The three people stayed at the headquarters of FlyNews all afternoon. During the period, Tao Mu and Yun Yi very enthusiastically introduced the functions and development status of each department of FlyNews to Li Xiaoheng.

In the evening, Tao Mu took the initiative and treated all employees who worked overtime to eat a takeaway meal from a five-star hotel. Then brought Li Xiaoheng and Yun Yi back to his small apartment opposite Beijing Film.

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"Brother Li said he wants to eat the home-cooked food I made. So I will show off to everyone this evening." Tao Mu took the two to the fresh supermarket outside the community first. When the clerk saw Tao Mu, she immediately greeted him enthusiastically: "Isn't this Xiao Tao, come out to buy groceries again? If you ask me, there are really not many boys like you who are diligent and good at cooking now. If a girl can find someone like you, it would be a blessing cultivated over eight lifetimes. By the way, there is new lamb today, which is very fresh. Would you like to have some?"

Tao Mu smiled and greeted the clerk auntie, then turned to ask Li Xiaoheng and Yun Yi: "Do you all eat mutton? Up for eating lamb spine hot pot?"

Yun Yi was a native of Beijing, and he liked to eat lamb. He would go to Wen Juxiang twice a month to satisfy his craving. Although Li Xiaoheng was also a native of Beijing, he went to country M to study after graduating from high school. After a few years, don't know whether he would still be used to eating mutton.

Li Xiaoheng smiled and said, "I don't usually eat lamb. But I believe in your craftsmanship."

Tao Mu was amused when he heard the words: "Then you can rest assured. My craftsmanship is very good."

Tao Mu was really not bragging about himself, he was also considered to be a direct disciple taught by Mr. Song himself. He was really not afraid of anyone in terms of cooking.

Tao Mu bought ten catties of lamb spine, two catties of mutton leg bones, a large piece of mutton and a lamb chop under the enthusiastic introduction of the clerk auntie. He then went to the seasoning area and bought a lot of seasonings such as black bean sauce, Chinese cinnamon, fennel seed, etc. Then he went to the vegetable area to select a few fresh vegetables, and the three young men each carried two large bags full of ingredients and left the supermarket. Before going upstairs, Tao Mu went to the pharmacy to buy a few large Chinese herbal medicines such as Indian long pepper, Chinese foxglove and Mongolian milkvetch. Only then did they go upstairs with big bags and small bags.

It was the first time Yun Yi came here. After entering the door, he took a turn around in interest, and finally stood in front of the photo wall, letting out the same sigh of emotion as Li Xiaoheng: "Sure enough, Xiao Mu, you were so cute when you were a kid."

Tao Mu cleaned up the ingredients in the kitchen, and said with a smile: "What do you mean cute? That's called handsome. I was very handsome when I was a child. The aunties in the orphanage like me very much. The neighbors also like me. And it was because our old man saw that I was handsome when I was a child, so he wanted to accept me as a direct disciple and even wanted to pass Song Ji to me."

Yun Yi took off his coat and wanted to go into the kitchen to help. But Tao Mu shooed him out: "Look at how small the kitchen is, can it still fit a third person?"

The second person who was washing vegetables in front of the faucet glanced at Yun Yi who was standing at the kitchen entrance with inexplicable pride: Who told you to walk around without occupying favorable terrain when you first entered the house.

Standing at the door of the kitchen, Yun Yi was very embarrassed: "But I can't just let you two do all the work in the kitchen while I watch by the side. That's not good."

"What's not good" Tao Mu said with a smile: "Do you think brother Li can cook? He can only help me wash the vegetables at best. Later, the both of you will go to the living room and sit. Just watch TV and chat. There are fruit drinks, snacks, and beer in the refrigerator. You can eat something casual for now, but don't eat too much, lest you won't be able to fit in dinner later."

Yun Yi's heart moved: "There is still fruit in the refrigerator? How about I go and mix a fruit salad?"

What Tao Mu was going to make was lamb spine hot pot in red soup, as well as grilled lamb chops and braised lamb, which could be said to be half a whole lamb feast. Yun Yi worried that everyone would suffer from excessive internal heat after eating too much mutton, and felt that making a fruit salad or something could reduce the heat. (Excessive internal heat comes from traditional Chinese medicine)

Tao Mu actually thought of this as well, and was planning to make a snow fungus and sweet pear soup and put it in the refrigerator first. But adding a fruit salad as well was also fine.

Yun Yi said again: "I'll help you chop vegetables. Don't look at my mediocre cooking skills, I can still help out with such things."

Tao Mu turned his head and looked at the time, and it was past five o'clock in the evening. He really had to hurry up, otherwise it would be too late: "Okay. Then, brother Li, you can go out first. The three of us really can't turn around in the kitchen. Besides, you just flew back from country M, and you must be tired too. Go lie down for a while and recover from jet lag, we'll eat in a while."

Other than washing vegetables, Li Xiaoheng, who had not acquired any kitchen skills, could only be ostracized from the kitchen. Standing at the door of the kitchen, he calmly looked at Tao Mu and Yun Yi, who cooperated very tacitly, and made up his mind to learn how to cook when he went back home.

It was early winter, and Yun Yi was wearing a white turtleneck sweater. He stood in front of the cutting board, making uniform and even cutting sounds as he cut the vegetables. Tao Mu turned his head and said with a smile: "Brother Yun, you have good knife skills."

Yun Yi smiled slightly: "I am studying surgery, this is basic operations."

Tao Mu looked at the neat row of lotus root slices under Yun Yi's knife, smiled and praised: "People who can use the scalpel are indeed different. The hand is very stable."

Standing at the door of the kitchen, Li Xiaoheng subconsciously looked at his own slender hands: his hands were also very stable when he was trading. The knife should be no problem for him too.

Tao Mu made a lamb spine hot pot, a dish of grilled lamb chops, a dish of red braised lamb, a pot of snow fungus and sweet pear soup, and a dish of steamed lotus root stuffed with sweet-scented osmanthus glutinous rice. Chef Yun Yi also added a fruit salad to the meal.

Though they rushed so quickly, it was already 7:30 in the evening when all the dishes were finally served on the table.

"It's a bit late." Tao Mu scratched his head, raised a can of cold beer and smiled: "After dinner, everyone can only go work out at our respective homes."

"Come, let's all have a toast." Yun Yi also raised his glass: "Thank you, Chef Tao for preparing us such a sumptuous dinner."

"Can't forget everyone else." Tao Mu smiled and toasted: "I am also very grateful to brother Yun and brother Li for your friendly assistance. This meal can be regarded as a welcoming dinner for brother Li."

Li Xiaoheng smiled and clinked glasses with Tao Mu, and then with Yun Yi: "Thank you Xiao Mu for this kind of intention. I accept it."

Yun Yi couldn't wait to clamp a piece of lamb spine and take a bite. In an instant, the rich mutton aroma filled his mouth with a hint of spiciness. Yun Yi's eyes lit up, and he gave Tao Mu a thumbs up: "It's delicious. It's really delicious."

"It must be delicious." Tao Mu was particularly shameless and boasted: "It's my ancestral craftsmanship. There is absolutely no match."

As he said, he used public chopsticks to clamp a piece of lamb spine for Li Xiaoheng, pointed to the plastic gloves on the table and smiled: "Brother Li, please don't be reserved. You must eat lamb spine hot pot with your hands."

Li Xiaoheng put down his chopsticks, put on plastic gloves obediently, and lowered his head to nibble on the piece of lamb spine. The lamb meat was very delicate, tender and plump. It melted in the mouth and was not greasy at all. And though it was obviously spicy, it didn't feel so spicy that it would give you heartburn. On the contrary, it tasted particularly fragrant. With just a bite one could nealy become drunk from it.

In Yun Yi's words, it was the kind of fragrance that could lift the top of one's skull.

The lamb chops were also grilled to the point of perfection. The skin was golden brown and crispy, sprinkled with sesame seeds, cumin seeds, ground chili and pepper, but the inside was very tender and there was not much juice, so it would not feel fatty, but also definitely not too dry. The taste was just right with a slightly burnt aroma. The braised lamb was so fresh that one almost couldn't resist swallowing one's tongue.

Even a person like Li Xiaoheng who didn't eat mutton very much, was surprised to realize that he had eaten at least four or five catties of mutton by the end of the meal. Sure enough, Tao Mu's cooking skills were amazing.

"Sure enough, you are all carnivores." Tao Mu looked at the remaining half of the steamed lotus root stuffed with sweet-scented osmanthus glutinous rice and the fruit salad that hadn't been touched much. Instantly, he didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "All the meat is gone but you leave behind the vegetable dishes. The contrast is a bit tragic."

