WAM CH34

Shao Si kept shrinking deeper into the blanket the longer he slept, until finally only a few tufts of hair were exposed. Even so, the number of viewers remained stubbornly high.

Everyone continuously expressed: Even if it’s just these few little tufts of hair, I could lick the screen all night!

Generally speaking, the quality of Shao Si’s fans was relatively high. Seeing that he was unwilling to discuss the marriage topic, they didn’t press him. Furthermore, since it had been so long since he last appeared… and on a livestream no less, they didn’t dare speak recklessly for fear of pissing him off.

Their Daddy Shao had quite the temper.

However, now that Shao Si was asleep, those messy remarks couldn’t be suppressed and gradually began to surface, looking like they were going to slaughter the screen.

—Um, regarding Shao Si and Best Actor Gu’s marriage, what do you guys think?

—Do you even need to ask? They’re definitely married, it’s just a matter of when this thin layer of window paper will be pierced. Especially when Daddy Shao walked holding onto Best Actor Gu’s hem, my auntie heart actually exploded.

—Our Daddy Shao is married, isn’t this a universally acknowledged, tacitly understood fact?

…

It was surprisingly harmonious.

Shao Si was woken up by a phone call from Gu Yanzhou.

He was using a “Meitu Phone” that Li Guangzong had specifically given him for the livestream, claiming it had built-in skin smoothing with great effects, and that it would conveniently serve as an advertisement for the manufacturer.

Therefore, netizens heard a phone ringing from somewhere, followed by Shao Si tossing irritably in the blanket for a while before groaning a few times. He poked his head out to fish for the phone on the bedside table.

He barely had time to rub his eyes, not even noticing who was calling, before Gu Yanzhou’s highly recognizable voice came through the receiver: “Are you planning to stream your sleep all night?”

…

After hearing this, Shao Si belatedly turned towards the Meitu Phone fixed to the side. Squinting, he checked the viewer count and the stream duration: “…I forgot to turn it off. Wait, you’re watching?”

Gu Yanzhou didn’t answer that, only saying: “Next time, remember to dry your hair before you sleep.”

“Oh.”

The two didn’t exchange many words before Gu Yanzhou hung up. Shao Si noticed the background noise on his end was loud, wondering what he was still busy with this late at night.

Shao Si ruffled his hair, got out of bed barefoot, and moved closer and closer to the phone camera until his entire face was up against the screen to greet everyone: “I’m closing the livestream.”

After speaking, he glanced a few times at the crazily scrolling comments, picking two or three to read out loud: “…’Pulling out the dick and showing no mercy’? What the hell, your thoughts are seriously problematic.”

“Who was on the phone just now?” Having read that comment, Shao Si spouted nonsense without changing his expression. “That was my dad. Isn’t he annoying… Speaking of which, it’s so late, 2:10 AM, aren’t you guys sleeping?”

—Not sleeping, I want to sleep with you!!!!

Whoever started it, the subsequent comments were uniformly spamming ‘sleep with you’.

“…”

“Go to sleep early. Good night.”

With that, ignoring the wailing below, Shao Si closed the livestream.

At this time, Gu Yanzhou was standing in the hallway smoking, holding a cigarette butt in one hand and his phone in the other. He waited until the person on the screen disappeared and the black screen popped up with the five large words ‘Livestream Has Ended’.

He exhaled a puff of smoke and said softly, “Good night.”

Just as Gu Yanzhou was about to finish his cigarette, a figure slowly walked out from the other end of the hallway. The man was tall with long legs, dressed in a crisp suit, with a hand casually tucked into his pants pocket, looking both steady and imposing.

He said, “Yanzhou, let’s talk.”

Gu Yanzhou snuffed out the cigarette, looked up, and called out, “Brother.”

Gu Feng didn’t approach closely. He stopped two meters away from Gu Yanzhou, refusing to go any further.

“What’s going on between you and that boy?” Gu Feng asked with a frown. “The streets are full of your news. How come I didn’t know when you brought a younger brother-in-law back for me?”

Gu Yanzhou leaned against the wall, his collar slightly messy: “Nothing is going on.”

After saying that, he added, “At least, not right now. If something really happens in the future, I’ll tell you then.”

Gu Feng didn’t become his older brother for nothing. Although the two brothers usually couldn’t figure out each other’s thoughts, Gu Yanzhou’s words were exceptionally clear. Gu Feng wasn’t a fool either; he understood immediately, his tone rising uncontrollably: “You still plan on having something happen with him?”

“My words don’t count for much in this matter.” Gu Yanzhou walked forward and hooked an arm around Gu Feng’s shoulder. “Go to sleep early. If Shengsheng wakes up and can’t find you, she’s going to throw a tantrum again.”

“Can you still drive?” Gu Feng let himself be pushed forward two steps before stopping at the stairwell to ask, “How about I have Old Wang drive you?”

Gu Yanzhou only left him with a view of his back, waving a hand at him twice in an extremely punchable manner without even turning his head.

…

Gu Feng had noticed something was off about Gu Yanzhou’s sexual orientation very early on.

Before, it had just been faint suspicions, until Gu Yanzhou brought a junior from school home during his second year of high school. The young boy looked delicate and handsome, and the two claimed to be reviewing their lessons in the room. But when Gu Feng pushed the door open, the junior was flushed red, frantically fixing his clothes.

In contrast, Gu Yanzhou just sat to the side, his face unreddened and his heart calm, merely resting his head on his hand and telling him: “Could you knock before you enter?”

The night was already deep.

Anyone could rest, but the marketing account teams couldn’t.

They worked day and night organizing various tidbits of news, then spreading this information while exaggerating it and turning black into white. Even in the middle of the night, they had to hire internet water armies to boost the heat, ensuring that when people woke up the next morning—whether commuting to work or during breakfast—they would see the information they had ‘processed’.

