Lu Wei drew her last breath in the Cold Palace. When she opened her eyes again, she had become an influencer mocked by the entire internet.
Scandals followed her everywhere, her company had abandoned her, and the whole internet was shouting, “Get out of the livestream!”
She smiled faintly at the camera. “Apologize? What I do best is express my gratitude.”
In an unconventional “gratitude livestream,” she used palace-intrigue rhetoric to reframe malice as encouragement and tea ceremony etiquette to turn platform rules into a chessboard, reversing public opinion overnight.
From then on, the livestreaming world had a maverick who used “ancient methods” to turn the tables:
