Good Man Operation Guide

Zhao Xingguang who was lying in bed behind him, was stunned by Lin Shiheng’s impudence.

Unluckily, the audience really fell for his tricks.

[Don’t be angry. We all know who you are. The media are so unscrupulous.]

[Shi-ge is very touching. I’m really angry this time! Don’t worry. As your fans, we firmly boycott the media that distribute false news. I will persuade my friends around me to not look at them. I won’t look at them myself.]

It may be that the indignation on Lin Shiheng’s face is so real, that true fans believe it, and even some passers-by murmur in their hearts.

After all, the video is right here. Lin Shiheng’s car did go straight to the hospital after leaving the meeting venue. Even if he and Zhao Xingguang teamed up battle these media, what was it for?

The media were a little crowded and eager at that time, but wasn’t everyone like that?

Once a star has an affair, the media will swarm up like cats smelling fish. Those in better condition will only ask questions around the person, while those in worse condition will wish to directly put the microphone into their mouths.

Although it sounds shameless, people had to say that this is the norm in the entertainment industry. It’s not that there are no stars condemning this phenomenon on public platforms before, but the results are not satisfactory.

After all, no matter how competitive the major medias are, they are all still the same. Today, you point to the news of other families to scold and interview rudely. Another day, will you also point to your own family to scold?

This kind of behavior must be resisted.

As a result, those who are not famous are beaten into starting a career, and those who are famous are scolded as ungrateful white-eyed wolves.

When you were not popular, didn’t you always rely on these media to help you send messages and get traffic?

Why is it when you are popular now, you start to burn bridges?

Don’t say that you rely on acting and singing. If there are no media reporters to publicize it, who would know you?

It’s shameless, but it directly stroke a nerve on some people.

In the entertainment industry, loosing reputation is losing everything; Especially in a world where the entertainment industry is heavier than weight. Otherwise, in the original plot, Zhao Xingguang would have been ruined after the scheme ruined the reputation of the original owner.

Now, Lin Shiheng is not like the stars who used to say obscure words or post a poem implying that the media went too far.

He just stood up.

A real person coming on the stage and declared war on the media.

‘I just want to mess with you.’

‘If you don’t like it, come at me.’

‘I can fight a dozen of you alone.’

Among other things, this momentum alone is frightening enough.

And he did stand up, after all, just the previous statement was enough to earn most people’s trust for Lin Shiheng.

If Zhao Xingguang was not beaten by the media, he would have punched himself a few punches and then go to the hospital. Is this his plan?

If Zhao Xingguang wasn’t beaten, Lin Shiheng, as a popular traffic star, would just shove people away one by one. Now there are lawsuits that cost money and time. Is this what he wanted?

Offending the media is not good for both of them.

More and more people are starting to stand on Lin Shiheng’s side, and watch him continue a Peashooters’ bombardment on the media that posted negative messages about him three times a day.

If any other ordinary star does this, the reasonableness can cause physiological discomfort to some passers-by, or make fans think that the idol is making a mountain out of a molehill.

Unfortunately, this is Lin Shiheng.

Since his debut, Lin Shiheng, who has appeared in front of the public with the image of ‘the first child is heaven, the second is earth, third child is still aggrieved’, is it strange for him to do these things?

(天老大地老二我排老三还委屈 [Tiān lǎodà dì lǎo èr wǒ pái lǎo sān hái wěiqu] = the first child is heaven, the second is earth, third child is still aggrieved; something like– always being wronged, a bit of a bully, but feels that everyone should be nice to him. Sorry if I’m wrong… it’s hard to find the exact meaning.)

Fans also didn’t feel that their idol was unjustified. They waved flags and shouted in the comment area one by one every day. They only wanted to help idol overthrow these ‘evil dark forces’.

If passers-by accidentally watched the battle and did not understand what had happened, fans would come out dressed in ‘white light’ and start brainwashing in the tone of ‘we can’t help loving our idol’, ‘he is just too kind’ and ‘this is a justified battle’, until the other party was completely subdued to their side.

By the time things got to the end, when media reporters couldn’t bear the increasingly energetic ‘Peashooter’ Lin Shiheng and apologize one after another, his fans had soared several times.

When they are blackened, others would lose fans. You have to put it to Lin Shiheng, his fans didn’t drop but rise.

And from then on, it’s conceivable that in the future all ‘Lin Shiheng news’ will be released only after careful consideration by these media before publishing.

A long blog post was issued under the company’s instructions, saying Lin Shiheng did put on a ‘miserable for Zhao Xingguang act’ for his sake. However, the reason for the increase was very strange.

Because Xingguang won the title of ‘The Happiest Fan’.

Lin Shiheng fans have said how happy they would be when protected by their idol, and make their idol stand up for injustice.

Zhao Xingguang, who was still happy about the increase in fans: “…”

If these people knew that the wound on his stomach was caused by Lin Shiheng, he wondered if they would envy him as the ‘The Happiest Fan’.

Fortunately, by the time the dust settled, no one remembered Yun Xiangyi anymore.

No, someone still remembers…

The company finally got the long blog article made by Public Relations sent out after the situation almost calmed down.

Naturally, Yun Xiangyi should be consulted on this Weibo post. After all, no matter how good PR is at making celebrities sell ‘a sob story’, they can’t make up these things out of thin air.

Before that, there was an episode.

