Chapter 134

  Finally, seeing his own younger cousin's entangled appearance, the man on the computer proactively proposed to take a look at the video of him "doing something wrong" and then offer help. Jiang Chuan seemed to have expected that he would make such a request, directly sharing the conversation program video from that day on the computer, but what surprised him was that his older cousin had slightly revealed a surprised expression after seeing Yuan Jinyan for the first time, and then said something that made Jiang Chuan's eyebrows almost fly to the top of his head.

  "How about it? You've even snatched Andre's mistress from him?"

  "What did he say? I knew they had a past, but I didn't think they were lovers - what did Andrei tell you?" Jiang Chuan sat up slightly.

  Lei Qi supported his chin with one hand, staring at the computer screen. He didn't know if he was seriously watching the video or just enjoying the sight of his younger brother's expression out of amusement. After a long time, he slowly spoke up: "How would I know? I'm not familiar with him. We met once over ten years ago when we were still in middle school. I happened to see this face in his wallet at that time. Since I don't come into contact with Eastern people often, I paid a bit of attention..."

  Jiang Chuan: “......”

  Thinking of someone inexplicably handing over their own photo to a strange person and putting it in his wallet, Jiang Chuan had already forgotten that he still felt guilty about this matter. Now he just wanted to drag out the certain someone who was still soaking in the bathroom and give him a good beating.

  "Look at that little devil in the photo, laughing so brightly - and it's a photo with Andrei too. I was already suspicious back then, how could someone like Andrei have someone take a photo with him and laugh so happily?"

  Jiang Chuan: “......”

  It turned out to be a composite photo.

  He didn't seem to mind that his younger brother had fallen into an awkward silence due to the message he had inadvertently revealed. The man on this side of the computer just looked down at the video with great interest, watching the people in it being interviewed - previously, he had never watched this type of variety show because, in his opinion, it was just a bunch of clowns performing a scripted routine for the audience's amusement. However, now that he was watching, he discovered that such programs actually did have value, like when he saw his younger brother solemnly confessing to someone on screen and causing a stir, he unexpectedly found himself being entertained.

  "To be honest," said Leizhi, looking at the video of his younger brother with a gentle expression on his face as he spoke to a young man with black hair, "seeing this face that looks a bit like mine showing such a tender expression is really kind of nauseating - have you shown this interview program to your dad? Maybe he'll think this little star has changed his son's personality and actually agree to the two of you being together..."

  When he spoke, he completely disregarded his poor relatives on this side of the computer, whose faces were already darker than a pot bottom.

  Jiang Chuan's hand trembled slightly as he quickly turned off the video, and at the same time, he heard a sigh of regret coming from the computer, as well as the sound of the bathroom door being pushed open lazily from the inside. After hastily throwing out a sentence "You'd better pray that this day never comes", he ignored his brother's mocking laughter and slammed the computer shut, calming down the ferocity on his face, and gazed calmly at the young man with black hair wearing a white bathrobe walking out of the bathroom.

  He is probably really bad at taking care of himself.

  Although the air conditioner was on at home, the room temperature was a bit low. After taking a bath, he didn't even bother to dry his hair slightly before coming out, and the back of his neck was wet like a duck's butt, getting the bathrobe collar all wet. Not only that, but his entire body was still dripping with water, and his slender ankles were stepping on the slippers at home, which were also made soaking wet.

  "Come here," Jiang Chuan raised his hand and beckoned to him, watching as the other person obediently walked towards him. He couldn't help but remind him, "You'll catch a cold like this."

  "Really? It shouldn't be, right......" Jin Yan sat down beside Jiang Chuan, letting the man take a towel and roughly wipe his hair dry with a bit too much force. "Who were you talking to just now? What happened?"

  "No."

  The man replied briefly, his mind still wandering off topic thinking of excuses to ask about the "photo in Andre's wallet", and at this moment, as if deliberately trying to slap him in the face, his phone rang on the sofa behind him - under Jian Ran's gaze, Jiang Chuan had no choice but to answer the call from a strange number, and sure enough, the moment he picked up the phone, he heard the voice of the person he had just forcibly hung up on.

