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He Qinglan felt that he was more or less full, but the wise River God also understood the principle that it was a waste not to take advantage of a freebie. So he gladly accepted the bag of soup dumplings and smiled in blessing. "Qinglan River blesses you."

Old Master Song laughed again.

After filling his stomach, He Qinglan was about to leave Jade City Snack Street and go back to continue picking up trash.

But just before leaving, he turned to look at the silent Qi Xiaoyuan, lifted the glass fish tank beside him, and, while Qi Xiaoyuan was utterly unprepared, dipped his fingers lightly into Black Carp's bathwater and flicked several drops onto Qi Xiaoyuan's forehead.

With that holy air about him, he looked like a bodhisattva scattering Willow-Branch Nectar.

Qi Xiaoyuan, whose head had been splashed with fish bathwater: "..."

Even taking ten thousand steps back, I gave you a deluxe all-in-one jianbing too. Is this how you treat me?

The culprit showed no shame at all. "Don't worry. The River God will bless you. You won't die today."

Qi Xiaoyuan forced out a smile. "Oh, then should I thank the River God for his blessing?"

The River God nodded, then shook his head. "No need. Just have the offerings ready in advance tomorrow." After a pause, the River God made a new request. "It would be best if you changed the flavors."

Qi Xiaoyuan: "..."

The only reason he had not thrown this guy straight out was the foundation he had built over the past few months dealing with freaks, plus that face of his.

Qi Xiaoyuan lowered his head and began making jianbing in earnest, refusing to look at that idiot again!

The morning bustle at Bicheng College of Arts calmed down after He Qinglan left, but the excitement online was only just beginning.

The first thing posted was a Weibo video from "Sweet Mountain V" at five-thirty in the morning. Sweet Mountain, with five million followers, uploaded a recording of their livestream picking up trash at Qinglan River.

In the video, Zhang Feng and Meng Tiantian, dressed cleanly and neatly, went to Qinglan River early in the morning to pick up trash. They worked with great care, and Meng Tiantian would occasionally pick up a piece of rubbish and tell everyone what kind it was.

"Last night, I couldn't sleep and happened to see Water God trending. I really never expected Qinglan River in my hometown to have become like this." Meng Tiantian scratched the tip of her nose, her expression a little sad. "When I was little, my grandmother told me that although this river's flow was small, its water was very clear. I just felt I couldn't stand by and watch the river keep going like this, so I called Ah Feng to come pick up trash with me!"

"Ah Feng agrees completely too."

Zhang Feng showed his face coolly beside her. "Protecting the environment is everyone's responsibility. All right, stop talking. The more we pick up, the cleaner it'll be."

Meng Tiantian stuck out her tongue. "All right, I won't say too much then. The main reason for this livestream was to show everyone what Qinglan River really looks like. Now that you've seen it, it really breaks your heart. Leaving aside our home planet, Qinglan River is the river Bicheng's people have relied on to survive for a thousand years. At the very least, I think Bicheng people should unite and do their part for Qinglan River."

"From now on, Ah Feng and I will come here every morning to pick up trash and do our part. I hope even more people will take action too!"

As soon as the video was posted, it drew a great deal of traffic and attention. After all, when Sweet Mountain posted on Weibo, they had specifically tagged big shot Shui Wuyuan and added the two still-trending topics #EnvironmentalProtection# and #QinglanRiverRunsDry#.

Although some netizens felt the video reeked of putting on a show, even more thought they had done the right thing—a good thing.

Even if it was a show, it was still a positive-energy show, wasn't it? At least they had earnestly picked up trash for more than half an hour.

But the netizens' attention soon shifted away from Meng Tiantian and Zhang Feng in the video. Bored out of their minds early in the morning, they spotted another figure who appeared from time to time in the footage.

There was nothing remarkable about other people appearing in the video to begin with. A livestream was not a film set that needed to be cleared. But that gray figure seemed to be doing the same thing as Meng Tiantian and Zhang Feng, and moreover, that figure looked rather good-looking.

Yes, even though that figure stood at least ten meters away from Meng Tiantian and Zhang Feng, even though four of his five appearances showed only his back with no face visible, and the one time his face appeared was merely a blurry side profile, everyone somehow felt that this person... seemed very handsome!

Maybe they were too idle with nothing to do, maybe they had played too much spot-the-difference, or maybe it was the astonishing intuition of face fanatics, but some netizens began digging into the third trash-picker who had appeared in the livestream footage.

The power of the masses was boundless and mighty.

Very soon, all five of He Qinglan's appearances in the livestream were screencapped. After being processed by skilled face-fanatic editors, all five images were enlarged into high definition.

When the screencap of his side profile, head lowered and eyes cast down, was posted, the face fanatics exploded!!

[Ahhhhh, I told you this little brother had to be a peerless beauty!! My titanium-alloy face-fanatic eyes will never be wrong, ahhhh! This side profile kills me!]

[I already thought this little brother who appeared in the shot had incredible presence. Even though they were all picking up trash, this little brother gave me the noble feeling that he wasn't picking up trash—he was inspecting his territory!]

[Nothing compares to the charm of that lowered head and downcast gaze. I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love! This face, this aura—an Immortal Pretty Boy in the flesh!]

[Within three minutes! I want every last detail on this little brother picking up trash, ahhhhh!]

A sudden swarm of face fanatics beneath the Weibo post caught Zhang Feng and Meng Tiantian, who were reading the comments, completely off guard. But compared to Meng Tiantian's helpless yet calm mood as she secretly saved the screencaps, Zhang Feng was so furious that his face twisted.

His video! His traffic! His popularity! Even his fans!! They had all been stolen by that damned plastic-surgery pretty boy now!!

Zhang Feng simply could not believe it. That person had merely appeared by accident five times in his video, and now he was fucking close to trending!!

And those netizens enlarging the screenshots—were they all so bored their balls hurt?! Instead of looking at his face, they were screencapping some edge-of-frame nobody!