My Darling (我的曼达林)

Untitled Part 17

Chu Jian observes that Jian Bianlin has changed a lot, but have you guys noticed that even she has changed?

Chapter 5.2 — Age-Old Jealousies (2)

The two sat into the vehicle. For the entire journey back to the hotel, neither spoke.

Jian Bianlin instructed his assistant, Xiao Yu, to accompany Chu Jian back to her room while he rode the car back and rejoined the film cast and crew. When Chu Jian returned to her room, there was still a feeling of anger that seemed wedged in her chest.

"Jie [literally "big sister"], could I borrow your computer to use for a bit?" Xiao Yu smiled, "Xie Zong told me to look at something."

Nodding, Chu Jian opened up her computer and turned it so that the screen was facing the young assistant.

Before long, the sounds of a video could be heard. There was singing, and it sounded very lively.

Xiao Yu chortled at the computer screen and called, "Jie, look. Those fans are so funny."

Xiao Yu turned the computer back toward her.

Inside the video, Jian Bianlin, his upper body bare, was dancing beneath the light to the strong beat of the music. The footage was shot from a far angle and seemed to be a recording taken by a fan. She could approximately make out his action of biting down on his lower lip as well as the faintly discernible, thin layer of sweat on his chest and over his waistline...

"His birthday event last year. Is he hot or not, Jie?"

The picture jumped to another one. On another stage, he seemed to have just finished a dance segment, and as he turned away, his two fingers tugged the back of his waistband up ...

Next, it was the airport, summertime. Two nearby fans had somehow caught his jacket and tugged it down slightly, exposing his collarbone...

His assistant was cackling with mirth because the editing of the video was simply too awesome.

It consisted of all sorts of shots where he had had a wardrobe malfunction or shown skin.

"Fans nowadays are so amazing." Xiao Yu grinned. "This video has several hundred thousand clicks on it already. Ha ha. Back when I was young and following celebrities, there was no stuff like this. Back then, the internet still wasn't such a big thing."

The young assistant was still chattering away, joking around in a WeChat group chat with some people in their company. Everyone in the chat was animatedly commenting that even though this video was made by fans, they could still turn it into something big.

Their discussion fell into the public relations category. In this day and age, attaching a label and defined manners and behaviours to an idol was practically the norm. However, Chu Jian reckoned that even this young assistant would not believe her if she stated aloud that this was the first time she had ever watched in detail something like this that was part of Jian Bianlin's normal life as a celebrity...

Perhaps because she had grown up with him, when she saw stuff like this, she would feel a little weird, especially... shots of this type where he was so "exposed." Watching him through a camera lens dance with a naked upper body was honestly a bit awkward, you know. Even more awkward was that this young assistant of Jian Bianlin's was particularly fond of sending voice messages, and he was firing them off one after another. "I think our Jian Ge's body really is just gorgeous, and his waist is so narrow. Hey, Xie Zong, how about we get a 'waistophile' thing going?"

Likely because he did not view Chu Jian as an outsider, the young assistant did not even bother at all to keep the group's voice messages private from her as he listened to them.