CH 5

After thinking about it, I decided to post a daily update until chapter 10~

Gu Wei was very worried. He had just promised his agent not long ago that he wouldn’t trend on Weibo hot search for another controversy.

Within a week after saying this, he was there again.

He thought that the conversation between himself and Jiang Xun would be edited out by the program team. He didn’t expect that not only they did not cut a single frame, but also put it in as the trailer. This clearly showed that the program team prioritized the potential popularity – they knew such a scene would attract the netizen’s attention like moths to flame. 

In the trailer, he was, quite literally, got stuck between a wall and Jiang Xun’s body. To top things off, Jiang Xun even went to lower his head and whispered intimately directly to his ears. When he raised his head, he blushed furiously and reacted with the bombastic response of, “Reaction memes aren’t supposed to play hooligans–!!”

Even better – for the program, of course, why would it be for Gu Wei – he straight up ran away.

Now everyone on Weibo knows that Gu Wei was an absolute wreck in the variety show. Not only did he make a mess with his umbrella, he was pinned to a wall. By. Jiang. Fucking. Xun.

It was only a while ago the netizen scolded him, so the attention of melon-eating netizens has not yet dissipated. In the hot search, there were all kinds of comments, from all kinds of netizens–

Netizen 1: Is Gu Wei trying to paste himself to the hot search all year? Everyday I kept seeing his ugly mug all over Weibo. It’s tiring me out. It’s been scandal after scandal ever since his choreography plagiarizing scandal last year. He’s seriously annoying, I can’t like him.

This type of netizens were Gu Wei’s anti-fan.

Netizen 2: Little Gu Wei is very cute! Normally he is handsome and alluring when he dances, but off stage, he’s just a cute little baby. That part where he struggles so hard to close his umbrella made me laugh to tears lol he’s so stupid and cute. Let’s light a candle1mourn for someone. But in joke context kind of way for the passerby that got hit and apologize on behalf of our cutie. 

On the other side, this type of netizens were Gu Wei’s actual fans.

Netizen 3: Which little star is this, his looks are too good not to stan. I’m chasing2start watching/following this variety show for his face! Hahahaha XD I laughed so hard at the part of his struggles to close his umbrella. I knew that this show had no script! There’s no way he would look scared to death otherwise. 

Netizen 3: Damn, is this passerby someone assigned by the program’s crew? He’s so handsome. Are passersby so handsome these days?

This type of netizens are passersby who were here to eat melons and clicked on the hot search topic just because.

In these discussions, there were also a lot of voices that have nothing to do with this variety show at all—

Netizen 4: Are you all fucking blind, do you think this is just some random dude? No! This is Jiang Xun, the one and only God Xun! He’s the god-level player of the FPS game “Shou Ze”! The captain of the team TMW, the miracle worker himself! The hot search in the past two days was still TMW’s seven-game winning streak!  TMW is the world champion, or have your group of goldfish-brains forgotten it already?? 

Netizen 5: That’s right, this is Jiang Xun. Their team was reported to be in Northern Europe for vacation. They did just win the world championship and deserve that rest.

This wave of netizens were Jiang Xun’s e-sports fans, and they quickly turned the topic into e-sports talk. Amidst the crowds of netizens, they didn’t forget boast about Jiang Xun’s excellent gameplay and brilliant commands, about how exciting those game were, and how amazing it he was and totally deserving his title as the World Champion– 

In other words, normal brainless fan behavior. 

And, among the above-mentioned people from all walks of life, there was also a particularly special big V account chiming in.

This account’s profile picture was a king crab with its big claws raised. The comments of this crab boss, under the show trailer, were praised all the way by many netizens.

JiangYingKANI3the og is 江影KANI, 江影 is Jiang Ying, and KANI is Japanese for crab: Huh??? Isn’t that my big brother??? 

Jiang Ying’s comment was liked by 20,000 people, and there were thousands of replies that were composed of the same words.

Netizen A: @JiangYingKANI, your big brother and your nemesis are on the hot search together [dogeface]

Netizen B: @JiangYingKANI, your big brother and your nemesis are on the hot search together [dogeface]

Netizen C: @JiangYingKANI, your big brother and your nemesis are on the hot search together [dogeface]

Jiang Xun was wearing headphones, sitting inside TMW’s training room, and his fingers danced on the keyboard so fast it became a blur. On his screen, he manoeuvred his game character to vault over a bunker, shooting in accurate frenzy until his enemy went down. 

Jiang Xun took off his earphones, the word “Victory” was displayed proudly on his screen.

His allocated training time had passed, so he picked up his mobile phone that was set aside. His phone had been flashing for a while, new notifications kept coming for quite a while.

Jiang Ying sent a message.

[Big-Clawed Crab]: [Video] [Video]

[One Hundred Thousand Volts]: What is this?

[Big-Clawed Crab]: Don’t look at Weibo yet, I’ll wash your brain first.

[One Hundred Thousand Volts]: ?

[Big-Clawed Crab]: My nemesis’ shitty, flaming car wreck of a singing skill. Ge, I think you need to accept the cleansing of your soul with this.

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