Chapter 76 Sam-soon, don't you know she's been fired so many times...?

This was the first time Shi Yao had encountered such a situation. Although she had customers whose favorability ratings had increased dramatically in the past, this was the first time she had seen one's rating jump from 0 to 100 in one go.

She noticed the details of the system's announcement: Ye Jingyu's favorability towards her increased in two stages, the first time by 60 and the second time by 40, but these two announcements were broadcast simultaneously.

Shi Yao asked the system, "Does this mean that Ye Jingyu's favorability towards me had already increased to 60 before, but it was only reported today?"

Otherwise, why issue two separate announcements?

The system gave an affirmative answer.

Shi Yao was even more puzzled. Why did it have to be done in two parts? Was there some special purpose behind it?

Is 60 a special number?

This time, the system did not answer her question. No matter how she changed her questioning style, the system remained silent, only mysteriously saying, "Host, you can carefully recall the contents of the report, and what the key conditions are needed to complete the side quest."

Conditions for completing the side quest...

You need a main character or a key supporting character with full favorability. That's right, a key supporting character!

Shi Yao's eyes lit up, and she immediately asked, "Was it because Ye Jingyu wasn't a key supporting character before, but only recently acquired the identity of a key supporting character, that's why I was able to complete those two tasks?"

This time, the system stopped being mysterious: "Host, you are very smart."

Shi Yao's doubts were finally resolved. No wonder she had to report it in two separate times. It turned out that Ye Jingyu's favorability towards her had already reached 60. However, since she wasn't a key supporting character or main character before, it didn't matter if she gained favorability, as it wouldn't be recorded in the system's strategy data.

Today, after Zhou Qixue's problem was completely resolved, Ye Jingyu's negative news was cleared up, and she even gained a lot of fans and traffic, becoming a character with considerable influence in this world, thus obtaining the status of a key supporting character.

At this point, her affection for Shi Yao increased again, and her new identity would allow her to fulfill Shi Yao's two tasks.

"So, the identity of a key supporting character can be obtained through human effort..." Shi Yao's eyes gradually became quite meaningful.

"Oh right, the ranking!"

So engrossed in this, I almost forgot it was already 8 o'clock. The latest episode of "Shining Idol" was released on time. Unlike broadcast variety shows, which have to be watched in order, online variety shows can be watched as far as you want once they're airing.

Shi Yao glanced at her phone. It was already 8:10. By this time, the latest rankings must have already filled all the platforms. She didn't bother to scroll through the progress bar anymore. She simply played the latest episode on her tablet as background music and immediately opened the Green Petal Show group.

A pop-up notification appeared at the top; it was from Weibo and was related to "Shining Idol".

[@ChajieEntertainment: The latest episode of "Shining Idol" has aired, and the top nine have been completely reshuffled. The number one spot is surprisingly held by him!]

Shi Yao rolled her eyes and didn't click on it. What era are we living in? These media outlets still love sensationalist headlines.

The homepage shows that there are over 999 unread new posts in the Show group, and Shi Yao only visited the site two hours ago. This means that in such a short time, Show fans have posted over 999 new posts. This refresh rate makes the newly announced rankings seem truly astonishing.

Opening the Show Group, Shi Yao glanced at the titles of the posts on the homepage and couldn't help but raise her eyebrows.

Of the seven posts on the first page, five are titled "Promise".

And the one ranked first is surprisingly already topped by over two thousand comments:

[Holy crap!! It really is the first promise!!!]

The anxiety finally subsided. Although Shi Yao was full of confidence in Xu, his rise to fame was much shorter than that of other top-ranking trainees. While the third performance did make him stand out, the voting ended that very night, and the newly gained fans didn't have time to vote, so the surge in popularity couldn't be reflected in this round of votes.

Even under such extreme conditions, the promise remains number one.

Shi Yao smiled with satisfaction, it seemed that Yingxu's ability to attract fans was far better than she had imagined.

If they can get first place without the help of the breakout performance in the third public performance, then their ranking in the finals will only be more stable.

It was worth all the effort she put in and all the props she used.

She clicked on the first post, a two-thousand-story thread filled with exclamation marks, and quickly browsed through it.

Unsurprisingly, most people in the building were shocked, with a few making sarcastic remarks.

The main building contains no text, only a screenshot of the main image. In the image, Ying Zheng is walking towards the top of the pyramid, and Li Yuzhe is watching his back from behind.

