Ever since he found out that he had been in a relationship with Ling Che, Xu Tangzhou had called Xie Rui two or three times. He had amnesia, but Xie Rui did not, so why had Xie Rui never mentioned it over the years? It was important to note that the person he dated was none other than Ling Che, who was extremely popular.
Xu Tangzhou had two guesses: one was that Xie Rui didn’t know about it at all and just regarded Ling Che as his idol; the other guess was that, as Huang-ge said, he “dumped Ling Che” because he didn’t love Ling Che that much, or perhaps they really had some unpleasantness, so Xie Rui, preferring not to meddle, and never brought it up.
Whichever it was, Xu Tangzhou needed to know the answer.
Wu Nana stayed in the living room, and Xu Tangzhou took his phone into his own room.
He pressed the answer button: “Mom?”
Xie Rui’s voice came through, sounding a bit unfamiliar after not talking for several months: “Zaizai, why did you go on a variety show? Why didn’t you tell me? If it wasn’t for an employee at our company seeing you on TV last night, I wouldn’t have known.”
The questioning tone surprised Xu Tangzhou, and he replied, “I wanted to earn some money.”
Xie Rui hesitated: “Are you short on money? How much do you need? I’ll transfer it to you.”
Xu Tangzhou said, “Ten million.”
Xie Rui was puzzled: “What do you need that much money for?”
“To buy a house,” Xu Tangzhou replied very naturally, “Didn’t I tell you about it?”
This matter, indeed, Xu Tangzhou had mentioned to Xie Rui.
After retiring, Xu Wei opened a heavy motorcycle shop, picking up the dream he had in his youth. The shop had gained a modest reputation in the industry over the past four years, but the spacious and prime location it occupied would be legally auctioned off at the end of next year, and they needed to buy it. Xu Wei calculated all his assets and found he was still over ten million short.
Both father and son were idealists, willing to give everything for what they believe in, so it wasn’t strange for Xu Tangzhou to go into show business for this reason. But to Xie Rui, a pragmatist, it seemed somewhat naive and comical.
Also, they were divorced, so she had neither the position nor the need to interfere.
This wasn’t the focus of Xie Rui’s concern; she suppressed her anger and said, “You didn’t tell me about your debut.”
She was an omega, yet not at all delicate, sweet, or soft. Over the years, she had developed a character that was efficient, independent, and rational. Without seeing her in person and only hearing the tone of her voice, one might think she was an alpha.
Xie Rui lived abroad, now working on planning major art exhibitions. After the divorce, Xu Tangzhou lived with his father, and their interactions were few and far between.
Xu Tangzhou had no choice but to repeat something he had already reported: “I told you over the phone last time that I was going to shoot a commercial for mist, do you remember? I signed with an agent then.”
Xie Rui remembered.
Her busy work schedule made it seem like she hadn’t really taken her son’s matters to heart.
Xu Tangzhou continued, “Do you want to oppose my debut? I can’t afford the penalty for breaking the contract.”
Xie Rui: “……”
Xu Tangzhou was very smart.
From the tone of Xie Rui’s voice, he knew that the reason she called him might be closer to his second guess.
Sure enough, Xie Rui’s next words were, “Zaizai, what is your relationship with Ling Che now?”
Xu Tangzhou’s heart clenched, and he involuntarily gripped his phone tighter.
He remembered the way Ling Che looked the first time they met, the way he called him “ZaiZai,” and the way he smiled at him ever so slightly.
Since their reunion, he had been the one who was completely carefree because he knew nothing.
Whether it was good or bad, it was all too unfair to Ling Che.
Xu Tangzhou lowered his eyelashes and said softly, “I like him.”
There was silence on Xie Rui’s end.
Xu Tangzhou asked, “So why did I break up with him before?”
Could he have an answer?
After a long time, Xie Rui finally said, “Zaizai, I’m really sorry… but you two can’t be together.”
Xu Tangzhou unconsciously raised his voice: “Why?!”
Could there be some melodramatic obstacle between them, like the kind found in TV dramas or novels, such as blood relations or a deep-seated vendetta?
