Chapter 276: Is XiXi, Who Isn't HeeHee, Actually Shen Dongdong?

This morning, when Li Luo uploaded the chapters of "I Am Really Not a Star" related to "Waiting for You After Class," he scheduled them for release at 12:00 noon.

Meanwhile, the song and MV uploaded to major music platforms had gradually passed review one after another.

Far away at Changning University of Finance and Economics, Li Xiang, after finishing the latest chapter, also happened to read the author's note beneath it.

【Chongran】: The original new song "Waiting for You After Class," along with its song and MV, has been released; you can search for them on all major music platforms. Special thanks to my cousin brother and cousin sister for their help in this; everyone is welcome to show them some support~

Seeing this, Li Xiang instantly froze for a moment, wondering where Li Luo had gotten a cousin brother or cousin sister from.

Among those of the same generation as Li Luo, he was the youngest.

However, judging by Li Luo's wording, did this mean the song "Waiting for You After Class" in today's new chapter was yet another original composition by him?

Li Xiang still had some impression of the previous song, "Annual Rings," but since too much time had passed, he had forgotten about it during the New Year.

He never expected that Li Luo would write another new song.

Thus, after finishing the latest chapter, Li Xiang immediately exited the Qidian app, opened QQ Music, and searched for the song title.

After clicking play, Li Xiang looked at the production credits displayed at the top of the lyrics page and fell into deep thought for a moment.

Singer: Li Luo

Lyrics: Chongran, Li Luo

Composition: Chongran, Li Luo

Arrangement: Luo Fei

Wait... isn't Chongran just Li Luo!

Li Xiang looked completely bewildered, wondering if Li Luo was planning to reveal his alternate identity or not.

While he thought this, the song began to unfold along with the rhythm of the music.

Listening to the opening lyrics, Li Xiang didn't feel much yet; it was just a very slow and relaxed song, with lyrics that sounded quite plain, almost like reading a diary entry.

But when the rhythm reached the chorus climax—

"Lying on your school's playground, gazing at the starry sky~"

"The lights~ in the classroom are still on, and you~ haven't left~"

This melody instantly captured Li Xiang's emotions.

It was as if scenes had already formed in his mind.

Then he suddenly recalled the latest chapter he had read today, which described Shen Dongdong returning to school to review for her final exams.

In the story, Li Yang didn't tell Shen Dongdong but secretly came to her school, watching the lit classrooms from the playground.

However, unlike the unrequited love depicted in the song, the relationship between the two characters in the book was clearly not like that.

But the brilliance of this new chapter lay in the fact that, just like Li Yang waiting on the playground for the girl he liked, there was another boy standing there, gazing at the classroom.

Only by contrasting the two did the bond between Li Yang and Shen Dongdong appear even more precious.

Li Xiang opened the comment section of the song, which had long been flooded by readers who had arrived early.

【Brother Ran is awesome!】

【Who is this Li Luo?】

【Seems like his cousin?】

【Sounds great, sounds great!】

【The beginning was average, but the chorus really hit me】

【Recommend listening while reading the latest chapter for the best effect】

【Why let the cousin sing this time? Why didn't Brother Ran sing it himself?】

【Holy crap, go check out the MV next door; his cousin sister is so beautiful!】

Upon seeing this last comment, Li Xiang raised an eyebrow, as if he had already guessed something.

He hurriedly exited the comment section, searched for the MV of "Waiting for You After Class," and clicked play.

Accompanied by white walls and red tiles flashing past, showing the playground and classrooms, the song's intro slowly began to play.

At the same time, the production team for this MV flashed across the screen.

Director: Ying Chanxi

Starring: Ying Chanxi, Li Luo

Vocals: Li Luo

Post-production: Ying Chanxi

Good heavens, you two have basically covered everything.

However, seeing this, Li Xiang suddenly realized the truth.

So Li Luo was playing two roles?

On one side was his alternate identity, Chongran, and on the other was his true self, Li Luo.

And now Li Luo had become Chongran's cousin?

In order not to expose his identity while still reasonably appearing in the MV, he had really gone to great lengths.

After figuring it out, Li Xiang couldn't help but feel both amused and helpless, yet he continued watching.

As Li Luo sang the opening lyrics, the scene shifted to a certain rental apartment.

Li Xiang had never been to Bihai Lanting, so he wasn't sure.

But if Zhao Rongjun, Qiao Xinyan, or Xu Yinghuan had seen it, they would probably recognize the place at a glance.

Then, when the song reached the chorus again, the scene instantly switched to the playground of No. 1 High School under the night sky.

Li Xiang had only graduated from No. 1 High School a little over half a year ago; almost immediately upon seeing this playground, he recognized where it was, and a surge of familiarity and emotion welled up in his heart.

