Chapter 67: Chapter 067: Strange CP Chapter 67: Chapter 067: Strange CP “Teacher Mu loves gossip as much as little girls do,” Shen Yan said indifferently.
The smile at the corners of Mu Jincheng’s mouth almost split apart.
He’s being called a gossiping woman!
The others pressed their lips together, trying not to smile.
Just a moment ago, they were somewhat curious, now they’d completely lost interest.
What did other people’s affairs have to do with them?
Since they were whispering, it must be something that they did not want others to hear.
Mu Jincheng asked nonchalantly, his desire for gossip maybe a bit too strong.
Just as Shen Yan said, like a little girl who loves to gossip.
Struggling to suppress something, Mu Jincheng said, “I’m just curious, because the two of you didn’t seem as close as you are now before.”
Not only Shen Yan but also the others frowned upon hearing these words.
Mu Jincheng’s statement was clearly meant to lead to misunderstandings.
Shen Yan gave him a rather cold look, “I don’t believe I have any obligation to satisfy others’ curiosity. According to Teacher Mu, doesn’t that mean you and Mr. Chu are inseparable?”
At this moment, Mu Jincheng’s die-hard fans were roaring in the live broadcast room.
[Fake Princess is really hateful, daring to speak that way about our Brother Mu. What’s wrong with Brother Mu and Chu Jinghe being inseparable? They are the sweetest CP!]
[Exactly, and she even dares to argue with Brother Mu. Who gave her the face to do that?]
[Hold on, I’m not anyone’s fan, and you guys are being quite hypocritical. It was clearly Mu Jincheng who made ambiguous remarks, so why isn’t Shen Yan allowed to hit back?]
[Another lapdog for Fake Princess shows up. Scram and bark somewhere else, don’t dirty this place.]
[Damn! A bunch of brain-meningitis idiots, with fans like these, the idol can’t be any good either.]
Because of this very comment, the live broadcast room turned into an absolute noise fest.
People were tying him and Chu Jinghe together; he should have been happy about it.
But when Shen Yan said those words, he couldn’t find any joy in them.
On the contrary, he felt an underlying anger.
Maintaining his image, he forced a smile, “What happens between Jinghe and me is different; it’s for the tasks.”
“Oh, I was just discussing professional knowledge with Teacher Wen,” Shen Yan glanced at him, “It has nothing to do with being as intimate as Teacher Mu mentioned. Since you’re so curious, why not come over and listen in?”
Shen Yan gestured openly to a spot next to her.
You want to listen, right?
Then come over openly and listen.
This move actually made Mu Jincheng so embarrassed he wished he could find a hole to crawl into.
What was he now?
Someone who liked to listen to gossip and make sarcastic remarks on the side, stirring up trouble?
In a word, he was creating a scene!
“It was just a joke. I’m feeling a bit unwell, so I’ll head back to rest,” Mu Jincheng stood up abruptly, knocking over the chair. He stiffly smiled at everyone, hurriedly picked up the chair, and retreated to his tent.
Once inside his tent, his face suddenly darkened.
Shen Yan was deliberately humiliating him!
Mu Jincheng was fuming inside the tent, hearing the laughter outside, his face alternated between ashen and livid.
The Fireworks fans openly mocked Mu Jincheng.
In the first episode, Shen Yan was fawning over Mu Jincheng; now, she was as cold as could be.
This was precisely what the Fireworks fans wanted to see.
Compared to Mu Jincheng, the Fireworks fans preferred Wen Yan, who could be Shen Yan’s “little wife.”
Of course, a strong Yanyan needed a delicate and helpless “wife”!
The Fireworks fans were not short of talented artists, and they produced a series of Q-version illustrations of Shen Yan holding Wen Yan.
Liu Su scrolled through a wide array of these bizarre CP collections, his body shuddering thrice.
These young people can’t even ship a CP properly, yet they have the audacity to call themselves fans.
“Could someone with a pretty boy face like Wen Yan ever deserve Miss Shen?”
