Chapter 76: Emo Girl, Debuting Late At Night
Starting a business together?!
Many people really didn’t know this news and were stunned for a moment, but they looked at each other and very tactfully didn’t ask any more.
This kind of thing… only Mom Wen can ask directly. If it were them, they “wouldn’t dare” either!
It’s too offensive.
Wen Lijuan didn’t pursue it further, just smiled and sized up Chi Ye, nodding continuously: “The young man looks spirited… that who, Arthur, it’s your turn.”
Jiang Cheng glanced at Chi Ye, thought for a long time, but couldn’t think of any representative work of his own.
After hesitating for a moment, he thought of the program effect that Chi Ye had just created, which was pretty good. Reboot!
“I’m an actor, representative work: 《My dad》.”
Everyone: “…”
Then they looked at Xiang You.
Xiang You was different. He was stunned for a moment, then said very straightforwardly: “Actor, singer, martial artist, representative work: 《Me》.”
Chi Ye slapped his forehead.
Damn, that’s so abstract.
「《Jin Xia》《My dad》《Me》」
「Wolong Fengchu Zhuhu assembled!」
「Three people can’t come up with one representative work?」
「Can’t say that, isn’t 《Reboot》 a representative work? Ye Zi just doesn’t want to show off!」
「Hua Yichen fans, don’t be cheap! Retreat! Retreat! Retreat!」
Here, only Shang Youshu hadn’t introduced herself yet, but she became famous early and seemed like she didn’t need an introduction. She winked playfully: “Then… I’m Shang Youshu, and for representative work, it’s the costume drama 《Meng Xi Yuan》 that I’m still filming with Jiang Cheng.”
“Good, this is good.”
Arthur clapped his hands immediately.
Wen Lijuan nodded: “This child has a smart brain.”
Shang Youshu smiled without speaking, her bright eyes subconsciously glancing at Chi Ye, feeling itchy and wanting to get to the bottom of it.
But considering the shot was still live broadcasting, she could only give up.
“Then… everyone, please take care of each other from now on.”
Wen Lijuan saw that “everyone knew each other” and was just sitting there dryly, not knowing what to say.
Everyone was like petrified, and the atmosphere was extremely awkward for a while.
“Cough cough…”
It was still Wen Lijuan who had seen big scenes. Seeing the young people “restrained,” she immediately opened the conversation: “Do you all have children?”
Everyone: “?!”
Chi Ye also glanced at everyone, focusing on Arthur, and shook his head: “We don’t have children on the surface.”
Arthur: “?”
Why look at me!
“On the surface, hahaha…”
Shang Youshu had a low laugh threshold, and moreover, one of Chi Ye’s current “rivals,” Hua Yichen, had been exposed a few years ago to have a child with some female singer.
“Yes, we have a child” became a famous saying in the internal entertainment circle, causing a sensation at the time.
So, no matter how you look at it, it felt like Chi Ye was implying Hua Yichen.
“You child, such a loose mouth.”
Wen Lijuan smiled. It was clear she quite liked children like Chi Ye who could talk…
“Then… director, are we just sitting here? Not going out for some activity? Aren’t we supposed to shoot a preview?”
She turned her head to challenge the program team.
Program Team: “…”
“Um, if everyone already knows each other, you can head to the restaurant arranged by the program team for dinner.”
“It’s only what time? No rush, right? Teacher Huang isn’t here anyway.”
Chi Ye couldn’t help but mention Teacher Huang.
The people around all had expressions like “don’t splash blood on me.”
Shang Youshu laughed heartlessly: “Aiya, let’s go, let’s go, go out and have a look.”
Everyone stood up and walked out of the hotel together, but when getting in the car, Director Li suddenly notified: “The restaurant isn’t far, everyone can walk there.”
“Ah? We still have to walk?”
Shang Youshu’s eyes showed resistance.
“It’s okay, walking is good.” Jiang Cheng glanced at the camera, changing eight hundred poses in a second, ready to sprint.
Xiang You suddenly jumped in place and shouted: “Roar roar, I’ll beat it~! I’ve practiced martial arts, this distance is nothing?!!”
Everyone: “…”
Damn you, scared me! What’s with the cat pie?!
“…Then okay, I haven’t walked today anyway.”
Teacher Wen Lijuan smiled and casually said: “Usually, I walk 50,000 steps every day, otherwise I can’t sleep comfortably.”
Everyone: “???”
Chi Ye: “…”
It started, sure enough, starting to show off.
Patta.
Shang Youshu, who was at the back of the crowd, took a balance bike from her assistant’s hand, lightly and skillfully got on it, and like a ghost, smilingly overtook everyone and “drove” forward.
Everyone: “????”
“I don’t like exercising, I’ll go ahead~”
Everyone: “…”
Chi Ye was surprised: “How do you even carry this thing with you?!”
