In the bedroom, Fang Cheng adjusted the angle of the lights and the position of the camera. He asked Qi Feng softly, “Will we be living together with President Pei from now on? If I want to come and find you, would it be inconvenient?”
“It’s not inconvenient,” Qi Feng replied in a calm tone, as if living with a man was a completely ordinary thing.
Qi Feng’s personality was indeed calm and cautious. But hearing him speak so nonchalantly about living together with someone made Fang Cheng skeptical. He asked, “Do you already know Pei Yan? It feels like you’re quite familiar with him, not like it’s just a one-night stand.”
A one-night stand?
Qi Feng chuckled. “Let’s start recording.”
Fang Cheng: “Huh?”
Yesterday, Fang Cheng had announced the livestreaming schedule on Qi Feng’s Weibo account. When he entered the livestreaming channel, there were less than a hundred fans waiting. It was quite pitiful for an idol star who had debuted for almost two years.
Fortunately, most of the fans were genuine, and the comments in the livestreaming channel were more gentle than any public platform:
【Xiao Feng can also play the guzheng, that’s amazing.】
【Honestly, Xiao Feng has a touch of ancient elegance in his temperament.】
【Wow, the balcony in Xiao Feng’s house is so grand.】
【I can see the view outside, it’s a high-rise building, seems like it’s in a wealthy neighborhood.】
…..
Qi Feng glanced at the camera, knowing that he had already appeared in the livestream channel. He didn’t say anything, but a faint smile appeared on his face as he lowered his gaze and began to pluck the strings.
He chose a well-known guzheng piece called “High Mountains and Flowing Water” to play. The difficulty level of this piece was not high. The original owner of the body could play the guzheng, but only at a beginner’s level and had never publicly performed in front of others.
By choosing such a popular piece to play, it wouldn’t seem out of place or raise any suspicions. People would probably think that he had been privately practicing hard.
Ning Yufei heard the news that Qi Feng had started a livestream.
His assistant sneered on the side, “What can Qi Feng do with a livestream? He only has a handful of pitiful fans, and they’re all die-hard fans. How many people would actually watch?”
“I also heard that when Fang Cheng applied for a livestream channel in the company’s advertising department, he was scolded by the advertising director. The implication was not to let Qi Feng cause trouble for the public relations department.”
The assistant couldn’t help but laugh while speaking.
Ning Yufei didn’t find it funny and asked him, “What time does Qi Feng’s livestream start?”
The assistant replied, “It seems like it has already started. Do you think he’s deliberately copying your livestream about your personal life?”
Ning Yufei said, “Give me the room number. I’ll go in and take a look.”
The assistant was surprised, “You want to go in with your own account? That would be like giving him support for free. Your influence is so great, and you shouldn’t let him take advantage of it.”
Ning Yufei was annoyed, “Use a dummy account.”
He quickly entered Qi Feng’s livestream channel. Before the entire screen had loaded, he already heard the distant and melodious sound of the guzheng being played.
He was momentarily stunned, but quickly saw a boy sitting in front of a guzheng, playing. His ten fingers were placed on the wide and long strings of the guzheng, either stroking, plucking, or picking. The smooth and graceful melody flowed from his fingertips, surrounding his ears.
Qi Feng already had an extremely good-looking appearance, and the close-up shot of his hands playing the instrument in the livestream was also so beautiful. His fingers were slender and delicate, clean and fair, and between the bending of the strings, they displayed a strong sense of strength and flexibility.
It was beautiful and pleasing to the ears, making people feel delighted.
Although there weren’t many fans in the livestream channel, all of them were exclaiming and praising:
【Ah, it sounds so good. I feel like I’m already under the high mountains, listening to the sound of birds and the flowing water of a small stream.】
【His fingerwork is so skillful, and the transitions between the notes are mesmerizing. Is it really the beginner’s guzheng that he just learned?】
【I don’t understand the instrument, but I just think it sounds amazing. I could listen to this piece on repeat all day.】
【That’s a guzheng, not a qin!】
【This is exactly the kind of Qi Feng I love. Keep up the good work, Qi Feng! I will always love you.】
…..
The comments in the live chat channel are completely different from the mocking style that is prevalent on the internet nowadays. They are filled with love and admiration for Qi Feng. It’s evident that even though he’s been heavily criticized online, he still has loyal fans.
Even the term “embroidered pillow” that was used to mock Qi Feng before has taken on a different meaning, with fans now affectionately calling him “flower pillow” as if it were a nickname.
As Ning Yufei’s eyes gradually flickered with a hint of coldness, his assistant, after listening for a while, asked in surprise, “How can he play the guzheng? Could it be dubbed, and he’s just pretending to play?”
Such a beautiful melody, it must be Qi Feng pretending to play. The assistant thought to himself and blurted out, ” If Qi Feng dares to fake playing in his stream, won’t he get mocked to death? Isn’t he asking to be scolded? Yufei, should we expose him to the company?”
