The production team’s livestream camera finally switched over, and ordinary viewers finally saw the true face of the person arriving, in all the tension.
【Woc I finally know what you were screaming about, he’s so handsome ahhhhhh!】
The staff of the program jogged over to take the suitcase out of the flamboyant silver sports car’s trunk for the newcomer.
The man who had already walked into the transparent elevator was tall, wearing a black turtleneck sweater, expressionless, with a pair of gold-tinted sunglasses. Under the clean forehead were thick eyelashes, and only when he turned could viewers glimpse the deep mysterious ink-black eyes from the edge of the sunglasses.
His nose was straight, features handsome. Although he wore no accessories other than a wristwatch, the noble-young-master aura almost overflowed from the screen, aristocratic and oppressive, how was this someone ordinary viewers could see in daily life?
After the camera zoomed in further, the number of barrage comments for a moment actually doubled the momentum from when Wen Zhenghan appeared.
【I can’t hold it anymore, really so handsome! This is the mysterious outsider guest announced before with no photo?】
【Looks like a swagger guy!】
【Isn’t that overlapping with Xiang Lingyun’s style?】
【Seems not the same one, Xiang Lingyun’s skin tone is at least one shade darker than D.】
【The one in front comparing even skin tone, are you sick? Ah Ling just came back from overseas and got tanned, okay?】
The three male guests who had already appeared basically represented the three major mainstream aesthetics in the country.
Film Emperor Wen Zhenghan: gentlemanly and steady, warm like jade.
New top-stream Xiang Lingyun: habitual stinky face, strong.
Talent-show explosive idol Chu Wei: naive and pure, known for humility and respecting seniors, considered the little-puppy type.
But this newly appeared one who was so handsome the barrage’s legs went soft, he didn’t seem to belong to any of the three types. Not only that, this aura was also one of a kind, never seen in the circle before.
Some casual viewers sincerely felt that once this newcomer appeared, he instantly dimmed the previous three.
But those three fandoms were huge, saying this out loud, wasn’t that asking for a fight?
【I’m a face-lover I’ll say first, this one is really handsome to the point of being swoon-worthy, pair him with my family’s meimei* please.】
*little sister
【You’re killing me laughing, already snatching the melon?】
【There’s too little info on this one, even the official announcement had no picture, and till now we don’t even know his name. Only saw posts on a certain bean saying his family is super rich, here to play for fun? What, planning to enter the entertainment industry next?】
【Enter the industry, dream on you in the front, do you know how many digits his family’s assets have? Let me put it this way: I used to live in Yanzhou, half the gas stations and car dealerships there belong to his family, and that’s just a tiny fraction of their global assets. Seeing him in the circle is impossible.】
A barrage comment was confused: 【How could someone like that go on a romance show?】
【Who knows, rumor says he has some relation with Gu Qingshuang. Everyone knows Gu Qingshuang’s family is also unimaginably rich, the two families know each other.】
Gu Qingshuang’s fans perked up, already getting excited, but still typed with restraint: 【Nobody knows where the show will go, please don’t spread rumors.】
The barrage was gossiping at full throttle, not caring what Gu Qingshuang’s fans tried to say.
【Someone said earlier he and Shen Fu had conflict in the past, what’s that melon?】
【Seems to come from the rich second-gen circle. Before Shen Fu’s family went bankrupt, the two knew each other in high school. Having conflict is normal, Shen Fu being the type who loves hype, no one could stand her.】
【Agree +1】
【Really annoying Shen Fu, no works, and always with that cold face pretending to be some cold glamorous big star, waiting to watch her embarrass herself.】
Rong Xiaozhen looked at the screen, heart tightening, like a lead ball falling, extremely heavy.
【Question is, you’ve talked so much, does no one know his name?】
“Jiang Shu.” The man glanced at the camera, spit out two words, voice like ice cubes colliding.
Viewers outside the screen jumped: 【Sh*t, I almost thought he could see the barrage.】
Turning off the dense barrage finally revealed that the show was taking a solo interview while the elevator was going up.
The other guests had already been interviewed and included in the preview. Only this one, doing his solo only now, with staff welcoming him.
How was this like a guest joining a show? It looked more like a big boss arriving for inspection.
【hhh so arrogant, even his self-intro doesn’t include an “I am.”】
【Has the capital to be arrogant.】
The cameraman was sweating.
He glanced at his phone to see the barrage questions, carefully picking a few that weren’t aggressive and didn’t involve Young Master Jiang’s privacy.
“A netizen asks, you look so good, why not enter the entertainment industry?”
Jiang Shu didn’t even think: “Give others a way to live.”
Staff: “……Then what do you think your advantages are compared to other male guests?”
Jiang Shu again didn’t think: “Too rich?”
