TRMP Chapter 20

Chapter 19

After not seeing Xie Jingshen for more than ten days, Jiang Yifeng could hear a slight shift in his emotions.

The domineering CEO’s grievances were always expressed very subtly, but Jiang Yifeng had chatted with him long enough to pick up on them.

“The filming schedule has been too long,” Jiang Yifeng said, avoiding Xie Jingshen’s question. His eyelashes fluttered, his round eyes curved into a shallow smile. “I missed you, Xie Jingshen.”

Xie Jingshen’s heart beat a little faster.

He tried to calm his heartbeat, pretending to be nonchalant as he asked, “I saw they changed an actor…”

Jiang Yifeng tilted his head, a hint of confusion in his eyes, seemingly unaware of what Xie Jingshen was implying.

Xie Jingshen took a deep breath.

He felt a bit petty, but he couldn’t control his emotions.

He frowned slightly, hesitated for a moment, and then said, “Why were you so intimate with him?”

That aggrieved tone instantly made Jiang Yifeng realize that Xie Jingshen was jealous.

–Why is he so easily jealous?

Jiang Yifeng really felt like he was being checked up on by his girlfriend.

However, the seemingly aloof CEO still needed to be coaxed. Jiang Yifeng’s voice softened considerably, and when he looked into Xie Jingshen’s eyes, he seemed particularly sincere and earnest.

“Xie Jingshen, you get jealous so easily.”

He even chuckled after saying that, making Xie Jingshen feel sullen.

Just when Xie Jingshen was about to become embarrassed and angry, Jiang Yifeng spoke again, “I’m someone who has a lover, I won’t have anything with him…”

Anyway, Jiang Yifeng didn’t plan to pursue a pure and innocent young man image in the entertainment industry.

Since he was going to be dedicated to his paper lover Xie Jingshen, Jiang Yifeng naturally wanted to satisfy his boyfriend.

“Xie Jingshen, then I’ll tell him next time that I have a lover.” Jiang Yifeng’s eyes twinkled, and he immediately smiled.

Only then did Xie Jingshen feel that he might have been too jealous.

Jiang Yifeng was just interacting with a friend, but it seemed like the other person was pursuing him.

Xie Jingshen coughed, covering his lips with his fingers. “No need, I trust you.”

Xie Jingshen placed his fingers back on the desk. Besides that one thing, Xie Jingshen had another question buried in his heart.

He tapped his finger on the table before asking, “Where are you filming?”

“At xxxx,” Jiang Yifeng gave a location.

While responding, Xie Jingshen used another phone to search for the location Jiang Yifeng had mentioned.

There were many places with the same name, but none of them had a film and television base.

Searching for the director’s name brought up even more scattered and confusing information on his phone, all sorts of news, but none about a well-known director named Xu Chen.

A look of melancholy crept into Xie Jingshen’s eyes.

He felt like something wasn’t right.

Logically, the time in the game should have a time difference from reality. It was impossible for the game to maintain the same time flow as reality for a long time—otherwise, if a raising game really made players raise a character for more than ten years, the game would be a complete failure. The massive database and boring mechanics alone would make players quit.

However, the time flow in this game on his phone was actually the same as in reality.

It wasn’t just a problem with the game’s modeling.

Xie Jingshen knew Jiang Yifeng was busy, so he opened his phone every day to try to speed things up or check Jiang Yifeng’s daily status.

However, Jiang Yifeng was really busy filming, and the scenes all had cartoon backgrounds. Only in a few occasional close-ups would the small Jiang Yifeng transform into his real, extremely gorgeous self.

In the blink of an eye, for more than ten days, every time he opened the game, he could only see Jiang Yifeng filming.

Xie Jingshen poked Jiang Yifeng in the screen, and Jiang Yifeng actually felt a hand rubbing his face.

He subconsciously covered his face, widened his eyes to look at Xie Jingshen, but Xie Jingshen withdrew his finger, looking solemn and respectable.

“I believe you, you don’t need to tell him you have a lover.”

Xie Jingshen curled his fingertips and abruptly changed the subject.

“I was thinking too much.”

He sincerely apologized to Jiang Yifeng, and Jiang Yifeng’s heart stirred.

In Xie Jingshen’s eyes, he was still just a paper lover.

But this was already the second time Xie Jingshen had softened towards him.

“Xie Jingshen is really a good person,” Jiang Yifeng said in his heart to the system.

The system was silent, and then silently marked a “face-con” tag on Xie Jingshen’s character traits.

However, before the system could raise the intimacy level between the two by another notch, Jiang Yifeng hesitated and said, “But…”

System: “?”

Jiang Yifeng: “I’m still a little concerned about what happened that day.”

He frowned after saying that.

Seeing Jiang Yifeng frown, Xie Jingshen lowered his head to inquire, but Jiang Yifeng raised his small face and shook his head.

He really couldn’t bring himself to ask.

Xie Jingshen had been making concessions all along, but Jiang Yifeng felt that asking again would show too much distrust.

He closed his eyes tightly, and then said to Xie Jingshen in a muffled voice, “I’m so sleepy, I’ve been filming for more than ten days, I feel like I’m going to die.”

After speaking, Jiang Yifeng buried himself in the bedding.

Xie Jingshen’s fingers traced the slightly bluish circles under Jiang Yifeng’s eyes.

