Song Yao took Shen Muhan’s temperature again and brought him the congee to drink. Even with appropriate measures, it’d be at least another day before the fever receded. It couldn’t be rushed.
Song Yao remembered very well what kind of person Yao Yao was. Yao Yao was Shen Muhan’s childhood friend and white moonlight, she helped him since they were young, they secretly dated in the novel and were then separated for many years. When exactly did they start dating in secret?
The school’s online bulletin board and Weibo had all sorts of rumors about them, some say they started dating in middle school, others say they never dated before…but Song Yao didn’t want to listen to rumors from other sources, the person was right in front of him and he could read his mind, he could just directly ask him.
Song Yao, “Muhan, is Yao Yao your girlfriend?”
When he asked, Shen Muhan almost spit out the congee in his mouth.
[Yao Yao? Girlfriend? Is he joking?]
[Yao Yao is my childhood friend, we have a good relationship, but we don’t have that kind of feelings for each other.]
[But I don’t want to tell him she isn’t straight out…I don’t know why, but I’m a little curious, if I say she is, how would he react…]
Shen Muhan stared at Song Yao and said, “If I say she is, what would you do?”
Song Yao heard his thoughts and learned that they really weren’t dating.
But according to the novel, the two of them will end up together. Even if the female lead changed because of his appearance in this world, the male lead would meet another female lead and complete his love route.
Shen Muhan asked him what he would do, what he could do, of course he would support him.
So he said sincerely, “No matter which girl you’re together with, as your fan, I will support you.”
Shen Muhan’s eyes that’d been staring at him widened.
[Fan?? Right, what was I thinking?]
[Didn’t I just reject him, him being like this is what I wanted to see.]
Shen Muhan put down his food and said, “I need to go home.”
Song Yao, “I contacted your mom, she’ll come pick you up in 20 minutes. Take your medicine on time when you get back, maybe your fever will be gone by tomorrow.”
Afterward, the two didn’t speak. Song Yao knew his answer upsetted Shen Muhan.
But he didn’t know why Shen Muhan was upset.
Shen Muhan’s mind was extremely calm afterward, his thoughts had nothing to do with Song Yao.
This scene was extremely familiar to him, his gloomy and weird younger brother would often have outbursts and run away, and he could never figure out why the other was angry.
Mother Shen arrived, she thanked Song Yao multiple times and took her son away
Before Shen Muhan left, he thanked Song Yao, but his tone was a little cold.
Song Yao looked at the image of his back and unsurprisingly saw the favorability above his head decrease by quite a bit.
[Yikes, God’s favorability decreased by -8%, current favorability value 35%. Reason: I’m angry.]
*
That night, after indoctrinating Father Song, Song Yao returned to his own room and felt his brain ache.
“No matter which girl you’re together with, as your fan, I will support you.”
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Hamster watched this entire process and couldn’t take it anymore.
[Hamster: Host, haven’t you ever thought, maybe the god doesn’t want to be with any girl?]
[Song Yao: That’s also good, focus more on his career.]
[Hamster: Or maybe he’s a little regretful about rejecting you?]
[Song Yao laughed: What are you suggesting? Shen Muhan is straight, okay? Just like me.]
[Hamster: …When a straight guy meets the right person, he might become as bent as a mosquito coil.]
[Song Yao: Mosquito coil? Your comparison is quite interesting. But that won’t happen to us.]
Words shouldn’t be spoken so soon, otherwise beware of having your face slapped. The hamster roasted him inwardly.
Right now Song Yao was only focused on one thing: how to coax the angry male lead.
He couldn’t help thinking how he coaxed Ren Ximing whenever he was angry.
He closed his eyes and recalled the past.
On a certain day, Ren Ximing was originally fine but he suddenly got angry. He refused to eat, he sat on the couch and watched the tv with no expression. A little while ago he praised a female celebrity, saying she looked like his ideal type, but really he wasn’t simping he just said it as a casual remark. He didn’t know Ren Ximing would react so strongly. The only explanation he could think of was that Ren Ximing liked the female celebrity.