Yun Yi couldn't help laughing: "It's okay. I am on duty at night. If you are worried about it wasting, I can pack up the leftovers and take it with me. Anyway, I will be hungry by the middle of the night."

"You not only eat a lot, you even want to pack up the rest with you." Tao Mu deliberately put on an incredulous appearance: "Big brother Yun, you are too much!"

Li Xiaoheng touched his extended, faintly swollen belly, and blinked his eyes inexplicably. It seemed that he ate the most of this meal.

Will Tao Mu dislike him?

Tao Mu didn't mean to complain about the two bigwigs. After eating and drinking, he seemed to inadvertently put forward a topic he had prepared for a long time: "Hey, I say, if you two partner together, how about doing a Sky Eye project?"

"Sky Eye?" Yun Yi and Li Xiaoheng looked at each other, wondering what Tao Mu was selling.

"It's the inspiration given to me by Yun Duo's experience in H Town." Tao Mu toughened his skin and shamelessly spoke in front of the two tycoons who created Sky Eye Technology in the previous life: "…..just want to create a nationwide surveillance system software, plus face recognition system….."

Tao Mu explained a little bit about the main operating projects of the future Sky Eye Technology in front of the two bigwigs. He even wrote a detailed and comprehensive plan and handed it to the two big bosses.

It seemed that there was indeed destiny, and when Yun Yi saw this plan he unconsciously felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity rushing over him.

Tao Mu smiled and said to Yun Yi: "Big brother Yun, haven't you been learning programming on your own recently. I think you will definitely be interested in this project. The technology shall depend on you~"

Yun Yi was startled instantly: "I have been learning programming for less than two months. Aren't you too optimistic towards me?"

"Believe in yourself, you can do it." Tao Mu was confident about the future richest man, and he did not allow Yun Yi to doubt himself: "Anyway, we have time so don't worry."

Yun Yi looked at Tao Mu blankly: Bro, you know that you are spoiling things through excessive enthusiasm, do you?

Classmate Tao Mu, who finally returned the business plan to its rightful owner, was feeling pleased and refreshed, and expressed casually: "I believe in your strength, big brother Yun Yi. This little problem will definitely not trouble you."

He then asked Li Xiaoheng again: "If big brother Yun really made this technology, would you like to invest in his project?"

When it came to work, Li Xiaoheng considered it very seriously, and solemnly said: "Very likely. The development prospects of this project are very good, and it is also of a public welfare nature. Once it is done, whether it is a return on income or a word-of-mouth publicity to the company, it will all be very impressive."

Tao Mu was immediately satisfied: "I knew you two would hit it off right away. Sure enough, there is a tacit understanding."

What do you mean?

Yun Yi and Li Xiaoheng looked at each other with question marks. They didn't understand Tao Mu's thinking at all.

Tao Mu, however, presented a cool and unrestrained manner of "flicking one's clothes and retreating after accomplishment". Before, because he successfully rescued Yun Duo and her friends, he almost butterflied away Yun Yi's future of becoming the richest man.

Although Tao Mu never regretted what he had done, every time he faced Yun Yi, he would inevitably feel a little guilty. As if he had accidentally changed a person's future.

If this kind of change developed in a good direction—for example, Gou Rixin, Tao Mu was naturally happy. But if it was Yun Yi, Tao Mu couldn't be sure whether his change was good or bad, and so this would inevitably make him feel a little uncomfortable.

But it was all right now. No matter what Yun Yi chose to do in the future, he had put the second possibility in front of Yun Yi. Even if Yun Yi still felt that being a cardiologist was happier than being the richest man, Tao Mu would have no regrets. By now, he regarded Yun Yi as his good friend and no longer had the mentality of holding on to a golden thigh, so his mindset naturally changed.

He now had FlyNews, and he was also cooperating with Li Xiaoheng to short international crude oil. After the international crude oil turmoil came to an end, he had completed the accumulation of his startup funds and he still had ten years of future knowledge to invest in various emerging companies and shoot various movies and TV shows with small costs and big returns. He could completely rely on his own efforts to become a new capitalist bigwig and technology tycoon.

Like a young seedling struggling to grow into a towering tree in the midst of a storm, like a fledgling bird that was struggling to grow into an eagle, Tao Mu ambitiously accumulated strength and capital.

He felt that even if his relatives and friends preferred a life of peace and average prosperity, he could still strive to become a big tree and eagle that sheltered the wind and rain for them. When the storm approached, he would open his arms and protect all his relatives and friends under his wings.

He will make up for the regrets of the previous life and cherish those who treated him sincerely.

Perhaps this was what he should do the most after being reborn.

Thinking about it this way, Tao Mu slept especially soundly that night. It was a pity that this good mood was broken the next day—

After more than two months of selection, the National School Beauty And School Hunk Competition finally ushered in the finals on December 12th. After more than one hundred players had gone through multiple rounds of elimination and withdrawing from the competition, only four male and female contestants were left. Among the eight people, the final winners of the National School Hunk and National School Beauty were Gu Xun, a senior from Beijing Film, and Chu Zi, a junior from Yan Film respectively.

Of these two people, one was a newcomer who won the Golden Crow Award for Best Actor in the first movie he acted in, while the other was a popular starlet who became popular overnight with a costume idol drama. The selection of these two could be said to have been well-received.

However, after the notary invited by the program crew announced the total number of netizens' votes. Because of Shen Yu's loss, Shen Yu's fans broke out with great dissatisfaction. They left messages online questioning the fairness of the voting process. Thinking that the program crew must have acted unfairly due to Tao Mu's attitude, causing Shen Yu to lose his win.

—After all, during the show, Shen Yu complained in front of the media that Tao Mu was not good to him, which once caused netizens to criticize Tao Mu himself.

Shen Yu's brainless fans believed that Tao Mu must be retaliating. Otherwise, it didn't make sense that their beloved little prince would lose to that ugly Beijing Film student in the voting session. (Beijing Film senior: blame me for not having an idol face!) A large group of brainless fans commented on the Internet, and accused Tao Mu of using the National School Hunk title as a favor everywhere they could, deliberately favoring Beijing Film, and using the championship to please his senior.

Some remarks even spread over on the hot search of Weibo next door. A lot of gossip media also followed the trend with reports that only added fuel to the fire. Some netizens who didn't know the truth were immediately led by the nose. Even the other two male contestants who entered the finals together had a lot of criticism. Subtly implying that the program crew might have been influenced by a certain someone—

After all, the two contestants who won the champion title of Nation School Beauty and National School Hunk could have their pick either to sign with Longteng Entertainment or Summer Star Entertainment, and could also make direct debuts in idol dramas under the company's arrangement. This kind of treatment was definitely something to inspire extreme jealousy for contestants who were interested in entering the entertainment circle.

In such a jealous state of mind, these young boys and girls became affected by the outside world, so it was reasonable that they would blurt out something rashly.

The program crew saw this bad trend, and had to call Tao Mu to ask what to do next.

Tao Mu…..Tao Mu was also particularly speechless!

Sure enough, this group of people indeed had grudges with him in the previous life, and they won't let him live a single good day!

Tao Mu went directly back to the headquarters of FlyNews and signaled the technical department to directly send screenshots of each contestant's voting data to the official FlyNews of the National School Beauty School Hunk Selection Contest.

—Generally speaking, the organizer of contestant shows would never publicly disclose the detailed data of the backstage voting of the contestants. Because most of the contestant shows were definitely tampered with in the voting session, the officially supported contestants and the contestants supported by the investors would have their votes counted up to ensure that they would not be eliminated in the PK session. Or in other words, contestants who refused to sign with the show organizers must be voted out in the PK session to prevent these disobedient contestants from getting better results and squeezing away the resources of their own signed contestants.

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But Tao Mu had no such demand. The fundamental purpose of his holding this contestant show was to promote FlyNews. What he cared about was the increase in the number of registered users on FlyNews during the entire competition. As for who would win the crown of National School Beauty and Hunk, Tao Mu did not care at all.

Therefore, as there was no desire on his part, naturally he could be as tough as he wanted. Tao Mu dared to directly send out the detailed voting data of the voting session because he dared to guarantee that FlyNews, the organizer, did not tamper with the results. As for whether certain contestants tampered with their own votes during the voting period, whether the background data made public by FlyNews would have any influence on them, that was not in Tao Mu's consideration.

After making public the voting data on the official FlyNews account of the National School Beauty School Hunk Selection Contest, Tao Mu called DB Accounting Firm again. Early on Tao Mu had hired the DB audit team and people from Beijing Notary Office to do notarization for the National School Beauty School Hunk Contest.

