Chapter 4 – A Strange CP Appears (1/2)

What finally broke the silence were the last two guests to arrive together.

One was the sweet-faced, slightly spoiled actress Song Yanyan, and the other, the singer Shang Gubai, famous for his sharp tongue.

[Aaaaah Yanyan baby! You’re a sweet little piece of cake!!!]

[By the way, does no one else think Song Yanyan’s eyes look a bit like Jiang Wan’s? They both have that soft puppy-eyed look.]

[What’s there to compare between Jiang Wan’s fake act and our genuine Yanyan baby?]

[Sure, they look similar, but sadly, one is pretending to be cute while the other is truly adorable ^^]

[Yanyan appearing on this show is an occupational hazard! Tonight, Qiao Qiao must comfort her well!]

The reason the comments always took the chance to use Song Yanyan to drag Jiang Wan down was that Song Yanyan’s best friend in the industry was none other than Qiao Zhiyi.

The gossip between Jiang Wan, Qiao Zhiyi, and Fu Siyue might not have been so notorious that everyone in the country knew, but anyone who followed any one of them certainly did.

So before Song Yanyan ever came on this show, she’d already made up her mind—no matter what happened, she would never show Jiang Wan a friendly face.

She had the nerve to try to snatch Qiao Qiao’s man? She wasn’t even worth one of Qiao Qiao’s fingers!

But Song Yanyan never expected that Jiang Wan would actually beat her to it and give her attitude first!

The two of them entered the house one after the other, both showing puzzled expressions at this bizarre atmosphere.

For a moment, they were stuck between advancing and retreating.

Everyone present had the same thought—“If the enemy doesn’t move, I won’t move either.”

Standing behind Song Yanyan, Shang Gubai tilted his head slightly, sweeping his gaze around the living room.

Then—

He walked straight up to Jiang Wan, cleared his throat, and began gesturing in sign language.

Whether it was accurate or not, no one could tell, but it looked rather practiced.

Everyone: “?”

Jiang Wan was speechless. “I can speak, and I can hear.”

Shang Gubai immediately showed an apologetic expression and said, “Ah, I’m so sorry, it was a misunderstanding. You were all sitting there without saying a word, so I thought maybe you were…”

After all, he wasn’t an actor—his acting skills were mediocre at best.

But Shang Gubai was doing it on purpose anyway, just so everyone would see he was acting.

[Hahaha, allow me to translate for Shang Gubai: Wow, since none of you are talking, I thought you were all deaf-mutes.]

[Shang Gubai is as cutting as ever hahaha!]

[But isn’t Xie Yanyi the closest to him? Why did he head straight for Jiang Wan?]

[Tsk tsk, must be because someone here doesn’t have many friends.]

The viewers were confused.

Jiang Wan was also confused.

She barely knew Shang Gubai.

Everyone was sitting there silent—why single her out the moment he arrived?

Was it because, in the original storyline, he was the second male lead who was harsh to everyone but secretly devoted to the heroine? So now he was going to start stepping on her already?

Jiang Wan also had a temper. How could she tolerate someone deliberately treating her differently to her face?

Facing Shang Gubai’s half-smile, she put on a sincere expression and asked calmly, “Teacher Shang, did you say that just to embarrass me?”

Shang Gubai’s face froze.

Jiang Wan kept smiling sweetly as she continued, “There are four of us here, and none of us were talking. But you singled me out. Is it because among the four, I have the fewest fans, so I look like the easiest target?”

The moment she said that, everyone turned their heads to look over.

Xie Yanyi’s expression didn’t reveal much, but he sized Shang Gubai up from head to toe.

Shi Lan, sitting diagonally across from her, raised her eyebrows, her face showing both surprise and an appreciative respect for Jiang Wan’s backbone.

Jiang Qi didn’t bother to hold back and outright laughed, resting his chin in his palm as he chimed in, “Teacher Shang really is different from the rest of us. That’s what comes of having so many years of seniority.”

Jiang Qi’s words were sharp enough that he was basically calling Shang Gubai an “old fox who bullies the weak and flatters the strong.”

[Good grief! I’m hollering—fight! Fight! Fight!!!]

[Jiang Wan actually has this much self-awareness?]

[But she wasn’t wrong—wasn’t that exactly what everyone was thinking? No one expected she’d actually dare to say it out loud.]

[If you ask me, Shang Gubai really is classless. Even if you dislike Jiang Wan, you don’t need to pick on a young woman like that.]

[Was Jiang Qi… defending Jiang Wan just now? Did I understand that right?]

At this point, Shang Gubai had no choice but to awkwardly explain, “That’s not what I meant. I just thought I was a bit more familiar with you, so I assumed you wouldn’t mind me joking around.”

“More familiar with me?”

Jiang Wan blinked her big, innocent eyes and asked, “Have we ever met?”

Shang Gubai’s composure was nearly breaking down. He had no choice but to stiffly say, “I sang the OST for one of your dramas.”

He was really stretching to claim any connection.

Before Jiang Wan could expose it, Jiang Qi beat her to it, wearing a thoughtful expression as he added lightly, “I remember you also sang OSTs for two of my dramas. One of them we even did a duet together.”