Chapter 34
Chu Yu felt that his good brother was mentally ill recently.
It’s not that they didn’t have any illnesses before, but after living together for so many years, the degree and frequency of their illnesses are basically synchronized and complementary, and their mental states have always been very harmonious.
But recently, the focus of Luo Jiayu's illness seems to have shifted.
"You've been staring at the same Weibo page for almost an hour." Chu Yu half-lay on the bed, watching his good friend in the upper bunk, who was refreshing his phone repeatedly without blinking. "Is there something on your mind?"
Luo Jiayu, who had been staring at the screen, shifted his gaze to look at Chu Yu, who had popped her head out from the bunk below. The corners of his tightly pursed mouth relaxed, and he seemed to be in a good mood. He said with a sly smile, "I'm in a good mood!"
"You've been observing me for so long and love me so much?"
"No, I just want to play Happy Candy Crush." Chu Yu remained unmoved, his expression unchanged.
"And we agreed to split it evenly under the anti-addiction restrictions. You get one hour and I get one hour. There are only two minutes left."
"Wait for me for two more minutes, I'll see if there are any new fans of our couple joining us."
"Whether you watch it or not, the CP fans are there and they won't leave."
Chu Yu looked at his childhood friend in the lower bunk with an inquiring look, not understanding why a few strings of numbers could be more attractive than Happy Match.
The system in Luo Jiayu's brain also agreed with Chu Yu's words: "Host, no matter how many times you refresh, it will not affect the changes in the super topic data."
"I just want to see when I can surpass those two people's popularity in the super topic." Luo Jiayu said, his eyes still never leaving the screen, "But after watching for a long time, I feel like I'm still a long way behind."
After saying that, he turned off his phone, lowered his arm and put it next to his childhood friend's ear. He watched Chu Yu turn around and take the phone he handed her: "What do you think is the difference between us and them?"
Chu Yu turned on the screen again and unlocked it with the fingerprint he had just recorded yesterday. Hearing this, he looked up at Luo Jiayu, who was staring at him eagerly, and said in a flat tone:
"Where does this unwarranted desire to compare oneself with others come from?"
Luo Jiayu avoided his question and changed the subject, saying, "I think we're no worse than them."
He became more and more excited as he spoke. He patted Chu Yu's shoulder and motioned him to look at him. Then he counted on his fingers and began to list his arguments one by one:
"Look, first of all, in terms of looks, we're miles ahead of them. If I'm the most handsome guy in the world, then you're the zeroth most handsome guy in the world. Since we grew up together, have you ever seen anyone with a better-looking face than ours? No, right?"
This sounded nice, and a guy who always had a droopy face like a capybara also nodded in agreement with the corners of his mouth curled.
Halfway through the order, he suddenly felt something was wrong and frowned again: "Wait, why am I Zero? You don't mean that, do you?"
Luo Jiayu avoided the topic and did not respond, moving on to his second point:
"Secondly, look, why is the CP of those two protagonists so popular?" After saying that, he snapped his fingers, which happened to hit Chu Yu's ear, making a quiet little capybara frown.
"The CP is popular, mainly because their attributes match and they have their own unique tags. I've visited their super topic, and fans are all talking about their childhood sweethearts and reconciliation."
"But we both share the label of childhood sweethearts, and that's 100% pure. Just the friendship we've shared since we were young is stronger than 99% of childhood sweethearts in the country."
Luo Jiayu became increasingly excited as he spoke, his words revealing his unwillingness. "Besides, our mirrors are even tougher than theirs. They're rounder and won't break even if they're broken."
Fake childhood sweethearts: they torture and tug at each other, the relationship between the superiors and the subordinates is unequal and they abuse each other's hearts and bodies at every turn, and they break up after more than ten years of friendship due to a disagreement and then rekindle their relationship in the talent show camp.
True childhood sweethearts: played in the mud together at the age of 4, fought the Forest Fire and Ice Man together at the age of 6, went to Aunt Wang's house next door to steal chickens together at the age of 9 and were chased for ten kilometers with a broom. They have been silly and happy together since they were young, and their bond is so deep that even after death they can still enter the same novel world and work for the same company.
How can you not compare to this? Absolutely impossible!
Chu Yu opened the latest level of Happy Candy Crush and looked at the puppy above her head, who was getting increasingly angry and anxious, almost spinning in circles on the bed. She suddenly asked, "How many couples' clips and posts have you secretly watched in the past two days?"
