You Guys Wouldn’t Have Taken My Casual Acting Seriously, Right Chapter 53

Shen Fu heard what the system said as well. But even before receiving the answer measured by the system, she had already believed Jiang Shu when he said, “I like you.”

She felt a little regretful about ignoring him all day. Then again, hadn’t she been angry at the time? Good things often take twists and turns. It wasn’t too late now.

Perhaps because the alcohol was finally hitting him, Jiang Shu looked even drunker after entering the room.

When drunk, he practically answered every question.

Shen Fu tried to guide him to sit on the bed so she could sort out a few things. But whenever she moved even slightly away from him, he would angrily and pitifully pull her back, press her head against him, and hug her fiercely, as if trying to fuse her into his body.

Why was she still trying to run away even in his dream?!

Was she seriously leaving him no way to survive?

After much effort, Shen Fu finally managed to get him to the bedside.

Along the way, Jiang Shu had already kicked over the coffee table and chairs. Even the carpet had become wrinkled from his “forceful seizure.”

After sitting down by the bed, he still clung tightly to Shen Fu’s hand. His reddened eyes stared fixedly at her, looking terrified that she might run away.

“I’m not leaving.” Shen Fu kissed his eyes.

Only then did Jiang Shu settle down a little.

He let out a cold laugh.

As expected of him. When he forcefully took something, he succeeded.

“…Ultraman?” Shen Fu had no idea what Jiang Shu was talking about and hurriedly defended herself. “After I kissed you, I lost my memory of what happened next. How could I possibly have talked about Ultraman or classmates or anything like that?”

Even drunk, Jiang Shu didn’t forget to sneer again. His expression practically said: I’ll just watch you make things up. “You say you blacked out and suddenly that means you blacked out? You seemed perfectly conscious to me. After forcefully kissing me, you even pulled open my shirt and reached inside, touching me all over.”

Shen Fu: “…”

What nonsense was that?

She strongly suspected the second half was something Jiang Shu had fabricated himself!

She had only just become an adult back then. How could she possibly have been that shamelessly bold?!

“But when I called his name, I was probably trying to say, I didn’t kiss you because of the bet.”

That bet had also left Shen Fu emotionally unsettled at the time.

She really had liked Jiang Shu from the beginning. She just hadn’t been prepared to confess her feelings yet. But then her deskmate suddenly brought up that bet, and for a while afterward, every time she looked at Jiang Shu, she felt awkward and uncomfortable.

It was like you had already planned to open a blind box, but someone kept whispering in your ear that if you opened it, they’d give you a hundred thousand yuan. It made your desire to open the blind box feel anything but pure.

“Anyway, how could you take seriously something someone says when they’re drunk?”

She had blacked out. How could she possibly know what she had been saying?

Hearing Shen Fu say that, Jiang Shu lowered his head and stared at their interlocked fingers, a trace of bitterness in his eyes.

He didn’t want to take it seriously either. But if he didn’t, then wouldn’t that kiss not count as well?

Even rich and handsome young masters have moments when they’re not that confident, okay?

Besides, back then she spent every day saying she hated him and looking at him with disdain. How was he supposed to know which words were true and which were false?

Maybe it was because he had been drinking, or because he wasn’t wearing sunglasses, or because only the reading lamp was on and the room was dimly lit. Jiang Shu looked nothing like his usual arrogant and domineering self. His thick black lashes hung low, his eyes carrying a misty, damp look. He seemed nervous and lonely.

His long fingers wrapped around her hand.

It looked possessive. But beneath it was insecurity.

So Shen Fu leaned over and kissed the corner of his lips. “Alright. Now you know. I like you too.”

After the kiss, Jiang Shu kept a straight face and didn’t move.

…

He managed to restrain himself for a few seconds before turning his head away.

His head felt like it was about to start smoking.

His handsome face was so red it looked ready to drip blood.

D*mn it. He knew he couldn’t possibly be that lacking in charm.

She said she liked him too!!

Although they were already sitting close together, he shuffled a little nearer to Shen Fu and cautiously tested the waters by pulling her into his arms.

