Gazing at the Rainbow - Chapter 46

Chapter 46: Hang Citynight

Christmas was a traditional western holiday, but in recent years it has become accepted and loved by more and more young people in China.

At seven o’clock in the evening, outside the Wanghu Mountain Villa on the edge of the West Lake, dozens of machines on all sides lit up in unison. The beaming and dazzling lights instantly lit up the entire red carpet area as bright as day.

The Hang Citynight Masquerade, held by the Hang City Forum, kicked off under the watchful eyes of thousands of netizens.

Car after car stopped in front of the red carpet, and netizens dressed to the nines started arriving one by one.

However, every netizen’s understanding of what it meant to dress up was obviously completely different.

All the female netizens were extremely fashionably dressed. Some of them dressed up as fairies from Chinese mythology, some as princesses from Western fairy tales, and many female netizens dressed up as angels and elves…

The male netizens were dressed more casually. Many of them wore casual clothes as usual, while some wore suits and wigs. The most hilarious one was the male netizen wearing a reindeer hood!

What Lin Yao didn’t expect was that, to hold this fancy dress-up party, the Hang City Forum not only generously paid for the five-star hotel by the West Lake as the venue but also invited several TV stations.

If she knew in advance that the Hang Citynight masquerade was going to be so high-profile, she definitely would not have come!

Even though Jiang Mingshu had prepared a dazzling fiery red devil costume for her in advance, she would not have participated!

Jiang Mingshu was wearing a black cat costume, holding a golden soft whip in one hand, and dragged Lin Yao, who was dressed as a devil, with her other hand. Extremely excited, she walked like a cat and stepped on the red carpet.

Tonight, not only did they get their hair professionally styled, but they also had a professional makeup artist do their makeup. Although the result was a little too dramatic, with their costumes on, the effect was unexpectedly great.

Jiang Mingshu had always had a great figure. She looked even more provocative and alluring in a tight cat woman costume.

Lin Yao wasn’t one to be outrivaled, either. She had clear skin and delicate facial features. After putting on makeup, she no longer looked like an ordinary plain Jane. She looked rather sexy instead. Her figure was already well proportioned, and this devil costume not only perfectly accentuated her figure but also brought out her unruly side and gave her an air of charming allure.

As the netizens cheered enthusiastically, the two of them walked hand in hand to the signboard at the end of the red carpet.

There were already some people gathered there, some of whom they’d met before, and they all turned around to greet them, including the reindeer.

Cameras of various sizes were aimed at them, and the dazzling camera lights kept flashing. Click. Click.

Lin Yao took the pen from the staff worker, found a blank space, and quickly signed her ID name on the Hang City Forum: Peaches Aren’t Naughty.

At that moment, she heard the staff at the check-in place shout out, “Wow~~~ Miss Catwoman, you’re Lemons Aren’t Cute? Your figure’s so good. I feel like I’m falling for you even though I’m a girl~”

“Wow~~~ So Miss Devil here is Peaches Aren’t Naughty. Oh my God, you two are so charming and beautiful!”

“Peaches Aren’t Naughty is so beautiful! Ah… I like Naughty Peaches the most!”

“Goddess Naughty Peaches and Mengmeng Cutie are both beautiful!”

The netizens who kept pouring into the scene started screaming with excitement, and this showed how popular they both were now.

“Look look, Little Guliang is coming too!”

Little Guliang and the others arrived at Wanghu Mountain Villa right on time. Her style today was breathtaking. She was dressed in a fairy-like vintage dress, her long black hair was carefully pulled into a bun. She looked like a fairy from head to toe.

The only problem was that there were a lot of fairies here tonight…

Little Guliang was the moderator of the Hang City Forum, so naturally, there was a group of other moderators and familiar netizens walking along with her.

In theory, they should have been the center of attention for the masquerade tonight, but they didn’t cause nearly as much of an uproar as Peaches Aren’t Naughty and Lemons Aren’t Cute caused when they arrived at the scene.

Not only did they not cause that much of an uproar but they looked a little abandoned. The netizens at the scene obviously had their attention focused on others.

“Naughty Peaches, you must take a picture with me!”

“Meng Meng Goddess please take a picture with me!”

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The sensational debut of Peaches Aren’t Naughty and Lemons Aren’t Cute was so epic that even girls wanted to kneel down and sing for them, not to mention the male netizens.

At the request of all the netizens, Lin Yao and Jiang Mingshu struck a pose and took a few photos with the crowd, then walked towards the main banquet hall.

Along the way, the uproar continued.

“Peaches Aren’t Naughty! Meng Meng Goddess! Ah ah!”

“Mengmeng Cutie you are the most beautiful one!!!”

“Peaches Aren’t Naughty I follow your posts every day, I read every one of your posts!”

Lin Yao had never been very popular. Of course, she had had little chance to be popular in the past.

To tell the truth, she had never been so popular since she came out of her mother’s womb.

Lin Yao was flattered but at the same time couldn’t understand why.

Was it because of her dress today?

Was it because her ID in Hang City Forum, Peaches Aren’t Naughty, had reached the forum title of “Master Ranger”?

Speaking of forum title, her ID, Peaches Aren’t Naughty, had caught up with Like Spring Breeze and has become a sort of a respectable presence on Hang City Forum.

But these were all virtual, virtual!

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What Lin Yao didn’t know was that, in addition to the Daily Life Forum, Peaches Aren’t Naughty had more than one popular post in all major sections of the Hang City Forum, so Peaches Aren’t Naughty had indeed attracted the attention of many netizens.

Although Jiang Mingshu’s Lemon’s Aren’t Cute had no popular posts so far, she was a social butterfly and a notorious Party Animal. She wouldn’t pass up any of the FB activities on the Singles subforum.

The popularity of Peaches Aren’t Naughty and Lemons Aren’t Cute was constantly rising on the Hang City Forum. The opposite was happening to Little Guliang.

As the most popular moderator of the Singles subforum, Little Guliang used to attract countless fans due to her status as a beautiful female moderator, especially enjoying the attention and pursuit of male netizens.

Half a year ago, she and Wang Chen fell in love and began to show their love for each other online and offline. On the surface, many netizens expressed envy and admiration, and called them the “Golden Couple.” In reality, her popularity had begun to quietly decline.

Not long ago, as a moderator, for the sake of maintaining order on the forum, she blocked IDs in large numbers indiscriminately, and she was very adamant not to accept any form of complaints or excuses.

Most netizens had expressed their understanding and support for the way she dealt with the situation, and although Little Guliang’s popularity didn’t drastically decline, it was trending downward.

Netizens always gathered around Little Guliang, not because of her personal charm, but simply because many thought that having a good relationship with the moderator was something to boast about.

Boys tended to care more about their pride than girls, especially young hot-blooded boys.

From their standpoint, they tried to establish good relations with Little Guliang, but in turn, got their IDs blocked by her. This wasn’t simply the issue of whether it could be automatically recovered after 24 hours, but it was really rather the issue of hurt feelings + bruised ego + embarrassment.

Male netizens finally realized that Little Guliang was arrogant and haughty.

Male netizens also found that, aside from her status as the moderator, Little Guliang was actually just an ordinary young girl with a normal figure and average appearance.

They began to turn their attention to other female netizens who participated in the Hang Citynight Masquerade. In fact, the female netizens on the Hang City Forum weren’t as few as people said there were. These female netizens were beautiful, sexy, and elegant…

In short, the days when Little Guliang reigned supreme on the Hang City Forum were firmly in the past.