Fang Juexia felt as if his mother was right in front of him, sitting in that familiar chair.
The door that had never been knocked on collapsed in an instant.
There was no sound from the other end of the phone. Fang Juexia began to regret. Perhaps he shouldn't have told her everything so directly. At least, he should have waited until he was home and by her side. He was just confessing everything, but how long would it take for his mother to accept everything? How would she sleep tonight?
"Mom …" Fang Juexia called again.
Finally, a voice came from the other end. It sounded like a sigh, weak and powerless.
"I know." Fang Juexia's mother was trying hard to pretend. Just like all these years, pretending had become a part of her life. Even if they were really abandoned, she had to raise her son alone. But she never showed any pain in front of Fang Juexia. She was always smiling.
But at this moment, when she knew that her husband had hurt her son, her tears finally burst out. "It's my fault, Juexia. I'm sorry."
Hearing his mother cry, Fang Juexia was even sadder. "No, Mom. You're the best mother in the world. You didn't do anything wrong. I just don't want someone else to be forced to tell you this. "
"I know. Don't worry about me. " Fang Juexia's mother tried hard to hold back her tears. "I know. Remember, you'll always be the most important person to me. No matter what happens, you must protect yourself. I'm old. I don't have the ability to continue protecting you. "
Fang Juexia held the phone and squatted down along the wall. He was never a child who was used to expressing his love. The closer he was to home, the more he cared about it, the more he couldn't say it out loud.
Pei Tingsong also squatted down and gently stroked his hair.
"I love you, Mom."
"You still have me."
He finally said it, sobbing like a child.
"In the future … wait for me to come home, okay?"
Pei Tingsong watched all of this from the side. His love for the house, his love for the dog also made him feel as if he was experiencing all of this himself. He didn't understand maternal love, nor did he understand paternal love. He had read many literary works that glorified this feeling and understood the natural dependence of human beings on the mother during their growth. But to him, these were just words to record and topics for thinking.
But Fang Juexia, whom he loved the most, did his best to protect his family.
He was more profound than all words.
After working through the night, everyone began to move. This was a tough battle. His father's reputation was irrefutable, and he was also a drug addict that the netizens hated the most. It was very easy for him to be distracted, so he had to be 120% focused.
Fang Juexia even took out the steel rod that he had kept as evidence.
"But …" Cheng Qiang was a little worried. "Are these not enough evidence to prove that his father abandoned his wife and son?"
This was also what Fang Juexia was worried about.
However, he did not expect to receive an email from his mother at 5: 30 in the morning.
[Juexia, Mom has thought a lot and understood the seriousness of this matter. It's true that Mom has been deceiving herself all these years, but you will always be the person I love the most. You are the child I will protect no matter what. These are the medical records of Mom's treatment in the hospital after she was beaten. All these years, I have filed missing person reports and documents. After he took away all the debts, I checked the accounts. There are also photos of the injuries that I took at the time. Some of them are yours, and some are mine. Originally, I wanted to wait for him to wake up and let him take a look, but I'm afraid I can't wait anymore.
I don't need you to be strong. Mom just wants to wait for you to come home safely and happily.]
Fang Juexia sat in front of the laptop and opened the attachments sent by his mother one by one. Bits and pieces of the past instantly surged into his mind. He felt that he had been disintegrated. His body was in pain, but his soul was still analyzing it rationally.
He even pointed to the bloody wound in the photo and said to Pei Tingsong, "Look at this. I remember that I was only as tall as the table at that time and I was hiding in the corner. After he left, I pulled Mom up and wanted to take her to see a doctor." His side profile did not have much of a painful expression. He just stared at the screen intently. "She covered her head with her clothes and I held her hand. We spent the night in the emergency room."
"The nurses in the emergency room all got to know me later on." Fang Juexia turned to look at Pei Tingsong and smiled. "She said that I was very good-looking and that I was the most good-looking boy she had ever seen."
"Don't look at it anymore." Pei Tingsong closed the screen. "Leave this to them."
Fang Juexia nodded. "It's okay. I can already remember the past very calmly."
