Chapter 1
Gu Zhun has become a hot topic.
He found out about this 12 hours after he became a trending topic.
He was soundly sleeping on the tatami at the time, and the sharp ringing of his cell phone woke him up from his dream. He fumbled for the phone under his pillow, half-closed his eyes, and said incoherently, "Hello, who is this?"
"Are you sleeping? You still have the mind to sleep? You are about to be roasted on the hot search, do you know that?" The sharp voice of agent Liu Weiwei crawled over through the receiver and slipped into Gu Zhun's ears without any detour.
Liu Weiwei's voice normally sounds gentle, like a spring breeze, but when she gets anxious, like now, it becomes like the firecrackers set off during the Chinese New Year, dull, yet with a hint of sharpness. In short, it can make people's scalp tingle in an instant.
"What do you mean?" Gu Zhun was stunned by the shout. All his sleepiness disappeared. He half sat up, rubbed his eyebrows, took out the tablet from the bedside table and opened Weibo - wiping off the cream on the surface of the tablet.
"It's hard to explain. Just check it out for yourself on Weibo." Liu Weiwei paused, thought for a moment, but didn't hang up the phone.
Entering Weibo, Gu Zhun went straight to the trending search area. The fourth, fifth and sixth most popular searches on Weibo that caught his eye were all about him.
Gu Zhun's children
[An idol who failed to successfully transform actually gave birth to a child without the knowledge of his fans]
【Gu Zhun, get out of the idol circle】
Gu Zhun was bewildered by the trending search terms, frowning involuntarily. He clicked on a trending search with a clear purpose, and was immediately redirected to a long Weibo post. He glanced at it briefly. What about the child Gu Zhun, and the lack of Dou De... That wasn't the point. The photo attached to the post was what made him so stunned and furious.
It was a photo of Gu Zhun holding the hand of a little girl of six or seven years old.
The little girl had a high ponytail, and Gu Zhun slightly bent his body and talked and laughed with the girl.
The photo was taken from a distance and is not very clear. Half of the little girl's face seemed to be blurred later, but Gu Zhun's face was extremely clear. Anyone who was a fan of his would recognize him even if he turned into ashes.
Gu Zhun's back teeth were about to break when he read this Weibo post.
If his memory served him right, this was a paparazzi photo taken the afternoon before yesterday when he went to pick up his niece. His parents were both busy that day, so they gave Gu Zhun a rare call, awkwardly and forcefully asking him to pick up the child. He had just finished his work, so he gladly accepted, wrapping himself up tightly, leaving only his eyes exposed, and walked to the elementary school gate.
But he didn't expect that even though he was wrapped up like this, he still couldn't escape the paparazzi's sneak shots.
"What a bitch!" Even though Gu Zhun was a polite person to others, he couldn't help but swear at this moment.
He thought it was a common practice. It was okay to focus the camera on celebrities, but it was too inhumane to make a fuss about children.
So at this moment he wanted to curse the paparazzi's ancestors for eighteen generations. He was not afraid of shortening his life by exposing such a wicked thing.
Gu Zhun bit his lip, saw that there were 350 comments, took a deep breath, clicked into the comments section, and scrolled down one by one:
[Confused Junjun: What? I call you husband and you really think you’re my husband!!!]
[Woman A was approved: I call you husband to make you happy, but don’t really think of yourself as a man]
[Listen to me going crazy: I don't believe it, how could my brother have a child? Which of our rivals came up with this dirty trick?!]
[AAA My Main Guy is the Most Handsome: Junzi, you know I've always been on your side, but this has been out for 12 hours now. What? Are you really looking for another girl behind our backs? Okay, enough, husband, just say something. We'll listen. Hurry up or I'm going to go all out!]
[Have a cup of milk tea and talk slowly (see Gu Zhun's version): Husband, please say something. I can't control you anymore. Please say something quickly. I've been talking so hard that my lips are almost peeling. Why haven't you issued a statement yet? You know I can dote on you without limits, but what? Don't let me lose too badly. Please speak out!!!]
[ZZZ-Xiaoxing replied: "Have a cup of milk tea and talk slowly (see Gu Zhun's version): Your husband is coaxing your sister-in-law's daughter..."]
[Being a Motivational Can (Graduate School Exam Version): Isn’t my Junzi brother a master-type idol? How did he become a husband without telling us...]
[JL wants to eat big strawberries: too lazy to spray]
[Paipai Patrick Star's reply to "Become a Motivational Can (Graduate School Entrance Exam Version)": Be content, your husband is meeting your requirements.]
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Gu Zhun slid down slowly, and his eyes went dark. He almost choked to death.
He threw the tablet aside and looked at the call interface. For a moment he didn't know how to start the conversation - to be more precise, he didn't know how to reveal the child's identity.
His muffled breathing on the other end of the phone carried through the microphone to the distant company, and when it reached Liu Weiwei's ears, it took on a different meaning. "I just want to ask you one question. Is this child yours?"
Liu Weiwei had never spoken so cautiously to her artists. She was a person of her word, but she was undecided about Gu Zhun's matter.
In her opinion, Gu Zhun was different from the other idols under her, who were obedient yet had their own independent minds. Since she took over Gu Zhun, this handsome Alpha had obeyed her instructions in everything, fulfilled her orders with flying colors, worked diligently on Weibo, and even spent less than a month setting up a website for him to secretly communicate with his fans.
Behaviors like these have attracted a large number of loyal fans for him.
