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Chapter 214 Youth Revenge Chronicles
"You have gone to great lengths to successfully portray me as a villain, and now that you have done it, there will naturally be others who will help you denounce and deal with me. Using someone else's knife to kill is a clever tactic."
Throughout their conversation, Xu Feng kept recalling the various news stories about himself that he had seen on television and online media in the room. At this moment, it became clear that things were not as simple as they seemed.
It was hard to fathom how Wei Yuan could accumulate the resources to deal with him in just six months. What had this young man experienced during this time?
Such rapid growth was astonishing, making it difficult for Xu Feng to believe that this kid could defeat him so quickly. It was precisely because he underestimated his opponent that Xu Feng fell so swiftly.
Similarly, the public's curiosity about Wei Yuan's almost martial arts-style revenge story was largely centered around him as a living character.
After all, this young man was truly admirable—his determination, bravery, intelligence, and an astonishingly quick rise to success were all things the public was eager to learn about. This made Wei Yuan's use of Xu Feng's case as a platform for publicity quite effective; as long as the case remained in the spotlight, Wei Yuan would garner just as much attention as Xu Feng.
Additionally, the ongoing issues surrounding drug safety linked to Phoenix Manufacturing—a newly established pharmaceutical company—were enough to draw significant attention.
With Wei Yuan's careful planning, it was easy for Phoenix Manufacturing's reputation to soar across the nation, akin to a phoenix rising from the ashes, making a remarkable debut.
"You should know that with my current Kung Fu, killing you like Shen Qingyi would be no problem at all," Wei Yuan suddenly said, looking at Xu Feng.
Xu Feng nodded in agreement. "Yes, you're right. So why don't you do it?"
"I just don't want you to die too easily."
When Wei Yuan said this, there was a hint of malice in his tone. Although he regarded Xu Feng as a rival, his hatred for him had not diminished because of that.
In fact, sometimes dying quietly or being assassinated without any chance of resistance might not be considered painful at all.
Because you were forced to end your life in a very short period of time, although it was unwilling, it ultimately wasn't too painful since there wasn't much time for you to react.
However, the situation of Xu Feng right now is truly painful.
The reason Wei Yuan did this is very simple. On one hand, keeping Xu Feng alive can help clear his father's name as a scapegoat, which is one aspect.
On the other hand, he can leverage the public opinion generated by this incident to promote the reputation of Phoenix Manufacturing. As for boosting his own fame, that is merely a reluctant act after tying himself to Phoenix Manufacturing.
But the most important factor is that this way of dying is the most terrifying.
Xu Feng is someone Wei Yuan can somewhat see through; he is extremely self-centered, extremely arrogant, yet also extremely afraid of death.
Even if he appears particularly calm at this moment, Wei Yuan had previously heard from his father about Xu Feng. When he was young, he couldn't hold down any job because he was unwilling to endure hardship.
Then somehow, he ended up on a path primarily sustained by various illegal activities, and this person is very ruthless; if there’s money involved, even his own father would likely be thrown under the bus.
This reflects his extreme self-centeredness. As for arrogance, it shows that he is quite confident in his own intelligence and abilities, but when confidence reaches its peak, it becomes arrogance.
Yes, a person so arrogant now finds himself in a position where he clearly still has the power to fight back but cannot think of any way to retaliate against Wei Yuan. Instead, he has been easily defeated by a twenty-year-old youth—Lao Wei's son, whom he once regarded as a scapegoat and looked down upon immensely.
For him, this is a tremendous blow. Due to his arrogance, he is unwilling to admit his failure. So now he keeps analyzing Wei Yuan's strategies and methods against him.
He just wants to know whether this youth merely stumbled upon success or if he is truly smarter and more capable than himself. Simply put, he wants to feel a bit more at ease with his loss.
As a result, Wei Yuan did not disappoint him; indeed, every step in Wei Yuan's plan was meticulously calculated, each step tightening the noose around his neck.
It made him seem like he had moves to play while being surrounded by enemies; no matter where he turned, it was a loss.
This strikes at his arrogance. Meanwhile, almost everyone in the country has begun to pay attention to drug safety issues, and one prominent name among them is Xu Feng.
Yes, he has become a despised figure that everyone looks down upon. Although Xu Feng was once like this too, when he used his crooked ideas to gain wealth while being lazy and unproductive, he no longer wanted to be looked down upon.
However, under the arrangement of Wei Yuan, he has become a figure that everyone in the country despises. This makes him feel not only a terrifying sense of death but also a deep despair within his soul.
