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Chapter 369, Chapter 0356 [Professor Yang]

The next day, at the hotel restaurant.

Chen Guiliang took his laptop to breakfast and quietly placed it on Xu Fengyin's dining table.

Xu Fengyin blushed and immediately buried her head in her food.

She was quite bold last night, but now she's become reserved again, afraid that her colleagues will notice something amiss.

Breakfast time ended quickly, and the company-rented bus took the Youke team to the exhibition venue.

While tourists were still getting their tickets checked, Chen Guiliang was summoned by Director Kou with a phone call.

The top two officials of the State Administration of Press and Publication left yesterday, and Director Kou is currently staying behind to oversee the ChinaJoy Electronics Show.

"You've made quite a stir," Director Kou said with a laugh.

Chen Guiliang smiled and asked, "The leaders know too?"

Director Kou said, "When Penguin Publishing Group held the global launch ceremony for the English version at the Imperial Kitchen of the Palace Museum, some of our staff from the State Press and Publication Administration were also invited to help out."

Chen Guiliang did not respond.

Director Kou continued, "At the time, 'Wolf Totem' was operating under two banners. On one hand, it was taking advantage of the Olympic Games to promote its culture overseas, and on the other hand, it was aligning itself with global environmentalism. Some of our comrades were unwittingly deceived."

Chen Guiliang could only agree, "It is indeed very deceptive."

"Just focus on your game, don't worry about this kind of thing." Director Kou said, then got up and left.

Chen Guiliang certainly didn't have the energy to deal with it; he had already said what he needed to say three years ago. This time, he was simply taking the lead and charging ahead, and netizens would naturally continue to bombard him with criticism.

However, to Chen Guiliang's surprise, the person who jumped out this time was the author of "Wolf Totem" himself.

The author's older brother only said one sentence: "Both of them have been married three times."

Netizens quickly followed the trail and discovered that the author's first wife was also a writer. Her novel "Fallen Wasteland" is also set on the grasslands and was published earlier than "Wolf Totem," but it was banned.

This book is temporarily unavailable.

Amidst heated discussions among netizens, the author's first wife remained silent, but another female educated youth from that time took the initiative to speak out.

This female educated youth was also a writer; her novel "The Sheep Oil Lamp" was also banned.

After the interview with the female educated youth was published, the Beijing Evening News interviewed the older brother of the author of Wolf Totem.

The older brother did not give an interview, but wrote an article and submitted it to the Beijing Evening News.

The article details how the author of Wolf Totem, behind the back of his second wife, used a string of lies to seduce and curry favor with his current wife. After successfully seducing her, he immediately divorced his second wife.

To put it bluntly, it's marital infidelity.

Furthermore, during his affair, he tricked his mistress (his current wife) into giving him money. In 1982, his mistress sent him 200 yuan in one go.

Two days later, Lao Gui, the son of the author of "Song of Youth," finally revealed something he hadn't told us three years ago: "The reason I was persecuted back then was because of the original materials provided by this person!"

Following this, the reporter read "Fallen" by the ex-wife of the author of Wolf Totem and discovered that the book fully explains the background story of Wolf Totem.

This book was published before Wolf Totem, but its descriptions are completely different from those in Wolf Totem!
This time, their true colors have been exposed.

Surprisingly, despite the fierce attacks from China Youth Daily and Beijing Evening News, and the widespread condemnation from netizens, support for Wolf Totem was even stronger. The book remained on the bestseller list, albeit dropping from number one to number two.

It was as if an invisible hand had forcefully suppressed public opinion and steered the conversation to other areas.

For example, public intellectuals and influential figures flocked to discuss the new real estate regulations in Shanghai: for houses with property certificates obtained after 2008, a personal income tax of 20% of the difference in price must be levied on the resale value.

Everyone's saying this new regulation violates free market transactions and is just the government trying to squeeze money out of ordinary people. People can't afford new homes, and now even secondhand homes are going up in price... blah blah blah.

Huawei issued a statement saying that Ren Zhengfei (Ren Zhengfei's founder) had never promoted "Wolf Totem" and had never read the book. When Ren Zhengfei proposed that "company teams should be like wolves," "Wolf Totem" hadn't even been published yet.

Haier, on the other hand, is playing dead and refusing any newspaper interviews.

Because there was no way to defend it, Haier CEO Zhang's handwritten inscription was printed on the back cover of "Wolf Totem"!

