How Did the Top-Tier Male Lead Fall in Love With Me? 35

Chapter 35

Shen Wu: “…”

Who else would be in a ‘chasing his wife to the crematorium’ scenario if not Meng Huaizhi? He actually let their CP Super Topic ferment freely.

Shen Wu complained in his heart as he opened the “Wuye Shuhuai” Super Topic.

Some of the CP fans’ sugar-digging remarks seemed ridiculous even to the person involved. It was mainly because Meng Huaizhi’s personality was too cold. It was rare for him to look at someone properly, and even a concerned glance at his younger brother could be interpreted as deep affection.

Maybe it’s because this is the first time Meng Huaizhi has been shipped with a male, so he didn’t pay much attention to it.

Shen Wu didn’t bother with it either.

The following week, the edited version of the second episode of Wonderful Adventure was broadcast.

After the live broadcast ended that day, Shen Wu and Meng Huaizhi stayed for another two hours and filmed an extra short play to reveal Meng Huaizhi’s “secret.”

After the main part of the recorded version ended, this short play followed.

After watching the main part, most of the audience chose to stay and continue watching when they saw Shen Wu appear again. They also called their friends to watch this new plot.

The number of viewers for the recorded version was rising steadily.

In the picture.

Even the well-traveled bank scion Shen Wu had never seen such a luxurious residence as Mr. Lu’s private mansion.

This amazement translated into his actions, and he became a bit more careful. He didn’t dare to look around and knocked on the door a few times before pushing it open and entering.

The huge reception hall was also unfamiliar to him. He slowly turned his head, and his gaze suddenly stopped when it landed on the other side of the long table.

After confirming that he was not hallucinating, his cautious eyes lit up. He closed the door behind him and quickly trotted over.

Opposite the table was Meng Huaizhi in a light gray tailcoat.

Compared to surprise, he was more astonished than Shen Wu. The movement of pushing up his gold-rimmed glasses was extremely slow. After a long while, he finally composed himself and said as calmly as possible, “…What are you doing here?”

“I should be asking you, Huaizhi-ge, what are you doing here?” Shen Wu sat down in the seat next to him with a carefree air, his tone light. “That’s great. I’m glad you’re here. I’m much more relieved now.”

“I was invited by Mr. Lu of the Miu Miu Group,” Meng Huaizhi said.

At this moment, Shen Wu still hadn’t noticed anything unusual and had a bit of a young man’s simplicity and optimism. “Is it about the inheritance? But why would he invite you… you wouldn’t accept a private invitation for a musical performance, would you?”

“He invited me because,” the emotion in Meng Huaizhi’s dark eyes became more obvious, but it was so complex that it was hard to tell, “…I found out not long ago that I am his illegitimate son.”

Shen Wu froze on the spot.

The shock was overwhelming, so much so that his eyes couldn’t contain it, and his hands also started to tremble slightly. “…What?”

Meng Huaizhi thought to himself that it was indeed so. In his complex eyes, there was a kind of helpless relief. “Are you too? So, you’re not Mr. Shen’s biological son.”

Shen Wu shot to his feet. “That’s impossible!”

However, his momentum only lasted for a moment. The next “impossible” was weak and feeble due to disbelief.

He sat down dejectedly and ran his hands through his hair. “This is impossible… how could it be?”

Meng Huaizhi watched him silently, his ink-black eyes as if they were filled with a thousand words.

Shen Wu covered his face, his voice muffled and filled with resentment, “I was still waiting for you to come and get back together with me… Do you know how happy I was when I saw you just now?”

This line from Shen Wu instantly exploded a screen full of bullet comments.

[????? What?]

[Holy crap, what?? So they’re a couple??]

[Correction, the roles they’re playing are a couple…]

[Crap, this is so explosive. What kind of script is this where lovers end up as brothers?]

[?????]

This overly shocking, ridiculous, yet reasonable plot exploded the trending list on the night the recorded version was released.

The “Wuye Shuhuai” CP Super Topic already had tens of thousands of people, and every day there were talented fans passionately producing content. But when it came to being playful, they had to bow down to the Wonderful Adventure show team.

The material of “lovers end up as brothers” was immediately moved to the Super Topic, and various masters showed their skills, and the speed of the “car” was unstoppable.

Back to the show.

“So… you’re my half-brother?” Shen Wu released his hands from his face and looked at the person next to him with red eyes.

Meng Huaizhi’s eyelids were lowered, his voice extremely faint, “Mm.”

He also found it hard to accept this, but his personality was much more reserved than the younger Shen Wu.

However, the huge hidden pain brought by this matter was as if it were real, tightly gripping his throat.

The reception hall was dead silent. The former lovers, with lingering feelings, were struggling to digest the fact that they were related by blood.

Just then, the faint sound of footsteps came from outside the door.

Shen Wu wiped the corner of his eye, composed himself, and said hoarsely, “I’ll sit over there.”

He propped himself up on the table and managed to stand up. He turned around and said again, “Don’t let them know that we…”

His words stopped abruptly.

