Before and After Divorce

In the morning, Wen Zichen took the medicine and fell asleep.

Xia Ting entered the guest room late and took a look at Wen Zichen, probably because he was still having a fever, Wen Zichen's face was still flushed abnormally, but his lips were bloodless.

He didn't sleep well, as if he was experiencing something painful in his dream, and from time to time his body would tremble suddenly and his eyebrows would be frowned in discomfort.

Xia Tingwan looked at it, a complex look gradually appeared in his eyes, and he walked out of the guest room without a sound.

The doctor must have been busy cleaning the wound and bandaging it for a long time. When he came out with a tired expression, he told Xia Tingwan that Wen Zichen not only had many small traumas on his body, but also had severe lacerations on his lower body. entered.

Xia Tingwan was sitting at the dining table drinking coffee while listening, he couldn't help but pause when he heard this, but in the end he just nodded.

He kept an eye out, and didn't forget to tell Aunt Rong to ask the police to come over and issue an injury report later, and then ask the doctor to write a special report, which might be used in the future.

Aunt Rong was a little surprised, she looked at him twice before responding.

Xia Tingwan got up and took a few mouthfuls of mouthwash, looked at himself in the mirror, and felt that his face was surprisingly calm.

He knew why Aunt Rong was surprised, but in just a few days, he had changed too much.

The morning when Su Yan just disappeared, the scene of him kneeling in pain and collapsing in the snow was as distant as a gray dream covered in dust.

All those helplessness and sadness were restrained in his heart, and then he breathed out silently along with the choking smell of smoke in the cold corridor last night.

When he came back to this world again, in front of everyone, he was calm and indifferent, not like that Xia Tingwan in the past.

Perhaps as Xu Zhe said, he is indeed sensitive and fragile, but in his bones, there is also a tenacity that cannot be crushed under any circumstances.

Xia Tingwan sent all the information that Wen Zichen verbally told him last night to Secretary Lu, reminding Secretary Lu to make Su Yan take precautions against Ye Bingwen.

Secretary Lu replied that he received it, but other than that, he still didn't give him any news about Su Yan.

However, Xia Tingwan seemed to be numb to this feeling of disappointment. After dressing up, he got into Zhao Nanshu's car to find Zhou Yang. No matter how many other things I have on my mind, I still have to meet Zhou Yang.

While in the car, he also sent a WeChat message to Xing Le: "I have something important to see you, are you in City H?"

Perhaps because he felt that Xing Le might not reply just by saying this, he added: "I have something about you in my hand."

Xing Le's video is certainly useful.

Wen Zichen probably got some stuff from Ye Bingwen's phone out of Ye Bingwen's phone based on a kind of instinctive hatred. He knew that Xing Le was a star, that's all, and he didn't know how to make use of it. video.

But Xia Tingwan is also a member of the circle, he knows how powerful the video in his hand contains.

Just thinking that he could so calmly weigh and think about how such a video can be used for him, even Xia Tingwan felt terribly chilled in his heart.

But if it is necessary, if Ye Bingwen really threatens Su Yan, then he must be tough.

……

Zhou Yang's studio was crowded with many people today, Xia Tingwan didn't bother to greet anyone, so he hid in the smoking room and smoked quietly by himself.

After a while, Zhou Yang walked in with a notebook in his hands: "It's almost ready, shall I let the outside team start?"

"En." Xia Tingwan nodded, put out the cigarette in the ashtray, and glanced at the laptop screen.

It was the Weibo account of an old movie fan of his for many years. It showed that a nine-picture long Weibo with rich pictures and texts was posted in the middle of the night last night, but after one night, there were only a dozen retweets, which looked very pitiful.

Zhou Yang nodded, and sent a few words in the WeChat group: "Let's get started."

"It was posted last night? But why didn't you start working immediately?" Xia Tingwan asked suddenly.

