I was exposed for adding my female boss to my group of female friends.

"I'm sorry to trouble you, brother. Is this just for me, or do all the other sisters get to see it too? If I had known they were here, I wouldn't have come. If they come today, I can come tomorrow, so it won't be too crowded or too lonely."

"I was wondering why the periodic table was missing three elements; turns out magnesium and neodymium are here, and my zinc is here too."

……

The production team recently upgraded their equipment and added a split-screen feature for viewing live comments, allowing contestants to see the comments directly on-site.

Lu Chujiu, who rarely goes online, had never seen so many abstract bullet comments before. After reading them, her face was flushed and she couldn't get rid of the blush for a long time.

This time, the host was a woman who previously worked behind the scenes. She was unexpectedly given the role of host, but she wasn't nervous at all, and said with a big smile:

"Alright, welcome everyone to our Idol Training Club's afternoon tea restaurant. Today, we are fortunate that our outstanding students have taken time out of their busy schedules to answer questions from fans. Now, everyone, please say hello to the audience."

The microphone was first handed to Jin Lan, who was the center of attention for this recess program.

"Hi everyone, I'm Jin Lan."

As soon as Jin Lan spoke, the live stream chat exploded with excitement.

"Jin Lan is so cute and adorable! She seems so cool in the videos, but is she really this sweet and gentle offstage?"

"So cute, I want to raise one."

"The gold and blue color looks even more beautiful up close."

……

"Uh..." Jin Lan asked in confusion as she looked at the comments.

The show has once again broken out of its niche, attracting a large number of new fans.

Longtime fans know that the episodes of "Idol Trainees" on competition days are the real "Idol Trainees".

Therefore, at this time, the majority of viewers in the live stream are the casual viewers attracted by the trending topics.

This was the first time these people had seen Jin Lan on the big screen.

Since her debut on the show "Idol Producer", Jin Lan has been called dull and criticized for being tone-deaf... This is the first time she has been called "soft, cute and adorable".

The host said, "Do you know why I invited Jin Lan to open the show first? Because Jin Lan's live performance video has already surpassed 120 million views on YouTube! Congratulations!"

The crowd sparsely applauded, and Meng Xing feigned surprise, saying:

"Huh? It's already surpassed 120 million views?!"

The host smiled and nodded: "To be precise, the current number of views has reached 123.7 million, and the number of viewers is still rising."

Meng Xing couldn't help but smile smugly.

He certainly knew how many views the video had; he himself contributed no less than 10 views.

He just wanted to hear the host praise him again in front of everyone.

Jia Yi, standing next to him, curled his lip and muttered a low laugh, "Show-off," but he still felt a little jealous.

Meng Xing had been relatively unknown until now, and he has suddenly become very popular.

He had already been eliminated. None of this concerned him anymore.

The host glanced at the live chat for a while and laughed:

“I saw a comment in the live stream saying, ‘Who is he? Why is he so proud of his high video views?’ Mr. Meng Xing, it seems your pride has been seen through.”

Meng Xing was so anxious that he spat out words:

"Why am I so proud? I wrote the song 'Golden Blue Flame,' of course I'm happy about it!"

Everyone laughed.

The host explained, "Some new viewers may not know this, but our program pairs one songwriter with one idol trainee. There are three pairs in total. Currently, Jin Lan and Meng Xing are in one pair, and they are working together."

Meng Xing continued, "The song in the Jinlan video, although I only spent three hours writing it, I felt inspired and my thoughts flowed like a spring, with all sorts of brilliant strokes... Sure enough, sometimes songs created on intuition are often the most effective."

Guo Xiaoran smiled slightly and said, "I don't think so. I've been on this show for so long, and I'm either writing songs or on my way to write songs every day. I've already gotten used to it. I can write a song with my eyes closed now."

Meng Xing nodded and said, "That's true. The deadlines set by the production team were extremely pressured, and they really put me through a lot of hardship."

The two singers, in their back-and-forth banter, subtly revealed to the audience the immense challenges faced by songwriters and composers. The host then conveniently interjected, deliberately posing a question:

"So all these songs were really written on set? Did the production team not leak the topics beforehand?"

“Of course,” Meng Xing snorted, “I almost lost my beautiful hair.”

