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After that, topics like [Ruan Song Forum Beneficiaries Alliance] and [The Happy Life of Silly Dog] also trended.
Ruan Song and Ren Qinming’s CP fan club compiled the second set of animated GIFs on this trending topic.
But this time a 3×3 grid simply couldn’t contain it all, and it was immediately added to the upper bound of the Weibo post.
[The Happy Life of Silly Dog was like this:
- Ruan Song reached out and grabbed Ren Qinming’s head. “Why are you so stubborn?” Ren Qinming reluctantly frowned. “I just don’t want to cook for other people to eat.”
- Ruan Song propped up his chin and said, “Just be happy. In the future, you’ll cook every day, and I’ll make you serve me every day.” Ren Qinmingg couldn’t help but laugh. “You said ‘in the future’ and ‘every day,’ you can’t take it back.”
- Ren Qinming unhappily said, “……You’re saying that just for the show.” Ruan Song smirked. “Even if I’m just saying it for the show, shouldn’t you take the bait?”
- Jiang Qiqi said, “Song Ge and Ren Qinming Ge can wash together!” Ruan Song replied, “Doesn’t anyone think that if I wash with him, it will take more time and water?”
- Ren Qinming complained, “Do I not look good wearing a bathrobe?” Ruan Song replied, “You’re not bad at all.”
- Wan Qingyue said, “If you didn’t misunderstand, why are you still mad at me?” Ren Qinming responded, “Am I not allowed to be mad at myself for leaving Ruan Song alone at home?”
- Ruan Song pinched his ear and said, “If you soften, hurry and get off me.’
- Ruan Song woke up from a nightmare, and Ren Qinming opened the balcony door: “…Song Ge?”
- Ruan Song, “Silly dog.”
- Ruan Song replied to a message, ‘You’re really stupid; you don’t even know to ask me for another kiss.’]
……
The screenshot of Ruan Song wearing high-waisted open-frame jeans and the video of the two fighting in bed went viral all over the internet.
Everyone went crazy shipping them.
[Truly too unreasonable. I’m a mother of two children but I watch and ship them until 3 in the morning, cupping my fist.jpg]
[I confess, I have a store on XBao, and I’ve completely sold out of the few pairs of open-frame jeans in my store. In the future, Teacher Ruan should not be afraid to change professions should he not make money as a screenwriter, the product promotions career welcomes you, applause.jpg]
[Ren Qinming in movies is a heavy attacker, but Ren Qinming in front of Ruan Song is unsophisticated and foolish.]
[I’m truly, deeply moved. There probably isn’t anything happier than falling into a confused bottleneck in life and suddenly encountering the guidance of a noble man.]
[Actually, I’ve wanted to ask this long ago. Recently, the temperature has dropped but Ren Qinming insists on wearing a bathrobe to sleep. Isn’t it cold?]
[I don’t know if my brother is cold or not, but I’m hot. Pervert.jpg]
[This slap is for Teacher Ruan. If the teacher is hot, he has to pay attention next time. Stretch out my fingers.jpg]
[Wow, at that time, I’d also been poked by 001 on the forum. Can I ask how to apply to enter the group chat, tearing up.jpg]
[I recommend Teacher Ruan to create a mud dog concentration camp. I’ll be the first to register, grits teeth.jpg]
“Only a few days have passed since the premiere of ’19 Days of Cohabitation,’ and Ruan Song has become a hot topic, with every move becoming a subject of discussion. This completely dispelled the speculation that some people had, thinking that he was trying to debut by riding on Ren Qinming’s popularity.
But in reality, his popularity was on par with Ren Qinming’s, and many people were urging Ruan Song to quickly open a Weibo account.
His fame has even reached Yuan Yinhai’s classroom, and intentionally or not, he could hear the kids in his class gossiping about him.
After all, A University was Ruan Song’s alma mater, and script writing was Ruan Song’s original major.
After Sun Kaizi and Jiang Zhi exposed it all in detail in the last episode, recently, regardless if it was a colleague or a friend, many would find Yuan Yinhai to ask around.