The picture froze into a yellowed old photo, and darkness encroached from the four corners, and the main picture returned to darkness.

The short play ended here, followed by a backstage interview video recorded on the same day after everyone had chosen their roles.

The reactions of everyone after learning their secrets were shown one by one. Lin Yanran was the most excited. She had actually gotten a swindler script that looked like a main character!

She was full of confidence, but unfortunately, the naive girl at that time had no idea that she would be the first to be eliminated.

Finally, it was Meng Huaizhi and Shen Wu.

When Meng Huaizhi saw the secret, his face immediately darkened. Fang Ci, seeing this, remembered that he had promised Meng Huaizhi not to create any CP hype in the variety show and felt inexplicably guilty.

“These secrets were all prepared in advance and tied to the roles. Who knew you would choose the musician?”

The bullet screen mercilessly exposed Fang Ci’s excuse.

[It would be strange if Huai-ge didn’t choose the musician.]

[The role of the musician was clearly tailor-made for Huai-ge. You have to play the piano to use the ability. Besides him, no one else among the guests can, right?]

[Although Huai-ge doesn’t look very happy, I’m on Director Fang’s side this time, hahaha.]

[Protect our Director Fang.]

[Support Director Fang, you are the god of Wuye Shuhuai!!!]

Meng Huaizhi naturally did not believe Fang Ci’s nonsense. “What immoral love… with whom?”

“I can’t tell you that,” Fang Ci said. Seeing that Meng Huaizhi seemed to be about to say that he would quit the show in the next second, he quickly tried to remedy the situation, “Don’t worry, don’t worry, I won’t let you be shipped with any messy people.”

Fang Ci did not give any hint about Shen Wu, and Meng Huaizhi did not continue to think of the “immoral love” as being between siblings. He just thought that the object of this immoral love might be some fictional NPC.

However, the last two sentences Fang Ci had used to win Meng Huaizhi back were all edited out. After Meng Huaizhi asked, “Who is my former lover?” the screen switched to the last guest, Shen Wu.

Shen Wu also asked the same question, but out of curiosity.

Fang Ci had finally regained his dignity as a director and said coldly and ruthlessly, “No comment.”

“Alright,” Shen Wu looked at his secret card again. “It seems quite interesting…”

But I can’t let Meng Huaizhi know.

Even though it was a recorded video, the bullet screen was constantly refreshing, and the interaction was no less than a live broadcast.

[I get it. Although the plot sets them up as a couple, they only found out that their lover was the other person after the game was over. No wonder they were so secretive during the live broadcast, hahaha.]

[Now that I think back, why does it feel like something is not right everywhere? It seems that they were not on guard against each other, but… guilty?]

[To the sister in front, you’re not wrong. The “Wuye Shuhuai” Super Topic welcomes you (doge).]

[Ahhh, so cute and so sweet.]

[A two-way arrow is the best, wuwuwu.]

On the night the highlights version was broadcast, at the Shen family.

Xu Qiongya hugged a pillow and projected her son’s variety show on a 32-inch LCD TV. The corners of her mouth had not come down, and her face was tired from smiling.

Shen Ping passed by and casually glanced at the close-up of Shen Wu on the TV screen.

When Xu Qiongya saw him, she subconsciously picked up the remote control and said carefully, “Did I disturb you?”

“No,” Shen Ping smiled gently. “I’m not busy. You can watch.”

Shen Ping sometimes worked from home, and Xu Qiongya would try her best to avoid disturbing him. But tonight happened to be the update of the second episode of Wonderful Adventure, and she really wanted to watch it on the big screen.

Hearing Shen Ping say that he was free, she immediately invited him, “Then let’s watch it together. It’s a variety show with Wuwu and Huaizhi.”

Shen Ping sat down at the other end of the sofa, his expression faint, as if he was not very interested, but not annoyed either.

Xu Qiongya then enthusiastically struck up a conversation with him, “Did you watch last week’s live broadcast?”

“No, I didn’t have time that day.”

“Then let’s watch the highlights version together.”

Xu Qiongya thoughtfully rewound the video and started watching from the beginning with Shen Ping.

The opening of the recorded version was the same as the live broadcast. The six guests sat around a table, and one by one, they explained the story.

The first time Shen Wu appeared in the picture, it was with this sentence, “If it weren’t for this old man, my dad wouldn’t have disowned me.”

Xu Qiongya: “…” I was too excited just now and forgot about this.

Shen Ping’s expression flickered, and he sat up straight.

Shen Wu’s sentence was still a bit vague, but the next line from Nan Deng completely exposed this shameful secret, “You’re not Mr. Shen’s biological son in the first place…”

Shen Ping said faintly, “So, Xiao Wu is playing the role of the illegitimate son of Mr. Lu of the Miu Miu Group, not the son of the banker, Mr. Shen.”

