Chapter 149: A New Recruit Joins the Fandom! (Second update, seeking subscriptions and monthly votes!)

Children and Youth Activity Center.

For the past couple of days, Li Shixin had been away from Rongdian. The plays were running once a day, and they were all standard repertoire pieces like *The Tea House*, which the elderly patrons were not very fond of.

As it happened, the temperature in Rongdian had risen over the last few days. The freezing weather that had lingered for a while was kissed by a long-overdue warm winter sun, shooting right back up to five degrees Celsius.

This spring-like weather made the seniors, who had been cooped up indoors for half the winter, unable to sit still any longer.

The regular elderly fans in the small theater put down their mahjong and poker and returned en masse to the public square.

Meanwhile, the interior of the small theater had become a playground for a few bratty little kids guarding the place.

(σ｀д′)σ: "Ahhh! The highland tower! They're rushing the highland tower! My Wu Zetian can't hold them off by herself, Chen Yiyi, hurry up and unleash your ultimate as Mulan!"

(╬｀0807)σ: "I want to go up too, but the jungler is too terrible, got caught by the enemy several times, and my gear is trash—if I go up I'll just die, how do you expect me to go? Sansan, hurry up and bring your Taiyi Zhenren back with Lubun to defend the tower!"

(╬6155д6154)σ: "Defend your sister! Lubun is already down! An Xiaoxiao, why are you still wasting time farming jungle with your Pei Qinhu right now? Get back here... Damn it! Are you looking for death by taking on the Overlord alone?!"

(1707▽｀)1778: "Wait a second, when I walked past this guy just now, he roared at me! If I don't hit him a few times, this blockhead probably won't realize that I, An Xiaoxiao, also have a fiery temper! Ah... I couldn't beat him, I'm dead."

"Defeat..."

Less than two minutes later, the phone screens of the four little girls sitting in a row playing a team match simultaneously displayed the game-over special effects.

Chen Boshi looked at the three pig-teammates beside her and sighed deeply.

Then she squinted at An Xiaoxiao, who had gone sightseeing in the jungle during team fights and had mastered the art of playing cute and blinking her eyes entirely by intuition.

Six consecutive losses—the intent to kill was absolute!

(﹁“﹁) "Little Xiaoxiao, let me sing you a song."

"Okay!"

|1411ω11`)

"Beyond the mountains, across the sea, there lives a little blockhead. She is lively yet not clever, naughty yet not sharp. She instantly locks in the jungler, wandering freely and getting lost in the jungle, taking on the Overlord solo without any fear of zero-to-seven~~~~"

Chen Boshi took the lead, and Chen Yiyi and Su Sansan immediately harmonized and joined in: "Ah, the cute little blockhead! Ah, the cute little blockhead! The enemy worked together with all their might and brains, pushing down all three of my lanes! How joyfully the little blockhead sabotages her teammates~~~"

(灬°ω°灬)

Watching the wonderful performance of her three companions, An Xiaoxiao blinked her eyes.

ヾ(72^ω^)1718: "Sounds good!"

(ー`07ー), (ー`07ー), (ー`07ー)

Chen Boshi: Why on earth does such a moron exist in this world?

Chen Yiyi: Ahhh! I so badly want to slap her across the face!

Su Sansan: Wake up, we weren't praising you with that song! Get angry, will you? Hey!

Looking at the expression on An Xiaoxiao's face that clearly said "Thank you for singing my praises," the three miserably sabotaged kids darkened their faces.

At that moment, the phones of Chen Yiyi and Su Sansan rang.

Opening their phones, they realized they had turned on "Do Not Disturb" mode while gaming earlier, and now their QQ notifications were completely flooded with @ mentions.

Just as the two of them opened QQ to check what was going on, a group video call came in.

"Tiantian, Sisi, *The Road of No Return* premiered today, and on Chadou Video, our Xin got utterly dissed by a bunch of brainless netizens! What on earth are you two, the heads of the anti-smear and comment-control groups, doing?! Why aren't you answering messages? Did we make you two group leaders just to serve as ornaments?!"

Hearing the fury of the fan club president on the other end of the line, Chen Yiyi and Su Sansan, whose tempers were still flaring from six consecutive gaming losses, simultaneously frowned.

Chen Yiyi curled her little lip: "President, to be honest, the way our Xin acted in this show really wasn't very good. We just looked at the video bullet comments; ordinary viewers weren't cursing, they were just venting. Is there really any need to make such a huge fuss by launching anti-smear and comment-control campaigns? I don't think it's necessary."

"What do you mean by 'you think'? I don't care what you think! I care what I think! I think this bunch of idiot netizens are smearing our Xin and ruining his image! I demand that you, right now, immediately, launch the anti-smear campaign and lead the sisters in your group to control the comments on Chadou Video!!!"

