AITFYMIBP Chapter 99

TL: Hua

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Lin Yanran’s live stream this time was in collaboration with a major streaming platform.

In the afternoon, when Lin Yanran arrived at the platform’s headquarters, many fans had already gathered to support him.

The weather wasn’t great today, with a light drizzle falling, but this couldn’t dampen the fans’ enthusiasm.

As Lin Yanran walked to the entrance of the building on the red carpet specifically laid out for him and greeted everyone, he noticed the fans who had come today. In addition to his own light boards, many were also holding “Yizhao” or “Siran” light boards, which actually made up the majority.

Lin Yanran had known before that “Siran” CP fans existed.

But this group of fans usually seemed very low-key and never made a scene.

At his airport arrivals or various event sites, the fans almost never showed it openly.

Because of today’s livestream, he got to see everyone shipping himself and Gu Siye so blatantly for the first time, a scene that left him somewhat surprised.

Meanwhile, at the scene, the true Siran fans, who were holding up single-person light boards for Lin Yanran, had been pushed to the very edge by excited drama fans and Yizhao fans. Noticing the astonishment in Lin Yanran’s eyes as he looked at the various CP light boards, they wished they could immediately shout out to clarify themselves.

Baby, this really wasn’t us!! It’s the drama fans!! It’s the passersby!! They’re the ones who want to ship it themselves!!!

What the drama fans do has nothing to do with us CP fans!!

The livestream was scheduled for one hour, from 7:30 PM to 8:30 PM.

After the staff gave Lin Yanran a general briefing on how to stream, read comments, and interact with fans, the broadcast began at 7:30 PM.

The moment the stream opened, the popularity rating broke 5 million in seconds.

Ten seconds after Lin Yanran had finished greeting everyone, under the wash of dense bullet comments, the popularity surged again, instantly breaking 10 million.

Because he had never been a streamer before, Lin Yanran wasn’t quite adapted to the speed of the scrolling comments.

He stared at the computer for a while and found that the information his eyes could process summarized down to almost just two words: “Siran.”

As for what followed Siran, he truly couldn’t keep up with it.

“Everyone, please slow down. I haven’t been able to see a single line clearly.”

As soon as Lin Yanran spoke, a flashy bullet comment with a huge font and a prestigious VIP title drifted arrogantly and slowly across the middle of the livestream room.

[WANT! TO! SEE! SI! RAN! STREAM! TOGETHER!]

This comment was particularly eye-catching among the many others, and because its speed was so slow, it became the first comment Lin Yanran saw clearly.

He curled his lips into a smile and made a joke, mimicking the tone of the exclamation marks in the comment, “Me, stream, ing, a, lone, is, not, okay?”

After saying this, he returned to a normal tone to explain to the audience, “Teacher Gu has a schedule conflict today. If you want to see Teacher Gu, I can try to help you connect with him via video call at the end if he’s free.”

Hearing that he could actually call Gu Siye, the comments scrolled even faster.

[You streaming alone is very okay, but you and Teacher Gu streaming together is even more okay!!!]

[Aww, baby is truly a little angel. Mommy loves you!]

[Save me, Yanran’s tone just now was simply too cute!]

[Baby, you know Teacher Gu’s schedule so well~~ Hehe.]

[Wife, don’t smile at me so beautifully!!]

[Wife hehehe wife hehehehehe… Yanran, my wifey hehehehe.]

This “hehe” comment was also colorful, and Lin Yanran’s eyes immediately fell on the incredibly conspicuous word “wife.”

Lin Yanran suddenly felt like he was completely unable to keep up with the speed of modern fans’ internet slang.

Previously, people called him “Baby” or said, “Mommy loves you,” but now the title had actually evolved into “Wife”???

The person in the comments was being too flirtatious, so the other viewers in the room immediately pushed back loudly.

[Teacher Gu: Wife is mine (loudly)]

[Bro, wipe your drool and stop hehe-ing, Teacher Gu is watching you!]

Seeing someone bring up Gu Siye directly, the audience began to join in the fun, setting their comment colors to green one after another.

Consequently, Lin Yanran saw a screen full of green comments.

[@Gu Siye]

[@Gu Siye]

[@Gu Siye]

In just that short amount of time, the stream’s popularity had broken 20 million.

The streaming site had been promoting it for a long time, and now they pushed Lin Yanran’s room directly to the homepage.

Thus, the flow of viewers coming in later was continuous; besides drama fans, there were many passersby from the streaming platform.

With more and more people, the comments were being refreshed so fast that it was impossible to distinguish key words.

However, before the reaction video began, Lin Yanran had an interaction segment with the audience.

Everyone was simply too enthusiastic. With no other choice, the staff had to resort to randomly capturing screenshots of the comments to conduct this Q&A.