  The problem hasn't been solved yet, didn't you come to me for help? Hmm, your breathing is so tense, is your little friend by your side now?

  "What's it to you?"

  If he can understand German, I'll have to be more careful with what I say.

  “……”

  If he really understood what you said, I'd be dead by now.

  Jiang Chuan held the phone, suddenly realizing a problem: his cousin was right, he shouldn't have thought of asking for his help from the start. Now it seemed that apart from being locked up in prison and having a brain full of nonsense and a heart that loved to cause trouble for others, he couldn't come up with any creative suggestions...

  At this moment, he felt someone pulling his sleeve, and Jiang Chuan reflexively lowered his head. He then saw the young man with black hair sitting next to him, staring at him curiously with a pair of dark eyes that seemed wet from just coming out of the bathroom. The young man mouthed "who is it" to him, and his eyes looked tired but still focused intently on Jiang Chuan... This gaze made Jiang Chuan's hand holding the phone sweat slightly, feeling annoyed at why Lei Qie was so inconsiderate as to waste one of their limited opportunities to contact the outside world by calling him. He reached out to touch his chin, wanting to hang up but couldn't help squeezing it a bit before furrowing his brow and indicating for the person on the other end to speak.

  Unexpectedly, this time Leizhi actually gave him some advice, such as ——

  Don't regret what's done, in case you get caught and your little friends turn against you. Just bear with it and it will pass. The priority is to handle things around you properly, ensuring that what you do doesn't cause substantial harm to your little friends. After all, one should take care of their own belongings; getting angry when someone else breaks them is weak and pointless. Even if those trashy people lose their lives, your losses won't be compensated.

  His elder cousin's words sent Jiang Chuan into a long period of contemplation. By the time he came to and realized that he had inadvertently taken his elder cousin's words seriously, treating him as his life mentor, the person on the other end of the line had already hung up triumphantly - probably because Jiang Chuan's expression at this moment was quite interesting. Jin Yan hurried over, holding his face and studying it from left to right: "What's wrong?"

  "It's nothing." Jiang Chuan let out a deep sigh, feeling helpless as he tossed his phone aside and pulled the young man with black hair into his arms. "Dry your hair and go to bed early, your movie is going to start filming in a few days, don't let those unnecessary things affect your work..."

  "This won't do, I just took a look and now the internet is really stirred up, everywhere is waiting for me to come out and make a statement, even some of my fans can't sit still...” Jian Ran said this with a relatively calm tone, but suddenly stopped halfway through, seemingly still a bit uneasy as he looked at Jiang Chuan, "You're acting strange tonight, why don't you dare look at me?"

  The man was slightly stunned and immediately turned his face back: "Nothing like that."

  "Here," Jian Yan took the initiative to lean forward, biting the man's lip corner, and quickly stretched out her tongue to lick it, "What's going on? Let's talk about it and see if we can solve it together?"

  The words had barely fallen when the slightly increased force of the touch on his lips took away his breath.

  That night, they didn't even make it to the bedroom and did it once on the sofa. Unlike previous times, they really only did it once, but this time for Jian Ran, it seemed much longer than any of the previous times - The man was gentle from start to finish, a rare change from his usual youthful impatience and impulsiveness... Even after they both came, he surprisingly used his mouth to clean Jian Ran's lower body.

  The consequence is that the more you clean, the "dirtier" it becomes.

  By the time they had exhausted themselves and collapsed onto their beds after washing up, it was already approaching 4 am.

  Tonight, even the external publicity department of IM company seemed to know that Jian Ran needed a quiet adjustment time, and his mobile phone was very quiet all night without ringing.

  ……

  The final attitude towards Jiang Luocheng's handling of this matter is to let it go.

  A packed work schedule can help people quickly adjust themselves.

