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At the start, when returning to the production crew, I thought that everyone wouldn’t be able to wrap their heads around my other identity. What actually happened was that Wen Zhao kept following behind me non-stop blowing rainbowfart praises, the director commended me for being a promising young man with bright prospects, and there were even a bunch of little assistants begging me to autograph their books.
Ah, this is the feeling of being famous!
However, Jiang Ran said that my hand wasn’t healed yet, chasing all of those young ladies away.
The filming schedule afterwards was packed tight. The director wanted us to speed it up, for we still had to go to Yunnan to shoot a few outdoor scenes in the latter half of the month.
Finally, after slogging away for the next few days, filming at Hengshan finally concluded.
The fat otaku that is me almost broke from exhaustion.
However, the director said that he would treat us to a feast to celebrate wrapping up the shoot here; I was instantly revitalised.
Naisu, now I can mooch off free food and drinks~
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Lazily holed up in the van, I got ready to log into the little broken platform to find my happy place. But right on the homepage, I came across a very conspicuous parody mashup titled—Jiang Ran Film Studios is Shutting Down!
WTF??
How was this batch of netizens so incredible at stirring things up?
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What shocked me most was that this was a granny I was familiar with. It was the newcomer to the parody section who had turned Jiang Ran and I into Hong Shixian and Ai Li back then.
In the few days that I didn’t check in on it, it actually gained several tens of thousands of fans?
Psh, I bet this guy is just leeching onto our popularity.
Ticked, off.
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Before I could finish roasting, the video had finished loading. It actually opened with a snippet from our livestream.
The host asked, ‘Then how is the filming progressing with this wound?’
And Jiang Ran raced to answer for me, ‘The production crew shut down because he couldn’t film. The damages were deducted from my wages.’
Then, this granny used autotuning to repeat Jiang Ran’s words thrice over.
HARR? What is this disturbing technical ability?
This type of video without finesse can actually make it to the homepage? It’s obvious that they must be a whale who bought their way there.
I sneered in my head. All of a sudden, my screen turned black. Without a warning, the demonic song started to play:
[Based off this crazy annoying ad, couldn’t find english subs sorry. It went viral for a time – link]
> XX Hangshan, XX Hangshan, Jiang Ran Film Studios is shutting down!
> Rich rich rich second gen, rich second gen boss Jiang Ran, has a golden house to keep his beloved, a golden house to keep his beloved beloved. He spent oh he spentspentspent 350 million to livestream with his Teacher Mo!
> As we watched the livestream, we suffered, suffered, suffered much harm harm, munching on so so much dogdog food.
> The price of dog food used to be 100, 200, 300. Now it’s freefree now it’s free, we were fed until we burst oh til we burst~
Wha? What is this!
I angrily flung my phone away.
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However, I didn’t expect that after ripping my earphone cable off, my despicable paw would accidentally touch the screen again…
The second half of the video was unfortunately played out.
An eerie light suddenly glowed from a corner of the initially dim van.
The video joyfully sang:
> We worked hard to build this ship, worked so so hard to build this ship.
> And the ship suddenly suddenly started sailing, dishing out dog food like candy so much candy, blinding oh they blinded my dog eyes.
> Oh how they blinded by dogdamned eyes!
“……” After the song finished, the entire van was silent.
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Jiang Ran and the agents looked at me in unison.
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“Zs yjv, rbggs. Zs tjcv rilqqfv.”
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“Cgf sbe kjamtlcu bcf bo atbrf mbwfvs nlvfbr bc atja jqq?”
“Pa’r mjiifv qjgbvs wjrteqr.” P glubgberis mbggfmafv, atfc rqgfjv ws qjiw abkjgvr tlw. “Leggs eq jcv gfaegc ws qtbcf ab wf.”
Jiang Ran tilted his head in thought for a few seconds, then lightly tapped my screen.
The demonic song started to play again.
?? Jiang Ran, what the shit are you trying to do?
I was petrified in place, like I was being publicly executed.
