PLT | Chapter 27

[Forum Thread]

[Entertainment Gossip Board]

Isn’t the progress of the ChenYuChaoYan CP moving at like eight-hundred-times speed? 1551

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Mistaken fate, substitute-bride romance, marriage before love, sweet date caught red-handed…
Can you believe it? All of this happened within this month!!!

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Sharp-tongued in public, lips tangled in private!
ChenYuChaoYan is real!!!

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Holy shit, our little couple got caught on a date?
How did I go offline for one day and immediately get left behind by the times?

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Jiejie above, did your village only just get internet? The supertopic has already gone completely insane!

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Can this passing melon-eater get a bite of the giant sugar too?

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Don’t lump all CP fans together. Other CP fans have to pry sugar out of cracks and dig it up bit by bit, but yynh is just lazy. The actual people involved already stuffed the sugar straight into our mouths, and you people can’t even be bothered to stick out your tongues and taste it.

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233333333333, the poster above!

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What’s yynh? Can someone explain!

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Yanyu Girls, the YanYu CP fans.
Yanyu Girls can live without having their own romantic encounter, but YanYu absolutely has to be each other’s romantic encounter!!!

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xswl, you guys are so talented. I thought it was called yynh because you all liked yy.

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As a Yanyu Girls who was lucky enough to witness things live today, let me summarize this earth-shattering giant candy for all of you!
After tonight’s Xiaqing Yuan performance ended, Fengfeng suddenly cued the audience seats, and then everyone followed his lead and spotted Zhou Chenyu in the best seat on the second floor! Bringing! Yan Chao! To listen to xiangsheng!!!
Then the crowd below completely lost it, crazily yelling Xiao Yan, troupe master furen. The whole room had hundreds of people, men and women alike, all shouting it in unison. Can you even imagine that scene?
And they just happened to be sitting in the hanging-ticket angle too. It was practically like an emperor and empress touring together, adored by all the people, flourishing and delirious, hahahahaha!

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Holy shit, the CP got danced right in front of the actual people involved? That’s kind of not great…

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The poster above is overthinking it. The people yelling troupe master furen weren’t CP fans at all. Do you really think middle-aged uncles are CP fans?
That’s just what xiangsheng audiences are like. At heart they’re just joking around and having fun.

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Oh my god!
I can imagine Xiao Yu’s reaction, he was definitely shamelessly grinning, but I genuinely cannot imagine what expression Xiao Yan had when he heard that.

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Xiao Yan blanked out for three full seconds! Yes, that’s right! Blankly froze!
Just think about how fast Xiao Yan’s reactions usually are on the show, okay? Has anyone ever seen him blank out before? No!
But tonight! He blanked out!

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Xiao Yan’s inner OS: wtf, why are xiangsheng performers insane, and even the people who listen to xiangsheng are abnormal too?

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Hahahahahahahaha, my heart aches for Xiao Yan-gege!

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But Xiao Yan’s expression management was first-rate. After blanking out, he immediately went back to normal, and then the crowd below started needling him again, saying he had to sleep with shifu first, hahahahahahahahaha!

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Oh my god, as expected of Xiaqing Yuan fans. They really can drive the car the second they open their mouths?

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Question from the front row, did Xiao Yan blush?

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The lighting was too dark, so you couldn’t tell whether he blushed or not, but he did the full broken-jar-broken-fall thing and directly said, “Already slept together.”

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????????

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!!!!!!!!!

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Mama, I got the real thing!!!

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Why is everyone so shocked about slept together, 2333? Think about it, they’re always in the same room when recording shows, and travel variety shows always involve roughing it outdoors. Maybe they just squeezed together to sleep, that’s totally normal.

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I don’t care!!! By rounding up, they’ve already doi-ed!!!
Don’t ask, I’m under the bed!

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I think the funniest part is that Fengfeng and Xiao Chi probably didn’t know the two of them were there at first, right?
Right from the opening they kept using the two of them for zagua like crazy, saying stuff about My Fair Princess and about widows having affairs. Just imagine it, the two of them were actually sitting below listening the whole time. That feeling, 23333.

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szd, and Fengfeng also said something like “Xiao Yanzi Flies, Wu Ah-ge Chases,” hahahahahahaha!

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Fengfeng is confirmed as the CP fandom leader.

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Shisao is probably going to be furious. The moment they get back, he’ll make him kneel on a washboard together with his shige.

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I’m dying just reading your text posts. When are the front-line sisters going to upload the video? I want to go completely feral shipping this.

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Don’t panic, the front-line sisters are probably still on the way home.

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The video is here! Go to the supertopic! [web link]

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I came back after watching the video. I died, came back to life, died again, came back to life again.

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ChenYuChaoYan is real!!! I’m screaming like a marmot!!!

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Unbelievable, absolutely unbelievable. The troupe master was smiling at the wife the entire time. That look in his eyes, I’m intoxicated.

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The troupe master is seriously the reincarnation of some flirt maniac, whether with girls or guys!
He really knows what he’s doing, 1551. Those peach blossom eyes are breathtakingly beautiful. Every time he smiles while looking at someone, my bones go soft. Sorry, wife.

