Chapter 58

Translated by boilpoil Edited by boilpoil

Liu Yu’an searches directly for the account MyAnan on WeChat. And the apparently most Relevant post right now from him is, [Together forever @Liu_Yu’an☑️]

No wonder they say it’s busted. It’s busted alright.

“I see~” Liu Yu’an says with a chuckle.

Shao Yanxi seems spooked by what he just said, almost dropping his egg tart in the process too.

He really has so much embarrassing stuff in that alt. It was not much at first, because Liu Yu’an did not let his team access his account and doesn’t interact with fans online either, mostly he would use his alt to argue with anti-fans who are smearing Liu Yu’an——What might have once been termed an Internet flame war.

But then later, a bit after their marriage to be precise, because Liu Yu’an had started to rise in popularity appearing in some ads and in Evernight and in the wilderness survival show, and most of the fans are drawn to Liu Yu’an’s handsomeness and are confessing in that fangirl way, he got jealous as he discovered his reignited feelings for Liu Yu’an and…

Shao Yanxi’s face grows redder and redder until the redness spreads down to his neck.

When Liu Yu’an is mechanically reading out ‘A-a-a-ah, what, an, amazing, beauty, boy, I’m, in, love;’ ‘ge-ge, so, capable,’ Shao Yanxi couldn’t take it anymore and says, “I didn’t rest well last night. I’m getting some more sleep.”

Then he gets up and, is stopped by Liu Yu’an.

He slept from early morning until 1 in the afternoon. ‘Didn’t rest well’?

And also rested really well all the way to work until just now? When he started reading the posts out loud?

Liu Yu’an fiendishly decides to lock him in his embrace, saying, “don’t move. If you do, then gege will not spare you for the day.”

Shao Yanxi’s face is both grim and reddened from the frustration and the embarrassment, though he does remain seated.

Then Liu Yu’an puts his head onto his shoulder and encircles him with his hands, holding the phone in front of the both of them and slowly scrolls through.

Suddenly Liu Yu’an comes upon a post where Shao Yanxi refers to him as ‘hubby,’ and seems pretty intrigued.

Shao Yanxi also notices it and quickly closes the phone screen, and then tells him, like an elder telling the kids to behave, “don’t stare at your phone the whole day. You should practise your work if you have the time.”

Liu Yu’an starts laughing.

He doesn’t try to turn the phone screen back on and says, “sure, I’ll definitely practise if I have the time.”

“Yes, you’re an actor and acting skills make or break you. Without them you couldn’t walk far no matter how many contracts you’re offered,” Shao Yanxi says, but darting his gaze away from Liu Yu’an, because he remembers how Liu Yu’an’s acting skills have improved dramatically.

He feels like asking if he also reincarnated into the past like him, but still fails to ask.

Liu Yu’an says ‘ok’ and plants a kiss on Shao Yanxi’s cheek, and turns the phone back on while he’s distracted, to read that [Aaaah my hubby is so handsome, I can!] again.

Shao Yanxi’s forehead twitches, and reflexively tries to smack the phone out of Liu Yu’an’s hand… But he stops.

He has already decided not to delete this account, and the contents here are already reposted everywhere online.

Even if he could smack it away now, he couldn’t smack it away forever.

Shao Yanxi decides to stop struggling. Make the pain come at once rather than staying anxious all the time, he decides.

Liu Yu’an is a bit surprised Shao Yanxi stopped himself at first but then starts laughing again when he sees Shao Yanxi’s face that looks like he’s a martyr about to face his death.

If he’s made the resolve already, then it would really kill the mood if he doesn’t actually do anything, right?

So Liu Yu’an clears his throat, and says, teasingly, “I didn’t realise you enjoyed calling me that online.”

Shao Yanxi’s body is growing stiffer and stiffer. Liu Yu’an feels it, and locks him into his embrace a bit firmer, making his back stick to his chest closely, “it sounds nice, doesn’t it? I like it very much, so why not call me by that from now on?”

Then he quickly adds before Shao Yanxi could say anything, “look at all the other people calling me hubby online, but you’re the only one to get to call me that in real life. You lucky you.”

“Shameless,” Shao Yanxi says, oddly not so anxious anymore after that as he retorts.

Then Liu Yu’an decides to give him a critical hit, “besides, it’s not like you’ve never called me that before.”

That reminds Shao Yanxi of the usual circumstances that he calls Liu Yu’an hubby in and his body goes beet-red again. He quickly turns as much as he could and puts his hand onto Liu Yu’an’s mouth, ordering, “shut up!”

… Then his palm gets licked.

As if scalded, Shao Yanxi quickly retreats and looks at Liu Yu’an with disbelief.

After a while, he finally blurts out, “it’s dirty!!!”

“Dirty what? Is there anywhere on your body that I haven’t l-”

His mouth gets covered up again.

And Shao Yanxi quickly opens up his contacts with his other hand to call assistant He.

