AFVSIBS Chapter 52 Are You Guys Celebrating Too Early?

Upon confirming that what Li Niuniu said was true, Li Yuan also had a pleasantly surprised expression.

"Don't worry, once I become a big star, I'll definitely introduce you to a few female fans."

Li Yuan immediately replied happily to Li Niuniu.

At this moment, he once again fantasized about his star dream. After all, in his view, once Zhou Chen was eliminated, there would be no more trainees who could compete with him.

He could easily win the championship of this round of the program and become the king of popularity.

The company would also tilt resources towards him, and his smooth debut as a star was just around the corner, wasn't it?

Soon, the news of Zhou Chen's elimination from the program also caused quite a stir online. After all, Zhou Chen's popularity had been high in the past two days, and now he was still trending on Weibo. Any news related to him naturally attracted attention.

"I really didn't expect it. Zhou Chen got a perfect score of one hundred yesterday, but now he's been eliminated with the lowest overall average score."

"He deserves it. If he didn't plagiarize, why would we give him low scores? I hate dishonest people the most, especially those who deceive us so seriously."

"That's right. Just last night, when he sang 'Childhood,' we all thought he was a musical genius, but we never expected that this song was actually plagiarized."

"Sigh, it's a pity. Actually, Zhou Chen's singing skills are very good. Even if this 'Childhood' is suspected of being plagiarized, his singing skills wouldn't be copied."

"I don't feel sorry at all. Our country's attitude towards the moral issues of artists is unforgiving. He made the mistake himself and must accept this punishment. Otherwise, there will be more trainees plagiarizing in the future. That would be the tragedy of our country's literary and artistic circles."

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Uninformed netizens did not sympathize with Zhou Chen being eliminated like this; on the contrary, they felt that Zhou Chen deserved it.

After all, what they hated most was plagiarism.

But they wouldn't know how miserable they would feel inside after blaming Zhou Chen like this. However, these were all stories for later.

They needed to wait for Zhou Chen to prove his innocence before they could experience this sense of guilt.

"Zhou Chen, have you packed your things? Pack up and come down to me."

On Zhou Chen's end, he had just finished packing his things when Zhang Chuchu came to find him.

"Zhang Jie, wait for me for a minute. I'll post an explanation on Weibo about the plagiarism scandal first," Zhou Chen said.

"What do you mean? Didn't I say you can't post any more text or Weibo after going back?" Zhang Chuchu said sternly.

"Zhang Jie, you said I can't post any text or Weibo after going back. I haven't gone back yet. I'm still at the nursing home, so I still have the right to choose whether to post or not."

"Okay, okay, post it. I'll give you one minute. After one minute, you come down immediately."

What Zhang Chuchu was thinking was that one minute was not enough time for Zhou Chen to make any trouble. And what Zhou Chen just said was indeed correct. She couldn't forcibly demand that Zhou Chen not post on Weibo. This was not within the provisions of the contract.

Zhou Chen had already prepared his statement, and he took out his phone to log in to his Weibo account.

He found that he had lost half a million followers, dropping from one million to just five hundred thousand.

It seemed that some fans believed the plagiarism accusations and unfollowed him.

However, Zhou Chen didn't care and didn't feel regretful about it.

What would come, would come, and what would leave, couldn't be retained.

He quickly copied his prepared statement to Weibo and posted it as a long-form article.

In the statement, Zhou Chen not only presented various search screenshots as evidence but also explained the inspiration behind the song "Childhood" and analyzed how the song "Hour of Childhood" was deliberately fabricated and didn't exist.

The entire statement was well-reasoned and backed by evidence.

After posting the long-form article, Zhou Chen didn't pay attention to Weibo anymore.

He believed that as long as netizens weren't irrational, they would understand the truth after reading his statement. As for those who still believed the plagiarism accusations despite his evidence and analysis, it didn't matter.

In life, it wasn't possible for everyone to understand oneself. As long as the people he cared about believed in him, that was enough.

Zhou Chen put his phone in his pocket and then went downstairs with his luggage to return to the company with Zhang Chuchu.

During his journey back to the company, the long-form article he wrote was immediately pushed to the hot search topics.

This was the result of Zhao An's help behind the scenes.

Although Zhou Chen's elimination from the program had become a fact, Zhao An admired Zhou Chen too much.

He didn't want the young man he admired to be burdened with the label of plagiarism. He knew that Wanhe Entertainment, where Zhou Chen was, wouldn't help him. So, he had to personally use his resources to push Zhou Chen's statement to the hot search topics so that more people could see his explanation and clear his name.

And he also had a small fantasy in his heart. If Zhou Chen's innocence was proven, perhaps a miracle would happen later, and Zhou Chen would be able to return to the program.

For this program, with or without Zhou Chen, the viewership was completely different.

After Zhou Chen's statement was pushed to the hot search topics, it quickly attracted attention from all over the internet.

"Really? The song 'Hour of Childhood' doesn't exist at all? It was deliberately fabricated in the style of 'Childhood' to frame Zhou Chen for plagiarism?"

"From the evidence Zhou Chen presented, it seems that this song really doesn't exist. And his analysis is very reasonable. The lyrics of 'Hour of Childhood' couldn't have been written by a foreigner because they don't use words like 'immortals.' They usually say 'God,' 'Lord,' 'Heavenly Father,' and so on. And they definitely wouldn't understand phrases like 'time is money' and 'time is money, but you can't buy time.'"

"After reading Zhou Chen's statement, I deliberately searched for the song 'Hour of Childhood,' and it's true that I couldn't find it anywhere, just as Zhou Chen explained. It seems that someone deliberately fabricated rumors to smear Zhou Chen."

"It's despicable. Who the hell deliberately spread such rumors? It caused us to miss out on Zhou Chen and even gave him the lowest score, leading to his elimination."

"Sigh, we really missed out on Zhou Chen. Thinking about it, I feel so guilty. Zhou Chen, I'm sorry. It's because of my inability to distinguish right from wrong that I gave you the lowest score and accused you of plagiarism."

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After reading Zhou Chen's long-form statement, netizens searched for the song "Hour of Childhood." When they found that everything was as Zhou Chen had explained, they realized they had missed out on Zhou Chen.

They felt guilty, they blamed themselves, and they hated those who deliberately spread rumors to smear Zhou Chen.

If it weren't for someone deliberately spreading rumors to smear Zhou Chen, they wouldn't have given him the lowest score, and Zhou Chen wouldn't have been eliminated.


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