[.]：@everyone, the barrage on my side has been fighting non-stop ahhh, what’s going on??
Sheng Yuanxu saw the group chat message pop up on his phone, looked up, and glanced at Yang Siyi’s live stream window.
The latter was putting on a show of watching the variety show seriously, verbally pouring out praise for Wen Xinyi who looked like he walked out of a movie, showing no sign that he was secretly slacking off in the group chat.
Yang Siyi didn’t say what the barrage was arguing about, but Sheng Yuanxu could infer it from the barrage on his own side.
[Why are so many people cursing Lu Kui before even seeing the ranking announcement later? Is there a problem with his ranking?]
[What the hell, these videos are in reverse order of ranking, right? Lu Kui is fourth??]
[What’s wrong with fourth… Lu Kui has never dropped out of the top ten, getting fourth once is quite reasonable]
[Are you pretending to be stupid? Don’t you know how severe the vote gap is on NS? The top four spots have always been dominated by Quentin, Qi Yang, Wen Xinyi, and Yan Qiao. Xue Mingzhu and Cheng Xu take turns in fifth. Cui Yan and Fang Zheng battle for seventh. That’s the normal ranking without manipulated votes!!]
[I’ve been praising this season’s survival show for being fair and just, not favoring a company’s picks. Now suddenly so many moths have appeared right before the finals. The second place withdraws, the tenth place jumps to fourth. May I ask? Is this reasonable……]
[Calm down. Someone on the forum has already posted an analysis of the vote increase curve. Take the fight over there, don’t disturb our eliminated group that’s reacting to the episode.]
[+1, don’t make the barrage all messy. Haven’t you noticed the guys don’t even dare to reply to the barrage anymore?]
Sheng Yuanxu quietly observed the barrage while chatting casually with the others verbally, but his fingers under the computer desk scrolled on his phone.
[Euler Euler Euler]: Ignore it, don’t respond, let it cool off.
The next message popped up almost simultaneously with his reply.
[Donald Duck]: Let them fight. Don’t you remember what comes at the very end of the episode? Once Quentin’s video comes out, who will still care about that stuff.
Yang Siyi, in the live stream window, glanced to the side, as if reading the group message, then revealed a look of sudden understanding and relief. The praise in his mouth smoothly transferred to Yan Qiao in the next video.
“I’m telling you, Brother Qiao is really amazing. He’s been very good at dancing since he was little. He wins first prize in every dance competition. His dancing is so so so….cool! You guys should have all seen videos of him dancing, right…”
He tried hard to pick out topics he could respond to from the barrage: “Lust? Which Lust… Oh oh, you mean that short video Director Wang made us film where we twist around? The director never even showed us the finished product. But even without watching it, I know Brother Qiao definitely danced very handsomely!”
Hearing this, Tang Heng perked up with interest and chimed in: “I haven’t seen those short videos either. I forgot all about that. Why don’t we watch them later?”
Li He said calmly: “Why wait for later? They’re just showing Yan Qiao practicing dance as a child now. Pause it and search for that short video of him dancing. It won’t take much time.”
Qiao Xue raised his hand with a smile and agreed: “Fine, I’ve seen those videos. Siyi, you guys probably didn’t know, but when you were recording the show at Lulin Ancient Town, you were already a little bit popular online. A lot of tourists filmed your casual dance challenges and posted them online.”
“There was such a thing?” Yang Siyi wondered, “I remember we were all wearing masks back then. No one should have recognized us, right?”
[It seems some fans recognized them, but no one posted pictures. Everyone was helping the production team keep it secret]
[I also remember some fans saying they ran into NS out recording, and some said they stayed in the same hotel as the trainees]
[But the popularity of that casual dance event back then had nothing to do with whether they were trainees or not, right? I remember the first to go viral was Quentin, Yan Qiao, and Cheng Shaozi’s fox dance]
[Ohh I remember now…]
Seeing the fighting comments gradually get suppressed, Yang Siyi nodded with satisfaction and opened the search bar: “Okay, since you guys know how to praise even better than me, I’ll search for my Brother Qiao’s Lust right now.”
He directly entered the song title, clicked into the #Lust Gesture Dance# tag, and discovered that the protagonists of the top liked videos were all familiar faces, all friends from their own show.
Yang Siyi clicked through them with great interest, his eyes growing brighter: “Oh ho, these Hanfu, these masks. Even at a casual dance event, there were enthusiastic tourists making focus cams. The hand is so steady, they even have camera movement?”
“Did we dance this well back then? Hey, the clothes the production team prepared were really a plus. The quality of those wigs and Hanfu was exceptionally good. It looks like a period drama when filmed.”
“Fck, fck, f*ck…look at this one! It’s this fox look!”
