Chapter 24

Chu Yu originally thought that his blurting out of "He is my long-lost brother" under Lu Yiyang's constant curious questioning was outrageous enough, but in the other side, where he couldn't see, at the end of the team led by Fu Hansong, Luo Jiayu had just pulled Jing Yan to sit in the corner, and he opened his mouth with a weathered sigh:

"You don't know how heavy the snow was when I picked him up."

"How big?"

"It was very loud." Luo Jiayu said seriously, "So loud that I couldn't even hear him calling me dad."

"Luo Jiayu, Jing Yan, come here for a moment. We need to discuss which song to choose."

Just when they were talking, Jiang Chenglu waved in their direction with the usual gentle and shy smile of the protagonist of Little White Flower on his face.

"Host," the system suddenly appeared, speaking in that cold, emotionless voice typical of its working life. "This is a crucial turning point in your character's story."

"In the novel, Jiang Chenglu was so impressed by your debut stage performance that he asked Fu Hansong to recruit you."

Luo Jiayu peeled off the wrapper of the milk candy he had just received from Chu Yu, put it in his mouth, chewed it, and asked, "And then?"

“And then your heart moved.”

"?" The milk candy stuck to his teeth, and Luo Jiayu had a hard time chewing it. He frowned and squinted his eyes. "Sometimes I do look worthless, but I'm not that worthless."

The system ignored his words and continued explaining the original plot of the novel:

"In the novel, you had a tragic childhood and were neglected and abused as a teenager, which led to your gloomy personality as an adult. It was Jiang Chenglu's warm and gentle attitude that made you feel his kindness for the first time. However, due to the relationship between Wei Ziyu and Jiang Chenglu, your love for them soon turned to hatred, and you secretly set many obstacles for them. In the end, you completely turned evil and became the main villain."

"What a shame." Luo Jiayu swallowed the candy and casually folded the candy wrapper into a strange, bizarre thing. "I had a very happy childhood and an extremely happy youth. I didn't need his care."

After saying this, he proudly showed the system the strange thing in his hand: "How about my exquisite craftsmanship."

"What is this?"

"Love." Luo Jiayu was surprised and continued to pat the abstract work in his hand. "Doesn't it look like it?"

The system is hard to describe: "...whatever you say is what it is."

"Why are you folding this? Who are you planning to give it to?"

Before Luo Jiayu could reply, Fu Hansong, who was at the front of the group, spoke first. He was in the center of the crowd, his eyes fixed on him:

"What are you still doing standing there? Talking to yourself all the time. Are you hysterical?"

Upon hearing this, Luo Jiayu slapped his face hard, creating a little artificial blush, then nonchalantly raised the corners of his mouth and deliberately walked forward.

Then, as Jiang Chenglu pulled Fu Hansong's sleeve and winked at him, Fu Hansong glanced at him gloomily and hostilely, and Wei Ziyu stood by and watched him silently, he suddenly smiled and handed over the four-shaped heart he had just folded: "This is for you."

The three were shocked.

They had never seen this trend before.

Fu Hansong slowly lowered his head to look at the abstract ugly thing in front of him. Based on the pattern and color, he could vaguely recognize that it was the candy that Luo Jiayu had snatched away from Chu Yu before he had time to take it from her.

His face twisted for a moment, and then a vein slowly popped up in his temple.

[Ding Dong, character Fu Hansong's favorability towards host Luo Jiayu is -10. Please keep up the good work~]

Luo Jiayu's smile deepened after hearing the announcement, and he handed it forward again: "Take it."

[Ding Dong, character Fu Hansong's favorability towards host Luo Jiayu is -10. Please keep up the good work~]

Fu Hansong raised his eyes and glared at the person in front of him, but he was probably blinded by the sunny smile of the extremely cheerful and handsome guy. He snorted coldly, crossed his arms and stalemated with the person for a while, and finally stretched out his hand perfunctorily.

Then I got nothing.

Luo Jiayu quickly withdrew his hand and put his masterpiece back into his coat pocket, still maintaining his sunny smile of a cheerful and handsome man: "I wouldn't give it to you even if I threw it away."

"..." What a psycho! He doesn't even want this kind of rubbish handicraft!

[Ding Dong, character Fu Hansong's favorability towards host Luo Jiayu has dropped by -100, triggering the system's automatic reply reminder: When I asked you to keep up the good work, I didn't mean this kind of hard work!]

