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Before this, Sheng Li had thought that going public with their relationship would cause quite a stir, after all, they barely even had any CP fans, and not many people associated them together. But she hadn’t expected it to be this sensational. Weibo crashed for over ten minutes, and within just one hour of posting, the number of reposts and comments was already approaching a million.
Sheng Li had never experienced such an unreal feeling, like walking on clouds. She turned her head to look at Yu Chi, took a deep breath, and then finally looked at the comments.
Top comment: What? Baby, who did you say your first love is? Sheng Li? The Sheng Li I know?
Reply: Is there a second Sheng Li in the entertainment industry?
Reply: I clicked in and saw, it’s the Sheng Li we know, wuwu!
Reply: Oh my god! So the cemetery date was real?
Second top comment: Isn’t Sheng Li in a CP with Lu Xingyu? Wuwu, I know you and Lu Xingyu are mortal enemies, but you shouldn’t steal his CP!
Reply: Lu Xingyu is so pitiful, not only were his resources snatched, but even his CP was stolen... Reply: I was already prepared for you to win back your first love, but I didn’t expect it to be Sheng Li...
Reply: Yu Chi dismantled a CP with his bare hands, amazing, amazing!
Third top comment: Just for saying you wanted to win back your first love on the show, and then daring to go public generously after getting her back, I’m giving you my blessing! Yu Chi is awesome!
Fourth top comment: It must be fake, definitely hype for the movie “Xu Yuan.” I don’t believe it, they don’t look like a couple at all!
...
The comment section was filled with shock, insults, disbelief, and blessings... Although it was expected, Sheng Li was still somewhat caught off guard. She bit her lip, considering whether to repost or post a new Weibo. Yu Chi rested his elbow on the car window, propping up his head, lazily admiring her expression. He raised an eyebrow and said, “Sister, what’s with that face? You were the one who said we’d go public after you finished filming.”
Sheng Li blinked and asked him, “What’s my expression?”
“A scared expression.” Yu Chi said faintly, “Being scared is useless, it’s too late.”
Sheng Li: “...”
The car stopped in the underground garage. Old Liu had been focused on driving and hadn’t seen the online frenzy. He glanced back, and Sheng Li said, “Uncle Liu, you can go back now.”
After Old Liu left, the two in the car didn’t seem to have any intention of getting out. Yu Chi turned his head to look at Sheng Li and reminded, “Sister, don’t you have anything to say to me?”
His expression and tone were as if saying, “Aren’t you going to take responsibility for me?”
Sheng Li burst out laughing. She first followed him on Weibo and put him in her “special attention” group. She noticed that he had already followed her, and they were now mutual follows. Then, Sheng Li posted a Weibo: Sheng Li V: I will take responsibility @YuChi
Yu Chi’s special attention notification rang. He lowered his eyes to look at the phone screen and smiled silently.
“Are you satisfied now?” Sheng Li looked at him with a smile.
“Satisfied.” Yu Chi replied lazily, his eyes fixed on her with a smile for a few seconds before he opened the car door and got out. He walked around to the other side to open her door. Sheng Li looked up at him, took his hand for support, and got out of the car. Only then did she realize her legs were a bit weak, indeed too much excitement.
While waiting for the elevator, Sheng Li’s phone rang again. This time it was Madam Lu calling.
Madam Lu was extremely shocked, “Daughter, are you really Yu Chi’s first love? It’s not that you seduced him and then were afraid of being called a homewrecker, so you made him deliberately post that Weibo, right?”
Sheng Li: “...”
Why don’t you become a screenwriter?
Ding—
The elevator doors opened. Sheng Li walked in, helplessly saying, “I really am his first love. I wasn’t a homewrecker. I was just joking with you last time.”
Hearing this, Yu Chi lowered his head to look at her before pressing the floor button. He put his hands in his pockets and leaned against the elevator wall, looking down at Sheng Li.
Madam Lu still didn’t quite believe it, “So you two are really together?”
