AHFAFTGTTT Chapter 52

Chapter 52: Soul Return – Will He Come Looking for Him?

“Cousin!! Emergency!!!”

“Cousin!! Emergency!!!”

Inside a clean and elegant VIP ward at the Municipal Hospital, a handsome young man lay on the bed, his eyes tightly closed. The deafening ringtone of a nearby phone caused him to frown slightly. The monitor beside the bed fluctuated wildly before returning to a calm rhythm.

Fu Qi rushed from the company and pushed open the hospital room door, only to be met with a sharp and agitated female voice clawing directly at his brain.

The jarring sound caused him to freeze. He turned a cold face to wake up Assistant Yang, who was drooling and sleeping soundly nearby.

He’d asked him to keep watch, but instead, he was sleeping on the bed!

After being pushed a few times, Assistant Yang was about to explode, but he lazily raised his eyelids, then shot to attention.

“President Fu, you’re here so early today?”

“Yang Huan, your salary for this month is gone.”

Fu Qi pronounced his decree with a dark expression.

The attending physician had said that Fu Yang should have woken up a week ago.

However, he still hadn’t. The situation was only getting more dangerous.

So, even though the company was busy, he made sure to visit every day for a while. If he had unavoidable meetings, he would have Assistant Yang come and watch, just in case anything happened, in case they needed extra hands.

Heh, he didn’t expect him to be sleeping so peacefully.

Fu Qi raised his hand, aiming straight for his face.

Yang Huan’s pupils constricted. He was already having his salary deducted; was he going to get hit too? He cursed the damned capitalist in his heart. Everyone said that the Fu family’s eldest son was an iron-faced Yama, demanding and difficult to deal with, and it was indeed true.

He worked like a dog for a month, and he only rested… Yang Huan glanced at his watch… only three minutes! And 30 days’ worth of salary was gone.

So unfair, so very unfair!

“President Fu, why don’t you slap me a few more times? Just don’t deduct my salary…”

Before he could finish, the hand brushed past his ear. Fu Qi was turning off the incessantly ringing phone on the bedside table.

“Looking to be slapped?” Fu Qi looked down at him condescendingly.

This new assistant was dull and had no sense of initiative. He had boasted so much during the interview, but he turned out to be just a pretty face.

Yang Huan shrank his neck, knowing that his salary was truly gone. His body slumped in defeat, and he walked dejectedly to the side. He glanced at the bed unintentionally and suddenly panicked, “President Fu! Second Young Master seems to be awake, awake!”

“Assistant Yang, have you not heard the story of the boy who cried wolf?” Fu Qi looked at him with an expression that said, “Do you think I’ll still believe you?”

“He’s really, really awake!”

Fu Qi turned impatiently, and his eyes met Fu Yang’s wide open ones.

“Xiao Yang!” The always stern CEO was now as excited as a child. “Quick! Go get the doctor.”

Assistant Yang immediately dashed out the door, almost losing a shoe.

Fu Qi looked at this scene speechlessly, then lowered his head and immediately changed his expression, asking with concern, “Xiao Yang, do you feel uncomfortable anywhere? Do you want some water?”

Fu Yang’s scattered pupils slowly focused, his consciousness returning. He felt like he had had a long and bizarre dream.

In the dream, he transmigrated into someone else’s body and experienced many, many things.

He even started to like the idol he used to hate the most.

“Xu Chengyue…”

The only part of his body he could move were his eyes. He turned his eyeballs, looking around the empty ward, subconsciously searching for someone. His throat, unused for so long, was hoarse and unrecognizable.

“It was him who harmed you! Don’t worry, Big Brother will bring this criminal to justice.”

Fu Qi, looking like Sherlock Holmes, deciphered the truth and turned to leave to deal with that person.

He collided head-on with Assistant Yang, who was bringing the medical staff. The two sides blocked the door.

So, everyone saw the vegetative patient who had been lying in bed for over a month leap toward the tall and imposing President Fu and hug his leg tightly.

“A medical miracle.”

Even the attending physician was stunned for a second before taking out his stethoscope and stepping forward to examine him.

The nurses also watched this scene in amazement. What willpower could make a newly awakened vegetative patient move?

Fu Yang ignored the doctors poking and prodding at him, clinging to Fu Qi’s leg, half his body almost collapsing to the ground.

“No…”

He had already exhausted all his strength. At this moment, he felt weak all over, and even speaking was a luxury.

