The Top Couple Is a Bit Sweet

Recent entertainment industry gossip:

A member of a certain girl group, C, was recently spotted on vacation in Sanya with a popular senior artist.
The management team has been trying to suppress the news, but it is estimated that it will cost several million yuan in public relations fees to settle the matter. The female star L and male star C, who are rumored to be a couple, are actually not close in private.
The female star has been chasing after the male star, but he has been wanting to break up for a long time. The second season of a variety show that was a massive hit last year featuring a married couple is in the works.
The production team is trying to replicate the success of the first season and has spent a lot of money to negotiate with the couple S and W.
The negotiations are not yet complete, but it is believed to be a salary issue.
Former staff members have complained that the couple’s fees are very high.

“It’s not that high.” Wen Li murmured to herself.

It’s the normal price for a first-tier female star.
Recently, the upper management has been strictly controlling artists’ salaries, and no one dares to ask for exorbitant fees.

Her hairstylist was holding a curling iron and doing her hair when she suddenly heard Wen Li say this.

He looked down and smiled, “Why are you even looking at your own fake news?”

“My fans sent it to me.” Wen Li replied.

She had decided to look at her fans’ private messages on Weibo on a whim.
There’s no indication of whether a message has been read or not, so she just took a look.

Out of the tens of thousands of messages, she happened to stumble upon this one.

「Entertainment Bro: [Weibo post]」

「Is the third piece of gossip true? Ahhhhhh!」

「CP fans are ecstatic! 」

She clicked on it and the last piece of gossip posted by this marketing account was about her.

It was too obvious, and the top comment decoded it in seconds.

「Number 3 is too easy to decode.
Why not just include their names?」

「3.
Song Yan and Wen Li.」

「Humanity’s official Weibo opened up a netizen voting channel a month ago, and this couple ranked first, at the top of the A-list.」

After decoding the hot comments, there were all sorts of comments from people who couldn’t quite grasp this Weibo fandom culture.
Most of them were from outsiders.

「This is so fake.
Isn’t this couple already considered a contractual couple in the industry? They’re even too lazy to act.
It feels like they’re both counting down the days until the contract ends so they can officially announce their divorce.
How could they appear on a variety show as a married couple?」

「Hilarious.
If these two had any business sense, the CP fans would have already jumped on board with them.」

「CP fans would trade ten pounds of meat for Sanli and Beauty1.」

Some people just don’t believe these types of marketing rumors, which is the normal reaction of most outsiders to such news.

But as a person involved in the matter, Wen Li could responsibly say that this gossip was half true and half false.
It was true that her salary wasn’t that high, but it was also true that the production team’s offer to get her on the show was very tempting, giving her a lot to consider.

The first season of the variety show [In This World with You] received good reviews with a rating of 8.6 on Douban with a great buzz.
During its broadcast, with the help of marketing and buzz, almost every episode would dominate one-third of the hot search topics.
Among the variety shows on other TV stations in the same time slot, [In This World with You] was the most popular.

The popularity of this show is mainly due to its unique positioning.
It does not have family drama plots that immediately pull the audience into reality, nor does it play tear-jerking plots or set up sobbing segments.
Instead, it focuses entirely on the married lives of glamorous and shining celebrities.
[In This World with You] is a real-life idol drama that is more realistic than scripted drama and more dreamy than reality.

When preparing for the second season, the program group had more money and was able to invite first-line celebrities.
They boldly opened up an audience voting channel.
The audience did not care whether the program group would go bankrupt or not.
The true leading cast received the most votes.

The CP combinations of celebrities in the entertainment circle are countless, with both male and female, real and fake.
However, Wen Li and Song Yan are different.
They are a real couple who have been married for two years, have not worked together in any films or variety shows, and are focused on their own careers.
Their sweet moments in the show are all thanks to the skillful editing of the production team.
Despite this, the “Salt Grain Couple” still firmly occupies the top of the CP super-topic list.
A-class magazines scramble to feature them in photoshoots — their magazines sell out immediately.
The comments on their official Weibo account are filled with requests for more merchandise.

The confidence of their fans is very strong.
Although their CP idols are not doing any business, they have a marriage certificate! Their CP idols are a real couple! Have your idols gotten married today? If not, come and battle with us after they get married! Other CP fans have nothing to say.

Marriage is news that many CP fans have been waiting for their whole lives.
For fans of the “Salt Grain Couple,” entering the fandom means graduation.
Entering the fandom means achieving a happy ending.
Which CP fan does not envy them?

Even the CP fan page has wedding photos of their CP idols, as well as their marriage certificate.
The first thing new fans do when entering the fandom is to admire their wedding photos.
On the day of their wedding, both Wen Li and Song Yan posted on their respective Weibo accounts:

Wen Litchi V: 「My Husband @Song Yan」

Song Yan V: 「My Wife @Wen Litchi」

Their posts received over 3 million likes and shares, making it the most popular lovey-dovey post of the year and leading to a series of “single dogs, come to us” copy-paste comments all over Weibo.

Just a simple exchange of words sent their fans to heaven.
It’s no wonder they are the top CP in the industry.

One might expect that after they got married, they would turn from being advertisement bloggers to emotional bloggers.
However, after two years, their Weibo accounts are still used primarily for promoting ads.
Occasionally, they help each other promote something, and their fans go wild, sharing posts and holding raffles.
It’s like Chinese New Year in their fan club.

In the entertainment industry, if you’re friends with someone, and you wish them a happy birthday a few minutes late, people will mock you for having a fake friendship.
But this couple has had no real interaction on Weibo since their wedding.

People have all kinds of things to say.
Fans of the couple laugh at those who doubt their love, while critics mock their fans for believing in true love in the entertainment industry.

After [In This World with You] aired, their fans couldn’t wait to see them together on the show.
The fans felt that the show’s popularity would help the couple’s career.
Regular viewers just wanted to see the drama unfold.

And so, the CP fans and regular viewers joined forces and voted for the couple in the official poll — they won first place.

The show’s producers naturally came calling.

“If the producers asked you to come on the show, would you do it?” the makeup artist asked curiously.

Wen Li gave a non-committal answer and laughed it off.