After gender swapping, my best friend and I hardcore BL (Boys' Love) became top influencers.

The heated discussions on the forum ultimately benefited the two of them.

Indeed, people look better when they are highlighted.

Among a bunch of trainees who were not conventionally attractive, with only a few having decent features, it's easy to imagine how Ling Tinglan and Jiao Wangshu were made to look like absolute beauties, since they were two faces that no one could find fault with.

Ling Tinglan, who was already surfing the internet intensively, was secretly using a secondary account to read the posts on the forum and laughing heartily.

Being handsome is so awesome! This is the first time in his life he's been praised so much that he's embarrassed, hehehe.

Of course, the most discussed topics on the forum were the popular contestants from those big companies, and there was a lot of pre-show marketing during the program's preparation stage.

These two little Karamis, who were previously completely unknown, are now only being discussed because their official photos are good-looking. They're also being used as a way to criticize other people who are just there for their looks. Their actual popularity is nowhere near that of the top-tier celebrities.

Even so, it made the two of them very happy.

"Wow!"

Suddenly, as if she had discovered something amazing, Ling Tinglan raised her phone in surprise, "We both have a fan site now?!"

"what?"

"Which station?"

Jiao Wangshu was equally incredulous. He had been a fan of celebrities before and knew what fan sites and fan site administrators meant. He just never expected that he would one day own such a "celebrity-style item".

He peeked over and, sure enough, two inaugural blog posts were displayed one after the other on his phone screen, whether by coincidence or by the platform's layout.

Jiao Wangshu's fan site is called "Jiao Jiao Si Yue" (皎皎似月), and Ling Tinglan's fan site is called "Ling Ling Ru Quan" (泠泠如泉). Putting everything else aside, these names actually rhyme quite well.

"That's really true."

Jiao Wangshu clicked on the homepages of the two fan sites and looked at them. There wasn't much specific content, just a launch announcement and a candid photo of the two of them taking official photos at the program set...

--wrong!

They both only found out they were going to have their photos taken a day in advance. Where were the fansites waiting for them? How come they didn't notice anything at all?

"No wonder everyone says that fan site admins are like special forces soldiers. This angle is almost right up to their faces, and neither of us noticed."

Just as the two were marveling at it, Fu Donghai came over carrying a bucket of instant noodles.

"What are you two looking at?"

Perhaps the biggest crisis of default has been weathered, and Fu Donghai, who was originally haggard and had lost a lot of weight, has become noticeably more energetic in the past few days. The steaming heat has made his round face puff up, and he looks radiant.

He glanced at it and thought, "I just posted it and you all saw it already?"

"These are the two fan sites I set up for you."

"what?"

Ling Tinglan and Jiao Wangshu were completely astonished; they never expected such a thing to happen.

"So it was all for nothing."

Ling Tinglan pouted, "Uncle, didn't you say we were just going to buy some soy sauce and then leave? Why did you make us go all the way here? It's so formal."

Fu Donghai rubbed his hands together. "My dear nephews, your uncle has a question for you, okay?"

"Do you want to be famous?"

"What does this mean?" Ling Tinglan asked, puzzled. "None of us are going to debut, so how can we become famous?"

Before Fu Donghai could even begin to explain, Jiao Wangshu immediately grasped his meaning.

"I think Uncle Donghai means that we should first gain some exposure on the show, and then go back to the company to continue our activities after we are eliminated. We should treat the 'Super Star' talent show as a stepping stone into the entertainment industry."

Fu Donghai nodded. "That's right, that's exactly what I mean!"

"Oh, I see..."

Ling Tinglan said with some worry, "It's not impossible, after all, jobs are so hard to find these days. Not to mention, I still haven't found a job in the fall recruitment season."

Speaking of this, he sighed. The job market is so bad these days; he couldn't find a job to begin with, and his uncle's company went bankrupt, leaving him with a mountain of debt. He didn't know when he'd be able to pay it all off, and his already dire situation had only gotten worse.

