"Fuck, damn it, who the hell was it?! What the hell is wrong with them?! Digging up something from centuries ago-how am I supposed to show my face again?!"
"Boss, you have to stand up for me! I, Jiang Shouyi, have spent my whole life doing good deeds. I was just young and stupid and got talked into doing one lousy thing, and I suffered for it too. Now people are still dragging it out to flog me over and over. I don't want to live anymore! Aaaaaaaah!"
The man on the other end of the phone kept wailing as though he had suffered the greatest injustice in the world.
"Oh, go die, then." Ye Yizhou was cold and utterly emotionless.
The wailing on the other end stopped abruptly, only to turn even more aggrieved a second later:
"Y-you-you! How can a mouth that's thirty-seven degrees say something so cold?"
"I can do even colder things. Want to try?"
Ye Yizhou offered his suggestion with a smile and a gentle tone.
"..."
Another stretch of eerie silence came from the other end. After a long while, Jiang Shouyi finally spoke hesitantly:
"Talk normally. You're scaring me even more when you're this gentle."
Ye Yizhou was speechless. "Piss off."
"How are you going to deal with the trending topic? It's obviously aimed at you. How do you manage to offend so many people? Someone's always trying to smear you."
Jiang Shouyi suddenly turned serious.
"I have such a good personality, I'm sweet-tongued, and everything I say is so pleasant. How could I possibly offend anyone?"
Ye Yizhou disagreed and rebutted him in all seriousness.
A good personality?
Sweet-tongued?
Everything he said was pleasant?
Who was he talking about?
Jiang Shouyi fell silent on the other end.
Yan Qingdu fell silent on