“But sir is a much better match for Miss Shen!”
Liu Su captured a screenshot, phoned someone to search the internet for a master artist, and asked them to draw Shen Yan and Qi Si.
He didn’t have a picture of Qi Si, so he provided various adjectives to describe him instead.
The person who answered the phone heard a multitude of descriptions like “tall and mighty,” “handsome as a jade tree,” “domineering and brave,” “skin white as snow,” “ten feet tall,” “with three heads and six arms,” and so on, until the corners of their mouth twitched.
Good Lord, are these even human descriptions?
What kind of bizarre stuff is this?
Faced with a major client, the person in charge pressed down their inner shock with a weary heart and weakly agreed.
Anyway, just drawing based on descriptions of a normal human being like “tall and mighty” would suffice, and as for something like “three heads and six arms”… they would treat it as a metaphorical inner image!
After giving these instructions, Liu Su looked forward to the finished product.
*
Shen Yan hadn’t rested much the night before; after adding Wen Yan on WeChat, they had been talking about the song all along.
With such a rushed timeline for preparation, Shen Yan still worried about holding Wen Yan back on stage.
Waking up yawning in the morning, as soon as she saw Liu Su, she told him about her agreement to perform a residency with Wen Yan.
Liu Su frowned slightly, “Miss Shen, do you have enough time to prepare now?”
It wasn’t that he objected but feared that insufficient preparation could lead to a misfire.
He was concerned that a poor performance could cause Shen Yan to lose fans and might even trigger a wave of negativity.
“Uncle Liu, don’t worry. After I go out tonight, I will start preparing right away, cramming on this area,” she added. After all, she wasn’t going to take the stage immediately upon arrival.
She would only sing two or three songs and play an instrument.
If she performed too well, she would overshadow the host.
“Since Miss Shen has decided, I’ll also make preparations on my side,” Liu Su said.
“I appreciate it, Uncle Liu.”
“Miss Shen, you are too polite again.”
“It’s not politeness; it’s gratitude.”
In her memories, people only sought to exploit her value; no one had truly handled these trivial matters for her.
Even though this was the world within a book, she liked this carefree and unrestrained world and planned to stay here for life.
*
Both Mu Jincheng and Chu Jinghe had been stung by bees.
Mu Jincheng fared better, but Chu Jinghe’s normally fine face swelled up like a pancake.
Ordinary filming was out of the question today; they would have to miss it.
Mu Jincheng, watching the scene of Shen Yan walking with Wen Yan, couldn’t help but recall the scene of the two of them talking closely together the previous night.
This was probably for the best.
It would spare Shen Yan from disturbing him and Chu Jinghe again.
Mu Jincheng felt he should visit Chu Jinghe and not dwell on a woman who had once pestered him persistently.
Chu Jinghe covered her face with a thin blanket, afraid to show Mu Jincheng her current pitiful state.
Seeing Chu Jinghe’s action, Mu Jincheng felt a twinge in his heart, meltingly soft, “Jinghe, no matter how you look, I will never despise you.”
“Really?” Chu Jinghe asked muffledly from behind the blanket, “Even if my looks are ruined, you won’t despise me?”
“Of course not,” Mu Jincheng said without a second thought.
After all, Chu Jinghe wasn’t going to be disfigured.
Chu Jinghe was mollified and slowly pulled down the blanket, “You can’t laugh at me.”
“I won’t laugh. It will only make me feel heartache,” Mu Jincheng said, frowning slightly at the sight of Chu Jinghe’s swollen face, “How are you feeling? Does it still hurt?”
“It hurts a lot,” Chu Jinghe whined to Mu Jincheng.
Mu Jincheng’s brow furrowed again, as a flashback of the first episode where Shen Yan deliberately approached him with a slight cut on her finger wanting to act spoiled crossed his mind.
His expression turned slightly sour. Why did he have to remember such a disgusting scene!
He sternly reminded himself that the person before him was the one he was pursuing, and he entered the entertainment industry for her sake.