CH 2

The assistant, Wen Xin, was a tall, busty beauty, who wore flat shoes and looked to be about the same height as Jiang Qingyue, who was nearing 1m80 (5”9) himself. She looked competent and well-tempered with her short hair, and reasonably speaking, she was also suited to Ren Shuhan’s tastes.

Yes, Ren Shuhan could recall that he was bisexual.

Seeing such a beautiful woman like Wen Xin being an assistant, Ren Shuhan felt that the original Scum Gong was probably selfish as well. Though, he didn’t know why, but after seeing Jiang Qingyue, he could only feel bored when looking at Wen Xin.

Clearly, they are both good-looking and beautiful, so why was it that it didn’t feel the same?

Perhaps it was because he and Jiang Qingyue had a better affinity for each other.

Ren Shuhan did not have time to think about it as he saw Jiang Qingyue’s gloomy eyes staring at the tie he was holding, seemingly lost in his thoughts.

Was it because he didn’t wear the tie he had picked out for him?

System: “Yes.”

“Qingyue, will you help me with this?” Ren Shuhan asked.

“Eh?”

Jiang Qingyue was stunned for a moment, then nodded and took the tie from him, tying a Windsor knot for him skillfully with his delicate fingers.

Since the shorter Jiang Qingyue tied his hair up, Ren Shuhan could see his ears were red when he slightly tilted his head, and there was a small mole behind his ear, which was very provocative and made people want to bite it.

Ren Shuhan immediately composed an image depicting the previous night in his mind:  

This little beauty kneeling on the floor to take off his shoes, his long hair draped over one side to reveal the snow-white skin on the back of his neck, looking obedient yet erotic.

Who could bear something like that? Ren Shuhan felt himself getting more and more energized.

Think of something else to distract yourself!

The system voice sounded in time: “Friendly reminder: Gu Weici is about to appear in half an hour. We have detected no firewall in the host body, which is extremely dangerous, we suggest to activate the special shielding function against the main character.”

This beep has just sounded, so Ren Shuhan was really distracted: Shielding from what? What’s the danger?

“There is a danger of entering the crematorium to chase the wife, and it is recommended to block the protagonist shou’s aura to avoid going there.”

The Main Character has a halo…

Just, what was that?

System: “Protagonist Aura, a passive cheat that allows the equipper to attract all the quality Gongs and straight men around them, making them want and fall in love with them.”

Ren Shuhan was speechless.

Shut down that aura, because he absolutely didn’t want to fall in love with someone when it didn’t actually come from his heart. That was quite normal, right?

“The Protagonist’s Aura has been neutralized.”

The original owner was clearly secretly in love with Jiang Qingyue, but he went ahead and supported Gu Weici, could it also be due to the influence of the main character’s halo?

“The reason is unknown. Friendly reminder: Even if you protect yourself against the Aura, it’s still possible to fall in love with Gu Weici. In this case, I hope that the Host will not be afraid of chasing his wife in the Crematorium, and that the host will be brave enough to pursue true love. Moreover, the system can also provide full range of services to ensure that the host can capture back his runaway wife.”  

As soon as this was said, Ren Shuhan froze.

How could a system come up with such a prompt?

“The original purpose of the development of this system is to allow the host to follow his heart and be happy in his life.”

Ren Shuhan’s heart was warmed up.

“Thank you.” These words were spoken both to the system and to Jiang Qingyue. Ren Shuhan raised his hand to push on the knot of his tie and loosened it slightly, “It’s a little tight.”

Jiang Qingyue lowered his head in shame: “I’m sorry.”

“It doesn’t matter,” Ren Shuhan could no longer resist reaching out and rubbing the top of Jiang Qingyue’s head, sensing the silk-like hair, he chuckled, ” You’ll just need a few more times to get used to it.”

Jiang Qingyue was surprised to hear that. He raised his head a bit and looked at him, his face getting redder and redder.

In the future, will he… have other opportunities to tie the tie of the young master?

Jiang Qingyue is too introverted and he has a rather shy temperament. Ren Shuhan didn’t really feel like he was secretly in love with him. However, he did think that this person was just too sweet. In the future, he should be treated nicely so that he wouldn’t feel bad.

He didn’t know that the loosening his tie, touching the other’s hair and laughing lowly like that would make Jiang Qingyue feel at loss.

