Chapter 83: CH 83

The news of Chen Yi’s contract with GE ending had already been released to the public. All of his fans who heard of it immediately clapped their hands with glee, hoping he would find a better company. 

Partially for possible future profit and partially because of a discreet “suggestion” from Fu Xiu Nian, Happy Star Entertainment extended an olive branch to Chen Yi. A few other companies had also offered some favourable conditions, but as Happy Star Ent. was the most generous and Fu Xiu Nian was an artist under HS, after a bit of consideration, Chen Yi signed on to HS.

The celebrity manager he was assigned to after his move was called An Ruo Yun, and she was a female who looked quite quiet and calm. The artists she had managed before were perhaps not the most popular, but they definitely stepped on some of the most stable career paths. Bringing her on to manage Chen Yi must have been a point of consideration from HS.

“An-Jie’s personality is quite nice. At least she won’t fight with you.”

Fu Xiu Nian spilled out the truth with this one line, and then he laughed at his own words. After all, more than half of the entertainment industry knew that Chen Yi had an explosive temper, being more inclined to listen to soft spoken advice than to firm, cold cut orders. HS was probably afraid that having a manager who couldn’t contain their impulsiveness would start a fight with Chen Yi and leave a bad taste in everyone’s mouths.

Chen Yi was currently removing the wrapping from his new furniture. After the multiple incidents of the paparazzi stalking his community gate, his address had been pretty much exposed. Chen Yi was still in the middle of his rise in fame, and out of concern for his own safety, he decided to move to a new home.

Coincidentally, it was in the same community as Fu Xiu Nian, in the same building, with the only difference being a flight of stairs.

Chen Yi cleaned up the garbage and conceitedly said, 

“Who said that nice personalities won’t fight with me? Your personality’s not bad and you still fight with me everyday.”

Fu Xiu Nian paused in surprise, 

“When have I ever fought with you?”

Chen Yi stuck a hand in his pocket and lazily walked to the kitchen. He opened the fridge and scanned the contents for a while before saying, 

“Fighting at night of course, as otherwise if it was for real, would you still be alive?”

Fu Xiu Nian fighting: a push gets sent over.

Chen Yi fighting: a fist gets pummelled over.

The two cannot be compared.

Fu Xiu Nian naturally did not fail to live up to Chen Yi’s judgment. Hearing these words, he immediately stopped wiping the tables and came up right behind Chen Yi to push him, 

“If we do fight for real, you wouldn’t let me win?”

He had never really done anything to Chen Yi. At most when he got angry, a push here or there was all that greeted him.

Chen Yi didn’t move, thinking that Fu Xiu Nian was quite childish, 

“Only preschool girls would push people and you say you are not a little girl. If you admit to being a little girl, I will let you win in a fight.”

Fu Xiu Nian said, 

“Who said that? Preschool girls just pull hair when they fight. I have never seen them push others.”

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Chen Yi’s mood turned even better, 

“Sounds like your hair has been pulled before.”

Fu Xiu Nian explained, 

“I have never experienced it, but I have seen it. My younger cousin is vicious in her preschool fights. Four other people couldn’t beat her by herself.”

Chen Yi’s smile grew on his face even if he was not quite laughing on the inside, 

“You aren’t even better than your younger cousin, what are you so proud of.”

Others stanned Meng Yu and Yan Dao Ning’s relationship as archenemies and those CP fans also started sharing their videos and pictures and stories which made it super easy to get into. Stan with them?

Yu-Lu CP fans: Fuck off!!! Rather nibble on melon seeds than nibble on your CP!1

There was a quite high levelled and knowledgeable editor who could edit videos with such a perfect grasp on the precision of camera pans and cuts, having a great sense of the timing and emotions of the scenes that she had amassed quite a lot of fans. When she fell into the hole of Yu-Lu CP, she used her skills to find all the sugar bits hiding in the camera frames and at last released a video filled with nothing but sugar and more sugar.

The video highlighted the uncontainable like of Fu Xiu Nian, and he was almost always smiling during the whole drama, but only towards Chen Yi. It was a smile that came from the heart; one that could even gentle his eyes as he looked upon Chen Yi.

Yu-Lu CP stans who were in the midst of nibbling on their CP watched this video to heal their shattered hearts. But then they discovered that this high tech boss editor had actually put out a video that would take their lives away at the very end.

In his all white robe, Lu Shuang, stood in the sea of blood and death and raised his sword at Meng Yu. In that frosty glimpse as the sword fell, fresh blood spilled at his feet. Meng Yu’s body finally couldn’t hold up anymore and collapsed with a thunderous sound, with only his eyes sealed with the image of that white robed shadow.

The background was full of soldiers bowing on the ground and yelling out for their new emperor, protecting the crown prince as he took his throne. Only Lu Shuang stood, standing in his original place and only when Meng Yu finally closed his eyes, did he use his sleeves to slowly wipe that blade tainted with blood.

A white robe not even tainted with dust had now been seeped with blood.

The video slowly faded, leaving only a warm male voice in a voice over, which was from the first episode, a line from Lu Shuang —

“I want to be a loyal official, helping a righteous Emperor to his rightful throne. This is something Lu Shuang should do.”

And yet at the end, he was not his loyal official, and he was not his righteous emperor.

Yu-Lu CP fans suffered a heavy and fatal blow from this edited cut. They coughed up blood and yelled out: Someone… Someone … call the ambulance and also send this video covering itself in a façade of sugar and sweet love but is instead full of glass shards away……

Also, this editor must have been a spy that infiltrated our headquarters!!!

Notes:

*1 what the title implies and this sentence implies, kind of taking on how “nibbling on melon seeds” is like enjoying or snacking on this thing you like so hence “nibble on CP”. In this way, a bit different from the popcorn as I like to compare this saying to, melon seeds are very addictive. You don’t stop with just one (nor with just a handful), and of course, having something to nibble on is a common pastime. In this case, “nibbling on cp” means you can’t stop consuming the cp and all related things about them, and you basically just enjoy the cp just like melon seeds.

TL Tidbits:

Maybe not so interesting note, you may have already noticed but the ending here is a bit of a play on historical dramas where usually a high status person like the Emperor hears something bad, something that makes them cough up their blood and they are technically calling for their “servants” to come to deal with the mess.

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