AITFYMIBP Chapter 72

TL: Hua

After the performance of “Crazy” ended, the audience was indeed driven crazy.

Waves of screaming reached Lin Yanran’s ears. Hearing them, he couldn’t help but lower his head with a light smile, shyly dodging the gazes the audience was throwing his way.

It was truly because that dance segment just now had been far too intimate.

Although he had long heard that Gu Siye was an all-rounder in singing and dancing, he hadn’t expected the other man’s level of control in that routine to be so powerful.

During the final move, leaning against one another, he could clearly feel the rise and fall of Gu Siye’s chest and the beating of his heart…

It was as if he were naturally drawn to him.

Thinking back to that close contact, Lin Yanran’s face and body began to heat up.

After finishing the dance, he took back the jacket he had taken off earlier from Gu Siye’s hand and walked toward the mentor seats.

The three mentors below the stage were already cheering uncontrollably.

Han Zhe stood on his chair, arms raised high, clapping wildly. “Whoo! Whoo! Yeah!”

Tantang walked down with a smile to greet Lin Yanran, clamoring, “I haven’t seen enough, I haven’t seen enough!”

Even Pei Luo, who rarely interacted with Lin Yanran, joked with a smile, “You and Teacher Gu should have performed the full version of that segment.”

Lin Yanran waved his hands hurriedly. “Spare me.”

Performing the full version of the dance was one thing—at most, it would just be a sexy style. But if he performed the full version with Gu Siye, something “dangerous” would likely happen.

Back at the mentor seats, without the stage lights beating down on him, Lin Yanran’s body temperature naturally began to drop. Feeling a slight chill, he quickly put his jacket on.

He had just finished buttoning it when he heard people around him shouting, “That belongs to Teacher Gu!”

At first, Lin Yanran didn’t understand what they meant.

By the time he realized it, Gu Siye—standing on stage—had already put on his own jacket.

Their jackets were very similar in color and style; in the rush of the moment, they had accidentally swapped them.

Because Gu Siye was standing at the very center of the stage, his position was more eye-catching than Lin Yanran’s.

Many fans noticed the detail and began calling out to remind Gu Siye he was wearing the wrong clothes.

Regarding the fans’ reminders, Gu Siye first looked down at the jacket he was wearing, then turned his gaze toward Lin Yanran.

Gu Siye’s peach blossom eyes curved slightly, and he spoke in a slow, drawling tone: “Teacher Yanran, you’ve walked off with my clothes.”

Lin Yanran immediately played along with the banter, asking in return, “What, I’m not allowed to wear them?”

A low chuckle came through the microphone, followed by Gu Siye’s magnetic voice.

“You can,” the man said with a smile in his voice. “But something is missing.”

Something is missing? Missing what?

Lin Yanran looked at him curiously.

“Feel the right pocket.”

Following the prompt, Lin Yanran obediently reached into the jacket pocket.

Seeing this exchange, the entire audience’s attention focused on Lin Yanran, everyone wanting to know what Gu Siye had hidden in his pocket.

The director cut the camera to Lin Yanran. His fingers lingered in the pocket for a few seconds before pulling out a brooch.

He looked at it and looked up to confirm with Gu Siye.

“This?”

Gu Siye nodded slightly.

After getting the answer, Lin Yanran lowered his head and carefully pinned the brooch onto the jacket Gu Siye was supposed to be wearing.

Once it was pinned, Lin Yanran’s fingers lightly patted the brooch.

At almost the exact same moment, a deep voice echoed through the mic: “Now it’s perfect.”

In Siran Super Topic,

Every interaction between Gu Siye and Lin Yanran tonight was being rapidly updated by fans into the latest “Siran Study Manual.”

Exchanging jackets and hiding a brooch? That’s basically Gu Siye giving Yanran a token of love!

Intimate dancing, face touching, and skinship… if you round it up, wasn’t that basically a stage confession?

The “sugar” tonight was so sweet it made people’s teeth ache.

The Siran CP fans were overjoyed, already brainstorming names for the couple’s future children.

After the mentors finished their interaction, the final votes were finally tallied.

The livestream reached its most tense and exciting segment.

Of the remaining 28 trainees, nine were about to debut as a group!

The stage lights changed color, and the BGM began to build a tense atmosphere.

The female host took the list in hand, walked gracefully to the center of the stage, and began announcing from eighth place.

“The eighth-place votes are 30,457,820.”

Hearing this number, the audience gasped.

