Chapter 57: You and Xu Heng are completely finished

Xu Heng became famous for no apparent reason, and it wasn't even because his identity as the composer of "Rising Wind" had been exposed.

It's actually quite funny; he became famous across the entire internet because a video of him covering "Clockwise" went viral online.

People didn't know Xu Heng's name; they only saw that this young man in the low-resolution video didn't look bad, and the song he sang was truly pleasant and could tug at one's heartstrings. That line, "Returning to the time and space when I first loved you," resonated with many heartbroken men and women, who flocked to like and share the video, causing its reach to skyrocket.

As more and more people saw this cover video, Xu Heng gained the nickname "Cover Brother."

This is similar to early internet celebrities like Furong Jie and Xili Ge; many netizens, not knowing their names, would use their characteristics to give them titles.

The origin of "Cover Brother" is naturally an honorific given to him because his cover of this song by Zhou Dong was just too powerful.

However, being famous isn't entirely a good thing, as corresponding troubles followed one after another.

For example, netizens were eager to dig up Xu Heng's real name, age, address, and so on. At this time, those university classmates who knew Xu Heng naturally bore the brunt of it, exposing him by saying, "Cover Brother is a sophomore at our Jin Da, a classmate of mine; he was always very talented, and I was the one who recorded this video."

Consequently, netizens asked, "Then do you know what Cover Brother's name is?"

"Surname Xu, given name Heng, from Tong City, Anhui Province."

Cheng Huaiyu and his group could keep their mouths shut, but other classmates couldn't.

Once Cover Brother's identity information was exposed, it immediately stirred up a storm on the internet.

Xu Heng?

Someone clicked into the profile of the composer of "Rising Wind" to take a look.

The two people's names were exactly the same!

Could "Cover Brother" and the author of "Rising Wind" be the same person? Could there be such a coincidence in the world?

This question quickly topped the major hot search lists on Sina and Baidu, and it also became the question netizens cared about most and wanted to know the answer to.

If you opened a search engine during this period, you would definitely see messages popping up like, "Is Cover Brother the author of 'Rising Wind'?", "Xu Heng and Xu Heng?", "Shocking! The author of 'Rising Wind' is actually him!"

The person involved, Xu Heng, found it a bit hard to handle under such doxxing.

These past few days, Xu's father, Xu's mother, Xu's younger sister, and even a whole bunch of people who knew him, including Fan Xi and Dan Yuyue, all came to send text messages, make calls, or even ask him in person.

In the end, Xu Heng had no choice but to take out his SIM card and replace it with a new one.

He never thought that simply singing a song during his class building activity could have such a huge impact.

Here, Xu Heng slightly underestimated the power of the internet in 2007. He thought that in the 2G era, with slow internet speeds and underdeveloped communications, the "internet celebrity effect" of later generations wouldn't appear, but in reality, the more underdeveloped the communication, the more onlookers on the internet are keen on hot topics.

If Xu Heng had known this would be the consequence back then, he would rather have died than sing that "Clockwise."

As for "Clockwise," the song is now completely popular; various covers have sprung up like bamboo shoots after a rain. The influence of Xu Heng, this butterfly, caused this song, which should have only become popular again more than a decade later, to become a hit across the country years in advance.

On several major music platforms' soaring charts, this song flew up at a rocket-like speed, leaping into the top ten.

It is worth mentioning that "Rising Wind" is currently firmly in second place on the music soaring chart, and "Xiaoxiao" is still in first place, but barring any accidents, both of these songs will soon be surpassed by "Clockwise." After all, "Clockwise" comes with high heat, high search volume, and massive traffic, which these two original songs cannot contend with.

In the near future, at Zhou Dong's world tour concert in November, "Clockwise," which originally didn't exist in the setlist, will be temporarily added. Zhou Dong himself will personally praise on stage that Cover Brother made his old song popular again, which he is very grateful for. This will make Xu Heng even more popular, but that is a story for later, so I won't mention it for now.

Returning to the small place of Jin Da, Xu Heng's popularity is now even higher than it is online, reaching the point of having three years of priority in choosing a partner.

Discussions about him on the campus forum are also the most frequent. Some people watched the video and suddenly realized, "Oh, isn't this the student who played the hero saving the beauty in the video last time? He has a girlfriend, what a pity; I originally wanted his phone number or QQ or something."

But others retorted that Xu Heng and that girl had long since broken up, they broke up in their freshman year, and he is currently still single.

Others asked back, "How can you be sure? What if they got back together?"

Facing this kind of questioning, Cheng Huaiyu was so angry his nose was crooked. He had finally managed to find some sense of presence on the forum by relying on his identity as Xu Heng's roommate, and now these people actually didn't believe him!

Stupid!

Xu Heng was speechless about his behavior and told him not to keep spreading his information online, but Cheng Huaiyu waved his hand dismissively, saying he was just helping Xu Heng clear his name.

"Damn, Ying Ziyun has already broken up with you and is still pretending to be your girlfriend online; she's truly shameless. As your brother, I must wash away this dirty water of you having a girlfriend. When you hook up with upperclassmen or underclassmen later, just don't forget your Cheng Ge."

The statement that Ying Ziyun was his girlfriend was something he said on the bus back then; it had nothing to do with Ying Ziyun. Xu Heng couldn't explain the situation between him and Ying Ziyun to him, so he let it be.

He was still dealing with messages from a few acquaintances on QQ and naturally had no time to manage Cheng Huaiyu's verbal sparring with others.

Fan Xi: "Recently, there are rumors online that you are the same person as the author who composed 'Rising Wind.' Is it true?"

Xu Heng didn't reply to her.

Dan Yuyue: "Xu Heng, tell me quickly, are you the composer of 'Rising Wind'? That son of a bitch Cheng Huaiyu won't tell me, damn it."

Dan Yuyue was a friend added a long time ago during a freshman year gathering. The two weren't close, so Xu Heng thought for a moment and then blocked her. He scrolled down to find a very familiar name.

Ying Ziyun: "There?"

"?"

Xu Heng typed a question mark; this question mark was extremely insulting.

"Xu Heng, as long as you tell me if you are the author of 'Rising Wind,' I will get back together with you."

"Who are you?"

"I am Ying Ziyun."

"Then I am your father."

Seeing this message, the smile on Dan Yuyue's face in the girls' dormitory instantly turned to stone. Because her own account had been blocked, she had taken advantage of the gap while Ying Ziyun was in the restroom to secretly use her QQ to send a message to Xu Heng, but she only received this reply.

"You *@#@^#*@&#^#$@&^%!"

Xu Heng casually blocked Ying Ziyun.

He knew this was Dan Yuyue "chatting on behalf" of her, but it just happened to give him an opportunity to say goodbye to the past.

And Dan Yuyue was dumbfounded after seeing that Ying Ziyun's account had been blocked by Xu Heng. Just then, Ying Ziyun returned from the restroom, and she could only smile awkwardly and sheepishly.

"Yun... Yunyun..."

"Hm?" Ying Ziyun frowned in confusion.

"Tell you some good news."

"Speak."

"You and Xu Heng are completely finished."