After Becoming Explosively Popular for Writing a Story, I Was Targeted by my Crush - Chapter 1

Chapter 1: His Eyes Are Ambiguous and Unclear (Revised): What is a “Gong”? A “Shou”?

The night rain was like a knife, smashing onto the roof of the car in the Dongcheng City coastal parking lot, making a pattering sound.

Gu Yanchen walked down from the black Maybach, his eyes staring fiercely at the gray BMW not far away, like a hunter firmly locking onto his prey in the dark night.

“President Gu, Fang Xiao is in the car.” The secretary behind him quickly stepped forward to hold up an umbrella, his voice kept extremely low.

He did not respond. He slowly drew out a cigarette, and after lighting it, walked toward the BMW. For over a year, he hadn’t really managed the trivial matters of the company, but this guy Fang Xiao actually dared to come and poach his staff, using the lowest, most underhanded methods.

“You, roll out here.” Gu Yanchen knocked on the car window impatiently.

Fang Xiao inside the car was dressed like a human-looking dog (dressed up nicely but a scoundrel inside), his hands holding the steering wheel trembling uncontrollably. He had heard that Shen Yi was highly capable and very handsome, which was why he developed twisted thoughts and personally invited him to meet here late at night. But he never expected in his wildest dreams that the person coming wouldn’t be Shen Yi, but Gu Yanchen—the “Plague God” of the headhunter circle.

“President Gu, with such heavy rain, why did you come in person?” Fang Xiao bit his teeth, opening the car door in fear and trepidation.

Gu Yanchen didn’t even lift his eyelids, directly snuffing out the cigarette butt right on the BMW’s engine hood.

“I heard you threatened an employee of my Liefeng company?” When he said this, it was just like asking how heavy the rain was today.

“A misunderstanding.” Fang Xiao’s face turned deathly pale as he shook his head, “President Gu, that was the people below operating improperly…”

Without waiting for him to finish speaking, Gu Yanchen grabbed him by his collar and gave him a crisp, neat over-the-shoulder throw.

“Bang!”

Before Fang Xiao could even react, his fat, thick body was heavily smashed onto the ground, rainwater splashing everywhere. He cried out in pain. Before he could manage to get up, his shoulder was fiercely stepped on by Gu Yanchen.

“You took bed photos of Shen Yi and his boyfriend to threaten him into jumping ship along with the millions-worth of projects in his hands. And the result is a ‘misunderstanding’?” Gu Yanchen squatted down, took out a folding knife from his pocket, and patted Fang Xiao’s deathly pale face with the back of the blade.

“You chose a rainy night, a parking lot, and even let him come alone so late. Aside from wanting to force him to hand over Liefeng’s client data, did you also want to take the opportunity to top (screw) him right here?”

The back of the blade slowly slid down along Fang Xiao’s cheek until it stopped at his belt. Rainwater dripped down bit by bit from the tip of the knife. It seemed as if in the very next second, it could slice something off.

“Don’t… don’t… I’ll delete it, I’ll delete them all!” Fang Xiao screamed in terror, “President Gu, I beg you, I, I really won’t dare to do it again…” He held his head with both hands, looking exactly like a stray dog.

“It doesn’t matter even if you don’t delete them cleanly.” Gu Yanchen sneered.

“If you don’t delete them cleanly, I will directly ‘purify’ (castrate) you, to save you from ruining good young men.”

Hearing these words, Fang Xiao was so scared he didn’t even dare to let out a loud breath. He was only in his thirties and hadn’t left any descendants yet. If someone else had said this, it would only be taken as a bluff, but everyone in the entire headhunter circle knew that Gu Yanchen was a “madman” who meant what he said.

“I’ll delete, I will definitely delete.” Fang Xiao’s voice trembled, deeply afraid that the madman would really take action in the next second.

“Since you are garbage, you should stay in the garbage bin.” Gu Yanchen swept a cold glance at him, stood up, lifted his hand to aim the knife at the black garbage bin not far away. With a “click” sound, the blade landed accurately inside the bin without any error.

Just as he was about to turn around, he suddenly felt that in the shadow not far away, there seemed to be a person hiding. His gaze paused slightly, and he walked a few steps toward that direction.

But it was empty there. Could it be that his eyes played tricks on him?

“President Gu, Fang Xiao’s matter is just left at that?” The secretary chased over panting, standing by the garbage bin and looking at him in confusion, “Weren’t you just dealing with him a moment ago? Why did you suddenly run over here?”

