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[Official Announcement! Lin Yan's debut solo concert – the "I Don't Want to Go to Work" Family Concert – is scheduled for October 28th at the Bird's Nest Stadium in Beijing! Tickets will go on sale online tomorrow night at 10 PM!]

This message was like a bombshell, waking up all the netizens who were still awake late on Friday night.

Weibo is down.

It's all over my WeChat Moments.

Music forums and fan communities were in an uproar.

"Holy crap! The Bird's Nest?! Lin Yan's first concert is going to be held at the Bird's Nest, which has a capacity of 100,000?!"

"Is this insane?! What kind of divine move is this?! This is the first time in the history of the Chinese entertainment industry!"

"Aaaaaah! I don't care! I'll sell everything I own to get tickets! This is Lin Yan's debut performance!"

"A 'Don't Want to Go to Work' family concert? Does that mean Xue Zhiqian, Chen Yu, and the others will be there? That's an amazing lineup!"

Overnight, topics about Lin Yan's Bird's Nest concert dominated the trending topics on all platforms.

In stark contrast to the fans' jubilation was the ecstasy of another group—scalpers.

The news also caused a stir in the scalpers' internal groups.

"Brothers! Your chance to make a fortune has arrived! An epic project!"

"Lin Yan + Bird's Nest + first performance—these words combined are a money-printing machine! I estimate that tickets for the first row of the inner field could be resold for 100,000 yuan each!"

"Wake up, everyone! Get up! Prepare the software and servers. Tomorrow night at 8 PM, grab all the tickets! Not a single one for those fans!"

In an instant, scalpers across the country sprang into action. They were eager to make a fortune in this unprecedented ticket-buying frenzy, mobilizing all their financial and technical resources.

They could almost see it: countless banknotes were beckoning to them.

However, they never dreamed that they were about to face a devastating attack from the "No-Work Group".

The next day, Saturday, at 7:59 PM.

Tens of millions of netizens across the internet waited anxiously in front of the pages of various ticketing platforms, their fingers hovering over the refresh button, their hearts pounding.

In countless scalper studios, hundreds of computer screens are filled with rapidly scrolling lines of code, all waiting for the final attack at eight o'clock.

"Ten, nine, eight... three, two, one!"

Eight o'clock sharp!

Everyone frantically pressed the refresh/buy button!

then……

On the page, the colorful "Buy Now" button turned gray and "Sold Out" the moment it lit up.

The entire process took less than 0.01 seconds.

"??????"

"Gone? That's it? I refreshed the page and it's gone?"

"Holy crap! The page hasn't even loaded yet!"

"Scalpers! It's definitely scalpers who bought all the tickets! I'll kill you all!"

Fans were filled with despair and were furiously cursing the scalpers online.

At this moment, however, those scalper studios were completely silent.

All the scalpers stared blankly at the glaring "0" on their computer screens.

Their ticket-grabbing software and their army of bots failed to even get inside the server in that instant, let alone grab any tickets.

"What happened? Third brother, where's your robot?"

"Boss... our software seems to be blocked by a firewall; we can't get in at all!"

"What kind of firewall is this amazing?!"

Just when they were completely baffled, the official Weibo account of "Don't Want to Go to Work Entertainment Group" released a new announcement.

Thank you all for your enthusiasm! All 100,000 tickets for this concert have been sold out. To prevent scalping and protect the rights of fans, this ticketing process employed a strict real-name registration and facial recognition system. Each ticket was uniquely linked to the purchaser's ID card and facial information. Entry required verification of both the ID card and facial recognition; those whose information did not match would not be allowed entry. Tickets are non-transferable and non-resaleable. We urge all music lovers not to purchase tickets from any unofficial channels to avoid financial loss.

As soon as this announcement was released, the entire internet instantly shifted from anger towards scalpers to overwhelming praise for Lin Yan!

"Holy crap! Yan Ge is awesome! This is the real crackdown on scalpers in the Chinese entertainment industry!"

"Strong real-name registration + facial recognition! This is a fatal blow! Scalpers are all bankrupt now!"

"Hahaha! That's hilarious! I can practically picture the scalpers crying and begging for mercy right now!"

that's the truth.

Those scalpers who had invested huge sums of money and were ready to make a big splash saw this announcement and almost fainted.

What they hoarded wasn't tickets, but a pile of worthless paper that couldn't be redeemed.

Overnight, several of the largest scalper organizations in the Chinese entertainment industry went bankrupt due to broken funding chains.

Lin Yan, with the sale of tickets for a single concert, effortlessly rectified a long-standing problem that had plagued the Chinese entertainment industry for years.

The fans who managed to snag tickets were like winners of the lottery, showing off wildly online.

The ticket-buying frenzy has come to an end, but new suspense has emerged.

"So... what exactly is the setlist for the concert?"

"Yeah! The official channels haven't released any information at all! It's driving me crazy!"

"You've Already Been With Me, Sorrow, Blue and White Porcelain, Myriad Frontiers, Sword Heart... these are definitely included, right? Will there be any new songs?"

"Confession Balloon! There absolutely has to be a live version of Confession Balloon! I want to see Brother Yan and the landlady showering each other with sweetness right there!"

Fans and media across the internet were caught up in a frenzy of speculation about the concert's setlist, each one anxiously trying to piece together the song list from Lin Yan's past clues.

Lin Yan himself responded to this with only four words.

—Let's open a blind box.

This deliberately mysterious attitude only heightened everyone's anticipation to the extreme.