Chapter 31
After Fei Chang signed with Chen Yueyang, he moved out of his original residence into a high-end apartment arranged by the company.
He lived in the same building and community as Chen Yueyang, except Fei Chang was on the ground floor, while Chen Yueyang was on the top floor in a 300 square meter single-storey villa-style flat.
Fei Chang had the honor to visit with the other artists in the company. He only remembered that the flat was very big and the floor-to-ceiling windows were transparent and bright. Looking up, the sky was full of stars, as if within reach.
The surnamed Zhao 3.8-tier star who went with him asked Chen Yueyang how much the house was.
Boss Chen said a number.
Everyone exclaimed oh oh oh oh.
Other people’s “oh oh oh oh” was full of admiration and envy. Only Fei Chang had a calm heart, because he felt that someone who shined like Chen Yueyang should live in the place closest to the stars.
It’s just that Fei Chang didn’t expect–one day he would be invited to come here alone to “be a guest.”
And it was twelve o’clock, in the middle of the night.
When Fei Chang took the elevator up, his whole body was wrapped up tightly. He grasped his phone in his hand, and the screen stayed on the WeChat message his senior brother sent him.
The door lock of Chen Yueyang’s house was an electronic lock with a fingerprint and password. Fei Chang remembered seeing Chen Yueyang unlock it when he came last time. The password was Chen Yueyang’s birthday.
So this time, Fei Chang entered Chen Yueyang’s birthday as before.
…It didn’t open.
He entered it three times in a row, receiving an error. If he exceeded five times, the door would automatically call the police.
Fei Chang was a little panicked. He was about to reach out and knock on the door, but at this moment, there was a subtle guess that appeared in his mind, instantly occupying all of his reason, leaving only a sweet and sour taste.
How about just trying?
Accompanied by his thumping heartbeat, his shaking fingers entered a series of numbers on the lock.
It was Fei Chang’s own birthday.
…Still, still didn’t open.
It was truly a self-delusion of passion _(:з」∠)_
Fei Chang really did not dare to waste the last precious opportunity to enter the password, and hurriedly rang the doorbell, letting his senior brother come out and rescue him.
The doorbell rang for only a second before the door opened.
Chen Yueyang, who only wore a set of silk pajamas, stood by the door with his arms crossed and said, “I saw you playing around by the door for a long time. You couldn’t guess the password?”
“Um…” Fei Chang nodded in shame.
“What have you tried?”
“I tried your birthday three times. And…” he whispered, “I tried my birthday once.”
Chen Yueyang sneered. “How stupid. I often have friends visiting here. How could I use your birthday as a password, for fear that other people won’t realize there’s something wrong?”
“…Oh.” He replied faintly, like a giraffe who ate fake leaves, listless, with his neck hanging down.
Chen Yueyang didn’t bother to coax him, and directly pulled him by the hand and dragged him into the house. The heavy door closed behind them.
The room was very dark, and a gentle yellow light scattered down. A light-paved path led directly to the sofa in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows.
There stood a floor lamp and a low coffee table. On the coffee table was a turned over book and two glasses of red wine.
Seeing the two glasses closely placed together, Fei Chang’s Adam’s apple rolled, making a loud and clear “ba dum” sound.
Fei Chang felt that he had lost too much face.
Chen Yueyang led him hand-in-hand all the way, pressed him onto the sofa, and suddenly said, “The password for my door is 0712.”
“Huh?” Fei Changshu memorized all of Chen Yueyang’s information. Even his family members’ phone numbers and dates of birth were remembered, but he had never seen the combination of these four numbers.
Chen Yueyang lowered his eyes and looked down at him. “July 12th was the day when you signed with Yueyang Studios.”
“…”
Fei Chang felt that he had sat into a steamer. Hot air was rising, heating him so his entire body was emitting steam.
He didn’t dare to look at his senior brother. His gaze floated around randomly, but as it floated, it hit the book on the coffee table beside him.
It was a comic book.
The cover was too familiar.
The author’s name was even more familiar, Deer Feifei.
The steamer under Fei Chang’s butt was already boiling!
The heavens seemed to feel that this excitement still wasn’t enough. Fei Chang noticed that there was an iPad under the book, and the screen stayed on a Weibo account with the ID LittleDeerFei.
That Weibo was clearly just a trumpet. It only followed Chen Yueyang. Every day, instead of minding proper business, it could only praise Chen Yueyang. The content of the Weibo, other than “licking our Yang-ge’s unparalleled beauty”, was “today, Yang-ge is truly too handsome chirp chirp”.
Fei Chang looked at the comic book, then the Weibo account, and suddenly burst out, the deer’s eyes dripping with tears as he complained, “Senior brother, this is an invasion of privacy!”
“Invasion of privacy?” said a big star without any guilt, “I even know your biggest secret. What do these other little secrets count for?”
Fei Chang reacted blankly for a while, and after a long moment, realized that the “biggest secret” was “he liked him”.
Fei Chang said, “…Hey!”
He sat awkwardly on the sofa, and the two deer hooves in slippers stepped all over each other, looking like a youth in the midst of puberty.
Chen Yueyang also sat on the sofa, sitting closely beside him, thigh pressed against thigh, shoulder pressed against shoulder.
In this way, Chen Yueyang was much shorter than Fei Chang.
Chen Yueyang didn’t care. He turned sideways, approached the tall young man, and looked up at him.