"What the heck!" Hearing the tyrannical-CEO-like tone of the fan club president, Su Sansan lost her temper. "Do I have to cater to your moods just because I'm chasing a celebrity? If that's the case, why bother chasing a celebrity at all—why don't I just chase you instead?! I'm busy trying to rank up to Diamond in Honor of Kings, I don't have time!"

The fan club president never dreamed that one day she would be talked back to by core members of her own fan club!

In the video, seeing Su Sansan and Chen Yiyi—two tiny little figures wrapped in heavy military-style cotton coats and clutching thermos flasks—shivering with anger, the president shrieked, "Where are you two? What are you doing? Wait!"

Just as Su Sansan twisted open the cap of her thermos and the phone camera shook, the president caught sight of a familiar face.

"You two... traitors!!!!! Little Sky, you're ruthless. I never expected that not only would you defect on your own, but you actually dragged Tiantian and Sisi along with you to turn traitor. I'm keeping a record of this grudge! You guys, just wait for it!!!"

Beep.

Before the president could finish roaring, Su Sansan and Chen Yiyi hung up the video call.

The two of them wrapped their heavy military coats tighter around themselves and shifted their gazes to the side.

(￢_￢), (￢_￢).

"Ahem. Actually, Liu Xin isn't all that great, is he?"

"Yeah, yeah. His acting is pretty mediocre... And after looking at his face for a long time, he's honestly just averagely handsome."

"Agreed. Besides, the vibe of Xin's Little Nest is so bizarre."

"Exactly! Tiantian is always making us do this or that, which wastes time and costs money. And we always get scolded by our teachers and parents for neglecting our proper business."

"True. By comparison, the old geezer's fan club has such a lovely atmosphere."

"Plus one! Every single fan—grandpa and grandma—is ridiculously cute, and ever since I started hanging out here... I don't have to go to remedial classes during the holidays, the school even gave me an award, and my allowance has increased too."

"So then...?"

"Decided! Leaving the fandom!"

Watching her two companions invent ten thousand reasons for themselves and officially defect, Chen Boshi dropped her jaw in shock.

(╯⊙67⊙╰)

You guys...

You two traitors!

If you want to defect, go ahead and defect, don't drag me into it, you idiots!

I was forced into this! I am innocent!!!!!!

Nearby, An Xiaoxiao pulled four packets of dried small fish from her schoolbag.

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"Congratulations on turning over a new leaf. Come on, let's celebrate."

"Thanks!" "Oh, Xiaoxiao sharing snacks? That's seriously rare."

Handing the dried fish to Chen Yiyi and Su Sansan, An Xiaoxiao blinked at Chen Boshi.

"Boshi, aren't you going to have one? Everyone, look, this is the youngest member of my teacher's fan club, Chen Boshi. Isn't she cute? If you think she's cute, please give her a like."

???

Chen Boshi, currently undergoing an existential crisis, furrowed her brow. Looking at An Xiaoxiao, who was holding her phone right up to her face, she asked dazedly, "Little Xiaoxiao, what are you doing?"

"Live-streaming."

"You? What could you possibly live-stream?"

"Eating food."

"Eating food?"

"Yeah, just eating like this. This bunch of netizens probably have something wrong with their brains—hundreds of thousands of people just love watching me eat. Pretty impressive, right?"

"..."

Chen Boshi covered her face.

It's over. Hundreds of thousands of people...

There was simply no washing off the title of traitor now.

Oh well!

Forget it!

Her heart aching terribly, Chen Boshi fiercely wiped her face, looked at the fast-scrolling "So cute" comments flooding the screen of An Xiaoxiao's phone, and let out a long sigh.

"Xiaoxiao, I'll stan you from now on."

"Really?"

"Really. I'm under too much pressure. Stanning a moron like you might make my life a bit easier." "Okay!"

"Can you have a little ambition, though? What kind of bright future is there in being a mukbang streamer?!"

"Then, then what should I do?"

"Hmph, no need to worry about that. As the daughter of a veteran talent agent, let this young lady properly plan out your future career path!"

...

At Li Shixin's home.

Investing all seventy-shousand-odd applause points into the youth-rejuvenation option, Li Shixin swept away the fatigue he had accumulated over the past few days.

Feeling his physique bounce back just a fraction compared to before, Li Shixin chuckled.

He felt as though the old man's life had reached its climax.

He felt as though the old man's life had reached its absolute peak.

Next, he needed to prepare for the new play and bounce back in a big way once more!

Just then, his phone rang.

It was a call from Yang Kuan.

"Godfather, the production crew has been found. Get ready. Once we finish shooting *Dumplings* and *Only You* over the next two days, we'll start *Mobei*. We've read your script, and the commercial for *Mobei* can't be filmed in Rongdian. We'll probably have to go to the desert film studio city, so get ready."

Hearing Yang Kuan's arrangements, Li Shixin nodded.

Very well. Even though this godson's loyalty was a bit lacking, his work efficiency was still remarkably high.