Chapter 1
“Jump! Jump down!”
“Jiang Lechuan is a disgusting male third party! Just let this kind of person die!”
“Fellow family, click the subscribe button and watch a fair-looking lad jump off the building live!”
……
At the foot of the high rise building that towered to the sky, there was a huge gossipy crowd spectating the drama. The crowd was filled with scolding and criticisms. Their tone couldn’t be any more disgusted.
Countless cameras and mobiles were hoisted high to aim toward the thin figure on the rooftop. Simultaneously, gossip about the top idol Jiang Lechuan trying to stick himself into other people’s relationships and failing was exponentially fermenting online.
The main character of the matter was standing on the rooftop and looking numbly at the sky.
“Jiang Lechuan! What are you doing? Quickly come back!”
At a raise of her head, Gu Qi saw her younger brother standing at the edge of the building, ready to fall at any time. While her feets felt like it was embedded to the ground by concrete. She couldn’t move a single step forward.
Jiang Lechuan turned his head back to glance at her, His eyes were radiating a wisp of reluctance, while his expression expressed fragility and exhaustion.
He spoke, “Don’t look, Elder Sister.”
Accompanied by the surrounding spectating crowd’s cheers from the bottom, he no longer hesitated or lingered and fell from the high building.
Some people below were screaming, while some people were applauding and cheering. It was a carnival.
- - - - - -
“No……Don’t! Jiang Lechuan!!!”
Gu Qi abruptly woke from her dream and sat right up. Cold sweat had already soaked her back.
She was gasping for air. Her hands were grabbing the nearby back pillows of the sofa as she tried to calm her emotions.
Just now, she had an extremely terrifying nightmare.
In the dream, the world she lived in was a novel. She and her biological younger brother, Jiang Lechuan were both evil supporting characters in the novel.
Although they were both in the entertainment industry, they hadn’t made their sibling relationship public. Basically, no one knew that she and Jiang Lechuan were siblings. However, in the dream, they actually appeared on the same variety show.
The name of the variety show was Troublesome Siblings. It was a family variety show. The problem started with this variety show.
The male lead and female lead of this novel also participated in the recording of this variety show. She and Jiang Lechuan were the vicious male and female supporting roles who do bad things for love to the male lead and female lead but the love ended up unrequited. Both of them were ruined.
Due to this, Jiang Lechaun chose to jump off the building to end his life.
She didn’t fare any better. Both reputation and goodwill plummeted until getting buried.
After watching the tragic ending of herself and her biological brother from the perspective of a bystander, Gu Qi still didn't completely believe this truly happened. She thought she had this strange nightmare due to the earlier quarrel with her younger brother lingering in her mind as well as the proper rest in recent times.
Gu Qi poured herself a cup of warm water. After drinking it, she felt that her wildly beating heart finally calmed down.
【It's not a dream, all this is what will happen next.】 Suddenly a voice sounded from Gu Qi's brain. It continued: 【The vicious female support self-help system No. 0109 is at your service. 】
Gu Qi: "?"
It was over! Her brain seemed to have a problem.
Just as Gu Qi was about to use her mobile phone to make an appointment for herself at the best psychiatric department to check if there was any mental illness that caused her hallucinations, the door was suddenly pushed open from the outside at this moment.
Manager Song Cheng was smiling to the point of wrinkles appearing on his face: "Gu Qi! You are famous! Several hot searches have your name on them. My phone is about to explode. It’s all from the media who want to interview you!"
Gu Qi wasn’t interested in this kind of thing and asked perfunctorily: "What hot search?"
Song Cheng didn’t answer directly, but instead walked up to her and handed her his phone.
Gu Qi glanced at it. Following this was a frown in surprise.
#Explosive! Top idol Jiang Lechuan's suspected love affair exposed#
#Jiang Lechuan's mysterious girlfriend is suspected to be Gu Qi#
#Jiang Lechuan bought a cake to celebrate Gu Qi's birthday#
…
A video of only seven or eight seconds was uploaded to Weibo by paparazzi and it directly triggered several hot searches.
The boy carrying the birthday cake in the picture was Jiang Lechuan, the current most popular top idol in the entertainment industry. The person who opened the door for him in pajamas was Gu Qi, an infamous actress with a bad reputation.
Were these two people a good match? Passersby could answer: Definitely not.
If there was a "list of stars who were least likely to be together" in the entertainment industry, these two people were probably at the top of the list.
Because——
Their personalities were too similar. Both of them were famous for their bad tempers in the circle.
The former went on the hot search due to fighting with the mentor during the talent show, while the latter dared to openly give attitude to the famous director at the press conference.
