Chapter 93 p2
Although it had only been three years, every drama that Lu Ze had participated in had become a hit without exception. He himself was also low-key and had strength, and he was already synonymous with a powerful actor outside. Although some people said that he had a backer behind him and the like, since there was no solid evidence, no one had taken it to heart.
Until now.
Because Lu Ze had few appearances, his fans had re-watched every photo of him countless times. It could be said that even with a single strand of hair, they could recognize who it was.
Not to mention that the video was still clear.
And who was the other party? The person in power of the Si Corporation. Although the fans were not too familiar with financial enterprises, they also knew what such a behemoth meant.
For a moment, they didn’t know what to say and what not to say.
Only some haters were clamoring on the internet, saying that Lu Ze, as an idol, was gay, which had a bad influence on his fans. Although the fans’ emotions were complicated, they couldn’t stand seeing their idol being insulted by them, and they started to fight with the haters.
Passersby were watching the show on the side, saying that this was probably the biggest melon of the year, both fragrant and sweet.
The focus on the internet was mostly on Lu Ze being gay and Lu Ze having a backer. It wasn’t until someone found a picture and said with shock:
【A melon-eating chinchilla: I’m just saying in advance that I was just bored and went to search. After all, aren’t there backers who will generously give their little lovers some shares of small companies? But emmm, I don’t understand. Is being kept in the entertainment industry so big now?】
On the picture that the blogger had thrown out, there was a long string of Lu Ze’s name, and behind the name were various companies and their shareholding ratios.
If it were just some small companies, it would naturally be harmless. It could be said that Lu Ze had invested in them himself, or that Si Guiyan had given them to him.
But—
【Let me tell you a joke. Si Guiyan bought 2% of the shares of Fanghong Group and gave them to Lu Ze.】
【Let me tell you a joke. Si Guiyan bought 1% of the shares of Wansen Group and gave them to Lu Ze.】
【Let me tell you a joke, Si Guiyan…】
Fanghong Group, Wansen Group, and the many names that followed were all leading figures in various industries, either old-brand enterprises or new and rising ones. Not to say that they were stronger than the Si Corporation, but in their respective industries, they also had a pivotal position.
As soon as this table came out, Weibo instantly exploded.
【So, what are they playing at?】
To this, Si Guiyan also wanted to know.
Lu Ze had just finished a drama and was resting at home, flipping through a book casually. Si Guiyan held his phone, a half-smile on his face. “Aren’t you going to explain it to me?”
Lu Ze glanced at it casually, tilted his head, and was very innocent. “Hmm?”
Si Guiyan took a deep breath. “When did you do these things?”
Lu Ze sat cross-legged on the sofa, his eyes relaxed. “Didn’t I tell you before that I’ve been doing some investments?”
He had indeed said so. Occasionally in the study, in the company’s office, Si Guiyan would be busy with work, and Lu Ze would have no script on hand, so he would take a few books from his bookshelf to read, most of which were related to finance. When he asked him, he had also said that he was interested in investing in some things.
Seeing that he was interested in learning, Si Guiyan was naturally happy. Not to mention that this was his area of expertise, and he would often teach him by hand, and they had even unlocked a new place…
But Si Guiyan had never expected that Lu Ze’s so-called learning, so-called investment, had already reached this point.
He rubbed his temples, not knowing what to feel in his heart. He just said, “You… how did you do it?”
“Just think of me as being exceptionally talented, Brother Yan,” Lu Ze said with a smile. “Besides, didn’t you teach me all this?”
Si Guiyan was silent for a moment, then said, “Why didn’t I hear you say it?”
“There’s nothing to say. You’re in charge of the Si Corporation, Brother Yan. How can you be interested in these things of mine?” Lu Ze put down the book in his hand, moved closer to him, and his smile was warm. “Besides, if I had said it, wouldn’t you have overthought it, Brother Yan?”
Si Guiyan opened his mouth, at a loss for words for a moment.
Lu Ze narrowed his eyes and moved closer to him. “Hmm? Did you overthink it?”
Si Guiyan turned his head away and pushed his head away, and muttered, “What’s there for me to overthink?”
Although when he had known all this, Si Guiyan did have some complicated feelings. All along, although Si Guiyan did not think that their positions were unequal, because of their age and status, he inevitably regarded Lu Ze as the one who needed more care, and he was even secretly happy about it. At the very least, he still had a place to keep Lu Ze.
But now that the situation had suddenly changed, it was impossible for Si Guiyan not to have complicated feelings. On the one hand, he was proud that the person he had taken a fancy to was so outstanding, and on the other hand, he was also a little uneasy. He was so outstanding. If he were to leave in the future, what reason would he have to keep him?