“Can we sit then?”
Shang Youshu turned back and glanced at him, smiling: “Teacher Xiao Chi, no can do.”
Chi Ye: “…”
Everyone could only walk to the restaurant. On the way, at Teacher Wen’s request, the program team temporarily turned off the live broadcast room.
“What’s wrong?”
Chi Ye, Jiang Cheng, Xiang You were puzzled.
“Hey, sis is greeting you all first here.”
Wen Lijuan looked completely frank: “Sis usually likes to show off when there’s nothing going on, just telling you in advance. In front of the camera, remember to cooperate with me, don’t let the act slip later.”
Everyone: “…”
They were all stumped by Teacher Wen Lijuan’s “heart-to-heart” straightforwardness.
This is the composure of an old artist?!
Chi Ye really couldn’t hold back and asked: “Then… how should we cooperate?”
“Silly child, just watch sis show off, appropriately show some surprise, give a bit of… what’s it called… right, you young people now call it emotional value!”
Chi Ye: “…”
“But Sister Wen…” Jiang Cheng straightened his back, eager to learn: “How to show off… well?”
Teacher Wen glanced at him, sensing his strong “eagerness to learn,” and earnestly taught: “Showing off must not be too deliberate.”
“For example, drinking wine, drinking wine, if you just evaluate its taste, too sweet, too sour, aftertaste, everyone will think you know a bit, but also think you’re showing off.”
“Right right, that’s it.” Arthur deeply agreed, clearly having failed at showing off before.
“But if you show off from the producer’s perspective, it will be just right.”
Teacher Wen imparted “experience”: “Still using wine as an example, you can ignore its taste and instead say your friend has a vineyard at home, and there’s a lake next to the vineyard. So what do you think that lake is for?”
“For boating, or irrigating the vineyard?”
Jiang Cheng was puzzled: “Otherwise?”
Teacher Wen smiled: “Of course not. The important role of this lake is to reflect sunlight, because when there’s enough sunlight, some grape varieties sensitive to anthocyanin will have better planting effects.”
“…” Jiang Cheng was greatly shocked.
“See, you’ve just been shown off by me.” Wen Lijuan chuckled.
Xiang You was listening in a fog beside them.
Chi Ye got it.
“I understand.”
“Oh?” Teacher Wen was surprised: “You learned so fast?”
Chi Ye nodded: “Using chicken feet as an example, our chicken feet are all meticulously selected from old ladies aged 52 to 62 who pick them with their mouths!”
Everyone: “?!”
“Hahaha.”
Xiang You grinned foolishly, pointing at Chi Ye: “You’re so mean.”
Jiang Cheng, however, was displeased and glanced at Chi Ye.
Thinking, what do you know?
Teacher Wen is “teaching everything she knows”!
He really felt greatly inspired, thinking all his previous shows off were too small, lacking vision.
Still need to learn from Teacher Wen!
The group arrived at the restaurant chatting and laughing, only to find Shang Youshu already sitting inside, wearing a pair of white Bluetooth earphones, smiling and listening to music.
“You finally arrived.”
She slipped out: “Come in, order dishes and eat.”
“You girl don’t exercise, not afraid of getting fat?”
Teacher Wen chided: “As an artist, you have to pay attention to image management.”
Shang Youshu’s originally smiling little face fell, dejectedly saying: “Hey Mom Wen, don’t say it, I really am the type that gets fat from eating… so annoying.”
She listlessly returned to the dining table, sat down, propped her chin with her hand, looking like a big grievance.
“Hey, getting fat from eating is fine, just watch your diet.”
Teacher Wen comforted: “People like me who don’t get fat no matter how much they eat are rare.”
Shang Youshu: “…”
Chi Ye thought of Jin Xia.
The Empress Dowager seems to be the type that doesn’t get fat.
“You all order first, I need to go to the office for something.”
Teacher Wen sat down not long ago, then stood up again, preparing to go out.
Everyone was stunned: “Office? Something happened?”
“Hey, toilet.”
Teacher Wen waved her hand, her eyes signaling: cooperate!
Everyone suddenly understood, nodding one by one: “Go go, if the toilet isn’t obedient, tell us, we’ll report it for you.”
Teacher Wen: “…”
She looked at Chi Ye who said that, pointed at him irritably, then turned elegantly to go handle things at the toilet.
“Tsk tsk.”
Chi Ye shook his head: “Teacher Wen is young at heart despite her age. You can tell she was very happy when young.”
For some reason, he kept thinking of the Empress Dowager.
The Empress Dowager would probably be this happy when old.
Thinking of this, Chi Ye wanted to eat junk food and drink milk tea: “Alright, make mine light, I’ll go find Zhang Liang for something, and catch up with Little Honey.”
“?!”
