Chapter 3.1 Shen Jue and Gu Yanshu Would Never Be in the Same Picture (1)

The moment Fang Yuan received the message, he just finished stuffing a re-tied bag of Northeast rice that had been opened before into a 32-inch suitcase.

Before he could catch his breath, his phone vibrated.

[Mr. Zhang]: I’ve heard from Ding about what happened today. Since Gu Yanshu is not willing to do it, then just let it go, and also Mr. Ye is going to ask someone else to replace Chen Ran. You guys just record the show as normal, perform well, and go for it. [Emoji: Smile]

For some reason, Fang Yuan saw a hint of humility from that smile that was indicating Mr. Zhang dared not speak out something.

He tilted his head to look at Gu Yanshu, who was packing his clothes into another suitcase: “Shu.”

“Hmm.”

“Tell me the truth.”

“What.”

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“Pke usw pdlyj yaswde okvb Ya. Zl clbkde xu cynj?”

Fdyr —-

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Wydt Zwyd bwaakle vs rypp vbl rbsdl yde pyke: “Zsw fwpv alqwple Ubld Syd’p aliwlpv, yde vbld Ubld Syd tsv alrzynle, pll? R fwpv xyel y alypsdyczl prlnwzyvksd.”

Ylydobkzl vbl pnalld sq vbl rbsdl oyp pbsod kd qasdv sq Qw Zydpbw.

Fjkxxkdt shla vbl vlmvp sd vbl pnalld, Qw Zydpbw alyzkgle sdl vbkdt.

—- Mbl qszep yxsdt svblap’ caykd olal caykd jladlzp, cwv yxsdt Wydt Zwyd’p olal zyatl kdvlpvkdlp.

Tl pbkqvle bkp tygl vs Wydt Zwyd kdekqqlaldvzu: “Rq R bye pdlyjle yaswde okvb Ya. Zl, obu oswze R pvkzz nydnlz vbl nsdvaynv? Ebu vbl Fvasdtlpv Fvytl oswze nbsspl Ubld Syd?”

Fang Yuan once again played the fool in the eyes of Gu Yanshu.

He kept silent for two seconds, “You’re right.”

But still confused: “How could they suddenly replace him as it’s going to be recorded tonight?”

“Anyway we were supposed to record the Strongest Stage tomorrow.”

Gu Yanshu answered casually.

Fang Yuan thought over it for a while, and realized Gu was right.

This was how it worked in fandom: you robbed other’s resources, and others would do the same to you.

“So who do you think will replace Chen Ran? Mr. Ye had always been a man who was selfless, cold-hearted, and often cut loose from old ties. Never heard of him wanting to support anyone before. Could it be some new star had come to our company……”

Fang Yuan suddenly paused.

He thought of one chap.

A man who should never appear in U.N. this morning, but did.

But this horrible thought only remained in his mind for less than one second before he shook it off by shaking his head like crazy.

Impossible. Totally impossible.

Shen Jue would be on variety shows? Never.

Shen Jue would be on variety shows with Gu Yanshu? Never.

Moreover, Shen Jue had been running a personal studio, and under no circumstance would Mr. Ye support him. So this thought was completely a joke.

Fortunately Gu Yanshu didn’t notice his unusual thoughts.

He just replied: “None of our business. Don’t worry about it.”

Then he glimpsed the suitcase beside Fang Yuan and asked a question he was more concerned: “What’s the rice for?”

“For what you would need to pack for the recording.”

Before Gu Yanshu again looked at him like a fool, Fang Yuan explained first: “You don’t understand. For the reality shows nowadays, they would always promise everything like eating, drinking and playing, but when you’re there you’ll find you get nothing. So I prepare you a box of warming essentials for the winter and some daily essentials to make sure you don’t die of coldness or hunger.”

A thoughtful man.

Gu Yanshu even didn’t know whether he should praise Fang Yuan or not.

The show “Cohabitation Life” he was about to record was a cohabitation reality show co-produced and broadcasted by Guokong TV and Xiangnan TV.

The planning was moderate.

The idea was to find a big villa in downtown Beijing and invite six guests to stay there at the same time. During the day, they work and socialize as usual, but at night they must return to the villa for sleeping.

