CHAPTER 637: CHAPTER 592: REPUTATION PLUMMETS (PART 2)

The poster sensationalized the copy:

[Listen up! This is the truth! The so-called ’Charity Queen’ Yan Yueqing had long known about the national new energy plan and accurately bottomed out the nearly bankrupt Sea Star Company, controlling its core assets at a minimal cost! A month of ’meticulous management’ was just an act to stabilize the employees! Now that the plan is implemented, the astronomical compensation has all gone into her pocket! And those employees she ’saved’? The relocated households have suddenly become rich overnight, whereas the non-relocated ones face unemployment! Does she think a light ’arrangement’ can brush off these hard-working laborers who created value for her? ’Trust’? How pale and ridiculous! Isn’t this hypocrisy? Isn’t this blatant capitalist exploitation?! Give the working class a fair deal! Boycott hypocritical capitalists!]

The carefully edited recording, accompanied by inflammatory interpretations, was like dropping cold water into a boiling oil pot, and it exploded instantly!

Breaking! Yan Yueqing exposed for hypocrisy and employee exploitation!# (Breaking)

Yan Yueqing Sea Star Company Recording# (Trending)

Charity Queen Persona Collapses# (Trending)

The trending keyword quickly hit the top, followed by glaring "Breaking" tags.

The comment sections of official news, Li Yuanyuan’s gratitude post from a month ago, Yan Yueqing’s personal super topics... all places related to her were instantly flooded with negative comments:

[Gross! I’m really disgusted! I thought she was different from other capitalists, but her tactics are even deeper! She bottomed out accurately, pretended for a month, just to swallow the astronomical compensation alone! So calculating!]

[The person in the recording is right! They are just cannon fodder! Squeezed dry of their last bit of value! Yan Yueqing, doesn’t your conscience hurt?!]

[An arrangement? Hilarious! It’s probably just a bit of N+1 to brush off beggars! Compared to that huge sum, it’s not even a drop in the bucket!]

[Listening to it made my blood boil! The lower-level employees are just too kind and easy to deceive!]

[I told you something was wrong when she took over that broken company! It was indeed for the relocation! What a big philanthropist act! Disgusting! Unfollowed!]

[Boycott all industries under Yan Yueqing! Boycott such hypocritical capitalists! Xingyue Entertainment’s artists’ fans, stop playing dead! Your main boss is this kind of person!]

[@Haidu Official @Labor Inspection This matter must be investigated! Investigate if there was any foul play when she took over! Investigate how she plans to ’arrange’ those unemployed employees!]

Of course, many fans and rational netizens also made efforts to refute:

[Can a obviously edited recording convict someone? All the charity Yan Yueqing did before was fake? How many children and families has she helped!]

[The new energy plan was only announced today! President Yan took over Sea Star a month ago! How could she have ’known’ beforehand? Is she clairvoyant? Heizi’s logic is fed to dogs?]

[The signs of incitement and pacing in the recording are too obvious! That ringleader employee absolutely has issues! Being used as a pawn!]

[I believe in President Yue! She has never let anyone down! Waiting for the reversal to slap Heizi’s face!]

However, amidst the overwhelming accusations of "hypocrisy" and "exploitation," these voices of defense seemed like a drop in the ocean.

Once the flame of anger is ignited, the truth is often cast aside.

Labels of "wealth built on inhumanity" and "exploiting the lower classes" were ruthlessly slapped onto Yan Yueqing.

At the center of the storm, undercurrents surged even more violently within Sea Star Company.

With the overwhelming barrage of online curses, company employees couldn’t possibly ignore it.

Those who had just been somewhat reassured by Yan Yueqing’s call were once again shaken violently.

Non-relocated employees felt conflicted inside, some blaming those who brought the matter online, others secretly feeling that he spoke the words they dared not express.

Relocated employees became even more silent, fearful of inviting trouble, but the joy of impending wealth was overshadowed by the oppressive atmosphere and online condemnation around them.

Wang Daman saw those screens full of "boycott," "hypocrisy," "exploitation," saw his edited voice become a rallying horn, felt a morbid thrill, but was quickly overtaken by great fear.

The situation had blown up beyond his expectations.

If Yan Yueqing could know the national policy in advance, finding out it was him and crushing him in the water shouldn’t be difficult, right?

He coldly broke into a sweat upon realizing this.

Lei Ran locked himself in the office, his face ashen, staring at those revolting comments on the computer screen, his fist clenched tightly.

Which bastard is leading the charge?!

Would President Yan see these comments and, in anger, abandon these employees?