Chapter 17: Straight out of the ring

Sheng Mingzhi had a particularly deep sleep.

When I woke up again, it was to a call from my mobile phone.

Sheng Mingzhi was half asleep when he unlocked the door and Little Wang had called him forty-six times.

He looked at the screen of his phone in confusion, wondering if he was dreaming.

The last time he slipped on Twitter and liked his face to beat the top eight, Little Wang gave him ten calls.

Forty-six ...... He wasn't stripping live on air last night, was he?

It was only then that Sheng Mingzhi's consciousness came back to him and he thought to himself, "Why am I in bed?

Wasn't he on air yesterday? Did he fall asleep on air and sleepwalk back to his room on his own?

He sniffled and his cold seemed to be lingering.

Sheng Mingzhi still feels dizzy in his brain.

Press to answer.

Little Wang's deliberately subdued voice came over the phone, but there was still some excitement to be heard: "You're a hit."

"?"

Sheng Mingzhi was at a loss for words and hesitantly said, "So, congratulations on your last wish being fulfilled?"

Little Wang: ......

"Aren't you surprised at all? Not asking me why? You were out of the loop last night you know! Oh yes, how is your health? Are you better from the flu?"

Sheng Mingzhi was confused: "What's out of the loop."

Little Wang: "Do you know what happened last night?"

"...... I fell asleep live?"

"Right." Little Wang: "You open Twitter."

Sheng Mingzhi is not quite awake yet, so he follows whatever Little Wang says.

As soon as I logged on to Weibo, my phone almost got stuck out and the comments and retweets were all 999 .

Click on the comments and they are all over the place.

All of them are words that Sheng Mingzhi cannot read.

[Jitterbug to the punch line.]

[Front row sightseeing little brother.]

[So handsome, so this is what you look like when you open your eyes~]

[Little brother and husband are so in love ~ so jealous ~~]

Sheng Mingzhi :?

He sent a direct reply to Little Wang: "Did you buy me an army?"

This wave of watermen's statements is too retarded.

He didn't even use wave numbers to surf the internet ten years ago.

"Who's buying you a waterboy!" Little Wang retorted forcefully, "It was you who made the video of you sleeping on air last night a hit."

"I live, sleeping? Video, red?"

Sheng Mingzhi says two, then pauses, seemingly not understanding what it means to sleep with the video red.

He was asleep on air, but he underestimated the contemporary netizens who were actually bored enough to watch people sleep.

Little Wang exclaims, "Yeah. Guess how many plays you got last night."

Sheng Mingzhi: ......

"Two hundred thousand?"

He casually guessed that Sheng Mingzhi remembered that it was 100,000 viewers before he slept over, so double that.

Who knew the next moment.

Little Wang's face did not change and his tone was calm: "It's a million."

......

......

Sheng Mingzhi paused and coughed furiously in bed.

I almost suspected that my ears were broken.

Little Wang is past the shock period and shared the tweet that made Sheng Mingzhi red.

It was shared by a marketing handle and has already broken 50,000 retweets in one night, with the hot search peaking at number five.

Sheng Mingzhi clicked on Twitter incredulously, "How is that possible, crazy? What's so good about me sleeping?"

Little Wang said slowly, "Of course you don't look good sleeping alone, do you know how long your husband held you last night."

The words have just fallen.

Sheng Mingzhi's whole body just froze at a weird angle.

In terms of both content and message, the phrase generates an explosive energy effect.

Sheng Mingzhi's mind went blank and he took a few seconds to say, "My husband?"

Who is it? Lu Jiayan ?

Lu Jiayan is in the picture?

Lu Jiayan still hugging him?

Little Wang: "Yeah. Your husband came into the studio after you fell asleep and then just hugged you and didn't say anything the whole time. I thought you were going off air at 8:30, so I thought he was going to carry you upstairs to bed when it was time. It turned out that you were so asleep that you weren't even conscious, and your husband was probably afraid of waking you up, so he kept holding you in front of the camera, and you ended up sleeping straight through until your phone ran out of battery."

"The live stream was only automatically turned off when I slept in, my phone, and ran out of battery."

Little Wang repeated it word for word, and made a point of sleeping until her phone ran out of battery, before concluding, "You don't even know how shocked I am that your husband is really, really good."