He wondered why he would have broken up with Ling Che, but he was also puzzled by Xie Rui’s attitude. Everything was shrouded in a fog before his eyes, impenetrable and invisible.
Fortunately, at this point, two people who should have had no further interaction still managed to meet.
Xie Rui knew she couldn’t keep it a secret any longer and sighed, “Alright, I’ve booked a flight for tomorrow morning. I’ll be back later, and I’ll talk to you when I return.”
Xu Tangzhou responded, “Okay.”
The fact that this matter was serious enough for Xie Rui to make a special trip back from abroad indicated that it was more complicated than he had imagined.
He hung up the phone and walked out of the room, looking preoccupied.
Wu Nana, however, didn’t notice this and waved at him excitedly, “Zhouzhou, God Che has responded on Flow about his injury.”
Forcing his thoughts away from the phone call he had just had, Xu Tangzhou returned to the table: “What did he post?”
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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Olcu Jtf45361n: Cmmlvfcajiis ofii bc atf fvuf bo atf rajlgr. P’w olcf cbk.
Vemt j rlwqif rfcafcmf. Pa kjr lvfcalmji ab atf bcf tf rfca tlw ijra cluta, jr lo la kjr vlgfmais mbqlfv jcv qjrafv, j mfgajlc ifnfi bo ijhlcfrr.
Except… there was no photo like the one he had sent to Xu Tangzhou.
Just a bare sentence, without even an emoji. The fans would probably faint in the bathroom if they knew what he had sent to Xu Tangzhou.
What surprised Xu Tangzhou was; was this really… differential treatment?!
The comments were all expressing concern for Ling Che.
[It’s good that Gege is okay, wuuu, I cried so much last night]
[+1 It was so upsetting, please don’t get hurt again]
[Gege is so alpha, not making a sound even when hurt, but I still feel so heartbroken【Crying】]
[Even if it’s nothing serious, you should still rest up. Gege, just sing at the concert tomorrow, you don’t have to dance for us!!! Sisters, push my comment up!]
[God Che is amazing!]
[The concert must have been tough!! Gege, you worked hard! Ya jie, Xiao An, you worked hard too!【Bowing to you】]
That evening, Qiu Yin came back again.
Unprecedentedly, he had come home twice in one week this month.
Xu Tangzhou was sitting on the sofa watching a TV drama: “Were you expelled by your tutor?!”
Qiu Yin adjusted his glasses: “How could that be possible, expelling a genius like me would be a loss for his entire lifetime.”
The medical profession really wasn’t for ordinary people. To think of him, a delicate omega, bearing the unbearable weight of a medical student every day, and also running back and forth between the lab and the hospital, it was really not easy at all.
Xu Tangzhou said with concern, “Did you come back because you sensed that I was about to move out?”
He had already chosen a new place and was just waiting to discuss it with Qiu Yin before moving.
Qiu Yin: “……”
It seemed as if the other person had turned to stone.
Xu Tangzhou felt sorry because the rent for this apartment was actually not cheap, and it would indeed be too much for Qiu Yin to bear alone.
“Or maybe I should continue to pay the rent,” Xu Tangzhou changed his mind, “I can leave some things here without taking them away, and occasionally we can still get together.”
“Don’t worry so much.” Qiu Yin sat down beside him, “If the stuff isn’t moved, it isn’t moved. I bought this house.”
Xu Tangzhou: “???”
Qiu Yin said, “I’m renting it to you. This way, I can collect rent and have someone to clean. Once you leave, there’ll be no one to clean.”
Xu Tangzhou: “……You’ve been deceiving me for four years???”
“Mm-hmm.”
“Jerk!”
The jerk of a youth had come back to give Xu Tangzhou concert tickets.
He had his senior brother guard the webpage to snap up the tickets for front row seats inside the venue for Ling Che’s concert, spending quite a bit of money. It was originally intended as a birthday gift for Xu Tangzhou.
