AHFAFTGTTT Chapter 17
by VolareXu Chengyue sat in the passenger seat of the Maybach for the first time.
The salary of a male idol group member isn’t high; after the revenue split, they receive less than 10%.
He has been working in the entertainment industry for three years, and the balance in his card is only less than 500,000.
And this car costs at least 3 million or more.
“Why did you rent a car?”
He asked the person in the driver’s seat, who was turning the steering wheel.
Ye Xiao’s appearance is actually very upright, with angular jaw corners, giving off a tough vibe. It is also because of this appearance that he is praised as a patriotic idol with good roots.
Ye Xiao’s salary is the same as his, and his family background is similar, not considered good, and can even be said to be poor.
From their debut, their relationship in the team has been the best. One is a leader, and the other is a captain. They have supported each other along the way.
Until a month ago, he thought he understood Ye Xiao very well, at least within the group, he was the one who understood Ye Xiao the most.
“I bought it.” The owner of the car’s voice was slightly deep.
So, he didn’t understand him very well. Xu Chengyue turned his head to the other side, not saying anything more.
“I’ll give you one for your birthday.” Ye Xiao continued, as if millions weren’t a big deal in his eyes.
Xu Chengyue’s birthday is celebrated according to the lunar calendar, which happens to be on New Year’s Eve, still a long way off.
“I don’t accept gifts from unknown sources.” Xu Chengyue’s voice was slightly stiff and awkward, still bearing a grudge about the argument they had, but when he glanced at the rearview mirror and saw the reflection of the car chasing closely behind, he immediately said, “Change the route, there are sasaengs chasing us.”
“Chengyue, you’re always like this, aloof.” Ye Xiao’s words are always sharp, but when he said this, he didn’t have any sarcasm. He skillfully made a turn and parked the car in the garage, opening the door for Xu Chengyue, “Let’s eat first, I’ll cook.”
As they walked into the elevator, Xu Chengyue paused, “This apartment, is it also given to you by Zhao Anqing?”
“I bought this myself, 700,000 down payment.”
Hearing this, Xu Chengyue finally slightly raised his eyes and stepped into the elevator of the garage.
The apartment Ye Xiao bought wasn’t very big, about fifty or sixty square meters. It’s not a problem to live one or two people, just right.
Indeed, a 700,000 down payment couldn’t buy a very big apartment in the center of B City.
The room was decorated warmly. Xu Chengyue surveyed it unobtrusively before feeling relieved. It’s enough to know that Ye Xiao is doing well.
Ye Xiao was cooking in the kitchen. He knew that Ye Xiao was very good at cooking, always making the dishes very beautiful, but he couldn’t tell if they tasted good or not. The teammates all praised him, but the teammates also praised him when he cooked, making it hard to distinguish the truth from lies.
No, the amnesiac Shangguan wouldn’t. Shangguan said that his cooking was terrible.
Is it really that bad? Xu Chengyue’s eyebrows furrowed slightly. The phone on the coffee table suddenly lit up. The home screen was Spark’s first-anniversary group photo. Shangguan Yaoguang was standing in the corner, his slightly long bangs covering his eyes, detached from the group, only showing half of his body. Besides work, he didn’t say more than three sentences a day.
The most he said to him was – “Excuse me,” “Thank you,” “It’s okay.”
He was lost in memories. His gaze slowly moved upward. A small green phone icon at the top of the home screen indicated that the call was connected.
“I warn you, stop touching me! If you touch me again, I’ll break your hand.”
“Ah!! My abs are gone, all eight of them!”
“I don’t trust anyone, come back before ten o’clock, understand?”
Amnesia… can it cause such a big change?
Caring about him is something that the former Shangguan would never do.
“Dinner’s ready, Chengyue.”
The jumbled thoughts were interrupted by this voice. Xu Chengyue got up from the sofa. The table by the window was decorated lavishly.
Steak, fresh sashimi, red wine, and candles were lit.
“It’s not any good wine, just bought it casually. Try it and see if it’s bitter?” Ye Xiao cut the steak and handed it to Xu Chengyue, “Do you remember the first time we drank red wine?”
Of course, Xu Chengyue remembered. It was just a month after their debut. Li An took them to a commercial bigshot’s gathering to familiarize them with faces.
The way for small celebrities to familiarize themselves with faces is very simple: drinking.
After Ye Xiao finished a round of drinks, he frowned and suddenly said in his ear, “Don’t drink that red wine, it’s so hard to drink, I’m going to throw up.”
So Xu Chengyue took all the red wine that was handed over and drank it for Ye Xiao. He had no sense of taste. Besides getting drunk, he didn’t think it was hard to drink.
Two poor kids who didn’t even recognize red wine struggled in the entertainment industry to this day.
Xu Chengyue picked up the delicate goblet and took a sip. The red wine that he didn’t think had any taste before now tasted bitter.
“Why did you go to Zhao Anqing?” Xu Chengyue put down the goblet. His willingness to come to Ye Xiao’s place meant that he wanted to seriously resolve the conflict. Five years of friendship couldn’t be destroyed by one Zhao Anqing.
“Did he do anything to you that you forgot?”
He never minded that Ye Xiao wanted to film.
Even though they made a passionate promise to become Asia’s top male group when they debuted, to Xu Chengyue, that wasn’t the most important thing.
“The five of us will be a family from now on, we will always, always be together!”
Under the fireworks on the night of their formation, Ye Xiao, who was still naive at that time, might have forgotten what he said, but only Xu Chengyue took it seriously.