He was far stronger than Pei Tingsong had imagined.
The public relations team did not adopt the method of suppressing the news. In order to completely resolve this matter, they did not delete the post, but they did not let it continue to develop. In the later stage of the post, they also arranged for people to come down and directly pointed out that the "AIDS" disease was strange. When one person said that it was a suspicion, everyone felt that it was true and suspected that it was a group of people who came down to criticize it. Thus, the topic began to go astray. The focus of everyone's debate was from what the disease was to whether someone was maliciously slandering it.
At the same time, they arranged for many accounts to release some very inferior and illogical defamation drafts and spread them on the Internet. The serious ones even said that Fang Juexia had a terminal illness. Then, they bribed a few big V accounts to leak the news in advance.
[Have You Gossiped: Liao Zhen, the top celebrity's father has an extremely bad record and has been exposed. When the time comes, there will definitely be people who will come down and use this to slander him. You guys can just wait and see.]
[Melon Field Maker: Some rumors say that the father of a certain idol abandoned his wife and son. Now that his son is famous, he came back to blackmail and ask for a sky-high amount of alimony. It's another real-life drama.]
These melons were quickly transported to other places. For a time, rumors were everywhere, especially many people in the circle, who more or less knew about it.
Although it was not much different from the truth, the public relations team deliberately obscured the drug use in order to make Fang Juexia's self-revelation more impactful. On the other hand, they had not found the person behind this matter for the time being. The unwritten rule in the circle was not to put the other party's team on the table. However, the first impression was very important. Fang Juexia's image as a victim had to be seen by the public one step earlier.
Therefore, they temporarily pushed the father who caused all this to the opposite side.
Fang Juexia struggled with this matter. If it only affected himself, perhaps he would give up this public relations method. However, he was not only Fang Juexia, he was also Fang Juexia. He also had five teammates who would accompany him through thick and thin.
He had too many responsibilities to shoulder.
The team arranged to rush out the drafts for the major public accounts and Weibo marketing in the shortest time possible to ensure the control of the follow-up initiative and public opinion. Each draft was completed by a professional writer. Only Fang Juexia's clarification draft was written by himself. The team only helped him polish and edit it.
When the draft was finally finalized, it was already 11 o 'clock in the afternoon. Fang Juexia, who had not slept all night, sat at the table and copied the clarification draft he wrote. He took a picture and posted it on Weibo.
[Kaleido Fang Juexia: Share the picture.]
[I'm very sorry to take up public resources. Here, I have a few things to confess to everyone.
First of all, my father was a drug addict who used contraband all year round. When I was in elementary school, my father's future was ruined, so his temperament changed drastically. At first, he drank too much and often beat and scolded my mother and me. Later, he got addicted to contraband and became a completely different person. We suffered in the haze of domestic violence and drugs for five years. On the eve of my thirteenth birthday, he took away the small amount of savings we had and all of our valuables and left us.
Not long ago, ten years later, he appeared again. He followed me with a steel rod and attempted to kidnap me. We were afraid that he would do more harm to me and my family, so we sent him to rehab. His appearance surprised me and made me very scared. Drugs had already corroded his humanity. I was mentally and physically exhausted. Not long ago, my company received a sky-high blackmail price. If I didn't agree, they would expose the fact that my biological father was a drug addict. But I think, this is the truth. There's no need for others to speak, I'll do it. He is him, I am me. I'm grateful to him for giving me life. But ten years ago, when I returned home and saw that the house was almost emptied, there was no father and son relationship between us.
Moreover, regarding the so-called "hidden disease" circulating on the Internet, I would like to disclose it here. I have congenital night blindness. My night vision is low and the possibility of curing it is very low. My childhood dream was to be a dancer, but night blindness made me lose this possibility forever. The psychological trauma left by this incident caused me to passively hide it. The singers and groups on stage were both bright and dark, which ignited a glimmer of hope in me. However, a person who has a high chance of being blind on stage is not qualified to debut in any entertainment company. So I hid the fact that I had night blindness and used endless practice to make myself try not to make mistakes.