Yun Xiangyi refused to cooperate with Public Relations to talk about her past.

Finally, Lin Shiheng ran out of the hospital and had a talk with her.

Yun Xiangyi has always had a cold temperament in the eyes of outsiders, just like the role she played when she made her debut.

No matter what happens, she can keep a calm face and look calmly at everything.

Even Zhao Xingguang, who had seen his sister tremble no matter what she encountered, and had to huddle in the corner to sleep every night, thought she was in much better shape than before.

But in fact, she just learned to pretend to be a strong character to protect ‘Yun Xiangyi’, who dared not touch anything and was wary of anyone.

Lin Shiheng just said what Yun Xiangyi was thinking.

She was afraid, afraid that she would be the one who had been blamed after the revelation of the past.

This is obviously the shadow left by being molested by her ‘grandfather’ and being beaten.

And the impact from Zhao Xingguang.

Carefully listening, Zhao Xingguang, who wanted to protect his sister: “I…”

Lin Shiheng asked him, “have you ever heard that a baby bird that has just broken its shell will regard the first life form it sees as its mother?”

Zhao Xingguang nodded with a bewildered face.

“Xiangyi has been locked up in the hospital since childhood, and when she was picked up by you, you took care of her. Of course, she will regard you as the person she depends on most.”

“She will emulate everything you say and do unconsciously.”

Zhao Xingguang’s expression began to get uneasy.

He left the hospital the next day and went home. After all, he could only see a group of curious people and reporters in the hospital.

In the past few days, he could not help but watch the devil bombard the media with mixed feelings, until they apologized.

The injury on the stomach hadn’t healed, it looked bruised. And the muscles that hurt, that made it a little harder to breathe, are throbbing. He had to smile to thank the person who beat him, after being beaten for nothing. It is impossible to say that Zhao Xingguang didn’t feel indignant.

But while angry, he didn’t forget what Lin Shiheng said when he hit him.

Knowing that Xiangyi could not be stimulated, and after being delayed for 15 minutes, he still refused tear down his own face.

(撕破脸 [sī pò liǎn]/ tear down face = to lose sense of decorum/ embarrass himself.)

Even if Zhao Xingguang could tell himself that needed this ‘face’ to eat and make money, if Lin Shiheng didn’t show up, what would happen to Xiangyi?

Every time he thinks of it, Zhao Xingguang wanted to slap himself a few times.

It is unfair that he boasts that he is protecting Xiangyi. There was no such protection.

Indeed, he is too weak, he is afraid to bear it. Afraid of falling out and regret losing everything.

Now, Lin Shiheng said, Xiangyi was influenced by himself.

She didn’t trust others in the first place, and it must have been cold to see that even her own brother refused to protect her ‘face’.

She must have thought that money was more important than her in her mind.

That’s why she is so afraid of exposing the past.

Zhao Xingguang unwittingly clenched his fist. His mind had trouble calming down for a long time.

Finally, he exhaled and looked apologetically at his sister. “I’m sorry.”

“It’s my fault. I will never do it again in the future, Xiangyi.”

“It’s your fault!”

Lin Shiheng saw him apologize and immediately held his head high. He slapped the table and stood up, his face full of accusations as if treating a sinner.

“I can see it a long time ago. You’re a money-hungry person. I treated you like that before, you put your face before anything for money every day. And you could still smile at the media.”

Zhao Xingguang’s expression was even more sorry, and his heart was filled with great guilt. He opened his mouth, wanted to say something, and felt that it was futile to say anything now.

Lin Shiheng is still bombarding him with the same attitude of not losing to the media: “I think you earn a lot this month. You also bought a car and a house. The treatment expenses that Xiangyi told me, is not that expensive for the two of you. You shoot scenes like you had to earn for the next life, aren’t you tired?”

Zhao Xingguang’s head hung lower and lower with the reprimand of the person standing over him.

Lin Shiheng is right.

He shouldn’t take money so seriously. Xiangyi must think that in his mind, money is the most important thing.

“Tell me, do you know how much impact you have on Xiangyi?”

Zhao Xingguang gritted his teeth sadly, and the rims of his eyes almost turned red.

Until the man above sighed, sat down and sighed again.

“Do you know why Xiangyi is so afraid of being found out that she used to be in a mental hospital?”

Zhao Xingguang looked up with red eyes and raised his head blankly, “because of fear?”

“No, it’s because of you!”

Sure enough.

Tears almost fell from his eyes.

He wanted to say that he didn’t mean to, and he wanted to protect his sister.

But it was caught in his throat. It’s difficult to say a word.

Lin Shiheng slapped the table again.

“Who made your family look like it had no money every day? We’re going broke and we have to work hard to earn money to survive!”

“Xiangyi thought that the poor brother in her family was worried every day; That if her past was exposed, people would set up a collapse, and fans ran away. The company wouldn’t give scripts, no money to support the family.”

“Do you think you have a good reputation for a workaholic? In Xiangyi’s eyes, you are trading your life for money. She is such a strong and smart person. If it wasn’t for you, would she be afraid of that mere rumor?”

“Do you think she would care if she didn’t want to support you?”

“Because of you!”

“Bah!”

Zhao Xingguang raised his face blankly, tears swirling in his eyes and Lin Shiheng’s eyes were full of disdain.

No, wait!

Something doesn’t seem right …