Chapter 468: Chapter 216: Yang Chen Takes Action, Defying Fate (Part 4)

Other onlookers also supported Yang Chen.

"That’s right! I think this ride-hailing driver is absolutely correct. If you compromise today, tomorrow others will be victimized just like you. We cannot let people like her continue to be arrogant; her account must be shut down to ensure she and her brain-dead fans receive the punishment they deserve!"

"I study law, and their actions can be classified as provoking trouble and damaging someone’s right of reputation. As long as you don’t reconcile, administrative detention is definitely possible!"

"Boss, don’t reconcile! If you do, no one will come to eat at your restaurant in the future! If you don’t reconcile, you’ll only offend these brain-dead fans, but you will win over our local customers. I bet you can calculate this trade-off, right?"

...

Seeing everyone around stating their support, even the police stopped urging them to reconcile.

Let’s proceed according to the law, handle it however it needs to be handled.

Boss Xu resolutely nodded and said, "Alright! I’m not going to reconcile! I’m going to sue her for damaging our reputation rights and also sue these internet trolls for provoking trouble and disrupting our business order, causing us significant reputational and economic losses. We demand their apology, compensation for our losses, and they should be administratively detained and her account should be shut down, so she doesn’t bring harm to others with her trolls in the future!"

The police nodded and said, "Alright! Everyone needs to come with us and cooperate with the investigation; it will be handled as the law stipulates."

The internet trolls were frightened.

"Officer, we’re innocent. We were deceived by her, otherwise, we wouldn’t have done such things."

"Yes! We were really deceived by her, officer, please don’t arrest us."

"We didn’t know the truth was like this, otherwise, we certainly wouldn’t have come."

...

The police reprimanded, "You did this without knowing the truth, shouldn’t you be even more liable for it? This young man is completely right; so many people have been harmed by you internet trolls. You tap away at your keyboards attempting to maintain justice—so what do you expect us police to do? You have harmed so many; are you even aware of it? Not long ago, wasn’t the child who was searching for their family also driven to death by your online harassment? Now that it happened today, we will focus on this matter and clean up the online environment! Everybody line up and come with us for investigation. If anyone doesn’t cooperate or plans to escape, the seriousness will escalate! I advise you not to do anything stupid. Keep this as administrative detention and don’t upgrade it to criminal detention, or it’ll leave a record and affect three generations!"

At this moment, the Douyin (TikTok) videos of Zhou Zhenyi, Li Qinqin, and others had already spread, seen by many netizens.

The female streamer named Hui Zi began rapidly losing followers, and furious netizens flooded her Douyin comment section with curses, mentioning her ancestors.

The female streamer quickly made a call for help, saying, "Hey, Brother Long, please save me, the police arrested me! Boohoo..."

The police quickly snatched her phone, hung up, and said, "When you can make calls, you’ll be allowed to. Right now, no calls. Everyone, follow us!"

The scene was spectacular, with several police officers "escorting" more than 20 internet trolls along with the idiotic female internet celebrity to the police station.

Along the way, passersby took out their phones and recorded videos to upload on Douyin.

"Wow! The female internet celebrity and her brain-dead fans messed up offline and the cops caught them all!"

"Isn’t this that internet celebrity Hui Zi? Damn, she screwed up and her whole army got wiped out!"

"What did these people do? Why were so many arrested?"

...

With the help of these passersby, soon the entire internet knew about this internet celebrity and her brain-dead fans getting caught for slandering the restaurant.

The female internet celebrity’s account was overflowed with comments as countless netizens came to curse her.

With the issue resolved, Yang Chen happily got in his car and left.

In the afternoon, the police issued a case report.

The report detailed the events, clearly depicting the despicable acts of the female streamer and her brain-dead fans, and clearly stating they were punished with 5-15 days of administrative detention.

At the same time, the police advised netizens to pay attention to their behavior when engaging in online activities, not to speculate blindly before things are defined, and warned that falsely accusing good people can lead to severe and irreversible consequences, not just exaggerated threats.