“Left at that? How can there be such a good thing? I’ve been displeased with him for a long time.” Gu Yanchen looked back at Fang Xiao who was still lying on the ground unable to get up, “Notify the legal department to compile all of Fang Xiao’s tax evasion, suspected fraud, and threat matters before tomorrow noon, so that he can stay in prison for a few more years.”

“He should thank me for being a law-abiding good youth, not settling him right here.” Gu Yanchen sneered.

“Received, President Gu.”

The two sat back in the Maybach. At this moment, there was still a person sitting in the rear passenger seat.

Through the rearview mirror, Gu Yanchen cast a glance at the dejected Shen Yi.

“Shen Yi, you have been at Liefeng for seven years, and have already been a project director for four years, yet you can still be cowardly to this extent?”

“President Gu, I am sorry.” Shen Yi lowered his head. Aside from apologizing, he had no other words to say.

He received the email threatening him from Fang Xiao’s company last week. He originally thought it was a spam file, but after opening it, he found it was full of private photos—the hotel where he and his boyfriend opened a room, kissing photos, and even bed photos…

Fang Xiao used the photos to threaten him into handing over Liefeng’s client data and forced him to jump ship. Tonight, Fang Xiao personally invited him to meet. Without even thinking, one would know that this notoriously lecherous guy in the headhunter circle was planning to do something untoward to him. After several hesitations, he finally told President Gu about this matter.

“Being threatened and you didn’t know to report it to the police?” Gu Yanchen looked at Shen Yi in the rearview mirror, who was lowering his head and saying nothing, and continued, “Or are you afraid of people knowing you like men?”

“It’s not like that.” Shen Yi shook his head desperately, “I’m just afraid of bringing trouble to my boyfriend.”

“Really didn’t expect that Director Shen is actually a great seed of passion (huge romantic).” The secretary suddenly interjected a phrase.

Gu Yanchen thought in his heart: Shen Yi has good eloquence and strong working ability. He has an excellent reputation both inside the company and outside. Why didn’t I discover before that this guy is actually such a useless love-brain?

Who on earth infatuated him so thoroughly that he lost his bearing and direction?

“Knock, knock.” Suddenly, a blurry human shadow approached. By the time Gu Yanchen realized it, the side window had already been lightly tapped twice by that person.

He lifted his hand and pressed down the car window. The glass slowly slid down, and the sound of rain immediately poured in.

Outside the car window, a young man holding an umbrella stood sideways at first. Seeing the car window open, he bent down slightly. Fine water droplets ran along the man’s exquisite face, slowly dripping onto his fair collarbone, and then followed the line of the collarbone to submerge into his light blue shirt.

The brand of the shirt was Charvet, and the collarbone was white and sexy.

“Excuse me, I am here to pick up Shen Yi.” The corners of the man’s lips carried a smile, his voice was exceptionally gentle, and when the night wind slid past his side, it drifted a faint scent of perfume.

It was L’Eau des Hespérides / Eau des Sens by Diptyque.

“Mm.”

After hearing Gu Yanchen’s response, the man pulled open the rear car door, bent his body to reach into the car, and extended his other hand toward Shen Yi. His fingers were slender, his knuckles clean and fair, and his movements were as gentle as if he were picking up the person on the very tip of his heart.

“Fanfan.” Shen Yi abruptly lifted his head, held Fanfan’s hand, and said apologetically to Gu Yanchen, “President Gu, can I go back first?”

“Mm.” Gu Yanchen leaned against the seat, but his gaze did not look at Shen Yi; instead, he kept looking at the man in the rearview mirror. Not until they got out of the car did he take back his gaze.

The secretary couldn’t help but click his tongue twice before starting up the car, “Holy crap, man, Shen Yi hides things really deep! President Gu, that person just now should be Shen Yi’s boyfriend, right? Didn’t expect his boyfriend to actually look so good, and so clean…”

The wipers swept across the windshield, making a “swish-splash” sound.

Gu Yanchen didn’t respond. He closed his eyes, and in his mind, that face from just now inappropriately surfaced again—cold white skin, exquisite facial features, unable to pick out a single flaw anywhere.

Good-looking? It was indeed good-looking.

But if talking about being clean

Gu Yanchen smiled: The Charvet shirt he wore was the brand he himself wore most frequently; the Diptyque he sprayed was the perfume brand he himself used most commonly. When he was at the rear seat just now, he was extending his hand to Shen Yi, but his eyes were like glued onto his own body, staring straight at him.

