Superstar's Development Diary
Chapter 57 Satirical Questioning

Chapter 57: Chapter 57 Satirical Questioning

August just flew by, and on September 1st, under Luo You’s management, another set of He Jinxia’s weight loss comparison pictures was released. Unexpectedly yet reasonably, He Jinxia topped the trending searches for a few days.

Unnoticed, the topic of "He Jinxia’s weight loss" quietly became an ongoing national conversation.

Some were pessimistic, others were hopeful, and many were just curious. No matter what their sentiments were, they all added fuel to the fire of He Jinxia’s trending topic.

In September, Dong Qiin officially gave the film crew a break and announced the halt of the shooting. The next startup would be after He Jinxia had successfully lost weight.

Li Li and Wu Daxi had finished their scenes in August and had left the crew after their shoots.

Though out of the spotlight, it didn’t mean Dong Qiin wasn’t busy. She was occupied with selecting pre-weight loss clips and working on post-production. This movie’s clever trick lay exactly here, as the before and after weight loss could be completely separated.

He Jinxia was also busy, focusing on fitness and weight loss, even putting a halt to her acting practice, as she had neither the mind nor the time for it.

As the weight loss progressed, only stubborn fat remained, which made it increasingly difficult. Losing even a little weight was really not easy.

Every drop of sweat was backed by endless exercises, more exercises, and continuous exercises.

September, October, November, December... Time, like an incessant tide, pushed the days forward relentlessly.

After being secluded for over three months, the film crew officially resumed shooting on December 15th.

It was also on this day, after over a month of anticipation fueled by He Jinxia’s team’s marketing, that followers who had been eagerly waiting for the weight loss comparison pictures finally saw them on He Jinxia’s Weibo in the early morning. It blew up instantly!

On Weibo, the first fans, haters, and casual followers who saw the news all used exclamation marks to express their shocked feelings.

[!!!]

[!!!!!!]

[!!!!!!!!!]

Such uniformity persisted across more than two pages until someone couldn’t hold back anymore and typed:

[Are the people above playing some kind of alpha decryption code?]

All of a sudden, his comment was met with dozens of replies—

[You don’t know, they are using exclamation marks to express the shock they feel inside.]

[Haha, let me, the most handsome man in the universe, tell you. They mean: He Jinxia actually really slimmed down!]

[He Jinxia slimmed down... He Jinxia really slimmed down...]

[Incredible. I just made a bet that if He Jinxia could get slim, I’d live stream eating shit...]

[Upstairs, waiting for your live stream!]

[A pile of shit is ready for you, please live stream it!]

...

Soon, amid a chorus of condemnation, that "eat shit" comment was swiftly deleted by the original poster.

After several pages of skewed comments under the Wèi post, serious comments finally emerged, all congratulating He Jinxia on her successful weight loss.

Luo You constantly monitored the comments, managing He Jinxia’s Wèi blog, setting it to display the latest comments.

Zhang Dayou was also busy, having his team members contact popular bloggers to share the post, drawing more and more onlookers to her page.

Ensuring "He Jinxia’s Perfect Weight Loss" hit the top spot on the trending searches was no longer their only goal. By specially choosing to release the message around 1 or 2 in the morning, they had just one purpose—

to crash the Wèi blog servers!

Yes, they were that ambitious.

If it had been in the past, neither Luo You nor Zhang Dayou would have dared to dream of such a feat. They would have been happy enough to have "He Jinxia Slimmed Down" trending in the top ten each time it appeared.

But over the past few months, the discussion about He Jinxia’s weight loss had escalated. Each time the entry appeared, they could easily make it trend without much effort, much easier than they had imagined.

So, the daring act of crashing the servers seemed... conceivable?

As for why they chose to do it at midnight, it’s well known that this is when online traffic is at its lowest. Crashing the servers at this time not only ensures headline dominance but also creates a more shocking impact than a daytime crash would.

From across the room, Zhang Dayou’s voice was heard, "The ’Fake Slimming’ entry has appeared, but it’s not catching fire. Very few people are doubting that He Jinxia is faking her slimming now."

Luo You frowned and said, "That’s not surprising. The ’fake slimming’ claims were most prevalent when we first released the weight loss comparison photos. Over the next few months, as we continued releasing comparison photos, the netizens aren’t fools; if it really was fake, no one would dare make it such a big deal."

Zhang Dayou chuckled, his fingers flying over the keyboard, "Since it’s falling flat, let’s just give it a little push."

Following his command, in the dead of night, numerous paid media channels and some popular Wèi bloggers shared the news about He Jinxia’s perfect weight loss and started questioning its authenticity.

Among them, a popular blogger known as "Entertainment All-knowing" wrote a lengthy analytical post.

This blogger believed He Jinxia was gambling. It wasn’t that he doubted He Jinxia could lose weight, but that he couldn’t believe she could slim down to such an extent in only seven months.

[Anyone who has tried to lose weight knows that initially, it’s easy to shed five or ten pounds. But as you go on, it gets harder and harder.

He Jinxia’s officially announced weight was 200 pounds. From her photos, she now looks to be at most 120 pounds, meaning she shed about 80 pounds in these seven months. Does that seem possible to you?

I believe that only the initial few weight loss comparisons were He Jinxia’s real data, but this latest release swapped them with someone of similar height and facial structure!

Entertainment All-knowing speculates that after releasing her weight loss photos and fulfilling her promise to stay in the entertainment circle, He Jinxia will disappear for a while and only re-surface between February and April next year. That’s when the truly slimmed-down He Jinxia will appear before everyone!

Here, Entertainment All-knowing just wants to say: He Jinxia, if you’ve slimmed down, just show us. As long as you look slim and not like a fat pig, everyone will believe you’ve lost weight. There’s no need to publish fake data to deceive the public. The masses see your efforts and won’t force you to leave the circle!]

This popular blogger’s post was truly interesting. On the surface, it seemed to defend He Jinxia, but in fact, it was entirely satirical.

What was it satirizing?

It was satirizing He Jinxia for publishing fake data!

It was satirizing her desperate attempts to remain in the entertainment circle!