang Yifeng—because Jiang Yifeng had already taken the initiative to say “it’s not your fault”—they became even more hateful of the big Vs who had misled them and began to tear at them even more fiercely.

Even the person who only said that they had received a delivery from Jiang Yifeng suffered.

“Can’t you deliver food if you don’t have a job? Do you have to be scolded for delivering food to make a living? So ordinary people can’t live.”

“You won’t even let people deliver food, what kind of celestial beings, everyone except you shouldn’t live, right?”

“If a handsome guy delivers food to me, I can laugh on the spot. Dark people can even say nonsense about delivering food, how unlucky.”

The curses on the internet quickly became no longer limited to just big Vs.

Everyone who had ever insulted Jiang Yifeng had an equal probability of being righteously insulted.

Even the brands that had terminated their contracts with Jiang Yifeng were sanctioned by the public, demanding that the brands turn around and compensate Jiang Yifeng for the penalty for breach of contract.

Luo Qi looked at it and felt dazed.

“Why are they…” Luo Qi’s face was blank: “Isn’t all the responsibility on the big V marketing accounts?”

“They initially scolded me so harshly, they wanted to form a kind of moral overlooking.”

Jiang Yifeng’s fingers were crossed, his tone soft.

“Moral overlooking is not so easy to satisfy. So many people have scolded the big Vs. Only scolding the big Vs can’t reflect that their sense of morality is higher than ordinary people. They must find other objects, and everyone is equally in this circle of being scolded.”

“I said the mistake is not theirs, not to say the mistake is not theirs, but to take me out of the circle, they will find their own objects of overlooking.”

Guan Yiqiang glanced at Jiang Yifeng.

“I said you are very suitable to come to our company, I will give you an annual salary of two million, and year-end bonus commission income.”

“I don’t want to, I don’t want to always look at so many dirty things.” Jiang Yifeng closed his eyes, then opened them again, his eyes seemed a little cold. “I just rehearsed countless times in my mind how everyone would react after the exposure, so I know what their reaction will be in each step. At other times, I’m too lazy to think so much.”

“It’s good to be a pretty waste.”

Jiang Yifeng rubbed his face hard and smiled particularly sweetly.

Guan Yiqiang only felt that Jiang Yifeng, who was sitting there, was more terrifying than all the stars he had seen.

He turned around and stared at the computer: “Now there is only one small flaw left, that is, no one who has really been repaid has come out to testify for you. Just now I saw a marketing account come out and say that no one has come out to testify, and your evidence may be false… but it was scolded.”

“It doesn’t matter, they don’t need to wade into muddy waters.” When Jiang Yifeng mentioned those donors, his eyes instantly became gentle: “They helped me a lot back then… If it weren’t for their donations to help me, I really wouldn’t have even had the last chance to save my dad.”

Everyone helped him out of kindness.

When Jiang Yifeng mentioned them, he was always full of kindness.

“But it’s such a big deal, they…”

“If they came out before, they would be scolded for helping me whitewash myself. If they come out now, they will be scolded for not being willing to come out to clarify even though they received interest. They will be scolded no matter what, so it’s better to be quiet.” Jiang Yifeng understood very well those who had expressed kindness to him.

Guan Yiqiang looked at Jiang Yifeng.

At this time, Jiang Yifeng had a bit of the original appearance he imagined, gentle, innocent, without any negative emotions.

He turned his head and was about to continue dealing with public opinion with a smile when he suddenly froze.

“They—”

“They came out to testify!”

The Xie: My wife is so amazing! I want to ravage him even more!

Guan Yiqiang: What a scary person –