Superstar's Development Diary
Chapter 121: The Fans’ War

Chapter 121: Chapter 121: The Fans’ War

In Weibo, creating a topic requires using the "#" symbol. Without fans deliberately boosting the topic’s popularity, many ordinary users who post on Weibo won’t use the "#" symbol to select a topic.

The posts that screamed for Li Li to get out of the entertainment circle uniformly carried the topic hashtag. This hot search suddenly emerged and became explosively popular, clearly indicating a deliberate hype and marketing move.

Zhang Dayou furrowed his brows and immediately called Cheng Xiaohua, asking her to manage He Jinxia’s fan group and to avoid rashly attacking Li Li. He also asked Cheng Xiaohua to pass the phone to Luo You, inquiring,

"Has He Jinxia recently offended anyone?"

Luo You was stunned for a moment, then frowned and said, "No, Jinxia has been on the film set recently. She even took time off to come out and shoot for a magazine. Her Weibo isn’t updated often and doesn’t contain anything offensive."

Zhang Dayou’s expression turned serious, "Li Li has appeared on the hot search list again. But this time, it’s about her being told to leave the entertainment circle. A large number of Water Army posing as Jinxia’s fans are attacking her, attracting negativity towards her.

"You need to look after He Jinxia and ensure she doesn’t randomly post anything on Weibo. I am starting to handle the public relations now."

At the end, he sighed, "Jinxia has been quite unfortunate. Including this time, she’s been targeted thrice this year, roughly once every week, she could be called a ’Black people’!"

Luo You was embarrassed, "What kind of nickname is that!"

His artist is clearly not dark at all!

Soon, Zhang Dayou was manipulating the Water Army, collaborating with He Jinxia’s fans, and spinning the narrative that "someone is impersonating He Jinxia’s fans to attract hatred" in their responses.

[Verification complete, those claiming to be fans of Fat Emperor are actually other celebrities trying to screw Fat Emperor over, stirring trouble. We’re not engaging with them.]

[Everyone says Fat Emperor’s fans have no quality. As a Timekeeper, I just don’t understand. Everyday, there are sisters in the official group encouraging us to work or study well, striving hard every day.

The motivational topics are even more toxic than toxic chicken soup. Having joined the official group a few days ago, I forcefully changed my habit of swearing. How can Timekeepers be considered low quality?]

[To clarify, regarding the topic of Li Li, Timekeepers unanimously agree not to engage. Attached are screenshots of a few individuals who are most active on the frontlines. Huh, Fat Emperor isn’t even followed, and clicking into their profiles, it’s clear all they do is slander other celebrities with foul language. The hiring of the Water Army could not be more obvious!]

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The Water Army’s accounts are too obvious and, being specialized for such tasks, almost seventy to eighty percent of the posts viewable on their profiles involved badmouthing celebrities, which was too apparent.

Now, any slightly intelligent bystander knew that someone was buying Water Army to purposely target He Jinxia’s fans.

[What good does attacking fans do? Fans are a celebrity’s public spokespersons after all, attacking fans is indirectly attacking He Jinxia!

The claim that ’a celebrity’s fans caused trouble and insulted people, so the celebrity should bear responsibility’ is nothing but bandit logic. The celebrity didn’t ask you to rob or insult people, so why should they be responsible for their fans’ mistakes? It’s not like they eat your rice!]

This opinion received a lot of likes, approval, and rebuttal, bringing the only good thing about this controversy:

Many people’s attention shifted from "He Jinxia’s fans lack manners and insult others" to the complex question of "Should celebrities be responsible when their fans make mistakes?"

All kinds of bystanders pulled out references from laws, human relations, social influence, and other perspectives to discuss this debatable issue, which somewhat purified the messy language.

Seeing more and more Water Army getting exposed, their leader dared not escalate their actions. Weibo allows reporting of accounts, and if it incites public anger, hordes of people might crazily report these Water Army accounts, which would be counterproductive for him.

The public opinion war about "He Jinxia’s fans’ quality" was perfectly countered by Zhang Dayou, and it faded away within a few hours.

Yet He Jinxia, always at the center of the storm, knew nothing about it as she was still unconscious.

By the time He Jinxia woke up, it had already been the early hours of the next day.

Groggily opening her eyes, she found herself in the house at Dongting Lake Garden and felt a wave of relief. Turning her head, she saw Cheng Xiaohua asleep on the floor next to the bed, covered with a blanket.

He Jinxia slightly moved her body, feeling aching and weak all over, her bones screaming for sleep and rest.

Due to her severe thirst, she reached for the water cup on the table and started drinking, some of the water spilling onto the quilt. She didn’t care about it.

After alleviating her thirsty throat, He Jinxia closed her eyes again and fell back to sleep.

Because she was still very exhausted, she didn’t notice the notification light blinking incessantly on her phone.

Half an hour after the news of He Jinxia’s fainting broke, Mrs. Sheng heard about it and immediately called Mrs. He, who then hurriedly contacted Luo You.

When Mrs. He found out Jinxia only had a high fever and was getting IV treatment, she relaxed and called Mrs. Sheng back.

Once Mrs. Sheng was reassured, she suddenly came up with an idea and sent the news of He Jinxia’s illness to the WeChat group, discussing with Mrs. He about the hectic nature of Jinxia’s workload.

Mrs. Sheng, "Sigh, Jinxia is really pushing herself too hard!"

Mrs. He, "There’s no helping it, being an actress is like this, you can’t control your own body, it’s especially frustrating, you must feel it deeply!"

Mrs. Sheng, "My son is different, being a boy, it’s fitting that he goes out and wanders the world, but Jinxia, struggling to lose weight and filming, even working when she’s sick, my son would never push himself like that when ill, too delicate!"

Sheng Yan, "..."

On the distant other side of the ocean where it was still daytime, Sheng Yan, having just agreed on his runway attire with a brand designer, picked up his phone and unlocked it, the first thing popping up was the voice message from Mrs. Sheng.

After listening, his feelings were complicated.

Does the word "delicate" not seem out of place when applied to him, in his mother’s view?

Once Sheng Yan responded, it immediately piqued the curiosity of the two mothers, asking him how his work was going, if it was smooth, whether he was sick, and so on.

Sheng Yan’s responses were, as always, brief, "Fine, smooth, no illness, no worries."

After replying, he opened up some news articles and his brows imperceptibly furrowed.

His agent, Zhang Ming, came over with a hot cup of coffee and handed it to Sheng Yan, saying, "Now that the haute couture is taken care of, you have a few interview programs scheduled in the US. Tomorrow you have a day off, do you want to go somewhere fun?"

Sheng Yan’s schedule in the US wasn’t busy, at most one appearance a day, each lasting no more than two hours, and not even everyday consecutively.

In terms of busyness, he was among the less occupied top-tier stars, spending more time managing his company and analyzing finances and such.

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