Guo Xiaoran said, "This production team is definitely the most reckless I've ever worked for. They never reveal the questions in advance. I suspect they'd love to see us mess up on the live broadcast."

Jia Yi rolled his eyes behind him.

Yes, I didn't give you the questions. You went and asked for a question yourself, and it was wrong!

However, Jia Yi's subtle glances went unnoticed by the audience because the atmosphere of the conversation was great, the audience was engaged, and the number of comments on the screen increased.

The host struggled to read out one message from the dense barrage of comments:

"Someone asked, besides Jin Lan and Meng Xing, what other groups are there?"

"Let me introduce another group, Guo Xiaoran and Lu Chujiu. Chujiu's videos have been very popular recently, with 36 to 40 views on YouTube."

"There's another group, Yun Shang'er and Chen Liang, but they didn't come today."

"Why didn't he come? Yunshang'er is still performing. Chen Liang is probably accompanying her to the performance."

At this moment, Xiao Qing, who was watching the live stream, suddenly started typing and entered the following in the chat:

"Nonsense, I was at Yunshang'er's performance venue, how come I didn't see Chen Liang?"

Unfortunately, her comment was lost in the sea of ​​other comments and went unnoticed.

At this moment, Xiao Qingren was in a bar, while Yun Shang'er was performing energetically on stage, and she was watching the live stream on her phone.

In the past few days, she has truly kept her promise to attend every performance of Qin Yunshang, showing herself to be a true fan.

The key is that there are quite a few people like her, all of whom focus on companionship. Qin Yunshang changes the location every time she announces a concert, and wherever she goes, her fans follow, forming a veritable personal guard for Qin Yunshang.

After several days of performances, Qin Yunshang's fan club grew larger and larger, and soon the livehouse was overflowing with people.

Xiao Qing is such a crazy fan, and even though she repeatedly emphasizes that this is a fan's personal behavior and that she doesn't have to come with her, Lu Qingxuan still comes with her every day.

She said she doesn't like taking photos while traveling; she finds peace in noisy places, so the two of them go to livehouses every day.

Lu Qingxuan witnessed the entire process of Xiao Qing sending comments and being ignored, and then spoke up:

"How do you know Chen Liang isn't here? Even if she came, would you recognize him?"

“Of course I recognize him!” Xiao Qing said. “He’s the one who wears black-rimmed glasses, and, uh, has a normal hairstyle and normal clothes…”

After frowning and thinking for a while, Xiao Qing realized that she really couldn't recall Chen Liang's appearance, and then said:

"Oh dear, if he came, Yunshang'er would definitely interact with him. Besides Yunshang'er, who else has been here these past few days? Chen Liang hasn't come at all."

Lu Qingxuan stared at her for a while and said, "You seem very angry. Why are you so agitated?"

Her words only made Xiao Qing angrier, and she started pointing at her phone screen:

"Look at these people! They're livestreaming without mentioning Yunshang'er!"

“The production team also has its own arrangements; they need viewership,” Lu Qingxuan said.

"No, it's not that I'm angry that they didn't bring Yunshang'er. It's that these people will definitely try to trip up Yunshang'er and Chen Liang behind their backs," Xiao Qing said angrily.

"Isn't it?"

"How could it not be? You don't know, this Jia Yi and this Guo Xiaoran both had a deep grudge against Chen Liang. They relied on their seniority to ruthlessly ostracize Chen Liang."

Lu Qingxuan hadn't watched the show before and wasn't familiar with this kind of gossip, so she listened attentively while drinking her milk tea.

"Then isn't Chen Liang very pitiful?" Lu Qingxuan asked, blinking her eyes.

"Sigh, you can't really call him pitiful. Anyway, he still managed to rise up despite being ostracized," Xiao Qing said. "On this variety show, everyone seems friendly on the surface, but actually, everyone's scheming and calculating!"

Lu Qingxuan asked, "Do the other contestants also ostracize Yun Shang'er?"

"I can't tell, but with Yunshang'er being so popular, who knows what they're thinking? Their mentality is probably not good either."

