OFR – Chapter 358 One Man in Power, the World Silenced (Part 6)!

At this moment, on New Year’s Eve, no matter how busy anyone had been, everyone finally had some time to rest with their family, to themselves.

People were not only chatting and laughing while enjoying the New Year’s Eve dinner and watching the Spring Festival Gala on TV, but many were also casually opening up their favorite online apps, curious to see what friends and strangers alike were discussing on this night.

The apps and search engines people used varied widely, and the forums they browsed were even more diverse.

But without exception, the first thing everyone saw when they picked up their phones and went online was the flood of explosive news exposing all sorts of scandals about Douyu—rumors and secrets that had never been heard before!

【Does anyone know about Douyu TV’s original sin? Click here if you want to find out. This news will not disappoint anyone!】

【The shameless face of Douyu TV—hurry and read, before it gets deleted!】

【Is Douyu TV “Bug-TV”? Fake-TV? Shill-TV? Or just outright Scandal-TV?】

【All the streamers Douyu once banned or offended—come see if your favorites are on the list!】

【A disgusting platform like Douyu TV still dares dream of going public? What a joke!】

【Heh, Douyu TV is a backstabbing streaming site. Everyone should take note!】

【Douyu TV has always treated its users like fools. Stop using it and let it collapse already!】

【Douyu just swept all the top patrons and guilds off the platform. Sure, it was a clean strike to cut off its support at the root—but once those guilds recover, they’ll drag Douyu through countless lawsuits. Lawsuits everywhere, scandals everywhere—yet this trash platform still wants to go public? Laughable!】

If there had only been one or two such posts about Douyu TV, perhaps many who weren’t interested in livestreaming would have just ignored them.

But now, even after switching between several apps, the same flood of scandal news still appeared. This made even those who had never watched a livestream before unable to resist clicking in, curious to find out what had happened in this industry, or specifically to Douyu TV, that could stir up such a huge storm across the internet.

That very curiosity of netizens made the news—already extremely damaging to Douyu—spread even wider on New Year’s Eve. With so many eyes now glancing at it, Douyu TV rocketed to the top of trending searches across all major platforms.

By this point, without anyone having to remind him, Chen Shaojie—who had been watching tensely in front of his computer—knew full well the consequences and price of having just banned Youdian Leng (“A Bit Cold”).

And this was not just a consequence—it was a move that shattered the balance of the whole playing field!

His face turned pale, his brows furrowed deeply, and only a few seconds later Chen Shaojie hurriedly left Quanmin TV without even saying goodbye.

He got in his car, told the driver to head back to Douyu headquarters, and immediately sent out the harshest emergency summons in the history of the company—a group message to all board members and every senior executive of the PR department.

This time, the chairman of Douyu, who had never once lost his composure in front of subordinates, had lost his usual calm.

Because that moment just now had shown him what kind of insane opponent he had provoked.

Never in his imagination had he thought that the silent Youdian Leng, once striking back, would explode with such earth-shattering force!

This was not just a pushback—it was a tidal wave that engulfed the entire internet.

As a veteran of the internet industry, Chen Shaojie knew all too well just how much capital it took to pull off such a feat.

“Is Youdian Leng insane? Does he even realize how much he’s already spent tonight? Even the reserves of an A11-ranked tycoon wouldn’t be enough. Even an A12-ranked one would have drained all their liquid funds by now…”

In the car, the Douyu chairman muttered, visibly shaken.

He had thought he already gave Youdian Leng due credit, but it was still an underestimation.

The terrifying wealth of this man was already beyond what his own influence and power could counter.

He had assumed that after Youdian Leng’s head-to-head clash with the Fish King, his available capital would have been drained significantly, making it difficult to cause any further waves even if suppressed.

But Chen Shaojie had miscalculated.

And not just a small miscalculation—this was a catastrophic one that dragged the entire Douyu TV straight into a massive internet-wide scandal war!

The thought made his brows knit tighter.

This was a true all-network public opinion war!

Though Chen Shaojie had confidence in Douyu’s PR team, the mere thought of that ferocious ID on the livestream page earlier filled him with inexplicable anxiety and irritation.

Still, for the sake of reassuring his subordinates and fellow shareholders, he forced himself to suppress those feelings.

Soon after, when he returned to Douyu’s headquarters, both the board members and PR executives had already arrived at their posts on this New Year’s Eve night.

No further explanation was needed—what had begun as an industry showdown had now transformed into a full-blown nationwide battle of public opinion.

Douyu’s once-dominant PR department now clashed head-on against an unknown operations team whose origins, background, and identity were completely unclear.

Whitewashing Douyu, exposing its scandals, the role of Youdian Leng, the Chenshi Fuhua team, the ousted patrons of the God-Tier Alliance—all these narratives collided, scattering wildly across every corner of the internet.

【Youdian Leng is shameless and vile!】

【Most of the so-called “scandals” online are fabricated. Douyu’s PR department hereby declares it will hold accountable any public accounts or individuals defaming Douyu.】

【Do you really believe these so-called scandals? Douyu TV is already the industry leader—why would it need to backstab a few users?】

【So, Douyu, you said you’ll take legal action? Please! Do it now! I’ve been waiting!】

【I am Guan Zong, once a leader of the Hongmen team on Douyu. I used to trust Douyu deeply, but never did I think it would come to this. So I must say, as someone who has been here since the beginning, more than ninety percent of these scandals are true!】

【I am Qian Nanshen】

【I am Yuanyang Jun】

【I am Luo Tianshen】

Douyu’s top executives had expected this internet-wide battle of words to be fierce tonight, but they thought it would take at least one or two weeks before a real outcome emerged.

Yet none of them had foreseen how overpowering Youdian Leng’s mysterious operations team would be—armed with scandals too precise, too detailed, and backed by the voices of former Douyu legends like Guan Zong, Qian Nanshen, and Luo Tianshen.

Within less than an hour of the war beginning, at 9 p.m., Douyu’s PR defenses were already starting to collapse, and with the public’s tendency to take the first narrative they saw, the tide of opinion was slipping further from Douyu’s control.

By 10 p.m., the internet’s public opinion had completely turned against Douyu.

By 11 p.m., Douyu’s statements attempting to whitewash itself sounded hollow and powerless.

And by midnight, as fireworks and firecrackers rang out across the nation to welcome the New Year, Douyu’s defenses crumbled entirely—from forums to search engines to trending lists.

Now, almost all online voices pointed their swords directly at Douyu.

At that moment, every shareholder and executive stared in shock, almost unable to believe that their once-proud PR team had been utterly defeated in such a short time.