Rebirth: My Home Has Become a Gathering Place for Young Women with a "Crazy" Spirit

As soon as Zhao Zhiheng came out of his father's office, he immediately asked Wang Kai to contact the company's legal team to see if they could sue Qin Lang for defamation or infringement of the company's business reputation.

After studying the case for a long time, the legal team replied that his article did not mention any specific person, company, or project name; it only used general terms such as "a certain place" or "a certain company," which did not constitute a substantial infringement under the law.

"Then ask the platform to delete the article!" Zhao Zhiheng slammed his hand on the table and said in his habitual commanding tone, "We also cooperate with the platform, so ask them to cooperate and delete that article."

Wang Kai nodded and went to contact the platform's staff. The article was indeed deleted by the platform within an hour on the grounds of "suspected commercial defamation," but the internet has a memory and a chain of dissemination. Before it was deleted, the article had already been screenshotted and forwarded, leaving traces on various platforms.

Moreover, Qin Lang, having spent many years in the internet community in his previous life, had clearly anticipated this. Less than two hours after the article was deleted, he published a new long article titled "Why Can't You See That Article Anymore?"

This time, he recounted how his risk education article, which did not specifically target any company, was deleted, and raised clear questions about whether the entire process complied with the platform's rules of openness and fairness.

After this article was published, even more people paid attention to this matter.

Sitting in the president's office, Zhao Xiangcheng stared coldly at his phone screen when he saw the second article. He glanced at his son in front of him, but his initial irritability had vanished. He skimmed through the article and let out a long sigh.

Although I was a little disappointed that my son hadn't gotten rid of this "bad apple" in time, I was more curious about this "Mr. Liaobei Straight Talk".

In all his years in business, he had never seen a tactic like writing a long essay. His previous rivals either used connections to mediate, engaged in open business competition, or resorted to underhanded sabotage. But this kind of writing was a first for him.

This person doesn't play by the rules at all. Instead of arguing about land ownership or reporting directly to higher authorities, he writes short articles that make everyone start to see if they are being targeted. This kind of subtle approach is more difficult to deal with than a formal complaint because he doesn't actually "report" anyone in the article; he's just "educating" people about the risks.

"Tell me," Zhao Xiangcheng asked his son, "how did you deal with this person?"

Zhao Zhiheng confessed truthfully that he had the person who rented the space to Qin Lang for his studio take it back and had informed everyone else not to rent the space to him again. He also said that he had sabotaged Qin Lang's recruitment plans, leaving him without anyone to hire.

After listening, Zhao Xiangcheng remained silent for a moment, then shook his head and said, "You're oversimplifying things. You think he's just a college student, and that you can just suppress him. But have you considered where all those things he wrote, those data, those analyses came from? A college student who works in animation, how can he be so clear about the financial chains and land logic of the real estate industry? Don't you think that's suspicious?"

Zhao Zhiheng was stunned. He really hadn't thought about this question.

"Sigh... never mind." Zhao Xiangcheng's voice clearly showed his disappointment. "You continue to think of ways to deal with that kid named Qin something Lang. As for Wu Yong and Zhou Ruoyun, you don't have the brains for them."

Zhao Zhiheng pursed his lips, but dared not argue, and could only walk out of the office dejectedly...

At Qin Lang's home.

Wu Xiaoxiao, who was playing on her phone nearby, suddenly looked up with a strange expression. She quickly walked over and handed her phone to Qin Lang. "Brother, look at this."

Qin Lang took the video and saw a short video on the screen titled "A Peking University Student Earns Millions a Month Through Silly Animations? The Truth Is..."

In the video, a young male blogger wearing black-rimmed glasses faces the camera, speaking rapidly and with exaggerated expressions: "Brothers, today I'm going to expose a popular Bilibili UP (content creator) called 'Silly Shrimp.' His real name is Qin Lang, and he's supposedly a student at Liaobei University in Shandong Province. His silly animation, 'Shrimp Cultivation: Starting as a Furnace,' is incredibly popular lately, practically a phenomenon. It's said this work earns Qin Lang millions a month, but did you know? Some of the art style and plot in his animation are very similar to a Japanese manga called 'Gag Manga Biyori.' Take a look and compare them yourselves..."

The video cut between two comparison clips: the left side was a segment from "Shrimp Cultivation," and the right side was a segment from "Gag Manga Biyori." While the two clips do share some similarities in art style and joke design, they are far from plagiarism, and don't even qualify as "coinciding."

Qin Lang frowned slightly after watching the video. It hadn't even been two hours since it was released, yet it had already surpassed 100,000 views. Some people in the comments section were already joining in the criticism.

"That's not surprising; Chinese animation started by copying others."

"Remember how that idiot shrimp tore apart the big V MoG head a while back? How glorious it was! Who knew he was also plagiarizing!"

"They're all the same; all the popular content creators on YouTube have a dark past."

"..."

Xu Han also came over to take a look, his already cold expression turning even colder. "This is blatant extortion!"

Su Yue also spoke up indignantly, "The dry humor of Japanese comics like 'Gag Manga Biyori' is completely different from the Chinese-style silly humor of Lang Ge's 'Shrimp Cultivation.' Trying to force two clips together like that? Is that even allowed?"

Ruan Zhihuan also watched the video and calmly analyzed, "This person's way of speaking doesn't seem like that of an ordinary self-media blogger. He used a lot of inflammatory language, such as 'The truth is actually', 'Do you know', 'Compare for yourselves,' which are typical online smear articles. Someone is pushing this behind the scenes."

Qin Lang nodded; he naturally understood as well. This person posted this kind of opportunistic video the very day after the finale of "Silly Shrimp" went viral and reached third place on the site's charts. Moreover, it garnered 100,000 views within two hours of its release, indicating there must be someone behind it.

He didn't speak, but instead clicked on the video blogger's profile page. This blogger was called "Entertainment Circle Skinflint," and his account had over 300 videos, almost all of which were exposing the "dirt" on various celebrities and internet personalities. He had over 400,000 followers, clearly a professional hater who made a living this way.

These kinds of accounts can be bought with money. You just pay them to hack whoever they want.

Qin Lang handed the phone back to Wu Xiaoxiao, his expression remaining calm, a slight smile playing on his lips. "I never expected that the dignified eldest son of the Zhao family would be playing such childish games..."