The evaluation of passersby was:
[Uh, they are dating? Will there be domestic violence... Oh no, mutual beating? ]
[To some extent, they were quite a match]
Jiang Lechuan's fans had pink-tinted glasses on for their own main idol. That’s why, they simply directed the conflict to Gu Qi.
[Don't know what spell Gu Qi used to bewitch Jiang Lechuan? Just looking at her face, I know she is a vixen! ]
[I am a mommy fan. I’m not against dating, but Jiang Lechuan, you normally aren’t smart. Can you grow your brain now? Why must you date Gu Qi out of all the people! ]
[Who doesn’t know that Gu Qi is a diva? Our elder brother is just straightforward. How can it be the same? ]
[+1 for above. Gu Qi put on a long face all day long as if the whole world owes her. It's irritating to watch]
...
Gu Qi felt annoyed when seeing these hot searches. After all, who would be happy to be rumored to have a scandal with her own younger brother.
As her manager, Song Cheng knew that Gu Qi and Jiang Lechuan were siblings. So he wasn’t anxious at the moment. Instead, he was contemplating how to hype it up to maximize the popularity.
Song Cheng was still talking and his voice full of joy. While Gu Qi frowned unconsciously, stared at the face of the person in front of her for a long time, and suddenly called him: "Elder Brother Song."
"Hmm?" The man paused and looked at Gu Qi.
Gu Qi's voice was very calm, like pointing out a fact: "That day, only you knew that Jiang Lechuan would come to have dinner with me."
Song Cheng was stunned. He asked with a guilty conscience: "What do you mean by this?"
Pretending to be stupid!
Gu Qi couldn’t be bothered to waste time and said bluntly: "You arranged the paparazzi."
It was only a dozen or so hours since she and Jiang Lechuan finished their meal. With Jiang Lechuan's current traffic, the paparazzi would have blackmailed his company first. It was impossible for them to expose it so hastily.
This information was exposed too quickly, so the purpose was too obvious.
When his secret deeds were exposed, Song Cheng somewhat couldn’t maintain his expression. Still, he defended himself: "Isn't this also for your own good? Anyway, you and Jiang Lechuan are siblings. It's easy to clarify. He is so popular now, which female star doesn't want to have some link with him?"
Gu Qi just found it laughable. Too lazy to quarrel with Song Cheng, she only uttered one word: "Hypocrisy."
Song Cheng was furious: "Gu Qi, you have grown wings, right? If I hadn't signed you, who knows which web drama you would be an extra in! People should know how to be grateful!"
"Grateful?" Gu Qi repeated these two words thoughtfully. Then she eyed the branded watch on Song Cheng's wrist that ordinary people couldn't afford after working for several years and asked: "Those bad movies I accepted during these years have exchanged such a big house in the center of the imperial capital for you. You should be satisfied now."
Song Cheng was the agent who brought Gu Qi to debut. At that time, both of them were unknown. Song Cheng took her to audition in one crew after another. Don't know how many smiles he put on to fight for her opportunities again and again.
She was somewhat capable and never let Song Cheng down. She gradually became famous through playing small roles and joined Chenyang Entertainment, a powerful film and television company in the industry.
However, as they gradually gained a foothold over the years, interests gradually blinded Song Cheng.
The two quarreled more than once because of various disagreements on work. Neither could convince the other. So Gu Qi had decided not to renew the contract when it expired in three months.
"You!" Gu Qi's words agitated Song Cheng into embarrassment and mad. He took a few deep breaths to adjust his mood before saying: "Forget it. There is no point in saying these things. Work should be the main thing. The schedule for the next two months has been cleared for you. The company has arranged a family variety show for you and told you to bring a sibling to participate together. You can bring anyone. If you are smart, go and ask Jiang Lechuan to accompany you."
Family variety show?
Gu Qi wanted to refuse, but suddenly thought of the dream she had just had. So she asked, "What variety show?"
Song Cheng didn't quite remember, so he pulled out his phone and flipped through the files before answering, "Troublesome Siblings."
The moment Song Cheng said this name, Gu Qi felt a chill on her back.
It was the variety show mentioned in the dream. The exact same name.
【Host, you probably believe what I said is true, right?】
The mechanical voice seemed to be a little dissatisfied because it had been suppressed for a long time. The next second it became proud and said: 【There’s nothing wrong with the host's brain. I am your mighty system! 】
Gu Qi still ignored her own system. Instead, she sincerely told Song Cheng: "I don't want to go. As for Jiang Lechuan, although we are siblings, our relationship is not very good."
The implication was that don't expect her to persuade Jiang Lechuan, she doesn't have that ability.
Song Cheng sneered: "It's useless for you to tell me this. This is all arranged by the company. Jiang Lechuan, we can't control it, but you have to go! You have to go whether you want to or not!"
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