The Theory of QueerbaitingChapter 1

At 12:00 in the middle of the night, You Xin huddled under the covers to read a farming novel. Just as he was reading a wonderful scene, a push notification from Weibo popped up with news, blocking the content of the novel. You Xin swiped up skillfully then continued to read the plot where the protagonist outsmarted his relatives.

After finishing the paragraph, only then did You Xin slowly pull down his phone’s notification bar, intending to clear the message, but froze when he saw the news: [Wang XX Suspected Bed Photos; A reporter burst out bed photos of the popular Wang XX….] bfDOG5

Before he could finish reading the Weibo article, his agent, Yu-jie’s phone call came. You Xin stared at it for a second and gently sighed before picking up the phone, “Yu-jie, I’ve already seen it.”

Totally ignoring You Xin’s words, Yu-jie started cursing, “Wang XX this f*cking garbage, this TMD got caught on another one of his dates, and now he’s finally exposed. It doesn’t matter how much this news exploded on him, but how much money did this laoniang spend on marketing accounts to hype you two up? Finally, when your CP reached the top ten in the CP list ranking, this TMD’s scandal exploded. The money and work were all wasted and done for nothing. What great sin did this laoniang do? It must be because I signed you, You Xin, you unlucky guy, Whichever CP is fired would get off, and whoever is posted will explode in a scandal. Am I blind? I’m blind for signing you…”

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Listening to Yu-jie scolding him without even stopping, You Xin habitually ripped the phone off his ear, turned down the volume and opened the speaker option, switched back to his reading app, and continued to read the novel, like two minds working in one.

But just after reading two lines of words, he couldn’t continue reading any longer. Yu-jie’s words were hard to hear, but they are also the truth. oNE7xH

You Xin looks beautiful but he was rather ordinary, and he has been singing and dancing for many years. Fortunately, debuted in a very popular boy group for a while, but after the group’s disbandment, his popularity slowly withered. You Xin has been fooling around for so many years since then, but there is only one extraordinary thing on his body. That is, he gave off a CP feeling of being shipped with other boys.

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When their five-member group was still popular, four of the top 20 CP lists included him which made him leech off popularity, and You Xin’s own fans, in addition to being CP fans, were also fujoshis, and lived up to the name of being reverse goods. Yu-jie saw this selling point, so after the group disbanded she signed You Xin, intending to use the queerbaiting method to make him popular. However, she doesn’t understand why, but every time Yu-jie hyped a CP, You Xin’s CP partner would either be married or in an open relationship, and now there’s one with a scandal. He was also considered to have a collection of all the CP BE plots. You Xin’s fujoshi mom fans often lament in the super topic with: “Why does our Xin Xin run into such scum all the time, ah? [cry] Xin Xin’s life is so bitter, ah [cry]. ”

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“No… no.” He casually exited the reading app without panicking.

“Pay attention to me! Hey, this pisses me off.” Yu-jie helplessly sighed. She calmed down before speaking again, “I’ve finished saying the bad news, and now for the good news. Wang XX cannot be on Apple TV’s variety show anymore due to the scandal, so I signed you up immediately after learning about it. Don’t you enjoy cooking? You’ll now be in [The Wacky Family] as a resident chef~” CB4udr

“The Wacky Family?” You Xin was a bit surprised. This was one of Apple TV’s variety shows. The program is known to get many celebrity guests of different ages and personalities and make them act as a family living together. This program has already aired one season and the ratings were very good. They’re now preparing for the second season. Knowing that Wang XX was going to be on this variety show, Yu-jie intended to rub off from his popularity with CP and stuff You Xin in as a special guest, but she didn’t expect that this time, she would end up making You Xin take Wang XX’s place instead. It really felt like bloodsucking.

Fate was really wonderful. You Xin sighed in his heart but was a little worried, “Yu-jie, I…”

“Don’t grumble now. Give me a good performance this time, so talk more, stand out and grab opportunities by yourself. I dare not stir up another CP for you. You’re free to do whatever, but if you don’t make some sort of splash this time, I won’t care about you anymore. You should just go home, read your farming novels and raise pigs!”

“I know…” After listening to Yu-jie’s magical voice some more, You Xin finally hung up the phone. He curled his lips and complained in a low voice, “What’s wrong with farming? What’s wrong with raising pigs? The black-haired pig raised by this novel character is rather delicious. When killing pigs, you also have to cook pig-killing vegetables…” zqvZih

The idea made You Xin drool, so he opened Bilibili to search on how to butcher pigs for food. Just as the home page loaded, he saw The Wacky Family’s promotional video. After a moment of hesitation, You Xin exited the site and opened the program information that Yu-jie had just sent him.

It’s useless to run away, you’ll still have to face it. You Xin took a breath and opened the folder to look at the list of permanent guests. It was basically the same line up as the first season, except that there was another added person besides himself.

“Duan Jiashu huh…” You Xin looked at the information with a little surprise, he didn’t know Duan Jiashu, but this person’s name in the CP community was really like a thunderclap. Duan Jiashu was a drama student who continued to grow popular in recent years. It has been a steady journey for him as he acted in a number of well-received TV shows and movies. This also meant that he also had a lot of classic material for CP fans’ video edits. You Xin has seen a video edit of him and a crosstalk actor’s CP before that made him cry. He didn’t expect that he’d be able to participate in a show with such a great god.

You Xin sighed for a while, and suddenly realized that Duan Jiashu was a very good candidate for a speculation CP. He never had a love interest for many years—no scandals, basically no variety show participation before this one, and is a drama actor—he doesn’t have a real CP, but he was the favorite of video editors to use stills from, especially in the CP sense. His rise in popularity was very high—the first choice of these reverse goods fans—this was simply the best person for firing a CP! Mq86Gh

Looking at Duan Jiashu’s promotional photos on the program material, You Xin suddenly felt his blood boil, did he really get a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity after years of loss! After many years of failure, is his lover (crossed out) star career finally going to shine? Can he finally hype up an unparallelled love in retribution for benefitting from the majority of fujoshis?

You Xin excitedly opened Bilibili again and decided to catch up on Duan Jiashu’s CP videos. He’ll study well every day, and strive to have a “rio” CP that everyone says is good and worth shipping! The more he watched the videos, the more he got into it, and he couldn’t help but be brought to tears.

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At this moment, the protagonist of the video Duan Jiashu, who has brought You Xin to tears, also happens to be watching this same clip. He wasn’t moved like You Xin at all however, instead, he was indifferent. After watching half of the most exciting scenes, Duan Jiashu pressed pause, skillfully clicked on the “report”, selected [Personal Attack], and in the “Write report reason in detail” section, he typed a line:

“Video is disgusting, Duan Jiashu isn’t gay, please prohibit the spread of such vicious rumor-spreading videos!” cCQPqv

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