The next morning, at half past nine.
Outside the Goryeo Embassy in Longdu, a sea of people had already gathered.
Hundreds of reporters from media outlets around the world surrounded the place with cameras of every size, leaving no way through.
Countless flashes flickered nonstop, like stars in the sky.
Online, discussion of the incident had also reached boiling point.
Steered by the Four Star Group's powerful PR machine and paid trolls, public opinion had swung almost entirely in Park Jeongsang's favor.
Yue Xiaofei had been painted as an unreasonable, violent, xenophobic thug.
Su Guohua's Huasheng Group, meanwhile, had been portrayed as an unscrupulous business willing to do anything for profit.
Countless netizens who did not know the truth, especially young people deeply influenced by Goryeo culture, unleashed a torrent of insults and attacks on Yue Xiaofei and the Su Family online.
"Boycott the Huasheng Group! Get this trash company out of the Dragon Kingdom!"
"That Yue Xiaofei has to get on his knees and apologize to our darling Park!"
"Are people from the Dragon Kingdom really this uncivilized? He's such an embarrassment to us!"
"I feel so bad for Young Master Park. He only wanted to invest here, and this is how they treated him. Boohoo..."
Inside the Embassy, the atmosphere in a hall reserved for press conferences was solemn and somber.
Park Jeongsang wore a crisp white suit, with carefully applied light makeup covering the injuries on his face from the night before.
He sat in the center of the stage, flanked by officials from the Goryeo Embassy and the Four Star Group's legal and PR teams.
Looking at the dense crowd of reporters below and feeling countless eyes fixed on him, Park Jeongsang felt a sick thrill well up inside him.
This was exactly what he wanted!