My agency went bankrupt before I even got on stage.

After listening to Lin Fan's speech, surprisingly, no one continued to hurl insults at him.

[Adorable elementary school underachiever: It's clearly a backroom deal, yet it's being described so poetically! A ceremony for exchanging dreams, and I... I was actually moved!]

[Lacking a single thread in the Five Elements: Lin Fan isn't wrong. There are far more shady deals in the entertainment industry than this. What we're seeing now is just auctioning off a spot to record a variety show, and doing so openly and honestly. It's nothing compared to the bigger picture. But it still feels a bit uncomfortable. Maybe we've become too used to hypocrisy!]

[Suddenly, looking back, my neck hurts: Why do I feel like this is Fanfan deliberately trying to smear himself, using a perfectly legitimate deal to smear his reputation, just so people will stop voting for him?]

[With music in your heart, you'll naturally feel high: Lin Fan has said more than once that he didn't want to debut, but his fans voted him into the debut position. To be honest, it would have been better to give this opportunity to someone else. After all, any one of the 21 trainees would have been a better choice to participate in the recording than Lin Fan!]

[Pickled Cabbage Without Fish: Sigh! How can I put it? If Lin Fan's fans don't care, why should we? After all, the person who might ultimately benefit is my idol!]

[Suddenly, my neck hurts: But do fans really not care? To be honest, if my idol did something like that, I don't know if I would unfollow him! But I'd definitely be angry!]

[Born Entertainment Reporter King: How should I put it? Sigh, there's always this wistful feeling of 'It's exactly what my family member would do!']

[Cute Rabbit: Ah! I was so angry just now! But for some reason, I suddenly don't feel so angry anymore! Because we've been ignoring Fanfan's personal wishes and voting for him based solely on our own preferences. Hehe, is Fanfan retaliating? If so, Consort Fan, I accept your challenge!]

[Cute Yuan: Just saying, please be gentle if I'm wrong. It seems like this resource for Fanfan wasn't generated by paid fans, right? It looks like it was voted on by casual viewers… *runs away*]

Passerby voting...

How embarrassing!

Wang Lingli stared into deep thought as she looked at the comment from "Cute Yuan".

As the leader of the "dry rice" (a term referring to fans who support the fandom) and a trendsetter in the fandom, Wang Lingli discovered Lin Fan, a "hit" idol, during the very first live broadcast of "Morning Star"! From then on, she went on a crazy journey to become a "dry rice" fan and fell completely in love with this unconventional idol, Lin Fan!

Every day, amidst Lin Fan's frantic shouts of "Don't vote for me!", "I don't want to debut!", and "My dream is to open a bed and breakfast!", they pretended not to hear anything and deliberately misinterpreted Lin Fan's meaning.

Seeing Lin Fan get up and stretch, they misinterpreted Lin Fan's meaning as wanting to get second place, and then they voted for Lin Fan like crazy!

Seeing that Lin Fan was wearing a red dress today, they misinterpreted it as Lin Fan wanting to become famous, and then they still voted for Lin Fan like crazy!

Every day, Lin Fan is shouting "I don't want it!" while fans outside the live stream are shouting "No! You want it!" It's both crazy and ridiculous, forcing Lin Fan to take all sorts of measures to avoid the limelight. He's even doing things like auctioning off resource slots. He must be driven crazy by his fans.

Honestly, I feel inexplicably sad, yet secretly pleased!

However, no one knew better than Wang Lingli that, in fact, the fans had stopped organizing votes and rankings for Lin Fan since the second public performance. Lin Fan's entry into the debut position was actually the show's own fault.

The show's producers deliberately suppressed the votes of a group of trainees, including Lin Fan, in order to make way for the royal family members. This disgusted the other trainees and casual viewers, leading to retaliatory voting. Coupled with Lin Fan's appearances on several trending topics, those casual fans managed to get Lin Fan into the debut position!

Now, Lin Fan is up to his old tricks again, trying to auction off the resource slots. This is clearly a slap in the face to the production team and those pre-selected favorites!

Wang Lingli estimated that as long as the participants don't let the haters sway their mentality, the most embarrassed person in this matter will definitely not be Lin Fan, nor the contestant who ultimately won the spot, but the production team—no, the production team has no integrity, they don't care about saving face!

The production team cares most about the show's popularity and viewership! So whatever Lin Fan does won't have much impact on the production team, and might even bring a surge in popularity to the show!

In that case, the most embarrassed party would be the royal family!

By now, in the sixth season of "Morning Star," it's pretty clear who the royal family members are. Aside from Li Yingqi, who has been revealed from the beginning and has consistently held the top spot on the leaderboard, another royal family member, Tu Jingyi, stands out particularly.

Manipulating votes on stage, suppressing opponents' votes, disappearing from all the rankings but suddenly appearing in the top five, and then ganging up to exclude other trainees... These numerous misdeeds disgusted and upset fans of other groups.

Especially Li Xiaodong's fans, they really wish they could eat Tu Jingyi alive! Because according to the vote rankings, if Tu Jingyi hadn't suddenly appeared, then Li Xiaodong would have entered the debut position. It's obvious that Tu Jingyi stole Li Xiaodong's resources!

Now that Lin Fan is putting the resource quotas up for auction, what's the difference between that and giving them directly to Li Xiaodong?

Buy! You absolutely must buy! Aren't you royalty? Didn't you forcefully oust Li Xiaodong? Now Li Xiaodong has regained his resource quota with his financial power. What's rightfully his will remain his! What's not yours, even if you snatch it, what good will it do?

Moreover, we can only buy winter melons from our family!

So when everyone was awakened by [Cute Yuan]'s words and realized that they didn't really have much of a position to stop Lin Fan from auctioning off the resource slots, Li Xiaodong's fans started to stand up!

In the comments section.

[Winter Melon Candy: Go Winter Melons! Support Winter Melon in securing this spot! Then all Winter Melons will go to Shanghai to cheer for Winter Melon! Let those privileged kids see that Winter Melons aren't easy to bully!]

[Winter melon and pork rib soup: Buy! Must buy! Fan Ge is right! What's the difference between this and fans voting for their idols? Seizing every opportunity for your dreams, without stealing or robbing, there's nothing shameful about it!]

[Winter Melon and Lotus Leaf Tea: Yes! Buying resources openly and honestly with real money—isn't that how the entire entertainment industry does it? And since we don't engage in any fraudulent practices or exclude or suppress other trainees, why shouldn't we fight for it? Although our Winter Melon isn't short of money, we still need to send some tips!]

……

Suddenly, a huge wave of winter melon fans has arrived!