Even daring students would take the initiative to ask him after class, “Dean Yuan, Dean Yuan! Is Ruan Song your favorite student? Why have we never heard you mention him?”
Yuan Yinhai usually just smiled and joked, “Aren’t you all my favorite students? I’ve taught so many students, if everyone wants to show off, I’ll have to make a schedule.”
The student then asked, “Do you know his pen name?”
“He hasn’t used his real name since his undergraduate days. He changes it every two scripts. I guess no one except himself knows.” Yuan Yinhai dodged these questions skillfully and answered them with great tact.
But there were still students who asked, “Don’t we need to be art students to major in our field? Senior brother Ruan Song’s recommendation for college and university should have been as a literature or science student. Why did he come to study our major?”
Yuan Yinhai put down the textbooks and laptop in his hands, pushed up his glasses, and with a smile, he raised a finger to his lips and said vaguely, “Generally speaking, it’s not quite in line with the rules, but his grades are good, his professional ability is excellent, and he’s willing to transfer to our major, so I helped him a little.”
Upon hearing this, the students in the class immediately responded with “Ohh” and looked at each other, each with an expression that said, “I understand, I understand.”
Yuan Yinhai clearly didn’t say anything, but the idea that Ruan Song got special treatment and used connections somehow became established.
Only the girl with twin ponytails sitting quietly in the back corner of the classroom knew that Yuan Yinhai did it on purpose, but she didn’t dare to lift her head, afraid that she would be called to the office by him again.
However, things turned out contrary to her wishes.
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People didn’t even wait for her to leave completely before they started gossiping.
“Does Director Yuan have to show such favoritism? Is he calling her for special treatment again?”
“Well, Xiaoxiao is talented in her field, so if you were as talented, you’d be called too.”
“Nonsense! If I were called to the studio every day to work and get special treatment, I’d be talented too.”
“I just can’t figure out why it’s Feng Xiao. At first, we were all pretty close in ability, so how did Xiaoxiao suddenly catch the director’s eye and become special?”
“Mainly because she looks so honest and straightforward, she doesn’t seem like someone who would go as far as sacrificing herself.”
“Haha, that’s an exaggeration. Director Yuan is so old, she couldn’t sacrifice herself even if she wanted to.”
“You guys are just talking nonsense. I think Director Yuan might believe in the idea that ‘a nobleman’s child is bound to turn out well.’ Haven’t you noticed that the other senior students in her studio are also the same type as Xiaoxiao?”
“What type? A welfare family?”
“It’s not all welfare families, but their family conditions are relatively average. It makes it hard for me to blame the director. He’s kind-hearted, probably just trying to help.”
“Even Ruan Song, who switched majors against the rules, got taken care of. What’s opening a Weibo account? Ultimately, it’s about getting the director’s favor, no matter what.”
………………..
In the past two years since Feng Xiao entered the drama writing major at A University, ever since the first time Yuan Yinhai called her out to come out to his office alone, she had always heard these kinds of words and had long been numb to them.
The only difference was that before, people would gossip; at least they would do it behind her back when she couldn’t hear. But now, slowly, they’ve found that even when she heard it, she didn’t react, and they had become even more unbridled.
When a student who was not good at socializing, didn’t fit in and was looked upon favorably by a powerful, resourceful teacher, whether it was intentional or not, emotional abuse and ostracism were almost inevitable.
Feng Xiao knew Yuan Yinhai chose her based on this point.
She even guessed that the reason no one has come out to expose Ruan Song online was also because of this—during Ruan Song’s time at A University, no one really understood him, so naturally, no one would come out to expose him.
She arrived at the administrative floor.
When the other teachers saw her following behind Yuan Yinhai, they all greeted her warmly, joking that the dean had finally found a good helper who would come over every few days to write scripts and work overtime with her.
Feng Xiao also knew that the teachers just wanted to flatter Yuan Yinhai, and they didn’t care about her. She simply avoided eye contact and complied.
Yuan Yinhai took her into the spacious dean’s office without the need for extra greetings. Feng Xiao instinctively closed the door behind her.
