CH 6

Jiang Xun clicked on the video sent by Jiang Ying. In the video was T.ATW when they first debuted. This was their performance at some kind of event. The video was specially marked “exciting!” with a red-colored barrage1those flying words on-screen in videos.

Immediately afterwards, the camera turned to Gu Wei.

Gu Wei was even younger-looking in this video. He was probably a little nervous when he sang, so it came off as horribly off-tune.

Jiang Xun laughed, “Pfft.”

What was Jiang Ying doing, sending him a video of his nemesis’ abysmal2literal translation is “car crash”. If you found this on your mtl, this just mean something horrible happening, but most often used in a funny situation performance? 

Jiang Xun noticed that Gu Wei made a small movement after finding out that he was singing off-tune. He subconsciously covered his mouth, glanced at the surrounding cameras and audience with his beautiful eyes. Although he looked embarrassed, he still continued on with his performance, trying to recover his previous mistake. In fact, Jiang Xun thought the little star looked very well-behaved and cute– 

He certainly didn’t look like the type of person who could “handle” a hundred and eighty clients…

But that was something that Gu Wei said himself, so Jiang Xun had no choice but to believe it.

Jiang Xun wondered why his little brother sent this video of the so-called nemesis to him. After finished watching, he quitted the WeChat interface, clicked on Weibo, and saw the variety show trailer still hanging on the hot search.

Jiang Xun and his teammates were used to all kinds of foul language and flirty chatter – they came included with his profession. That’s why he didn’t think much when he used dirty words to Gu Wei when they met the other day. It was just a whim of his, he kinda wanted to bully this bold kid, especially after what he said on WeChat. What he didn’t understand was Gu Wei’s reaction to it… he was so innocent-looking for someone who used the platform for a hook-up…

In the video, Gu Wei lowered his head to apologize, and at the same time stole a glance at him, as if he was delighted to see his idol.

But it seemed that Jiang Xun had accidentally scared Gu Wei away with his words.

There was a lot of discussion about Jiang Xun’s identity in the hot search. Jiang Xun himself didn’t care about it, so he ignored it. Instead, he clicked on the Weibo of one of Gu Wei’s fans.

@gwBrotherSaveMyDog’sLife3the og is gw兄弟save my dog’s life. Gw is Gu Wei, 兄弟 is xiongdi aka brother, my dog’s life just means the op’s life, who they jokingly value about as important as a dog’s: Our idol is super cute. He has always been a hard-worker. He is also a very good boy, please don’t slander him and pay more attention to his works instead.

This fan posted a short video on their Weibo, which was a fancam4fan-taken video of Gu Wei. In this video, Gu Wei put on heavy, alluring makeup with a special focus to enhance his peach-blossom eyes. The choreography itself looked intricate and difficult, but Gu Wei did it effortlessly.

Because of his family background, Jiang Xun still knew a bit about the entertainment circle despite not being a part of it. He could predict which stars have the potential to become popular.

Gu Wei had a good body figure, and his height was suitable for dancing. His movement all looked sharp and natural. His talent and hard work can be seen clearly in how he did his dance steps.

Jiang Xun agreed that the Gu Wei who danced and the Gu Wei in his normal everyday life were two different people. Performing on-stage made Gu Wei forget himself, lost in his dazzling movements and manoeuvres, making him fit with what his fans all said. 

Incredibly captivating. 

As the music continued to rock the stage, Gu Wei lifted the hem of his clothes. His earrings flashed under the spotlight as he smirked. He gave a wink to the audience in the front row, causing them to scream in heated frenzy.

This was completely different from the Gu Wei that Jiang Xun met in the Northern Europe town that day. The Gu Wei on the stage was too dazzling. Jiang Xun thought that this state of his was similar to what happened every time he concentrated fully on his tournament games. The zen state of being completely engulfed in doing what they loved the most. 

Inexplicably, Jiang Xun found some resonance with this performance.

He won’t question Gu Wei’s singing ability for this time. There was no doubt that he was indeed worthy of being the main dancer of the top boygroup T.ATW.

Jiang Xun’s cell phone vibrated again, and his irascible little brother Jiang Ying became restless again.

[Big-Clawed Crab]: Ge, have you finished watching it?

[One Hundred Thousand Volts]: Yup.

[Big-Clawed Crab]: Very good, let’s talk about your reaction to it.

[One Hundred Thousand Volts]: Appreciation and awe.

[Big-Clawed Crab]: ?????

Appreciation came from Gu Wei’s dazzling performance when dancing.

While the awe came purely from the one hundred and eighty clients that Gu Wei said to have “serviced”.

Before he could come up with an explanation of Jiang Xun’s baffling response, Jiang Ying was called by the director to continue filming. On the other hand, Jiang Xun continued to browse the hot search. This time, he found a lot of unharmonious comments about Gu Wei.

Gu Wei sat on the sofa in the dormitory while checking the hot search with his groupmate. 