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What is this absolutely gorgeous smiling-at-each-other scene, awsl!!!
[one-glance-for-ten-thousand-years gif]

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The wife’s gaze when looking at the troupe master was so serious, so affectionate, 1551. Then the second the troupe master looked back at him, he immediately shifted his eyes away. Wuwuwu I’m crying!
It especially looked like that expression a high school-era innocent school-heartthrob gives the person he has a crush on. What kind of metaphor is this, hhhhh.

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The wife just naturally has that first-love face. Top student, school-heartthrob, perfectly capable of slotting into every campus male lead ever. The way he looks at people is always so serious and affectionate, 1551.

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The troupe master is like one of those gorgeous, unruly little rebel girls, flirting her way across the whole school, teasing the school-heartthrob every day, only to discover that the school-heartthrob has already quietly started falling for her, wuwuwu.

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dbq for interrupting, but first it was troupe master and wife, then shige and shisao, and now it’s rebel girl and school-heartthrob, so who exactly is top and who’s bottom here?

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Aren’t you Yanyu Girls? Isn’t this super obvious???

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What? Wasn’t it troupe master and wife, shige and shisao? You people are telling me Zhou Chenyu is the bottom?

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It’s just a form of address, okay? And haven’t you noticed that the term itself carries that kind of “I dote on you, so verbally I’ll let you take advantage of me” feeling?

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Jiejie above, you just spoke straight to my soul! Their dynamic looks like the troupe master has the initiative, but really it’s only because the wife spoils him! Like, indulges him in everything!

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+1. The wife is the tsundere himself. He always looks like he especially despises the troupe master, but in reality he’s infinitely indulgent toward him!
Think about it, when has someone as calm and steady as the wife ever bickered with anyone else? Only the troupe master can break through his boundaries, that’s all.

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“+2, and the wife is totally the type whose mouth says no, but whose body is honest. He keeps verbally dissing the troupe leader, but his eyes have already given his heart away!”

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Speaking of which, I absolutely have to offer up some of my treasured giant images.
[three consecutive jpgs of the wife looking at the troupe master with doting eyes]

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I’m crying. I’m genuinely crying. He’s making a fuss, he’s smiling, wuwuwuwu!

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When the wife looks at the troupe master, those eyes he reveals without even meaning to, what is this ultra-powerful pure-hearted domineering-CEO little wolfdog vibe, 1551!

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Xiao Yu! Look at our Xiao Yan! He’s about to get flirted to death by you!!!

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Troupe master, just keep flirting blindly, why don’t you. Don’t you see how fierce the wife’s gaze gets every time he looks at you?
When you get cried senseless from being x-ed, don’t ask why.

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Ying, handing a pen to the author online!

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Replying to the poster above, go to LOF. Great-coat py, opera-costume py, everything you could want.

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kswl!!!
ChenYuChaoYan will be the imperial CP tomorrow!

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I couldn’t help watching tonight’s whole video from start to finish. This humble person has never mixed in the xiangsheng circle before and is begging for info, who are those two handsome little brothers onstage today? Their visuals are both so high, unbelievably gorgeous!

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Get to know Xiaqing Yuan’s newly risen traffic stars, Guan Chenfeng and Jiang Chenchi. Childhood-sweethearts CP, peng and dou is rio!

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Never watched xiangsheng +1, but this performance really made me cry from sweetness. I instantly lay flat at the bottom of the pit.

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But I’m a little worried, they were way too rio onstage. Won’t people mock them for selling fujoshi-bait?

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Not selling fujoshi-bait, not selling fujoshi-bait, not selling fujoshi-bait! Say it three times!
Fenhe Bay is originally just like this, you can go look it up yourself, all partners say it this way!
And the husband-wife gag only takes up a small part! The crooked singing is the main bulk of it!

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2333, that’s the one bad thing about being good-looking. Even doing a traditional bit gets called selling fujoshi-bait. Actually it used to be even more rio, but because the fans below kept shrieking all the time, they already removed a lot of it.

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Word, omg, what kind of CP-shipping paradise is the xiangsheng circle! I’m crying from sweetness!
I hereby declare that starting today, I’ve fallen in love with xiangsheng!

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Praying online that one day the troupe master and the troupe master furen can also do a Fenhe Bay. My life will be complete.

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Report!!! The troupe master and the wife got photographed by paparazzi!!!

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woc, photographed doing what???

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The troupe master brought the wife home!!! Back to the Zhou family!!!

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Scared me to death, I thought they got photographed doing doi on the spot…

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Pfft, what is the sis above even thinking.

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woc, that’s the Zhou family!!! Did he bring him to meet shiye!!! My god!!!

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Doesn’t that basically equal an official seal of approval?

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I’m dying, I used to keep worrying that the old master wouldn’t accept Xiao Yu going on variety shows, but instead Xiao Yu directly brought Xiao Yan home.

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Does this more or less mean shiye supports them too?

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Wuwuwu, this is so good, I’m crying!

