Translator: ChuRen/ YuQiChen
The steaming hot and sour noodles were placed in front of Yan Shu.
The shop owner, with a regional accent, curiously asked, “Aren’t you two together? Why aren’t you sitting at the same table?”
Yan Shu waved his hand, “We’re not together, I don’t know that gentleman… I mean, that man.”
Despite inheriting the memories of the original owner and diligently learning about the customs and rules of this world every day, Yan Shu would still subconsciously speak in the same manner as before due to the short time he had been here.
He hadn’t really had a proper conversation with modern people, other than saying “Hmm” and “Oh”, or pointing at the menu when ordering food, and simply following the instructions of his manager and teammates.
Thus, the longest sentence Yan Shu had spoken these days was the words of gratitude he had just expressed to the generous and handsome gentleman.
After hearing Yan Shu’s response, the shop owner smiled awkwardly, said “Sorry, enjoy your meal,” and went back to being busy.
Yan Shu had been hungry for a while, and he had been waiting for that mouthful of hot and sour noodles.
He picked up the chopsticks, gave it a quick stir, and immediately started eating.
Spicy and piping hot, oh, so refreshing.
Not far away, Wei Tingxiao could see Yan Shu, and the conversation between him and the shop owner was not quiet. Pretending not to hear was difficult.
As one of the most popular actors in recent years, the youngest double movie emperor1basically he won it twice, and the most commercially valuable male artist, Wei Tingxiao had numerous accolades. Though he wasn’t conceited enough to feel that he should be recognised by everyone on the street, according to online data, almost all of the younger generation knew him.
His posters were now everywhere—bus stops, subway station entrances, various large commercial plazas, to the extent that you could see his face almost everywhere you went.
Wei Tingxiao had come out today privately, without any assistants. If recognized by passersby, it would definitely cause quite a stir.
When Yan Shu had followed him earlier, Wei Tingxiao thought he might be recognized.
But to his surprise, Yan Shu didn’t pursue it at all, simply accepting the bowl of hot and sour noodles he had given him for free, and honestly telling the shop owner that he didn’t know him.
Wei Tingxiao couldn’t help but smile inexplicably, finding this young boy quite interesting, and he couldn’t help but take a few more glances.
With one glance, he caught sight of the boy sticking out his tongue repeatedly due to the spiciness.
The red tongue would stick out and retract, his lips covered in chili oil, a bit of sweat on his forehead, his eyes watery, on the verge of tears from the spiciness but holding back.
Despite his difficulty in eating, he continued picking up noodles with his chopsticks, struggling yet enjoying it, as though combating poison with poison.
This appearance was… unexpectedly alluring.
Wei Tingxiao lowered his head to look at the clear soup dumplings in his bowl, suddenly losing his appetite.
He got up and walked over to the shop owner, lowering his voice slightly and discreetly pointing to the back, “Boss, give me a bowl like his, same level of spiciness.”
When Wei Tingxiao ate the same hot and sour noodles as the boy, he didn’t find it too spicy; instead, he found it quite addictive. After finishing the meal, he still felt a lingering sour and spicy taste on his lips and tongue.
Looking back at the boy, his nose was red from the spiciness, wiping the sweat off his forehead with a tissue.
Unlike himself, who usually ate quickly, the boy ate slowly and politely throughout the meal, picking up only one or two noodles at a time and eating them delicately.
Even though Wei Tingxiao’s later serving of hot and sour noodles had been finished, the boy was still eating his.
A slight smile couldn’t help but appear at the corner of Wei Tingxiao’s mouth.
The restless emotions in his heart seemed to have quietly dissipated this evening.
Just then, his phone vibrated, and his manager Luo Hui called.
“Ancestor, are you eating noodles at Yuanlin Street?”
Wei Tingxiao: “…”
“If you don’t leave soon, you’ll be trending! A passerby took a picture and posted it online. I have people watching Weibo! Big brother2Big boss bro. Not really related big brother kinda big brother, do you have no idea of your popularity?”
Wei Tingxiao got up to leave, adjusting his cap with one hand, “Have Xiao Lin come pick me up.”
“He’s been on his way for a while now, he should be arriving soon.” Luo Hui had foreseen this and instructed the assistant to follow this master at all times.
As he was on the call, Wei Tingxiao saw the familiar silhouette of a car in the distance. Just as he hung up the phone, a sudden force hit his back.
“Ugh.” A muffled grunt came from behind, followed by a quick, “Sorry.”
Before Wei Tingxiao could react, the warmth behind him quickly dissipated.
Turning around, he saw the boy who had been eating the hot and sour noodles earlier, covering his nose and looking at him with watery eyes, as if he had been wronged.
Wei Tingxiao had noticed the small step at the entrance of this shop earlier; it was easy to trip over if one wasn’t careful.
Honk Honk—
The sound of a car horn resonated from five meters away, and Wei Tingxiao noticed that passersby around had already started paying attention to him, leaving no time to say much to Yan Shu.
He left with just one sentence, “If it’s too spicy, drink some milk.”
Yan Shu suddenly looked up, his almond-shaped eyes slightly widened, only to see the person swiftly leaving the snack shop and getting into a black car.
On his way back, Yan Shu passed by a supermarket and bought a small carton of milk with the remaining four yuan and five cents.
Inserting a straw and taking a sip, Yan Shu felt his entire head clear up instantly.
It seemed he had indeed been a bit dazed from the spiciness earlier, even failing to see the path clearly, losing his composure in front of that gentleman…
As he walked to the bottom of the company dormitory building, Yan Shu belatedly halted, “How did he know I found it too spicy?”
