Supreme Heir Son-in-law

Chapter 1425: Being Used

This made Ren Liang’s heart skip a beat. Now even President Xu wasn’t managing things. Did this mean President Xu had given up on Light and Shadow Company because of his own reckless speculations, which led President Xu to think this way?

Filled with regret, he realized he had no choice but to call President Xu right away. Otherwise, it might be that President Xu’s anger had not yet subsided.

"If there’s nothing else, I’ll head out. There’s still work to be done."

He knew the boss didn’t like showing a less-than-stellar side of himself before others. Although Ren Liang was fairly courteous to them, it didn’t mean he could let them know everything, including when he had to lower his pride.

So, after Pan Xuehai left, Ren Liang was truly at his wits’ end. If he had known it would come to this, he never would have offended the president.

But now, if he didn’t consult the president, something might genuinely go wrong, and perhaps the president had a better idea. It was all because he didn’t listen to the president back then.

Seeing Ren Liang’s call, Secretary Zhou brought it to Xu Ke, who shook his head.

"He must be very anxious now. Since he’s anxious, let’s let him stew a while longer. Why should we be anxious?"

"It’s in moments of anxiety that one tends to do foolish things."

Hearing Xu Ke’s words, Secretary Zhou paused for a moment and then laughed.

It seemed the president intended to teach a lesson to the president of Light and Shadow Company, but of course, whatever the president did was right.

The secretary took the phone away, and Xu Ke continued to browse online comments. Sure enough, as he expected, discussions were all leaning towards the Yu Group. Now, 99% of voices claimed that their Xiao Group had plagiarized the Yu Group’s ideas, and the Yu Group was even planning to speak out publicly that evening.

Yu Hao thought this would make their company’s anime more engaging, yet despite Yu Hao’s every effort, their company’s anime just couldn’t succeed.

Because something that doesn’t work can’t be fixed by suppressing the competition.

And that 1% supporting the Xiao Group? Naturally, they were fans who had seen the Xiao Group’s anime, fans who were particularly furious. It had been years since they’d seen such good anime, so what were these people thinking, to call it plagiarism?

So, these fans exploded on Weibo. How could they call what they believed to be plagiarized? And were these people blind?

"Have you even seriously watched the anime? The two animes, one has an urban theme, and the other a fantasy theme, how could there be suspicion of plagiarism? Before you decide to champion Yu Hao, I suggest you take a good look at the nature of these two animes. If you really can’t see it clearly, then don’t try to be a Yu Hao hero. You really don’t deserve it."

"Exactly, clearly Xiao Group’s anime is better and super exciting. I’ve been following it for a long time, yet here you are spewing nonsense online. This is obviously a set-up by the Yu Group! Are they using such entertainment industry tactics against a rival company? And the fact is, the rival company is clearly better than Yu Group."

"If you hadn’t said anything, I wouldn’t have considered watching this anime. But now that you’ve raised this, if you want a face-slap, fine, I’ll go find similarities between the two animes and serve you a slap. After getting slapped, don’t yell you’ve made a mistake. We won’t accept such an error."

"Yes, since you’re saying this, let’s watch the anime and continue the debate. For evidence, why not put together a color chart to make these Xiao Group defenders see clearly what’s going on?"

"Why should I watch the anime? Ranting is enough. If you want to watch, go ahead."

Soon, the Xiao Group’s Weibo attracted two opposing voices. Some netizens, spurred by the earlier comments, actually sought evidence. But upon viewing both animes, they were dumbfounded.

It was as if they had witnessed something bizarre. These two animes had distinctly different styles; where was the notion of plagiarism coming from?

Curiosity gripped the netizens; they scrutinized the dialogues, even the producers, yet couldn’t pinpoint any such plagiarism.

Gradually, alternative views began to emerge on Weibo.

"I just compared them, and there really are no similarities between the two animes. I couldn’t find any; could you?"

With earlier comments setting the tone, others chimed in. They felt inexplicably uneasy. Was it possible they were missing the plagiarism? Yet as anime lovers, who’d followed it for years, they shouldn’t have missed this.

"I didn’t find anything either. Where specifically is the plagiarism? I couldn’t see any, as even the themes differ. Who claimed plagiarism?"

"It seems like we were manipulated as fools. These two animes, I can’t find any dissimilarity. Did Yu Group deliberately target Xiao Group to hype their own anime? Now it all makes sense to me—it’s shockingly scheming of Yu Group, using Xiao Group’s smear to boost their sales."

"Alright, now I get it. This was all orchestrated by Yu Group’s trolls. They even involved regular folks like us. I realized Xiao Group’s anime is actually amazing, it’s love!"

Suddenly, most netizens who had seen it returned to comment under the Weibo post, and the hired trolls found themselves overwhelmed. What on earth happened? Usually, they were paid to comment, but why was there such strong backlash from the regular people now?

Even the trolls themselves panicked; what don’t they know happened?

As a result, the trolls started investigating the cause, and once they did, they couldn’t stop.

All at once, remarks underneath the Xiao Group were overtaken by praise for CCTV Group’s anime. Even the headquarters staff were puzzled. What had happened? Just moments ago, it was full of negative comments accusing Xiao Group of plagiarism, but now suddenly it was all positive.

Could it be the company’s chairman stepped in? If so, the chairman was being a bit unfair.

Initially, it was their company doing the plagiarism, yet they reversed the situation and filled it with positive feedback. Did the chairman honestly favor Xu Ke, this sudden entrant into Xiao Group?