001
Thank you for coming. I’m Jiang Ran. Today, I’d like to share with you my journey of how I chased my wife and won his heart.
The tone of voice might sound a little improper, after all, as everyone knows…
One who stays near chickens gets stained yellow, one who stays near sculptures gets turned into sand.
Sand sculptures are a contagious virus. [confident face]
002
Truth be told, Teacher Mo has more or less guessed what my childhood was like.
My sister is seven years older than me. When I learnt how to speak, she was already the top scorer for the Olympiad and English Language Competition in the entire city.
In many areas, I will always be lacking compared to my sister. However, my parents still carried great expectations for me. Under the prolonged period of heavy pressure, I wasn’t able to make much progress. Instead, I retreated, turning increasingly prone to introversion.
003
Afterwards, someone recommended that I study performing arts. At that time, my sister was already a research graduate in one of the top 10 universities in the world. So, my parents loosened their rein and allowed me to study arts.
I had always liked humanities and social sciences. At the beginning, I was a little timidly, but my mental block gradually disappeared.
I thought to myself then—becoming a true actor and expressing the character in my mind to bring the audience joy could be my best home.
004
However, I was wrong.
Because life is a ridiculous drama.
005
Three years ago, my impression of Mo Shuyao was much deeper than his impression of me.
To Teacher Mo, I was just a timid child. But to me…
There was a time to ride the wind and cleave the waves, and he was the wind that brought me away.
006
The first time I met Teacher Mo was in a private room in the restaurant of Prosperity Hotel, a meeting of the core production crew.
This was also why I chose to meet him there again three years later.
You can consider it an anniversary, of sorts.
Teacher Mo was in charge of adapting the screenplay for that drama.
He was incredible. He had a keen acumen; he was able to find the climax points of the drama with just a few words, even adding a deeper layer of edits to it.
At first, I thought that he was a veteran screenwriter, simply that he had a young face not befitting to his age. I never expected that he was only 24 years old and had only just graduated around a year ago.
He’s really outstanding.
That’s why I can’t understand how three years later, he changed from a cultured young man into a supreme sand sculpture.
007
Our former company squeezed its artistes. After adapting the screenplay, Teacher Mo doubled as a scene supervisor with the crew.
However, this was the one and only time that I was thankful for the stinginess of the company.
We spent around twenty days around each other. Due to the far distance between the role’s characterisation and my innate personality, my acting often fell short of expectation, causing the director to scold me to the extent that I became even more withdrawn.
Teacher Mo actually took all of this in, especially taking time to give me pointers, guiding me to find the core of the character I was acting, bringing me into character.
I felt that he was born to write.
Under his hands, everything related to literature shone resplendently.
008
The day that he was pressured to change the screenplay, I overheard it all.
I knew the status and influence of the second female lead, but I never expected that rejecting her would have such consequences.
Being pulled into the blacklist of the screenwriting sphere also meant that Mo Shuyao… would be completely jobless in showbiz.
At that time, I thought to myself—if I could build a stage for him to freely adapt film and television works without any fetters, his talent would surely shine.
009
And so, I used three years to build an empire for him.
I had experienced much in these three years. I endured a lot of hardship when I terminated my contract, and the road to starting a new company was bumpy.
However, the silver lining was that my personality had transformed significantly.
Now, I am able to protect Teacher Mo.
010
It was also at this time that I realised that I had started to fall for Mo Shuyao. For him, all of this was worth it.
011
I was taken aback at the start. I didn’t know how to determine my sexual orientation. There were few domestic films that touched on homosexuality, so I downloaded a literature app and read the danmei novels on it.
I wanted to judge my response to reading such content.
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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012
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I read a few chapters. Sure enough, Mo Ji was a greatly competent author. Whether it came to the plot progression, characterisations, or literary prose, they were all top-notch.
This was an adventure novel in a modern fantasy setting. Despite not being based in reality, his novel was stunningly realistic.
013
By mistake, I had ventured into a place called a parking lot.
And so I opened the pandora’s box.
The meat that Teacher Mo Ji stewed…
Was very fragrant.
014
Afterwards, I went to follow the author’s Weibo.
His profile picture was a little yellow chicken (I only found out later that this was a budgie).
What a cute author.
It was also from his Weibo that I became aware of the author’s true identity.
He spoke of the reason why he started to write. He said that he was a non-Beijinger who had drifted north and had his roots in screenwriting. However, due to the intense job competition, he was currently unemployed. He had a poor background and was financially strapped.
At once, Mo Shuyao’s name popped into my mind.