After saying that, Xiao Qing frowned and said, "Yun Shang'er really suffered a loss. There aren't many songs that Chen Liang is suitable for her to sing, and he even wrote a Japanese song. She performed a day later than others, but Jin Lan became popular while she didn't. Actually, her performance that day was much better than Jin Lan's."

Lu Qingxuan said, "Is it possible that Yun Shang'er didn't become famous because no one uploaded her performance video to the internet?"

Xiao Qing said, "Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

After a pause, she said, "Actually, I recorded a video for her yesterday, but for some reason no one watched it after I uploaded it to YouTube."

"Let me see." Lu Qingxuan reached out and pulled up Xiao Qing's account to take a look.

"You submitted this video to the wrong section."

"what?"

“This video should be posted in the Japanese section, where there’s a local traffic boost,” Lu Qingxuan said. “Never mind, I’ll adjust it for you. Just use the same tag as Jin Lan’s video.”

Xiao Qing asked, "Will this become popular?"

"necessary."

……

The live stream's break-time segment has reached the nostalgia phase.

The main purpose of this break-time program is to solidify the fans attracted by the trending topics into core fans, so many live replays were arranged during the intervals when Jin Lan was being cute.

This also involves selecting the audience; if new fans are attracted by the past excellent content, the chances of them becoming loyal fans will greatly increase.

The production team specifically selected several of Jin Lan's more mainstream songs to create a synergistic effect among the trending topics, which would have a greater activating effect on potential fans.

Of course, the songs selected were all written by Chen Ya.

"Wow, I didn't know that Jin Lan sang 'Plum Jam'!"

"Holy crap, 'Ah Zhen Fell in Love with Ah Qiang' was also sung by Jin Lan. I absolutely hate that song, and it turns out Jin Lan sang it?! What am I going to do? I'm a Jin Lan fan, and I'm so conflicted..."

"Hahaha... I'm the complete opposite of you. I absolutely love this song, but I never knew it was sung by Jin Lan. Now I love it even more."

"My mom sings 'Learn to Meow' at home every day. I always thought it was a new song by some middle-aged or elderly singer, but it turns out it's by Jin Lan... I always thought she was into anime and manga??"

"Why isn't 'Learn to Meow' an anime/manga ... anime/manga anime anime/

……

The live stream chat was flooded with comments, and gasps of shock filled the air. The camera then panned back to the host, who said:

"Many friends in the live stream were surprised by these performances. It's okay, I was surprised too. Jin Lan, who looks so cute, actually sings such amazing songs."

Everyone burst out laughing after hearing this, and Yu Xiaoxiao shouted:

You mean to say "weirdos," right?

The host waved his hands and covered his mouth repeatedly, saying, "I didn't say that!"

Jin Lan felt conflicted, unsure whether to be happy or sad, and felt like crying but couldn't.

The host's smile faded, and he continued, "The reason we're showing this is because a reader asked a question."

A question from Weibo user 【奶糖不是果】: I recently became obsessed with Jin Lan and listened to her old songs, but I found that they were all... well, let's just say they were pretty... mindless pop songs. I'd like to ask her if she offended any of the songwriters or composers?

After the host finished reading the question, he couldn't help but chuckle, and everyone in the room wore a strange smile—

Apart from Jinlan herself.

The host looked at Jin Lan and said, "Jin Lan, could you explain this to this audience member?"

Jin Lan said in a serious tone, "I don't think all my previous songs were terrible."

The host said, "Actually, they're all pretty good songs, right?"

"Yup!"

After Jin Lan finished speaking, she saw Jia Yi and Guo Xiaoran still chuckling, and felt inexplicably annoyed. She said:

"Actually, when I first received these songs, I had some doubts, but later during the competition, the rankings were quite good, and the songs were very popular. I can't say that the audience and judges didn't understand them!"

Seeing that her words were a bit sharp, the host quickly tried to smooth things over:

"You mean to say that everyone has different tastes?"

“Yes,” Jin Lan nodded, “I know that the audience thinks these songs are a bit corny. I thought so at first too, but then I changed my mind.”

"I sing for fun, and I'm happy as long as everyone enjoys it. The world needs Mozart, but it can't only have Mozart. The existence of Jin Lan isn't a mistake either!"

After Jin Lan finished speaking, her mentor He Su applauded: