Bai Shuijin silently broke down behind him. How could there be such a narcissistic person in this world?
After a long explanation from the butler, Wang Muguang finally believed that Bai Shuijin wasn’t a hardcore fan crazily in love with him.
After learning the truth, Wang Muguang gave him a look of pity.
Bai Shuijin felt creeped out by the look, “Why are you looking at me like that?”
“Nothing, I’m just surprised you’re not my fan.”
“What’s so surprising about that?”
“I didn’t expect you haven’t tasted someone as good as me.”
“…”
Bai Shuijin felt as if a big steamed bun had been stuffed in his mouth, and was unable to say a single word.
As expected, the villain family had all types of villain archetypes: Wang Huanxiu was the gloomy powerful type, while Wang Muguang belonged to the IQ-lowering category.
Although his appearance was outstanding, the unique narcissism and arrogance of a villain were perfectly embodied in Wang Muguang.
Wang Muguang sized up Bai Shuijin from head to toe, then turned to ask the butler, “How come I didn’t know about my brother’s marriage?”
Butler: “Sir’s marriage was even published in the newspapers.”
The embarrassing wedding had stayed on the news page for two days. As long as one paid a little attention, they could see the wedding news.
“Impossible, I watch the news every day. How could I not see it.”
The butler fell silent for a moment, wanting to say something but stopping.
Wang Muguang: “Uncle Zhang, what’s wrong?”
“Because Young Master Muguang, you only care about yourself.”
Wang Muguang: “…”
Bai Shuijin: “…”
He did have a face that looked like he only watched news about himself.
Bai Shuijin clutched his social practice report and walked back, wondering about whether to ask the counselor for another one.
Suddenly a shadow appeared next to him, “Why are you walking so fast, let’s walk together.”
Bai Shuijin turned to look at Wang Muguang who was now walking beside him.
Wang Muguang lowered his head and looked at him, his eyes scrutinizing Bai Shuijin’s face for a long time before finally saying, “By the way, you actually look quite cute.”
Bai Shuijin thought the other party only knew how to praise himself, and didn’t expect he could also praise others.
“Like a short winter melon.”
“…”
Wang Muguang could live so long purely because of his strong family background.
Wang Muguang’s room was on the first floor. After entering, the servants pushed his luggage into the room. He himself went to take a shower, then put on an eye mask and lay down to catch up on sleep.
He had just returned from a fashion week abroad and needed to rest after flying in the air for a whole day.
He didn’t come out of the room until dinner time. Wang Muguang slept deeply; by the time he woke up, Bai Shuijin had already finished eating. When Wang Muguang was eating, Bai Shuijin sat on the sofa right on time at eight o’clock, ready to watch the costume martial arts drama starring his laogong number one, laogong number two up to N.
It was the one he had been chasing before.
This drama was filmed and aired simultaneously, so there were only two episodes each week.
Usually, airing only two episodes per week was very unfriendly to maintaining ratings, but this drama had content, plot, and good looks. It could be called the hit drama of this winter. Now if you casually opened any video app, you could see countless short clips edited from this drama.
Bai Shuijin watched with relish, his eyeballs almost sticking to the male lead and second male lead.
Wang Muguang walked over and took a look, “You like watching this?”
He nodded, “Of course, this is the most popular hit drama recently.”
Wang Muguang’s expression was a bit subtle, “Really?”
Then he sat on a single sofa and started scrolling on his phone, his long legs crossed, longer than life itself. He casually pushed back his slightly long hair; when he wasn’t speaking, he looked like a prince from some exotic country. At first, there was still a smile on his face, but as he kept scrolling, his smile gradually stiffened.
After one episode ended, Bai Shuijin’s mouth felt lonely during the commercial break, so he peeled some lychees to eat.
He couldn’t eat alone with Wang Muguang beside him. Although it was their first day meeting and the other party had attacked his height, upholding the idea of being one family, Bai Shuijin generously chose to forgive and asked if he wanted some lychees.
Wang Muguang shook his head and refused, “No need, although I know the lychee really wants to be eaten by me.”
Bai Shuijin looked down at the lychee in his hand.
It’s not easy for anyone these days, even fruits have to endure false rumors.
Wang Muguang’s emotions were very transparent. Bai Shuijin looked at his expression, which was uglier than crying, and was a bit curious about what he was looking at.
“What are you looking at? You don’t seem happy.”
Wang Muguang turned his head, “Nothing, don’t mind me.”
