Chapter 90: Feels Inferior To Wei Yu
The broadcast of the first episode of Music Blind Box caused a huge response, especially Yu Wei and Qi Luo An’s chorus of Under the Flying Clouds, which was pleasant to the ear, showed off skills, and was easy on the eyes.
“Follow Yu An, I’m shipping it hard.”
“This CP name is too tacky, I think calling it Qi Xing Yu is better.”
“6.”
“Awesome.”
Is this CP name something a person could come up with?
Netizens dare to say it, but Yu Wei wouldn’t even dare to pronounce it out loud.
Actually, the program’s editing was already quite restrained; many interactions between him and Qi Luo An weren’t included, otherwise there would only be more people shipping the CP…
It’s already plenty now; Weibo fans who like this don’t need to be mentioned, and even the book friend circle has people bringing it up—liking to stir up fun is netizens’ nature.
This kind of thing wouldn’t make trending search, but the discussion level definitely won’t be low, after all, it’s a famous scene from a popular variety show.
Fortunately, Yu Wei had some foresight and chose a song unrelated to love; otherwise, things would be unclear now.
Variety show CP popularity comes fast and goes fast; as long as the main people don’t deliberately sell it, overly outrageous CP fans won’t appear.
Yu Wei definitely doesn’t need this kind of popularity; the group that gets into shipping CPs isn’t much different from crazy fan circle fans—traffic is high, but it’s also toxic.
“Should’ve written the female lead to stir up a CP with Wei Yu.”
Looking at the protagonist still half a section away from 10,000 popularity value, Yu Wei fell into thought.
Stirring up CP has big hidden dangers, but it undeniably catches fire fast; otherwise, the entertainment industry wouldn’t have so many men and women rushing to imitate it.
Paper people aren’t worried about being backlashed by traffic; basically all big hit works can’t escape the fate of being shipped in CPs—many official pairings do this, and even roles not related by a pole can be shipped.
Classic: just one step away from marriage—getting to know each other…
But Yu Wei’s novel is already over a hundred chapters; trying to pull this off now is obviously too late—airdropping a female lead is not advisable, it’s laborious and not pleasing.
Wei Yu should just make do with the scoring system.
Just as he was about to go write, a ridiculous remark suddenly appeared in front of Yu Wei, making his brain lag for a moment.
“What Follow Yu An; Yu Wei and his novel protagonist are the true love!”
“During program recording, Yu Wei was writing Wei Yu’s story; during the program broadcast, Yu Wei was begging for likes for Wei Yu. Qi Luo An? Just a colleague.”
What kind of outrageous logic is this?
The formation of this CP was clearly influenced by Yu Wei’s recent “protagonist begging for likes”; everyone didn’t know what he wanted to do, so they just made something abstract.
This reader named Bai Ye Jin Yi was obviously just saying it for fun, but abstract things often easily cause resonance; slowly, people in the comment section started to echo it.
“Yu Qi Party is annoying; Yu Wei just wrote one song for Qi Luo An and you’re calling it—do you know all of Yu Wei’s songs are written for Wei Yu!”
“Yu Wei spent at least hundreds of hours on Wei Yu; does your Qi Luo An have this treatment?”
“I bet Yu Wei knew Wei Yu earlier!”
It really is…
This batch of netizens’ logic is pretty tight; just these few points Yu Wei himself can’t refute—Wei Yu’s songs are indeed all his, he did know Wei Yu earlier, and they’ve spent more time together.
What he didn’t expect even more was that this idea spread very quickly, soon rivaling the CP popularity of him and Qi Luo An.
What era is this, still shipping traditional CPs?
Yu Wei didn’t even have time to react; he only saw Wei Yu’s role popularity value rising rapidly.
……
“The chorus of Under the Flying Clouds is a textbook-level complementary model. As the lead singer, Qi Luo An is limited by weak technique, making the high note area slightly thin, but Yu Wei’s support perfectly compensates for this.
Yu Wei takes on the three roles of composing, production, and singing; he deliberately uses Qi Luo An’s female voice as the narrative base, injecting soul with his clear high notes himself, forming a vocal line dialogue rather than competition.”