He pointed excitedly at the screen: “This look is extremely good! Is there any footage of the three of them without masks on the show? There must be, right! After the casual dance event ended, we went to their room and took turns trying on those fox ears and tails. They’re so cute. A tough guy needs to be paired with fluffy things!”
[Wasn’t the focus of this shot on how good these fox spirits twist their bodies?]
[Don’t make it hard on Xiao Yang. Treasure this innocent, straightforward boy. Haven’t you noticed the knowing smiles on the other guys’ faces?]
[It’s so obvious.]
[Qiao Xue’s smile is so subtle. Don’t dart your eyes around, brother. You clearly understand. If you want to say something, just say it]
[He said it! Zhuang Nuo said it! As expected, when it comes to bluntness and daring to speak, we have to look to our Brother Zhuang!]
[Laughing to tears. Zhuang Nuo saw the focus cam of the fox group’s Lust. He said those three have always been really good at twisting, especially Quentin and Yan Qiao. He wasn’t surprised at all by this video.]
[That’s right. They’re obviously more inhibited in the short videos.]
[Indeed. Brother Qiao practically wanted to take his clothes off to dance. So generous. I hope all male idols come and learn from this. If you train your abs, you should show them to your fans]
Sheng Yuanxu watched as Yang Siyi was already led by the barrage to start praising Yan Qiao’s physique, then somehow veered off to Quentin, praising both his straight legs and agreeing he had good muscles.
Some comments said Yan Qiao was popular with girls, while Quentin was a heartthrob to both men and women. Yang Siyi actually read that out loud and gave a thumbs up in agreement.
Other comments said anyone who watched the show knew Quentin was very popular with guys, and Yan Qiao really liked Quentin. Yang Siyi then made a “you’re right” expression…
Sheng Yuanxu couldn’t help but hold his forehead. This kid really wasn’t afraid of what he said being clipped and cut into snippets.
It must be because he had just been eliminated and his internet was too slow, not knowing how popular Quentin’s various CPs were online! Believe it or not, after he finished saying this at noon, he would be labeled a Yan-Que shipper by the evening.
“Ahem, that’s enough. Let’s continue watching the show.” Sheng Yuanxu beckoned.
Tang Heng, who hadn’t dared to engage with the barrage, silently watched Sheng Yuanxu click the video play button. Most of the barrage in his live stream was teasing him about his public confession feat. He couldn’t learn Yang Siyi’s style, so he could only pretend to be blind and ignore it…
But he clearly remembered that the next video would be Quentin’s turn. The barrage would definitely be in an uproar!
Apart from Tang Heng and Yang Siyi, the other four hadn’t seen the latter half of the episode, including most of the viewers in the live stream rooms who hadn’t watched that fast either.
So when the little blonde boy under the Christmas tree appeared, the four guys were simultaneously stunned. Their chatting voices weakened, and swarms of comments swept across the screen.
[What the hell?? It feels like the picture quality has suddenly become clearer]
[This little brother, I have seen him before…]
[Oh my god, those eyes are so green, it’s like they are from another dimension.]
[So cute!! (wiping nosebleed) I want to give birth to him!!!]
Yang Siyi continued to display his talkative nature. Among the six live stream rooms, only he was still talking: “Don’t just keep praising him. No one recognizes him? He is that foreign kid who was very popular on the internet before. He appears every time someone compiles good-looking kids. Hehe, who could have guessed it is Quentin!”
As soon as he finished speaking, he noticed the identical expressions of amazement on the faces of the trainees watching the episode, among which his own jaw-dropped look was particularly noticeable.
Yang Siyi fell silent: “…”
So his reaction back then was this big?
Tang Heng watched as the barrage started singing praises and no one pursued his confession feat, and he breathed a sigh of relief. He began participating in the chat: “You guys need to control yourselves. Don’t just look at how cute he is now. He’s going to be so pitiful later.”
His face was scrunched up as he said with a sigh: “Are there any Quentin fans in the live stream room? Prepare yourselves mentally. The more you watch, the more heartbroken you will feel later. Ah, I won’t spoil it. You’ll see when you watch.”
Sheng Yuanxu snapped back to reality, his tone complex: “… So this was Quentin? Does anyone remember? My forum homepage background used to be a Christmas tree, and my avatar was this kid.”
[Holy crap! No wonder he looked so familiar! He’s been lying in my mutual follow list for three years, of course he looks familiar!]
[Can I say something? My profile picture in middle school was also him. My nickname was even ‘child’ back then. So my fate with Quentin started that early [heart]]
[This profile picture was really popular back then. It’s a blast from the past. It’s said that the proportion of good-looking guys using this profile picture is very high. That’s how I ended up dating a cute guy online >v<] [I'm going to make my boyfriend change his profile picture to this one right away. By rough calculation, it's like dating Quentin~] [You guys are crazy... (holding forehead, wry smile)]
