After Being Blackened All Over the Internet, I Ruled the Military Variety Shows-Chapter 61: A Wave of New Fans

The clothes were finally dry enough, and the two of them extinguished the campfire, picked up their things, and set off again.

After helping each other cross a river, Jiang Lingxi felt that Jiang Kaiyuan was becoming more relaxed in front of her.

This was specifically shown by the fact that the kid was talking more!

Not only did she feel this way, but the audience in the livestream also noticed.

"The last time I saw little bro like this was when he was on a show with his former e-sports teammates."

"I heard he trained with his teammates for over three years, which is why they are so relaxed with each other. He hasn’t known Jiang Lingxi for many days, yet he’s relaxed with her. Does she have some kind of spell?"

"It’s charisma, I suppose. Your little bro has already turned to this extent, so why are his fans still in denial!"

A bunch of Jiang Kaiyuan’s fans, whose feelings were called out, couldn’t help but reflect silently, ultimately realizing they couldn’t refute it!

So they reluctantly decided to like that Jiang Lingxi a bit too.

The first step was to follow Jiang Lingxi’s social media account.

As they navigated to Jiang Lingxi’s homepage, they quietly followed and browsed through the posts, only to choose to exit silently in the end.

Still better to watch Jiang Lingxi in the livestream; she looks more approachable!

The first to notice the sudden surge in Jiang Lingxi’s followers was Lu Zhengzheng. When she clicked through the list of new followers, she suddenly had a realization, "Tong Jie, Xixi has attracted all of Jiang Kaiyuan’s fans. Look, the tens of thousands of fans that just joined are all from him."

Tong Yue took the phone Lu Zhengzheng handed over, looked at it, exited, and scrolled to the latest posts, discovering it was still a selfie with a dramatic caption posted before Jiang Lingxi’s incident, "Has she not posted anything during this period?"

This was unlike Jiang Lingxi.

This girl almost had a big argument with her back then to fight for the autonomy of her account, even storming into Manager Shao’s office.

With her headstrong and bold nature, they were indeed afraid she’d say something inappropriate online and eventually compromised.

As for Jiang Lingxi occasionally posting selfies and updates which seemed nonsensical, she had even monitored it for a while, finding that though these updates were childish and embarrassing, they were appropriately measured, not inappropriate, and rather gained some down-to-earth fans, so she turned a blind eye.

"That’s true, huh." If Tong Yue hadn’t reminded her, Lu Zhengzheng wouldn’t have thought so, but now realized that letting the account go unused like this was indeed unlike Xixi’s usual style. freewēbnoveℓ.com

She frowned and thought, "It seems it’s not just about posting updates. Since Xixi woke up from her injury a while back, besides the first two days occasionally holding her phone, watching it all day, she’s rarely used it outside of calls and video after that."

Tong Yue took a deep breath, "Are you sure?"

Lu Zhengzheng hesitated for a moment but nodded affirmatively, "During the show recording, I helped Xixi keep her phone and saw her usage time; it was less than an hour a day."

Tong Yue, who usually uses her phone for over ten hours a day: "...Now I’m a bit curious how she can bear it."

Are there really young people these days who use their phones for less than an hour?

Jiang Lingxi didn’t even know that her manager and assistant had noticed her minimal phone usage. The reason was pretty simple.

Although she came to the modern world using someone else’s body and received some of the original’s memories, and was gradually adapting to this vastly different society from ancient times, nearly fifty years of her previous life’s experiences wouldn’t be erased even after being reborn.

The phone, this new and knowledge-refreshing gadget, was something she still didn’t fully grasp or play well with.

Plus, she was habitually cautious. After Lu Zhengzheng mentioned people had no privacy online and that spoken words could be recorded, she naturally had more resistance.

The two reasons combined, her lack of addiction was quite normal.

"Xixi, is that a huge beehive over there?"

Jiang Lingxi looked up in the direction Jiang Kaiyuan was pointing.

Not far ahead, a beehive larger than a human head was hanging from the branch of a large tree, with many bees buzzing around it.

Several locust trees in full bloom grew nearby, explaining why the air became sweeter as they walked this way.

Seeing those clusters of white locust flowers, Jiang Lingxi was reminded of a time when she, on a discrete visit, missed a place to stay and, taking refuge in a peasant’s home, drank a bowl of locust flower noodle soup and ate steamed locust flower dumplings.

These locust flowers, not only beautiful and fragrant but also edible and delicious.

"Let’s pick some locust flowers to take away."

Jiang Kaiyuan immediately rubbed his palms eagerly, "Let me!"

Saying that, he chose an easy-to-climb locust tree, hugged the trunk, and agilely jumped up.

Jiang Lingxi: "...Be careful."

She hadn’t planned on climbing up herself, just intending to tie a rock to some fishing line and throw it over a lower branch to weigh it down to harvest some flowers.

But since Jiang Kaiyuan volunteered, she had to stay below to catch them.

Amid the concerned gazes of the livestream audience, Jiang Kaiyuan climbed up the locust tree, stood on a branch, and began picking the best-blooming locust flowers, tossing them down in Jiang Lingxi’s direction, "Xixi, catch!"

Jiang Lingxi waved at him, "Throw as much as you want."

While picking from the tree, Jiang Kaiyuan casually stuffed a few strings into his mouth. Even when Jiang Lingxi said it was enough, he still seemed reluctant to stop. Finally, after cramming another mouthful of freshly picked locust flowers, he reluctantly prepared to climb down.

Halfway down, disaster struck in his happiness.

The branch beneath him suddenly shook, and he instinctively reached out to grab something to steady himself but underestimated his own weight.

The branch underfoot ultimately couldn’t hold and snapped with a "crack."

As everyone was almost scared into screaming by the scene, Jiang Kaiyuan barely managed to land on a neighboring branch, swaying back and forth a few times before finally stabilizing.

The whole ordeal scared him into a cold sweat, and he dared not attempt any more flair, cautiously sliding down from the tree.

When his feet finally touched the ground safely, he was ready to breathe a sigh of relief.

However, just as he exhaled halfway and landed safely, another thing fell to the ground.

With a light "pop," Jiang Lingxi heard the sound and turned her head first. As Jiang Kaiyuan belatedly turned to look, Jiang Lingxi quickly patted his back, "Run!"