He wore an expression that was somehow both careful and arrogant, as if saying, This is a dream anyway. What can you do about it?

Shen Fu felt he really had no experience. The last time they shot a magazine spread, he’d looked like he had no idea where to put his hands. Now his hands kept clenching and relaxing at his sides.

At this rate, dawn would arrive before he made any progress.

“Lie down.” Shen Fu pushed him onto the bed and lay down beside him. “My waist hurts from sitting.”

Caught completely off guard and stumbling backward, Jiang Shu ended up holding her in a full embrace. “But we’re not married yet!!!”

Although he said that, his hands acted in complete contradiction to his words. He immediately hugged her tightly, locking both arms around her waist as though he had finally found a priceless treasure and was desperately hiding it in his arms before someone could steal it away.

He pulled her closer against him and instinctively weighed her in his arms. For some reason, his handsome face became dizzyingly red again.

“What are you thinking about?” Black lines appeared on Shen Fu’s forehead. “Stop that train of thought right now.”

Jiang Shu clenched a fist and smacked himself on the head, trying to sober up.

Shen Fu: “…”

Wouldn’t that just make you dizzier?!

“Then… when I was a trainee, the hospital bills, those weren’t paid by you too, were they?”

Like unraveling a cocoon thread by thread, Shen Fu suddenly thought of many things.

After saying goodbye to the old master and leaving the Jiang family, there was no way she could continue spending the Jiang family’s money.

And out of pride, she had wanted to save up and repay everything she owed the old master.

But at the time, she could barely support herself after signing with the company. Where would she have gotten the money to pay medical expenses?

Fortunately, Liang Xiaochun had told her that the company executives valued her highly and had advanced her a large sum of money.

Using that money, Shen Fu repaid Old Master Jiang and covered her medical bills.

Jiang Shu stayed silent and pretended not to hear her.

Shen Fu sat up and feigned anger. “If you don’t answer, I’m not kissing you anymore.”

Jiang Shu immediately sat upright like a dying patient suddenly revived. “Why?!”

Seeing the guilty look on his face, Shen Fu knew at once that it really had been him.

Jiang Shu didn’t know how to explain it in a way Shen Fu would accept without hurting her pride.

There was nothing shameful about being unable to support herself immediately after leaving the Jiang family.

After all, hadn’t she later relied entirely on her own efforts to establish herself in the entertainment industry and earn so much money?

“If you weren’t relying on me, who else could you rely on?” Jiang Shu spoke carefully. “Even if I hadn’t liked you, I’d still be your family.”

Shen Fu had been trying all night to keep her emotions under control.

But hearing those words, she could no longer suppress the ache in her chest, and her nose stung with emotion.

“Then… that time when you hid my umbrella and walked up to me carrying one yourself like you owned the world, you were actually hoping we’d share an umbrella?”

Jiang Shu said: “…What else did you think?”

Shen Fu replied: “I thought you wanted to splash me with rainwater on purpose.”

Jiang Shu: “…”

How could there be someone this oblivious?

Shen Fu frowned and thought for a moment before continuing: “And that time my phone fell through a manhole cover? I didn’t get a new one for a week. The class monitor said he had messaged me on QQ, but whenever I asked you, you said he hadn’t. So you were jealous?”

Jiang Shu sneered. “Stop calling him ‘class monitor’ so nicely. Your class monitor was your deskmate. That guy’s ulterior motives were obvious. He liked you a long time ago!”

At that point, Jiang Shu lifted his still-not-quite-sober head and glanced at Shen Fu. He almost asked what exactly had happened between her and that guy. Why, after she left the Jiang family, had that guy come looking for him carrying a love letter she had written?

He wanted to ask. But he held himself back.

He’d wait until they were married and she couldn’t run away.

Jiang Shu was like a wolf that had finally reclaimed its beloved and was now guarding the mouth of its den, terrified that even the slightest mistake would cause her to disappear again.

Shen Fu continued: “And during that school trip, when you suddenly appeared behind us in the middle of the night carrying a basketball and scared us into thinking we’d seen a ghost, you were actually trying to escort me back to the dorm building?”

