Josh Batton only made the joke because they knew each other very well.
Moreover, it happened many years ago.
He didn’t think it would be dug up now.
Josh shook his head, helplessly.
After scrolling through Weibo a while longer, he discovered an ‘anti-Josh Batton’ group on Weibo.
There were at least a million people in it, and these were all his anti-fans.
Apart from a bunch of made-up negative comments about Josh, people shared criticisms of his acting skills, his singing, and his dancing. Somebody even claimed that Josh didn’t graduate from primary school and that his educational background was all made up.
When he scrolled further down, he discovered even more ridiculous stuff.
There was a rumor that he had an intimate relationship with Georgie Clementine, his company’s CEO.
It also claimed that he gave up on renewing the contract with his previous company and switched over to X Entertainment because of their relationship…
Allegedly, his career was smooth sailing after he joined X Entertainment because he treated Georgie very well.
Josh felt very speechless after going through such false claims.
Some anti-fans could make things up out of thin air.
If they wanted to defame someone, they could come up with all sorts of reasons. After scrolling down, he even saw an anti-fan claiming that Josh really did drugs and hired prostitutes. The person even said that Josh’s company bribed the police to protect his image. There was also a claim that the news about a teacher supporting him was also true, but his company had made it seem like it was all made up.
In fact, the claims all seemed logically flawless.
There were also countless likes and comments that agreed with the original post despite how absurd the claims were.
Everyone in the group seemed to be acting as if they were speaking from and upholding the moral high ground.
In these people’s eyes, everything Josh’s company did was part of a conspiracy.
Josh had no idea how many of these were professionally hired anti-fans and how many of them were genuine passersby.
Meanwhile, Xyla’s bodyguards really did toss Shawn into a river in the city.
They left right after doing so.
After climbing his way out of the river with difficulty, Shawn sat by the road in a downtrodden state while he tried to call someone back home with his phone.
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