The wedding was livestreamed by the sister, revealing his identity as a Taoist priest.

Star Shine Entertainment Company, Beijing.

Wang Feng sat in his office, holding a small red notebook in his hand.

Divorce certificate!

"Old Li."

The agent stood to the side, holding three cell phones in his hand.

"Brother Feng, please speak."

Wang Feng slammed the divorce certificate on the table.

"This time, I should be number one on the trending topics list, right?"

His tone was calm, yet it conveyed a sense of vicissitude after weathering many storms.

The last time I released a new song, the top nine spots were all taken by that guy named Chen Shidu.

This time, he was smarter.

No songs are being released.

Issue a divorce certificate.

An ironclad rule in the entertainment industry: divorce is always more effective than releasing a song.

Old Li patted his chest, the sound louder than a metal plate.

"Brother Feng! This time it's absolutely no problem! I mobilized forty-seven marketing accounts, two thousand online troll accounts, and three fan clubs were crying at the same time!"

He held up one finger.

"They spent 1.8 million yuan just on buying trending topics! They're determined to suppress Chen Shidu, that guy who popped up out of the mountains!"

Wang Feng nodded in satisfaction.

"Open it and take a look."

Old Li unlocked his phone and opened the Weibo trending topics list.

refresh.

Fifth place: [#Wang Feng officially announces divorce#]

"It's on!"

Old Li rubbed his hands together excitedly.

"It's still rising!"

refresh.

Third place.

"Charge! Charge upwards!"

refresh.

Second place!

Old Li's eyes lit up.

"Just one spot left! Brother Feng! Almost there! The online trolls are still going strong! The comment section is already flooded with 80,000 messages!"

Wang Feng stood up, a smile curving his lips.

"brush!"

Old Li kept pressing the refresh button.

The page scrolled around.

Loading complete.

Both of them looked at the screen at the same time.

Then their expressions froze instantly.

The top trending topic is: 【#The Second Dowry Gift: Seven-Star Dharma Lamp#】

The second trending topic is: [#ChenShidu'sSecondLetter#]

The third trending topic is: [#The First of the Four Sacred Artifacts of Taoism Used as a Dowry#]

The fourth trending topic is: [#Taoist priest descends the mountain only to deliver betrothal gifts#]

The fifth trending topic is: [#TheLightWillNeverGoOutInSnowyNight,IWillNotBackDownEvenWhenThousandsAbandonMe#]

The sixth trending topic: [#Fang Shouye's 30 Years of Counterfeits Are Less Than One-Tenth of the Genuine Products#]

The seventh trending topic: [#Pei Jingchuan's 200 Million Yuan Can't Buy a Single Lamp#]

The eighth trending topic: [#Who exactly is Chen Shidu?#]

Ninth on the trending topics list...

Wang Feng's gaze swept from first to tenth.

Gone.

His trending topics.

It's not that it dropped to fifth.

It simply disappeared.

One million eight hundred thousand.

It was a waste of time.

Not even a bubble appeared.

"impossible!"

Wang Feng's voice was squeezed out from between his teeth.

"That's absolutely impossible!"

He snatched Lao Li's phone and frantically scrolled down the screen.

Eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth...

Seventeenth place!

[#WangFengAnnouncesDivorce#]

Seventeen.

They spent 1.8 million to buy 17 people.

They didn't even get the word "explosive".

"Damn it!"

Wang Feng slammed his phone on the table.

"Why is it him again?! What kind of monster is he?! He suppressed my new song release, he suppressed my divorce too?! Is he even human?!"

Old Li's face was pale, and his voice was trembling.

"Feng...Brother Feng, calm down..."

"How can I stay calm!"

Wang Feng pointed at the screen, his voice cracking.

"Brother Feng... how about we wait until he's married before we get a divorce?"

"..."

Qingcheng International Convention and Exhibition Center.

Chen Xiaoyu's live stream has reached a peak of 12 million viewers.

Lin Ke, holding a fill light, was already in a state of excitement.

"Xiaoyu, twelve million people are watching your brother deliver the betrothal gifts."

"I know."

"Your brother is now even more popular than the top celebrities."

"……I know."

[Husband!! Husband, where are you! Give me a chance!!]

【Chen Shidu! Why aren't you my boyfriend! Why!】

[Hey streamer! Where does your brother work?! I want to submit my resume! I'm open to being his colleague! I'm even willing to do cleaning!]

[Looking for a front-facing photo! The reward has risen to five million!]

