Half a minute after being pulled out by the butler, Wen Xiao squatted at the gate of the Bai family house, falling into deep confusion.
Why did things turn out like this?
Shouldn’t Bai Sheng respond with the sentence “Don’t bully the poor young man,” and then agree to his request to cancel the engagement, and finally send him out with a stubborn face?
Even if it wasn’t like this, he shouldn’t have used a big stick to swing at him! At that time, the butler’s sword energy was only 0.5 centimeters away from the back of his head, and he was very scared.
“Master Wen,” the subordinate of the Wen family who came with him said with a dejected look on his face, “Let’s go back.”
“Go back? What do you mean, Go back?” Wen Xiao immediately turned his face and put on the familiar evil and arrogant look again. “I, Wen Xiao, never give up until I achieve my goal. Who can stop me?”
He walked into the gate of the Bai family confidently and was stopped by the little guard in the next second.
“Do you know who I am?” Wen Xiao looked down at him and warned, “You will regret this decision in the future.”
“I’m sorry, sir.” The guard said honestly, “But according to regulations, rotten eggs are not allowed to pass the security check.”
“?” Wen Xiao was confused, “Where are the rotten eggs?”
The guard didn’t say anything but just slowly and affectionately stared at him with his clear black and white eyes.
One second.
Two seconds.
Three seconds
Wen Xiao was furious: “You called me a rotten egg?!”
The guard: “I didn’t say that.”
“Okay, okay!” The subordinate with a miserable face finally couldn’t help but hug Wen Xiao’s arm. “Let’s talk about it when we get back, okay? The master and the eldest young master are waiting for you at home!”
The”master” in front was fine, but when Wen Xiao heard “eldest young master,” he stopped.
An emotion called fear suddenly emerged in his eyes.
“…You said, Big Brother is back?”
–
On the other side, in the reception room.
The four people of the Bai family looked at each other and fell into a long silence.
The butler sheathed the stick and stood quietly behind Bai Sheng. His muscles relaxed at this moment, like a German shepherd dog that had completed its mission and was taking a rest.
Father Bai opened and closed his mouth three times that Bai Sheng was afraid he would rub his lips and produce sparks.
In order to break the silence, Bai Sheng spoke first, “Butler, I asked you to pay attention to the strength just now. Did you do it well?”
“Yes, young master.” The butler bowed his head neither servilely nor arrogantly. “I have tried my best to use heavy hands.”
Bai Sheng: “…”
What kind of enterprise-level understanding is this. [mfn](1)“(enterprise-level)” is internet slang in China that sarcastically describes when someone takes a simple instruction and applies it in an absurdly professional or exaggerated way[/mfn]
“Cough.” Bai’s father coughed and cleared his throat, and his expression became visibly more serious. “Youngest, you…”
Bai’s mother hurriedly dissuaded him, “Xiaobao didn’t do this on purpose; he had no choice.”
Bai Ran didn’t say anything but was always ready to knock her father’s teacup away. Hitting the head is okay, but hitting the face is not okay. Bai Sheng is still eating with his face.
“…” Father Bai closed his eyes for a moment and finally asked seriously, “Who taught you?”
Bai Sheng was a beat slower to react: “Ah?”
Father Bai frowned and said sternly, “Who taught you to kick someone out in front of everyone like this?”
The Bai family has never had such education! Who polluted their youngest son?
Bai Sheng thought for a moment and looked up.
“At that time,” he reflected deeply on himself, “a primitive impulse suddenly came from my body…”
Father Bai: “?”
Forget it!
He glanced at the butler, who was lowering his eyebrows and looking obedient behind Bai Sheng. He couldn’t catch the pigtail even if he wanted to get angry. He took a deep breath and finally changed the topic to talk about.
“You don’t have to take those things on the Internet too seriously. Just do your job well. Do you understand?”
Bai Sheng nodded obediently.
Although everyone tried their best to prevent him from being exposed to negative content on the Internet, half a day was actually enough for him to understand the current situation.
Now his negative information is spreading everywhere, and his previous works have been dug up. The young master has a good-looking face, but his acting skills are ridiculously poor. He was immediately mocked on three or four hot searches. The original voices of fans’ explanations have long been shattered by the waves and can no longer be heard.
At this moment, the drama that Bai Sheng is about to participate in took the opportunity to break the news, and Bai Sheng was ridiculed even more.
Because the original work, “The Nation in Peril,” adapted for this drama, is a big IP, it already has a very broad readership base, and the role that Bai Sheng is going to play is the second male lead, a character who did not have many scenes but can be called the soul of the story.
Bai Sheng, is he worthy of it?
