Rekindling the Youthful Era

Chapter 788 My sister is going to get angry again.

In the afternoon, Li Luo typed for a while and then received a message and file from the platinum-level expert.

As requested, he filled in the basic information of "The Great Qian Night Patrol" on the recommendation letter and then forwarded it to him again.

Li Luo sent Xu Youyu's letter of recommendation directly to the staff of the Writers' Association Secretariat.

After confirming that there were no problems, Li Luo leaned back in his chair, stretched, flipped through his drafts, then turned to look at Yan Zhusheng on the bed. He decisively got up, pounced on the bed, and pulled Yan Zhusheng into his arms.

"Aren't you going to write anymore?" Yan Zhusheng skillfully found a comfortable position in Li Luo's arms and leaned against him, turning her back and putting one leg on him.

Even if Li Luo said he still needed to write, Yan Zhusheng wouldn't let him go.

"I've almost finished writing for today, take a break." Li Luo put his arm around her smooth, rounded shoulders and stroked them, then leaned down and kissed her delicate face before asking, "Are you still watching Douyin?"

"Reading the comments."

As Yan Zhusheng said this, she took out her phone, placed it between the two of them, and showed it to Li Luo.

At this moment, a short video that Xu Yinghuan had just posted yesterday was playing on her Douyin account.

The above content is very simple; it's just a simple little challenge: two people look at each other and see who laughs first.

Xu Yinghuan had done a video about this challenge before, which was categorized as a couples challenge. So after this collaboration video was released, many viewers started teasing her in the comments section.

Why do I feel like these two are so sweet playing this game?

[I couldn't help but laugh, a slightly indulgent laugh!]

[Zhu Sheng seems so aloof, her face is completely expressionless, like a porcelain doll.]

Is this a couples challenge? Are they dating?

[They've been talking for a while now, their relationship is so good.]

What exactly is your relationship now?! @YanZhusheng @Chongran

Li Luo glanced at the screen and discovered that Yan Zhusheng had liked every comment speculating about their relationship, which startled him so much that he quickly checked her account.

Fortunately, Yan Zhusheng wasn't that disobedient; the Douyin account she used was the one she used regularly.

The account that was registered with Douyin after signing the contract and undergoing real-name and identity verification was a newly opened one, mainly operated under the company's management, and Yan Zhusheng usually did not log in to it proactively.

This is the same as Li Luo's.

Or rather, most celebrities, and even some minor internet celebrities, do this.

After all, when you're browsing videos online in your private time, you never know when you might suddenly have a brain fart and post some thoughtless comments.

If you use the large size directly, it will easily cause various public opinion storms.

Therefore, verified personal accounts like these are usually managed and operated by a company and cannot be used to post things.

"How many fans do you have now?" Li Luo asked curiously.

"I haven't watched it yet." Yan Zhusheng wasn't very interested in this. In fact, if Li Luo and Yuan Wanqing hadn't needed this kind of collaborative effect, Yan Zhusheng wouldn't have bothered with it at all.

Let alone getting her to send videos on her own initiative.

But if it could make money for Li Luo, she would be very willing.

"Let me see." Li Luo took out his phone, searched, found Yan Zhusheng's official account, and clicked to follow. "It already has more than 500,000 followers. It's growing quite fast."

At this time, Yan Zhusheng's account had only posted two videos.

One is a highly human-machine-like personal introduction video. Throughout the video, the person is expressionless and speaks in a calm tone, as if reading a script and delivering their self-introduction and greetings.

Indeed, this is the case.

But this effect actually garnered unanimous praise from fans.

Especially in the second short video, Yan Zhusheng covered the song "Misplaced Time and Space". Her demeanor while singing was in stark contrast to her self-introduction, which made fans like her even more.

[When Zhu Sheng sings, it's like he becomes a completely different person.]

[This is hilarious! Was this self-introduction forced upon you? You showed absolutely no emotion.]

[All the emotions are in the song, hahaha]

Li Luo browsed through her comments section and felt the effect was quite good.

Yan Zhusheng hasn't officially debuted yet, or rather, she's hardly ever appeared in public.

The stage she appeared on was the singer from two years ago, and several concerts by Yuan Wanqing from a year ago.

Besides, the audience knows very little about her, and even her fans are basically the mother and daughter fans who came from Yuan Wanqing's side, as well as the CP fans who are with Chongran.