I looked through everything on his Weibo once, then carefully compared it to the style of his screenplays, and thus I successfully locked onto my target.
015
I hastily created three accounts to subscribe to his novels and send him gifts. I sent him hundreds of yuan every day to ensure that he wouldn’t die of starvation.
To prevent rousing his suspicion, I had deliberately used an account to write comments for him, blowing him rainbowfart praises.
To every comment, he would usually reply in the tangent of “Daddy, QAQ thank you for your sponsorship”, “Mwah fingerheart~”, and sometimes even reply with super cute emote stickers.
My god, Teacher Mo was too easy to deceive.
He’s so soft and cute.
I must trick him to my side.
015
I was the one who had arranged for the company to buy the rights to his novel. I originally intended to trick him using his author identity, then feign obliviousness and fool him into acting with me.
Whose fault was it for making the love between two protagonists in the novel so sweet?
So sweet that I wanted to try it on him in person a hundred times, a thousand times, ten thousand times over.
Teacher Mo wasn’t quite tall enough to make it as an actor; he was also slightly fat (although he himself completely doesn’t feel so). But his looks were definitely indisputable.
He was very fair and had wide, almond-shaped eyes that gave him a youthful appearance.
All in all, he was handsome and cute, the type that makes people think of the sun.
016
Fate works in mysterious ways.
That guy had only just made a parody mashup of me when he was signed by the company.
I had watched that video. I did feel uncomfortable at that time; after all, it was a drama that the previous company had forced me into, a dark history that only brought me misery.
I never expected that Mo Shuyao was the one behind it.
But fine. I’ll forgive him for now. After I successfully capture his heart, I can slowly square accounts with him, with interest.
I can wait.
017
As for my ‘evil conduct’ later on, Teacher Mo should have roasted it already.
At first, I wasn’t sure of his sexual orientation. Although I had read the danmei that he had written, I was still very worried about it.
During the photography shoot for the teaser posters, the cameraman had instructed us to stand closer and I had accidentally touched his butt.
…it was too soft.
I couldn’t resist feeling it up once more.
Everything about Teacher Mo captivated me.
He ended up exploding, turning around to give me a ‘savage’ kick in anger.
At that time, I thought that he was straight. My heart was swept in a wave of astringence.
However… that’s fine.
If I can’t chase him to my side, then forget it. Giving him a stable creative environment is enough for me.
018
Of course, I must say first that inappropriately touching others is wrong (I had done my silent reflection facing the wall).
Little friends, please don’t learn from me. You’ll get beaten up.
Although I know that Teacher Mo surely can’t beat me, heh.
019
As a newcomer to the entertainment industry, it was inevitable that he would face much criticism. I thought of ways to help him wash away the negative opinions, also taking a little more care of him in our day-to-day life. After all, who knows. Maybe one day I would be successful in my pursuit.
From what I could remember, the first time that my resolve wavered was after we finished filming the scene with the female ghost.
He had gotten a fright on the set and had bumped right into my chest, resultantly knocking me into a wall and injuring my shoulder slightly.
I thought that he wouldn’t notice. To my surprise, he took the initiative to undress my shirt to check the injury.
…my heart was very conflicted, then.
Naturally, I wanted to use this to gain a little bit of goodwill from him. But when it really happened, I hesitated again.
He was shocked when he first saw my scar.
I could hear the trace of heartfelt sympathy in his voice.
When Teacher Mo was being serious, his voice was very gentle and kind, starkly contrasting with how he was like when joking around and putting on a parade.
He had a good man that didn’t hold any ill will, and was adorably silly.
In brief, I liked him ever more.
020
I couldn’t help but want to tease him.
For example, listening to him recording funny audio clips from across the wall (he later confessed that he was making parody mashups); reading his book aloud on the set, even deliberately picking a cruder scene; getting the director to NG the scenes a few more times, such that he would lay in my arms for a while longer.
In front of the person I like, my IQ was completely wiped clean.
021
However, Teacher Mo and I weren’t really in tune with each other. It wasn’t an issue when it came to other scenes, but in that underwater scene… he had spent two hours soaked in water.
It was only April at that time. Hangshan was also in the outskirts of the city; it was unbearably cold.
I had noticed that he already seemed slightly dazed by the end of it, and I hurriedly called for the crew to stop for the day and send him back to the hotel.
As expected, he developed a fever on the very night.
His temperature was over 39°C. His face was flushed and his throat was hoarse. The way he lay uncomfortably in bed utterly decimated what I could stand.
When it rains, it pours.
