Huayu: As a child star, I just want to be famous

Chapter 339 Predicting the future? Social impact

Last year, a young man in the area was sued in court and demanded compensation for helping an elderly man who had fallen.

This case only caused some minor stir in the local area at the time. After all, although such incidents are rare, they do happen.

However, this report now mentions a very eye-catching point.

In a recent first-instance judgment, the judge said in court, "You didn't hit anyone, why did you help?"

The young man was also sentenced to bear the liability for compensation.

This is too similar to the case mentioned in "She" written by Chen Linfeng. Even the sentence "Why did you help me if you didn't hit me?" is almost identical to what the judge said in real life.

In the Southern Weekly report, the original text from the novel was directly quoted and compared with real events.

so similar!
Although the novel does not describe the exact time clearly, there is only the sentence about helping someone and being blackmailed, and this sentence is an eternal classic.

But the good thing about Chinese is that short words contain a huge amount of information.

Helping an elderly person and being blackmailed, these five words explain the incident very clearly.

Isn't this exactly what's happening now? It's exactly the same.

This report caused an instant uproar.

A lot of people were already paying attention to Chen Linfeng's winning of the award, and combined with social events, 1+1 is far greater than 2.

Soon, almost all social news and general media reported news that were almost exactly the same as the case and the novel.

Because of Chen Linfeng's own attributes, literary media, entertainment media, and even financial news have reported on this incident.

"The case of helping a man in City N is similar to the prophecy in Xiao Chen's work. The real event is almost identical to the description in the story. After the first-instance judgment of the case of helping a man, was it really a fraud as described in the novel?"

——Oriental Morning Post

"Is it a coincidence or foresight? Xiao Chen's work in 04 is almost perfectly consistent with what happened in 08. Is this a genius's insight or a law of development?"

——Wen Wei Po

"Since the development of the Fu Ren case, the public's social morality and trust in the country's legal system have suffered extremely serious damage.

The matter does not end here. If there is a reasonable second trial and relevant laws can be improved in a timely manner in the future, there is a chance to save the situation.

I hope it will not become the fuse for the moral decline of the entire society as deduced in the novel. "

——China Legal Daily

"Director Xiao Chen successfully predicted the future and is suspected to be a time traveler from the future. Science fiction movies reflect reality."

——Entertainment Star Weekly

There was a large amount of official media coverage, coupled with Xiao Chen’s huge level of discussion on the Internet.

This wave of heat was so intense that it became a hot topic of discussion among the entire nation in a very short period of time.

"As a fan of Xiao Chen, I think his book is very good at predicting social phenomena, but as a Chinese, I feel sad to see the things in the book really happen."

"After something like this happened, the things written in the book shouldn't happen again, right? Many people didn't know about it before, but this time it's known nationwide, so at least the correspondence shouldn't be so accurate, right?"

"I think it's terrible. Humans don't learn from their lessons."

"Anyway, this judge is outrageous. If something like this happens, I won't dare to help an elderly person in the future."

"Well, let's see if relevant laws will be introduced in the future. Otherwise, no one will dare to do good things."

"I just have one question. Xiao Chen has clearly written about this matter in his novel. Is there any judge who dares to speak and act like this?"

When Liu Qianqian talked to Chen Linfeng on the phone in the evening, they inevitably talked about this matter.

She also had the same question: how could there be a judge with such a lack of common sense, and it was clearly written in the book before.

"When I heard about this, I felt like this person might have done it on purpose. It was too outrageous."

Chen Linfeng said, "This is not surprising at all. You feel this way because you like reading the novels I wrote and have almost finished reading them."

He further explained, “It’s amazing if there are tens of millions of people in China who have read my novels, but they only account for a small part of the Chinese population.

Most people have not read my novels, or have only read part of them. Among all my works, the sales of "Her" are the lowest.

The judge probably has never read my novel. Even if he has heard of it through other channels and knows what it is about, it is impossible for him to have an in-depth understanding of a specific plot or even a sentence in it.

So it’s not surprising that this happened.”

"How can it not be strange?" Liu Qianqian's tone was full of surprise. "If the real world develops according to your novel, I wonder how many people will drop their jaws in surprise."

She said exaggeratedly, "Now, wherever you go, the topic of conversation is almost always about this matter.

Everyone said, no wonder you won the award."

Liu Qianqian seemed very excited. She has always been a loyal reader of Chen Linfeng. Seeing everyone discussing Chen's novel this time, she felt really honored.