Anyone who had followed Super Idol knew this vote count was ridiculously high.

And these tens of millions of votes only represented the eighth place…

After announcing the vote count, the host continued, “This eighth-place trainee is lively, cute, and loves to smile…”

Upon hearing this word, many viewers began to speculate.

[Xia Xingxing?]

The host couldn’t help but laugh after reading the next description. “He is also a hardcore fan of a certain mentor…”

As soon as she said this, the venue erupted. Almost everyone knew who it was.

[Xia Xingxing: You might as well just read out my ID number.]

The director, familiar with the idol worship meme, immediately cut to a shot of Lin Yanran.

Seeing Lin Yanran’s face on the big screen, the audience grew even more excited, chanting Xia Xingxing’s name in unison.

Knowing it was useless to keep them in suspense, the host readily announced the result, “Xia Xingxing!! Congratulations!!”

Hearing his own name, Xia Xingxing happily came to the stage.

After finishing the debut declaration and thanking the fans and others, the host asked him if he had anything else he wanted to say.

Xia Xingxing nodded, made a big love-heart gesture toward Lin Yanran’s direction, and once again made a high-profile confession in front of the camera.

“Teacher Yanran! My idol! Do you still remember the first time we met? Back then, I begged you not to kick me out of your team; at that time, you advised me to take off the fan filter toward you.”

When Xia Xingxing’s words came out, everyone thought of that extremely hilarious famous scene from the time of the first public performance team formation.

At that time, everyone thought Lin Yanran was useless and did not want to choose him, but only Xia Xingxing still firmly believed that his idol was the best and most powerful sought-after person.

Xia Xingxing smiled, rubbed his head, and continued: “But… I still want to say now, I don’t have a fan filter, and… even if I did, I wouldn’t want to take it off. You also shouldn’t make me take it off; you are the best! I love you!!”

The audience in the livestream room, listening to these words, couldn’t help but remember the situation at that time.

[Facts prove what my family’s Xingxing-zi said back then was right. Teacher Yanran really is a highly sought-after person]

[Xia Xingxing, you love him so much!!]

[Congratulations to my son for successfully chasing his idol]

[Wuwuwu, didn’t expect that hilarious famous scene back then would turn out so perfect in the end]

After announcing the eighth place, the host read out several more debut names. Ji Shuai and Ye Xiyuan were among them.

Having quickly finished announcing the second to eighth places of the nine debut seats, only the ninth place and the first place were left unannounced.

At this time on the stage, among the extremely popular contestants, only Qiao Ye remained.

Everyone had already assumed that Qiao Ye was certainly in first place without suspense.

Therefore, the last suspense fell to ninth place.

Several contestants who had stayed in the top ten before were left on the stage, among whom was Xuan Yihan.

Xuan Yihan tried hard to maintain the smile on his face, keeping up the low-profile young master persona his parents set for him, but in his heart, he was not at all at peace.

Although before the finale his parents had guaranteed him, saying he would definitely debut and they had already spent money to buy votes for him, in the tense waiting of this moment, he felt that this couple’s words could not be taken as true at all.

“Then who is our ninth place?”

The music became tense. Xuan Yihan put his hands together in a prayer gesture; his heart also tightened following the music.

He hoped that the couple could be a bit more reliable this time.

“Xuan Yihan.”

Hearing his own name, Xuan Yihan finally let out a sigh of relief.

Although the position was very low, at least he made it into the debut lineup, so the hard work and disguises of this period of time were not in vain.

Xuan Hongwei and Qiu Yayu in the audience seats, seeing Xuan Yihan debut by clutching the last spot, were also filled with joy in their hearts.

Being able to debut is good; first, sign with the Lin family’s company, and then take the following path step by step.

After announcing the ninth place, everyone’s gaze fell upon Qiao Ye.

Qiao Ye’s fans had waited all night and finally waited for this moment, crying out loud with excitement.

They wiped the tears from the corners of their eyes and shouted their idol’s name with the loudest voices.

“Then the first place, the winner of our much-anticipated Center position, what is his vote count tonight?”

The host deliberately kept everyone in suspense for a long time before announcing Qiao Ye’s votes: “97,822,371 votes! Congratulations, Qiao Ye!!!!”

The votes Qiao Ye obtained were a full 30 million more than the second place.

A truly phenomenal debut!

Everyone in the entire venue stood up, clapping for this most shining youth.

Applause thundered, and screams reached the sky.

At the end of the program, the mentors walked onto the stage one after another.

