They Began to Acknowledge His Talent

The repercussions of the Talent Show were still going on, with wave after wave of online backlash against Bai Youlou.

Everyone was thoroughly disgusted by the way a disgraced celebrity had jumped out again to attract attention.

As they said, when the wall fell, everyone pushed it down. By now, hardly anyone was even mentioning Dong Lu anymore. After all, she had cheated, but she hadn't kept jumping into the spotlight.

She was staying home obediently and barely even going out.

This cold-treatment approach gradually made netizens let her off the hook. It was just that the memes created by Bai Youlou were so hilarious that Dong Lu's name kept appearing online.

But as far as she herself was concerned, at least not many people were deliberately stirring things up to attack her anymore.

All the firepower was focused on Bai Youlou.

As for whether anyone was speaking up for him, there really were some.

Some people thought the song "Blue Lotus" he had sung was very good and wanted to hear the full version. They were relatively neutral, discussing only the song and not the person.

There was also a small portion who were remnants of his fans from his idol days.

That was right. Even now, Bai Youlou still had fans supporting him.

They hadn't come because of his fame at his peak, yet they also hadn't turned away when he hit rock bottom.

They were more than a little self-moved and completely out of their minds.

They could be called die-hard fans.

Previously, they had been battered by the internet's surging mockery and scandals until they were like loose sand. They genuinely had no fighting power and couldn't unite.

But this time, even though Bai Youlou had only sung half a song, it still got these last remaining "troops" of fans back on their feet.

Their idol was still working hard. How could they give up?! Even if there was only a glimmer of hope!

Damn, they were fired up!

Then they went after Wang Jiahua.

More accurately, they ran to his Weibo and started hurling abuse at him.

Their words were nothing more than, "How dare you say that about my brother when he's working so hard," "Some people don't even have basic manners!" "He's so talented. You must be jealous of her," and "."

For a while, they really did briefly overrun Wang Jiahua's Weibo.

What a pity. If this had been Bai Youlou's fanbase during his "peak," they probably could have forced Wang Jiahua to disable comments.

A half-step away from becoming a top star, and already terrifying.

But now...

They were merely a rabble.

Wang Jiahua himself hadn't even done anything, yet righteous passersby had already flamed these "idiot fans" until they didn't know which way was up. Their combat power was on an entirely different level.

Faced with this situation, Wang Jiahua, whose mouth had always been as leaky as a sieve, naturally wasn't going to let the opportunity pass. With a single line—"What kind of idol, what kind of fans"—he summed them up.

Still looking down from his high horse.

After all, who couldn't win when they had the advantage?!

To be honest, even Bai Youlou found it hilarious.

The average age of this group of fans was definitely under eighteen. He dared swear on his own dick.

But people were all hypocrites.

When it was someone else's idiot fans, they naturally looked down on them and thought those people had something wrong with their heads.

But to the person involved, these little fans were genuinely doing everything they could to defend him. They were a little foolish—perhaps more than a little.

Still, even someone with Bai Youlou's pitch-black reputation felt a bit embarrassed to call them idiot fans.

That they were foolish, dazed, and brainless was an objective fact.

But... they were also somewhat adorable.

What made it unfortunate for them was that Bai Youlou himself didn't say anything about it.

Normally, this should have left these fans feeling defeated. But the fact that they could still support Bai Youlou to this day showed that they truly weren't ordinary people.

They were incredibly stubborn.

They directly imagined that, "Brother wants to speak up too, but he has no way to do it. We have to work even harder to speak for him."

This kind of impotent, furious insistence usually ended with it gradually fading away as time passed. At least, that was what happened with the fans of other disgraced idols.

But all one could say was that they really were lucky.

A fortunate accident!

The news about the Cannes Film Festival was a shot of adrenaline.

Although the media hadn't reported much about it, mostly covering another film nominated for the Cannes main competition and merely mentioning Bai Youlou in passing,

Bai Youlou's current traffic was right there.

Even the tiniest spark could start a prairie fire!

These fans might not even have known what Cannes actually was or been able to tell whether Cannes or the Golden Broom was more impressive, but that didn't stop them from using it to speak up and praise him.

Just charge!

It was only a tiny group of people, yet they somehow created the impression of an army of thousands.

That made the anti-fans rather uncomfortable, because there was indeed nothing wrong with praising him for being nominated at Cannes.

It wasn't as if they could attack Bai Youlou by first questioning the Cannes Film Festival's prestige, right?

Wouldn't that put them on the same level as these idiot fans?

Fortunately, the Cannes hype soon passed, lasting less than even a day.

On one hand, the mainstream online opinion was attacking Bai Youlou, and people weren't particularly eager to mention this matter. On the other hand, the later episodes of the shows had also begun airing!

After half of "Blue Lotus," there was "Xiāochóu" and then "The Ordinary Road."

In the eyes of the viewers, Bai Youlou was like a musical eruption machine, opening fire wildly on different stages and unleashing his talent to the fullest.

His musical talent was downright terrifying!

Every song ferociously surged onto the hot searches, occupying the attention of countless people.

The combination of infamy-driven traffic and high-quality songs had become an unconventional form of marketing.

There was no way to replicate this marketing method, because the conditions were too demanding and the cost was too high.

Quite a number of singers in the industry watched Bai Youlou "waste" such good songs and felt heartbroken.

And all for the sake of promoting a movie?

No one believed he had put on such a huge show merely to promote a movie.

He appeared on so many programs, only to make one round on each before being eliminated outright.

Many people felt that Bai Youlou was clearly trying to blast open a path back into the entertainment industry with his talent.

Although they found it absurd and unrealistic, regardless of how talented he was, his glorious record of seducing his second sister-in-law was right there.

Someone reached a conclusion: "He can't possibly return to where he was before. At most, he'll become a singer with few bookings. However, he has the potential to become a top-tier music producer and songwriter, provided these songs were really written by him."

Yanjing City, Huaxing Entertainment.

"The public opinion is beginning to change."

Hearing Sister Hong say this, An Luning, who had originally hidden her entire head behind the script, suddenly poked it out. "Really? I still see a lot of people cursing him."

Sister Hong helplessly glared at her. She knew this little girl hadn't been seriously reading the script.

Did you even know who I was talking about before you jumped in?

Without hurrying to lecture An Luning, Sister Hong first satisfied the girl's curiosity. "Although the mainstream opinion is still attacking him, more and more people are speaking up for him—or at least remaining neutral."

After thinking for a moment, Sister Hong summed it up with another sentence: "They've begun to acknowledge his talent!"