Chapter 2
It was almost midnight and the staff had already arranged all the necessary props before looking at the man sitting on the sofa.
The man had a very delicate and handsome appearance. His skin looked even more crystal clear under the light, like a very delicate porcelain doll carefully crafted by a skilled craftsman.
His eyes were calm and peaceful. Although he was only wearing ordinary plain home clothes, he still looked more elegant and detached than the snow lotus on the mountains. He seemed like an immortal who was isolated from the world. Nothing in the world could enter his eyes and disturb his meditation.
It was this kind of look that made all the ugly curses and obscenities projected onto the screen on the wall seem like fleas jumping up and down, not worth mentioning.
Therefore, no matter how dirty and ugly the insults from the haters were, they didn't feel any sense of victory. Instead, they felt more angry and aggrieved, and it also aroused the desire of those with ulterior motives to destroy him.
[Gu Niupi, where's your so-called childhood sweetheart? The show's already aired and we've been warming up, so why isn't he here yet? Everyone else in the livestream is playing ghost games with their childhood sweethearts. You're not going to do it alone! Hurry and get him out! We're all waiting to see what kind of actor you'll find to play your childhood sweetheart!]
"Come on, if there's still no sign of him at this time, then he must be lost. Not just anyone can compare to our Master Xue."
[I'm so angry! I ask myself every day why a bad artist like Gu Yunshuang can still stay in the entertainment industry? Gu Yunshuang, get out of the entertainment industry right now!]
[Forget it. He has a big money sponsor behind him. New Trend Entertainment had to invest a huge sum of money to whitewash him and put up this childhood variety show, even inviting Master Xue to join. What a big deal!]
[Having a wealthy sponsor as a backer is impressive. Let's just pray that he summons a fierce ghost to drag him down and rid the people of this evil!]
[Pray that Gu Yunshuang can summon a fierce ghost to drag him down and eliminate this evil for the people]
…
Gu Yunshuang faced the screen full of malicious curses in the live broadcast room without frowning. He quickly and accurately found the fan comments that showed his kindness and concern for him, which were quickly deleted, from these malicious comments, and responded gently.
"Thank you for your concern. I'm fine. Don't pay attention to them. Don't let other people's maliciousness affect your good mood. Just block other people's comments."
"What are you afraid of? There are no ghosts in the world. Many strange events that happen after ghost games are just coincidences. I just scare myself."
…
He is very handsome to begin with. Although he looked indifferent at this moment, the way he seriously replied to fans' comments one by one made his fans feel that he cared about them and valued them. They couldn't help but be moved and felt even more sad for his situation.
Why? Gu Yunshuang had done nothing wrong, yet he had to endure such great malice?!
Netizens passing by were also confused after just one look. They really didn’t understand why such a handsome, good-looking and serious boy could attract so much malice?
The netizen asked, and soon there was a barrage of replies to him.
[Another passerby deceived by his looks. Don't be fooled by his ethereal appearance, you'll find he's actually quite filthy. Do you know what he's done? Just search for "Gu Yunshuang" online and you'll find all about his misdeeds.]
He had plastic surgery. His original appearance was so ugly it would make you vomit your last meal. A quick search online will reveal this; several entertainment influencers have posted photos of him before the surgery.
His appearance was modeled after actress Xu Qingya, leading many in the entertainment industry to mistakenly believe he was her illegitimate child. They secretly provided him with numerous backdoors, nearly causing a conflict within her family. It wasn't until actress Xu specifically explained on Big Eyes that she absolutely had no illegitimate children that the truth finally came to light.
He was also quite arrogant. Even when the best actor offered to shake his hand, he would be so disdainful that he wouldn't even extend his hand, forcing the best actor to smile and give him a way out.
He's also been a bit of a star, bullying younger actors, and has terrible acting. He's been in so many terrible movies. Aside from his first hit TV series, where he played the third male lead, he's been a standout. He's been nothing but a mouthfull of antagonists. He hasn't produced a single solid production, and his traffic is entirely based on marketing and fan-hatred trolling. It's all fake.
The most despicable thing is that he's a die-hard gay. He even sexually harassed our Master Xue and deliberately created random encounters with Master Xue to gain attention. He's always there wherever Master Xue goes, like a piece of sticky candy that can't be shaken off. Every time he sees Master Xue being infatuated with him, it's disgusting!
When he was discovered, he claimed that Master Xue looked like his long-lost childhood sweetheart, so he couldn't help but stare at her a few more times. Ugh, it's 20xx, and he's still making up stories like that. Who would believe it? He's such a boaster and so clingy, he should just change his name to Gu Niupi.
[At this time, Xinchao Entertainment suddenly launched this supernatural variety show "Going on an Adventure with Childhood Sweethearts". The production team also invited Master Xue and him. Who would believe that they didn't whitewash him?]
