Chapter 28

Translated by boilpoil Edited by boilpoil

Given Shao Yanxi’s mother is in a difficult position, Liu Yu’an decides to talk with him about his siblings later.

At six, director Lang of the show sends him a message, [Xiao-Liu, are you free tonight? Everyone would like to treat Mr. Shao to a meal]

When the director sent the message there’s a group of people around him, including the producer and the actors and even set directors.

They are all staring at his own phone, and for the first time, the director realises how popular his phone is.

Liu Yu’an could guess what the people are thinking. He then turns to Shao Yanxi who’s on a call with his vice executives at the moment and asks when he is done, “the director wants to treat you to a meal, wanna go?”

Shao Yanxi looks down at his phone, “assistant He asked as well.”

Liu Yu’an thinks it might be because the director is afraid he’d miss the message so he asked a few people to relay the message.

“Then are you going?” Liu Yu’an asks.

“Sure,” Shao Yanxi says; he must go to declare his possession of Liu Yu’an in front of Yue Zhun.

Even if Liu Yu’an likes Yue Zhun he ‘s the one with him right now. He can’t back off.

Liu Yu’an has no idea Shao Yanxi has already resolved himself for a battlefield and just replies to the director [Sure]

Then follows up with [Has the food been decided yet?]

A bunch of people’s eyes light up seeing the reply and the producer is dramatically waving his hands about, saying, “quickly, tell him we’ll have a barbeque and ask him for advice.”

The director ‘mm’s and sends the message as is.

Liu Yu’an asks Shao Yanxi, “they’re saying barbeque, sound good?”

“Barbeque?”

“Yeah.”

A barbeque is similar to roasting meat, right? And he agrees, “sure.”

“Then that’s decided, I’ll tell them now,” and Liu Yu’an sends a message over. He receives a reply after a bit, [6:30 in the courtyard of the hotel. You’ll see it as soon as you come down here]

[Alright]

Then Liu Yu’an asks Shao Yanxi, “done with work yet?”

“In a bit,” Shao Yanxi then walks over to the sofa and continues working on his laptop.

Then Liu Yu’an also continues to open WeChat to surf.

And immediately he comes upon some ‘news’ scolding his company and him.

Oh, the company is unfair, and he’s the toy boy of some higher-up in the company…

Liu Yu’an chuckles. It’s not just some higher-up; they’d barely qualify. The one keeping him is the big boss behind all that, using a marriage certificate.

Then the exposé continues by saying that the company is piling all the resources and work of others onto him so that he could feed off everyone else, but he’s still as trash as he was, despite all the valiant efforts.

It’s demanding for the company to treat their geges and jiejies fairly, to give them all the work they deserve.

While the partiality is questionable at best, but the language isn’t as inflammatory as he would have expected. Liu Yu’an has already seen in the past how vile some things people spout online can get.

Just a greeting to sexual organs? That’s quaint compared to a full roster of the person’s ancestry to their entire extended family.

Thankfully he’s not the original cannon fodder, and isn’t exactly attached to his ancestors… Well, right, the original cannon fodder might not have cared either.

They’re similar in that they’re mentally strong.

Well, at least the original cannon fodder had to be to become such human scum in the first place. Otherwise, he’d have felt guilt.

Among the people scolding him in the comments, two of them going against the flow successfully piques his interest.

MyAnan and Blindfool.

These two accounts are replying to all the scolding one by one, telling the anti-fans about how good he is.

They’re undeniably his solid fans.

Sure enough, their WeChat accounts are boss-level fans in Liu Yu’an’s Weibo circle.

One is registered five years ago, another about a year ago, not long after the original cannon fodder debuted.

Scrolling through their posts show most are about him, and occasionally there are some other posts, but they’re very few in number.

Seeing how genuinely they seem to like him makes Liu Yu’an feel a bit embarrassed, but then soon enough Liu Yu’an discovers that… Some anti-fans of his are targeting them and scolding them.

“Shit,” just when there’s finally little cuties of his. What if they scold them away.

So Liu Yu’an who just learned how to give online red packets very happily bestows upon them $66 thousand RMB each, leaving a note in place saying, “you’re so cute.”

Then he feels his mood from all the scolding before improving. And looking at the time, it reads 18:26, so he raises his head to ask Shao Yanxi, “done yet?”

But he realises that Shao Yanxi isn’t working, but is instead playing with his phone with a blushed face.

As soon as he hears Liu Yu’an he quickly puts his phone into his pocket and says, “I’m done.”

“Alright, then let’s go to that barbeque.”

“Sure,” Shao Yanxi says, seeming to be in a good mood.

When he sees how Shao Yanxi is still wearing his suit, he stops him and takes out a short-sleeved shirt from his luggage and hands it over, “wear this.”

Shao Yanxi does and replies, “it’s too big.”

