"Those who try to resist the spider's web often become entangled in it by their struggle."
"So is fate."
Yi Wan closed the book in his hand.
He sat on the balcony, with hungry and trembling green plants beside him and the night sky and stars in front of him. As a coastal city, the sky in S City is always dark, so...
"Every star is like an eye watching us."
"What is this sentence? Is it from a horror novel?"
When Chi Jixia opened the door to the rooftop, he heard Yi Wan muttering to himself: "It's quite creepy... Why, this time it's not a novel about acting skills, but a horror novel?"
His words contained some probing meaning. Yi Wan seemed to be unaware: "Yeah... While admiring the starry sky, I didn't know that I was also being watched by the starry sky. This would be like a horror novel, right?"
—He changed the subject again, tsk.
But Chi Jixia felt that he could be more patient with Yi Wan. He shrugged and said, "Brother Liu is here, and he asked us to come over."
The two walked through the living room, where the TV was playing the latest nightly legal news. Since they returned to the AT office from Fu's house, An Yelin would turn on the TV every night, listening to the legal channel while practicing guitar.
"Fu, the president of Fu Group, was detained for crimes including illegal transactions, bribery, illegal imprisonment, illegal construction and renovation, and selling inside information. At night, the surveillance in the guardhouse failed. When the surveillance was restored to normal, Fu had broken free from the handcuffs and stood aside."
The camera turned to the guardhouse, where Fu's face was blurred and he was wearing an orange vest. The host continued: "In view of the act of trying to escape, Fu was punished for disturbing public order..."
"I'm innocent! I didn't escape from prison! I just entered another world..."
Fu Qi in the camera screamed at the top of his lungs, but the TV signal was cut off. Yi Wan looked back and found Ding Biehan nonchalantly retracting his finger from the remote control. After noticing Yi Wan's gaze, he felt a little embarrassed and touched the tip of his nose inconspicuously.
The corners of his lips inadvertently smiled.
Yi Wan looked at him and frowned slightly.
The five of them sat together, and Brother Liu was very happy. He coughed, took out his notebook, and planned to assign new tasks to everyone.
Half a month has passed since the last chaotic variety show "Science War". In the past half month, the few people have been busy rushing to make several announcements, attending a formal debut + first album announcement conference, and appearing on a variety show. The intensity of their work is so great that the only one who is drowsy in the van is Chi Jixia, who naps all year round, and the other four people have also been added.
With the previous internal live broadcast and many publicity warm-ups, the first album press conference was a great success. At the press conference, Chi Jixia was eloquent, Bo Jiang was warm and gentle, and even An Yelin, who was known for his coldness in the past, became more cheerful and proudly responded to questions from several reporters who were not optimistic.
"Now you are boasting that your first album can sell 400,000 copies? And physical copies? Come on, brother, who buys physical albums nowadays? Aren't digital albums the only thing that matters?" A reporter immediately asked maliciously, "You can't do it?"
"Hahaha, there's no need to quit if you can't do it. The future of the Rainbow Group brothers is promising. With the sales of the second and third albums, maybe they can reach 400,000 copies?"
Yi Wan sat next to Ding Biehan and didn't talk much. Ding Biehan always presented himself as a cool guy. Not talking not only made him look aloof, but also attracted people to admire his beautiful face. Yi Wan sat in the corner on the other side, forming a sharp contrast with Ding Biehan.
He didn't play with his phone despite the repeated instructions from Brother Liu and Zhang Jianhua, but he still kept his eyes open. His eyes were blank, but he still nodded from time to time when his teammates spoke, making sounds of "hmm" and "yes".
The performance of the five members at the press conference was photographed. As expected, fans and passers-by were either praising Chi Jixia's flirting, Bo Jiang's transformation, An Yelin's high spirits, or admiring the aloof handsome man Ding Biehan, and once again ignored Yi Wan who was sitting next to them.
"I feel a little disappointed... I had high expectations for him when Yi played the magic piano last night. I vaguely felt that he had become mysterious again. Why did he sit in the corner during the press conference? He seemed like an ordinary passerby again."
"So memory doesn't constitute personal charm. No matter how strong their professional skills are on the surface, the real professional skills of idols come from their personal charm that can infect and inspire people. Yi Wan is like a student wearing black-framed glasses in school. He can hand in good answers, but he doesn't have the infectiousness to attract people."
"Does anyone feel the same way as I do, that the way he keeps nodding his head is like a helpless office worker? Or is he the type who clocks in for work, attends morning meetings, and nods his head constantly to show his boss how engaged he is?"
"The feeling of being helpless and bitter and doing nothing."
"Hey, An Yelin was rude to the reporter and didn't listen to him, but his proud look was much better than Yi Wan's lazy look."
"What's the point of memory? Bo Jiang is better than Yi Wan, right?"
"Chi Jixia is more versatile than him."
"Ding Biehan is more handsome than him."
Yi Wan once again became a photo group highlighting his teammates in the scene where the five of them attended together. He was very calm about this - after all, in terms of album income, they shared it equally.
Until he received a message.
"Does anyone think that, compared to the other two people, Ding Biehan, who is not in good condition, looks good with Yi Wan?"
"Two celestial beings."
"To be honest, I already invested in the survival show..."
The discussion about DECP suddenly appeared in the online discussion forum. The CP feeling was inexplicable, and the old sugar was also inexplicable. Yi Wan stared at the phone screen and frowned slightly.