[I'd like to see where they find someone who looks like Master Xue to play his childhood sweetheart.]...
Many passers-by believed it after seeing the barrage, and felt that you can't judge a person by his appearance. It's a pity that such a good-looking person has such a dirty and ugly heart.
If a rational passerby went out and checked online, he would find that what was said in the barrage was indeed circulating online, but they were all small-account news from those big Vs. Except for the fact that the actress Xu Qingya did hint at her dislike for Gu Yunshuang without naming him, the other rumors had no solid evidence.
But the rational ones were a minority. The majority were ordinary people who simply followed the crowd. And not everyone was like Gu Yunshuang. The screen was filled with obscenities and insults, and just a few glances were enough to make one's blood pressure spike and feel very uncomfortable. They either left, remained silent, or joined the ranks of the haters.
It was not until the live broadcast room received many reports that the room manager finally arrived and started to ban everyone one by one, but his attitude was very perfunctory and his movements were slow. The speed of banning could not keep up with the speed of the black fans changing their accounts, so the black fans in the live broadcast room cursed even more happily.
Gu Yunshuang didn't want his fans, who loved him and supported him, to stay in this malicious live broadcast room for him. He just wanted to end today's live broadcast as soon as possible. He turned to look at the staff and asked, "It's getting late. Can't we start the game yet?"
The staff member nodded hurriedly. "Everything is ready. I saw that you, Teacher Gu, were so happy chatting with your fans, and I felt so embarrassed to interrupt you that I didn't remind you. I'm really sorry. I hope you won't be angry."
Gu Yunshuang didn't need to look to know how the comments in the live broadcast room were cursing him.
It’s okay. He’s used to being labeled with all kinds of accusations anyway. The accusation that the staff casually put on him is child’s play.
Gu Yunshuang didn't want to waste time arguing with the staff about how he wasn't angry and that it was the staff's own problem that they didn't remind him, because it was useless to argue. Those black fans were the best at taking things out of context and would never listen to anyone.
He walked straight to the table and said calmly, "Let's get started. Let's finish early and go home to rest."
The staff member didn't get the response he wanted, his eyes darkened for a moment, and then he continued to smile and nodded.
Then he lit a few candles and turned off all the lights.
Suddenly, there was only dim candlelight in the living room.
It is said that beauties become more beautiful the more you look at them under the lamp. The dim light reflected on Gu Yunshuang's picturesque eyebrows and eyes, making them less cold and more warm, like the untouchable bright moon in the sky, suddenly descending to the mortal world and appearing before her eyes, even more breathtakingly beautiful.
Especially when he raised his eyes slightly, his bright eyes reflected the flickering candlelight, which was breathtakingly beautiful.
Even the comments from the haters in the live broadcast room froze for a while.
Regardless of whether they really hated Gu Yunshuang or not, they had to admit at this moment that even in the entertainment industry where beauties were everywhere, it would be difficult to find another person as beautiful as Gu Yunshuang.
The staff member came back to his senses after hearing Gu Yunshuang calling him twice. When he thought about how he had seen Gu Yunshuang in a daze, he felt very upset and even more disgusted with Gu Yunshuang. He secretly clenched the exorcism talisman in his pocket.
He was a Gu Yunshuang hater, having long been fed up with Gu Yunshuang's aloof, unmoved demeanor. This time, he'd volunteered to replace his childhood friend, who was supposed to be there, to assist Gu Yunshuang in completing the live stream of the supernatural game, precisely so that Gu Yunshuang would be frightened to death by ghosts in front of the live audience, completely ruining his image.
For this purpose, he had already bought from Master Xue a very effective talisman to attract evil spirits and a talisman to ward off evil spirits that could protect him.
He had hidden the Yin-Summoning Talisman under the table mat. When the ghost game started later, it would definitely attract the ghost. It was just him and Gu Yunshuang here. He had the exorcism talisman, but Gu Yunshuang had nothing prepared. When the ghost came, he would definitely haunt Gu Yunshuang first.
Thinking of Gu Yunshuang being frightened by the ghost, he felt very proud. He came to the table and cooperated with Gu Yunshuang to start tonight's summoning pen fairy game.
The title of their variety show is: Go on an adventure with childhood sweethearts.
The so-called adventure is exploring haunted houses or playing ghost games. So this is actually a ghost variety show.
In recent years, the country has changed its previous attitude of strictly prohibiting the spread of feudal superstitions in this regard, turning a blind eye to many things, relaxing supervision, and allowing various supernatural variety shows, movies and TV shows to become popular on the Internet.
Those Taoist priests who were once unknown have also appeared in public, registering accounts on live broadcast platforms to broadcast various fortune-telling and ghost-catching activities to the public.
