The Scumbag A Really Doesn't Want to Become Famous [Entertainment Circle] - Chapter 69

[They’re going!]

[Wuwuwu, I’m rounding up again, any sisters here thinking the same thing?]

[After waiting so long for this episode, we finally get to see Teacher Jiang and Xiaoyu sitting together. I know what you all want to say let’s just round it off and pretend they’re officially together!]

[I also find it strange, why does it seem like Xiaoyu and Teacher Jiang are keeping their distance this time?]

[You’re not the only one who thinks so. I noticed it too.]

[Teacher Jiang, did you offend Xiaoyu somehow? Hurry up and apologize!]

[Alpha rule number one: whether it’s your fault or not, sincerely admit your mistake! Otherwise, you’ll lose your wife!]

[!!!!!!!!]

[Oh my god, I saw it!]

[Teacher Jiang drank Xiaoyu’s wine! Can Teacher Jiang even drink?]

Jiang Musheng placed the empty glass in Yu Youqing’s hand and said, “You can hold it for fun.”

“Are you treating me like a child?” Yu Youqing’s voice was muffled. She didn’t look up, staring at the empty glass in her hand before repeating, “Are you treating me like a child?”

“Aren’t you a child? Sneaking off to drink so much by yourself.” Jiang Musheng had already noticed the empty glasses. As she handed the glass to Yu Youqing, her fingers brushed against Yu Youqing’s noticeably heated skin. How could she have drunk so much alone?

“Unhappy,” Yu Youqing muttered under her breath. “Unhappy, so I drank more. Drank more, so I got drunk faster. Got drunk faster, so I wouldn’t think about being unhappy.”

The ambient noise around them wasn’t quiet, making Yu Youqing’s words blend in and hard to distinguish.

“What?” Jiang Musheng asked. “Say it again.”

Yu Youqing refused to repeat herself.

“Everyone ready? If so, we’ll start now, no objections?” Xu Liyu said.

“Start, start! We’ve been waiting for you to begin. We were just waiting for Teacher Jiang to settle in,” the others chimed in. “Teacher Jiang, all good?”

Jiang Musheng nodded. “Fine.”

Yu Youqing grumbled, “Fine what fine? Not fine.”

This time, Jiang Musheng heard her clearly. “What’s not fine?”

“Nothing’s fine,” Yu Youqing mumbled, as if whispering a secret, but her body leaned noticeably closer to Jiang Musheng.

Jiang Musheng thought for a moment before saying, “You shouldn’t say things like that carelessly.”

Yu Youqing’s mind was still relatively clear, but the words in her heart seemed impossible to hold back, they spilled out the moment they formed. Frustrated, she simply stopped speaking.

“I’ll go first! I’ll spin the bottle whoever it lands on, everyone gets to ask them a question,” Xu Liyu said, pulling out an empty bottle and giving it a light spin. All eyes followed its rotation.

In the end, the bottle pointed at Wei Xi.

“Let me ask! Let me ask!” Yu Youqing excitedly raised her hand again. “Little Wei Xi, who was the first person you developed feelings for here?”

Wei Xi answered honestly, “At first, it was Sister Youqing.”

“Why?” Yu Youqing blinked in surprise. “Me?” She hadn’t expected that answer, she’d only asked to give Wei Xi a chance to express herself.

But in the end, she’d ended up asking two questions at once.

“Because you were the first to come in, and you treated me with such warmth, it was easy to develop a liking for you,” Wei Xi said with a smile.

Yu Youqing covered her mouth. “Seems like I’ve already asked two questions.”

Cheng Shunzhu: “You still have one question left. Make it count. Who’s asking next?”

“Let me,” Ji Fu finally spoke up under everyone’s gaze. As soon as she did, Wei Xi blushed but bravely met Ji Fu’s eyes.

Ji Fu asked, “Since you said you liked me at first, who did you develop feelings for later?”

