With just a few casual words, I've swept the music scene.

Just as Zhuo Tao was going crazy, Xu Huaixing, the deputy director of the Cultural Bureau, called:

"The matter between Xu Yuanjiang and Fanfu Culture is their own business. Your Yuting Culture should stop interfering! Tell your singers' fans to shut up, and those online trolls to leave! This matter ends here!"

Zhuo Tao got anxious as soon as he heard this, thinking to himself, "Does this old man even know which side he's on?"

"Director Xu, what do you mean by this?" he asked unhappily.

Xu Huaixing's voice was icy: "I'm speaking to you now out of personal consideration. If you continue down the wrong path, the next call will be from our bureau chief to summon Yuting Culture!"

Zhuo Tao was taken aback: "It's just a cyber war between two private companies, why has it alarmed the bureau chief?"

"Alarmed the bureau chief?" Xu Huaixing sneered. "You're underestimating us. This is Vice Mayor Liu's order! With National Day approaching, Fanfu Culture has made outstanding contributions to Linhai's celebrations. At this time, anyone who goes against it is going against Vice Mayor Liu and even the entire municipal government! I don't need to say anything more, do I?"

After hanging up the phone, Zhuo Tao looked grief-stricken and indignant.

"This is unreasonable! Absolutely unreasonable!"

"You brat surnamed Wang, you don't follow the rules of the underworld!"

"It's common for entertainment companies to start arguing and insulting each other online!"

"Why the hell did you drag official forces into this?"

"Is what you're doing really ethical?"

"Is it particular?"

That's how tasteless people are. They're smug when they get a good deal, and they complain about unfairness when they suffer a loss. They never think about who first dragged in official forces to suppress the other side.

After he finished hurling insults, Zhuo Tao could only call his assistant over, looking dejected, and ask him to withdraw the online trolls and quiet down the fans of his singers.

Without these things, the battle between Xu Yuanjiang and the CEO will now depend entirely on their own abilities.

After watching this episode of "The Voice of China," Zhuo Tao knew that Xu Yuanjiang was doomed to lose, and all his previous plans would be in vain.

Sitting on the sofa, he was lost in thought for a long time, and couldn't help but recall the advice his assistant had given him earlier.

This time they really lost a lot of money. They spent so much money on Xu Yuanjiang's son, but it all went down the drain.

Now, all we can do is hope that Xu Yuanjiang has the nerve to stop making us continue to pay for his son's money after losing to Fanfu Culture.

But what if he's shameless?

Does this mean Yuting Culture is going to cut off its supply?

That's impossible too.

Because Xu Yuanjiang is the biggest supporter of Yuting Culture in the official music circle, if the supply is cut off, Xu Yuanjiang will inevitably turn against Yuting Culture. At that time, how can I explain to Chen Yuting who is far away in the United States?

Zhuo Tao suddenly felt like crying.

After that night, "Nothing to My Name" became a huge hit, and "Good Days" and "Love My China" also became famous all over the country!

At this point, Wang Ke released the instrumental versions of the two songs, officially beginning his competition with Xu Yuanjiang in the Weibo poll.

Without comparison, there is no harm. Before these two songs came out, everyone thought that Xu Yuanjiang's songs were really good. With the help of online trolls and fans of Yuting Culture, these two songs reached a level that they should not have reached.

But when the true dragon appears, the snakes naturally retreat. As soon as Wang Ke's two songs were released, the popularity of Xu Yuanjiang's two songs immediately dropped. In addition, the online trolls and Yuting Culture fans all withdrew, and Xu Yuanjiang's songs were quickly suppressed by these two songs and could not rise again.

In just one day, Wang Ke's two songs tied with Xu Yuanjiang's two songs in the vote. In the following days, the votes for "Good Days" and "Love My China" continued to climb, leaving Xu Yuanjiang's two songs far behind, by several streets!

Netizens were excited and flocked to Xu Yuanjiang's Weibo to leave messages:

"Teacher Xu, you said there are always people more capable than you, and there's always something beyond your understanding. It's so true! Look, there's even someone like Mr. Fan right here besides you!"

"Teacher Xu, shouldn't you take the initiative to admit defeat? After all, that would show that you can let go of the defeat gracefully!"

Some people even went so far as to use sarcastic or veiled language:

"Where did all those guys who used to be chasing after you go? Did they quit because they weren't paid enough?"

"They made such a big splash before, why are they so deserted now? Could it all really be a bunch of paid trolls?"

Looking at the vastly different vote count and the comments left by netizens on his Weibo, Xu Yuanjiang felt utterly ashamed and embarrassed.

Finally, under constant questioning from netizens, he simply resorted to shamelessness and deleted all the Weibo posts that had previously challenged Wang Ke!

Then I closed Weibo and never looked at it again, just pretending nothing happened!

Anyway, he has official connections, so no matter how dissatisfied netizens are, they don't dare to make harassing phone calls to him or confront him directly. As long as he buries his head in the sand, no one can do anything to him!

But this move naturally drew a barrage of criticism online, and the veteran artist's reputation plummeted, far from what it used to be.

But the good thing about them is that they are old enough and don't actually use the internet much, so turning off Weibo won't have much of an impact on their lives.

Public opinion?

If he cared about this, would he have jumped out to challenge a new generation of singers? Would he have directly hinted to Zhuo Tao over the phone to give him money to raise his son?

But to his utter surprise, just one day later, the Chinese Music Association held a rectification meeting, where Vice Chairman Guo Yafen criticized "certain people" without naming names.

Although no names were mentioned, anyone who wasn't stupid could tell that Vice Chairman Guo was referring to Xu Yuanjiang!

Immediately afterwards, the music association made some personnel changes, and he was transferred from the National Music Committee to the Creative Supervision Committee.

Although nominally a lateral transfer, the Creative Supervision Committee's function is to supervise its members and prevent them from neglecting their creative work. Under the special circumstances of the old era, it certainly had a lot of power, but now it has long become a useless remnant of the old era, so it has been demoted.

Xu Yuanjiang was completely bewildered and couldn't understand why.

Later, after asking around, it was discovered that this was proposed by Vice Chairman Guo Yafen at a leadership meeting.

Someone close to Xu Yuanjiang offered him some words of sympathy and advice:

"Let's just let this matter go! Of all people to mess with, why did you have to provoke the 'Overturning Culture'?"

"That song 'My Hometown by the Sea' was written by Fan Zong! It has now become Vice Chairman Guo's representative work and will definitely be included in the Chinese Classical Music Library. Do you think Vice Chairman Guo wouldn't help Fan Zong Culture?"

"More importantly—I heard that the song Vice Chairman Guo sang at this year's National Day Gala was also written by someone else!"

"Old Xu, you've really walked right into a trap!"

Xu Yuanjiang nearly fainted from anger after hearing these words.

That bastard Zhuo Tao didn't tell me about these things beforehand!

That bastard really screwed me over!