[Update: I went and checked out the show. Holy crap, it’s actually real... The professor even shared it on his personal Star Network account.]
[So? One minute he’s all, "I’d never accept sothing like that. My social circle is full of students and researchers, it’s humiliating." And the next, he decides it *is* humiliating, so his excuse is, "I’m helping my mom pick sothing up"???]
[It all makes sense now. After seeing this, I suddenly can’t reconcile the person in the video with the professor I know. The guy in this video is just too adorable.]
The post quickly went viral within the Haiyun University community. Its popularity soon spread from the students to the faculty. And the professors? They took one look, burst out laughing, and casually shared it themselves.
This caused a chain reaction. The post was shared like wildfire across the Star Network, from gossip forums to academic circles, until everyone knew about it. In just two hours, it went from being famous on a single planet to being known system-wide.
Countless people sward to watch the Haiyun Evening News.
As they watched, the discussion shifted. It went from "Why is Professor Liu so two-faced?" to "What on earth *is* this stuff that could *make* Professor Liu act so two-faced?!"
The massive discussion quickly caused two tags—#TofuStall and #FollowForAncientEarthFood—to shoot to the top of the trending topics.
Once these topics started trending, the comnt sections below them exploded with new discussions.
[Holy crap, so it’s not just our planet that has this?]
[Your planet has it too?]
[It just blew up here recently. It’s super delicious. I recomnded it to so many of my classmates—]
[The only catch is that you can only get it four tis. Once you’ve used up your tries, you can’t get any more. You can’t even buy it.]
[Actually, there are other ways—]
By this point, the topic was already incredibly popular.
Then, soone else posted a video.
It was captioned: [If you’ve used up your four chances, you can do this.]
In the video, a couple braved the wind and snow, carrying their toddler daughter who had just learned to walk, and approached a tofu stall.
"You’ve already used up your chances! If you’d like to try more of our food, you can follow our strear, Juju. She makes different things every day—"
"Yep, yep, we followed! So, we just have to follow, share, and send a direct ssage to get one, right?"
"That’s correct."
So, the couple held up their little girl and asked, "Is she eligible?"
The Ju person frying the tofu paused, taken aback.
The little girl looked at him, tilted her head with a smile, and then, for reasons only she knew, started clapping.
"Well... I... I guess that’s fine."
And so, using their child’s terminal, the parents completed the whole follow-share-ssage process in one smooth go and walked away with three servings of food.
On the way ho, the couple gave a small piece of tofu to their little girl. After she finished it, her parents asked, "Tiantian, was it yummy?"
"Yummy!" she exclaid, her face lighting up with a happy smile.
The couple drained a bowl of tofu soup in a single gulp, their faces also breaking into happy smiles.
—[Did you get all that?~]
—!!!!
That night, this heartwarming video also started trending, officially bringing the na Jiang Jiujiu into the public eye.
Before dawn, Jiang Qiuqiu’s livestream account had gained nearly 600 million followers. Combined with the fans she had attracted from previous streams, her total follower count now exceeded two billion, officially launching her into the ranks of mid-tier strears.
As the saying goes, so people are like hidden treasures. Once a talented person is discovered, their actual skill—not just the initial novelty—can attract yet another wave of fans.
After watching Jiang Jiujiu’s past broadcasts, these new followers were quickly converted into devoted fans. They flooded into Jiang Jiujiu’s culinary fan community, eagerly asking about her streaming schedule and future dishes.
When the tag exploded in popularity, the entire branch managent team had to work overti into the early hours of the morning. Well-trained, they logged into their moderator accounts and promptly replied to the newcors, successfully managing the sudden influx of fans.
As dawn broke, the hype showed no signs of dying down. In fact, more and more people online were making plans to visit and "check in" at their own planet’s ’Tofu Stall’.
But this massive influx of popularity also created another problem.
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