He didn't know that in the invisible world behind him, there were white threads swaying slightly.
They seemed to want to make up for some of the plots that had been cut off, and to connect him to the other end of the thread.
The other end of the white silk thread is connected to Ding Biehan.
Several people then went to a well-known variety show. The variety show is mainly about laughter and fun. Brother Liu negotiated with the program group to give them a small stage to show themselves. Before the performance, Yi Wan found that Ding Biehan's face changed.
Ding Biehan had a very bad expression. He moved his mouth and seemed to be saying something like "How could the tool fail?" "How could there be a mission today?" In the end, he said "something happened" and hurried to the toilet.
Several staff members did not take it seriously. It is very common for artists to go to the toilet due to nervousness before going on stage.
Yi Wan frowned again.
Ding Biehan had already put on full makeup, his entire face... He finally took out some touch-up cosmetics from the makeup artist's bag and went to the bathroom.
There was a sound of fighting in the toilet. Yi Wan waited outside the toilet. There was no one in the corridor except him. He stared at the phone in his hand.
Ten minutes left.
Finally, the voice calmed down a little, and he knocked on the door with his fingers. The toilet door was pushed open with a bang, and Ding Biehan poked his head out of the toilet with blood all over his face and horror. After he knew that the person coming was Yi Wan, he seemed to be slightly relieved.
Then he was afraid: "Why are you waiting here..."
"There are still ten minutes before you go on stage. Your makeup is smudged. Is there still time?" Yi Wan said calmly.
Ding Biehan: …
Ding Biehan could only take out a wet tissue and quickly wipe his face, but some of the foundation and highlights were still wiped off. Yi Wan looked at his clumsy appearance and finally stood at the sink and said, "I brought some cosmetics."
Ding Biehan:?!
Before he could even open his mouth, Yi Wan took advantage of his bent posture and began to apply foundation for him with a makeup sponge.
The bathroom was dimly lit, and the only thing he could feel was the sponge touching his cheek. Yi Wan patched up all the flaws bit by bit. Ding Biehan went from being wary to fearful, and finally obediently silent.
He looked at Yi Wan's focused profile and thought in a daze that Yi Wan was an unfathomable person, but also very versatile.
And... it's also very warm.
The sink was very quiet, with only the slight sound of the exhaust fan. Yi Wan lowered his eyes to pick up the highlighter, and at this moment, he glanced at the mirror on the sink as if he was not interested.
This glimpse made him see it.
In the air above their heads, there were tiny things like silk threads moving and swaying. This thing was like the silk thread controlling a puppet, and one of them fell on Ding Biehan's wrist.
The other few cannot touch Yi Wan.
They appeared in Yi Wan's sight only because it was an unexpected glance.
His fingers touched the side of Yi Wan's ear. Yi Wan's expression did not change, but he turned his head and looked at Ding Biehan blankly. Ding Biehan was stunned for a moment, then said, "I'll help you lift your hair up."
"Brother Biehan, you don't have to thank me." Yi Wan carried him on his back and began to pack his things as usual. "We are all teammates. The performance will definitely be a success. And in the future..."
Ding Biehan:
Yi Wan: "Be careful when flushing the toilet, some toilets have very strong water pressure..."
Ding Biehan: …
The thread receded. The mirror was clean again. Yi Wan and Ding Biehan walked along the narrow corridor back to the small stage. No one knew that Yi Wan straightened his back, but the hair on the back of his neck stood up slightly.
The performance on the small stage was a success, and the subsequent variety show was also a success. The show had a bit of the feeling of a half-hearted office worker clocking in, so the host focused his attention on the other four people, abcd.
The cold feeling finally disappeared a little.
With the broadcast of the program on Friday night, the new group "iris5" was finally pushed to thousands of households. Everyone knows that the entertainment industry has added a five-member boy group with extremely complicated backgrounds. At the same time, the costume idol drama "Rao Tianchou" finally started to be broadcast on Saturday.
The TV series was a huge hit as expected. The ratings for the second episode exceeded 2, and it was heading towards 3. One character whose popularity and value has risen is Chi Yuxia, whose character appeared in the first episode.
Yi Wan only played a minor role that appeared in more than ten episodes, so naturally she could not reap the benefits of the show for the time being. Zhang Jianhua hinted that Yi Wan should work with Chi Jixia to do more business, and Chi Jixia was very happy about it.
But he found that Yi Wan was a little absent-minded recently. Yi Wan kept staring at the screen of his mobile phone, wondering what he was thinking.
Chi Jixia was still thinking about it when he sat at the table with Yi Wan. He glanced at Yi Wan, then at the others. Suddenly, he had an absurd idea.
—Yi Wan couldn’t be using her phone screen as a mirror to admire her own beauty in the mirror, right
Chi Jixia glanced at Yi Wan again and found that she had closed her phone. He therefore had no chance to check whether she was looking at her own face in the mirror or the top of her head.
System: "That's a ridiculous idea. It sounds like something you would do."
Chi Jixia: "…I didn't ask you to interrupt."
He reluctantly closed the connection between the systems.
Speaking of which, Chi Jixia thought that the CP group of Yi Wan and him that he had joined before had not been active for a long time. When they were active before, he felt that these girls were giving him sweets like crazy, but now that they were not active anymore, he felt a little bored.