It was around eleven in the morning when the lawyer called him.
"Mr. Xu, there has been progress in the case," the lawyer said.
With that one sentence, Xu Qingyan was instantly brought back to that afternoon when he was mobbed by trolls. It started with a small entertainment company trying to stir up trouble, hoping to step on Xu Qingyan to promote their own artist.
In the end, they overplayed their hand and were crushed by Xu Qingyan's counterattack.
At the time, to deter the malicious posters of ugly and funeral photos, he had spent a significant sum on a lawyer to sue each troll individually. Usually, this approach was useless.
Even though the internet was not lawless, it wasn't exactly a place for reasoned debate either. Fortunately, the law firm Xu Qingyan engaged was somewhat unique, employing rather thuggish methods.
In short, they were litigation bullies.