Explosion

　It was relatively peaceful at the school. Well, as peaceful as a school could get, anyway. After many years, Tang Miaoyi revelled in the feeling of being back in school after so long.

But as quickly as it began, it ended just as fast. The last bell rang out, and Tang Miaoyi started packing her things up to head home, satisfied with a day of work.

But for some, school ended much too quickly. Lin Ruofang, who was sitting two rows behind Tang Miaoyi, almost wished school lasted longer.

　　"Ruofang, hello? Did you zone out again?" The girl at the next table asked, in an attempt to snap him out of whatever daze he was in currently.

　　"No, it's okay, I was just thinking about today's exam." Lin Ruofang came back to his senses and quickly made an excuse, "There was a question on the test I think I made a mistake on."

"So that's why. Do you want to exchange notes on it? I think I did pretty good..." The girl suggests, in an attempt to help him.

"No, it's fine. Not like I can change my answer now." He politely declined her offer, however the entire time he's talking to her, he's staring towards the front of the class.

Following his eyeline, the girl notices something, "By the way, do you feel that Tang Miaoyi's personality changed a lot? "

"It did? I didn't notice." Lin Ruofang lightly brushed his hair, confused: "What is it?"

　　"It almost seems like she's more... Friendly? Or actually, maybe it's more genuine... Although she is acting a bit more shy than usual, she's smiling much more as well." The girl thought for a while and made her best guess, "Maybe those sick days let her rest for a bit, and opened her personality a bit?"

　　"Maybe." Lin Ruofang laughed.

　　The girl finally finished packing up all her textbooks, put on her backpack and took out a pair of headphones.

"What are you listening to?" Ruofang asked.

"Oh! It's a new song that just came out yesterday. It's unlike anything I've ever heard before!" She excitedly responded.

　　"Ok it goes like this; There is a song that came out of nowhere on the top of today's daily hits. It's ridiculously good. The rhythm is unlike anything I've ever heard before, and the best part; I've never heard of them before. The artist, I mean."

　　"I really want to know what it would be like if this song was played in a real bar or nightclub... I can't even imagine the type of energy that would create. Oh! I should go request the song to be played at Club L'Eric, or maybe the Maiye-... ..." The girl had begun talking aimlessly, completely zoned out.

Eventually, she snapped back to reality, and had a shocking realization, "Right! You've never heard it before, right? Here, Listen!"

Lin Ruofang politely took the headphones from her and tapped the play button gently. Soon, you could almost see fireworks being set off in his eyes.

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　　While the two were chatting, most of the students in the class had left the classroom, including Tang Miaoyi and An Qiuying.

　　"Dear Miss An, what shall we have for dinner tonight?" Tang Miaoyi asked with a smile.

　　"Well, we have plenty of vegetables left over, I think we have some meat as well, and there's still curry left over." An Qiuying recalled what was left in the refrigerator, but still asked for Tang Miaoyi's opinion: "Do you have something in mind? If we don't have the ingredients, we can go shopping together."

　　"We'll have to go shopping eventually anyway. Let's just finish what we have, otherwise, it will go to waste." Tang Miaoyi replied lazily. She was too tired to go shopping today.

Right now, she just wants to go back home and lie down with salted fish.

Also, she wanted to check on "Fox". She still didn't know if it passed the review yet, and it's been a full day, so it must have been reviewed, right?

　　"That's true." An Qiuying thought about it, and there were indeed a lot of unwashed dishes she brought to Tang Miaoyi's house, so she would rather clean up a bit, than waste a whole day shopping.

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The two were having a friendly conversation as they walked, and unfortunately, it seemed misogyny was still a thing in this world, as they attracted much-unwanted attention.

　　For a practiced girl like An Qiuying, this was nothing, but all these eyes made Tang Miaoyi, who was not used to being stared at, uncomfortable.

　　After returning home, the two of them went back to their bedrooms. Tang Miaoyi quickly changed back into her pyjamas and breathed a sigh of relief. She soon collapsed on her bed and was dazed for a while.

　　An Qiuying after putting her stuff away, moved to the kitchen to get started, and Tang Miaoyi moved to her chair after lying down enough and turned on her computer.

　　She was very curious about the current situation of "Fox", so she quickly opened the client of Light Cloud Music and logged in automatically.

　　"Ding ~ You have two new unread messages!"

　　As soon as the app booted, there was a notification for her in her message box, which made Tang Miaoyi's eyes shine.

　　This should be the news about the review of "Fox", right?

　　Immediately, she clicked on the message box, and read the two messages.

　　[Dear Light Cloud user, congratulations on your music work - "Fox" has passed our music library review, and is officially included in our music library. At the same time, congratulations on obtaining the status of Light Cloud musician. ]

　　[Light Cloud Musician Assistant: Dear musician, your single "Fox" has reached No. 1 on the daily Hits! Congratulations! ]

It's added!

Official Musician!

Number 1!

　　Tang Miaoyi almost laughed out loud, this is fantastic news! The review passed, she's officially a musician, and unexpectedly, her song was at the top of the list!

She next looked at the time stamp of the messages and wanted to see when the daily hit message arrived.

Depending on when her song hit No. 1 shows how good the public thought the song is. The quicker it made it to the top, the more people liked the song and boosted its analytics, whereas the slower it reached the top, the worse it performed.

And what time the approval was sent only shortens the time it had to reach number one.

　　But when she looked at the specific time for both, she was stunned for a moment.

The first message shows that it wasn't approved today, but... last night! And the song reached the No. 1 spot at 7 am, the exact time the daily hits open!!

　　It was approved not even an hour after she uploaded it!

　　"Is... this-, are they normally so efficient?" Tang Miaoyi was startled, and said, "So, it's been out all day??"

So the question is, what's the current situation of "Fox"?

Feeling more and more amazed, Tang Miaoyi clicked into the [Musician Zone] and quickly found "Fox".

Times played: 1 251 654!

Likes: 107 580!

Comments: 2307!

　　The first moment Tang Miaoyi saw this data, her pupils shrank violently, and she rubbed her big eyes in disbelief.

　　"It exploded." Tang Miaoyi took a deep breath and couldn't help being excited.

　　The playback volume of 1,200,000, if you just look at this data, it doesn't look too substantial. It's not particularly difficult to get a song with over 1,000,000 streams, especially with repeat listens.

But if you put it in perspective, this is a single that has been out for less than a day! Just the views alone are comparable to some of the more popular artists out there!

Especially if you factor in the number of likes it received. Almost 20% out of 1,200,000, that's one out of five, not counting repeat listeners!

How many more times will this data be multiplied? To what great heights will it grow?

Grinning widely, Tang Miaoyi was very excited. She never expected that this would be as successful as it appears to be. Originally, she would have been happy if "Fox" had only passed the review and didn't expect too much yet.

But this result only made her motivation stronger, and her goal of growing the electronic genre in this other world seemed much more realistic than before.