Jiang Shu said irritably: “What else? You think I was deliberately trying to scare you? I’m not that bored.”

Shen Fu said: “But you told us you were just passing by.”

Jiang Shu fell silent for a moment. His handsome face reddened slightly. “Do you even know what being tsundere means?”

At seventeen, he barely understood what liking someone even was. He simply followed whatever thoughts entered his head and did those things. And when he got caught, embarrassment would turn into irritation.

However, it was like opening a fine wine that had been sealed away for years.

Only now did the two of them realize that, long ago, they had already begun testing each other. From the moment they started probing one another’s feelings, both of them had already fallen into a long and silent crush.

So much time had passed, yet both of them still remembered every little detail with perfect clarity.

It turned out that the one who had been nervous back then wasn’t just one person. The one who could hear the endless echo of their own heartbeat wasn’t just one person either.

Although he had received so many answers tonight, Jiang Shu still felt that none of it was real.

Was this a dream?

Or something he had made up in his own head? 

How could he be this lucky? He had rushed over demanding an answer, and she had given him exactly the answer he most wanted to hear.

Could Heaven really favor him this much?

Or had he drunk himself to death?

Was this… heaven?

In the long silence, Shen Fu noticed Jiang Shu staring at her with a suspicious expression.

Then he reached out and pinched her cheek hard.

At first, he only wanted to test whether she was real or not.

But her cheek felt soft, and perhaps he became addicted to the sensation, because he pinched it several more times.

Shen Fu: “…”

Shen Fu glared at him with the look of someone contemplating murder. “…Are you done pinching?”

Her face had been distorted, so her words came out slurred. A tragic expression suddenly appeared on Jiang Shu’s handsome face. “So it really is fake, huh? Even your Mandarin isn’t standard! Our Shen Fu speaks perfect Mandarin!”

Shen Fu: “…” Was it still possible to throw this young master out of the room?

Jiang Shu glanced at the climbing equipment on the floor and immediately felt jealous again.

How could she be like this? Tonight she let him into her room. Tomorrow she was going rock climbing with someone else.

He had appeared in her life first. So why had she ranked him so far down the list?

If he hadn’t shamelessly barged in and forcibly seized his chance, would she have simply kicked him out of her life altogether?

“I want to be number one.” His voice sounded gloomy.

Filled with resentment.

Since he had already gone as far as “forcefully taking what he wanted,” why couldn’t he be a little more ambitious and occupy first place in her heart?

Although Shen Fu had no idea what kind of “first place” he was talking about, she decided not to argue with someone who was half-drunk.

She patted his face. “You are number one. Other than my parents.”

“Heh.” Jiang Shu sneered. He wore the expression of a man saying, Woman, I’ve already seen through you. Calmly, he grabbed her wrist and lowered her hand. “You can keep sweet-talking me. You say you liked me before, but then why did you move on so quickly? One, two, three, four, five, what are you doing, climbing a mountain to beat tigers? Am I the sixth one?”

And she even wrote Chu Wei a memo. Had she ever written him a memo?

Shen Fu felt exhausted. She had already answered this question when they first entered the room. Had he lost his memory or blacked out and forgotten, so he was asking again?

Other people got stuck in romantic loops. He was stuck in a jealousy loop.

“Go to sleep.” Shen Fu almost wanted to knock him unconscious. She tried to pull her hand away. “You sleep first. I need to take a shower.”

When she arrived earlier, Jiang Shu’s hair had still been slightly damp. It seemed he had already showered.

The moment Jiang Shu saw her stand up to leave, all his arrogance vanished. He immediately sat up and wrapped his arms around her from behind. His hands locked tightly around her waist. In a small voice, he said: “Don’t go. I’ll stop rambling and annoying you.”

Jiang Shu was tall and strong. Even sitting on the bed, his strength was considerable. Shen Fu was forced back into his arms. Helplessly, she said: “I’m just going to take a shower.”

Jiang Shu ignored her. The point was that he wasn’t letting go, no matter where she wanted to go.