"So, after thinking about it for several nights, I finally came up with a solution—"

Fu Donghai said decisively, "You have to become famous."

"Only when you become famous will you have traffic, then you can get events and do live streams, and the future will be very lucrative."

"Then why did you teach us to avoid the camera? And why did you tell us to try and be eliminated in the first round?"

Ling Tinglan was increasingly baffled by her uncle's mysterious thought process.

"Sigh, what do you know?" Fu Donghai explained.

"Those debut spots were all taken before the show even started filming, and we're not the only ones who want to become famous. We small fry wouldn't dare do anything that would make people hate us; just getting some exposure is good enough."

At this point, Fu Donghai became very confident.

"Some people on the forum are already discussing this. We're just around the corner! So what if we've never practiced singing or dancing? We should just be eliminated early and go home to become beauty streamers with our uncles!"

"So this is the only way you could come up with after racking your brains?" After hearing his idea, Jiao Wangshu was completely at a loss.

Fu Donghai waved his hand helplessly, "I was forced into this situation. Other trainees at least have a fan site admin, but you two have nothing. I just created the fan club and fan group."

"Wait, where did we get these fans asking people to create groups?" Ling Tinglan noticed the key point.

"I paid to hire two group administrators."

"ha?"

Fu Donghai said indifferently, "Why are you so surprised? Don't you two think about it? Before, you were complete novices. Even your own uncle didn't expect that you two could replace those two ungrateful wretches as trainees in the talent show."

"You've never shown yourselves in public before. Even if a fan site admin wanted to create a fan site for you two, they'd have to get to know you two first. So there's no other way; I have to do it myself."

He was very proud of his actions.

"I specifically went to learn from the various fan site admins in the Chinese entertainment industry. Based on my observation, the vast majority of them use those long strings of high-end English letters that I can't even understand. Let's take a different approach and use something more classical!"

Whose young man is this, dressed in ancient style?

Ling Tinglan remained silent, and Jiao Wangshu was also speechless.

Unexpectedly, their first fan site came from their own uncle (and a close friend's uncle), making it a truly fitting fan site for their uncle.

No wonder the photographer's angle is so close; it's practically a "face-to-face" shot.

"Uncle Donghai, why don't you go and pursue further studies?"

Jiao Wangshu pointed at the photos he had taken, exasperated. "These two photos are exactly the same style. You didn't even use a filter, and the angles are so unique. Won't you be exposed in no time?"

Different fan sites will definitely have different styles, and many fan site owners have become famous for their unique style of posting pictures.

Although Jiao Wangshu never worked as a fan site administrator when he was seriously following celebrities, his former following list was full of fan site administrators.

"You can't do it this way."

He grabbed his phone and quickly deleted both of the website launch announcements. Luckily, no one was paying attention to them right now. The posts had only been up for a short while, and apart from high-intensity surfing enthusiasts like Ling Tinglan, probably not many people had seen them.

Then, open the photo editing app, blur it, crop and trim it, adjust the brightness, contrast, remove grayscale, apply filters and then overlay two other filters. In an instant, an ordinary candid photo is transformed into a standard fan-taken photo full of atmosphere.

That wasn't the end of it. Jiao Wangshu then clicked on another picture and repeated the above operation, but the style and feeling that came out were completely different.

If the previous picture was serene and divine, like the moon in human form, perfectly capturing the image of the bright moonlight, then the one he gave Ling Tinglan was even more chilling, like turbulent waves or sea mist, with a heavy, eerie feeling of watery life pressing down upon her.

"Like this, then... will it work?"

These few simple actions brought about such a big change that Fu Donghai was completely stunned.

Jiao Wangshu didn't take it seriously. "This is all standard practice. Otherwise, I'll run these two fan sites from now on. Uncle Donghai, you just need to take pictures and send them to me."

"Will this work?"

Fu Donghai seemed a bit discouraged. "My photography skills are limited to taking a silhouette."

Jiao Wangshu patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, I can fix it."