Chapter 90
Gu Yishan’s family was still busy.
Among the mix of true and false reports, one thing was particularly eye-catching.
That was that there was a problem with the production of Lan Ti’s assistive devices.
Someone had said that they had originally just been missing a leg, and then, seeing that Lan Ti was controlled by the Gu family, a century-old family business, and under this trust, he had brought his brothers and friends to buy Lan Ti’s prosthetic limbs.
But the good times didn’t last long.
Some of the prosthetic limbs couldn’t be installed at all; some, even after being installed, were not compatible with their bodies and couldn’t perform normal physiological activities.
There was also an Alpha, who had originally been a healthy person, but because of Lan Ti’s advertising effect, he had had the idea of buying a prosthetic gland produced by Lan Ti.
But the problem was that he was a healthy person. He couldn’t possibly install two glands, so he had chosen to remove his own gland and install the one produced by Lan Ti, hoping that he could reach the peak of his A life.
But in the end, he had sadly and desperately discovered that the gland produced by Lan Ti was completely useless. Not only did it not help, but it had also become an obstacle.
The Alpha had decided to return the product, but he could never get his original gland back. So in this Lan Ti assistive device rights protection action, his voice was the loudest.
“Give me back my ancestral gland!” became the loudest slogan of the report.
Gu Qing had originally been very optimistic about the development of all this. After all, Gu Yixi was still acting like a coward. Even if she were to bravely come out and face it now, she couldn’t turn the tide.
The people on the internet’s impression of her had dropped to a negative, and there were also magical rights protection videos, spreading her negative influence.
Gu Qing had just sorted all this out and told her mother, but she had been scolded by Gu Yishan.
“Go and see if you can get that Alpha who is protecting Lan Ti to delete his video!”
Gu Qing asked in confusion, “Why, Mom? The views on this video have already exceeded 50 million. Do you know what that means?”
Her mom was almost fifty. It was normal for her not to understand the trends of young people.
Gu Yishan’s face had completely darkened. “In short, you go and contact that Alpha right away and have him delete the video!”
Gu Qing still wanted to argue, but there was no room for discussion.
“Really, I don’t know what I did wrong. She was the one who told me to do the promotion, and now that the situation is so big, she wants me to delete the video,” Gu Qing muttered, still feeling sorry for her money.
But she couldn’t disobey her mom’s words. Gu Qing chose to contact the Alpha who had filmed the video, and the latter said no.
“The spread of this video is already very large. Whether it’s Gu Mai, Gu Yixi, or me, we’ve all been greatly affected. And you were the one who asked me to film this video. You can’t just say you don’t want it now.”
Gu Qing had no choice. “Then is there a way to delete it?”
The Alpha thought for a moment and asked her to raise the price.
Gu Qing: …
She said she would give him an answer tomorrow.
These dead internet celebrities, all they know is to raise the price on the spot!
…
When Su Guan read those reports online, one more ridiculous than the other, she couldn’t help but laugh out loud.
What were these things?
Perhaps it was because there was money to be made by following the trend and cursing Gu Yixi, or for some other reason, but now you could basically not see anything good about Gu Yixi online.
Some people were reasonable and cursed Gu Yixi based on what Wang Dachui and Xu Lai had posted:
“Her past was so tragic, and she also has a pheromone disorder. Why now that she has a way, does she still have to turn her knife on us?”
“Her Beta mom passed away early, and the Gu family, because they despised her, didn’t let her in. Xu Lai was so pitiful, raising the young Gu Yixi with great hardship, and in the end, Gu Yixi treated her like this! She didn’t even answer her calls, and she wouldn’t see her once. I say, raising a dog is better than raising Gu Yixi!”
These were still relatively long sentences. If Su Guan were to switch to another platform, to the comments under a video, it would be even more unbearable.
There were those who were helping Gu Yixi die:
“I think the real Gu Yixi is already dead, or else she wouldn’t be so emotionless.”
“That’s right, the photos that were leaked online are all from a long time ago. I also think she might be dead.”
There were also wizards doing magic:
“How can that be? Didn’t Wang Dachui post a photo of a Gu Mai meeting later? That’s Gu Yixi! But I see her eyes are lifeless, and everyone else is emotional, and she’s the only one with no expression. I guess she must have been possessed by a wizard.”
“I also think she was possessed by a witch, or else a normal person with a conscience would never see the mother who had raised her with great hardship fall to this state!”
There were also those who combined the two views:
“I think you all have a point, but it’s possible that Gu Yixi is already dead. Isn’t their family in the medical field? I think they might have made a fake person.”
