chapter 121

Sitting in front of the Lu’s dinner table, Lu BoYang uploaded a video clip that he had recorded stealthily into the chat group and added, “I can’t express it very well. Why don’t you see for yourself?”

After that, the video stirred up thousand-level waves inside the group chat.

Peeking at the conversation between the four fools, Lu BoYang lamented that: I was right. Today, or better yet, lately, the Dark Lord just hasn’t been himself.

Lu BoYang narrowed his eyes and pondered whether he should try to find out more from Zhou Fu.

All of a sudden, Lu BoYang felt a chill down his spine. He looked up abruptly and saw Lu Shao looked at him coldly from across.

“Ahem, Third Uncle?”

“What’s going on?”

“Uh, nothing.”

“Then eat your dinner.”

“Oh.”

The Lu’s house rules had always been strict, almost archaically so. Lu BoYang had thought that now that his grandpa, his dad, and his oldest uncle were gone and that Third Uncle had taken over, all of the conservation values of the Lu’s would be reformed, overthrown even. But, no, not only did that not happened, they had become even more strongly rooted.

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On the other hand, over at Yu LeLe’s Studio.

“Instructor Su, I have ordered take out. Why don’t you have some food before you take off?” said Xu Xiao to Su Ran.

“Thanks, but that won’t be necessary.” Su Ran smiled and turned down his offer. “It’s getting late. I should head back soon.”

That reminded Xu Xiao. This super young master in music has a teenage child.

“Then I shouldn’t keep you any longer. Thank you so much for all your help, Instructor Su.”

“Oh, it’s nothing.” Su Ran felt somewhat awkward about the incident today.

“What happened today was partly my responsibility as well,” said Su Ran apologetically.

“No, no, this is definitely not Instructor Su’s responsibility. Nobody would expect a company like Shengding would so blatantly violate your copyright.” Xu Xiao frowned a little and said, “But, don’t worry too much Instructor Su. I trust that it was just a problem with their management.

“As for our end, we just might even benefit from this incident. At the very minimum, it was a pretty satisfying outcome.” Xu Xiao was almost excited as he said that.

They had arguably won the public opinions over this copyright infringement incident in a landslide.

Besides, that was a lot of publicity for Yu LeLe’s album and the outcome had way exceeded their expectation. Many of the netizens were now looking forward to the release of their album.

Xu Xiao even wanted to @CEO of Shengding, thinking them for “sacrificing” themselves so or such a wonderful most trending list gift package.

“I’m just glad that we are not negatively impacted by this,” said Su Ran as she nodded.

“I do have a favor to ask though, Manager Xu.” Su Ran paused, then added, “There was a video about me that was posted online today. If it’s not too much trouble, can you take care of that for me too while you are cleaning up the public opinions online?”

“Oh, that’s a piece of cake.”

“But.” Looking at Su Ran, Xu Xiao couldn’t help but asked, baffled, “Why do you want that taken care of? The responses toward it seemed to all be very positive. It had greatly increased your visibility to the public. In fact, our studio can even work on another round of advertisement for you too.”

“No, please don’t!”

The entertainment circle was too complicated. She’s neither an actress nor an internet influencer. She was merely selling her music to maintain her daily expenses and improve her quality of life. She did not need to be super well-known or have a lot of followers.

“Please also keep an eye out on Li XiaoXue, the person who uploaded the video, to make sure that she does not become a victim of internet violence,” said Su Ran.

“Okay. No need to worry. I got this.” Xu Xiao reassured her.

Regardless of whether that Li XiaoXue was something that she knew, her being able to upload the video clip during this critical moment and spoke up for them was enough for them to be appreciative.

What’s right and wrong were usually very blurry on the internet. Li XiaoXue, as the person who had uploaded the video, she might very well run into problems such as being targeted by water army or other more radical netizens, or they might even expose her personal information online. It would be necessary to keep an eye out on her.

“Thank you, Manager Xu.”

“Not problem. Why don’t I have Zhang Ling see you out?”