Brother Feng, So Sorry (Seeking Investment, Seeking Recommendations)

Kyoto, a recording studio.

"If one day, I quietly leave."

"Please bury me, in this spring."

"Spring~~~~~"

"OK, that was good. We'll put this song aside for now. Everyone take a break." Wang Feng said with a smile to the band members, then picked up a bottle of mineral water and took a sip.

"Brother Feng, let's go over "Let's Rock Together" again later. See if we need to rearrange it."

Yazi, the bassist, spoke up from not far away. Wang Feng nodded and said, "Hmm... okay! On stage last time, this song didn't seem explosive enough. Let's go over it later and find the problem."

As he spoke, he glanced at the other members. Seeing that no one had any objections, he smiled and said, "You've all been working hard lately. I'm treating tonight, so feel free to ask for whatever you want to eat."

"Hot pot... I've been running around for the past half month, my mouth is so bland it's lost its taste." Drummer Beibei spoke first.

"Hot pot sounds good, I'm craving beef and lamb," guitarist Lao Xiong chimed in.

"Let's also get some roast duck to go with the hot pot."

"I want to eat skewers..."

Everyone was discussing how to treat Brother Feng tonight when the door suddenly knocked. A man wearing glasses pushed the door open and came in.

Wang Feng turned his head and saw it was his assistant, Xiao Gao. Seeing his hurried demeanor, he asked, "Xiao Gao, what's wrong?"

"Brother Feng... it looks like we've clashed with someone." Xiao Gao rushed to Wang Feng's side.

"Huh?" Wang Feng was confused. Xiao Gao handed him the tablet he was holding and pointed at the screen. "Our trending topic has been pushed down by someone else. The plan was to stay at number one for two hours, but we didn't expect a trending topic to suddenly appear and clash with us."

Wang Feng frowned slightly at this, his eyes fixed on the trending topics list on the screen.

Currently, number one was Bilibili Viral Gag Video, second was Photos of a Certain Little Flower's Film Crew Exposed, third was Estee Lauder New Product Launch, and only fourth was his own Wang Feng World Tour Concert.

"Only fourth? I told you, we should have held off on the warm-up for a couple more days. The next stop in Bincheng is still a week away." Wang Feng's tone was a bit helpless, but he was somewhat prepared. It seemed like some mysterious force was blocking him every time he tried to trend.

This wasn't the first or second time this had happened; it had happened countless times since last year, and it always felt sinister.

Brother Feng's bad luck was truly unsolvable. Every time he was about to hit the headlines, he would be bumped off by some inexplicable major news. He hadn't missed a single time since last year.

Why was it so hard to get on the trending list? It was as if some mysterious force was working against him. Every time he made it to the trending list, there was always a more explosive topic that pushed him down.

This time, it should have been a sure thing, warming up for the next concert. But it was really bad timing, clashing with Brother Xian, who was about to "debut."

Who the hell is this guy!

What is Bilibili? What is Gag?

Is he deliberately targeting me?

Brother Feng was frustrated, a ball of anger stuck in his chest with no outlet. He clicked on the trending topic to take a look. The person wasn't a celebrity or a famous person, so how did they manage to push him down?

"Brother Feng, I inquired earlier. There wasn't any major news these past couple of days, so we started warming up for the concert," Xiao Gao said with a crestfallen face. "Who knew this kid would pop out of nowhere and catch us completely off guard."

"This... who is 'Brother Xian'?"

"I don't know. I don't understand Bilibili either." Xiao Gao refreshed the trending list again and pointed it out to Wang Feng. "Brother Feng, look, there's this kid's trending topic, 'Bincheng Big Eater.' This trending topic has already reached eighth place. They're probably preparing to replace the one above it."

"Oh? What's going on here?"

"Brother Feng, don't you see? This is bought. They're artificially creating trending topics. I just took a look, and it's all paid bots," Xiao Gao paused and said regretfully, "Brother Feng, it's probably impossible to get the top spot today. My preparations weren't as thorough as theirs... They must have spent a lot of money. I only have a dozen or so big influencers retweeting, I can't compete with them."

"This... it's not your fault," Brother Feng didn't know what else to say, so he patted Xiao Gao's shoulder to comfort him. "No one can predict accidents. Haven't there been enough accidents in the past two years? No matter how well you prepare, it's all the same. Forget it, the concert isn't urgent anyway, let's wait a couple of days."

"That's all we can do, Brother Feng. We're leaving for Bincheng on Thursday, so we still have plenty of time. I'll go discuss it with Xiao Yang and the others now, and we'll promote it again then."

"Okay, you guys handle it."

Xiao Gao left the recording studio. Wang Feng sighed and turned to the band members. "Let's have a good drink tonight. No one leaves until they're drunk."

As soon as he said that, everyone started cheering. Brother Feng was going to drink until he dropped today.

Grand Hyatt Hotel Presidential Suite.

Li Xian had just finished a spa treatment and taken a shower. He asked Lin Yuan to arrange some food and drinks and rested in the living room for a while.

He lounged lazily on the sofa, took out his phone, and logged into Weibo. The second phase had already begun. His self-verification Weibo post had received many comments; everything was proceeding as planned.

He glanced at the trending topics list, which was largely the same as before.

However, Brother Feng's trending topic seemed to have disappeared. He scrolled down his phone, and Brother Feng had fallen to 17th on the trending list.

This is really too embarrassing.

I was just messing around, I never intended to snatch any resources.

I've spent hundreds of thousands, millions even, just let me stay up there a little longer.

Li Xian pouted and muttered.

"Brother Feng, I really didn't mean to!"

Pushing Brother Feng off the trending list so unexpectedly was truly not Li Xian's intention.

It could only be considered collateral damage. Brother Feng probably wouldn't hold a grudge; he was a magnanimous person.

ps: This chapter was blocked and a large portion was deleted. I want to cry. This chapter was originally 2,500 words, but only 700 were released after deletion.