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Quite a few people had grown impatient. "Stop keeping us in suspense, OP."

"Get to the point!"

OP: "Let me put it this way: go look at this year's published rich list. The man in third place is his biological father. Every filming location for Era Idol, including the villas where the trainees lived, was his family's private property."

OP: "We'd all been wondering why he joined an idol competition. I only found out a few days ago that he joined to pursue someone."

The moment the words "pursue someone" came up, the spectators instantly decoded it.

"Holy shit!! Ye Zexi?!"

"His family is that rich?!"

"I just looked up a photo of the third-place guy on the rich list. They don't just look alike—they look like they came from the same mold!"

"It really is him!"

"Ye Zexi's family is insanely rich!"

"So when Ye Zexi said on the show that he was living off a rich second-generation kid, he really wasn't joking!"

OP: "Joking? With the Ye Family's assets, as long as Ye Zexi doesn't go investing, he could squander it for several lifetimes."

"Shocked.jpg."

Topics about rich second-generation kids were simply too eye-catching. It was even more talked about than Ye Zexi taking first place in the first public performance. In less than half an hour, the post had been pushed to hot.

Clickbait accounts chased wherever the buzz was. The moment they saw the post, they screenshotted it and reposted it directly to Weibo.

Once the forum's buzz reached Weibo, more and more netizens joined the discussion.

"I've been eating gossip all night, and all I want to say is that there really aren't many people who are this rich and still work this hard! Ye Zexi deserves my support! I'm in!"

"Did the commenter above get it wrong? Ye Zexi actually joined the competition to pursue Tang Jing. In the end, he didn't get the guy, but became popular himself instead!"

"Hahahahaha, what a twist of fate! Ye Zexi's skills really are pretty good too. Love him!"

The discussion only grew, and some fans even made stick-figure reaction memes for it—

Meme one:

Q: Why did you join Era Idol?

Other trainees: To fulfill my dreams.

Ye Zexi: To pursue someone.

The second meme was even more direct. Netizens made a GIF using footage of Ye Zexi, captioned "Living off a rich second-generation kid," followed by Shan Zeyu's disgruntled expression in the next frame.

"Hahahahaha, who made this?! I'm fucking dying! Please share the original!"

"Fucking 'to pursue someone'!"

"This meme is nice. Too bad it's yours one second and mine the next!"①

By the time Ye Zexi received Wei Lifei's call, his name had already been hanging on the trending searches all night.

It was ranked quite high, and the trending tag was especially

funny

—#YeZexiReallyIsLivingOffARichSecondGenerationKid#

Ye Zexi frowned tightly. "Can't this trending topic be taken down?"

Wei Lifei was stunned when he heard that. "Taken down? Why?"

Repeatedly trending meant getting attention, which completely went against Ye Zexi's original intentions.

Ye Zexi said, "I don't want to trend."

Wei Lifei understood. "Ah, there's nothing bad about trending. It means you're really popular now. My dad saw it today and even praised you."

Of course, he had also taken the opportunity to scold Wei Lifei.

He said Ye Zexi now knew enough to find something serious to do, so why was Wei Lifei still wasting his days away without learning anything useful?

Wei Lifei let it go in one ear and out the other, not taking his father's words to heart at all.

Ye Zexi sighed. He really didn't want to become popular at all!

But whether he became popular or not really wasn't something Ye Zexi could decide.

The next morning, at an office in the Ye Group headquarters.

For office workers who diligently went to work every day, every Monday was the beginning of their misery.

So whenever that time came around, the atmosphere in the company was always especially sluggish.

But today, from the moment Ye Jianbin entered the company, he sensed a subtle difference from before.

Ye Jianbin was quite puzzled, but because of his position, it was inconvenient for him to ask.

When lunchtime came, he stood up to head for the cafeteria. The instant he stepped out of his office, he heard a burst of laughter outside—

"Hahahahahahaha, I'm dying! The young master really dared to say that!"

"Our young master wasn't talking nonsense. He really is living off a rich second-generation kid, hahahaha."

"Qu Xiao is laughing herself crazy, hahaha. I can practically feel her desperately holding it in."

"Not just Qu Xiao—Best Actor He is laughing too."

"The young master, honestly, why is he blurting out such truths!"

Ye Jianbin looked over and saw a group of employees gathered around a computer, though he had no idea whether they were watching a movie or a variety show.

A face flashed across the screen, and Ye Jianbin's eyes filled with faint confusion. Why did that face just now seem a little familiar?

Just then, his assistant came over and quietly asked Ye Jianbin, "Chairman, are we still going to the same restaurant as before?"

Noticing Ye Jianbin had come out, the employees gathered together silently lowered the volume.

Ye Jianbin nodded and left the company first.

After entering the elevator, Ye Jianbin was still rather puzzled and couldn't help asking, "Xiao Hu, what were they watching just now?"

Xiao Hu had been by Ye Jianbin's side for many years. Not only did he understand the company's affairs, he even knew how many times Ye Jianbin and Ye Zexi argued each month. Naturally, he also knew that a few days ago, in a fit of anger, Ye Jianbin had frozen all of the young master's bank cards.

Hearing that, Xiao Hu studied Ye Jianbin's expression before softly saying, "Chairman, you may not know because you've been busy lately, but the young master's show has finally aired. The colleagues were watching it during their lunch break."

Ye Jianbin frowned slightly. "Director Li's show?"

Xiao Hu nodded. "Yes, yes, that one. It's called Era Idol. The young master performed very well in it. Everyone in the office has been praising him."

Ye Jianbin said nothing.