Hua Yan's Weibo, Ling Yao's Weibo, the two accounts on the short video platform, all promoted "Youth Diary". Whether it worked or not is unknown, but she did everything she could anyway.
At midnight on June 26, "Youth Diary" was released. Hua Yan first bought a movie ticket and slipped into the cinema to watch it live. Not many people bought tickets because there were many other big films released during the summer season. This low-budget production wasn't really eye-catching; even the promotional poster was squeezed into a corner. The leads were older than her and Ling Yao, but they weren't competing for screen time here, since from the beginning they hadn't aimed for leading roles.
