Chapter 32: The Fish Died and the Net Broke
Lu Xifei was mad by Zhao Rulan's anger, and he really couldn't soothe the resentment in his heart. He thought about it, thinking that he had done everything for her before, and that she was doing this to herself! The more he thought about it, the more angry he became, and it was really difficult for him to swallow this breath. As a result, he embarked on a series of crazy plans of revenge.
Lu Xifei first reported Zhao Rulan's academic misconduct to the school with his real name and declared that the materials of Confucius and Mencius scholars were fraudulent.
When Zhao Rulan learned the news, she was very shocked, she would never have thought that Lu Xifei would really dare to report herself. Zhao Rulan abused Lu Xifei for a long time in the office, calling him an ungrateful guy who had wasted so many years of trust and cultivation in him. Subsequently, she used her influence in the school to settle the matter, and the school did not pursue it. After that, Zhao Rulan united with the school's Political Department and Personnel Department to determine that Lu Xifei was falsely accused and punished.
After receiving the notice of punishment, Lu Xifei was completely crazy. He sent an email to his colleagues in the institute and colleagues in other units of the school, sending them the inside information about how Zhao Rulan cheated and how she cooperated with the relevant departments of the school to retaliate. He also posted big-character posters and banners in public places at school to accuse Zhao Rulan of despicable behavior, in an attempt to create public opinion in the school.
In addition, Lu Xifei transformed his full anger into words, every word was his weapon, and every sentence was his army, launching a fierce attack on Zhao Rulan. An article "Real-name Report: Confucius and Mencius Scholar Zhao Rulan Suspected of Academic Plagiarism, Confucius and Mencius Scholar Application Materials Fraud, and Bribing Review Experts!" was published on the blog and received widespread attention from the media. The keywords of Confucius and Mencius scholars, fraud, and bribery are enough to attract attention, and the academic community has exploded.
Lu Xifei pointed out in the article that in the process of applying for Confucius and Mencius scholars, Zhao Rulan, a Confucian and Mencian scholar, split the content of the monograph and published it in a journal, which is an academic duplication. Translating published Chinese journals into English and publishing them abroad is a multiple-submission. He claimed that he searched and checked all of Zhao Rulan's papers, and based on the academic plagiarism checking system, compared the plagiarism source of each paper, and pointed out how she achieved the purpose of falsification by means of Zhang Guan Li Dai, colluding with data, and changing text expression. In addition, he also provided evidence that Zhao Rulan's declaration materials were falsified. He pointed out that Zhao Rulan regarded conference papers and newsletters as research papers as application materials. Finally, he pointed out that Zhao Rulan was reporting that Confucius and Mencius scholars had bribed the review experts, and named several of them and stated the specific amount of bribes.
Zhao Rulan almost collapsed when she saw the news.
"Lu Xifei, Lu Xifei! If you don't agree to your request, you will jump over the wall in a hurry, and use this kind of indiscriminate means! I was really blind at the beginning!" she scolded herself angrily.
She called Lu Xifei, hoping to ask him to withdraw Weibo quickly, ready to agree to his request, as long as he promised to publicly apologize and admit that he had made false reports.
But Lu Xifei didn't answer her phone at all!
But the media flocked to the school to interview Zhao Rulan. Zhao Rulan dared to see the media at this time, hid in the office and didn't come out, asked the deputy director to block the media, and said that she was on a business trip.
The school's leaders also had a headache, although they had heard about their dispute before, but they did not pay enough attention to it to cause such an uproar. The school immediately formed a crisis public relations team to discuss how to deal with Zhao Rulan's crisis. After discussion, everyone finally unanimously decided to claim that Lu Xifei was not successful in the transfer and the associate professor was not evaluated, venting dissatisfaction, fabricating facts, and deliberately retaliating. At the same time, let Zhao Rulan explain several issues reported by Lu Xifei one by one.
Subsequently, Zhao Rulan explained several issues reported by Lu Xifei to the media one by one. She claimed that the published articles were indeed the contents of the book, but the book was an internal book and had not been published publicly, and there was nothing wrong with the publication of several articles that were the result of her research. Her Chinese articles were translated into English, some methods and arguments were changed, and explained to English journals and magazines in advance, which does not belong to multiple submissions in academic standards. In addition, it is even more unreasonable to say that her academic papers are fraudulent. Which author writes a paper without references, she just borrows from it, and it is not plagiarism at all. As for the falsification of the application materials, it can only be regarded as the non-standard writing of the materials, and those do represent her personal achievements. Finally, framing and bribing experts is even more nonsense.