The back-end data released by Tao Mu plus the triple clarifications by notaries and auditors could definitely prove the innocence of FlyNews to all netizens who were concerned about this matter.

However, Tao Mu was surprised that at the same time when he asked the technical department to call up the background voting data and upload screenshots to the official FlyNews account of the program crew, Shen Yu actually held a press conference on behalf of FlyNews.

"…..I don't think Tao Mu will be the kind of person who takes advantage of the public for personal gain and uses power for personal gain. I also don't believe that FlyNews will deliberately interfere with the voting process of the finals under Tao Mu's order. And I think the one who won the national school hunk title, Contestant Gu Xun, is very good. Although Gu Xun is not as handsome as me, he has a lot of talents. He won the best actor award in the 2007 Golden Crow Awards. He is a senior I admire very much. I hope my fans won't doubt that this excellent person has used any inappropriate means just because someone is better than me. After all, there are many better people in the world than me….."

Shen Yu's statement was as always subjective. However, it seemed that someone helped write the PR draft. Although this statement had a strong Shen Yu style throughout, there were not as many rant points. Irrelevant netizens would have nothing to complain about after hearing it, at most they would think Shen Yu was inexplicably self-confident, but Shen Yu being able to frankly express his self-confidence was also quite a cute quality.

Even after Gu Xun's fans and movie fans saw this statement, they also felt that although Shen Yu spoke in a ridiculous way, he was at least sober when faced with major events. At least he was not the kind of person who maliciously speculated on others and didn't like to see others do well for themselves so maliciously spread rumors.

Shen Yu's press conference was held at nine o'clock in the morning. Tao Mu asked FlyNews' technical department to call up a screenshot of the background data and send it to the front at 9:30 in the morning. Because there were as many as tens of millions of netizens participating in the voting session, it took more than six hours for FlyNews to upload all the data. The statement of the notary office and the audit office was posted at six o'clock in the afternoon. It happened to be the best time for students and office workers to eat melon as both groups got off school or work hours.

Many netizens who questioned the fairness of the program crew in the voting process were actually just questioning it by habit. After all, there have been so many Chinese talent shows in recent years, and almost every talent show would be questioned by netizens and fans during the voting session. But none of the program crews would stand up after the fact to face the doubts of netizens and fans and make any clarifications. Most of the time things would just be left as it is to fade away.

Netizens were also used to it. After all, this competition was held by others, and they could play however they wanted. As for fairness, unfairness, justness, and unjustness, in fact, outsiders didn't really have any say. Other platforms put out real money to host shows, and naturally they want to support the people they want. Refusing to sign a contract with the platform and still accusing the platform of being unfair and not letting you play. How should one say this, if not for the platform, you wouldn't even be able to have a place to show your face, right?

China's people have been nurtured by the doctrine of the mean since they were young, and they were always accustomed to glossing things over in situations (TN: the Doctrine of the Mean, one of the Four Books). There were a lot of people who commented on anything with the attitude of people with more experience. At the end, they would sigh, "crows everywhere are equally black", which in this way they seemed to think would prove that they were very wise (TN: an analogy that no matter where the exploiters and oppressors are, they are just as bad).

However, FlyNews did not follow the routine. Aren't you questioning? Then I will face your doubts openly. I will directly post the background data for public view. Those who questioned should investigate by themselves. Don't worry, just patiently count one by one, and use your IP data and mobile phone number to find your votes, and see if your votes are correct!

In order to let all netizens understand this part of the background data, the FlyNews Network Technology Department also very kindly uploaded an article, "Instructions for Verification", on the official account of the program crew to teach netizens how to understand the background data.

No one thought that FlyNews would have such a tough attitude.

There was no deliberately digressing from the topic, no pretending to be deaf, and there was no settling the matter by leaving it unsettled. Instead they so brazenly shot back at the rumors. As a result, many netizens who wanted to show off their wisdom and prove once again that "crows everywhere are equally black" could only feel their faces echoing with "pa pa" sounds.

—It was all the sounds of slaps on the face.

This attitude was too damn tough!

Although they have not counted the voting data one by one, and could not even understand the background data all that clearly, many netizens who questioned FlyNews immediately dispelled their doubts and quickly completed the anti-to-fan and passerby-to-fan conversion process.

"Of all social platforms I am only convinced by FlyNews. Mr. Tao is too tough. As expected, he is a man I like."

"Upstairs, please have some shame, CEO Tao belongs to all of us."

"I want to ask! I want to ask! There are so many talent shows in China! Which one can achieve the level of FlyNews! Aren't you all questioning me? I will directly upload the background data! Let you group of grandsons count them one by one! If you have the ability, you can count tens of millions of pieces of data one by one!"

"From the exclamation mark from upstairs, it can be concluded that you are a friendly army!"

The actions of FlyNews were like a drop of cold water falling into a hot oil pan, instantly stirring up waves. All netizens immediately boiled in excitement. They flooded into the official account of FlyNews, and all kinds of expressions of love were not enough to express their excitement at this moment.

There was an old saying in China "the youth is strong, the country is strong." Don't underestimate young people. Although today's young people did not have the power to fight the world, every teenager with second year middle school syndrome had a heart to fight the world and change the world.

Although the coldness of reality would eventually chip away at the ambitions of these young people bit by bit. But certain ideals or dreams would always be hidden deep in the heart. Like volcanic magma covered in frost. Normally, it was fine but once it encountered some kind of turning point, it would explode out in a flagrant manner.

FlyNews so brazenly challenging the rumors was this turning point.

—I can't be absolutely fair, and I don't even dare to expect it. But someone did it, and to some extent, this person also represents "authority." Then this person or this platform would undoubtedly become a hero in everyone's mind.

People in the world admire the strong, if the party representing the "authority" could still be relatively fair, for the weak who hoped the strong would stand up for them, the effect was simply like exploding fire and lightning, a meteor hitting the earth.

On this day, don't know how many people directly turned into diehard fans of FlyNews and Tao Mu. Teenage boys and girls were extremely prone to incitement. What was more, under this kind of rollercoasting emotions, the entire China Internet was about to blow up the roof.

The public was stirred up and excited, everyone was discussing this move by FlyNews. Fans were going around recruiting laborers to check the data, and the mindset to check the data was no longer out of questioning and suspicion. In fact, these people subconsciously believed in the absolute innocence of FlyNews.

And the reason why they continued to recruit people to count the data was just to transform themselves from witnesses of history to participants. Not only fans, but also many melon eating netizens also began to find ways to smooth the vast sea of numerous data.

Some engineering students of mathematics or computer science made various programs that could help filter the data of each contestant. There were also people who recommended themselves and applied for a job privately with the official account of FlyNews. There were even many teachers of marketing and crisis public relations who directly took this move of FlyNews to the classroom to explain and analyze.

All news media were discussing the behavior of FlyNews. Even the social section began to cite this matter to discuss the topic of "resources and fairness".

Tao Mu's casual act of self-evident innocence caused a social hot spot. This was something he didn't even think of. As a result, the registered users on FlyNews started a blowout-like rise.

Advertisers who had hesitated because more than a dozen media broke the news about Tao Mu's scandal before now swarmed over, waving banknotes and wanting to cooperate with and . This time the party with speaking power became FlyNews. People who had possession over resources could naturally sit back and raise the price. Meng Qi simply held an advertising bidding meeting. In the end, the sponsorship fee for the sponsor title of was as high as 80 million. In the same year, the highest sponsorship fee paid for CCTV was only 300 million.

However, in addition to the fact that FlyNews' actions have allowed it to gain higher praise in society, greater sensation, more registered users and 80 million worth of sponsorship fees, it also attracted some criticisms from its industry peers.

—Most of them were also the organizers of contestant shows. They felt that the high-profile behavior of FlyNews made it difficult for some peers.

You may have no desire, so you can put on a tough attitude and just publish the background voting data without fear. But we can't do that. Now, fans of many contestants have come to their official websites to demand fairness and disclosure. Say, you tell me, what can be done now?

Causing all of us contestant shows to lose credibility. If a contestant show did not even have credibility, then what was the point in playing? Next year when they hold another talent show, would there even be any contestants signing up for it?

Meng Qi, who was in charge of FlyNews Entertainment, said shamelessly: This is actually easy to handle. You can also cooperate with FlyNews!

Live broadcast or rebroadcast your talent show on . Let some netizens choose to vote online. I believe someone will watch it~

Peers who made accusations: "….." I have seen shameless people, but I have never seen such shameless people before.

But what amused Tao Mu even more was that just when FlyNews received various praises and benefits for disclosing its back-end data, some netizens who had been immersed in straightening out the voting data spoke out.

Some netizens who specially made a software to screen each vote in order to smooth the voting data raised doubts that the voting data of some contestants was indeed a bit abnormal.