The staff’s sweat really came down. How the h*ll was he supposed to interview like this? He continued, raising the mic to this rumored Jiang family second young master: “How do you respond to a barrage saying, ‘Based on looks, you’ve already won’?”
Jiang Shu raised a brow at him: “That’s nonsense.”
Staff: “……”
【HAHAHA I’m dying, this bro is so cocky I love it.】
【Xiang Lingyun’s kind of diva attitude: fake swagger guy. Young Master Jiang: true swagger guy.】
Xiang Lingyun’s fans had also briefly been blinded by beauty earlier, but now seeing Jiang Shu appear for only a few minutes and their fave already got compared twice, their irritation reached the limit.
【Let’s be real, even if he’s richer, this arrogant personality is super annoying.】
【I’m out, earlier I thought I could ship him just based on the face, but turns out he’s nothing but a face, way too hard to get along with. Feel bad for the other guests having to live with this crown prince for a month.】
In just this short moment Jiang Shu already absorbed a bunch of face-lover fans, immediately counterattacking the shade:
【LMAO who forced you to like him, the young master doesn’t need your like, don’t take yourself too seriously.】
With Jiang Shu appearing, the show’s livestream ratings rose to another unreachable peak, the production team was thrilled.
But something seemed to be happening on the third floor too. The crew smelled the scent of mischief, quickly switching the camera.
Some regular members started wailing again:【Why switch the camera at the critical moment?! We were just about to see whether Jiang Shu put on the couple slippers that match Gu Qingshuang’s.】
Meanwhile Chu Wei had accompanied Xu Tiaotiao to explore several villas and the pool, and returned to the living room with his hands in his pockets, distracted.
He suddenly glanced toward the rooms: “It’s almost dinner, right? The other two guests are still not out?”
Gu Qingshuang had just gotten up and gone to the elevator entrance, leaving only Zuo Mei in the living room, playing with a puzzle while chatting with fans.
Zuo Mei smiled: “Little Xiang seems to have just taken the morning flight from London back, right, very tired, let him sleep a bit more, when dinner is ready we’ll go call him.”
Knowing full well who Chu Wei wanted to ask about, this woman just refused to mention it, truly a demon cultivated into a spirit, full of bad intentions.
Xu Tiaotiao rolled her eyes in her heart.
If not for the company instructing her to maintain the CP heat with Chu Wei, she had zero mood to do business with him.
What she admired definitely wasn’t someone like Chu Wei, this little-puppy type with curly chestnut hair and doing things all wishy-washy. At minimum it had to be someone like Xiang Lingyun to match her.
Xu Tiaotiao casually gave Chu Wei a step down: “Seems like Shen Fu still hasn’t come out, did she oversleep? Chu Wei, go call her, even if she’s shy she has to come out to see everyone and greet them.”
“Okay.” Chu Wei was relieved, he had been waiting for exactly this line.
【…What’s wrong with Xu Tiaotiao, doesn’t she know Shen Fu is the clingy ex-girlfriend who pestered Chu Wei to death when he first debuted? Didn’t she see Chu Wei’s resisting expression, clearly not wanting extra contact with Shen Fu.】
【Xu Tiaotiao is naturally carefree and heartless, who would care about your bro’s old sesame-and-grain stale matters, stop attacking a female star over everything.】
【I’m laughing, you two don’t fight, am I the only one who tasted sugar? Even if Chu Wei really doesn’t want to call Shen Fu, he still obediently listened to Tiaotiao Jie.】
Chu Wei walked over and knocked on Shen Fu’s room door.
He spoke very softly: “Shen Fu, are you awake?”
【My Ge is so gentle.】
Back then, Chu Wei didn’t know about the dirty water his company poured on Shen Fu. By the time he learned, it was already beyond saving.
But the Chu Wei of that time truly had no ability. He was just a newly debuted trainee with no popularity, insignificant, unable to protect even himself. One wrong step and his future would be destroyed. He couldn’t possibly sacrifice his hard-earned future for Shen Fu.
From last year until now, even though the two companies had been jointly packaging his CP with Xu Tiaotiao, he never took it seriously.
Now that he finally had a firm footing in the circle and had speaking power, Chu Wei had already decided: on this variety show, even if he paid a huge price, he would get Shen Fu back.
He didn’t know how much feeling Shen Fu still had left for him, but the only thing he could be sure of was that she definitely hadn’t forgotten him. Otherwise she wouldn’t have brushed past him on the red carpets before like she didn’t know him.
The more one holds a grudge, the more one pretends to be strangers.
Besides, Shen Fu didn’t know the other three male guests on the show. One of the outsider guests even was rumored to be someone she had offended.
If she didn’t come for him, then why insist on joining this show even while being scolded to hell and back?
Chu Wei knocked again, and there was still no movement from the room.