The producer’s professional analysis that closely follows current events unexpectedly added fuel to Yu Wei and Qi Luo An’s CP: creation fits singing complements—isn’t this love?
Setting aside this song, just the author-reader relationship between the two has plenty of shipping points; in female-oriented works, it could even spin off into a whole book.
Qi Luo An herself wouldn’t believe these CP party remarks; doesn’t she understand Yu Wei? At times like this, he’s definitely buried in writing—after all, the novel is his true love.
With her experienced entertainment novel reading background, if netizens shipped the male and female leads as CP, at this point the lead actress would probably be shy, heart fluttering, corners of her mouth turning up…
But Qi Luo An has a clear self-cognition of her relationship with Yu Wei.
To put it this way, it feels like they are the kind—locked in a “room you can only exit if distance is negative,” they also picked each other’s noses to get out.
She casually scrolled and surprisingly saw a contrarian heretic in the comment section saying Yu Wei and his protagonist are the true CP, and she’s just incidental.
Feels like, not as good as Wei Yu.
“It really seems to be!”
The instant she saw the message, Qi Luo An surprisingly didn’t find it abstract at all; it perfectly matched her own thoughts.
Any shipping point between her and Yu Wei applies to Wei Yu, and even more so.
Many female netizens think the author-reader attribute is fun to ship, but isn’t shipping author and protagonist even more tense and exciting?
As for writing songs, no need to mention it; she at most counts as having sung one of Yu Wei’s songs, and it was a chorus—Wei Yu takes them all.
Most crucially, Yu Wei really treats Wei Yu more seriously, and Qi Luo An has deeply experienced this.
When facing each other, he’s writing; when sitting together, he’s writing; even when talking, he’s writing…
Even when Yu Wei isn’t writing, he might be plotting the story—which means he’s possibly thinking about Wei Yu every moment.
What’s with this inexplicable sense of frustration?
Normally, this kind of abstract event wouldn’t catch fire, but tonight Follow Yu An CP exploding instead became fertilizer for the abstract CP.
The best way to topple a CP is to birth a new one; Yu Wei and his own novel protagonist CP is too abstract, yet more welcomed by netizens.
Entertainment industry CP? Just marketing, history!
Author and protagonist? Damn, I have to sit up for this!
Real person CPs aren’t accepted by everyone, but abstract is different—everyone knows it’s fake, so shipping is even more unrestrained.
This bizarre CP actually carved out a bloody path on Weibo that night, surpassing social events and Music Blind Box related terms, entering the top four.
Other stars rack their brains, but not as good as Yu Wei’s novel sparking an idea; after tonight, Wei Yu this novel role really might become more popular than them.
Now really not as good as Wei Yu.
Before, everyone thought Yu Wei’s novel could only run ads; who would’ve thought it could actually boost people—a virtual character can even be made popular?
Maybe in the future, don’t use pseudonyms for extras; use their real names directly—as long as it catches fire, even getting kicked to death by the protagonist is fine.
For many little stars, this really is a viable track.
Netizens got their fun, the program team got traffic, colleagues found a new track, Yu Wei got protagonist popularity value—only Follow Yu An CP fans became the sole victims.
They seem to have been crushed by some strange thing…
But the person involved, Qi Luo An, accepts it calmly; compared to her CP with Yu Wei, the abstract CP indeed has slightly less impact on Yu Wei.
Stars being bound isn’t good to begin with; her CP with Yu Wei is obviously mooching off others, but author-protagonist this abstract combo doesn’t have anyone riding coattails.
After all, the book is written by Yu Wei; no matter what, the popularity is on him.
Qi Luo An doesn’t care about so-called CPs; it’s just that she suddenly realizes she might not be irreplaceable to Yu Wei.
Yu Wei can’t be without the novel, but can completely be without her.
What she envies has never been Wei Yu, just that unspoken “being needed”…
Before, Qi Luo An hadn’t thought about this issue, but just now she suddenly discovered she’s not satisfied with this relationship.
Fortunately, she’s not pretentious; she knows what she should do.
Brave people enjoy the world first!
