I Ship My Rival x Me

CHAPTER 11

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If I were a character in a manga, then the frame of this particular moment would be me staring lifelessly at him with my face covered in shadow lines and my mouth agape with a fat, white soul coming out of it.

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Playing dumb, I tilted my head, flashing a puzzled, awkward smile while asking, "Hah? What could you possibly mean?"

Although my acting was horrible, I was honestly shocked beyond measure, caught in a state of supreme awkwardness and confusion. A small part of my fragmented soul that belonged to a shipper really did feel like laughing, causing the expression to form naturally on my face.

Upon seeing my reaction, Gu Yiliang was dumbfounded for a minute. Then, he raised his hand to cover his eyes. Mixed with a trace of helplessness, frustration, as well as amusement, he said, "I thought you knew all this while..."

What? Wait, what do I know?! Can you please indulge me with the details?? I'm going to get a heart attack soon!

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Without batting an eyelid, I studied his expression and cautiously asked, "...what is it?"

He calmly extinguished the cigarette butt and waved his hand. "Didn't you sprain your ankle previously? I've seen my fans causing a ruckus in the fan group for a long time. Some of them even went to your Weibo to... Anyway, I saw it by chance when I was looking at the feeds. Frankly, I find them to be very senseless at times since we have nothing against each other anyway."

"The picture you took was too disheartening. Any perspicacious person could tell how serious your injury was and yet they kept going on and on about how fake it looked." He frowned slightly at this point before he rubbed his nose with a smile. "Since my manager is breathing down my neck, I can't say anything to clear things up and I'm not that familiar with you either. Thus, I went on to record a short video and asked a friend to post it. They probably thought that I was upset since I didn't post anything for the rest of the day, so they quieted down too. Honestly, I never thought that you'd see that video. Actually, even if you did watch it, I guess you probably wouldn't know what it meant either since I wasn't too clear myself."

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As waves of shock hit me one after another while I listened, I felt as though my soul had been split in half.

The half that belonged to the shipper was pelted by a ginormous fluffy meteorite until it was rendered speechless, its brain completely overwhelmed by:

Why are you so pro at spreading fluff? How are you so good at it?!

What's the point in searching for fluff with a high-power microscope? What's the point in digging for fluff three thousand feet underneath the ground? None of that matters anymore! When a True Master arrives, you can tell with just a sniff! He's force-feeding me all sorts of giant, sweet fluffs now!

Meanwhile, the half that belonged to Wei Yanzi was caught off-guard by his plain yet bullet-like words, its brain filled with questions like:

He's the kind that has to post something on Weibo just to mention the fairytale he likes. Why is he doing so much to defend an adversary of his whom he rarely talks to?

Wait, why does he even have to defend an adversary of his to whom he rarely talks, at all?

He's so kind-hearted. How can there be a person with such a positive image?

And why do I have a strange feeling in my heart as if it's full of something? Don't tell me that I'm having a heart attack from all the fluff!

Gu Yiliang, I seem to find him...a little erotic?