After the police announcement spread, Douyin took swift action, shutting down the female streamer’s account and subsequently released a statement advocating for netizens to abide by the law, emphasizing that the internet is not a lawless space.

Those with a strong sense of justice among the netizens swiftly ordered products from Lijiang Waterfront and rated them with full scores, instantly restoring the restaurant’s rating.

Later, the boss of Lijiang Waterfront invited Hai City TV Station’s "Little Li Helps Out" program group.

Besides explaining his ordeal, the boss asked the program group to help him find the brave ride-hailing driver.

"Now, I just want to find that ride-hailing driver brother. Without his help, my restaurant would be gone, and my whole family would be ruined. I hope he sees this show and comes over, or he can contact the program group. Brother, I have no other intentions, just want to make a meal for you. I remember you said that day it’s cold, and you’d like something warm with soup. As I had to cooperate with the police investigation this day, the situation was chaotic and I couldn’t properly thank you. I’ve been feeling bad about it these few days, hoping to find you and make a meal for you. If you see the show, please come find me, fulfill this wish for me. Thank you."

After speaking, the boss bowed deeply to the camera.

Then, reporter Xiaoli spoke to the camera: "After hearing Boss Xu’s story, I was really moved. I hope that ride-hailing young man can see our show and come over when he has time, to fulfill the boss’s dream. If he doesn’t make this meal for you, he’ll regret it for life."

After broadcasting, the program group uploaded the video to Douyin.

A wave of searching for the brave ride-hailing young man swept across the internet.

Soon after, Yang Chen saw the program video.

Just about to finish work, Yang Chen passed by the area again, so decided to visit the restaurant.

The waiter excitedly shouted.

"Boss, the ride-hailing young man is here! Boss! Come out quickly!"

Checking accounts, the boss immediately dropped his ledger and calculator, rushing out.

"Brother! Brother! It’s really you! I had such a hard time finding you!" The boss said excitedly.

Yang Chen laughed and replied, "It’s cold, let’s have something warm with soup."

The boss: "Haha... no problem! Everyone, quickly welcome the brother, I’ll personally make a bowl of beef noodles for our brother!"

All the waiters quickly rushed over to welcome Yang Chen, with everyone in the shop attending to him, almost making him feel a bit embarrassed.

The boss personally cooked a bowl of beef noodles for Yang Chen, which was almost all beef with only a few noodles.

Yang Chen joked, "Boss, you’ve mixed a few noodles into the beef!"

"Haha..." everyone laughed.

The boss: "Brother, thanks to you this time. I had already resigned myself to my fate, but with your help, I reversed it! In the future, when you pass by here, as long as the restaurant doors are open, you can come in and eat. You’re our restaurant’s only lifelong free VIP!"

Yang Chen smiled and nodded, saying, "Sure! I won’t be polite with you then, boss. To be honest, this location is really nice, facing the river, shimmering water, perfect for eating quietly alone."

The boss: "Haha... as long as you like it, brother. As long as the restaurant doors are open, no matter who’s here, we’ll make you something warm to eat."

Yang Chen smiled and nodded, finishing the beef noodles quickly.

The waiter then served a steaming cup of milk.

Yang Chen thanked them, drank the milk, wiped his mouth, and stood up, saying, "It’s getting late, I won’t delay everyone’s work. Does my lifelong free eating privilege start now?"

The boss: "Haha... yes! It starts now! Take care, brother, remember you can come and eat here anytime when you pass by."

Yang Chen smiled and nodded, saying, "Alright! I thank the boss first. Everyone, see you soon."

The boss promptly led everyone in the shop to respectfully send Yang Chen off.

Yang Chen didn’t look back, waved his hand dashingly, leaving without a trace.

At this moment, the profession of ride-hailing driver suddenly seemed grand and prestigious in their eyes.

About two kilometers on, several cars blocked Yang Chen.

Then, the female internet celebrity named Hui Zi stuck her head out and shouted, "It’s him! Teach him a lesson and take revenge for me! My account is gone, I’ve been detained for several days, all thanks to him! If he manages to go home standing today, none of you are worthy of being with Brother Long!"