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In the week that followed, the popularity of "Lingxi’s Love" continued to grow. In just seven short days, topics related to it had hit the trending list more than ten times!

In fact, the day before the art exhibition, it even shot to number one on the trending charts!

The video released on Douyin that day had now reached a staggering two hundred million views, with ten million likes and over five million comments!

This was something unprecedented, whether in the world of online influencers or the manga industry.

A manga artist going viral across the entire internet before their manga was even released—who would believe it if you told them?

But it had well and truly happened!

However, amidst this intense popularity, some malicious, contrary comments also began to appear.

"With all this hype, I really don’t think this manga will be that good. A sweet romance? It’s just a gimmick!"

"This really is the age of internet traffic. If you have money, you get traffic, while truly good works struggle to get popular."

...

Similar comments emerged one after another. Behind them, there were likely marketing accounts providing support, so they quickly climbed into the top comments and onto the trending lists.

"These people are going too far!"

Luo Yue’s face flushed with anger as she scrolled through Weibo and read what these people were writing.

"It doesn’t matter. No matter what they say, once Lingxi’s Love is released, the readers will see the truth for themselves."

Ning Ruoxi, however, waved her hand dismissively.

Having haters, to a certain extent, just meant that people were jealous!

This also proved, in a roundabout way, that Lingxi’s Love was truly a success.

Ye Ling was also idly scrolling through Weibo and Douyin. His thoughts on these comments were the same as Ning Ruoxi’s.

’No need to fight back. Let the facts speak for themselves!’

Once Lingxi’s Love was released and the results were out, those trolls would naturally shut their mouths.

But, clearly, both Ye Ling and Ning Ruoxi had underestimated the power of these trolls.

Or rather... they had underestimated how low these marketing accounts would sink!

"Is this woman some rich backer’s mistress? How else did she get so popular so fast?"

"UGH, that’s disgusting. She looks so pure and sweet, but it turns out..."

...

Among the malicious comments, many were aimed directly at Ning Ruoxi. Her name had even been doxxed.

"Inside info: I heard this woman’s name is Ning Ruoxi. She hooked up with some high-level executive inside Character Jump, that’s why she’s so famous!"

On Kuaishou, a so-called "blogger" even posted an exposé, claiming Ning Ruoxi had received this terrifying level of promotion because she’d slept her way up!

Because this blogger had over six million followers and had posted some seemingly credible pictures, many people began to attack both Lingxi’s Love and Ning Ruoxi.

It got so bad that even Ning Ruoxi’s Weibo page was overrun by marketing accounts!

"A ’pure romance,’ my ass! She’s just a bitch!"

"You’re a real hypocrite, aren’t you? Was being a corporate whore worth it?"

"Shameless piece of trash, you’d do anything for fame!"

...

Countless comments swept over her like a tidal wave.

Most of them were orchestrated by marketing accounts, while some were from ignorant passersby who saw the posts and jumped on the bandwagon to flame her.

After all, in this day and age, everyone on the internet acts like a self-righteous vigilante, overflowing with "positive energy"!

Ning Ruoxi soon noticed something was wrong on her Weibo, and when she saw the comments, her pretty face turned pale.

When had she ever encountered this kind of cyberbullying?

Some people say cyberbullying isn’t that scary, that you can just ignore it...

But in reality, forget being condemned by tens of thousands of people; just think about being publicly scolded by a teacher in class. Most people would find that unbearable, wouldn’t they?

Let alone being flamed by the entire internet... someone with a weaker constitution might genuinely consider suicide!

After all, the power of public opinion in this era is truly terrifying. Once you’re smeared with enough dirt, you can never wash it clean again!

"These people are courting death!"

At that moment, Ye Ling also came across that blogger’s video, and a flicker of rage was evident in his eyes.

If these people had only attacked Lingxi’s Love, or even him, he could have ignored it. But they had actually started to maliciously slander Ning Ruoxi!

That was something he could not tolerate!

To him, Ning Ruoxi was his bottom line. The girl he couldn’t even bear to tease, these people dared to insult her like this!?

If what the blogger said was true, it would be one thing. But the so-called "evidence" they provided—those pictures—was extremely blurry. You couldn’t even make out a face.

Besides, based on his knowledge of Ning Ruoxi, the woman in the photos was definitely not her. She was just wearing an outfit that looked similar to the one Ning Ruoxi wore in her video!

"President Wei, I need you to do me a favor..."

Ye Ling immediately dialed Wei Kun’s number and told him about the user named ’Uncle Xinda’.

Hearing what Ye Ling said, Wei Kun was also furious.

"What? Something like that happened? President Ye, please don’t be angry. I’ll handle it right away!"

After hanging up, Wei Kun directly contacted the operations team of Kuaishou.

Was this a joke? If these haters were on some other website, it would be one thing. But Kuaishou was an app under Character Jump, and a video slandering the company’s second-largest shareholder’s woman had appeared on it?!

When Kuaishou’s operations team heard the news, they were terrified. After all, they were just employees... The moment they heard something like this had happened, they immediately launched an investigation and took action.

In just half an hour, the video was taken down, and Uncle Xinda’s account was banned for spreading rumors.

Afterward, Wei Kun, feeling that wasn’t enough, issued a lawyer’s letter in the name of the Character Jump Company.

"Regarding the recent incident where ’Uncle Xinda,’ a contracted blogger on our company’s Kuaishou app, spread rumors and caused distress to Miss Ning Ruoxi, the author of Lingxi’s Love: his account has now been suspended, and we have filed a lawsuit against him. Furthermore, our company’s backend has detected that a number of marketing accounts have violated national regulations through malicious doxxing and rumormongering. Some of the evidence we have gathered has been handed over to law enforcement, and we will continue to pursue legal action to hold them accountable!"

It must be said, Wei Kun’s reaction was swift. At the very least, the malicious comments were quickly suppressed.

"I’m telling you, can’t some people use their brains? You’re going to insult my goddess over a couple of blurry photos!?"

"Exactly! They’re so blurry, I could say that’s your mom in the picture!"

"How many mothers do you rumormongering bastards have, to be so damn arrogant!?"

Most people were actually able to remain rational; it was just that the marketing accounts had been so overwhelming before that their voices couldn’t be heard.