Chapter 108 Holiday
Minghui Entertainment’s family concert was a hit, or rather, Lu Yao’s stage was a hit.
After the concert, the term #路尧# immediately became a hot search. There was no description, no description, just these two words. When you click on it, you will see several new Weibo posts refreshed every second. They were all the result of the audience who watched the concert and couldn't contain their excitement at the moment and shared them on Weibo as soon as possible.
Soon after, #Lu Yao "Flowers"# also became a high-ranking trending search. The first thing that appeared was a video clip of Lu Yao on stage. In less than half an hour, there were already tens of thousands of comments.
And this is just the beginning.
As soon as the concert ended, Xiguacai uploaded a clip of himself watching the live broadcast of "Flowers", and the next day, he released a reaction video.
After him, various re videos sprang up like mushrooms after rain and emerged on various platforms.
Even people who don’t know Minghui Entertainment or Lu Yao can’t stand the overwhelming amount of attention and the stage videos that are almost flooding the screen.
When Song Rui saw this scene, her first reaction was not happiness, but worry.
Because there were so many negative articles about Lu Yao in the past, and for no reason, although the stage this time was good, there were still too many things that could be done to improve the performance.
Even she could come up with a lot.
For example, in the first half of "Flowers", in order to create a beautiful and seductive spirit image, Lu Yao wore clothes that could almost be called women's clothes, or in other words, women's clothes, and his hair was tied up in a bun. In this outfit, Song Rui almost thought he was a girl at first glance. Then, accompanied by melodious music, his every move was unique and charming. To put it nicely, he was charming, but to put it bluntly, it was completely borderline.
It’s borderline for a minor to wear women’s clothing… This was the first thought that came to Song Rui’s mind after she calmed down.
Judging from the intensity of the negative comments she had seen before, if those haters had taken out the first half of the dance and posted it online, and it had spread more widely, it would have almost completely nailed Lu Yao to the pillar of shame.
But this dance is about something completely different.
The previous content is just a prelude to the later part.
Only with preconceived notions can one be more shocked by the subsequent changes, more deeply appreciate all the content expressed on this stage, feel the emotions contained therein, and generate thoughts.
Song Rui herself could not have imagined that there would come a day when she would start thinking while watching her idol’s performance.
But Lu Yao's "Flowers" did achieve this.
So after the concert, even though she had already decided not to involve the fan circle anymore, Song Rui couldn't bear to see such an excellent stage being tarnished, so she went online immediately, refreshed the hot searches on Weibo, clicked into the comments section of every Weibo post, and did anti-black work.
As expected, those familiar accounts immediately appeared in the comment sections of various Weibo posts mentioning Lu Yao, and used all kinds of sophistry to talk about Lu Yao's past negative information and belittle Lu Yao's performance this time.
Song Rui did not respond, but reported them one by one very calmly, and then posted some comments herself.
However, the Weibo account she used daily was soon restricted due to such high intensity of likes, comments and reports. She had to enter a verification code every time she liked or commented. Just when she was worried, she clicked on a Weibo post, only to find that the content had completely changed.
There were negative comments, but they were quickly drowned out by more other comments.
'Oh my god'
These two ordinary words have received tens of thousands of likes and are ranked first in the hot comments.
"No... what the hell is this?"
This sentence without a beginning or an end has received tens of thousands of likes and ranks second among the most popular comments.
'??? ! ! ! !'
This comment has absolutely no content at all, yet it has received nearly 10,000 likes, ranking third among the most popular comments.
After flipping through the pages for a long time, Song Rui finally came across those familiar negative reviews.
Thousands of likes were drowned out by countless "Wow," "Oh my God," and "Wow."
And in the next two days, what she thought was a controversy developed in an unexpected direction.
At first, Song Rui's worries after watching the show did come true. The next morning after the concert, a topic appeared on the hot search. It was very straightforward, #MinorRubberBorder#. Clicking on it, the first thing that appeared was the first half of Lu Yao's stage video, with the text "Underage boys wearing such clothes and dancing like this, will it have a bad influence..."
Nothing was said, yet it seemed as if everything was said.
But when she clicked into the comment section, the content was far beyond Song Rui's expectations.
'Why is it only capturing the first half of the video?'
'If you don't understand, don't talk nonsense'
"Are you crazy? Cutting the stage in half? Do you think I haven't seen the whole show?"
"Yes, yes, you're the only one who thinks this has a bad influence."
"So sensitive, sensitive skin?"
"What's wrong with that? Isn't it a good dance? This is what a professional dancer does, with a professional dance attitude. Is there any difference between good and bad dancing?"
'Love to watch, jump more'
The belittling and mocking comments she expected were completely absent, only one rebuttal after another.
Very strange.