A large number of votes suddenly broke out in a certain period of time. Of all only proxy IPs were used. After tracking, it was shown that all proxy IPs belonged to the same region. The number of abnormal votes was probably between 100,000 and 200,000.

After a bit of verification, this netizen, who did not hesitate to make a software to smooth the data, said in a conclusive statement: Sure enough, someone tampered with the votes in the voting session.

However, the contestants who tampered with their votes were not Gu Xun and Chu Zi, who won the National School Hunk and Beauty respectively, nor was it Shen Yu who bounced around the most. It was the other two male contestants who entered the finals who hinted to reporters during interviews that FlyNews might be problematic.

As soon as this conclusion came out, the netizens who were still eating melon suddenly blew up—

"No wonder the two contestants spoke so convincingly. It turns out that they have their own problems!"

"Do they think they should win the championship after tampering with their votes? And if they don't win, then there is a problem with the website?"

"Only adding a hundred or two hundred thousand votes, they really underestimated the power of the public."

"I'm dying from laughter. If it weren't for this group of people bouncing around, FlyNews would not directly upload the background data. If they didn't upload the background data, no one would know their secret tampering with the votes. Now could this be counted as shooting themselves in the foot?"

"After tampering with the votes, and yet still didn't win the championship, and couldn't even overwhelm the votes of brain-disabled little prince Shen Yu. Does this mean that people who are too ugly cannot even be saved by RMB?"

"I want to know what these two contestants are feeling now."

"Weren't you bouncing around so happily before. Weren't you quite willing to accept interviews. Won't you accept one more~"

On the other side, Tao Mu, who was now feeling refreshed, received a call from Yao Shengan again.

Yao Shengan didn't expect things to become like this at first.

Yao Wenxiao was detained by the police for fifteen days for hiring thugs. Yao Shengan originally thought that as the chairman of the Sheng'an Group, he could easily release his grandson on bail. But the result, it was discovered at the police station that the police refused Yao Shengan's bail offer on the grounds that the incident of Yao Wenxiao hiring thugs to beat people was fermented too quickly on the Internet, was paid attention to by too many news media, and caused too much bad influence. Yao Wenxiao must stay in the detention center for fifteen days. Family members were not allowed to visit during this period.

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Yao Shengan knew that Yao Wenxiao had been pampered since he was a child, and was worried that his precious grandson would not be able to bear the suffering, so he asked the lawyer to find a solution as soon as possible.

However, although Sheng'an Group was the leading catering industry in Shanghai, it had no influence in Beijing. What was more, Yao Wenxiao's case was personally reported by the Li family's eldest son. The so-called strong dragon could not suppress the local snake, Yao Shengan visited and asked around the contacts he had in Beijing, even begging some business partners with their company's headquarters in Beijing, but ultimately failed to get Yao Wenxiao out in advance.

As a last resort, Yao Shengan had to call Tao Mu, saying a bunch of things that made people feel tired after hearing them, and even the ears would grow callus: "…..Anyone can make mistakes, so one must forgive them when possible. CEO Tao's decisive means, this old man has witnessed it now. Today I will give up this old face, and ask you to please let Wen Xiao go. If you agree, I will immediately return to Shanghai with Wen Xiao and not set even half a foot in the capital. The old things in the past, we can both write off. From now on, Wen Xiao and you Tao Mu will naturally not have any contact. I will no longer pursue you for deliberately digging holes to frame Wen Xiao."

Yao Shengan was old and cunning, and he could naturally see that on the matter of Yao Wenxiao bribing the media to smear Tao Mu, Liu Yao had already set a trap in advance. In his opinion, Yao Wenxiao being unable to bear the moment of anger after learning the truth, and found someone to teach that Da Hui a lesson was just an act of a hotblooded young man. Although acting impulsively, it was excusable.

As for Liu Yao and Tao Mu themselves, Yao Shengan had never given them much regard. In fact, if it were not for the existence of Li Xiaoheng and the Li family, Yao Shengan would not even let Tao Mu go so easily.

In his opinion, even if Tao Mu knew about his old affairs with the Song family, what could he do? This world had always adhered to the belief that "a general achieves greatness over ten thousand withered bones." The Song family fell because there was no one capable in the Song family. He, Yao Shengan, could reach this day with his ability, and he could start from scratch to create the huge Sheng'an Group so naturally he was not afraid of gossip.

Therefore, even if Tao Mu directly exposed the old affairs between him and the Song family on FlyNews, in Yao Shengan's view, it was just to provide some after-dinner chats for those little common people. Being criticized would not make him lose his skin, and it would not affect the status of Sheng'an Group in the industry.

As for Li Xiaoheng's threat, although it was a bit troublesome. But that said, for those like him who do business in the industry, the stock market was just the icing on the cake. So long as the company was running well and the stock price did not fluctuate much, it would not affect the actual operation of the company.

What was more, no one could say what exactly Li Xiaoheng could do for Tao Mu. After all, the two were just business partners who had known each other for less than half a year. How much was the friendship worth if they haven't even seen each other a few times? The businessman highly valued profit, and anyone could give vernacular support by making a few empty words. When things happen, Li Xiaoheng might not be willing to come up with real money to fight him.

Yao Shengan used his own mindset to judge others, so naturally he had no fear. So when he faced Tao Mu, he didn't conceal his sense of superiority in using his strength to bully the weak. Even if he was calling to ask for a truce, he would not bow his head. In his words, it was very clear that he was making threats and promises, taking advantage of Tao Mu for his youth and lower capital to bully him.

If Tao Mu was really 18 years old, towards Yao Shengan's attitude, he very well might be extremely pissed off. Unfortunately he was not.

"What does Mr. Yao mean by this?" Tao Mu pretended to ask in confusion: "Yao Wenxiao hired thugs to beat someone and violated the law and order punishment regulations and was detained by the police in accordance with the law. Although I think this result is very pleasing, in this matter it is really not something I can control. I'm different from your Yao family. Your Yao family relies on your family's big business and can do everything and dare to do everything regardless of laws and regulations. I, Tao Mu, am a small commoner. I have to be law-abiding and conscientious. I really don't understand what you meant by making this call today?"

Yao Shengan sneered after hearing this: "Surnamed Tao, I advise you to not take it too far. Don't be ungrateful. Do you really think that Li Xiaoheng can protect you for the rest of your life?"

"I don't understand these words of yours even more." Tao Mu still smiled, unashamedly pissing off the other: "I walk upright and sit upright and never do things that violate the law and order. Naturally, there is no need for anyone to protect me. Mr. Yao, if you have any methods, then you can go ahead and use it. But I would advise you here, you are already old, so your thinking and actions are inevitably old school. But if you are still thinking about using that old set of methods to ruin people, it will not work now."

This was the first time Tao Mu mentioned his grudges with Song Ji in front of Yao Shengan. Yao Shengan's expression sank: "Why, do you think you can stand up for the Song family with just your ability?"

"So what if I do?" Tao Mu responded tit-for-tat: "Mr. Yao has committed so many shameful deeds, yet you can sit back and relax. The Song family can't. The Song family's many lives will not agree. Since I have recognized Mr. Song as my grandfather, this blood debt of the Song family will naturally be taken up by me."

"Very good." Yao Shengan laughed in anger: "I want to see, just how do you plan to stand up for the Song family, and how can you stand up for the Song family?"

The two ended the call in disagreement.

Tao Mu hung up the phone, turned around and went to class. After class, he went to the next-door broadcasting and hosting department, and begged the professor to help him find a dubbing that met the requirements. In addition, Tao Mu also wanted to find a teacher with a profound cultural heritage to help write the script for the food show "Life in the City: Food for the People".

Tao Mu started creating FlyNews as soon as he enrolled in school. Now this seemingly small site was getting bigger and bigger. As the founder, Tao Mu naturally received different treatment from the teachers and students.

What was more, even though Tao Mu's business was becoming bigger, he never missed class or asked for leave, and his performance in the courses of his major was even more outstanding. A universal truth in the education field was that all teachers like hard-working and high-achieving students. Tao Mu met this standard no matter how one looked at it.

Of course, the teachers who appreciate Tao Mu's student ethics were willing to help Tao Mu solve problems. But when the professor of the drama department took over the program planning book written by Tao Mu and read it from the beginning, he suddenly became a little confused: "Is this a drama script or a program plan? Do you want to make a TV series or a food show?"

"I just want to make a food show similar to a reality show documentary."

