What to Do When Pretending to Be an Alpha Gets Exhausting [Entertainment Industry] - Chapter 15

Ye Xingyuan bent over and felt around for his phone. “Hello?”

His voice had changed from the pain. It was low, with a faint trace of breathlessness mixed in.

Through the phone, it sounded especially suggestive.

“Ye—Ye Xingyuan!” The moment Ji Chuxi’s call connected, his face turned bright red, and his voice even cracked. “You, you, you… you stinking hooligan, what are you doing?”

Ye Xingyuan was in so much pain that his thoughts were sluggish. He hissed, gritted his teeth, and barely managed to steady himself by holding onto the sink. His voice was slightly hoarse and low, and through the phone, it sounded very much like he had just finished doing that.

Even his voice still carried a lingering aftertaste.

“My dear ancestor, what exactly did I do to you?”

Ji Chuxi imagined the scene, and his face grew even redder. He covered his face and became shy. “Are all you Alphas this shameless? In broad daylight, you’re already starting to indulge in… in that…”

“What am I indulging in?” Relying on his long legs, Ye Xingyuan simply leaned against the sink. Although Ji Chuxi was very annoying right now, he had successfully distracted him from the pain.

“You, you, you… Right now, things are already burning your eyebrows, so why do you still have the leisure to do that kind of thing? Aren’t you anxious at all? The Weibo hot search is still climbing like crazy. Netizens are almost helping you write your obituary, and you still… Forget it, I’ll wait three seconds for you. Hurry up and… no, just go at your own speed. I’ll wait. We’ll talk about the serious matter later.”

Three seconds?

In broad daylight, indulging in…

Doing that kind of thing?

With the conversation already at this point, what else could Ye Xingyuan fail to understand?

Although he would rather not understand.

Three seconds was a time that hurt a man’s dignity far too much.

“I didn’t!” Ye Xingyuan was grateful that he was an actor, able to lie without blushing, without his heart racing, and without losing his breath.

He really had intended to help himself check just now and confirm whether he was truly a three-second man.

But before he could act, the phone call interrupted him, and he had even injured his precious treasure.

Ji Chuxi believed him on the other end and thought he had misunderstood. His face flushed even deeper, and he lowered his voice in embarrassment. “I-I wanted to talk to you about the Weibo matter. The cause of that incident is me. I’ll resolve it. You don’t need to worry.”

Ye Xingyuan switched the phone to his other ear. “How do you plan to resolve it?”

Ji Chuxi was silent for several seconds, then said, “I plan to directly tell the truth. Although I really don’t want people to know that I was cheated on by a scumbag, I can’t let you get dragged down because of this. You were clearly secretly photographed because you were trying to save me.”

In fact, if his manager had not kept stopping him, he would already have posted a clarification on Weibo before making this call.

Ye Xingyuan was not a newcomer to the entertainment industry, so he understood these behind-the-scenes matters very clearly. He took a light breath and asked, “Did your manager agree?”

Ji Chuxi covered his mouth and mumbled, “Mm. I don’t need my manager telling me what to do. I can make decisions about my own account. I can post right now.”

The more he explained, the more it proved that the matter was not as easy as he claimed.

Artists, especially popular traffic artists, were tied to too many interests and endorsement contracts.

Their every word and action was watched.

The slightest mistake could easily cause trouble.

So the more top-tier a celebrity was, the less freedom they had.

Even their own social media accounts were, most of the time, managed by their managers or assistants. There were dedicated teams to help post on Weibo.

If they occasionally posted something themselves, it still had to go through the team’s review. Only when the team felt it had passed, that there was no issue, that every word was filled with positive energy and would not leave any handle for antis, would they be allowed to post it.

“Your phone was confiscated by your manager, right?” Ye Xingyuan mercilessly exposed Ji Chuxi. “Was even your Weibo account password changed? Now even if you want to log in and post, you can’t, right?”

Ji Chuxi was so angry he hammered the bed and admitted resentfully, “I’m so mad! That woman Zhou Shimei took my phone away and changed all my account passwords. Not just Weibo. Every account I can log into, every account that can prove it’s me, has been hijacked by her!”

The more Ji Chuxi spoke, the angrier he became. Even through the phone, Ye Xingyuan could feel his current fury.

Ye Xingyuan rubbed his brow. “All right. It’s enough that I know you have the intention. But don’t interfere in this matter. I’ll think of a way to resolve it.”

Ji Chuxi was filled with guilt. His eyes reddened, and he asked with a sob in his voice, “How are you going to handle it? Besides me, the person involved, coming out to clarify, what else can you do? Haven’t you seen how horribly they’re cursing you right now? …Forget it, don’t look. Those antis are all mad dogs. They don’t understand you at all. Once they have a keyboard, they start cursing people. So annoying.”

…He had already read through one round.

“Mm, I didn’t look.” Ye Xingyuan lied with his eyes wide open.

Ji Chuxi sniffled. “You really didn’t look?”

“Mm, I didn’t.” Ye Xingyuan continued.

“Why won’t you let me say it? Are you afraid netizens will misunderstand our relationship? Or are you actually afraid Su Luoqing will misunderstand? Do you still like him?” Ji Chuxi asked nonstop.

Ye Xingyuan did not interrupt Ji Chuxi.