“Let’s go,” Ren Shuhan turned to Wen Xin with a clear head and high spirits, “What program is being recorded today? I forgot.”

The young master was going to record a program with Gu Weici today, how could he possibly forget this? Is it possible that he really drank too much wine and had a memory problem?

It is not possible, even if the young master has forgotten everything about himself, he definitely wouldn’t not forget about Gu Weici. He should just be throwing a temper tantrum.

Using the leather shoes adorning his long legs, Ren Shuhan stopped the elevator doors from sliding shut. He threw a puzzled look at Jiang Qingyue before asking: “Aren’t you coming too?”

Wen Xin and Jiang Qingyue were both frozen in their tracks.

Wen Xin: Isn’t the young master going to meet his new man today?

If you take your old love with you, are you not afraid of the repercussions?

“Can I …… come?”

Jiang Qingyue’s expression was like that of a small animal that had been abandoned and then picked up again, striking Ren Shuhan at once.

“Of course.” Ren Shuhan was afraid of revealing himself and called the system immediately: Jiang Qingyue is my caretaker, right?

System: “Yes, but last night the previous host had decided to stay away from Jiang Qingyue.”

“I drank too much last night, I can’t remember anything,” Ren Shuhan supplemented, “Did I say I wouldn’t let you follow me?”

“It’s… just…” Jiang Qingyue ended up following them inside the elevator.

“Then let’s go together.” Ren Shuhan couldn’t help but touch Jiang Qingyue’s hair again, “I’m relieved to have you by my side.”

Jiang Qingyue nodded, before shooting a confused look at Wen Xin.

Wen Xin: I don’t know anything about this, and I dare not ask ……

System: “Friendly reminder: Gu Weici knows that your white moonlight is Jiang Qingyue, bringing Jiang Qingyue on the show could easily trigger something.”

Ren Shuhan hesitated mostly because he didn’t want to get into trouble.

Jiang Qingyue also reminded him, “Young master, the program you’re recording today requires that you only bring one assistant.”

Ren Shuhan turned his head and looked at Jiang Qingyue. If you were secretly in love with someone, then you’d definitely want to go anywhere with them—— If Ren Shuhan wanted to fulfill the wishes of someone as beautiful, then shouldn’t he be happy?

On the other hand, Wen Xin silently took out a pad and opened an interface for Ren Shuhan: “This is today’s schedule.”

Ren Shuhan received it and looked at the slides. There was indeed such a requirement for the recording of that TV Show.

“Then I’ll go with you.” Ren Shuhan liked him, so he decided to do as he pleased. “I know I originally wanted to take Wen Xin, so you probably didn’t prepare for it, but will it be a problem?”

Jiang Qingyue hesitated for a moment before answering. “No, there’s no problem.”

“Alright then.” Wen Xin, of course, did not notice anything and handed Jiang Qingyue all the materials, reminding him, ” However now it is expected that you’ll be more than ten minutes later for this.”

“Late?”

The elevator stopped at the garage, Ren Shuhan came out and looked at the schedule once again.

“Isn’t it still early?”

Wen Xin: “Young master, you said yesterday that you were going to pick up Gu Weici in advance.”

Jiang Qingyue’s eyes dimmed and he lowered his head.

“Oh,” Ren Shuhan noticed Jiang Qingyue’s micro-expression and felt a bit sorry for him, “Well, we’re not picking him up.”

He really liked him, huh…

Wen Xin opened the car door for Ren Shuhan and said soothingly: “The young master need not to take last night’s incident to heart. Xiao Gu is young and reckless, he has yet to experience how difficult it is to mingle in this circle. When he encounters trouble, he’ll want to come back to the young master.”

…Why was she speaking as if he was going to force himself on him…

Ren Shuhan’s face was expressionless: “I won’t bother him if he doesn’t want to. I won’t force him in any case. Besides, the forest is big, so why should I hang myself on a tree?” (Meaning that there’s plenty of fish in the sea, basically)

Jiang Qingyue: ?!?

Wen Xin: …… young master how come he is suddenly so arrogant?

A few months ago, the young master met a local artist, Gu Weici, in a bar and thought he had long hair and a face similar to that of Jiang Qingyue, so he decided to give Gu Weici a helping hand.

At that time, Wen Xin felt that it was not quite right.

That kind of thing was not the usual approach of the young master.