Fu Qi: “What?”

Fu Yang struggled to speak: “Don’t… want…”

“You don’t want to let him off so easily?” Fu Qi, feeling that he knew his brother best, patted his younger brother’s hand. “Don’t worry, Big Brother won’t let that little star off easily. You rest well!”

As he said this, he pried Fu Yang’s tightly gripping fingers off his leg one by one. Fu Yang was about to faint with anger, struggling to get up and stop him, but this time he only managed to touch the hem of his clothes.

Just as he was despairing,

a heavenly voice rang out from the doorway—

“Xiao Qi, don’t make your brother angry.”

The person who came in was wearing a qipao, looking gentle and refined. Looking at the two brothers, Xie Ruoqing gasped and hurried into the room.

“Xiao Yang is saying not to make trouble for him.”

Huh? The dense older brother turned to look at his despairing younger brother…

Fu Yang: “…” He wanted to seize power and kill his brother.

As expected, a mother knew her son best. Big Brother was his kryptonite.

In front of his family, Fu Qi lost his stern demeanor and scratched his head. “Ahem, you should have said so earlier…”

“Could he even talk!” Xie Ruoqing pulled her tall, wall-like eldest son away. “You’ll make him sick even if he wasn’t already.”

“Doctor Gao, how is his condition now?” Her elegant and serene face looked slightly anxious.

Doctor Gao finished his examination and replied, “He’s fine for now. He’ll need to stay in the hospital for observation for a few days, and then he can be discharged after some rehabilitation training.”

Fu Yang listened to their conversation, unable to move or speak, and became even more anxious.

Did Xu Chengyue hear what he said at the end?

Will he come looking for him?

…

H City

Abandoned factory

The fire grew larger, accompanied by the sound of sirens. Another fire truck arrived, and firefighters were urgently rescuing people.

Outside the cordon, stood two people whose appearances were out of place with the surroundings.

“When did I say I was?”

Shangguan Yaoguang lowered his San Bai Yan eyes, shifted his gaze away from Xu Chengyue, and scoffed. “Homosexuality is disgusting.”

Xu Chengyue’s pupils trembled slightly, his face full of confusion, as if unable to understand why someone would suddenly completely overturn everything they had said before.

“Shangguan…”

“You actually like me, ha…”

Shangguan Yaoguang turned away. “Unfortunately, I’m not gay. Sorry.”

“Shangguan, are you… joking with me?”

Xu Chengyue grabbed his wrist, saying with some panic, “I wanted to draw a line between us just now. I’m sorry, don’t be mad at me. I’m just a little afraid that something dangerous like this will happen again. I didn’t distrust you, I’m just too confused. I originally wanted to end all of this and then retire from the entertainment industry, and then we could properly…”

“You want to retire from the entertainment industry?”

Shangguan Yaoguang’s gaze fell on his wrist. He dared not look closely. He struggled in his heart for a moment but ultimately did not push the other person away. “What about Spark? Aren’t you, as the leader, the most concerned about this nominal group? And you dream of holding a concert?”

The word “leader,” when spoken by him, always contained a hint of sarcasm.

“I think opening a flower shop is also nice now.”

With you.

A gentle smile hung on the corner of Xu Chengyue’s mouth, his eyes like spring water soaked in morning mist, drawing out delicate ripples between his eyelashes as his gaze flowed with affection.

The air was filled with the smell of burning ash. The city near the sea even had a salty, damp smell in the wind. The combination of the two made one want to cry.

Shangguan Yaoguang felt a bit confused by the stare. He had never dared to look at Xu Chengyue so openly before because he would be beaten by Ye Xiao if he looked too long.

But the person in front of him now was covered in dirt, not at all as delicate as before, but he also lacked the tension he used to have.

The sea breeze blew his silver-white hair in the air. His usually gentle and calm light eyes were shining with dazzling light.

Why did Xu Chengyue seem different from before?

Even though he was so disheveled, he was even more beautiful.

He used to say that he wanted to stand on the biggest and most magnificent stage and make Spark bloom.

But now, he was standing in front of a dilapidated factory filled with the smell of fireworks and saying he wanted to open a flower shop.

How ridiculous.

“Whatever you want, just don’t regret it.” Shangguan Yaoguang said in a cold voice, shifting his gaze unnaturally and focusing on the fire behind him.

“What is this place?”

Shangguan Yaoguang’s brow furrowed slightly. How did he suddenly come here?

