After the concert, Luo Bingqing posted a group photo and some words thanking her fans on Weibo.
In the group photo, besides Zhou Yi, there was another familiar face, Kong Huaijin.
After all, she had been on the hot search list a few times as a beauty, so everyone remembered her quite well.
However, every time she and Zhou Yi appeared together, it was always openly and without any attempt to avoid suspicion, which actually made it seem like nothing was going on.
Fans didn't suspect that she and Zhou Yi were dating.
Luo Bingqing was her good friend, so it was perfectly normal for her to attend the concert.
After the concert, Luo Bingqing treated the three guest performers of the day plus Kong Huaijin to a meal.
Kong Huaijin made no attempt to hide her fondness for Zhou Yi; both Song Ming and Li Yiyi could tell, and Luo Bingqing was already used to it.
Kong Huaijin turned into a complete love-struck fool whenever she encountered Zhou Yi, and she and Kong Xiaohe were the ones who felt this change in her the most.
After the meal, Zhou Yi planned to go back and rest, as the fan meeting was the next day and he needed to prepare early.
The buzz and discussions about Zhou Yi on Weibo never stopped.
Most casual netizens on Weibo were discussing his songs, while fans were largely fawning over his looks.
The photos from Zhou Yi's concert this time were almost all unedited.
The fan site operators seemed to be in a rush, posting raw, unedited photos directly from the scene, with no time for retouching.
After all, in this line of work, you have to chase trends. Zhou Yi's face simply doesn't need retouching; his raw photos easily outshine those heavily edited bicycle seats.
Besides these site operators rushing to post unedited photos for the trend, there were a few of Zhou Yi's genuine fans who posted retouched photos.
They weren't rushing for time or trends; they simply posted for other fans to appreciate, with Zhou Yi's super topic being their main hub.
They added filters to the photos and adjusted the colors, instantly changing the feel.
One set of photos in particular became legendary, adding some smoke effects and snow-white wings to Zhou Yi, making him look like an ancient Greek deity when he slightly lowered his head.
The photos fans posted were carefully selected for angle and expression. When Zhou Yi sang "Mercury Record," he was so moving that even he himself didn't expect his expression to be like that...
He saw many fans reposting that set of pictures while browsing the super topic. Zhou Yi was taken aback for a moment when he saw them, then exited the super topic and didn't look further.
Many fans changed their wallpapers and profile pictures to the one of Zhou Yi with wings. In Zhou Yi's fan groups, everyone used similar profile pictures and similar IDs to discuss the upcoming fan meeting.
["I'm meeting Li Yu tomorrow, I'm so excited I can't sleep, wuwuwu~"]
["He took my letter when he came out after the concert today! And he smiled at me! I almost fainted on the spot."]
["I tried to give him a gift but he wouldn't accept it, saying not to send gifts, but he took my letter. He really... I'm crying."]
["So jealous ahhh! Sisters, take lots of photos tomorrow, so those of us who couldn't go can at least feast our eyes."]
["Anyone who sees Li Yu up close gets hit by the impact of that face. Photos aren't even one-third as handsome as he is in person. And he speaks so gently, his attitude towards fans is just too, too good."]
["This is the first time I've chased such a handsome gege. When arguing with other fandoms, just pulling out this face means you win. Who understands this kind of satisfaction?"]
["Hahaha last time I did that too. Li Yu can easily outshine their idols with anything, okay? Where do they get the courage to argue with us Feathers? So laughable."]
.......
Zhou Yi's fans rarely engage in counter-black campaigns like other fandoms.
The ones who start arguments are mostly just picking fights, or fans of other celebrities who get upset when their idols are compared to Zhou Yi by casual netizens and get completely overshadowed, so they come to pick fights.
Zhou Yi's fans have chased other celebrities before. Compared to chasing Zhou Yi, those past experiences were much more painful.
If the idol isn't impressive, no matter how much the fans hype them up, casual netizens won't buy it. So it's better to stan someone who has both looks and talent.
Sometimes when casual netizens point out flaws of certain traffic celebrities, their fans will come out to curse. Then the casual netizens will bring up Zhou Yi for comparison.
Some casual netizens even get labeled as Zhou Yi's fans, leaving Zhou Yi's actual fans not knowing whether to laugh or cry.
This also led to Zhou Yi, even before officially entering the entertainment industry, unintentionally offending a bunch of traffic celebrities and their fans, who are just waiting to catch a scandal of Zhou Yi's to stomp on him hard.
Unfortunately, Zhou Yi hasn't given them that chance.
There's simply nothing to pin on him. Some sour comments are clearly just jealousy and smear campaigns, and no one believes them anyway.
The next day for the fan meeting, Zhou Yi set off early.
Fans also gathered outside the hotel very early, starting live streams and recording videos, waiting for Zhou Yi to appear.
Some of these girls held flowers, some held letters, some held Zhou Yi standees.
For this fan meeting, they had all prepared a lot.
They all wore white feathers pinned to their clothes, or had feather pendants on their phones, feather decorations on their backpacks, etc. Their affectionate nickname for Zhou Yi is "Li Yu" (Standing Feather), so the fans call themselves "Little Feathers."
The feather Zhou Yi wore at yesterday's concert was also seen by fans as his loving response to them.
Regardless of Zhou Yi's actual intentions, judging by actions rather than thoughts, his doing this naturally moved the fans.
Rarely do fans' efforts receive a response from a celebrity. Zhou Yi's approach made many fangirls feel he was fundamentally different from those other stars.
He is liked as a celebrity, but his essence is not that of a celebrity.
The fans once again realized that Zhou Yi is not a product pushed by an agency, not an empty-headed puppet crafted by capital.
He is real and vibrant. He is himself.
And at this fan meeting, Zhou Yi once again deepened their awareness of this point.
He not only wanted the fans to realize this, but also wanted others to feel it.
His goal is to attract more people to like him. Of course, he wants as many heart points as possible. The support of casual audiences is extremely important—essentially, public opinion.
Zhou Yi is also crafting a persona, one that ordinary people couldn't create.
Celebrities break through into the mainstream relying on marketing and packaging by agencies and capital. Ordinary celebrities can't do it without these.
So this persona is difficult to achieve, but once successfully crafted, it becomes an incredibly popular, positive image that attracts countless fans.
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
lities. One day, Qi Yuan was buying groceries when he unfortunately came face-to-face with a monster. Just when he thought he was going to die on the spot, he suddenly heard the monster's thoughts... "This aura, he's definitely not an ordinary master!" "So terrifying, so terrifying." "A fight with my back against the wall, I can't take it anymore." Qi Yuan: Ah, no one told me that my awakened ability isn't telepathy, but rather the stronger my enemies imagine me to be, the stronger I truly become. PS: Zhou Hai in the first chapter is not the protagonist.
