CH 35

April 10, 2021kaychandra

Chapter 35: Scheming

Translated and edited by KChandra

The Ya De apparel commercial was only fifty seconds long. What didn’t occur to anyone was that during the first few days of the commercial, there were people who squatted in front of their TV sets just to watch these few dozen seconds.

Many people complained that it was like they were obsessed, enduring the ravages of various dog blood dramas just to watch a few dozen seconds of the commercial. This kind of singular spirit was only possessed during the time of the college entrance exams.

Gongxi Qiao’s agency took this opportunity to put the unedited commercial, which was five minutes long, on the internet.

As soon as the video was put online, it was republished on major websites. The number of reposts on the Weibo platform even reached nearly 10,000 in just one hour. More surprisingly, in addition to female netizens, there were many male netizens who reposted the collection as well.

It was said, a real handsome man would make women obsessed and make men amazed. A real beautiful woman would make men addicted and make women swoon. Otherwise they would not be considered a real handsome man and beautiful woman.

A certain male netizen who liked the same sex said that after seeing the advertisement aired by Gongxi Qiao, his third leg was almost too hard to get soft.

As for how many men were also amazed by Gongxi Qiao, nobody knew, but the number of people who spoke badly online because they were jealous of Gongxi Qiao was significantly less.

Some netizens joked that Qiao Shao was simply a darling of god. Not only could he depend on his family background and skills to feed himself, but he could also depend on his face.

This statement was approved by countless netizens, so Gongxi Qiao got another nickname, which was “Heaven’s own son.”

The netizens didn’t know that their enviable “Heaven’s own son” was rolling in the water at the moment.

Gongxi Qiao, playing the male protagonist, was chased by the killer and jumped helplessly into the water. The killer had no idea that his feet would also slip and he would fall in. Unfortunately, the killer didn’t know anything about water, and almost drowned in the water after floundering around for half a day.

“Bah,” the noble son crawled out of the pond. He took off his dirty outer robe and threw it on the ground, peeled away the hair that obscured his vision and looked back at the killer who was still tossing in the pond. He took a few steps forward, hesitated for a moment, picked up a log from the ground and threw it into the water, then ran towards the edge of the woods without looking back. Because he ran too fast, he also fell on his face.

When this one passed, Gongxi Qiao had almost become a mud person. He went to the back and took a shower and changed into another costume and came out. He saw Xu Chao come up to him with his cell phone and said with a curious face, “Junior Brother, did you really go to dinner with President Xi alone last night?”

“Why?” Gongxi Qiao saw his admiring look and winked. “Did you want to go too?”

“I don’t!” Xu Chao shook his head several times, “I feel weak when I see President Xi and I want to kneel down to him as soon as he looks at me.”

“Isn’t that an exaggeration?” Gongxi Qiao lost his smile, “He doesn’t eat people.”

“If he really ate people, someone would definitely find a way to send them to him,” Xu Chao hesitated and whispered, “Anyway, such a powerful person, I wouldn’t dare to approach. Junior Brother you actually dare to use his account to post Weibo, you are this!” He gave a thumbs up towards Gongxi Qiao.

“Actually it’s not that exaggerated, it doesn’t matter what his status is. Anyway, to me, he’s just a friend of mine,” Gongxi Qiao smiled and took a sip of water, “It’s not that I’m powerful, it’s just that I see things from a different perspective.”

“It takes courage to be friends with someone like that,” Xu Chao looked a bit complicated as something dawned on him, “Even a person like President Xi would make friends in the entertainment circle.”

Noticing that Xu Chao looked a little off, Gongxi Qiao raised his eyebrows slightly. “Have you heard some kind of gossip?”

“You’ve figured it out,” Xu Chao said with a hearty smile, “You know Gu Nan, right?”

“The one who won two film awards and was nominated for the Little Golden Man Award for Best Male Lead Actor?” Gongxi Qiao didn’t pay attention to the entertainment industry in the past, but he knew who this person was. Gu Nan was practically popular throughout the north and south of the country, and was even one of the few artists in China who had been nominated for the Little Golden Man film emperor award.

“Yes, that’s him,” Xu Chao looked around nervously to make sure no one could hear what he said, but still lowered his voice, “I went to a reception a year ago, and there were so many big names at the reception that I didn’t even dare to say anything. Later, a particularly embarrassing thing happened at the reception back then, do you know what it was?”

“Hmm?” Gongxi Qiao lifted his chin, signaling Xu Chao to continue.

“I heard that at that time Gu Nan wanted to ingratiate himself with President Xi, and as a result, he was unceremoniously dismissed by President Xi. I’m not sure what happened, but President Xi’s words were heard by many people present.”

“What did he say?” Gongxi Qiao touched his chin. He always felt that with Xi Qing’s personality, he might not give too much face to Gu Nan.

