Love Variety Show: The despised me exploded in popularity

Lin Wanzhou uttered an "oh" and breathed a sigh of relief. She was worried Wen Yun had noticed something amiss, but fortunately, that wasn't the case, especially given how peculiar the situation had been that day.

As for making friends or enemies, she didn't need to think about it at all.

After a bit more chatting, the recording studio gradually quieted down. Qi Ting sat under the air conditioner, tapping away on her phone, messaging Shen Jinyue giddily about the latest gossip.

The shocking extent of Ji Chen's scandal surpassed any top celebrity's scandal at the current stage.

Having relationships with underage fans, leaving behind romantic entanglements in twenty cities. At least one or two girls per city, sometimes three or four, a modern harem indeed.

Even more unimaginable gossip emerged, claiming that Master Ji once cooked up a late-night frenzy with his fans. He would send fans away after midnight and, to avoid city management, even had a girl fan ride a shared electric scooter home.

On Weibo's explosive comment section, it instantly turned into a sea of green melons. Netizens transformed into gossip-consuming creatures, busily refreshing and bumping every new post they came across.

For a while, the trending heat was impossible to suppress.

"Why have we waited so long and there's still no video released? Dude, I'm really curious about Ji Chen's size now. They say it's legendary, is it really just a few centimeters?"

"As a bystander, even Ji Chen's balls have suffered. Just for a moment of pleasure, he truly doesn't treat his balls as an organ, working overtime on them."

"Hahaha, after getting screwed over and then riding a shared electric scooter home, dude, I just can't even. Female fan: 'Is wasabi something very cheap?'"

"I'm a Ji Chen fan, the speed at which things get processed in Xia country is just too fast. Seconds to consume the gossip about my idol. Still, I have to thank the netizens, my suspended heart finally died over the course of the night."

Where there's darkness, there will naturally be fans trying to clear things up.

The administrators of the fan groups lead the charge, brainwashing fans, setting up a hypothetical enemy. All this is a conspiracy, the opposition xxx paying people to slander our geigei.

This tactic was incredibly effective. The truth didn't matter at all.

The young fans only liked the Ji Chen of their fantasies, dreaming every day, yet clearly understanding that their idol wouldn't fancy them or stoop to interacting with them.

More often, they would simply follow the lead of the top fans on the other side of the phone screen, crunching numbers. Every day, they liked posts, commented, fought back against slander, and bought products endorsed by their idol.

Every day, tracking statistics and battling it out with rival fan groups online, united in fury. The isolation experienced at work was rectified through online retaliation.

Exposing others, fighting back, and tearing people apart, they freely vented the pent-up spite under the encouragement of sisterhood.

Every glance from Ji Chen, or any other action, prompted endless discussions in their groups. They were all too aware that these things lacked any real significance.

Yet meaningless as it may be, that was significance in itself.

After clocking in for a thousand days straight, their fear wasn't about Ji Chen's collapse, but the disbandment of fan groups and the collapse of their idol. Those countless nights spent chatting and quarreling would turn into a fleeting dream.

Everything that had brought them together over their shared interest seemed to have reached its end in just one day, leaving the assembled beauties with nothing to talk about.

They naturally wouldn't accept it. At this moment, who Ji Chen was didn't matter anymore.

"The anti-slander team, let's collectively report the top comments under the trending searches, brother Ji Chen hasn't come home yet. Everyone, keep the faith, we're all one family."

"Listen to sister Pure, sisters, xxx's fans just want to take us down. Damn it, a bunch of brain-dead fans fixated on slandering our brother Ji Chen."

"Cyberbullying is really terrible, we should trust brother Ji Chen. Brother now has thirty million fans, if we unite, we can definitely withstand the cyberbullying."

"Crowdfunding to buy data for fighting back. Stupid Starry Entertainment can't protect brother, so we will stand guard ourselves."

Ji Chen's fans became as enthusiastic as if injected with adrenaline, crunching numbers non-stop. Some donated money for crowdfunding, yet still, they couldn't stop the overwhelming tide.

The entertainment industry has always been like a wall that everyone pushes down, and with the onslaught of frequent press releases about Ji Chen over the past half month, he had long lost any favor with the bystanders.

Who doesn't know what sort of person Ji Chen is, the incident of dragging a traffic policeman had only happened half a year ago. The internet indeed has no memory, but it surely has archives.

The traffic policeman dragged by Ji Chen is still disabled, and yet the person responsible disappeared for half a year and went right back to his original position, seemingly unaffected.

What goes around, comes around, and now it was Ji Chen's turn.

Around six in the evening, a sharp-eyed netizen noticed that the traffic policeman dragged by Ji Chen had quietly liked a post about the trending scandal, which pushed the term back into the top fifty on the hot search list.

"Damn, I just remembered the dragging case, Ji Chen really is a beast."

"Fuck, how is this bastard still around?"

"How much money did it take for him to get out of this? It's quite outrageous. Probably settled things with the victim, money really talks."

As the term rapidly climbed the hot search list, more bystanders began to pile on the criticism against Ji Chen. Now there was no need to wait for gossip; past confirmed incidents were being dragged out for a posthumous beating.

Ordinary topics hardly ever make it onto Weibo's hot search list, unless someone's willing to sacrifice their dignity for a big event. Or it could be a news story with significant social impact that resonates with the public.

As for xxx writing a few songs and dominating the top three hot search spots just about these songs, that's pure fantasy.

Unless all the top celebrities in the entertainment industry vanished and all societal issues disappeared.
Read new chapters at empire

Even a star like Lin Chuan, with a massive fan base, could only manage to preserve one spot on the hot search list in such a situation. All his effort resulted in #LinChuanNewSong securing the fourth position.

The top trending search was #JiChen, followed by a fiery red "explosive" marker. Second on the trending search was #SharedElectricScooter, quite a peculiar topic indeed.