Chapter 12: Killing the Ship
“Daddy!”
“Daddy…”
Yu Weixi groggily opened his eyes, and the first thing he saw was Niangao’s fair little face.
Yu Weixi’s lips curled up slightly. He reached out and hugged Niangao. “What are you doing?”
His voice was still hoarse from just waking up.
“Daddy is sleeping in.” Niangao pointed at the sky outside the window and lectured with a stern face, “You’ll get a spanking.”
Niangao was still wearing his schoolbag. It seemed he was back from school. He had seen his daddy sleeping before he left for school, and when he came back, his daddy was still sleeping.
“Your daddy stayed up all night watching Nuomi.” Yu Weixi pointed proudly at Nuomi in the box. “Nuomi is all better now.”
After a night, the little kitten in the box looked very energetic, tumbling around and playing with a piece of cloth.
“Ah…”
Hearing that his daddy hadn’t slept all night, Niangao immediately put down the reusable bag in his hand and pushed Yu Weixi back down onto the sofa.
“Then Daddy should keep sleeping!”
“I’m not sleeping anymore.” If he slept now, he wouldn’t be able to sleep at night. Yu Weixi sat up, rubbing his eyes, and asked, “What’s in that bag?”
Niangao handed it to Yu Weixi. “Yan-gege gave it to me.”
Yu Weixi raised an eyebrow.
Niangao sat on the sofa, opened the bag, and took out the chiffon cake inside. “This morning when I opened the door to go to school, I ran into Yan-gege!”
“Yan-gege gave me bread, and this is for Daddy.” Niangao put the cake packaging in Yu Weixi’s hands.
Yu Weixi was slightly taken aback.
This morning… was it not a dream?
Whatever, it doesn’t matter if it was or not. It’s impossible anyway.
Yu Weixi stretched, took the cake, and went to wash up.
Today was another day without work. In fact, Yu Weixi was temporarily unemployed until the filming of All-Round Teen Idol began. So, Yu Weixi comfortably curled up on the sofa, eating cake, spending time with his son, and scrolling through his phone.
…Wow.
Yu Weixi logged into Weibo with his side account and found that there was actually a follow-up to the sugar daddy incident.
@EntertainmentGossip: Following the sugar daddy incident, Yu Weixi was photographed in an intimate photo with the newly popular actor Ji Shilin at a hospital. The two are suspected of taking their pet for a check-up together. A sugar daddy or true love, what will Yu Weixi’s choice be? /Thinking/Thinking
@HowCanYouEatBunniesGossip: LinliXiaoyu has secured the villa, FengYu’s house has collapsed! As expected, The Coast’s Solitude is a thing of the past. So much for walking through wind and rain together, my memories of you and me have faded with the wind. Now, I just want to kiss another person in the drizzling rain.
The comments section was a battle royale. The release of this photo was even more explosive than the sugar daddy news. All platforms were in an uproar.
{Take our Yan-ge away! Yu Weixi’s eighty-one scandals have nothing to do with us. No, thank you, really. If you have time to drag us into this, why not pay attention to the new sci-fi special effects movie Sea King? You definitely won’t regret watching it!}
{Fuck, is Contrarian Yu trying to seduce my Lin-ge again?}
{What’s Xixi’s status and what’s your Lin’s status?? How much traffic does Xixi have and how much does your Yan have?? Xixi really doesn’t look down on you guys, stop trying to get under his skirt. Especially a certain little actor who leeched off our Xixi to get famous. Please let our Xixi go, we’re not short of foot-washing maids.}
{A passerby passing by to say, this is too interesting. The cast of All-Idol has been confirmed to include Yu Weixi, right? Then we’ll just have to see if Ji Shilin or Feng Yan goes. Whoever goes is the official partner, is that the concept?}
{Ha! Contrarian little temptress confirmed. Although it’s impossible, can I hope that they both go, and then we get a battle royale between the ex and the current? A battle for the Contrarian?}
{Tsk tsk, don’t let it be that both of them go, but both of them avoid the Contrarian. That would be awkward.}
{A battle royale in your dreams. It’s unlikely that either of them will go, right?}
If the sugar daddy incident was just something for everyone to gossip about, for passersby to watch the show, for haters to maliciously smear, and for fans to passionately fight, then this scandal was different.
—At the very least, it had really made a splash… no, a tsunami.
There were speculations, contempt, people in fan groups telling everyone to calm down and not be led astray, and also people who believed it and performed the act of unstanning.
But for now, the public opinion was more inclined towards—Ji Shilin was pursuing Yu Weixi, Yu Weixi’s attitude had softened and they went on a date together. The FengYu ship’s Super Topic lost a lot of fans, while the LinliXiaoyu ship’s Super Topic gained fans overnight, celebrating like it was the New Year.
Yu Weixi looked at this series of online public opinion performances and found it laughable.
Is it really that serious!
It was just a chance encounter, and we’re already stamped as having slept together??
So noisy.
Yu Weixi didn’t lack dark energy now. He had just caused a scene last night and didn’t want to make a fuss everywhere again today, but the rumor still needed to be clarified.
Yu Weixi called Sister Anna.
“Hello~?”
“…You still have the face to call me, you little brat.”
“Sister Anna, I was wrong, I’ll do it again next time. Sister, can you help me issue a lawyer’s letter?”
There was a pause on Anna’s end, then she replied, “Okay, the company was also thinking of completely dispelling the rumors for you.”
The movie with Yu Weixi and Ji Shilin had already been released and had successfully won the “honor” of the Golden Stinky Tofu. Now that they were involved in a scandal, it wasn’t good for either party. The company naturally had to deal with it.