But he forgot about it on New Year’s Day because he was working overtime…
It wasn’t until yesterday, when he heard some young people in the hospital talking about Ling Che’s concert, that he remembered it and dug out the tickets from the drawer: “If it wasn’t for delivering this, I wouldn’t have had the time to come back. Didn’t you fail to buy one? I know you two are dating, but tickets are hard to get, right?”
Ling Che’s concert!
Xu Tangzhou’s eyes lit up; he thought he wouldn’t be able to go tomorrow!
“Thank you!”
Front row inside the venue.
Ling Che should be able to see him from the stage, right?
Would it give Ling Che a shock!
Unable to suppress the excitement in his heart, Xu Tangzhou casted all his unhappiness to the back of his mind!
Qiu Yin was completely relaxed, with only money in his eyes: “Please buy me something more expensive for my birthday this year.”
Xu Tangzhou: “Bought! Be quick and look cool. By the time your birthday comes around, my TV drama will have aired, and there’s nothing I can’t afford.”
Xu Tangzhou had already saved a sum of money. Not to mention anything else, just from《Our Perfect Journey》he had an income of six hundred thousand.
In a few days, he would join the cast for《Yufeng》where he had signed a contract for a salary of one hundred and fifty thousand per episode, which was a very high price for a newcomer. Huang Qian also had many more jobs lined up for him. As long as he worked hard, everything would get better and better.
However, in the end, the ticket went unused.
Because the next evening, Situ Ya personally came to the company to take him to the concert venue.
It wasn’t just him; several of the company’s executives also went.
Ling Che’s concerts happen once every two years, and everyone was very interested.
“But I already have a ticket,” Xu Tangzhou said, “a friend gave it to me.”
“Front row inside the venue,” Situ Ya looked at the ticket, “Not bad at all. No need to waste it, and ask your friend to come watch. You’ll sit with your own people, Lu Cheng’an and the others will be there too.”
Xu Tangzhou had no choice but to tell Qiu Yin.
Qiu Yin wasn’t interested in Ling Che’s concert, but the thought of wasting the ticket made him fall silent.
He weighed the options between taking leave and wasting the ticket back and forth. In the end, his miserly nature won out, and he took a taxi from the hospital to come over.
Wu Nana stayed outside to wait for Qiu Yin, while Xu Tangzhou followed Situ Ya and the others through a different entrance to the venue.
He observed that, apart from the executives, no other artists from the company entered through this route, and there were no spare seats.
A manager even said to him, “Zhouzhou and God Che really do have a good relationship. He even specially invited you to come watch.”
Xu Tangzhou nodded politely.
But his heart was in turmoil because of that comment.
Ling Che… had never even mentioned inviting him to watch, he just went ahead and did it.
The sports arena, filled with twenty-five thousand people, was packed. The golden glow sticks were like an endless stream of fireflies, and as night fell completely, their lights turned into star-like points, forming a brilliant Milky Way.
Above the huge circular stage, a ring of electronic screens hung, ethereal as if made of nothing, a visual feast brought by high technology.
Everyone around him had brought various kinds of fan support items.
Headbands, wristbands, light signs—Ling Che’s name was everywhere.
For the first time at the concert of a superstar, even with just the warm-up music playing, Xu Tangzhou felt his heart flutter. He looked at the empty stage not far away, imagining what Ling Che would look like when he appeared.
“Zhouzhou!” someone called him.
Xu Tangzhou bent down to look and saw Mi Fei excitedly waving at him from a seat about a dozen people away in the same row.
There were quite a few artists in the front rows, many familiar faces tidied up, and Lu Cheng’an was chatting with them.
Some acquaintances began to switch seats, and Xu Tangzhou found the seat number that Qiu Yin had purchased, moving next to it to sit with Qiu Yin.
The warm-up singer took the stage.
The concert hadn’t officially started yet, and Ling Che hadn’t appeared, but the shouts from the audience were already one wave higher than the next.
“Ling Che!!”
“Ling Che!!!”
“Ling Che!!”
The uniform chants echoed through the venue.
The long-prepared audio-visual feast finally began with the appearance of Ling Che’s giant 3D holographic projection.
“Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!”
The screams of the fans were deafening.