But when he offered to bring Ren Ximing to meet the female celebrity, Ren Ximing became even angrier.
How did it get better later?
He recalled.
That night, he helplessly sat by Ren Ximing’s bed and reached out to stroke his hair.
Once, twice, like he was placating an angry cat.
Ren Ximing was originally completely stiff, but after being patted by him, he completely relaxed.
In the end, Ren Ximing looked at him and said, “You absolutely cannot like that female star.”
He smiled, “Why, because you like her, so I can’t like her? You’re so tyrannical.”
Ren Ximing: “You can think of it that way. Do you promise?”
Song Yao nodded.
Then Ren Ximing was no longer angry.
*
The next day, Shen Muhan’s fever subsided and he returned to school as normal. The two of them exchanged eye contact wordlessly.
The entire day, Shen Muhan’s schedule was packed, he had classes in the morning, he needed to film his newest dance in the afternoon, and in the evening he rehearsed for the play. Song Yao was also busy with his own business endeavors, he decided around 5 or so in the afternoon he would go coax a certain someone.
He never liked to waste time, he searched up business related events in the school and as luck would have it, there was currently a business competition and the winner would be able to participate in a larger competition where there would be investors. After researching the details, he started creating his business plan. He has to join circles, recruit partners to work together in the competition and recruit programming talents. Doing these things honestly got his blood boiling more than pursuing someone. It was like he had returned to reality when he returned from overseas, inherited the company and started new projects.
[Hamster: Host, growing your business won’t increase the favorability value.]
[Song Yao: The protagonist will be a superstar in the future and I’m not interested in being a celebrity. If my status isn’t equal to his, how sad would that be? If my business is successful, I can provide better resources for him in the future and he’d be grateful to me. I wonder if the connections in the real world exist in this world…]
The hamster was completely convinced, the host was right, even if the favorability value reached 90% or above in high school, it might decrease in the future due to long distance or gap in status and ability. Developing one’s career was the most reliable backing.
The hamster was beginning to understand more and more why his master was so obsessed with this person. Using 5 years and everything he had, he created this large and beautiful world, but it was only for one person and only one person had the qualification to experience it.
It was really possible that there were some resources hidden in this world.
[Hamster:…There might be, you can try looking.]
Song Yao was also a talent, while he was researching and drawing up a plan, occasionally he would be cued by the teacher and he was able to answer correctly every time. Recently, the students noticed that not only was this guy’s English amazing, he also got 5th place in math. They all thought, he must have hired a lot of home tutors. The only thing that made comforted them a little was, crazy Song used to be decent at composition, as evident by those writing of his, but now he could only score 56 points (out of 100), but only god knew that Song Yao only did a few questions before doing his own stuff, he didn’t write the essay either.
5 in the afternoon, he went to the auditorium to coax a certain person while also taking a break.
It was dark and only the stage was lit up. There were only staff sitting in the seats, in the middle was the camera, and the dancers were street dancing to the rhythm. Shen Muhan stood in the middle wearing a black cap and a skull t-shirt, there was a cross necklace around his neck and it seemed like he was glowing. He styled his hair, his bangs were curly and fluffy, he had the sunniness of a youth but also the aggressiveness of a playboy. When he danced, his gaze and smile made people unable to look away. The girls standing beside Song Yao were dazed, “Is that pretty guy from Europe?”
After the song, Shen Muhan came down from the stage and looked at the result of the recording with his partners. They talked for a bit and decided to take a new cut. This kind of dance was very energy consuming, in order to get the best result, they already danced it three times, some dancer were so hot they took off their shirts. Shen Muhan sat in the first row, he was breathing hard. Immediately, there were girls bringing over a mini fan to cool him down and they also brought water.
The one holding the mini fan was Yao Yao. her hair was dark and long, she looked about 170 cm tall and looked like the older sister type.
Song Yao walked over to him.
Shen Muhan saw him but his gaze bypassed him and he continued talking with Yao Yao beside him.
His arm was placed on the back of Yao Yao’s seat and they were sitting very close together.
