Chapter 63: Reversal

"Writing books, being able to create, extreme sports, Chinese kung fu, and a graduate of an Ivy League school......" Brian's expression was a little indignant, looking at Xu An's eyes complicated and inexplicable, "If you go to sing, I dare to say that young people in Europe and the United States will go crazy for you!" ”

"It's a pity I'm always out of tune, otherwise I wouldn't mind competing with you!" Xu An said with a smile. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Speaking of this, Brian became smug again, "Hey, this is so that God will open a window for you and close the door for you!" ”

"Who would have said such nonsense?"

"It's always true!"

The two talked and laughed, and then they got busy, Brian took the new song and kept humming it in a low voice, and Xu An continued to finish "The Count of Monte Cristo", and the new story has gradually improved, writing that Dantès escaped from the prison of Château d'If by playing dead, and discovered the island of Monte Cristo, where he found a chest of treasures, a large number of ancient gold coins, diamonds, gold nuggets, pearls and precious stones, making him a billionaire all at once!

This plot is the climax of the book, and it is from here that the treasure of Monte Cristo Island begins to be remembered by countless people, and some people even say that this is a true story, after the death of the Count of Monte Cristo, his remaining wealth is still buried on this island!

Xu Anzheng wrote that eight years after Dantès escaped from the prison of Chéteau d'If and returned to Paris as a banker under the pseudonym of the Count of Monte Cristo, the next story is the story of revenge.

"Lovely Bones" is about family and love, "Twilight" is a young adult romance novel, and "The Count of Monte Cristo" is the first classic masterpiece that Xu An copied, even "A Song of Ice and Fire" is a gap in many places.

However, Xu An was not sure whether the book would sell well after it was written, after all, when he saw the book in Stephen's world, it had been published for more than a hundred years!

But Xu An was still ready to try.

Among the classical classics, this is his favorite book, and the plot of the prison is somewhat similar to his current situation, and the most important thing is that the story of happiness and revenge in this book is definitely a plot that people of any era like to see.

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Outside the prison, Stanley is in some trouble.

Early in the morning, he received a lawyer's letter from Andrew's new lawyer, Matthew, asking him to apologize and compensate for his inappropriate remarks in the newspaper, as well as the legal department of the New York Evening News.

Of course, neither Stanley nor the New York Evening News took this to heart.

Fighting a lawsuit with a reporter or newspaper is still a defamation, which is something that few people are willing to do, and most of them usually send a lawyer's letter to express their protest and indignation, and there will be no follow-up.

That said, this kind of thing usually doesn't go through the legal process.

Because the law related to defamation in the United States has a certain degree of protection for the profession of journalists, otherwise every time a report is published, it will have to get into a lawsuit, and what journalist will dare to speak in the future?

Unfortunately, I don't know if Andrew hadn't heard of this protective policy, or if he had been stimulated by the huge compensation of three million, and that afternoon, Stanley and the newspaper received a second lawyer's letter, in addition to an apology and compensation, accompanied by a copy of the court's indictment.

In other words, Andrew's lawyer has officially filed a lawsuit with the court!

Two lawyer's letters in one day show how urgent Andrew's mood is.

But Stanley and the newspaper still don't take it seriously, more than 90% of this kind of civil lawsuits will not go through the trial process, and they are generally concluded in the pre-trial procedure, and the judge will not accept this kind of almost "vexatious" case.

And there is no report to the society to reject such an innocuous lawsuit, and no one will hate the matter of raising popularity, right?

But when the latest issue of The Washington Post came out the next day, Stanley noticed that things were getting a little different!

"The Great Reversal, the New York Evening Post's Deception and Falsehood!" 》

Andrew is now proud, this is the second time he has made the front page of the Washington Post, which is a very rare thing for a large world-class newspaper, and for Andrew, he never imagined that he would have such a day, you must know that when he was in charge of intern affairs at the New York Times, he almost never wrote his own news, let alone such a showy thing as a front page.

Unsurprisingly, this news article criticized the "framing" behavior of the "New York Evening News" and Stanley, and denounced the other party for using disgraceful means to buy the interviewee and artificially create news in order to attract people's attention!

These are all very normal words, the two media are fighting, you come and go, and they are just raising each other's popularity.

But Andrew mentioned a person in the news, his former intern, a Korean journalist Cho Kwang-min!

This person Stanley also knows, he is an intern reporter at the same time as Xu An, and the two do not have a deep relationship, but he occasionally mentioned Andrew's suspected racism during the interview.

Probably as a yellow race, Zhao Guangmin is more sensitive to this.

It was precisely because of his casual mention that Stanley seized the direction and began to focus on investigating Andrew's racial discrimination, he interviewed several intern reporters who had been under Andrew, although not everyone agreed with this, but there were three people, including an Asian American, and both black men said that they definitely felt discrimination from Andrew.

Not only did these three people feel this way, but they even agreed to testify if necessary to prove that Andrew had racist tendencies!

The promise of the three of them is the killer feature that Stanley told the editor-in-chief Evan, and he is ready to use the interview with these people as the end of the dispute at the last moment.

In the multi-ethnic country of the United States, racial discrimination sometimes does not require evidence, and as long as a few people are willing to testify, although it is not possible to legally convict Andrew, it is enough to make him a street rat and his reputation plummet.

As for when this end will come, Stanley and the newspaper are not in a hurry.

But Zhao Guangmin, one of the three important witnesses, suddenly reversed his caliber and pointed the finger at Stanley.

"He asked me if Mr. Andrew was racist and mentioned the names of some of his colleagues, which I firmly denied, but he continued to steer the conversation in this direction, which I knew was nonsense, Mr. Andrew was never a racist person, he was kind to everyone, and the color of my skin is the best proof of that......

In the end, the New York Evening News reporter looked a little disappointed that I had not been able to follow his script to complete the interview, and it was clear that he wanted to make a big news, and even used money to lure me for this, and he told me that he was willing to pay 10,000 dollars if I could do what he asked me to do......

This news is not worth $10,000 to a journalist, after all, he is not the only one who is interviewing me, but it is invaluable to a newspaper, it can generate buzz and drive newspaper sales......

Of course I rejected them, and moral and legal factors aside, Mr. Andrew helped me a lot during my internship and I can't frame him......"