“He said ……” Xu Chao coughed dryly and said in Xi Qing’s low voice. “How can a small artist expect me to give him face?”

Gongxi Qiao mouth corner twitched. That was really impolite. He wondered what the other party did that was so offensive to Xi Qing that he would say such things.

“I was simply stunned. Then within a few days, Gu Nan went abroad to make a movie, saying to the public that he was strengthening international exchange, but in fact he probably felt ashamed and was too embarrassed to stay in the country and left to avoid the limelight. I heard that if he hadn’t gone abroad, the role played by Liang Yumeng in ‘National Industry’ would have been his.”

Xu Chao didn’t know Gu Nan well, so he didn’t tell Gongxi Qiao that Gu Nan liked to bully newcomers, which was an unconfirmed rumor. “So, the things that Gu Nan couldn’t get hold of were actually secured by you. Do you feel like you’re a bully?”

Hearing these words of Xu Chao, Gongxi Qiao was more thoughtful than Xu Chao, but seeing Xu Chao’s face of admiration, he just smiled, “Maybe this is destiny?”

“That’s true,” Xu Chao nodded profoundly, “there are so many people in the company who want to hug your thighs. You didn’t even look at them, but you became good buddies with me. Isn’t this fate?” After saying that, also quite smugly laughed out loud.

Gongxi Qiao speechlessly turned his head. He probably somewhat understood Wu Hai’s pain. Such a straightforward child, how did he get to the second tier in the entertainment industry?

Thinking of this, he cast a sympathetic glance at Wu Hai. To be able to promote Xu Chao to this point, it must have been a great labor of love, ah.

Wu Hai, who was standing not far from the two, silently covered his face because Gongxi Qiao’s emotions in that glance were extremely complicated, but he still understood.

This pathetic understanding.

Previously Gongxi Qiao used Xi Qing’s account to send out a Weibo, and Xi Qing didn’t delete this Weibo, so the two were already recognized by everyone as good brothers. So when everyone saw that Xi Qing reposted the Gongxi Qiao commercial video, it was surprising that no one was surprised. There were even netizens who teased under his Weibo, “Master Xi, introduce me to your good brother, I can cook, I can warm the bed, and I don’t eat much.”

People were used to making jokes under Xi Qing’s Weibo account that weren’t over the top, and Xi Qing never said anything, so today people teased below as usual, until Xi Qing replied to a comment from a netizen.

Xi Qing V: He’s still young, there’s no need to rush to get married.

Seeing that Xi Qing actually replied to a comment, everyone was first a little confused, and then began to hahaha.

“Master Xi with this serious attitude, is like a down-to-earth and stable big brother.”

“Master Xi, we know Qiao Shao is still very young, but we are willing to wait for him ah.”

“It always seems like Master Xi took Daddy Gongxi’s words and asked for Daddy Gongxi’s psychological shadow area. @Xiao Qiao’s Parents”

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Perhaps Xi Qing was usually too cold. Although people often left messages for him, they were all at a distance. However, after his reply today, many of Gongxi Qiao’s fans felt that Xi Qing was really Qiao Shao’s brother. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have had time to pay attention to everyone’s fun and games.

For a VIP like him, every second was money, but his Weibo posts were all about Qiao Shao.

However, there was also a very small percentage of people who began to squat in the corner, silently meng-ing[1] about things that others didn’t understand.

Gongxi Xiong really didn’t have much time to browse Weibo recently, because the construction company under his name had a joint project with a branch of the Xi Group. He was so busy all day long that he didn’t have the energy to care about what was happening online unless someone was smearing Gongxi Qiao online.

In fact, he himself did not expect that he would stand out from a bunch of competitors. He was aware that the Xi Group’s project was very lucrative, and if he could successfully cooperate, he would be sitting at home waiting to get paid.

He didn’t know if it was his illusion that the person in charge of the Xi Group’s branch wasn’t arrogant, but rather very polite to him. If he didn’t know better, he would think that it was the Xi Group that wanted to hitch a ride with him to make money, rather than him hitching a ride on the Xi Group’s big boat to make money.

Not to mention, it was a powerful prestigious family, yet even the head of a branch was so polite.

Gongxi Xiong deeply felt that he hadn’t done enough work, so he asked all his workers to pay attention to the quality and progress of the project and not to cut corners.

Although he didn’t study much, he always believed in the saying that both good and evil have their recompense, so he always preferred to make less money, rather than earn dirty money. People lived a short life, just a hundred years. If you threw away everything, what was the point of living?

That was his intention when he first opened the mine, and now that he was engaged in construction, he still didn’t change his mindset. Even if he himself wasn’t afraid of retribution, he was afraid that this retribution would fall on his wife and children.

