Chapter 3: Part 1 - Repulsive Yet Attractive

Since there are only 168 days, not a single day should be wasted.

“I remember there was a drama called <<Into the Devil>> that gave me an offer last month. Do you still have the script?” Jin Yanliu asked Fatty Xiao.

Fatty Xiao was stunned. “<<Into the Devil>>?”

“Yeah, it’s a xianxia drama.” Jin Yanliu continued, “Where did you put the script?”

His organization was lacking, so Fatty Xiao was the one that took care of all of the script books that landed in his hands.

Fatty Xiao went into the study and took out the <<Into the Devil>> script.

With a face filled with confusion, he sat down across from Jin Yanliu. Jin Yanliu glanced over the script before lifting his head to meet his assistant’s eyes.

“Brother Yanliu, you wouldn’t actually be thinking of accepting this drama, right? This is a BL(boy’s love), you know.”

Liu Qichang, the director of <<Into the Devil>>, had come to them several times before with the script, but they had always refused.

There was an unwritten chain of discrimination within the film industry. Movie actors looked down upon those who acted in dramas; bourgeois tragedy actors looked down upon those who acted in idol dramas, and at the very bottom of the chain sat those who performed in gay productions. Internet netizens referred to those actors to be “entering the sea*.”

*TL note: 下海 literally means ‘entering the sea,’ but it can also mean to take a plunge figuratively, for example, leave a secure job and enter prostitution.

In the entertainment industry, some newbies would go act in BL to make a splash and head start their career, and some older actors who lost popularity acted in BL as well to return to their former state. But for such a popular actor to go and perform in BL, this was unprecedented.

Jin Yanliu’s career was as bright as the sun during midday right now, and the correct thing to do is to attack the big screen!

Fatty Xiao didn’t understand why Jin Yanliu would suddenly remember this particular drama, and he thought that Jin Yanliu has truly been abnormal these past few days.

But he was afraid to ask too much.

Jin Yanliu debuted with a bang, gaining immense popularity immediately. Born with a golden spoon, his entertainment career went as smooth as flowing water, with him being his own boss. While the studio did have an agent named Cheng Fei who had the right to make decisions, the most critical decisions and calls to action were made by Jin Yanliu himself.

Jin Yanliu had a good perception but accustomed used to being the center figure too much, his personality was strong and had an irritable temper.

Jin Yanliu completely understood Fatty Xiao’s feelings, but he didn’t know how to explain it.

Fortunately, he was head-strong, and the people around him had already gotten used to it.

He looked through the first 10 episodes of <<Into the Devil>> script, went online to search for the original novel, with the main focus being Mu Huaying’s (the character that the imposter plays) role.

Mu Huaying, the notorious “evil brother” in the side story, is also the most vicious and perverted villain in the novel, beautiful, insidious, killing his father and imprisoning his brother without batting an eye.

Aside from the fact that he’s not the main character, there’s still plenty of tension in the role, and it’s bad enough for him to play now, Jin Yanliu thought.

Because he’s feeling very suffocated within his heart and wanted to f*cking kill someone right now.

After looking over all of Mu Huaying’s parts, he couldn’t calm down for a long time, his mind filled with Mu Huaying’s bloodshot eyes and long, messy hair.

The story of ” Wood Obscured by One Leaf**” was too compelling, and the strange and complicated brotherhood between Mu Huaying and Ye Hengyang reminded Jin Yanliu of him and Zhou Beiyang for some reason.

**TL note: This could be the title of the side story about the brothers? Not sure. ”一叶障木”

His heart was still pounding as he turned his head to look out the windows, where the gardener was outside trimming the rose flowers that were ravaged by the rainstorm last night.

The garden was a mess due to the sudden rainstorm yesterday, and a few flower petals were still stuck on the window glass. Gently leaning on the window panes, Jin Yanliu silently gazed at the flower petals.

Lu Yao, Zhao Sili, and the men whose names he can’t remember, handling these men weren’t something especially hard for him. The trickiest thing is still Zhou Beiyang.

Just like that Little Ai said, what if the imposter made a move on Zhou Beiyang?

But Jin Yanliu couldn’t bring himself to completely cut off relations with him.

From when he lost his mother, to the days where he hardly saw his father, Jin Weinan, who was always so busy… over the past dozen years, the one who gave him the most affection and accompanied him for the longest time, it was Zhou Beiyang.

Jin Yanliu suddenly thought of Zhou Beiyang’s fan meeting today.

Zhou Beiyang had just finished participating in a talent show produced by Star Video this year, becoming the center and captain of the seven-member debut group. The group will hold their first fan meeting in Nancheng this evening.

This would be Zhou Beiyang’s first performance after his debut, and Jin Yanliu wanted to go see it.

“The tickets are all sold out,” Fatty Xiao said. “My cousin spent over 4,000 to buy a spot from a scalper that’s the furthest away from the stage. I heard that the front row spots cost 20,000!”

“Can we still buy tickets?”

“If you want to go to the meeting, why don’t you just talk with Brother Yang?”

“I want to go in secret,” Jin Yanliu said. “I don’t want him to know.”

Since they didn’t lack money, Fatty Xiao quickly obtained 2 tickets.

Before heading out, Jin Yanliu first gave himself a huge transformation.

He dyed his hair red, wore some heavy makeup, and hung on some enormous glittering earrings. By the end of it, he became a beauty whose looks could kill.

“Can you still recognize me?” he asked Fatty Xiao.

The assistant carefully examined him. “Nope.”

Jin Yanliu usually had a clean, positive, and refreshing image, so it was a little uncomfortable to see him suddenly dressed up like a flirtatious slut.

But still, it did look very nice.

So beautiful, so handsome. It was due to meeting Jin Yanliu that Fatty Xiao now believed that there’s a group of people, who, with some casual dressing up, would look like they were from a different world than ordinary mortals.

Jin Yanliu drove his red Lamborghini and took Fatty Xiao down the Tyumen Mountains.