Chapter 211, Part 2

211:

"Who is He Han?" Mu Shaowu asked in confusion. "Why is it that none of you are telling me anything now?"

"You're busy, aren't you?" Mu Shaoting said. "Besides, it's not a big deal, I handled it myself."

Ye Qingxi: ...It's not a big deal. In the original book, you died because of her!

"Never mind," Ye Qingxi thought. "Since Mu Shaoting is alive now, it's really not a big deal."

"So what's the deal with He Han?" Mu Shaowu pressed.

"He likes a guy, and that guy wants to pursue me. I rejected him, but he kept chasing after me. I slapped him a few times, which made He Han feel so bad. She said I was cold-blooded and heartless. Please, so many people are chasing after me. If everyone were as persistent as him, would I still be able to go to school?"

Mu Shaoting looked at his brother and said, "Later, when I advanced in 'The Voice of Heaven,' I found out that she was also there. She was unwilling to accept that her popularity was lower than mine, so she asked the guy I had rejected before to write a song and put her name on it. Unexpectedly, the guy plagiarized the song, and coincidentally, he plagiarized one of our judges' obscure songs. So the judges were very angry and refused to let her advance. She was devastated and lost the PK during the waiting period, so she had to leave the stage."

Mu Shaowu: Now that you mention it, it does seem like there really was such a thing.

"Why didn't you say so back then?"

Mu Shaoting said nonchalantly, "I have nothing to do with her. She treated me like a rival the whole time. I couldn't be bothered with her at all, just like you and He Yao. What's there to say?"

"So, all three of us have encountered someone surnamed He?" Mu Shaoyan asked in surprise. "Did you encounter him, eldest brother?"

Mu Shaowu: ...Your focus is really quite unique.

"I'll ask my older brother later," Mu Shaowu said. "But those three names, He Yao, He Han, He Guang..."

“His brilliance shines forth,” Ye Qingxi said.

"What?" Mu Shaowu didn't react for a moment.

“An idiom.” Ye Qingxi looked innocent. “Dad, haven’t you learned it? My grandfather taught me it before. It’s called ‘韬曜含光’, which means not showing off one’s reputation.”

Mu Shaowu was surprised. The three people had the same surname, and their names were all related to an idiom. Moreover, they were all about the same age as him, Mu Shaoting, and Mu Shaoyan.

"They are siblings," Mu Feng said calmly.

Mu Shaowu thought so too.

Mu Shaoting: !!!

Mu Shaoyan: !!!

"Does He Yao know about He Han and He Guang?" Mu Shaoting asked, puzzled.

"They probably know He Han," Mu Shaowu guessed. "He Yao is also in the entertainment industry. Even if he didn't know before, he should have found out after his sister participated in 'The Voice of China.' His sister was already dissatisfied with you because the person she liked liked you. And because she didn't want to lose to you, she forced herself to create an original song, which only made her resent you more, especially since you ended up winning the championship."

"Thinking about it this way, it makes sense why He Yao always wanted to compete with me and vie for my attention. It wasn't just because he lost the house-grabbing contest to me, but also because of his sister."

"If I were He Yao, I wouldn't give your brother a friendly look either."

"But didn't my sister use the name 'Shao Ting' when she participated in the competition?" Mu Shaoyan asked, puzzled.

“We went to the same university, so her sister knows my real name,” Mu Shaoting explained.

Mu Shaoyan nodded, "Then do you know about his brother and me?"

“I don’t know about that,” Mu Shaowu said. “After all, his brother’s accusation of cheating against you didn’t even make it to the trending topics.”

Mu Shaoyan: ...

Ye Qingxi almost burst out laughing.

Mu Shaoting asked worriedly, "Are you still going to record the show with He Yao?"

"Record it," Mu Shaowu said, thinking it wasn't a big deal. "Why not record it?"

Ye Qingxi clearly enjoys this variety show, so he will continue to accompany her during filming.

