Chapter 717: Chapter 714: Serial Scandal (2)
Violations such as selling expired dications were rife. So storage facilities for drugs had been flooded; logically, they should have been discarded. Instead, after being aired out, they were still unlawfully added to pharmaceuticals. Consuming these wouldn’t be lethal, but it might lead to ineffective dicines or maybe cause other pathological changes. As a listed company, there were also issues with false financial reporting.
This news had been reported by so local newspapers, but it was quickly managed by public relations, never sparking widespread discussion. After all, the enterprise was a pillar of a certain city in the Southwest.
He had already handed over this information to Bo Yan, leaving it to Bo’s side to arrange. How to generate attention on major forums, how to build montum on Weibo, how to contact cyber armies to buy popularity—all these were his slick moves.
But this alone wasn’t enough. This was only his family’s problem. He dared to fabricate a scandal with Xia Siyu himself, which showed that this kid was a habitual offender of two-timing. He had to expose this side of him to Shang Feifei!
“I’ve co specifically to explain about the rumors with Miss Xia.”
“What’s there to explain, Siyu wouldn’t like you.” Han Yifan had no good feelings toward him, cutting off his words abruptly.
Xia Siyu didn’t say anything and left with Han Yifan.
That evening, two major events occurred. First, an “enthusiastic netizen” deeply exposed the situation of this Dr. Xi’s family company, and brought to light the issue of selling expired drugs online. These days, food and drug safety were of utmost concern, and the post quickly skyrocketed to a towering height, like a skyscraper with seven to eight hundred floors.
The forum where this “enthusiastic netizen” posted was a hotbed for marketing and gossip accounts, with several taking action to spread the word on Weibo. Bo Yan began to warm up the topic over there—though initially not very high on the trend list, only making it to the top ten before quickly dropping off.
But the fact that it made it to the top ten and then fell spurred the curiosity of the onlookers, thinking it was “managed” by public relations. Afterwards, another wave of “netizens” started digging on Weibo, uncovering the unlawful use of flood-soaked dicinal materials. This stirred a hornet’s nest. Practically treating patients’ lives as a joke, with Bo Yan adding fuel to the fire, the issue instantly shot to the number one spot on the trending searches.
By the ti the pharmaceutical company started to manage the situation the next day, Bo Yan had thrown out the issue of false financial reports, bringing the subsided news back into the lilight on the trending searches.
Then, truly enthusiastic netizens, in the evening, exposed several shareholders of the enterprise, so involved with financial default and not repaying debts, leading them to be listed as untrustworthy individuals—suddenly making things extrely lively.
As the situation unfolded layer by layer, within just two days, several rounds of negative reviews caught the company off-guard. When the market opened, their stock price imdiately plumted by twenty percent. The higher authorities issued a direct order for a thorough investigation, with the Food and Drug Administration, the Securities Regulatory Commission, and others also sending “congratulatory telegrams” and starting a comprehensive rectification and inspection.
In just a few days, a large pharmaceutical enterprise began to teeter, and Xia Siyu hadn’t seen the bespectacled guy coming to look for Shang Feifei for several days.
However, she wasn’t too happy either, because not long after, she found that her scandal subject had changed to Han Yifan.
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