"...What are you doing?" The system asked a soul-searching question.

Luo Jiayu remained calm, "We're conducting a social psychology experiment. The specific practical project is to stir up trouble as much as possible and muddy the waters. We'll see if the Shura Field will continue after we twist the three of them into a Chinese knot."

"Don't use a false academic veneer to mask your shallow motives." The system narrowed its eyes authoritatively. "Summarize it for me in two words."

Luo Jiayu: "It's fun."

The first three protagonists from the original novel were discussing which song to choose. As the most watched team in the entire hall, there was basically no one who dared to choose the same song to compete with them on the same stage. They were in a sideways state throughout the performance. The only intense competition might be the internal competition.

"I think this song is a good choice. The vocal, dance, and rap parts are all well-balanced. Everyone's strengths can be brought into play, and the final performance will be very cohesive."

The peace-loving little white flower Jiang Chenglu pointed to one of the energetic singing and dancing songs that was not difficult and spoke softly.

According to the plot, the prince, who is still separated from his childhood sweetheart and has not yet reconciled, will silently cast the first vote of support, thereby gaining Jiang Chenglu's first wave of favor;

The character of Luo Jiayu is positioned as an ACE, and he has a good impression of Jiang Chenglu, so he agreed to this proposal. In the end, the song nominated by Jiang Chenglu successfully became the performance song for their first public performance.

The only rebellious one is Fu Hansong.

"I think this one is also very good." Fu Hansong pointed persistently at another sexy and technical song which was more difficult, had more solo parts, was mainly dance-based, and had rap as its highlight, and said unwillingly.

His raps that are as sparky as lightning are not practiced in vain!

Wei Ziyu took a look and said nothing.

He actually prefers that song. He is the main dancer, so choosing Fu Hansong's song will definitely have more highlights and be more eye-catching.

But who can blame the plot for setting him up as a proud and stubborn love-brained person in the early stage? If he doesn't choose the same song, he can't even unlock the first face-to-face conversation with his wife.

When it was Luo Jiayu's turn to express his opinion, he raised his head lazily and smiled lazily: "I listen to the captain."

Everyone was shocked.

Fu Hansong was even more shocked.

[Ding Dong, character Fu Hansong's favorability towards host Luo Jiayu has dropped by 10. Congratulations to the host for receiving two character-exclusive short reviews, one from Fu Hansong: "The weasel pays New Year's greetings to the chicken with no good intentions."]

Luo Jiayu poked the system: What is my current favorability with Brother Kabug?

System query: "Let me check... 0."

Luo Jiayu raised an eyebrow: Didn’t he deduct almost 200 points of favorability from me?

System: "The Chuanshuju Favorability System does not use negative numbers when counting. Once the deducted favorability falls below 0, it will be counted as 0."

I see. Luo Jiayu pondered.

Then his hatred is quite cheap.

In the end, the song chosen by Fu Hansong was successfully selected with a slight advantage of one vote. Luo Jiayu was very satisfied and bravely raised his hand to compete during the discussion of the C position candidate and the allocation of various highlight parts.

Fu Hansong soon discovered that this bad guy who wore the same sunglasses as him and stole his candy suddenly said that he listened to him not because he fell in love with him, but because he wanted to take away all his parts.

Just like locusts swarming across the land and harvesting leeks, Luo Jiayu grabbed all the highlights, solos and C positions that required a battle. He never came down from the stage from the beginning to the end of the discussion.

So naturally he got the most eye-catching rap solo in the whole song.

Wei Ziyu was originally sitting on the side with his chin in his hand, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised, calm and unmoved. He thought that his good brother had chosen this song in order to be the center and compete for the camera, but ended up running into a colleague who had never competed before. He really shot himself in the foot.

The next second, Luo Jiayu's carefree voice pierced his eardrums in a straight line: "Next is the main dance battle, who's up?"

ah?

Nearing noon that day, the first training session came to a temporary end. The others went to eat or buy water. Luo Jiayu leaned against the wall of the practice room and openly chatted with the system: "It's all garbage."

Since the protagonists in the novel are not from professional backgrounds, their strength is not even the best in the camp, and the other supporting characters are only weaker in order to highlight the strength of the protagonists. Luo Jiayu is like playing a tower climbing game, killing one after another, and finally climbing to the top of the tower easily.