In the scene, Li Luo lay alone on the playground, then propped up his upper body with the music, gazing toward the distant classrooms.

The scene shifted again; inside the brightly lit classroom, only a girl sat alone by the window, reviewing diligently, occasionally turning her head to look at the night sky outside, yet never noticing that someone on the playground was silently watching over her.

And when Ying Chanxi appeared on screen, a huge stream of bullet comments instantly surged forth.

【Holy crap! So beautiful!】

【Is this Shen Dongdong?】

【Ran Ge's cousin, right?】

【I declare! From today onward! Ran Ge is my big brother-in-law!】

【Could this be the prototype for Shen Dongdong? Ran Ge, your thoughts are very dangerous!】

【I will protect Dongdong!】

Li Xiang watched these bullet comments, chuckled, and thought to himself, If they knew the truth, what expressions would you all have?

At this moment, Li Xiang, burdened by a heavy secret, watched this bunch of readers guessing back and forth, and truly felt a bit of an itch in his hands.

But thinking of the red envelopes he received during the New Year, Li Xiang put away his little schemes.

After finishing the MV, Li Xiang returned to the comment section of "I Am Really Not a Star" to take a look, discovering that this area was already filled with comments about the song "Waiting for You After Class."

【The new song sounds great! Those who said "Annual Rings" was ghostwritten, come out!】

【Actually, the lyrics are just average; it's mainly those two lines in the chorus that serve as the finishing touch.】

【Shen Dongdong! Shen Dongdong! Shen Dongdong!】

【The female lead in the MV is so beautiful! Is she Ran Ge's cousin?】

【His male cousin is quite handsome too; the two kids look very well-matched.】

【Haha~ They're relatives, okay? I'll take Dongdong away first.】

【They seem rather young? You all take it easy; they look like they're still in high school.】

【I know the people in the MV! Holy crap! The guy is my class monitor! The girl is the top student of our freshman year! Definitely the school beauty!】

【Holy crap? Only a freshman? For real?】

【If she grows up like this, it'll be incredible; she's grown too beautiful.】

【It really feels like Shen Dongdong has walked out of the book; I give the song 7 points, but I have to give the MV 10 points! It has exactly that vibe.】

Reading the comments up to this point, Li Xiang immediately burst into laughter.

He thought, Could it be that Li Luo's classmates are actually reading his novel?

No wonder he had to put on a layer of disguise.

If his classmates discovered he was the one writing the novel, just thinking about it made Li Xiang find it extremely amusing.

Pity he still had a bottom line as a person; otherwise, he would really want to expose Li Luo.

……

"The reception seems quite good, huh."

In the bedroom.

Ying Chanxi enjoyed Li Luo's hair-drying service, jumping back and forth between the novel's comment section, the QQ Music comment section, and the MV's bullet comment area, thoroughly enjoying herself.

When she saw someone praising, she would give a like.

When she saw someone criticizing, she would launch a fierce counterattack.

As a result, after replying so many times, some readers, looking at her Silver Alliance title account with an absurdly high appearance rate, couldn't help but pose a soul-searching question.

【I heard Ran Ge's cousin is named Ying Chanxi, and that Silver Alliance bigshot in our comment section has the ID 'Xixi-Bu-Xixi'; could this be the same person?】

【Holy crap? Now that you mention it, it's actually possible.】

【She also has that pinned post, which fully supports the Childhood Sweetheart faction.】

【Laughing to death; could she just be supporting herself?】

【Huh? If that's the case, won't the other two Silvers also be real-life prototypes of the female leads?】

【How is that possible! Ran Ge himself said he's a single dog; how could he have so many high-quality women around him?】

Seeing these latest comments, Ying Chanxi immediately panicked a little and instantly stopped posting.

If she were recognized, it would be far too awkward.

Thinking of this, Ying Chanxi immediately found the account settings page and quickly locked her profile information to prevent others from viewing it.

Otherwise, if they followed her profile to find her usual remarks in the comment sections, just thinking about it made Ying Chanxi feel her cheeks burning slightly.

"How is it?" Li Luo asked after finishing drying her hair and turning off the hairdryer, "How's the reception?"

"Very good!" Ying Chanxi nodded vigorously, "Everyone likes it a lot!"

"What about the rankings?"

"Huh? What rankings?"

"Check the charts," Li Luo said, placing the hairdryer aside before leaning over to grab the mouse and check the QQ Music rankings.

Sitting on the chair, Ying Chanxi felt Li Luo's upper body leaning against her back from behind, and her cheeks immediately flushed red.

At this moment, Li Luo had already opened the rankings.

Among them, on the New Songs Chart, "Waiting for You After Class" had surged into the top ten, ranking ninth.

