Qi Xingzhou bombarded Jiang Ning with a string of questions, and she was the most surprised of all.
Normally, Qi Xingzhou’s speech was so sparing it could be described as "precious as gold." Far from initiating conversation, even when asked something, he would never use a third word if two could suffice.
In Jiang Ning’s mind, calling Qi Xingzhou an innocent and harmless little lamb wasn’t an exaggeration.
Now, this little lamb was actually seeking people out to talk?
However, Jiang Ning was naturally pleased and delighted by this change in Qi Xingzhou. She silently stepped back and waited for him to continue.
The netizens in the live stream felt Qi Xingzhou was speaking for them. Usually silent, he had now, once he spoke, directly asked what everyone wanted to know.
[How come I never noticed before that Qi Xingzhou speaks so directly?]
[All those live streamers who love to ramble endlessly and keep the viewers in suspense should come and learn from Qi Xingzhou.]
[Hahaha there seems to be a little impatience in him.]
[Qi Xingzhou is speaking from our viewers’ perspective.]
[No, no, he probably wants to know why someone would spend money on the internet to hire trolls to blacken their names even more than anyone else.]
The netizens were abuzz with discussion, waiting to see the excitement unfold.
What Qi Xingzhou had just expressed was exactly what everybody was thinking.
If Fang Haozhi wasn’t feeling guilty, why would he spend money to hire trolls online to slander Jiang Ning, and why did he run away upon recognizing Jiang Ning’s car before anyone even got out?
This was clearly the behavior of someone with a guilty conscience!
He might even be a big fish!
"What nonsense are you talking about!" Fang Haozhi was indeed intimidated for a second by Qi Xingzhou’s impressive demeanor and cold tone, but he quickly recovered.
Qi Xingzhou was not a policeman; there was no need for him to be afraid.
Besides, the policemen standing to the side hadn’t spoken a word. What right did Qi Xingzhou have to speak to him and to say he would only give him one chance? If it weren’t for the fact that he had seen the variety show featuring Jiang Ning and Qi Xingzhou and knew that both were novices from the entertainment industry without any significant status, he might have actually been fooled by Qi Xingzhou’s imposing manner.
However, since Jiang Ning and Qi Xingzhou had managed to find him, he might actually have some evidence of him hiring trolls.
Fang Haozhi had a sudden idea and said, "I admit I paid for trolls and had them publish some negative comments about you online. But I had no other malicious intent; I was just upset to see how high-profile you’ve been lately, so I chose this wrong approach to vent my own feelings."
"Lately, every time I open my phone, I can see videos of you saving people or catching criminals, but who knows if they’re real or fake," Fang Haozhi complained, "I thought you were those online celebrities who just want to be famous, so I got the wrong idea and made a mistake."
"It wasn’t until I stumbled upon your live stream just now, talking about catching trolls and their backers, that I began to realize you might actually be serious."
"I don’t want to end up like Miao Bin, to lose face in front of netizens, or for people who know me to see me in your live stream. I especially don’t want people who know me to find out I’ve been hiring trolls to slander you behind your back, so that’s why, after recognizing your car, I rode off on my motorcycle right away..."
As Fang Haozhi spoke, he raised his hand, intending to wipe his face, but just as his fingers were about to touch his cheek, he forcefully withdrew his hand.
The mineral water bottle he had used earlier had limited water; it was only enough to rinse his mouth.