Overnight Hit: Vicious Stepmother and Genius Son
Chapter 477 Blood and Gore

Chapter 477: Chapter 477 Blood and Gore

In the afternoon, the pitter-patter of light rain had almost stopped.

Ye Zhenzhen was taking a midday rest with Xiao Chen in the room, while Song Jinze was handling business at a desk nearby.

The other three families were also mostly taking an afternoon nap.

Seeing that there was not much to do in the afternoon, Director Fei said to Xiaowen, "Keep an eye on things, I’m going to take a nap too."

The houses chosen for this episode all involved farming activities, and unexpectedly, in just two days, these people had cracked it.

Director Fei was aware that Song Jinze and Gu Liangjun had sought external help, but what of it? He couldn’t very well go up and stop them. After all, it was just a kids’ variety show; turning a blind eye was enough.

Moreover, this was his last episode.

Xiaowen was looking at her phone with her head down, her face looking rather troubled, "Director... Director Fei..."

"What’s the matter?"

Director Fei’s lazy stretch hadn’t quite retracted when he leaned over to Xiaowen, "What’s happened? Why the face?"

Director Fei’s mind had also taken a nap and thought that Xiaowen’s personal issues had come up again.

But as soon as he saw the content on the phone screen, he immediately perked up, and the feeling of sleepiness vanished, "Are all these customers who bought the product today?"

"It doesn’t seem like it, but I can’t be completely sure."

On the phone screen, there were several consecutive photos of girls with red and swollen faces. These people posted the pictures and also sent several texts;

[They say they are not doing promotion, yet they advertise this kind of "three no" product on variety shows, completely betraying the trust we had in her. I used to like her so much, but now I’m unfollowing, goodbye!]

[I’ve really liked her recently and bought all the products she’s endorsed. I ordered immediately when I saw her advertising at noon, but I didn’t expect it to ruin my face.]

[@Ye Zhenzhen @Mom’s Companion @AL Cosmetics As an ordinary consumer, I hope you can give a reasonable explanation, thank you!]

These were a few of the posts with the most likes and shares; below them were a dozen or so messages, all from people who had experienced varying degrees of allergic reactions on their facial skin after using the setting spray advertised by Ye Zhenzhen at noon.

Director Fei furrowed his brows, "This situation doesn’t seem right. AL’s setting spray isn’t brand new today; although it’s a new product, the store started selling it a week ago."

"So these people must be targeted, either at our show or at Sister Zhenzhen?"

Director Fei added, "It could also be AL’s competitor. They’re probably just taking advantage of the popularity of our show and Zhenzhen, deliberately causing this fuss this afternoon."

It had only been three hours since Ye Zhenzhen’s advertisement at noon, and suddenly so much negative news had popped up, overtaking the popularity of the variety show from earlier.

This all seemed way too premeditated.

Xiaowen was a bit anxious, "Director Fei, what should we do now?"

"Contact the station, get the person in charge to talk to AL’s people. If what these customers are saying is true, fundamentally, it should be a product quality issue with AL, so they should be the ones in a hurry, not us.

Our program and Zhenzhen are just caught in the crossfire. Also, collect all these products and as per the contract, there’s no need to advertise them anymore."

"Director Fei, should we tell Sister Zhenzhen about this?"

Director Fei waved his hand, "No need to bother her, this matter doesn’t really have anything to do with her. If there’s anyone to blame, it’s Lemon Channel and this makeup-setting spray."

Xiaowen nodded, "Understood, Director Fei, I’ll get on it right away."

But as it happened, Ye Zhenzhen became the target of this issue. When fans who used the makeup-setting spray that Ye Zhenzhen recommended in the variety show started experiencing problems, many fans from other fan bases and haters piled on immediately;

["When I saw Ye Zhenzhen using this setting spray, I thought it was very effective, so I ordered it right away. Now that I see your faces like this, I quickly canceled my order."]

["You guys are so gullible. She’s from a wealthy family already, and it’s hard to tell if she even knows the brand. That you dared to buy it just because you saw her use it is really something."]

["Ye Jianjian is all about putting on an act, I heard from industry insiders that she’s very arrogant and has refused many endorsement deals."]

["This setting spray costs 119 a bottle, for such a tiny bottle. If it weren’t for trust in Ye Zhenzhen, who would buy it?"]

["Trolls, stop babbling. If you actually bought it, show us the order receipt. Those who posted allergy photos, who knows if those pics are stolen!"]

These people had been waiting for this moment, Ye Zhenzhen’s popularity in the industry was even higher than top-tier celebrities.

So many people in the circle were hoping for Ye Zhenzhen to slip up; as long as she did, regardless of her actual connection to the issue, they would all take the opportunity to knock her down a peg.

If they could trample her into the mud, that would be even better.

Watching these increasingly outrageous comments, Director Fei picked up the phone to contact his acquaintances in the industry to control the comments and suppress the trending topic.

Soon enough, the public relations statement from AL appeared on various social media platforms, a dense block of text.

The gist of it was that their product had no issues and if customers felt there was an issue with the product, they would personally visit to apologize, plus compensate ten times the amount.

["I’ve used this setting spray and didn’t have any issues. It was actually very good. I suspect some people are deliberately targeting our Sister Zhenzhen, right?"]

["Targeting? Why don’t you say our trust in Ye Zhenzhen was betrayed instead?"]

["I just want to say, why blame Ye Zhenzhen for the product’s issues? She was just following the program’s lead and advertised it, she isn’t the spokesperson, and the product isn’t hers, what does it have to do with her?"]

["She may not have endorsed AL cosmetics, but the one advertising it on the show just now was Ye Zhenzhen. I trusted her and immediately went out to the counter to buy this spray, and then my face was ruined."]

["Oh, really? Your face is ruined and you still have the mood to comment? If you bought it at the counter, why not go to the counter? What’s the point of coming online and going after our Sister Zhenzhen?"]

["Exactly, are you targeting our Sister Zhenzhen because she’s recording a show and doesn’t have her phone with her?"]

...

While Director Fei was finding people to control trending searches and comments, AL was doing the same. At the beginning, their manager was optimistic about Qiu Wanshuang. Before the three episodes of the variety show even started, they had tried to get in touch with Qiu Wanshuang’s side, wanting her to endorse the product but her agent declined.

Today at noon, they were quite happy to see their product being advertised by Ye Zhenzhen on the show, given that Qiu Wanshuang had refused and Ye Zhenzhen was quite attractive as well.

Yet, they did not expect that, in just over three hours, it would cause such a bloodbath.

Liu Rui was auditioning with Jiang Lu for a new drama in the afternoon when she found a break to start making phone calls to her contacts.

For Ye Zhenzhen, this was completely out of the blue and absurd.