“And then they controlled this fake person with witchcraft, making her their puppet. Since she’s a fake person, she definitely doesn’t have her own thoughts and feelings. This can explain why Gu Yixi hasn’t come out to respond to the public opinion until now.”
Opinions have to collide to bring forth new ideas. This combination of the two views with a large number of supporters immediately got the likes and love of everyone under the video.
Su Guan looked at the “like, brother, I support you” at the bottom and fell into a long silence.
Gu Yixi could still endure it until now.
It wasn’t that she hadn’t helped Gu Yixi, but the latter had told her not to do anything.
In the principle of trust, Su Guan had indeed not done anything. Then she had switched to another platform…
Here, she could see the latest consultation, and behind “Gu Mai’s health products” was a huge “explosive” character.
Su Guan didn’t think much of it and immediately clicked on it.
Although Gu Yixi had not let her interfere, Su Guan had been quietly working hard in a place she couldn’t see. She had recorded these strange news.
Whether it was true or false, there would always be a day of reckoning. If it was true, then so be it. But those who were fishing in troubled waters and spreading rumors would not have a good end.
Su Guan took a deep breath, opened her computer, and prepared to record this report.
The content of the report was: Gu Mai’s health product, Brain Power, had no positive effects at all and would make people dumber the more they ate it, and it had also caused financial losses.
Su Guan frowned. She first glanced at the comments. The hot comments in the comment section were still from the same familiar IDs, like a machine, and they would swarm in when they detected a keyword.
This time it was still news about Gu Mai. Although the report did not mention Gu Yixi, they were still angrily cursing Gu Yixi for abandoning her mother, Xu Lai—
“That’s right, that’s right. A person like Gu Yixi, with such low character and corrupt morals, how can she still appear in the public eye?”
“I agree, I agree! Gu Mai’s reputation has fallen so much now, it’s all her fault!”
There were also some high-level water armies who spoke with more logic: “It was expected that Gu Mai Medical would have problems. Last time it was Lan Ti’s assistive devices. This is simply the biggest mistake in the history of the assistive device industry. So, it’s normal for Brain Power to have problems (not trying to whitewash).”
“I think the country should step in and thoroughly investigate the situation of the Gu family, especially Gu Yixi. This person has a big problem, and her background is worth investigating.”
Su Guan’s vision went black, and she couldn’t bear to continue scrolling down. But Gu Yixi was still important, so Su Guan clicked on the report.
She had originally thought it would be the same as the Lan Ti assistive device incident, but the more she read this article, the more she discovered the problem.
“On this day last year, I bought the product Brain Power from a certain animal platform, which is under the Gu Mai Group. The product claimed that after eating it, it would promote circulation, enhance memory, and have no harm, so I bought it.”
“But after eating it for a long, long time, I didn’t find any effect. It would have been fine if it just had no positive function, but it had a negative effect.”
“Out of trust, I bought a lot of Brain Power and distributed it to my relatives and friends, letting them eat this health product with me.”
“My relatives and friends have all been in a deep sleep one after another.”
“Missing work, missing school, missing exams, missing adulthood, missing marriage, missing divorce… just like that, the whole family fell into a deep sleep.”
“In the end, I became the culprit. I sent Brain Power for testing and found that it was melatonin. Imagine, the health product I spent so much money on only contained melatonin. Is this reasonable?”
When Su Guan saw this, she was in an indescribable mood.
She decided not to look at the middle part. She scrolled down, and as expected, the blogger admitted that he was just making it up, hoping to have some fun while everyone was “besieging” the Gu family.
Su Guan smiled helplessly, refreshed the article again, and found that this article had been heated to a considerable scale.
The water army comments she had just seen were increasing, but there were indeed some bored and serious netizens who had finished reading this article and had started to ask questions.
“No, these people are water armies, right? Although I know that such a large-scale black press release must have a water army, can they still be a water army like this?”
“You guys really don’t read the main text at all? Such a funny article, and there are still people who are so emotional about Gu Yixi?”
Seeing this, Su Guan suddenly understood Gu Yixi’s long-standing silence.
She thought she also had a way to help Gu Yixi.
…
This was the moment Gu Yixi had been waiting for.
Originally, a portion of the netizens were no longer interested in besieging Gu Yixi, but because of such a funny article, they had started to pay attention again.
But this time, the direction of public opinion had undergone a major change.
Everyone used to think that Gu Yixi had not appeared in this public opinion storm because she was guilty, or because it was true.
But now it was different. Everyone had started a new round of speculation, thinking that Gu Yixi was innocent, and that someone was deliberately trying to trip her up.