This was the first time she saw such a clean comment section in a Weibo post mentioning Lu Yao.
Could it be that Minghui Entertainment has hired some scammers?
And that evening, after Minghui Entertainment’s family concert was launched on the platform, the popularity reached its peak.
Lu Yao posted a separate Weibo post, which contained a video of himself on stage, with the caption "Don't do anything, just keep looking at me."
Then within an hour, the number of followers skyrocketed to hundreds of thousands.
The next day, Song Rui got up early to go to work. While commuting on the subway, she even heard several renditions of "Flowers" in the car.
She didn't know how many times she had watched this performance in the past two days. This BGM was almost engraved in her DNA. Whenever the music started, she could even tell which clip was being played.
She was shocked and shared it with Shen Sisi, and then after arriving at the company, she was even more shocked.
As soon as her colleagues see her, they share the latest news with her.
"Do you know flowers?"
Song Rui suspected that she had heard it wrong.
Flowers? What flowers? Which flowers? Fresh flowers? Who doesn’t know that?
"You want to buy flowers?"
Colleague: "Oh, you're not online?" She mysteriously pulled Song Rui to her workstation and pulled out her phone: "This flower!"
Song Rui looked down and saw a cover that couldn't be more familiar.
Oh my god, isn’t this Lu Yao?
Song Rui's eyes were filled with shock, but her expression didn't change at all. Her heart was in turmoil, but her face was filled with an ignorant and calm smile.
Song Rui, who is committed to building an image of a reliable worker in the company, has never revealed her identity as a fan girl in the company.
No, why did her colleague suddenly talk to her about Lu Yao?
Could it be that she and her colleagues share the same burden? This kind of thing is not allowed.
No, my colleague is also a fan of the "cultivation system"? My colleague doesn't look like a fan at all. The only topics she talks about are her children and family. Is she also a fan? She doesn't seem to be a fan at all!
"You haven't seen it?" The colleague shook his head and sighed, "Your internet speed is still too slow. Let me tell you, this show is really good, and the guys performing are really amazing. You must watch it when you get home. I won't tell you too much, so that you don't miss out on surprises."
"Haha." Song Rui laughed: "Okay, thank you."
Then, during work today, she saw an incalculable number of colleagues gathered together to talk about flowers.
No, what's wrong with this world?
Did she wake up from a dream and travel to a world where there were only flowers?
When I get home from get off work in the evening and check my phone, this feeling of disconnection is even stronger.
Why is it that when I check every platform, all I see is "Flower"? And the numbers are getting higher and higher?
What exactly happened during the day today?
Song Rui saw a video of watermelon dishes on the homepage and clicked on it out of curiosity.
Two million views in one day, what on earth is that... Oh, it's Hua again, it's Hua's re video.
It doesn't seem surprising at all.
The video begins with dense barrages of comments.
'here we go again'
'You really are good at making it.'
"I was saying yesterday's live video was too crude, but the official version is really good."
'I came to see my family again'
'I can't count how many up masters this is'
"Xiguacai, you're finally here! I've been waiting for you!"
In the video, Xiguacai didn't say much and started watching the show directly. However, after just two seconds, Xiguacai let out a strange cry and paused the video.
The barrage emitted a series of "Hahaha", and Song Rui couldn't help laughing.
She understands this feeling. The moment the camera zoomed in on Lu Yao's face at the beginning of the show was truly so beautiful that it left people speechless.
Xiguacai watched this short segment over and over again for more than ten times before he finally had enough and continued to watch the rest. Song Rui only then realized something was wrong. She tapped the screen lightly and the video progress bar appeared at the bottom of the screen. She saw that the video was actually an hour long.
No, a five-minute performance took an hour to watch? Is that reasonable?
——Reasonable, very reasonable.
After watching Xiguacai's re video, Song Rui felt refreshed. Xiguacai was simply her strongest mouthpiece on the Internet. Every time she felt excited, Xiguacai would pause, replay, and appreciate it repeatedly. The look of wanting to see it but not daring to see it and wanting to see it at the same time was completely acting as her.
The barrage of comments also felt the same way. Every time this happened, there would be a large number of comments like "It's like I saw myself".
Xiguacai was appreciating the performance while being infatuated with it, while keeping in mind his job as a reaction blogger, trying hard to analyze, his reason and emotions were fighting wildly, he analyzed a few sentences, couldn't help but praise it, after praising it twice, his reason came back and he started analyzing again, while analyzing he had to stack armor, declaring that he was just appreciating the stage, and he had absolutely no bad intentions towards Lu Yao himself. He fully respected and understood all the efforts made by all the performers for the stage performance and stage presentation. At the same time, as an adult he also had perfect values and his own judgment, and understood that all this was just a stage performance and had nothing to do with reality. He believed that all the audience would watch the same stage with the same mood... It was so long and so wordy, but it resonated with the barrage.