If he guessed correctly, the person who hid near the black garbage bin just now should have been him. His own boyfriend got into trouble, yet his eyes were full of not his boyfriend, but him.

Shen Yi is truly pitiful; his boyfriend wants to seduce someone else.

And he deserves it, too; who told him to be a love-brain.

While Gu Yanchen was still thinking, his phone suddenly vibrated. He glanced at it; it was a call from Shen Zexing. Without even thinking, he directly hung up the phone.

After a few minutes, Shen Zexing called over again. Gu Yanchen sighed, picked up the call, his voice light and emotionless: “Speak.”

On the other end of the phone, the sound of bar speakers was faintly mixed in. Shen Zexing seemed to have drunk some alcohol, his speech carrying a bit of slurred, teasing tone: “Are you asleep?”

“Just handled some business. If there’s something, speak; if not, hang up.”

“Hey hey hey, Lord Gu, don’t be in a rush to hang up!” His voice carried an un-concealable excitement, “Hurry up and get on the group chat. The group chat has completely exploded right now, everyone is talking about you!”

Gu Yanchen’s brow twitched: “What group?”

“‘Even if you are born with a golden spoon, you still have to grind’! It’s that self-discipline mutual-assistance group of ours for those few second-generation rich kids to supervise each other not to rely on parents!”

Gu Yanchen: “…”

Expressionlessly, he opened his phone and flipped out that WeChat group chat which he hadn’t clicked open for hundreds of years.

Group Name Even if you are born with a golden spoon, you still have to grind Group Members

Shen Zexing, Duan Yan, Jian Yusheng, Gu Yanchen

They were all his bosom buddies who grew up together with him, bearing a pile of glittering family backgrounds, yet each one was more unreliable than the last.

A line of prompt at the very top was crystal clear: 99+ new messages

Shen Zexing: You guys hurry up and take a look, is this novel written about Gu Yanchen? Link: 《He is going crazy in my crush novel》

Duan Yan: Holy crap, this book is truly explosively viral. I have seen quite a few recommendation posts for this book. The protagonist Gong is abstinent, has a cleanliness obsession, is handsome, and even his name is surnamed Gu. It is simply moving our Lord Gu right into the novel.

Jian Yusheng: At first when I clicked in, I thought it was a brain-dead domineering president text. The result was that when I saw the third chapter, I socially died on the spot. I haven’t seen such explosive content in all the years I’ve been reading books. But do you guys think Lord Gu knows what a “Gong” is?

Duan Yan: @Gu Yanchen Gong is the role that is on the top…

Jian Yusheng: Can he understand if you explain it like that? Have you ever seen him have a boyfriend or girlfriend? @Gu Yanchen I’ll send you a picture, you must look at it. Don’t say you still don’t know what Gong means after reading it.

In the next second, a… undescribable screenshot was sent over—a picture shattered into pieces by mosaic blur, yet still full of visual impact.

Shen Zexing held back a laugh on the other end of the phone: “President Gu, did you see the picture Jian the Dog sent? Even I was shocked when I looked at it; the explosive level made my heart rate speed up on the spot.”

In the picture, two figures were entangled. The person on top had a sharp, fierce spine line, his movements restrained, tightening his strength bit by bit. While the person below had his head turned sideways, the corners of his eyes flush red, his eyelashes wet and slightly trembling, as if the whole person was submerged in a certain atmosphere that was hard to break free from.

He swept a glance, and with a “snap”, pressed to turn off the phone.

“A bunch of idiots.” He closed his eyes and leaned back against the car seat again.

Thank you angel babies for clicking in [blushing][blushing]

Let me first explain the perspective: Before Chapter 15, it is mainly based on the Gong’s perspective~ discovering the Shou’s vest (secret identity), Shou-baby flirting with Gong; After Chapter 15, it is basically all Shou’s perspective~ Gong’s vest is completely online, reverse flirting and chasing after Shou-baby; Two-way pulling (push-and-pull), crush, double C (both virgins), extremely strong possessiveness toward each other. It might not be very suitable for talking about logic.

Hope the babies can like the food I cooked [pitiful][pitiful]. If you feel it tastes bad, please do not flame the characters, you can blame my lack of writing skill [showering flowers], and ideally spare me too [hug][hug].

I will work harder to make fragrant food, hope babies can give a bookmark/collection~ [hug][hug]

The male leads are all adults. It has already been clearly stated that it is recommended for 21+ to watch, so there is no existence of harming the health of minors.