Soon, a staff member stood beside Lin Yanran holding a phone and read out a question from a viewer.

Staff: “Wants to know why Teacher Gu agreed to participate.”

Lin Yanran didn’t give a direct answer, instead dodging the question, saying, “You can go ask the production team directly.”

After thinking for a moment, he added, “Or you could also go ask Teacher Gu.”

Lin Yanran blinked mischievously; anyway, even if the netizens asked, Gu Siye wouldn’t answer.

However, as the saying goes, “The forces of evil always find a way to outdo the forces of good.” The netizens in the stream were not so easily fooled.

So Lin Yanran never expected that as soon as he finished speaking, this group of extremely open-minded people who love to make memes would immediately flood the screen with the same comments.

[Asked, Teacher Gu said he did it for you.]

[Asked, Teacher Gu said he did it for you.]

[Asked, Teacher Gu said he did it for you.]

Lin Yanran: ?

Lin Yanran hurriedly looked away, pretending not to see.

The audience saw his reaction and immediately continued to spam together.

[Wife, I know you saw it!]

Fortunately, the Q&A continued. After the staff member repeated Lin Yanran’s answer, they continued to ask, “Netizens are also asking Teacher Yanran, did you and Teacher Gu rehearse your scenes in advance during filming?”

Lin Yanran nodded and answered truthfully.

“Yes. Teacher Gu is a very good person; he basically rehearsed every scene with me in advance. He would also help correct some of my issues beforehand, so when it came to the actual filming later, my performance went much more smoothly.”

After Lin Yanran finished speaking, he instinctively looked at the comments.

He found everyone was again spamming in unison: [Wuwuwu, sisters, I am shipping this so hard!]

The audience in the livestream was still somewhat different from typical entertainment fans.

Their favorite thing to do was follow the trend in the comments.

Once someone posted an interesting joke, a huge crowd would follow and spam “shipping it so hard.”

Lin Yanran didn’t understand what exactly they were shipping at all.

Just as he was wondering which sentence he had said wrong, he saw the direction of the comments change again.

[So the confinement/imprisonment scene was also practiced with Teacher Gu in advance, right? Heehee.]

Looking at the screen full of identical comments, Lin Yanran finally understood what the audience was shipping. He chuckled softly, “Why do I feel like you guys are playing me?”

[We’ve been found out!]

The Q&A segment continued boisterously.

At first, the audience were relatively restrained with their questions, asking fairly serious things.

Such as his future work plans, whether he intended to continue acting, how he felt playing Xiao Zhao, and so on…

Later, the audience got so excited that they gradually lost their sense of propriety, and Lin Yanran began to hear questions like these:

Staff: “Really want to see Teacher Yanran in women’s clothing~”

Lin Yanran was surprised: “Women’s clothing??”

Staff: “When will you and Teacher Gu collaborate a second time?”

Lin Yanran shook his head: “That’s not for me to decide.”

Staff: “When will you get together?”

Lin Yanran paused. “Huh?”

The staff repeated, “They are asking you, um, when… uh, you’ll be together.”

Realizing what was happening, Lin Yanran paused for a moment and then laughed softly, “This question… pass.”

Afterward, he answered some other strange questions from netizens.

The more Lin Yanran listened, the more he felt something was off, so he looked at the staff. “Are there no other… slightly more tactful questions?”

The staff member knew what Lin Yanran meant and gave a helpless shrug, whispering to him, “These are the ones that can be broadcasted. We’ve already filtered out the ones that can’t be.”

How “unbroadcastable” could they be?

Lin Yanran glanced at the staff member’s phone.

[When are you going to do it?]

[Will you be unable to get out of bed for three days~]

Lin Yanran: …

After the netizen Q&A segment passed, Lin Yanran began the reaction to “Imperial Power.”

After finishing the shoot, he hadn’t actually formally watched the content of “Imperial Power,” so today was his first chance to watch it from the beginning.

However, unlike the audience’s mindset of looking for sugar, Lin Yanran focused more on observing the acting performance while watching.

Because his partner was Gu Siye, his focus was naturally more on Gu Siye’s acting.

He had carefully studied Gu Siye’s performance style before, but watching him perform in a romance drama this time, he realized it was quite different from the past.

Gu Siye’s acting had matured significantly; the character and personality felt entirely natural. There were many moments where he forgot he was watching Gu Siye and subconsciously thought that the other person was Sheng Yi.

Especially when it came to emotions, even though it was a short dog-blood drama, Gu Siye had clearly put in a massive amount of effort. The emotions built from shallow to deep, delicate and layered.

That’s why so many people experience such severe aftereffects after watching “Imperial Power.”

Gu Siye’s acting made it easy for everyone to immerse themselves and feel genuine emotion, loving and hating him all at once.