Besides, who is He Yao anyway? Even if someone refuses to record, it should be He Yao who refuses to record. To expect him to take Ye Qingxi away and not record just because He Yao is there would be giving He Yao face!

“This is almost turning into a family feud. What if he retaliates against you on the show?”

"Him?" Mu Shaowu looked at his sister. "If he could succeed in getting revenge, he wouldn't have to compete with me in everything and always come in last place."

"Won't he bully Xiaoxi?" Mu Shaoyan asked worriedly.

“Our show is live, and the cameras are on from the start of recording. Except when we sleep, they are always on. If he dares to bully Xiaoxi, he won’t just be out of the industry, he’ll be out of the public eye.”

Ye Qingxi nodded silently. That's right. He Yao's reputation is already bad, and he's just a five-year-old kid. If He Yao dares to lay a hand on him, the netizens' spittle will drown him.

"That's true," Mu Shaoyan remarked. "I never imagined that live streaming would have this kind of benefit."

Ye Qingxi: ...I really didn't expect that.

Mu Feng listened to him talk back and forth without saying anything.

After returning to his room, he called Li Wei and asked, "Check on the family of He Yao, the guy who filmed the variety show with Shao Wu."

"good."

Soon after, information about He Yao appeared in Mu Feng's email inbox.

Just as he guessed, He Guang and He Han were indeed his younger brother and sister.

There are some coincidences, but life is sometimes full of them.

Mu Feng then forwarded the email to Mu Shaowu, so that he would have a general idea of ​​what to expect.

Mu Shaowu was just about to have his agent investigate for him, but receiving his father's email at this moment saved him that step.

"I knew it," he said, looking at the documents in front of him. "The He family and our family are really destined to be together, a karmic entanglement."

The younger brother spread rumors about his brother, the younger sister called his sister cold-blooded, and now it's the older brothers' turn. Just wait and see, Mu Shaowu thought to himself, He Yao, your good days are almost over.

Completely unaware that the three Mu siblings had already reconciled their accounts, He Yao was so angry he wanted to smash his computer.

"How could this happen?" He Yao looked at the comments online, incredulous.

His phone was confiscated by the production team as soon as he arrived in Lijia Gou, and he didn't get it back until the end of filming.

On his way back, He Yao saw some comments about himself online, but he thought it was just some viewers jumping the gun, and that it was his haters causing trouble.

It wasn't until he got home and went through almost every social media platform that he realized his reputation wasn't bad on any one platform, but bad on all of them.

His fame has indeed increased, but it's bad fame. Some netizens even hope the show's producers will make him leave and stop him from participating in the recording.

He Yao simply couldn't understand what he had done wrong.

Wasn't he good enough to He Lei?!

These people are all talk and no action.

"What should we do, bro?" He Han asked worriedly. "With netizens making such a fuss, the production team won't really make you quit, will they?"

"No." He Yao had been in this industry for several years and had a certain understanding of it. "These are all about popularity. If there's popularity, the production team won't make me quit."

He said, "You guys go out first, I need to talk to my agent."

Upon hearing this, He Han left with He Guang.

He Yao called his agent and questioned, "Have you seen the online comments? Are you just going to stand by and watch them smear me like this?"

The agent was speechless. "I started using online trolls from the beginning, but there were just too many people criticizing you. The trolls couldn't possibly beat them."

"So you're just going to abandon me? You were the one who got me on this show, the one who said it would attract fans, and now you're just going to abandon me?"

"I didn't expect you to perform like this on this show," the manager muttered.

"What did you say?"

“I said, don’t worry, I’ve already thought of a way. This is actually quite easy to handle. This is only the first episode, there are still five more to go. The worse you perform at the beginning, the more unqualified you are. When you perform well later, people will be more surprised and more people will help you clear your name. This can become a growth trajectory. At that time, your persona will be that of a growing dad.”

He Yao:......