Sheng Li was speechless and had to repeat her explanation, “It’s real, as real as pearls. I promise I wasn’t a homewrecker, and I didn’t deliberately make him post on Weibo to deceive everyone. Mom... is your daughter that bad?” She looked up and noticed Yu Chi was smiling. She narrowed her eyes, “If you don’t believe me, ask Yu Chi.”
Saying that, she held her phone to Yu Chi’s ear.
Yu Chi was taken aback, met Sheng Li’s gloating gaze, and helplessly straightened up. He took the phone and said softly, “Auntie, hello, I’m Yu Chi.”
Madam Lu on the other end was also stunned for a moment before quickly saying, “Ah, hello, hello, are you really Yu Chi?”
Yu Chi: “Yes.”
Sheng Li urged, “Hurry up and explain to my mom that I’m your first love, that you were the one who insisted on pursuing me, and I didn’t threaten you to post on Weibo to deceive people.”
Before Yu Chi could speak, Madam Lu said, “Chi Zai, tell Auntie, is Sheng Li really your first love?”
Yu Chi ignored the “Chi Zai,” looked at Sheng Li, and replied seriously, “It’s true. I’ve only had one girlfriend, and she didn’t threaten me to post on Weibo. I was the one who begged her to agree to let me go public.”
Sheng Li: “...”
Madam Lu: “...”
The two walked out of the elevator. The phone returned to Sheng Li’s hand. Madam Lu instructed on the phone, “This boy Chi Zai is as good as the girls in my office say. Although he’s a bit young, he has a stable personality and is very devoted. You’ve been in this industry for so long, don’t bully him just because you’re older and more experienced. Relationships require mutual support, understand?”
Whose biological child was she anyway? Sheng Li rolled her eyes, “Got it, got it. Do you have any other instructions?”
Madam Lu: “Bring him home for a meal when you have time. Things have developed to this point between you two, it will be hard to end without marriage.”
Sheng Li: “...”
She was stunned for a second before Yu Chi pulled her into the house.
The house hadn’t been lived in for a while. The curtains were tightly drawn, the light dim, and the air stuffy and hot. Yu Chi leaned against the shoe cabinet in the entrance, looking at the mountain of messages piled up on WeChat. He rarely posted on his Moments, but this time he did, thanking everyone for their concern in one go.
Finally, he sent a message to Huang Boyan: 【Don’t drag her into this.】
Then he turned off his phone.
“I know, I wasn’t playing around.” Sheng Li lowered her head to change her shoes. Just as she slipped one foot into a slipper, her shoulder grew heavy. Yu Chi leaned down and hugged her, burying his head and nibbling on her ear. His breath was warm as he nuzzled her, and her body trembled slightly, almost letting out a gasp.
Madam Lu was still talking non-stop on the phone, but Sheng Li no longer had the mind to listen because Yu Chi’s continuous advances had already begun to undo the buttons on her chest. Sheng Li bit her lip, hastily replied a few times, and hung up.
As soon as she hung up, her phone rang again.
This time it was Zhou Sinuan calling. She glanced at Yu Chi, who was leisurely looking at her, “I’ll give you one minute.”
Sheng Li: “...”
As soon as the call connected, Zhou Sinuan first complained, “Your line was always busy, it was so hard to get through.” Without waiting for her to reply, she asked with a grin, “Interview time! How are you feeling now? Are you particularly excited and thrilled? Is your vanity hugely satisfied? I think a relationship that has developed and caused such a sensation really can’t end without marriage.”
Sheng Li heard Yu Chi chuckle very softly, clearly close enough to hear everything.
She looked up at him, smiled, and said, “My little brother Yu Chi hasn’t reached the legal marriage age yet.”
“Isn’t his birthday at the end of this month? I just scrolled through Weibo and saw a comment saying, ‘You should be glad Yu Chi isn’t 22 yet, otherwise he’d have his graduation certificate in his left hand and his marriage certificate in his right, then you’d really be crying.’ I think it makes a lot of sense.”
“...”