“Oh.”
And Bai Shuijin really didn’t mind.
A few seconds later, Wang Muguang: “Seeing how curious you are about me, I might as well tell you.”
Bai Shuijin: “…”
‘I wasn’t.’
But he still learned the reason why Wang Muguang’s smile disappeared. The most troublesome thing for a celebrity was scandals and their own professional ability.
At this time, both combined; the trending topics, Wang Muguang’s acting skills and Wang Muguang’s scandals, were hanging together on the hot search list.
Bai Shuijin clicked in to see. It was rumored online that Wang Muguang would join the cast of the recently popular drama “Ye You Xing” to make a guest appearance. The reason this drama was so popular, besides a good script and good director, was that it had actors who looked good and had good acting skills.
However, Wang Muguang’s acting skills had always been criticized, and as soon as this news came out, he was immediately scolded to the top of the hot search list.
“I’m really speechless, I don’t want to watch terrible acting, why invite him to cameo!”
“Is being rich that amazing, Wang Muguang must have brought in money to join the crew.”
“I’ve said before that Wang Muguang’s face is fine, but for acting I have other choices.”
“Wang Muguang get lost, this is my brother’s first work after his debut, and I don’t want it to be ruined.”
“Fuck, Wang Muguang?～!…”
“With Wang Muguang’s eye-burning acting, they dare to invite him?”
“Don’t you know your own limits, don’t ruin such a good production team, please get out yourself.”
“One rat dropping spoils the whole pot of porridge.”
“Boycott Wang Muguang!”
“+1”
“Add my ID card too.”
Bai Shuijin stared at the hot search comments in amazement. Because he was working all the time in his previous life, he hardly played with his phone. Even when he had it, it was just to reply to messages from school and didn’t really chase stars. Seeing Wang Muguang being scolded so fiercely shocked him. Scrolling down, there were even comments cursing his ancestors.
He looked at the news, Ye You Xing… why did this name sound so familiar?
Very soon, the next episode of the drama started playing, and the three big characters “Ye You Xing” appeared prominently on the TV screen.
“…”
Bai Shuijin fell silent for a moment, “You’re going to act in this?”
Wang Muguang raised his shattered-looking face, “Mm.”
Bai Shuijin was speechless for a moment. Actually, in the entertainment circle novel Wang Muguang was in, the villain was set as arrogant, narcissistic, and having no acting skills. If he was criticized for his acting skills, it wasn’t unjust.
It was just that the scolding was a bit too fierce.
Wang Muguang looked at him expectantly, “Do you have anything to say first?”
Bai Shuijin was silent for a moment.
This was really hard to comment on, after all, all the bad reviews had already been made by others.
Wang Muguang got up and sat beside Bai Shuijin, leaning over to look at him, “What, don’t you have anything to comfort me with?”
It was as if he was giving him a chance to comfort him.
As the other party’s breath got close, Bai Shuijin leaned back slightly.
His acting skills being criticized was a fact; from an outsider’s perspective, there was no way to comfort him. But as a family member, there was no need to stand on the scale of fairness. Family would give preference and partiality.
The other person was Laogong-ge’s younger brother, so he was also his younger brother.
Bai Shuijin: “Don’t pay attention to those bad reviews, just absorb the good opinions, work on your acting skills, and be yourself.”
“I know, but I always care about how others see me.”
Wang Muguang’s starting point in life was a finish line that many people could never reach in a lifetime. In his childhood, he had a happy family, wealth, power, and background. Although his parents died when he was ten, he had an outstanding big brother supporting him. He lived without worries, and was adored by everyone, the favored son of heaven.
He entered the entertainment circle for his dream, but on the internet he heard different voices, different voices scolding him.
How different? The curses greeted his ancestors eight hundred times without repeating once.
At first, he didn’t care, but later, he started to care more and more about other people’ evaluations.
He even… cried like a water pump under the blanket in the middle of the night.
Wang Muguang looked at his phone, his whole person seemed about to shatter, “These comments make one feel cold inside.”
Bai Shuijin moved closer to him, “Why do you have to care about that? If you do whatever others tell you to do, if you change yourself because of others, then you’re no longer you, so don’t care about other peop…”
At this moment, Wang Muguang held up the phone screen to Bai Shuijin, and a comment suddenly entered his sight.
“I really want to slap Wang Muguang hard.”
Bai Shuijin: “…A slap on the face, right?”
