The Bassist in the Comics

[Socially Anxious Cartoonist x Stone-Faced Bassist]

At that fan signing, I didn't hand him an album. Instead, I gave him a sketchbook filled with comics of him.

I thought that was the pinnacle of my life as a fan, until the next day, when I received a friend request from my idol, Lin Yizhou.

From then on, the top-tier star bassist's social media posts were visible to me alone.

We started chatting like friends and going to exhibitions together, until my comic unexpectedly went viral and drew attacks from haters across the internet.

That night, for the first time, he took a firm stand before the whole world. He reposted my comic and declared, "This is the most understanding portrayal of me I've ever seen."

Later, backstage at a concert, he stopped me, his voice rising above the countless cheers. "Will you be my girlfriend?"

We began a sweet and thrilling secret relationship, but in the end, we couldn't escape the paparazzi's cameras. When our romance was exposed, the trending searches exploded, and extreme fans dug up everything about me.

When I felt most helpless, he didn't back down. Instead, he wrote a long letter: "Outside of music, she is another light in my life."

At the final show of the world tour, the encore began.

The giant screen didn't show a music video. Instead, it displayed the story of our romance in comic panels, one page at a time.

At center stage, just as he'd appeared in the comic, he knelt on one knee and held up a ring.

"Lan Shishi, will you let me be the leading man in your comics forever?"

It turned out that the most beautiful kind of idol worship was becoming stars that shine together in the night sky.