Sheng Li was currently enjoying the feeling of being in love. She wasn’t even twenty-eight yet. Marriage should probably wait until she was thirty. What was the rush? Besides, Yu Chi was only 22. Going public with their relationship this early was already a big no-no. If he got married young on top of that, Huang Boyan would probably vomit blood for three days.
She laughed, “We haven’t even had a proper date yet, marriage is still far off. I’ll save the red envelope for you for now.”
The minute was up. Yu Chi leaned down again and pressed her against the back of the door, continuing to undo her buttons. His gaze was dark and unfathomable as he looked at her, an unspeakable hotness in his eyes. Sheng Li hurriedly said to Zhou Sinuan, “I’ll talk to you later, something came up.”
She abruptly hung up. Yu Chi took the phone and asked softly, “Want me to turn it off for you?”
Sheng Li hooked her arms around his neck and chuckled softly, “Okay.”
Let’s put aside all the noise and disturbances for now. No matter what the fans thought or whether they accepted it, she and Yu Chi couldn’t and didn’t want to be separated.
...
The two hadn’t seen each other for a while. Yu Chi was as much of a little wolfdog as ever in bed. Sheng Li was carried out of the bathroom by him and lay on the bed, not wanting to move a single finger. But she really wanted to see what was happening on Weibo.
She lay on her stomach on the pillow and commanded, “I want to see my phone, get it for me.”
Yu Chi went to the entrance to retrieve both of their phones, turned them on, and handed her phone to her.
He put on a pair of pants, went shirtless into the living room to make a call.
In just four hours, Weibo had dug up everything about the two of them. Fans had no choice but to believe that Yu Chi’s first love at 18 was indeed Sheng Li.
Solid Proof 1: Sheng Li only had one of the star earrings she looked for at the cemetery. In a photo Xu Yang posted on his Moments two years ago, Yu Chi was wearing the same earring on his left ear.
Solid Proof 2: The necklace Yu Chi had worn for more than three years was exposed at his graduation ceremony. Someone took a photo and discovered that the “treasure” was something Sheng Li had shown off to fans when she was 17. She even wore it a few years ago, but it had disappeared in recent years. It turned out she had given it to Yu Chi.
Solid Proof 3: Yu Chi said at an awards ceremony that someone said he was a treasure. That person was Sheng Li.
Solid Proof 4: Back when Yu Chi auditioned for “Jiangshan Scroll,” it was Sheng Li who recommended him. Didn’t Lu Xingyu also audition at that time? He publicly said he was just going for fun, but was he actually defeated by Yu Chi’s acting? That’s why he deliberately mentioned the three-month agreement online. Why did Yu Chi and Lu Xingyu become mortal enemies over the years? Because of Sheng Li! Isn’t this possessiveness solid enough proof?
...
One piece of solid proof after another, the two were undeniably real, even a bit cute?
Koi Fish CP, are you in? The kind that can last until death!
Of course, there was also the backlash from Xing Sheng CP fans, saying that Yu Chi wasn’t content with stepping on Lu Xingyu to rise to the top and also wanted to steal his sister, with a lot of insults still flying around.
Some fans even unfollowed Yu Chi and turned against him, saying he took on “Xu Yuan” to pursue his first love and gave up “Rose 2,” scolding him for not having a career mind.
At the same time, many people in the industry forwarded their blessings, such as Jing Yiming, Jiang Qing, Zhou Sinuan, Teacher Luo, etc.
The “Rose” crew reposted Yu Chi’s Weibo and stated: Congratulations, congratulations! Teacher Yu, who balances love and career, is the best. In addition, the reason for the delayed start of “Rose 2” is that the script needs adjustments and has nothing to do with Teacher Yu’s schedule. Please do not spread rumors, and “Rose 2” is about to start filming, please look forward to it.
After the “Rose” crew clarified things for Yu Chi, it reversed the fans’ opinions of him. After all, Yu Chi was a good actor and didn’t lack popularity. He had also lowered his salary by half, so the crew didn’t lose out. This move was a win-win.
