Shen Xuanrun returned to his place, patted his little belly, and said sorrowfully:
"No, I have to start working out. How am I supposed to become a big, muscular hunk at this rate?"
Shen Xuanren began working out with much grunting and groaning, so moved by his own efforts that he could hardly stand it.
Ten minutes later, Shen Xuanrun collapsed on the floor...
A familiar morning, an unfamiliar ringtone.
That was right. After Little Li's repeated nightmare-inducing knocks and looks of surprise, Shen Xuanrun no longer turned his phone off or put it on silent before going to bed.
Shen Xuanrun groggily picked up his phone and glanced at it.
"Sister Chen, what's wrong?"
"You're trending again..."
"Oh. Zzz... zzz..."
Chen Wei listened to the snoring coming through the phone... Was Shen Xuanrun already that unfazed about trending? Could he sleep that soundly now?
Shen Xuanrun: Would you believe me if I said I was genuinely sleepy?
When Shen Xuanrun woke up again, he stared at the phone in his hand, bewildered...
Huh? Didn't Sister Chen call? What did she say again? Forget it, never mind. It probably wasn't that important.
He stopped dwelling on it, washed up casually, and headed to the set, where everyone in the crew looked at him differently than before.
Shen Xuanrun: What's with everyone today? Why are they looking at me so strangely? Is there something on my face?
Forget it, forget it. Thinking too much hurts my noggin.
Shen Xuanrun walked over to Xiao Xu, about to have his makeup done, only to find her staring at him the same way everyone else had. My poor noggin. What's wrong with them?
Young Xiao Xu couldn't keep her thoughts to herself and said excitedly to Shen Xuanrun:
"Mr. Shen, you're incredible! What you said yesterday made me cry (இдஇ; )."
Yesterday?
Suddenly, Shen Xuanrun remembered that just before he fell asleep, Sister Chen had seemed to vaguely say, "You're trending again."
Shen Xuanrun: So I escaped Little Li, but I couldn't escape Sister Chen.
Now he finally understood the looks on the crew's faces earlier...
While Xiao Xu did his makeup, Shen Xuanrun took out his phone and checked Weibo. Sure enough...
#Because I've been caught in the rain, I want to hold an umbrella over others. Shen Xuanrun# Hot
Below it was the video of him at the entrance to the set yesterday.
The prettiest beauty in Runrun's fandom: Runrun put it so well! I really want to cry (๑ó﹏ò๑).
A harmonious family prospers: Exactly, exactly! Especially that line, "Society needs rules, citizens need decency, and the internet needs a clean atmosphere." So well said!
Shen Xuanrun: You'll give me a big head talking like that. I need to keep a low profile, a low profile.
Meeting is fate: I feel like Shen Xuanrun has such sound values. He's been through so much himself, yet he still urged us not to engage in cyberbullying. And he said it so gently.
Never being a keyboard warrior again: I'll definitely keep myself in check from now on. I can't keep believing whatever other people say the moment I hear it.
The jacket on Runrun: That line, "Because I've been caught in the rain, I want to hold an umbrella over others," moved me so much!
May the world be beautiful: I suffered cyberbullying before, and I even wanted to kill myself back then. I only made it through because my boyfriend never left my side, so I really understand how Shen Xuanrun feels.
My ship can't have a bad ending: Am I the only one who noticed that the person beside Runrun looks really familiar? Doesn't he look like that ultimate top, Gu Weichen, from before? ~(￣▽￣~)~
Shen and Gu are the best in the world: Hehe, I'm here too. Sis, you're not alone!
Shen Xuanrun: Do you people have eagle eyes? Why are you everywhere?! (ノ=Д=)ノ┻━┻
I love fanfic writers: Quick! Someone get a writer! I desperately need some sweet ship content right now!
Runrun's hubby: Can you shippers stop flaunting your ship everywhere? Can't you keep it in your own fandom circles?
Runrun is in my bed: You up there, I'm Runrun's rightful hubby!
Shen Xuanrun: Let it all be destroyed! There's nothing left in this world worth holding on to...
With a blank expression, Shen Xuanrun put his phone away in his pocket. Only acting can make me happy!
Today, they needed to film the scene where Zhao Ziru returned to the opera troupe's lodgings and discovered that his old master had died protecting his younger senior sister.
"Everyone, get ready! Action!"
Zhao Ziru returned from the library and happily went back to the opera troupe, humming a song with the pastries he had brought for his senior sister in his hand.
"Senior Sister, Senior Sister, I'm back! I brought your favorite pastries!" Zhao Ziru shouted at the entrance, but no one answered even after a long wait.
He rushed into the courtyard and found the members of the opera troupe kneeling there, all crying.
"Senior Brother Zhao, you're finally back. Master and Senior Sister, th-they..." The youngest boy in the troupe choked out the words before bursting into sobs.
Zhao Ziru immediately rushed into his master's room. The troupe members had already carried his master onto the bed and wrapped him in a white cloth, which was stained with blood.
Zhao Ziru's eyes widened, and he fell to his knees in grief, shouting, "Master!"
"Master, wake up. I'll definitely, definitely practice properly from now on. I won't misbehave anymore. I'll listen to everything you say. Please wake up! Ah!!"
Then he scrambled and stumbled to his senior sister's room, where the scene was the same.
"Senior Sister, what happened to you? Didn't we agree to get married when I came of age?" Zhao Ziru knelt beside his younger senior sister's bed.
"Senior Sister, stop sleeping. Please answer me, okay? We still have to have children together, lots of them..."
Watching the young man kneeling in the middle of the set and weeping in utter anguish, everyone there was swept up in the sorrow too. Tears swirled in their eyes, and they barely managed to keep them from falling.
Deng Yingying in particular had just read a fanfic about Shen Xuanrun and Gu Weichen yesterday. The writer had made it so painfully bittersweet, and one passage described Shen Xuanrun kneeling on the ground and sobbing. Now she was completely drawn into it and couldn't stop crying.
"Cut!"
"Little Shen, you've improved a lot. We'll get some extra shots in a bit, and you can make the crying a little more anguished."
"Okay, Director."
Shen Xuanrun turned around and saw Deng Yingying looking at him, bawling her eyes out and mumbling through her tears:
"Waaah, you two have to be okay. You have to get a happy ending. No more angst!"
Shen Xuanrun: What is she talking about? She's probably praising me, though! I know my acting was pretty good, but isn't this a bit much? You're really going to give me a big head like this. Hehe (๑Ő௰Ő๑).
Deng Yingying: I'm not, I didn't, don't make things up.
Although Zhao Ziru was the second male lead, he didn't have many scenes and died relatively early. Later on, he mostly lived in the male lead's memories. The young man who perished in a sea of flames for revenge deepened the male lead's lifelong resolve to serve his country.
Once they finished this scene today, they could film Zhao Ziru's descent into darkness and revenge tomorrow.
Little Xinxin, your beloved Brother Xuanrun will be back soon. Prepare to receive my baptism! Hahahahaha, cough, cough. Shen Xuanrun choked.
Far away at the Shen Family Ancestral Residence, Shen Qianxin suddenly sneezed while eating.
"Ooh, looks like the weather's getting colder. Better put on more clothes!"
Little Shen Qianxin successfully bundled herself up like a rice dumpling.