“Shocking! Shao Si talks dirty on livestream! Mouth full of obscenities, if you want to know the truth please click… uh…” Li Guangzong read half of this headline, put down his phone, and rubbed his brow with a headache. “Why didn’t I know you could talk dirty?”

Shao Si lay on the back seat with his eyes closed, resembling a corpse: “You’re asking me? I don’t know either.”

“…”

“Why don’t you click in and take a look.”

It was probably when he was reading their comments, that phrase ‘pulling out the dick and showing no mercy’.

“Click what? Just to contribute to their traffic?” Li Guangzong fell silent for two seconds after speaking, then said, “About the livestream yesterday, blame me, I forgot about it.”

Because his eyes were closed, Shao Si didn’t notice the expression on Li Guangzong’s face, and thus didn’t realize that his cub’s mood wasn’t quite normal today. He pulled the blanket up, saying as he did, “It’s a trivial matter, no need to apologize to me.”

Li Guangzong glanced at Shao Si a few times, hesitating to speak, but finally turned his head back to continue the work at hand.

However, staring at the computer screen, the scenes that unfolded in the CEO’s office yesterday afternoon flooded back into his mind.

Qi Ming’s face, President Wang’s face.

Even the words they said hovered around his ears, refusing to dissipate.

Li Guangzong lowered his head, his vision unfocused for a long time.

But Shao Si knew none of this. He spent these two weeks learning opera from Old Mei, so busy every day that he had no time to think about anything else. Occasionally, when he had some free time, he would run next door and use looking for Gu Yanzhou as an excuse to chat with Ye Xuan.

No matter how cold Ye Xuan’s personality was, after two weeks, she was somewhat moved.

Moreover, Shao Si wasn’t annoying. As long as he wanted to, he could perfectly grasp the boundaries based on the other party’s reactions, making sure not to seem overly enthusiastic nor too distant.

Within a few days, using the excuse of rehearsing lines, he managed to get Ye Xuan’s phone number.

However, just as Shao Si was happily saving the number, Ye Xuan proactively asked Gu Yanzhou: “Brother Zhou, what’s your number? I’d like to save it. If there’s something I don’t understand, I’d like to ask you, is that okay?”

Shao Si’s fingers instantly stiffened, pausing on the input screen.

[Hey,] Shao Si sat on the stool, feeling somewhat displeased. [Why is it that every mission target is so close to Gu Yanzhou?]

Whether it was Yang Yinyin before, or Ye Xuan now.

The system was silent for two seconds: [Because he’s handsomer than you?]

[…I do not accept this answer.]

The system sneered, then suddenly had an idea: [Actually, according to what you’re saying, we might as well change our approach… I’ve thought of a brilliant idea.]

[That idea is definitely not reliable.]

[It is reliable. Think about it. Since it’s like this, why not just grab onto Gu Yanzhou directly? Besides, looking at Ye Xuan’s attitude, you truly have no chance with her.]

Shao Si looked up and saw the corners of Ye Xuan’s mouth lightly pressed together, a faint smile hanging on them.

Especially when Gu Yanzhou was explaining the scene to her, her gaze was first fixed on Gu Yanzhou’s hands, and then she started to zone out.

…

Was this man Gu Yanzhou a walking aphrodisiac?

“Read this line of dialogue carefully,” Gu Yanzhou set down the script, raised his hands to unbutton his cuffs, folded the sleeves up twice, and then picked the script up again. His finger lightly traced over the line of text. “‘I know you are cowardly and selfish, I know you are a despicable and shameless scoundrel, I know you don’t love me.'”

Ye Xuan practiced it twice but still couldn’t quite grasp the artistic conception.

Checking the time, Shao Si felt it was about time to head back. Just as he was about to get up, he was stopped by Gu Yanzhou: “Let’s rehearse a scene. Do you remember the female lead’s lines? If not, read them over now.”

“…I remember them.”

Shao Si added, “How could I not remember? You guys have been repeating it back and forth I don’t know how many times over there.”

Consequently, Gu Yanzhou walked straight up and pinned him against the wall.

When he looked up at him again, his eyes had completely changed. He was now a furious man whose weakness had been seen through.

Shao Si only felt an intense pain in his wrists where they were pinned. He subconsciously struggled a couple of times, but infected by the look in Gu Yanzhou’s eyes, he instantly quieted down, realizing they were now rehearsing the scene.

Shao Si recalled the script and completely let himself sink into the role.

“Look at how you are right now.” Because both his hands were immobilized, Shao Si couldn’t move. He could only use his cheek to rub against Gu Yanzhou’s—a dangerous yet intimate gesture.

Shao Si appeared expressionless, as if he didn’t care at all, but faintly seemed to be smiling: “Are you getting angry at me?”

The veins on the back of Gu Yanzhou’s hand bulged as he suppressed his voice and shouted, “Shut up.”

“I refuse,” Shao Si tilted his head back, pulling away from him and dropping the intimate posture. “Did I say something wrong? I know you are cowardly and selfish, I know you are a despicable and shameless scoundrel.”

Shao Si paused here for a long time.

Then he suddenly smiled, leaned in again, and pressed his lips against the edge of Gu Yanzhou’s cold, callous mouth: “…I know you don’t love me.”

When Shao Si snapped out of it, he finally realized with shock what he had just done.

He pushed Gu Yanzhou away, only to see Ye Xuan standing off to the side, utterly dumbfounded.

Just as he was pondering what to say, he saw Gu Yanzhou press his fingertip to the corner of his mouth—the very spot he had just kissed—and say with pointed meaning, “Good acting.”