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Chapter 120 Pushing Trends and Setting the Rhythm

Chapter 120: Chapter 120 Pushing Trends and Setting the Rhythm

Having recognized Luo You, many of He Jinxia’s fans became concerned and left messages under the news:

[Emperor Sheng is very dedicated and professional. Did she faint from overwork?]

[Clickbaiting editors, pfft, doomsayers, go to hell with your ’life hanging by a thread’! Do you actually enjoy cursing people to death?]

[Hehe, this must be a stunt [amused]. Nowadays, celebrities really go to any length for headlines!]

[Sick of this, even hospitalization makes the news. Can’t you editors publish more meaningful articles, or is everything a celebrity does as precious as gold!]

[Using illness to create hype? Think again; it’s only the not-so-famous celebrities who resort to these tactics for attention. Emperor Sheng has projects and popularity, and doesn’t need such underhanded methods.]

[Keyboard warriors, please enlighten yourself.]

...

Some fans, worried about He Jinxia’s well-being, hurriedly went to her Weibo page to leave messages, inquiring how she was doing.

Without the Water Army stepping in, just marketing accounts using exaggerated tactics to draft reports and create buzz, the "He Jinxia is Sick and Hospitalized" tag climbed to the tenth spot on the hot search list and blew up!

However, the popularity didn’t last long. It had just reached tenth place when it was overthrown by the eleventh, coinciding with another second-tier celebrity buying the Water Army to boost their hot search ranking.

Li Li was the one most impacted by the news of He Jinxia’s hospitalization, as fans flocked to her page to scold her.

[That photo must have been deliberately taken by someone nearby. Neither of you were looking at the camera, and you’re holding hands but standing so far apart, I can’t see any sign of a close relationship!]

[Ever since Emperor Sheng got famous, you’ve been leeching off her popularity. Can’t you live without clinging to her fame? Now Emperor Sheng is sick and hospitalized, and you’re still rushing to ride on her coattails! Disgusting!]

[Same, disgusting. Please leave the entertainment circle!]

...

All at once, Li Li’s page was overrun.

Fans can be a double-edged sword, and the internet is a place of anonymity. With no real-name system, people can say whatever they want without accountability, which magnifies the uglier side of human nature.

Fortunately, Xiao Hua had managed to keep the fans under some control these days, so the Timekeepers were somewhat restrained in their comments about Li Li.

Most rational fans were asking Li Li to stop leeching off the hype, some wanted her to check in on Emperor Sheng’s condition, and there were even messages from fans urging the Timekeepers to remain rational and not to insult people, saying they’d pass on the opportunity to ’kidnap’ Emperor Sheng themselves.

Zhang Dayou noticed He Jinxia’s trending topic the moment it appeared and immediately called Luo You.

At that time, Luo You was sitting in a chair, wiping off sweat. Seeing Zhang Dayou’s call, he promptly answered.

Zhang Dayou went straight to the point and asked, "How is Jinxia doing?"

"Her low fever turned into a high fever, and that’s why she fainted. She’s on an IV now, we’re waiting to see how things go," answered Luo You.

It was just a fever...

Zhang Dayou breathed a sigh of relief, discussed with Luo You what the online opinions were at the moment, and the two talked about how to handle the situation going forward.

Ten minutes later, Luo You took control of He Jinxia’s Weibo and posted a brief message:

[Just a fever, so I’m hospitalized and on IV. No need to worry.]

Timekeepers had already been able to differentiate which Weibo posts were made by He Jinxia and which by her agent, Luo You, as their phones were different, and hence, the suffix name appearing on the messages posted online varied accordingly.

The ones with the LX suffix name were posted by He Jinxia’s agent.

Seeing that their idol was fine, Timekeepers alike all breathed a sigh of relief, wishing He Jinxia a quick recovery and an early discharge from the hospital.

[Feel so sorry for Fat Emperor—how high must the fever have been to cause a faint? She couldn’t even walk on her own.]

[Got the news that Fat Emperor was actually ill during the magazine shoot, starting with a low fever but still clear-headed and not affecting the work; later it turned into a high fever.]

[Ah, Fat Emperor is working too hard!]

...

The news of "He Jinxia hospitalized due to illness" quickly spread to many celebrities, and even if it didn’t make the top 10 hot search, it was plastered all over other channels by marketing accounts to attract views!

At this time, a first-line sexy female star with a head of dazzling, wavy long hair was sitting in a quiet cafe, playing with the delicate nail art on her fingers, expressionless.

Upon hearing what her agent said, she raised her eyebrows and huffed, "Just a flea, what’s so amazing about successfully losing eighty pounds?"

She paused her remarks, fiercely pressing down on a little bead embedded in her nail art, a vicious look flashing in her eyes: "I’ve been hearing about her all the time lately, so annoying. Just sort her out casually."

On the other side, Zhang Dayou and Luo You cooperated with each other, finally managing to suppress the news and guided public opinion to curse the paparazzi.

Indeed, paparazzi bore a large part of the blame for such grossly exaggerated fake news.

An hour later, just as this news was about to fall out of the top hundred hot searches, suddenly, a new hot search topic parachuted into the top ten, sparking a wave of heated discussions.

The topic "#Li Li Get Out of the Entertainment Circle#!" exploded into the number one spot!

Clicking on this hot search, all sorts of "news about Li Li getting out of the entertainment circle" appeared, with angry rants from fans, long articles by marketing accounts jumping on the bandwagon, and of course, those defending Li Li and singing her praises, but ultimately they were overwhelmed by the chorus of denunciations.

[Really had enough, please stop using Fat Emperor to generate heat, okay? #Li Li Get Out of the Entertainment Circle#]

[Two-faced stars, she didn’t even follow you on Weibo, yet you have the nerve to say you’re on good terms? Like a sticky candy, disgusting! #Li Li Get Out of the Entertainment Circle#]

A prominent blogger even published a post about how hypocritical Li Li was, it was enough that she cleared things up late before, leading everyone to misunderstand Fat Emperor, but now she had to climb atop Fat Emperor’s heat even while she was hospitalized, so fake!

The article by the big V was well-crafted, making anyone who read it feel that Li Li deserved to be kicked out of the entertainment circle.

The onlookers got swayed by this tune, and joined in the condemnation, yet, some netizens couldn’t stand it and commented:

[It was just a shared photo, and when she posted it, Fat Emperor’s hospital photos hadn’t even leaked yet, who knows if Li Li knew about her illness?]

[Yeah, there should be a limit even if you have low EQ. If she knew Fat Emperor was ill but still shared the photo—that would truly be riding the hype. Fat Emperor’s fans were scolding before, that might be excusable as being agitated, but now Fat Emperor is fine, and suddenly fans are scolding again, I don’t understand this maneuver [hands spread]]

[He Jinxia’s fans are way too overbearing, must every celebrity associated with He Jinxia be driven out of the entertainment circle? Last time it was Ji Jiawen, now Li Li is also getting hit.]

[The one above just doesn’t get it, right? Persimmons are picked softly, look, if they got involved with Emperor Sheng, would her fans dare tell Emperor Sheng to get out of the entertainment circle?]

...

The onlookers expressed that they didn’t quite understand this turn of events, but in the eyes of Zhang Dayou, a professional, it was all too clear—

There was a Water Army fluffing up the trends!

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