She knew clearly that Gu Zhun was sincerely running this business, but she also knew that Gu Zhun really just treated it as a business. It was only later that he felt more love, and then he developed love for his fans.
But in fact, this love does not affect the coldness in Gu Zhun's bones.
Until now, Liu Weiwei only has a small amount of information about Gu Zhun's family. Apart from that, Gu Zhun never allows anyone to follow or talk about his private life. This is an agreement between Gu Zhun and Liu Weiwei.
So when she was humming a song at home and preparing to have a spa, and suddenly saw the hot search terms about Gu Zhun's children, she really felt a chill on her back and broke out in a sweat.
Until now, Liu Weiwei heard the other end of the phone was silent again. She gritted her teeth and continued to ask, "Whose child is it? Don't tell me you had sex while drunk. If that's the case, I'll grab you and chop it into pieces right now!"
On the other end of the line, Gu Zhun looked at the call page, then saw the tens of thousands of private messages that suddenly flooded into his Weibo account, his throat pounding. He stared at the trending topic on Weibo for a long time. When he wondered if Liu Weiwei was performing CPR, he slowly spoke, his voice hoarse, telling her, "The child is my sister's."
Liu Weiwei was visibly relieved when she heard this. "That's good. You'd better not give birth to a child for me, or I'll beat you into a bastard!"
Liu Weiwei values talent. She is always more tolerant and has higher expectations for people like Gu Zhun who can become famous overnight. However, she also knows that such a gifted person will not act in accordance with the law or follow the rules. To put it more simply, such a person will not know how to cherish his own reputation.
"In that case, we will issue a statement to clarify things immediately. There is no need to cause unnecessary misunderstandings. By the way, we are also tracking down the reporter who took this photo behind the scenes. Once we find him, we will give him a good beating!" Liu Weiwei glared.
She really couldn't understand which entertainment reporter was so bold as to add such a heavy workload to her for no reason, forcing her to rush to the company on her day off to accept criticism from her previous boss.
"Wait a minute..." Gu Zhun got out of bed and took a sip of water. "I need to talk to the child's biological father about this. After all..." Gu Zhun thought about the wording for a moment. "After all, he has the right to know."
Although Gu Zhun didn't want to mention that scumbag, he was the person his sister loved most in her life. They went through bloody storms together and had a daughter.
"Okay, but let me tell you again, we have missed the golden time for handling the matter. If you delay any longer, people will think you are looking for someone else to take the blame." Liu Weiwei was telling the truth. In a place like the entertainment industry where there are so many good and bad people, you may be the top star that everyone envies today, but the next second, you will be splashed with dirty water and unable to get up.
Then, someone new will take your place.
Gu Zhun understood and sighed.
"I know." Finally, he hung up the phone and switched to the page of the person he hadn't contacted for a long time. Gu Zhun was still hesitating about how to make this call, but he didn't expect that the other party had already come to him on his own.
Gu Zhun looked at the words "Xu Ming" flashing on the screen, and suddenly remembered the last call from his sister that he didn't have time to answer. It was also like now, with the screen flashing and the characters jumping.
"Hello." Gu Zhun only said this one sentence, but he felt that he had spent a lot of energy.
"Gu Zhun, what's wrong with you? How come the child is on the hot search? Didn't you agree to protect her? And this is how you protect her? I think you did it on purpose. I know you hate me, but no matter what, isn't she your niece? Are you doing this to your sister?" Xu Ming on the other end of the phone vented all his resentment on Gu Zhun without saying a word.
"..." Gu Zhun listened to the noisy voices on the other end of the phone, as well as the questioning words that sounded like firecrackers. He sneered almost the next second, and then refuted coldly, "You come to question me? Xu Ming, do you want to listen to what you are saying! If you still have a conscience, find the person behind the photo shooting. Aren't you very capable? And don't mention my sister here!"
Perhaps because they were talking about someone neither party wanted to discuss, Xu Ming swallowed his anger and asked a minute later, "So what are you going to do?"
"I'll clarify later and say it's my sister's child."
"You clarify?" Xu Ming was silent for a long time after saying this. Suddenly, he said in a hoarse voice, "No need. I will clarify it myself. Don't make it seem like I'm so heartless. I dare not admit it even though someone photographed my child. This is not my style."
What's more, I owe this child this.
Xu Ming did not say this out loud. He knew that if he said it out loud, it would bring up those sad things again, which would not be resolved in a short time.
Hearing this, Gu Zhun couldn't help but smile. He didn't know whether he should be happy or sad. His sister always cared about this matter in the past. She always said that the child should not be seen in public. However, she didn't expect that after so many years of her death, the child would be recognized by the popular rapper in this circle.
This was what my sister deserved, but now it has become a luxury and an emergency measure.
"By the way, Gu Zhun, are you at the company?" Xu Ming's tone suddenly became less serious. "Go to the company. I have a gift for you."
"What?" Gu Zhun wondered if he was hallucinating. Wasn't this really a weasel paying a New Year's visit to a chicken?
"Didn't you ask me to find the person behind the scenes filming? I found him. But I think it would be more appropriate for you to handle this person. Besides, I think you should like this gift." Xu Ming said it ambiguously, even a little unclear.
Afterwards, Xu Ming hung up the phone, and the next second, he sent another text message: I believe you will like this gift.
Gu Zhun looked at his phone and had a bad feeling in his heart. Then, Liu Weiwei told him to come to the company, otherwise someone would die.
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