“It’s the smallest one I have,” outside of the bed Shao Yanxi keeps himself so firmly wrapped. This is the first time Liu Yu’an has seen him in short-sleeved clothes. His short-sleeved clothes. And Liu Yu’an has a big shit-eating grin, “just make do with it today, and ask assistant He to buy new ones for you tomorrow.”

Then he asks Shao Yanxi, “when will you be leaving?”

If he’s gone soon then he wouldn’t need new clothes, though.

“You don’t want me here?” Shao Yanxi looks up into Liu Yu’an’s eyes, the corner of his mouth flatlining.

“Of course I want you here,” Liu Yu’an quickly clears his own name, saying, “I’m just worried you might have work or something.”

“You were the one that said I’d promoted all these vice executives so I should put them to work instead.”

“…” Yeah, he did, but only because he keeps working until midnight every day, you know?

“If nothing’s up, then want to go home with me when the show’s done in two days?”

“Of course.” Shao Yanxi replies immediately.

Liu Yu’an “…”

As it’s still far from the holiday season, the production team were able to rent out the place.

When the two come downstairs, there’s only the team’s members plus an assistant He in the courtyard.

They’re greeted as they come outside. Naturally, besides assistant He everyone else is only greeting Liu Yu’an in form.

While Shao Yanxi is cold in appearance, but he does greet them back one by one. His good temperament is a surprise to everyone, making them all enthused.

And everyone is still rather spiked up on the adrenaline after half a day of mountain-climbing. So they all start presenting their roasted items to Shao Yanxi, “Mr. Shao, here, freshly grilled goat, try some?”

“Mr. Shao…”

…

The liveliest of the bunch are the two youngest here, Xu Bing and Lin Xi.

While the others are just as excited, they’re still keeping up their images and are rather courteous.

Even this is still making Shao Yanxi a bit uncomfortable.

He… Rarely has to face such open admiration for himself like this.

Most of the people he sees would be… reserved. Their most open expressiveness would at most be greeting him with a smile and patting him on the shoulder.

This kind is really rare.

It makes Shao Yanxi a bit flustered.

Liu Yu’an sees it and takes over, receiving the lamb from the producer in his stead, and says with a smile, “he’s just one person, he couldn’t possibly finish everything. So feel free to enjoy it yourselves, and let him be,” then hands the lamb over to Shao Yanxi.

Shao Yanxi says ‘thanks’ as he receives the lamb.

Then he repeats what he said, “thank you everyone, but you can let me be, thank you for the food.”

Since the two of them are being like that, while what they’re thinking inside is unknowable, but they all stop handing their food over on the surface.

Meanwhile, He Anran then says with a loud voice on the side, “sure, Mr. Shao, please eat first. You can tell us if you want anything else later.”

The team has prepared four racks. Many of the younger crew and people-persons are gathering by the racks.

“Certainly. Thank you,” Shao Yanxi replies.

Then the producer guides him to a seat in front of the table.

As they’ve just begun the barbeque, there’s only a bit of lamb and some chicken thighs and some vegetables on the table.

Shao Yanxi then starts eating the lamb Liu Yu’an handed over to him. When he bites into them, he realises it’s different from the lamb he had. There’s a special taste to it.

Others might not sense it, but he has a pretty sharp tongue. The taste is rather odd; disagreeable.

He furrows his brows slightly, and Liu Yu’an notices it.

So then he hands the vegetable he just roasted himself over, saying, “give it to me if you don’t want it. You can have this.”

Shao Yanxi hesitates. Usually, he would keep up his image, and even if he doesn’t like some food he would still not hand over the food he has taken a bite in over to someone else in public.

But, since he’s trying to declare his possession of Liu Yu’an here, he decides to hand the lamb over to Liu Yu’an and takes his vegetable.

Actually, Shao Yanxi didn’t need to do that, as Yue Zhun has already noticed him being in Liu Yu’an’s clothes when he came down, having knitted his brows already.

Yue Zhun doesn’t even know whether he should scold Liu Yu’an or sympathise with Shao Yanxi for falling for a human scum.

And of course, assistant He also noticed that earlier, his mouth twitched as he quietly took off his suit jacket, so that he wouldn’t be the only one remaining in a proper suit as everyone else had either casual short-sleeved clothes or dresses.

Originally there was still his boss Shao Yanxi with him, but now he’s rebelled and he’s alone.

The assistant could feel the awkwardness when the gazes of those celebrities keep drifting onto him. Though it didn’t show on his face either, having been working with Shao Yanxi for so long.

Anyhow, this declaration of possession by Shao Yanxi could be declared a success as everyone now knows Liu Yu’an is related to him. As for what that relationship is… Who knows how they are interpreting it.

Of course, it’s highly unlikely they think they’re actually in a romantic relationship, since this looks just like verification of the rumour that Liu Yu’an is a kept toy boy.

Though, to be honest, if the person keeping is Shao Yanxi… Even they’d be willing.

Really willing.

Author’s notes: I don’t actually use Weibo so I have no idea whether there are online red packets there. If it’s impossible then assume this is this world’s unique setting, alright?

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