As for the rumors about other diseases on the Internet, including the long-standing "hidden rules" rumors, we will also take corresponding legal measures to protect our reputation. This is my disease. I don't deny that it is a part of me, just like the birthmark on my face. But please don't put labels that don't belong to me. Otherwise, I will take these labels and send them to you with a legal summons.]
This letter didn't have too much emotion. The tone was neither servile nor overbearing, and the handwriting was powerful. But the people who read it, whether they were fans who sincerely supported him or passers-by who were originally indifferent, were all shocked.
Who would have thought that the most popular male artist today would be born in such a family? What was even more unexpected was that he would stand up and publicly reveal all of this.
Except for the first picture of the letter, the rest of the pictures were all related evidence. The second picture was an old picture of Fang Juexia when he was still a child. There was a birthmark at the corner of his eye and blood at the corner of his mouth. The picture was objective and cold, showing all the dangers that a child born in a failed family would encounter. Bloody toes, bruises on his arms and back, and stitches on his mother's head. Fang Juexia put up all the certificates his mother left for him and medical records from the doctor.
As long as they didn't hurt the people around him, Fang Juexia was willing to be watched.
He was willing to use his wounds to satisfy everyone's desire to pry.
Drug abuse, domestic violence, kidnapping and extortion, top class … These words full of sharp contradictions caught everyone's eyes in a very short period of time. # Fang Juexia's handwritten letter # also went viral and attracted the attention of the entire Internet.
[Black Sugar Pearl Milk Tea: F * ck … Stalking, kidnapping and domestic violence, is this what his f * cking father did?!]
[90s Steam Wave: I didn't expect it to be so explosive before clicking on the hot search … So fjx's father is a drug addict and abandoned his wife and son, and now he's going to blackmail his rich son?! Why doesn't he just die?! F * ck, I'm going to faint from this scumbag father through the screen!]
[Kenheart: I didn't expect that the childhood picture of a celebrity on the hot search would be like this. So small and so thin, I feel so sad looking at the wound …]
[Trash Hub replies to Kenheart: Who knows if this picture is real or fake? Maybe he found a "little actor" to draw a red line to imitate the birthmark and put some special makeup on the wound. What's this? It's not impossible for him to whitewash himself. If his father is a drug addict, how good can his son be?]
[I'll Shark You Pig replies to Trash Hub: Your name is Trash Hub, what kind of good trash can you be?]
[What Time Do You Sleep Today replies to Trash Hub: This is too much. This is clearly fjx's childhood. How can there be such a similar child? It's not a big mistake to lack empathy for other people's sufferings, but if you spit and maliciously slander someone after seeing their tragic experience, then you really don't have a heart.]
[Milky Way's Number One Sweetheart: When I saw the part "Not long ago, our company received a sky-high extortion price …", my hair stood on end. So someone who knows this pain and still wants to use this to threaten a popular celebrity. That's heartless.]
[Pretty Baby Scenery: I'm so sad. You may not know this, but Fang Juexia has never used Weibo. Some time ago, on his birthday, he posted something. Then, he posted something about World Drug Prohibition Day. At that time, we didn't know why, but now that we see this … I really can't imagine how he grew up. It's so sad.]
[Domino Never Admits Defeat: God, night blind. That brother was almost blind on many stages before, but he didn't make any mistakes. How long did he have to practice to be able to do this? No wonder his hearing was so sensitive when he was blindfolded on the show. He was already used to it. God, now that I think about it, there are so many details that match up. Juexia is too difficult.]
[Stay Kind: Previously, hzy was an orphan. Now, it's fjx. This is really the most miserable boy group in history. Is this industry so bad that they have to expose their privacy to prove their innocence?]
[I Want to Read Four Books This Month: I didn't like fjx before. I just felt that his personality was a bit too quiet and not likable. Now, I still feel quite sorry. After seeing this, this kind of family really has a big impact on children. My dad also loses his temper and hits people when he's drunk. Sigh, I don't hate him. I just hate myself because I'm similar to him.]
