Lin Feng didn't retaliate with noise.
He retaliated with focus.
The moment the documents from the underground meeting hit his encrypted terminal, he didn't forward them. He didn't leak them. He studied them.
Thread by thread.
By noon the next day, he had a roadmap—not of revenge, but of narrative leverage.
At 2:00 p.m., a private invite-only panel went live at the Shanghai Institute of Strategic Communication—a think tank that rarely made headlines, but whose talks quietly shaped them.
The theme?
"Public Trust in Emerging Leadership Models."
What the media didn't expect was Lin Feng's presence.
Dressed in a crisp charcoal-gray suit with no tie, Lin sat at the end of a sleek stage, beside industry veterans twice his age. The room was all glass and soft-light paneling. No filters. No distractions.
Just words.
He didn't open with charm. He opened with facts.
