Chapter 69: Persuasion
Note: Apologies for the delay. I got sick T_T
"How did you end up here?" The chill in An Zhiyan's voice was clear. He slightly lowered his head but continued to gaze at Shen Cheng, his eyes filled with an uncontrollable coldness. It was like a wind in a dried up well, like frost in a cliff crevice.
"Why can't I be here?" Shen Cheng's face always bore a relaxed smile. Yet that smile was clearly not genuine; it was a show of maintained elegance.
An Zhiyan turned to look at Su Jinli, only to see him sidling towards the room, as if trying to escape from this battlefield-like scene. His survival instinct was indeed strong.
"Are you here to visit the set?" An Zhiyan asked Shen Cheng again.
"Yes, I'm here to see my precious," Shen Cheng answered, grabbing Su Jinli's wrist.
Su Jinli immediately looked at Shen Cheng in surprise. Brother, you've never called me that before!
But just as he was about to speak, Shen Cheng gave his wrist a tight warning squeeze. Consequently, he was unable to produce any sound.
Upon hearing this address, An Zhiyan turned to look at the two interlocked hands and couldn't help but smirk derisively. He felt somewhat disgusted and a pang of discomfort in his heart. "Oh, your..." He didn't finish the rest of the sentence.
"So, do you plan on chatting with me? Because I'm staying here for the night."
"I don't want to." An Zihan immediately refused.
"I see..." Shen Cheng turned to Su Jinli and asked gently, "Have you told your boss about our relationship?"
Su Jinli shook his head; just as he was about to speak, his wrist was tightly gripped again.
Under Shen Cheng's control, Su Jinli couldn't make any sound even if he tried.
"In that case, please help with the PR matters in the future," Shen Cheng said to An Zihan again, speaking politely. His eyes narrowed into a smile – if one didn't know better, they wouldn't think he was a colorful koi but a cunning fox spirit.
"Oh, you're too kind."
"Does the boss have any other matters?"
An Zhiyan looked at Su Jinli again, his eyes reddened with anger and his aura intense, causing Su Jinli some discomfort.
Unable to speak, Su Jinli could only stand and listen. He lowered her head and saw An Zhiyan's clenched fist, feeling a bit panicked.
He could sense An Zhiyan's anger, which made him feel somewhat guilty. After all, he hadn't told An Zihan that he and Shen Cheng were siblings.
It wasn't surprising that An Zhiyan would be angry after signing his rival's younger brother.
"Su Jinli, I thought you were incapable of lying," An Zhiyan said before turning and leaving directly.
Shen Cheng watched him go, his smile in his eyes widening. It seemed that this time, he genuinely wanted to laugh.
Thinking that An Zhiyan would at least be angry for a whole night, Shen Cheng couldn't help but feel very pleased.
He led Su Jinli into the room and had him sit on the bed, while he stood in front of Su Jinli with his arms crossed.
"Brother, what are you doing?" Su Jinli couldn't help but ask. Shen Cheng's words today were inexplicable, which made him feel very strange.
"Actually, I'm not surprised at all that An Zhiyan would like you," Shen Cheng said bluntly.
Stunned, Su Jinli looked at his brother, thinking he must be godlike. He hadn't even said anything, yet his brother already knew.
Seeing Su Jinli's bewildered look, Shen Cheng sighed, saying, "You have a special constitution. People like An Zhiyan, who have a strong Yang energy, naturally like you."
"But he said he would like me even when he can't see me," Su Jinli replied, "And after seeing me in my fish form, he still liked me."
Shen Cheng immediately narrowed his eyes, asking seriously, "He saw you in your fish form?"
"Yes, he discovered it," Su Jinli answered. Seeing the angry look on Shen Cheng's face, he quickly apologized, "I'm sorry! I didn't mean to! I went for a swim in the early morning and got discovered!"
Shen Cheng was silent for a moment before saying, "If he does something that could potentially harm you, let me know immediately, and I will take care of it."
"No, he did nothing!" Su Jinli hurriedly denied because if Shen Cheng were to intervene, it would be a big deal.
At present, not only did An Zhiyan do nothing wrong, but he was also quite good to him.
"I need to clarify a few things with you now," Shen Cheng spoke with a particularly serious tone.
Su Jinli nodded immediately, indicating that she would listen.
"First, I really hate An Zhiyan. He and I are destined not to get along. If you are with him, I will unconsciously avoid him, which in turn will lead to me avoiding you. So if you are with him, it's basically no different than cutting off our sibling relationship, ending up with us having no contact. Do you understand what I mean?"
"Ah! No, brother!" Su Jinli nervously grabbed Shen Cheng's hand.
"Let me finish."
"Okay."
"Second, since ancient times, same-sex relationships have not been embraced. If you want to be an artist, you must first control your personal life. If you're in love, you should consider whether or not it will affect the other person and if being together will affect your career. Not to mention same-sex relationships that aren't recognized? As soon as it's exposed, not only you will be ruined, but also An Zhiyan. You haven't officially debuted yet, and he's already leading you astray like this. I really don't know what his intentions are."