Yet now, in Wei Yuan's plan, it has not reached its conclusion; the clear test results are about to come out. Even so, the local government officials and those responsible for this case seem to be preparing to change their stance.
After all, it is impossible to cover up this matter, and handling it discreetly is also very difficult. There are even rumors that this issue has already reached higher authorities due to its far-reaching implications.
Now, those high-ranking officials are just waiting to see how they will handle it. At this moment, if someone were to offer a large sum of money, they would all appear virtuous and would not dare to take a single cent.
Because dealing with this case requires attention to only two issues.
One is how to appease public sentiment and provide a satisfactory resolution for the people. Of course, Xu Feng must die; that is certain.
So now, during the process of waiting for death, Xu Feng feels that every moment is so long. However, if given the opportunity to commit suicide, he cannot bring himself to do it because before tonight, he was still dreaming of perhaps using Shen Qingyi to restrain Wei Yuan and then escape.
The other issue they need to address is how to quickly resolve this matter while minimizing damage to related industries throughout the process. Most importantly, the government's image must not be harmed.
As this discussion reaches its conclusion, there are inevitably some discordant factors present.
However, when a crisis arises, the first thing that comes to mind must be this issue; this is an awareness that a servant must possess, isn't it?
Using Wei Yuan's theory to explain, this reflects a one-way thinking of public sentiment influencing the basic requirements for shaping an image.
If Xu Feng is portrayed as a monster, then the proactive capture of the monster by Wei Yuan, who does not fear power, naturally makes him a hero. Those who choose to stand on the same side as Xu Feng and speak in his favor are certainly not good people.
Therefore, whether individually or collectively, what everyone needs to learn most is to understand the importance of public opinion.
In an era where three people can create a tiger with their words and many can create a saint with theirs, how crucial is the direction of public opinion?
In fact, its importance lies in the fact that even officials from powerful institutions like the Government must sometimes carefully choose their stance under strong public opinion.
Thus, the power of public opinion can be seen from this.
According to general official handling practices, if suppression is not possible, they turn to appeasement and persuasion. This is a very common and effective method, applicable to the public concerned about the Drug incident, and it is the same for Wei Yuan.
This matter has already caused quite a stir, even nationwide, and has spread widely through the internet. One can think about it: with over one hundred million clicks, regardless of how the click rate is calculated, as long as there is no fraud involved, it indicates that many people are aware of and concerned about this issue.
In this world, apart from the speed of virus transmission, the only thing that can compare is the spread of rumors. Whether they are rumors or genuine crises, they are very conducive to dissemination; this speed of transmission is even more formidable than that of a millennium bug.
Therefore, it can be anticipated that the current situation can no longer be concealed. As the spread continues to accelerate, reaching a point where everyone knows and universally cares about Drug safety issues is merely a matter of time.
Now that all causes and effects have been clarified and the development process understood, along with all changes arising from Wei Yuan's covert activities,
Xu Feng has come to realize that his life has reached its end.
However, even so, this is not the cruelest part. The most brutal aspect now is that Wei Yuan has even considered his dying value.
He actually plans to use him to continue promoting the Phoenix Manufacturing brand. What difference does this behavior have from profiting from a dead person?
And he is just a twenty-year-old boy? Is he still that honest and genuine son of Lao Wei?
Why can a young man possess such cunning? This makes Xu Feng feel very unwilling to accept defeat, but having come this far, he must face reality.
It seems like it is the final end, yet it is not.
Because Wei Yuan does not allow him to die; even wanting to commit suicide has become a luxury. This is only because after Shen Qingyi's departure, Wei Yuan hurriedly checked Xu Feng's health and confirmed there were no major issues before feeling relieved.
Yes, Xu Feng is his irreconcilable enemy. Without Xu Feng's appearance, his father would not have died, and the reputation he built throughout his life would not have been destroyed in an instant.
However, this very enemy is someone Wei Yuan now has to allow to continue living. Wei Yuan understands very well that when he prepares to combine the Phoenix Manufacturing brand with Xu Feng's case and his own publicity, he will face two important factors.
The first is that the longer Xu Feng lives, the more he can drive public attention and enthusiasm. After all, the entire nation has already vented its frustrations regarding drug safety issues and the harm to their own interests onto Xu Feng.
Perhaps for a long time, aside from the cases of Li Dagang and Ya Bad Knife, they will find it difficult to find opportunities to vent their anger in such a manner or witness public outrage at such a severe level.