It must be said that this screenshot is quite well done. In the picture, apart from Yingxu, everyone else's eyes are on him, and no one cares about Li Yuzhe, who is still standing below the stage waiting to speak.

Considering that Li Yuzhe was first in the previous two ranking announcements, this picture has a rather desolate feel to it.

[1L: Holy crap, I lost the bet! I bet on Brother Li! Aaaaaaah!]

[2L: Can I say it? It's not surprising at all. I always thought Yingxu would definitely come in first place this time. His individual shot data in the third public performance was terrifying. Even the combined data of 2, 3, and 4 doesn't reach his. How could he possibly lose?]

[3L: +1, I said long ago that those people on the forum who keep spamming about Li Ge's stable stats are 200% Ying fans. They just want to play it safe and farm, and people keep arguing with me. They've been fooled by these Ying fans, these white lotuses.]

[4L: Bur, I thought he would get a lot of votes this time, but I didn't expect him to come in first place directly.]

[5L: Do you have any doubts about the only contestant who broke out of the public eye in the third public performance, no, the only contestant who broke out of the public eye this season? Sisters, do you really not look at the data, or have you really been fooled by those people in the group who inflated the numbers? The data should have already skyrocketed to the top of everyone else's, so why do you think it's only him who's recording all sorts of commercials every day?]

[6L: The third performance was a hit, but the voting ended on the night of the broadcast, so the newly gained fans didn't have time to vote.]

[7L: Sisters, have you forgotten that his fan site admin took a picture of his fancam? It was so exciting that night, it got 10,000 reposts in just a few minutes, isn't that going viral? Isn't this the perfect time to attract new fans?]

[8L: I now seriously suspect that the tables showing all the data for the trainees in the group were made by Ying Xu's fans. They all changed Ying Xu's data to make it less noticeable. If he were really that good, how could he have gotten first place with Sam Soon?]

[9L replies to 8L: Your suspicion is very reasonable. I really think Ying's fans are insidious. They release peace doves and act cute on various platforms every day, saying that Ying is not a threat and that Li's position is secure, but then they aggressively steal towers.]

[10L: I want to know what Li's fans think]

[11L: What else could it be? It must be: Damn, I got tricked.]

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[124L: Actually, it's not so bad. Although Yingxu is in first place, the difference in votes between him and Li Yuzhe is not that big. Unlike Yi Ershun, Li Ge is in second place. If Li's fans had cast more votes, Li Ge would have been in first place.]

[125L: Exactly, is it really necessary to exaggerate so much? Lee's fans were careless this time, and they swapped votes with many of Eung-hye's fans. The next round will be OP, and it's easier to swap votes with casual fans. Lee's fans have more die-hard fans, which gives them an advantage.]

[126L: Dude, you've given me more than three rounds of milk votes, what are we going to do with the finals? Are we just going to throw up the finals? If you've never been in the voting group, don't spout nonsense. The number of milk votes given in each round is calculated precisely; there's no way we can use more than that. No matter how important the earlier rounds are, they're not as important as the finals.]

[127L replied to 125L: Wow, I really think you guys are so sneaky. You're still brainwashing everyone into thinking that Lee is a die-hard fan. Tell me, who is a die-hard fan of Lee now? Why don't you look at the number of people in the super topic and the special group? They're already number one, so there's no need for you to pretend.]

[128L: Of course, the difference between first and second place isn't that big... Didn't you guys say it yourselves? Voting ended the night the third performance aired, and the new fans hadn't even had a chance to join yet. If that's the case, and Yingxu's votes can still beat Li Yuzhe's, then I can only say that his family is truly invincible.]

[129L: The insidious Ying fans are still trying to pretend to be innocent and harmless, but it's no use, sisters, you're all number one now]

[130L: In a corner no one cares about, Li fans have fallen silent. This thread currently has 0 Li fans.]

[131L: They must be feeling down. They were in first place all the way, and then suddenly that position was taken away. Their big fans are probably busy writing long posts about it.]

[132L replies to 131L: Hello, I'm late. Li Yuzhe's super topic is already full of long posts.]

[133L: It only took a few minutes to write, you must have prepared it in advance!]

[134L: As expected, these big fans all know what's going on. The deeper they go, the more they understand the gap between the two sides, so they don't care about the data and just keep saying that Faker's team is safe.]

[135L: The Li family has been ruined by people like you. Apologize to Brother Li!]

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[336L: So, did the fan site admin who filmed the fancam offer no explanation? Yingxu had an extra chance to gain fans this time because of that fancam. With such strict enforcement that night, why was Yingxu able to have a fancam leaked? Did the production team promote her without her even acting?]

