He Wanted to Steal My Boyfriend

If he could not win his heart, then he would control him completely.

According to the Divine Book, Gu Shiyan was supposed to be taken to a dinner by Li Yu under the pretense of introducing him to resources. They would get him drunk and try to send him to some big-shot investor.

The greasy, indiscriminate investors had all brought companions. Once they got drunk and lust took over, they would pull out their guns and get right to it in the private room.

The "me" in the Divine Book appeared at that moment. Unable to stand such chaos, he secretly reported them to the vice squad, and everyone present was arrested.

One big shot who had wanted to make a move on Gu Shiyan was interrupted by the police before he could succeed. When the group was escorted into police cars by the vice squad, they were photographed—including the unconscious, disheveled Gu Shiyan.

Gu Shiyan was the victim, but unscrupulous paparazzi maliciously speculated in order to be the first to report the news, claiming that Gu Shiyan had accepted a big shot's unspoken rules in exchange for resources.

By the time Gu Shiyan woke up, the internet was already in an uproar. Although the police immediately issued a statement clearing his name after their investigation, netizens led astray by paparazzi and gossip accounts launched into a frenzy, wantonly insulting and cyberbullying Gu Shiyan until his reputation was utterly ruined.

The "me" in the Divine Book appeared by Gu Shiyan's side at that time. He did not regret reporting the vice squad, only felt guilty for dragging Gu Shiyan into it and hurting him.

When Gu Shiyan was at his lowest, the "me" in the Divine Book resolutely stayed by his side, encouraged him, and helped him climb out of his predicament step by step.

It was under those circumstances that feelings quietly blossomed between them, and Gu Shiyan became a loyal dog willing to give his life for "me."

Zhang Yang had interfered, directly escalating the situation.

He had wanted to use Li Yu and the others to get Gu Shiyan hooked on something, then secretly take him away under the cover of the gathering of guests next door.

Once Gu Shiyan became addicted, Zhang Yang would be the only person by his side he could trust and rely on for help. Even if "I" appeared according to the Divine Book's plot, Zhang Yang would have already gotten there first.

It was all dog training. It made no difference what state he turned Gu Shiyan into.

What Zhang Yang wanted was boundless power and wealth—to become someone above everyone else.

As long as he held tightly onto Gu Shiyan, he had a chance of achieving his goal. There was no way he would let him go.

But though he had arranged and planned everything, he had never expected Gu Shiyan not to follow his plan.

Gu Shiyan had not gone to the private room next door, had not gotten hooked on anything, and before Zhang Yang even had time to give him another push, the police swarmed in and completely ruined his plan.

This was wrong!

Zhang Yang was frantic with rage, yet he could not figure out where things had gone wrong.

The only good news was that although his plan had failed and events had deviated from course, "I" had not appeared either.

That meant the events in the Divine Book could be changed. He still had a chance!

After ending his call with Gu Shiyan, Chu Tian pondered for a long while. No matter how he thought about it, Zhang Yang seemed strange from head to toe.

With Zhang Yang as an unpredictable variable, there was no telling what impact he would have on the plot to come.

Chu Tian ranked Zhang Yang's danger level at the highest tier and decided to classify him as someone requiring long-term observation.

Once he made up his mind, Chu Tian immediately contacted Little Huang and told him to have someone watch Zhang Yang's every move, while taking care not to alert him.

Afterward, Chu Tian thought for a moment and checked in on his agent, who had been missing for days.

As for Wu Hui, the agent in question, he had only been idle for two days before his anticipated retirement lifestyle vanished into thin air. He was now so busy cleaning up after the second young master of the Chu family that his feet barely touched the ground.

The rights to Nine Provinces Sword had to be secured, someone had to be found to rewrite the script, and a production team still needed to be assembled.

Before he could untangle that mess, Chu Tian had thrown another huge task at him: they had to acquire Soul Shocker as well.

What, did the young master think being an artist was not challenging enough and decide to throw money around as an investor instead?

When Chu Tian saw Wu Hui's resentful message, he felt guilty for a second.

[Chu Tian: Didn't my brother say the company recently hired a whole bunch of new people? Just delegate the little things to someone else, Brother Hui.]

Wu Hui widened his eyes and took a deep breath. The young master made it sound easy, but coordinating and assigning work was exhausting too.

He was only an agent. Why was he doing operations and management work now? Was this a distortion of human nature or a collapse of morality?

Chu Tian sweet-talked Wu Hui for quite a while before finally soothing him.

[Wu Hui: Go on. What do you need from me?]

Chu Tian silently praised his sharpness and stopped beating around the bush.

[Chu Tian: Back when Zhang Yang was a child actor, it seems he was in the same company as you, Brother Hui. Do you know much about him?]

After Chu Tian sent the question, he saw the status in the upper-left corner change to "typing." Yet he waited several full minutes before Wu Hui finally sent back a lengthy reply, practically a mini-essay.

[Wu Hui: Zhang Yang's background is complicated. I heard he was originally the Zhang family's illegitimate son. His mother wanted to use her son to marry into the family, so she deliberately sent Zhang Yang into the industry as a child actor. Her goal was for him to gain fame so she would have more leverage to threaten the Zhang family.

There was something wrong with his mother mentally. She was obsessive and extreme. To achieve her goal, she would not let Zhang Yang attend school, forcing him to shuttle between several production crews from dawn until night. She also frequently posted photos and videos of him online, building hype around him.

After Zhang Yang's projects gradually aired and he became famous, his mother used the opportunity to threaten Father Zhang. If he did not divorce his wife and marry her, she would reveal Zhang Yang's identity and ruin Father Zhang's reputation.

Father Zhang and his wife had a business marriage with shared interests, so divorce was impossible. Once his wife learned of this, she decided to bring Zhang Yang into the Zhang family. Meanwhile, Father Zhang set Zhang Yang's mother up for fraud and sent her straight to prison.

Zhang Yang's mother already had psychological problems. Not long after she was sentenced, she completely lost her mind and was transferred from prison to a sanatorium, where she has remained ever since. Father Zhang's wife was formidable too. On the surface, she generously accepted and raised Zhang Yang, but in reality, she still threw him into the cesspool of the entertainment industry to struggle on his own. He did not even finish his nine years of compulsory education.

Zhang Yang was mocked by haters for his low education level, so in order to polish his image, he announced his retirement from the industry and went abroad to study.

That is all information you can find on the surface. Anyone who hears it would sympathize with him and think he is pitiful.

But in reality, Zhang Yang inherited his mother's temperament. He is obsessive and unstable, ruthless, and deeply calculating.

He plotted against his half-brother—Father Zhang and his wife's only child. The man was left in a vegetative state after a car accident, and Zhang Yang fled abroad overnight. He did not dare set foot in the country for years.

Father Zhang's wife was devastated and developed a serious illness. I heard she does not have much time left, which is why Zhang Yang only dared return now.

He signed on as a regular guest for several upcoming episodes of Soul Shocker. Be careful and do not get too close to him. To be safe, I suggest terminating his contract after we obtain the production rights to Soul Shocker.]

Wu Hui knew so much because he had been friends with Zhang Yang's former agent.

After Zhang Yang set up his half-brother and fled abroad overnight, Father Zhang and his wife could not catch him, so they took their anger out on Wu Hui's friend. They forced him out of the industry, and for a time, he was destitute.

Wu Hui could not bear to watch it happen, so he secretly helped his friend out several times.

[Chu Tian: Why terminate his contract? He wants to steal my boyfriend from me. If we terminate it, how will he get close to Gu Shiyan?]

[Wu Hui: ?]