Sheng Li finally felt relieved. She had been in the industry for so many years and had accumulated a lot of connections. She didn’t have to worry about not having roles to film, nor was she afraid of being scolded. Yu Chi had just won Best Actor not long ago, so of course, he didn’t have to worry either. But she didn’t like seeing him being scolded for not having a career mind. He hadn’t had many days off in the past few years, working hard and seriously to the point of risking his life. Wasn’t that having a career mind?
The most troublesome thing was still the Xing Sheng CP fans, whose backlash was quite severe.
She sent a message to Rong Hua: 【Send out a statement for me, Lu Xingyu and I never dated.】
Rong Hua: 【I’ll talk to him.】
Sheng Li hadn’t contacted Lu Xingyu for a long time, and they didn’t communicate much even before. But Lu Xingyu often sent her a lot of messages unilaterally. Sheng Li exited her conversation with Rong Hua, only to see Lu Xingyu’s chat box jump to the front. She then remembered that she had set Lu Xingyu to “do not disturb” after he went crazy that night.
Lu Xingyu: 【Sister, do you hate me a lot?】
Sheng Li’s feelings were a bit complicated. Hate wasn’t the right word. After all, they had genuinely supported each other for two or three years. She replied: 【No, focus on filming well in the future. You’re almost 25, be more mature.】
Just as the message was sent, her phone was snatched away.
She looked up.
Yu Chi stood by the bed, looking down at her, his tone cold, “Sister, you’re not allowed to coax him.”
Sheng Li: “...”
Wasn’t that coaxing?
“I haven’t cancelled the lease for that old house in Songshan Film and Television City.” Yu Chi had three days off, and Sheng Li also had a few days off. He reached out and brushed her hair behind her ear, “Do you want to go back and take a look?”
Sheng Li was surprised, “You haven’t cancelled it after all this time?”
Yu Chi hummed in agreement, hesitating before asking, “Do you... want to go? Or we can go somewhere else.”
As a result, neither of them went anywhere.
The address of that house was leaked by the neighbors and the landlord’s daughter, attracting many paparazzi. Coupled with their current popularity, they were blocked wherever they went.
A few days later, Lu Xingyu gave an interview and was asked by a reporter, “What do you think of Yu Chi and Sheng Li’s relationship? After all, you and Sheng Li had many CP fans before, and now the CP has been dismantled. Do you resent it?”
Lu Xingyu was silent for a few seconds before saying, “I wish them happiness. Sister has always been rational and clear-headed. She can do her best in everything she does, and her judgment is also the best. Her choice is not wrong, and I won’t resent it.”
The reporter pressed, “Are you praising Yu Chi?”
Lu Xingyu’s expression instantly became very awkward. He said awkwardly, “I guess so, after all, he’s a Best Actor, and his acting skills are obvious.” He paused, as if making a decision, and looked at the camera seriously, “I thank him for considering me a rival. Sometimes a rival is the best weapon to motivate oneself. In the days to come, I hope I will no longer disappoint my fans.”
After saying this, he didn’t want to answer any more related questions.
The reporter, however, persisted, “Have you ever been with Sheng Li?”
This time, Lu Xingyu was silent for even longer before letting out a bitter laugh, “No, I couldn’t win her over.”
Thus, the golden age of the Xing Sheng CP had passed.
The Koi Fish CP rose out of nowhere.
...
In June of the following year, “Xu Yuan” was released nationwide. This was the first film collaboration between Yu Chi and Sheng Li. Initially, what everyone wanted to see wasn’t the content of the film, but the acting collision between the two, entering the cinema with a gossipy mindset.
Of course, it couldn’t be denied that the trailer looked good, but after all, it wasn’t a mainstream film. Art films had a smaller audience, especially realistic ones like this, which heavily relied on word-of-mouth. Many moviegoers were still waiting to see.
The majority The majority of the first wave of moviegoers were fans, but after the film ended, no one regretted going to the cinema to watch it.
At the end of the film, the big screen turned black.
With the sound of keyboard clicks, words appeared one by one on the screen—
We often lament how ugly people’s hearts can be, but more often we sigh that this world is still warm and just.
May this world always face the sunlight, and may justice never be absent.