"You're talking in layman's terms." Zhou Yang smiled slightly: "Since you chose to post from the perspective of a fan account rather than an official statement, you must give people the impression that this outbreak of public opinion is sudden and real. I feel that if a Weibo article of a small fan with thousands of followers is reposted as soon as it is posted, it will be too suspicious. It seems that we are manually controlling the field, even if we are not insiders, we are eating melons with a little brain The public will feel suspicious about this matter.”

Xia Tingwan nodded in agreement, opened the article and read it again carefully.

I found that the comparison articles prepared by Zhou Yang and the others for a few days are really detailed, and they are not from the perspective of professionals at all. The tone of writing is completely like an ordinary loyal movie fan, sincerely for the movie star I have liked for many years There was an uneven sound.

"It's really well written."

Xia Tingwan said sincerely.

"Yeah." Zhou Yang connected the bluetooth headset, apparently listening to the progress report of the public relations team outside, he answered while looking down at the time on the watch.

While talking, Zhou Yang switched the interface to a Weibo page of a blogger with [-] to [-] fans in the entertainment circle that he had prepared before. He didn't say anything about standing in line, but only sent a few words "Is there a reversal?" followed by an emoji of eating melons.

Xia Tingwan looked at the webpage seriously with Zhou Yang. This blogger in the entertainment industry is usually very active. He often struggles in the front line of melon writing and has a lot of active fans.

As soon as this Weibo was posted, more than 200 posts were posted in almost ten minutes.

With a serious expression, Zhou Yang casually refreshed the page to see the number of retweets, and then asked in a low voice into the headset: "How's the reading?"

After hearing the numbers, Zhou Yang seemed quite satisfied. He nodded and said in a low voice, "Let the Weibo on the first floor prepare to end according to the schedule."

"The first floor?" Xia Tingwan couldn't help being curious about this term.

"Yes." Zhou Yang lowered his head and quickly typed something in the WeChat group, then raised his head and explained to Xia Tingwan: "We must create a - how should I put it, a more realistic communication arc in terms of communication science line. The first person to post a comparison article was a movie fan with only a few thousand fans, so after more than ten hours, that is, now, we introduced an entertainment blogger who followed this movie fan to forward it. This entertainment blogger has 7 Fans of Wan Duo, we picked a few tubas from his social circle who were more influential than him and had close interactions with him, and began to retweet the end. This is the first circle where we really started to spread radiation outward. .At this level, we can control the big Vs who make their voices very tightly, and even communicate with them in advance when they post Weibo."

Zhou Yang refreshed the Weibo page as he spoke. After a while, the number of retweets of that long Weibo was skyrocketing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Zhou Yang looked down at his watch again, and nodded in satisfaction while listening to the team's report in the earphones.

Xia Tingwan sat obediently beside Zhou Yang like a student, and asked after he finished his work, "Then is there a second floor?"

"of course."

Zhou Yang nodded, he seemed a little surprised that Xia Tingwan asked so carefully, and continued to explain in detail: "The first-level speeches arranged by us have spread, and the influence of these people is at the first level. The audience that time radiates is the second layer. Ting Wan, you notice that when we reach the second layer, we cannot strictly control everyone who makes a voice, because the message radiates too widely. At this stage More big Vs will leave the stage, and people who eat melons will also leave the stage one after another. They will be affected and their opinions will cross-influence each other. Therefore, after reaching the second floor, our strategy will change from controlling to guiding public opinion. The previous arrangement Good sailors will retweet and post comments to control the field on several important big Vs, and the number of likes has been bought, and I will monitor the whole process, don’t worry.”

Xia Tingwan had never listened to Zhou Yang's explanation of this matter so seriously before, because he was not interested in it before, and felt that there was no need to know.

It is only now that I understand that it was only an operation of a hot event, which required such careful deployment.

Zhou Yang sitting next to him is like a central brain that is doing precise calculations, and the instructions are passed out layer by layer like flowing water.

In this small studio, a battlefield without gunpowder is going on.

Xia Tingwan stared blankly at the soaring reposts and comments on the page.

