Jiang Nan’an still remembered that not long ago, on a sunny, beautiful, leisurely afternoon, he had just finished replying to Spring’s duo queue invitation in Cat Paw TV’s private chat area and was about to exit when he suddenly saw a strange title in the recommended videos on the homepage. Looking back now, that was probably the source of all evil-
【#Boating at Guazhou##Cross-shipping##Spring Mountain##SpringXJiang Nan’an# Meet at the peak! My CP is just one meeting away from marriage!!】
Perhaps out of curiosity, Jiang Nan’an made the decision that would make him regret for half his life-he clicked on that video. Although he couldn’t bear to watch it to the end because the content was too shocking and he clicked exit midway, he still carelessly left iron-clad evidence of his presence. Later, this video drove Qi Hong into manic screaming and dark crawling, as it successfully dominated the trending topics and propelled Jiang Nan’an and Spring’s Arctic Circle cross-ship CP to the top three on Weibo’s CP ranking.
“Oh-I remember now, this is our CP! ‘Spring breeze greens Jiang Nan’an’s shore, boating at Guazhou.’ Hey, I must say, Mr. Hang, your fans are quite good at naming. Let me see what’s going on… First place on the CP super topic chart? That impressive?”
“?!” Jiang Nan’an snatched Yan Jie’s phone.
【My CP forever: #Boating at Guazhou is real# Everyone who hasn’t watched the first episode of Burning Eternity! I’ll be nice to everyone after you watch it! Seriously, if these two get married, the show’s creators must sit at the main table. So cute, so cute, why are there such perfectly matched people in the world? If you knew which CP I ship, you’d think I’m lucky too! [Video: Burning Eternity Episode 1 Boating at Guazhou sweet moments cut]】
【Climbing Spring Mountain!: #Boating at Guazhou is real# He promised not to target his Siren so he banned his signature heroes. I thought he was just being annoying for fun, but he really didn’t target him and instead went to the bottom lane to kill his good friend inBlue. Who understands this…】
【Puppy puppy just want puppy: #Boating at Guazhou is real# Years later, I ran to my grandpa’s bedside with his phone: Grandpa, grandpa, Spring’s jungle doesn’t gank mid anymore! Grandpa shook his head kindly, teaching me not to believe or spread rumors.】
These words gave Jiang Nan’an a headache.
He sighed:
“It’s nothing good.”
“Oh? How so?”
“You’ll be harshly criticized,” Jiang Nan’an casually found a hot post in the trending plaza, clicked into the comments section, and showed it to Yan Jie.
【Furious Pleasant Goat: Idiot… Can’t you see this streamer is deliberately riding coattails? He got some heat from being associated with Jiang before, right? Otherwise, why would he shamelessly follow when Jiang came to this show? And deliberately try to get close to Jiang on the show? Why so eager to ride coattails??】
【She and the jungle both lost: Before saying this, Google who your Spring daddy is, okay? Lowering himself to record a pretend variety show is giving you face. Who are you to talk? Entertainment industry frogs in a well, laughing at me. Who is your Spring daddy that he needs heat from some lowly actor? Who’s really riding whose coattails? Your Spring daddy didn’t even mind his effeminate manner, which is already good enough, okay?】
【Mountain Mountain comes late: Lowly actor??? My head itches, am I growing a queue? Mom, what dynasty is this??? Toxic solo stans get lost too, okay? Does it have to be about who’s riding whose coattails? Is Xiao Shan not allowed to have friends? Is normal interaction between friends not allowed?】
【Mi Bao Mi: Aaaa what an unlucky topic, are stupid CP fans forcing this in everyone’s face to disgust us all???】
If you ask what solo fans in the entertainment industry hate most, first is rival fandoms, second is CP fans. Whenever so-called “CP iconic moments” appear, solo fans inevitably start a bloody battle. For example, under this Weibo post, just the issue of “riding coattails” had already sparked several hundred comments. What Jiang Nan’an showed Yan Jie was considered mild criticism.
That’s why Jiang Nan’an always refused to be marketed in CPs with others-first, he didn’t need it; second, he really didn’t want to see more messy arguments.
Yan Jie scanned the comments on that thread, not feeling particularly disturbed: “They’re not just criticizing me, you’re being criticized too, right?”
“I don’t care,” Jiang Nan’an said calmly:
“After being criticized so much, what’s this amount to?”
“I’m fine too. We esports players get criticized just as much as you do. Won’t miss this bit.”
