Chapter 68: CH 68

As a perfectly acceptable true loyal fan, you cannot miss out on attending any events that contain your idol. On the one hand, Fu Xiu Nian had someone get him a concert ticket, and on the other, he was publishing a few posts to try and gather up some fans to support Chen Yi at the concert hall. But unfortunately more shade was thrown than those who responded at all.

>> I am Yi-Ge’s fan, but this notice is too sudden. I can’t buy any tickets and I can’t get there in time as I’m not around that area.

>> There’s only those few fans of Chen Yi. If you go, wouldn’t you all be embarrassed?

>> Hahaha I bet that no one will go. If I were him, I would be embarrassed to death.

There were indeed too few fans of Chen Yi, but this could only be fixed by making a plan carefully later on to cultivate more. 

The concert started at 8, and before the doors opened at 7:30, attendees would need to go through an inspection before entering. Fu Xiu Nian calculated the time and found that there was still enough time to make it. He quickly made a group and started a private conversation without any of his elders and seniors, as well as shooting messages to his friend groups in order to gather more support for Chen Yi.

Fu Xiu Nian: @everyone Inviting you all to watch a concert. If you’re nearby, come over to the World Trade Stadium at 8. I better see you all there. Make sure to cover yourselves up, as this is a high profile event. All those who are familiar faces on gossip tabloids should wear a mask (I’m serious).

The moment he sent the message out, he added a location tag and already, someone was responding in the group chat.

>> World Trade Stadium? That’s not too far from me. I must go! It’s too rare for the little president Fu to be the generous one! Go go go!

>> Fuck. Why do I have to cover my face? Am I so ugly that I can’t be seen? Is it wrong that paparazzi like to take photos of me when I’m with my gf?

>> Out of the country, on vacation. Just got off my private jet so I can’t go Xiu Xiu~ Next time! Mua~

Ah Ya’s concert did not only invite Chen Yi as her special guest; there were also a few of Global Entertainment’s C listers. But none of them were very close with each other, and neither did they dare go up to talk to Chen Yi with his cold and scary aura.

The clothing that had been prepared for Chen Yi was a black and white combo, perfectly matching Chen Yi’s cold and cool look especially with the many silver chain decorations on the jacket. Ling Dang gave him a very simple hairdo and makeup to match his outfit and took a few pictures of him after she was done.

Chen Yi had a cool skin tone, with his facial features quite symmetrical and his eyes sharp. His handsomeness was 100% the aggressive, conquering type, which was only enhanced by his never ending scowling face. Those C list female celebrities did not dare to breathe loudly in fear of disturbing him and when they spoke, they tried to avoid as much of him as they could, speaking as quietly as they could.

The concert started checking and letting people with tickets in at 7:30, and the stadium seats were filling fast as the stream of fans continuously flowed in. Ah Ya was known to like the colour blue, and so all the fans’ light sticks and LED signs were shimmering in the dark, as if they were forming a sea on land. However, these blue waves only made the VIP section’s silver LED signs more distinct.

Fans looked over, wondering who could be so powerful as to grab a whole section of VIP seats. But then they realized that that was not the important question. What dumbfounded them was discovering that the LED signs were actually all displaying Chen Yi’s name. After their moment of shock, they collectively snorted and retracted their gazes back, continuing to scream their hearts and throats out for Ah Ya.

Motherfuckers! This is Ah Ya’s concert, can fans of Chen Yi roll off a cliff please!!!!!!!

Behind the ginormous LED signs was a group of whispering youngsters. Jiang Yan cried out with a face that wanted nothing more than death right now, 

“My dear older cousin, I’m not Chen Yi’s fan. Why did you drag me here? Wu wu wu.”

Fu Xiu Nian was wearing a mask and a baseball cap, confidently holding up his LED sign and using it to hide his body. Hearing her say that, he reached out to push her sign back up as it had drooped down, 

“Hold it right. You really think I would make you watch this concert for free, hmm?”

Another man who looked like a wealthy second generation and player puffed up his chest,

“And here I was fucking thinking why you were acting so nice. It was all because you wanted me to work like a dog for you!! As a man, why do I have to support Chen Yi! My idol is Shi Min! Shi Min ah!!”

Shi Min was a certain member of a girl group. Pretty, long legs, with a cutesy voice, but the most important fact, big breasts.

Fu Xiu Nian’s eyes narrowed sharply, like a hawk, at him, 

“It’s not that easy to get something out of me. And also, wear your mask properly. I don’t want to be on the cover of a tabloid with you tomorrow.”

Those who looked at the monitor felt their hearts constrict for a second, and all of them thought of one thing —

His soul was etched with love in this moment since a thousand years ago.1

Chen Yi retracted his gaze and sat back down again. Only after seeing him do that did Fu Xiu Nian dare to poke out his head. He drank some water to wet his hoarse throat, and in his peripheral vision he could see one of his best friends, Yan Yue, was staring like a shocked dog at him.

Yan Yue: “Are you crazy? Bipolar? Why are you yelling so damn loudly.”

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Fu Xiu Nian: “You don’t understand. You cannot be reserved when stanning a celebrity.”

Yan Yue said with a face full of doubt, 

“What does Chen Yi have? Can he sing or can he act?”

Fu Xiu Nian was just deciding on whether or not he should reply when his phone vibrated again. Chen Yi had sent another message back, but this time, the other had not scolded him.

