Who taught you to be a celebrity like this?

"Wow, we earned 1485 yuan in just one afternoon!"

During dinner, Gu Xiaoyu started doing the accounts, her eyes lit up, and she revealed two shallow dimples again.

"We've lost a lot of money. I checked around and other surf shops are now charging at least 300 yuan. If we set the price at the same level, our income would more than double."

Wang Haoyang pursed his lips, still preoccupied with the pricing issue.

Gu Xiaoyu rolled her eyes and said irritably, "Big brother, when are you going to understand that the vast majority of this money was earned by the store manager and Li Ye?"

Wang Haoyang chuckled twice. Just then, his phone received a message, so he pretended to be busy and looked at his phone. He didn't know what he saw on the phone, but his expression changed drastically in an instant.

As if by prior arrangement, messages began to arrive on the phones of Sun Hui, Gu Xiaoyu, and Fang Xueying one after another.

The three of them seemed to have seen something, and their faces showed a degree of surprise.

"Did you receive a message that Li Ye released a song?" Gu Xiaoyu asked with a hint of surprise.

Sun Hui and Fang Xueying nodded.

Just then, Zhang Hai's phone rang. It was a message from Yan Tao: "Haha, we both have amazing taste!"

It also included a link to a music app.

After taking a shower and drying his hair, Li Ye sat down to finish preparing dinner, only to find that everyone was looking at him strangely.

"What's wrong? Is there something dirty on my face?" Li Ye asked, feeling a little uncomfortable.

"Hmm, it's a little red," Sun Hui said inexplicably.

Li Ye was puzzled.

Gu Xiaoyu cupped her hands around her mouth like a megaphone, leaned close to him, her eyes crinkling with a sweet smile, and exclaimed in a clear voice, "Li Ye, you're famous now!"

It was all so abrupt that Li Ye didn't react for a moment.

Never mind, let's eat rice first.

Seeing Li Ye's utter confusion, yet still unable to resist showing off his meal, the group burst into laughter.

Of course, Wang Haoyang couldn't laugh.

He could naturally sense that, compared to him, others seemed to have a better impression of Li Ye.

But he didn't really care.

Because Li Ye was just a newcomer with no popularity or status, everyone's goodwill was just polite formality, and no one would take it seriously.

But how did Li Ye suddenly become so popular?

How did it become so popular with just one song and one video?

"What are you talking about?" Li Ye was very puzzled and hesitated before eating.

In the end, it was Fang Xueying who cleared up Li Ye's doubts. She pretended to be angry and said, "Why didn't you tell us you released a song? We promised to help you promote it."

"It seems the relationship isn't quite there yet," Sun Hui sighed and shook his head.

The two were joking around, but Gu Xiaoyu, who didn't know about this, was genuinely a little upset, feeling like she was being excluded from the group.

But she was never one to keep things to herself and cause internal strife. She pouted and said in a muffled voice, "When did you tell me? Why didn't I know?"

That pitiful little face was truly endearing.

Li Ye explained earnestly, "Oh, it happened the day before yesterday. We were at the water bar then, and you hadn't arrived yet."

"Oh, I see. I'll share this for you too~"

Gu Xiaoyu's mood instantly brightened, and then her gaze fell on Wang Haoyang.

"Ahem, I'll transfer it right now!" Wang Haoyang was extremely unwilling, but he didn't dare to show it.

How come the show is only being filmed for the second day?

He felt that he was already somewhat out of place.

"Manager!" Gu Xiaoyu looked at Zhang Hai again.

Zhang Hai paused for a moment, then smiled and said, "No problem."

Thank you everyone.

After sincerely thanking him, Li Ye continued to show off his food, stopping after finishing his fourth bowl.

"What's wrong? Didn't you like the food tonight?" Sun Hui asked with concern, noting that she was eating so little.

"I want to keep up the early morning fun tomorrow, so I'll go to bed early later."

