As soon as Sheng Nian's livestream ended, #Jiang Shu, He Gu Temporary Marking# shot up the trending searches, reaching number one within minutes.
Across the forums and Starblog, Jiang Shu's fans were the first to arrive on the battlefield and began controlling the comments.
Although many of Jiang Shu's more rational fans stopped supporting him after seeing what had happened, those who remained were mostly diehard fans with plenty of fighting power. With deliberate guidance from Jiang Shu's studio, they began defending him from every possible angle.
It was just a temporary marking in an emergency; their idol had only been desperate to save someone and definitely hadn't thought much of it; Sheng Nian was maliciously misleading everyone; what right did Sheng Nian have to question Jiang Shu...
With a whole string of arguments and excuses, they fought furiously with the other netizens.
He Gu's side reacted to the exposure by immediately hiring paid commenters. They began steering netizens toward shipping the pair, hiring people to edit together all their sweet interactions on the dating show to build hype for the "Jiang-He" ship.
But sending in paid commenters at this moment not only failed to sway the shippers, it put them right in the firing line of Jiang Shu's furious fans.
[Pah! He Gu thinks he deserves to promote a ship with our idol? At least Sheng Nian has a pretty face. What does He Gu have? His sluttiness?]
[That fake innocent bitch! He took advantage of our idol's kindness to latch onto him, and we can't even peel him off. He really is a leech!]
[He deserves to stay a nobody forever. All he can do is ride other people's popularity, huh?]
[A pheasant thinks he can turn into a phoenix? Does he want to marry into a rich