Five million is nothing! I'll offer ten million! All I need is a front view! A side view is fine! A back view is fine too!

Chen Xiaoyu's lips twitched when she saw this.

These people probably don't know that all she has is a photo of her brother making a non-mainstream peace sign when he was eighteen.

If I post this, I'm afraid I'll get accused of fraud.

A comment that had been pushed to the top of the list kept flashing.

[Host! You said your brother dropped out of school at sixteen to work! What kind of work?! How could his writing be so good! Could a professor of Chinese literature at Peking University write a sentence like "Without you, immortality would be a lonely existence for ten thousand years"?!]

Chen Xiaoyu stared at the comment, her expression very complicated.

Yes.

She also wanted to know.

Her brother, Chen Shidu, dropped out of school at sixteen to work, and was gone for several years.

I wore canvas shoes when I came back for the New Year.

When transferring money, they say it's a "subsidy".

This is the kind of person who could write, "The lamp will not go out in the snowy night, I will not retreat even if ten thousand people abandon me"?

She looked down at the camera, her face showing a genuine bewilderment.

"My darlings..."

The chat was silent for a fraction of a second.

"You ask me what kind of job my brother does, or why he's such a good writer."

Chen Xiaoyu took a deep breath, her gaze sincere beyond words.

"I really don't know."

There was a moment of silence.

Then she added a sentence.

"He never passed Chinese when he was in school."

The live stream chat exploded.

【？？】

[Didn't pass Chinese class? Then who wrote this marriage certificate? Ghostwritten?]

[It couldn't have been ghostwritten! Look at those characters! The strokes are powerful! Written in one continuous stroke! Who would have done it for you?!]

[A dropout who failed Chinese but can still write an amazing love letter—what kind of plot is this?! Even novels wouldn't dare to write something like this!]

This is getting more and more outrageous! Just who is this person?!

I've given up trying to figure it out. The truth will be revealed when he shows up in person.

When will the third betrothal gift arrive? I'll be squatting! I'll squat even if I don't eat or drink!

Lin Keke leaned close to Chen Xiaoyu's ear.

"Xiaoyu, did your brother really never pass Chinese?"

Chen Xiaoyu answered with mouth movements.

"He scored 37 points on a test in the second year of junior high. My mom chased him for three blocks with a broom."

Lin Keke's expression slowly twisted.

She glanced at the barrage of comments in the live stream saying "The God of Literature has descended to earth," and then looked at Chen Xiaoyu's extremely serious expression.

"...What has your brother been through all these years?"

Chen Xiaoyu shook her head.

she does not know.

But she knew the answer must be related to the group of people wearing dark blue Taoist robes.

……

Thousands of miles away.

Longhu Mountain, Qingwei School.

late at night.

In the open space in front of the seclusion room on the back mountain, Sect Leader Qin Shouyi stood with his hands behind his back, with two elders standing behind him.

They have been standing here for half an hour.

The sky outside has been acting strange for the past half hour.

Tomorrow will be a clear night.

The sky is full of stars.

But on the northwest horizon, a thick, dark cloud had gathered at some point.

Those clouds were not ordinary cumulonimbus clouds; they were gathering towards the back mountain of Qingwei Sect.

Elder Zhao rubbed his hands, his face pale.

"Sect Leader... this cloud formation..."

Qin Shouyi remained silent.

"boom!"

A bolt of purple lightning tore through the night sky and struck three zhang above the secluded training room.

The lightning flashed and disappeared in an instant, but a second and a third followed immediately.

Elder Li took three steps back and looked up at the increasingly thick thunderclouds.

"Sect Leader..."

His voice was dry.

"Could that person inside... have really broken through to a higher level?"

Qin Shouyi's fingers clenched almost imperceptibly.

The person inside was Elder Zhang, who had just returned from Taiqing Palace a few days ago.

When he returned, he didn't even drink a sip of water. He simply said, "I've realized something, I'm going into seclusion," and then plunged into his seclusion room.

At that time, Qin Shou thought he was just excited because he had received guidance from the Celestial Master.

After all, Elder Zhang had been stuck on the seventh level of the Five Thunder Heavenly Heart Technique for a full eleven years.

Eleven years.

This bottleneck cannot be broken through with just a few words of guidance.

Normally speaking, it would be considered a genius to make any progress after three months of seclusion.

Elder Zhang has only been back for four days.

"impossible."

Elder Zhao shook his head, his tone resolute.

"That's absolutely impossible!"