These days, there are so many beautiful women that fans attracted by looks alone will rarely be fans of only you.

Yan Zhusheng was able to gain over 500,000 followers in just a few hours after joining the platform. This was partly due to prior accumulation of followers, but it was also inseparable from the strong promotion by the Douyin platform.

"I wonder how many fans I have now," Li Luo wondered, unsure whether he had more or fewer than Yan Zhusheng.

But either outcome is considered normal.

After all, he mostly works behind the scenes, whether it's writing online novels or composing songs, the audience doesn't see him in person.

It's normal for her to have fewer fans compared to Yan Zhusheng's beauty appeal.

But Yan Zhusheng said at this moment, "It's already over 800,000."

"Huh? How do you know?"

"I've been watching." Yan Zhusheng opened the following page, and there was only one account, Chongran, on it.

Li Luo: "...Why don't you even care about your mother?"

"I'll find you eventually anyway, I'll just focus on you," Yan Zhusheng said innocently.

"I still want to follow you," Li Luo coughed. "Douyin has a special follow function, it won't affect your following of other people, just add me to your special follow list."

"Oh." Yan Zhusheng nodded obediently. Since Li Luo had said so, she reluctantly paid attention to Yuan Wanqing.

At this moment, Li Luo saw that Yuan Wanqing's account had 3.7 million followers!
"As expected of Aunt Yuan," Li Luo couldn't help but exclaim. "It's not even evening yet, could she have already surpassed ten million followers in just one day?"

All I can say is that TikTok's move was too ruthless.

Once this battle makes a name for itself, an account with tens of millions of followers is worth a lot, even for celebrities, it's a considerable temptation.

Once Yuan Wanqing's account is successfully established and she secures a few more successful commercial deals, proving its commercial value, attracting other celebrities will not be as difficult as it is now.

If we say that Yuan Wanqing and Douyin are mutually beneficial and have a win-win cooperation, then...

For Yan Zhusheng and Li Luo, this was simply a case of reaping the benefits of the times.

Within hours of joining, it gained hundreds of thousands of followers, and it's estimated to break a million today.

Following the growth momentum of Yuan Wanqing's account, if we do a few more collaborations and attract more fans, it will definitely become an account with millions of fans.

"Mom said she'll be doing a live stream tomorrow night, starting at 7 PM," Yan Zhusheng said to Li Luo. "Do you want to go watch?" "Are you going?"

“My mom wants me to come over,” Yan Zhusheng said. “What about you? If you come, we can talk about the new song.”

"Going is fine, but let's try to make it a surprise event. Don't reveal it before it airs; treat it as a little surprise," Li Luo said. "How long will it air?"

"Just one hour."

“Okay, then let’s go together tomorrow.” Li Luo stroked his chin thoughtfully, “but we’ll have to make our appearances separately.”

"why?"

"Otherwise, the screen will be filled with comments asking if you two are dating or not, and what am I supposed to say about that?"

"Oh." Yan Zhusheng nodded obediently. "What if they ask the same question when only one person appears?"

"There must be other comments, just ignore the person asking this question."

“Actually, I could answer that,” Yan Zhusheng said. “I could just say that we are good friends.”

"you sure?"

"What does it matter?" Yan Zhusheng asked, tilting her head. "I'm not the older sister, why would I care about such things?"

"...That would be fine too."

After making the appointment, Yan Zhusheng happily sent a message to Yuan Wanqing.

Li Luo lay on the bed, embracing Yan Zhusheng as he continued scrolling through short videos.

When he had dinner in the evening, he glanced at Yuan Wanqing's account again and found that it had already gained five million followers.

This speed is truly astonishing.

I don't know how much traffic Douyin poured into this, but Yuan Wanqing really got a huge boost from it.

For a long time to come, it's unlikely that any celebrity will receive the same level of preferential traffic from Douyin.

As the number of fans surged, the cover song challenge for "Misplaced Time and Space" also quickly surpassed ten million views.

After listening to this song, countless Douyin users covered it themselves and posted their cover videos.

In this way, word spread quickly, and the new song successfully broke into the mainstream within just a few hours, garnering hundreds of millions of views.

Li Luo was quite taken aback by the increase.

Although he had anticipated this scene, he still didn't expect to reap such a great reward.