Hugging a big man and sitting in front of the camera for four hours without changing his face.

Anyone else would have to say a bull's-eye when they read it.

Sheng Mingzhi was now incapable of thinking, his mind was filled with the image Little Wang had described.

Why is Lu Jiayan hugging him live? Lu Jiayan's presence in the studio is fucking outrageous!

I'm not still awake and dreaming, am I?

Sheng Mingzhi sleepwalked through the video, which had over 50,000 retweets.

It's a recording of his live content from last night.

Fast forward was added and the four hours were condensed into ten minutes.

Lu Jiayan's face is not captured in the video, only Sheng Mingzhi falling obediently into his arms and sleeping, moving around a few times before Lu Jiayan holds his hand on his shoulder and adjusts to a comfortable sleeping position.

Sheng Mingzhi has been down since Lu Jiayan appeared in front of the camera.

He didn't even know how to finish watching the ten-minute video, and by the time he reacted, Sheng Mingzhi had already subconsciously saved it to his photo album.

Popular comments have been attacked by passers-by: the

"I'm just a bitch to have these eyes (puppies hugging legs and shedding tears)"

"Kill me to give them both a helping hand."

"No single dog could walk out of this video alive."

"Why do I think it's a handsome guy when the attacker only shows his body (puppy hugs leg and weeps)"

"I look like a dog sleeping on the side of the road getting a kick in the pants."

......

Little Wang had already hung up but was still chattering away, sending messages to Sheng Mingzhi.

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[Didn't you say last time that your husband was celebrating his 80th birthday!

Sheng Mingzhi: [......]

Sheng Mingzhi: [He looks young].

Replying to Little Wang, Sheng Mingzhi scrolled through his circle of friends as if nothing had happened.

After about ten seconds of mechanically flipping through his eyes, his mind wasn't even on it, he finally couldn't resist quitting WeChat.

Then, switching between albums, Sheng Mingzhi decided to click on the live recording he had just saved and watched the progress bar back and forth a few times, still unable to recover from the shock.

Why is this dog man sleeping with him in his arms? Why didn't you wake him up?

On the seventh pull, a cough came from the bedroom door.

He looked up to see Lu Jiayan and wondered when the other man had appeared.

Sheng Mingzhi, as if he had been caught red-handed, fumbled to hide his phone.

The more he hid it, the more nervous he became, and the more he moved, the more the phone flew off the bed and under it, turning over twice with great difficulty and landing right at Lu Jiayan's feet.

Lu Jiayan holds the hot water in one hand and picks up the phone for him with the other.

Before the screen can be locked, the album shows a video that Sheng Mingzhi has just saved, as well as a photo he has just screenshotted.

......

......

The bedroom was quiet to the point of dreadful silence.

Half a minute later, Sheng Mingzhi sat up straighter, pretending nothing had happened, and his voice was smooth: "I dropped my phone, thank you for picking it up for me."

The tip of Lu Jiayan's tongue crossed his palate and he let out a laugh: "You can't get enough of the real thing, you want to take a screenshot and save it for later."

......

Sheng Mingzhi ignored his words and continued as if nothing had happened, "Thank you, can I have my phone back, please?"

If you ignore the tips of his already red, blood-dripping ears, Sheng Mingzhi looks very composed indeed.

Lu Jiayan took his time to pick up his phone and admire his screenshots.

A few comments: "Not a very good shot. Do you want me to take a new one with you, the kind with a face, for your collection?"

Simply bouncing around the minefield of Sheng Mingzhi.

The next thing I knew, Sheng Mingzhi was jumping out of bed in a frenzy.

He jumped on Lu Jiayan and hung on to him like a wombat, reaching out to grab his phone.

Lu Jiayan narrowly avoided being pounced on by him, only swaying a little.

Sheng Mingzhi's face turned red and he was speechless the whole time, and when he grabbed the phone he was so annoyed that he emptied the album of all the photos.

Not a single one left!

"Don't get me wrong." Only after doing this cleanly did Sheng Mingzhi feel he had regained a bit of face, forcing his words and reasoning: "My phone has a function that automatically saves videos once I've seen them."

"And the automatic screenshots?"

"Right."

Sheng Mingzhi nods stiffly.

