CHAPTER 653: CHAPTER 416: TREATING FANS LIKE DOGS TO KILL! _2

When the first gossip aficionado, Zhang Dong, was chatting about the latest on Moonlight and Cat in his livestream.

Zhang Dong was surprised to discover that none of the water friends cared.

You see,

Zhang Dong thrived on this kind of traffic.

For example, during the period when Moonlight and Cat went off the grid, people liked to speculate what they were up to, and Zhang Dong could pretend to be an "insider," making educated guesses that sounded plausible, complete with a coherent story and embellishing some positive qualities of Moonlight and Cat in reality.

Like telling fables.

For instance, the last time Moonlight and Cat went off the grid for college entrance exams, Zhang Dong temporarily made up a story about Mr. Moonlight liking to combine music and mathematics to teach Gan Yanyu math. He used this to showcase Mr. Moonlight’s extraordinary talent in both learning and music, telling everyone that people with artistic talent are born educators.

The contemporary music world’s Yi Lin!

However, later on, music fans came to their senses, complaining that combining music and math theory for teaching was just novel-writing.

So, as netizens’ IQs recalibrated, they started to spray him.

Though they scolded, they still loved listening.

Because the host, labeled by fans as "the person who understands Moonlight and Cat the best," was there to provide such entertainment!

However,

This time, Zhang Dong discovered that netizens no longer liked his stories.

Only after Zhang Dong questioned further and checked Weibo himself did he realize.

No need for an "insider" to weave tales for everyone.

This time, during Moonlight and Cat’s disappearance, based on the paparazzi’s real-life gossip...

It was endless!

Absolutely endless!

...

Other idols find gossip in their daily lives.

This month, Moonlight and Cat searched for daily life amid the gossip!!

First was the most heavyweight photo exposure—

On Tianchao Music University campus, someone captured Lin Tian and Gan Yanyu holding hands.

This was a bombshell for Moon Cat fans!

You should know, although rumors about the two being together were rampant, they never acknowledged their relationship, leaving everyone with a sense of wishful thinking.

This time, they totally gave up pretending!

[Ahhhh!! They actually held hands!!]

[So they are together, right?! They are together, aren’t they?!]

[Damn it, ever since the last live performance of "Ode to Love," I felt these two weren’t clean, indeed, indeed!!]

[So that time, the livestream interruption wasn’t just for show, did they really kiss??]

[Looking at it now, Mr. Moonlight’s accident was a blessing (not).....]

While netizens excitedly discussed,

Another photo came through.

This time, it was Lin Tian and Gan Yanyu feeding each other in the university cafeteria.

In the photo, Gan Yanyu raised a spoon, feeding the stir-fried rice into Lin Tian’s mouth, smiling brightly. Lin Tian seemed a bit shy but couldn’t hide a happy expression.

Upon seeing this photo, countless netizens were overjoyed, shouting "aswl!"

Yet, before everyone could savor the moment, soon enough, another photo appeared!

Third, fourth, fifth...

Almost daily, there were photo updates, Lin Tian and Gan Yanyu hand in hand on university streets, heads touching in classrooms, sharing a straw in milk tea shops, sharing a headphone in the library...

Come on, is this never going to end!?

Netizens were stunned!

When the first scandalous photo leaked, everyone felt tense yet thrilled, surprised that such explosive photos were captured, quietly wanting to reward the photographer.

When the second photo leaked, people were even more delighted, for they didn’t expect more sweet treats—Tianyin’s alumni were truly impressive!

As the third, fourth... photos kept updating daily.....

Everyone finally realized;

This wasn’t any "gossip revelation."

They weren’t pretending at all!

Lin Tian and Gan Yanyu were simply treating these actions as daily life, while Tianyin Campus students eagerly snapped photos every day, then uploaded them to Weibo with enjoyment.

Gossip started feeling factory-made; whenever someone spotted Moonlight and Cat on campus, they casually snapped a photo, posted it online, and garnered thousands of likes.

...The gossip everyone racked their brains to patch together and concoct had already been desensitized by Lin Tian and Gan Yanyu in just one month.

What a terrifying CP!

Never officially announced online, yet after being exposed, didn’t do any PR, repeatedly desensitizing netizens.

Many were tense daily, eager to see photos, increasingly feeling like their emotions were part of their play.

[You think, isn’t it possible Mr. Moonlight deliberately let us capture them, and they secretly enjoy it too.]

[After all, if I could livestream me and my pretty girlfriend sweetly together for the entire internet, exciting a bunch of thrilled guys thinking they scored big, climaxing, I’d be elated too.]

One wise comment in a Bilibili dynamic instantly awakened many.

Everyone was gritting their teeth.

Extremely disgruntled type:

[Damn! Truly let Mr. Moonlight have fun! I need to stay rational!]

Submissive dog type:

[Boohoo, he’s right, I love watching, it doesn’t matter if Mr. Moonlight enjoys himself.....]

Self-destructive type:

[Yeah, yeah, I’m shameless...can’t stand it, damn it! Give me more!]

Winning streak type:

[Doesn’t matter, their photos have become my craft material, I haven’t lost.]

[...]

And so,

Even though Moonlight and Cat had gone off the grid for over a month.

The internet saw daily photo updates of the two.

And since Moonlight and Cat never stopped the photo-taking behavior, Tianyin Campus even witnessed a whole batch of students who follow their schedule daily to record their ordinary moments.

Some even directly launched livestreams, when Moonlight and Cat were having classes inside, they started livestreaming from outside the windows, some even profited from it.

For many music fans,

Seeing the routine documentation of Moonlight and Cat brought more relaxation and joy.

Without the deep-seated grudges from competitions, watching their college daily life made everyone genuinely happy.

Their relationship, from an 80% likelihood of being together after "Ode to Love," became a true hammer declaration in netizen eyes.

...

Watching the photos of Moonlight and Cat on Weibo, Zhang Dong leisurely admired them for a good half an hour.

Then, he lay back in his chair, uttering a sigh:

"It’s really good; they’ve finally achieved fruition."

Zhang Dong, like many music fans, had watched the two grow along the way.

At the low period of quitting the Dragon Violin Cup, seeing Moonlight and Cat live so sweetly together, he was genuinely comforted.

But in fact,

These photos were just from the fan perspective, fans felt happy.

They themselves never cared about this kind of life since they never posted such photos.

Thinking of the painful, sad, and blood-pressure-spiking memories they experienced from the Yingqin Cup to the Dragon Violin Cup.

Zhang Dong couldn’t help but say:

"Sometimes I can’t help but think, if they didn’t bear so much, weren’t solely committed to becoming professional musicians, just being ordinary students, doing self-media, writing songs, occasionally showing off their love, everyone’s happy, they’re happy, how joyful that would be."

Upon saying this, water friends in the livestream also expressed agreement.

With their abilities, they could live a dreamy university life envied by everyone, all the way until graduation, then go and compete professionally, there’s still time.

But they uniquely and steadfastly chose this path, one so "heavy"...

As Zhang Dong sighed in such a manner.

A message popped up at the bottom right of the computer.

——Moonlight and Cat "Moonlight: C Major Prelude," is online!