“You’re still saying you didn’t overthink it?” Lu Ze sighed, turned his face over, and explained seriously, “I’m doing this, on the one hand, to not let you overthink it, and on the other hand, to prove to others that I’m not a canary you’re keeping, and that I don’t have any ability to resist the wind and rain without you.” He pressed his forehead against his forehead and said slowly, “I just want to tell outsiders that I can stand side by side with you, that I have the ability to be with you openly and honestly, and I don’t want them to gossip about the reason why we are together.”
Si Guiyan’s eyelashes moved, and he looked up at him. Lu Ze lowered his head and kissed his lips, and then he smiled. “Looking at you now, Brother Yan, can you have a little more confidence in me?”
Si Guiyan opened his mouth, but he hadn’t spoken yet. Lu Ze added, “Of course, it’s okay if you don’t. I have a solution here.”
Si Guiyan looked at him in confusion. Lu Ze took a step back, took out a box from the gap in the sofa, opened it with both hands, and then handed it to Si Guiyan.
His eyes were smiling, and he tilted his head slightly, and asked with a smile, “Will you marry me, Mr. Si?”
Si Guiyan was in a daze. He looked down at the simple and elegant ring in the black box, and for a moment, his mind was blank, and all his thoughts and distractions disappeared.
He slowly looked up and met Lu Ze’s affectionate gaze, and the corners of his mouth moved slightly.
“Little bastard,” he said in a low voice, and then he couldn’t help but let out a light laugh. “I should have been the first.”
As the older one, he should have been the one to propose.
“But I’ve already beaten you to it,” Lu Ze said with a smile. “Are you going to refuse, Brother Yan?”
How could he refuse? How could he bear to refuse?
Si Guiyan held out his hand and let Lu Ze slowly push the ring onto his middle finger. It wasn’t until it reached the base and the ring was firmly stuck there that the two of them slowly looked up. The moment their gazes met, Si Guiyan couldn’t help but laugh out loud.
“Little bastard.”
Little… Mr.
The online trend was one wave after another, especially after Lu Ze’s identity was exposed, the dispute among netizens had reached a climax.
Normally, with Xingyi’s protective attitude towards Lu Ze, they should have stepped in at this time. After all, it was not impossible to whitewash this matter. It was all a matter of shooting angle or a joke between friends, but up to now, Xingyi had not issued a single announcement, and many haters were gloating.
【It must be that Si Guiyan doesn’t want him anymore. As a company under the Si Corporation, how can Xingyi dare to say anything?】
【I’ve already said it. For a rich family like that, they definitely have to find a young lady from a good family. Can they really be with a man for a long time?】
The haters were having a high time on the internet, but they didn’t expect that the next morning, Lu Ze would post a photo.
On the picture were two clasped hands, with the same ring on their middle fingers. And under the hands was a foreign marriage certificate.
The caption was: Mine.
And he had tagged Si Guiyan’s account.
Netizens all rushed to Si Guiyan’s Weibo to check, and they saw that there was also the same content on that Weibo post, with a picture of their two clasped hands, and the caption: Mine.
【Ahhh, I’m going crazy!】
【I’m also going crazy! Really, I’ve never seen anyone so brave!】
【Has anyone noticed that the registration time on their marriage certificate is 8:40 AM H country time, which is 11:20 AM domestic time! The time they posted on Weibo was 11:21 AM! In other words, the moment they got this marriage certificate! They posted on Weibo!】
【I’m shipping this so hard! I declare that this is my sweetest CP of the year! Wuwuwu, how can it be so sweet…】
Not to mention the online frenzy, the two who had just received their fresh marriage certificates were standing on foreign soil, and regardless of the people who might recognize them coming and going, they were hugging and kissing.
As expected, the taste of being open and aboveboard was the best.
Lu Ze’s public coming out and even marriage had caused a huge uproar, and it had also caused him to lose a lot of fans, but more fans had taken this opportunity to become his fans. For a time, his position had not been shaken, but had become even more stable.
Although many haters said that a gay idol had a bad influence on his fans, the atmosphere in the country had already opened up in this aspect, and Lu Ze had not deliberately marketed his relationship with his husband. In addition, with the identity of the two of them, even if someone reported it, no one would care.
In the past dozen or so years, Lu Ze had maintained a frequency of one or two dramas every year, and he still did not go on variety shows and rarely accepted interviews, but he was still at the top of the entertainment industry, and every work was worth watching repeatedly.
It wasn’t until Si Guiyan was fifty years old that Lu Ze announced his retirement from acting. He had already won all kinds of awards at home and abroad, and he had also played all kinds of roles. Lu Ze believed that he had no regrets, and he wanted to spend more of his remaining life with his lover.
