Huayu: Traffic is king

Chapter 100 Album Sales Certification, Best Seller of the Year
Li Yitong had never pursued a man before, and she felt that she must be a loser at this moment.

Even when she appeared on a dating show on Shandong TV in her early days for exposure, using her real name Li Xue and pretending to be a dance teacher according to the show's script, and holding hands with Fu Longfei, her dark past was never this embarrassing.

Love can make a person humble to the dust, she has always been a more Buddhist person. Li Yitong doesn't care what the audience thinks, she only cares about what Gu Jingyi thinks of her.

Do you think she is being abstract or that she is very down-to-earth?
Looking at the chat box of Gu Jingyi with the note "Crush" showing "the other party is typing", Li Yitong's eyes were filled with tears and she deleted all the "small essays" that had not been sent in her chat box.

She had never met a boy who moved her heart so much, whether in popularity, appearance or personality. Gu Jingyi was undoubtedly the best in the industry. Before filming the music video with him, Li Yitong and him were like parallel lines, never intersecting.

Although Li Yitong really wanted to have some contact with Gu Jingyi, she couldn't reach the threshold.

If she hadn't been filming "Crane Hua Ting" produced by Huace this year, she would have heard the director say during the break that Gu Jingyi's new album was missing a female lead in the MV.

Li Yitong might not have the chance to have any contact with Gu Jingyi so soon.

She recommended herself directly, and the director smiled and nodded and recommended her to Huace.

The first time she met Gu Jingyi, she was so stunned by his face that she was speechless.

During the photoshoot, the two met in the bushes. When their eyes met, Gu Jingyi looked at her with a complex and bitter expression. Without any need for any other method, her nose suddenly felt sore. Uncontrollably, tears fell.

After the filming, Gu Jingyi approached her and asked, hintingly and smilingly, "Huace has approved a new drama project and is considering inviting me to be the male lead. I have a certain degree of autonomy and can recommend the female lead to the director, so would you like to be my female lead?"

Li Yitong's heart was beating fast when she was teased again, and she felt like she was walking in the clouds.

For some unknown reason, she handed over her WeChat and exchanged contact information with Gu Jingyi.

After adding each other on WeChat, the two chatted frequently and established a lot of tacit understanding.

When Li Yitong saw Gu Jingyi posting selfies like a peacock spreading its feathers, she felt that the time was ripe.

Even his withdrawal was misinterpreted by her as a signal for her to charge.

She took the initiative to A and revealed her feelings to him.

Gu Jingyi said he sent it to the wrong person, and Li Yitong thought he was playing a trick on her after seeing her feelings.

It wasn't until Gu Jingyi got the chat history with his agent that he really gave it to his agent after withdrawing the selfies one by one.

He didn't lie, she was careless.

In addition to the ten-year age difference between Li Yitong and Gu Jingyi, there is also a huge popularity gap.

The domestic entertainment industry is not as seniority-oriented as the Korean entertainment industry. Where there is popularity, there is love.

This made Li Yitong feel inexplicably inferior when facing Gu Jingyi.

The phone screen was dimly lit and locked after a long period of inactivity, reflecting Li Yitong's face. Her brows were furrowed, and she looked very haggard.

She had never been so humble before, and Gu Jingyi made her willing to be humble.

Li Yitong suddenly remembered a famous saying of Eileen Chang: loving someone can make you humble to the core.

She was afraid that she would not receive Gu Jingyi's reply immediately, so she hurriedly opened the lock screen again.

The bright moon hung high in the sky, dotted with stars. Li Yitong suddenly realized at this moment that she was in love with Gu Jingyi instead of liking him.

Love at first sight is always stronger than love that grows over time, and feelings are as uncontrollable as the tides.

Li Yitong lay on the bed in a silk nightgown, the dim light from her phone shining on the edge of her collar. Her skin was made even whiter by the light, and even a small light brown mole on her collarbone was particularly conspicuous in the dim light.

Her lower lip turned white from biting it, and she was nervously waiting for news from Gu Jingyi.

But she saw that even the "the other party is typing" message had disappeared, and her confession fell on deaf ears.

Li Yitong held her cell phone tightly, as if this could help her grasp hope.

She breathed in the fresh air and buried her phone in her chest again. She waited quietly for Gu Jingyi's reply, occasionally picking it up to check Gu Jingyi's circle of friends.

It's not just a white horizontal line, you can see the status three days ago.

Li Yitong thought, had she said something wrong?
Maybe? Who would confess their feelings right from the start?

They had only known each other for a short time. Gu Jingyi might have felt that she was too direct. Too impulsive, and that he should have been more tactful.

But why was he ignoring me? Was that photo of my "hurt" leg that I sent him fake?
The more Li Yitong thought about it, the more annoyed she became. She felt that she had made one stupid move after another.

This shouldn't have happened. I wouldn't have posted it if I had known.

It's like trying to cover up something and it only makes it more obvious.

.........

On the other side, in the nanny car, Gu Jingyi had just finished chatting with another female guest.