In Tao Mu's planning book, this program revolved around Song Ji, which was opened in the Houhai neighborhood. The work of the program crew was to follow the daily life of Mr. Song, get up early to buy food, open the restaurant, cook the ingredients while telling the historical origin of each dish, what kind of story each dish had in history, and then extend it to the restaurant's guests, what kind of stories each guest had when they ate this dish, and even tell the stories of the neighbors in the neighborhood. And then finally bring the main theme to the owner of the restaurant, Mr. Song, and draw out the story of Mr. Song.

In Tao Mu's setup, this food show could be made in the form of a unit drama. The reason why Tao Mu did this was to make more viewers feel connected. In this way, when he called on netizens to boycott the hotels under the Sheng'an Group, he could arouse more people's support.

Of course, this part of the plan would definitely not be written in the planning book for others to see.

"Your project is a bit big." With his professional sensitivity, the professor of the drama department immediately realized Tao Mu's ambitious plans: "You want to make a food show with emotions and heritage. Then you need more than just narration and copywriting, you still need screenwriters and actors."

Tao Mu frowned and said seriously: "I haven't thought about using professional actors. I think it would be more realistic to let the show crew film the stories of the diners. If professional actors are used in the role, the audience will see those familiar faces and will not have such a strong sense of connection."

"But ordinary diners don't have enough expressive power in front of the camera. Can they shoot the feeling you want?" The drama professor was very interested in Tao Mu's plan: "I think you can cooperate with the school. You can let your senior brothers and sisters appear on the show. They are professional actors and have received professional training, but they don't have much experience in acting. They are fully in line with your needs."

The drama professor seemed to be able to see Tao Mu's concerns and added: "As for the sense of reality and connection you want, we can use the documentary method to shoot this show. You mentioned reality show, right? We use the diners' stories and allow some real diners to appear on the scene, and you can make a statement afterwards that this show is completely adapted from real people. I don't think it will affect the audience's sense of connection too much. After all, you have to consider that emotional expression is also part of the sense of connection invoked in the audience."

Tao Mu pondered thoughtfully. The drama professor also didn't force it: "How about this. You can go back and think about it. On my side, I will help you contact the broadcasting side and copywriting. According to your requirements, ordinary teachers will definitely not be able to do this job. I will find a way to help you contact Mr. Bai Anbai, who used to be the host of the National Channel. His voice is very mellow, and his vicissitudes should meet your requirements for the atmosphere of this show. As for the copywriting, I can help introduce you to Pu Lincang, Teacher Pu. He once wrote a series of essays on Beijing street food. His writing style should be able to meet your needs, right?"

Tao Mu was overjoyed and nodded again and again: "Definitely. Thank you, Professor Cen."

Cen Wen waved his hand and smiled: "You are welcome. Helping students solve problems is what we should do as teachers."

Tao Mu smiled shyly. After coming out of Professor Cen's office, Tao Mu received a call from Meng Qi: "…..The Internet Observer wants to interview me?"

The "Internet Observer" was a well-known journal in China's Internet industry. As the name suggests, it liked to interpret the development of China's Internet industry from the perspective of Internet development, and thus extend to the development of China's business and economy. Because the content of their reports tend to be commercial and entertaining, it was much loved by readers. It could be said to be a weekly popular science magazine with a relatively wide range of influence.

Tao Mu thought about it for a while and felt that accepting an interview with the "Internet Observer" would also help FlyNews' publicity, so he immediately agreed.

Considering Tao Mu's student status, the "Internet Observer" thoughtfully scheduled the interview at six o'clock in the evening, at the headquarters of FlyNews.

Before starting the interview, the reporter of the "Internet Observer" also obtained the consent of Tao Mu to take a tour around the headquarters of FlyNews and interviewed the workers in working areas except the technical department and other confidential departments under the name of "increasing the publicity for your recruitment pitches."

Because FlyNews had its own big killer weapon, FlyNews Entertainment, and the lessons learned from more than a dozen colleagues who had discredited Tao Mu, the Internet Observer's attitude was very friendly from the beginning. The interview process that followed was naturally a pleasant one.

At the end of the interview, reporters from the "Internet Observer" said that they also wanted to record a little bit of footage and asked some light-hearted questions. Most of the questions were asked by netizens they collected on the Internet.

"Do you have a girlfriend, Tao Mu?"

Tao Mu laughed: "No."

"Then what is your ideal girlfriend?"

Tao Mu continued to laugh: "I don't have any ideals."

The female reporter of the "Internet Observer" also laughed: "How can it not be possible, you don't have to be shy."

"Really not." Tao Mu shook his head. He liked men and naturally did not have ideals for girlfriends: "I just don't think that you should limit yourself too much on this kind of thing. When fate has arrived, you will naturally know that it is that person. Say, if you set a lot of conditions in advance, but the person you meet is different from what you described, then what do you do?"

The female reporter of the "Internet Observer" suddenly laughed: "CEO Tao, you are so devious."

"This is not a question of devious or not devious." Tao Mu smiled and offered the single dogs among the public advice: "This is the desire to survive, okay? What if the person you like is particularly jealous? So don't make trouble for yourself beforehand….."

"Well alright then, one last question." The female reporter recited from a card: "Some netizens reported that FlyNews chose to take a screenshot and publish the background data when facing some fans' doubts about the voting part of the finals of the National School Beauty and Hunk Contest. For an Internet company, we all know that there is no need for FlyNews to do this. Or put it in another way, you had more choices at the time, such as making a form, or uploading background data in text form. You didn't need to take a screenshot directly. So why did you do this?"

"Why?" Tao Mu rubbed his chin with his slender fingers, pondered for a moment, and said solemnly: "That is, we all know that questioning and arguing have always been an important driving force for the advancement of human society. I am not against questioning, in fact. I understand why netizens questioned this matter. But how to say, you can't just make a question and that's it. After you have questioned, you have to learn to verify. How to verify? Naturally, verify from the source. I think whether it's star chasing or whatever, if you chase anything, the final result is not only the truth, but also what you can get from it. I asked the technical department to directly take screenshots and publish the background data, and I also asked them to post a tutorial. So you see, some of the netizens who questioned the matter have now learned how to read back-end data, and some even learned coding by themselves and how to check IP. Isn't that good?"

"So Mr. Tao's reason for doing this is because you hope that more questioning netizens can learn how to trace to the origins?" The female reporter of the "Internet Observer" held back a smile. She felt Tao Mu was really fun. This naked revenge mentality could actually be put in such a righteous way: "Isn't it really because you were angry that those netizens questioned you, so you deliberately threw out backstage screenshots in an attempt to look down on the IQ of those questioning netizens?"

"Eh, how can you say that, little big sister?" Tao Mu was immediately indignant, and his slender fingers tapped in mid air at the 28-year-old head female reporter of the Internet Observer: "You can't slander people like that. Am I such a petty and vengeful person to you?"

The term "little big sister" made the female reporter burst into infatuated giggles, and the interview ended in a harmonious atmosphere. Tao Mu got up and saw off the people from the "Internet Observer". At the front doors, he received a call from the boss of Weibo.

"Have you been adopted before? When you were five years old, did your adoptive parents send you back to the orphanage in the name of you having secretly abused your younger brother behind their backs?" Gao Yonghuai said straightforwardly and concisely: "You be careful. I have received the news that someone wants to discredit you on this matter."

Gao Yonghuai made this phone call to Tao Mu because in addition to whistleblowing, he naturally had a little bit of gossipy interest.

The development momentum of FlyNews had been too strong recently, and Tao Mu was not pleasing to everyone in the industry. Some were just waiting for Tao Mu to trip up and faceplant.

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However, it was going a bit overboard to make a fuss about one's background. Not to mention that Tao Mu was only five years old. Even if there was something wrong, one remark "children do not understand" could turn the situation around. So even if Gao Yonghuai heard the news, he just felt that the methods of the perpetrator behind the scenes were too dark and ruthless, and Tao Mu was a bit unlucky with little villains recently. He didn't have any thoughts of throwing stones at Tao Mu however.

Of course, it was a good show to see the young and successful CEO Tao in a headache when he was feeling idle.

"It seems that CEO Tao has come across an unlucky spot and offended a villain." On the other end of the phone, Gao Yonghuai suggested in a leisurely manner: "I heard that the incense in the Great Buddha Temple is very good. CEO Tao might want to burn incense and pray to Buddha to get rid of the bad luck?"

"Many thanks to CEO Gao for the suggestion, I will consider it." After putting down the phone, Tao Mu rubbed his face weakly.

"What's wrong?" Meng Qi walked to Tao Mu and patted Tao Mu on the shoulder: "Whose call was it?"

"CEO Gao from Weibo." Tao Mu glanced at the FlyNews employees around him, and smiled bitterly: "Let's go back and talk about it later."

Meng Qi saw that Tao Mu's mood was not good, and immediately took Tao Mu home.