He had finally gotten the chance to hold her like this. He couldn’t let her escape.

Shen Fu turned and looked at him. Jiang Shu touched his forehead against hers. His eyes were filled with overwhelming possessiveness.

Looking down at her, his handsome face carried a trace of melancholy. In a low voice, he said: “Don’t leave.”

Shen Fu wasn’t sure whether it was because of the alcohol or because he usually suppressed himself so much. But right now, Jiang Shu was definitely acting a little abnormal. It felt as though if she left, there was no telling what he might do.

Shen Fu sighed. “How about we go register our marriage tomorrow?”

Jiang Shu froze. There were benefits like this in dreams too?

This was a dream he had never had before.

His voice suddenly turned hoarse. “Really?”

“In your dreams.” Shen Fu couldn’t help laughing. “Did you bring your household registration booklet? Mine’s still at home.”

Jiang Shu immediately said angrily: “I brought mine!”

Shen Fu: “…”

Who carries their household registration booklet around with them?!

…

Shen Fu herself didn’t know how the night passed. One way or another, after endless chaos and back-and-forth, she didn’t finally get to shower until dawn.

The next morning, Jiang Shu had completely recovered from being drunk. He sat on the bed with his long legs stretched out, clutching a blanket, looking utterly disbelieving. Nervous and eagerly expectant, he waited for Shen Fu to come out of the bathroom.

Shen Fu emerged wearing a bathrobe.

Their eyes met.

Jiang Shu instantly pulled out the sunglasses in his pocket and put them on. He looked calm and composed, as if saying, I’m a worldly young master who’s seen everything. Only the bright red tips of his ears betrayed his true feelings.

Very good.

It seemed he hadn’t blacked out after all. He remembered everything that had happened last night.

“Nothing happened.” Shen Fu glanced at him. “Don’t worry. You said we should wait until after marriage.”

The person in front of him was speaking.

So last night hadn’t been an illusion and it hadn’t been a dream.

Jiang Shu couldn’t help asking: “So my forceful takeover succeeded?”

Although many questions still remained unanswered, she hadn’t kicked him out. And if he remembered correctly, she had kissed him last night and told him that she liked him… That was enough.

Jiang Shu didn’t know how to describe what he was feeling.

It was like longing for something for so long, then suddenly discovering that he had finally obtained it. A kind of unreal, ecstatic joy.

Listen to him. The moment he sobered up, he immediately started speaking nonsense again.

Shen Fu laughed in exasperation. “So all that crying and wailing outside my room yesterday was your version of a forceful takeover?” She crossed her arms. “Go on then. Tell me exactly how you were planning to carry out this ‘forceful takeover.’”

“Good thing you didn’t bring your household registration booklet.” Now that Jiang Shu had realized he had officially and openly gained Shen Fu’s affection, he immediately became arrogant and cocky again. With a sneer, he said: “Otherwise I’d have tied you up and dragged you to the Civil Affairs Bureau in the middle of the night.”

Shen Fu: “…”

For some reason, her face felt a little hot. She casually grabbed the remote control from the table and threw it at him. “Hurry up and wash up. Then get back to your own room before the livestream starts.”

“Wife.” Suppressing his embarrassment, Jiang Shu climbed out of bed, walked over to Shen Fu, and opened a new hotel toothbrush. “Let’s wash up together-together-together-together.”

Shen Fu glanced at him through the mirror. He was so tall that the sink suddenly seemed much smaller when he walked over. The hotel bathroom was divided into wet and dry areas, and the sink space had already been limited. Now it felt even more crowded.

Shen Fu pushed him. Jiang Shu shamelessly refused to move.

Shen Fu said: “…How are you going to wash your face if you don’t take off your sunglasses?”

“I’m not taking them off.” Jiang Shu picked up a cup. Under the sunglasses, his handsome face was bright red. 

The sunglasses were his protective coloring.

If he took them off, how could he still shamelessly call her “wife”?

In twenty-four years of life, he had never been this happy.

Even all twenty-four Lunar New Years combined hadn’t made him as happy as he was today.