Just as several views were beginning to collide, the hashtag #GuYixiPosts# appeared in the public eye.
Gu Yixi had really posted, and it was more detailed and comprehensive.
She had responded to all the previous accusations and rumors against her online, and in the end, she had said that she had already called the police, had contacted a lawyer, and was collecting evidence.
Regarding Wang Dachui’s story about her background, she had responded. She had said that the background Wang Dachui had written was true. She was indeed the only daughter of the great actress Gu Yanyu, but she had not been raised by Xu Lai with great hardship.
She had exposed a long string of evidence of Xu Lai’s gambling: Xu Lai had lost a lot of money, had also mortgaged a lot of things, and her temper was unpredictable.
The young Gu Yixi had become her punching bag—because Gu Yixi clearly had the Gu family’s bloodline, but she had not been able to get the Gu family’s property, which had made Xu Lai very angry, and she had often hit her.
But later, things had changed. Because a company was recruiting children for experiments, and seeing the generous reward, Xu Lai had been tempted and had sent Gu Yixi for a test, and she had unexpectedly passed.
She had gotten the first sum of money from Gu Yixi, and then she had entrusted her friend to take care of this child, and she had gone out to gamble.
The witness to this incident was the friend who had been entrusted to take care of her.
When the netizens saw this, they had already sighed, “As expected, I knew it. How can a child hate their parents for no reason? There must be something wrong here!”
“That’s right, that’s right. It’s a good thing I didn’t follow the trend and blacken Gu Yixi before. I knew that a person who looks so good must be very kind!”
Gu Yixi had responded to not only these, but also the dirty water that had been thrown at the Gu Mai Group.
It turned out to be a family struggle. Her sister, Gu Yishan, in order to seize power, had not hesitated to use all her strength to have the mouthpiece that should have been serving the Gu family throw dirty water at her own family.
This point was testified by a senior executive of Gu Mai. The reason was that one of them had always been favored by Gu Yixi and, feeling that it was unbearable, had come out to inform Gu Yixi.
In the end, Gu Yixi had also claimed that whether it was Brain Power or prosthetic limbs, their company’s products were trustworthy.
The detailed explanation had made the netizens all shut up, and the wind of public opinion had started to turn one-sided.
“I told you, no wonder! A person as humble and outstanding as Gu Yixi, how could she do such a thing? I say, Gu Yishan, if you’re not good enough, don’t blame the road for being uneven. Using such low-down means!”
“That’s right, that’s right. Now the truth is out. The one who should get out of the Gu family is you, right!”
…
Only a few weak voices were still tightly holding onto the Lan Ti assistive device:
“The Brain Power matter is fake, but that doesn’t mean the Lan Ti assistive device matter is fake. That’s an Alpha’s physiological function! Can it just be gone like that?”
“Gu Yishan is certainly at fault, but they’ve already reached that position. It’s normal to want to go one step further, right? The problem now is, is the assistive device a qualified product?”
This was indeed the only way for Gu Yishan and the others.
Gu Yishan’s face was dark, and she almost gritted her teeth. “This dead girl, I knew it from the beginning. She’s been silent for so long, there must be something bad.”
“And you, you didn’t help me at all! When you were creating momentum, look at what you did!”
Gu Qing was so angry she couldn’t do anything. She couldn’t just take the blame. “Then what else can I do? Weren’t you the one who told me not to interfere? Now we only have this one way to go, and you told me to delete the video.”
“That A definitely won’t speak up.”
Gu Yishan was silent for a while and asked, “How did you get him to delete the video?”
Gu Qing scratched her head and said in a small voice, “He said, if he finds a better exposure, he’ll delete the video…”
“What do you mean by better exposure?” Gu Yishan’s heart suddenly tightened, and her phone rang.
She opened it and was dumbfounded.
#Popular starlet Wen Hansu praises Lan Ti assistive device, saying it has changed her and her family#
Behind it was a fiery red “new” character.
Gu Yishan was really speechless now.
She knew that next, this character would probably become “explosive.”
Wen Hansu, who was Wen Hansu?
She turned her gaze to Gu Qing.
Gu Qing understood her mother’s meaning and prompted her in a small voice, “Mom, this Wen Hansu, seems to be a loyal fan of Gu Yanyu. Before, when Gu Yanyu’s movie was re-released, she had booked many screenings…”
“And every time there’s a memorial service, she’s always there…”
No need to say more, no need to click on it. Gu Yishan already knew the ending.
She collapsed on the sofa, feeling very powerless, very helpless.
In just one short month, everything had changed.