The moment the news came out, countless fans, both young and middle-aged, cried their hearts out, begging him not to retire from the circle, and that it would be fine to release a work every two or three years, but Lu Ze felt that it was enough. He held the first and only fan meeting of his entertainment career, and he sat on the ground with them in the center of the stage, doing nothing, just chatting about ideals, life, the past and the present, thanking them for their support, and also hoping that they would have a better future.
That day, many fans cried, and no one opposed his retirement anymore. They just silently shed tears, thinking that their idol, who had rarely been active before, would probably really disappear after he retired.
But they didn’t expect that the first thing Lu Ze did after he retired was to travel around the world with Si Guiyan, and they went to all the places they had been to and had not been to in these years. During their travels, Lu Ze would occasionally take some photos and upload them to Weibo. Some were scenery photos, and some were portraits, but no matter what time, as long as there was a photo of him, there would definitely be Si Guiyan’s figure.
The netizens finally had some comfort in their hearts and all said that it was a fairy-tale love. They had originally thought that it would be good to be able to see some photos from time to time and to know about their idol’s updates, until one time, Lu Ze’s Weibo prompted him to start a live broadcast. The fans all asked in the comment section if his account had been hacked, but they still clicked into the live broadcast room with some doubt, and what they were met with was Lu Ze’s handsome face that had not changed for decades:
“Hello, everyone.” The Lu Ze in the camera was smiling brightly. The screen was silent for a while, and then it started to scroll crazily. Lu Ze glanced at it and smiled. “It’s past eleven in the domestic time, right? It’s probably lunchtime?”
He flipped the phone camera and said, “It just so happens that I feel that the scenery here is quite beautiful. I’ll show you something to eat with.”
The comments all said that his face was the best thing to eat with. Lu Ze didn’t care and just stood on the top of the mountains, filming the world.
The vast white clouds, the continuous mountain peaks, and the distant and vast scenery below the mountain peaks, as if he were in the divine world, looking down at the human world.
It was quiet and exceptionally sacred.
The comments were speechless for a moment, and their hearts were shocked. Lu Ze turned around, and when he felt that it was about enough, he turned the camera to himself again and waved his hand. “Alright, I’ve shared it with you. You can continue to eat.”
And so, unexpectedly, before the fans could say anything, the live broadcast was turned off.
Before the live broadcast was turned off, they could only vaguely see the tall and big Si Guiyan on the side, looking at Lu Ze with a smile in his eyes.
This scene was remembered by the fans for a long time.
Lu Ze didn’t care how the internet was boiling over. He would just occasionally take photos, start a live broadcast, hold Si Guiyan’s hand, and with him, he would travel to every corner of this world.
In this life, Si Guiyan had exercised more every day and had lived to be eighty-seven years old. Before he left, he looked at Lu Ze, his eyes filled with the same love that had not changed over the years, and also with a deep reluctance. He said, “You should live well, live well for me. I don’t want to see you so soon.”
Lu Ze held his hand and, hearing this, smiled. “You’re being too unreasonable, Brother Yan.” He lowered his head and kissed his hand, and murmured, “Don’t make things difficult for me, Brother Yan. Without you, how can I live well…”
Si Guiyan looked at him, his expression complicated. In the end, he held his hand back, as if he had used up all his strength. After a moment, he slowly let go.
Lu Ze’s action paused, and his eyes lowered, but he smiled. “If you don’t speak, Brother Yan, I’ll take it as you’ve agreed.”
He said in a low voice, “Don’t be in a hurry, Brother Yan. I’m coming to find you.”
777 said with some worry, “Host…”
Lu Ze’s forehead was pressed against his arm, and he said, “Prepare for the next world.”
777: “Yes, Host.”
Lu Ze felt a little tired, not the fatigue of carrying out a mission, but the fatigue of facing the death of his lover every time.
Even though he knew that he would see him again soon, when he really faced that moment, he still couldn’t help but feel sad.
He still had to complete the mission as soon as possible.
Almost without stopping in the system space, after entering the new world at the fastest speed, Lu Ze opened his eyes and saw the densely packed memorials on the table. He looked up into the distance and saw a luxurious and bright yellow decoration, in the style of an ancient palace. He looked down and saw that the chair he was sitting on was carved with a five-clawed golden dragon. His identity was already obvious.
Lu Ze closed his eyes, sorted out the memories in his mind, and then he heard a eunuch’s report from outside. “Your Majesty, Director Yan is requesting an audience.”
Lu Ze’s eyes suddenly opened, and his gaze was on the door, his voice deep. “Let him in.”
