Daily Intelligence: Forced to Save the Beautiful President at the Beginning

143: Chapter 143 Awkward! Zhang Fan Crowned ”National Scumbag”?On Monday morning at Singularity Technology, just as the office area had resumed its busy rhythm, the receptionist girl ran in clutching her phone, her face pale: ”President Zhang! President Zhou! It’s bad! The hot search list is full of negative news about President Zhang!”

Zhang Fan had just sat down in the conference room, holding the optimization report for the overseas servers, and frowned when he heard this: ”What news?”

Zhou Yurou took the phone handed over by the receptionist. The Weibo hot search list on the screen made her gasp instantly.

# Zhang Fan National Scumbag #

It had shockingly landed at third place on the hot search list, followed by an eye-catching ”Explosive” tag.

Clicking into the topic, pinned at the top was a collage of photos, with four images corresponding to four scenes: The first was last Friday, showing Zhang Fan and Zhou Yurou discussing the overseas operation plan downstairs at the office building. They were standing relatively close, and the shot made it look like they were ”intimately chatting.”

The second was from last week when Song Zhiwei came to the company to discuss additional investment. Zhang Fan was walking her to the parking lot, and the image of them walking side-by-side was cropped to only show their ”backs together.”

The third was Liu Ruyan accompanying Zhang Fan over the weekend to test the new features of ”star dream workshop.” They were huddled together looking at a computer screen in a coffee shop. The camera angle was deliberately lowered, making it look exceptionally ambiguous.

The fourth was the most absurd. Last week, when Zhang Fan went to his hometown to visit Lele, Xia Qinyi saw him off at the station. The moment they waved goodbye was captured to look like they were ”reluctantly parting.”

The marketing account that posted it added fuel to the fire with its caption: ”Singularity Technology founder Zhang Fan, having risen to power relying on the Song family’s capital, has become arrogant. He is surrounded by beauties: his partner Zhou Yurou on the left, investor Song Zhiwei on the right, and he doesn’t even spare his subordinate Liu Ruyan or his neighbor, a single mother. He really is a modern-day ’Time Management Master’!”

The comment section had already exploded. In just half an hour, there were over 100,000 comments: ”No wonder Singularity could become popular; turns out he relied on clinging to women’s coattails!”

”I used to think he was a tech upstart, I didn’t expect him to be such a scumbag!”

”I feel bad for Miss Song. With such a good family background, how could she fall for a guy like this?”

There were also a few rational voices: ”Could it be a camera angle issue? The first photo is clearly them talking about work, right?”

”Calling him a scumbag without concrete proof, isn’t that too arbitrary?”

But these were quickly drowned out by the insults.

”Someone is deliberately causing trouble!” Zhou Yurou handed the phone to Zhang Fan, her tone filled with anger. ”These photos were clearly taken by someone lying in wait. The angles are all deliberately misleading, and the marketing account’s copy is calculated to stir up trouble. It must be a competitor!”

Zhang Fan scrolled through the screen, feeling incredibly annoyed. He knew this scandal had come at too convenient a time—right after Yunqi Technology failed to poach their staff, and just as his collaboration with Lin Wanyi was starting. It was nine times out of ten either overseas capital or opponents of the Lu family pushing things from behind the scenes, wanting to take him down through public opinion and subsequently affect the stability of Singularity Technology and his collaboration with Lin Wanyi.

The discussions in the office area grew louder. Employees were secretly checking their phones, casting glances toward Zhang Fan’s office from time to time. Wang Chengsi from the Technology Department walked by holding a coffee and couldn’t help but say: ”President Zhang, this is clearly a smear campaign. We need to issue a statement to clarify immediately!”