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This was actually a clip from our livestream. All of Jiang Ran’s crude actions and deceptive words were cut and compiled by this granny.
Jiang Ran’s gaze drooped downwards slightly as he carefully studied the screen.
Fuck. What was this man savouring?
Laozi’s face instantly turned beet red.
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When the video finished playing, the agents were roaring their heads off.
“Hahahaha, a golden house to keep his beloved, I’d say, the eyes of the masses are really sharp.”
Even Jiang Ran was grinning from ear to ear. “It’s a very moving clip. The person who made this really put their hearts into it.”
“……” I puked out three litres of blood.
Moving? Heartfelt? Jiang Ran, has your brain been sprayed with a steam engine?
Now I suspect that you instructed this granny to gay me, and I have proof.
Hell, this is the twistedness of humanity and the ruin of morality.
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I charged forwards to snatch my phone, huffily sitting back down.
And he had the audacity to ask, “Are you angry?”
“I’m not of the same opinion as you.”
With that, I plugged in my earphones, listening to my wife’s song.
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Eventually, we reached the banquet.
The director first said a whole load of stuff thanking us for wrapping up the shoot here, then instructed for the dishes to be served.
In the past, I heard that the production crew gossiped loads during the final banquet. I never expected it to actually be the case.
Wen Zhao rubbed his little hands together. “Senior Jiang, Teacher Mo, I saw your livestream a few days ago and heard that you’re staying in the same suite. So were you taking care of Teacher Mo the entire time he was injured?”
I looked at his little eager eyes, silent.
“Yeah. I took on everything.” Jiang Ran clipped a green vegetable between his chopsticks, mumbling a response.
?? For the first time, I realised how incredible Jiang Ran was at starting gossip.
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So Wen Zhao grew even more excited. “How far does everything go?”
“It’s…” Jiang Ran slowly and methodically ate his greens.
“Hey!” I hurriedly leaned in, pinching his thigh. “Jiang Ran, I want to eat the braised pork ribs over there, get some for me.”
I can’t let everyone know that Jiang Ran had stripped my clothes!
He inclined his head, giving me a look. “You’re a celebrity now, don’t keep thinking of eating meat all day.”
“Then should I turn into a herbivore like you?”
I looked at his bowl. Cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce. It was miserable.
Jiang Ran sighed lightly, but still got up and got a piece for me.
I hurriedly took a bite.
Jiang Ran’s tone suddenly turned indulgent. “It’s like this.”
?? I couldn’t say anything with the meat in my mouth.
Wen Zhao had a look of enlightenment on his face.
…why did I seem to have dug myself into a hole?
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The director also spoke, “At first I thought that Little Mo’s acting can’t make it, but now I think I was being very unfair to him. Little Jiang, did you know Mo Shuyao in the past? You trusted him so much from the very start.”
His hand lurched. The cauliflower between Jiang Ran’s chopsticks slipped, rolling happily on the table.
He awkwardly cleared his throat. “I didn’t.”
I kept feeling that there was something odd about his reaction.
But, then again, he was the second male lead, whereas I was only an insignificant screenwriter. It was normal for him not to remember me.
In truth, I really wanted to forget that dogshit company if I could.
Not only did they cause laozi to lose my job, they also made lil’ Jiang Ran so miserable.
The heartache is killing me.
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After the banquet, the director proposed to bring us to sing KTV.
I was going into a food coma after having eaten and drank my fill and only wanted to go back and knock off.
Jiang Ran jabbed me with his elbow. “Are you going?”
To my surprise, I could actually see faint anticipation in his eyes.
“Ye, yeah. I’m going.” I didn’t want to dampen everyone’s spirits.
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The KTV room was dimly lit, all the more causing me to turn sleepier.
Wen Zhao and the rest tore their throats with a few consecutive high-pitched songs, destroying the heavens and devastating the earth.
Guys! Haven’t we become chums after two-months of filming together? Please don’t engage in friendly fire!!
