So what about the reality?
Girls who already have boyfriends go on dates with Gordon Sterling just to put their boyfriends at ease.
From the perspective of the boyfriend, Gordon's unrefined face paired with his robust physique essentially brings any possible shift in affection to zero.
Girls without boyfriends like to take Gordon to places full of handsome guys for meals.
The purpose is to highlight their own looks.
The mechanism works like this: a girl who looks average appears alongside Gordon Sterling in the public eye and suddenly, her appearance is elevated to a superior level.
As they say, there's no harm without comparison.
Taking Gordon out shopping is like carrying a portable beauty camera, an advanced one with 360-degree beautification without any blind spots.
But the heat from curiosity is ultimately limited, and Gordon Sterling's fanbase stopped at 200,000, unable to grow further.
The 19.8 million fans after that had nothing directly to do with Gordon's heavenly voice and hellish appearance.
It was entirely stepping on Sean Lowell's bloody wounds.
On the first day of winter break in junior year, Gordon, no longer receiving the red carpet treatment, felt deeply empty.
What should he do when his vanity as a girl's friend isn't satisfied?
Gordon shifted his focus back to his "Guide to Love."
The "Banished Immortal" Gordon Sterling, whose guide on how to be popular among college girls, had reached a point where there was nothing more to write.
So he began to write stories of his roommate, Sean Lowell—"My Roommate Who Got Dumped 50 Times by the Same Girl."
Unexpectedly, after he "read aloud" Sean's first and second dumping experiences, and what happened afterward, his fan count surged by tens of thousands without warning.
In Gordon's stories, his roommate Sean, who was too ugly for the public eye, somehow miraculously, on the first day of freshman year, was confessed to and became the boyfriend of the campus belle.
Humans can't be lucky forever.
Thus, Sean embarked on a path of being dumped fifty times, with no return.
Compared to his roommate, the term "campus belle" certainly grabs more attention from curious fans.
Under fans' persistent urging and advice, Gordon posted a photo of himself with the campus belle.
The campus belle was a woman who seemed "slim" in contrast.
Height of 1.6 meters, weighing 160 pounds, without parentheses, no need to specify kilograms.
Gordon didn't lie with his eyes open—a weight of 160 pounds compared to Gordon's 170 kilograms is indeed slim.
Even with Gordon's "divine looks" as a backdrop, it was impossible not to put quotes around the term campus belle.
So the curious fans began to wonder.
How ugly must a guy be to get dumped fifty times by such a "big" campus belle?
In response to such inquiries, Gordon always told his fans, "My roommate is so ugly he shouldn't appear in any pixelated world."
This phrase that Gordon gave to his fans was actually what Sean, who never took photos, said himself.
Due to family reasons, Sean had no accurate self-awareness since he was seven.
Gordon didn't want to take photos, and Sean didn't want to appear in them.
Gordon thought the matter would pass, but an increasing number of fans were interested in his roommate who got dumped fifty times by the same girl.
Gordon expected to get famous, but he didn't expect to become this famous.
Nor did he expect that after getting famous, aside from being helplessly involved, he also brought fame to his roommate, who got dumped fifty times.
Gordon's comment section was overwhelmed daily, eagerly hoping to see the roommate of the guy who got dumped fifty times, wondering just how hideous he was.
After all, in the eyes of most curious fans drawn in by Gordon's ugliness, finding someone uglier than him in this world isn't easy.
To respond to the fans' call, Gordon posted a "group photo" from the dorm with Sean Lowell.
Gordon stood at the absolute center, with beauty mode turned on, while Sean in the extreme corner of the photo was not even facing the camera.
Yet this "background" miraculously created the trending topic "The Most Handsome Background in History."
Everyone believed this photo was doctored by Gordon to fit his narrative.
How could a guy as handsome as Gordon's roommate get dumped fifty times by a girl clearly below average?
This doesn't make sense!
Whoever believes Gordon the liar is a fool.
As a kind and honest Great·Handsome·Guy, being called ugly by oblivious fans was hard enough to accept, let alone being called a liar—it couldn't simply be described as a humiliation.
Gordon searched his phone album from the first three years of college.
He pasted every living picture where Sean appeared marginally.
Once he did that, Gordon completely went viral; the rate of gaining followers was rocket-like.
But it was not Gordon himself the fans were after, but his roommate Sean Lowell, who got dumped fifty times by the same girl.
Unprecedentedly, fifty trending topics were released in succession.
From "Drop the Most Handsome Background in History Fifty Times and Reach the Pinnacle of Life."
To the final compromising plea of "Just Drop Me Once, Just Once."
"The Jilted" swept across the internet with an unprecedented heat.
The Dump Me Alliance expanded at lightning speed.
The winter break of junior year belonged to Gordon, but even more to Sean Lowell.
But The Jilted did not wait for the grand welcome ceremony organized by The Dump Me Alliance on the first day of spring semester junior year.
After listening to Gordon recount his first and second dumping experiences, Sean chose to disconnect from the internet.
Sean neither ate nor drank for three days, looking back at his two and a half years of "romantic journey," and decided to drop out.