Chapter 56 Who's riding whose coattails?
Gu Yishen and Feng Xu watched helplessly as Luo Jiayin and Yu Jiu, or rather, Luo Jiayin herself, frantically ate.
To be honest, judging from Luo Jiayin's attitude towards eating, if they didn't know that Luo Jiayin was a wildly popular celebrity who owned a mansion, they would probably suspect that she had just been rescued from some godforsaken place.
It was the kind of situation where they couldn't eat for days.
Gu Yishen and Feng Xu were both puzzled.
When Luo Jiayin felt she had eaten and drunk her fill and patted her round belly contentedly, she remembered that they hadn't just come here to eat; it seemed they had some rather serious business to discuss.
"Ahem." Luo Jiayin cleared her throat, picked up the juice on the table and took a couple of sips, then said seriously, "Well, everyone's finished eating, right? Let's get down to business."
The three people present: ...
Please, it seems like we're all just waiting for you to finish eating...
Gu Yishen also picked up the teacup in front of him, took a sip, and coughed lightly.
Feng Xu immediately understood what his brother Shen meant, and immediately became serious as well, and then said, "That's right, Teacher Luo Jia."
"The paparazzi photographed us having hot pot at your house yesterday. They posted the photos and videos online, along with the address of your mansion, saying that you... are suspected of being kept by a mysterious tycoon in the business world."
"Pfft—!!" Luo Jiayin thought the mixed fresh juice at this shop tasted pretty good. She picked up the cup and took another sip, but before she could swallow, she was so shocked by Feng Xu's words that she almost spat it out.
"Wait a minute, what did you say? Me? Luo Jia? What happened to you??" Luo Jiayin stared at Feng Xu with her big, round eyes, not blinking, afraid of missing a single word he said.
Feng Xu swallowed hard, waved his hand, and signaled Luo Jiayin not to get excited and to calm down.
Yu Jiu handed two tissues to Luo Jiayin. Luo Jiayin took the tissues from Yu Jiu, wiped her mouth, and calmed down a little.
"No, I just don't understand, yesterday..."
"No, there were only four of us yesterday. Sister Mei arrived later."
"If I exclude myself, it's the three of you, right?"
"No, no... I don't understand. Are they saying I'm being kept by Jiu Jiu?"
"This is a complete misunderstanding!"
"Yu Jiu! She's my assistant!! She's basically with me 24/7. If they can recognize me, how could they not tell that Jiu Jiu is my assistant?"
Luo Jiayin was truly speechless.
How come these media outlets are willing to say anything just to generate buzz and attract attention?
The key point is that, judging from the way they're doing it, it seems like some people actually believe it, otherwise they wouldn't have dragged me to such a secluded place to talk about it so earnestly.
But... why does Gu Yishen have to get involved too?
Seeing that Luo Jiayin was thinking off-topic and was still criticizing herself, Yu Jiu quickly spoke up to interrupt Luo Jiayin's delusions.
"Luo Jia... Luo Jia!"
"Huh?" Luo Jiayin looked at Yu Jiu in confusion.
“It’s not what you think,” Yu Jiu said.
"Huh?" Luo Jiayin continued to look clueless, so Yu Jiu had to explain the situation to her again.
"The only people photographed yesterday were the four of us, when we got out of Gu Yingdi's car."
"Perhaps it's because the person taking the picture was a bit far away; in that shot, only your face was relatively clear."
"But the person they're talking about who 'kept' you is not me."
"Huh? Not you? Then who is it..." Luo Jiayin was truly dumbfounded.
If she wasn't stupid and remembered correctly, out of the four of them yesterday, the only woman in the public eye seemed to be Yu Jiu...
"The 'mysterious business tycoon' who 'kept' you, as exposed by the paparazzi, is... is Actor Gu..."
Luo Jiayin: "..."
Dude! Are you kidding me?! Please stop!
She may be a woman, but... nobody knows she's a woman!
Luo Jia, the "ideal boyfriend," is being kept by a sugar daddy/sugar baby?!
Luo Jiayin was at a loss for words.
Gu Yishen and Luo Jiayin were recording a program together in the studio, so he only just found out about this after hearing what Feng Xu and Yu Jiu said.
However, Gu Yishen was clearly more composed than Luo Jiayin.
Was I the last one to be recognized?
After a moment's thought, Gu Yishen came up with the most likely outcome and asked Feng Xu and Yu Jiu for their opinions.
Feng Xu and Yu Jiu exchanged a glance, then nodded at Gu Yishen simultaneously.
"At first, they were just speculating about who the mysterious tycoon who was keeping the popular idol Luo Jia was. Later, some fans recognized that the person in the video who was not very clear was probably you."
“So…” Feng Xu said weakly.
"So they're guessing that there's some unusual relationship between me and Luo Jia, right?"
Gu Yishen said calmly, his tone still indifferent, as if this matter had not caused him any emotional fluctuation.
"Then I guess public opinion is currently leaning towards supporting me and Luo Jia, right?" Gu Yishen asked again.
“Indeed…yes.” Feng Xu’s voice trailed off as he answered Gu Yishen.
"Especially after you and Teacher Luo Jia appeared on this episode of 'Hold On to the Villain's Script' today, there are even more fans supporting you and Teacher Luo Jia as a couple."
"Hmm." Gu Yishen nodded. "What does the company mean?"
Upon hearing Gu Yishen's question, Feng Xu looked at Luo Jiayin with some difficulty, but then he thought that since Brother Shen could ask him this question in front of Luo Jia, it meant that his Brother Shen did not treat Luo Jia as an outsider.
Hmm... that's something to say!
So Feng Xu, without any pretense, relayed the company's intentions to him in front of Luo Jiayin and Yu Jiu.
"The company wants you to post a clarification on Weibo, saying that Professor Luo Jia invited you to his home as a guest, citing the reason that he wanted to learn from you before recording a program today."
Gu Yishen smiled knowingly: "Oh? So you mean you want me to say that Luo Jia is intentionally trying to 'bundle' me with her in order to ride on my popularity?"
Feng Xu thought about it very seriously, "Hmm... that should be the meaning."
Upon hearing this, Luo Jiayin could no longer sit still.
What a joke! She? Needs to ride on Gu Yishen's coattails?
Sega Entertainment really knows how to make their plans work out perfectly.
Weren't you done enough with the last "sasaeng fan" incident? Are you trying to do it again? Have you no shame? Who's trying to ride on whose coattails?
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