Ren Shuhan has been secretly in love with Jiang Qingyue for many years, she would’ve had to be blind to not notice it, yet he wasn’t doing anything about it and instead threw his attention towards a new guy. She simply couldn’t understand the point of it.

She thought that there was only one logical outcome; the young master must have moved on.

At that time, Gu Weici, who had refused to accept the ‘care’ of the boss of an entertainment company, had been suppressed all the way back from his debut four years before. And since he had suffered enough, he had decided to grasp the opportunity given by Ren Shuhan.

Not only was Ren Shuhan the young master of a luxurious family, he was also a rich, international movie star. His popularity and power were so great that in only two months, Gu Weici was thrown into the limelight and was suddenly a hot topic.

He first made a dual male leads movie with Ren Shuhan. And as a way to become popular, a marketing number concerning their cp1 name had become quite the hot topic as speculations were thrown around.

At that point, Wen Xin was basically sure that the young master had really moved on.

Otherwise, who would allow a small, unknown artist to use them as a stepping stone?

Unfortunately, it seemed like one side was willing, yet the other one remained indifferent. Gu Weici knew he was Jiang Qingyue’s replacement, so he never put Ren Shuhan in his heart. He busied himself with his career and didn’t want to tangle himself in love matters. The month before, as Jiang Qingyue came back from his graduation aboard, he used that as an excuse to dump Ren Shuhan. 

Mercilessly thrown away…

Towards this, Wen Xin pretended to be indifferent on the surface, while in reality, she was even more shocked than Ren Shuhan.

Just what kind of confidence did this Gu Weici have to be able to just go ahead and dump the golden young master of this industry?

However, what was even more shocking to Wen Xin was still to come: after being dumped, Ren Shuhan not only did not suppress Gu Weici, but also rushed to get him all the resources he could need.

Even this reality show had been arranged by Ren Shuhan.

So Wen Xin was more than certain; the young master was now in love with Gu Weici.

Ah… really, such pure emotions…

The night before, Ren Shuhan went to look for Gu Weici while leaving the program’s preparations up to Wen Xin. Using the excuse of discussing the reality show, he went and knocked on Gu Weici’s door, yet after leaving his house, the young master ran away to who knows where, got drunk and Wen Xin hadn’t even been able to contact him.

In the end, she had to ask for Jiang Qingyue’s help.

Jiang Qingyue spent several hours searching through half of the city before he found a drunken Ren Shuhan and took him home, telling Wen Xin: “Young master may be in a bad mood, so when you see Gu Weici tomorrow, tell him to keep his temper in check.”

“Don’t worry,” Wen Xin said, “he won’t be angry with Xiao Gu, he can’t bear to give up.”

Jiang Qingyue was silent for a second before forcing himself to smile on the other end of the line, “That’s good.”

Last night, he got drunk because of Gu Weici’s words, but now, he even had the audacity to say that he didn’t need to be stuck on him…

Wen Xin: Ah, men truly are deceitful every time they open their mouths.

But maybe he was intending on taking Jiang Qingyue along to make Gu Weici jealous!

…

The truth of it all was that the current Ren Shuhan simply didn’t care about Gu Weici.

He just finished reading the information and asked the system a few questions in his head to get a general idea about the reality show and the guests, because something didn’t feel right.

The program was called “Acting Deacons”.

There were only three regular guests, who were all popular celebrities and who consisted of two men and one woman. They took on the roles of attendants and were responsible for cooking, cleaning and taking care for the hosts of the show that would gather in a luxury villa. Gu Weici was one of those special guests.  

In addition, each episode of the program will choose a guest to play the role of the owner of the mansion. Since this was the first edition of this program, the original Ren Shuhan had offered himself for the role and has also provided his own luxurious villa in the city for the show.

The resident hosts of the reality show were quite ordinary despite their popularity. And since the original Gong had arranged this program for Gu Weici, it was certainly going to be a hot topic.

So…What exactly was bothering Ren Shuhan…?

I have actually no idea if it’ll be revealed later on or something, but I don’t actually get why the Original Gong… didn’t just confess to his childhood friend instead of taking a replacement and just doing wrong to both parties… maybe it’s cause he’s supposed to be scum, but everything could’ve been easily solved if he just… y’know, confessed (＃＞＜)

Also, on the other hand… I find the show to be rather… unique. Maybe it’s cause I’m not used to watching reality shows  ╮(￣ω￣;)╭

CP refers to a character pairing, in this case it’s for their characters in the movie