Selfies

Li Yu really did go back to sleep for a while. When he opened his phone again, he found even more messages waiting for him.

He was a little unaccustomed to it, and even felt a faint resistance in his heart. His notifications had been this lively before, but back then, they had all been insults directed at him.

He switched back to his profile again. In just one night, his followers had risen from nine hundred thousand to three and a half million.

The internet was terrifying. Someone could become famous across the entire web overnight, or fall into the abyss just as quickly.

Li Yu took a deep breath and suppressed some of his darker emotions. There was no need to think about that now. After all, things were different from before.

Ruan Yun sent him another message afterward, telling him to take advantage of the momentum and stay active.

Stay active?

Li Yu thought about it, opened his camera, and snapped two photos in a row without even finding an angle. After confirming there was nothing wrong with them, he posted an update: Good morning [image][image]

To Li Yu, they were just two perfectly ordinary selfies. But to the netizens, that was not the case at all.

In the photos, the boy was sitting on the edge of the bed, half propped up. His hair was slightly messy, and his pajama collar had slipped to one side, revealing the snowy skin of his neck and half a collarbone.

Sunlight streaming in through the window illuminated Li Yu's entire face. Only his thick lashes cast a shadow, while his eyes looked openly into the camera. His lightly pursed lips carried a healthy, tender pink hue.

In less than half an hour, the comments beneath Li Yu's update had been stormed by netizens from every corner of the internet—

The Moon Doesn't Sleep: Waking up and seeing my husband's gorgeous photos first thing in the morning, who understands!

Zhao Wenrou: Good morning, baby!

Fated Little Little Yu: Wifey is so well-behaved! [cry] I love the mole by the corner of his eye, I love it so much!

Cheese: Why isn't wifey showing his legs [pitiful]

Unknown Quality: Baby, do you know how devastating these two photos are to me this early in the morning? Such a cute baby.

Dog Fleeing to the Mountains: Wifey, you dropped a hundred yuan on the floor. Come pick it up [dog head]

Flowering Season: Hello, handsome. There's a relationship here that I'd like to discuss with you [heart]

My Bias Is the God of Wealth: Such youthful vibes. So handsome I'm dizzy.

Sleepy Cat: Are you new here? I've never seen this type before.

Say That Again: Feels like he posted this just to pursue me [shy]

Li Yu's faintly pink fingertips scrolled over the screen, while the flush on his face deepened bit by bit.

These people...

Weren't these people's comments a little too bold?

They had the nerve to post them, but he did not even have the nerve to keep reading.

If there was anyone whose emotions were even more stirred up than Li Yu's right now, it was probably Chi Yan, who was likewise holding his phone and reading the comments.

Chi Yan rarely paid attention to such things. He only occasionally checked Li Yu's updates.

When he saw Li Yu post two photos, his first reaction was to save them immediately. Only then did he casually glance at the comment section.

It would have been better if he had not looked. The moment he did, Chi Yan was furious.

Wifey?

Baby?

He did not even dare call Little Fish that!

At that moment, Chi Yan felt incredibly wronged. He had the helpless feeling of wanting to do something immediately but being unable to do anything at all.

All he could do was lurk silently, then brood in misery.

By the afternoon, the topic "A Day to See All the Flowers Episode One" had even topped the rankings. More netizens came out to dig into the details, and several more Li Yu-related topics appeared on the trending list.

#Li Yu Youthful Vibes#

#Li Yu A Glance That Lasts Ten Thousand Years#

#Li Yu Selfies#

Every one of those topics was filled with breathtakingly beautiful images. Netizens had even made high-definition wallpapers and filtered GIFs.

The hottest GIF showed Li Yu standing beneath a ginkgo tree. Ginkgo leaves fell around him as Chi Yan called for him to look at the camera. He immediately turned back, his eyes brimming with laughter as though they held light.

Li Yu scrolled for a while longer before suddenly coming across the topic "Chi-Yu CP."

At first, Li Yu did not know it was the CP topic for him and Chi Yan. It was only after clicking in and seeing all the edited videos that he understood.

Someone actually shipped him with Brother Chi?

Netizens these days would ship anything. He wondered what Brother Chi would think if he found out.

The videos were all edited from variety show clips, with all sorts of pink effects and romantic background music added in. They really did look convincing enough that even Li Yu wanted to ship them.

In one video, Chi Yan carried Li Yu on his back while Li Yu whispered something beside his ear. Chi Yan immediately swayed, and then Li Yu smiled too. The two looked so ambiguous, as if they had just been whispering sweet nothings.

Then the scene changed. Ginkgo leaves danced through the air in the wind as Chi Yan called for Li Yu to turn around. Li Yu immediately looked toward Chi Yan's camera, while Chi Yan's eyes were filled with focus, as though Li Yu were the only person in his world.

At the dining table, Chi Yan pulled out Li Yu's chair before sitting down himself. Whenever Li Yu looked at a dish for even a second longer, Chi Yan would put some into his bowl the very next moment.

When the rooms were assigned that night, Chi Yan's face had broken into a smile the moment he learned that Li Yu would be sharing a room with him. In the rain-soaked old town, Chi Yan and Li Yu shared an oil-paper umbrella, but it silently tilted toward Li Yu's side...

Once this video was posted, who could watch it without saying the two of them were definitely real?

Holding back a smile, Li Yu kept scrolling and found another set of photos posted by someone else. The title read: When he's there, he never looks at the camera.

The photo set contained all sorts of screenshots. First was that group photo of Li Yu and Chi Yan, where Chi Yan only looked at Li Yu and smiled. Then there were clips of Li Yu talking or taking part in games, while Chi Yan did nothing at the side except turn his face toward Li Yu and watch him.

The comments were filled with people saying they had been fed, but the more Li Yu looked, the faster his heart beat.

How had he not noticed during the show that Brother Chi had been watching him the entire time?

Had the netizens just caught those moments by pausing at the right frames?

Or was it... that he had not looked carefully last night?

Li Yu pressed his lips together. Though he felt this was a little absurd, he opened the video app the very next second, wanting to rewatch the show.

He did not know what exactly he wanted to confirm, but he just wanted to watch it again.

This time, he ignored the unnecessary scenes and focused only on Chi Yan.

He discovered that Chi Yan's gaze truly had never left him for even a moment. And there was an emotion in those eyes that he could not understand.

Li Yu's expression was complicated at that moment. It felt as though two little people lived in his heart. One said, Just admit it. You think Chi Yan's feelings for you are definitely not simple either. The other said, Chi Yan only knew you on this show. Who else could he pay attention to besides you?

With a swipe of his finger, Li Yu opened WeChat.

He scrolled down to find Chi Yan, wanting to probe for Chi Yan's thoughts through conversation.

But how was he supposed to ask?

Brother Chi, have you watched the show? By the way, why were you always looking at me during it?

That would not work. It was too direct.

Brother Chi, have you been online? Some netizens are even shipping the two of us! So funny, haha.

That would not work. Too awkward.

Li Yu typed and deleted in the chat box, but in the end, he could not come up with a single sentence.