Among them, Xue Tinghe is the most popular and highly regarded Celestial Master, boasting tens of millions of followers, comparable to an A-list celebrity. He is also widely considered the most powerful of the new generation of Celestial Masters, surpassing even his predecessors. Even many highly respected senior Celestial Masters consider themselves inferior to him. Many wealthy individuals, offering large sums of money and begging in tears, are denied a chance to meet him.
This childhood variety show can be said to have caught up with the supernatural trend.
Not to mention that the program team also invited Xue Tinghe, a powerful Taoist priest who is enthusiastically pursued by many bigwigs, and the recent hot discussion about the scandal that Gu Yunshuang is infatuated with Xue Tinghe. In addition, Xinchao Entertainment cleverly launched this variety show at this time and let Gu Yunshuang and Xue Tinghe appear in the same frame. Netizens speculated that this was Xinchao Entertainment's big move to whitewash Gu Yunshuang, so that this variety show became popular before it was even aired and attracted everyone's attention.
Today is the promotional warm-up before the variety show starts. The director has creatively assigned a task to all the guests - to play a ghost game with their childhood sweetheart at twelve o'clock in the evening.
Gu Yunshuang said that his childhood sweetheart was delayed on the road and couldn't catch up, so the director sent staff to assist him.
The staff member was very excited and couldn't help but say, "Teacher Gu, the game is about to start. Are you nervous? I heard that the Pen Fairy game can easily attract some scary ghosts. If you are not careful, you will be haunted by the ghosts and lose your life. Are you afraid?"
Gu Yunshuang glanced at him calmly and said, "I don't know if this will attract evil spirits, but if you continue to delay, it will be past midnight. The live broadcast is proof. You can't continue to say that it was all because of me that we missed the best time."
“…”
The staff was choked.
At this time, the alarm clock that had been set long ago rang, reminding them that the time was up.
The staff member and Gu Yunshuang held a pen with the back of their hands, and they both chanted at the same time: "Pen Fairy, Pen Fairy, you are my past life, and I am your present life. If you want to be connected with me, please draw a circle on the paper."
After reciting it several times, the wind blowing in from the window outside became stronger and stronger, causing the candles to sway and the shadows to grow heavy. The whole living room looked a little eerie and scary.
The pens they held with the back of their hands moved.
The staff member only felt as if a cold hand was holding his hand, controlling his hand to move slowly and draw a circle on the paper.
The staff member was so frightened that his face changed drastically, he shuddered, and got goose bumps. He couldn't help but want to jump away, shake his hands, and scream loudly.
Looking at Gu Yunshuang opposite, his face was as calm and indifferent as ever, as still as a mountain, with his back straight, as if nothing strange had happened and everything that happened was normal and natural, which made the staff calm down a lot.
Gu Yunshuang followed the procedure and asked without changing his tone, like an emotionless line-reading machine: "Excuse me, are you the Pen Fairy? If you are, please tick it."
The pen slowly made a tick on the paper without their control.
After the fear, the staff began to get excited and looked forward to what would happen next.
However, Gu Yunshuang didn't look scared at all. He seemed like he was playing a boring game. He calmly asked the questions he had prepared in advance. If you looked closely, you could see that his eyes were a little distracted, as if he was very bored.
The whole process is neither good nor bad, there is no highlight, so you have to send the pen fairy according to the process.
The staff member was anxious. He came here to cause trouble and embarrass Gu Yunshuang, otherwise the two talismans he had obtained with great difficulty would be wasted. He absolutely could not let Gu Yunshuang send the Pen Fairy away like this.
In a hurry, he blurted out the most taboo question that everyone knows: "Pen Fairy, please tell me, are you a ghost? How did you die?"
As soon as the words fell, the pen fell silent, then suddenly vibrated violently, and began to write and draw quickly on the paper, horizontal, diagonal, horizontal...
The word "death" appeared on the paper one after another. The staff member was overjoyed and was about to pretend that he couldn't hold the pen steady and let go, but a huge force came from the place where the pen was connected, pushing the two of them back two steps. Even the table was overturned, and the candles fell to the ground and went out, plunging the surroundings into darkness.
It was already deep winter, but the staff felt that the house was even colder than the snowy December.
He clearly had something to rely on, but he still couldn't suppress the growing fear in his heart, as if he was being locked onto by some terrifying existence.
Click! Gu Yunshuang reached for the light switch and turned it on. The headlights flickered in anticipation, then went out.
The room was plunged into darkness once again, with only the projection screen still emitting a faint green light. Even the haters were so frightened that they dared not post comments.
Wait, why is the projector light green?!
The audience in the live broadcast room, suddenly realizing this, became even more terrified. The staff couldn't help but scream, and the barrage of comments was filled with terrified "Ah ...
Snap! The lights in the house came back on, and Gu Yunshuang remained calm, as if not frightened at all by the sudden incident. He said calmly, "The power is out. We can use the backup power."