In the media, Zhao Rulan burst into tears, telling the media how she cultivated Lu Xifei, entrusted him with a heavy responsibility, and made him the person in charge of the evaluation studio, but she didn't expect him to take revenge. It was because he did not agree to his unreasonable request that he deliberately retaliated. Lu Xifei even forced himself to write a letter of commitment, forcing himself to help him be rated as an associate professor and transferred.
Subsequently, Zhao Rulan apologized to the named "Confucius and Mencius scholars" and consulted with them to clarify in the media that there was no bribery. Those implicated "Confucian and Mencian scholars" are also on fire in their stomachs, but they are also very afraid, and they must quickly clear up their relationship, otherwise they will not be able to protect themselves.
Therefore, they have clarified in the media that they have never met Zhao Rulan, and there is no way to talk about bribery. It is claimed that Zhao Rulan's successful election is a fair evaluation based on her academic ability and academic status. They told the media that the reason why they were implicated was that Lu Xifei used their fame to attract the attention of the media.
Shortly thereafter, the school held an investigation briefing. Zhao Rulan did not participate. But reporters from dozens of media outlets filled the seats in the first few rows of the venue early. A man in a dark jacket and a mask was soon spotted sitting in the corner of the third-to-last row to the left. This person is the whistleblower Lu Xifei. Although it was low-key enough, Lu Xifei's presence caused alarm among the organizers of the briefing, who temporarily decided to change the venue from the school conference room to the hotel next door.
The school spokesman explained that this was not because he was afraid that Lu Xifei would say anything, but because Lu Xifei always "spread untruths" and was worried that he would make trouble at the meeting, so in order to hold the briefing meeting more smoothly, he temporarily changed the venue.
The spokesman first showed the media an A4 piece of paper, which read the "Letter of Commitment to Help Lu Xifei to be Promoted to Associate Professor and Transfer". This plan is said to have been written by Lu Xifei in Zhao Rulan's tone, and Zhao Rulan was asked to press his fingerprint on the back to confirm it.
A4 reads: "From now on, I make the following guarantees to Lu Xifei...... In the future, all opportunities will be considered to Lu Xifei first, and Lu Xifei's opinions will be fully listened to. ”
The spokesman said: "It was precisely because of the rejection that Lu Xifei began to take crazy reporting actions. Is it appropriate for a subordinate to ask his leader in this way? From this "Letter of Commitment," you can know that the most basic nature of this matter is not academic violations, not academic fraud, but moral degradation. How can a dignified professor tolerate such insults from his subordinates?"
The plot came to a big reversal, and the media began to report that Lu Xi was not of bad character and morally corrupt. Lu Xifei suddenly became the target of public criticism.
Fueled by media reports, Lu Xifei was condemned on the Internet, abusing him for his inferior personality and bad conduct. Zhu Zhengyi posted remarks on the Internet as Lu Xifei's former colleague, misleading netizens, claiming that Lu Xi's inhumanity was indeed not good and ungrateful, which further fueled the flames and confirmed Lu Xi's inhumanity.
Zhu Zhengyi was very proud, and finally let out a bad breath in his heart!
Lu Xifei was abused on the Internet and almost collapsed, and once wanted to commit suicide. It's not that simple. Subsequently, Lu Xifei was sued by Zhao Rulan, requesting that Lu Xifei be ordered to stop the infringement and delete all articles published on the Internet that damaged Zhao Rulan's right to reputation, so as to eliminate the impact and restore Zhao Rulan's reputation; and demanded that Lu Xifei be ordered to publish an apology statement on the front page of "Tianyuan Metropolis Daily" for a week, as well as on the front page of the official website of "Tianyuan Metropolis Daily", Lu Xifei's blog, and Weibo homepage for 30 consecutive days, and publicly apologize to Zhao Rulan; in addition, it was requested that Lu Xifei be ordered to compensate Zhao Rulan with 50,000 yuan for mental damages.