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“YanchaoZhouChenyu”
Got on the hot search?

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Ugh, don’t mention it. The moment it hit the hot search, the solo stans from both sides started tearing each other apart again.

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Pfft, the two actual people involved are this rio already and they can still fight?

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Yan fans said Zhou Chenyu sexually harassed Xiao Yan with words at Xiaqing Yuan and made their gege unhappy.

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Sexually harassed?
Hahahahahahaha, forgive me for bursting out laughing, what kind of terrifying term is that?

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Yu fans claimed that Yan Chao forced Zhou Chenyu to take him home, and even deliberately arranged for paparazzi to secretly photograph them.

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Pfft, what is this, some forced-marriage plot from a soap opera???
dbq, I’m laughing so hard I’m about to black out. I’ve already imagined a million-word bloody melodrama all by myself.

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“The Substitute Bride: The Gold-Medal MC Falls in Love with Me”
“The Runaway Sweetheart: Troupe Master, Stop Committing Crimes with Your Beauty”
“Republican-Era Affairs: The Opera Actor Just Has to Be a Man of Feeling”
“Royal Exclusive Favor: Xiao Yanzi Flies, Wu Ah-ge Chases”

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Hahahahaha, please, how are cf** better at shipping than our CP fans???

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It’s late at night, so I’ll quietly say something. Even though I know it’s taboo to ship RPS too seriously, why do I always feel like the wife is starting to get a little emotionally invested…
Someone come splash me awake!

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Poster above, actually I think the same as you, I’m just too scared to say it…

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I also feel like the wife’s attitude toward the troupe master really is way too different from how he is with everyone else…
Even though eye-contact sugar is always kind of a stretch, the way the wife looks at the troupe master… it always feels kind of complicated…

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Yeah, but if you look at the troupe master’s attitude toward the wife instead, it feels more like he’s joking around. After all, the mouth of a xiangsheng performer is a liar’s ghost…

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Especially with the troupe master’s flirtatious personality, he flirts and then runs, not taking it seriously himself at all.
But the wife is so pure-hearted, he’s never dated and never been flirted with before. If enough time passes and he starts taking it seriously, then what…

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The wife falls for it, but in the troupe master’s heart he only sees the wife as a friend and doesn’t realize it, and he keeps flirting like mad. Then the wife realizes the troupe master doesn’t have him in his heart, so he can only endure it, restrain himself, and quietly protect him…
Holy shit, this CP was obviously so sweet, how did it suddenly turn into deep tragic romance?

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Jiejies, don’t do this!
At heart they’re both straight men! Brotherhood is already great!
Front row requesting a song: The Truth Is Fake!

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+1 to the poster above, shipping CPs too seriously is asking for karmic punishment!

Footnotes:

[1] “1551” is internet slang used to mimic crying, similar to “wuwuwu” or “sob sob.”

[2] “Sugar” in this thread 糖, fandom slang for sweet, romantic, or shippable moments.

[3] “Yanyu Girls” 艳遇女孩. It is a pun on 艳遇, meaning a romantic encounter, and also sounds like a fandom-style label for fans of the YanYu pairing. The joke in “Yanyu Girls can live without having their own romantic encounter, but YanYu absolutely has to be each other’s romantic encounter” depends on that double meaning.

[4] “yy” in post 9 jokes on the abbreviation yynh. Here yy likely refers to 意淫 or wild fantasizing in internet slang, which is why the poster jokes that they thought the fandom name came from liking to fantasize.

[5] “Hanging-ticket angle” 吊票视角, referring to the steep, elevated viewing angle from higher-up seats in a theater. The joke is that it made them look like lofty, ceremonial figures.

[6] “Blanked out for three seconds” 呆滞了三秒. The humor is that Yan Chao is usually known for being quick on the uptake, so visibly freezing is treated as major evidence by the fans.

[7] “Broken-jar-broken-fall” 破罐子破摔, meaning giving up on saving face and just rolling with the embarrassment.

[8] “zagua” 砸挂, a xiangsheng practice of teasing or joking about someone, often someone familiar enough to be fair game for affectionate public ribbing.

[9] “one-glance-for-ten-thousand-years” 一眼万年, an exaggerated romantic phrase for a look that feels eternal or unforgettable.

[10] “imperial CP” 美帝, fandom slang meaning the most dominant, top, or universally favored pairing in a fandom, not literally an empire in the geopolitical sense.

[11] “rio” is internet slang used in fandom spaces to mean a pairing feels especially real, convincing, or intense.

[12] “Crooked singing” 歪唱, a comedic xiangsheng singing style that is intentionally skewed or unserious rather than proper operatic singing.

[13] “Selling fujoshi-bait” 麦麸, meaning deliberately playing up homoerotic or shippable elements to attract fandom attention.

[14] “Solo stans” 纯粉, meaning fans who support only one person rather than a CP.

[15] “The mouth of a xiangsheng performer is a liar’s ghost” 说相声的嘴，骗人的鬼, a joking saying meaning xiangsheng performers are so verbally slick that you cannot take all their flirtation or talk at face value.