Super Zoo

Taoyuan Company, after contracting the entertainment project on the back mountain, allocated a large portion of the revenue, after deducting necessary personnel expenses and the maintenance costs for the foxes themselves, to establish a small charity fund in collaboration with Deyuan Temple. This fund helped sponsor children from impoverished areas who had dropped out of school;

All the expenditures were documented clearly, line by line. Deyuan Temple even provided detailed information about the children who received aid, eliminating any possibility of foul play.

"This news is truly surprising, a privately-owned company, actually makes regular donations to charity and future public welfare projects," the host said, amazed.

From the accounts, it was evident that the income from contracting the back mountain constituted a significant part of Taoyuan Entertainment's total income, with nearly half of it being donated to charitable causes!

And this wasn't just a one-time donation, but a regular, normalized practice, meaning that from now on, a portion of every ticket sold for Fox Home and every wishing charm would be used for charitable causes!

At this point, even the neutral host couldn't help but lean towards the zoo in their words, nodding and turning to Suming and Wang Hao, "Gentlemen, in the face of these misunderstandings from the outside world, is there anything you wish to say?"

Wang Hao and Suming looked at each other, and Wang Hao spoke up first, "I would like to take this opportunity to promote our charity fund. As a company with a sense of social responsibility, we are committed not only to making money but also to shouldering our social responsibilities. I hope everyone will continue to support Taoyuan Entertainment and our charitable endeavors."

"This little misunderstanding, from another perspective, is also a form of charity promotion, right?" The host laughed, "Mr. Su, do you have anything to add?"

While Wang Hao was all smiles, Suming spoke with a solemn expression, "Running a business is not easy. Since the restructuring of the zoo without government support, we have worked tirelessly to grow the company and even give back to society. But we never expected to be faced with such malicious questioning. After being questioned, I felt very wronged and went to seek guidance from Huineng. Master Huineng didn't say anything. He just showed me a photo..."

"Oh, what kind of photo?" The host asked, curious.

"I've brought it with me." Suming took out a photo. In the photo, set against the backdrop of a mountain, was a little girl with a sun-darkened face, looking about fifteen or sixteen years old, dressed in very unassuming clothes, laboriously carrying an elderly person with white hair on a flower-lined mountain path.

"Master Huineng told me that this girl is fifteen this year, named He Wenwen. Her father died of cancer, and her mother remarried the year before last. She lives with her grandmother, who has rheumatism and difficulty moving. The family relies on state aid, earning about four thousand yuan a year. This year her grandmother's condition worsened and she became completely bedridden. The girl's greatest wish is to have her grandmother join her in singing on the hillside,"

"Master Huineng told me that there are many poor children like this one in the area, and this girl is just an ordinary example among them. An annual income of around four thousand yuan may seem incredibly small to us, not even enough to buy a decent phone, but locally, this is the norm. They rely on a few meager acres of farmland and the local government's free educational assistance for her to continue her studies and their lives. However, if they were to admit the elderly woman to a hospital for treatment, that little money wouldn't be enough. The girl was ready to drop out and work in the city. Her grades were among the best in school and she had a good chance of getting into a key high school in the province. Now she doesn't have to drop out, and her grandmother can stay in the hospital in the county."

"Is that with donations from Taoyuan Company?" the host asked.

Suming nodded, speaking calmly without deliberately being sensational, "Yes. Master Huineng told me that this story isn't particularly touching, but it is very real. After he showed me the photo, my mood suddenly improved. So, when you ask me what I feel about this incident, I can only say it was worth it, because we truly helped a real child."

...

A small storm had temporarily subsided, and the number of fans of Taoyuan Entertainment was about to break through one hundred thousand. Upon learning the truth, the followers on Weibo became surprisingly angry, directing their ire at Yangchuan City TV Station.

Just as Suming had said on television, Taoyuan Company had worked hard on charity to help impoverished children but was suspected of fraud. Those who instigated trouble and operated underhandedly were simply inhuman.

The investigation team gave a detailed account of the charity fund's financial records, showing that Deyuan Temple and Taoyuan Company implemented transparent management of the donations. Every sum could be clearly tracked from its source to the specific child it was used to help.

Doing charity is a fine thing, as it is not only about doing good deeds and helping those who are in need but also about boosting one's visibility. Huineng was just discussing with Suming the other day that the charity fund is still in its initial stages and that going forward, everything from management to information dissemination needs constant improvement. It seems that Huineng is set on making this his life's work.

Prior to this, fans had already spontaneously organized on Weibo to donate to the fund, and Suming also solicited designs for the fund's logo on the platform. That very day, he received several submissions, all featuring various cartoon renditions of Broad-eared Foxes, which were quite amusing to look at. Experience new stories on empire

For the TV station, Mr. Shi faced mixed emotions.

On the one hand, he was happy that the program brought in good ratings and that throughout the process, the station managed to remain neutral, not jumping to conclusions as it had done previously.

On the other hand, the worry was that the high ratings came with a negative impact: the station's website had been hacked!

For the past couple of days, as soon as anyone visited the station's website, four characters would scroll across the screen repeatedly: "Worse than beasts!"

Whoever hacked the station seemed to have a sense of dark humor. Although it was just four words, they were styled in various ways: traditional Chinese, simplified Chinese, colorful cloud scripts, Martian script, even English and French... In summary, every day there were different versions of "Worse than beasts" scrolling across the homepage, and they weren't just text – there were even vocal pronouncements.

Often, as you walked past an office, a sharp cry of "Worse than beasts!" would tell you that someone was online working. These days, the entire station echoed with the curse of being worse than beasts.

The station's network department had technical staff, of course, but there's a saying: "Every day is for the thief, not every day is for the watcher." Each time they resolved the issue, it didn't take long for another attack to occur. Even the station's internal network wasn't spared and kept displaying the same scrolling characters.

This had everyone at the station feeling frustrated, with little desire to go online. Opening the internet felt like someone was pointing a finger right at their noses, shouting, "Worse than beasts!"

Obviously, it was the work of the zoo's fans.

Hacking, of course, is neither reasonable nor legal, but this time the TV station had provoked public outrage, and from the network regulatory authority to the police department, it seemed there was an unspoken agreement to look the other way and not intervene, clearly signaling the station to sort out the mess it had made.

The phrase "Worse than beasts" was quite apt. Even the foxes contributed to charity, and of course, it wasn't out of their own volition, but it was indeed their presence that helped raise the donations. In contrast, some 'humans' at the station were busy slinging mud and setting traps, so to say they were "Worse than beasts" wasn't at all untrue.

"This is all your doing!" Mr. Shi had been severely criticized by the station chief these past few days and couldn't help but get angry at the sight of Yang Meng, "Go away, go apologize to Nangong. Ask her to talk to her boyfriend and get the zoo fans to stop this nonsense!"

"Me?! Apologize to that brat?!" Yang Meng was on the verge of exploding.

"What are you saying, that I should go instead of you?!" Mr. Shi glared but then waved his hand as if shooing a fly and said despondently, "Forget it, I'll go. You'd probably mess it up even more! Yang Meng, please be more thoughtful in the future, I beg you!"