The System said, "Host, your task is to complete the villainous plots: saving the amnesiac CEO with ulterior motives, drugging your brother-in-law, seducing your adoptive brother... Got it?"...
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Mu Xingye: "The production crew's car?"
Qingran: "Besides the production crew's car, where else can I get a car? Should I rent one on short notice?"
Qingran: "By the way, how did you end up in Yanshan Town?"
Mu Xingye: "There are direct buses from the city."
Should he praise Mu Xingye for being lucky enough to be recognized only when he arrived in town?
Mu Xingye: "I was just wandering around out of boredom, I didn't expect to be recognized."
Qingran teased, "Big star, do you have some kind of misconception about your fame?"
Mu Xingye: "I often shop like this when I'm abroad."
Qingran: "Oh, so that means there's a misconception about the country's population."
Mu Xingye was embarrassed by his teasing, and then he heard Qingran say, "I've borrowed the car. I'll send you Brother Wei's contact information, and you can communicate with him yourselves."
After finishing her call, Qingran personally thanked the director, then returned to her room amidst the various stares from the staff.
Just as Mu Xingye added Qingran as a friend and sent his location to her assistant, he received a call from Fix.
Fix's voice sounded weak and listless on the phone: "My little master, my little darling, why didn't you tell me you were going to Yanshi? How are you doing now? Are you stuck at the door by fans and unable to leave?"
Unfortunately, Mu Xingye couldn't leave the house: "..."
"How did you find out too?"
What do you mean by "even I know"?
Fix said indifferently, "Oh, you're trending."
At this moment, Mu Xingye really felt a headache coming on. It was just going out for a walk, why did this have to make it to the trending topics?
Since his debut, he has mainly worked abroad and has no real understanding of the treatment he receives as a top star in China, so he is genuinely puzzled by it.
After clearing up my doubts, let's answer Fix's question first.
"It's okay, someone will come to pick me up in a bit."
Fix didn't ask who it was, just as he didn't ask his young master why he was going to Salt City.
—A quick online search will reveal that Su Qingran is the latest surreptitious subject of the Yanshi TV show "Equally Matched".
“Be more careful next time you go out,” he advised. “Never mind, I’ll take the next available flight tonight.”
Mu Xingye was used to Fix having him around, so he didn't object. What puzzled him was, "I was all covered up, how did the fans recognize me?"
Fix: "You really think you're a good liar?"
Mu Xingye: "? Of course."
Fix posted a photo of himself taken online; he's a male model with a perfect body proportion, standing out even without looking at his face.
Have you seen Mu Xingye? Is he really as tall and handsome as he is in the pictures online?
At the guesthouse, the actors who had just finished showering were also discussing Mu Xingye.
The young actor playing the male lead joked, "Isn't the other person in town right now? Why don't you guys go and bump into her?"
The two actresses playing the female lead and the second female lead rolled their eyes at him.
Li Ying, who was standing next to her, suddenly remembered something and said, "Didn't Teacher Wu and Teacher Su just record the same program with Mu Xingye? If you're curious, why don't you ask them?"
Their eyes lit up.
A top-tier, handsome leading man—who wouldn't be curious about someone like that? Even the young actor playing the male lead and the other two regular MCs were secretly listening intently.
Wu Yang didn't participate in the conversation; he was sitting in the courtyard, bored and looking at the stars.
When asked if Mu Xingye is more handsome in person than he is online, Wu Yang: ⊙_⊙?
When asked what Mu Xingye's temper is like in private, Wu Yang: ⊙_⊙?
After asking around for a while, Wu Yang finally replied, "He doesn't talk to other artists much."
Thinking back carefully, that's indeed the case. The only time he took the initiative to speak was when he said that the song wasn't suitable for him. I don't know if he was talking to him or Su Qingran.
"He seems to have a rather aloof personality," the group concluded.
“Teacher Su!” Li Ying saw Qing Ran come out after taking a shower.
"Maki Hoshino-sensei was spotted by fans while hanging out in our town, and it's still trending on social media, have you heard?"
Qingran approached and nodded: "I heard it from the staff before I took a shower."
The girls asked curiously, "Are you familiar with Teacher Mu? Is he better looking in person than online?"
Qingran objectively commented, "Teacher Mu is indeed not very photogenic." He did not answer the question about whether they were familiar with each other.
Instead of pressing the issue, everyone started discussing whether Mu Xingye had broken free from the fan circle and left Yanshan Town.
Qingran sat to the side listening to everyone talk. During this time, her phone lit up. It was Brother Wei reporting that he had picked up Mu Xingye and was taking him back to Yanshi.
Li Ying looked up thoughtfully at the quiet young man, her phone displaying an analysis post discussing why Mu Xingye appeared in Yanshan Town.
The comments below are a mix of different opinions.
"Both Su and Wu are in Yanshan, so who is Mu targeting? Has anyone figured it out?"
"Can you stop being so sex-obsessed? Couldn't Mu Xingye have gone on vacation?"
"What a coincidence! And stop trying to argue upstairs. You're a talented singer; your relationship doesn't affect your status."
"[Eating melon seeds] I just want to know who it is."
First, they watched a performance, then they followed the train to the town, which wasn't even the salt market, but a small town.
It's really hard not to arouse suspicion.
The recording location the next day was still Yanshan Town. Everyone ran around the town all day for a treasure hunt game. Fortunately, the recording went smoothly and they finished on time in the evening.
The director clapped the clapperboard, everyone cheered and relaxed, and the staff busily packed up the equipment like ants moving house.
A staff member wearing an employee badge jogged in and said something to the director. The director looked surprised and subconsciously glanced at Su Qingran, who was talking to her assistant.
