Help! My Fanservice Partner is Looking at Me Differently Lately - Chapter 34

Zhou Yang wished he were deaf.

What was the difference between this and being kept behind by a teacher in school because you had not finished your homework? Well, the difference was that the teacher would not interrogate you like this.

“Zhou Yang,” Xie Weishui said, dropping the honorific in private. “Your performance today made me very dissatisfied.”

Whenever Chi Li appeared, Zhou Yang’s gaze was glued to him. This was a blatant slap in the face.

“I am sorry.” Zhou Yang lowered his head and apologized sincerely. “I will be more careful in the future.”

“You must remember that I am the one who gave you the opportunity to come to the training house.” Xie Weishui slowly crumpled the slip of paper he had taken off his face into a ball. “Do not be someone who forgets their roots.”

Zhou Yang maintained his submissive posture. “I know.”

“Good, I believe you.” Xie Weishui did not dwell on the issue; he had something else he wanted to know. “You and Chi Li must be very close, right?”

“Hmm.” Zhou Yang nodded lightly. “He and I were in the same cohort.”

Xie Weishui asked, “Are your relations poor?”

Zhou Yang answered honestly, “We were good before, but not so good now.”

“I could tell as much.” Xie Weishui was convinced Zhou Yang was not lying. “Then why is your relationship poor?”

Chi Li was an incredibly self-centered person who never played by the rules. Losing to him over the past two days was fundamentally due to his lack of understanding of Chi Li. Fortunately, he had Zhou Yang to gather information from.

“Sigh, why else would it be?” Zhou Yang’s hands, hidden under the table, unconsciously picked at his thighs. “He is just jealous that I was able to come to the training house.”

Xie Weishui questioned him, “He is jealous of you?”

This was hard for Xie Weishui to believe. The production team was not blind; with Chi Li’s face, he could come whenever he wanted.

“Yes. He did not come before because he looked down on fan-service.” Zhou Yang knew that being jealous was not enough to convince Xie Weishui, so he attributed his own past mindset to Chi Li. “But after seeing me gain some popularity here, he became willing to come.”

“That makes sense. Heh, what nonsense about hating fan-service. Fang Jin used to hate it too, but after getting the benefits from it, he never said such things again.”

Zhou Yang spat out in disgust, “Exactly, acting like a whore while wanting to set up a memorial arch for chastity.”

Xie Weishui’s expression changed. “Who are you calling a whore?”

“Uh,” Zhou Yang had just been mindlessly agreeing, not expecting Xie Weishui to react so strongly. Not knowing how to recover, he could only say, “We are all whores.”

Xie Weishui took a deep breath. “You can get out now.”

…

Chi Li returned to his room and immediately began to review the memorials sent by Gu Nan.

The number of paid viewers today had increased significantly compared to yesterday, mostly during his singing and dancing segments. A portion of the audience had also joined during the mahjong game. His singing and dancing clips had high view counts, but the highest remained the girl group dance video.

Gu Nan tried to take credit: We were almost overshadowed by the steamy dance between Xie Weishui and Zhou Yang today.

Gu Nan: Fortunately, I was a step ahead and stirred up the Yangwei CP trend, disgusting enough people that they could not stand to ship them.

Chi Li was amused: Well done, I will add to your bonus.

Gu Nan: There is one more thing to report. [Raising hand]

Chi Li: Say it.

Gu Nan: A small portion of the audience is shipping you with Fang Jin, and you with Zhou Yang.

Chi Li: ?

What kind of perversion is this?

Gu Nan continued: They ship you with Fang Jin because of your private talk during the day and the little turtle from the evening. They ship you with Zhou Yang because your dynamic looks like you training a dog.

Chi Li: …

He could understand Fang Jin a little, but the shipping with Zhou Yang was truly beyond comprehension. It seemed he had been too kind and gentle toward Zhou Yang. Regardless, Chi Li did not want to be associated with any of them.

He instructed Gu Nan: Increase the promotional efforts for Night Inferno Dawn.

He could not control those weirdos, but as long as the volume for Night Inferno Dawn was loud enough, those strange voices would be drowned out.

Gu Nan: Then remember to do some fan-service with Shen Xunye. [Pity]

Gu Nan: Give us more of that scale like touching his abs today.

Gu Nan: Do not be afraid of being too intense, I will be the one to defend you.

Chi Li sighed sincerely: It is truly my blessing to have you. (Complimentary version)

Chi Li: I will find an opportunity.

…

After 11 p.m., Chi Li finished tidying up. He had just sighed about what a quiet night it was and was preparing to burrow into his quilt when his door was knocked upon unexpectedly.

He moved softly to the door and peered through the peephole. Standing outside was Zhou Yang.

It was so late, and their meeting time had already passed. What did Zhou Yang want with him? He had not changed his clothes, meaning he must have come straight here after the meeting ended.

Not hearing a response from Chi Li, Zhou Yang frowned and knocked on the door three more times.

“Chi Li, I know you are not asleep. Open the door; I have something to tell you.”

“Get lost,” Chi Li said through the door.

Just thinking about someone shipping him with Zhou Yang made him feel sick; he really wanted to go out and slap them twice.

“I really have something to say to you.” Zhou Yang’s tone sounded extremely sincere. “Do you not want to know what Xie Weishui just said?”

For Chi Li to trust Zhou Yang was impossible. Although Xie Weishui was the one pulling the strings among that group, Zhou Yang was a hypocrite with his own hidden agenda; he could not afford to be careless.

“He asked about our past relationship, but I did not say anything,” Zhou Yang suddenly became much more patient. “My heart is still with you, Xiao Li. Open the door, let us talk this through, okay?”

Chi Li leaned against the door and took out his phone to message Shen Xunye: Are you asleep?

Shen Xunye replied quickly: No.

Chi Li: Come to my room in ten minutes.

Shen Xunye: ?

Chi Li did not reply to the question. Instead, he cleared his throat twice, then used a feigned, fragile-sounding voice to speak through the door: “Is what you said true?”

Heh, want to act? Who does not know how?

“Of course, it is true!” Zhou Yang was ecstatic. “Open the door and let me in quickly, otherwise, it will not be good if people hear the commotion later.”

Chi Li acted as if he had been persuaded and gently pulled the door open.

Zhou Yang pressed his right hand against the door, pushing it inside with force. “Xiao Li, believe me.”

“It is very hard for me to believe you.”

Despite saying it was hard to believe, the door had opened. Zhou Yang quickly squeezed into the room, his face splitting into a wide grin. “Xiao Li, you just have a habit of saying the opposite of what you mean.”

Chi Li closed the door behind him but did not lock it. Anyone who pushed lightly from the outside would be able to open it.

Zhou Yang acted as if he had returned to his own home, immediately pulling up a chair to sit. “Xiao Li, I really, really want to have a good talk with you.”