Tomorrow's schedule is fully booked from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., so Li Ye will have to squeeze out time to practice his weak points on his own.

Gu Xiaoyu didn't see the reaction she wanted from Li Ye, so she opened Douyin, searched for Li Ye, found his only video, didn't play it, but just showed Li Ye the screen of her phone.

"Over 700,000 likes in just one hour! How can you be so calm!?" Gu Xiaoyu was very puzzled.

When her first drama aired, she would check her phone every few minutes to see if there were any new compliments from netizens or if her fan base had grown.

Gu Xiaoyu opened the music app again, clicked on the new song chart, and saw that "The Ordinary Road" had reached number three, her eyes showing surprise.

"Wow, you've only had this song for a short time, and it's already in third place! Aren't you happy at all?"

"I'm quite happy."

"But you didn't show it at all!"

"I'm really happy!" Li Ye raised his voice slightly.

Gu Xiaoyu's expression instantly turned to disbelief, tinged with a hint of grievance: "You're yelling at me!"

Li Ye: "..."

No, what are you doing?

Wang Haoyang was dumbfounded. He stood up and said, "I'm not feeling well, I'll go back and rest first."

After he returned to his room, Gu Xiaoyu muttered, "Wang Haoyang is being lazy again and not washing the dishes."

Everyone couldn't help but laugh.

......

The popularity of "The Ordinary Road" on Douyin was rapid, like a hurricane.

The platform's algorithm already gives the green light to push various data points of the video to countless users without any effort from Fanxing.

These users range from over sixty years old to fourteen or fifteen years old, a wide age distribution that even Douyin's staff find hard to believe.

Even more surprisingly, despite such a massive push notification, the completion rate of the video "The Ordinary Road" only dropped by less than 10%.

Li Ye's video didn't just disappear after it was pushed out.

This is a song that is inspirational, yet it is also anti-inspirational.

People of all ages can relate to it.

This situation results in users who didn't see Li Ye's surfing video recommendations being able to easily hear "The Ordinary Road" through other videos.

The popularity of "The Ordinary Road" can be attributed to short videos, but it is not limited to Douyin.

On major music platforms, the number of plays and downloads of "The Ordinary Road" has increased at an astonishing rate, and its ranking on various music charts continues to rise.

Overnight, "The Ordinary Road" officially announced that it had become the hottest song of the day!

He became famous so quickly that his colleagues in the entertainment industry were asking each other: Who the hell is Li Ye?

Because "The Ordinary Road" first became popular on short video platforms, people in the industry initially thought that some internet celebrity had started to make an impact on the Chinese music scene.

After some investigation, I learned that Li Ye is indeed an artist, a newcomer who only played a small role in a short web series.

"The Ordinary Road" is the first song written and composed by this newcomer and released by himself!

Good looks and great temperament, can sing and write...

If Li Ye continues to produce songs of the quality of "The Ordinary Road," his future is simply unimaginable.

Talent agencies in the industry went crazy trying to find out about Li Ye, and overnight they discovered that he had already established his own studio and reached a cooperation agreement with Fanxing.

However, most brokerage firms did not stop because of this news.

What the stars can give, they can give too; what the stars cannot give, they can still give!

Li Ye's talent is just icing on the cake; what attracts these agencies the most is his popularity and the qualities he displays in his online videos.

Li Ye isn't just famous for his songs; his radiant and carefree smile left a deep impression on anyone who watched his music video, which was shot like a music video.

His strong sense of vitality and freedom is extremely rare in the entertainment industry, and he has the potential to carve out a unique path to becoming a top star.

There's a saying in the entertainment industry: "Small success depends on promotion, big success depends on luck."

For some talent agencies, Li Ye's current situation is that the luck, which cannot be forced, has already been prepared, and the rest of the promotion can be done through subjective efforts.

If a newcomer is promoted, there is a certain probability that they will become a top star. As long as there is an opportunity, these agencies will do everything they can to win them over.