Fans Moved to Tears

The fans below were all focused on watching Zhou Yi. He sat there alone, making people feel he was within reach yet also distant.

Actually, this fan meeting wasn't particularly elaborate. Compared to the flashy venues other celebrities set up, Zhou Yi's setup was quite simple.

But for the fans, it was happier than any other fan meeting they had ever attended.

Because at its core, they were all there for that person.

They felt Zhou Yi's sincerity and his respect for them, which is incredibly rare in the entertainment industry.

To put it bluntly, it's all thanks to his peers' poor performance setting a low bar.

Zhou Yi didn't say much on stage. The impression he gave his fans was of someone gentle yet quiet.

He rarely updated his social media, and when he did, it was just with a few short words.

"My true feelings are all written to you in the letters."

"I don't know how to thank you all for your affection. I can only thank you in my own way."

"I wrote a song. I hope you all like it."

After Zhou Yi finished speaking, the fans below got excited again.

[Oh my god! It's only been a few days since he said he'd hold a fan meeting, and Li Yu has already written several songs!]

[My other favorite idol writes maybe a couple of songs a year, and even those are written by hired songwriters. Li Yu writes songs like he's shopping at the grocery market. The difference in talent is just incomparable.]

[To be honest, it's just not putting in enough effort. If you really wanted to write, how could you not? Even if it wasn't that great, fans would accept it for the sentiment.]

[Exactly. Teacher Zhou wrote three songs in a row! I just wonder what this one will be like.]

[I'm so excited I could die. I'm afraid I'm going to cry later.]

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Male voice:

[I'll show you those years of youth, shabby and rough]

[Yet they always intoxicate me]

[By my side, there was only her]

Yet I dared to venture into sunless, crazy dreams

[She stayed with me through blood and bruises]

[Walked with me through the gossip and rumors]

[And it was because of her that I achieved what I have]

[With anyone else, the ending would be lost]

[In those youth days without lavish flowers or red carpets]

[If not for her, how could I have made it through, unknown and obscure]

Female voice:

[I really did brave the heavy rain with him]

[Really spent winters and summers with him]

[Really wanted to embrace him in the darkness]

[Really wanted to hold his arm]

[I flew tens of thousands of miles across the globe for him]

[And struggled together, our dreams precarious]

[Promising only to go towards a future bright with each other's presence]

......

Female voice:

[For him, I have so much courage]

[All truly are sweet dreams from which I won't wake]

[I really have been lovesick to the point of illness]

[Really love watching his retreating figure]

[Really grew armor hard for him]

......

[Pay no mind to the gossip and rumors]

[Please keep believing in this love]

.......

When the female voice came in, the fans were slightly surprised.

After hearing the lyrics, they understood—this voice represented them.

The voice was familiar; it was actually Luo Bingqing's.

Zhou Yi had previously asked Luo Bingqing to help record a few segments.

Listening to these lyrics was like hearing the fans express their love over and over, and Zhou Yi saying "I know" again and again.

Almost none of the fans present remained unmoved.

The fans in the live stream had the same reaction.

[I'm really about to cry, okay? "And it was because of her that I achieved what I have"—this 'her' is us!]

["If not for her, how could I have made it through, unknown and obscure..." Help, when Li Yu sang this part, my tears instantly streamed down.]

["For him, I have so much courage... Really grew armor hard for him..." Every fangirl understands, wuwuwu, I'm straight-up sobbing.]

["Pay no mind to the gossip and rumors, please keep believing in this love," wuwuwu, he has always believed in our love. He knows everything. I could never stop being a fan in this lifetime. I'll carry this love to the grave.]

[This song is definitely going to become every fangirl's favorite. It can resonate with almost every fan and their idol.]

[How can their idols compare to our Li Yu? Just the sentiment in these lyrics is something those others wouldn't understand.]

When Zhou Yi finished singing, thunderous applause erupted below, and a large number of fans were crying.

With a gentle, faint smile, he said softly:

"This song is what I've always wanted to tell you all. I know your feelings, I've always known."

After Zhou Yi said this, fans who had just wiped their tears started crying again.

His voice was soft, his expression gentle, as if chatting with friends, familiar and natural.

"Getting to where I am today, I'm very grateful to you all. Actually, a lot of the time, I'm not as strong as I appear on the surface."

"I also care about what others say about me, and I hear negative voices too. But beyond those voices, I also hear yours."

At this point, he smiled somewhat shyly. "Actually, I sometimes secretly read all the nice things you say about me. For me, these are the strength that keeps me going."

"During that time when I was getting heavily criticized online, many fans stayed by my side. I said back then that you are my spring."

"That statement still holds true today. You are still my spring. Thank you for giving me so much love."

After speaking, Zhou Yi bowed sincerely to everyone on stage.

077 could already imagine what today's trending topics would look like.

And Zhou Yi's heartthrob points, which were about to skyrocket again.

Some of the fans below were new, not having liked Zhou Yi from the beginning. Hearing his later words, they deeply regretted not becoming fans sooner.

One can imagine how moved the fans who had liked Zhou Yi from the start must have been.

Before the fan meeting even ended, Zhou Yi was already trending.

This time, it wasn't just Zhou Yi's fans pushing hard; there were also genuine casual observers.

They weren't Zhou Yi's fans, but they were genuinely touched.

Just that song alone made many fangirls cry.

On the trending list, Zhou Yi occupied several topics in a row.

The recording of the song Zhou Yi sang, captured by fans, had been reposted by countless fangirls.

So the song quickly started trending, with the comments below mostly filled with emotions of being moved and envy.

[No joke, if my 'gege' could write us a song like this one day, I could die without regrets.]

[I don't even dare to hope he'd write one. If he could just sing this song for us at a concert, I'd burst into tears.]

[As soon as this song came out, I knew how many fangirls would cry. Anyone who's ever been a fan understands.]

[After watching this video, I've already fallen for Zhou Yi. Fanning over a 'gege' like this is worth it. In comparison, I'm starting to wonder if I had some kind of masochistic tendency liking those other things I used to fan over before.]

[Whether Zhou Yi enters the entertainment industry or not is irrelevant. It doesn't stop him from being popular. Using the word 'celebrity' to describe him feels like it lowers his caliber.]

[I've already fallen into the Zhou Yi rabbit hole. I wanted to spend money but found there's basically nothing to spend it on. Kind of upsetting.]

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