Ch42 – Situation Reversal

[Salted fish was originally fish: Hahahaha, I’m dying from laughing. That face slap came so fast, like a tornado~]

[Drinking cold water in the middle of the night: The unspeakable secret was the Academy of Sciences all along!]

[WEAK hearted idiot: Consultant? Damn it, when did the anchor become a consultant to the Academy? How did I not know anything?]

[Handsome sheep:! ! ! Just how many identities does the anchor have! I’m starting to suspect that I’m a fake fan QvQ]

With the Academy of Sciences’ post, the public opinion became even more biased towards Ruan Tang. The Academy of Sciences had existed since the beginning of the empire. It also played a leading role in its development. Its activities had always benefited the empire and its people. Its position in the hearts of the people was sacred.

Now that Ruan Tang had the support of the Academy and even held such a lofty position as consultant, it suddenly dispelled the doubts of the overwhelming majority of people. Who doesn’t have a secret or two? If Ruan Tang’s character or origins had problems, would the Academy not know? Maybe he was a high-grade talent that the Academy had carefully cultivated!

And then the series of events that followed afterwards made people believe that they were watching the coming of a legend.

Following the news of the release of the sauces, the Academy of Sciences also produced a list of donations:

“The Unspeakable Academy of Sciences V: As entrusted to us by Mr Ruan Tang, his fees for the patent and subsequent share of sales for these innovative sauces has been donated by the Academy in his stead. The donations are divided between children’s health and women’s rights, totaling 10.34 million GM coins.”

As if it was agreed in advance, the Chefs’ Association also issued a similar notice, and the details of the bonuses donated by the Chefs’ Association in his stead totaling 6 million coins was released.

In this short period of time after being discharged from the hospital, the amount of universal coins donated by this individual alone has reached 16 million! This is a huge fortune that ordinary people simply couldn’t imagine!

[Little white is not white: My god, who will help me up? I, I, I seem to be a little dizzy…]

After the post of the Academy of Sciences, the attitude of the people towards Ruan Tang had already changed from their initial suspicion to having their regard for him as high as a mountain. After having found out that Ruan Tang also energetically supported the public good, they now looked at him like some immortal descended to Earth. His whole body was shrouded with golden light and exuded positive energies. He was very much in keeping with the Empire’s core values.

The most frightening thing was that even the military also joined in the fray. They were happy to announce that, under Ruan Tang’s guidance, the military dining hall would soon be established!

[Miao Miao loves to eat all the dishes of the anchor: Military dining hall?? what? ? ]

[Su Su Su Su Yan Shao: So the reason the anchor hadn’t been broadcasting these past two days was because he was helping out the military to set up the dining hall?]

[The firm and unyielding king Jing Ze: Looks like the military is now also our rival in getting the love of good men 🙂 Accept these flames of fury from the taxpayers!]

[Thousands of black birds: Fighting over men! I’m speechless xd]

[Liu Yebai: What I want to know is can the military dining hall be opened to the public? ”[doge

[Qi Jiu Mo Ran: My brother works for the military. Do family members have access to the dining hall?]

The people woke up from the Marketing accounts’ misleading criticisms and the water army’s tempo. They recalled how they had been crying out for Ruan Tang to explain himself before and they suddenly felt dumbfounded. What kind of Mary Sue plot was this? Just how did they get roped into this conspiracy theory?

[Star Heart: He’s a film emperor, the youngest four-star chef, a consultant of the Academy of Sciences, with good looks and outstanding moral character. I would like to ask where I can find such a man. QvQ]

[Little Swallows fly: To the commenter above, you still don’t know? Now that he’s come of age, I can now add him into my household register. First come, first served. Sugar is already lying on my bed! ]

[Can’t stop hugging trees: … nonsense, our anchor clearly belongs to everyone!]

[Fantasy Purple: Does this brother have a girlfriend already? Want to marry QAQ]

……

Now that the situation has completely reversed, no matter how much they struggled, the water army had absolutely no way to compete with the three major authorities of the Academy of Sciences, the Chefs’ Association and the Military. Once they appear they would immediately be drowned in a stream of invectives. This incident of exposing Ruan Tang’s identity has finally returned to its natural course. Because of this incident, many people had turned into Ruan Tang’s “face fans”. Many of his former casual fans, after having experienced this wave of abuse, have started to become Ruan Tang’s die-hard fans.

Next time someone wanted to use the public opinion to blacken Ruan Tang, I’m afraid it will not be so easy.

Multi-talented with outstanding character, Ruan Tang’s image as a male god has been fully established. The number of fans on his Weibo and Live Broadcast channel once again skyrocketed.

With such a strong counterattack, the number of fans in his Weibo and Live Broadcast channel had broken through the one billion mark. No matter how many or few real fans there were, with this number of fans he had already entered the Empire’s top fifty. If they took out the official Weibo accounts, he could even break into the top ten.

The matter had been perfectly resolved. He Yun Chen, who had been closely monitoring the situation all along, let out a sigh of relief. It was just in time for an afternoon break. He set down his work and headed towards the temporary kitchen classroom.

