Huo Rou still held the microphone given to her by the staff. The microphone was not turned off, so the phone ringtone was amplified.
"Wow, what is this tune, it sounds so good! It has a hint of sadness."
"Listening to it makes me want to cry. What song is this, I've never heard it before?"
"Am I the only one who thinks the guzheng sounds beautiful? Whose guzheng masterpiece is this?" The fans below the stage were in an uproar, and Qin Qiejian on stage was also full of confusion.
Huo Rou hastily dropped the microphone and went offstage to answer the phone.
"Teacher Huo, there was a slight accident just now. The new song was leaked ahead of time. They offered a small amount of compensation, and I've transferred it to you. I hope you don't mind."
The man on the phone explained the cause and effect in a somewhat timid voice.
Huo Rou thought for a moment and understood, "It's okay, thank you."
If he hadn't told her, she wouldn't have cared about these things. He was truly a sincere fool.
"No, no, I should be thanking you!" The man paused, "Um... are you free recently? Can you help me take a look again..."
Before he could finish speaking, Huo Rou glanced at the text message notification.
Wow, eight million.
"Send it over, and I'll look at it when I have time." She readily agreed.
Qin Ningyi, with a somber expression, walked to Huo Rou's side. What kind of concert was this, he wasn't going to listen anymore.
His eagle-like gaze swept over Qin Qiejian on stage, who was stubbornly resisting his manager's clutches. He put his arm around Huo Rou's shoulder and led her away.
As expected, Qin Qiejian's concert ended with a trending topic.
Some fans were rational, merely promoting the new song below. Others were more extreme.
"That woman doesn't look like a good person at all. Her eyes are like a vixen's, just seducing our brother. Otherwise, why would our brother have specifically asked her to go up and listen to the song?"
"Exactly, brother even performed a new song early and got sued."
"Shameless, Secretary Zhao, I need all the information on this woman."
"Dox her!"
"Boycott the vixen seducing our brother!"
Soon, these extreme fans swayed a good portion of casual fans, and Qin Qiejian's Weibo received many comments of protest.
No matter how much his manager scolded him, it was useless. The situation had already escalated.
"Anyway, I'm going to fall in love eventually, so it's good for them to get used to it early." Qin Qiejian wasn't worried at all. He wasn't short of money. If he couldn't make it, he'd go back to being a manager.
After all, his brother was capable enough to support a useless younger brother.
Qin Qiejian was thinking very optimistically, unaware that his very capable brother was looking at the trending topics and wishing he could dismember him.
"What is his public relations team doing?" Qin Ningyi held his phone, his face ashen.
"Go, and get this little brat banned!" Qin Ningyi, in a rare moment, said such a thing. Xiao Konglin stared for a long moment before realizing he was referring to Qin Qiejian.
Facing President Qin's anger, he was somewhat frightened and responded timidly, "I'll go find someone to handle the public relations immediately."
Escaping the office, Xiao Konglin quickly called Huo Rou, asking her to come and smooth things over. He didn't dare to actually ban Qin Qiejian. After all, he was President Qin's younger brother. He was timid and didn't dare.
Duan Rui watched Huo Rou leave the office as if nothing had happened. He took out his phone and looked at the comment asking for Huo Rou's information, a smile tugging at the corner of his lips. He replied below.
"Technical Director of Yuda Security, who got promoted through connections, Huo Rou. Located in Yuchang City."
"Damn! That's impressive! You really found her, you're the fastest. You must be a professional, right? A handsome guy?"
Duan Rui didn't reply further and switched accounts.
Huo Rou, you won't be able to escape this time, right?
The fans' frenzy was beyond imagination.
Soon, the entrance of Yuda Security was surrounded by fans, with several leading fan club leaders particularly agitated.
The hashtag "Yuda Security Huo Rou" spread like wildfire in the fan circles.
Qin Qiejian also saw it.
"So it's from Yuda Security. Isn't that right next to Qin Group?" He was very excited, finally knowing Huo Rou's name.
His manager wished he could kill this carefree guy. Wasn't it easy to make him popular?
Well, it was pretty easy.
Who could resist his good voice and handsome appearance...
He resigned himself to cleaning up the mess. "I've discussed it with all parties. This incident is quite sensational. Let's take advantage of this heat to release the new song, and you can clarify that it was for the promotion of the new song. The fans should calm down."
"Whatever you arrange is fine." Qin Qiejian lazily played with his phone, searching for the person named Huo Rou from Yuda Security.
The early release of the new song indeed temporarily captured the fans' attention.
"I knew it, brother wouldn't be such an indecisive person. Look, it's for the new song!"
"So yesterday was intentionally arranged to sing the new song? But the news our fan club leaders heard wasn't like that."
"Support brother! New song sells well!"
"《Yan Mei》 sells well, sells well!"
"It's good!"
After praising the song for a short while, some sharp-eared fans discovered an issue.
"Don't you think the intro to this song sounds familiar?"
"I think it sounds familiar too, but I can't quite place it."
"It shouldn't be, this is composed by Great R. The new song just came out, it's impossible to have heard it elsewhere, and Great R wouldn't plagiarize."
"Above, you definitely didn't attend the concert in Yuchang City. I was on the left side of the stage that day, and I heard this melody from that vixen Huo Rou's phone."
"Ah? I'll go listen!"
Everyone flipped back to the trending topic of the concert and found that the segment where Huo Rou's phone rang was exactly the same as the intro of the new song!
This time, the fans lost it.
Huo Rou must have been in contact with their brother in private. Was she so smitten that he would disregard everything to make her his official partner?
Brother belongs to everyone, how could she be worthy?
An even more frenzied cyberbullying began. Huo Rou's address was dug up, and it was also revealed that she had been frequently picked up by luxury cars recently.
Not only a vixen, but a vixen who was two-timing.
Sun Lin, a fan club leader living in Meicheng Yunfu, carried red paint and poured it on Huo Rou's doorstep. A pile of bloody animal carcasses was placed in front of the door.
She also found friends to create many photos, and more and more blurry indecent photos of Huo Rou began to circulate online, along with many fabricated stories.
Anyone who had seen the entire incident would easily notice that in almost all the indecent photos, Huo Rou had the same expression, and there were only a few angles.
All of them were extracted from concert videos and synthesized.
However, many onlookers didn't care and joined in the scolding.
Qin Ningyi had just pacified Huo Rou when he saw these things and became enraged again! How dare they treat the person who was in his heart like this? It was all the little brat's fault, and now he was acting like a turtle hiding in its shell.
"Xiao Konglin! Go bring him here!"