Chapter 11: Everyone's Nervous (Eleven) Click 1 to hear my revenge plan...
On the fourth day after Zhang Deng was fired, his number of fans had reached 300,000, and he even received a private message from the backstage asking if he wanted to take on an advertisement.
Wei Yuanye even replied to his message and asked tactfully, "What's the price?"
The other party asked for 30,000 yuan, which almost scared Zhang Deng to death. He asked, "How much?"
Thirty thousand yuan is almost two months' salary for Zhang Deng, and when he gets his salary, it can be said that he works hard for it. He gets up early and goes to bed late every day, and works worse than chickens and dogs.
Wei Yuanye said, "Don't answer it yet. Wait until things stabilize."
"Forget it," Zhang Deng said, though he was a little tempted, he held it back. "Will I get scolded to death?"
Wei Yuanye: "Just scold me, what's the big deal?"
Zhang Deng, however, did not have such a good attitude. He did not want to be scolded anymore. He had had enough.
Wei Yuanye said: "Use my number to answer, I don't care."
But no one asked him to advertise. Wei Yuanye searched through the private messages for a long time, but among the sea of those fierce and wicked words, he couldn't find a single advertising private message. Zhang Deng rarely saw frustration on Wei Yuanye's face.
Zhang Deng laughed his ass off. He said, "Why don't you post two more selfies?"
"No more." Wei Yuanye said.
Zhang Deng: "Is there only one selfie on your phone?"
"That's what the company wanted before," Wei Yuanye said, wearing pajamas and slippers, with his hair unkempt and looking a bit messy. "Originally, there wasn't a single one."
Zhang Deng said, "Then I'll help you take the photo."
But Zhang Deng only talks big, he actually can't do it at all.
Wei Yuanye still found it troublesome: "Forget it."
Zhang Deng became interested and said, "It's nothing to do anyway."
Although he didn't show much desire to take the photo and still spoke slowly, he made some requests to Wei Yuanye, and Wei Yuanye agreed somehow.
Zhang Deng immediately got up from the bed and looked around for props.
Zhang Deng took out all his old valuable things, and Wei Yuanye took a look - a ceramic beaded bracelet, cat's eye ear clips, a puppy pottery ring, and a sea glass leather rope necklace.
Wei Yuanye picked up one, and Zhang Deng excitedly told him the story behind it.
"I bought this bracelet in Jingdezhen," Zhang Deng said. "It was my only business trip, and it was so much fun."
Zhang Deng said, "I picked up this sea glass myself at the beach. I found a handmade shop in the mall and strung it into a necklace for me. Isn't it beautiful?"
Under the atmosphere, Wei Yuanye couldn't help but say, "Beautiful."
"Yeah." Zhang Deng said, "I can give you one."
Wei Yuanye: “?”
Wei Yuanye: "Forget it, keep it for yourself."
"You don't like it."
"like."
"I like you to pick one."
Wei Yuanye gritted his teeth and picked the puppy ring. Zhang Deng secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He said, "I just bought this on Taobao."
Wei Yuanye discovered that Zhang Deng actually didn't want to send it at all.
These things are probably not suitable for shooting videos. Zhang Deng may just want to show off to him, and then put them on the table, took Wei Yuanye to the bathroom, and blow-dried his hair. Zhang Deng still had hairspray at home, but it was bought many years ago. Fortunately, it didn't matter whether this thing expired or not. Zhang Deng applied the hairspray on his hands, asked Wei Yuanye to lower his head, and Zhang Deng carefully smoothed his hair.
He styled Wei Yuanye's hair into the same style as Li Ming's according to his own preferences and aesthetics. Looking at his results, he expressed great satisfaction. Wei Yuanye was a little surprised: "You are really good at it."
Zhang Deng was also keen on dressing up when he was in school. He even found a very retro leather jacket and put it together with a shirt. Wei Yuanye asked, "Where did you get all this?"
Zhang Deng felt a little embarrassed, but then he felt it was nothing to be ashamed of. He said, "I bought this shirt in an underground mall when I was in college. It only cost 25 yuan."
Zhang Deng was not always willing to be a small grass. When he was in college, he wanted to fall in love the most. He also tried to make himself more popular, but he tried many styles, none of which matched his temperament and were very abrupt. He also felt awkward in his own clothes, as if he had stolen someone else's clothes. He felt very embarrassed. After struggling for a while, he finally changed back to his original style.
