"As family members of political figures, they should set an example even more so than ordinary people, yet Minister Song Baiyan’s family, including their pets, clearly haven’t done so," the reporter said as he walked out: "By trifles, we perceive their dispositions; by minor details, we discern their ends. The environment in which a person lives plays an extremely crucial role in their development, and everyone has already seen for themselves what the Song Family is like."
After watching the video, Tang Li left a comment under the reporter’s V-blog with her newly registered account.
[Tang’s Dumplings]: "When you can’t find faults with the candidate, you attack their family members with unreasonable excuses. Where is your professional integrity?"
The comment received quite a few likes.
After a while, Tang Li found her comment had been deleted.
Only the comments supporting the reporter and criticizing Song Baiyan remained under that V-blog post.
When she tried to comment again, she found herself blocked by the other party.
With the election day approaching, netizens also swept through V-blog, bringing one wave of hot topics after another.
The day after finishing filming, Tang Li saw Song Baiyan’s name in the V-blog hot search.
Thinking it was news like the day before, she clicked on it and found that it was content from a marketing account that had been pushed to the top of the hot list.
[Entertainment Eighth Prince V]: "Am I the only one who finds Minister Song Baiyan very distinguished and handsome? [crying laughing] Maybe I have a peculiar focus."
Below the text was an animated GIF.
In the GIF, Song Baiyan stood in front of stairs laid with a red carpet, dressed in a suit and leather shoes, finishing his response to journalists with a "that’s all" hand gesture, then turning around to leave, immediately followed by six or seven bodyguards.
This V-blog already had over thirty thousand comments.
Tang Li opened the comments, and the strong scent of fangirls hit her.
[_JYYL]: "Minister Song looks more handsome and surely has long legs!"
[Green Xi Baby]: "Ever since I saw the Minister on the news, I’ve been paying attention [drooling], he is particularly refined, truly the face of politicians in recent years."
[Sick Should I Take Medicine]: "A high school classmate of mine is a translator, last year she accompanied Minister Song abroad. Once when she encountered a particularly long and difficult passage, Minister Song occasionally glanced at her with the corner of his eye, worried she wouldn’t be able to translate, and was always ready to remind her. Because of this, she even bragged about it in her friend circle, acting so arrogantly. [rolling eyes]"
Tang Li also sneakily left a comment with her own account.
[Tang’s Dumplings]: "The Minister has the demeanor of a modest gentleman, I like the Minister, [excited] he is my new male idol."
Not long after, Tang Li received a QQ message from Wu Xuehan.
Wu Xuehan sent a link.
Tang Li clicked on the link and found it was a V-blog survey.
[Who does everyone want to win the election?]
Wu Xuehan sent another message: "Ah Li, please do me a favor, vote for candidate number 2, Minister Song, thanks!"
By evening, a well-known gossip tabloid published news about another candidate having seven lovers. Unlike previous attacks on the Song Family trying to attract attention with sensationalism, this report was well-founded and aggressive, almost destroying that candidate’s political future.
That same night, Song Baiyan accepted an interview with a certain television program.
Tang Li was watching the program’s live broadcast online with her tablet.
When asked by the host about the other candidate’s actions of canvassing for votes online, Song Baiyan, sitting on the sofa, replied in one sentence: "Whether as an authority or as a candidate, one must use social media cautiously."