Yuan Yinhai got straight to the point, slamming the heavy textbook onto the desk and pulling a chair to sit down. “I showed the TV episodes you recently wrote to the production company, and they are very dissatisfied. They feel that you didn’t capture the intended interest from their storyline. Can you explain what’s been going on with you lately? Is it a bad mood, or have you encountered some trouble again?”
Feng Xiao stood with her head bowed in front of Yuan Yinhai’s desk, clutching her bag tightly without saying a word.
“Raise your head, Xiaoxiao. Didn’t I tell you that when I’m talking to you, you should look into my eyes?” Yuan Yinhai leaned back in his chair, his tone gentle as always, as if he were still an amiable person in the eyes of others.
However, Feng Xiao didn’t feel reassured at all. Instead, she clutched her bag even tighter, her fingers digging in even more.
Sure enough, the next second Yuan Yinhai exploded, his voice suddenly raised, and he slammed the folder next to him to the ground. “Can’t you hear me when I’m talking to you? I’m asking you why you’re afraid to look into my eyes! What’s been going on with you lately? The production company has been consistently dissatisfied, and it’s making me lose face. Do you realize that you wrote the script in my name?”
The perfect soundproofing completely isolated Yuan Yinhai’s roar in this office.
Feng Xiao had to exert all her strength to ensure her voice didn’t tremble. “I’m sorry…”
Yuan Yinhai was still raging, “Is it enough to just say sorry? Can you write something that does justice to my name just by saying sorry?”
But after yelling, Yuan Yinhai quickly calmed down and, contrary to his previous hysteria, considerately stood up from his desk and walked over to Feng Xiao, holding her shoulder. “I’m not trying to blame you now. I want to find a solution to the problem. You have to tell me what’s been distracting you, so I can help you solve it, okay?”
Feng Xiao could only bury her face even lower.
Yuan Yinhai’s completely different tone of voice and switching back and forth in attitude haunted her for countless nights. “I will rewrite it, I have no problem, just been sleeping late recently. I will edit it until you are satisfied…”
But Yuan Yinhai, as if not hearing her, stared at her through his glasses, “Recently, it’s enough that Ruan Song has made me unhappy on his own. Xiaoxiao, you can’t be like him. Didn’t we cooperate well before? No matter how much your mother owed, or what kind of trouble your father has caused, haven’t I helped you with all of it? Also your department scholarship, major scholarship, school scholarship, and even your future recommendation for postgraduate studies.”
“You should know the backgrounds of our classmates, right? There are more than a few who want to bribe me for a postgraduate recommendation. I chose to reserve that spot for you alone. You must understand the favoritism and reward, right?”
Yuan Yinhai was like a paranoid lunatic, staring at Feng Xiao and bombarding her with brainwashing questions, almost driving her to tears.
It was already evident that Feng Xiao wouldn’t be able to explain herself today. Despite his determined attitude that she wouldn’t be allowed to leave the office, after Feng Xiao simply nodded her head and cried, he immediately good-naturedly let her go, then returned to his office chair, sat down, and comforted her, “Okay, it’s normal to have pressure; after all, it’s the most capable who do the most work. I also won’t have you stay in the office to write today. You go back first and rest well, clear your head, then you can come back tomorrow to me and we can write it together.”
Feng Xiao couldn’t even utter a complete sentence at that moment, and she left the office with her head down. This time, she finally stopped hesitating, avoiding all classmates and teachers, and headed straight for the small path leading to the school’s back gate.
Then, almost out of habit, she tightened her backpack and tried to look back.
Sure enough, she met Yuan Yinhai’s gaze as he stood with his hands behind his back, looking down at her from the office window.
Even though this scene had happened countless times, Feng Xiao still broke down, tears instantly falling from her eyes. Once outside the school gate, realizing no one was following her, she immediately took out her phone and made a call.
A few minutes later, Ruan Song, who felt embarrassed as he participated in a group-building activity of making sushi, received a WeChat message from Gu Yuzhou.
[Little Brother Producer: Feng Xiao called me and said she wants to meet you immediately.]
[Little Brother Producer: Also, she was crying terribly.]
[Even if you have money, I won’t marry you, Song: Did she say where to meet?]
Gu Yuzhou sent Ruan Song the address.
