Chapter 51: Vote for Him Now!

Chapter 51: Vote for Him, Quick!

Qin Liyi suddenly received a phone call and stepped out onto the balcony to take it.

Chi Xingcun ran upstairs, slipped off his bracelet, and carefully put it back in the expensive box.

Qin Liyi finished his call and came upstairs, staring at him. "Can you tell me now why you brought it to show him?"

Chi Xingcun didn't want to answer and avoided his gaze. "I'm going to sleep. I've got the opening ceremony for the sports meet tomorrow."

Qin Liyi tilted his head helplessly. "Fine, young master, whatever you say, alright?"

He said that, but the moment he turned around, he sent a message to someone, telling them to dig up everything on Xie Yean, down to what kind of underwear he wore.

He'd already looked into Xie Yean before, but hadn't come up with anything useful.

This time, the young master had brought such an important jade bracelet right in front of him—this was definitely no small matter. It could only mean there were deeper details, hidden in the shadows, or even older secrets he hadn't dug up yet.

This wasn't going to be easy to uncover, but even if it took a year or two, he had to get to the bottom of it.

Why had the young master changed so completely? Unless the young master told him himself, he'd keep digging until he found out.

Chi Xingcun finished his shower first and crawled into bed.

His dad texted him:

"Baby, Mom and I are getting back from our business trip tomorrow. We'll pick you up from school and grab lunch together, okay?"

Clearly, this was his parents' way of caving in. They probably hoped that this meeting would let them talk things out and make up.

In his past life, they'd never had a cold war, let alone one this long...

But...

Chi Xingcun saw the message but didn't respond.

He left WeChat and opened his browser to look up the show Xie Yean was on.

The show was called "Idol Debut Show."

The basic idea was that different companies would send their undebuted idol groups—100 people in total—to the show, and after five rounds of performances, a five-member group would be formed and debut.

The show had only been airing for two weeks, yet it had already become the #1 trending show across all platforms.

He opened the streaming app and found a separate page below the video where he could see each contestant's profile picture, with their popularity ranking underneath.

The popularity was based on audience votes—the higher it was, the more support they had.

He clicked on the page and sorted from highest to lowest. The top contestant already had ten million votes.

He gasped. The votes reset every Monday at 8 PM, meaning in just two hours, this person had racked up ten million votes.

Each person could only cast two votes, which meant at least five million people had voted for him.

That was insane. And the show had only been airing for two weeks, yet it had already pulled in this much traffic.

Chi Xingcun's mind spun, and he immediately started from the top, looking for Xie Yean's profile picture—Xie Yean was so handsome, his popularity had to be high.

There were 100 contestants in total.

Chi Xingcun scanned from top to bottom for a while without finding him. He was just thinking he might have missed one when he spotted Xie Yean's profile picture in the second-to-last row.

What?!

Chi Xingcun was so shocked he jumped right out of bed. Xie Yean only had six votes?!

How was that even possible?!

Xie Yean was this handsome—how could he only have six votes?!

Chi Xingcun immediately cast his two votes for Xie Yean. After voting, it showed that members could vote three times, so he paid 69 yuan for a membership and cast a third vote. Then it showed that premium members could vote five times, so he upgraded to the 199 yuan premium tier and cast five votes.

What he found most unbelievable was—how could Xie Yean only have six votes?

Just during dinner, Xie Yean had told him he filmed an ad last week and made fifty thousand. If he weren't popular enough, how could anyone have hired him for an ad?

Just then, Qin Liyi came out of the shower. Chi Xingcun turned around, his face lit up with excitement, and shouted at him:

"Qin Liyi!"

Qin Liyi raised an eyebrow and walked over. "What's up?"

Chi Xingcun's face was full of excitement. "Xie Yean became a trainee!"

Qin Liyi's enthusiasm was instantly doused with cold water. "What's that got to do with me?"

Chi Xingcun begged, "Vote for him now!"

Qin Liyi climbed onto the bed, wrapped an arm around Chi Xingcun's waist, and said in a dark tone, "Why should I vote for him? Who is he? What does he have to do with me?"

Chi Xingcun slowly turned his head to look at him. "Can't you vote for him?"

Those big, glassy, pearl-like eyes—if he didn't do what they asked, it would feel like he was letting him down.

Qin Liyi felt like he was about to die from anger. He hated that Xie Yean who was always on the young master's mind, and now he had to vote for him too!

"Fine, fine, I'll vote, okay?"

He reluctantly pulled out his phone.

Chi Xingcun immediately broke into a smile, happily leaning into his face, speaking in a soft, coaxing tone: "Premium members can vote five times—just get a membership~"

Damn! With that tone, even if he asked for all one hundred and eight stars in the sky, he'd pluck them all down for him!

Qin Liyi thought—could he ever refuse Chi Xingcun even once in his life? This was killing him!

Warm, fragrant, soft breath sprayed onto his face, and no matter how angry Qin Liyi was, he couldn't go against Chi Xingcun's wishes.

But honestly, Qin Liyi never imagined he'd ever spend money on Xie Yean in this lifetime!

At 11 PM, Chi Xingcun lay on the bed, phone in hand, watching the show.

There were so many suspenseful hooks that made you want to keep watching.

Trainee after trainee appeared. But having seen Xie Yean off-camera, none of these trainees looked handsome to him anymore.

Finally, Xie Yean appeared! He represented Xinghe, with a total of six people under his banner.

Xie Yean's hairstyle was plain, but he was just strikingly handsome.

And at six-foot-two, his height and build made him stand out in a crowd...

But his screen time was disappointingly short—no more than two seconds in total.

By the second half of the first episode, his screen time had even dropped to just half a second!

Why so little?! Chi Xingcun pouted. Although Xie Yean's dancing wasn't the best, shouldn't a face that good get more screen time?

He was just too good-looking—no wonder a brand had reached out to Xie Yean for an ad.

The next second, his phone was taken away.

Chi Xingcun blinked as Qin Liyi, who had just returned from the study, stared at him: "Bedtime, my young master, or you won't be able to get up tomorrow."

"...Fine." Chi Xingcun had no choice but to lie down.

The lights went out, and he turned to look at Qin Liyi: "Tomorrow morning's the opening ceremony for our school sports meet. You coming?"

"You want me to?" As soon as Qin Liyi said this, he regretted it. It was so childish—like a needy partner trying to test if the other cared.

"I do." Chi Xingcun didn't overthink it like he did.

Qin Liyi couldn't help the smile tugging at his lips, and he buried his head into Chi Xingcun's chest: "How could I not go?"

How could he not accompany his young master? Besides, he had to watch Fu Chenzhan lose this match.

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