As soon as Lin Yanran went on stage, he was hugged tightly by Xia Xingxing and Ji Shuai.

“Idol, we debuted!!”

Qiao Ye, who had just obtained the center position, also stood smiling in front of Lin Yanran and said the words he had never dared to say out loud.

“Teacher Yanran, can I hug you for a moment?”

Lin Yanran looked at the caution and solemnity on the youth’s face and opened his arms with a smile.

“I have debuted.”

“Congratulations!”

The Super Idol competition officially ended after the finale.

But the subsequent influence of this talent show, which had affected the whole nation, did not end because of this.

That night, the top ten hot searches were almost entirely occupied by Super Idol-related topics.

#Qiao Ye Center#

#Dream Juvenile DJ Group Debut#

#Gu Siye Yanran Crazy#

#Gu Siye Yanran Wearing Wrong Clothes#

#Yanran Half the Territory#

Everyone looked at that last hot search and clicked in to find that this “half the territory” referred to the fact that among the nine members of the DJ group, four were actually brought up by Lin Yanran.

A mischievous netizen even edited out the video clip of Pei Luo in the first episode saying he possessed half the territory of Class A.

But in the final debut seats, among the people he led, only Xuan Yihan was there, debuting at the ninth spot.

Compared to the current Lin Yanran, this result was a real slap in the face.

After Super Idol ended, Lin Yanran participated in the celebration banquet with everyone.

Meanwhile, the biggest sponsor of the program, Lin Yunzhe, was rushing home in a hurry.

As soon as Lin Yunzhe returned, he was taken to the study by the butler.

“What happened to my mom?”

His father had called, saying his mother’s mental state was not very good, and he must return immediately.

Hearing this news, he didn’t even discuss his business and rushed back.

After arriving at the study, Lin Yunzhe saw his mother sitting motionlessly by the window, looking at the night view outside.

He turned to Lin Yanhui and whispered an inquiry about what was going on.

“Dad, weren’t you two going to watch the Super Idol finale tonight? What happened?”

Lin Yanhui shook his head.

“Halfway through, your mom felt unwell.”

While the father and son were speaking, Xie Roufei came back to her senses.

Seeing Lin Yunzhe, she pulled a smile and told him to sit.

“I have something I want to say to you two. Perhaps you will feel this matter is inconceivable, perhaps you will think I’m talking nonsense, but if this matter is not made clear, I will not have peace of mind for the rest of my life.”

After Xie Roufei calmly finished saying this, she took a deep breath, looked at Lin Yunzhe, and slowly but firmly expressed her conjecture.

“Your younger brother might still be alive.”

Xie Roufei’s emotions at this time were much calmer than when she first saw Lin Yanran.

But when she opened her mouth to speak this guess, her voice still trembled slightly.

During the time she waited for her son to return, she had practiced silently in her heart many times. But when actually saying these words, it still felt as if she had used up all the strength in her body.

“What?” Lin Yunzhe was somewhat surprised.

And for Lin Yanhui on the side, his head suddenly went buzz.

Yunzhe’s younger brother… wasn’t that his son who died shortly after birth??

He’s still alive?

Lin Yanhui looked at Xie Roufei in disbelief. “But he…”

Xie Roufei nodded. “Yes, but you clearly saw his corpse with your own eyes…”

Immediately she shook her head again. “But is it possible that the corpse was deliberately swapped by someone?”

After all, having seen the corpse with their own eyes, none of them would doubt the authenticity…

After finally saying those words, Xie Roufei took a moment to compose herself. Holding back the tears that threatened to burst from her eyes, she told the two of them everything about her dream and her discovery today.

After listening, Lin Yunzhe instantly caught the key point in Xie Roufei’s words.

“Yanran?”

“The one who wrote to you during the talent show?”

Xie Roufei nodded.

Lin Yunzhe calmed down and thought for a while.

He didn’t question the authenticity of his mother’s dream; he also desperately hoped it was all true and that his younger brother was really still alive.

However, there were too many suspicious points, and Yanran’s situation was unknown, so he had to figure it out first.

“Mom, if this is true, then someone must have deliberately tampered with your delivery. Whatever the truth is, let’s not alert them yet. Let me investigate first.”

Xie Roufei nodded, agreeing with Lin Yunzhe, feeling that they indeed should look into the events of that year.

In reality, however, she had already tacitly accepted Lin Yanran as her son in her heart and wished she could acknowledge him immediately.

After all, there’s a deep connection between a mother and child, and that feeling is unmistakable.

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