At this moment, he should feel excited, but for some reason he felt very dazed.

While waiting, Xia Tingwan unconsciously opened a long Weibo for comparison. He didn't know how to spread or how to control public opinion.

The only thing he can do is to prove himself from the perspective of an actor.

In this wonderful article, the core point of view is what he provided to Zhou Yang before.

When an actor is performing, he can make the audience empathize with the play, and every subtle movement must have internal emotional logic.This kind of logic comes from the actor's understanding of the characters and the situation, and the director must also give appropriate guidance and scheduling.

For a master director like Xu Zhe, for every scene of Xiao Xia in "Whale Language", he can separate every minute and every second of the subtle emotional changes, and feed them to Xia Tingwan bit by bit.

Because of this, the same crying, the subtle movements of Xiaoxia shedding tears in "Whale Language" are definitely different from the real Xia Tingwan when she reveals her true feelings in the interview, because the emotional logic is different.

Xia Tingwan had a keen insight into this point after repeatedly watching the clips and extras of "Whale Language".

Xiaoxia's cry in the movie, in terms of chronological order, is to lower her head, tremble all over, raise her head after a series of struggles, and shed tears directly facing the close-up of the camera.

Anyone who has watched "Whale Language" can feel the inner context of this performance. Xiao Xia, who has been subjected to repeated domestic violence, thought that the teacher was the only source of care in his life, but he did not expect that the teacher would choose him after knowing his sexuality. Tell Xiao Xia's father of the perpetrator, even though he knows how severe the beating will make Xiao Xia suffer.

Xiao Xia witnessed this scene through the crack of the door. First, he lowered his head in pain and trembled, and then raised his head to look at the camera and shed tears. His expression seemed to be frozen for a few seconds, and he kept silent with his lips tightly shut, because he had already Nothing to say.

The tears are sad and tragic.

Because at this moment, Xiao Xia already had a death wish in her heart to jump into the sea.

So it was the same with Xia Tingwan's performance, he cried with his head up.

Facing the close-up teardrops is more like a metaphor for facing the last trace of warmth in this world and shattering it.

And this kind of performance, if it is like the edited presentation of "On the Road" in the extras, it will appear distorted.

The program crew first cut his unsuspecting conversation with Xing Le and his marriage with Su Yan in the front, but he was not crying at that time, so he lowered his head and trembled, then raised his head, stared at the camera and remained silent Cry for a few seconds.

This kind of editing, at first glance, will indeed be taken away.

But in fact, if you think about it carefully in a real situation, you will suddenly find that this is not in line with emotional logic at all.

No normal person would choose to look up at the camera and cry for a few seconds after answering the questions when talking about emotional weaknesses in an interview.

The reaction was too dramatic, too performative.

The existence of the camera itself is a kind of torture, a kind of scorching gaze and attention.

Under such attention, people will subconsciously avoid their soft wounds. This is the instinct of self-preservation and the truth of human nature.

So if he really talked about Su Yan crying on the show, he must have lowered his head or tilted his head to avoid the camera. It is absolutely impossible for Xiaoxia to look straight ahead and cry for a few seconds in silence. This is too contrary. human nature.

Comparing the two in this way, it is obvious that the things presented in the clip are suspicious.

Xia Tingwan was very excited when he discovered this, and when he called Zhou Yang to tell him, although Zhou Yang also praised him for being careful, he didn't seem to be particularly impressed by it.

He didn't think much about it then.

Xia Tingwan refreshed the webpage, glanced at the astonishing retweets, and couldn't help but click on the comments.

He was worried that hot comments were operated by Zhou Yang's team, so he deliberately chose to display them according to time, starting from those ordinary comments with 0 likes.

"Eating melons and watching, I feel that the fans' writing is indeed suspicious. If it is maliciously edited by the program group, it is really disgusting."