“…”
The online comments were messing with his mood, so Bai Shuijin simply snatched the phone from his hand and said, “How about you stop looking.”
Wang Muguang: “But those comments are already deeply imprinted in my mind.”
Bai Shuijin braced himself, “So what, you’ll forget them sooner or later, don’t take it to heart, don’t be sad. Be a man with a big butt.”
**The original idiom goes, “Be a man with honor and integrity”, but Bai Shuijin changes it to “Be a man with a big butt” as a joke. “Honor and integrity” (dà zhàng fū) and “big butt” (dà pì gu) have a similar rhythm and structure.
As a result, as soon as this sentence came out, the other party seemed even sadder.
The starlight around Wang Muguang visibly dimmed, as if he had lost all goals and hope in life.
“Now what’s wrong with you?”
Wang Muguang hesitated to speak, and finally spoke after a long time. “Actually, my butt is just so-so.”
Bai Shuijin: “…”
So now he was sad because his butt wasn’t perky enough…?
This villain, Wang Muguang, was really ridiculously fragile.
But the matter of Wang Muguang’s flat butt deeply rooted itself in Bai Shuijin’s heart, to the point that when Wang Muguang stood up, Bai Shuijin couldn’t help but sneak a couple glances at it.
It was okay.
Wait!
Then was his laogong-ge’s butt also flat?!
When Wang Huanxiu returned from the company that night, he saw Bai Shuijin and Wang Muguang waiting at the door.
He already knew about Wang Muguang’s return; he had received his call in the afternoon.
“Big Brother!”
“Laogong-ge.”
“…” For some reason, Wang Huanxiu felt a moment of regret about coming home.
Bai Shuijin kept paying attention to Wang Huanxiu’s butt, but since he was wearing pants, it affected his observation.
Wang Huanxiu didn’t give the two of them a glance, and walked upstairs with his long legs. When Bai Shuijin went to the room to find him, he was in the dressing room changing clothes. The tie was taken off, and the cufflinks that bound his wrists were undone. His shoulders were wide and waist narrow, and the muscle lines on his arms could be seen under his shirt. The image was full of tension.
Sensing the gaze, Wang Huanxiu glanced over, “What’s the matter?”
Bai Shuijin unconsciously stood at attention and swallowed saliva. His mind was now full of whether Wang Huanxiu’s butt was perky or not.
He was still unable to verify, after all, it couldn’t be seen directly with the naked eye.
Unless he secretly touched it while the other person was asleep.
“Laogong-ge, can I sleep with you tonight?” He clung to the door frame, looking at Wang Huanxiu with an expectant face.
At this time, he had already showered and was standing at the dressing room doorway in his pajamas.
His mouth curved up, giving a well-behaved smile.
Wang Huanxiu’s answer was very decisive, “No.”
The man threw down this sentence and turned to enter the bathroom.
It was already midnight when he came back today. The high-intensity work made his emotions hover at the edge, and the whole person was a bit irritable.
When a person doesn’t have enough sleep, they can’t control their emotions well.
Moreover, he received a call from the old man, which made his headache even worse.
Wang Huanxiu didn’t change into pajamas. He was too lazy to bother, as he still had to take them off the next morning. He just wrapped a bath towel around his lower body and went out.
The muscles on his body were like a sculptor’s exquisite masterpiece, the abs and the mermaid lines on the sides obvious, and water droplets that hadn’t been wiped off slid down from his strong chest.
When he came out of the bathroom, he didn’t see Bai Shuijin’s figure.
This clingy spirit surprisingly didn’t pester him tonight.
He originally thought that after rejecting the request to sleep together, the other party would pester him and act spoiled, insisting on sleeping there.
Unexpectedly, there wasn’t a sound at all.
His attitude toward Bai Shuijin had always been cold. It was normal to be hurt after being rejected so many times, but he was too lazy to think about whether the other party was really sad.
Only that today, Bai Shuijin’s obedience was unusual. After being rejected, he quietly left without pestering him.
Wang Huanxiu’s narrow and sharp eyes glanced at the door for a few seconds. There was no movement at all, he had really gone back.
He was quite obedient tonight.
Wang Huanxiu walked to the bed and lifted the quilt with his arm, ready to sleep. The next second, Bai Shuijin’s fluffy head popped out from inside.
Wang Huanxiu: “…”
Bai Shuijin, who had been lying in ambush for a long time and deliberately crawled deep into the bed: “…”
‘Oops, I was discovered already?’