"Okay, good night"

"Good night~"

After exiting the dialog box, he re-entered the chat box with Li Yitong.

He deleted the "1" in the dialog box and clicked on the photo sent by Li Yitong.

Few people knew during this period that as long as a "1" appeared in the WeChat dialog box, the chat box on the other side would always show "the other party is typing".

Someone just sent a message, and he deliberately typed "1" when he withdrew from Li Yitong's side.

After he deleted "1", the "input in progress" display on the other side also stopped.

Gu Jingyi clicked on the photo, revealing a pair of slender legs. She leaned awkwardly against the bed, the dim light casting a shadow on her legs. It was obvious the photographer had deliberately turned on the small lamp on the bedside table, and also used the light to focus on her legs.

There's no way this could be a casual shot; the lighting makes the lines of her legs even more distinct, and her skin appears flawless at first glance.

Especially the blush on the calf that spreads unevenly like a cloud, which makes people think more.

"Gu Gu, look, it really hurts."

Li Yitong waited for a long time but there was no news from Gu Jingyi, especially when the "input" sign disappeared. This made her even more confused, and she didn't care about her face anymore and lowered her posture.

He also attached a photo of his legs. As the saying goes, photos of legs pave the way, and everything is included.

Gu Jingyi quickly clicked on it and admired it. Still feeling critical, he saved it on his phone.

After slowly admiring it for a moment, he typed, "How old are you? Why are you still as irritable as a child? Be more careful next time and don't be so impatient."

He only responded to Li Yitong's "leg injury." Was it from his cousin? He could fool a magic chef, but not a great mage like Gu Jingyi.

[Li Yitong]: I see. I knew you still cared about me.

[Li Yitong]: (silly smiley emoticon)

Ten minutes had passed since I sent Gu Jingyi the first photo of his legs before he finally replied.

This made Li Yitong feel that these ten minutes were really long, even longer than a day.

Gu Jingyi did not mention that "cousin". Li Yitong breathed a sigh of relief but also felt a little disappointed.

Why didn't Gu Jingyi ask? Did he not care whether she liked him or not? Or did he see through her and not want to expose her? What was he thinking?
Li Yitong really wanted to know what Gu Jingyi had typed in the chat box in the past ten minutes. Why did he delete it? Was it out of consideration or a response? [Crush]: I'm so sleepy. I just finished a day of filming. Huace dragged me to shoot the Safeguard commercial. I'm so tired I just want to fall asleep.

"Then you should take a rest. Are you going home now?"

Li Yitong quickly typed and began to show concern.

[Crush]: No, it's still in the van. I won't talk to you anymore. I need to take a nap.

[Crush]: Good night (cute cat emoticon pack)

After seeing Gu Jingyi say good night, Li Yitong deleted the long paragraph she had edited again.

"Okay, get some rest quickly. I'm going to sleep too, good night (cute dumpling emoticon)"

After finishing his chat with Li Yitong, Gu Jingyi put down his phone, adjusted his sitting position, closed his eyes and fell asleep.

In the following days, businesses including Safeguard, Beats headphones, and Lays potato chips that Gu Jingyi wore were officially announced one after another.

On the day of the launch, sales at the flagship store skyrocketed, and Gu Jingyi's matching style was sold out instantly.

The brand owners were so happy that they posted several messages on Weibo praising Gu Jingyi, saying that he had high commercial value and that this was an unprecedented success.

Such amazing ability to bring goods and commercial value have made many big Vs exclaim that "the fan circle 4.0 economy is here" and "a new era of top-tier traffic has begun."

The exaggerated commercial value and ability to sell goods have caused heated discussions on the Internet.

More and more brands have given their cooperation business to Huace with large sums of money, which has also given passers-by a more concrete expression of Gu Jingyi's popularity.

Gu Jingyi's fans also kept forwarding screenshots of business purchase records on Weibo, while taking every opportunity to recommend Gu Jingyi's upcoming album.

[The endorsement has been purchased, follow GuGu and use it together. The new album will be launched on both platforms on April 4.20th, listen together.]
[Nothing much to say, Sister Jing Fei is just average. The handsome guy's new album will be online on April 4.20th, come and listen to the songs.]
After Huace guided the fans to intervene, the fans became much more low-key than before.

These days, there are some unknown celebrities who want to take advantage of Gu Jingyi's popularity and attract attention from time to time.

The "Jing Fei"s were not fooled and ignored him while saying "don't give him a stupid look".

However, during the normal promotion before the album was released, no one expected that the first people to be dissatisfied would be the fans of the group.

After forming a group in "Idol Producer", "Naipaosen" has not reunited yet.

This has displeased fans who wanted to see Naipaosen and Naipaosen work together, with many complaining that Century Idol has no experience in managing idol groups and should stop hurting others. Naipaosen's popularity has been eroding, with no stage performances and no publicity.

After more than a week of debut, the only visible collective business is "Nongfu Spring Power Emperor" and "Harper's Bazaar Group Issue".

