Jiang Ye was definitely a model idol when it came to interacting with fans.

She would spend a minute or two chatting with each fan after signing their autograph.

And she was very good at what she said to each fan.

For example.

"Jiang Ye, will you dye your hair other colors in the future?"

"Yes."

"What color will you dye it?"

Jiang Ye blinked, smiling sweetly, "What color do you like? You have to tell me, how else can I decide?"

Or for example.

"Wuwu, baby, I sent you so many private messages before, I know you probably didn’t see them, but I still wanted to talk to you."

"Ah, then you can talk to me directly now."

Jiang Ye tilted her head, lightly touched her ear, and made a listening gesture, "I will listen very carefully."

So, every Jiang Ye fan who went home from the fan meeting felt like they were going to be overwhelmed with happiness.

【Wuwuwu, I’m back, I got my autograph, my daughter really talks so sweetly and gently, I swear, after she debuts, I’m going to their group’s signing event and talk to her again.】

【It’s true, and Jiang Ye is a hundred times more beautiful in person than on camera! When you see her up close, you can’t help but feel your heart beat faster!】

【The key is that she also smells so good, wuwuwu, what perfume does my daughter wear? Can someone find out the same one.】

【Damn! I’m so jealous of the people who went to the event! I’m so unlucky!】

However, amidst all the joy and happiness, some people couldn't help but jump out and make comments.

【Just saying, don’t you think Jiang Ye is too obsessed with pleasing her fans? She’s flirting with fans during the interaction segment, and she’s still doing it during the signing session? I feel like it’s a bit low-class.】

【??? This is a big award for confusing behavior.】

【No way, no way, no way, it’s 2021, how can there still be people who don’t know that idols have to put on a show?】

【These are all normal business practices, what’s there to say? The people who are criticizing her probably got an idol who doesn’t care about fans, so they’re jealous, tsk tsk tsk, so pitiful.】

•••

At this moment, Jiang Ye was using a hot towel to compress her hands.

She hadn’t expected that her words would come true, she had actually signed autographs until almost nightfall.

Now, her hands felt like they were about to fall off.

Cheng Zhen was secretly using her phone to check the online feedback about her car crash performance today, and she couldn’t help but sigh when she heard Jiang Ye complaining about her aching hands.

"The joys and sorrows of others are not the same, maybe this is just the trouble of being top?"

She scrolled through a few comments criticizing her for relying on her parents and not actually having any skills, she pouted in frustration, put her phone away, and continued the topic Jiang Ye had brought up, "Then, when we debut, will there be even more people at the signing event?"

"Yes."

Jiang Ye thought for a moment and said, "And we can’t skip anyone at the signing event, so we all have to sign the same amount."

Cheng Zhen buried her head in the pillow, "… Suddenly, I don’t want to debut anymore."

She mumbled, "Is it too late for me to have my parents buy me a card six position? Then I wouldn’t have to keep getting scolded."

Jiang Ye: "..."

"Forget it, I was just joking."

Cheng Zhen quickly sat up, clenched her fist, and said confidently, "I’ve decided, starting today, I’m going to practice signing a thousand autographs every day to prepare for the future."

Jiang Ye couldn’t help but laugh, "Why do you come up with these ideas?"

"And, to be honest."

"It’s actually pretty happy to be able to sign so many autographs for fans."

"It means that so many people like you."

Cheng Zhen: "?"

Cheng Zhen, who had been surrounded by love since she was a child, didn’t quite understand.

But Jiang Ye felt that although her hands were almost breaking from signing today.

It was definitely better than having no one asking for her autograph one day.

And she really enjoyed the process of interacting with fans.

Some idols who were not very patient would find the things fans said repetitive, all the same, just different ways of saying "I like you".

But Jiang Ye felt that even though there were hundreds of different ways of expressing it, it still made her feel surrounded by a warm embrace of love.

Everyone’s eyes would light up when they talked to her, with a passionate and expectant look.

The relationship between idols and fans is truly amazing.

These people had never seen her before today, but through the internet, they were willing to love her unconditionally, support her dreams.

Even the young child she met, who didn’t even eat breakfast, was willing to support her.

Although she thought it was wrong and had educated her, she was indeed touched.

Jiang Ye thought, took off the towel, and stretched out her sore fingers.

If she had been doing this for herself before.

Now, she had to carry her fans' expectations, she had to work hard to the very end.

•••

No matter what other people said, Jiang Ye’s fans were still very happy today.

In the afternoon, Jiang Ye’s fan meeting gained two high-ranking hot searches, and she also had a video with 100,000 views and eight station photos with over 1,000 reposts.

This chain reaction attracted a wave of new fans.

And today, there were four different sets of Jiang Ye’s styling photos to look at!

Jiang Ye was a real chameleon at the fan meeting, different stages, different styles, different outfits, satisfying the tastes of different fans.

She even interacted with the other trainees, taking care of the CP fans as well.

Being able to cater to all kinds of fans, Jiang Ye was truly a deserving full-score idol.

And in the evening, the ninth episode of Chasing Light Girls, the mentor collaboration stage, aired.

Jiang Ye’s fans, who had been immersed in all sorts of materials all day, were about to burst with happiness, and they rushed to watch the show.

【Damn, damn, damn, wifey is so hot, I’m bowing down.】

【The pink hair look from the afternoon was still a sweet and soft girl, but this stage look is straight-up midnight queen level, it’s amazing!】

【It’s the same color, but why is the vibe so different! Jiang Xiaoye’s expressiveness, I can’t praise her enough.】

And besides the solo fans, the Xing Ye Jian Cheng CP fans went crazy.