When he came to the kitchen again, Ruan Tang was concentrating on teaching his six apprentices to make green peppers and shredded pork. The room was full of spicy food aromas.

“Marshal!” Wang Jun and others uniformly saluted He Yun Chen.

“En.” He Yun Chen slightly nodded, and then gave Ruan Tang a meaningful glance.

Ruan Tang immediately understood and let his apprentices practice on their own. He then followed He Yun Chen to one corner of the room.

“How are things? Did things go off without a hitch?” Ruan Tang couldn’t help but ask.

“Things went very smoothly.” He Yun Chen told him what happened on the star network. “Starting tomorrow, you can resume your live broadcasts. After this, no one would dare to cause trouble for you.”

“Thank you!” Ruan Tang was very happy that his life could return to normal. Although these past few days in the military headquarters had been very fulfilling, without his live broadcasts, he still felt that something was missing.

“You’re welcome.” He Yun Chen glanced at the soldiers in the room, and asked, “How are their studies coming along?”

“They’re all very good. All of them have strong learning abilities. Today, we have already learned how to make three dishes – meaty glutinous rice cakes, hot and sour shredded potatoes and green pepper with shredded pork.” Ruan Tang replied with a smile.

“Well, in the next two days, the dining hall will be almost finished. Will you come over tomorrow?”

“Of course.” Ruan Tang didn’t hesitate to reply. He wasn’t the type to abandon his students halfway through. In any case, the future world’s transportation was very convenient. It was no trouble at all for him to come here and back. And the live broadcast could be done anywhere. It didn’t have to be done at home.

Over on this side, their conversation was very joyous, life was peaceful and tranquil. However, on Wei Zhuo’s side, things were looking bleak.

Originally Wei Zhuo saw that regardless whether he apologized or deleted his post, Zhou Jing would refuse to listen or give any concessions. He thought, “If things won’t go well for me, I won’t let things go well for you either.” He issued a challenge targeting Ruan Tang, intending to raise another wave of interest, establish the tempo anew. He hadn’t expected the Academy of Sciences to jump out and firmly establish itself in Ruan Tang’s camp.

Moreover, in addition to the Academy of Sciences, unexpectedly, the Chefs’ Association and the Military came out to support him. In what way was he a pitiful wretch without any background? Clearly, he was the pearl in the palm of these big shots in the empire!

The other party had pretended to be a pig to prey on the tiger and Wei Zhuo knew that he was that “tiger”. Wei Zhuo hated that he couldn’t just lose consciousness on the spot.

“Wasn’t he supposed to be a has-been grassroots celebrity without any background? Targeting him shouldn’t have caused any trouble at all! Just what is going on?! Ah?!” As soon as he spoke, he was slapped in the face. Wei Zhuo regretted it so much, his intestines turned green. Had he known that so many big buddhas were supporting Ruan Tang, how could he have dared to provoke the other. He would have rushed to hug that golden thigh!

He would never have dared to provoke even a single one of these forces. Now, all of a sudden, he has found that he had provoked all three. Wei Zhuo began to doubt that he would still live to see the light of day.

“Boss… We also have no idea what’s going on!” Wei Zhuo’s several subordinate paparazzi were also losing their head out of fear.

But it was too late to say anything, and now only one person could help him.

Wei Zhuo hurriedly opened his light brain, retrieved the address book, and dialed out a communication number.

It didn’t take long for the call to be connected.

“What?” A cold and indifferent male voice came through from the other side.

“Ye Shao! It’s a disaster! That Ruan guy…”

“I know.” Wei Zhuo’s words hadn’t yet finished when he was cut off by the other party called Ye Shao.

“Then, what do I do now?” Wei Zhuo asked in a panic.

“I sent five million to you. This is the end of the matter. What you should say and what you shouldn’t say, you should already know.” The tone of the other party was still as cold and indifferent as before, one could even call it freezing.

“What?” Wei Zhuo was stunned. “This isn’t a question of money. That Zhou Jing is really going to go through with it. That contract was covered by a confidentiality agreement. I’ll go to jail for this!”

“Hmph, that’s because you don’t know how to handle things yourself. You just wasted a good hand.” The other party sneered. “Find a way yourself!”

“Ye Shao! Hello…?!” The other party had already ended the call. Evidently, he had no intention of getting involved in this matter any longer.

“Bastard! Things this time had gotten this big and you’re sending me just that little bit of money?” Wei Zhu looked at the disconnected call and angrily flung the things from his table. His face was turning red and blowing up like a balloon, “Since you’re this cruel, then don’t blame me for being unjust!”

“Yes, but that’s Ye Shao…” The paparazzi hesitated.

It was like a bucket of cold water had been poured over Wei Zhuo’s anger and the redness on his face suddenly subsided. His face paled and he fell forward as his knees went soft.

Oh, when the king of hell fights, the little devils suffer. It seemed that this time he really was going to take the fall for this…