Of course, the final ending of the original book is that Bai Sheng was replaced by the drama party, who had hyped up enough heat “as needed,” and the role was picked up by Liu Jin. In the end, the drama became a hit. Although his performance in it was neither good nor bad, he also got a lot of popularity.
Bai Sheng asked himself, how can this not make people angry?
Let alone the original owner, who wouldn’t be angry? However, judging from the ultimate beneficiaries of the incident, the original owner is now being attacked in such a large-scale and organized way, most likely by Liu Jin and Liu Tao.
But what he is mainly curious about now is that even if someone did do it, the original owner would at best just confront his senior with a bad face. Nowadays, the entertainment industry is “a hundred flowers blooming,” and pure person style is everywhere. In the absence of any substantial stains on him, who is behind the current situation?
Although he has no interest in slapping Long Aotian in the face, as a lazy person, he has very high requirements for the quality of life and will never allow himself to end up sleeping on the street.
Seeing that his youngest son is so well-behaved, Father Bai’s brows relaxed,and he said solemnly, “Entertainment works are things that everyone has their own tastes. If they don’t like it, it doesn’t mean that others don’t like it. Why do you say that those who like it are all water armies? Don’t people have the right to express their own opinions on the Internet? This is simply too ridiculous!”
Mother Bai hesitated: “This…”
Bai Ran was very straightforward: “Dad, if you have even watched it, you wouldn’t be saying this.”
Bai Sheng coughed and was about to say something.
“By the way,” his cheap father interrupted, “I have deleted all the bad things they said about you on the Internet, and I forbade them to talk nonsense. Don’t take it too seriously; it’s just a small matter.”
Bai Sheng choked up, “…”
So it was you, Dad!
Can such things be deleted casually! Even if it was half true and half false, it will become true after being deleted.
So far, from the first meeting with the Bai family, Bai Sheng has probably summed up a certain pattern.
Bai’s father is chaotic evil, Bai’s mother is lawful good, and second sister Bai Ran is neutral. As long as he stops making trouble, it will be easier to get along with them. The only thing he needs to pay attention to is the eldest brother, who has not yet appeared…
“Huh?” Bai Sheng seemed to suddenly think of it and asked with concern,”Is the eldest brother not back yet?”
Father Bai raised his eyes suddenly, and Mother Bai’s eyes suddenly filled with tears. “Oh my God, you actually care about Qingsong…”
“Because he is often away,” Bai Sheng made up an excuse, “When he is away from home, it’s natural to worry about whether something has happened to him.”
Father Bai: “…”
Mother Bai: “…”
Bai Ran: “…”
The air suddenly became a little quiet. Bai Sheng noticed something was wrong and immediately raised his head alertly, “What’s wrong, what did I say wrong?”
In the silence, only the kind-hearted Mother Bai explained his confusion:”Your eldest brother just fell off the car a few days ago and is now receiving treatment in the hospital.”
Bai Sheng: “…I’m sorry.”
He silently turned his face away under the condemning gazes of the other two.
Damn it.
So embarrassing.
–
Back in the room, while no one came to disturb him, Bai Sheng got familiar with this strange world again.
The face in the mirror was the one he was used to seeing; even the light-colored mole on the right cheek was intact. Bai Sheng stroked his collar, thinking.
Compared to “the soul is stuffed into a role”, he feels more like “a new identity is arranged for him.” He even suspects that the appearance of Bai’s father and mother is exactly the same as his parents, whom he has never met, because he always has an inexplicable sense of closeness.
The result is clear, so what is the purpose?
Bai Sheng believes that he has not done anything harmful to the world. The biggest complaints of readers about him are “the emotional line is well written; don’t write it again next time” and “you dare to say this is not love again.” There is no reason to be so angry and kick him into a new world.
He can’t figure it out for the time being, so let it go and focus on the present.
The butler returned the phone to him a little reluctantly. Bai Sheng was still wondering what was worth his strict defense, but when he opened the screen, he was hit: “…”
The wallpaper was a secretly taken photo of Wen Xiao, and the chat background was his preferences + habits table. Such a big phone, there was not even a photo of the two of them together.
It must be said that Wen Xiao, as the male protagonist, has quite good hardware. He is three times more handsome when he keeps his mouth shut. However, Bai Sheng did not even look at the dozens of angry “cancel the engagement” messages he sent. He blocked the number and reported it for harassment.
It was so unlucky.
“…” The butler appeared beside him like a ghost. “Young Master, is this…”
Bai Sheng: “When you hit his coccyx with a stick just now, I also thought it was too much.”
What? I couldn’t hear it. The butler changed the subject smoothly, “Don’t worry, Mr. Wen Xiao’s elder brother won’t allow him to do this.”
