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Chapter 181: The Video Was Deleted

Chapter 181: Chapter 181: The Video Was Deleted

Investor Li Hu was just thinking about how to cause trouble for Wu Mu when he suddenly received a phone call.

It was from a friend who had previously agreed to invest money with him.

Li Hu had thought this friend was calling to say the money had been transferred, but to his surprise, the friend was actually backing out.

As the friend explained they had an emergency at home that required funds, Li Hu was somewhat annoyed, but he didn’t think much of it, assuming it was just bad timing.

But who could have anticipated that right after this call ended, another call came in?

This time, it was from a boss who had already invested, stating that there was an emergency at home and they needed to withdraw their investment immediately, even offering to forfeit the interest.

Another emergency at home?

All of you have the same emergency, don’t you!

After hearing this, Li Hu’s heart skipped a beat, and he realized that something must definitely be wrong!

After reluctantly dealing with the boss’s request, he rushed out of his office, eager to find out what was happening from his employees.

But before he could make a call, another call came from the outside.

This time, they didn’t ask for the investment back directly; they said that a sum of money that was previously agreed upon wouldn’t be transferred for the time being, asking him to deal with the current trouble first.

However, this call was more serious than the previous two because it came from the owner of another financial platform.

Compared to small retail investors, their funds were a very substantial sum.

Li Hu couldn’t hold back any longer, "President Gao, what exactly happened?"

President Gao on the other side didn’t hide it from him, "Go search your company’s name on Douyin yourself."

Search for his company’s name on Douyin?

Li Hu immediately had a bad feeling.

After hanging up the phone, he quickly opened Douyin and searched for his company’s name.

And there was Wu Mu’s new video, jumping out right away.

"Evils of Yihai Finance Platform."

"#Exposure..."

Upon seeing the video’s title and tags, sweat began to bead on Li Hu’s forehead.

Looking further to see over six hundred thousand likes and more than three hundred thousand comments under the video, he was no longer just sweating, but panicking.

Forcing down the panic in his heart, he played the video to see what it was about.

And then...

Is this it?

A video like this, with such high popularity?

Li Hu’s expression turned to one of astonishment.

He had originally thought it would be someone forced into a desperate situation by him holding an ID card, publicly exposing them, or maybe someone cursing them in a video before committing suicide.

Turns out it was just a video edited together from some negative rumors found online?

Isn’t this an issue common to just about any financial platform?

He didn’t understand how such a video, which seemed to lack any explosive element, managed to get so popular.

But misunderstandings aside, the most important thing now was to quickly suppress this.

Otherwise if this sparked a trend, not only would investors come knocking to pull back investments, but authorities might take action as well.

He was no longer concerned about the trouble with Wu Mu.

The issue with Wu Mu could at worst cause him to lose face, but if he mishandled this one, it could truly be disastrous.

Li Hu had never expected that the video could have been made by Wu Mu, even though the comment section seemed to have many discussions about the background music and Wu Mu had just had a conflict with him.

The thought of Wu Mu’s name never even crossed his mind.

He never imagined that Wu Mu, a celebrity, would not only embarrass him, but also dare to proactively cause trouble for him, an investor.

Furthermore, it seemed far-fetched to connect a celebrity’s identity with the creator of the video, especially using an account without any followers to release the video—it defied logic.

If he truly wanted to expose him, shouldn’t he have posted the video directly under his own account? That way, leveraging his celebrity status, he could have triggered widespread discussion.

To post with a no-follower side account, did he foresee the future, confident that the video would go viral?

Li Hu simply assumed that the video was made by a passerby who disliked his platform, and then it unexpectedly went viral.

He hastily went out to find his employees and ordered them to immediately contact the person who posted the video to take it down.

Of course, their attempts were like a stone sinking in the ocean, even though they had upped the offer to withdraw the video to over three million in the private message, receiving not even a single response.

Whether it was unseen or ignored was anyone’s guess.

Seeing that in just a short while, the likes had increased by seventy or eighty thousand and the views by at least a couple of million, Li Hu knew he couldn’t just wait.

"Pull some strings, get in touch with the platform! Suppress the heat! Take down the video!"

...

Naturally, Wu Mu received the contact from Li Hu’s company, but of course, he had no intention of agreeing to such a request.

So he didn’t pay any attention to them.

He continued to loaf around at home, occasionally checking his phone to see the status.

Soon, he noticed that something was off.

"Last time I checked the views were around sixteen million? After this long, it’s only seventeen million?"

Wu Mu wondered as he looked at the video views.

The rate of increase in views had slowed down?

For an ordinary video, he might suspect that it had exhausted its potential, and everyone who was going to watch it had already done so.

But this was a video that used the Performance Card, which had only cashed in less than twenty thousand, with 9.98 million still owed by the system; it shouldn’t just stop abruptly.

"Did the platform limit its circulation?"

Wu Mu wasn’t particularly surprised; considering the power of Li Hu’s company, it was not far-fetched for them to limit a video. They were, after all, a financial platform—it was impossible they didn’t have connections and political-business relationships.

But what troubled him was, with the video that used the Performance Card now limited by the platform, how would the system fulfill its performance promise?

Wu Mu was undoubtedly puzzled.

What he didn’t expect was that Li Hu’s actions were more than just limiting circulation.

It wasn’t long before the platform sent him a notice; his video had been taken down!

The official reason provided by Douyin for the removal was that the content he had posted was unverified, and the brand reported several pieces of false information, with the final content about suicide also violating public order and morals.

It was an official-sounding reason for the removal, but anyone could guess it was highly unlikely that Li Hu’s company hadn’t exerted influence behind the scenes.

But more than that, Wu Mu was concerned, "If the project has been taken down directly, how will the Performance Card be fulfilled?"

Wu Mu was somewhat shocked.

He truly hadn’t anticipated that a project using a Performance Card could be taken down.

He had thought the system would protect projects that used Performance Cards.

But no such rule existed.

After being taken down, how would the Performance Card be cashed in?

Would his Performance Card just go to waste?

Wu Mu opened the system dashboard and found the Performance Card was still in the process of being cashed in.

There’s more to come?

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ps: ... yesterday’s first Chapter, along with yesterday’s second Chapter and today’s two Chapters!

Also, this storyline seems a bit too long, I’ll try to wrap it up in one or two Chapters.