After the Female Star Was Slandered Onto the Trending Search List - Chapter 58

Chapter 58: Entertainment Keyword

Undeniably, Wen Xi felt panicked.

The secret she had been hiding all this time was somehow known without her knowing.

When did this happen?

Wen Xi buried her face in Shen Yu’s chest, her tightly shut eyes trembling slightly.

Didn’t I… hide it perfectly all this time?

Shen Yu sighed and pulled Wen Xi out of the covers.

Seeing Wen Xi’s forced smile, her heart ached. “Baby, you have me.”

Those illusions are fake, after all.

She couldn’t stand to see her precious one living in false illusions. She had investigated and asked around. The illusions never fully dissipate and constantly affect a person’s mind.

“I will be by your side,” Shen Yu found Wen Xi’s hand and intertwined their fingers. “Do you want me or her?”

“…I want you,” Wen Xi murmured, holding Shen Yu’s hand tightly in return. “I want you.”

“Then tell me,” Shen Yu gently persuaded her. “Did she appear?”

“She did,” Wen Xi blinked.

“And when was that?”

“The day after you left,” Wen Xi pursed her lips. “I didn’t want it to happen. I just…”

She just went home the next day and saw “Shen Yu” appear. She didn’t know why, but she couldn’t stop “Shen Yu” from appearing, nor could she refuse “Shen Yu’s” closeness.

Whether real or fake, Wen Xi yearned for Shen Yu.

The love had long since spread throughout her chest, turning into a different kind of obsession.

“You miss me that much,” Shen Yu’s nerves were tightly strung. She couldn’t help but kiss the injured area on Wen Xi’s palm, yet her exterior became calmer. “Let’s not talk about this. Let’s talk about something relaxing. After this drama is filmed, how about we go traveling? You can take a break too.”

“Where should we go?” The topic changed a little too quickly, and Wen Xi was momentarily stunned.

“The West, abroad,” Shen Yu said. “Anywhere is fine. Where do you want to go?”

Wen Xi thought for a moment, then shook her head. “I don’t know. Anywhere is fine, as long as it’s with you.”

Shen Yu hummed. “I’ll try to finish my scenes earlier every day. After you get back, we can have a video call every day, okay?

“But you’ll be so tired,” Wen Xi’s eyes brightened slightly. “When you get back from filming, you should rest properly.”

Shen Yu: “Seeing you recharges me. If you’re tired, you don’t have to talk. We’ll just keep the call connected. I’ll just look at you, and hang up when you fall asleep.”

This was better than an empty, solitary room.

Wen Xi quietly asked, “What is ‘recharging’?”

Before Shen Yu could explain, the phone placed beside them rang.

Shen Yu ignored it and first explained to Wen Xi, “It means seeing you or giving you a hug makes me not feel tired anymore.”

“Got it,” Wen Xi pushed Shen Yu gently. “Your phone is ringing.”

Shen Yu kissed Wen Xi one last time before getting up to answer the phone. It was Yu Yan calling.

Wen Xi nervously clasped her hands under the covers. She heard Shen Yu say “got it” to the person on the other end, then watched Shen Yu’s gentle gaze fall on her.

Only when the call ended did Wen Xi ask, “What was it?”

Shen Yu’s eyes were smiling, with a hint of an unknown meaning. “You and Lu Xuan Yi are trending on the hot search.”

Wen Xi’s confused look seemed genuine. Shen Yu suppressed the surge of jealousy in her heart.

Wen Xi picked up her phone and sat up.

Shen Yu placed a pillow behind Wen Xi.

The air conditioning was on in the room, but the temperature wasn’t high, so they wouldn’t feel stuffy. Shen Yu had Wen Xi lean slightly against her, then pulled the quilt up to Wen Xi’s chest, leaving only her shoulders and arms exposed.

Wen Xi clicked on the Weibo app on her secondary account and looked at the trending topics under the entertainment category, confused and bewildered.

“Twilight visits Lu Xuan Yi’s set.”

“Twilight’s real appearance is stunning!”

“Lu Xuan Yi shows off flowers sent by Twilight.”

“When will Twilight visit Shen Yu’s set?”

The last keyword had a crying yellow bean emoji next to it, but it was at the very bottom of the entertainment trends and didn’t have much popularity.

Shen Yu also glanced at them. “Those few are hot searches bought by the film crew for promotion.”

“What about… the last one?” Wen Xi pointed at the phone screen.

Shen Yu looked away, touched the tip of her nose, and asked, “Do you know we have CP fans?”

The last hot search was because the CP fans knew Wen Xi and Shen Yu were in the same city (IP) again, and they were crying out in the public feed.

“Huh?” Wen Xi was genuinely surprised. “What? CP fans? Us??”

Shen Yu lightly coughed and tapped Wen Xi’s screen.

“Ahhhh, Shen Yu is filming here too! Didn’t they say they were friends? Can Twilight please visit T.T? Can Shen Yu also post on Weibo to show off!”

“(Smoking emoji) I’m a staff member on Shen Yu’s set, and I haven’t seen any signs of a set visit today.”

“I’m defeated. The neighbors keep posting joint photos with Twilight, constantly saying how beautiful Twilight is, wuwuwuwuwu.”

“Seriously, no set visit?”

“Wait, everyone don’t panic. Didn’t Lu Xuan Yi say Twilight rarely visits sets? This sudden visit, and the fact that Shen Yu is also filming nearby, is very strange!”

“!! Thank you, doctor, this is a miraculous recovery! I am recharged again.”