After his fever got better, I’d even accidentally hurt his hand with the prop knife.
His blood wouldn’t stop, flowing like a river. When I carried him up the car, he was shivering in pain.
My heart ached so much I wish I could hurt myself in recompense.
022
And then, I took care of him for a long time.
Teacher Mo was a gluttonous eater. Whatever I made for him, he would always say that it was delicious, delicious, very delicious. Yet he would still insist on doing things himself, not letting me feed him a bite even with his hands all bundled up in bandages.
Alright then, whatever floats your boat.
This is called your mouth says no but your body betrays the truth.
It’s okay. I have patience.
023
I only came to learn of Mo Shuyao’s family situation later.
I never imagined that in the three years of his unemployment, not only was he struggling to make it through each day, he also had to deal with family issues.
The father who had brought him up lost himself to the vices of gambling, committing suicide and leaving behind a humongous debt; the mother who had raised him had also changed, blackmailing him for money every day, even threatening to take him to court and make him lose all his reputation.
More than experiencing the passing of a loved one and the crumbling of his family ties, the faith that he had from his childhood had also abruptly collapsed.
It was no wonder that he could write such a majestic and poignant landscape in his novels.
The heavens had bestowed upon him a literary genius, a gift that he had exchanged with an equivalent suffering.
024
I wanted to spoil him, I wanted to give him the best of everything.
No matter in which manner I did it.
025
To my fortune, he finally began to respond to my affections.
When filming the outdoor scenes at Four Seasons Mountain, I had fallen sick due to the thinness of my costume.
He had taken care of me for a night; it was only a pity that I was too dazed from the fever and couldn’t fully savour the worry in his gaze for me.
I assumed that it was a normal cold at first. I never expected it to actually be pneumonia, impeding my breathing, only aggravated by altitude sickness.
When I collapsed in the swirling snow, he was the one who embraced me.
At the moment that our lips touched, came a warmth that I would treasure most in this lifetime.
026
All in all, after acting for so many years, I could feel the slight shift in his attitude towards me.
Especially when we were in Germany.
And I thought that maybe it’s time now.
But because I couldn’t ascertain his heart, when I confessed, I was so keyed up that I did it very carefully.
I held his hand.
And as I hesitated between whether or not to kiss him…
He kissed me.
It wasn’t CPR this time. The reason he kissed me was purely out of love.
027
At the end of it all, Teacher Mo had sternly crticised me, saying that I had deliberately played the long game, setting his reins loose only to grasp them better.
He even called me a bad, bratty kid.
Heh, so what? Didn’t I capture your heart in the end?
Plan, success √
028
As for our first time, Teacher was very shy.
I took out the extras from his parking lot and read a passage from it to tease him.
Teacher Mo’s face instantly turned beet red.
At that time, I was roaring with laughter in my mind.
It was the same novel, but in the way we approached it, we were miles apart; one was called professional study, the other was called systematic learning. All of my, ahem, knowledge was what I had learned from his extras.
Never did I expect that when it was his turn to put it into practise in person…
Pfft—
029 – 030
*SOFT NSFW WARNING*
But Teacher Mo was really soft and pliant. His body would immediately react at the slightest touch.
When he saw my emmm, he got a shock, jumping up and shouting “WTF! European beast” before curling into the quilts and retreating to the corner of the bed.
Ah, he was really too cute.
I had to find a way to find him to relax as we explored the new continent.
Initially, Teacher Mo was very disobedient, twisting around wildly. I could only sit him on my thighs with his legs spread apart to keep him in place.
Another point was that I didn’t want to injure his waist.
The last line of defense in the blue mountains cannot be breached.
Otherwise, in the future, even if sparks fly like dry wood near a raging fire, it wouldn’t even be able to burn.
He looked too cute when I fucked him to tears.
When I hugged him onto my thighs, he clawed at my back and bit my shoulder, like the scratching of a kitten and the pecking of a chick, completely unable to cause actual damage.
Soon, he was slumped against me, softly sobbing in my ears, begging for mercy, saying that we’re too close, stuck between our bodies, the pressure down there was too much for him to bear.
I asked him to call for me before I’ll help him out.
In the end, all sorts of “poser”, “film emperor bastard”, “supergay” flooded out of his mouth like a tirade.
I was caught between laughter and tears.
So I reached down and pinched it.
Teacher Mo instantly froze. He hung on my body, sobbing quietly, trembling as he called “lao gong”.
Mm, that’s more like it.
