Esports world champion, debuted as the center of a talent show

Coincidence clung to me like a ghost.

First, the production team of "Shining Project" finally released the interview segment after the theme song evaluation ended.

[@ShiningProject: Who are the trainees' favorite visual and their most liked contestant? (Video)]

The video's cover features a golden program logo, with the background composed of silhouettes of eight different trainees. The largest and most prominent one in the center is Jiang Zhiyu, whose visually striking face easily draws viewers into the video.

Fans arrived quickly, and within moments the screen was filled with comments.

【Here I am! I'm here!】

[If I have food to eat, I'll gulp it all down in one go.]

[Shining, don't you think your logo is incredibly tacky? What kind of aesthetic sense is that?!]

[The prettiest child is still standing in the center; cover designer, you really know how to use good looks to attract attention.]

[New fan, just joined and already getting content to watch? Is this even possible?]

[Damn it, I don't even want to talk about how few viewers have watched since the first stage. Hong Liu did this on purpose!]

The entire video is just over three minutes long and includes interviews with eight trainees about the "visual center" and the "most liked contestant". The interview date is clearly marked in the lower left corner of the screen: July 9th, which is the day of the theme song evaluation assessment.

To maximize the video's completion rate, the editor crammed all of Jiang Zhiyu's scenes at the end.

This created a bizarre situation where everyone was surrounding the moon, but the moon itself was unaware of it.

When asked, "Among the 99 trainees of 'Shining Project,' who is your choice for the visual center?", everyone's answer was surprisingly consistent, with all of them raising Jiang Zhiyu's sign. The program team then added a lighthearted "+1+1+1" sound effect.

The barrage of comments was already overflowing the screen, and everyone was waiting to see Jiang Zhiyu's "well-deserved" response, but the scene switched to him at that moment.

In the video, Jiang Zhiyu holds up a photo of Yu Jin and explains his choice with a serious expression: "This is a contestant I noticed on the first stage. His stage presence is excellent, and his facial expressions and stage style are very eye-catching... He's also very good-looking."

I can't take it anymore, I'm so cute I'm rolling on the floor!

[Jiang Zhiyu must have a system to help his current teammates, given how precisely he "helped" them half a month ago!]

[Yeah, yeah, Jiang Jiang is universally acknowledged as the most handsome guy, and the value of being ranked number one in visual appeal is still rising!]

[What does it mean that Jiang Zhiyu answered both of Kui Shuang's questions?]

[I remember this date was the day of the theme song evaluation? So Jiang Zhiyu noticed Yu Jin, who barely had any screen time at the time, so early on, and even specifically mentioned him in the interview? Who's spreading rumors about him being cold, aloof, and arrogant? Doesn't he feel ashamed?!]

[The timing of this interview release... Hong Liu really did it on purpose this time, didn't he? It's a perfect opportunity to clarify the recent rumors about Jiang Zhiyu. He really succeeded in suppressing it before.]

Hong Liu seems to be confirming the speculation that "the program team clarified the personality controversy for Jiang Zhiyu". After releasing this interview, he did not delay at all and immediately updated the other two interviews recorded that day. The date in the lower left corner of the screen is still clearly marked as July 9.

Viewers, accustomed to a lack of variety in programming, have never experienced such a good life. They didn't even have time to scream before they eagerly clicked to start the video.

The video's cover still features a bright gold program logo, but the background has been changed to a solo photo of Jiang Zhiyu wearing a pink training uniform.

The program team's intention is obvious: this video is "exclusively for Jiang Zhiyu".

Substantive remarks always garner a lot of goodwill, and Jiang Zhiyu's two gentle yet powerful interviews in the video once again earned him much praise and a good reputation.

The interview with Jiang Zhiyu and Wang Yan completely erased the controversy surrounding his personality.

Every word Jiang Zhiyu uttered in this interview was the best clarification of the rumors. His gentle yet powerful words were like a beam of light, instantly touching countless people.

Whether it was his interruption of Wang Yan's self-criticism or his subsequent words of comfort, fans extracted these moments and used them as material for promotional videos and as evidence for clarification.

Guan Rao, the user of the account "Obsessed with Jiang Jiangzhong," was sitting in front of her computer, repeatedly dragging the video progress bar and looping the short video that inexplicably brought tears to her eyes.

The light from the screen reflected on her face, making her eyes slightly red and her nose feel a little sore.

These past few days, she's been watching Jiang Zhiyu being slandered and cyberbullied, watching marketing accounts take things out of context to smear him, and watching passersby be led astray and misunderstand him. She feels incredibly frustrated.

But when I saw this interview and saw the sincerity and gentleness in Jiang Zhiyu's eyes, all my grievances, anger, and anxiety instantly melted into a soft pool of water.

At this moment, Guan Rao was extremely fortunate that the production team had prepared these interview recordings a long time ago and chose to release them at this point. For Jiang Zhiyu, who was in the eye of the storm, this was undoubtedly the best help to clarify the situation.

Guan Rao pouted and texted her friend: "Baby, do you know, all the grievances I've had these past few days have vanished with these few interviews."

A friend who is also a fan of Jiang Zhiyu commented: "I totally understand, my hands are shaking right now!"

[And have you noticed? July 9th is really a lucky day! The theme song ranking was initially C, the dorm live stream, the life-saving interview recording... and those commercial shoots also seemed to be on July 9th!]

[Yeah, yeah! July 9th is the day I got hooked! I randomly clicked on his dorm livestream that day, and I happened to hear his daily diary, and I instantly melted!]

[I can't take it anymore, you've got me hooked! I need to rewatch that dorm livestream from that day!]

Guan Rao looked at her friend's message and couldn't help but smile slightly. She closed the chat interface, turned around and opened the recording of that day's dormitory live stream, and started watching it again.

Everything before that was normal; all the images were exactly as she remembered them.

Until a certain scene flashed by, Guan Rao's smile froze instantly, and her heart skipped a beat for no reason.

The scene flashed by so fast that she almost thought she was seeing things, but a strange sense of familiarity made her subconsciously press the pause button.

She frowned and repeatedly rewound the screen recording to that exact second, freezing and zooming in.

Meanwhile, she held her phone up to the computer and compared the images repeatedly, her brows furrowed.

"Huh?" she couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

At this moment, Guan Rao's phone was displaying a picture of Xu Xiaoyu lying that she had a severe mental illness, with two slightly overlapping medicine boxes on it.

The screen recording was paused on a scene where Mi Lan got up to help Jiang Zhiyu get his daily journal. At this moment, there was also a familiar medicine box on Jiang Zhiyu's desk.