Second Take On Romance - The A-List Actor Wants Me
Chapter 168 : The BL Lovers Meet-up (2)

Chapter 168: Chapter 168 : The BL Lovers Meet-up (2)

"Colorful Lily, hiiii!!!"

"Little Bean, so nice to see you!"

Shen Dou Dou hugged the owner of the mansion, a rich young lady who did not look like a fujoshi at all.

"And you two are...?"

Colorful Lily looked at Shen Jingwei and Shang Ruohai alternately, visibly confused.

"Oh, this is my elder brother and his friend," Shen Dou Dou quickly answered.

"Are you also BL fans?" Colorful Lily asked again.

"But yes!" Shang Ruohai answered with a bright smile. "We love BLs!"

"In that case, you are more than welcome!"

"Why, thank you! You can call me Blue Sea*. And my friend here is Little Hedgehog."

"..."

"Welcome, Blue Sea! Welcome, Little Hedgehog!"

Colorful Lily led to a vast living room, where around a hundred people of all ages were gathered.

Most of them were women, but the men joined the chat with the same fervor as the latter.

"I love Zhang Fengxi and Xie Jianyu so much," a young woman with curly hair dyed in purple declared.

"Oh, me too!" Shen Dou Dou, the newcomer, quickly chipped into the conversation.

"Which scene do you find most romantic?"

"It gotta be the Winter Solstice scene! When Zhang Fengxi grabbed Xie Jianyu from the air and they spun in the air amindst a thousand floating lanterns!"

The crowd broke into a coordinated, "Awwww!"

"True, true! I love that episode the most!"

"And Xie Jianyu looks so beautiful as an omega too...!"

"Yeah, he should dress as an omega more often!"

Shang Ruohai and Shen Jingwei sat together in the corner, listening to the fans’ chatter while nibbling on cookies.

"Don’t you love it when you manage to captivate the audience with your performance?" Shang Ruohai whispered in a voice so low only Shen Jingwei could hear him.

"I do," Shen Jingwei replied. "It’s my first time hearing such direct compliments. It’s weird, but at the same time enlightening."

Shang Ruohai smiled.

"Believe it or not, this is the kind of gathering you want to join if you want to get honest feedback about your acting. Loyal fans would never tell to your face their honest opinion because they don’t want to hurt your feelings.

Unfortunately, artists of any caliber will only improve through constructive criticism. Whether it’s good or bad, it’s important for us to listen to our audience."

Shen Jingwei nodded.

"I agree."

Sure enough, after the flurry of compliments ended, a storm of criticism erupted.

"Shen Jingwei is good at depicting strong emotions, but his poker face looks somewhat boring."

"Yan Renzhong always looks serious. A total opposite of Zhang Fengxi, who is cheerful and playful in nature."

"Lang Yuxuan does exceedingly well in portraying Liu Wenyuan the snake, though. Sometimes I wonder if he’s the real-life Liu Wenyuan, hahaha..."

Shang Ruohai and Shen Jingwei took note of every comment, good or bad.

It was almost like attending a secret seminar and leaving with a lot of homeworks at the end.

"Thank you for taking us to the gathering, Dou Dou," Shang Ruohai said to Shen Dou Dou before he left. "It was a remarkable experience."

"You are welcome, Your Majesty!" Shen Dou Dou chirped happily while hanging onto Shen Jingwei’s arm. "Let’s stay in touch on WeChat!"

"Sure."

Shang Ruohai winked at the Shen siblings before he got into his car and left.

Afterward, Shen Jingwei took Shen Dou Dou to the train station in the afternoon for the latest train to Nanwu Town.

Two days of rest proved fruitful in recovering Shen Jingwei’s vitality after the unfortunate stabbing incident.

He was more than ready to engage in various activities afterward.

Although everyone did their best to keep quiet about the matter, people still ended up finding out.

A barrage of text messages and calls flooded Shen Jingwei.

The nicest one came from Lin Ruoye, "Senior Shen, are you alright? I am sending a fruit basket your way today! Please kindly accept it!"

The most frantic one came from Feng Jietang, "Little Shen, who stabbed you? Just give me a name, I am going to take care of that person!"

And lastly, the most furious one came from his boyfriend, Yan Renzhong.

"Why didn’t you tell me that you got stabbed? I am coming back this second to take you to the hospital!"

Shen Jingwei, who was in the middle of taking a commercial shooting break, almost choked on his water.

"No need!" He wrote back to Yan Renzhong hastily. "I was stabbed with a needle, not a sword! The wound is far from life-threatening! Please rest assured and do your work properly!"

The text message never arrived. Shen Jingwei sighed throughout the remaining shooting period, baffling his manager.

"What’s wrong, Little Shen?"

"Nothing."

"Then why are you sighing the entire afternoon?"

"Because a demon king is about to land."

"...???"

Said demon king made his appearance late that evening, just as Shen Jingwei and Zhu Dongyi got ready to leave the shooting site.

Zhu Dongyi’s jaw fell open when he saw Yan Renzhong’s car at the parking lot, right next to his.

Wen Guilin stepped out of Yan Renzhong’s car with a fake smile across her face.

"Little Shen, Manager Zhu! Long time no see! Good job today! Manager Zhu, we have a lot of things to talk about! Little Yan can take Little Shen home!"

Zhu Dongyi, who was being dragged away by Wen Guilin, just had to throw a concerned look at Shen Jingwei, who stood frozen on the spot.

"But Little Shen, he..."

"Don’t worry about him! Let’s go let’s go!"

If they did not disappear fast enough, they were going to regret it for sure.

Discarded and left behind, Shen Jingwei gingerly opened the car’s door and slipped inside.

Yan Renzhong sat in the driver’s seat, his finger drumming impatiently against the steering wheel.

He did not look happy at all.

"Why must you put yourself in dangerous situation whenever I am absent?"

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Author’s note :

*The "hai" from Shang Ruohai means sea. But the "wei" from Shen Jingwei does not mean "hedgehog". Shang Ruohai is merely teasing Shen Jingwei here because the latter is very stubborn.