But these clothes are very suitable for Wei Yuanye's temperament, but it is more likely because Wei Yuanye's appearance is very versatile and he can try any style. He looks very young and handsome in sportswear, and very stylish and retro in a leather jacket.
Zhang Deng couldn't help but ask, "Are all your supporters so outstanding in appearance?"
Wei Yuanye was stunned: "What?"
Zhang Deng asked, "What's wrong?"
"How do you know about the supporters?" Wei Yuanye turned around and looked at him, "I never told you."
Zhang Deng: “…”
Zhang Deng then remembered that he seemed to have learned this word in a dream.
"I," Zhang Deng saw his expression and was a little afraid to speak. He said, "I just said it casually."
Wei Yuanye frowned slightly, considering his words, and said, "Did someone say something to you?"
"No," Zhang Deng shook his head, "We are together every day."
Wei Yuanye suddenly asked: "What about the dream?"
Zhang Deng didn't know why, but he suddenly remembered Wei Yuanye's last look in his dream last night. He subconsciously concealed it and asked, "What dream?"
Wei Yuanye didn't say anything else. Zhang Deng said, "Maybe I heard this word... somewhere. It seemed familiar to me, so I said it."
Wei Yuanye looked at himself in the mirror, not knowing what came to mind. He finally decided not to pursue the matter further. He said, "I am indeed a supporter."
"I don't know where you heard that," Wei Yuanye said, "Maybe you've seen other supporters. This world has also had records of supporters visiting."
Zhang Deng asked, "Are you all very handsome?"
Wei Yuanye: "Do you only care about whether he's handsome or not?"
"After all, I don't know them," Zhang Deng said, "and I don't understand their personalities."
Wei Yuanye didn't seem to have a good attitude towards this, but he still explained to Zhang Deng: "They usually look similar."
Zhang Deng laughed and said, "How can people look the same?"
"The supporters are all the same." Wei Yuanye's expression clearly showed that he didn't want to say more.
Zhang Deng observed him and sensibly didn't ask any more questions.
He now felt that Wei Yuanye might have many secrets, but at the same time, he also had secrets that he was hiding from Wei Yuanye.
These secrets are nothing to Zhang Deng. He has seen too much of the ugliness of human nature and the fickleness of the world. He has long known that as a patient with mental illness, the best attitude towards life is to live from day to day.
Zhang Deng doesn't care much about anyone's secrets and past, including his own - staying alive is the most important thing.
Wei Yuanye had almost finished cleaning up, so he started preparing for the filming. Zhang Deng was in charge of fill light, camera, and editing and directing. He found a lot of videos of good looks online and finally decided on one with moving camera. Wei Yuanye just had to stand still in front of the window, while Zhang Deng was swaying left and right, running around with his phone. He had no experience, and even though Wei Yuanye looked very good, the filming was still a mess.
Zhang Deng said apologetically, "I really don't know how to do it."
He basically has no musical talent, can't get into the rhythm of the music, and seems to be in a mess.
Wei Yuanye was very satisfied and said, "Not bad."
"Is this true?"
Wei Yuanye said, "It will be a big hit."
Zhang Deng was skeptical about this, but Wei Yuanye added a filter and posted it. Zhang Deng said, "Hey you! P it up!"
"No need." Wei Yuanye put the phone back into his pocket and said, "It's too late, go to bed."
Zhang Deng felt that Wei Yuanye had some habits that were completely inconsistent with his personality. For example, Wei Yuanye's body clock was very regular. If he had nothing to do, he would go to bed around 9:00 and usually fall asleep before 10:00. He also insisted on eating three meals a day without skipping a single one. Zhang Deng noticed that Wei Yuanye would go for morning exercises and buy breakfast on the way. He would cook everything for lunch and dinner, rarely eating leftovers, and always cleaned his meals.
Even his parents found it difficult to follow these habits. Even when Wei Yuanye did, he didn't find them hard or inconvenient, as if these habits had long been integrated into his life and there was nothing to be surprised about.
It was not convenient to comment on other people's living habits, so he could only turn off the lights. When he heard that Wei Yuanye had fallen asleep, he lay on the bed and played with his mobile phone.
He browsed Wei Yuanye's account for a long time, and gradually realized why Wei Yuanye said that this video would go viral.