Wen Xi clicked on the ‘Yumu CP’ super-topic, looking at over 20,000 posts and 30,000 followers. For a moment, she didn’t know how to react.

She only knew her face was flushed and her heart was racing as she looked at Shen Yu blankly.

“I don’t know how this happened,” Shen Yu said. “I didn’t organize anything. It’s all the fans doing it themselves. They even keep to themselves and create their own fun; it’s quite lovely.”

“That’s not what I mean,” Wen Xi said anxiously. “Shouldn’t we stop them? What if it affects you…”

“It’s not that easy to be affected,” Shen Yu soothed her. “Everyone is free to ship whatever they like. Their shipping means they think we should be a couple.”

If Ke Han heard this, she would probably complain loudly, Please, say that ‘shipping whatever they like is free’ again, you hypocrite! You’re the most frantic whenever someone ships you with anyone else.

Wen Xi looked at Shen Yu’s self-assured expression, sighed, and turned off her phone.

“What’s wrong, Baby?” Shen Yu lowered her head, looking at Wen Xi.

Wen Xi said, “I’m a little tired.”

They had talked so much tonight, and the topics kept shifting.

Shen Yu turned off the lights and lay down, holding Wen Xi.

Shen Yu whispered, “I know you went to Lu Xuan Yi’s place today because you were afraid of people with ulterior motives seeing that we were in the same city (IP).”

Wen Xi closed her eyes, but rubbed her face against Shen Yu’s.

“Don’t be scared, Baby. If anything happens, we’ll face it together,” Shen Yu said. “I’m not afraid of being criticized, but I also want to protect you. At worst, I’ll retire from the industry.”

Wen Xi frowned, opening her eyes to glare at her. “What nonsense are you saying? Retire from what?”

Shen Yu smiled. “Just kidding.”

Yet, at this moment, Shen Yu recalled the past again. Wen Xi, with her youthful face, asking Shen Yu why she was unhappy during training. Was she very tired?

Shen Yu asked back, “Do you feel tired when you draw?”

“Sometimes yes, sometimes no,” Wen Xi replied. “I like drawing. It helps me calm down when I’m agitated.”

Shen Yu seemed to have said back then that she didn’t particularly love acting, but her future was planned out from the moment she was born, and she didn’t have the ability to decide her own future back then.

Shen Yu then asked, “What do you think of me during training?”

“Very radiant, very beautiful,” Wen Xi smiled, her eyes slightly curved. “I also heard the teacher say that you’re very steady for the provincial top scholar title, so you don’t need to train so hard. You need to rest too.”

“Do you want to see me become the provincial top scholar?”

“I do,” Wen Xi fidgeted a bit. “But no matter what rank you get, I’ll be happy for you.”

Shen Yu’s first half of life was planned to follow in her mother’s footsteps. The second half of her life was caught in the sight of a pair of expectant eyes looking at her.

Shen Yu never said that Wen Xi was also very radiant when she picked up her paintbrush.

Confident and generous.

The high school they attended had an honor wall. If a student’s art exam results were good, their photo would be posted there.

Wen Xi’s gaze often fell on it, and Shen Yu’s was the same.

When Shen Yu came back to her senses, she realized she couldn’t help but kiss Wen Xi again.

This time, the kiss landed on the corner of Wen Xi’s eye.

Wen Xi suddenly said, “I’m not afraid of being criticized either.”

“Mhm, I know. Baby is very brave,” Shen Yu said.

Wen Xi laughed. “You’re coaxing a child.”

Wen Xi sighed. “I just hope we can both be well.”

“We are very stable now,” Wen Xi held her hand. “You have many career fans now. If you suddenly retire, everyone will be very sad. Then there will really be a torrent of criticism.”

Shen Yu paused. “You’re afraid of that?”

“What else?” Wen Xi, for once, stroked Shen Yu’s head. “Even if you stop working, I can afford to support you.”

“I have a considerable amount of savings,” Shen Yu suddenly smiled, then leaned closer to Wen Xi’s ear and whispered, “It’s my savings for marrying a wife over the years. I’ll use it to marry you.”

“You don’t need any savings for a wife,” Wen Xi’s earlobes were flushed red. “Even if you had nothing, as long as it’s you, you can marry me.”

Downstairs at the hotel, a lean figure raised a small camera in the dim car. “D*mn it… why did this Shen Yu go up and not come down?”

The person in the driver’s seat smoked, laughing unkindly a few times. “What’s the rush? When young lovers meet, they have to have some fire, right?”

“Pfft, shut up. I really didn’t realize Shen Yu was into women. Tsk, it’s a big scoop indeed. But when can we film the two of them entering and leaving together?”

“Just wait a little longer. It’s only the first day,” the driver’s eyes flashed with a determined look. “They can’t possibly stay inside the whole time.”

The next day, the paparazzi finally managed to catch Shen Yu going downstairs, but Wen Xi was nowhere to be seen.

By noon, the driver motioned for the paparazzi to look downstairs. “Isn’t that Shen Yu’s assistant? She’s not following Shen Yu; instead, she’s staying at the hotel.”

No more needed to be said; the paparazzi immediately picked up the camera and started shooting.

“If this deal goes through, there will be a big final payment,” the paparazzi licked his dry lips.

“We agreed,” the driver instructed. “Once we get the money, we’re leaving the country. We can’t mess with Shen Yu. The second guy before us is already inside. Luckily, we saved a backup copy of the negatives and they weren’t all deleted.”

“I know,” the paparazzi replied casually.