She debuted after having a child with a celestial being.

In the third week of the premiere of "Ever Night", the scene where Ning Que and Sang Sang reunited became a hit on Tencent Video.

The episode garnered over 100,000 comments. When Ning Que chased after the car in the rain and shouted, "Sang Sang, what will I do if you leave?", the background music happened to be playing the chorus—HF's "The Only One".

Yang Yang arranged this song for the scene where Ning Que is chasing the car.

On a muddy mountain road in the rainy night, Ning Que, soaked to the bone, chased after the carriage, shouting not "I like you," but "Sang Sang, what will I do if you leave?"

Sangsang lifted the car curtain and glanced back at him. The feeling of going from childhood sweethearts to suddenly realizing that the other person was "the only one" perfectly matched the lyrics of the song "The Only One": "I really love you, every word is precious."

The director cut to a slow-motion shot of Ning Que falling into the mud and getting up to continue the chase, with the piano prelude and the sound of rain mixed together.

The live chat exploded at that moment.

Wang Zhengliang later said on Weibo: "This song wasn't chosen by our OST team; it was decided by Director Yang herself. She said that Ning Que's feelings for Sang Sang weren't the sweetness of a passionate romance, but the certainty of waiting a lifetime and confirming it a lifetime later. This matches Ning Que's line in the script: 'I only recognize one person in my life, and that is Sang Sang.'"

The comment sections of major music platforms exploded after that episode aired.

KuGou's comment section was flooded with hundreds of comments saying "From Ever Night," while QQ Music's bullet comments went from "Is this Liu Yifei's voice?" to "I want to fall in love after listening to this," "Ning Que and Sang Sang, sob sob," and "Please provide the full audio."

The next morning, the most upvoted comment came from a film and television content creator: "This song wasn't written for Ever Night at all. It was written by Xiao He for his goddess, Liu Yifei, but Director Yang used it as the exclusive background music for the Ning Que-Sang Sang romance. If you don't believe me, go back and watch the scene where Ning Que chases after the car. The moment Sang Sang turns around, it's Liu Yifei's voice. Liu Yifei sings 'Only You,' and Ning Que chases after Sang Sang. This coincidence is just too amazing."

The comment section exploded—"So it's supposed to be a love song between siblings, but it turned into a love song between Ning and Sang?" "It's not a coincidence, the director did it on purpose." "Director Yang, I'm crying my eyes out." "I'm totally shipping them."

That weekend, the hashtags #EverNightTheOnly# and #NingSangReunionBGM# trended on social media, maintaining their popularity throughout the weekend.

While the hashtag #TheOnlyOneInTheNight# was still trending, a completely different group of users flooded in—"Raise your hand if you listened to 'Mohe Dance Hall' after watching Ning Que chase the car"—pushing another single released earlier by the HF group onto the rising charts.

Within three days, "The Only One" jumped from outside the top 100 on QQ Music's new song chart into the top ten.

It's worth noting that this song didn't have any additional promotional budget; it relied entirely on viewers spontaneously searching for it after the series aired.

In the Taihe Music publicity department's work group, Chen Zhu posted a message: "Those with full budgets didn't make it, and those with no budgets just flew away."

Hu Yiyou replied: "It wasn't a flight, it was the audience's vote. They used their search volume to put 'The Only One' at the top of the list."

The data quickly proved that the song was becoming a hit with zero promotion.

It climbed to the top of the Kugou Rising Chart solely through organic traffic, and its collection on NetEase Cloud Music is growing at an average rate of one new collection every five seconds.

Wang Zhengliang later stated frankly that the fact that an interlude with no budget for promotion could outperform an OST promoted through formal distribution channels was not due to luck, but rather to the most basic word-of-mouth driving force.

Even official platforms have acknowledged this anomaly. Tencent Video's official Weibo account posted a still of Ning Que chasing a car in the rain, with the caption directly using a line from a song lyric: "I really love you, every word is precious." The post was retweeted over 100,000 times.

