I Became Super Rich After Resigning-Chapter 144 - Public Opinion Backlash

Chapter 144: Chapter 144 Public Opinion Backlash

Huo Shiyuan glanced at the content on Yuan Xi’s phone, his brows tightened as he picked up the phone to call Qin Lang.

After seeing this, Yuan Xi said, “It’s so early; there’s no need to trouble Qin Lang.”

Huo Shiyuan’s brows were still furrowed as he said, “But they’re all cursing you. I want Qin Lang to contact a lawyer to sue these netizens who are insulting you.”

Yuan Xi looked into the distance and chuckled lightly, “A lawyer suing might just make things worse. If a lawyer sues the netizens, they’ll become even more defiant and curse even more viciously.”

“Not only Gao Yang can write little essays; I can write them too. But I’ll write them when I get home. Gao Yang wants to use this to gain attention, traffic, and fame, not realizing that the backlash from even more traffic is something she can’t handle.”

Huo Shiyuan put his hand on Yuan Xi’s shoulder, “Then let’s watch the sunrise first. It’s rare for us to be up this early.”

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Yuan Xi put her phone away and gazed at the newly risen sun, “So beautiful.”

Huo Shiyuan turned his head to look at Yuan Xi’s smile, “It is beautiful.”

After watching the sunrise, the two of them went back to sleep in the starry sky room until 9 a.m. before getting up and starting their return to Jiangyan Villa.

Xiao Shihuo and Little Yingying were reluctant to part, so Xiao Yun suggested he take Xiao Shihuo to play at Gu Nuan’s house.

Without Xiao Shihuo, Huo Shiyuan could ask for nothing better.

When Yuan Xi and Huo Shiyuan returned to Jiangyan Villa, it was noon. Yuan Xi took a bath, came downstairs for lunch, and glanced at her phone.

In just a few short hours, Gao Yang’s Weibo followers had skyrocketed by nearly five hundred thousand.

“Sister is so beautiful and independent; she’s the ceiling for girls!”

“I’m in love, I’m in love, sister Gao Yang is so beautiful and pretty, and she also has independent thoughts, so cool!”

“If I were Huo Shiyuan, I definitely wouldn’t like someone like Yuan Xi who is always watching him. I’d prefer Gao Yang!”

Under a highly-upvoted comment, Yuan Xi saw Gao Yang’s reply: Good baby, we shouldn’t be like Yuan Xi. Girls shouldn’t engage in female competition over a man.

Gao Yang’s reply received lots of likes and attention from fans.

Below the highly-upvoted comment was another reply from someone named Teacher Mengmeng, “This isn’t the first time Yuan Xi has done something domineering. When I was tutoring Huo Shiyuan’s younger brother, she had me live in a servant’s cottage with a group of underlings because she was afraid I would seduce Huo Shiyuan. She deliberately made things unpleasant for me, and in a few days, she fired me out of jealousy.”

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Gao Yang replied to Teacher Mengmeng, “Hugs, us girls should stick together. Yuan Xi is simply a traitor to our gender.”

Yuan Xi clicked on Teacher Mengmeng’s profile and saw it belonged to a piano teacher who had previously taught Shihuo for two days at their mansion. Now Yuan Xi understood why Huo Shiyuan said she had a bad character.

Yuan Xi replied to Teacher Mengmeng: Underlings? Are you of some noble class? The feudal slave society has been extinct since the Qing Dynasty. The nannies, janitors, gardeners, bodyguards, drivers, and chefs living in the small western-style house at Ruohu are all professionals. It can be considered employee housing, but definitely not servant quarters. It’s unbelievable that in this day and age, someone would use the word ‘servant’ to describe these service professions.

Yuan Xi’s comment quickly received a lot of likes, and many people, mistaking it for a comment from a netizen, started viciously insulting Yuan Xi again after seeing the ID.

“At least there’s hope for you, but can you stop slandering others as mistresses without any grounds? Nobody wants to steal your husband.”

“Yuan Xi, you’ve finally come to life. For the sake of your child, accumulate some virtues, and stop casually accusing others of being mistresses.”

However, many netizens started to scold this piano teacher named Mengmeng, digging up her past posts filled with a condescending attitude.

Seeing the public opinion turn against her, Teacher Mengmeng quickly deleted her account.

After lunch, Yuan Xi went to the study to edit content.

