World version update

Chapter 14 Preliminary Attempts
"Ms. Zhuoyu, I'm your fan!"

This was the first sentence Lu Yan said when he saw Ji Xingyao.

Ji Xingyao was terminated from her performance contract by the mall. She was distraught and didn't even have time to react before Lu Yan stuffed a photo into her hands.

Ji Xingyao subconsciously looked at the photo, which was a live photo of her performance at an event three years ago.

In the photo, she is wearing a short skirt and long boots. Her beautiful face has an infectious smile and her whole body is brimming with youthful, confident vitality. Just standing on the stage, she is the focus of everyone's attention.

At that time, she was still a popular internet celebrity. Some entertainment companies had even found her and wanted to sign a contract with her to let her enter the entertainment industry.

It’s a pity that with various events that happened later and the changes in the Internet era, she eventually lost her former glory.

In fact, if she is willing to lower her head, it is not impossible for her to obtain more resources and even make a comeback.

But in the end, she was still unwilling to give in. Now she is just an outdated internet celebrity, and even such commercial performances are difficult to maintain.

Holding the photo in her right hand with slight trembling, Ji Xingyao looked at the person in front of her.

He looks to be no more than twenty years old, with a handsome face and skin as white as a baby's. His clothes are simple but it cannot hide his calm and elegant temperament.

Ji Xingyao was in a daze. She felt that the young man in front of her seemed somewhat familiar, as if she had seen him somewhere before, but no matter how hard she tried to recall, she could not find any trace of him.

It was just that gentle smile on the other person's lips that made people feel extremely kind, and Ji Xingyao instinctively let down her guard.

"How did you get in?"

Lu Yan pointed outside the lounge, put his index finger in front of his lips and whispered:
"Don't tell them, I sneaked in."

Ji Xingyao couldn't help but chuckle, and the depression caused by being terminated was dissipated a lot at this moment.

When she was at the peak of her popularity, she encountered many fanatical fans sneaking into the lounge during commercial performances, wanting to get her autograph and take photos with her. She was quite annoyed by these things at the time.

But as her popularity declined, those fans disappeared completely.

Now that Lu Yan had sneaked in again, she became somewhat interested.

With her head slightly tilted, a few strands of hair falling in front of her shoulders, Ji Xingyao shook the photo in her hand curiously.

"Where did this come from?"

“I took the photo.”

“What show is this?”

"Dongxing City Stadium."

“Which song do you like?”

"The song 'Asking the Immortal' that you originally composed."

But she didn't know that Lu Yan got this photo from a fan of Ji Xingyao below the stage, and as compensation Lu Yan gave the fan a thousand yuan.

After touching the photo, Lu Yan even searched the Internet for information related to the photo to avoid being exposed.

After a few brief exchanges, Ji Xingyao was sure that Lu Yan was truly her fan.

If she was at the peak of her popularity, she might not care.

But her popularity is currently at a low point. From her communication with Lu Yan, she can tell that Lu Yan is definitely a loyal fan, and that inexplicable sense of familiarity makes her doubt whether she has seen Lu Yan at a performance.

All these factors made Ji Xingyao feel more favorable towards Lu Yan.

"Bring it here!"

Ji Xingyao extended her right hand towards Lu Yan.

"what?"

Lu Yan was a little confused.

"Don't you want my autograph? Of course I'll use a signature pen!"

Lu Yan's expression froze, he touched his empty pockets, and said helplessly to Ji Xingyao:

"Forgot to bring it."

Ji Xingyao was speechless. Just as she was about to speak, she saw Lu Yan put his hand into her hair beside her ear.

"Don't you have one here?" The next moment, Lu Yan actually pulled out a black signature pen from under her hair.

Looking at Lu Yan's smiling face, Ji Xingyao realized that the other party had deliberately performed a little magic trick.

"Hmph! Bring it here!"

Giving Lu Yan a cold look, Ji Xingyao reached out to take the pen and signed her name on the photo.

Ji Xingyao handed the pen and the photo to Lu Yan, but Lu Yan only took the photo.

“This.”

"This pen originally belonged to Miss Zhuoyu. I just borrowed it for a while. Now it has been returned to its original owner."

Showing Ji Xingyao a satisfied smile, Lu Yan said softly:

"Looking forward to our next meeting."

After he finished speaking, Lu Yan turned and left, leaving Ji Xingyao alone in the lounge.

Ji Xingyao frowned slightly as she looked at Lu Yan's departing back, and said with some displeasure:

"I thought he was a funny fan, but I didn't expect him to act so frivolously."

As he spoke, Ji Xingyao wanted to throw the pen in his hand into the trash can.

But when she moved her right hand, Ji Xingyao realized something was wrong. The pen on her open palm had turned into a few strands of hair.

"How is this going?"

Ji Xingyao's eyes suddenly widened, unable to suppress her inner surprise.

She had just signed her name with a pen and was sure that it was a real pen, so how could it suddenly turn into hair?

Recalling Lu Yan's actions, Ji Xingyao subconsciously touched the side of her ear. The touch on her hand could clearly feel that some of her hair had been cut off, as if it corresponded one by one to the hair on her hand.

"Is this really magic?"

Outside the mall, Lu Yan looked at the photo in his hand. There was no name on it, so he put it into his storage bag.

Recalling Ji Xingyao's unhappy expression when she left, Lu Yan smiled.

"She should have discovered it, right?"

He spread out his right hand, and in his palm a first-grade low-grade illusion talisman had turned into ashes.

Obviously, the signing pen just now was just an illusion created by Lu Yan using the talisman.

However, in this extraordinary and inconspicuous urban version, Ji Xingyao probably found it difficult to connect the previous scene with magic and would only regard it as a strange magic.

But just this one point was enough to make her impressed by Lu Yan.

After realizing that he could seek opportunities from Ji Xingyao, Lu Yan made up his mind.

It is not advisable to rush into contact with Ji Xingyao, nor to establish a friendship with her too quickly.

After all, in the fairy-tale version, Fairy Zhuoyu is a genius of the Qingwu Sect. It would be too conspicuous for her to make friends with Lu Yan, a mere cultivator at the first level of Qi training.

Therefore, Lu Yan positioned himself as an interesting fan, an admirer remembered by Fairy Zhuoyu, and used this identity to gain favor.

As a native of Zhulinfang City, he was already under the protection of Fairy Zhuoyu, so it was completely reasonable for him to admire Fairy Zhuoyu. Plus, with a bit of luck, it was normal for Ji Xingyao to remember him.

It seems that the impression of Fairy Zhuoyu is useless, but because Fairy Zhuoyu's status is so high, a single word can decide the future of the entire market. People who can be remembered by her only need to be mentioned casually, and in the fairy version, it can become a talisman.

With this level of identity, you can definitely walk around Zhulinfang Market with your head held high.

Thinking of this, Lu Yan couldn't help but sigh slightly.

"After all, my strength is too low, so I can only use this method of leveraging momentum.

If you can reach the peak of Qi training, or even the foundation building stage, no one will doubt you even if you become a close friend of Ji Xingyao."

“This can only be considered a preliminary attempt. We will be able to confirm the follow-up situation in the next Xianxia version.

Next, it’s time to prepare for the next world version update!”

(End of this chapter)