Touching his slightly numb lips, he wondered, “Is it that obvious…”
Most likely, they were swollen from the spiciness.
Yan Shu felt an inexplicable sense of embarrassment rising in his heart.
However, this embarrassment was shattered by the words coming from inside the dormitory door.
“What does Yan Shu mean? He thinks that deliberately messing up on stage, embarrassing himself, only affects him?!”
The speaker’s emotions seemed a bit agitated, and Yan Shu outside the door could clearly hear. He had initially reached out to push the door open but discreetly withdrew his hand.
“I don’t understand why you’re stopping me from scolding him. Each of you goes to console him. He’s an adult! What’s there to console about? If you make a mistake, you make a mistake!”
“Guan Shuo, calm down.” Group Leader Yu Chenzhou intervened.
“Why should I calm down? Don’t forget why we’re here? We’re not here to play around. For our dreams, we worked so hard in practice for the first three years! Isn’t it to showcase our skills on stage after debut?”
“Guan Shuo, I understand what you mean, but…”
Guan Shuo interrupted, continuing, “Now that we’ve finally debuted, it’s only been a year, and he hasn’t even found his footing yet. Some people have started to slack off. Can you dare say that Yan Shu’s behavior these days isn’t hindering us?”
“If there’s a problem, Leader Yu, you would be responsible for it. We’re all working so hard to help him, and he’s just playing us for fools.”
“Yes, he has a good face, he can still act even if he doesn’t stay in the group, following the company’s arrangements, there will be a day for him to shine. The rest of us don’t follow his path, we can’t afford to be delayed by him.”
“If we knew it would turn out like this, we shouldn’t have agreed to Wang Shigang accepting him into the group in the first place!”
“Guan Shuo, that’s enough!” Yu Chenzhou shouted, “Are you going crazy?”
Song Shi’an stepped forward and put his hand on Guan Shuo’s shoulder, “Xiao Shuo3Little Shuo, one of the ways to refer to someone younger is to add the word Xiao in front, which means little, what you said just now was too much.”
Separated by a door panel, Yan Shu felt slightly stunned.
The next moment, the dormitory door was suddenly pulled open from the inside, startling Yan Shu to the point that his pupils contracted.
Everyone’s eyes were on him, and the room fell silent.
This was the second time today that Yan Shu had experienced embarrassment.
Eavesdropping on his teammates’ conversation, then being caught, and to top it off… the central topic of discussion was himself.
Guan Shuo was the one who opened the door, he hesitated for only two seconds, then quickly resumed his displeased expression, walked out of the dormitory indignantly, and as he passed by Yan Shu, he deliberately bumped into his shoulder.
Yan Shu was pushed to the side by the impact, watching Guan Shuo’s angry figure, he could only remain silent.
He imagined that if it were himself and his buddies who had worked hard to prepare for a performance, only to mess it up, he surely wouldn’t be in a good mood either.
Yan Shu could particularly understand Guan Shuo’s feelings, and he had no way to refute his accusations.
He couldn’t just blurt out that he had crossed over from another time and had no idea how to sing or dance, right?
According to the memories left by the original owner, the original SAP boy group was supposed to debut with four members. These four buddies had been trainees at the company for three years, enduring monotonous and hard practices every day, undergoing various training sessions by the company.
However, in the second year of their trainee period, “Yan Shu” arrived, forcefully inserted into the already well-established group by the manager Wang Shigang.
At first, they were extremely incompatible, “Yan Shu” was a complete novice, but after two years of intense training, he gradually caught up with everyone’s pace.
In other words, except for “Yan Shu”, who had only trained for two years, everyone else had trained for three years. After their debut, SAP had been lukewarm4so in other words they are a “nugu” group.
Now, a year after their debut, there seemed to be signs of the group gaining momentum.
But at this critical moment, the Ge’er from ancient times, Yan Shu dropped from the sky.
Like a bucket of cold water, extinguishing the just-rising flame.
As a boy group, they rose and fell together, they were a team, they needed unity, and any stage performance required everyone to be on point.
Yan Shu felt that his arrival couldn’t have come at a worse time, just as they were starting to get the hang of things in their performances.
Who wouldn’t be stunned if they were in his place? In that moment, he was still doubting the reality of the world…
“Xiao Yan, you… you’re back, I was about to go find you, that… Guan Shuo, he’s just sharp-tongued, he doesn’t mean it that way, don’t take it to heart.” Group Leader Yu Chenzhou was the first to speak, breaking the silence.
On the side, Song Shi’an immediately comforted, “Xiao Shuo has been a bit touchy lately, don’t mind him, why are you dressed so lightly when you went out? Aren’t you cold? Come in quickly and warm up.”
After being pulled inside by Song Shi’an, You Qi suddenly emerged from behind, almost hanging on Yan Shu, pressing him down slightly.
You Qi was a year older than Yan Shu, with a particularly sunny and cheerful personality, sporting a head of short golden hair.
Whispering in Yan Shu’s ear, he said, “Don’t be angry, Xiao Yan, we’ll beat up Guan Shuo later for you, hehe.”
“Xiao You, come down, you’re almost suffocating him.” Yu Chenzhou, being the oldest brother in the group, was a true “male nanny”.
In his eyes, the other four were like younger brothers, each having their own childish side that he needed to take care of.
Song Shi’an was a bit more mature, and the various matters in the group weren’t solely Yu Chenzhou’s responsibility.
With their different personalities, these years of living together had fostered understanding and a bond among them.
Although Guan Shuo was usually sharp-tongued, this was the first time he had said something as heavy as today.
Yu Chenzhou understood Guan Shuo’s temperament too well, straightforward yet easily impulsive.
Just wait, this guy will definitely regret what he said today.
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