"I have so few fans." Yan Zhusheng noticed Yuan Wanqing's rapidly growing number of fans and then looked at her own number, which was still far from reaching a million, and couldn't help but say.

"If you want to gain more followers, post more videos."

What kind of videos gain followers the fastest?

"A borderline video?"

"Then I should slap my thigh?"

"No." Li Luo hugged her long legs and gently stroked them in his arms. "These are mine, I won't let anyone else see them."

"What should I do?"

"Come with me." Li Luo smiled, picked up Yan Zhusheng, and walked towards the piano room.

He took Yan Zhusheng's phone and said to her, "Sit up there and sing 'The Sky Has No Limits' while playing the piano. Just sing the chorus."

"Like this?" Yan Zhusheng obediently sat down, placed her hands on the piano keys, and casually played a few notes. After warming up her hands a little, she started playing the rhythm of "The Sky Has No Limits".

The song smoothly transitions into the chorus, and Yan Zhusheng belts out her song, which is completely recorded by Li Luo.

"OK, perfect." Li Luo chuckled and handed the phone back to Yan Zhusheng. "Log in to your official account and upload this."

"What title should we use?" Yan Zhusheng asked, turning her head.

"Let me think about it." Li Luo stroked his chin, then grinned mischievously. "Just pick one: Who sings better, me or my mom? Remember to add the tag 'Yuan Wanqing'."

"Li Luo, you're so mean." Yan Zhusheng said, while creating a headline based on his suggestion, "Isn't this just piggybacking on my mom's popularity?"

“I’m sure a lot of people are trying to ride on Aunt Yuan’s popularity lately. What’s our relationship? It’s only right that we take advantage of her. We should keep the good stuff in the family.”

“That makes sense.” Yan Zhusheng nodded in agreement and immediately chose to publish.

Sure enough, a bunch of comments popped up under the video shortly afterward.

【Compared to your mom? Your mom is... um... haha... never mind!】

[This is hilarious! I was just wondering who the blogger's mother is. How was I supposed to know if you didn't tell me? I only realized it after looking at the blogger's name.]

Okay, okay, is this how you play it?

[Your daughter has issued a challenge to you! @袁婉青]

Why don't you just cover all the songs on your mom's album, and have your mom sing them too? Whoever gets the most likes wins (lol).

That's a bit unfair. I suggest dividing by the number of followers before comparing.

It has to be said that Li Luo's move was quite effective.

Yuan Wanqing is currently the biggest influencer on Douyin. Anyone who tries to get on her side can get some traffic.

Not to mention the mother-daughter relationship between Yan Zhusheng and Yuan Wanqing, which naturally gives her an advantage. In addition, her singing skills are outstanding and her looks are stunning, so attracting viewers is almost inevitable.

Just over half an hour after the video was released, its views quickly surpassed one million, and Yan Zhusheng's fan count also successfully broke through the one million barrier, catching up with the growth rate of Chongran.

"Why did your follower count rise so quickly?" Yan Zhusheng glanced at Li Luo again, who had surpassed one million followers more than ten minutes earlier than her, and couldn't help but ask curiously.

"I don't know either," Li Luo shook her head.

But in reality, Li Luo underestimated his current fame.

Especially in the realm of online novels, he may not usually stand out, but the number of readers who actually read his pirated versions is enormous.

These people might be stingy in normal times and unwilling to pay for official content, but if they see an author on Douyin, it's not a problem for them to give a free follow.

Don't be fooled by the fact that "I'm Really Not a Star" and "The Great Qian Night Patrol" have an average subscription of less than 100,000. If you include the number of readers who read pirated copies, the number is probably well over one million.

Not to mention that Li Luo also has the added bonus of being a well-known songwriter and the author of the original novel "A Little Reunion". He has also gained popularity multiple times due to various events. This level of popularity is indeed unmatched by ordinary online novel authors.

"Do you think if we made couple videos like Huanhuan and her boyfriend, we could be on par with Mom?" Yan Zhusheng asked suddenly.

However, before Li Luo could finish speaking, Yan Zhusheng shook her head and refused, saying, "Let's forget it, otherwise my sister will get angry again."

"Why am I angry?"

Just as Yan Zhusheng was speaking, Ying Chanxi finished her work and returned home. She opened the door and heard what Yan Zhusheng said. She immediately asked with a suspicious look on her face.

(End of this chapter)