On the way back, Tao Mu closed his eyes and leaned against the window of the co-pilot seat. The flickering neon lights outside the window shone on his face, and the radiant light and shadow casted his outline deeper.

Tao Mu recalled his situation before the age of five.

He told Li Xiaoheng that he had a high fever when he was five years old, and he couldn't remember the past.

Actually it was not true.

Tao Mu still had a little impression of things before the age of five. He vaguely remembered that his adoptive parents had treated him well.

Tao Mu's adoptive parents were an infertile couple. Dean Tao said that at that time Tao Mu had just been sent to the orphanage. Because he was good-looking, he didn't like to cry, and he was still a young child, many couples wanted to adopt him. Dean Tao thought carefully and finally handed Tao Mu to his adoptive parents. She felt that this couple could give Tao Mu a normal family environment and let Tao Mu grow up healthy.

The development was also as Dean Tao expected. After the couple adopted Tao Mu, they were very kind to Tao Mu. At least Tao Mu didn't know that he was not the biological child of his parents before he was five years old. Only occasionally, when Tao Mu was playing with the neighbors' children in the neighborhood, he could always hear the neighboring aunts talking with his parents that the child they picked up was quite smart. Tao Mu went back and asked his parents what was a picked up child? His adoptive parents put their arms around Tao Mu and said that he was a child picked up from the garbage dump.

Later, Tao Mu asked other friends in the neighborhood and found that everyone had been picked up from the garbage dump.

Four years of good days passed. The couple who adopted Tao Mu also happened to have the surname Tao, so they didn't change Tao Mu's name. They only gave him a nickname called Xiao Bao. It meant mom and dad's little treasure.

It was a pity that an adopted child won't ever compare to a biological child. Probably in the summer of the fourth year of adopting him, Tao Mu's adoptive mother accidentally discovered that she was pregnant. This surprise made his adoptive father and mother especially happy, and Tao Mu was also happy. He actually liked children very much and hoped that his parents would give him a younger brother.

But soon, the attitude of his adoptive father and mother towards Tao Mu changed. The couple who once regarded Tao Mu as their own son and held him preciously in the palm of their hands began to feel dislike towards Tao Mu. They began to complain that he was too noisy and annoying. They would push him around and hit him once or twice at every turn, and never hugged him anymore.

Tao Mu didn't know what was going on at that time, only knew that his parents hated his naughtiness and didn't like him, so he didn't dare to make a noise or make a fuss. However, now his adoptive parents felt that it was not a good thing that Tao Mu had such a gloomy temperament at such a young age.

After his younger brother was born, his adoptive mother guarded against him more and more. Tao Mu vaguely remembered that his adoptive mother refused to let him into the bedroom for fear that he would hurt his younger brother. So Tao Mu would lean on the window outside the bedroom, his face pressed against the glass, watching his adoptive mother hold his younger brother in her arms, pat him tenderly, and nurse him.

His younger brother was just a few months old, so small, dark and not good-looking at all. But his crying was particularly loud. Tao Mu felt that his younger brother was very cute, like the little black wolf dog in the neighbor's house. The hair was soft, and the body was warm when he hugged it.

Tao Mu used to feed it ham. But since his younger brother was born, he had no milk to drink, no cakes to eat, and his parents didn't buy him ham sausages anymore as well. But the big wolf dog from the neighbor's house still clung to him.

It would be nice if his younger brother could also cling to him like that.

Tao Mu felt that he could be without new clothes and toys and just play with his younger brother, which was good as well.

Unfortunately, his adoptive father and adoptive mother never let him approach his younger brother. One day, his adoptive father was working outside and his adoptive mother was washing clothes in the yard. His younger brother in the bedroom suddenly began to cry. Tao Mu, who was squatting in the corner of the yard, hurriedly dropped the branch in his hand and ran into the room to look at his younger brother.

His younger brother, such a small little thing, with small arms and legs, was wrapped in a small quilt. The black face was flushed from crying, and his nose was also bubbling with snot.

Tao Mu leaned forward and carefully touched his younger brother's cheek with his finger.

Soft and smooth, like the cake his adoptive mother used to make for him. Very tender.

His adoptive mother who was sitting in the yard washing clothes heard the crying and hurried in. She saw Tao Mu standing next to his crying younger brother. She came in and threw a slap without asking anything. Insisting that he had hurt his younger brother.

The small Tao Mu was slapped dumbfounded by his adoptive mother. His tender fair little face was covered with a red palm print as he cried and explained that he did not hit his younger brother. He didn't make his younger brother cry.

His adoptive mother didn't listen. She picked up his younger brother and scolded him viciously. While scolding, she picked up the feather duster and beat him with it. She scolded him for being an ungrateful wretch, scolded him for having a cruel heart, scolded him for being vicious at such a young age, and predicted that he would commit crimes in the future. The neighbors who lived in the same neighborhood couldn't bear it and came over to persuade her. Someone helped Tao Mu explain that Tao Mu really just ran in when he heard crying from the house. Immediately afterwards, his adoptive mother also followed, so Tao Mu had no time to do anything to his younger brother. His adoptive mother was stopped by so many people and had no choice but to bitterly put down the feather duster in her hand, but she still stood in the bedroom yelling viciously.

An old grandmother next door took Tao Mu to her house and gave him white rabbit toffee candy. Holding her arms around him and sighing that a child without a father or mother had a difficult life.

Tao Mu didn't know his birth background at that time, so he naively argued that he had a father and mother. The old lady cried with her arms around him.

When his adoptive father came back from work in the evening his adoptive mother dragged him into the bedroom, and the two of them remained locked up in the bedroom for a long time to discuss. When they came out, they said they would take Tao Mu out to play.

Tao Mu was too young at the time, and he was very happy to hear that his parents were going to take him out to play. But the result was that his adoptive parents only sent him back to the orphanage.

Tao Mu remembered that it was raining heavily that day, and he was just thrown directly at the door of the orphanage by his adoptive parents. He watched his adoptive father rush off into the rain in the family van. The rain that day was so heavy, like a curtain of beads, pouring down so hard he could not open his eyes. Tao Mu stood crying at the door of the orphanage, crying for a long time but no one noticed. His throat was cried hoarse.

It seemed that it was only until the next morning, did the worker who came out to buy vegetables saw Tao Mu lying on the ground. Shocked, she quickly called Dean Tao out.

Dean Tao took him in and asked who he was and why he stayed at the door of the orphanage all night?

Tao Mu said that his name was Tao Mu, and he was thrown at the door of the orphanage by his parents. He also reported the names of his parents to Dean Tao.

Dean Tao remembered Tao Mu and his adoptive parents, and she knew immediately what happened. Because Tao Mu's adoptive parents registered various procedures when adopting Tao Mu, dean Tao led Tao Mu across half of the city of Beijing to find his adoptive parents.

But they were blocked by his adoptive mother at the gate of the neighborhood and prevented from entering. Dean Tao asked Tao Mu's adoptive mother why she threw him at the door of the orphanage and threatened Tao Mu's adoptive parents to sue them for abandonment. Tao Mu's adoptive mother yelled that Tao Mu had abused her child at such a young age. They dared not keep Tao Mu, lest Tao Mu would harm their biological son.

She also said something like the "Minor Protection Law" protected child murderers. Tao Mu had a vicious personality at a young age so they dared not take their son's life seriously.

The neighbors in the same neighborhood couldn't bear to hear this, and some helped speak out for Tao Mu. But every word of help was thrown back by Tao Mu's adoptive mother.

"Your words sound very nice, why don't you raise him then?"

"This is raising a child, not only must you provide him with food and clothing and education, but also support him in marrying a wife and having children in the future. Do you think it is to raise a cat or a dog? Do you think it doesn't cost money?"

"I have a biological son, why should I raise someone else's son instead? His parents don't want him, so why ask me, an irrelevant outsider, to raise him instead? I have already raised him for five years for no good cause, which is already very good of me."

The adoptive parents who once loved you like a pearl, but after having their own son, they abandon you like a worn out shoe and loathe you like an obstacle.

Tao Mu also learned from that day that he was really not the biological son of his parents. So his parents were not obligated to support him for life.

In this world, only biological parents would treat their children unconditionally and unreservedly. However, not long after Tao Mu was born, he was abandoned in a rental house by his biological mother.

He was a child not wanted even by his biological parents.

Later Tao Mu followed dean Tao back to the orphanage. Before leaving, his adoptive mother packed Tao Mu's things, including some clothes and toys, as well as the birthday photos from the photo studio they took Tao Mu every year on his birthday.