Bai Sheng: “Huh?”
The butler said with a sluggish face, “Young Master Wen He arrived at the airport an hour ago.”
Wen He?
Bai Sheng was familiar with this name.
This character was positioned quite specially in the original text.
As Wen Xiao’s elder brother, the author described him as too unkind and without weaknesses in order to give the hero a boost in the early stage, which led to his popularity being too high. In the later part, the author did not know how to slap him in the face. Therefore, this character suddenly went offline in the middle of the book and disappeared for half of the book. He only showed up at the end.
Wen He is not only cold and ruthless but also very cruel. He will really whip the hero with a horsewhip when he does something wrong. Until he left the stage, Wen Xiao would still tremble with fear when he saw his brother’s cold face.
Bai Sheng’s heart moved, and he looked at Wen Xiao’s message that stopped abruptly fifteen minutes ago. He didn’t even have time to finish the last sentence and only sent half of it, as if it was forcibly interrupted by someone.
“…” Bai Sheng put his hands together and prayed sincerely, “I hope he is okay.”
But what does it have to do with me.jpg
It’s better to take care of yourself than to take care of others. Bai Sheng opened Weibo under the sharp eyes of the butler, and was greeted by a screen full of negative comments. His name was on the hot search, and the situation on the scene was in chaos.
The butler said at the side, “Young master, stop reading.”
“It’s okay.” Bai Sheng flipped through the pages quickly, lowered his eyes, and said, “Tomorrow is the audition for “The Nation in Peril”, right? Please contact the agent; I want to go.”
It is necessary for TV dramas to consider the reputation of the actors. After the incident broke out, the production team euphemistically expressed their willingness to reopen the auditions. At the scene, the original owner and Liu Jin, who came to pick up the leak, clashed again. In the end, not only did he lose the role, but this conflict was also used as ironclad evidence of his oppression of the younger generation, which tarnished his reputation again.
The butler’s mouth twitched visibly. “Young Master, are you really going?”
Let’s not talk about whether Bai Sheng’s acting skills are good enough. Just look at the angry attitude on the Internet. He is worried that Bai Sheng will be knocked unconscious as soon as he gets off the car.
Bai Sheng checked again without commenting until he found a blog post that had been the most popular in recent days. The blogger has nearly one million followers and is passionately posting a long article of thousands of words to question him.
[As an actor, you have not done your job well, and you have not adhered to your own moral character. In terms of art and morality, you do not deserve the current exposure and resources. And it has been a whole week since the incident broke out. Mr. Bai Sheng, how long will you let a group of immature fans defend you? I know you can see it, but I know that you will still choose to be a turtle!]
Under the long article, many people were moved by emotions, as if they had built a trial field by themselves, even though many of them had not tried to verify any news.
If the response time to the outbreak of the incident is the sooner the better, then Bai Sheng’s silence for a week has made people’s resentment reach its peak, coupled with the kicking and fanning of the flames by some competitors, it is normal for this situation to occur.
The butler had been observing silently. When he saw Bai Sheng’s finger pause on the blog post for more than a minute, he wisely reached out his hand, “Young Master, don’t look at it…”
Then, he saw Bai Sheng’s slender fingers move slightly. He replied to the microblog with two words – “Read”.
The moment it was sent, the message reminders increased by cubic explosion.
Bai Sheng happily threw the phone away without even looking at it. “I’ll sleep first.”
The butler finally fell silent for a long time: “…………”
Young Master, how dare you do that?
You finish singing and I come on stage.
At the same time, on the other side of the Wen family.
Wen Xiao was kneeling on the mat, cold sweat dripping down his forehead.
There was a man sitting in front of him, the light shone on the tip of his clear nose, and his side face was bathed in the light, as beautiful as a jade carving, but as soon as he saw those dark eyes, his whole feeling changed completely -even sinister.
The wound on his back was still aching. Wen Xiao gritted his teeth, but his voice was weaker: “I have the right to decide…”
The quarrel had lasted long enough before. The man watched coldly for a while, and finally spoke, his voice cold and flat.
“No one taught you, if you want to achieve your goal, shouldn’t you do this?”
Wen Xiao raised his head suddenly.
“I will take care of this matter.” The man stood up; his tone was very light, but the pressure was like a mountain on Wen Xiao’s shoulders. “This is the last time.”
His eyes swept across the tea table and fixed on the thin papers. The recent investigation on Bai Sheng was clearly visible, with a photo attached on the top. Bai Sheng looked into the camera with empty eyes.
Wen He no longer paid attention to Wen Xiao who was kneeling behind him, but thought coldly.
However, these two men really shouldn’t have that kind of relationship.
Translator notes:
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