Because of his previous habit of appreciating videos, Lin Yanran was quite focused when watching them, and since he wasn’t a professional streamer, he often forgot to interact with the audience.

Consequently, every time the staff reminded him, the audience would hear him praise Gu Siye after he finished briefly sharing his own thoughts.

“This look in his eyes is so complex; Teacher Gu handled the details so well.”

“Teacher Gu’s acting is too good. Even his hair can act.”

Gu Siye fans & Drama fans & CP fans: Compared to Teacher Yanran, I feel like a fake fan?

Of course, Lin Yanran didn’t spend the entire time praising Gu Siye; he mostly focused on his viewing experience and sharing fun anecdotes from the shoot.

However, after watching for twelve minutes, viewers suddenly realized that Lin Yanran, who had previously been explaining the plot based on questions from the live chat, had stopped talking at this point and simply left a comment.

“You guys should just watch this part yourselves.”

At first, some viewers didn’t catch on and felt a bit confused.

That was until the witty Yizhao CP fans changed their comment colors to yellow.

[Eh? Why did I automatically turn yellow?]

[Eh? So we’ve reached the confinement play.]

[Eh? Why did Wifey stop talking?]

[Eh? Is Wifey blushing?]

Having his thoughts exposed by the comments, Lin Yanran calmly glanced at the camera and tilted his chin slightly. “How many times have you watched this already? Do you still need me to explain it?”

[Am, I, Being, Monitored?]

[Teacher Yanran, you understand too much.]

[Baby, you’re so tsundere, how can you be this cute? Hahahaha!]

This time, with Lin Yanran accompanying them, the drama fans felt their hearts suddenly turn sweet after previously being riddled with holes from the tragic plot.

By the time Lin Yanran finished the video, the stream was nearing its end.

At that moment, Gu Siye finished his work. The staff connected with him via phone and placed his stream right next to Lin Yanran’s.

Finding Gu Siye joining at the very end made the audience as happy as if they’d found hidden treasure.

Lin Yanran looked at Gu Siye in the video and asked, “Only showing up when the stream is almost over? Is the appearance fee that easy to earn, Teacher Gu?”

Gu Siye immediately struck a posture of apology. “Teacher Yanran, you’ve worked hard.”

With the two leads interacting like this, the CP fans felt as though they were floating in a jar of honey.

[Why does this sound so much like flirting to me?]

[Is the Yizhao fanservice always this sweet? Wuwuwu]

[This Yizhao girl is fully satisfied tonight.]

The staff standing in front immediately wrote a prompt on a board for Lin Yanran.

After reading it, Lin Yanran said to Gu Siye, “The audience wants to do a Q&A interaction with you.”

Gu Siye seemed to be in a very good mood tonight and didn’t refuse.

Seeing him agree, various questions began to fly across the screen at lightning speed.

Once the staff took a screenshot, Lin Yanran waited for them to ask Gu Siye the questions, looking like he was ready to enjoy the show.

Instead, he saw Gu Siye in the video tilt his peach blossom eyes slightly toward him. “Teacher Yanran, aren’t you going to read the audience’s questions for me?”

Seeing Lin Yanran’s dazed face after being suddenly called out, the audience all died laughing.

[Teacher Gu, you really know how to play.]

[Even for a Q&A, he needs his wife to do it. Tsk, I’ve learned something new.]

Since Gu Siye had put it that way, Lin Yanran couldn’t very well undermine him in front of so many people. He took the staff member’s phone and began looking at the screenshots.

The first comment read: Please evaluate Teacher Yanran.

Lin Yanran rested his chin on one hand and looked up at Gu Siye with a light smile. “The audience wants you to evaluate me.”

Celebrities are already more attractive than average people, and Lin Yanran’s looks were practically top-tier within the industry. This casual movement, seen through a livestream camera without any filters, was vivid and moving, as brilliant as a rose.

[Wuwuwu, wifey, don’t act cute, you’re so pretty I really can’t handle it!]

[Ahhhh, your pretty wife is asking you, Teacher Gu, you better answer well!!!]

[Teacher Gu: Of course, everything about my wife is good~]

Gu Siye looked at Lin Yanran’s image on his phone and raised an eyebrow slightly. “Acting? Or something else?”

[Teacher Gu, we don’t mind if you talk about something else!]

[Teacher Gu, what are you thinking?? Say it! I want to hear it!!]

Lin Yanran was about to remind Gu Siye that the audience was likely asking about his acting, but then he heard the other man answer his own rhetorical question.

“I can’t say that.”

[???????]

[Teacher Gu, it’s hard for me NOT to overthink this answer!!]

[Is it that it can’t be said, or that it can’t be broadcast if it’s said?]

After hanging everyone in suspense for several seconds, a low, shallow chuckle came from the man on the screen. “If I say it, I might offend other people.”

