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Chapter 300 - 300 289 Expose

300: Chapter 289: Expose 300: Chapter 289: Expose After everything with Old Master Meng was taken care of, Yue Feng immediately called You Ying to report the situation.

Su Cheng was also very supportive; she immediately called her friend to briefly explain the situation about deleting the negative reviews.

The number of reviews involved was too large, so the other party didn’t agree right away but said they would help by consulting the relevant leaders and then respond.

Then came the wait, which seemed to stretch on infinitely.

Near evening, they finally returned the call.

Deleting was indeed possible, but the cost was quite high—over thirty hundred thousand yuan for nearly two thousand negative reviews, at 150 yuan each.

Such a sum was no small figure for the average person, but for You Ying, she didn’t even blink before agreeing to it.

So, the next steps were to liaise with the relevant personnel, make the payment, and quietly wait for the bad reviews to be deleted and the reputation to be restored.

Yue Feng wasn’t too clear about the specific details of the process, but in less than a day, the negative reviews were mostly deleted, and Meng Chuan’s family’s online store reappeared in the search rankings.

Up until now, everything had been handled quite securely, but they had miscalculated one critical factor—the fans in the fan group chat.

By chance, a bored group member decided to check on the result of a negative review they left a couple of days ago, only to find it had been changed from a one-star review to the default positive one—damn, someone had altered it!

The guy who discovered this began ranting in the group as if he had stumbled upon a new continent.

Many fans who participated in the sniping operation logged in to check their accounts, only to find that except for a few who hadn’t been changed, the vast majority of negative reviews had been turned into default positive ones, and any photos and comments had also been deleted.

Just as the fans were fuming with righteous indignation, someone inside spotted what was happening.

Having lurked in the group for a while, they finally understood the ins and outs of the situation.

This guy didn’t think too much; his first reaction was that this was a huge scoop.

If he organized the events’ causes and effects and submitted it to Ken at the social media, he might earn a handsome submission fee.

With that motive, this guy took screenshots and copied the previous group chat, taking the time to lay out the timeline of the entire event.

While the group was still discussing the situation in disarray and considering their next move, suddenly the group admin changed a group announcement.

To better support You Ying, the fan group plans to merge and reorganize.

This group will be abandoned and dissolved after 12 o’clock, to be replaced by a larger group of two thousand—everyone is welcome to join!

By 11:30 pm, the group was quiet, and then the admin dissolved it.

The same scenario played out in many groups, and in no time, at least ten groups of five hundred were affected, eventually merging into one super group of two thousand members.

Discussions about the negative reviews continued in the new group, but soon the group owner disabled the ordinary members from speaking, which pushed the issue down.

The official public statement for the silence was that it was a temporary measure for the audit of the large group; members were urged to remain calm and patient.

At this point, the more perceptive individuals started to feel something was off.

Why, not long ago, was everything bubbling with activity, even leading to You Ying herself blowing up, but now a perfectly active full-member group was discarded and merged into this so-called larger group, and they even implemented restrictions preventing regular members from speaking?

What were they planning?

Late that night, just after eleven, Ken’s submission email received a special submission.

You Ying herself appeared, calling on her fans to leave negative reviews in a group effort to avenge her boyfriend’s scandal!

The email’s title made Ken’s heart skip a beat; my goodness, Ken himself loved sensational headlines, but this was the first time an email title had piqued his interest so intensely.

If it were true, how much was this story worth?

So Ken eagerly opened the email and rapidly read through the contents.

Unlike what he expected—sensational and baseless—the content had substantial information.

Except for not capturing You Ying’s voice message, screenshots of the messages and conversations were organized, clarifying the sequence of events.

Ken used a test account to check the so-called fan group only to discover it had been dissolved.

Intuition alone told Ken the story was true; however, it was clear the other party had become alert and had done some damage control.

Aside from the screenshots, most of the evidence had already been nearly obliterated.

Professional eyes see these things very differently from ordinary folks outside the circle looking in, who just hope for a small submission fee.

But to Ken, the value of these materials was inestimable.

Used correctly and with the right opportunity, they could threaten the career and future of a top internet celebrity—worth potentially a billion!

The submitter had previous dealings with Ken, who knew him relatively well, so Ken contacted the exposé’s individual that very night.

The core demand was simple—five hundred for a non-exclusive submission or one thousand for signing an online exclusive submission agreement.

After all, the agreement was just for show to the uninitiated; it was nothing more than a psychological binding.

Once the other party signed it and took the money, they were unlikely to develop other ideas, essentially locking the scoop in Ken’s hands.

Once everything was in place, Ken spent half the night too excited to sleep.

This was an ace card, and he had obtained it just like that for a mere thousand yuan.

Now, many might wonder, why would Ken, a gossip streamer, spend money on this?

Could he profit from it?

There’s no enmity, so it’s not like he’d go out of his way to destroy someone without benefitting from it.

No enmity is true, but among those mixing in the online circles, how many are really playing nice?

Don’t be fooled by the harmonious facades; behind the scenes, everyone is vying for fame and profit.

Just this card alone, without offending anyone, Ken could copy it and send it to You Ying’s contracted guild.

Without needing to say anything, the guild would be trembling with fear.

This involved their leading belle and headliner.

Forget a thousand yuan—they would not blink at ten thousand, a hundred thousand, even a million, as long as they could afford it.

If Ken were as inexperienced as when he first started, he might have actually played his hand that way, but now he was not lacking for money.

Holding this card was clearly better than playing it.

What he needed most now was to collect all the evidence related to the incident; that was the prime consideration.