TO SHOU WITH LOVE

100 - AT NINETEEN

Thanapon's declaration of war on Weibo directly pushed the program's popularity to its peak.

A night passed, and the enthusiasm showed no sign of diminishing.

Liz picked out some key screen recording files and released them, confirming the fact that Ping had suppressed the Asperatus Band and intentionally leaked negative information about Thanapon.

At the same time, some of Ping's past scandals-such as manipulating popularity on previous variety shows-were also dug up, intensifying the online condemnation against him.

The next morning, Thanapon was downstairs writing songs when Liz brought the compiled public opinion analysis to Sailub. "Look at this, fans from both of your sides used to want to keep each other at arm's length, but this time they've formed a united front, all flooding the topic 'Ping, get out of the Restless Band program team'. What's even funnier is that even fans from the city collapse side are using this topic because they're unhappy with Ping's comment 'a family's stray dog'..."

Sailub looked at the public opinion analysis compiled by Liz and chuckled, "It's quite amusing."

"What's the situation on Rose's side?" Liz asked him.

"They said the higher-ups are having a meeting, I don't know the specifics of the discussion, but they're probably quite anxious," Sailub said, "Replacing the program's chief director just before the finals, this is indeed unprecedented, but with public opinion escalating like this, and with Rose already available as a ready-made chief director candidate, I can't think of any reason why they would insist on keeping Ping."

"True," Liz joked, "Unless Ping has slept with some higher-up."

"Hmm..." Sailub rested his chin on his hand, contemplating.

Liz caught a whiff of gossip and leaned in, asking softly, "Could there really be such a thing?"

"No," Sailub smiled and shook his head.

"Alright, thought there might be some juicy gossip to hear," Liz looked disappointed, then handed her phone over after tapping on the screen a few times, "Oh, by the way, there's a video that's been a big help, related to Thanapontake a look?"

Sailub glanced at her phone screen and smiled, "Ah, this one. Garfield showed it to me already. He said the video's popularity wasn't that high initially, so he helped promote it on the platform a bit. It's like a hint for me to remember to return the favor later."

The video Liz showed him was posted on a popular social media platform, with the title "Former Crush Participates in a Band Variety Show and Faces Nationwide Criticism".

The publisher was a beauty blogger with just over ten thousand followers.

The girl in the video looked about the same age as Thanapon, applying makeup while chatting casually to the camera.

She recounted an incident from high school, saying that when she first entered high school, she refused the advances of a well-connected male classmate, which led to rumors being spread about her.

She was harassed for a while and even suffered from depression because of it.

One day, that male classmate brought some troublemakers from outside the school and tried to lay hands on her, but was caught in the act by Thanapon.

Thanapon immediately beat up those people, then dragged the male classmate to the front of the class, where he clarified the rumors in front of the whole class.

"This girl is quite outstanding," Sailub withdrew his gaze from the screen, "She's even from Columbia University. I didn't expect her to encounter such outrageous things before."