"Huh?" Luo Jiayu was stunned, then answered obediently, "Not many, maybe a little over a hundred."
He looks at everything from an academic research perspective, and watches videos like he reads a thesis. He also has a notebook under his pillow, which is densely packed with his various CP business plans. It seems that he is ready to challenge the hottest CP in the domestic entertainment industry.
"..." Chu Yu didn't know what to say. She glanced at the wall clock which was already pointing to twelve o'clock. "Then you should go to bed early today."
Stop being a crazy nerd. The dark circles under your eyes have been heavier these past two days than in the past few days.
Luo Jiayu poked his puppy head out, feeling a little touched: "You really care about me."
"roll."
"You say go away, but don't worry about me too much."
"roll."
"I got your love, good night."
Luo Jiayu covered himself with the quilt contentedly, leaving Chu Yu to continue playing his bedtime game quietly at the head of the bed. The dormitory was silent for a moment, and in the silence, two systems secretly opened the electronic shielding wall and started chatting privately.
Luo Jiayu System: "Do they really not know or are they pretending not to know?"
Teacher Zhao: “What?”
"The biggest difference between their CP and Wei Ziyu and Jiang Chenglu's CP."
Teacher Zhao thought for a moment: "Mental state?"
"..." Luo Jiayu's system was speechless. "I don't think your mental state is very good either."
She continued, "The biggest difference between their CP and the two protagonists' CP is that the latter pairing is real! Did they really not think of this?"
Teacher Zhao suddenly realized: "So that's how it is."
Then, facing the other person's silent gaze, he continued to ask: "Then will you tell Luo Jiayu about this important discovery?"
"No," the system firmly rejected. "Given the way my idiot son thinks, he'd immediately go find your idiot son and excitedly say, 'Brother, I've made a new discovery. If we just start a relationship, we can outdo the protagonist.' I'm thinking about your idiot son."
Teacher Zhao thought for a moment and asked, "Why consider my host?"
"Because your silly son might actually blink twice, appear to be thinking but actually not thinking at all, and then say 'OK'."
“…It seems so.”
"Neither is very bright."
"really."
"Neither of them is very smart to begin with. Their combined IQs of over 100 are about the same as 250. It's better for such a fool not to taste the bitter fruit of love."
As the system spoke, its voice became more and more dejected.
"Love makes people confused and brings trauma, which is not something children of their age can easily bear."
"Their combined shoe sizes are bigger than ours."
"If you don't tell me, no one will believe me. If you don't know, you might think it's a children's shoe size."
Teacher Zhao was hesitant to speak at first, but finally couldn't help it and said, "Do you feel that your face has changed after spending so much time with your host?"
"What?"
"I'm getting more and more worried. We're both taking care of children. I'm like a kindergarten teacher, and you're like a high school teacher."
"..." Luo Jiayu System raised an eyebrow, "Shen Jin, get out."
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The next morning, Luo Jiayu, who was sleeping soundly, was awakened by an electronic warning broadcast.
[Warning, warning, host Luo Jiayu's popularity has been negative for two consecutive days. The automatic withdrawal process is about to be triggered. If it does not break through 0 within 24 hours, the system will automatically determine that the mission has failed and return to the book space.]
[Replay once more…]
Shut up! Luo Jiayu opened his eyes in a bad mood and yelled in his head.
The electronic female voice really shut up timidly.
[The host is quite aggressive, triggering the system to automatically reply: No matter how fierce you are, you can't hit me.]
"..." Luo Jiayu sat up, rubbed his head, and began to change his clothes. In the middle, he looked up and glanced at the clock. It was half past six in the morning.
Today is the day of the official first public performance.
The show starts at 7:30 p.m., and all trainees will have to put on their makeup and hair together during the day and take a bus to the performance venue to wait.
He glanced at Chu Yu who was sleeping soundly on the lower bunk and poked the system in his brain.
How much popularity do I need to avoid being fired?
"202.5." The system's voice was flat and merciless. "I told you not to buy gum randomly."
Luo Jiayu started to change his clothes, and while putting on his coat, he asked: Has there ever been a precedent of adding more than 200 people to the popularity points of a stage performance?
"No, even with Jiang Chenglu, who had the halo of a leading actor, his vocal performance only added over 150 points during his breakout performance."
Oh. Luo Jiayu's emotions didn't fluctuate much. He even wanted to take out a pair of sunglasses from his pocket to show off before he died.
Then I'll take this as a precedent.
"..." The system smiled, "You'd better be."
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