On the Soaring Chart, it was even more outrageous; "Waiting for You After Class" had ranked third, demonstrating the song's astonishing popularity.

It must be known that Li Luo had not undertaken any promotional measures for this song through regular new song promotion channels.

It was purely based on a simple promotion via an author's note in the latest chapter.

Even so, the readers still launched a fierce assault on major music platforms.

After all, although Li Luo's book had an average subscription of only twenty thousand on the Qidian main site, meaning roughly twenty thousand readers had subscribed to every chapter of his book,

across various channel platforms and the vast number of piracy sites, the total number of readers currently reading his book was at least several dozen times higher than those reading the official version on the main site.

This meant that Li Luo's simple sentence of promotion, paired with the novel's plot perfectly aligning with the song's content in the latest chapter, could mobilize an audience ranging from tens of thousands to an upper limit of a million.

Especially readers who enjoy entertainment novels; usually, when they see the protagonist write a new song, they always go to a music platform to play the music while reading the novel alongside it, as this creates a better feeling.

This further raised the conversion rate of the promotion.

However, watching the speed at which this popularity was soaring, Li Luo thought of other factors.

After exiting QQ Music, he immediately logged into Weibo, found Yuan Wanqing's account, and took a look.

As expected.

Around six in the evening, Yuan Wanqing had posted a Weibo update.

The content was a repost recommending the music video for "Waiting for You After Class," serving as congratulations to "Teacher Chongran" on yet another new work.

Then at nine o'clock at night, which was the current time, Yuan Wanqing had posted another very short video on her Weibo account, in which she sang a small segment of the chorus a cappella.

Nowadays, thanks to "Annual Rings," Yuan Wanqing had returned to the public eye.

The title track from her previous comeback album was also gradually making its mark.

Coupled with the fact that Yuan Wanqing already had several famous songs from her early years, which, after being rearranged, had also re-entered people's vision during this period.

Everything was flourishing.

Under such circumstances, Yuan Wanqing still remembered the agreement between herself and Li Luo.

Regarding the promotional method for the next new album.

A very bold idea.

And the release of "Waiting for You After Class" this time was a perfect opportunity for experimentation.

In just about half a day, it had broken into the top ten of the QQ Music New Songs Chart and surged into the top three of the Rising Chart.

Other music platforms had also seen various gains.

If one added Huayue Film and Television's promotional power behind the scenes... the effect at that time would truly be quite anticipated.

And "Waiting for You After Class," riding on this tailwind from Yuan Wanqing, as well as with more and more readers chasing the latest chapters joining the battle after nightfall.

By past ten o'clock at night, "Waiting for You After Class" had actually surged into the top three of the New Songs Chart!

Of course, this also had to do with the fact that no big-name singers had released new songs recently; basically, it was all new songs from minor singers, with few capable of competing.

But even so, this result was quite impressive.

"Amazing."

Inside Luo Fei's small apartment, as she was browsing on her computer and saw the results for the song "Waiting for You After Class," she couldn't help but say to Yuan Wanqing, who was sitting on the sofa nearby, "This effect is really too powerful."

"Mm." Yuan Wanqing nodded lightly, glanced at the rankings displayed on the computer, her expression fairly satisfied, "Take a screenshot and save it."

"What are you going to do?"

"Previously, this song had always been listed in the company's procurement catalog," Yuan Wanqing said, "but it was constantly blocked by our Supervisor Zhai."

"Although this song isn't suitable for me, I originally intended to approve it together with those two songs from 'No Limits in the Sky'."

"But they rejected it in the end, only approving the other two."

"Now it's perfect; time to give them a little eye irritation."

"You really have a bad mind," Luo Fei chuckled, "holding such a grudge?"

"I'm just lamenting that the company missed out on a good song," Yuan Wanqing smiled lightly, "Moreover, doesn't the company have a youth urban drama recently? I recall it has campus plotlines; this song would be quite suitable."

"You are really excessively good to this fellow Li Luo," Luo Fei couldn't help but exclaim, "Could it be that you're raising him as a son-in-law? I think Zhusheng quite likes him."

"Don't talk nonsense," Yuan Wanqing rolled her eyes at her, "They are both children; say less of such things."

"This is merely mutual benefit."

"You've listened to those two new songs of his too; didn't you find them stunning?"

"My next new album might truly rely entirely on him."

"No way?" Upon hearing this, Luo Fei immediately exclaimed in surprise, "Could it be that you actually expect him to cover an entire album's worth of songs for you?"

"Why not?" Yuan Wanqing smiled, then sighed, "You don't know... Zhusheng recently sent me two more songs; although only a small part of the chorus..."

"Ah?"

"Just listen and you'll know."