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Soon more people arrived.

Chen Xing is well-known internationally. They cannot treat this as an ordinary fraud case. They probably have to set up a special investigation team.

But no matter how much he asked Chen Xing, he had no clue, so he could only go home and wait for news.

at the same time.

In an old commercial house in Jinling, Zhang Richao couldn't help but sneer as he browsed the overwhelming negative public opinion on the Internet.

He had his days of glory before.

He has a big villa and a large flat. He is a photojournalist for Southern Metropolis Daily and a member and director of the China Photographers Association.

He has money and status in the country, and is also a little famous abroad.

At that time, he happened to see a group of unpublished photographs by Chen Xing in China. For some reason, he signed his own name on the work and used this work to participate in the French Winter Photography Festival.

I originally thought that this was just a harmless little move that would win me another award in the industry and give me more topics to talk about.

But who would have thought that a domestic photographer’s real base is actually in France?
After being discovered by the real owner, Zhang Richao's reputation plummeted, and the newspaper fired him. His former friends and colleagues all avoided him.

Those glorious days shattered like a bubble, his big villas and large apartments were mortgaged one after another, and he could only live in this small and dilapidated commercial house.

"Chen Xing, you've ruined everything I have, and I'm going to make you feel ruined too!"

There was a flash of madness and hatred in Zhang Richao's eyes. He clenched his fists so tightly that his joints turned white from the force.

Looking at the insults and accusations against Chen Xing on the Internet, Zhang Richao felt a morbid pleasure in his heart.

It was worth it for him to spend money to hire acquaintances and internet trolls to discredit this person.

At least in his opinion, Chen Xing is totally unworthy of such high praise now.

He is just a young man with barely any hair left, but he is an internationally renowned photographer and is compared with the masters from Japan and South Korea.

Are you worthy?
Before he spent money to discredit Chen Xing, some people said that this was the hope among domestic photographers... Bah, this kind of people will only ruin the domestic photography industry.

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Chen Xing did not sit idly by. He asked the gallery to contact a lawyer and collect defamatory comments on the Internet in preparation for legal proceedings.

If he can’t find the person behind the scenes, can he still not find the website and self-media?

The reaction of Perena Gallery was even greater than that of Chen Xing himself. Seth still wanted to develop China in depth. When he heard the news, he was furious and shouted on Twitter that the people behind the scenes should pay the price.

To discredit Chen Xing's reputation is to rob them of their money.

After all, a photographer’s fame is money.

Foreign lawyers cannot play a big role in China. The team of lawyers hired from the capital of China is already on the way and will arrive in Chengdu soon.

"Then I'll just wait like this?" Chen Xing said to Seth on the other end of the phone.

"Wait, maybe this is a good thing. If you solve this problem while it's hot, more people will know your name."

Seth is really thinking about improving Chen Xing's fame all the time.

This is a major event that has affected the entire Chinese photography community, and it has been discussed in many photography groups. After all, there are those who like Chen Xing and those who hate Chen Xing.

Being young and handsome is both his advantage and disadvantage.

Hatred is sometimes inexplicable.

Chen Xing sat on the sofa at home for a while, thinking carefully about what he had done during this period...Whose way had he blocked?
Impossible. What he is doing now is to open up a new path for domestic photographers, and he has no intention of blocking anyone from becoming famous and getting rich.

On the contrary, if someone's level is worthy of his recommendation, he will use his influence abroad to bring this person's work to the mainstream Western art media.

He is not a stingy person.

His competitors are basically all abroad, but it is difficult for foreigners to organize this topic so systematically on various domestic photography websites.

But after thinking for a long time, his mood calmed down.

Seth is right, what is true is true, and what is false is false. All his creations and all his famous lines are well documented.

What are you panicking about?
In the evening, the lawyer that the gallery found for Chen Xing arrived.

Chen Xing rushed to the hotel where they were staying and saw four or five people in suits in the lobby who looked like career elites.

It must be these guys. Chen Xing doesn't believe that they are not lawyers.

When they saw Chen Xing, they smiled and came over to shake his hand, saying, "Mr. Chen Xing? It's better to meet you in person than to hear about you for a long time. You are indeed more handsome than you appear on the screen."

One of the girls looked very excited, shaking her head up and down when shaking hands: "Brother Xing, I am your fan and have liked you for a long time. The smear campaign against you on the Internet this time is very obvious. Don't worry, leave it to us."

The older man coughed, pulled the two men apart, and said, "Xiao Lin is right, Mr. Luo, you don't have to worry."

There were many people coming and going in the hotel lobby, so Chen Xing took them to a more private teahouse and continued talking about the incident.

They have dealt with defamation against celebrities more than once, but when the matter is about to be resolved, these celebrities always give up their appeals.

So at the beginning of the conversation, the man in the lead specifically said:
"Sir, are you sure you want to sue the people behind this and the media that defamed you? If we have made efforts but you want to give up the appeal, please tell us in advance. We don't want our efforts to go to waste."

"I am sure."

He hates these people so much, why would he give up his appeal?

He didn't care about his image as a good guy. In his opinion, sending these people in jail might be a good thing.

They are all accomplices of cyber violence, or knives.

"Okay, then you sign this agreement."

Chen Xing took a look and signed.

After transferring some deposit and receiving the outstanding balance, the man said:
"We have already sorted out a relatively efficient method for incidents like yours. First, we need to fix and notarize the evidence. We will collect the defamatory comments about you on the Internet, take screenshots or record the screen. Then you need to show the timestamps of some original photographs, drafts of creation, emails with the gallery, etc., to form a complete chain of evidence of "no plagiarism."

"No problem." Chen Xing nodded. He had all these things.

And the gallery will also be very cooperative.

The lawyer said a lot and both parties chatted until the early morning.

The first is to collect evidence, and the second is to put pressure on the platform. According to some code or something, a lawyer's letter can be sent to the platform involved, and a court investigation order can be applied for to retrieve the background data.

The lawyer's letter is only one part of collecting evidence; the most important thing is to retrieve the data.

Then, they adopted the tactic of capturing the leader first, suing several influential self-media operators, using high compensation claims to put pressure on them and find out who was behind the scenes.

This approach doesn’t work, and the lawyer said there is also a plan B.

In short, they repeatedly stated that they are professional. (End of this chapter)