Chen Linfeng himself doesn't think this is a good thing.

The matter of the "Assisting People" case has now developed to the point where it involves a novel, and has become even bigger than in the previous life.

Sister Mei would return to China specifically to learn some information that is not easy to find out.

When she called later, she told Chen Linfeng all this in general.

Overall, the official attitude is - it feels embarrassing.

It's too bad to say this out loud. Writers have written this in advance in their works, criticizing the future to warn the present, to remind society and the country not to make such a mistake.

As a result, there are also staff members of the legal department who can fall into the trap.

At present, the authorities above do not even know how to deal with this public opinion.

It's so special that a novel written by a writer a few years ago criticizes current social events.

How to solve this?

Public opinion has completely spread and there is no way to silence them.

From the perspective of the parties involved in the incident, organizational principles can be used to make the judge speak less.

The young man who helped others doesn’t have any media channels, so all we need to do is influence the media.

But the key is that Xiao Chen can't even give a direct hint to make him shut up.

Xiao Chen just won an international award, and the domestic media are waiting to interview him. If he doesn't say something at this time, he will definitely be suspected, which will be even more detrimental to public opinion.

Besides, he didn’t do anything wrong, he just wrote a novel. You can’t just say, “Your writing is too accurate, don’t be so accurate in the future.”

What's more, some of the deductions about social forms in Chen Linfeng's novel "She" have already come true.

Some technologies, including WiFi and smartphones, have shown a trend of large-scale deployment.

It also includes some social issues, such as population and the recent case of helping people.

You know, regarding the population issue, many experts have mentioned this recently.

However, Xiao Chen had already had relevant thoughts in 2003, and even wrote his future predictions in the book.

As for the case of helping people, it was even more magical. Some leaders above were shocked when they heard about it.

From the above, this is a talent. To put it more highly, this is the ability to think about and have insights into the real ills of society. This is the prototype of a thinker.

The higher-ups still value talents.

What's more, Xiao Chen has already made considerable achievements and is a cultural business card of the country.

The news Sister Mei received was, "Xiao Chen can express more opinions in the future. Young people are full of inspiration. Don't worry about saying the wrong thing. Everyone can see Xiao Chen's position."

She concluded, "Xiaofeng, they really treat you as a great writer. You can give your suggestions to the higher-ups now."

The leader's words sounded nice, but Chen Linfeng turned a deaf ear to them.

He only has that little knowledge, so one prophecy is enough for him. In the future, when he speaks, he will only talk about the two fields of film and television and literature.

At least in this area, he does understand a little after working hard for so long in this life.

His influence is so great that many people listen to whatever he says. He naturally has the qualifications to be an opinion leader.

However, opinion leaders are bound to fail sooner or later, with basically no exceptions.

Even Mr. Luo, who teaches law courses, can make ridiculous mistakes in historical knowledge and fail miserably.

People like Ai Da Jin are full of big talk, and few of their opinions are correct.

XXX is so amazing and knows everything, until he talks about the area you are familiar with.

The more you say, the more mistakes you make.

This is something he understood very early on.

Chen Linfeng replied, "Sister Mei, we should take it easy and keep the same pace as before. The leader said so, and we should keep it in mind."

"Okay, I'll listen to you. I'll find a way to pass your thoughts back to the higher-ups."

Sister Mei felt a little regretful and wrote a letter to the emperor to discuss national affairs. Anyone who has received education would have thought about this.

Xiaofeng is really patient. Have you ever quit drugs?

But since Chen Linfeng has made the decision, Sister Mei will do it.

She then asked, "Xiaofeng, when are you going to return to China? Many media reporters have been asking me about this."

"I'll be back after I finish my interview with Time Magazine. Maybe next week."

"Okay, I'll reply to the reporter this way first."

During the following period, Chen Linfeng discussed the preparations for the film with Mark, and also auditioned some American actors.

In addition, I just wanted to meet up with Pete and some other good friends to deepen our connections.

Finally, interviews from all walks of life are definitely indispensable.

The domestic rescue case and "Her" have a very interesting connection, and the huge discussion it sparked in China has also been known by overseas media.

So during the interview, Chen Linfeng was asked about this several times.

He doesn't like to show his ugliness to others, so he usually just gets by with it.

However, this did not affect the situation as the incident gradually fermented abroad.

China's influence has been growing since 08, so this incident, together with the news of "She" winning the award, became a big news in various countries in March.

At the end of March, Chen Linfeng returned to China.

(End of this chapter)