  After being heartbroken, he almost fully devoted himself to preparing for the movie "Chuan Na", every day was spent reading scripts and memorizing lines, rarely going online to look at those messy things. During this time, Jiang Chuan also accompanied him - really accompanying him, this guy suddenly transformed into a loyal big dog, sticking close by his side, becoming extremely clingy while seemingly more taciturn than before... Jing Yan wasn't stupid, vaguely sensing that the man's abnormal behavior was probably related to him thinking he had some responsibility for Jiang Luo Cheng's outburst at the interview program, so one time when he tried to sit down and chat with Jiang Chuan, the other party appeared...

  I don't really want to talk about this topic.

  Jin Ran could only use a tone of half-guessing, for example, saying things like "it's just the program effect" or "only a real fool would do that", to comfort Jiang Chuan on one side - but as a result, he found out that it was indeed useless, and Jiang Chuan almost followed him everywhere with a gun and bulletproof vest, acting as his bodyguard. Jin Ran thought Jiang Chuan was making a big deal out of nothing.

  After doing some psychological work on himself to calm down, he thought that those people probably didn't have any solid evidence and would just make a fuss for a few days before it blew over as a piece of news. After all, everyone had their own lives to live and no one would waste too much energy on a celebrity who was far removed from their own life.

  It wasn't long before the filming of "Chuan Na" officially began. Following the usual routine, Jian Yan first followed the crew to the H City Film and Television Base. Along the way, the atmosphere of the crew was just as harmonious as he was familiar with, and on the surface, it seemed that no one had reacted to those messy things online.

  He felt a little more at ease and threw himself into his work more than ever before.

  ……

  It was three days before the movie officially started filming, and he had just finished taking still photos when he suddenly felt a bit urgent and excused himself to Li Rui before rushing to the bathroom. Just as he arrived at the sink without having time to "take care of business", he heard the sound of someone speaking from the next stall.

  "Have you seen the latest gossip? That thing between those two is really amazing, and one of the main guys is right next to me, I have a strong sense of substitution, I watched it all night yesterday."

  Jian Ran: "......"

  His heart sank, and he unconsciously lightened his movements, cautiously retreating to the side of the washbasin. At this time, he heard someone in another cubicle chuckling and responding: "You've seen it, right? Jiang Luocheng is really miserable. When he was with Yuan Jinyan, there wasn't even a hint of anything between them. You know that when two people have been together, you can usually tell something's up, but this time... they didn't even get to eat together before things went south. He was threatened by Xu Qianqian over Yuan Jinyan's orientation issues and ended up with her, only for Yuan Jinyan to not appreciate it and cheat on him with Jiang Chuan..."

  He felt a bit dizzy, the story was led by Jiang Luocheng from the beginning, so it ended up being "Jiang Luocheng forced Yuan Jinyan to be with Xu Qianqian" which is completely in favor of Director Jiang. He didn't expect that he would cheat on her with Jiang Chuan though.

  I'd like to knock on the door and ask the person inside where they heard such a fantastical story, still being told as if it were true. He also slightly curled up the corner of his lips, and couldn't believe that in just a few days, the whole thing had already developed to the point of implicating Jiang Chuan...

  Jiang Chuan was inexplicably labeled as the "third party" and he couldn't help but feel a bit unbearable. He thought that if this had happened earlier, according to the two people in the bathroom who firmly believed in the rumors, it's possible that Jiang Chuan would have been harassed by some "justice-seekers" for many days already...

  Just thinking about such a scene makes me feel like I've already been pushed to the limit.

  At this time, even if he was about to explode, he didn't want to "let go" anymore. He immediately wanted to go out and call Jiang Chuan to ask if this was the case. As soon as he turned around and prepared to leave, he suddenly heard the person in the cubicle behind him say...

  "Right, it's really shameless! I don't know about Kan Na's background, but with this kind of abnormal sexual orientation and the news of her being caught in a scandal, she still has the nerve to come and act in this drama. Teacher Li Rui is probably driven crazy by this issue already. Yesterday, I saw that the high-level leaders were having an emergency meeting overnight, maybe they're worried about the current situation."