Li Xunhuan also took the opportunity to promote the reprint of "Those Things of the Ming Dynasty".

...On the last day of CJ Electronics Show, Future Era signed an agreement with a Singaporean company to sell the distribution rights for Singapore and Malaysia.

The situation is neither good nor bad.

Three agency agreements: one for Europe, one for Vietnam, and one for Singapore and Malaysia.

It was slightly below Chen Guiliang's expectations; he had thought Xiao Rizi would also be willing to act as an agent.

"You've caused trouble again. Someone is deliberately smearing You Ke."

Chen Guiliang had just returned to Beijing when Xie Yang came to complain.

"what's going on?"

"Come and see for yourself."

Chen Guiliang stood in front of his computer, looking at the print media report reprinted by Sina. The article was titled: "Ten Deadly Sins of Game Science".

Then, the national media launched a massive condemnation of online games, and netizens also turned around and denounced CCTV for distorting the facts.

The public opinion surrounding "Wolf Totem" has been significantly diluted by this wave of online debates.

Now, some people with ulterior motives are even trying to steer the conversation away from World of Warcraft and towards Game Science.

Chen Guiliang watched the documentary "Fighting Internet Demons" carefully, then suddenly pressed the space bar to pause it, pointed to the electroconvulsive therapy device and said, "Call the legal department."

A legal professional stared at the treatment device for a long time: "I don't understand this thing, I have to ask a friend with a related professional."

Another half hour passed, and the legal representative returned and said, "This electroconvulsive therapy device is only suitable for the convulsive symptoms of patients with manic-depressive psychosis. Moreover, it has long been obsolete, and the manufacturer could not possibly have obtained a production license."

Chen Guiliang asked, "So, this treatment device is an illegal, unregistered product?"

"Yes," the legal counsel nodded.

This time, it's clear that someone is trying to divert public opinion from "Wolf Totem," but Chen Guiliang is willing to be led by the nose by them.

Chen Guiliang posted a screenshot of the video on his personal account with the caption: "According to a lawyer friend, this electroconvulsive therapy device is an illegal, unregistered product that has long been prohibited from production in mainland China. Professor Yang's device looks quite new, with very clear labels. I wonder if it's an import. Firstly, imported goods must also comply with Chinese law, and secondly, imported goods wouldn't have simplified Chinese characters on them, would they?"

Within minutes of the post being published, it was reposted to NGA by netizens.

These guys all flocked to Chen Guiliang's account to leave messages:

"I used to look down on 'Future Era,' but I will never again call it a game for elementary school students."

"Chen Shiyi is awesome! I'll be your loyal fan from now on! I came here specifically to register an account on HaiNei.com."

"I have found the manufacturer of that electroconvulsive therapy device and am organizing netizens to report it for illegal production and sales!"

"..."

Xie Yang said, "Maybe when I get an electric shock, I'll mutate and suddenly become the Flash, unleashing my inner power to demolish the internet addiction treatment center!"

"You watch too much Marvel," Chen Guiliang said with a smile.

The two hadn't been chatting for long when Chen Guiliang refreshed the webpage and found an article that had topped the reading list: "I am the internet-addicted girl in the CCTV documentary."

If you look closely at the time, this article was published a week ago.

Many people had already read and shared the article before, but after Chen Guiliang posted an update, many netizens who were unaware of the facts searched for the keyword on the site, which led to the article being pushed to the top of the list.

"My name is Wu Xuying. I've already graduated with my bachelor's degree and am preparing for graduate school entrance exams. My major is psychology. Doesn't that sound absurd? A psychology undergraduate student was sent to an internet addiction treatment center by her parents and subjected to electric shocks..."

“It’s hard for anyone who hasn’t experienced electric shocks to imagine the pain… I was forced to compromise; I knelt down and begged my parents for forgiveness. They were overjoyed by my transformation and regarded Yang Yongxin as a miracle doctor…”

“Every night, I dreamt of returning to the scene of the electric shock. I would wake up in a cold sweat, crying... I even shut myself off for six months, refusing to go out or go online... It wasn't until my thesis defense that I mustered the courage to go to school…”

"I studied psychology, and I think I have severe post-traumatic stress disorder. Whenever I see words like Yang Yongxin, internet addiction, or electroshock, I break out in a cold sweat, and my muscles twitch uncontrollably. Even writing this article, typing out every single word is torture..."

After reading the article, Chen Guiliang sighed and silently forwarded it.

(End of this chapter)