Almost without hesitation.
Mu Ye took the pen and signed his name on the non-compete agreement and confidentiality agreement.
Mu Ye’s signature was concise and generous, quite different from his gentle personality. His pen strokes were vigorous and impressive.
Song Jianchu stared at the two signatures behind his lenses with a calm gaze.
When Mu Ye wasn’t looking, his shoulders dropped slightly with each breath, and his fingers on his knees gently clenched.
When they reached the final agreement, Mu Ye paused and turned to say, “Can we make a change to this agreement?”
“Sure, what do you have in mind?” Song Jianchu replied.
“I don’t want to receive payment in advance,” Mu Ye said. “As a first-time contractor, both parties need to work together and the payment can wait until the end of the agreement.”
Mu Ye had never worked with a contractor before?
Song Jianchu looked slightly surprised and nodded, “Okay.”
Mu Ye looked at the paper in his hand and said, “Let’s also remove the restriction on physical contact.”
Song Jianchu asked, “What do you mean?”
Mu Ye said calmly, “I can’t accept a high payment and still inconvenience the contractor.”
Before Song Jianchu could say that he wasn’t concerned about that, Mu Ye added with a suggestive smile, “I can offer what others can, after all, you’ve given me so much.”
Song Jianchu said, “Don’t force yourself…”
The way the child tried to act like an adult was really amusing to Mu Ye, and he had a mischievous idea to tease the child.
Mu Ye twirled his pen and squinted his eyes.
He leaned in closer to the armrest of the sofa.
The distance suddenly shortened, and the man’s handsome features became extremely aggressive.
Song Jianchu’s heart rate increased, and he leaned back slightly without making a sound.
“If you have any needs in the future, just let me know,” Mu Ye’s gaze fell on him for a second, his voice lowered suggestively, “as long as it’s not too much… the sponsor can do anything to me.”
Song Jianchu’s face quickly turned red.
He naturally averted his gaze, picked up the agreement, and stood up. “Let me go make some changes to the agreement. Wait here for a moment.”
Watching the boy’s noticeably faster footsteps as he walked away, Mu Ye lazily propped his face up and chuckled silently.
After making the changes according to his suggestions, Song Jianchu signed the agreement.
Mu Ye looked at the effective date, “Starting tomorrow?”
Song Jianchu nodded, “If you have no objections, the agreement will take effect tomorrow.”
Mu Ye looked towards the bedroom, “So, can I move in tomorrow?”
Song Jianchu was stunned.
Move in?
Being sponsored and living together?
The kept lover’s overly proactive behavior made the inexperienced new sponsor appear a bit flustered.
“Let’s not do it now,” Song Jianchu calmly said. “Your job is not convenient to be caught on camera.”
Mu Ye raised an eyebrow and asked, “Then how do we date in the future?”
This new sponsor had already thought of that in advance. Song Jianchu replied calmly, “Send me your work schedule for the month, and I’ll come pick you up when you’re not working.”
Mu Ye nodded, looking down. “A secret love affair is exciting.”
Song Jianchu: “…”
After signing the contract, Mu Ye received a call from his agent and left with the agreement. The fish looked happy, so Mu Ye decided to temporarily stay there.
Song Jianchu returned to his study with the signed contract and flipped through it before putting it in a safe filled with souvenirs with the same handwriting as the signature on the contract.
He then opened his bucket list and checked off the next item: “Complete the game Tomorrow 2.” It was a highly anticipated sequel to a console game that he had been waiting for two years. The game was finally released at 9 a.m. this morning.
Although the game had not officially been released yet, the theme song “Tomorrow” had already become popular across the internet. The game company had spent a lot of money to commission the top singer Mu Ye to compose and write the song.
An hour ago, a missing person, “Tanhua,” briefly appeared on a live stream on Weibo. Netizens were complaining in the comments section when they suddenly noticed that the live stream had reappeared on the homepage, this time with a split screen showing the newly released RPG console game.
Many game anchors were camping to grab the first release traffic, but suddenly found that the heat had dropped by more than half.
When they went out to check, they realized that a certain super influencer had parachuted into the gaming area.
Seeing that familiar profile picture, the game anchors were all dumbfounded.
“What the hell?? Isn’t this guy from the life area? Did he get lost?”
The game anchors were not willing to give up, so they opened their own broadcasts on mute and used their phones to sneak into the super influencer’s broadcast room, wanting to see what capital this life area blogger had to compete with them for gaming area traffic.
Upon entering the room, the game anchors were all exclaiming in amazement and couldn’t bear to leave.