For the entire month of April, Naipaosen had no stage, no song promotions, no albums, and no concerts.

There are only incomplete group variety shows and incomplete and very few fan meetings.

When the "Yuehua Trio" were filming a commercial in Southeast Asia, some sharp-eyed fans noticed that the three of them were in too much of a hurry and took the wrong suitcase, mistakenly taking other people's suitcases with them.

This "misunderstanding" was directly mocked and became a hot topic, and was also scolded by fans of the group as "selfish" and "lacking team spirit".

In fact, some popular V marketing accounts broke the news at the time, claiming that Yuehua and idol Shiji had failed to reach an agreement on the contract. Before the "dual group" was even discussed, Yuehua directly took away members of her own company to threaten idol Shiji to agree quickly.

The fans of the group were a little panicked at the time, but they secretly calmed down and comforted themselves.

But as Gu Jingyi, Cai Xukun, and Rubber Entertainment's Lin Yanju and You Changjing all embarked on their personal journeys, even the most indifferent fans noticed something was amiss.

It seems that this limited edition group has stopped pretending and has truly become a "loose boys' group".

The day before yesterday, the "Three Sons of Yuehua" also changed the suffix of their Weibo from "Members of Naipaosen", which was the uniform name of their debut group, to artists under Yuehua.

This time the hot search exploded directly, and "Milk Foam Sen" even got the derogatory nickname "broken".

So when Gu Jingyi's new album was released earlier than the group album, Yuehua's water army also came out.

They directly scolded Gu Jingyi, saying that he had no sense of group honor. He missed the group variety show recording and recorded his personal mini album at Huace.

This has made fans who were still happily celebrating the New Year on the super topic and raising tens of millions for Gu Jingyi's new album unhappy!
They have long been fed up with "Milk Foam Sen" and even look down on it.

Teammates? In their eyes, they were just eight burdens holding back their brother's development. They felt they were completely on a different level from Gu Jingyi. The only black mark against Gu Jingyi, the current "top star" by a huge margin, was being in a low-brow group like "Milk Foam Sen."

The "limited group" didn't have many fans, and from the beginning of the competition to the end of the debut, all kinds of quarrels and frictions never stopped, and the "Jing Fei" fans hoped that Naipa Sen would dissipate quickly so as not to delay Gu Jingyi's "ascension to the throne."

In most cases, the fuse of the quarrel is caused by the "group fans". Usually, the first batch of "group fans" who stir up trouble are "group fan accounts" specially raised by other top players.

It was just to gain more benefits for his brother and divert the pressure of public opinion.

For example, Gu Jingyi was targeted this time, and the first "group fan" who clicked on him was found out by Huace to be a fan of "Yuehua Sanzi".

In order to help the brothers who are trapped in Wulun get out of the crisis, they want to drag Gu Jingyi to "sink together".

The result is naturally predictable. All the fan groups who participated in the siege of Gu Jingyi were silenced by the angry "Jingfei" sisters.

Considering the fact that Yuehua changed her Weibo profile and did not participate in the group's reunion, Gu Jingyi releasing an album in advance is nothing.

As long as the fan circle quarrels do not reach the level of "227", it will not affect the popularity of passers-by too much.

The Yuehua trio was not affected and continued to be active in Southeast Asia, earning foreign exchange.

Gu Jingyi’s mini album is also undergoing the final warm-up, and has been on the hot searches one after another these days.

The quarrels could not shake Gu Jingyi's status, but instead made him annoy his fans. It also made his upcoming new album known to more passers-by.

Time quickly arrived on April 4th. When midnight arrived, Gu Jingyi's first mini album "Like the Wind" was released simultaneously on Qyin and NetEase Cloud Music, and countless people clicked on the homepage at the right time.

The moment the "Buy" button lit up, all the fans' eyes lit up.

They kept adding numbers and poking at the screen frantically!

There were so many people clicking in at the same time that within just a minute, Qyin and NetEase Cloud Music started to freeze and experience response delays.

Many anxious fans were stuck on the order page, able to submit but unable to pay.

Fortunately, both major music software guessed this situation and quickly fixed the bug.

The music officials were well prepared and quickly fixed the problem. Within an hour of going online, Penguin Music couldn't wait to release the official battle report.

Gu Jingyi's first mini album, "Like the Wind," sold 427 million copies in one hour on Penguin Music, exceeding 5000 million in sales and setting a new record for digital album sales.

[Set a record for the fastest achievement of "Hall of Fame Gold Record" certification! ]

[Set nine new platform records, becoming the fastest singer to break through the nine levels of certification on the Q Music platform! ]

【Topped the Penguin Music Bestseller Chart! 】

Immediately afterwards, NetEase Cloud Music also released information about the situation on their side.

[In one hour, 327 million were sold! Sales of 4500 million!]

[Winning the first place in the daily, weekly and yearly charts at the same time! ]

[Achieve 1 million hearts! It only takes less than 3 minutes!]

(End of this chapter)