At a glance, it looked like he was hugging the other person.
If Song Yao couldn’t hear his inner thoughts and saw this scene, he might have misunderstood.
The truth was, Song Yao was a proud person, faced with this sort of situation, he was none too willing to express his good will first. Song Yao said he was a “fan” and it made Shen Muhan mad. Then why couldn’t Shen Muhan explain himself clearly? Did Shen Muhan know why he was angry? Did he sort out his thoughts?
There were no answers to any of these questions. Shen Muhan was confused and faced with a problem, he’d rather avoid it, but because he was the protagonist, he had the right to be stubborn.
But Song Yao thought, in any case he was just playing a game, if he mediated the situation first and the other refused him, then he’d change the capture strategy. He would grow his business and become Shen Muhan’s boss in the future, and they’d see then.
So Song Yao stood before Shen Muhan.
Yao Yao’s eyes widened and she tugged at Shen Muhan, “He’s looking for you?”
Shen Muhan looked up at Song Yao and faintly wrinkled his brows.
“What did you come over for?” He asked.
At the same time, his inner voice was heard by Song Yao.
[Probably because he’s my fan, he came to take pictures?]
[Why is he looking at me like that? Is he worried that I’m still feverish?]
Song Yao: “Are you still angry?”
Shen Muhan asked as if he was being strange, “Why would I be angry?”
[I’m not angry, why would I be angry?]
[But I’m a bit bothered when I see him.]
[Let’s find a reason to leave, I should eat early, there’s practice in the evening.]
Song Yao gently caught Shen Muhan’s finger.
Starting from his pinky, he slowly covered his hand.
Song Yao’s hand, it was cold while Shen Muhan’s hand was hot. Song Yao seemed to be startled by his heat, but he didn’t let go and he fully covered Shen Muhan’s four fingers.
Right now, Song Yao couldn’t hear Shen Muhan’s inner voice at all.
It was like the world was silent.
Shen Muhan looked up at him, his throat moving up and down.
His eyes, they were a little red.
The next moment, disregarding the screams from the girls around them, Shen Muhan grabbed Song Yao’s hand instead and dragged him backstage.
Passing through the crowd in the corridor, he pushed Song Yao into an empty room and trapped him against the door.
The lights weren’t on in the room, the only source of light came through the window, it was rather dim.
“What do you want?” Shen Muhan asked coldly.
“I don’t want you to be angry anymore.”
“Angry? Why would I be?”
Song Yao: “Yesterday you asked me, if you were dating Yao Yao, what would I do? I want to change my answer.”
Shen Muhan quirked his brow, “Then what do you think now?”
Song Yao looked at him who was covered by shadows, “I think I will be sad.”
“…Why would you be sad?”
“If you’re dating her, you’ll only have her in your heart and you won’t have time for me.”
Shen Muhan’s breath hitched and trembled.
He gently rubbed the mole under Song Yao’s eyes. He face got closer and closer to Song Yao’s.
His thoughts, like waves entered Song Yao’s mind, making Song Yao a little dizzy.
[He’s so stupid, how could I give my entire heart to a woman?]
[What’s this dummy worrying about by himself?]
[Ah, I touched his mole again…when I rub him, he looks so conflicted and pitiful…even his eyes are wet.]
[Like he wants to push me away and run away, heh, it only makes me want to hold onto you tightly…]
Shen Muhan’s hot breath could be felt on Song Yao’s cheek, his voice carrying a trace of pride and arrogance, “I also want to change something I said. Song Yao, I permit you to continue writing those shameful writings and I permit you to continue liking me.”
[Congratulations, god’s favorability increased +9%, current favorability value 44%. Reason: I’m very happy.]
im literally going insane screaming kicking i dont know lmao
IM ALSO VERY HAPPY SHEN MUHAN !!!
Thank you so much for translating! ❤️❤️❤️
He’s a pure breed tsundere
I’m itchy for our mc is actually fall in love with him. Can’t wait for tht 😫💞
Tysmmm for the ch>_<)/