“Oh ho, straight to the point!” Ye Miaoyi whispered in Yu Youqing’s ear. “Is this your show’s usual style? Direct and bold? I love it! I’m applying for the next season maybe I can find a girlfriend here.”

“Go on,” Yu Youqing urged Wei Xi when she hesitated.

Wei Xi seemed to steel herself before answering.

“The person I developed feelings for later is the one who just asked me this question,” Wei Xi said.

Ji Fu’s tense shoulders instantly relaxed. “Good. Then I’m done.”

“Hey, just remember, whatever you say on this show, you’ve got to own it,” Cheng Shunzhu joked, playing the role of the mood-maker. “And here I thought maybe Fu and I had potential. If you two get married, you’d better make me the best man!”

“Absolutely,” Wei Xi agreed.

Yu Youqing and Cheng Shunzhu huddled together, thoroughly entertained. Yu Youqing couldn’t drink anymore now that Jiang Musheng was by her side.

Then, the next bottle spun and landed on Lin Xuqiao.

“Let me go first, I have a burning question!” Cheng Shunzhu declared.

Xu Liyu cut in, “No way! I’m asking first!”

Cheng Shunzhu immediately yielded. “Fine, go ahead.”

Xu Liyu asked, “First question: Can you hurry up and find a girlfriend? You’re always fooling around with us, and it’s exhausting! Once you have a girlfriend, we’ll finally have some peace.”

“Sure,” Lin Xuqiao replied, giving Xu Liyu a deep look. “But that also depends on my future girlfriend’s cooperation. I can’t do it alone.”

“Exactly why I’m telling you to go find one,” Xu Liyu said. “Second question, anyone? No? Moving on.”

“Me!” Cheng Shunzhu jumped in. “Do you have someone you like right now?”

Lin Xuqiao paused briefly before answering honestly, “Yes.”

“Who?” Xu Liyu immediately pressed.

Lin Xuqiao countered, “Is that your third question?”

Before Xu Liyu could respond, Cheng Shunzhu interjected, “No, no, Boss Xu, that doesn’t count as the third question. I’ll ask the third one! This is what I wanted to ask from the start, but you guys interrupted me.”

Xu Liyu rolled her eyes. “Fine, go ahead. What earth-shattering question do you have?”

“I want to know why you were glaring at me so intensely when Boss Xu and I were playing around in the car earlier,” Cheng Shunzhu said, smug about his clever question. “Were you jealous?”

Xu Liyu: “…”

The room fell silent.

Technically, this was two questions, and Lin Xuqiao could’ve chosen to answer only one. But seeing Xu Liyu’s stunned expression, she decided in that moment to stop holding back.

“Yes, I’m a little jealous, even though I know you’re just treating them as friends.” Lin Xuqiao’s gaze swept between Xu Liyu and Cheng Shunzhu. She could already sense Xu Liyu’s surprise but decided to voice what needed to be said. “After all, when it comes to someone you like, it’s easy to lose rationality, right?”

Xu Liyu: “???”

Instead, Lin Xuqiao felt a huge weight lift off her chest after speaking her mind. This secret had been weighing on her for a long time, and it felt good to finally say it out loud.

As for how they would interact afterward that was a problem for later.

Too often, she overthought the consequences of her actions and ended up achieving nothing.

Lin Xuqiao spun the bottle, and the mouth of the bottle stopped in front of Yu Youqing.

Yu Youqing: “?”

The entire table, seeing the bottle pointing at Yu Youqing, grew even more wide-eyed than before, exchanging glances in silence.

Xu Liyu, who had been lively earlier, had also quieted down after the previous round.

“Teacher Jiang, maybe you should ask the question,” Cheng Shunzhu suggested. He had wanted to ask himself but felt this rare opportunity should be given to Jiang Musheng.

“Is that okay?” Although Cheng Shunzhu was addressing Jiang Musheng, Jiang knew the most important thing was to seek Yu Youqing’s consent, so she directed her question to her.