Was he sleepwalking again?

Because of his hypersomnia, he would occasionally sleepwalk.

So, he didn’t find it strange to suddenly wake up in a different place. He just felt that this sleep had been too long, so long that it made him feel a little dazed.

The fire brigade carried a stretcher from the fire toward them. It was covered with a white cloth and was carried right to Shangguan Yaoguang’s feet.

“Who’s this?” he asked casually.

“Ye Xiao.”

Xu Chengyue paused for a moment before slowly speaking.

Even if he hated Ye Xiao, he couldn’t help but feel a sense of sorrow in his heart that a living person had been burned to ashes.

Shangguan Yaoguang suddenly looked at the human-shaped thing under the white cloth.

Wait, who?

He slept for a while, and that jerk Ye Xiao became charcoal?

Shangguan Yaoguang didn’t feel any sadness. He only wanted to look up to the sky and exclaim, “Whoever did this did a great job!”

However, what shocked Shangguan Yaoguang even more was yet to come.

Two days later, he was surprised to discover that he had done too many things while sleepwalking.

The adapted Po Jun stage won the championship.

He participated in a wilderness survival show and became a hit.

The CP he formed with Xu Chengyue topped the internal entertainment charts.

The nemesis who had been bullying him to death was also dead.

He was surrounded by attention and his popularity was approaching the top tier.

…He wouldn’t dare dream like this even in his dreams.

But the reality was that he had everything he wanted after waking up and was on the road to the peak of his life.

—

“Snowball?!”

Li An slammed her hand on the table in the conference room of Galaxy Entertainment.

The bright red lipstick on her delicate and sharp face made her look even more imposing.

Even the boss in the main seat was startled.

Galaxy Entertainment’s current boss, named Fang Kuan, was as his name suggested, broad-minded and fat, very wealthy. This nouveau riche from Sichuan rarely cared about official business, but his presence here indicated the urgency of the situation. He spoke in a Mandarin accent mixed with a local dialect:

“What else can we do? There are so many of them, each one is very fierce. Our temple is small, we can’t win against them.”

“So, this is the strategy you’ve been thinking about for a whole week?”

Li An looked around. The PR department lowered their heads, not daring to look at her. Li An threw the plan in front of them, the loud noise scaring everyone into not raising their heads.

“Are you pig-brained?”

“Xu Chengyue entered the company at 19 years old. Now, almost six years later, he has been conscientious and dedicated to every stage. As a leader, he is impeccable. Recently, he has been trending on multiple searches, a new top-tier pre-candidate. This is how you repay him? A bunch of losers.”

“Aiyo, Li An, calm down a little…” Fang Kuan said softly.

“You too! President Fang, you’re the biggest loser of them all. Speaking of which, Xu Chengyue was personally discovered by you and tricked into the company. You lied to the kid, saying you’d treat the company like his home. Is this how you treat your family?”

“I didn’t have a choice…” Fang Kuan was indeed a cautious person. He was lazy and had made enough money. Now, all parties were pressuring him. Actually, he was also doing this for Xu Chengyue’s good. He would keep a low profile and get through this period. In a few years, everything would be fine.

“How many 10 years does a person have? What’s more, they are idols. Hasn’t this broken company delayed them long enough? Now is the best time. Xu Chengyue’s current popularity and data are comparable to the top tier in internal entertainment, but you want to give up on him. Are your brains kicked by donkeys?”

“If you don’t want to take him, hand over his contract to me. I’ll take him out to work independently. In less than a year, I’ll make him a world superstar. Don’t come crying and begging me then!”

Fang Kuan quickly said, “It’s very dangerous for you to take him out. At least with me in the company, I can protect him.”

Li An saw that he was trapped and continued excitedly, “What am I afraid of? A gamble can turn a bicycle into a motorcycle. Anyway, I’m just going to work my life, who hates money.”

Fang Kuan was ultimately a businessman. He was a little tempted by this. With Xu Chengyue’s current popularity, he would make money wherever he went.

“The key is that no program dares to invite him now. They all say the risk is too great.”

Li An stared deadly at him. “Are you sure there isn’t one?”

“There is one. Take a look at this.” Fang Kuan handed her an invitation plan. “But… the salary is very low.”

“‘Era of Edge’ Youth has no definition, daring to fight is the edge. Focusing on the transformation of young people from green to revealing their edge.”

Li An opened the proposal and read the first line, then raised an eyebrow.

“Talent show?”