[Playplayyy: The last sentence was quite tough. It didn't say anything about a fake lawyer's letter, but a legal subpoena. Just based on this, I believe him. At least he's using real swords and guns as a legal weapon.]
[Egg Fried Rice with Yakult: I'm speechless that SRDS hid his night blindness when he debuted. His dad probably didn't tell the company about his drug abuse either. It's irresponsible of him to hide so much explosive news when he debuted.]
[Egg Fried Rice with Yakult: Although he knew, he used it blindly. Why? His son doesn't deserve to be a human when his dad is a drug addict? What kind of infectious disease is night blindness? Does he bring disaster to everyone once he enters the company? To put it bluntly, since he still wants to go on stage despite knowing that he has night blindness, he will only bring disaster to himself if he falls off the stage or even falls to his death. Also, you're too naive. It's impossible that the company doesn't know about this kind of publicity. Only you know. Other people's idols are born to be on stage, while you're born to be in the parking lot.]
Just as the controversy continued, the official Weibo of Star Map Company also released a message saying that they would take measures to protect their artists. They also said that they had already sued a few account bloggers for spreading rumors. The relevant legal documents were put out, and their tough attitude was reflected.
Fans reposted it one after another, supporting the company to protect their artists. Some of the online articles that the public relations team had arranged earlier were also released one after another. First, there was an article written from the perspective of the haters. It shifted the conflict to the point of whether a child should expose her father for her own sake. The article strongly promoted filial piety and patriarchal power, glorified "domestic violence", and ignored the point of drug abuse. These were almost all stepping on the minefield of Weibo's "public opinion". It quickly caused netizens to repost it. Almost everyone was scolding it. In the end, angry netizens even deleted this long Weibo complaint.
The appearance of this article pulled back the netizens who originally didn't support Fang Juexia. Perhaps they hated celebrities, but they hated drug abuse, domestic violence, and extreme patriarchal power even more.
After that, the PR team continued to release other articles through different Internet VIPs or public accounts. Most of them analyzed the incident from a more rational point of view. Some of them were articles about the original family, some were about Kopp's drug use, and some were about the entertainment archaeology. They edited some of Fang Juexia's past performances in variety shows and his performance on the dark stage. These were all pieces that the audience loved to watch.
At night, when the public opinion was at its peak, they had already broken down a very shocking conflict into many small conflicts, scattering and hitting the hearts of different groups. Although everyone knew that it was Fang Juexia's fault, no matter from which angle, he was not the real victim. Therefore, there would be different people who sympathized with him from different angles.
At ten o 'clock in the evening, Pei Tingsong posted on Weibo. However, unlike his usual temperament, he only posted one sentence.
[Eido Pei Tingsong: There is no such thing as domestic violence. There is only the crime of intentional injury. A crime is a crime.]
This Weibo post quickly became a hot search and was reposted by many netizens. Not long after, several other members of Kaledo also reposted Pei Tingsong and Fang Juexia's Weibo posts.
[Give Me a Dried Fish: The best thing about Kaledo is that every time a member is in trouble, the rest of the members will definitely speak up for their brothers. It's not icing on the cake, but sending charcoal in the snow. I hope Juexia Ge can survive.]
The appearance of the teammates also divided the center of public opinion. In addition to them, some other celebrities also appeared, such as Zhai Ying, who Fang Juexia had previously survived. There were also their senior brothers, friends who they had worked with, and even colleagues who they had never met before.
Whether it was out of sincerity or popularity, everyone stood up to oppose domestic violence and drug addiction. These were all positive public opinion, and they also made things develop in a good direction.
However, at the same time, there were also some people who took the opportunity to drag Fang Juexia down with them, and they were not a small number. They used the psychology of being implicated to smear Fang Juexia's reputation and brought up the old matter of the unspoken rules again. They said that big companies were extremely strict in selecting candidates, and that there must be something wrong with Fang Juexia's family for him to be able to become a prospective graduate of Astar.
