Chapter 99: Watch Closely And Learn Well
“Is it aligned?”
Qi Luo An’s voice carried a hint of probing mixed with slight urging, clearly full of expectation for what was coming next…
Why does he always miss the alignment?
“Almost, um, good.”
Yu Wei had no experience with this kind of thing, but fortunately he picked it up quickly and, under Qi Luo An’s guidance, swiftly found the corresponding position.
“Alright then, I’ll shout start, and you start then.”
“Start.”
Yu Wei jolted at the words, quickly tapping the start playback on the screen, perfectly syncing at the same moment as Qi Luo An to open the second episode of Music Blind Box.
Co-watching things linked up is great everywhere, except it’s prone to audio-video desync; if the video progress on both sides isn’t matched, there will be obvious overlapping sounds when listening.
For a good co-watching experience, the two had just spent half a day tweaking, finally achieving perfectly seamless synchronized playback.
Actually, they originally planned to directly use conference screen sharing to watch, but who would have thought that thing compresses video quality and the link-up isn’t very stable—whoever uses it knows.
“By the way, what’s that new script of yours for? Got inspiration again?”
Taking advantage of the program’s formulaic opening at the start, Qi Luo An casually asked a couple questions about the new script; that movie name had her a bit curious.
Martial World? Is this an action film? Or a wuxia film?
Actually, it’s hard to tell what a movie is about just from the name; titles like “One Person’s XX” could be art films or even comedy films.
She was just shocked by the huge span of Yu Wei’s creation—from the standard commercial comedy Charlotte Troubles, how did his second work jump straight to Martial World?
“You know, I’ve always had a kung fu dream.”
That confirmed it was undoubtedly an action film. Though she had guessed, hearing the exact answer still left Qi Luo An a bit unable to understand.
Yu Wei’s strongest skill was screenwriter creative ability, evidenced by both The Sound Mixer and Charlotte Troubles, but action films emphasize fight scenes over plot.
Once it’s an action film, the fight scene is definitely the biggest draw; plot and characters are just extras. Some films have rotten plots, but outstanding fight scenes make them hit big.
“Do you know kung fu?”
“Uh… I can know it.”
Qi Luo An was stumped for a moment—that thing shouldn’t just require basic skills? How can you say you know it and know it?
But screenwriters for action films don’t need to know martial arts; they can just arbitrarily write fight scenes as they see fit—no big problem.
“What if I’m a hidden martial arts master?”
Qi Luo An naturally didn’t believe it; she’d seen it clearly in the text live broadcast post—Yu Wei struggled to even run two laps.
“If you really know it, then wouldn’t I get… bullied by your family?”
“Family what?”
“Watch the program, watch the program—Yu Ting has appeared.”
Qi Luo An deftly changed the subject with a good topic. While they chatted idly, the four guests in the program had already selected their respective partners.
When it was revealed that Yu Wei’s blind box contestant was a blind girl, bullet comments naturally popped up with a few question marks.
This scene—haven’t they seen it somewhere…
Many netizens who had read the book quickly remembered: writing a song for a blind little girl—this isn’t straight out of Yu Wei’s novel plot!
The program team did it on purpose, right? Now even famous novel scenes are being replicated?
“At a time like this, shouldn’t the bullet comments start posting little essays?”
Qi Luo An muttered softly. Normally in entertainment novels, by this point the bullet comments would have scrolled several rows, as if netizens could type without time passing…
Variety shows are all recorded broadcasts; bullet comments aren’t real-time updates—how could they appear so perfectly timed in droves?
Simple short phrases are fine, but writing little essays directly in bullet comments is for people who haven’t been online; platforms have character limits on bullet comments.
“Stop complaining; I’ve written all that stuff you mentioned…”
When writing novels, who doesn’t make assumptions?
Not just bullet comment little essays—he’d also written real-time bullet comments and bullet comment infighting plots. Thinking about it was already cringeworthy.
Which recorded variety show has bullet comment arguments right at the start of broadcast? Anyone who’s watched programs knows the first batch of viewers faces only an empty screen.
The few sporadic question marks they saw earlier were already quite a lot—probably left by viewers who fast-forwarded or skipped ahead.
“Yu Ting said you were all mysterious during your live broadcast; I want to see what antics you’re up to.”
After the program entered the experiencing life cohabitation phase, Yu Wei started his live broadcast segment, but the program team was very scheming—they deliberately didn’t show his account ID, only providing the live broadcast wide-angle view.
Watching Yu Wei quietly writing in the camera shot, Qi Luo An momentarily didn’t know what to say—could he really have just quietly live streamed for two days?
Just as everyone anticipated Yu Wei pulling some stunt, the program team simply switched the camera to shoot the other three groups of guests.
“Intentional, right?”
Even though Qi Luo An didn’t watch many variety shows, she vaguely sensed a conspiracy flavor—like this kind of briefly mentioned and secretive, there was definitely something big hidden later.
Although the person involved was on the phone with her, she held back from asking more; spoiling after the program aired would be pointless.
Back when the chef big brother said Meng Han’s cooking was bad, Yu Wei still didn’t know how bad; it was only in the program that he understood—this wasn’t bad, it was lethal…
Felt like you’d need your stomach pumped after eating it.