"Wait for the reversal. In fact, it's not a big deal even when it comes to ex-husband's tears. Suddenly, I really feel that someone is taking the rhythm to black Xia Ting. It's too late. [Show hands]"

"Let's just say it weakly, it's not a big black spot at first, I thought it was normal for Xia to be a bit more airy, after all, is the actor's first variety show?"

"Reading this article reminds me of the shock I felt when I watched "Whale Language". I have to shout out——Xia Tingwan's absolute strength in acting, now everyone who is popular today dares to boast that his acting skills surpass him."

"Finally, it's reversed! I want to say that some people have been scolding for playing big names before. In fact, Xia Tingwan has always had that personality since he became popular back then. He is originally a talented actor who is arrogant and willful. In fact, there is nothing good about it." What a fuss."

"Xia Ting's evening makeup powder is here."

"To be reasonable, Xia Tingwan has nothing else but drunk driving is the biggest black spot, okay?"

Xia Tingwan quickly scrolled through the comments, only when he saw the article about drunk driving, he was suddenly startled.

The Weibo page was left in the comment section, and he stared blankly at the computer screen, feeling more and more confused and empty.

"The wind reviews have changed, right? Many people have started to waver. At this time, no matter how stupid the comments are, they will start to be trampled on."

Seeing him watching, Zhou Yang saw a trace of satisfaction in his eyes, and said in a low voice: "This is just the public opinion on the first and second floors radiating for a while, and we will release the batch of public accounts in the evening, and the public opinion is still there." It will continue to ferment under our guidance. When the time comes, the public opinion will force the program group to explain. Now the situation is generally under control. When the public opinion is completely overturned, everyone will favor you more than before you were hacked. Because it will feel like you are a victim and need to be compensated."

"If you have nothing to do, you can go home and wait for news. I'll be in charge here."

Xia Tingwan raised his head to look at Zhou Yang, his eyes were a little weird.

Zhou Yang couldn't help asking: "What's wrong?"

"Zhou Yang, thank you for your hard work." Xia Tingwan stood up and picked up the coat hanging beside him: "It's just..."

"It's nothing, I just suddenly feel a little confused."

"You said... What should the real me look like in the eyes of others? After being scolded by the whole network for so long, it looks like I can't turn over again, but even this can be seen in one day. Time reversal. It seems that suddenly, those things don’t matter, and it’s like the wind blowing past from the ear, it’s not a big deal.”

When he said this, he lowered his eyes, smiled bitterly, and said softly: "Then the mistakes I said about playing big names and black faces in their mouths before are really that serious? My mistakes are not actually those, yes Well, drunk driving, drunk driving and hurting others, although they didn't meet the standard of criminal responsibility, this is my biggest mistake, but Su Yan covered up the hurting part for me, right?"

Zhou Yang was stunned.

Xia Tingwan didn't wait for him to speak anymore, patted Zhou Yang on the shoulder, turned and walked out of the room.

Now he thinks he understands a little bit. Although Zhou Yang thought the idea he pointed out was very good, he was not very surprised.

Because for Zhou Yang, his ideas are just icing on the cake, even if he can't find anything, Zhou Yang still has his own resources and operation methods to manipulate public opinion.

His observations and contributions may not really be that important compared to large-scale commercial operations.

What can really influence public opinion is Zhou Yang's careful deployment of layer after layer of dissemination and radiation, Su Yan and Zhou Yang's professional team, the official account promotion with generous funds, and the likes of the navy.

At that time, he needed to be scolded by the public, because it was a hot spot, traffic, and business.

Just like today, the public behind each Weibo account needs a reversal, a more eye-catching public opinion feast.

But what about him.

In fact, he is a heterogeneous alien from reality.

He only knows how to play.

In the play, there is not only life like a dream, but also true feelings and true nature.

He thought it was enough for him to know "true".But in fact, his truth has never been able to detect the falsehood of people in this circle.

While waiting for the elevator, Xia Tingwan leaned against the wall wearily.

During the years of marriage with Su Yan, Su Yan was always holding his hand as he walked forward.