The barrage couldn’t hold back anymore: 【I’m gonna lose it, Ge what are you doing worrying about her eating or not, run! She’ll stick to you like plaster again.】
【I’m so mad, my Ge is too kind. Shen Fu this b*tch better not cling to my bro this time. Any of the other three female guests I’m fine with pairing with my bro, just not her.】
Chu Wei patiently knocked twice more, louder this time.
【Still not opening, doing it on purpose right.】
Have to say the production team’s prediction was correct; on the screen the barrage spiked for the third time.
Almost all Chu Wei fans angrily cursing.
After another one or two minutes, the door was finally opened from inside.
Shen Fu had rushed over from a mountain-forest drama crew, barely had any sleep before she was woken.
She originally didn’t have much expression on her face; now opening the door, her expression was even colder.
Chu Wei froze for a moment, unable to speak.
Before coming to the show, Liang Xiaochun had repeatedly warned her to watch her expression management, no matter who it was she couldn’t be too expressionless, or be ready to get blacked to death.
So Shen Fu adjusted her expression: “What is it?”
Seeing it was him, her expression immediately softened. This kind of subconscious reaction couldn’t be faked.
Chu Wei had a moment of joy.
Of course, she still hadn’t let him go.
The barrage cursed even more violently: 【F*ck, fishing for my Ge again, Ge wake up!!】
【Xu Tiaotiao is still waiting for you to go eat, if you don’t go now the spot next to her at the table will be taken.】
Mixed in were a few: 【Are Chu Wei fans too conspiracy-brained, I didn’t see Shen Fu having any interest in your Ge, don’t be paranoid okay.】
But they were quickly drowned by Chu Wei fans’ cursing.
Chu Wei smiled and asked, pretending to be relaxed: “Sleep well?”
Shen Fu: “Okay.”
She didn’t know why he came to say these meaningless things.
【Still fishing, playing hard-to-get, if you have guts close the door now and don’t talk to Wei-Ge, I’ll immediately turn from Shen Fu black-fan to supporter and livestream eating sh*t.】
“That’s good, I was afraid I disturbed you.” Chu Wei smiled: “Tonight’s dinner is already prepared by the production team, I—”
Before he finished speaking, a silver suitcase rolled between him and Shen Fu.
Chu Wei looked blankly at the sliding suitcase, gaze returning to Shen Fu, then opened his mouth: “I came to call—”
A tall figure squeezed past.
A pair of Too Rich slippers stomped heavily on his foot.
Chu Wei, having been run over by the heavy suitcase and then stepped on by a 1.88m man, his foot was turning blue, his expression already looking unpleasant.
He glanced at the back of the man in the black turtleneck sweater, realizing this was the fourth new guest.
The man walked to the only remaining room, directly opened the door, and under the sunglasses, didn’t even spare a glance this way.
Unintentional?
From the barrage’s viewpoint they couldn’t see the feet, only see Jiang Shu pass between the two with no expression.
【I’m dying, Jiang Shu really doesn’t like the look of Shen Fu, he shows up and immediately interrupts her good thing.】
Chu Wei’s fans hurried to hug the thigh：【Thank you Young Master Jiang for the life-saving grace.】
【Feels like Young Master Jiang and Wei Ge’s personalities should get along really well, betting one that later they’ll become good brothers.】
Chu Wei had long heard of Jiang Shu, knowing he was someone he couldn’t provoke.
Not to mention right now on a variety show, even if something happened he couldn’t flare up.
He forced himself to act calm and picked up his words from just now, smiling as he turned his head back: “Shen Fu, I came to call you to come over to eat.”
Then looking again at the door in front of him, it was already closed.
Chu Wei：“……?”
The barrage also didn’t react, blanking for a moment：【？】
Chu Wei：“…………”
Barrage：【…………………………】
【Any manners at all?!】
【Definitely on purpose.】
【F*ck, a qualified ex-girlfriend should act like she’s dead, what exactly does Shen Fu want?】
【No, please no, this humble believer is willing to eat vegetarian for three years to bless my Ge to not get clung onto… he really is easy to soften.】
In the barrage Chu Wei’s fans were embarrassed, awkward, angry, instantly cursing all over.
But a moment later, someone gloated and and added：【Doesn’t matter whether it’s playing hard-to-get or not, the one who just said “I’ll immediately turn from Shen Fu black-fan to supporter and livestream eating sh*t”, that, guy, sir, where, are, you?】
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Author has something to say：
Jiang Shu：Brothers? You deserve it?
Character list, in order of appearance：
Female 1：Shen Fu (our female lead)
Female 2：Zuo Mei (Film Empress)
Female 3：Xu Tiaotiao (actress)
Female 4：Gu Qingshuang (rich second-gen singer)
Male A：Wen Zhenghan (film emperor)
Male B：Chu Wei (idol from talent show)
Male C：Xiang Lingyun (top traffic)
Male D：Jiang Shu (our male lead)
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