Chapter 101: The Law Does Not Punish the Masses

Chapter 101: The Law Does Not Punish the Masses

Soon, the hashtag #AnWenEndorsementSnatching climbed to the Hot Search, as if the accusation had already been confirmed. The entire internet was condemning An Wen.

Meanwhile, #ChuLei also trended. Clicking into it revealed edited clips of her past roles, along with filtered stills from her dramas—stunningly beautiful.

Comments flooded in:

【Chu Lei is a true goddess!】

【Please come back and film another drama!】

【Chu Lei’s role as Yuan Yang was the most mesmerizing to me as a child—I rewatched it so many times.】

【These Traffic Flowers think they can do anything, but today they finally hit a steel plate.】

【Her fans probably never imagined this when they were attacking Lu Man’er back then.】

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The Guardian Army remained fiercely engaged in comment control, with some members so enraged that they flooded Nair’s official Weibo and An Wen’s Official Interaction Platform with complaints.

Jiang Yiwen posted on Weibo urging calm.

【Official An Wen Fan Support Club Weibo: #AnWen# Most of the Guardian Army have weathered the storm since the mass backlash two summers ago—our hearts are now steel. An Wen rose to fame so quickly as a newcomer, and naturally, some are jealous. The way certain parties are acting seems increasingly suspicious, as if they’re trying to step on An Wen for attention. Let’s not be used as pawns.

From now on, focus on purification—purify the Square, purify the Hot Search. Stop tagging official accounts. If they were going to respond, they would have done so by now. Instead of wasting time there, let’s buy a few more pairs of shoes and post more promotional content.

Remember—when faced with filth, drown it out with Peerless Beauty!

Believe in An Wen. After the storm comes the rainbow.】

Replies poured in:

【Got it. We believe in An Wen.】

【After the storm comes the rainbow—let’s not let others manipulate us.】

【Even against a full-scale smear campaign today, our comment control was rock-solid. Truly the Iron-Blooded Guardian Army.】

【Our goal is to turn the black Hot Search into a promotional one.】

【Scrub, scrub, scrub—the Guardian Army has become the Cleaning Crew!】

【Bala Bala Energy—Sharo Sharo, Cleaning Crew, full transformation!】

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The Guardian Army abandoned comment control under marketing accounts entirely, instead pushing their promotional posts to the top through likes, retweets, and comments. The Hot Search Square was no longer a battleground for arguments—just a flood of promotional content.

Without An Wen’s fans, the marketing posts barely scraped a few hundred comments and a few dozen retweets.

Meanwhile, An Wen, having just finished filming an ad for SH, rushed to the airport to fly to Di City. Nair’s shoot location was the Forbidden City, and she fell asleep as soon as she got in the car.

These days, she had been constantly on the move, barely getting five hours of sleep a day, catching rest only during transit. There was no way she could be aware of the online storm.

Song Jia had no intention of telling her yet, instead coordinating with the company’s PR team to handle the crisis.

An Wen’s Official Interaction Platform issued a statement: Nair and An Wen’s collaboration was a mutually satisfactory partnership. An Wen’s team had already gathered evidence against the rumor-mongers and would pursue legal action if they failed to retract and mitigate the damage.

The Guardian Army mass-liked, retweeted, and commented on the post, but netizens remained unconvinced.

"The law does not punish the masses"—the slander showed no signs of stopping.

Upon arriving in Di City, An Wen went straight into hair, makeup, and wardrobe before heading to the outdoor shoot. After wrapping exteriors, she moved indoors.

Song Jia kept an eye on the online situation while overseeing An Wen’s shoot.

An Wen’s fans were like a mudslide in the fandom world—dominating the Hot Search with an iron grip while collectively buying clothes and shoes, flaunting their purchases online just to spite the critics.

What's even funnier is how they play with memes. Whenever negative comments appear in the real-time Square, the Iron-Blooded Guardian Army's comment-control account posts: "Our high ground defense tower is under attack!" And when unfavorable Weibo posts trend, they post: "Our crystal is under attack!"