"Even though I am not your biological mother, I still raised you for a while. I gave you all that could be given to you. Don't blame me. You can only blame yourself for your bad luck. Even your biological mother did not want you. Not to mention us outsiders."

The parents who used to coax him to eat and sleep with their arms around him became outsiders. Holding his toy wooden gun and photos, Tao Mu cried all the way back to the orphanage with dean Tao. That night he had a high fever.

After waking up, he no longer remembered the past.

Later, he went to H Town to be an extra, and accidentally learned that he actually had biological parents. His parents did not deliberately abandon him in a rental house. Everything was a misunderstanding.

Tao Mu remembered what his adoptive mother had said: Only biological parents would treat their children unconditionally well. They would stand on their side without any reason, something outsiders could not do.

However, Tao Mu's biological parents were not good to him. They treated him as nothing, treated him as an enemy.

Tao Mu therefore felt that perhaps in this life, he was fated to be without biological parents and other blood related family.

Tao Mu was taken home by his Xiao Qi Dad and slept all night curled up in the blankets. When he woke up the next morning, the gossip that he was returned to the orphanage by his adoptive parents for abusing his younger brother when he was five years old had already spread all over the Internet.

Tao Mu also experienced such a thing in his previous life.

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At that time, he had been back to the Shen family for more than four years, and the entire entertainment circle knew that he was incompatible with Shen Yu. No matter what movie or TV series Shen Yu made, Tao Mu would either steal Shen Yu's role or find a way to shoot similar movies and TV series with the same release schedule and the same theme, just to snipe Shen Yu.

Tao Mu's acting skills were better than Shen Yu's, but his popularity was not as good as Shen Yu's. In addition, before each film and television drama was released, Tao Mu was always sounded with various scandals, arousing the audience's disgust. Therefore, the end result was often that he not only failed to snipe Shen Yu he also ended up worse off, prompting Shen Yu's fans to ridicule him as "a masochist who actively seeks abuse."

In the previous life, when Yao Wenxiao instructed tabloids to break the gossip that he had been sent back to the orphanage by his adoptive parents for abusing his younger brother, Tao Mu was currently competing with Shen Yu for the ratings championship that year. Both of them filmed idol dramas with the spy war theme set in the Republic of China era, the protagonist being the Gary Stu growth type, with various old actor veterans as supporting characters.

Because Tao Mu's acting skills were better, his scenes with the actor veterans better showed off the ups and downs of the plot and was overall more thrilling. The adrenaline of audiences watching the TV drama also increased sharply, and they followed the drama episode by episode. As a result, by the time the TV series was halfway through, the ratings exceeded 3%.

In contrast, although the TV series starring Shen Yu was also on the pass line in terms of ratings. But because his acting skills were still immature, when acting scenes with the old veteran actors, particularly in conflict scenes, he would be completely suppressed, and the audience would inevitably get second-hand embarrassment. The two TV series were released at the same time, and the ratings starring Shen Yu were naturally not as good as Tao Mu's TV series.

When interviewed by the media, Tao Mu, who was finally able to one-up the other, naturally ridiculed Shen Yu as inferior to him in front of reporters. Verbal provocations such as "Wild ducks are wild ducks, even if the cuckoo occupies the nest it can not become a white swan" undoubtedly angered Shen Yu's admirers. Then the media broke the scandal that Tao Mu was sent back to the orphanage by his adoptive parents for abusing his younger brother. The scandal was first reported by Yao Wenxiao's Yuxiao Media and then other media followed up and forwarded it. There was even a TV station that invited Tao Mu's adoptive parents for a guest interview.

From the day of his debut, Tao Mu had not left a good impression on the audience. Seniors in the industry reprimanded him for acting like a bigshot and deliberately making things difficult for fellow actors (Shen Yu). Actors from the same crews as him also broke the news that he was irritable and difficult to communicate with, looking down on people because of his family background. In addition, Shen Yu's fans continued to expose his various black materials from over the years—for example, used to work in a nightclub, abandoning old friends after his fortunes changed for the better, arrogantly making it difficult for the actors of the same crew, etc. Various scandals continued one after another. Therefore, the audience's perception of him had always been bad.

This time, the media broke the scandal that he was sent back to the orphanage by his adoptive parents for abusing his younger brother. The audience who didn't know the truth just felt that Tao Mu was not a good person as expected. One could tell a person's character from when they were three years old, after all Tao Mu had just returned to his biological parents' house and was able to drive away his adopted brother. So at the age of five, he would abuse his younger brother because of jealousy did not seem inconceivable at all.

No one believed that Tao Mu was wronged. Even if he later found old neighbors in the neighborhood to help him clarify the rumors, no one would believe it. They even slandered those old neighbors and accused them of accepting his bribe money to help him speak out. These people anonymously cursed and scolded the old neighbor who helped him speak out on the Internet. Shen Yu's moronic fans even found and exposed the old neighbor's home address and workplace, running over to the workplace to make trouble. They cursed in public at the person who helped him speak, saying that she threw away conscience in order to collect dirty money and that she would end up with a sticky ending. It angered the old neighbor auntie so much that her high blood pressure acted up, but fortunately she was sent to the hospital in time.

Later, when the situation got big, Tao Mu contacted the media and marketing accounts to condemn the illegal behavior of extreme fans. As a result, Shen Yu stepped out again to hold a press conference, crying with tears and apologizing for his fans. Saying that he was willing to pay for the hospital fees of the old neighbor and was willing to compensate the old neighbor for her losses.

Of course Tao Mu didn't need Shen Yu to make this favor. The situation began with him so he would naturally give an explanation to the neighbour. It was a pity that while the neighbour auntie was a very kind person, her kindness was not paid back. Just because she spoke a word for him, she was splashed with such a big pot of dirty water.

So Tao Mu was not going to clarify anything in this life. As Shen Yu's fans said, he simply had no way to prove that he did not abuse his brother that day. Maybe he deliberately used more strength than he intended when he touched his brother with his fingers, which made him hurt. That was why his adoptive mother beat him so hard.

Those old neighbors all stood outside the house, and no one saw the scene in the house with their own eyes. Since they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, they were not qualified to testify for him.

Even if they saw it with their own eyes, there was no video to prove it, so who could guarantee that what they said was true.

Anyway, Tao Mu was a vicious and jealous person who could not handle others being better off than him. No matter what this kind of person did, it was not surprising at all.

"Xiao Mu, are you okay?" Meng Qi stood at the door of the bedroom and knocked on the door: "I made you a lotus seed and white fungus eight-treasure porridge, and your favorite red bean buns, will you get up and eat some?"

Tao Mu silently got up from the bed, washed up without a word, and then sat at the dinner table.

While drinking porridge, Tao Mu finally remembered why he liked to eat sweets.

Probably because the previous life was too bitter.

"Don't bother with the rumors of those gossip tabloids." Liu Yao was particularly angry: "This group of people is too idle. I tell you, we will never let this matter end like this. Doesn't surnamed Yao just like to spread rumors, addicted to rumors? He has the Sheng'an Group as his backer and is not afraid of being punished, so let's not be courteous either. I will fight him to the end. I'll call Lawyer Zhou, and we will continue to sue him for spreading rumors. Motherf**ker, there's no evidence or proof at all. Just relying on that black-hearted couple's opening and closing of their lips to spew sh*t. Who the hell will believe it!"

"They must have accepted money from surnamed Yao, deliberately making trouble for us. Motherf**ker, don't really anger me. If they piss me off too badly, I will sue them for child abandonment. Make them not only unable to eat meat but also become even worse off."

Meng Qi also echoed next to him: "Yes. Xiao Mu, don't pay attention to these people. Everyone knows what kind of child you are. This kind of slander and rumor is obviously a means of revenge, and no one will believe it. Your fans and any netizens with brains won't believe it. Those who are willing to believe it are idiots or your antis. You don't need to care about such people at all."

Tao Mu was taken aback when he heard these words: "Not many people believe it?"

"Yeah!" Liu Yao didn't even bother to eat breakfast. He went into the bedroom and took out a laptop: "If you don't believe me, look at it yourself. Your Xiao Qi Dad and I kept watch all last night. Netizens who believe this kind of rumors are really not that many."

Only then did Tao Mu notice that Liu Yao and Meng Qi's eyes were red and bloodshot. With just a glance, he knew they stayed up all night.

"You…..didn't sleep at all last night?"

"Did you forget that your dad runs a nightclub? Sleep what sleep?" Liu Yao's demeanor appeared strong, but in fact he was indeed feeling a bit tired. He huffed and said: "As long as you don't hide in the bed and cry pathetically, then that's better than anything. It's no big deal, I will take a nap with your Xiao Qi Dad later. Sleeping during the day is more pleasant anyway."