The super influencer’s game configuration was directly set to the highest, burning the graphics card to the limit. The smooth and delicate graphics were full of the taste of money, making it the ultimate dream of all console lovers. The big V’s controller operation was also very skilled, completing mainline missions faster than even the top game anchor in the gaming area.
This damn rich guy even made the same game content look different from everyone else.
The hard-boiled protagonist who should have started out impoverished and down on his luck was wearing a cool punk-style leather jacket, driving the exclusive sports car that was gifted to him by the gaming company’s supreme consumer membership, and picking up trash in the village when suddenly a zombie appeared and he shot it in the head.
The barrage of comments rolled across the screen.
[“What the hell, are you messing with me?”]
[“Do you feel guilty and come back with a conscience?”]
[“Picking up the cold rice bowl (obediently)”]
[“Okay, it’s on the hot search: Vlog king openly snatches Gaming king’s rice bowl”]
[“Holy shit, holy shit!!! To be honest, this is the best image quality I’ve ever seen! So comfortable!!”]
[“As expected of you, you can even make playing a game look flashy…”]
In the video, the young man lazily sat on the couch with one leg bent, seeming to be in a good mood.
Unfortunately, he had a mouth, and half of the people in the live room died from the sound of his voice.
“I have some personal matters, and I won’t be updating vlogs until April next year. I’ll give you another hour of live broadcast, so you won’t bombard my comment section.”
Mu Ye returned to his studio after receiving a call from Gu Jiaming.
Pei Shinian was playing with his phone on the couch and waved to him when he looked up. “Brother, come over here, good news!”
Mu Ye sat down casually, received the vocal tea prepared by his assistant, thanked him, and took a sip. “No announcements today? Why did you come over to my place and sit idle?”
Pei Shinian replied, “I just received an interesting announcement, so I came to find you.”
Gu Jiaming had just finished his call and turned to him with a slightly mysterious smile. “I just talked to Director Cui on the phone. Everyone’s on board now, and you guys can go play together next month.”
“That’s great! I never expected Brother Lu and Brother Xing to also join this variety show.” Pei Shinian was excited. “With Brother Ye, the four of us will be on a free vacation together, right? I’ve already figured it out. We can record the show during the day and form a team to play games at night. It’s perfect!”
Gu Jiaming smiled and said, “I think Cui Dao probably planned this all along. Maybe he’ll even hide a camera at your drinking party tonight.”
“Right…” Pei Shinian hadn’t thought of that and suddenly became worried about his public image. “Then I better practice drinking more. Even though it’s a reality show, it’s embarrassing to be seen passed out by fans under the table…”
Before Pei Shinian could finish his excitement, Mu Ye’s voice came faintly, “It’s okay, they won’t be able to get you drunk without me there.”
Pei Shinian was stunned. “Brother, you’re not coming?”
Gu Jiaming didn’t expect Mu Ye to suddenly object and hesitated before saying, “Didn’t I arrange it for you yesterday? You don’t want to go now?”
“I don’t have time. I have some personal matters to attend to these few months.” Mu Ye put on his headphones and clicked into a live stream on Weibo, saying, “You guys go have fun, I’ll stay here.”
Gu Jiaming was puzzled. “What personal matters? Why didn’t I know?”
Mu Ye hadn’t even looked at the content of the live stream yet and first sent a gift to the host using his alternate account. “It might help me find some inspiration, I need to spend some time on it.”
Hearing Mu Ye say this, Gu Jiaming also hesitated. He had originally wanted Mu Ye to go out and relax to find inspiration, but if there was a better way, there was no need.
Gu Jiaming said, “Well then… let’s forget about it.”
“Don’t, brother. You should come too. Our team will have no soul without you. How can we do it with only three people?” Pei Shinian immediately started begging. “If you don’t come, I’ll have to eat that hardcore dog food between the two abusive husbands myself. With Star’s bad temper, they’re bound to have friction while filming together. What if he wants to beat up Brother Lu again? How can I stop him alone?”
Mu Ye watched the gaming live stream with interest. “No, Old Bai usually doesn’t use violence outside.”
Gu Jiaming said, “These two have been in a secret marriage for seven years, and they still haven’t passed the adjustment period yet?”
Pei Shinian thought about it and put on a painful expression. “Forget it, maybe I won’t go either.”
“It’s okay,” Gu Jiaming comforted, “I heard that Director Cui wants to invite a mysterious guest. If you all work together, you should be able to stop him.”
