Chapter 105: Truly Famous

I don't know if it was Xu Heng's illusion, but the girl's lips were exceptionally soft and carried a faint, delicate fragrance.

Jiang Mengyuan's body was tense in his arms, her breathing rapid.

Xu Heng's sudden kiss caught her off guard; her mind went blank, and she just closed her eyes subconsciously, as if everything were only natural.

After a long while, Xu Heng let her go and said with amusement, "What are you dodging for?"

"You stuck... stuck your tongue in." Jiang Mengyuan's cheeks turned bright red, and she turned her head away.

"How can you kiss without using your tongue? We can't just press our lips together, can we?"

"Is that so?" Jiang Mengyuan had never kissed before either, and she was completely taken in by Xu Heng's smooth talk.

"That one didn't count, let's do it again."

Xu Heng made a move to kiss her again, but this time she had learned her lesson and struggled hard to break free from his embrace: "I haven't agreed to it yet!"

"But kissing is very comfortable."

"No! It's not comfortable at all!" Jiang Mengyuan insisted stubbornly, "And you just made me eat your saliva, it's so gross."

Xu Heng didn't make things difficult for her; he sat on the wooden chair with a smile and said, "Kissing is something only couples can do, so we are already a couple now."

Jiang Mengyuan was stunned for a moment, then realized she had fallen for Xu Heng's trap, her lips pouting slightly: "You're bullying me too much; who forces someone else to date them?"

"It's because you weren't taking the initiative." Xu Heng rolled his eyes and said irritably, "I just helped you skip the intermediate steps."

"Bad person," Jiang Mengyuan muttered with a pout.

Hearing this, Xu Heng was actually amused, thinking that it was she who had given him a "nice guy" card back then, and now she was calling him bad; her attitude had shifted to two extremes.

But it also fit the saying: men aren't bad, women don't love; the more someone says you're bad, the more it means she likes you, while those who call you a good person are just not interested in you.

Xu Heng smiled, and the moment Jiang Mengyuan was off guard, he pulled her into his arms, and the two repeated the previous operation on the wooden chair.

After their lips parted again, Jiang Mengyuan stopped struggling, lying obediently in Xu Heng's arms, and said, "Are we considered boyfriend and girlfriend now?"

"Of course we are."

"I feel like I'm at such a disadvantage."

"How do you figure that?"

"You're so skilled at kissing, you must have practiced many times with your ex-girlfriend, while this was my first kiss, and you got the benefit for nothing," Jiang Mengyuan said coquettishly.

Xu Heng was speechless; he hadn't expected the little girl to care so much about Ying Ziyun, or rather, in the eyes of others, he and Ying Ziyun hadn't broken up long ago, so they would more or less assume Xu Heng still had feelings for her.

In reality, Xu Heng's love for Ying Ziyun had remained in the ten years of his past life and had long since faded.

Thinking of this, Xu Heng chuckled and said, "No, I only kissed her a few times. Let's make the most of our time tonight, and we'll be able to surpass her in no time."

"No! Who wants to kiss you all night? My lips are already swollen."

"That's not up to you."

Near eleven o'clock at night, Xu Heng walked Jiang Mengyuan back to her dormitory.

The two had just confirmed their relationship, and the little girl had become unusually clingy, whispering in his ear downstairs for a long time before she was willing to go upstairs.

Xu Heng sighed, rubbing his forehead; he had already begun to notice the changes in Jiang Mengyuan.

This social phobic would gradually evolve into a social "terrorist" in the future; her innate social anxiety would slowly disappear as she came into contact with more people and things.

At the thought of Jiang Mengyuan sitting in a chair in the future, picking her feet, cursing her teammates as trash, and greeting their families, Xu Heng couldn't help but shiver.

Heaven knows what factors in his past life caused a shy, introverted little girl to become like that.

But fortunately, since he had become her boyfriend in this life, he would try to guide her toward a normal direction.

A hot-tempered tomboy personality had its own characteristics, but Xu Heng couldn't handle it.

Returning to the dormitory, all three roommates were there.

Zhao Gaoyang seemed to be asleep; his quilt was bulging, and his head was buried under the covers.

Cheng Huaiyu was typing away on his keyboard, seemingly chatting with someone.

Sheng Bo was browsing the forums for gossip; seeing Xu Heng return, he waved excitedly: "Old Xu, come over and look, you're truly famous this time."

"Famous for what?" Xu Heng walked behind him, curious.

"On the blog, as well as the Tianya forum and Baidu Tieba, several popular websites have you on their top trending searches," Sheng Bo said excitedly. "An hour ago, the video of you singing that song was uploaded to the internet by someone from our school. Combined with the news that you are the author of 'The Wind Rises', it had a one-plus-one-is-greater-than-two effect. Look, even celebrities are liking and reposting your trending topic."

Xu Heng followed his finger and saw a red-letter headline standing prominently on the blog homepage.

"Composer of 'The Wind Rises' Releases New Song! Identity Suspected to be Exposed?!"

"The editors at Sina really know how to write headlines," Xu Heng said speechlessly.

"The key is that quite a few big stars have liked and reposted it for you."

Sheng Bo showed him the repost comment section, which actually included Zhou Dong, as well as the currently red-hot Yongqi Jie and the Snake Duo.

Just as he said, several of those reposting and commenting were big names in the Huaxia Yue Tan.

Among these people, Xu Heng actually saw an unexpected name.

Miss Liu.

Miss Liu could be considered a popular young actress, but she had absolutely nothing to do with the music scene.

If there was anything, she did release her first personal album at this time last year... well, the sales were disastrous.

And Miss Liu's repost comment was actually hoping to collaborate with him?

Which meant buying a song from him.

No thanks, I don't want to collaborate with you.

Miss Liu's looks were currently at their peak, no doubt, but she was tone-deaf by nature; singing was simply torture for the sound engineer, and she and Miss Yang were known as the "Black Wind Twins" of the Chinese music scene.

Giving her the good songs from Xu Heng's memory would simply be a waste of resources.

Having made up his mind, Xu Heng registered a personal blog account and replied under her comment: "I am also very much looking forward to collaborating with you, Miss Liu."

"Damn! Old Xu, didn't you say Liu Tianxian couldn't sing your songs? Why do you still want to collaborate with her?"

"But my body is very honest."

This maneuver left Sheng Bo dumbfounded.

In short, Xu Heng had now basically fired his first shot in the Huaxia Yue Tan, and his fame was rising with the tide.

So, not long after he registered his personal account, Sina helped him verify an official V (I don't know if blogs had the concept of a V back then, so let's just assume they did).

After verification, the number of his blog followers rose to over fifty thousand that very evening.

In this era, when not everyone is online yet, fifty thousand followers is already a relatively large number.

Moreover, with the spread of the news and the influence of the song "Decency" being uploaded to major music platforms, the number of followers for Xu Heng's account also increased sharply.

This time, he was truly famous.