A Glitch in the Entertainment Industry - Chapter 39: Lu Maner Posted on Weibo

Unfortunately, Lu Maner made a strange post on Weibo that night.

[There are some people in this world who managed to succeed despite not working hard.]

One of the comments below the post read, [My dear Maner, what’s wrong?]

[Maner, we know that you’ve worked hard. Who said that you won’t succeed when you’ve already worked hard? You’ll succeed for sure!]

[Congratulations on the end of filming, Maner.]

[Let’s work hard together, Maner.]

[What’s wrong?]

[My mind has gone into chaos at this hour because of the things she said.]

[Did something happen?]

[I have a feeling that this will become one of the trending searches.]

[Did someone bully my goddess? I, Fat Tiger, will never forgive that person.]

[I’ve taken my rifle, so come with me. Goddess, tell me which dog I should kill for you!]

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All of Lu Maner’s fans were commenting on Calming the Cosmos’ Weibo post about the end of filming. The fans were worried because they had no idea what had happened to her.

An issue cropped up right after they looked into this matter. The fans discovered that the official Weibo page had changed the sequence of the actors’ names when they tagged them. Currently, Lu Maner’s name was listed behind An Wen.

The fans started posting on Weibo and mentioning that Lu Maner was previously recommended by the marketing department to play the role of Qing Sha. They even brought up and downvoted a photo that was taken by Reuters because it looked nothing like An Wen.

[Maner has always been the fourth person to be credited, so why has she suddenly been moved down to the fifth place? Does that other person even have any representative works? What right does she have to be ranked before Maner?]

[Hardworking people end up being unsuccessful because there are always others who cut in front of them by taking shortcuts.]

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Most of the fans started to understand the connotation of the post because of the context now. However, the aggressive fans immediately scolded An Wen on her official page on behalf of their idol.

An Wen’s fans were busily taking in her beauty on her official page when they were suddenly insulted out of the blue. If someone were to search for An Wen’s page, they would notice that all kinds of insults were posted there.

When they argued with the others in the comments, the original Weibo posts were bumped up to the popular topics, prompting Jiang Yiwen to write a Weibo post as well.

[#AnWen# Miss An Wen is currently having fun at the end-of-filming banquet. We can’t ruin her mood by letting her see these vulgar posts on this joyous night. Bodyguards, we must share our own Weibo posts to clean up her page!]

The Bodyguards frantically filled An Wen’s page with their own posts before commenting and liking each others’ posts.

However, the other side kept insulting An Wen no matter how hard her fans tried to cover up those posts. The Bodyguards were merely male fans of the novel who only cared about looks. Furthermore, this was their first time following a celebrity, so they had never been attacked like this before. They could only constantly write original posts to cover up An Wen’s page.

There were other fans who mentioned Lu Maner’s name and wrote Weibo posts that said, [An Wen plays the secondary lead while Lu Maner is merely a side character. What’s wrong with the sequence of their names in the credits, then? Does Lu Maner really think that she’s a big shot just because of her seniority? How dare she bully someone else?]

That Weibo post was the last straw for Lu Maner’s fans who were currently hurt and angry. All of them exploded because the post had terribly provoked them.

They called An Wen a “plastic surgery monster”, gold-digger, and a mistress of the financial backers. Worse still, they even insulted her with some phrases that were unimaginably crude and vulgar.

The Bodyguards did not want to fight, but they could not hold themselves back when the other parties openly bullied them for no reason. In the end, both sides started arguing with each other.

Lu Maner’s devoted fans had experienced arguments with many other fans ever since their idol debuted six years ago. The fans posted pictures to defame An Wen, spammed the hashtag #AnWenThePlasticSurgeryMonster#, and started topics to criticize her. They were other loyal fans who wrote short essays that were several hundred words long to praise Lu Maner for her dedication and commendable personality. They also wrote about how An Wen was a shameless person who took shortcuts. After that, they posted nine beautiful photos of Lu Maner when she had just debuted and was filming a youth movie. Lu Maner had a gentle and innocent smile on her face on every one of those pictures.

These short essays eventually reached the trending searches for both parties on Weibo because all the fans kept liking and commenting on them.

Unfortunately, this confused the Bodyguards and threw them into a state of chaos. When the Bodyguards were furious and helpless, another group of people came out to provoke both sides even further by posting two Weibo topics with the hashtags #LuManersThoughts

OnTheLastNightOfFilming# and #AnWenPlasticSurgery#. The contents of those two posts were unanimously implying that Lu Maner thought that An Wen was taking shortcuts without working hard.

Jiang Yiwen immediately posted on Weibo and rallied An Wen’s other fans to defuse the comments section. However, An Wen had fewer fans than Lu Maner. The situation had gone worse now because onlookers were coming over to speak positively on Lu Maner’s behalf as well.