……
[t/n. Lao gong = old gong; homonym with husband]
031
Mo Shuyao likes dogs and children. I decided that after things have settled down for a while, I would buy a Samoyed and then adopt and raise a child with him.
I hope that society can quickly accept our relationship.
032
The road of life is long and many more years await us.
I love him.
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No matter how flawed it is, I enjoyed reading this novel and Jiang Ran’s extra which is a tell-all, answers some questions that were unanswered before.
Thank you for your hard work, Translator-san.♡
I totally agree.
Adding my thanks. I appreciate all the hardworking, Luckykoi, and will follow your translations henceforth.
sigh Freaking autocorrect. Hardworking? sigh
“……” Pigs can fly, Jiang Ran can flirt. 😂
Pfpfpff little black bellied film emperor. It was a hilarious read
Thank you so much for the translation, I enjoyed it.
aweeeeeeeeeee
thank you for the chapter ♡♡
I loved it…I am sad.it ended so abruptly….but I love love love it 😀😍❤♥💖
Thanks for all your hard work <3
thanks for translating ♡
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Love this story so much! I really don’t see much flaws, and i immensely enjoyed the funny plot and the sweets, so satisfying. Thank you for your wonderful translation and footnotes. It’s really help to understand those slangs.
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Thank you for your hardwork 🤍
Nice this final extra filled the flaws of the story and made it warm and nice 🥰 it’s really a heartwarming comedy 😊 thank you for the great work Author. This translation is so great and thak you for video links it made it much easier to understand the situation to someone has zero knowledge in mash up or whatever 😁 Thank you again 💞💞💞
I enjoyed this journey very much! Thank you author and translator (luckykoi) for letting us travel with you muah muah
Aaaahhhhhh! He was indeed trying to gay him. 😂
So Jiang Ran was behind it all lmfaooo
Thanks for the chapter € ^ *^)/// ~~ ♡♡♡♡♡+♡
Thank you for translating this novel! I really loved it. Also, 😣😣 does anyone know where to read the smut extra? I can’t find it on weibo, both the old and new acc of the author. Help with the link please 🙏
AO3, Cher_s! The translator has mentioned it on a previous chapter~
AO3, Cher_s?😳 Umm how do I find it? 😭😭
First link on Google! I don’t think CG comment section supports links, but let me give it a try:
https://archiveofourown.org/users/Cher_s/pseuds/Cher_s
Thanks~~~~~
I tried the link but I am totally lost and can’t find the chapters it just says something about fandoms and creator not putting archive warnings???? @w@
@LoverofloveXD That’s the author’s page. Scroll around, you should be able to find a list of their works.
Okay, I went there to read.
(⁄ ⁄•⁄ω⁄•⁄ ⁄)⁄ Author-san is really bold, ah.
Currently reading😳. I almost didn’t believe the author wrote it herself. It was too… shameful 😆 but I like it 😂.
Heads up: Bunny maid play lol
AH! AH! AH! THANK YOU 😍😍 I completely forgot that site exists 😅😅. Thank you 😆😆
You’re welcome, hahaha
I waited for the novel to get completely translated to read at one go, and I gotta say I’d never appreciated my past self’s decisions this much before!
You have translated the nuances and wordplays really well, and every chapter was highly gripping. Kudos to both the original author and CG staff!
And yes, this will definitely be a piece I’ll keep returning to for healing myself in the future, haha
So sweet…
Ahaha.
Thanks for the translation~~~ (^◇^)/
Ahhh this was such a cute no-brainer!!
Thank you so much for this.The laughter this one give me is so much.I will miss you two😭
Looks like I’m so ignorant, coz honestly I don’t see any flaws, I find this story super cute 🥰🥰 thank you all for this ❤️❤️😘😘
Thank you for this~
Me gustó mucho 💕💕, aun con todos los defectos que no vi, es una novela disfrutable y divertida 💖💖
I love this! Thanks for the translation😘🥰
Very cute novel. Im unused to 1st person perspective but i had fun reading it. Loved the extra. Thanks for translation
so. effing. sweet. love them so much.
The POV of Jiang Ran completes the story. Thanks a lot for posting this💕💕💕
Thank you for the TL!! It was a fun and fluffy read ! And tysm for working hard at trying to deliver the meanings of all the insides and jokes. I also had fun looking at the links and videos xD (very happy that one of the vids was of Zhou Shen!)
If you ever see this comment have a nice day!
thank you for the translation! i had fun reading it <3
This was such a fun and sweet read! Thank you for the translation!
Kisses 😘
What a cute story, I finished it in less than half a day. Thank you dear author and translator, you really put a smile on my face
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