"Really?"
"Let's go check it out."
"Holy crap! That's amazing!"
"Qiuqiu is actually taken?? My youth is over!"
"Who is this Gu Wen? How could Qiuqiu like him?"
"You call yourself Conan? You're more like a Lenin-Hoo-ker, watching videos with a microscope?"
"Maybe Qiuqiu just made the ring herself for fun? Don't jump to conclusions."
"Exactly! Maybe Gu Wen's video title and description are just clickbait?"
"There's too little evidence, I don't think so."
"So many coincidences, it's probably real."
After quickly finishing dinner, Jiang Qiuyi sat on the sofa, leaning her head on Chen Wen's shoulder, and reread the comments under [Ri Dangwu de Chuhe]'s video.
"This person is so annoying," Jiang Qiuyi frowned, wrinkling her nose.
Besides the replies under that comment, Jiang Qiuyi's latest video had also suddenly been flooded with "detectives."
"I heard Qiuqiu has a boyfriend?"
"Did she finally get out of the single life? Qiuqiu, please reply."
"Stop focusing on the uploader's private life. Whether to announce it or not is Qiuqiu's choice."
"She just wants to remain single publicly to gain more fans, anyone who understands, understands."
"I looked at the rings in both videos, they are indeed identical."
Chen Wen's comment section was the same.
"Only 50,000 followers? That's it?"
"Did you get rejected, so you're posting a video to show off?"
"Amazing, dude, you actually caught the goddess."
"I still can't break my bad habit of liking other people's wives (shy)"
Their comment sections were actually doing okay. Although there were some jealous people and passive-aggressive commenters, most were just curious or there to join in the fun and make jokes.
Fans who genuinely cared about Jiang Qiuyi tended to post comments urging everyone to calm down, but they were quickly drowned out by other short, punchy, and inflammatory comments.
As for Chen Wen, his fan base was simply too small and lacked the loyalty to have much impact in this kind of public opinion storm.
It was already good that they weren't swept up in it and attacking Chen Wen instead.
After looking through the comment sections, clicking on the private messages revealed things that were far uglier than the comments.
Most were still just curious inquiries, perhaps with slightly impolite wording, but nothing too serious.
However, remarks like "Let me see which dog dares to lay a hand on Qiuqiu" were of a more malicious nature.
These people were fewer in number, but their tone and phrasing, as if they had no parents, easily provoked anger.
Only a laid-back person like Chen Wen, who didn't care much about operating his Bilibili account, could basically ignore these private messages.
He wasn't one for arguments, and replying to insults in private messages wouldn't solve anything. Jiang Qiuyi's feelings were far more important to him.
"What do you want to do?" Chen Wen looked down at the girl leaning in his arms. "Go public or keep it hidden, it's all up to you."
Jiang Qiuyi shook her head, closed Bilibili, and put away her phone. She then took Chen Wen's phone and looked through his private messages on Bilibili.
She remained silent. When she saw an offensive private message, she screenshotted the conversation and sent it to herself via Chen Wen's WeChat.
"We're not going public, and we're not hiding it," Jiang Qiuyi said, a little annoyed and dejected. "We'll just pretend this didn't happen, don't respond at all, and keep posting videos as usual."
"Then why are you taking screenshots?" Chen Wen asked, confused.
"This grandma remembers grudges!" Jiang Qiuyi raised her small fist and gestured twice, the deep blue ring shining brightly under the light. "When the time comes, I'll publicly execute them!"
Jiang Qiuyi had screenshotted everyone who had insulted Chen Wen and written them down in her little black book.
As for the disgusting messages in her own private inbox, she didn't really care about them.
"So, this is it for now?" Chen Wen asked, stunned.
"What else?" Jiang Qiuyi pouted angrily. "I'm dating you, it has nothing to do with anyone else. They aren't my parents."
"If I want to go public, I'll announce it myself. I won't make a special announcement just because of this."
"This account is for me to share piano pieces. I've never discussed my personal life."
"Let them guess if they want to."
"Anyway, from now on, any videos of us together will be posted on my alt account," Jiang Qiuyi said petulantly, "If they want to know so badly, I'll just refuse to tell them, and I'll even post them on my alt account just to piss them off!"
"..." Chen Wen didn't say anything else, implicitly agreeing to Jiang Qiuyi's decision.
He didn't really care whether they went public or not. Bilibili was just a platform for him to upload videos.
Although he already had over 50,000 followers, there was basically no interaction between him and his fans.
Let alone having any die-hard fans.
Jiang Qiuyi was pretty much the same.
Despite being a popular creator with millions of followers, she actually didn't have any fan groups.
Her fans had spontaneously created a few groups privately, but Jiang Qiuyi never joined them.
She had even specifically explained in her posts and profile that she wasn't setting up any fan groups for now and warned her fans against scams.
To Jiang Qiuyi, the "Qiuqiu yiyi" account was simply a platform for sharing piano music.
Playing the piano while dressed as her favorite anime characters was her personal hobby.
With one video per week, the income she received from Bilibili's creator incentives in a month wasn't even as much as the allowance her family gave her.
It just about covered the cost of buying cosplay outfits.
Sometimes, to buy cosplay outfits that were less revealing and of better quality, she had to spend extra money on custom orders, which ended up costing her money out of pocket.
Coupled with the recording equipment in her piano room that had been upgraded several times, it had eaten up all the money Jiang Qiuyi had earned on Bilibili over the past three years.
Therefore, in Jiang Qiuyi's opinion, she didn't owe these fans anything at all.
She posted videos on Bilibili simply because it made her happy.
"Hmph!" Jiang Qiuyi took an ice cream out of the refrigerator, channeling her annoyance into appetite.
Chen Wen picked up his phone and started replying to Si Jiao Ji.
"If we don't respond, should I tell Si Jiao Ji that?"
"Go ahead, just ignore it," Jiang Qiuyi said, holding her ice cream and walking into Chen Wen's bedroom.
Ill-informed Wen: No need to delete or say anything else, just ignore it.
Si Jiao Ji: Aren't you planning to go public?
Ill-informed Wen: Yeah, no plans for that at the moment. Please continue to keep it a secret for us.
Si Jiao Ji: Don't worry, that's what I should do.
Si Jiao Ji: This whole situation was sparked by my video.
Ill-informed Wen: That was my oversight at the time. I didn't think of that.
Yesterday, Si Jiao Ji had shown him the rough cut. Chen Wen hadn't paid much attention to that particular introductory sentence at the time.
Who would have thought that someone would analyze such an inconspicuous sentence in conjunction with small details from two other videos?
It just goes to show that the internet has all sorts of people.
People who are bored to this extent.
After temporarily resolving the matter, Chen Wen got up from the sofa and also walked into the bedroom.
"Slurp~" Jiang Qiuyi sat on the edge of the bed, took the ice cream she had just licked out of her mouth, and brought it to Chen Wen's lips. "Want some?"
[Pu Jie Ri Ji]: It won't be a complete reveal right from the start. It still needs some time to build up. You guys can guess what the purpose of their two side accounts is... At this time today, the second chapter should be ready... Get ready for a double-update beast!
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