CEO's Sweetheart is a Super Idol-Chapter 334 - 326 Sudden Change in the Dark Fury

The Li Ke family.

After voting for Ye Yuwei, he opened a webpage to check the latest news.

"Huh? Even this can be used to blacken someone?" Li Ke frowned as he glanced at the article.

How Chen Yinghan climbed the ranks.

Is there anything to Chen Yinghan besides the persona of the "Four Rich Ladies"?

If it weren’t for the villagers voting for her, how could she have made it to the finals?

But now everyone is saying that Lv Fangxin cannot do without her.

Reading this made me laugh. Without Chen Yinghan splitting the votes, would the "village flower" have dropped to seventh place? Some villagers have clearly been blinded.

Let me teach the girls in the show how to really "leech."

Find someone beautiful, kind, and inexperienced to pair up for a CP (couple pairing).

Be careful, absolutely no ugly partners, because there are too many face fans in front of the screen.

You must play the role of the reliable big sister. Show care and concern every day like you’re on stage.

In front of the camera, you must exude protective vibes as a big sister toward the little sister, and project a mature, poised, and dignified image. Oh, and sprinkle in a tiny bit of ambiguous GL energy.

This way, passersby will warm up to you and vote for you.

If her fans are too oblivious, they might even feel indebted and thank you profusely.

Afterward, on your way to and from work, flaunt this intimate vibe in front of the picking-up-and-dropping-off fans. When others subtly acknowledge it, respond with a cryptic yet meaningful smile.

In the dorms at night, occasionally sing a song or strum a guitar. Choose those pretentious songs about "vague emotions," furrowing your brow to feign heartache and melancholy.

In any case, lock her down completely. Don’t let her have any CP with anyone else.

At this point, the show’s endgame is near; singing and dancing performances don’t even matter anymore.

You might as well figure out how to keep this persona running smoothly.

While others exhaust themselves with singing and dancing, playing CP and dropping sugar hits like what Chen Yinghan does generates far more heat and flow.

Li Ke stared slack-jawed at the article.

"Solo poisoners! These must be solo poisoners, posing as village flower fans to blacken Chen Yinghan."

Li Ke immediately made his judgment, but what shocked him even more was seeing that there were already thousands of comments under this article.

Not only that, but a wave of posts suddenly appeared online accusing Chen Yinghan of leeching votes from the "village flower."

Simultaneously, posts exposing alleged issues with Chen Yinghan’s orientation started cropping up, calling for her blacklisting.

Li Ke opened the fan support group, which had turned into an all-out war, with two factions fiercely clashing.

He immediately contacted all the big fans. Fortunately, many of the big fans were still level-headed.

They unanimously agreed that this was no time to break the CP; doing so just before the finale would be utter stupidity.

The big fans from the support group began appeasing the casual fans while initiating anti-black campaigns across the internet.

As soon as posts accusing Chen Yinghan of leeching Lv Fangxin’s votes appeared, they began reporting the associated ID accounts.

At the same time, they flooded the comment sections to control public opinion and reached out to Shou Shou for assistance in anti-black efforts.

Lately, Shou Shou had been riding high on success.

He had received a major investment from the company’s third largest shareholder.

This investor originally came from his former parent company.

The parent company had planned to sell this subsidiary, but after consulting with them, he secured a stake in the subsidiary, becoming its largest shareholder.

The remaining shares were split among the parent company and a gaming company.

Although his equity was diluted after receiving further investment from the parent company, he remained the effective controller of the company.

Thus, when Li Ke approached him for help with anti-black efforts, he agreed without hesitation.

In some ways, he was even more invested in Lv Fangxin than Li Ke and his crowd.

After securing help from marketing accounts within the industry and funneling massive funds into anti-black campaigns, the rumors were somewhat controlled. However, the "village flower" dropping to seventh place still left the villagers in a state of panic.

They had initially believed their fan group was vast and didn’t need to organize large-scale fundraising campaigns like others. Limited crowdfunding alone was enough to beat the competition, or so they thought.

After the rankings were revealed in the first two public performances, their assumptions seemed accurate.

They even mocked those who engaged in crazed crowdfunding efforts.

How could a fanbase with so few core supporters and random passersby hope to compare to theirs?

But this latest turn of events shocked everyone. Even the idea of Lv Fangxin debuting in a lower-ranking position was unacceptable. Anyone trying to break the CP at this time was clearly up to no good.

Luckily, Li Ke and his crew were experienced veterans who saw through everything clearly.

In his eyes, the most important thing for Lv Fangxin was to debut.

Everything else was just an insignificant detail.

In fact, Lv Fangxin could be considered the luckiest contestant in the entire show.

Taking advantage of certain niche groups voting for her hinged on her CP pairing.

Seasoned companies understood this well—for instance, the one Meng Meixuan worked for, Yuehua.

But no matter how hard Yuehua tried to hype Meixuan’s CP, it just wouldn’t take off.

Other companies wanted to pivot toward CP strategies, but the production team didn’t give them the right footage.

The rise of Lv Fangxin’s CP was actually accidental.

At first, the production wasn’t even pushing for CP pairings.

It was just that the two had naturally good relations and were often seen together. The production team, wanting to generate traffic, gave Lv Fangxin a lot of screen time, and in turn pulled Chen Yinghan into the spotlight as well.

Later on, news of Chen Yinghan’s elite "white rich beauty" background broke out, and she seamlessly took on the role of a fictional protagonist.

It all flowed naturally, sweeter than any artificially concocted PR stunts.

Adding to that, both were stunning beauties, and fans who shipped them went absolutely wild.

When the production team, under public pressure, helped restore Lv Fangxin’s image, they used Chen Yinghan to give her a persona of genuine and commendable qualities, further cementing their public appeal.

This solidified their CP’s dominance. Any attempt to break it up now would destroy both of them. Compared to Chen Yinghan, there was absolutely no way Lv Fangxin’s side would accept that.

To strengthen the CP, Li Ke, as a big fan, posted under the support group’s Weibo a screenshot of votes cast for Chen Yinghan, totaling around 300,000 yuan.

Meanwhile, Lv Fangxin’s support group announced that as much as they could manage, they would allocate their votes entirely to Chen Yinghan.

This left all the vote teams for potential debut contenders dumbfounded.

Had Lv Fangxin’s household become so affluent that even their resources were this extensive?

Amidst everyone’s astonishment, Ye Yuwei’s side suddenly announced that they would allocate their surplus votes to Chen Yinghan, reasoning that since Lv Fangxin was Ye Yuwei’s friend, Chen Yinghan was as well.

This reasoning was so absurd that anyone with logical thinking wouldn’t believe it.

But fandom logic isn’t the same as regular logic.

Fans assumed that the Ye and Lv camps had joined forces to ensure Chen’s success in the debut lineup at all costs.

The sheer power of these two camps of casual fans combined sent chills through every other voting support group.

Everyone knew that either of these two fan groups alone could outnumber the remaining ten fan groups combined.

If the production team hadn’t tampered with Ye and Lv’s votes, they surely would’ve been ranked first and second.

Of course, fan numbers don’t always translate into voting power.

To show their sincerity, Ye Yuwei’s support group also posted proof of more than 300,000 yuan raised for votes.

This left even Chen Yinghan’s own fans utterly bewildered.

Had both camps suddenly taken a shining to their "main dish" (idol)?