Jiang Yifeng lifted his eyelids, then lazily lowered them again.

He was clearly just a paper doll, a string of data, how could he feel tired?

But Xie Jingshen still softened his voice and said helplessly, “Go to sleep.”

“Good night,” Jiang Yifeng waved at him, then confidently turned off the lights and went to sleep.

Perhaps because he was sleeping in his clothes tonight, even when he was asleep, Xie Jingshen could still see a slightly raised outline in the darkness, and even hear clear breathing from under the sheets.

The sound of breathing intertwined in his ears.

Xie Jingshen held the phone to his ear for a while.

The office door was suddenly pushed open, and Xie Jingshen quickly put down his phone, coughed, and then regained his cold expression: “What’s wrong?”

“Mr. Xie,” the assistant curiously glanced at Xie Jingshen’s phone, then tried to restrain his gaze and placed the documents in front of Xie Jingshen: “Mr. Aison wants to meet with you.”

Xie Jingshen nodded.

He took the documents, and the assistant added: “Mr. Xie came to see you again today, and we stopped him as you instructed.”

The thought of his family urging him to get married made Xie Jingshen unhappy.

“I’m going to Donghai on a business trip for a few days to discuss cooperation with several pharmaceutical distributors.”

After the assistant left, Xie Jingshen picked up his phone again.

At this time, the interface looked like a black screen at first glance, but listening closely, one could hear Jiang Yifeng’s shallow breathing.

Xie Jingshen’s eyebrows relaxed.

He smiled, took out a headset from the drawer, put it on, and then continued to work.

Jiang Yifeng slept the entire day on his only day off.

And during his day of rest, Zhao Panyang finally met his end.

The paparazzi’s news was written vaguely, and netizens dug around, trying to identify the relevant artist, but they couldn’t find anyone who fit the description among the recent popular celebrities.

Moreover, the paparazzi disappeared after posting the blog post, without any response. The post remained on the homepage for people to view, with no follow-up or attempt to delete it.

Many netizens cursed the paparazzi for making up news to gain traffic.

News on the internet came and went, and this news quickly sank. People were attracted to newer things, and more shocking rumors spread online, diverting people’s attention.

It wasn’t until the police report appeared that everyone was stunned.

【…After investigation, Zhao Mouyang has been criminally detained for suspected forced indecent assault. Wu Mou (Internet ID: TianTianAiYule) has been criminally detained for suspected extortion.】

“One detained for forced indecent assault, and one detained for extortion, really?”

“Serves them right, they didn’t think about reporting such a big thing to the police, and instead tried to use it for extortion, they both deserve it.”

“Is this Zhao Mouyang, Zhao Panyang?”

“I wonder how his father plans to respond, without his father, he probably wouldn’t dare to do this, right?”

“Holy crap, it’s real news!”

Netizens were surprised to find that the revelation was actually true, and Zhao Panyang, who was involved, and the paparazzi who attempted to extort money using the criminal case were all locked up.

For a time, everyone felt relieved.

But soon someone dug up the news that Xu Chen’s new drama used Zhao Panyang, and the enthusiastic netizens immediately rushed to Xu Chen’s comment section to scold him for aiding and abetting wrongdoing.

Xu Chen also quickly responded to netizens, saying that he had terminated the contract with Zhao Panyang and had replaced the actor earlier.

He even released the stills of Qiao Ran, the new actor who replaced Zhao Panyang.

In the stills, Qiao Ran’s eyebrows and eyes were bright, and he was staring intently at someone not far away. The person not far away had slightly long hair, tilted his head, the small bun behind his head was loose, but his eyebrows and eyes evoked a bit of cunning.

Netizens: “?”

Netizens: “Crap, Qiao Ran?”

Netizens: “Damn! How is there Jiang Yifeng?”

The netizens who were originally watching the drama only thought that the person acting with Qiao Ran looked good, but Su Xiaoyu’s fans mixed in with the crowd and quickly recognized Jiang Yifeng in disguise.

The storm that Jiang Yifeng stirred up on the internet was no less than that of Zhao Panyang, who had already faded from popularity.

The stills released by Xu Chen were like adding firewood to a raging fire, pushing the flames to a higher position.

“Jiang Yifeng actually participated in Xu Chen’s movie?”

“I thought Xu Chen was someone special, but he also likes to use resource actors, so annoying.”

“First Zhao Panyang, then Jiang Yifeng, all resource actors, Xu Chen’s face is completely lost.”

“Jiang Yifeng is awesome!”

“Xu Chen has always liked to use new actors, are the people arguing in Xu Chen’s comment section don’t even know Xu Chen? They don’t even know that he likes to use new people?”

“I didn’t watch Xu Chen’s movies before, and now I don’t want to watch them even more.”

The voices denouncing Zhao Panyang decreased, and in Xu Chen’s comments, they gradually turned into voices denouncing Jiang Yifeng.

Xu Chen was so busy that his feet didn’t touch the ground. After finally finishing a day of filming, he opened the backend of the website and saw thousands of messages.

Xu Chen: “?”

Xu Chen: “Finally not freeloading?”

–His previous movies had a group of freeloading fans who didn’t even know he had an official account and blindly praised him for seeing through the reality of things and not wanting to register an account to be scrutinized by the dirty world.

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