To be exact, Lu Sheng and Lan Yu foresaw that their Weibo post would provoke mockery and criticism, but they hadn’t anticipated a tempest of it flooding in like it is now.
At ten in the morning, Lu Sheng was awakened by Lan Yu.
Upon checking Weibo, the post she made last night had unexpectedly garnered several hundred thousand views overnight, with tens of thousands of replies.
Even the topic #LuShengLanXing# had been bumped to the third spot on the trending searches.
Lu Sheng had only registered her Weibo account last night and wasn’t even a member yet.
Even though she retweeted the original post from Jiang City Daily and used the trending topic, it wasn’t supposed to skyrocket in views so suddenly.
The reason for the overnight spike in views was that at 1:30 am today, a medical big V with over three million followers retweeted Lu Sheng’s post.
The accompanying text was only two sentences, but filled with disdain and sarcasm—
[An underage high school student, who has only learned some basic biology, has never conducted any medical research or clinical trials, dares to claim she is Lan Xing, the author of an FSI Tier 1 paper?]
[Tier 1 papers recorded by FSI, my doctoral supervisor Professor Lin Xue’an only managed to publish one after turning fifty, kids these days are really bold. Retweeting for everyone to see a joke.]
With an accompanying smiley face emoji, the sarcasm was palpable.
It was precisely because his comments were so eye-catching that various marketing accounts jumped on the bandwagon to retweet, and Lu Sheng’s detailed Weibo post quickly hit the trending searches, making both the original post and the topic itself surge in popularity.
"Is this person sick or something?"
Lan Yu was infuriated by this big V’s words, "We’re clarifying things on behalf of Professor Peng, what does this have to do with him? And he’s even adding insult to injury by retweeting the post."
"He thinks that because he couldn’t accomplish something at the age of nineteen, it’s impossible for anyone else in this world to achieve it, right!"
Lu Sheng, on the other hand, was quite calm.
It was normal for people to disbelieve; after all, even Peng Hongyuan had only confirmed her identity after discussing a professional issue with her for nearly an hour.
Moreover, the words of this big V were already considered polite.
It was only after opening the comments section of that post that Lu Sheng and Lan Yu truly realized just how many angles netizens could take to attack someone and how vicious their words could be.
Lu Sheng said:
[These photos were taken the day before yesterday at noon in front of a restaurant. At the time, I was with Professor Peng outside...]
Comments section:
[What decent high school girl would go out to have a meal alone with a man over fifty during the school term? One can tell what sort of person this girl is just by thinking about it.]
[Seducing underage girls is false accusation? Very possible, perhaps this Lu Sheng was the one who threw herself at him.]
[Indeed, for some people, it might be worth it to sleep with a perverted old man to get a chance to attend Beijing University.]
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Lu Sheng said:
[Professor Peng did indeed give me a bank card and a gift, but it isn’t as speculated in the reports... The card and gift are the prize money and the souvenir I received for the publication of my paper from FSI, and Professor Peng was just bringing them over for me.]
[The paper I published... it’s the one titled "Research Progress and Prospects of Acromegaly". I published that paper under the pseudonym Lan Xing, and after FSI’s value assessment, it was ranked tier one, hence the two hundred thousand in prize money and a special souvenir.]
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