In the dark night, he never felt afraid, because he knew that he was always safe by Su Yan's side.

But during the few days when Su Yan was away, he had to grow up alone at an unprecedented speed.

He could almost feel that his fragile skin couldn't keep up with the rapidly growing skeleton inside.

The bones pierced his flesh brutally, making him walk crippled in this pain.

He vaguely felt that even if the public opinion was completely reversed, even if he finally won the audition for "Xun", those achievements in the world may not be his smooth path after all.

But he was alone, and he didn't know where to go.

I couldn't help but think of what Su Yan said to him - it's like walking back and forth in an alley, with darkness at either end.

……

Xia Ting's late two WeChat messages took effect quickly, and at noon he received a brief reply from Xing Le: "I'm in H City, see you in the afternoon."

Xia Tingwan took a deep breath, silently looked at the chat interface where there was almost no content other than those few lines, and replied with "OK".

Think about it after posting, in fact, he has known Xing Le for more than ten years, and this acquaintance has lasted for a long time, even far longer than the existence of WeChat.

Two years ago, at the end of the year when wechat was out of the social circle, he suddenly remembered that Xing Le was his first wechat friend.

At that time, Xing Le was smiling and logging in and out of WeChat on his mobile phone, and then added friends to each other's WeChat through two-line operation.

In the past few years, he changed his mobile phone several times, and he hardly talked with Xing Le in private anymore.

Looking back on those past events now, I suddenly feel a sense of sadness from the bottom of my heart.

While eating lunch with Zhao Nanshu, Xia Tingwan received a call from an unfamiliar number. He was sleepy and didn't care about anything, but after hanging up, the number persisted in calling.

Xia Tingwan took it over and gave Zhao Nanshu a look: "Is it someone you know?"

Zhao Nanshu shook his head, but seeing Xia Tingwan's poor spirit, he tactfully brought the phone to his ear and connected it: "Hello, who is it?"

As soon as the other side answered, Zhao Nanshu's expression changed, and he covered the microphone and leaned over and said, "It's Ye Bingwen."

Xia Tingwan's movements froze.

His complexion became extremely bad, and he took the phone directly: "What's the matter with you?"

"Where's Wen Zichen? With you?"

When Xia Tingwan heard this man's gloomy and cold voice, he felt sick.

He thought of the appearance of Wen Zichen who ran to Xiangshan trembling last night, and the expression when the hands whose nails had been torn off helplessly grasped him, as if a cool poisonous snake ran past him, and he couldn't help shivering.

"Don't pretend, who else can Wen Zichen go to besides you and Su Yan? He doesn't know anyone, only you dare to help him."

Ye Bingwen couldn't hear Xia Tingwan's answer, so he continued: "What? Are you still planning to protect him? Don't you know that I beat him for an hour, and he vomited everything he knew?" Got it? This kind of little bitch who betrays and informs at any time, why bother you."

"Ye Bingwen, I'm not like you."

Xia Tingwan gritted her teeth and said word by word: "You are a beast, do you know that? But anyone with a bit of humanity would not do something like yours. So what if he said it? If he didn't say it, wait." Are you tortured to death alive?"

"Yo, scold me."

Ye Bingwen smiled: "Xia Tingwan, the way you are angry with me with righteous words is so cute. Why don't you think about it, if it weren't for you—how would I know about Wen Zichen and Su Yan's relationship? If it wasn't for you , Wen Zichen wouldn't be made like this by me."

"what are you saying?"

Xia Tingwan stood up abruptly.

It was as if a puddle of hot oil had been splashed on sparks in his heart, making his throat hoarse.

"Su Yan started to engage in Shaoguang, so I naturally couldn't sit still. When I checked him, I found out that after he divorced you, he went out to eat Japanese food with his new love, and he once appeared in the newspaper. At first glance, I thought that new love looked like Wen Zichen. , I played with him for a while before, but it was just like that, I didn’t pay much attention to it, and the photos were too blurry and the distance was far away, so I couldn’t be sure, so I called him over to ask. As a result, at that time Wen Zichen didn't admit it, saying it wasn't him, and he didn't know Su Yan either. I didn't take it too seriously, anyway, this kind of shit, after investigation, at most it was Su Yan's affair in marriage, and it would be nothing more than a scandal if it came out. Not a big scandal."