Lu Jiayan looked at him for a while before he laughed out loud and let Sheng Mingzhi go.

"Hmm. So that's how it is. I'm the one who's seen less."

"It's good that you know." Sheng Mingzhi spoke with a little bit of modesty, pretending to be calm: "You can't give up on yourself just because you're older. Sometimes you have to look at the world of young people too, in this era, artificial intelligence is developing fast."

And you're still taking advantage of it?

Lu Jiayan has become immune to Sheng Mingzhi's temperament of opening a dye house when the little ancestor has a little colour.

He put the hot water on the bed and said smoothly, "Then send me the video, I want to collect a copy okay."

Sheng Mingzhi: ......

Do I look like the kind of idiot who hands you a handle on myself?

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Sheng Mingzhi slept for eighteen hours, first checking in with Shen Ling and then taking his fever medicine under the supervision of Lu Jiayan.

Half an hour later, the private doctor did a full body check-up.

With all this tossing and turning, it was dinner time.

Lu Jiayan had porridge made and sent to Sheng Mingzhi's bedroom.

Sheng Mingzhi peeked at him as he drank his porridge.

Lu Jiayan hasn't been to the office all day today and I haven't seen him call or anything like that while taking care of him, so it's not like he's been delayed at work.

His porridge was tasteless.

Probably because his emotions were so obvious, Lu Jiayan noticed him and tilted his head slightly: "What's wrong?"

Sheng Mingzhi put down the porridge: " Brother Jiayan."

Shouting like that is mostly because he feels weak.

Having grown up in the south, he speaks with an unconscious accent of the Wu Longshanks there.

This is particularly noticeable when you have a cold, and your voice is soft and uninspiring.

"Don't you have to go to the office today?"

"No need."

"Oh."

Sheng Mingzhi grabbed the corner of his shirt and spoke again, "If you don't go, you won't miss work, will you?"

Lu Jiayan pauses for a moment and looks over, his eyes teasing, "Are you worried about me?"

Sheng Mingzhi: ......

He shouldn't have been soft-hearted enough to think about dog men.

"Who's worried about you!" He retorted, "I'm worried that if you don't work, the whole section of Sheng Jia will collapse. I'm telling you, if you go broke don't expect me to suffer with you. I'll divorce you for sure."

"Don't worry." Lu Jiayan looked diffident: "It's just a day off work, Sheng Jia won't go bankrupt."

He seemed to think of something and added, coolly, "I'll work hard so I don't get dumped by someone who resents the rich."

Someone who resents the rich and the poor: ......

Sheng Mingzhi didn't bother with him and finished the rest of the small bowl of congee.

As he put the bowl down, he remembered something else and looked up, " Lu Jiayan, the video from last night's live broadcast has been circulating quite widely on the internet, it won't affect you, will it?"

Although Lu Jiayan's face is not even in the picture, Sheng Mingzhi is still worried for a moment.

There is nothing else, but when I was in the entertainment industry, I vowed that I would not borrow resources from anyone in the Sheng and Lu families. It's only been less than three years and he's already exposed his identity, what is that?

Wouldn't that have been a slap in the face in front of his dad, and Sheng Mingzhi would never have let his dad have the chance to be pleased with himself.

Furthermore, Sheng Mingzhi remembered Qiao Yan's previous oops story with Lu Jiayan, which Lu Jiayan had forcibly removed by force, and even pulled several of Qiao Yan's resources.

It is clear that Lu Jiayan does not like to be associated with the entertainment industry.

In order not to be misunderstood by the dog man that he is trying to rub his nose in the heat.

Sheng Mingzhi added righteously, "If you feel it's affecting you, you'll deal with it yourself."

After listening, Lu Jiayan asked him with interest, "Do you want to delete it?"

......?

Sheng Mingzhi was puzzled by the question, and he didn't mind being in the hot seat, so what was there to delete, so he said, "I don't care."

The room was silent for a few moments.

Suddenly, Lu Jiayan gave a soft laugh: "So did I."

He seemed to acquiesce that Sheng Mingzhi meant not to delete it, his bones leaning lazily against the wall, his eyebrows stretched and his peach blossom eyes smiling: "After all, it's hard to resist showing off when you have such a good husband."