Chapter 33 Appearing on the Promotional Poster
Xu Jie walked into the elevator suspiciously. It was working hours and the elevator was packed with people. Perhaps because he had been secretly photographed too many times recently, he became extremely sensitive and always felt that someone was watching him. He felt envy, suspicion, and contempt for him, like a thorn in his back and a fishbone stuck in his throat.
When he entered the program crew and thought he could finally relax, he saw Zhou Min'er surrounded by people. Zhou Min'er had red eyes and was holding a tissue in her hand, gently wiping the corners of her eyes.
"What's wrong?" Xu Jie walked over and asked.
"Xu Jie!"
Shi Fei, who was originally trying to comfort Zhou Min'er, rushed over immediately after seeing Xu Jie, stretched out his hand and grabbed his collar, staring at him fiercely and said, "What have you done to Zhou Min'er? Are you still a man?"
"Shi Fei, don't do it. I've already told you it's just a misunderstanding!" Liu Ting hurried over and stopped Shi Fei while whispering to Xu Jie, "Min'er's Weibo is now full of malicious comments and insulting messages."
Xu Jie frowned. Yes, as the "third party" in the news, he would definitely be attacked by Su Yun's fans who were unaware of the truth.
He immediately took out his cell phone and found Zhou Miner's Weibo. In the comment section of the most recent Weibo post, there was a lot of abuse.
"shameless!"
"Seducing a married man, vixen!"
"You even eat Zha Zha Jie, you really are not picky about food."
Xu Jie was very angry. It was okay to be scolded, he was used to it, but scolding Zhou Miner made him feel guilty.
He pushed Shi Fei away, came to Zhou Miner, and said apologetically: "I'm sorry for getting you into trouble. If nothing unexpected happened, it was done by my wife's crazy fans. There were too many people taking pictures at the time, and I didn't pay much attention. It was my negligence."
In fact, when he was filming last night, he met many people taking pictures with their mobile phones. Some were diners taking pictures to post on WeChat Moments, and some were food bloggers visiting restaurants and shooting videos. So he didn't think much about it at the time, and didn't pay attention to being secretly photographed.
"You just say sorry and that's it?" Shi Fei said angrily, "You don't want a reputation, but Min'er does. How are you going to let Min'er go out and meet people in the future?"
Zhou Min'er shook her head, raised her pretty face and said to Xu Jie: "You are not wrong. The ones who are wrong are those who deliberately fabricated fake news to attract attention. They are really hateful."
Shi Fei shuddered all over and agreed, "Yes, those people are hateful, but I still want to talk about Xu Jie. I told you a long time ago that you should keep your distance from women after getting married, but you just didn't listen. What's going on? Did something happen?"
"I think we should clarify the matter quickly to avoid more misunderstandings," Zhang Mingliang suggested.
After hearing this, Xu Jie immediately laughed bitterly, "I also want to clarify, but now no one believes me."
"Min'er, you send it? How about I send it? After all, you were there last night." Zhang Mingliang said.
Xu Jie shook his head. "It's useless for Min'er to post it. No one will believe the words of the 'third party'. It's useless for you, Brother Liang. You are someone close to me. They won't believe you."
"What should we do then?"
At this time, Wang Jingmin walked in from outside and saw Xu Jie, Zhou Min'er and the people standing around them. She immediately understood what was going on.
"How is it, have you figured out a solution to the problem?" Wang Jingmin looked at everyone and asked, "Xu Jie and Min'er were misunderstood because of the filming of the winter special program, so this is not just a matter for the two of them, but also a matter for our entire program team. Everyone, quickly brainstorm and help think of a solution."
"Delete the post."
"clarify."
"Keep the heat down."
Others offered suggestions.
After hearing this, Xu Jie did not agree, because he had the experience of being cyberbullied, so he knew very well that these methods would be useless against those black fans. They could be blocked temporarily but not forever. If the problem was not solved thoroughly, sooner or later it would be dug up as a black history, and it would be even more difficult to explain then.
"Director, I have an idea." Zhou Miner said suddenly.
"What method?" Wang Jingmin asked.
Others also looked over curiously.
Zhou Min'er faced everyone's gaze and said, "The best way to fight back against fake news is to speak with facts, so I want to use this incident as an opportunity to make a promotional poster for a winter special program with Xu Jie and I as partners, and post it on the official Weibo of our "Serving the People" column. First, it can warm up for Friday's program in advance, and second, after people see the poster and the program, they will naturally know that the news on the Internet is fake."
"No!" Shi Fei said suddenly.
Everyone looked at Shi Fei in confusion. This idea was obviously a good one, but they didn't know why Shi Fei reacted so strongly.
"Why not? I think this is a good idea." Wang Jingmin said.
"Because, because..." Shi Fei hesitated, looking around at Luan Miao, and suddenly pointed at Xu Jie and said, "Because he is a newcomer, it is not appropriate to put him on the program promotional poster."
"Newcomer? Xu Jie has been here for two years and has appeared abroad quite a few times. Many audiences know him and he is no longer a newcomer." Zhou Min'er retorted.
"Yeah." Wang Jingmin nodded and said, "Besides, he is very well-known now and has a lot of attention. He has more than one million fans, which is more than all of us combined. Using him for publicity will definitely attract a lot of people."
"Director, my one million fans are all black fans," Xu Jie reminded. His number of fans exceeded one million on Monday.
"Black fans are also fans." Wang Jingmin said with a smile on her face, as if she saw the ratings skyrocketing.
"Xu Jie, do you have any objection?" Zhou Min'er asked Xu Jie.
"No problem." Xu Jie shook his head. Whether it would work or not, he would know only after trying it.
"It's settled!" Wang Jingmin began to assign tasks. "Zhang Mingliang, go take promotional photos for Min'er and Xu Jie. Zheng Xiaoshan, you'll be responsible for making promotional posters. You must finish them before I get off work today."
"yes!"
"Disband and get to work."
Wang Jingmin waved his hand and the crowd began to disperse.
Shi Fei gritted his teeth and returned to his workstation. He looked at Xu Jie who was taking promotional photos with a vicious look, feeling full of resentment.
How could it turn out like this?
That’s right, it was him who secretly took the photos in the hot pot restaurant, and it was also him who posted the photos online and fabricated the news.
In his plan, once the scandal came out, even if Xu Jie did not lose his reputation, he would at least become notorious. However, now, not only was he not hidden by the program team because of the negative impact of the gossip, but he was even used as a highlight of the program and appeared on the promotional posters. It was too unfair.
Thinking of Zhou Min'er who had just gone against him, he felt a mixture of love and hate in his heart: Min'er, Min'er, why do you also want to go against me? I did this for you.
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Near the evening, the official Weibo account of the "Serving the People" column suddenly updated and released a Weibo post , which read:
The winter special program - Winter Food, will be broadcast at 20:30 this Friday evening. Hosts Min'er and Xu Jie are waiting for you on the Life Channel of Beijing TV.
The post then tagged Zhou Min'er and Xu Jie's Weibo, and attached a promotional poster below the text, with Zhou Min'er on the right and Xu Jie on the left, with some simple drawings of food in the background.
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