There were five members in the T.ATW group, and four of them are Jiang Xun’s hardcore fans. Even during the busiest period, they could somehow squeeze time to watch Jiang Xun’s game before performing on stage.

Tonight at eight o’clock PM, they had a performance at Coconut TV’s “Night of Stars” show. The rapper Chi Yunkai was still working elsewhere, and the remaining four used the last time before the rehearsal to check on the hot search.

There were melon seeds and various tea snacks scattered about on the table. The captain Fu Zhi even brought his tea set from the 1980s along with it. Their cool persona the company painfully cultivated was completely gone – they were just being a bunch of slobs.

Some marketing accounts liked to gossip that they actually weren’t close with each other, and rumors of disbandment fly freely on the web. But in fact, they were a particularly tight-knit group of friends. 

“So, tell me, what was Jiang Xun like in person?” The group’s leader Fu Zhi asked as he pulled Gu Wei closer. 

“Um… well, he was…okay.” Here was a room full of Jiang Xun’s hardcore fanboys, so Gu Wei had to be careful with his words. 

“You’re so lucky.” Luo Chenxuan, the lead vocalist, said enviously, “you met with God Xun while recording your variety show… when will it be my turn…“

“Why didn’t you ask for his autograph?” Shi Xinyan, the group’s variety show specialist, said regretfully, “that’s the World Champion’s autograph, you know?”

“Jiang Xun is really good.”

“Jiang Xun played really well in that match.”

“Jiang Xun was so amazing.”

Gu Wei’s ears were filled with this nonsensical babbling from this group of brainless fanboys. Their rainbow farts5ridiculous amount of praise contrasted sharply with the perverted words Gu Wei remembered Jiang Xun had uttered. 

“It does hurt”

“How about… you can give me a blow to make it better.” 

Jiang Xun’s voice seemed to be still in his ear.

Nope, nope! This reaction meme was a bad man. He was nowhere as good as the meme itself. 

Gu Wei ignored the rainbow farts that were still filling the room. He instead checked the hot search and found comments from various netizens. Naturally, he found Jiang Ying’s comment as well. 

His nemesis had really exploded. 

Under the “Wandering Together” trailer, Gu Wei’s anti-fans have already lined up– 

“Why is Gu Wei still relevant? He has a low education, very impolite, with shitty social skills to boot. And now he is trying to rub the heat6leech fame/popularity of the e-sport circle?” 

“Don’t you dare to dirty our e-sports circle with your entertainment circle’s filth! We, God Xun’s fans, won’t tolerate any of that shit here.”

More antis commented under the video, trying to rally up more people to join their chant.

“Gu Wei get out of the entertainment circle!! ” 

Before Gu Wei could even defend himself, his antis were already using this momentum to continue to dirty up his image further. 

On the other side, Gu Wei’s genuine fans were working hard to control the comments, reporting those unsightly comments one by one.

At this moment, the comments exploded again. Fu Zhi, who was sitting opposite Gu Wei suddenly looked at him and shook his head meaningfully.

Gu Wei: “?”

Another change has taken place on Weibo’s hot search list.

#TMW-XunLikedThisPost #New

Gu Wei: “…”

As someone who had watched a few of Jiang Xun’s games, he knew of this TMW-Xun username. 

So this means–

The culprit of this incident gave the trailer of “Wandering Together” a like.

This big hooligan still thought that this mess wasn’t enough?

On Weibo, all the sunspots7another slang for anti-fans who had just expressed their stance on Jiang Xun’s behalf and criticized Gu Wei fell silent in disgrace. 

“The other party doesn’t care about this, so what are you worried about?” The members of the group opened their own accounts, and under the leadership of Fu Zhi, they called a car full of bread8I’m sure this is slang for something, but I don’t know. So I just used the literal translation. If you know what this means, please tell me people to attack the marketing account just now. 

“As expected of God Xun! He is such a kind man….” The fanboys didn’t forget to praise Jiang Xun.

Was this reaction meme dude actually a good person? 

Gu Wei really wanted to share about Jiang Xun’s hooligan remarks and behavior that time, down to the details of pinning him to the wall. 

But before he could open his mouth, his phone vibrated several times and there was three notifications in a row.

The first one was from Gu Wei’s father—

[Gu Cai]: Good boy, do you remember the engagement partner I mentioned two days ago? The something-Xun guy? Did he add you, and have you two chatted yet?

The second one came from his big client who is a primary school student—

[One Hundred Thousand Volts]: How much does the yearly subscription cost?

[One Hundred Thousand Volts]: I’ll promise to take care of you, so don’t pick up other clients in the future.

The last one was from Chi Yunkai, who had been busy with his side-job recently and had no time to show up—

[Yunkai Sees Mooncakes]: Didi, the big client has been cut off by someone else, this order is over, you don’t have to wait for the other party to contact you.

Gu Wei: “?”

Gu Wei: “??”

Gu Wei: “???”

Sadly, all clownery has to end sooner or later…

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