[Little Brother Producer: I think she’s in a poor state of mind. I’ll directly drive over to pick her up and bring her to my home. You should check to see if it’s convenient for you to request a leave of absence from the program team.]
Ruan Song raised his eyebrow slightly.
[Even if you have money, I won’t marry you, Song: You’re just directly taking her to your house? I know you’re enthusiastic, but I never would have expected you to be this enthusiastic.]
Gu Yuzhou sent him a period, then began to urge him.
[Little Brother Producer: She keeps crying, and my assistant and I can’t console her, you should hurry.]
Gu Yuzhou didn’t plan to fight such a big battle.
But he had Assistant Li go pick her up first, but she stubbornly refused to get in the car, saying she wouldn’t get in anyone’s car except for Gu Yuzhou and Ruan Song’s.
She was clearly on edge. Gu Yuzhou had no choice but to drive over himself.
He originally planned to casually open a private room as a meeting place but seeing the girl crying uncontrollably in the back seat, it was clear that no matter where he took her, they would attract attention. In the end, after going around in circles, he had to take her back home.
As soon as the car stopped in the parking lot, there was a direct elevator to the entrance.
On the way, besides him and Assistant Li, no one else had the chance to know her whereabouts.
…………….
Ruan Song initially thought Feng Xiao was crying out of simple grievance when she saw Gu Yuzhou’s message.
Because Yuan Yinhai used to exploit him, at best, he used the ethics of an instructor to be shameless. He liked to use coercion and temptation, but not to the point of being crazy and having a split personality.
It was only after Ruan Song traveled down the mountain, hurriedly following the map to Gu Yuzhou’s home and finally meeting Feng Xiao herself did he realize.
The young girl wasn’t just “crying quite a bit,” she was sobbing uncontrollably.
On the sofa, Gu Yuzhou and Assistant Li, two grown men, sat beside her, holding their heads in silence, handing her tissues. The trash can and coffee table were filled with crumpled tissues, and she was clearly unable to find any reasonable and effective words to comfort her.
Ruan Song came out of the entrance elevator and tried calling her name.
Feng Xiao looked up and, perhaps finally seeing someone who understood her pain, her tears that Gu Yuzhou couldn’t stop with any persuasion immediately ceased. She quickly stood up and threw herself into Ruan Song’s arms.
Ruan Song was caught off guard by her embrace.
He couldn’t figure out what had happened recently. He was just minding his own business, and suddenly he became a savior. First, there was Sun Kaizi, and now Feng Xiao. Both of them liked to cling to him, and he found it very difficult to refuse them.
Ruan Song was at a loss on the spot.
He lived for so long yet this was the first time he touched a girl. His hands were suspended in the air and he had no idea where to place them. He couldn’t place them on her back, nor could he place them on her waist.
Ultimately, it was still Ren Qinming, who had filmed movies countless times in the past, who pulled her off of him with a controlled, dark expression and considerable skill, saying, “It’s alright, no one can find this place.”
Once Feng Xiao’s emotions were finally stabilized by them, she settled back onto the sofa.
The atmosphere in the room instantly became somewhat subtle.
This was the first time Gu Yuzhou and Ren Qinming had met.
Gu Yuzhou sat on the left side of the sofa and asked first, “I understand the reason, but why did he appear in my house?”
Ruan Song was still tidying up the tissue that Feng Xiao had cried into. “I have to come up with a reason to take a leave. It would be too strange if I suddenly left alone.”
In the past, when he was in school, he would say he had a fever to take a leave of absence. Now to take a leave of absence at work, he would say that his mother had a fever.
It just happened that the bullet screen had seen their videos in the past and knew that Ren Qinming and his mother had a good relationship. It wouldn’t be strange at all if they were both absent for this matter.
“I don’t quite understand why you would invite Ruan Song to dinner alone when completing the project is your responsibility.” Ren Qinming only called him “Brother Song” when speaking to Ruan Song, and with others, he maintained a strictly professional tone.
After watching the broadcast, Gu Yuzhou felt that he couldn’t make sense of Ren Qinming at all. “What you shouldn’t understand is how Ruan Song could have been subjected to such injustice when you were dating him, film emperor.”