Of course, both the invited guests and the agency knew that the program team paid your salary, not to really allow you use this place as a hotel. So during the recording period, if guests got businesses to do outside Beijing, they must promise to come back to the villa before sleeping, and half of the schedule had to be left empty to ensure a share of the recording period.

Besides that, Gu Yanshu had no idea about any other planning details.

He had never recorded a reality show of this kind since he didn’t like the feeling of overexposing himself. The reason why he took the job was purely because the company wanted him to share some popularity with Chen Ran, and also he felt that he owed the company a favor.

Now it turned out Chen Ran was not attending, and he was the only one left, so he didn’t feel the need to attend.

Gu Yanshu opened his mouth: “How much for breach of contract?”

“Six times the money of recording.”

“Then go ahead and pack it up. We’ll attend.”

“No problem!”

–

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Gu Yanshu’s assistant had just resigned days ago, and before a new stuff could come on board, Fang Yuan had been dealing with all the affaires himself.

It’s a good thing that he had not worked with any other entertainers since he made up his mind to follow Gu Yanshu and become independent, so now he could handle it. After packing up the things, buying a new phone, and replacing his SIM card, they arrived at the recording location at 5:30 pm.

The recording took place in an upscale development near the fourth ring of Beijing, with excellent security. Without an owner’s card and temporary access card, neither people nor vehicles could get in or out.

They parked the black nanny car outside the community and got out of the car.

Follow PD Wang Yang, who had been waiting for a long time, came up with a few staff members.

While pinning the mic to Gu Yanshu, he explained the precautions to be taken during recording: “In order to prevent revelations and surrogate filming, the guest list as well as the recording time and location are all kept secret. So please pay more attention to it during the recording, and don’t leak out the info.”

There was a vicious incident just a while ago where a show almost caused a car accident during recording due to rampant illegitimacy and surrogate filming, so it was reasonable for the program team to be cautious about it.

Gu Yanshu responded: “Okay.”

Then, he remembered something and added: “Have the other guests arrived?”

Wang Yang: “They’re all here. Except for the new one.”

Fang Yuan had just taken two suitcases out of the trunk along with a handbag and happened to hear this. He put down the luggage, and asked in passing, ” Could you kindly reveal who is he, Director Wang?”

“I’ve no idea.” Wang Yang shrugged his shoulders, “We only received notice about the replacement this afternoon. Director Cao only said that it was a big curry, and the ratings would definitely explode. Nothing else did he say.”

“Why so mysterious?”

“Who knows.” Wang Yang had already pinned the mic for Gu Yanshu, raising his wrist to check the time, “The last guest should still be recording the opening, so let’s wait for another fifteen minutes before we go in.”

“Sure, no problem.” Fang Yuan took out a pack of soft Zhonghua cigarettes and a lighter, handing them over, “A cold day. Cigarette?”

Wang Yang took the cigarette. They two walked aside to chat.

Gu Yanshu leaned against the door of the car and listened. He could occasionally hear some words like “our Shu had a knee injury and couldn’t catch a cold”, “Shu got low blood sugar so he couldn’t starve”, “We’ll fully cooperate with the program, but we’ll have to keep healthy as well.” Something like this.

Fang Yuan had always seemed to be unreliable in front of him. But Gu Yanshu knew in his heart that it was because Fang Yuan didn’t want him to be bored, so was deliberately acting silly and funny. In fact, Fang Yuan spoiled him a lot and was quite worldly, having taken good care of him in the past few years, meanwhile speaking and behaving appropriately.

For instance, after returning from the company, Fang Yuan never mentioned a word about Shen Jue in front of him.

Although there was nothing wrong if he did mention.

Chapter 3.2 Shen Jue and Gu Yanshu Would Never Be in the Same Picture (2)

Gu Yanshu listened for a while besides them and felt a bit bored, so he took his phone out from the pocket. He casually moved his fingers scrolling up and down on the screen, hung his head low, and looked a bit distracted.

Only when having logged into his alt Weibo account and heard the “Ding Dong” sound of the system message popping up, he realized he had been distracted.

Weibo Trending was displayed on the screen.

Gu Yanshu came back to his senses and took a closer look at the screen.

At the top of the Trending still hung #Jue Jue Shu# , followed by a crying expression.