“Why not?” Yu Youqing, emboldened by alcohol, snorted. “Go ahead and ask.”

Jiang Musheng said, “First question: Have you been unhappy recently because of me?”

“Second question: What do you want me to do so you’ll pay more attention to me?”

Jiang Musheng asked two questions in a row, then paused before adding, “I want to hear your honest answers.”

“No, I’ve been unhappy because of my own issues,” Yu Youqing answered the first question easily, still looking at Jiang Musheng. “As for the second question, how should I know?”

“Let me ask the third question!” Ye Miaoyi, unable to bear the slow progress between the two, slammed the table and asked, “When are you and Teacher Jiang getting together?”

Yu Youqing: “?”

Ye Miaoyi: “Answer quickly!”

Yu Youqing replied, “Then I’ll answer honestly, I don’t know. How would I know?”

As soon as these three questions were answered, the live chat exploded.

【Bomb questions!】

【Teacher Jiang? Teacher Jiang? Oh my god, our Teacher Jiang!】

【All those people online who claim Yu Youqing is riding on Jiang Musheng’s coattails need to see this, hahahaha. I’m almost embarrassed to say it, but clearly, it’s Teacher Jiang who’s been sticking close to Yu Youqing!】

【Teacher Jiang: Pathetic】

【A hundred guts wouldn’t have been enough for me to associate the word ‘pathetic’ with Teacher Jiang before. Love really changes everything, hahaha】

【Look! Teacher Jiang really did upset our little fish! I knew something was off these past two episodes】

【These two filming kiss scenes while in a lovers’ spat is just too much, hahaha. So professional】

【Besties coming in clutch!!!!!】

【Note: Little Fish didn’t give a definitive answer, she didn’t say it’s impossible, just ‘how should I know,’ which means they’re probably about to get together, right?】

【Just one last layer to break through!!!!】

【Just tear it down already!】

“Oh my god, this can’t be scripted!!!! I’ve poured all my genuine emotions into this moment this year!”

“Same here, wuwuwu. If this turns out to be scripted, I’ll smash my TV right away!”

Yu Yousheng was getting carried away, but she still had enough clarity to know she should spin the bottle. She stood up, pressed the bottle down, and pointed its mouth directly at Jiang Musheng, saying, “Alright, now it’s my turn to ask.”

Ye Miaoyi couldn’t help but chime in, “This is a rare opportunity, don’t waste it on nonsense. Or I can ask for you if you want.”

Yu Yousheng: “I know what I’m doing. Stay out of it.”

“F-first question, why did you sit next to me?”

Ye Miaoyi: “?” Are you seriously wasting a question like that?!

Jiang Musheng replied, “Because I wanted to take care of you. You drank a lot.”

“Who asked you to take care of me. Second question, were those two questions you asked the ones you most wanted to ask?” Yu Yousheng stared intently at Jiang Musheng.

“Yes, and no.” Jiang Musheng’s gaze grew even gentler as she looked at Yu Yousheng, not hiding anything. “The ones I most wanted to ask might have been hard for you to answer, so I didn’t ask them.”

“Oh!” Just as Yu Yousheng was about to ask her third question, Ye Miaoyi had heard enough. She abruptly stood up, covered Yu Yousheng’s mouth, and declared, “I’ll ask the third one!”

“!” Yu Yousheng’s protests were futile as Ye Miaoyi forced her back into her seat, silencing her.

“If the person you like were willing, when would you confess?”

The question seemed illogical at first glance, but everyone present understood why Ye Miaoyi asked it.

Those who had been following along knew that Jiang Musheng always respected Yu Yousheng’s feelings to such an extent that it had, paradoxically, become an obstacle.

So, someone needed to give her a push.

No one needed to ask who Jiang Musheng liked everyone already knew.

“If possible,” Jiang Musheng enunciated each word with absolute clarity, her gaze fixed on Yu Yousheng, unwavering, “anytime.”

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