The holographic projection, towering over ten meters high, allowed Ling Che’s alpha presence to sweep across the venue explosively.
He looked down from his lofty position at the people below, like a noble and elegant supreme deity, his handsome face enough to drive anyone mad.
At this moment, all the suspicions, slanders, and doubts that belonged to him dissipated under his control.
Here, he was a born king.
“Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!”
“Ling Che!! Ling Che!! Ling Che!!”
The entire venue, including the stage, suddenly plunged into darkness.
Only the countless light signs and glow sticks remained, forming a sea of stars.
A melodious tune began to play.
Xu Tangzhou stared intently at the stage, holding his breath.
A beam of light was projected there.
Ling Che appeared.
The world came to a standstill because of this.
That globally watched alpha sang the first note.
The atmosphere at the venue was already as fiery as it could be.
Liking a singer and listening to his music was a completely different concept from going to the venue to experience his music.
Qiu Yin was late in arriving.
Xu Tangzhou gradually forgot about this until, during a ballad sung by Ling Che, someone sat down next to him: “Hi.”
Xu Tangzhou was almost reluctant to take his eyes off the stage.
He turned his head, but it wasn’t Qiu Yin who had arrived.
The man was about twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old, very handsome, with eyes that seemed to speak, and he said with a hooked lip: “Xu Tangzhou.”
It was the famous movie star Ying Chen.
Knowing that he was good friends with Ling Che, Xu Tangzhou politely said, “Hello.”
Ying Chen crossed his legs, looking back at the stage, and amidst the noise, he said, “I heard you lost your memory.”
Xu Tangzhou was taken aback.
Had Ling Che told him about this?
Ying Chen seemed not to care whether he answered or not: “It’s quite interesting. When I play such a role and plot, it’s usually because they want to escape something that they do it.”
Xu Tangzhou was puzzled: “I don’t quite understand what you mean.”
Xu Tangzhou’s skin was a cold white, still dazzling amidst the chaotic lighting.
The black collar around his slender neck gave off an air of cool detachment and asceticism, like the shell of his being, indifferent and keeping others at a great distance.
Of course, he was curious. His expression changed slightly, the indifference melted away like ice and snow, and he became more animated.
On the big screen, Ling Che, who was playing the piano and singing softly, shifted his gaze away from the audience, and his expression subtly changed.
Suddenly, he stopped.
Amidst the shouts of thousands, Ling Che spoke calmly, “Tonight, I am very happy.”
It seemed that he rarely had something he wanted to express on stage.
“Ahhhhhhhhh!!! Gege!!!”
“Gege!!”
“Ling Che!!!!”
“A long time ago, I fantasized about such a day when I was writing《Planet》Back then, I thought, if there ever comes a day, I will want to do one thing here,” Ling Che said slowly, his magnetic voice echoing through the venue, and the electronic screen perfectly displayed his handsome profile.
Ying Chen frowned: “This idiot…”
Xu Tangzhou hadn’t been paying attention to Ying Chen; he was busy watching the most dazzling person on stage.
It wasn’t until Ying Chen said, “Please don’t make a concert confession,” that Xu Tangzhou was taken aback.
What?!
A confession??
To whom?!
At that moment, all the sounds around him seemed to fade away.
Ling Che paused.
Then, he began, “What I want to say is…”
His words came to an abrupt halt.
Amidst the frenzied screams, Ling Che pressed six different piano keys.
They formed a strange chord.
The entire venue fell silent.
What was that?
Ying Chen laughed and said, “He really is an idiot.”
Marachne: No more cookies for you today, guys 
If I ended up releasing a lot, it won’t be good… For me, that is. HAHAHAHA
Thanks for translating!
WHAT IS IT I NEED TO KNOWWWWW
Why are u doing this, sobs
That’s actually evil XD Anyway take care and many thanks! Keep going like this, I’m very happy everytime i see you update more!!
щ(゜ロ゜щ) Wh…WHAT though?? (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
I want to beat him up XD
Thank You for the new chapter ♡〜٩( ╹▿╹ )۶〜♡