CHAPTER 96: THE FORUM EXPLODES

He was already a school beauty, so not being interested in another one was normal.

It’s totally normal.

Rong Xingyu took out his exercise book and thought for a moment. "This semester will end soon. After summer vacation, we’ll enter the final year, and the college entrance exams are coming up. If there’s time, it’s better to focus on studying."

Qian Zhijun: ...

Actually, it wasn’t a matter of whether he found anyone attractive, his friend just hadn’t figured things out yet!

No, wait. Had Rong Xingyu even started the love chord in his heart?

"If you keep studying like this, you’ll become the number one in the world!" Qian Zhijun grabbed Rong Xingyu’s exercise book and closed it.

Still unwilling to give up, he asked, "Don’t you have any girl... or boy you like?"

Rong Xingyu shook his head.

"Alright then."

Qian Zhijun could never have guessed that, in the future, he would think back to this pure, "desireless" version of Rong Xingyu more than once, especially when Rong Xingyu fell deeply in love with someone. Tsk, tsk.

Qian Zhijun would also regret it more than once, wishing he had recorded Rong Xingyu like this, just to show him later every day and rub it in his face.

But unfortunately, Qian Zhijun didn’t have the superpower of foresight.

For now, he could only watch Rong Xingyu like this and feel a vague worry.

What if his friend suddenly became a monk one day?

Qian Zhijun who is worried about him started searching online for related strategies.

But whenever he searched starting with "I have a friend," all that came up was—

"Stop pretending. This friend you’re talking about is yourself!"

"What a friend made out of nothing!"

Qian Zhijun: ...

He really did have a friend!

While scrolling bored on a forum, Qian Zhijun suddenly saw something that made his eyes widen.

"Xiao-Xiaoyu... you... you might be about to blow up!"

...

Yan Momo was an ordinary worker.

Just like all unfortunate office slaves, she worked diligently every day, toiling for her boss’s dreams.

And like most ordinary people, Yan Momo herself was extremely ordinary.

At work, she barely had any presence.

But in reality, Yan Momo had another identity that she rarely mentioned to anyone.

She was one of the tens of millions of people who like to chasing a star.

Every night, after finishing her exhausting work and before going to bed, she enjoyed her most relaxed anf comfortable time of the day.

She would choose to soak in a hot bath and, at the same time open Weibo to slowly browse through the Super Topic.

"Ahh, he’s just too handsome!"

Seeing all the beautiful pictures of Rong Zhenghao in the topic, Yan Momo couldn’t stop saving them.

Yes, she was a full-fledged Rong Zhenghao’s hardcore fans.

Rong Zhenghao’s fans were called starlight.

The Super Topic on Weibo already had tens of millions of followers, making him a recognized top-tier celebrity in the entertainment industry.

Every night, Yan Momo would faithfully visit Rong Zhenghao’s Super Topic first, saving a bunch of beautiful pictures, watching several montage videos of his stunning roles, and then obediently urging the content updates under posts by famous fan concent creator in the fandom, and finally entering the fan chat group to chat and gossip with other starlight.

The girls in the fan group were beautiful, spoke nicely, and were interesting, Yan Momo loved being in the group the most!

Why didn’t she just check Rong Zhenghao’s Weibo directly?

Of course, she followed his official Weibo closely and would receive notifications immediately!

Every time Rong Zhenghao posted, or even when he came online, the fan girls knew exactly.

If Rong Zhenghao posted something, Yan Momo would immediately go under the post to repost, comment, and like in one complete routine.

Some people might not understand girls like them, but for Yan Momo, her idol was like a ray of light in her otherwise ordinary life.

Whenever life hit her hard and making her feel like she couldn’t go on, seeing Rong Zhenghao’s face on the screen would suddenly give her motivation again.

Her Haohao was so excellent, she had to become better herself!

She always encouraged herself this way.

But recently, probably because the year-end was approaching, her work had suddenly become very complicated.

For the past few days, Yan Momo had to work late every night and today she had even been scolded by that annoying boss at the office.

By the time Yan Momo got home, it was already late at night.

She kicked off her high heels feeling exhausted and adjusted the water temperature before lying down in the bathtub.

The warm water eased the fatigue from her body, but her mood was still low.

As usual, she opened Rong Zhenghao’s Super Topic again, hoping to see some photos or videos.

But the moment she entered the topic, she saw many other girls crying online.

Ever since Rong Zhenghao had gone to shoot his new project, he seemed to have disappeared completely.

Not only had he stopped posting on Weibo, he hadn’t appeared in any other events either.

The entire Super Topic was filled with a sad atmosphere.

[ Sniff sniff, did he forget his Weibo password? ]

[ It’s been so long since we saw him. I wonder if he’s eating well on set... is he losing weight? T-T ]

[ Someone’s Weibo is going to collect dust. I advise you to share your selfies quickly. Please don’t be ungrateful! ]

Yan Momo sighed and then checked the fan group.

The messages were similar and the group was noticeably less active than before.

Yan Momo: ...

Sure enough, not seeing fresh pictures of her handsome idol really made it hard to stay energized!

She placed her phone face down beside her while leaned against the bathtub and closed her eyes to rest.

But not long after she closed her eyes, the phone beside her suddenly started going off like crazy with message notifications.

Yan Momo was startled and opened her eyes wide.

What happened?