There is only one core idea: it looks good, you like it, and you come more.
After seeing such a "long-winded" video, Song Rui finally understood why Xiguacai could take more than an hour to record a five-minute stage.
After this long yet short hour was over, Xiguacai visibly breathed a sigh of relief. Without even saying a closing remark, he impatiently ended the recording, leaving only a black screen for the audience watching the video.
No, what are you in such a hurry to do, UP host? It would be better to come out and explain it clearly.
After watching this video, Song Rui seemed to be back to the day when she first watched Lu Yao perform on stage. She performed in the same way and felt the same way at that time. Every move of Lu Yao on the stage was a strong shock to her, but it also strongly attracted her and made her want to keep watching.
She was infatuated with him, calling out to her parents in her heart and despising herself.
Lu Yao is only a fourteen-year-old child. What is going on in her dirty mind?
Morality and humanity were fighting fiercely, and finally stopped at the edge of the law.
Clicking on the comments section, the top comment perfectly expressed Song Rui's feelings: "Don't worry, I know what to do and what not to do. It's just a stage, so what if I watch it a few more times?"
No wonder so many people love to watch reaction videos. At this moment, Song Rui finally understood the fun of this kind of video.
When exiting the video interface, Song Rui glanced at Xiguacai's name and was surprised to find that the number of his fans had increased by hundreds of thousands compared to the last time she saw him.
The number of followers has increased? Why?
She clicked on Xiguacai's homepage and found that after the other party's repost of "ERROR", he only released two videos, which were two reposts of "Flowers".
No, didn’t these two videos increase the number of followers by hundreds of thousands?
This is too much.
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The sudden popularity of this stage has brought huge popularity to the entire fifth generation and even the entire development system.
Although people said that it was inappropriate for Minghui Entertainment to let underage boys dance this kind of dance, they could not control their minds and hands, and watched the stage videos that appeared on their homepages again and again, saying one thing and doing another.
But how can we just watch the stage? Of course, we have to search more about the performer Lu Yao.
So Lu Yao's name remained on the hot search list for several days in a row. Those negative comment robots and other fans tirelessly commented on every Weibo post, but this time it did not cause any splash.
How many bots are there, and how many fans are actively leaving negative reviews? It's difficult to quantify this number, but within the entertainment industry, there's a saying that if an artist has 10,000 active fans willing to generate data, or 10,000 active fans willing to spend money, then that artist is a top star in the entertainment industry.
And in the fifth-generation fan circle, which has always been lukewarm, how many active fans are willing to collect data?
Song Rui was not clear about this number. She only knew that in the past four years, the number of likes and comments of the fifth generation had remained at thousands all year round. After the quadrant assessment began, this number increased slightly, but not much.
Excluding the multiple small accounts that are essential for data fans, and dividing it equally among individuals, we can estimate a rough range of how many real people there are.
Is this a large range? Yes, a large one.
So much so that for a long time, Shen Sisi led Lu Yao's fans who were willing to do data, but they were defeated by the siege of other people.
But is this range really that much?
In front of the passers-by who are constantly flocking to search for Lu Yao because of the stage, these people's encirclement seems so ridiculous, so ridiculous that they have no power to fight back in the face of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of likes in the comment section.
Thousands of lonely likes, no one saw them at all.
Those bad reviews that had caused Shen Sisi and Song Rui so much pain for a long time seemed to disappear overnight.
They are nowhere to be seen in any comment section.
And those endless negative news reports no longer made any waves after the fourth issue was released.
Bullying, royalty, marketing, isolation, competition? Faced with the admiration of Lu Yao by other trainees, these things need no explanation at all; the attitude of others is everything.
Even those passers-by who were attracted to search were too lazy to click on such long and detailed Weibo posts with pictures and texts. There were so many words that they were too lazy to even glance at them.
After all, they are just looking at the stage, why should they know what kind of person the performer is?
Isn't it enough as long as he abides by the law, is patriotic, dedicated to his work, is a legal citizen and has no moral issues?
Are other things important?
Isn’t it the works that speak for themselves in the market?
Does it mean that if a person is kind and popular, he will have more work and more fans?
Faced with such a situation, the fifth generation fans couldn't help but sigh: No, where on earth did so many people come from!!!
Seeing Lu Yao's number of fans increasing by hundreds of thousands every day, their eyes became red.
The senior executives of Lvyang Film and Television were almost grinning from ear to ear.
The fourth episode of the show aired on Sunday. Building on its good performance of topping the variety show charts last week, it set a new record this week. Not only did it take the top spot on Sunday, it also stayed at the top spot on Monday, Tuesday, and even Wednesday!