Liu Yu’an “?”

When the assistant picks up the call, Liu Yu’an finally realises what Shao Yanxi wants to do when he says, “assistant He, call up a few guards…”

Whoops, looks like he went overboard this time.

He quickly turns Shao Yanxi’s head back around and takes away his phone, telling the assistant after clearing his throat, “everything’s fine, assistant He. Please do not be alarmed and keep on doing what you were doing.”

Then he hangs up.

Assistant He “???”

Mystified, the assistant thinks for a little before deciding to still call security after all, just in case.

He even gets slightly worried when the door isn’t opening after they’ve been knocking for half a minute, but then, he sees Liu Yu’an opening the door, with a fresh bite mark on his neck.

Assistant He “…”

Liu Yu’an gives him a glance as he blocks the assistant’s curious gaze towards the interior and says, “didn’t I tell you there’s nothing wrong?”

Assistant He “…”

Can someone tell him what is happening?

The security detail, after getting called up all of a sudden, has to go back to their post again now, and look at each other nonplussed.

Though while they may be unhappy about it, they don’t really dare complain; they’re getting paid for this, after all. Paid pretty well too, for that matter.

After sending the assistant away, Liu Yu’an locks the door and walks back, where Shao Yanxi is sitting on his desk but not working.

Instead, he is having some deep thoughts about the progression of events after Liu Yu’an ran away from their wedding the last time. He fell into absolute infamy after that online, but he could only face it alone.

Everything is different this time around. Liu Yu’an didn’t run away. In fact, they did marry each other and even went public. He could see it online too, the majority are blessing them and wishing them well.

It is really a stark contrast to the other future where he forced Liu Yu’an to marry him using his power but he still ran away in the end.

Shao Yanxi is staring blankly at Liu Yu’an while he has been thinking. Though Liu Yu’an doesn’t know, and just sees that Shao Yanxi has washed his face and fixed his hair already, and decides not to tease him anymore, and asks, “going to work now?”

“Yeah, there are still some things to deal with. What about you?”

“I’ll stay here with you.”

“You don’t have anything else going on?”

After ‘Evernight,’ Liu Yu’an hasn’t looked at new work yet.

“I’ll go to the company tomorrow to see if there’s anything new for me to do.”

“I see,” Shao Yanxi wanted to say he can have the company send the offers for him here, but then Liu Yu’an would probably use that as an excuse to cling to him for a few more days. He decides not to do that.

Liu Yu’an really is getting bolder by the day. He used to behave himself when he’s here, sitting on the sofa and doing his own thing or going to sleep in the resting room.

Instead of now when he would… sometimes come feel him up or whatever, making him afraid of even people knocking on his door.

Not that he really has an image to maintain now after that alt has been busted, but that doesn’t stop him from trying.

The next day, Liu Yu’an heads for his company just after 10. Since he’s heading there anyway, he didn’t call last night and instead he gets some food and drinks here on his way and apologises to Ren Jianzhang and the team working for him the day before. They seem pretty surprised to be so formally thanked for their work for him and even apologising for making them work through the night earlier, but they’re pretty touched and honoured to be respected as well.

After that, Ren Jianzhang and he goes to see Ning Xi, who takes out all the offers the company has received right now and lays it out on his desk, “they’re all here.”

Then he starts pointing at the pile, explaining, “here are the idol dramas, both dynastic and modern settings; this is the only non-idol drama auditioning right now. It’s a big production with a famous director, but the leads are already confirmed. There are only side characters left for you; these ones are intellectual properties we’ve bought,” bought but not yet used. If Liu Yu’an is interested, though, they can just set up a team now, “and everything else is in this pile.”

Liu Yu’an can feel his eyes spinning at the dozens of scripts here. He says, “can you send the good ones to Ren-ge’s mailbox?”

Ren Jianzhang is currently flipping through them casually. There are probably a few good ones at best among dozens.

Suddenly, Liu Yu’an yells out, “wait!”

Ren Jianzhang is spooked and freezes, which lets Liu Yu’an just pick the script out from his hand.

“What is it?” Ning Xi asks as Ren Jianzhang turns to look at the script in question.

Liu Yu’an doesn’t answer, however. Instead, with a stern expression, he puts the script away and quickly starts flipping through the rest of the scripts himself.

The atmosphere has grown rather tense in the office as Ren Jianzhang and Ning Xi look at each other, confusion visible on the other’s face.

When Liu Yu’an is done flipping through them, Ning Xi asks again, “is anything wrong?”

Liu Yu’an replies, “wait a bit,” as he takes three scripts from the pile and starts looking through them again.

Finally, he puts the three scripts down on the desk and asks, “where are these three scripts from?”

“Uh, is there a problem?” Ning Xi is baffled by the question. He picks one up and skims through it a little. Isn’t it just an ordinary romance drama?

Though he’d have to look it up now that the young master Liu here wants to know.

“I’ll look it up.”

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