【Did you guys watch the stage!! I’m not exaggerating when I say that Xing Ye Jian Cheng killed me today.】

【I’m shouting, how pay! Can IBG please just give me a boost!】

【Mu Ge’s line, "I have a crush on you", was him using the stage to say his true feelings, right, right, right? I’m going to die from shipping them!】

【Help, I’m so sad, I’m just starting to ship Xing Ye Jian Cheng now, I’m in the fandom but there’s no after-sales service, there’s only one more episode of the finals, and then the show is over, they might not even see each other again, wuwuwu, I’ve already seen the BE ending of the future.】

Jiang Ye’s fans had just finished watching the stage and saw these comments, and they immediately felt that something was wrong.

Mu Xingchi’s girlfriend fans were definitely going to come down and comment!

They nervously patrolled the comment section.

But they didn’t expect that because the episode had been bought onto the hot search, a lot of casual viewers had commented.

【Damn, this female idol is so beautiful, can someone recommend her to me?】

【Isn’t this Jiang Ye, the super popular one recently! Her new hair color is so beautiful, I’m confidently saying hi, wife!】

【Ah, it’s Jiang Ye?! My entire homepage is full of stuff about her!】

【Yes, although we come from all over the country, from cold circles to hot circles, we all have one daughter in common, Jiang Ye!】

Occasionally, a Mu Xingchi fan would come to control the comments, but they were immediately shut down by casual viewers.

【? Which male idol did she collaborate with, I don’t know him.】

【Can that male idol please stop blocking my view, I want to see the female idol dancing alone, wuwuwu.】

【Can the male idol fans please stop arguing, everyone knows we only want to see the female idol, thank you.】

【Can everyone clearly see who’s leading who on this stage? I urge you male idol fans to stop acting like you’re doing us a favor, it’s obvious that Jiang Ye is the one who’s at a disadvantage, right?】

【Please, our Jiang Mei is so ambitious, it’s just a collaboration stage, why are you so eager to jump up and down?】

【And I just came from the fan meeting video, Jiang Ye’s fans look more affectionate than you guys, right? Are you guys so eager because you think your idol is the one who’s going to win her heart?】

Jiang Ye’s fans: "?"

They suddenly realized.

Oh, times have changed!

Jiang Ye is no longer that unknown little trainee!

Come on, everyone, make way for the future top idol.

In the future, when people mention Xing Ye Jian Cheng, it is still unclear who's using who for clout and who's leeching off whom!

Jiang Ye’s fans happily finished reading the comments, then happily went back to brush the data for Jiang Ye’s fancam.

•••

"Zhuge, are you watching the show again?"

Hearing his roommate Ren Hang come in, He Zhuge didn’t turn his head and said, "Yeah."

"I have some good news for you, you don’t have to be sad about not getting tickets to the fan meeting anymore."

Ren Hang patted him on the shoulder, "I got you tickets to the Chasing Light Girls finals! "

"But it’s double the price, but you said you could afford it, right?"

He Zhuge nodded, "Yes, thank you."

"No problem, why are you thanking me?"

Ren Hang said, "But I’m curious, you didn’t like watching this kind of entertainment competition before, did you?"

He Zhuge was silent for a moment and said, "It’s different."

"What’s different?"

Ren Hang patted him again, with a look of "who doesn’t understand who", "I know, you just like watching beautiful female idols, there’s nothing wrong with that, I like it too."

As he spoke, he glanced at the pile of sheet music on He Zhuge’s table.

"Why did you dig those out again?"

Ren Hang, who had been watching a drama, suddenly changed his expression and asked in a low voice, "You’re not thinking about going back to music, are you?"

He Zhuge’s expression moved slightly, he put all the sheet music away and said, "No."

"Okay, okay."

"By the way, since you’re going to the finals, can you keep an eye out for me and see if our Jiang Ye is interacting with that male mentor?"

He Zhuge raised his head, "What male mentor?"

"You don’t know?"

"The one who’s been shipping himself with our Jiang Ye, I’m so annoyed by him."

He Zhuge looked at him, his tone slightly ambiguous, "Are you her boyfriend fan?"

"No, my girlfriend is strict, how dare I?"

"My girlfriend says she’s her Mom fan."

Ren Hang said seriously, "Then I guess I can be considered Jiang Ye’s Dad fan."

He Zhuge: "?"

Ren Hang clapped his hands, "Then Jiang Ye is my daughter, we can’t let this good cabbage be eaten by a pig, right?"

"I’ve watched it, what’s there to ship! I’m telling you, they don’t even match! I bet that mentor is trying to hype himself up by using my daughter! Don’t even think about it!"

"By the way, did you watch this episode?"

He Zhuge said, "I watched the fancam."

Ren Hang took out his phone, "Come on, let me show you."

Ren Hang opened the full version of the stage from that episode and dragged the progress bar.

"Watch, watch, watch, this is it, don’t you think the program team is sick? They filmed it from this angle, I really thought they were going to kiss on stage! I thought the idols these days were all so bold?"

He Zhuge looked at the screen.

On stage, Jiang Ye was pulled to Mu Xingchi’s side.

Because of the camera angle in the fancam, you could see that they were actually still a distance apart.

But in the main episode, they looked very close.

Jiang Ye looked up at Mu Xingchi, her eyes were pure and seductive, her fingertips on his neck had a flirtatious feel.

He Zhuge: "..."

He Zhuge slammed his phone shut.

Ren Hang was startled by him.

He had been roommates with He Zhuge for six years, and he had always been the kind of person who did not show much emotion, this was the first time he had seen He Zhuge react like this, "What’s wrong?"

"Nothing."

"I just think you’re right."

He Zhuge said expressionlessly, "They don’t match."