(TL: Jue Jue Shu refers to a breaking up letter. In the source language, this phrase includes the words from both the names of Shen Jue and Gu Yanshu)

Gu Yanshu suddenly realized why things would always go bad when he had something to do with Shen Jue – their CP name literally looked full of bad luck. Especially when you read them out, it even made you dare to cut your wrist to go fighting to stop something bad from happening.

It was the thing topic had not dropped down yet that made Gu Yanshu a bit puzzled.

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Fkdnl vbl ekpcydekdt sq ZXBLQ taswr, bl yde Fbld Kwl bye cwadle yzz vbl caketlp, yde bye dsv xyel ydu rwczkn nsxxldvp ycswv lynb svbla. Fs ds xyvvla kv oyp pyukdt Fbld Kwl oyp bsxsrbsckn sa bl oyp burkdt vbl UV vsrkn, vblu olal fwpv pxyzz qktbvp clvolld vblka qydp kd vbl qydesx, yde vblal oyp ds pxsjkdt twd. Mblpl yqqykap dlhla nywple plakswp nsdpliwldnlp yde bye dsv yqqlnv vblka nyalla elhlzsrxldv sa rwczkn kxytl kd ydu oyu yp olzz.

Ohld kq psxl lmvalxl rplwes-qydp sa UV qydp snnypksdyzzu xyel psxl vaswczlp, vbl vos vlyxp oswze rasxrvzu alpvaykd yde nsdvaszzle vbl pnldl. Gp pssd yp y vsrkn ycswv Fbld Kwl yde Qw Zydpbw yrrlyale sd vbl Maldekdt, Fbld’p pkel oswze pssd prlde xsdlu vs vyjl swv vbl valde.

Fs vbkp vkxl Qw Zydpbw eked’v nyal ycswv kv yp olzz.

Rv oyp swv sq bkp lmrlnv vbyv vblu olal pvkzz yv vbl Ls. 1 sd Maldekdt, obyv’p xsal, lhld wdvkz dso kv bye dsv clld alxshle.

Lsv sdzu vbkp sdl oyp dsv alxshle, vbl qszzsokdt valde #Fbld Kwl’p zshl yqqykap pllx vs lmrspwal” oyp yzps zkpvkdt vblal.

Ebld vbl vos valdekdt vsrknp olal hklole vstlvbla, kv oyp fwpv kdeknyvkdt Fbld Kwl oyp zkjl y pnwx.

Fs oyp kv Fbld Kwl’p pvweks pvyqq pweeldzu vssj y nszzlnvkhl yddwyz hynyvksd, sa oyp bl bszekdt cynj psxl ckttla vaknj?

Qw Zydpbw vyrrle bkp qkdtlavkrp sd vbl pnalld.

Hesitating for a moment, he finally clicked the trend.

The top weibo this time was also posted by a Golden VIP account.

The difference was ID changed from @CPGirlsCamp into @CPGirlsNotReconcile.

So girls fans of CP were changing fast.

But the content of the post would make people go to their heads as always.

[@CPGirlsNotReconcile: Smoking gun for the “Jue Jue Shu”!!! The reason why Shen Jue didn’t go to the award ceremony was that he had gone to meet his girlfriend! Pictures don’t lie! Creeping… The two promised to hold a concert at Bird’s Nest Stadium but finally only Gu Cute himself did it. You have no heart, Shen Jue!]

The comments also went to his head.

[@IHaveDied: Fuck you Shen Jue!!! Damn scum!!! You made me lose my seven years’ youth!!!]

[@MyCPBEAgain: Well, I’ve covered the coffin board myself, please help me bury it.]

[@ShenClanConcubine: Universal celebrations!! The CP dogs have finally woken up by the reality! How would those who had always hype their gay stories walk straight in the future?]

[@GuAlphaSweetO: Wow! Congratulations to our brother for his unbinding! Go ahead and learn about cold, long-legged Alpha! Our brother will not be regarded as someone’s cute wife anymore!]

[@IAmABadger: The fans of the traffic stars are literally good at please themselves. Come on, concede the reality, Shen Jue has had many girlfriends, it’s only your idol that wants to hype himself with Shen.]