After accepting the case, the Hongyang District People's Court of Tianyuan City held a trial and made a first-instance judgment: Lu Xifei should stop his infringing acts and delete the content of the articles he published on the Internet that infringed on Zhao Rulan's right to reputation; publish an apology on the top page of his blog on the 30th, publicly apologize to Zhao Rulan to eliminate the impact; restore Zhao Rulan's reputation (the content of the apology must be reviewed by the court of first instance in advance); compensate Zhao Rulan 3,000 yuan for mental damages; and reject Zhao Rulan's remaining litigation claims.
After the first-instance judgment, Lu Xifei was dissatisfied and appealed, requesting that the original judgment be revoked and that the judgment be changed to reject all of Zhao Rulan's claims in the original trial. The Tianyuan City No. 1 Intermediate People's Court held that the case was a dispute over the right to reputation, and Lu Xifei claimed that Zhao Rulan had infringed on her right to reputation by publishing many false articles on the Internet, posting big-character posters and banners in public, and sending mass emails to the mailboxes of Zhao Rulan's colleagues. The court of first instance examined Lu Xifei's above-mentioned claims one by one, and held that there was no substantive evidence to prove the articles written by Lu Xifei on his blog, which alleged that Zhao Rulan was corrupt and persecuted after being reported, and that the relevant articles also used a large number of words to insult Zhao Rulan's personality, constituting an infringement of Zhao Rulan's right to reputation. As for Lu Xifei's other acts, the first-instance trial found that they did not constitute an infringement of Zhao Rulan's right to reputation. In view of the fact that Zhao Rulan did not appeal the first-instance judgment, it should be deemed that she recognized it.
After accepting the case, the Tianyuan Intermediate People's Court held that the scope of the review of this case was limited to the part found to constitute an infringement of Zhao Rulan's right to reputation in the first instance. Therefore, this court will not examine whether Zhao Rulan has committed academic fraud and who proposed the letter of commitment. However, the content of Lu Xifei's published article objectively insults and slanders Zhao Rulan's personality, causing damage to Zhao Rulan's reputation, and Lu Xifei should bear tort liabilities such as stopping the infringement, publicly apologizing, and compensating for losses in accordance with the law. In summary, Lu Xifei's appeal request cannot be sustained and should be dismissed, and the first-instance judgment should uphold the fact that the facts found are clear and the law is correctly applied.
In the end, the Tianyuan Intermediate People's Court made a final judgment, rejecting the appeal and upholding the original judgment.
After receiving the court's verdict, the school began to suspend Lu Xifei and even dismiss him. What's even more strange is that Lu Xi is not a sudden illness, part of the epidermis on his body is covered with herpes and causes pustules, and the doctor's diagnosis does not rule out the possibility of being poisoned.
This completely angered Lu Xifei, this is no longer a simple revenge, it is obviously murder!
Zhao Rulan has reached such a ruthless point, if you want to put me to death, I will definitely stab you to death!
Lu Xifei has completely ignored the consequences, he is really angry, and he has no choice but revenge. For the sake of your own dignity, you must do the same!
Subsequently, he made a final counterattack on Weibo. "Confucius and Mencius scholar Zhao Rulan's scientific research corruption" was published in the blog, and the article details the amount and method of Zhao Rulan's cash, as well as relevant evidence. At the same time, a recording of the conversation between the two was posted.
There has been a widespread debate on academic corruption on the Internet.
This incident is no longer a problem of academic misconduct, but its nature has completely changed, and it has become a naked corruption in scientific research, which immediately attracted the attention of the Discipline Inspection Commission. The Commission for Discipline Inspection began an investigation.
Thinking that the Commission for Discipline Inspection would definitely find Zhao Rulan's financial Tianshu, she was the direct manager of Zhao Rulan's finances, and it was also the key to the investigation of scientific research corruption, Zhao Rulan summoned Tianshu overnight to discuss with her the strategy of dealing with the Commission for Discipline Inspection, and promised that she would give her a large sum of money after the turmoil passed, so that Tianshu must not talk nonsense and help herself through the crisis.
But Zhao Rulan has calculated everything, how could she calculate, Tianshu really loves Lu Xifei too much.
Don't underestimate the power of a woman who loves a man, she can go up and down for this man, even if it's broken bones.
On the battlefield between the two of them, seeing her beloved man under great pressure and extreme pain, and being continuously suppressed by Zhao Rulan, how could she stand idly by, she must protect him. Although she knew very well in her heart that in this silent smoke of gunpowder, no one was a winner, and both would lose, but for the sake of Lu Xifei, Tianyi decided to let it go.
For you, I am willing to give everything!