Every time I click on the program and open any episode, I can see tens of thousands of people watching.
What is this? These are real users!
This is all enormous wealth!
Minghui Entertainment was so lucky to have picked up such a good talent like Lu Yao. The senior management of Lvyang Film and Television were happy and sighed, and then raised the price of the commercials in The Fifth Era.
They are determined to make a fortune in the face of this huge traffic.
At this moment, the trainees have already returned home and are preparing for the New Year.
This year's Chinese New Year fell earlier, on January 26th, so after the family concert, the fifth-generation trainees returned to Beijing. After taking two days to record Chinese New Year materials, they finished all their work and welcomed the long-awaited holiday.
——Three days of annual leave.
When he heard this number, Lu Jianian really couldn't help laughing out loud.
The other trainees couldn't control their expressions either. When they looked at each other, there was the same speechless look in their eyes.
For such a 'big' matter, there's no need to hold a special meeting to discuss it, right?
There is no problem in sending a message in the group chat to notify directly.
No, how can this be justified? Three days off in a year, and that's just for Chinese New Year? Are they crazy, or is the world crazy?
In short, no matter what, while the internet was bustling with activity, the trainees got a long-awaited short break, returned home, and received care from their relatives and friends.
Lu Yao stayed in the villa, receiving care from Li Qiang.
"No, do you really want to spend the New Year alone in the dormitory?" Li Qiang couldn't believe it.
Lu Yao gave the same answer again: "Even if I go back to my hometown, I will spend the New Year alone, and three days is too short for me to go back."
"No..." Li Qiang sighed: "I mean..."
What did he mean? He himself didn't know what he meant.
However, no matter how you look at it, it is inappropriate to let a fourteen-year-old trainee stay alone in the villa.
Lu Yao said: "I can do it alone."
Li Qiang looked up at the sky. Is this a question of whether Lu Yao can do this? This is a question of adult guardianship of minors.
He looked at Xu Bin and signaled him to speak with his eyes.
Xu Bin opened his mouth and closed it again. They had said a lot of related words, but Lu Yao pushed them back every time.
To sum up, there is a core idea:
Don’t go back to your hometown, don’t go to other people’s homes, stay alone in the villa.
How can this be!
But in the end, with Ding Ling's final decision, they agreed to Lu Yao's request.
So everyone, including the staff, went back to their homes to celebrate the New Year, and Lu Yao spent three days of his own time in the villa.
So when other trainees and their families were "accidentally encountered" by illegitimate fans at the market, Lu Yao was reading in his villa; when other trainees were surrounded by illegitimate fans downstairs in the residential complex, Lu Yao was doing homework in his villa; when other trainees were posting messages in the group chat, Lu Yao quietly closed the message notifications and concentrated on watching a movie; when other trainees were posting about their family's sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner on Weibo, Lu Yao was watching variety shows...
Very busy and fulfilling.
But fans don't think so.
Why didn’t Lu Yao post a New Year’s Eve dinner Weibo post?
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Main Building
I see everyone else has posted
[1st floor]
This isn't something that has to be posted.
【2nd floor】
How can this not be? It’s open for business during the New Year! This must be posted, it can’t be that Lu Yao didn’t eat the New Year’s Eve dinner, right?
【3rd floor】
Speaking of which, other people have more or less had some Reuters news in the past two days, but I don’t seem to have seen Lu Yao’s yet. Does anyone know where he went?
【4th floor】
Reply [3rd floor]
Not encountered?
[5th floor]
Reply [4th floor]
Do you have any misunderstandings about Lu Yao's current popularity? Even the grandmother in our neighborhood, seeing the little card in my wallet, recognized it and said, "Isn't that the dancing kid?" Even the grandmother recognized him! How could he go out without anyone noticing?
6th Floor
Reply [5th floor]
Such an exaggeration...
7th Floor
The popularity of Lu Yao's performance was really scary... I felt like people all over the world were watching.
8th Floor
No, why? It's just a stage.
9th Floor
Reply [8th floor]
Isn't it just a stage? You haven't seen it, you will know after you see it.
It is simply the ultimate stage, full of attraction, but not vulgar. Everyone can watch it, see the fun, and see their own thoughts. Even when I was taking care of the children at home these days, I showed this video to my nephews and nieces, and they all watched it with relish and said they liked Brother Lu Yao.
From the elderly in their seventies and eighties to children of four, five or six years old, they are all so attractive. Now you tell me it’s just a stage?
Go take a look and come back to talk.
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【34th floor】Owner
How come this forum has become a discussion forum for "Flowers" again? I'm asking if the New Year's Eve dinner is open! Where is Lu Yao's New Year's Eve dinner?
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