"You're a bit too arrogant, host."

Luo Jiayu stretched leisurely: "I know I'm a genius."

Everyone has their own talents. He realized very early on that, apart from a mouth that made people want to hit him, his talents were basically all in skills related to the entertainment industry.

If one were to ask when he had this clear understanding, it was probably when he was once commissioned by his father to negotiate a deal with someone for a cost price of one million. In the end, the deal was successfully completed at a perfect price of one million and one hundred and ten thousand. That night, his father called him across the border and scolded him.

That night after being scolded, he wrote the lyrics of his first diss-themed rap song all night while sobbing on a video call with Chu Yu with red eyes. He then entered it into an underground rap competition and made it into the top three.

It is said that after failure in business one will eventually succeed in life, and talent comes as fast as a tornado.

"Except for singing." Luo Jiayu sighed, "I still can't sing as well as that guy."

"Who?"

"That one."

"Can't you just say his name?"

"Let's go." Luo Jiayu stepped out the door, "Let's go find that guy to play with."

Just a few steps down the corridor was the practice room assigned to Chu Yu and his team. From a great distance away, a heart-wrenching announcement pierced the air and reached the ears of everyone and their system:

[Fuck it, I'm quitting work and going to the Amazon to be a monkey! Roar! Turn into a monkey! Swing around! Grab tourists' wallets! Slap everyone with a big slap! Roar! Swing around! Smash every monkey that passes by and eats bananas!]

Then came the dying voice of System Teacher Zhao: "Host, calm down. I can't type the code to repair my eardrum anymore..."

Five seconds later, Lu Yiyang and Xue Liu walked out of the practice room with grins on their faces. One was scratching his hair and the other was picking his ears. The expressions on their faces revealed that they had just been saved by some crazy Bodhisattva.

"Do monkeys in the Amazon really slap tourists in the face?" Lu Yiyang suddenly turned around and asked Xue Liu in a low voice.

Xue Liu was puzzled: "I don't know, I've never been one."

After saying that, he tutted his tongue and rubbed his ear meaningfully: "My eardrum hurts."

Lu Yiyang lowered his head and thought: "I suddenly want to eat bananas."

Before he could finish his words, Xue Liu slapped him in the face.

Lu Yiyang rubbed his red face and pursed his lips: "Let's go, let's eat. I'm so hungry."

Before Xue Liu could say anything, a louder roar of boiling water exploded simultaneously inside and outside the room:

[Roar! I'll fucking grab the vines! I'll swing! I'll just steal the banana from the monkey next door! I'll fucking swing again! I'll kill all the monkeys that pass by and eat bananas! I'll kill all the monkeys that pass by and eat bananas! I'll kill all the monkeys that pass by and eat bananas! I'm the number one monkey king in the Amazon!]

"...walk, walk, walk, walk, walk, walk."

"Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha..." Luo Jiayu watched the two brothers running all the way to the blind spot at the stairs in the distance where there was no camera, and then laughed as happily as the grandparents of the child next door who said they wanted to be astronauts.

A handsome guy curled his lips, put on his sunglasses, posed, and made a grand entrance facing someone in the practice room:

"Hey, did you miss me?"

What responded to him was Chu Yu's half-dead, expressionless face.

Chu Yu had just finished practicing the dance moves with difficulty following Lu Yiyang and Xue Liu, and was now slumped in the corner, staring at herself in the large mirror opposite.

After a morning of group training and additional individual training, Chu Yu's current learning progress remains at approximately 0.01%, which is reflected in the fact that he knows that the opening action is to turn right instead of left.

Xue Liu was so moved by the astonishing progress that he stared at the wall and pondered his life for the entire morning, but he still couldn't figure out what went wrong.

Chu Yu slowly turned her head to look at the handsome man at the door, who was posing as if he was almost holding a rose in his mouth, and then slowly turned her head back: "Not really, I want to die more."

Luo Jiayu felt his legs were a little sore from standing like that for so long, so he adjusted his sunglasses and sat down next to Chu Yu, playing the role of a mushroom in the corner with him.

"How's your training going? Do you need some all-knowing, understanding, free, and caring gold medal ACE coach to come and give you some guidance?"

