Chapter 27: Starting Drama

Ning Mu had actually taken the initiative to contact her and wish her good night?

Bai Yurou stared at the screen, momentarily at a loss.

The person she cared about had suddenly reached out, making her so nervous that she didn’t know how to respond.

She hurriedly picked up her phone, typed a long string of words, then deleted them, typed again, deleted again, tossing back and forth for quite a while.

In the end, what she sent out was only two words.

Lin Yue: Good night.

After Bai Yurou sent it, she stared at Ning Mu’s chat interface for a while longer.

The other party did not send any new messages either.

So she had really only come to greet her?

Bai Yurou felt that she had been a bit self-important just now, considering for so long what to reply and even hoping the other party would take the initiative to say more to her.

As expected, she still had to take the initiative herself.

Bai Yurou thought this as she turned off the light and drifted into dreamland.

She was already tired enough today, so she wouldn’t stay up late.

***

Over the next few days, Bai Yurou felt that she had returned to her shut-in life once again.

Every day she stayed at home doing nothing but eating and sleeping.

Then it was watching anime and playing games.

In between, she also casually watched the latest episode of the singing variety show Voice of Dreams that Bai Mo had filmed.

As the public-facing “top fan,” Bai Yurou naturally watched every episode on time.

The recording time of this episode happened to be the one Bai Mo had gone to film instead of accompanying her home when Bai Yurou was discharged from the hospital.

Even through the screen, Bai Yurou could feel that her older sister’s mood was not very good.

This singer who walked the sunny route had a much colder aura throughout the entire episode.

She did not deliberately tell small jokes to liven up the atmosphere like she usually did. As a mentor, she was much harsher toward the newcomers than before.

In this episode, she did not give even a single turn, and even made one contestant cry with her words.

It couldn’t be because of me, right?

Bai Yurou knew that her older sister was a sister-con no less than her older brother. 

That day she had originally wanted to go home together with the discharged her, but had been pulled away to work overtime recording the program.

Her mood was bad, so she took her anger out on the contestants—the more she thought about it, the more she felt this was exactly the case.

After finishing the program, Bai Yurou already had a premonition that her older sister was probably going to start some drama.

If her older sister started drama because of her and destroyed the persona she had operated for many years in one go, then the gains would not make up for the losses.

She opened social media and took a look. Sure enough, as she had expected, Bai Mo’s name dominated the trending searches.

#BaiMoAbnormalStateOnShow

#BaiMoDidNotTurn

#BaiMoMadeContestantCry

#SunnySingerBaiMoColdFace

Her older sister was a national-level singer after all, and the program Voice of Dreams itself was also very popular. 

It was normal for a situation like this to appear.

Bai Yurou then tapped open the comment section of the latest episode.

In the comment section, many people were worried whether Bai Mo had encountered something that caused her state to be so poor. Most of the comments expressed support for her older sister.

After all, the goodwill she had accumulated among ordinary people over so many years was there. 

This episode did not count as anything major either—nothing more than making one contestant cry, and the words Bai Mo had said were not wrong from a professional perspective.

If it had been some other mentor who walked the strict and rigorous route, this matter would not have stirred up any waves at all.

It was just that these harsh words coming from Bai Mo’s mouth appeared especially glaring.

Although there were also a few fans of the rival side causing trouble in the comment section:

“Bai Mo has this kind of quality? Didn’t you see the little girl’s tears were about to fall, and she’s still talking there?”

“Better get banned early. My family’s Xuan Bao is still the kind one.”

However, Bai Yurou quickly discovered that these few comments were instantly besieged. Among the IDs participating in the siege, there were even ones she recognized.

MoBaoIsMyWife: Can you stop already? Everyday using Ye Xuan as a shield to attack my family’s Mo Bao. Ye Xuan herself is Mo Bao’s fan. Does she know she’s kinder than Mo Bao?

MoBaoIsMyWife: If Ye Xuan saw you insulting her idol like this, she would definitely expel you from the fandom.

MoBaoIsMyWife, like Bai Yurou, was also a famous top fan in the circle, with the same name across the entire internet.

She had become a die-hard fan of the other party from the time when Bai Mo had not yet become popular and first appeared on Voice of Dreams. 

At that time she had already been active in Bai Mo’s super topic, and was a “veteran” of a seniority no less than Bai Yurou’s.

The reason Bai Yurou knew her was because the other party was also one of the administrators of her Bai Mo fan group.

She even had the other party as a friend, and the two of them often privately chatted about Bai Mo.

The other party often knew some habits that even Bai Yurou, as the younger sister, did not know.

Bai Yurou often felt that the other party’s feelings toward her older sister were not limited to idol worship, but also… this could be seen just from the other party’s internet-wide ID.

As for the Ye Xuan mentioned by her in the comment section.

In the circle, she could be considered Bai Mo’s rival.

In the second year after Bai Mo participated in Voice of Dreams and exploded in popularity, another girl of roughly the same age as Bai Mo also participated in Voice of Dreams. That was Ye Xuan.

Ye Xuan was dressed simply. In the first episode of the program she said that she had come to this program because she had watched Bai Mo’s competition, and that Bai Mo was her idol.

Then in the first episode she sang the song that Bai Mo had self-composed on the final stage of Voice of Dreams.

In the end Ye Xuan also became the overall champion of that season.

Didn’t this look like a story of someone chasing after their own idol?

As for how they became rivals?

That had to start from one company.

Polar Night Media was one of the oldest entertainment companies in China. After seeing Bai Mo’s performance back then, they had wanted to sign her and make her their ace.

As a result, later Bai Yuan approved of his daughter becoming a singer. 

For the sake of her singing career, he personally established a company named Star Entertainment.

So just when Polar Night Media wanted to contact Bai Mo, they received the news that the other party had already signed with a newly established small company.

Then in the second year, Ye Xuan also came to participate in the program.

This time Polar Night Media learned their lesson and struck first. 

In the first episode of the program they contacted Ye Xuan, wanting to sign her.

At that time Ye Xuan was still very poor and needed to work part-time while recording the program. 

She also had a younger sister four years younger at home whom she had to support, so she agreed without thinking much.

In the end she also did not disappoint Polar Night Media’s expectations. 

She took the championship of the season of Voice of Dreams after Bai Mo’s, obtained the status that Polar Night Media had originally prepared for Bai Mo, and became the company’s main push.

Afterwards, whether intentionally or not, Polar Night Media also set Ye Xuan’s positioning as a sunny-type singer identical to Bai Mo’s.

The two of them debuted only one year apart, had the same positioning, and were consecutive champions of the same national variety show. 

Ye Xuan had also said that she had come to this stage because of Bai Mo.

With all these factors stacked together, Ye Xuan and Bai Mo became rivals.

The fans of the two sides often tore into each other.

Although Ye Xuan still continued to frequently say in public that Bai Mo was the idol and senior she had always respected, and Bai Mo basically never mentioned Ye Xuan much.

But Ye Xuan doing this was often regarded by Bai Mo’s fans as rubbing against her and provocation.

Six years had passed. Polar Night Media still flourished, and the Bai family’s Star Entertainment had also gradually grown into an industry leader no less than Polar Night Media.

As for Ye Xuan and Bai Mo—the aces of the two companies, who had been recognized as rivals by the circle since their debut—both had also grown into national-level singers.