If I say it, I might offend other people…

After savoring that answer, the CP fans couldn’t sit still.

[Wuwuwuwu why is that man so good at this!!]

[Teacher Gu, where can I buy your published ‘Manual of Love Talk’?]

[I’m dying of sweetness]

[Ship it, ship it, everyone ship it as hard as you can!!!]

Seeing everyone shipping them to death and the comments nearly crashing the stream, Lin Yanran immediately threw out the second question to shift the focus.

He had actually answered this one himself earlier, but for some reason, people kept asking it.

“Everyone is asking when you plan to collaborate with me a second time?”

Gu Siye: “That isn’t something I can decide alone.”

The comments immediately began interpreting this.

[So Teacher Gu means it’s up to Yanran to decide?]

[But Yanran just said he can’t decide either.]

[So which one of you is actually in charge?]

[I really want to know; this relates to the balance of power in the household!]

[Then it must be Teacher Yanran’s decision! Teacher Gu is henpecked.]

Gu Siye couldn’t see the comments, but he had watched Lin Yanran’s stream earlier, so he knew what had been said.

After a pause, he gave the audience a common, ambiguous answer with a smile: “You have to ask the investors.”

Hearing this, and feeling like there was still a chance for a Siran second collaboration, the fans started tagging investors one after another.

[@Sponsors come quickly!!!! Siran’s second collab depends on you guys!]

[Money is ready, waiting for the sponsors.]

Watching the effortless Gu Siye in the video, Lin Yanran realized that the man was much better at handling fans than he was.

Even though the fans were digging holes for him one by one, in the end, they were all led away by him.

Every answer seemed to say everything, yet said nothing at all.

Lin Yanran secretly admired him. Teacher Gu really was the GOAT.

The stream time was almost up. Lin Yanran finally picked one last, seemingly simple question for Gu Siye.

“Have you seen any interesting videos, comments, or reviews about “Imperial Power” lately?”

This question was very simple; a “yes” or “no” would suffice.

After asking, Lin Yanran handed the phone back to the staff, preparing to say goodbye and finish work.

Then he heard Gu Siye’s reply.

“I have.”

Gu Siye said it with an incredibly straight face. “But I suspect those comments aren’t fit for broadcast.”

The fans were stunned at first: ???

But three seconds later—

[Wait? Why does that sound so suspicious?]

[Ahhhh, Teacher Gu, tell me quickly what videos you watched!!!]

[Exactly how R-rated are they that they can’t be broadcasted? Nosebleed]

[Ah, why have I turned yellow again?]

After Lin Yanran ended the stream, he found that the hashtags #YanranReaction# and #VariousCreactorsReactionToYanranReaction# had hit the trending searches on Weibo, side by side.

He clicked into the second one and, after seeing the content, finally understood the connection between the two.

So while he was streaming, other creators were streaming themselves watching his stream?

Good grief, infinite inception??

Lin Yanran gained a massive wave of fans from this. After the stream, there were so many fans at the exit that it took him a long time just to get out.

After saying goodbye to them, he returned to the hotel arranged by the production team.

Just as he stepped off the elevator, Gu Siye called him.

“Tired?”

Gu Siye’s voice was like a warm, gentle breeze. Lin Yanran loved hearing him speak in that soft, low register right by his ear.

Lin Yanran held his phone and replied softly, “Not tired, but I don’t feel quite adapted to the livestream format. If someone wasn’t a fan, they might find it a bit boring to watch?”

He had later looked up reaction streams from other creators or celebrities and saw how naturally they handled things, making their reactions fun and full of memes.

Thinking back on his own stream tonight, he felt he was quite far behind.

“It’s okay. It’s normal not to be used to it your first time. You might feel it was less than ideal, but the response tonight was actually very good.”

Speaking of the stream, Lin Yanran thought of the last thing Gu Siye had said.

Not only was the audience curious, but he was too.

“Exactly what kind of comments were you looking at?”

Gu Siye let out a soft chuckle but didn’t answer.

Instead, he asked Lin Yanran back, “Do you want to hear them?”

His voice was low, carrying a hint of a breathy tone that was somewhat flirtatious.

Gu Siye’s words suddenly reminded Lin Yanran of the link he had accidentally sent the night before.

Then, those bullet comments seemed to have an autoplay function, appearing in his mind one after another.

He hadn’t made the connection during the stream, but now he remembered everything.

Lin Yanran gripped his phone with one hand, resisting the urge to press further.

Before he could speak, he heard the sound of small, hurried steps behind him, and then someone blocked his path.

“Yanran.”

Lin Yanran lowered his phone and looked up at the person.

His eyebrows immediately knit together.

Surprisingly, right here in this very place, he ran into Bai Tianyu, the man who had harassed him last time.

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