The two stood side by side brushing their teeth. Jiang Shu nudged Shen Fu’s slippers with his oversized slippers. Then he bent down and lightly bumped the top of her head with his chin.

Afterward, he stood there feeling pleased with himself, muttering: “Wife, wife, wife.”

Shen Fu: “…”

She seriously thought there was something wrong with him.

…

The livestream started at ten o’clock.

Almost the instant it opened, screaming comments flooded in.

【AHHHHHH! Is D going to come out of Shen Fu’s room today?!】

【Dad! Mom! Folks back home! What have I done to deserve shipping such a HE (happy ending) couple?! Fast-forward straight to the wedding! I’m ready to contribute wedding money!】

However, things did not go the way the viewers hoped. When the livestream began, Jiang Shu was returning from his morning run.

The others were eating breakfast on the third floor. After showering and changing clothes, he headed over wearing the same gold sunglasses from the first day of filming. He looked spirited and radiant, his handsome appearance impossible to ignore.

Walking over, he greeted the others at the table cheerfully. “Hi.”

The male guests all looked at him strangely.

Shen Fu arrived shortly afterward.

The two sat down in the empty seats.

Everyone had become accustomed to the seating arrangement in the villa, and unconsciously those same two seats had still been left open for them.

Xiang Lingyun sat directly across from Shen Fu. Unable to resist, he brought up the rock-climbing activity. “What time are you free?”

Shen Fu checked the time. “Let’s go after breakfast.”

Better to finish the task early.

This time, Shen Fu was being very proactive.

Xiang Lingyun couldn’t help glancing around at the other men. His chance had finally come. They were definitely going to lose.

Gu Zhidao, Chu Wei, and Wen Zhenghan all frowned slightly and immediately began thinking of ways to stop them.

Jiang Shu’s face darkened. He set down his knife and fork and glared directly back at Xiang Lingyun’s triumphant look.

Shen Fu shot him a glance from the corner of her eye.

She had already explained last night that it was just a production task. How was he still this jealous?

Under the table, Shen Fu kicked Jiang Shu lightly.

The comments exploded:【Help! Do these male guests still not know that Shen Fu and Jiang Shu are already together?!】

【I seriously feel like these two have already reached the finish line while everyone else is still halfway down the track shoving each other around.】

Xiang Lingyun’s fans were already in tears.

They genuinely had never realized their idol was this confident.

At that moment, the production team began announcing the forms the female guests had filled out the previous night.

First, they told everyone the three questions on the form. Then they revealed the answers.

The female guests, including Shen Fu: “…”

When they filled them out yesterday, nobody had said the male guests would see them. What kind of setup was this?

Public execution?

The three questions were:

1. Which male guest is the most handsome?
2. Who would you take onto Noah’s Ark?
3. Whose personality is the cutest?

As soon as the first question was revealed, Chu Wei automatically matched himself with the third question.

Most handsome? Probably not him.

Noah’s Ark? Probably not him either.

But cute?

His debut image had literally been “cute.”

Sure enough, among Xu Tiaotiao’s three answers, the last one was him.

The comments:【Did Xu Tiaotiao never see Brother Chu Wei’s manipulative side?】

Chu Wei’s fans:【Get lost!】

Then it was Shen Fu’s turn.

All the men straightened in their seats.

Especially Chu Wei, who was eagerly waiting to hear his name.

The comments said:【I’m really curious about Shen Fu’s answers too, especially the last question. There’s no way she picked the Crown Prince, right…?】

Before the comment could even finish scrolling, 

The production team announced:

“The person Teacher Shen Fu checked for all three questions was… Mr. Jiang Shu. Mr. Jiang Shu. Mr. Jiang Shu.”

Chu Wei: “…”

The other guests: “…”

The comments: 【……】

Jiang Shu’s handsome face instantly turned red. But d*mn it. As the official boyfriend, this was no time to retreat out of embarrassment.

He removed his sunglasses and glared back at everyone with a lofty, arrogant, overbearing expression.

What? Why was everyone looking at him so shocked? Was Shen Fu not allowed to think his personality was cute?

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