Such remarks also began to spread in this chaotic battle of public opinion. Many opponents and haters came down one after another, attributing his experience of almost debuting at Astar to the "unspoken rules". They twisted the fact that he left Astar in the end to him being kicked out because Astar knew about his family situation and his sugar daddy abandoned him.
The public relations team dealt with the unspoken rules theory. In order to completely resolve this rumor, they found Fang Juexia, hoping that he could tell them what happened at Astar at that time. Fang Juexia hesitated again and again, and finally gave a reply that it was fine to clarify that the unspoken rules were just rumors, and there was no need for a review.
At this point, he still did not want to reveal the past of Liang Ruo being drugged and raped in order to clear his name. Even if he did not mention the name, it was very easy for everyone to dig it out.
It was too easy to destroy a person.
The public relations team had no other choice but to suppress this kind of false statement as much as possible. However, using legal means might sound tough, but the cycle was too long, and the damage to the star had already been done. However, since Fang Juexia was unwilling to say, they could not force him. At least on the matter of his biological father's drug addiction, they had already controlled public opinion and had the absolute upper hand.
Being at the center of the whirlpool, Fang Juexia did not care much about the development of the public opinion, nor did he sleep. During the day, he still worked according to his previous schedule. At night, he could not take it anymore and was dragged by Pei Tingsong to the small work room. On the lazy sofa, Pei Tingsong hugged him and slept for two hours.
When he woke up, Pei Tingsong's phone rang. Jiang Miao and the others bought food and came over. Later, they would have to film a promotional video for the television station. Hence, Fang Juexia also got up. They found an empty dance studio and sat on the floor to eat, just like before they debuted.
Fang Juexia looked a little haggard. His eye sockets were a little sunken, and his almost transparent eyelids showed blue and purple blood vessels. His eyes were also blue and bloodshot.
Ling Yi took a bowl of porridge, stirred it with a spoon, and handed it to him. "Juexia, eat more. This shrimp porridge is very delicious. There are a lot of shrimps in it."
Fang Juexia softly thanked her and took a bite. "Mm, it's delicious."
His teammates did not say too many words of concern. Everyone tacitly chose to interact with each other as usual. Fang Juexia was very grateful to them. He was most afraid of sudden and overwhelming concern.
"Thank you." He put down the porridge and looked at everyone. "I'm also very sorry that I kept you guys in the dark for so long."
Lu Yuan put down his chopsticks. "What are you apologizing for? Aren't we brothers?"
"Juexia, do you remember that on your birthday, everyone said that they hoped that you would rely on us more in the future?" He Ziyan looked at him. "You have to remember these words. It's not polite words like 'I'll support you'. We already know that you have a lot of burdens on your shoulders. That's why we said these words. "
Jiang Miao, who was sitting beside him, picked up a shrimp dumpling for him. "Yeah, did you forget? Last time, you told me that we were family."
"Really? Juexia really said that? " Ling Yi put down his bowl and hugged him. "Juexia, I really like you. I treat you like my own brother. We're family, right?" Ling Yi talked a lot and made himself cry. He even asked Fang Juexia to wipe his tears. "Yes, don't cry."
Ling Yi sniffed hard. "Mm!"
"I can't eat my noodles anymore from your sniffling." Pei Tingsong complained.
"Juexia, look at him!"
Jiang Miao brushed Fang Juexia's bangs and whispered, "His hair has grown out again. The stylist will fix it later."
Fang Juexia gripped his chopsticks so tightly that his knuckles turned white.
He once thought that he was full of misfortune and that every step he took led to a tragic failure. That was why he tried his best to live. Even if he was in the dark, he wanted to live "correctly."
He once thought that he would be alone forever, trapped in an inescapable darkness.
But that was the biggest mistake.
Everything in the world was in a relative balance. Love and hate, beauty and ugliness, success and failure, misfortune and fortune. He did have a tragic life. He tore apart Chen Shang with his own hands. Every step he took was bloody. But he had obtained an even more precious treasure.
Fang Juexia raised his head and looked at his teammates who were still fooling around. A long-lost smile appeared on his face.
They were the greatest fortune in his life.
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