Even After My Death
Chapter 448 - 359: Someone Please Recruit Jiang Ning

Chapter 448: Chapter 359: Someone Please Recruit Jiang Ning

Jiang Ning was trending big time on the internet.

Most of the onlookers were genuine small-time netizens; their TikTok videos would barely get a few hundred views, and likes were in the single digits—and that’s just friendly support from friends and relatives.

But today, after posting a group photo from the airport, within a mere half an hour, views rocketed to five or six thousand, and it even hit the local exposure charts. The numbers kept soaring, with comments from strangers piling in.

[What’s going on? Jiang Ning???]

[What the heck? Is that Jiang Ning in the picture?]

[Where is this?]

[Dude, I was going to roast you, but after checking closely, that really is Jiang Ning and Qi Xingzhou! Give me a location, I’m rushing over ASAP!!!]

[Looking at the background, it seems like an airport or train station?]

[Come on, no way! How do I keep swiping onto several identical posts? Despite the tight crop, how could you tell that’s Jiang Ning? Aren’t you guys just leeching off the trend to wholesales photos!]

[Above commenter is zonked, it’s really Jiang Ning and Qi Xingzhou. Just search for ’Capital City Airport’. Loads of passersby are posting videos!]

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With the internet developing so swiftly and advanced, the moment Jiang Ning and Qi Xingzhou boarded the plane, someone had already posted the incident that happened at the airport online.

Happy Water for Fat Otaku: Jiang Ning caught someone in the airport [Video.mp4]

Lucky Sucky Me: Ah! Just filmed from above, I totally missed that Jiang Ning and Qi Xingzhou were the ones catching the crook below. I missed out on a great group selfie!! [Video.mp4]

Wake up, A: Qi Xingzhou was killing it, super handsome and tall, cool to the max. Looks way better in person than in previous videos, so slick with that binding action. [Video.mp4]

Tragic From Birth: What luck do Jiang Ning and Qi Xingzhou have? They were probably heading back to Capital City, right? To encounter criminals at the airport, and these two seem to be the backbone behind the corrupt director of the women and children’s health hospital!! [Video.mp4]

Handsome Little Orange: Um, watching the live stream this morning, I never expected I’d actually witness the aftermath at the airport. [Video.mp4]

Jiang Ning was already trending this morning with the live broadcast of the incident at Xingzhou women and children’s health hospital, and with these videos from Capital City Airport going viral, a massive influx of traffic followed.

Loads of media and entertainment channel hosts quickly repurposed these videos into new edits, keeping the buzz around this incident alive, and soon enough, a new topic skyrocketed into trending status.

#JiangNingAndQiXingzhouAirportCrimeFighterSeries

[This trending title...so dramatic]

[Outrageous, before I clicked, I thought Jiang Ning and Qi Xingzhou finally decided to join the entertainment industry, tissue_bit.jpg. It’s such a waste of their looks not to be in showbiz, aaaah!]

[Hahaha, isn’t catching criminals cooler than joining showbiz? What kind of fate do these two have? I bet not even a scriptwriter would dare to write this; they just exposed a hospital scandal and now they’re catching big fish at the airport.]

[Slurp, Qi Xingzhou’s physique is truly impressive, especially that subconscious leg movement chasing the perp in the animated GIF. I couldn’t help but watch it back and forth a few times, feels like his strides are longer than my height, I can’t even imagine how thrilled I’d be if he were my boyfriend.]

[Hahaha, I was fortunate to be on the scene this afternoon, and Qi Xingzhou really is tall, with perfect posture, standing so straight and proper. He is quite aloof, even more reticent than what I saw in the videos, not giving anyone but Jiang Ning even a glance.]

[In fact, you can tell from everyone’s group photo that although Jiang Ning and Qi Xingzhou were in the center, Qi Xingzhou’s body was conspicuously leaning towards Jiang Ning, as if intentionally distancing himself from others around him.]

[Whimper, whimper, the more you talk about it, the more I’m tempted]

[Hey, appraisal completed, without a doubt an excellent graduate of the men’s virtue class.]

[LaughCry.jpg, LaughCry.jpg, LaughCry.jpg. I don’t know why, but now when I see news about Jiang Ning and Qi Xingzhou catching criminals, it doesn’t surprise me anymore. Instead, it feels expected. Any unit short of people should hurry up and take them in, make them official workers.]

[Haha, listen to you – although Jiang Ning has indeed made great achievements recently, it’s not so easy to get a formal position.]

During his leisure time, Zhang Lang playing with his phone saw these comments and instantly felt like the only sober person in a room full of drunken revelers, an epiphany washing over him.

In his heart, he thought: Jiang Ning and Qi Xingzhou already have formal positions, and they are even in a secretive department, there’s no need for other units to take them in.

Hey!

He really had no idea which department Jiang Ning and Qi Xingzhou belonged to, and it made him quite envious.

He also wanted to earn his salary by racking up achievements, just like Jiang Ning and Qi Xingzhou, working freely, not only with benefits like social insurance and housing provident fund but also keeping a low profile while securing great accomplishments.

Zhang Lang looked at his phone screen with envy, sighing with admiration.

With such a stir online, it was impossible for the authorities to be unaware.

After more than ten minutes, the Capital City police issued a lengthy announcement. It not only confirmed that Jiang Ning and Qi Xingzhou had just caught two suspects at the airport but also actively communicated with netizens about the human trafficking of infants and forgery of birth registrations at the Capital City Maternal and Child Health Hospital, confirming these events as factual. The case was still under further investigation, and they thanked the public for their concern.

Moreover, people also noticed that the Capital City police’s official account had started following Jiang Ning.

[Hahahaha, Jiang Ning’s official fan count +1]

[Great joy, how many official accounts is that now? I oddly have a premonition this won’t be the last one...]

[Hehe, it’s the fourth or fifth one, I guess.]

[Support Jiang Ning, guys, she’s officially recognized as the real deal. If anyone else collapsed a building, Jiang Ning would remain unscathed!]

[Alright, alright, because of what you said, I’m jumping into this fandom!]

Being followed by an official account is a mark of distinction in itself, something the average person can hardly enjoy.

And it’s not just one official account that is following Jiang Ning but several in succession. Not to mention the entertainment and news media – they had long been lying in her list of followers by the bushel.

Jiang Ning’s follower count on her account once again experienced an explosive increase.

If she were a rising star in the entertainment circle, saying her popularity was so red-hot it was almost black would not be an overstatement.

Yet, no one knew what she was thinking, so popular yet not cashing in on it. How was that different from holding a bunch of jade stones without cutting them open?

Studios and agencies that wanted to sign Jiang Ning could only look on with envy at her internet popularity, no matter how green with envy they were, they could only sigh with longing.

She didn’t want to sign a contract; what could they do about it?

Shen Zha, sitting in his office, pointed at the hot search about Jiang Ning on his phone and joked with Chen Yan, "Jiang Ning’s popularity is such a waste not to enter showbiz. How did you persuade her to join the show last time? Why not give her another call? I feel like the variety show we’re filming this time is quite a good fit for her."