“But… you really have double standards.” Sister Anna didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. “Before, the scandal with Feng Yan was so big that people were practically forcing you to get married, and you didn’t say a word. But with the others, as soon as there’s a hint of a ship, you quickly nip it in the bud.”
“Nonsense.” Yu Weixi sneered. “I’m going to kill the ship right now.”
“…???”
“You little brat, don’t you dare say anything reckless, you…”
Beep beep—
As expected, he would do it again next time.
Next, Yu Weixi went to their boy band’s WeChat group.
Although the boy band was a group in name only, practically non-existent, and they had all gone their separate ways to develop their careers, the six of them were still on good terms.
YourDaddyDylan: Cubs, get your asses out here.
William: Xixi! Xixi is online! I missed you so much
Yao Xuhe: Consort Xi, I have come to grace you with my presence!
An Yize: What’s wrong, Xixi?
…
A large group of people, except for Yu Han who often visited Yu Weixi, all came online to greet him.
Faced with an enthusiasm that was about to burst out of the screen, Yu Weixi calmly replied.
YourDaddyDylan: Does anyone know how to photoshop?
Yao Xuhe: Me, me, me! I do! Who’s the best at photoshopping? Yao Xuhe from Luoyang, Henan!
YourDaddyDylan: O-fucking-K. Photoshop an intimate photo of Feng Yan and Ji Shilin for me.
Yao Xuhe: …
Yao Xuhe: ????
Are you fucking serious??
Yao Xuhe: Isn’t that a bit much?
YourDaddyDylan: P or not to P? If not, I’ll find someone else.
Yao Xuhe: Fuck, who are you going to find? If this gets out, it’ll be a disaster. I’ll do it for you.
…
Ten minutes later, Dylan Bot was in business.
@DylanLovesToDance_: It was just a chance encounter with Ji Shilin. Anyone who spreads rumors again, I’ll be single for ten years with him.
Then there was an extremely strange picture.
In the picture, Feng Yan and Ji Shilin were watching a movie together. They were sitting side by side, sharing a bucket of popcorn, with the posture of old cadres watching a military parade.
As if afraid that people wouldn’t know their relationship, there was a captivating cartoon heart between them.
Although they looked like a… couple, at least in terms of composition, because their expressions as they looked at the camera were too strange, or rather, the two of them together were too strange, what was clearly a photo of a couple looking at the camera together was turned into a “We are watching you” feeling by the two of them.
As soon as the photo was released, the nationwide impromptu reading comprehension test officially began.
—Netizen contestant 1, suspected to be a Yu Weixi solo stan: I think this is Xixi’s hint, telling everyone to stop mentioning him. He doesn’t like either of them, so just let these two foot-washing maids have each other and not get involved.
—Netizen contestant 2, suspected to be a FengYu shipper: Xixi is definitely angry and jealous! People online are randomly shipping him with a certain someone Ji. The hot-tempered Xixi immediately posted this picture, firstly to hint for Yan-ge to quickly coax him, and secondly to hint that a certain someone Ji is superfluous, insisting on getting involved and making everyone awkward. Xixi is so clever.
—Netizen contestant 3, suspected to be a “passerby”: Isn’t it just Yu Weixi telling everyone not to speculate? It’s all fake.
Yu Weixi was satisfied.
As expected, when it comes to photoshopping skills, Old Yao’s abilities are undeniable, Yu Weixi thought.
It’s truly the essence of it.
Yu Weixi was happy and sent Yao Xuhe a red envelope of 666.
Yao Xuhe: Thank you for the reward, my beloved consort!
YourDaddyDylan: Call me consort again and I’ll kick you out of the group.
Yao Xuhe: Your Majesty, this subject was wrong.
Yu Weixi turned off his phone and got up from the sofa to wash up.
Yu Weixi found it both funny and frustrating. He had to thank the reporter who exposed the sugar daddy story, and Sister Anna probably had to thank the reporter who exposed the Ji Shilin story. The former helped him save Nuomi, and the latter directly covered up the sugar daddy scandal.
Sugar daddy stories happened every month, but the story with Ji Shilin was unusual. They could even write a story about the love-hate relationship between him, Ji Shilin, and Feng Yan, create some kind of school of thought. Who wouldn’t love that?
After Yu Weixi showered and changed, he was drying his hair and watching Niangao play with Nuomi when he got a call.
It was from the apartment security, saying that Yu Weixi’s package had arrived.
“It’s very big.” The security guard asked thoughtfully, “Do you need help carrying it up, sir?”
Yu Weixi thought for a moment and accepted without hesitation.
“Thank you.”
It was only natural that the package was big. After all, he had bought large items like cat litter, a cat bed, a cat tree, and cat food.
It should also be very heavy. It was naturally a good thing if the security guard could help.
Yu Weixi waited for a while, and soon two security guards came to his door with several boxes.
“Is this one mine too?”
Yu Weixi asked as he signed, looking at the small box in the other security guard’s hand.
Yu Weixi had already signed for an extra-large and a medium-sized box, and was a little curious about what was in the small box.
“No, this is that resident’s delivery. We brought it up along the way.” The security guard smiled and pointed to Feng Yan’s door.
Yu Weixi: “…Oh.”
Feng Yan also came out to get his delivery. He looked at Yu Weixi’s setup and didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. “Is the little Dance King preparing to flee?”
“I’m not like you, having to pack up and flee after doing too many guilty things.” Yu Weixi replied smoothly.
After Feng Yan signed, he walked over with a smile. “You have so many things. Let me help you move them in.”