It's not because he looks handsome! It's because, in the reflection of the window, Zhang Deng's frantic camera movements are clearly visible!
He first half-knelt on the ground and patted his legs, then in order to get a bird's-eye view, he stood with one foot on the table. He looked messy and panicked, as if he was a madman!
Zhang Deng looked at the screenshots in the comment section, and his face slowly turned red and then white, and then white and then red again.
The people in the comment section had obviously recognized that this was Zhang Deng, and their mouths were filled with poison—
"I tried so hard, but the result is still a mess."
“It’s like seeing myself at work.”
"Even if you look so capable, do you still want to play with abstraction?"
“What if I don’t have fun?”
"You're not really posting this as a beauty video, are you?"
"There's a bloody fight outside, what are they doing?"
Zhang Deng knew that the Internet was not so easy to deal with. That night, Zhang Deng was torn between whether to steal Wei Yuanye's phone to delete the video or just give up and fall asleep. He had no dreams all night.
The next day, the video became a minor hit.
Many netizens also started to ship the two regardless of the consequences, and created very interesting personalities for them: dark-skinned mad dog 1×gloomy and literary 0.
Zhang Deng immediately went into the comments section and read for over an hour. He discovered that netizens were praising the couple as a perfect match made in heaven. It was so sweet that Zhang Deng even wanted to support them.
Under this kind of hype, both of them gained fans, and He Qiu's fans couldn't even scold him because all the fans were supporting the couple. He Qiu's die-hard fans scolded Zhang Deng's fans: They are too crazy.
At around eight o'clock, Wei Yuanye came back with breakfast. After putting it down, he went to wash up first, then turned on the light and rubbed his eyes before getting up. He saw that what he bought today were tofu brain and fried dough sticks.
"Huh?" Zhang Deng was eating fried dough sticks while browsing his phone and saw a video.
This video shows the two of them buying clothes in a shopping mall. The two were very close to each other, talking and laughing, and finally left wearing couple outfits. At the end of the video are some photos. The scene was in a 4S store. Wei Yuanye was looking at cars with a light on and finally swiped his card.
This video was shot beautifully, with filters and a love song, which made it seem like a romantic video. However, Zhang Deng only felt his palms were sweating.
He knew this ID.
A few days ago, a girl took a secret photo of him downstairs at his workplace and gave him the middle finger; she also took a secret photo of him and Wei Yuanye in the supermarket, and at that time, the girl was still scolding him.
Zhang Deng clicked on her homepage, but saw that the girl had deleted the previous two videos. Now only this one could be seen on the homepage, and He Qiu had also been deleted from the profile.
Before Zhang Deng could figure out what was going on, he began to feel cold all over.
When Wei Yuanye came out, he saw that he hadn't started eating yet, so he pulled him up and said, "Go wash up first."
Seeing that something seemed wrong with Zhang Deng, he looked at Zhang Deng's face and asked, "What's wrong?"
Zhang Deng handed him the phone. Wei Yuanye took a look at it, frowned slightly, and said, "I saw this person."
"I've seen her several times." Wei Yuanye said, "If you're scared, I'll take care of it next time."
Zhang Deng asked, "How are you going to deal with this? Or just forget it. What is she going to do?"
Zhang Deng had no experience in dealing with this kind of thing, and he didn't even understand what the girl meant.
"I don't know." Wei Yuanye didn't care. "If you don't like her, she won't appear anymore."
Zhang Deng: "I don't quite understand."
Is she really in love or really hating him? She should be clear, right? Why is she pretending to love him? What is she trying to do by posting this video?
Wei Yuanye roughly understood. He said, "There are a lot of people like this. They pretend to be your fans, say provocative things, and then lead others to scold you."
Zhang Deng really didn't understand why someone would treat him like this.
"Don't worry about it," Wei Yuanye took his phone away, putting an end to the matter and said, "You won't see this person again in the future."
Zhang Deng believed Wei Yuanye had this ability, but he didn't know if it would happen again in the future. This was what he had discovered, but what if there were others that hadn't been discovered? When Wei Yuanye was around, he could help him deal with it, but what if Wei Yuanye left? Wei Yuanye would have to leave one day.
Zhang Deng used to say the internet was scary, and he had warned himself against indulging in it. But at this moment, he truly understood the situation.
Zhang Deng even felt some admiration for He Xiaoqiu. He really didn't know how he could have been an internet celebrity for so many years under such circumstances.
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