Gu Yuzhou intentionally emphasized the last two words.
Ren Qinming was indeed stabbed in a sore spot, and his retort was just about to come out when Ruan Song cut in, “Do you want to keep arguing, or should I leave?”
The two immediately shut up and stopped talking.
Ruan Song felt it was out of line and incomprehensible. “How can this turn into an argument? I already got your approval to invite him to dinner, didn’t I?”
Ren Qinming was completely deflated by Ruan Song’s counter-question and felt too embarrassed to admit that he was completely thoughtless at the time.
But Ruan Song immediately turned the tables on Gu Yuzhou, “Little brother, don’t think you’re so honorable. If it were someone else investigating me behind my back, I would have kicked them out a long time ago. In a civilized society, we respect human rights and privacy. In the very beginning, you lied to me, saying your last name was Li, and that you were the producer of the project. If I didn’t find Fang Wei pleasing to the eye, you would have been ditched long ago, got it?”
Both of them stopped talking after the heated argument.
Ruan Song immediately had Assistant Li take the both of them away.
Whether it was the study, bedroom, or balcony, as long as they were not in the living room, it wouldn’t bother him.
As soon as the surrounding environment was cleaned up, seeing the young lady cry so hard before, Ruan Song thought he would have to spend more than half an hour comforting her.
As soon as Assistant Li closed the living room door, the young girl started taking things out of her shabby shoulder bag.
Voice recorder, USB drive, screenshots of the cleaned-up mailbox, a list of all the participants in Yuan Yinhai’s screenwriting studio… and so on, all laid out on the coffee table in order.
Ruan Song was stunned; he didn’t even have to teach her how she should gather evidence.
Just when Feng Xiao cried to the point of breaking down, he thought he was about to face a soft and easy-to-bully little sister. But Feng Xiao, while still sobbing, began to introduce herself in a very organized manner.
“The voice recorder has all the conversations I had in Yuan Yinhai’s office, every single one; the USB drive has all the scripts I ghostwrite for Yuan Yinhai, I saved every version of the revisions; the email screenshot records are taken from Yuan Yinhai’s computer, I always include my name, the script’s name, episode number, and revision version in the email subject, all matching the documents on the USB drive; I sorted out the directory of the staff participating in projects myself after I heard him send voice messages assigning tasks to different people while I was in the office every day…”
As Ruan Song listened, he gradually went from surprise to silence. They were too similar. Feng Xiao now was almost exactly like he was back then, doing everything possible to gather evidence, yet contradictorily reluctant to let others know.
Even when facing Gu Yuzhou just now, Feng Xiao only cried, and it wasn’t until she was alone with him that she truly brought everything out.
……….
The conversation, thanks to Feng Xiao’s preparedness, was much shorter than Ruan Song had anticipated.
And by the end, the girl’s emotions had mostly returned to calm. Ruan Song, who had initially been at a loss facing her, finally took the initiative to hug her and whispered in her ear, “It’s almost over, and everything that belongs to us will return.”
Feng Xiao finally released the long-accumulated burden in her heart, her eyes filled with emptiness, “I didn’t intentionally wait until now to contact you. At first, I didn’t believe it. It was only after seeing Sun Kaizi Teacher looking for you on the live broadcast, bringing a whole group of people, that I changed my mind. I thought there might be a chance…”
In addition, Yuan Yinhai’s recent madness has been getting worse and worse. She was really scared, afraid that one day she might make him unhappy and not even be able to save her life.
“I understand.” Ruan Song just reached over and patted her head through her hair. “I’m the same as you, but you’re doing better than me.”
………..
Gu Yuzhou originally wanted to suggest that before parting ways, Ruan Song and Feng Xiao should go out for a meal together, but Assistant Li cautiously advised them to keep their distance before the “unexpected exposure” to avoid being seen by malicious individuals.
In the end, they simply ordered some takeout and solved the matter hastily at home.
Since Ren Qinming was scolded by Ruan Song, he hadn’t looked at Gu Yuzhou and barely said a word. At the dinner table, he just focused on eating.