Jiang Ran didn’t join their ruckus. He was sitting on the couch with his arms folded across his chest.
It looked more to me like he was a policeman here to crack down on pornography.
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After a long time, they then remembered the two of us existed. Wen Zhao passed the microphones over to us. “Seniors, sing something together?”
“Yeah, yeah!” The others immediately cajoled from the side.
Jiang Ran raised his eyes to look towards me. “Do you want to sing?”
I shrugged. “I’m fine with anything, you pick.”
Psh, back in the days, laozi was among the top 10 singers on campus. Is there anything that I, Mo Shuyao, can’t sing?
Except for male falsetto. I really can’t screech my way up there.
Jiang Ran gave it some thought. “Let’s sing Walk and Stop then.”
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At first, nothing about that stood out to me as wrong. Until the familiar melody began, I then realised… wasn’t this the song that I used as BGM for a parody mashup of Jiang Ran?
My conscience instantly prickled with guilt.
Jiang Ran leisurely took the microphone. “We walk and we stop down the road of life. In a trance, only his silhouette is left behind…”
Bah, the sound quality of the speakers really sound dastardly good.
My heart thumped.
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Wen Zhao poked me. “Teacher Mo, sing along too.”
“Oh.” I nodded. When I glanced over, I actually felt that the lyrics were somewhat unfamiliar.
I’d better not sing the wrong lyrics later.
A very ominous premonition washed over me.
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Jiang Ran had a strong aura, putting all of his acting skills to use in his singing. His gaze every time would always hit the mark, occasionally drifting towards me.
“Teacher Mo, it’s almost the chorus, when Jiang Ran sends you a wink later make sure you catch ball.”
Wen Zhao muttered softly in my ear.
“Yesyesyes, love songs have to be sung face to face.” The others continued to pitch in.
The noise they made almost made me forget the lyrics.
Jiang Ran leaned closer to me, a smile dancing in his hooded eyes.
Geez don’t come over, closed-eyed smiles people are eccentric!
The ominous premonition intensified…
“Teacher Mo, why do you keep hiding? Are you afraid that Jiang Ran’s aura will eat you up?” The onlookers gossiped.
Frig. I could only turn over and meet his eyes.
“…unforgettable, the rose in my deepest memories, how I want to keep it in my heart…”
Before the line was completed, his evil clawed hand suddenly caught onto mine.
!! My soul shook, instant mind blank.
Crap…
I couldn’t remember the lyrics. During the moment that my brain short-circuited, all that filled the blanks was the lyrics to Stop and Walk that I had personally composed not long ago, and I unwittingly sang along with the melody— “You’re so seductive.”
Then, those three words were infinitely amplified by the microphone.
The originally chaotic KTV room silenced in a split second. Everyone’s gazes simultaneously turned towards me.
WTF??
This was practically lifting a stone only to dump it on my own foot!
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As everyone exchanged looks with each other, Jiang Ran continued to sing.
And when it ended, he even caressed my precious fingers like he hadn’t fully expressed himself.
Everyone roared, “Jiang Ran’s singing is too contagious, he’s a perfect film emperor! Even his singing is so moving!”
Then what am I? I can’t believe I actually said such provocative words at a KTV!
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All I wanted was to dust off my pants and leave immediately. So I tapped Jiang Ran’s shoulder. “I’m tired, let’s just head back.”
“Alright. You seemed a little out of it when singing just now.” He patted my shoulder. “It’s a small interlude, no one will mind. Don’t worry about it.”
Ugh.
I rolled my eyes at him.
Laozi was among the top 10 singers on campus, but I actually became a foil next to him. Despicable, utterly despicable!
???? is there supposed to be so many new chapters??
+1 ???????
Thank you for the chapter~
thanks for the chapter <3
Laozi so arrogant and think that he’s one of his kind
STOP IT
Teacher Mo, your brain short-circuited moment gave me second hand embarrassment! I’m sorry I laughed so hard😂