Speaking of this, Yan Jie suddenly remembered something and became interested, raising the corner of his lips and smiling at Jiang Nan’an:
“Let me hear, how did our Mr. Hang handle other CPs before?”
“Before?” Jiang Nan’an thought for a moment, then shook his head:
“There weren’t any before.”
This time Yan Jie was genuinely surprised: “None? How could there be none?”
“Do I have to have some?” Jiang Nan’an glanced at him.
“Not necessarily.” Yan Jie looked at his cold little gaze and really liked that prickly quality, inexplicably feeling comfortable all over:
“But isn’t that how it is for you actors? Film one drama, create one CP, and fans ship it passionately. What, you’ve never sold a CP with your co-stars before?”
“No. Only cross-ships, like you and me.”
Jiang Nan’an looked away, explaining coolly:
“The roles I take don’t have many romantic storylines, and I don’t do much promotion outside of work, so they can’t ship much.”
Hearing this, Yan Jie was stunned for a moment, then urgently recalled that Jiang Nan’an’s works seemed to lean toward serious dramas-suspense, criminal investigation, esports, coming-of-age… Indeed, there were no sweet romantic parts.
Yan Jie blurted out a silly question:
“Why?”
“Why what?”
“Why not act in sweet idol dramas? Our veteran artist Teacher Xiao Shan doesn’t like them?” Yan Jie was habitually provocative.
Jiang Nan’an gave him a speechless glance, pursed his lips, perhaps too lazy to explain to him, but after thinking about it, he still sighed and answered with four words:
“Can’t understand it.”
“Hmm?”
“I can’t understand that kind of emotion, not confident I can act it well, so I don’t take those roles.”
Can’t understand emotions? Because he’s never been in love?
Yan Jie thought about it, and according to Jiang Nan’an’s immersive method of completely transforming himself into a character, it seemed to make sense.
“So you had to train yourself to become Burning Eternity’s number one mid laner to play Zhou Yan?”
“…Not to that extent.”
“Then before playing Gu Qingze, you didn’t get a medical license?”
“No,” Jiang Nan’an answered honestly:
“But I did audit some courses at medical school for a while.”
Yan Jie was dumbfounded and sincerely applauded him:
“Amazing, amazing! Then you bringing a set of history books to the camp, that’s not preparation for your next role, is it?”
Jiang Nan’an nodded calmly under his shocked gaze.
Yan Jie recalled again, and after a moment his voice rose even higher:
“Then before acting in ‘Spring Breeze,’ you didn’t actually go into the mountains to farm and herd sheep, did you?!”
“…”
Jiang Nan’an stared at him coolly, only looking away after a moment:
“You’re so boring.”
Yan Jie laughed, and after laughing enough, he stretched his arms in a big lazy stretch, leaned back against the chair, looked up at the stars in the sky, and sighed:
“But you’re really interesting.”
“Is that why you torture me in different ways every day?”
“How can you call it torture? Listen to yourself. I just like you so much. I’ve never met someone like you before, find you really interesting, want to develop a profound friendship with you, so I’m just making some small interactions.”
Jiang Nan’an tugged at the corner of his lips:
“Then you’ll soon discover that I’m also a boring person. To spare you disappointment, you should cut your losses now, leave, officially end Boating at Guazhou, and we’ll never see each other again after this show.”
“That won’t do.” Yan Jie adjusted his posture, turned to the side, and propped his head up to look at him:
“I’ve found that you don’t have an accurate perception of yourself, Mr. Hang?” Yan Jie looked him up and down:
“You’re so good-looking, with strong professional abilities, smart and capable, and you have a good personality. Why don’t you think better of yourself?”
“?” Jiang Nan’an raised an eyebrow slightly, pointing at himself:
“I have a good personality?”
“Yes!” Yan Jie nodded firmly.
“Me?”
“Yes!!”
Jiang Nan’an suddenly smiled.
Since knowing him, Yan Jie seemed to have never seen him smile like this before.
It wasn’t a cold smile, not a mocking smile, not a smile for the sake of smiling, and without any hiding or restraint-just a genuine, pure expression of his emotions, the curve of his lips relaxed and natural.
Yan Jie was momentarily entranced.
He looked at Jiang Nan’an, couldn’t help but curve his own lips, and his speech involuntarily slowed, the end of his tone dragging a bit:
“What are you smiling at?”
“Nothing, I just felt like smiling. Is that not allowed?”
“Of course, of course, Mr. Hang can do whatever he wants. If you wanted the moon from the sky, I’d get it for you.”