"Here's what we'll do: take advantage of these few days when you don't have to film the show, and learn to cook at home. That way, when you enter the kitchen in the next episode and start cooking, the viewers in the live stream will definitely be surprised. Then, act like you feel guilty and say that you felt so sorry for Leilei when you saw her unable to swallow your food and could only eat steamed buns. That's when you made up your mind to practice your cooking skills properly when you got back. So, you haven't rested for a single day these past few days, just so that Leilei can eat something she likes in the second episode."

He Yao:? ? ?

"I'm going to learn to cook for her?!"

"What else? This is the simplest one. Mu Shaowu has received a lot of praise because he can cook!"

He brought up Mu Shaowu, and He Yao stopped talking. After all, if Mu Shaowu could learn it, why couldn't he?

"Then you should practice hard for now. I'll call you if anything comes up," the manager said, and hung up the phone.

He Yao threw his phone down in frustration, racking his brains about what dishes he should learn to cook.

Seriously, just for this one show, they want him to learn to cook?!

His agent is absolutely unreliable!

Ye Qingxi took her things out of her suitcase and put them back in their place. Then, she took the dough figurine and prepared to go find Mu Shaoting, Mu Shaoyan, and Mu Feng.

He lived in the same building as Mu Shaoting, so he gave it to Mu Shaoting first.

Mu Shaoting was pleasantly surprised, "Didn't you only buy for you and your dad?"

"How did you know?" Ye Qingxi asked, puzzled.

He quickly realized what was going on, "You watched our live stream?"

Mu Shaoting nodded, "Of course! How can I help you and your dad fight off the online trolls if I don't watch the live stream?"

Ye Qingxi: ? ? ?

"You're even fighting against online trolls?"

"That was in the very beginning. Not anymore. Now you and your dad are so famous, with so many people who like you, it's not my turn anymore~"

"But I'll still watch the live stream, otherwise I won't know what happened to you outside~"

"Okay," Ye Qingxi said with a smile.

After delivering Mu Shaoting's things, Ye Qingxi went to find Mu Shaoyan.

When Mu Shaoyan saw the two dough figurines he took out, he was just as surprised as Mu Shaoting. "Didn't you only make figurines of you and your father?"

Ye Qingxi: ...

"You watch the live stream too."

“That’s right.” Mu Shaoyan said without hesitation, “It’s such a remote place, and Aunt Zhang didn’t go with us. You were all alone. How would I know if you were suffering if I didn’t check on you?”

Mu Shaoyan said with a hint of heartache, "If I had known you wanted to play with slingshots, I would have bought you a whole box of them. But don't worry, I've already bought them. They have all kinds, and they'll arrive tomorrow."

Ye Qingxi: ...When it comes to buying him toys, if his uncle dares to say he's second, then almost no one dares to say they're first.

“However, you can give this Duan Yi to him in person tomorrow,” Mu Shaoyan said.

"Why?" Ye Qingxi asked, puzzled. "Are you going to see Brother Duan Yi tomorrow?"

But he plans to go to Qin Cheng's house tomorrow, have a meal with Qin Cheng's family and Qin Yuan, and give them their dough figurines.

Then, I'll go find Pei Liang and the others the day after tomorrow.

"Of course it's because—our steamed bun shop is opening tomorrow!" Mu Shaoyan laughed. "It was supposed to open yesterday, but I told you you weren't back yet, so we had to wait until you came back before opening, and that's why we postponed it to tomorrow."

Ye Qingxi: !!

Oh dear! I forgot about that!

"Didn't Brother Duan Yi say anything?"

"Of course he didn't say anything. With the opening of Chenxi Steamed Bun Shop, of course you, little Chenxi, have to be there. Otherwise, how will you shine upon us?"

Upon hearing this, Ye Qingxi laughed.

Alright then, I'll have to see Qin Cheng the day after tomorrow, and Pei Liang and the others the day after that.

Ye Qingxi sighed silently in her heart. He was really busy every day.

I'm so busy these days!