I'm a web novelist, and you want me to work in the entertainment industry?

Late at night, the three of them dragged their tired bodies back to the Bai ethnic courtyard and went into their respective rooms.

Cheng Che collapsed onto the soft bed, letting out a long sigh of relief. He felt that if he were in a game world, he would probably be constantly seeing green health bar notifications of "+1+1+1" around him right now.

This is easy to understand—his experiences throughout the day left him feeling exceptionally happy.

But the physical body is really not satisfactory.

After lying motionless on the bed for a long time, as if he had passed away, Cheng Che finally moved.

The first thing modern people do when they get out of bed is, of course, check their phones.

The first message that popped up was from Xiaotang—

Xiao Tang: Brother Che, the popularity of "Rice Fragrance" is a bit too exaggerated. It hasn't even been two hours, and it's already trending on the hot search list.

Xiao Tang: I feel like there's even a good chance of it reaching the top of the trending searches.

Is this the number one trending topic...? I must have too much online traffic.

Cheng Che switched out of the backstage area and glanced at the musical notes.

The latest work was published an hour ago.

In the countryside, amidst the fragrance of rice paddies and the chirping of insects, under the bright moonlight, Cheng Che, in the back of a blue electric tricycle, holds a unique ukulele and sings "Fragrance of Rice."

The video underwent only simple editing, deliberately preserving its original flavor to a great extent, and the unique romantic atmosphere of the fields almost overflowed from the screen.

The caption, written by Tian Xiwei, reads: "I'm sharing the song 'Rice Fragrance' with everyone, hoping you're all happy every day~"

Although the video has only been released for an hour, it has already received over seven figures in likes and is still climbing at an alarming rate.

This is undoubtedly the work that has seen the most explosive growth in popularity among all of Cheng Che's published works.

What's truly remarkable is that the comment section was surprisingly clean.

There were no "friendly greetings" to him, no "mangoes" (a slang term for virtual gifts), and even comments urging him to update were scarce.

Cheng Che has fans who love watching him on variety shows and singing. They all praise him and beg him to release more songs and sing more.

"First of all, I don't understand music, but I think at least in the healing genre, 'Rice Fragrance' is unbeatable... Of course, if that's not the case, then just pretend I didn't say anything, since I said I don't understand music."

"Brother Che, I'm begging you! Go on music variety shows, release an album, hold concerts! The music industry is counting on you to save it!"

"I'll call you 'Master Che' like your fellow readers do. Do you dare to make singing your main profession?"

Of course, Cheng Che's readers also left comments, but this time their style was slightly different—

"For this song, I declare I will never say a bad word about Grandpa Zero again... not mainly because I'm genuinely afraid he'll stop writing novels if he gets upset."

"Sakura, take Spider Cutter and tell all the Dragon Raja readers online that I am very satisfied with Zero's recent updates and do not want to hear any more negative comments about him, nor do I want to see Mango anywhere there is Zero."

"@QidianChinese.com (Mentor Zero), come over here and polish your Grandpa Zero's shoes! Don't pressure him! Treat him like Lu Mingfei treats Nuonuo! You better stop fawning over him, or you'll be scared when you become a full-time singer later!"

"I hereby declare that the Chinese internet has entered the era of sycophancy."

Looking at the comments from fellow readers, Cheng Che felt as if the recluse Qinglian had tapped his head in the dark.

It is known that readers enjoy reading "Dragon Raja" and need "Dragon Raja" to maintain stable updates, and Cheng Che is the only person in this world who can be responsible for updating "Dragon Raja".

Therefore, Cheng Che > Book Lover.

It is also known that Cheng Che is allergic to mangoes, and his readers often "attack" him with mangoes.

Therefore, Book Lovers > Mango > Cheng Che.

This creates a closed loop of Book Friends > Mango > Cheng Che > Book Friends.

However, based on the comments above, it's clear that singing can make readers afraid to mention Mango, so singing > Mango.

The singer is Cheng Che, so it's equivalent to Cheng Che > Mango.

The following inequality is finally derived:

Cheng Che > Mango > Book Lover

Very good!

Mom no longer has to worry about me being assassinated by Mango!

Cheng Che exited the music app with satisfaction and went to reply to Xiao Tang.

……

Cheng Che: Let nature take its course. It would be great if we could get first place, but we won't force it if we can't.

Xiao Tang: That's what I think too. After all, Brother Che, you have a very clean image in the industry, so it's best to let things take their natural course.

Buying traffic and hiring online trolls to boost trending topics is indeed very common in the entertainment industry.

Who hasn't done something like that?

Leaving aside others, doesn't Old Wang next door do that all the time?

Putting aside whether this kind of thing will be discovered, even if it is, it's really not a big scandal.

But given Cheng Che's current situation, or rather, given his personality, there's absolutely no need for him to do this.

Firstly, Cheng Chezhen has no shortage of traffic. "Dragon Raja" and "Comic Diary" provide him with a stable amount of traffic every day, and he also creates jokes and works at an alarmingly high frequency.

Unless there's a major building collapse... it won't collapse, it simply won't collapse.

Secondly, Xiao Tang knew that Cheng Che's attitude towards traffic was mixed; he cared about it, but he didn't really care.

Well, he probably cares more about whether it's fun than about traffic.

If traffic can bring joy, then he will probably flock to it.

Conversely, if there is no fun in it, he will discard it like trash.

I feel like Che Ge is the kind of person who, if he wakes up tomorrow and finds that his number of fans has dropped to zero and all the fans of "Dragon Raja" have left, he'll be stunned for a moment.

Then, feeling that there must be something funny hidden in this, he smirked and started looking for fun like a detective searching for the truth.

Yes, that's right.

Xiao Tang was absolutely certain that the story would unfold this way.

Fortunately, although Cheng Che is a fun-loving person at heart, he is not cold-blooded at his core. On the contrary, he is very gentle, both to those around him and to people he has little to do with.

Otherwise, why would he pay attention to Yang Mo tonight and sing "Rice Fragrance"?

He really made me cry my eyes out.

Perhaps it is precisely because of this that Cheng Che has been so popular with netizens ever since he first appeared on camera.

Xiao Tang suddenly realized that Cheng Che might not have graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music at all, but from the Kassel College.

Because he's exactly like those lunatics at Kassel College!

Che-ge is great, no further explanation needed!

Oh, right, there's one more thing I wanted to tell you.

……

Xiao Tang: By the way, Brother Che, an entertainment company just contacted me, they want to sign you as an artist.

"How can these people in the entertainment industry be so persistent..." Cheng Che sighed.

In the past two months, he has lost count of how many entertainment companies he has rejected. If all of them were added together, they could probably shake up half of the entertainment industry.

Why are entertainment companies still coming to our door these days?

The main problem is that he doesn't need it...