At this time, Gu Yunshuang's still indifferent eyes and back as straight as pine and cypress no longer seemed arrogant and pretentious to the staff. Instead, he seemed like a pillar, giving them a unique sense of security.
Even the comments in the live broadcast room paused for a while before someone tremblingly typed out:
Although I usually find Gu Niupi quite pretentious and annoying, I have to admit that at this moment, seeing him still with that unwavering look of unmoved even if the sky falls, it actually makes me feel quite safe.
This statement was immediately refuted.
[Bah! How can Gu Niupi feel safe? He's done so many evil things, if a ghost comes, he'll definitely be the first one to go to!]
He's just pretending to be noble. Even if Piao comes, it's best to get Gu Niubi away so he doesn't cling to Master Xue anymore.
[Uncle Apia, I know you're coming, kill him! ]
Was Gu Yunshuang really completely emotionless at this moment? It was just that no one noticed that his face was even paler and stiffer than usual, and that the fingers pressed against his pants couldn't help but tremble slightly.
The lights came on, and the fear in the staff's hearts disappeared. They remembered that they still had the ghost-exorcising talisman, so they didn't have to be afraid even if a ghost came. Suddenly, they felt very excited and thought maliciously, "I should be able to see Gu Yunshuang's ugly face scared to death soon, right?"
Just as he was thinking this, he suddenly felt a burn in his pocket. He quickly reached into his pocket and took out the talisman he had bought at a high price. The talisman paper spontaneously combusted without any fire as soon as he took it out.
"Boom, boom, boom, boom."
Suddenly there was a knock on the door. It was powerful, slow and rhythmic. The dull sound echoed in the quiet house and the audience in the live broadcast room could hear it clearly.
The sounds seemed to be knocking on the staff member's head, making him dizzy and as if falling into an ice cellar. His intuition told him that something terrible was really coming, and the life-saving talisman he relied on was gone at the first sight.
The knocking on the door continued rhythmically, without stopping.
The long-stagnant comment finally uttered a sentence.
[Three knocks by a person, four knocks by a ghost. So the thing knocking on the door isn't a person, right?]
There was a pause in the knocking, and when it sounded again, it turned into three knocks in a row.
Barrage: ...
One audience member bravely tried to test it out.
[Who these days would visit someone's house and knock on the door without ringing the doorbell?]
The knocking sound outside the door paused for a moment, and then the doorbell rang, ring, ring, ring.
【……】
【!!! 】
【panic/panic/panic/panic/panic/panic/panic/】
[Oh my god! That thing must be looking here!]
The doorbell continued to ring, one after another, persistently and patiently, obviously intending to continue pretending.
It is said that goldfish have a seven-second memory, but some people are not much better than goldfish.
After waiting quietly for a long time, the power in the apartment building was restored. The thing outside, who knew whether it was a human or a ghost, was still ringing the doorbell slowly and politely, as if it was really a visitor and not here to take his life. There was no impatience and no intention of banging the door to force its way in.
As time went on, some people forgot their previous fear and their minds began to become active again.
The staff member is a fan of Xue Tinghe. He has watched many of Xue Tinghe's live broadcasts and has heard a lot of his popular science talks about ghosts and spirits.
Seeing that the thing outside the door did not bang on the door angrily and was so polite to ring the doorbell, he thought that the person outside the door might really be a person. Even if it was not a person, its strength was not very strong, so it did not even have the ability to break the door without the owner's permission.
"Gu, Teacher Gu, who would come to see you so late at night? Could it be your friend? Continuing like this is not a solution. Why don't you go and take a look through the peephole?" The staff member nudged Gu Yunshuang's shoulder. "Your friend might have something urgent to ask you so late at night. It's not nice to have them knocking on the door like that."
The haters in the live broadcast room all saw the staff's bad intentions, sneered in their hearts and wanted to see Gu Yunshuang make a fool of himself, so they immediately followed up with barrages, trying to persuade or encourage him to go and have a look.
Gu's fans anxiously reminded Gu Yunshuang not to be fooled, but the barrage of comments they sent out were quickly deliberately brushed away by the haters, and Gu Yunshuang might not even be able to see them.
Gu Yunshuang dodged the staff's hand and walked to the door by himself.
The staff immediately pointed the camera at Gu Yunshuang, feeling apprehensive yet also hoping to capture Gu Yunshuang's frightened expression.
Gu Yunshuang took a deep breath and slowly lowered his head to look at the peephole on the door. He was stunned by the sight and his hand reacted first, slamming the door open.
The staff didn't expect him to be so reckless as to open the door. Their hearts were beating in their throats. When they saw who was outside the door, the scream that was about to startle them was stuck in their throats, and their eyes widened in shock.
The comments in the live broadcast room soon became just a sea of "fuck!"
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