Shang Youshu’s pupils shook: “Little Honey?!”
“Zhang Liang Spicy Hot Pot, Honey Snow City.”
Chi Ye pretended, of course he wouldn’t really order—free meal from the program team, waste not to eat!
Everyone: “…”
“You two order, I can’t eat much.”
Shang Youshu also pushed the menu over. Jiang Cheng saw it and thought he had to maintain his idol persona, immediately shaking his head: “I won’t order either, you do it.”
Xiang You: “?”
How can I order now?
Chi Ye: “Xiang You has great taste, clearly grew up eating delicious food.”
Xiang You took the menu: “Waiter, order!”
Jiang Cheng: “…6.”
Meanwhile, Shang Youshu quietly leaned over, handing over her phone with a pink bunny phone case: “Teacher Xiao Chi, add WeChat first.”
Chi Ye looked at her surprisedly, scanned it, and after adding successfully, asked: “What for?”
“Chat on WeChat.”
After Shang Youshu mysteriously said that, she saw Chi Ye’s WeChat name was 【AAA Yue Na Imperial Clan】.
“…”
As expected of the “gossip king,” the name alone is something!
She privately asked on WeChat: 【How far have you and Xia Xia gone?】
Chi Ye: 【?】
【I don’t date, thanks.】
Shang Youshu: “…”
She looked up at him and felt their relationship wasn’t there yet, so she could only slowly build feelings, slowly dig!
Chi Ye didn’t know yet that he had been targeted by a white moonlight who could rival Sheng Ning… pfft, what white moonlight, black moonlight more like!
Teacher Wen came back from the toilet after finishing, waited a bit more, and the dishes were all served.
Everyone started using chopsticks. Arthur ate reservedly, chewing bit by bit, which made Chi Ye heartbroken, signaling: “Arthur, take the chopsticks yourself, pick a piece of meat and eat…”
Jiang Cheng: “?”
Damn you Chi Ye, taking advantage of me?!
He snorted coldly and turned away, ignoring Chi Ye.
Xiang You ate the fastest and fiercest—”martial arts practitioner,” understandable!
Teacher Wen was telling stories of how she ate ten jin of grain in one go when young, making everyone praise her as the old rice bucket.
Only Shang Youshu, looking at the delicious dishes on the plate, only picked a few vegetable leaves with chopsticks and stopped eating.
Staring longingly.
Chi Ye was puzzled: “Why aren’t you eating more?”
“I’ll get fat if I eat too much, so I can’t.”
Shang Youshu was honest: “You eat, I’ll play on my phone for a bit, it’s fine.”
Everyone: “…”
“No, girl, you’re eating too little.” Teacher Wen frowned: “Sis was joking with you earlier. Sis gets fat sometimes too, but can lose it again. Fasting for so long will cause problems.”
Shang Youshu’s bright eyes wavered, but she still firmly shook her head: “I really won’t eat, Sister Wen.”
Seeing her like this, everyone knew she was probably used to this lifestyle normally.
Chi Ye didn’t persuade anymore and ate voraciously by himself.
Shang Youshu felt her hunger growing heavier, and her mood increasingly down.
Finally endured until dinner was done, the group returned to the hotel, she went alone to her room, lay dejectedly on the bed, staring at the time on the clock.
It was getting dark.
Listening to sad little tunes of internet melancholy in her earphones, she felt sadness welling up, thinking of the youth angst novel she stayed up late to finish last night.
Just before the happy end, the female lead suddenly died, the male lead had a car accident and became paraplegic, the second male lead died for love, the second female lead went far abroad…
Too tragic, really too tragic.
Yesterday she cried until the quilt was wet.
Shang Youshu’s eyes reddened, opened Moments, edited:
【A hedgehog can never be a cat in someone’s arms. I’m nostalgic, but those who lose me, lose me forever!】
【An adult’s breakdown is in “only visible to me.”】
【Sudden temper is probably long-accumulated grievance.】
【So much emotion, so much annoyance, pressing down on me so tiring.】
【I’m slowly, slowly rusting.】
【So, people must have their own thorns!】
She posted six emo captions in a row, wiped her eye corner, opened some software, and continued reading the angsty novel.
Chi Ye, who was scrolling his phone in the living room: “?!”
Staring at his Moments suddenly “flooded,” shocked.
Then reacted, quickly screenshotting kuangkuang.
Commented puzzledly below: 「Thorns? Did thorns grow on you? The thorns rusted?!」
「Also, this isn’t “only visible to you” either, you forgot to block me, I can see.」
「You okay? How about eating something?」
Shang Youshu, receiving various like and reply notification sounds: “?!”
Bad!
Just added today, forgot to block him!
Three updates today, additional update for 5000 monthly tickets, see how much I can write tomorrow, try to finish by end of month.
