"Seriously?"
"Go take a look."
"Holy shit! That's awesome!"
"Qiuqiu actually has someone? My youth is over!"
"Who's this Gu Wen? Qiuqiu actually likes him?"
"How are you Ke Nan? You're more like Leeuwenhoek, weren't you watching with a microscope?"
"Maybe Qiuqiu just thought it was fun and made the ring herself? Don't jump to conclusions so soon."
"Exactly, exactly. Maybe Gu Wen's video title and description are just clickbait?"
"There's too little evidence. It doesn't feel likely."
"So many coincidences... It's probably real."
After hurriedly finishing dinner, Jiang Qiuyi sat on the sofa, leaning against Chen Wen's shoulder as she scrolled through the replies beneath Ri Dangwu de Chuhe's comment again.
"This person is so annoying." Jiang Qiuyi wrinkled her delicate nose.
Besides the replies beneath that comment, a group of internet detectives had suddenly flooded into the comments on Jiang Qiuyi's latest video as well.
"I heard Qiuqiu has a boyfriend?"
"Did you get into a relationship, Qiuqiu? Give us a reply."
"Stop fixating on an uploader's private life. Whether she announces it or not is Qiuqiu's own choice."
"She just wants to keep looking single to attract fans. Those who know, know."
"I compared the rings in the two videos. They really do look exactly the same."
Chen Wen's comment section was much the same.
"Only fifty thousand followers? That's it?"
"Did you post a video to show off after successfully confessing?"
"Awesome, bro. You actually got the goddess."
"I still can't kick my bad habit of liking other people's wives. (Shy)"
Their comment sections were still relatively tame. There were some sour grapes and sarcastic people, but most were simply curious or there to join in the fun and throw around memes.
Fans who genuinely cared about Jiang Qiuyi were more likely to post comments telling everyone to calm down, but those were quickly buried beneath shorter, more provocative, and more inflammatory comments.
As for Chen Wen, his small number of followers were hardly worth mentioning, and they did not have much attachment to him yet. They had virtually no influence amid this wave of public opinion.
It would already be good enough if they did not get led astray and turn around to attack Chen Wen instead.
And after looking through the comments, opening the private messages revealed things far uglier than the comment section.
Most were still merely curious inquiries. At worst, their wording was a little rude, but it was nothing serious.
However, remarks like, "Let me see which bastard dared lay a finger on Qiuqiu," were much more malicious in nature.
There were relatively few people like that, but their tone and wording made them sound like they had never been raised by parents, making them easy to anger.
Only someone like Chen Wen, a slacker who did not care much about running his Bilibili account, could mostly ignore those private messages.
He was not someone who liked to argue. Cursing back through private messages would not solve anything, and Jiang Qiuyi's mood mattered far more to him.
"What do you want to do?" Chen Wen lowered his head to look at the girl leaning against him. "Whether we make it public or keep it hidden, I'll listen to you."
Jiang Qiuyi shook her head, closed Bilibili, and put away her phone. Then she took Chen Wen's phone and looked through his Bilibili private messages.
Without saying a word, whenever she saw an unpleasant message, she screenshot the conversation and finally sent it to herself through Chen Wen's WeChat.
"Neither public nor hidden." Jiang Qiuyi sounded irritated as she said sulkily, "Let's just pretend this never happened. We won't respond at all and will keep posting videos as usual."
"Then why are you taking screenshots?" Chen Wen asked, puzzled.
"This lady holds grudges!" Jiang Qiuyi raised her little fist and waved it twice. The dark blue ring gleamed brilliantly under the light. "When I get the chance someday, I'll publicly execute them!"
Jiang Qiuyi had screenshot and noted down every person who had insulted Chen Wen.
As for the foul language in her own private messages, she did not take it to heart instead.
"That's it for now?" Chen Wen asked after pausing in surprise.
"What else would we do?" Jiang Qiuyi pouted angrily. "Me dating you has nothing to do with anyone else. They aren't my parents."
"If I want to make it public, I'll announce it myself. I'm not going to make some special announcement just because of this."
"This account is for sharing piano pieces. I've never talked about my private life."
"If they like guessing, then let them guess."
"Anyway, any videos of the two of us together will go on the alt account from now on." Jiang Qiuyi's temper flared, and she said stubbornly, "They want to know so badly? Then I just won't tell them. I'll even specifically post them on the alt account and piss them off!"
"..." Chen Wen said nothing more, tacitly accepting Jiang Qiuyi's decision.
He did not particularly care whether they went public or not. To him, Bilibili was merely a platform for uploading videos.
Even though he already had over fifty thousand followers, he had basically never interacted with them.
Much less did he have any die-hard fans.
Jiang Qiuyi was much the same.
Despite being a major uploader with over a million followers, she did not actually have a fan group at all.
Her fans had spontaneously formed several groups on their own, but Jiang Qiuyi had never joined any of them.
She had even specifically stated in her updates and profile that she would not be creating any fan groups for the time being, while also warning her fans to be wary of being scammed out of money.
To Jiang Qiuyi, the "Qiuqiu yiyi" account was simply a platform for sharing piano pieces.
Wearing cosplay outfits of anime characters she liked and playing the piano was merely one of her everyday hobbies.
With one video each week, the monthly income she received from Bilibili's creator incentives was not even as much as the allowance her family gave her.
It was only just enough to offset the money she spent buying cosplay outfits.
Sometimes, in order to buy cosplay outfits that were less revealing and of better quality, she had to spend extra money on custom orders, and she ended up paying out of pocket instead.
Together with the recording equipment in her piano room, which had already been upgraded several times, she had essentially poured all the money she had earned from Bilibili over the past three-plus years back into it.
So in Jiang Qiuyi's eyes, she did not owe these fans anything at all.
She posted videos on Bilibili because it made her happy.
"Hmph!" Jiang Qiuyi took an ice cream from the refrigerator and turned her irritation into appetite.
Chen Wen picked up his phone and began replying to Si Jiao Ji.
"If we aren't responding, I'll let Si Jiao Ji know?"
"Go ahead. Just don't pay attention to it." Holding her ice cream, Jiang Qiuyi spoke as she walked into Chen Wen's bedroom.
Ill-informed Wen: No need to delete it, and there's no need to say anything else. Just ignore it.
Si Jiao Ji: You two aren't planning to make it public?
Ill-informed Wen: Yeah, we don't plan to for now. Sorry to trouble you with keeping it secret for us.
Si Jiao Ji: Don't worry, it's only right.
Si Jiao Ji: This whole thing was caused by my video in the first place.
Ill-informed Wen: I was careless at the time. I didn't think of that.
Si Jiao Ji had shown him the initial cut yesterday, but Chen Wen had not paid any attention to that line of introduction at the time.
Who would have thought someone would connect such an inconspicuous sentence with the little details in two other videos and analyze them together?
It could only be said that all kinds of people really existed online.
People bored enough to go this far.
With the matter temporarily settled, Chen Wen rose from the sofa and walked into the bedroom as well.
"Slurp~" Jiang Qiuyi sat at the edge of the bed, pulling the ice cream she had just licked from her mouth and holding it up to Chen Wen's lips. "Want some?"
[Pu Jie Ri Ji]: It won't be completely exposed right away. It still needs time to brew, so you can guess what their alt account will be for... At this time today, the second chapter should still make it in time... Prepare to welcome the double-update beast, awooo~
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