...
A few days later, the word-of-mouth for “Xu Yuan” began to rise, and the box office also started to increase. This realistic and truthful story moved many moviegoers—
【Honestly, I initially went to see it for Yu Chi and Xu Yuan’s bed scene, but a Best Actor is ultimately a Best Actor. Yu Chi’s acting never disappoints me. He and Sheng Li also had great CP chemistry in the movie. Moreover, this is definitely the best role Sheng Li has ever played. I became a fan of hers!】
【I felt very sad after watching the movie. Although Xu Yongliang received justice, and Xu Yuan, after a tragic life, finally found love at the end, the hurt can never be erased. I wonder how many more wrongful cases in this world have been buried by the years.】
【I cried so hard. I felt the Xu Yuan family was too miserable. Those wrongful cases in that era... a life was just gone in a hurry. What’s the use of justice and compensation that comes more than a decade later? Seeing Xu Yuan try to commit suicide several times broke my heart.】
【May this world always face the sunlight, and may people’s hearts also face the sunlight.】
...
Of course, in the beginning, there were still many fans or haters who fiercely criticized Yu Chi for not having a career mind. This film was clearly a big female lead, and Yu Chi, with the title of the youngest Best Actor, actually took on this art film and even filmed bed scenes for his girlfriend.
For a time, news articles scolding Yu Chi for being love-struck and lacking a career mind flooded the internet.
Fortunately, after the movie’s word-of-mouth reversed, Huang Boyan’s PR skills were also excellent, which gradually reduced the criticism.
On June 29th, Yu Chi and Sheng Li and the crew went to promote the film. After the promotion ended, everyone left the stage. Sheng Li was wearing a little black dress that day. When she went down the stairs, she realized her earring had fallen off. A sharp-eyed fan reminded her, “Your earring fell on the stage!”
Yu Chi held Sheng Li back and said softly, “I’ll go pick it up.”
Before he could go on stage, a reporter had already helped pick up the earring.
Yu Chi stood sideways on the stage, took the earring handed over by the reporter, held it in his hand, and said thank you. The reporter quickly seized the opportunity and held out the microphone, “Is this your couple earring?”
“Yes,” Yu Chi said.
The reporter, fearing Yu Chi would turn and leave, spoke quickly, “Many people online are saying you don’t have a career mind, that you’re love-struck, and that you took on ‘Xu Yuan’ to help Sheng Li succeed. Do you have anything you want to explain for yourself?”
Yu Chi glanced at the camera behind the reporter, the corners of his lips curving up. “I think my fans and moviegoers should be very clear about whether I have a career mind. When they defend me, they have always been confident. I think I gave them that confidence. As for being love-struck, I’ve only been in love once in my life. If that’s really being love-struck, then I guess there’s no hope for me in this lifetime.”
Reporter: “...”
Fans who hadn’t left the stage: “...”
Suddenly, a fan shouted loudly, “Chi Zai, you’re always the best! I’ve never been disappointed!”
Soon, the fans all followed suit, applauding loudly, shouting encouragement, and saying they had never been disappointed.
Yu Chi smiled at the fans, took the microphone from the reporter, and looked seriously at the camera, “One last question, ‘Xu Yuan’ is a good movie. Even if I took on ‘Xu Yuan’ for Sheng Li, that doesn’t negate the value of this film. Moreover, I didn’t do anything wrong. The reason I re-entered the entertainment industry was because of her encouragement and motivation. Even my contract back then was resolved with her help. If we have to talk about who made whom, then she made me first.”
After saying this, Yu Chi turned and walked off the stage towards Sheng Li.
Sheng Li looked up at him with a smile. Yu Chi stopped in front of her, lowered his head, and helped her put the earring back on.
Sheng Li took his arm again, saying softly, “Yu Chi, you were so handsome just now.”
Yu Chi glanced down at her, asking casually, “Anything else?”
“And, what wish do you want to make today? Your sister will grant it for you.”
Yu Chi lowered his head and whispered in her ear, “I want you to be by my side every year.”
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