147: Being in a group with her can help me gain so many negative emotions for free.

Fu Zhihao opened it in confusion, and the page automatically jumped to Weibo. It was a video posted by the official account of the adventures.

He scrolled down.

Below it were several short videos edited separately.

He casually scrolled down, intending to glance at them and save them for later that night, but as soon as his hand moved twice, he paused, quickly brought his phone closer, and stared wide-eyed at a line of text and a photo on the screen—

“the adventures Pilot Event! Yue Qingzhu and Chen Fang Transform into Zombies and Perform on the Streets!”

The accompanying image was exactly the two zombies he had seen yesterday.

Fu Zhihao’s mind went blank with a loud bang, like a computer crashing.

Four or five seconds later, he blinked, then looked up at the distance, a bit dazed.

Was he crazy? Was he seeing things?

He rubbed his eyes and looked at the phone screen again.

But the text and image remained unchanged.

Fu Zhihao felt his breathing become a little difficult and quickly walked to a nearby bench to sit down.

So, the alternative he had dismissed yesterday with a glance was Yue Qingzhu?! If he had come yesterday, he could have taken a photo with her directly?!

Fu Zhihao stomped his foot, sighed in frustration, calmed down for ten seconds, put on his headphones, and opened the video.

This was an abridged version edited from the full video above, intended to attract viewers to watch the complete version, so it was only five minutes long.

In the video, Yue Qingzhu was wearing a black robe, her face painted pale, sitting quietly on a mat.

But after a while, a tourist came over and threw two yuan, and she started playing music with the guy next to her, her lips immediately curling up uncontrollably. She quickly pressed her lips together to try and suppress her smile, but her eyes had already curved into crescents. She lowered her head slightly, but her gently trembling shoulders exposed her sneaking a laugh.

After the tourist left, Yue Qingzhu returned to her cold and aloof demeanor, but after a while, she got excited again, even smiling as she hugged the basket to count money, and even tugged at her companion’s sleeve.

Watching Yue Qingzhu’s smile practically spilling from her eyes, and her tugging at the man’s sleeve next to her, Fu Zhihao’s breath hitched. He practically wanted to spit out a mouthful of old blood.

Who is this person?!

His gaze fell to the bottom right corner, and he saw, oh right, it was Chen Fang.

Fu Zhihao stared intently at the interaction between the two on the screen, his brows tightly furrowed.

Why him?!

Why is she even tugging his sleeve? I have sleeves too!

Although she’s very cute, if she’s interacting with Chen Fang, it’s better if she just stays aloof!

Fu Zhihao gritted his teeth and sighed.

Never mind, as long as she’s happy. He’s just a fan; as long as she’s happy.

After comforting himself for half a minute, Fu Zhihao finally felt a little better.

Just as he was about to close the screen, he suddenly thought, why should he be the only one feeling bad? There must be a group of people feeling bad too, right?

He quickly opened the comment section, seeking resonance.

“What? The little zombie performers are them?! the adventures, do you have to go this big?!”

“Damn it! I suspected it was them at first. But when they became popular as passersby, I thought it couldn’t be them, but rather someone imitating their makeup.”

“You can stand on the stage I can’t afford tickets for, but you can’t appear in the amusement park I went to yesterday!”

“the adventures is playing this big? Airing tomorrow? I have to watch it!”

“What’s your relationship? (눈_눈) Why are you smiling so happily? You two even filmed an MV together, what’s your relationship?!”

“Colleagues, right? They’re from the same company.”

“But Little Bamboo never acted like this towards people on shows before. No, no!”

“Because her previous shows were all music variety shows, right? This time it’s a reality show to display her personality outside of work. I think it’s so cute.”

“If Fangfang wants to date, then date. Little Kite just wants Fangfang to be happy, treat him well.”

“I don’t agree! Let go of him, unless you let me!”

“When watching idol dramas, whenever the male lead pushes the female lead against a wall and forcefully kisses her, I feel a particularly strong sense of immersion. I feel like I am that wall. Now, I feel like I am the wall behind them both.”

“From their eyes and actions, they definitely aren’t dating. If they were, they’d surely be doing it in private.”

“Right, this is just normal interaction. Yue Qingzhu was just having fun, right? If you guys went and did this, wouldn’t you be excited?”

Fu Zhihao felt a little better looking at the comments’ analyses.

Ah! Chen Fang, don’t get close to her!

...

Not far away, in Villa 18 of the resort area.

Chen Fang heard a prompt: “Liu Bowen negative emotion value +31,” and his fingers stopped typing on the keyboard.

Liu Bowen? This seems to be a staff member of the camera crew.

What happened to him?

The system’s negative emotion value is calculated based on distance. The farther away, the lower the value. To be able to reach 31 from a distance means this guy is quite agitated.

Immediately followed by two more prompts—

“Liang Yan negative emotion value +88”

“Sun Zhiyuan negative emotion value +22”

Who is Sun Zhiyuan?

He had set voice prompts for negative emotion values above 20. He was clearly in his bedroom, yet he received negative emotion values from two strangers. This indicates there should be a whole bunch, right?

Chen Fang opened the system. He clicked on the negative emotion value details page.

A large number of 0.1, 0.05, 0.2 values popped up.

From the names, there were both men and women.

He understood, the production team must have released yesterday’s video.

His fans and Yue Qingzhu’s fans must be very regretful they couldn’t meet yesterday, right?

But mere regret shouldn’t account for so many; there should also be jealousy and envy.

Chen Fang recalled carefully.

They didn’t do anything yesterday that would cause a scandal. Although they were sitting together, there would inevitably be accidental physical contact, but the production team would surely cut such footage.

If there was a scandal, Tang Chen would definitely have called him already.

OK, that means it’s nothing, purely just gaining negative emotion values for free.

Thanks, Teacher Yue, hope we can be assigned together again next time.

...

Behind Chen Fang, Xie Yunxuan had already put down his Chinese book and was frowning, engrossed in studying math.

His persona was that of an academic genius.

But the personas in the entertainment industry are not 100% matched with the person. This is essentially a label created by his company to attract fans.

When his cultural scores were very high, the company gave him the label of an academic genius.

But he was an art student. Although his high school cultural scores were good, there was still a considerable gap compared to academic geniuses who got into 985 or 211 universities purely based on cultural scores.

To maintain this persona, it was truly killing him.

In the entertainment industry, ordinary academic geniuses just need to read books, or even pursue a master’s or doctorate. But most of his fans are middle school students, even junior high students. To maintain a perfect image in their minds, whenever he encountered such a variety show, he had to review high school knowledge.

Especially this math, it clung to him like a ghost, eerie and incomprehensible.

He didn’t quite understand it in high school, and now that he has graduated from university, his brain’s inventory is getting cleaner and cleaner.

If he had known it would haunt him for so many years, he would have worked harder in high school.

Sigh! For the persona, for the money, just bear with it.