Su Xinnan and Tong Yulu had nothing much to say—one went to play esports, the other to code—purely experiencing life, since they couldn’t do it anyway.
“Your little readers are going to be stolen by Little Deer Sister.”
After watching the program, Yu Wei finally understood why digital readers would become “rogue ninjas”—sitting next to them at the workstation was a lively, exquisite beauty whose appearance was in a completely different league from others.
Not only would she ask you for work advice but also invite you to meals, and there were common topics like complaining about Yu Wei whether there was something or not.
Which shut-in could resist this? Fantasizing again—fantasizing about a beauty colleague parachuted into the company sitting next to you…
When the camera cut back to Yu Wei, Qi Luo An instinctively shifted her posture—this she really had to sit up to watch!
Yu Wei was still quietly live streaming his writing, but the camera had clearly zoomed in much closer, allowing the audience to clearly see the content on the screen.
The program team thoughtfully censored the netizen IDs in the live room; guiding attacks on civilians is something they couldn’t do, nor could they let Yu Wei bear the risk.
Everyone took a close look—the live room netizens were all criticizing Yu Wei. What was going on? His alternate account live stream got discovered?
Yu Wei, such a big person, was sitting right in front of the computer watching, but the screen was full of denunciations against him—this scene had extreme program effect.
Seeing this, netizens couldn’t help but feel a bit emotional: no public figure avoids being cursed; hope he can withstand it…
“The novel really isn’t written that well.”
But just as this thought arose in their minds, Yu Wei directly joined the fray, promptly starting to complain about his own book.
???
What situation is this? Though it’s quite self-aware, these people in the live room are clearly haters—any need to say all that to haters?
Haters are haters; even if you humbly seek reconciliation, they’ll keep hating, even thinking they’ve found a soft target.
Public figures can’t have people-pleasing personalities… Did Yu Wei’s Dao Heart shatter from being cursed by black fans and start issuing a self-incriminating edict?
No—the live room viewers apparently didn’t know the streamer was him…
The audience quickly noticed that in the haters’ context, Yu Wei wasn’t even worth mentioning; the streamer was the clear-headed one—this obviously treated them as two different people.
“Fishing, huh?”
Qi Luo An instantly saw through his intention; his calm and composed demeanor didn’t look broken at all—clearly he was enjoying being cursed.
What hobby is this?
Amid all the audience’s confusion, Yu Wei said that line sure to stir up a storm in the entertainment industry: “Far from just the novel—I think his songs are mediocre too!”
If this is mediocre, then what are others’ songs?
Even Qi Luo An was stunned by this statement—fishing can’t go this far; this was straight-up serious self-deprecation.
For any artistic creator, denying one’s work is like denying oneself; not just in the entertainment industry—few in any field do this.
Even if they do, it’s after flaws are pointed out; like Yu Wei smoothly starting a teamfight against himself at the outset—unheard of.
This doubt wasn’t over; Yu Wei didn’t just say it—he actually started analyzing the flaws in his own songs right after, behavior tantamount to self-deprecation.
As Yu Wei unhurriedly began sharply critiquing his own works, honestly the audience was a bit shocked—not just by the act itself, but by the courage in this self-deprecation.
They say self-criticism is the ladder to progress, but which public figure can truly achieve self-critique?
Especially stars who cherish their reputation immensely—even objective evaluations make them want to block and report; online violence, accusations, black PR, lawyer’s letters—they use everything.
Once they’ve silenced others from criticizing, who can still do self-critique?
Yu Wei did it; he not only accepted the existence of “dissonant sounds” but used it as a springboard to analyze his own shortcomings—what magnanimity!
Especially by the second day of the live stream, the live room clearly had an influx of unidentified creatures from who-knows-where, their comments extremely uniform, overflowing with fan circle vibe.
But in this situation, he still coded words undistracted, sometimes casually “self-mocking” a few lines to provide new material for the live room black fans.
His behavior seemed to tell the black fans: Watch closely—this is how to black Yu Wei…
They thought Yu Wei would keep calmly bantering with the black fans, but in the next second of the program, Yu Wei actually frowned somewhat irritably.
His only emotional fluctuation wasn’t from being cursed himself, but from passersby speaking up for him and getting ganged up on.
When she saw Yu Wei telling the program team to note down the “victim list” and compensate them, Qi Luo An felt her heart tip suddenly clench, instantly overcome with an indescribable feeling.
Other viewers more or less felt this way too…
Turns out there really are stars who don’t treat everyone as leeks but consider things from others’ perspectives with simple values.
This one unimportant apology was a height other stars could never reach in a lifetime.
Before, they followed Yu Wei either to listen to music or just for the fun, since this guy was great at antics.
But in this moment, honestly they truly felt Yu Wei’s personality charm; he wasn’t exceptionally great—he was just more like an ordinary person.
Able to accept opposing opinions, able to self-analyze, able to empathize for passersby, strong in strength and great at antics—aside from loving to write some failure novels, no other big flaws…
A star like this absolutely deserves to be liked by more people.
At the end of the live stream, the program team finally panned up the camera, revealing that long-hidden alternate account nickname.
Actually, many netizens guessed it from the start of watching, but only after witnessing it with their own eyes did they fully accept the fact.
Yu Wei is his own biggest black fan.
He pampers his fans too much—even black fans.