“He’s not pretending to play,” Ning Yufei replied.
Although he didn’t understand the guzheng himself, he knew that Qi Feng had one at home. Back when they had just debuted, he had visited Qi Feng’s house and heard him play.
Qi Feng had smiled and said, “I’m not very good at it yet. When I improve, I’ll play it for you.”
He was a humble person and wouldn’t easily show what he was capable of until he was confident. But once he did, he would amaze everyone.
Moreover, the livestream had been focused on close-ups of the guzheng all along. People who understood the instrument could tell from Qi Feng’s finger movements whether or not he was pretending to play.
The assistant found it hard to believe and said, “He’s not pretending? Qi Feng can really play the guzheng? Then he’s…”
The assistant had originally wanted to say, “Then he’s amazing.” But seeing Ning Yufei’s expression, he forcefully swallowed the words of praise he had wanted to give Qi Feng.
Qi Feng was a student of performing arts, and he had already done creative advertisements, acted in short films, appeared on variety shows, and showcased his talents in various areas since his debut. If it weren’t for the recent wave of criticism, directors would have already invited him to act in movies.
If others were to find out that he could play a musical instrument as well, the paths he could take in the future would be even broader.
The assistant thought to himself, but didn’t dare to speak. Because he knew that Ning Yufei wanted to deliberately suppress Qi Feng, they were rivals.
Ning Yufei calmly looked at it for a long time and said, “This is not Qi Feng’s place.”
When Qi Feng bought the house, he visited for the housewarming. He stayed at Qi Feng’s place for a night and knew the layout and furnishings of his home. It couldn’t be a two-bedroom apartment like the spacious balcony hidden in the livestreaming channel, which exuded luxury.
Where is he playing?
Assistant: “Could it be a rented livestreaming studio?”
Ning Yufei shook his head.
Through the window, he could see that it was a high-rise building, and the view outside the window could roughly determine it was the central area of City A. The real estate prices in this area were very expensive, even some first-tier celebrities couldn’t afford it.
For some reason, Ning Yufei suddenly thought of Pei Yan.
He asked the assistant, “Has the audition notice from Donghai Investment come down?”
“I don’t know, Mr. Tang hasn’t informed me yet. But it definitely won’t be Qi Feng. I heard that he didn’t even go for the audition that day.”
Seeing Ning Yufei’s expression getting worse, the assistant quickly said, “It’s just playing a piece on the guzheng. There are plenty of people who know classical music, no one will care.”
“Just a few fans of his will praise him back and forth, it won’t cause much of a stir. Look, the online viewership barely reaches a hundred people, tsk tsk, it’s really pitiful for an artist to end up like this.”
Ning Yufei said, “Don’t underestimate these people. They will record the livestream and share it everywhere, and then it will multiply by ten or a hundred times in terms of traffic.”
The assistant didn’t care at all, “So what, personal users sharing it in small circles won’t attract many viewers. But look at you, even your bedtime livestreaming of applying face masks made it to the hot search, and even brought you an endorsement deal with a cosmetics company.”
“Yufei-ge, why don’t we start a livestream too? Let the people in the advertising department see the huge difference in traffic between Qi Feng’s and your livestreaming channel, and they’ll only pay more attention to you in the future.”
Indeed.
Ning Yufei nodded.
So what if Qi Feng can play a piece on the guzheng, he still has dozens of times more traffic than him.
Ning Yufei sneered in his heart, anyway, he had plenty of ways to make Qi Feng fall into scandal again, and any effort he made would be in vain.
He was about to think about today’s livestream content when he suddenly heard a different melody playing in Qi Feng’s live streaming channel. It was a completely different style from before.
At first, he didn’t pay much attention, but when he was about to close it, he suddenly saw the number of fans in Qi Feng’s livestreaming channel increase to over five hundred.
“What’s going on?”
Surprised, he couldn’t help but ask.
Blinking his eyes, the number of online fans increased to six hundred.
“What’s happening?”
The assistant was startled and hurried over to take a look. The number of people increased to over eight hundred. “How did so many people appear in such a short time!”
Was Qi Feng promoting himself?
This was strictly prohibited by the company!
In the midst of the assistant’s confusion, the number of people in the livestreaming channel quickly approached a thousand.
“It’s okay, Yufei-ge, your livestreaming channel always has over ten thousand viewers each time, right? He only has a thousand, ten times fewer than you. Don’t worry, let’s focus on our own livestreaming.”
While soothing Ning Yufei, the assistant secretly glanced at the changing online viewers above the livestreaming channel.
The numbers kept jumping: one thousand, one thousand five hundred, two thousand…
“No, this can’t be possible. How did the number suddenly increase so much? Is Qi Feng doing something supernatural? This is terrifying!”
The assistant took out his phone. “I’m going to tell Mr. Tang about this. He won’t let Qi Feng get away with it!”
Ning Yu Fei looked at the steadily rising number of viewers, his face growing paler and paler.
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