Because whether it is Li Dagang or Ya Bad Knife, at least their actions, although criticized and even indefensible, were merely exploiting their identities, such as using the privilege of being connected to influential individuals to harm someone's interests.
However, this behavior pales in comparison to Xu Feng's actions. The fraud he committed and the problems caused by the drugs he manufactured have genuinely impacted everyone's personal interests.
As Wei Yuan analyzed, while this drug safety issue may not reach the severity of food safety concerns, it remains a significant problem for the public.
When you are sick and go to see a doctor, the doctor prescribes reasonable medication based on common sense, right?
But Xu Feng has shattered this common understanding of life. When you are sick and see a doctor who prescribes you drugs, you might only be ill but still survive.
However, when you take certain problematic drugs or addictive substances, your illness truly reaches a critical point because you develop a new ailment that the poor cannot afford. This is called: Wealthy Illness.
Imagine someone who becomes addicted to drugs and needs to take them every day to a severe extent—it's as if they treat drugs like food.
Yet those addictive drugs become increasingly expensive due to the growing number of users. Your consumption increases day by day until eventually, you cannot survive without them unless you have plenty of money to afford these drugs as if they were meals.
Thus, we arrive at a formula: this is a type of drug that you can keep consuming but will require more and more. If you lack money, although you won't die immediately without these drugs, your life will become unbearable—worse than death.
So you need to always have money in order to maintain this kind of illness. What else could this illness be called if not "Wealthy Illness"?
Another point is the official attitude of the Government. In order to divert attention and preserve the Government's image, it naturally incites the public to denounce Xu Feng's crimes. Then, at the height of public outrage, they will deal with Xu Feng, providing the public with a scapegoat.
This approach allows the Government to maintain its image while the public feels that the country indeed has laws that are enforced. Living in such a country, what could you possibly be dissatisfied with?
From another perspective, Wei Yuan actually hopes that Xu Feng can delay his death because he is no longer the impulsive youth he once was.
Understanding that Xu Feng must die, as even the official stance is prepared to kill Xu Feng to provide an outlet for public anger, his death and personal vendetta are merely a matter of time.
However, if Xu Feng does not die for now or delays his death, it can keep the entire incident in the spotlight.
Wei Yuan ties the emerging brand Phoenix Manufacturing to Xu Feng's case for this very reason.
The longer Xu Feng's case drags on, the more Phoenix Manufacturing can leverage this incident to gain recognition.
It is precisely for this purpose that Wei Yuan temporarily keeps Xu Feng alive, even rushing to save him when Shen Qingyi prepares to assassinate him.
This also brings about Wei Yuan's second factor: binding himself to Phoenix Manufacturing.
The development of Xu Feng's entire incident initially draws public attention to drug safety issues and then to those involved in the incident.
The focus will certainly first be on Xu Feng, as he is the defendant in this case. The second person who attracts attention will naturally be Wei Yuan.
After all, it was Wei Yuan who led those manufacturers owed money by Xu Feng to his factory and inadvertently uncovered this batch of problematic drugs from his warehouse.
Of course, this is how the media portrays it. In reality, Wei Yuan's claim for debt is a facade; bringing so many people to raid Xu Feng's warehouse means he already knew that 99% of the drugs stored there were problematic.
So in this incident, Wei Yuan also made quite a splash. Then Wei Yuan took matters into his own hands and acted ruthlessly, setting fire to Cousin Xie Ge's drug factory in one swift move.
Naturally, he shifted the blame onto Xu Feng, accusing him of being guilty and anxious because the drugs that were confiscated must have had issues, which is why he deliberately burned their factory in retaliation.
Because of this incident, Wei Yuan orchestrated various versions of conspiracy theories online, all pointing back to Xu Feng. Coupled with his other incriminating evidence, it was easy for people to believe that this was indeed the work of Xu Feng.
Additionally, previously, when Wei Yuan was treating Zhang Sheng's mother, he started his treatment right on the street, showcasing the miraculous medical skills he learned from Yang Ying at the Purple Robe Pavilion.
That video had already gone viral online. Plus, with Wei Yuan's good looks and exceptional medical skills and ethics, he quickly became a grassroots idol in the hearts of a new generation of young women.
Although Wei Yuan's identity wasn't that of a superstar or a character from an idol drama, he left an indelible name and a striking image in the minds of both adults and minors alike in a unique way.
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