Tao Mu lowered his head, blinked his hot eyes vigorously, and served a bowl of porridge respectively for Yao Dad and Xiao Qi Dad, and said lowly, "I didn't cry."

Liu Yao snorted and did not expose the lie of their little boy. Meng Qi smiled while drinking porridge: "It's okay to go online more. See what your fans and friends say. Everyone believes in your character. They will definitely not let their imaginations run wild just because of some unfounded remarks. As for people who question you because of others' biased words, you don't really need to care about this kind of person."

Tao Mu didn't say a word. He lowered his head and browsed FlyNews and found that there were really many people who helped him speak out.

"I'm fainted. Why are they doing this again. Last time they said Tao Mu was ruthless and ungrateful. Last last time they said Tao Mu sold himself in a nightclub. This time, they even spread such ridiculous rumors as CEO Tao abusing his adoptive parents' son when he was just five years old. What's next? CEO Tao punching and kicking his biological mother when he was still an embryo?"

"A five-year-old child abusing his one-year-old brother or something. Can I ask what the abuse even entailed?"

"Didn't the reporter say it? He poked his face with his finger. Poking his younger brother to tears."

"So it's not that I'm ruthless and unreasonable! If CEO Tao blinded his adoptive brother with a finger, then I would believe the news to be true. But damn, a five-year-old kid touching his brother's face with his finger is now considered abuse? I used to grab food from my brother when I was a child, and my mother could barely separate us as we fought at every turn. Then what are we? Attempted murderer?"

"Am I the only one who noticed that the media broke the news that CEO Tao's adoptive parents sent him back to the orphanage just because they suspected that CEO Tao had abused his younger brother? Are there any netizens who know the law, please explain to us law dummies, is this a crime of abandonment?"

"Want to know +1"

"Want to know +2"

"Can you Tao Mu fans stop kneeling and licking your idol like morons? Did Tao Mu give you money or sleep with your person, why do you protect him one by one? Why don't you believe that the adoptive parents are telling the truth? In any case, they were also the people who raised Tao Mu for five years. People's hearts are made of flesh and blood. If there is no reason, which parent can be so cruel to send a child who has been raised by them for five years to the orphanage?"

"I also think the words of the adoptive parents are believable. Tao Mu's face is particularly fierce. In terms of physiognomy, this kind of face belongs to a typical mean, ungrateful and cold-hearted person. Moreover, Tao Mu's adoptive parents also said that Tao Mu became particularly gloomy and scary after the pregnancy was confirmed. I think that as a parent, being worried that the adopted son will be detrimental to their own son is understandable and sending the scheming adopted son away for the sake of their own son is excusable, right?"

"Fuck that! You can tell from a five-year-old child whether he is scheming or mean or ungrateful? And physiognomy. Oh, please. Why don't you say that you can palm read and say that Tao Mu will bring misfortune to his adoptive parents and younger brother and therefore his adoptive parents sent him back to the orphanage?"

"Compared to Tao Mu's fans, I think Tao Mu's antis are the ones disgusting, right? Who can even think of a five-year-old in such a bad light?"

"I think Tao Mu is already miserable enough? He was abandoned by his biological parents when he was born, and then abandoned by his adoptive parents when he was five years old. He grew up alone in an orphanage for so many years. Yet he can create such a big successful career at such a young age. He is practically a self-made inspirational model, okay? Don't you think that our Mu actually picked up the hero's script?"

"Haha, Tao Mu fans' filters are really deep. It's obvious that your Mu have been scheming and shrewd since childhood. An orphan, not relying on parents and family, actually managed to create FlyNews from scratch. And he can even go up against Yao Wenxiao who has the Sheng'an Group as his backing. Just because he seized the weakness of others discrediting him, he acquired dozens of newspapers and magazines outlets without spending a penny, and forced the Sheng'an Group to pay 150 million out of court settlement fees. In the end, he even sent Yao Wenxiao to the detention center for a fifteen days stay. These things suffice to show that your Tao Mu was not a white lotus since he was a child, okay? Then him abusing his adoptive parents' son out of jealousy or with intentions to seize resources is also reasonable, right?

"So what if he's not a white lotus? Did he eat your family's rice? I can personally prove that even if our Mu Mu is not a white lotus, he is a good person full of justice. If Tao Mu hadn't saved my life, I might have been abducted into the mountains by traffickers and face torture and abuse, and no longer having the opportunity to argue with you on the Internet. So I am especially fortunate that when I was in danger, I ran into Tao Mu who is not a white lotus….."

Tao Mu was taken aback and clicked on the photo of this netizen. He was stunned to discover that it was the girl Yun Duo who had personally joined the online debate, telling all the netizens online that she went to H Town to play, was tricked into the MLM den by bad guys, and was almost sold into the mountains by human traffickers. Fortunately, Tao Mu led the police to find them at a critical moment.

Yun Duo's narration reminded forgetful netizens of a sensational case half a year ago. Someone suddenly realized—

"It turns out that in the case back then, Tao Mu was the one who came forth bravely and helped the police. God, this world is too small. I don't even know that my idol has done such a courageous thing."

"I remember that there were a lot of people who fell into the MLM den at the time? The police also caught a human trafficking gang because of this. It was a big sensation. Did Tao Mu help the police catch the bad guys?"

"But this girl is quite daring. Generally, girls who encounter such things would want nothing more than to cover it up, afraid of suffering secondary victimization. Little girl, you must protect your information. Delete this comment. Don't let more people know about you. There are too many vicious people these days. I'm really afraid of you being hurt."

"Agreed +1. Delete this information quickly."

"Even if you don't delete it, make sure to protect your privacy."

"Tao Mu has done more than this. I'm a group extra in H Town and I specialize in acting as a body double. I know a friend named Gou Rixin, who is also a martial arts extra from H Town. Basically, those who have been in H Town for a long time know this person. Just in September this year, Gou Rixin had a wire accident. At that time…..Later, it was Tao Mu who asked for leave from school and flew over to help catch the adulterer and the adulteress. He also took Gou Rixin to Beijing to see the best doctors….."

"I am Gou Rixin. I can prove that what the previous netizen said is true. With photos 1, 2 and 3, I am now undergoing rehabilitation at the First People's Hospital of Beijing City. The operation was particularly successful. The doctor said I will have a full recovery in two months. I am especially grateful to Tao Mu. Without him, I would not be where I am now."

"I am also a group extra in H Town. Tao Mu was no longer here when I came to H Town. I have never seen him. But I feel that even though Tao Mu only stayed in H Town for two short months, that he could do two good things, this person must be a really good person normally as well."

"Brother Tao Mu is very nice. He grew up in an orphanage, and he worked part-time to earn tuition and living expenses by himself. He also sent back money to the orphanage every month. Brother Tao Mu often brought us good food. He is really a good person. I forbid you to say bad things about him."

"The way I feel about it. If a person can do good for more than ten years, it is actually quite a difficult task. Us keyboard warriors on the Internet speak very lightly, but it's best not to hurt a good person. Just based on Tao Mu having done so many good things for so many years, so what if he really poked his brother so hard it made him cry when he was five years old? Who did not come from years as a child, who did not do one or two obnoxious things when he was a child? You can't give someone life imprisonment just because he poked his brother when he was five years old?"

"Yes. Upstairs +1"

"Upstairs +2"

"I think what upstairs said is particularly true."

Tao Mu read every comment. He discovered that there were indeed netizens who were maliciously speculating about him. But there were also more netizens, or his friends, who were willing to stand forward and help him speak out. There were also fans who have never known him but have always believed in him.

Although Tao Mu didn't know why in the same case, the reaction of netizens in this life was so different from that of the previous life. But Tao Mu really felt that he hadn't lived this life in vain.

It was really lucky to be able to be reborn again and meet so many such good people.

Tao Mu stared fixatedly at the computer screen. Suddenly, his cell phone rang.

Meng Qi didn't wait for Tao Mu to react, he stood up and went to Tao Mu's bedroom and then handed the mobile phone to Tao Mu after returning.

The call was made by Guo Yaning, a leading actress in the entertainment circle. When Tao Mu answered the call, he heard Guo Yaning's brisk voice on the other end of the receiver: "Hey, I say, big and busy boss Mr. Tao, my new album will be released next year on Valentine's Day. When will your venerable self be able to take time out and help me shoot the MV?"

"I have been waiting for so long that the dishes have already gone cold?"

Tao Mu smiled upon hearing this, and said warmly, "Sister Guo, thank you."

On the other end of the call, Guo Yaning hooked up the corner of her mouth and said with playful disgust: "Can you call me Sister Ya Ning? When you call me Sister Guo, why do I have the feeling that I am one of the neighborhood committee aunties?"