Li Ying noticed this and was a little confused, but she immediately understood after a moment.
Mu Xingye has arrived.
He arrived in a low-key manner, at least that's what Mu Xingye thought. He was wearing a disguise that had a mysterious effect of concealing his true nature but greatly enhanced his temperament, and he came with his assistant, Fix.
"Director Yue, thank you for your help yesterday," Fix said, extending his hand to thank the director. "Everyone worked hard filming the show. This is just a small token of our appreciation from Hoshino. Please have a cup of milk tea."
Director Yue said politely, "It was nothing, Teacher Mu, you're too kind."
The two shook hands and exchanged pleasantries, and in just a few words, the people around them understood the whole story.
The artists who hadn't left yet whispered to their friends or assistants, marveling that the production team had actually helped Mu Xingye escape from the fans yesterday; they had kept it a secret very well.
Then, after saying thank you, Teacher Mu, they excitedly ran off to choose what to eat.
The food cart offers a wide variety of drinks, including coffee, milk tea, and ice cream cones fresh from the freezer.
It's a great tool for cooling off in the summer.
The tall man stood discreetly at the back of the crowd, nodding occasionally to those who came to thank him or strike up a conversation.
He didn't move closer to Qingran to expose their relationship, but his gaze kept drifting past the crowd to where Qingran was from time to time.
Mu Xingye's arrival also surprised Qingran, as he hadn't told her in advance.
“There’s ice cream.” Wu Yang’s eyes lit up.
Qingran laughed: "Go get it if you want to eat it, otherwise your favorite flavors will be taken by others in a little while."
Wu Yang: "Aren't you going to eat?"
Qingran walked over with him.
The two of them each ordered an ice cream cone; Wu Yang's was original flavor, and Qing Ran's was taro flavor.
As the saying goes, "He who eats another's food is bound to do his bidding," and since every artist who had eaten something had thanked Mu Xingye, Wu Yang thought it was a necessary procedure: "Let's go and thank him too."
Qingran then walked with him to Mu Xingye.
Wu Yang said earnestly, "Thank you for the ice cream."
Qingran smiled and said, "Thank you, Teacher Mu."
Mu Xingye squinted at the two people standing side by side in front of him, who seemed particularly intimate, and suddenly asked, "Want to ride in my car later?"
Fix is indeed capable; he solved Mu Xingye's travel problem as soon as he arrived.
Qingran raised an eyebrow: "Okay."
Wu Yang looked at the two of them from the left and right, and then he understood. It turned out that the sentence was meant for Su Qingran.
The others were not as calm as Wu Yang, including the entire production team who had some suspicions. When they saw Su Qingran and her assistant get into Mu Xingye's car, they almost couldn't control the shock on their faces.
In particular, Su Qingran and her assistant got into the car first, followed by Mu Xingye and his assistant.
!!
Good heavens, what's the relationship between these two?! It took me a while to realize that Mu Xingye's appearance in Yanshan Town yesterday wasn't an accident?!
"Goodbye." Qingran leaned over the man next to her and said goodbye to Wu Yang outside the car.
Wu Yang waved his hand: "Contact me by phone."
"Bang." Mu Xingye closed the car door.
The man took off his hat and mask, and at the same time, Fix, who was in front of him, very consciously raised the front and rear barriers.
Wei, the passenger, glanced at him.
Fix: "I think they might need some privacy."
Wei Ge: "I didn't say anything." I just didn't expect that even the big star's car is different from others, and it even has a partition.
In the back seat of the van, Mu Xingye stared at Qingran without saying a word.
Qingran asked knowingly, "Why are you looking at me?"
Mu Xingye said expressionlessly, "I do not accept a threesome."
ah? ? ?
Qingran burst out laughing unexpectedly. The more he laughed, the darker the man's face became, gradually turning as gloomy as if a storm was brewing.
Mu Xingye knew this circle was chaotic, but a threesome was absolutely unacceptable; that was his bottom line.
Qingran touched the corners of his lips, which were becoming increasingly sharp, and said in a gentle tone with affection and a smile, "Teacher Mu has misunderstood. Wu Yang and I are just ordinary friends."
Mu Xingye didn't immediately believe him: "You used to see him as a new target."
Qingran: "That was Teacher Mu's own guess. When did I admit to that?"
Mu Xingye thought about it carefully and realized that it was indeed the case, which put his mind at ease.
The remaining half...
She nestled into his arms like a snake, gently stroking his angular face with one hand while lightly rubbing her cheek against the other half of his face.
"Who can compare to Teacher Mu?" Sweet words flowed from her lips.
Mu Xingye tensed up at first, then remembered something and relaxed, putting his arm around the young man's slender waist.
"Why do you always call me Teacher Mu?"
"What should we call her?" she whispered in the man's ear. "Hoshino?"
The car's air conditioning was still too hot, Mu Xingye thought, his breathing becoming labored.
He whispered to the person in his arms, "You two really don't have any other relationship?"
"Instead of asking me, does Hoshino lack confidence in his physical abilities?"
So if he's physically weak, will Su Qingran still try to seduce someone else?!
Okay, I can barely understand that.
Mu Xingye gritted his teeth: "Don't you know best how strong I am!"
Qingran winked provocatively: "I was drunk that day, so I don't really remember~"
Mu Xingye was about to kiss him when Qingran stuck a finger against his lips: "You haven't showered."
The man shifted his position slightly, burying his head in his neck to kiss him, and all he could smell was the clean and refreshing scent of jasmine.
"It still smells very good."
It's addictive.
A note from the author:
This should be the last world in the main story, so please don't let it get too long! [facepalm]
Thanks for the lightning strike, thanks for the watering, chirp!
No nickname yet, threw 1 landmine.
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