Mi Chen Game Yuan Xi: @Gao Yang, please clarify who accused you of being the mistress? It was Fu Yan, not me. You didn’t mention Fu Yan at all, yet you accused a woman who has never spoken about you, is this what you mean by ‘why should women make things difficult for each other’?

Yuan Xi had just posted the Weibo, and immediately followed up with a short essay:

Mi Chen Game Yuan Xi: @Gao Yang, Huo Shiyuan explicitly mentioned Shixi’s name was because of me during the interview, yet you cut out Huo Shiyuan’s most crucial sentence, leading netizens to misunderstand.

At first, I couldn’t understand why you edited out the part about Shixi’s name being because of me.

After all, you knew perfectly well that Huo Shiyuan had a wife; there was no need to stir up a CP (couple pairing).

In the two hours it took me to get home from Niutou Mountain, I watched quite a few of your interviews and realized that every married man you interviewed, you would stir up a CP, but for the single entrepreneurs, you never deliberately riled up the fans.

I came across an interview from three years ago, around the time when you gradually acquired fans. It was when you accused Mrs. Xu from Hengjie Paper Industry of slandering you as a mistress and slapping you.

Because of that slap, you also wrote a short essay attacking Mrs. Xu for recklessly slapping mistresses, thereby gaining half a million fans overnight.

Two years ago, you accused Mrs. Yang from Jufeng Bank of slandering you as a mistress and driving you out of A City TV Station. Your successful fan abuse led to a nearly 200-300 thousand increase in followers before you smoothly transitioned into Jiangcheng TV Station.

But those two incidents didn’t blow up as much. When you were interviewing Si Chen, you also deliberately incited netizens to ship your CP, including this time’s interview with Huo Shiyuan. Both I and Si Chen’s wife, Qin Yue, didn’t fall for it, unlike Mrs. Xu and Mrs. Yang.

This time, you must have been planning for a long time, so you launched an attack on me in the middle of the night without even clarifying whether it was @Fu Yan slandering you, or me, before you started attacking me!

I never attacked you throughout, including the ill-intentioned speculation you made about me on the day of recording; I didn’t attack you then, either. You’ve positioned yourself as the victim without even caring who the real perpetrator is.

Your interviews are all with entrepreneurs, and you are simply using feminism to build up an image and gain traffic.

After Yuan Xi’s short essay was posted, initially, a lot of people rushed in to scold her, but gradually, public opinion began to turn around.

“Yeah, Yuan Xi never said a word about Gao Yang being the Mistress; it was Chu Yan who said that. Chu Yan and Yuan Xi’s feud has a long history.”

“Exactly, I remember Chu Yan has always disliked Yuan Xi; surely it wasn’t Yuan Xi who got her to convey Yuan Xi’s message.”

“Is Gao Yang thinking that once Yuan Xi clarifies herself, she’d be recognized as Huo Shiyuan’s legitimate wife, so she starts to complain about Yuan Xi?”

Netizens who patiently read through Yuan Xi’s short essay all rushed to the bottom of Gao Yang’s Weibo to berate her.

Gao Yang, who had barely slept all night, was about to catch up on some sleep after seeing her fans skyrocket, only to see the comments turning against her.

Gao Yang started to panic…

“If you look at your Weibo, it’s all about attacking those ‘unawakened sisters’ to show how ‘enlightened’ you are, which is simply preposterous!”

“You ask sisters to help you cyberbully; now, feel the wrath of the sisters’ cyberbullying yourself!”

Gao Yang, looking at the onslaught of negative comments pouring in, deleted her short essay and activated the protection feature to disable comments. But then, people went to other apps to dig up Gao Yang’s old grievances with Chu Yan.

They also dug up how Gu Hanchen crazily pursued Gao Yang back in high school and flocked to Gu Hanchen’s comments to join in the mockery.

“Hahaha, release yesterday’s video of Huo Shiyuan singing, and we won’t laugh at your past crush on Gao Yang!”

“Gu Hanchen, how could your taste in women be this bad? You’ll definitely be swindled by women in the future!”

Gu Hanchen, looking at Little Yingying and Xiao Shihuo playing in front of him and scrolling through these mocking comments, had nowhere to vent his anger.

Mrs. Gu approached Gu Hanchen and said, “Sigh, your taste really is… I was thinking of letting you find someone on your own, but I guess I’ll have to help you find a marriage partner instead.”

Gu Hanchen: “…”

Having had a crush on Gao Yang was destined to be the greatest blemish of his life, even his own mother made fun of him for it.