[337L: Exactly! If we're going to be fair and just, then everyone should start on a level playing field. What's the point of giving a few people special treatment?]

[338L: I wouldn't dare say that. Those fan site admins are rich and powerful people. For them, following celebrities is just a pastime.]

[339L: Are there really such kind-hearted rich people? Haha, I think it might be the production team using a fake account, since no one has actually met this woman in person so far.]

[340L: Now that you mention it, it's true. This woman always sends out support materials when she goes offline, but she always hires people to do it. Nobody has ever seen what she looks like.]

[341L: My friend is also a fan site admin, and she's based at a major company. She told me that no one in the fan site admin group has ever met this Tianguang sister in person, not even the fan site admins of Yingxu's own fan site admin group have ever met her.]

[342L: That's very suspicious. Usually, the big fan site admins know each other, so it's convenient to exchange pictures and information. This one is too... a lone wolf?]

[343L: Please stop interfering with other people's idol-following tutorials. Let people follow their idols however they want, okay? Don't you deny people with social anxiety their freedom? Who says fan site admins have to stick together? Some people just like to follow their idols solo, is that wrong?]

[344L: Sister Tianguang, you're getting better! Some people are even saying you're just a backup account for the show.]

[345L: I know that Sister Tianguang is very enviable, but I'm sorry, she just has the ability to attract such high-quality fansite admins. No matter how much you complain, good luck will not come to you.]

[346L: Conspiracy theories are starting again. It wasn't just Tianguang who posted the preview that night; every group posted it, okay? Now it's like Tianguang has inside information.]

[347L: I'm begging you guys, are you really just holed up in this little corner of the show and never go out to see the world? All you know is that Tian Guang Jie posted a preview of her fancam, but why don't you mention that her videos were taken down seven times by the production team? She tried every website in China, but she still couldn't escape being taken down. In the end, she just shared a cloud drive link with everyone. After working so hard, she's still being targeted by conspiracy theories. I can only wish you a complete flop.]

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[974L: No need to keep complaining. It's all because Yingxu is too charming and attracted such high-quality fans as Tianguang. Instead of being envious and jealous, we should find ways to improve ourselves and strive to be the Tianguang we support.]

[975L: So what exactly is Tianguang's identity? Does anyone know? It doesn't matter what it is. This girl has never sold any merchandise so far, but every time she releases a support item, it's at least four figures. She's rich and skilled, so she must have had other idol groups before. Has no one dug up her past life?]

[976L: Actually, no. Everyone agrees that Tianguang isn't a first-time fan, since she knows the process of setting up a fan site all too well. But we really haven't found any other fan site admins with a similar style to hers, which is really strange.]

[977L: To be able to film a complete video under the conditions of the Third National Congress of the Communist Party of China, including camera movement, without getting caught, this person can only be described as a god.]

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[1579L: Who exactly is this thread talking about? Why are dozens of pages of posts talking about Sister Tianguang? Don't you guys care about the rankings anymore?]

[1580L: It's just that this woman is too mysterious. Tell me, do you want to know who she is?]

[1581L: No need to think about it. This woman is extremely good at keeping her information confidential and has a strong sense of counter-surveillance. Don't you know she's been hacked many times before? The people who hacked her discovered that her Weibo accounts were all bought, and the real-name information didn't match at all.]

[1582L: Wait, drive...? Do you mean what I'm thinking? Isn't that illegal? And they've done it so many times??]

[1583L: It's illegal, but isn't it common in the fandom? Putting aside everything else, which popular fan site admin hasn't been exposed? They've basically all been wiped out. You know how crazy those sasaeng fans and those who harass and insult others are.]

[1584L: So Sister Tianguang was fired by her own people?]

[1585L: Both her own and other fans have her, especially after the third public performance's direct cam went viral, everyone wanted to know who she was. Here's a little gossip: a big fan site admin also posted about Tianguang Jie.]

【1586L: [Ears][Ears] Who is it?】

[1587L: I can't say it outright, but just look at the top 3, you'll know which of their alt accounts clearly dislikes Tianguang.]

[1588L: Oh my god, being a fan site admin also involves personal safety risks, I'm already scared]

Shi Yao quickly skipped through a few pages, and couldn't help but raise an eyebrow when she saw the last few lines of text.

People who follow celebrities these days are getting crazier and crazier. She hadn't even noticed that someone had opened her box.

Fortunately, she was very discreet and never intended to use her information to register a public account.