Although these were all from the script, and Mr. Shen referred to that fictional banker, definitely not Shen Tianheng, Shen Wu’s relationship with his father was tense, so Xu Qiongya had to say one more thing, “You’d better not tell your dad, otherwise the two of them will fight again. Tianheng is also, he’s so easy to make a big deal out of a small thing.”

Shen Ping lowered his eyes, “He probably already knows. On the day of the live broadcast last Saturday, he was very angry at the company.”

Xu Qiongya sighed, “Ai, this is really…”

Shen Ping glanced at her faintly, then lowered his eyes, hiding all his emotions.

In his eyes, Shen Tianheng clearly cared about his youngest son, Shen Wu, very much. He had high expectations for him and was never willing to give up on him. That was why he was so strict with him, hating that iron could not become steel.

It was just that his way of expressing his care was clearly wrong, and instead, he pushed his beloved son further and further away.

Xu Qiongya could not have failed to see Shen Tianheng’s care, but she was still worried about the relationship between the father and son, fearing that Shen Wu, who had run away from home, was not living well and was being wronged.

It was all because she was Shen Wu’s biological mother.

Just as Shen Ping was thinking of an excuse to leave, the show on the TV was still going on. The six guests split up, and Shen Wu found Meng Huaizhi.

Then, he called him “gege.”

The almost perfect mask on Shen Ping’s face suddenly cracked.

Xu Qiongya’s intuition was always very sharp. Whether intentionally or unintentionally, she explained to Shen Ping, “The roles they’re playing are half-brothers.”

In the later part of the show, Shen Wu would call him gege almost every time, but when others were present, he would change it to “Teacher Meng” as if to cover up something.

His “gege” was only for Meng Huaizhi.

But he seemed to have forgotten that, besides avoiding the other guests, there was still a camera staring at him, which would record his every word and action and present it to hundreds of millions of viewers.

And that included Shen Ping.

The former owner of the address “gege.”

For the next few days, Shen Wu was very busy, working two shifts between the film set and the racing team.

Wen Qionghua had to direct the performance of the entire crew and was even busier than him. It was only during lunch that he had time to watch Wonderful Adventure while eating.

Fang Ci also came, and the two of them watched the second episode together, giving their opinions.

Shen Wu came to deliver something. The moment he opened the door of the RV, the scene replayed. Fang Ci was actually sitting in Wen Qionghua’s car again.

“Director Fang, you’re here,” after participating in two episodes, he had changed the address he had learned from Meng Huaizhi.

“Ah,” Fang Ci smiled. “Are you busy now? Do you want to come and watch with us?”

Shen Wu thought the two of them had something private to talk about and was about to turn and leave to avoid suspicion. Hearing Fang Ci’s words, he glanced at the iPad on the table.

—”Form an alliance with me, gege.”

That sentence happened to be playing. The feeling of hearing his own voice from the video was quite strange, and the two directors had even turned on the speaker.

Shen Wu: “…” He was so embarrassed that he wanted to dig a hole with his toes.

“I still have to go back and read the script. I’ll be going now,” he quickly said his goodbyes.

After Shen Wu left, the two directors stubbornly watched the two-hour video to the end. When they got to the short play at the end, Wen Qionghua turned up the volume a little.

He said to Fang Ci with a mix of helplessness and envy, “This kid… how come he performs better in this exaggerated short play in a variety show than on the film set?”

Fang Ci covered his lips and smiled as he sipped his tea.

Everything was understood without words.

Shen Wu was not entirely making an excuse to run away. He really did go back to read the script. He had no acting experience, and in order not to disappoint Wen Qionghua’s expectations, he had to work twice as hard, breaking up his time to use.

He was so engrossed in his reading that the lollipop in his mouth did not move for a long time.

He was also oblivious to the people who were coming and going and sizing him up.

The phone in his pocket suddenly vibrated.

He took out his phone and saw that it was a message from Shen Ping.

Ge: Are you on the set now? I’m coming to visit and bring you something to eat.

He stared at his phone silently, the white plastic stick of the lollipop moving from the left corner of his mouth to the right.

After a long while, he finally replied.

On the other side, Shen Ping had been staring at the screen. After waiting for a long time, three messages flashed in succession.

Xiao Wu: I’m not on the set, I’m at the racing team.

Xiao Wu: I’m so busy today, I might not have time to receive you. Next time.

Xiao Wu: Thanks, Ge!

As an older brother who was eight years older than Shen Wu, Shen Ping had often helped Shen Wu deal with various troubles since childhood. Shen Wu, who was arrogant and domineering in front of Shen Tianheng, was always well-behaved and polite in front of him.

After he had troubled him, Shen Wu would usually say thank you.

This thank you did not seem distant, because Shen Wu would always smile, his peach blossom eyes filled with a moving light.

This time, he had not done anything yet, had not even seen Shen Wu in person, and Shen Wu had already thanked him.

He found that he could not imagine that familiar smile from this sentence.

Especially when he saw Shen Wu in the distance suddenly stand up, walk a few steps, and then throw the lollipop in his mouth into the trash can.

It was as if he had thrown away his trust and reliance on him.