“Boss.” The assistant walked up to Gongxi Xiong and pointed outside the construction site, “The little girl you had sent to the hospital the other day came to thank you.”

Gongxi Xiong looked at the girl outside draped with long hair and wearing a full-length white skirt. He frowned and muttered darkly, “Young people are really strange nowadays, they start wearing skirts in ten-or-so degrees celsius weather and don’t even put on a jacket.”

The assistant twisted his head and looked at the girl. Just now, he thought the girl was beautiful. Once the boss muttered so much, why did he feel so wrong?

“If she wants to thank me, just tell her to pay back the medical bill.” Gongxi Xiong waved his hand and said with an impatient face, “I have to go on with the inspection, it’s almost dinner time.” A few days ago when he saw a girl fainting outside the construction site, he kindly asked the driver to take the person to the hospital, and also paid the medical bill. The other party came to verbally thank him rather than directly return the money.

He had seen this kind of thing a lot, dressed like this in March and April weather to say thanks for something. He wondered who had arranged for the person to come. Otherwise, how could an ordinary little girl know that he was inspecting this site? Obviously there were ulterior motives.

The assistant looked at the boss who walked away, and then looked back at the young girl standing like a flower and sighed silently. He wondered who had sent the girl, and why they didn’t inquire about what their boss’s personality was before they decided to use a beauty trap carelessly.

Gongxi Qiao finished filming a night scene. It was already past ten o’clock at night, but after receiving a phone call from his mother, he wasn’t sleepy at all.

Surprisingly, somebody was plotting against their family and using a honey trap on his dad?

To describe how handsome his father looked… He really couldn’t praise him as handsome in good conscience. He could only say he could be considered rich in the Imperial Capital.

Their family’s business wasn’t a particularly influential one, so it wasn’t something that would make people spend a lot of effort to scheme for. Could it be that someone was eyeing his dad’s money and wanted to be a beautiful young homewrecker?

Gongxi Qiao frowned. Or perhaps the person behind it didn’t want to deal with his father, but wanted to create trouble for Gonxi Qiao?

Many people in the circle knew that his family was rich. His parents had a good relationship and there were no alleged illegitimate children or extramarital affairs. There were even some fans who started to follow him because of his family.

But what if people found out that his father cheated with a young girl about the same age as him?

Thinking of this, Gongxi Qiao grunted coldly and called Gongxi Xiong’s assistant.

Anyone who dared to scheme against his family, he dared to scheme back!

That evening, a blogger who often trolled his own boss on Weibo about how afraid the boss was of his wife updated his Weibo again.

Long Live the Assistant: A few days ago the boss met a beautiful woman who fainted on the ground and kindly asked the driver to take her to the hospital. Today the beauty dressed up to say thank you, the boss did not even see the person and said directly that she should return the medical expenses in order to thank him. He did not have time to see her because he had to go home and make dinner for his wife. [With: a blurred distant photo, the photo has a white dressed woman whose face can’t be seen] Because this Weibo account that trolled the boss was very interesting, there were nearly 100,000 fans following it. After this Weibo was sent out, many netizens laughed and said that it was only right to pay back debts, and the boss was so meng and so adorable.

The next morning, Gongxi Qiao received a call from Gongxi Xiong’s assistant Deng Heng. “Brother Deng, did you find out the identity of that girl?”

“Well, good.” Gongxi Qiao sneered and hung up his phone. He didn’t expect that this female college student had met with one of Liang Yumeng’s assistants in the hospital.

It seemed that fainting and being sent to the hospital was indeed a coincidence, but later coming to the construction site to say thank you was at someone’s order.

He couldn’t even protect himself, but he still had the desire to scheme against others. It seemed that Liang Yumeng was too idle staying in the hospital to recover from his injuries.

“Qiao Shao, are you up?” He Peng’s voice rang outside the door.

Gongxi Qiao pulled open the door and smiled at He Peng. “Good morning, ah.”

“Good morning,” He Peng walked into the room and put the purchased breakfast on the table. “Just now Brother Chen called and said he would pick you up this afternoon to audition for the ‘Cultivation’ drama.”

Gongxi Qiao nodded. “I already told Director Wang about this yesterday, so I have a bit too many scenes this morning. If anyone calls me, you can answer it for me temporarily.”

“If President Xi calls ……”

“Put him on hold too,” Gongxi Qiao divided the bowl of porridge in He Peng’s hand, “or else Director Wang will get angry again.”

He Peng silently looked at the preserved egg and lean pork congee in his hand, and felt a lot of emotions in his heart.

How dare you make President Xi wait, Qiao Shao you bear!

T/N:

You might notice this chapter has the same title as chapter 24 – this isn’t a translation mistake, the two chapters really have the same title in the raws.