He naively thought that he finally had a new home again, a new home called Spark.
However, what he didn’t expect was that the person who said those words last would be the one who strayed.
“You want to develop individually, you feel that the team limits you, I can understand, I sincerely wish you better, but why Zhao Anqing?” Xu Chengyue’s emotions suddenly became agitated. He clenched his fists tightly, his knuckles turning pale from the force.
“You really don’t know why?” Ye Xiao looked straight at him, his eyes deep and dark, “A year ago, if you had come a little earlier, how would I have ended up where I am today. You know best how embarrassed I was…”
“Chengyue, you are the least qualified to ask me ‘why’.”
In an instant, Xu Chengyue lost all his strength.
A year ago, the emergence of talent shows brought the biggest setback to Spark’s development.
Li An was anxious and distraught. The five of them had no income. Hao Yun and Zhou Qingqing even thought about terminating their contracts and going back to school.
Suddenly one day, Ye Xiao and Xu Chengyue said that a director had contacted him and was preparing to make a variety show in the form of a musical, and he could invite them.
Xu Chengyue told him not to rush and wait for Li An to ask the company and let the company contact him, but he didn’t expect Ye Xiao to be impatient and go directly to Zhao Anqing, and even sent Xu Chengyue the location information after he arrived.
After that, it was the memory that Xu Chengyue was most unwilling to recall.
After receiving the news, he immediately asked Li An to find someone to respond, and then rushed to that place non-stop.
Opening the door of the reception room –
The floor was full of cigarette butts, smoke billowing, and Ye Xiao was lying on the ground, not a single good piece of flesh on his body. Among the people standing were not only Zhao Anqing, but about three or four middle-aged men.
The person Li An had asked to respond had not yet arrived. Xu Chengyue rarely acted impulsively, but at that time he was really driven crazy, grabbed the iron rod at the door and rushed up.
In the end, it was the police who came.
He didn’t know what Zhao Anqing had said to Ye Xiao, but Ye Xiao chose not to pursue it. Instead, Xu Chengyue was detained for a few days for intentional injury. After he came out, the online public opinion was already irreversible.
From then on, Ye Xiao seemed to have changed into a different person, willful, irritable, and didn’t give anyone a good look.
Xu Chengyue had seen all of Ye Xiao’s embarrassment, so he indulged him again and again, crossing his bottom line, until he learned that he was going to cooperate with Zhao Anqing again, and only then did he quarrel with him for the first time.
“I’m sorry.” Xu Chengyue’s voice trembled weakly, “Is Zhao Anqing threatening you again?”
“No, I took the initiative to contact him.” Ye Xiao lit a cigarette, flicked the ash, and said, “I hate living a poor life, and I don’t want to be looked down upon by anyone.”
“The entertainment industry has always been like this, stepping on the low and praising the high. Knowing that I climbed up to Zhao Anqing, one or two people nodded and bowed to me.”
Ye Xiao held a cigarette in one hand, and tapped the table lightly with the fingers of the other hand, his movements were unhurried, as if he was thinking about something important, or as if he was just casually killing time. Finally, he threw away the cigarette butt and said, “So, Chengyue, be with me, okay?”
“Follow Zhao Anqing with me. He doesn’t have sexual function now, he won’t do anything to you. Following him will at most suffer some physical pain, but we will stand on a higher stage.” A kind of almost fanatical light suddenly flashed in Ye Xiao’s eyes, as if ignited by some strong desire.
Xu Chengyue felt as if he had never really known him.
“Ye Xiao, are you crazy!”
He stood up abruptly, but suddenly felt a burst of dizziness. He grabbed the objects around him tightly, trying to stabilize his almost collapsing nerves.
The goblet fell to the ground, red wine splashed, and shattered into pieces.
The next moment, he felt a splitting headache and fell back into the chair.
“The wine…” He looked at the other party in disbelief.
Ye Xiao was quiet for a long time, leaning by the window looking at the moon.
It wasn’t the Mid-Autumn Festival, but tonight’s moon was exceptionally round.
“Chengyue, but I’m already like mud in the gutter, so why are you hanging high in the sky?” Ye Xiao’s tone could be called gentle, saying to the person opposite who was biting his lip and whose cheeks were abnormally red, “Be with me, Chengyue.”
He wants to drag the moon down from the mortal realm.
Throw it into the mire.
And together with him, be stained with the foul stench of the world.
“Zhao Anqing specifically wants you, or rather, what he wanted a year ago was you. I blocked a disaster for you, how should you repay me?”
Ye Xiao smiled slightly, got up easily, with a hint of playfulness in his eyes. He slowly walked towards the beautiful person opposite who was limp, stretched out his slender fingers, gently pinched the other person’s chin, and said in a teasing tone, “Rather than cheapen him, why not cheapen me first?”
The person in front of him, under the influence of the drug, had glistening eyes, and the corners of his eyes were slightly raised, like a bright moon, breathtakingly beautiful.
Ye Xiao’s breathing was rapid, and he pinched harder, soon leaving a red mark on the snow-white skin.
Xu Chengyue turned his head to avoid the other party’s kiss, then suddenly raised a foot and kicked Ye Xiao’s knee fiercely, trying to break free from his control.
But because he was limp, he fell from the chair to the ground, reaching out to grab the phone on the coffee table without giving up.
“In a call?”
Ye Xiao took the phone before him, then slammed it hard on the ground, “Bang,” the phone shattered into pieces, his expression terrifying, “Who are you talking to? Chengyue, I underestimated you, you’ve also learned to play tricks.”
“Who taught you?”