He had instead turned the picture into a sticker and added the caption of “Sneaky Doggie”.2

In response, Fu Xiu Nian returned a middle finger.

When the concert tour was completed to its last show, Ah Ya’s team started their marketing campaign, blowing out of control for her visuals and buying up ranks on the trending charts. During the time that the marketing started, and the time where it was very silent and dark, with no pedestrians on the streets, Ling Dang drove Chen Yi home with the streetlamps shining as their only companion.

Chen Yi lived in a fairly middle class community, and the environment was quite nice and quiet as a result. 

Ling Dang said, 

“Xiao Yi Ge, there aren’t any other events scheduled for the next few days, so you can have a good bit of rest. Go home and accompany Xiao Meng and if you need anything, call me on my cell.”

# Chen Yi and a New Idol Fighting for the Spotlight on the Same Stage, Female Celebrity Gets Mad and Cries Off Stage #

Fu Xiu Nian had only seen the trending hashtags this morning. Although he was quite far away yesterday so he had not seen it in detail, but as long as he had a brain, he knew that Chen Yi could not do such a thing so thoughtlessly. Multitasking, he began to check up on the details of the situation, all the while he phoned around to try and fix the video, and scrolled through the pages to report each and every hate comment.

>> Tong Yue didn’t do anything wrong to him right? Why is he stealing the spotlight from newbies? What a mannerless gentleman.

>> Ah, why did Chen Yi go steal the spotlight from newbies? He’s someone who’s on the charts everyday, UGH!

>> How did God create such a crazy miraculous man

>> Didn’t happen like this. I was there in person at the concert yesterday and Tong Yue seemed to have a problem with her clothes so she had to leave the stage. If you look closer at the video, she’s been holding onto her shoulder the entire time.

When Fu Xiu Nian saw that comment, his brain suddenly grasped at something and he quickly put on his armor to head into the battlefield himself.

Xiu Nian: Why doesn’t the uploader give us the entire version? Just a few seconds of the camera, it’s not even clear what happened before or after. This is obviously malicious editing.

Someone with the account name Dream quickly followed along: There are so many truths and lies in the entertainment industry so who could say it clearly? We don’t know what the truth is, and without knowing everything first, who has the authority to toss out blame so carelessly?

Antis who saw these comments immediately came crazily to tear them apart, even dragging along the one who just came to the defense of Chen Yi. Antis swore and cursed at them, saying that they were part of a troll bot army, being bought out with money, causing the other to immediately fight back in anger.

>> Bot Army, your mother fucking bot army! I was the fan who won the lucky draw yesterday and even took a picture with Ah Ya. I have kept that video I took yesterday, and I’m going to find that and release it. Antis, you can go kill yourself ok?

And then they immediately uploaded a video. Because it was filmed with a phone, the camera was a bit shaky and the quality wasn’t that clear. The video was concentrated on Ah Ya, but one could still see Tong Yue and Chen Yi on the side.

In the video, after Ah Ya had stepped away, everyone could see very clearly that the dress strap on the right shoulder of Tong Yue had suddenly snapped off. She was so shocked and had quickly held her dress up with her hand, looking around left and right frantically. She had seemed to want to hide but she was being pushed towards the center by some other unknown celebrity. Just looking at her made others worried and pained for her.

And it was at this time that Chen Yi seemed to glance in her direction, and seeing the situation had quickly retracted his gaze and directly stepped in front of her to block the cameras.

Notes:

*1 So this phrase is a bit tricky, in that it’s a 4 word idiom which can constitute an entire story, but this one was apparently never from a story (well a song which is varied on which one it based on…) and kind of passed by mouth? To kind of condense the very vague meaning that I don’t really think I have the right words for, it’s a phrase that literally means to glance with eyes and see through a thousand years, and there’s a lot of connotations to that with not a lot of one coherent meaning (lots of people have their own interpretations).

But take it as if someone has seen with their eyes a thousand years or something that they saw makes it seem like a thousand years has passed. Usually related to matters of love and all that, but as a meaning, it’s to say something was very memorable, one that could be etched into your soul kind of memorable. In particular, it can be taken to mean like I knew you were there, but now that I see you, I am moved and mesmerized by you, as if we have known each other for a thousand years, as we were fated to always be led back together. Perhaps another way to say it would be how it’s almost like love at first sight, but with a bit more of a weighty implication, rather than a glance of infatuation

*2 Sneaky Doggie: A meme/sticker that came from a husky being “sneaky” (or a better phrase maybe, “up to no good”), but the phrasing is taken from (or based on)another saying/proverb that means sneaky as a ghost/doing something bad. There are quite a few variants which are all pretty cute like putting a dress on the dog or changing it to a cat being up to no good, and you can search it up (and narrowed down) by “狗狗祟祟表情包” where the first four characters are of the action, the dog being sneaky/up to no good and the last 3 characters are like to mean stickers (or expression package).

>>  As I’m currently a bit swamped, and you might have seen with Plum helping me upload for a while now, I am usually only able to fix somethings/wordings/phrases/footnotes/notes after it has been posted. If you have noticed some disrepancies or how something might have been changed, that’s probably the reason why  Thank you for all your patience (and I swear I will wrangle all these formatting issues/typos to nonexistence one day… ) Hope you all are having a great start to the week, and see you Galactic Judges on Wednesday!

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