This Weibo post had been live for just half an hour before it rocketed to the top of the trending searches, amassing tens of thousands of shares, comments, and likes in just minutes.
Besides a few haters blindly criticizing below, the rest of the comments were overwhelmingly positive and shocked from passersby.
Indeed, in a world where looks are everything, beauty is justice. She didn't have to do anything; her face alone attracted the traffic.
Ye Xian was thrilled. Just as he was about to share this popular Weibo post to confirm that he was indeed the person in the picture, a notification sound 'ding~' chimed in. The Weibo assistant alerted: Your followed celebrity 'FOR-Lin Yan' has shared a post and mentioned you.
When he checked it, Lin Yan had already shared the post before her, not adding any superfluous words, directly tagging him.
Not even two minutes later, 'FOR-cary' also shared the post, captioned: Which hater shot me looking this ugly! (Ye Xian, was it you, smiling so cunningly at the camera!)
With two FOR members consecutively sharing the trending post, it was confirmed that the person in the photo was indeed Ye Xian himself, and the netizens went wild.
The top trending keyword changed from 'Is this Ye Xian???' to 'This is Ye Xian!!!'
Unexpectedly, Lin Yan and Cary, one seemingly indifferent and the other seemingly despising her tremendously, were actually showing such loyalty behind the scenes.
Since hitting the top of the trend list, Ye Xian's Weibo followers had been skyrocketing, gaining hundreds of thousands in just a few hours, and her private messages were overflowing.
Everyone was eagerly asking if the person in the photo was him, praising how handsome he looked!
Ye Xian was deeply touched; it seemed he hadn't been this happy even when he was at the peak of his fame as a Movie Queen with tens of millions of fans.
With the instinct of a star who had once been famously popular, she felt that this trending moment was the first step to transforming her image and re-entering the public eye. While a high appearance rating could momentarily capture the netizens' attention, it wasn't a long-term strategy.
As the saying goes, a beautiful appearance is common, but a fascinating soul is rare.
What the entertainment industry lacked was not beautiful faces, but people who had both the looks and an interesting soul, along with real ability.
To let netizens understand her soul and talents, she still had to rely on acting and appearing on variety shows.
Put simply, it came back to the original issue: resources!
She was in desperate need of a vast amount of resources to prove herself. Now, with her name on the trending list, it was the perfect time with both traffic and discussion at her disposal. If not now, then when?
Ye Xian called her agent, Jiang Wen.
At that moment, Jiang Wen was blankly holding his phone, immersed in the shock provided by the trending Weibo, just like most netizens.
This incredibly handsome guy, is his fiercely fanatical gay fan Ye Xian? Amazing...
"Hello, Brother Wen, did you see the trending searches?"
"Saw, saw them."
"What do you think? This is an organic trend, not bought, discussion's over a million plus, I can have resources now, right?"
"It's possible, but..."
Seeing him about to make excuses, Ye Xian got angry, "Brother Wen, aren't you deliberately making things difficult for me? When there was no traffic, you said resources were hard to pull. Now that there is, it's still not okay? Is it because you see I'm too handsome, trying to disrupt me? Are you focused on promoting Starlight Entertainment's 'favorite son' Jiang Wanze?"