Chapter 689 The Mastermind Makes a Move
Leng Yan frowned, "Wasn’t it you who asked me to smear you before? It was a strategy."
"But you had already stopped afterward, so why did you smear me again last night?"
"Last night?" Leng Yan was puzzled. "I didn’t."
Xia Weibao was taken aback for a moment, then her face grew solemn, "It wasn’t you?"
"What’s going on."
Xia Shi sensed something was amiss and hurried over to take a look.
She then realized that Xia Weibao’s Weibo had been overwhelmed again, rapidly losing followers!
She hurriedly took out her phone, opened Weibo, and saw that the hot topics were dominated by Xia Weibao again.
#XiaWeibaoTheMastermind#
#XiaWeibaoWhitewashingPlan#
#BitchXia’sScheme#
Such topics were everywhere. Xia Shi hurriedly clicked on these topics to understand the ins and outs of the event.
It turned out that last night a large number of internet trolls suddenly emerged, harping on her previous disgraceful video to create a big fuss.
And that wasn’t all; a certain marketing account published a long article analyzing all the incidents Xia Weibao had gone through since her comeback.
The article claimed that those incidents were all orchestrated by her, first smearing herself and then whitewashing her image, and each time she would push someone else out to be the scapegoat.
First it was the affair with the director, which was shifted onto Lin Mier.
Then the matter of being a mistress was shifted onto Lin Siqian.
Every step she took, she seemed like the victim, but in fact, she was the ultimate beneficiary.
Looking at the big picture, this was clearly a perfect crisis public relations maneuver!
The article was analyzed with great detail, logically and with evidence, and ultimately it highlighted that all the scandals for which there was no concrete evidence, such as plastic surgery, being a mistress, bribery, acting like a diva, and sleeping her way to the top, had been whitewashed.
The only thing it did not mention was the drug abuse and promiscuity video because that was indisputable evidence, something she could not refute, and thus she never dared to bring up that video.
This increased the article’s credibility even more.
Upon closer thought, it was terrifying. Previously, everyone had felt Xia Weibao was prone to attracting negative attention, but now it seemed she had been orchestrating it all along!
For a woman so scheming, the backlash on the internet was predictable!
There was already a bunch of people who disliked her, and now they were smearing her to death!
The battleground of the posts had moved to the bottom of Xia Weibao’s fans’ Weibo.
At first, her fans defended her vehemently, but without her taking a stand, netizens accused her of having a guilty conscience.
The fighting spirit of her fans also gradually waned.
"How come you’ve been smeared again." Xia Shi frowned.
Xia Weibao was truly the most controversial artist she had ever seen, without equal.
Xu Jiayang had also finished reading that post, "The level of writing in this article is very high, not like something an ordinary marketing account could come up with."
Leng Yan also showed concern for once, "It’s obviously a professional PR team. They even listed everything you’ve done over the past few months, and it’s logical and well-founded. It looks like someone wants to end you."
Xia Weibao’s expression was grave; she had been so well-behaved recently and hadn’t offended anyone. Who would go to such lengths to target her?
She rubbed her forehead with a bit of a headache, "Such a big event, and none of you noticed?"
If it had been noticed last night, they could have done some emergency PR, but now that a whole night had passed, the situation had developed beyond control.
All because of Lu Hualiang, who kept cooing with her every day.
Xia Shi spread her hands, "Director Xu and I were both rushing the post-production of the movie last night. We were up all night, how could we have time to pay attention to what was happening online?"
Leng Yan was even more innocent, "I seldom pay attention to things on the internet."
He was the boss and dealt with the company, not gossip news.
Xia Weibao felt a bit guilty; it seemed... that it was her who had been distracted by attraction and forgotten about work...