"But Brother Lu and Brother Xu..." Lu Wenxi and Xu Chen were already together and were good friends of Shen Cheng.
"Are you trying to argue with me?"
"No, continue."
"Third, you have a special constitution and excessive absorption of yang energy will lead to an imbalance of yin and yang in your body, and even to the point of losing control. You have poor control over the two essences of yin and yang, and absorbing a little more yang energy will cause severe headaches. You can't be intimate with him when you're together."
"Oh..."
"Fourth, if you really like him, you will undoubtedly tell me excitedly. But you didn't, which shows that you don't like him that much, or you might not feel anything at all. If you don't like him, why take the risk to be with him? It's your indecisiveness that may end up hurting him, it's better to reject him outright."
After thinking about it, Su Jinli felt that his brother was right, so he nodded.
Shen Cheng eased up a little when he saw that Su Jinli was obedient, saying: "You’re originally quite naive, being with someone as naive as him would be just a pair of fools, it really makes people extremely worried."
"Then I'll tell him later that I won't be with him," replied Su Jinli.
"Hmm, in my eyes, he’s not even worthy of being your furnace."
"Brother, why do you hate him so much?" Su Jinli couldn’t help asking. He always knew that they didn't like each other, but he never knew why.
"He takes advantage of his family's good background to do many despicable things, and his company is notorious for poaching and engaging in fierce competition. Defaming someone is as simple as him just scrolling through hot searches on Weibo. The past few years have been slightly better, knowing to constrain his actions. The past years were downright domineering and disgusting."
"Ah? So overbearing? Is he a womanizer, too?" This is what Su Jinli felt was the worst.
Shen Cheng shook his head and sat next to Su Jinli, continuing to speak.
"If the artists that Sejia Legend sets their sights on refuse their invitation, they would manipulate and force them into signing contracts with Sejia Legend. Some artists whose contract periods have already ended, and who wanted to start their own companies, were also made miserable by them, spending most of the year dealing with contract disputes and missing their Golden Era."
Su Jinli listened and sighed, "So wicked!"
"Do you understand now?"
"No, don't understand."
"Then why are you saying it's wicked?" Shen Cheng was both curious and amused.
"Anything that makes my brother angry is wicked."
Shen Cheng was amused by Su Jinli, and pinched his face, "Don’t just recklessly absorb yang energy in the future, especially An Zhiyan's, it's dirty."
"Alright."
Shen Cheng then reached over and opened a bag, showing Su Jinli, "I brought some food for you. I thought it was delicious after eating it in the restaurant, so I ordered another portion for you to try."
"Brother, you're so good!" Su Jinli exclaimed, then picked up the chopsticks and tasted a piece, immediately giving a thumbs up after taking a bite.
He took her food to a small table on the side to eat, then got up and brought over the late-night snack that An Zhiyan had brought, intending to eat it together.
But Shen Cheng, perturbed at first glance, directly took away An Zhiyan's snack and threw it into the trash bin, "You're not allowed to eat his stuff."
"Oh..."
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When An Zhiyan returned to his own presidential suite, he was so angry that he started throwing things around.
"Damn it! Liars, saying they have no relationship, claiming they haven't been in love before, but they're still pampering each other! They're even living together! We're competing tomorrow, can’t they just endure it?" An Zhiyan kicked the cabinet a few times in irritation.
"I even misunderstood our kiss, I thought we were both having our first kisses! I was so happy about it for several days, and what now! He's cute, how can he be so despicable? Is it fun to deceive me, huh?!"
An Zhiyan was on the verge of breakdown, thinking about the scenes of Su Jinli and Shen Cheng together, it brought him both deep sorrow and anger.
His first love!
The first awakening of his love!
His sincere feelings, full of love!
All shattered in an instant!
"You said you'd ask your brother, so ask him already! What's the deal between you and Shen Cheng after asking? Did your brother approve of you and Shen Cheng? How am I worse than him, huh? Aren't I taller than him? Don't I have a more defined nose? What else... damn it, what more?"
An Zhiyan was so infuriated that he grabbed his hair, kicked open the door, and walked into the living room. He saw Jiang Pingqiu standing at the entrance, trying to blend in like air.
He paused mid-step, his body stiffening.
Jiang Pingqiu looked even more awkward than him.
Earlier, An Zhiyan had asked Jiang Pingqiu to stay in his room and help him choose a script.
He had totally forgotten.
It was all because of the anger from those two men.
An Zhiyan calmed down a bit, walked into the living room, and sat down on a chair, looking at the script in front of him.
Jiang Pingqiu handed him a tissue, and he immediately yelled, "I didn't cry!"
"Just wipe the sweat from the corner of your eyes."
An Zhiyan took the tissue, wiped his eyes, and noticed that there were indeed tears.
He was actually brought to tears by anger.
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