[[Green Petal Hot Post] The most difficult-to-ship CP in the Chinese entertainment industry has been born]

[[Green Petal Hot Post] Is Old Ye selling himself? He seems so unlucky.]

[Pi Station Analysis Post] CP? Colleagues? In-depth analysis of the conflict between Ye Chu and Shi Shan!

[Popular Blog Post] May all my opponents work hard in vain, just like Ye Chu and Shi Shan.

[Popular Blog Post] Even more urologically conscious than Li Ruhui and Li Yiming are Ye Chu and Shi Shan...

Of course, Ji Juntao's ridicule did not dampen Shang Yechu's confidence. The data doesn't lie. After the airing of episode 36, the number of followers on the Dawn Couple's fan page increased by more than 50,000 overnight. Even for top-tier celebrities in a hit drama, the speed at which their fan pages gain followers is rarely this fast.

Pi Station has seen a surge in derivative works:

[Li Ruhui × Li Yiming | Heavy Snow is Coming]

[Li Ruhui × Li Yiming | Unable to celebrate a fake birthday, unable to witness a real spring]

[Li Yiming × Li Ruhui | When falsehood is taken for truth, even truth becomes falsehood]

[Breaking News! Li Ruhui's tearful exit from the show, Li Yiming's hair turns white overnight]

[Leon Lai and his wife | At the end of eternity, we will meet again]

[So Ru Guan had already given a hint...]

[A God-like Destiny! Frame-by-Frame Comparison of "The Starry Night" and "Half a Sky": Where Does the Foreshadowing of Fate Begin?]

The river brought not only floating ice, but also Li Yiming's comrades-in-arms.

Furthermore, while many online expressed sympathy for Li Ruhui, far fewer people criticized Li Yiming and Shang Yechu than Shang Yechu had anticipated; most were enthusiastically shipping them. Sister Climbing Ivy repeatedly tried to "purify" the image, only to be met with a barrage of criticism from the audience.

Shang Yechu escaped the fate of being sold off through her hard work and ingenuity!

The drama dominated the trending topics on various platforms for a full day and night. Leaving aside the plot-related searches for "Tianban," the names of Shi Shan and Ye Chu remained high on the trending lists. Even the already-finished "Super Starry Night" experienced a resurgence in popularity, returning to the trending topics list after just one day. Previously unnoticed promotional materials, interviews, live streams, and Weibo interactions between Ye Chu and Shi Shan were all unearthed and displayed in a variety of ways online.

It's no wonder Shang Yechu was confident. This incident has indeed caused a stir in the online CP (couple) fan community—not just among CP fans of Yechu, but among CP fans of all celebrities!

In 2018, the practice of creating romantic pairings (CPs) had not yet developed into a systematic framework. It wasn't that people didn't want to, but rather that they didn't know how or dared to. They didn't know the right balance, nor how to avoid backlash from female fans or solo fans. Would the buzz generated by promotional activities be enough to compensate for the loss of solo or female fans? Would the pairing be too strong, making it impossible to break free? These were all issues that needed to be considered.

Ye Chu and Shi Shan set a model for all business couples.

Invest with confidence, sell boldly! Pay attention to details, coordinate comprehensively. Plan ahead early to gain the initiative. Accumulate strength gradually, and achieve remarkable success!

It's a universal axiom that humans love watching others pair up. A masterpiece that invites repeated contemplation and appreciation is far more important than fans who might abandon their favorite pairings due to promotional content. On the contrary, the fans who remain under such intense promotion are truly the most loyal and resilient, like gold refined from sand.

The only drawback is that Li Yiming's performance in the drama is too reserved and unpredictable, making many sweet moments quite subtle.

For covert operations, being able to conceal one's emotions is a major advantage. But for CP (Central Affairs) work, this is a fatal flaw.

The fans of the couple were divided into two camps. One camp insisted that Li Yiming and Li Ruhui were determined to be in love in both directions. The other camp believed that Li Ruhui was in unrequited love and that Li Yiming's grief was due to the loss of his comrade-in-arms.

The former wrote numerous short essays, systematically analyzing Li Yiming's affection for Li Ruhui, extracting many sweet moments from the smallest details. The latter scoffed, mocking these fans who painstakingly sought out even the smallest hints of affection.

Therefore, fans of the "two-way couple" (Li Yiming and Li Ruhui) went to great lengths to find evidence that Li Yiming truly loved Li Ruhui. However, the expressions in the drama were too subtle, so these eager fans had to seek answers from the production team, actors, director, and screenwriter.

The popularity of the "Drip Plum Couple" is still quite considerable, and Ru Guan TV is still trying to have its cake and eat it too, with a very ambiguous attitude.

Xu Hanwen is still recovering and hasn't been on Weibo for a long time. He's basically invisible.

Ye Chu and Shi Shan's Weibo accounts are dominated by solo fans. CP fans are instantly killed if they show their faces. Poor fans of the Dawn couple can't even breathe.

In the end, the desperate fans of the Dawn couple could only flock to screenwriter Zheng Bohan's Weibo, crying and begging him for an answer.

[Teacher Zheng, please, did Li Yiming truly love Li Ruhui? Was his final tragedy due to camaraderie, love, or both?]

Zheng Bohan certainly didn't disappoint the CP fans, and answered the fan's question readily.

Love, but the love of comrades-in-arms. The final tragedy stemmed from the bond of shared ideals and the sorrow of losing a comrade.

If you're asking about romantic love, I'm sorry, but it doesn't exist. Neither in my script nor during the actors' performances.

Whether it was Li Yiming's feelings for Li Ruhui, or Li Ruhui's feelings for Li Yiming, both were upright, honest, and aboveboard, devoid of any romantic undertones.

Their relationship was a precious and rare pure friendship.