"How much?! Eighty thousand? In just one day?"
"Yes, to be exact, from 11:30 in the morning to just after 5:00 in the afternoon, his fan count broke 80,000."
"Holy shit!"
Sun Jian had originally decided not to say anything, but how could he hold back now? This is too damn fake, right? Gaining 80,000 fans in half a day? Were they bought?
But even if he was a bit foolish, he knew such things shouldn’t be said recklessly. His mouth was loose, but he wasn’t entirely without emotional intelligence. He just thought about it, never intending to voice it aloud.
But even if he didn’t speak, the others understood what he ant; in fact, they all thought the sa thing.
Just as the four of them were staring at each other, clueless about what to say, another staff mber approached.
"Oh, you’re all here? Um... Li Guang? You’re Mr. Li Guang, right? My na is Keke, and I’ll be your temporary agent for a while. We have a business event to attend soon. You need to get ready, and I have so things to explain to you."
Seeing the woman in front of him who claid to be an agent, it wasn’t just Li Guang; everyone else also looked utterly confused.
"? I have a business event? May I ask what it is?"
Seeing his bewildered look, Keke said with a smile, "Of course, there’s no need for secrecy. It’s just a performance at an ani festival—the Star City Ani Festival. Have you heard of it? You’ll need to go on stage and perform your song ’Dalabengba’."
This is... a comrcial performance already? Am I going to start earning money this soon? Li Guang thought. Weren’t we just preparing for my debut this morning? How did it beco a comrcial performance by the afternoon? Since when did the entertainnt industry move this fast?
The others nearby, their expressions a mixture of confusion and shock, watched the two of them talking, a sudden dryness in their mouths.
"Wait, may I ask, is it really ? How could it be? I don’t think I’ve even debuted yet, right?"
Li Guang looked at Keke in disbelief, his voice trembling slightly as he asked. He simultaneously hoped it was him and yet found it hard to believe, a contradiction that made him extrely anxious.
"Yes, it’s really you, and you’ve already debuted. But... the way it happened is a bit unusual. You can ask President Chu about it later; I won’t go into details now."
It wasn’t that she wouldn’t say more, but rather that she didn’t quite know how to explain it; she had never witnessed such an operation herself.
"Oh, by the way, if you want to know more, you can check out this video on Station A later."
Keke said this as she handed Li Guang a piece of paper. It was a printed screenshot of a webpage, clearly showing the video of him singing. It was unclear where Keke had unearthed it from; she simply handed it over.
Looking at the black-and-white webpage snapshot on the printout, Li Guang imdiately recognized himself in the video. This confused him even more. When was this uploaded? Wasn’t this video just a trial recording? How did it get used all of a sudden?
"Alright, is there anything else you need to sort out here? If not, shall we find a place to chat? I need to tell you about your upcoming arrangents."
Seeing Keke’s questioning gaze, Li Guang quickly responded.
"Oh, oh, okay. Sister Lin, should I go with her now?"
"Go on, go on. Perform well, learn as much as you can, and listen to the experiences of others."
After hearing Yang Lin’s advice, Li Guang said goodbye to everyone and then left with Keke.
He left, but those who remained found the situation even harder to accept.
Yang Lin recalled the title on the paper Li Guang had been holding and decided to search for it online. Station A, was it? What on earth is Station A?
Watching her fumble with her phone, unable to figure it out, Chen Feng couldn’t stand it anymore.
"Why don’t you just search for it on Qianwen?"
Yang Lin imdiately understood his words but had nothing pleasant to say to her old partner, Chen Feng. Although he had pointed her in the right direction, Yang Lin still looked up and shot him a glare.
"If you hadn’t said anything, I’d have thought you actually knew what Station A was! As if I don’t know how to use Qianwen!"
Chen Feng, long accustod to her ways, just smiled without saying a word, his expression particularly smug.
Yang Lin couldn’t be bothered with him and searched on Qianwen: ’What is Station A?’
Fortunately, the internet was quite advanced. People genuinely responded to such questions, not only providing answers but also thoughtfully including the website link.
Yang Lin clicked on the link. Since she didn’t have an account, she could only browse as a guest.
She entered a few keywords from mory, and a list of videos quickly popped up. She found the one she was looking for listed third. The third video was marked with the studio’s na, which she knew all too well.
Upon clicking it, a dense barrage of scrolling comnts imdiately appeared.
"High energy ahead!!"
"Found a treasure, no hoarding!"
"High energy incoming! Protect your knees!"
Seeing the dense wall of scrolling comnts on the screen, Yang Lin was completely baffled; she couldn’t understand what any of it ant.
Finally, with Chen Feng’s help, and after struggling for so ti, she managed to turn off the scrolling comnts. It couldn’t be helped. She was older, and not only did she not understand these modern internet things, but she also wasn’t used to watching videos with text overlaying the screen.
The video was still playing. She casually scrolled down to bring up the comnt section below.
"Units, tens, hundreds, thousands... Holy shit! Over 30,000 comnts?"
"And that’s not all! There are over 100,000 likes! Is this really Guang’s video?"
Chen Feng and Sun Jian stared at each other, wide-eyed, both seeing the utter disbelief in the other’s gaze.
"Let’s just watch and find out." Yang Lin temporarily ignored the comnts, instead pulling the video back to the beginning, intending to watch it.
As expected, it was indeed Li Guang’s video—the very sa one that had been recorded right in front of her.
After watching the video, the three of them turned their attention back to the comnts below, their minds in turmoil and their mouths dry.
[Li Guang, an artist under Xu Qingqiu’s studio, Singer, original singer of ’Dalabengba,’ forrly attended the Shudu Conservatory of Music... Tianmu Weibo account: @LiGuang_]
The top pinned comnt detailed Li Guang’s personal information and social dia account. The rest were all highly-rated comnts, among which the one that tagged the @StarCityAniFestival account was particularly conspicuous.
Seeing this, and recalling what the agent Keke had said earlier, everything suddenly clicked into place.
"No way... he got famous just like that?" Sun Jian exclaid, staring at the screen. He looked at the more than 100,000 likes, over 30,000 comnts, and then thought about the 80,000 fans on Li Guang’s Weibo.
But the problem is, he only arrived a few days ago! This morning he was still a nobody, and by the afternoon, he’s a star?
Not just a star, he’s even gained so fa and already has comrcial performances lined up!
Since when did it beco so easy to be a star?
The three of them stood there, huddled together, speechless for a mont.
Sun Jian, in particular, inexplicably looked up at Chen Feng. They exchanged a glance, each seeing the shock, disbelief, and potent envy in the other’s eyes.
"How did he do it?" Sun Jian asked. "Was it just by releasing this one video? Could we... could we release one too?"
Yang Lin shot Sun Jian a look, as if he were an idiot.
"What are you thinking? It’s not that simple."
Although she didn’t fully understand it herself, she knew this path wasn’t suitable for just anyone.
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