Chapter 73: CH 73

Most celebrities would not personally head into the battlefield that is the internet by themselves to fight. They would normally choose to use the power of their fans to fight back, and so situations like Chen Yi were very rare. 

Fu Xiu Nian had allowed and specifically made sure that notifications would pop up for Chen Yi’s every activity. And so he had the pleasure to watch him personally and in real time roast the antis back the way they came, making them degrade into children and leaving them yelling curses as a final resort.

Perhaps a few days later, the Edited Sketches section would have a new topic to go for, and this time Fu Xiu Nian could even guess the title — << Those Years Chen Yi retorted back at the antis >>.

It had been a few days since Fu Xiu Nian checked on the official fan group page, and when he took the chance to, he was shocked to find the number that did not even reach a hundred break through the thousand mark and every minute was 99＋ messages. There were even sectioned off groups.

When Li Su Li first signed her contract with GE, it was for twenty years, and now that she was fighting in the courts to break off her contract with GE, she was letting loose all the unimaginable news and also at the same time, selling out the image that she was pitiful. 

With her image of being so pitiful contrasted by the despicable and deplorable image of GE, the tide was slowly turning her way. Even with GE buying a lot of bot armies to support their side, they were still on the losing side. This also meant that Zhou Ming was too busy to even deal with Chen Yi.

Nonstop monster killing noises sounded in the living room and it didn’t seem to be stopping anytime soon. Chen Yi finally threw his phone to the side and rocked his head around to stretch it. He asked Fu Xiu Nian, 

“What are we eating tonight?”

These last few days he had spent most of his waking hours with Fu Xiu Nian and only when evening came would he head back home to spend time with his sister. This way, not only did he successfully avoid Chen Xiao Meng’s three meals of the day, he could take care of both sides. A perfect solution for everything.

Fu Xiu Nian sat on the couch, with his laptop in his lap. His webpage was all in english characters and hearing this, he sped up his typing speed. When he successfully sent the file he was working on, he closed his laptop and asked, 

“What do you want to eat?”

“I don’t know.”

Chen Yi lazily rested on the couch, scrolling through his phone. His side profile made him look like a handsome child and when he talked, he elongated some syllables, making it feel like he was just fending Fu Xiu Nian off.

Fu Xiu Nian silently looked at him but did not successfully get any of Chen Yi’s attention. He couldn’t help but crouch right in front of him, and with both of his hands on his knees, he asked very seriously, 

“…… Chen Yi, say it honestly. Are you with me because you pity me?”

“Hmm?”

Chen Yi raised his eyebrow slightly and turned his gaze away from his phone, 

“Do I look like I’m that generous of a person?”

Fu Xiu Nian was silent for a moment before replying, 

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“…… I always feel like there’s no difference between me and any other person in your heart.”

Chen Yi was not used to showing off any of his feelings on the exterior and even if he liked someone, they would not see him act more gentle or different to them. Even normal interactions would not show a single hint of that. No matter what, his face would always show off that cold conceited expression, like the roaming adventurer in games, never settling down. Ever since the start of their relationship, Fu Xiu Nian had never felt safe after that initial happiness.

The new manager from GE was called Ning Tong, and she was a girl that did not look very old. Ever since Chen Yi had done what he had done online, he was considered to be the hardest artist to manage in GE. There were even rumors that Zhou Ming was admitted to the hospital because of him. So Ning Tong was very courteous to Chen Yi, not even saying his name without it being referenced with respect.1

“Yi-Ge, there are a few scripts here that the higher ups want you to pick from. See which one you are interested in. There are school dramas, ancient eras, CEOs and business dramas, quite a set of combinations to pick from.”

Chen Yi had become a very hot commodity recently and so GE would have no reason to let that go to waste. Compared to being on the back burner, it was naturally better to get the most out of him with what they could. Ning Tong grabbed a thick stack of papers, all of them scripts, out of her backpack to give to Chen Yi.

Chen Xiao Meng leaned on her crutches, as she poured Ning Tong a glass of water, and grabbed two cold beverages from the fridge. She smiled and greeted her before heading back into the room, which made Ning Tong’s good feelings for her increase.

Chen Yi was just flipping through the scripts and he heard Ning Tong say, 

“Yi-Ge you have such luck. Your wife is so pretty.”

Chen Yi didn’t even lift up his head to reply, 

“I’m not married. She’s my sister.”

Ning Tong was a little shocked and then quickly smiled and zipped her mouth shut. Chen Yi did not take long to read most of the film scripts and found that most of them were pretty terrible. Some of them included web dramas and those were an even bigger pile of mess.

Chen Yi asked, 

“Do I need to choose one?”

Ning Tong nodded her head.

Chen Yi randomly picked a script out of the pile and said, 

“Then this one, << Minister >>.”

Notes:

*1 There are a few intricate ways of speaking to refer to someone with respect. One of which is the word “you”. When Ning Tong speaks to Chen Yi, she is actually using the formal “you” that says the you, with all great due respect etc. Consider her speech as very very polite as if a subordinate to a boss, a junior to their very old senior. If you know languages like Japanese or Korean or French, it is the polite version of their speech.

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