Gu Yuzhou thought that by now, Ren Qinming must have known all the ins and outs of the situation.
But in reality, Ruan Song didn’t explain anything to him when he brought him in from the production team today. He just said to follow him on a trip.
What happened in the middle and what Ruan Song once suffered under the hands of the so-called highly respected Dean Yuan Yinhai were all roughly pieced together by himself from a few words of the conversation.
……………
Once everything was over, he got back behind the wheel and rushed back to the variety show set with Ruan Song.
The atmosphere in the car wasn’t exactly heavy, but it wasn’t light-hearted either.
Ruan Song leaned his head against the window and asked him how he felt knowing all this.
Ren Qinming confessed truthfully, “At first, I was shocked, then I felt ashamed. I’m really ashamed that I had no idea before… and I didn’t expect you to tell me in this way today.”
He didn’t say it directly, but let him see with his own eyes and hear with his ears.
It was like telling him, “Because I know if I told you directly, you would try to comfort me in every possible way, but comforting is of no use. I don’t need comforting now, I just want you to know.”
And when Ren Qinming heard that Ruan Song also held all the evidence like Feng Xiao, he, like Gu Yuzhou, couldn’t understand.
Since the evidence was already conclusive, why not dare to report it?
“Because I don’t believe in justice and righteousness,” Ruan Song replied.
Even if the evidence was exposed, then what?
Proving that Yuan Yinhai committed academic fraud, proving that the two of them, grassroots individuals, were persecuted, and then? Could this rotten world ensure that the bad guys would get the punishment they deserve instead of targeting the ones who raised the questions?
Perhaps this would happen.
But for those in desperate straits who couldn’t lose anything anymore, this was too luxurious. No one dared to gamble, and it was better to have a bad life than a good death.
So Yuan Yinhai dared to be so arrogant.
He specifically targeted students with no way out and no backing.
Others might envy these “chosen children” for receiving the favor of a famous teacher, but in fact, it was just a blessing in disguise. How were they to know that it wasn’t a blessing?
Fortunately, Feng Xiao’s luck was better than his, and she encountered a miracle named, “Ruan Song.”
He couldn’t hope to look forward to such a thing.
………
The setting sun, with large patches of orange burning clouds, paints the horizon.
Ruan Song looked straight ahead out of the car’s windshield and suddenly said, “Let’s not go back tonight.”
Ren Qinming paused as if confirming if his ears were working properly.
Ruan Song sat in the passenger seat and repeated, just like when she used to skip class with Ren Qinming in high school, “Tell them my mom’s fever is pretty serious, so we won’t be going back tonight. We’ll go back tomorrow.”
Ren Qinming’s palms were sweating as he gripped the steering wheel, and even his eyelids felt like they were burning from the magnificent sunset before him. “…Are you asking if I can take you to a hotel?”
In the past, they skipped class to do this, sometimes because Ruan Song was in a good mood and sometimes because he wasn’t.
Ruan Song even thought about it seriously for two seconds.
After so long, he had already prepared himself to endure the injustice for a lifetime, so theoretically, he should be happy to unexpectedly have the chance to clear his name.
But his mood was much worse than he expected.
Verbal comfort was to be avoided.
“Let’s go to your place directly and stop by the convenience store to buy a couple of boxes of condoms.” Ruan Song’s contemplation yielded results. He had never been to Ren Qinming’s house since he became famous.
Little did Ren Qinming know, this was what he had been waiting for. He instantly floored the gas pedal, with everything ready, and hoarsely said, “No need to buy; I have them at home.”
So, the person who had been waiting for a miracle today was not just Feng Xiao, but also him.
What a terrible scum! Poor girl :< But s lapslap time is near! (≖ᴗ≖๑) I need to slap him do hard that he will be send to another Galaxy (╬☉д⊙)⊰⊹ฺ
Thank You for the new chapter ✧✰(♡´❍`♡)✧✰
There are a few typos :
Kids in hise class > his
She used to skip class > he
Thank you for catching them I will correct them ☺️
I hope this Dean Yuan gets punished for all of his crimes.
Even after breaking up, Ren Qinming is still Ruan Song’s comfort place.
Thank you for the chapter!