APCF -Chapter 5 (2)

Qi Xingchen did not wish to have onlookers and pressed the down call button for the elevator: “I can’t choose how I was born, but I can choose how I wish to live from then on. Pardon me for being unable to share your views.”

“You- you……” Zhou Yu’s face turned livid and “you”ed for half a day without “you”ing out the rest of the sentence.

Unexpectedly, he could not refute him.

Looking at the growing number of onlookers, he suddenly felt that he had lost all face. Not caring about anything else, he raised his fist to hit Qi Xingchen!

Qi Xingchen did not dodge or give way. Just when the fist was about to smash into his face, a tall figure suddenly flashed in front of him.

— Bo Ye grabbed Zhou Yu’s wrist with ease and said coldly: “Did you eat up all of the company’s rules and regulations?”

Once he was done speaking, he flung Zhou Yu’s wrist aside and stepped into the elevator that opened right at that moment with his assistant.

Qi Xingchen did not expect the male protagonist to help him out at all and remained stupefied in place.

“……What are you gawking at?”

Bo Ye frowned and asked in a low voice: “Are you coming in or not?”

That very same frown. Qi Xingchen had seen it on his idol Bo Ye’s face countless times.

Bo Ye was an impatient person — for a very long period of time, the media and anti-fans who thrived on chaos refused to let go of this point. They spread rumours of him throwing his weight around, scowling at fans, forgetting himself once he became famous.

Only his fans or “Night Skies” know that if there were only two parts to his tenderness, then one part would be given to the music and dance that he loved.

The other part would be wholly given to “Night Skies”.

He did not even treat himself as well as he treated his fans.

Face flushed with embarrassment and anger, Zhou Yu fled from the scene via the fire escape after being caught by Bo Ye.

Qi Xingchen walked into the elevator in a daze. It wasn’t until they reached the 6th floor that he reacted, saying sheepishly: “Thank you.”

“No problem, just remember to wear your shoes after performing next time.” Bo Ye said.

“……Okay.”

“Also—” Bo Ye paused, “If another person attempts to hit you again, don’t just stand there. I might not be around next time.”

“……En,” Qi Xingchen rubbed the tips of his ears that were growing hot, “I got it.”

In reality, he purposely did not dodge just now. If Zhou Yu really dared to hit him, he could then take the video recording to Qi Yuji, and let Qi Yuji see the slag man’s true colours.

Losing this chance was alright, he could still wait for the next. Qi Xingchen went back to the practice room to continue training, while the image of Bo Ye frowning kept flashing in front of his eyes.

As the saying goes, when drawing a tiger, it is easy to draw its skin but difficult to draw its bone structure; when one is asked to depict him based upon certain defining features, it would be easy to outline his physical appearance, but very difficult to fully describe his aura.

He read the original text; it was describing how much Tao Tao was spoiled by the male protagonist and supporting characters throughout. All of the men were just plot devices, thus the author hardly described the details of the male protagonist.

So…… Why were the male protagonist and the real Bo Ye so similar to each other?

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When he reached home at night, Qi Yunxiao was reading documents in the living room as expected. Other than him, there was also Qi Yuji who had applied a face mask and was constantly dozing off.

“You’re back, Xingxing,” Qi Yunxiao said, “You just got discharged from the hospital, don’t tire yourself out lately. Quickly go and sleep ba.”

“Wait!” Hearing her younger brother’s name, as if Qi Yuji’s soul returned, she scrambled up from the chaise longue, “Xingxing, you participated in that variety show’s selection too?’

“En.”

“You ah,” Qi Yuji stood on tiptoes to poke his forehead, “If you wanted to get onto the show, why didn’t you tell Da ge? Da ge knows MaimangTV’s boss, and I know the producer’s daughter. Why would you work so hard by yourself for a selection?”

Although her words sounded reproachful, her tone was warm and gentle, full of concern. Qi Xingchen felt a little uncomfortable and took a step back, “I want to try it out on my own.”

The original owner made a death order, not allowing his family members to help him out or reveal his identity without permission. This was also why Qi Yuji only hung up the phone on Zhou Yu and did not tell Zhou Yu that he was cursing out his own younger brother-in-law.

“Okay then. You must tell us if you need anything.”

Scared that her younger brother would do something rebellious again, Qi Yuji did not dare to say much. She could only pat away the dust on Qi Xingchen’s body for him, “Which car did you drive back? How come your cuffs are dirty?”

“I took the bus back home.”

“?” Qi Yuji and Qi Yunxiao were both shocked. They shot a glance at each other, then took out their phones at the same time to send messages to the car dealers they knew.

Qi Xingchen did not know what they were doing and took advantage of this interval to escape back into his room. After washing up, he collapsed on his bed and opened the Weibo app that he did not look at for the entire day. He logged into his side account first.

The purchased live followers were all intact. Other than that, 7 accounts that were identified as “Night Skies” from their ID followed him, and 3 of them had forwarded his exposé Weibo post.

En, still okay. At least it was better than no splash at all.

He switched over to his main account in relief. Surprisingly, there were actually 40+ replies under the picture he posted on his main account!

Some were asking where he went for most of the last 6 months; some suspected that he was kidnapped and asked him to blink if he was; some guessed if he was finally out to do activities.

The most liked reply was just a simple sentence:

【It’s good that you’re back, we have always been here.】

He chose to upload a selfie yesterday to accumulate popularity. As long as his popularity rises, he could then get closer to the male and female protagonist.

From transmigrating into the book till now, his brain was full of thoughts on how to survive or what are the next steps to take to save his life. But when he saw this sentence, he abruptly realised that he was more than just himself now.

He was also a little-known artiste.

He was also the idol of dozens of girls.

Like how he liked Bo Ye, those girls liked him, too.

Qi Xingchen’s nose was stinging a bit while replying to each and every one of the 40+ comments. When he typed till his fingers were stiff, his phone started vibrating.

It was a call from Du Lanxin, her voice was both dumbfounded and surprised, “Yoh, kid, did you step in dog sh*t or something? You were actually chosen!”