Love Variety Show: The despised me exploded in popularity

The girl looked up, and her brain instantly crashed.

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"I'm not..."

"Alright, no need to say more," Xu Qingyan was both tired and irritable, and it just so happened that the girl had run into the line of fire, so she had no choice but to let her serve as an emotional punching bag.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

"I know you're not selling campus cards, don't say it out loud, there are too many people, it's quite embarrassing."

The girl glanced around and already felt embarrassed. Feeling the stares from all over the subway, she practically turned from an extrovert to a social anxiety sufferer.

"I...."

Why is this person so downbeat, she's really giving me the chills.

Xu Qingyan, the shrimp-head man, saw the girl had stopped talking and then lowered his head to peacefully scroll through his phone. At the last moment, he glanced at her and felt that the girl's eyes were strange, wondering if she had recognized him?

"Lovers Hunter" had just been edited and hadn't aired on TV yet, only gaining some fame in the live-streamed variety shows.

Furthermore, the role he played was that of a universally despised character, the black sheep in the love-themed shows, the slacker fish, the bird that sticks its neck out, the scapegoat, so he wasn't particularly popular.

It was unlikely, so he didn't have to think too much about it.

The girl stood in the jam-packed subway carriage, her heart already numb. She turned her head and started furiously typing in her dormitory chat group, specifically @Zhou Lili.

"Ahhh!! I'm so mad, Li Li. I ran into that love show shrimp-head guy on the Line 3 subway, how could my sister Pei partner with someone like him!!!"

On the other end of the phone, Zhou Lili was still enjoying her summer vacation as a homebody. She was happily holding her phone, giggling, and as the admin of a 2000-member fan group, shooting the breeze.

"Heard Sister Pei is releasing a new song, what time, what time!!! Anxious anxious anxious!!"

"Six o'clock, the teaser is up, and the song title is 'Qing Tian,'" Zhou Lili replied quickly; she was able to manage eight groups at once, with all ears and eyes open.

She had just switched screens when another fan group's message refresh rate became even faster; not looking for a minute led to 99+ unread, a truly terrifying sight.

"Sister Pei's new song is coming out at six, but why can't I see any promotional activities on the music website? What's that trash song flooding the homepage, labeled as a Mandarin hit, but when clicked, it's an English song?"

Zhou Lili began to type furiously, but someone beat her to the chase to clear the confusion.

"No exclusive deal was signed, so there's no promotional support."

Pei Muchan was bold and determined. Not signing an exclusive meant that "Qing Tian" would receive almost no promotional resources and had to rely entirely on her accumulated fame to draw traffic.

Unable to digress in the group chat, Zhou Lili felt a sense of blandness. It was with her talent in chat groups, plus the skills of cheating and swindling, that she managed to seize the admin position of eight fan groups.

Unfortunately, her beloved idol didn't even have a fan support group. With no events and no data manipulation, with such laziness, when would she be able to ascend to the status of a pop queen?

Ding dong!

She received a backend message, indicating she had been @ in the dorm group chat.

With six people in the dormitory and five small groups, Zhou Lili clicked into WeChat, momentarily dazzled. She glanced and saw it was from the Pure Female High School Students group, a smaller subgroup of four people excluding two roommates who liked to show off.

In my next life I'll @ you, "Ahh! I'm so angry... saw that love show downbeat guy...!!"

She quickly scanned and didn't see the message that had @ her, but her gaze locked onto the last message on the group chat. [Parents aren't home, a lonely female college student, log into this website (tongue sticking out emoji)... hot and fresh final exam grades.]

"Damn! Final grades are out!" Zhou Lili frantically began to check her scores, and after getting everything sorted, she suddenly remembered her roommate had @ her and quickly looked again.

"The downbeat love show guy? Couldn't be Xu Qingyan, could it?" she typed swiftly, @ In my next life I'll, "Can you change your crappy wall-breaking nickname, Miss Downbeat! (hammer)"

Suddenly, a message popped up.

"Where do you get off so high and mighty? @Obsessively Licking Roach's Jade Feet"

Bare Chest Like My Dad: "Will you guys stop arguing, what love show downbeat guy? I've been watching TV for a month, how come I haven't seen a downbeat guy in any love shows?"

Obsessively Licking Roach's Jade Feet: "The new 'Lovers Hunter,' they live-streamed for seven days and then edited it. I've been following it, and it should be coming out soon."

Bare Chest Like My Dad: "Snap a photo; let me see what this downbeat guy looks like!"

In my next life I'll: "Are you kidding? In public! He's just so-so (grimacing), not as good as my talented and handsome Saeriang brothers, but this guy is really despicable!"

"What did he do?"

The girl recounted what happened on the subway, and the small group instantly erupted in laughter, with Zhou Lili also chuckling, sending a message: "He's always been like that."

Her tone was quite indulgent, which again provoked a round of protests from her roommates.

Zhou Lili could only quietly leave the group chat, her achievements unnoticed. Although Xu Qingyan was indeed distasteful to some people, she turned to look at the framed autograph record on her wall.

Her cousin, Zhou Mian, had mentioned in passing that without Xu Qingyan, she wouldn't have been able to get that signed album.

From that moment on, she had a vague feeling that there was a reason why Pei Muchan always liked being around Xu Qingyan. He didn't know her at all and didn't need to do such a favor.

She was lost in thought when she realized there were just ten minutes left until six o'clock. For the first time, she felt time passing so slowly, already eager to see the new song.

She switched back to the group chat and suddenly saw someone had posted a message.

"By the way, there's absolutely no promotion for Sister Pei's new song; won't it end up overlooked like last time?"

"Yeah, even though the official Weibo posted a teaser, I asked my friends around me who like music. Even some who are fans of Sister Pei seem to have no idea about it."