Teacher Zhao played the newly recorded video of Chu Yu practicing dancing at the right moment. Luo Jiayu watched the whole thing solemnly. It was exactly the same level as he remembered.

"This dance is more or less vicious."

Chu Yu squinted her eyes and turned to look at him, a serene smile on her lips: "If you say one more word, a little boy will break into pieces tonight."

"What do your teammates say?"

Chu Yu collapsed to the ground, staring at the ceiling with his eyes closed, muttering to himself, "Lu Yiyang doesn't think it's a big problem. He confidently said that the goddess Lao Ganma had just appeared in his dream yesterday, saying that she had blessed the disciples and that I would definitely learn it within three days."

"..." Luo Jiayu raised an eyebrow, puzzled, "Is this even possible?"

He had never seen such a determined idealist fighter.

Chu Yu got up again. He had been leaning against the wall, concentrating on being autistic. Then he was surprised to find that the person in the mirror had alopecia, so he raised his hand to touch it. The alopecia swayed like a mimosa.

It's quite fun.

"Come on, let's eat first. Man is made of iron and rice is steel. You will feel hungry if you don't eat." Luo Jiayu rushed over, bent down, grabbed his hand and pulled him towards the door, while rubbing his head with the other hand.

"Let's talk about dancing later. It's still a long time before the performance. I can solve all your problems for you."

"!" Luo Jiayu smoothed down the shaky ahoge hair in just a few strokes. Chu Yu was furious and pushed away the petite hand, "You're petting the dog!"

The technique is exactly the same as the one he uses to touch his Samoyed.

Luo Jiayu thought for a while after hearing this, then pulled his finger and pointed at his head: "How about you pull it back?"

"?" That's like two dogs licking each other's fur. Chu Yu refused sternly, "I won't."

"Then let's eat." Luo Jiayu pointed his hand towards the cafeteria building outside the window in front of him with great enthusiasm, like a captain in a hot-blooded comic who was about to take his team to set sail to a distant place.

"Let's go! Our journey includes steamed crabs, fried pork ribs, hot pot squirrel, mandarin fish with spicy sauce, fried rice, fried noodles, and braised duck! Are you ready, kids?"

"I'm ready, Captain!" Chu Yu responded subconsciously, then realized something was wrong as he chewed. "No, there's only fried rice and fried noodles in the cafeteria. There's nothing like the dishes you mentioned."

After receiving the report from the crew, Luo Jiayu pondered for a moment, then looked at Chu Yu and said, "Shall we go eat some pancakes?"

"The pancakes in the cafeteria taste just so-so, not even as good as the ones you make." Chu Yu said as he stood up and let Luo Jiayu hold his hand, while he stretched with his other hand.

Luo Jiayu sighed and said, "How can my pancake-making skills be on par with those in the industry?"

The system in his brain couldn't help but ask, "You're the prince of Zhejiang Circle whose family owns a factory, and you're still selling pancakes?"

"When we were in high school, we skipped evening self-study to set up a stall outside the school to sell Jianbing Guozi. The market was booming, and our sales were booming that month."

Luo Jiayu's face lit up with joy when he talked about this experience. It was a rare brilliant stroke in his ugly business resume.

"?" the system asked.

How many shady things have you two done together as a team?

Chu Yu calmly added, "Yes, he made more than his order that cost one million and sold for one million."

Luo Jiayu turned around and accused: "You insulted me."

"I didn't, I stated the facts."

"You're exposing my past."

"I want my pancakes with bacon, pork tenderloin, and spicy pork floss sauce."

"I won't pay for you."

"The pancake window is quite popular, so go early or it will be crowded."

"I won't queue up for you to buy it either."

"Are you done yet?" Luo Jiayu's system was the first to lose its patience. "Are you still going to wipe your tears with a handkerchief like a nagging woman?"

"Ah." Luo Jiayu imagined the scene and felt a chill run down his spine. "That's not the case."

"Let's go, brother." Chu Yu weakly hooked his arm around his good brother's shoulder, "I'm starving."

Luo Jiayu turned her head to look at him, her eyes curved, "Calling me dad is fine, but calling me brother is a bit too ambiguous."

Chu Yu was so angry that he grabbed his head and pushed it to the ground. The camera in the corner faithfully recorded Capibara's first anger:

"You'd better let me kick you off the bridge and drink the water from the River of Forgetfulness!"