[@LiveInGu’sCollarbone: Someone please stop displaying persecution paranoia. I also have a reasonable suspicion that someone who has won the movie award and gets in a higher position wants to increase his commercial value, so he gets eager for the popularity. I’m not surprised to see them in the same picture one day.]

[@IJustHateGuYanshu: Fuck off upstairs, I’ll say it straight, if Shen can be in the same picture with Gu Yanshu in three years, I’ll run around Tiananmen Square naked for 300 laps!]

……

……

Through the screen, Gu Yanshu could completely imagine the hysteria of those who cursed him and those who cursed others for him, and yet he could hardly empathize with them.

He reckoned the Trending as somehow a magical thing.

It was where agenda-setting theories were taken to the extreme, where the public’s attention was sold for a price.

Most of the time, the people who searched for these phrases and discussed them fervently had nothing to do with these things. But it seemed that everyone knew the truth, and everyone was on the moral high ground.

Even though most of what they saw was not the whole truth, and there were traces of manipulation everywhere, people who idled away the days doing nothing could easily find their own satisfaction in defending and criticizing without a cause.

Therefore, even seeing the words of those who quarrel with others for defending him would not give Gu Yanshu any comfort.

—-Across the distant space and time and billions of people, what gave one the right to swear an oath to curse another, or to defend another?

It sounded so absurd.

Gu Yanshu’s fingertips swiped on the screen in a lack of interest and pressed the lock screen button without his mood swinging.

He had always thought only a fool would pay attention to such irresponsible remarks from strangers that he never met before.

A sudden ding from the phone.

He lowered his eyes.

A banner message from Weibo.

[[email protected]: Don’t make a rumor about your papa anymore, that’s your grandma. A class act who can tell the pictures, did you pass the language test of grade two in primary school? //Repo: @CPGirlsNotReconcile]

(TL: In Weibo, this was the reply from Shen Yue himself)

Gu Yanshu: “……”

He forgot, that except fools, there were even lunatics.

Before he could understand what kind of madness Shen Jue was in this time.

Another ding from the phone.

Still a Weibo banner message.

[[email protected]: Pls don’t speak with your sphincter// Repo: @I’mAPig: Shen Jue has had many girlfriends, it’s only your idol that wants to hype himself with Shen.]

Gu Yanshu again: “……”

Shen really didn’t have to glorify the shit words like this.

A ding again.

The reply got more glorifying.

Only five words: wow, looking forward to it.

Repo: [@IJustHateGuYanshu: if Shen can be in the same frame with Gu Yanshu in three years, I’ll run around Tiananmen Square naked for 300 laps!]

Wow, looking forward to it.

It must be Shen Jue himself.

Gu Yanshu could almost completely imagine the provocative pursing of Shen’s lips and mocking tone of voice when he said this.

However, it was not the first time Shen Jue became aggressive to lash out anti-fans, media, and the marketing studio. Gu Yanshu had been used to it.

But he wasn’t aware of the implication of “looking forward”.

It couldn’t be what was in his mind.

Otherwise, before the anti-fan ran naked, one will die between he and Shen Jue.

After all, across the twelve crossing on Changan Street, for he and Shen Jue, one had better to be at the most left and the other the most right, and never met again in whole life.

As he was thinking about it, there came a genuine “Fuck” from aside, along with the sound of a group of people feeling shocked. They seemed to see something appalling.

Gu Yanshu couldn’t help but look up and follow the line of sight of the crowd.

His expression became icy in a moment.

A red Laferrari was parked three meters away at an unknown time.

The door opened, and the man in the car, with his long legs on the ground, leaned forward and poked his upper body out, then slowly stood up straight and turned around to look over.

The solemn expression. The defined facial features.

The cold wind of late November from the north blew through, mixed with the smell of rotten grass and trees, and lifted a few locks of the man’s loosely tied top knot at the back of his head.

When the man saw Gu Yanshu standing in the crowd, he didn’t even seem surprised, but just raised his eyebrow bone slightly and smiled with the corner of his mouth curving up: “Mr. Gu, what a coincidence.”

The voice had seemed to be grinding from the throat, sounded lazy and slow, and inexplicably wrapped in sense which could be flirtation or provocation.

Mr. Gu felt it was a terrible coincidence.

He Stared for three second.

Turned around.

Looked at Fang Yuan: “Six times the breach of contract, we can actually afford it.”