“Save those words for the girl you like.”
Jiang Nan’an stood up:
“I’m leaving.”
“Going back?”
“Mm.”
“What about our CP? Should little Spring ride your popularity or not? Oh no, will I have to avoid my beloved Mr. Hang in front of the cameras and act like strangers? What to do, Spring can’t bear it, Spring is sad, Spring is upset-”
Jiang Nan’an was really done with Yan Jie’s impromptu performances.
He waved his hand:
“If Spring doesn’t mind being criticized, then do as you please. I don’t care.”
“Good! Mr. Hang, good night! Remember to think of me in your dreams!”
Jiang Nan’an didn’t look back, just raised his hand and waved, which counted as an “acknowledged.”
He returned to the dormitory alone. When he entered, Sheng Yujia had just finished showering and was coming out of the bathroom. Seeing him, he casually asked: “You’re back?”
“Mm.”
Jiang Nan’an took off his jacket and went to the table to pour himself a glass of water.
Meanwhile, Sheng Yujia sat down on the bed while drying his hair, picked up his phone, and casually tapped a few times:
“Weibo is really lively tonight.”
“Yes, it is.”
“You’ve seen it?” Sheng Yujia was a bit surprised, since he had lived with Jiang Nan’an for over a month and seemed to have never seen him touch any electronic device other than the training room computers.
“I have.” Jiang Nan’an paused, then added:
“Just now downstairs, Yan… Spring was looking at it.”
Sheng Yujia nodded, now remembering that Jiang Nan’an went night running with Spring every evening.
“You two get along well,” Sheng Yujia casually remarked.
“We don’t.” Sheng Yujia’s comment slightly shocked Jiang Nan’an, but after thinking about it, he changed his answer:
“It’s okay, I guess.”
As he spoke, he put down his water glass and grabbed some clean clothes, intending to go to the bathroom for a shower. But just as he started to walk away, he heard Sheng Yujia say behind him:
“You and he have a CP?”
“…” Teacher Sheng really knew how to bring up the worst topics.
“Boating at Guazhou?” Sheng Yujia’s phone played music with pink bubbles from the CP compilation video. After watching for a few seconds, he commented:
“So sweet.”
“?” Jiang Nan’an turned back in shock.
Who just said those two words?
It couldn’t be Sheng Yujia, could it?
Meeting his gaze, Sheng Yujia smiled subtly:
“Just joking. But I’ve never seen you this close to anyone before.”
“Close?” Jiang Nan’an didn’t think so:
“It’s just fans cross-shipping. Don’t look at it.”
Sheng Yujia nodded, but soon after, he let out a slightly confused “Hmm.”
Perhaps it was some kind of intuition, but Jiang Nan’an suddenly had a bad feeling.
“Um, Spring…”
“What?”
“Spring, he…”
Sheng Yujia seemed to want to speak but hesitated. Jiang Nan’an’s bad feeling made his brow throb, and he directly walked over to Sheng Yujia’s side.
Sheng Yujia consciously held up his phone for him to see.
[This is what: Who the hell wants to hype some stupid CP with your master? If your master is so noble, let him quit the show himself? @Jiang Nan’an get out and stop riding your Spring daddy’s coattails. By the way, who is this Jiang person? Which female celebrity is she? I’ve never heard of her?]
[World’s #1 SSSpring-replying to This is what: It was I who insisted on recording the show, it was I who insisted on accompanying him, it was I who created a CP with him. Why don’t you hate me? Huh? Why don’t you hate me?!!]
[Snow White and the Seven Little Idiots: @World’s #1 SSSpring, big brother, please stop riding coattails, okay? Why don’t you quit the show yourself? Can you be a decent person??? My Xiao Shan never hyped CPs even when filming, yet he gets latched onto by a game streamer. My baby is a chocolate cupcake-makes humans happy when eaten but kills dogs, ha.]
[World’s #1 SSSpring-replying to Snow White and the Seven Little Idiots: Wrong, wrong, wrong, it’s my fault! I love riding coattails! I love it the most! But how did you know I love chocolate! Thank you, so he’s a chocolate cupcake, that’s great, I will haunt him like a female ghost for all eternity! I unilaterally declare, Boating at Guazhou is real!! [red lips][heart][red lips][rose]]
“…”
Jiang Nan’an took a deep breath, his gaze lingering on the screen for a moment before slowly shifting to Sheng Yujia’s blank expression:
“How many years do you get for intentional homicide again?”
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