"Yuanyuan, look at me, look." Chi Yu flashed a bright smile at Gu Yuan, "It’s good you’ve crossed the hurdle. Tired? Rest for a while if you are. If you want to cry, I’m here. Cry in my arms. You can even lose your temper with me. I just want you to know, you have me, you will always have me, I’ll always be here with you."

Tears fell like broken strings of pearls, large and heavy drops streaming down.

Gu Yuan’s emotions were completely unleashed.

Little Suisui in her arms seemed to resonate with her mother’s sorrow, obediently nestling in her arms without moving, and the small hand wrapped around her back gently patting as if trying to comfort her mother in this way.

After the rain, the sky was clear and bright.

The oppressed atmosphere dispelled the fog, and a patch of white clouds floated like a lonely sail on the azure sea.

As night fell, the moon remained the same moon. After several cycles of waxing and waning, those sad memories would gradually be stripped away, eventually forgotten, and when they came to mind again, people would just smile and say: So many years have passed.

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This year has already passed half the year.

In the remaining half year, Chi Yu achieved great success in his acting career.

At the end of the year, several online dramas he filmed were broadcast successively, and one achieved astonishing online broadcast results, eventually gaining a TV broadcast as well.

The online drama "My Strange Boyfriend" gathered millions of fans for Chi Yu.

Yi Shu, who set up his new Weibo account, has been meticulously managing it. Chi Yu hasn’t logged in once so far, but the followers have reached four million. After the other two online dramas were broadcast, his followers soared to ten million.

Within half a year, with the power of three online dramas, he quickly became an actor with over ten million followers, the first to do so thus far.

The speed of his explosive fame made many peers envious. The business contracts that should have been signed mostly shifted towards Chi Yu, whose fame was rising rapidly.

A marketing account predicted: In the past two years of the entertainment industry’s cold winter, no one has broken out wildly, but Chi Yu will definitely break this spell.

Because of this statement by the marketing account, many investors focused their attention on Chi Yu.

Not just for his extremely excellent appearance, but Chi Yu himself is professional, personable, kind, basically flaw-free, disciplined, and devoid of troublesome scandals, so those investors were willing to invest in Chi Yu’s dramas.

But everyone was also well aware.

There’s a considerable risk in heavily investing in Chi Yu.

After all, everyone knows the mysticism in the entertainment industry, small fame requires support, while big fame relies entirely on fate.

The capitalists were taking a gamble, wanting to see if Chi Yu indeed had the destiny to become hugely famous. If he did, he would certainly make a comeback against all odds.

Luckily, he did not disappoint.

Chi Yu proved his worth splendidly. At the early year’s drama award ceremony, he seized the Most Popular Drama Actor award for the drama that skyrocketed from net broadcast to TV broadcast.

At the awards ceremony. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

Standing on stage, holding the trophy, Chi Yu was humble and gentle. He seemed like a romantic pragmatist, a gentle controller, a poetic workaholic, and a wise yet innocent soul.

He seemed flawless and without a blemish.

Like an ethereal being just out of reach, admired from afar.

When you approach him, you find he is so gentle that you can forgive all the world’s injustices.

Some netizens said: [It’s just an illusion! What you see is merely what he wants you to see.]

Another said: [Just a persona, once the façade breaks, you’ll find it’s nothing after all.]

Yet another chimed in: [In reality, he’s just so-so, lacking the divine looks touted about, turning off the filters, he’s nothing special!]

There are many positive comments online.

Naturally, there are also many negative ones.

Everything balances out.

After all, Chi Yu is just an emerging newcomer actor, and he garnered backlash because he debuted from such a high starting point that many netizens were skeptical of his instant fame.

Recently, Chi Yu started logging into his own Weibo.

The first time he logged in, the Weibo page lagged so much he almost burst out with colorful language, thinking it was his phone or network issue. After the lag was over, he realized it was due to too many notifications, and staying logged in more often would solve the problem.

When he saw the negative comments, he responded by personally liking them with his main account.

Soon after——

The topic #ChiYuLikesHisOwnNegativePublicity, IsItSelf-BlackeningOrAMistake?# climbed the trending search, creating quite a buzz.