He turned on the faucet, wet his hand, rubbed a bit of soap from the side, and blew bubbles with his fingers. After blowing out a beautiful, large, round bubble, he said, “I’m not letting you post because even if you post now, it won’t help. Instead, it’ll just make things messier.”

“I-I’ll make things messier?” Ji Chuxi was so angry he spun in place. “Saying the truth is making things messier?”

“If you tell the truth to people eating melon, who will listen? The melon of truth isn’t sweet. They want to eat something sweet. Blackening me is the sweet melon. The more viciously they blacken me, the sweeter the melon is.” Ye Xingyuan continued calmly, “No one cares what the truth is. They just need an outlet to vent.”

“Then we just let the matter continue fermenting negatively?” Ji Chuxi asked.

“No. I’ll think of a way.” Ye Xingyuan popped the bubble floating in the air.

After the call ended,

Ye Xingyuan threw down his phone and washed his face.

He did not dislike Ji Chuxi.

In the original novel, Ji Chuxi was quite a sharp person. He held grudges easily, but he also disliked owing favors. Whenever something happened, whether good or bad, he was used to settling accounts clearly with the other party.

He repaid kindness and avenged grudges.

His emotions easily rushed to his head, and his temper was especially explosive.

Arrogant and sharp.

His whole body was covered in thorns, yet he happened to be someone whose heart especially lacked love.

As long as someone was sincerely good to him, he would treat that person twice as well in return.

But because of that, in every relationship he experienced, the people he met were all scumbags.

All of Ji Chuxi’s sharpness was a layer of protective coloring. In reality, his heart was both strong and fragile.

When Ji Chuxi was still in swaddling clothes, his biological parents abandoned him at the entrance of an orphanage. It was not until he was six or seven and could remember things that he was adopted by a childless couple.

The adoptive family had no children. When they brought him home, they gave him the warmth of a family. Although their financial situation was average, they treated him especially well.

But good times did not last.

Less than two years later, his adoptive mother became pregnant and gave birth to a female Omega.

After that, Ji Chuxi’s days became much harder.

The gulf of blood severed all the warmth he had received from that family.

Not long after, a talent scout came to their door.

His adoptive parents made the decision on their own and helped him sign with an agency, allowing him to debut and start acting.

Every day, he rushed between filming crews and work schedules. He had no time to study, and his schooling was cut short because of it.

It was only after he became popular and changed to his current agency that his days became slightly better.

At first, Zhou Shimei had even suggested helping him fabricate a fake high-education background, but Ji Chuxi refused.

A low education level was the label of his life.

He could not remove it, nor did he want to.

Fortunately, although his education level was low, his acting was good, and he memorized lines very quickly. Every director who had worked with him appreciated his acting and was willing to continue working with him.

So even though his temper was explosive, his popularity among people in the industry had never been too bad.

In the original plot, because Ji Chuxi competed with the heartthrob Su Luoqing and could not win against the protagonist halo, he ultimately walked toward blackening.

Many readers hated Ji Chuxi after he blackened.

But Ye Xingyuan had never been able to hate this character.

This was also the main reason he was willing to become friends with Ji Chuxi.

…

Ye Xingyuan looked at himself in the mirror.

Water droplets dripped down onto the sink.

He swept his bangs back, revealing his smooth forehead.

When he looked at the mirror again, a pile of white text and data bars floated on it.

It was his mission list.

As more and more people blackened him, and as the hot search cursing him climbed higher and higher, Wish 3 on his mission list became increasingly red.

Originally, he had finally relied on insulting Pei Yanchen to recover a tiny bit of points, but now, because of the hot search, the points had suddenly plunged to -25%.

A quarter of it had turned red all at once.

If the red negative value on the progress bar filled up to 100, then this world would collapse…

Ye Xingyuan opened Weibo and glanced at the hot search.

The hot search had climbed from 27 to 12 and was still rising. The topic’s popularity was getting higher and higher, and by now, it had already broken a hundred million.

The mission progress updated in real time.

At this avalanche-like speed, perhaps in just a few days, he would be able to see the negative value hit one hundred percent.

Ye Xingyuan’s head hurt just looking at it.

He frowned and thought of many rescue plans. In the end, he gritted his teeth, opened Weibo, and logged into his account.

He did not clarify the Weibo post that was blackening him.

He even chose to ignore the comments and private messages from netizens cursing him.

He directly opened the editor and wrote a Weibo post. He also found a picture on his phone to attach, then chose to send it.

After posting on Weibo, Ye Xingyuan directly shut down his phone.

He began isolating himself from the world and hid at home, watching his younger brother do homework.

…

Pei Yanchen had just finished showering and come out, his hair still not dried.

Water droplets clung to his abs, making him look especially sensual and tempting.

A few water droplets were especially mischievous, doing what Ye Xingyuan dreamed of doing and wantonly playing hide-and-seek among Pei Yanchen’s abs.

Pei Yanchen only had a short bath towel tied around his waist.

His perfect figure was completely revealed.

The thick hormonal aura and powerful Alpha abstinent air made him look extraordinarily seductive.

As soon as Pei Yanchen came out, he saw the phone on the bed vibrating nonstop.

He picked it up and glanced at it. There were more than thirty missed calls, all from his assistant, Liu Xiaojun.

Pei Yanchen calmly swiped to answer and turned on speaker.

“Hello?”

“Brother Chen, bad news! Hurry and check Weibo…”

Author’s Note:

Brother Chen, your surprise has been delivered. Please remember to check and receive it.