"But I was very annoyed, so I wanted to play with Wen Zichen two more times. He didn't want to at first, but later he agreed. Heck, the little bitch is playing tricks with me to raise the price. No, I'll go to the hospital to pick him up from work. It just so happened that you blocked him there and asked him for Su Yan's hidden secrets. ——If you hadn't happened to go over to find Wen Zichen, I really wouldn't have guessed that he was lying to me."

When Xia Tingwan heard the end, his body shook involuntarily, and he still held onto Zhao Nanshu's hand to stabilize himself.

It turned out that all that Wen Zichen had endured had something to do with him.

He stubbornly straightened his back, but his violently trembling body exposed his grief and pain.

Ye Bingwen seemed to be able to feel Xia Tingwan's discomfort when he heard this passage, and the more he said it, the more complacent he became in his tone: "That's why I said, I have to thank you, Xia Tingwan, the more I think about it, the more I feel that many things have to be done. Thank you. Just like now, I am worried that I can't find Su Yan's excuse. Cheating is so boring, but you are drunk and hurt people, and Su Yan pays for you to hide the hurt. This is the real thing. What a big deal. Su Yan divorced you on the surface, but actually asked Wen Zichen to help take care of the child, and he was reluctant to tell you to make you feel uncomfortable. I was so fucking touched when I heard it. Really, the whole upper class circle has never seen it I've surpassed someone as stupid as Su Yan."

Xia Tingwan's fingers were trembling all the time, but he couldn't say a word.

"You said, I released the news in my hand, what can Su Yan do?"

Ye Bingwen said: "I didn't dare to do it when he controlled Hengtai to death before, but now? Once this matter comes out, the major shareholders of the other factions within Hengtai are even more eager for Hengtai to follow up immediately. He has cut off the relationship, and when the time comes, he will not be able to step down if he wants to."

As Ye Bingwen was talking, he couldn't help laughing, and said in a low voice: "Xia Tingwan, actually I don't care where Wen Zichen is, really, he's said everything he needs to say, it's useless. I'll call You, I just want to tell you this. It's a pity, I can't see you now, but it's okay, after a while, when I bring Su Yan down, I can do whatever I want with you. "

"How dare you!"

Xia Tingwan suddenly yelled at the phone.

His eyes were red, and he said word by word: "I tell you Ye Bingwen, I also have something against you. Listen carefully, as long as you dare to expose Su Yan, I will immediately hold a press conference for an hour. In the meantime, I will let the entire Chinese circle know that you have unspoken rules for actors and brutally abused homosexuals."

"you……"

Ye Bingwen's laughter stopped abruptly, and he said hoarsely: "What are you farting, you don't mean Wen Zichen, do you? He dare not testify."

"I'll tell you some news." Xia Tingwan said coldly, "The last time I met you on TBN, I already recorded it. Do you not remember what you said? As for anything else besides this The handle, think about it for yourself—get lost."

Xia Tingwan hung up the phone right after saying this.

His voice seemed calm, but in fact he felt a heart was about to jump out of his chest. He looked at Zhao Nanshu with a pale face, took two deep breaths, and said hastily, "Go, hurry to find Xing Le."

Even when he was in a state of extreme emotional shock, he did not disclose that he had Xing Le's video in his hand. Instead, he gave another relatively insignificant news-he had a recording in his hand.

Although the recording was useful, it was far inferior to the video Wen Zichen gave him.

He is misleading Ye Bingwen, but this does not buy much time. Once Ye Bingwen wakes up and starts checking all the bed partners in the entertainment industry, it will be difficult for him to take the initiative.

He must race against time to see Xing Le immediately.