A series of trending topics propelled Liu Yifei into another spotlight—but this time it wasn't a barrage of attacks from haters, but rather a flurry of invitations for brand endorsements and business collaborations.

An international beauty brand was the first to express its interest in becoming a spokesperson, with a sincere email stating: "The authenticity and resilience shown in Ms. Liu Yifei's recent musical works are highly consistent with our brand's philosophy of 'authenticity is beauty'."

Immediately afterwards, a domestic new energy vehicle brand extended an olive branch to the HF duo, wanting them to jointly endorse their entire product line.

In an interview, her brand director bluntly stated: "What we value is not her past box office performance, but her current public goodwill—an artist who can rise from the bottom is more trustworthy than one who has had a smooth career."

Even luxury watch brands that used to avoid her have quietly sent people to inquire about the expiration date of her current endorsement contract.

Meanwhile, the rating of "Ever Night" on Douban gradually climbed from 6.8 when it premiered, and its reputation continued to rise, eventually stabilizing at 7.2.

At 10 p.m., the video call on Fairy Nest lit up on time.

Zhang Liangying was still in the recording studio, Tang Yan was curled up on her sofa wearing a fluffy headband, and Shu Chang was the last to log on.

"Congratulations, Princess Sissi! Ever Night is a hit, and the theme song is a hit too! How did you manage to make every single one of your songs a hit?" Shu Chang waved her hands on the screen.

"Good luck." Liu Yifei typed out three words with a smug look on her face.

Tang Yan removed her face mask: "What luck? That's called talent. Qianqian, let me tell you, someone in our company's internal group just asked—how much has Liu Yifei's endorsement fee increased? I said guess. Nobody dared to guess right."

"Yifei," Zhang Liangying slowly took off her monitoring headphones, "From a professional point of view, the chorus of 'The Only One' that you two recorded, the line 'I really love you, every word is precious'—you sang it at least ten times in the studio to achieve this effect. You can definitely be considered a singer now."

"So when are you going to treat us to dinner?" Shu Chang interjected.

"Celebrate what?" Liu Yifei asked knowingly.

"Celebrating Ever Night surpassing 500 million views, celebrating being the only one to enter the top ten, and celebrating the fact that Liu Yifei's reputation has been completely restored."

"Let's do it another day. I've been too busy lately; I haven't been able to reply to all the invitations from brands."

"Wait a minute, does anyone remember what the haters said when 'Mohe Dance Hall' was released? They said Taihe Entertainment went all out with the budget, and the top spot was bought with money. Now that it's become a hit with zero promotion, aren't those haters embarrassed?"

"It's swollen. They've already started deleting posts. Last time, that vocal blogger who said the last note of 'Mohe Dance Hall' was a sign of poor singing skills got thousands of comments. You call that auto-tuning? They got to the top of the charts with zero promotion. The haters have all shut up, after all, it's hard to type with a swollen face."

Shu Chang suddenly seemed to remember something: "Is Brother He here? You're getting too much attention right now. My girlfriends are all asking in our group chat, what's your relationship with Qianqian? Tell me the truth."

"What other relationship could there be? It's just that of an older sister and her younger brother."

Liu Yifei pushed her phone back onto the coffee table, picked up the calico cat lying on the carpet, and glanced at Xiao He out of the corner of her eye.

Why does my heart race when I just glance at it?

Is this what they call a guilty conscience?

"Have you two slept together? This younger brother is so handsome, Sisi, are you sure you can resist?"

"Shuchang, don't talk nonsense, we didn't."

"How could I say anything wrong? There are too few good men in the entertainment industry these days, especially those who can write songs and stay up with you recording until the early hours. If you don't clarify your relationship soon, I'm going to post a marriage advertisement for you in the group chat."

"You dare?"

"I dare to see what Brother He says. Such a good younger brother, why aren't you going to take him? What are you thinking? If you don't want him, then let's keep him in the family. I'll sleep with him tomorrow to assert my ownership. I'm going to keep sleeping with him until we get our marriage certificate."

"Shuchang, are you crazy about men?"