“Brother Jiaming, you haven’t seen the scene. It’s no use even if Brother Ye tries to stop him,” Pei Shining waved his hand tiredly. “Brother Xing didn’t become a martial arts movie star for nothing. I suspect he practiced half of his kung fu by fighting with Brother Lu every day at home.”
“Lu, the movie star, has it tough too,” Gu Jiaming commented.
Pei Shining sighed and asked curiously, “Director Cui wants to invite another mysterious guest? Is it a girl? Then I can think about it again…”
“Not a girl. It’s not confirmed yet, but I heard it’s very difficult to invite. They haven’t been able to contact the person and have even resorted to hiring a private investigator,” Gu Jiaming said.
“Even harder to invite than Brother Ye?” Pei Shining was even more curious. “Who is it?”
Mu Ye hadn’t been paying much attention to their conversation. He was focused on the person in the live broadcast.
The broadcast had been going on for an hour, and the host paused the game, swept aside his bangs and stood up, saying, “I need to go feed my fish. I’m signing off now.”
The barrage of comments began again.
[“What kind of excuse is that?”]
[“What fish? Do you have so much money that you’ve opened your own fishery?”]
[“Come back and continue! I want to see what happens next!”]
[“Can’t anyone make this demon king behave?”]
“This guest is still in the confidentiality stage, so let’s not talk about it. But I doubt they’ll be able to invite him. That kid isn’t short of money and doesn’t care about fame. He already has a lot of haters, so he wouldn’t want to stir up trouble by appearing on a variety show,” Gu Jiaming said. “But I don’t think Director Cui will give up. He wants to invite the Demon King’s little brother.”
Pei Shining was going crazy with curiosity. “Who is it?”
Pei Shinian opened his eyes in surprise and unconsciously looked towards his brother, who was immersed in the live broadcast: “…My brother is a fan of the Demon King?”
The host ended the broadcast and the screen went black.
Mu Ye slowly looked up and asked a few seconds late, “Who?”
Gu Jiaming’s headache was triggered just by mentioning this name: “Song Jianchu.”
“Oh my God…” Pei Shinian couldn’t help but blurt out and nodded, “It’s really difficult to invite him. Director Cui is playing too big this time. He dares to invite this black and red Demon King?”
“Just now, when Director Cui mentioned it, my heart skipped a beat.” Gu Jiaming took out his phone and said, “It’s better for you not to go. I’m also worried that you will be tied up with that kid again. I’ll tell Director Cui that you have work and can’t take on this job, so he can quickly reject and find other guests.”
Mu Ye suddenly said, “Wait a minute, let me ask.”
Gu Jiaming asked in confusion, “Ask who?”
“Brother, do you want to go again?” Pei Shinian suddenly revived, “Do you feel particularly regretful about missing the opportunity to go out with us?”
“Brother Jiaming, you don’t have to worry with me here. Even if that Demon King’s little brother really comes, it won’t be a problem,” Pei Shinian immediately reassured him, “As long as I stir things up fast enough, they won’t be able to generate any sparks. You can rest assured that I will be a good insulator between them!”
Mu Ye exited the live broadcast and opened WeChat.
【MY: Are you done feeding the fish?】
Song Jianchu paused the game to feed his fish and was standing by the fish tank observing the health status of his koi when he received a new WeChat message on his phone.
He looked at the message and was momentarily stunned before replying.
【Song Jianchu: Hmm, it’s eating.】
【Song Jianchu: Did you see the live broadcast? You didn’t use your big account, did you?】
【MY: No.】
【MY: I heard that Director Cui invited you to a variety show?】
Song Jianchu was once again taken aback.
Is the entertainment industry really that small?
【Song Jianchu: Yes.】
【MY: Do you want to go?】
Song Jianchu typed on the keyboard: 【No, there’s no need.】
Indeed, there was no need.
His time was not to be wasted on this, and why should he give those idiotic haters a chance to criticize him?
Before he could send the message, a new one popped up.
【MY: I also received an invitation from the production team.】
【MY: If you’re not going, I’ll decline too and focus on spending time with my boyfriend.】
Song Jianchu calmly looked at the three characters, deftly clearing the input box.
Gu Jiaming asked, “Who are you messaging?”
Mu Ye waited for a reply and casually said, “A friend.”
Gu Jiaming asked, “?”
Which friend is so important?
Not waiting long, Mu Ye quickly received a reply.
[Song Jianchu: I’m up.]
[Song Jianchu: Don’t let your love life affect your work.]
Mu Ye chuckled at the child’s rational tone.
Two seconds later, another message with a calm tone popped up.
[Song Jianchu: Just take some time to chat during breaks in recording.]