Chen Yueyang said, “I know your secret. For the sake of fairness, I will tell you mine.”
“Okay.” When Fei Chang heard this, he immediately became energetic and nodded furiously.
“I have several secrets, you may have to listen for a while.”
“That’s okay!”
Chen Yueyang stared at his junior brother and spoke.
He said, “I entered the entertainment industry because I wanted to become rich and famous, but I said in all the shows that I wanted to realize my dream of singing.”
“…”
He said, “I had double eyelid surgery. In order to make my face smaller, I pulled out four teeth. But fans think I am naturally beautiful.”
“…”
He said, “I don’t like to show off my sex appeal at all. I like to wear warm clothes in winter. A scarf, gloves, and a woolen hat, wrapping myself up like a bear.”
“…”
He said, “I hate chicken breasts, avocados, and sweating on the treadmill, but I have to have an eight pack and a beautiful shoulder and back silhouette.”
“…”
He said, “The most important thing is that my personality is not good at all. I’m not a talented senior who is capable of everything. I’m just an ordinary person with a horrible personality. When other people sell more records than me, I get jealous. In the week before the concert, I was so anxious that I had to take sleeping pills to fall asleep.”
“…”
He said, “Feifei, you know now. The me you liked for so long is just a perfect persona packaged by the company.”
“…”
“You’ve finished listening to my secrets now.” Chen Yueyang’s smile had disappeared. He looked at him calmly and asked in a slow voice, “…Will you continue to like me now?”
Fei Chang swallowed, feeling that his throat and eyes were dry. He had a lot to say, but at this moment he seemed to have lost the ability to speak.
He looked at Chen Yueyang, who was so within reach, and he didn’t know how to express his inner feelings–if he really wanted to say it, it was like the god he believed in in his heart had suddenly been hit by a scientific hammer.
Chen Yueyang thought he had been hurt by his true face. Yes, Fei Chang was his fanboy. He had liked him for so long, and suddenly learned that his idol was not perfect at all. Of course it was difficult to accept.
Chen Yueyang understood his withdrawal. In fact, Chen Yueyang did not need to tell him the truth. He could wear a mask for a lifetime in front of this fan, but Chen Yueyang had a little bit of hope (really only a little) in his heart, that Fei Chang could embrace everything about his true self.
But Fei Chang’s reaction shattered his hopes.
Chen Yueyang smiled, moved back, and increased the distance between them.
However, in the next second, Fei Chang suddenly reached out and grabbed him.
The tall giraffe baby looked at the stubborn Tibetan antelope brother with wet eyes. He cleared his throat and with difficulty, let out a hoarse sound.
–Who knows where the rumors came from. Many people firmly believed that giraffes had no vocal cords and could not call out. Giraffes were very quiet animals, but under their quiet appearance, they had a lively character.
Giraffe babies in the juvenile period loved to bark, but as they got older, they began to learn to use body language instead of voice. Language sometimes lacked the colour of life. Jumping in excitement, colliding in anger, these things could not deceive people.
Adult giraffes retained their ability to call out. It was only that they didn’t have much opportunity to use it. They only spoke at the most critical moments.
Such as when encountering danger, such as calling for a child.
And also… when they were looking for a mate.
Fei Chang felt that there was a breath in his chest slowly swelling, and that breath pushed out the words in Fei Chang’s stomach inch by inch.
“Yueyang.” This was the first time that Fei Chang called his senior brother by name. Fortunately, he had practiced it in his dreams in advance. “Actually… I took a shower before I came here.”
“What?” Chen Yueyang showed a rare moment of sluggishness.
“…The WeChat you sent me.” He prompted, “I washed it.”
The clumsy giraffe couldn’t speak any other sweet words, and could only express his thoughts through action.
When Chen Yueyang understood Fei Chang’s suggestion, his eyes, which had originally dimmed, now brightened again. Surprise, enthusiasm, excitement, all kinds of emotions mixed together, filling the emptiness in Chen Yueyang’s heart.
He stuck himself to him again and asked slyly: “Did you wash the front or the back?”
“Uh…”
“Don’t tell me now, I will know in a bit.”
Fei Chang lowered his head, clutching his hands all over his legs, and answered, rocking back and forth, “I washed the front… and also washed the back.”
He scrubbed it carefully for a long time, turned down the long hat of the little giraffe, and pressed his chubby head in the water, washing it little by little. After washing it clean, he also applied moisturizer. Smelling fragrant, anyone who saw it would want to take a bite.
Originally, he only washed the front, but after leaving the bathroom, he clicked open a animal world-style instructional video with a learning attitude. After watching it, he was restless for a while, then hurried back to the bathroom, awkwardly stuffing his fingers into his body.
To be honest, it felt weird and he really didn’t like it. But he hoped that his senior brother would like it. Regardless of whether it was the front or the back, as long as Chen Yueyang was satisfied, he would be very happy.
Fei Chang’s responses could always surprise Chen Yueyang. He took his hand and pulled him up from the sofa.
Fei Chang followed him in a daze, through the living room, past the study, past the bathroom, until the two stopped in front of a solid wooden door.
Fei Chang said, “Where are we going.”
Chen Yueyang said, “I promised you, when you came, I would dance for you.”
Fei Chang was pleasantly surprised. “Senior brother, you have a practice room at home?”
“No.” Chen Yueyang turned his head and smiled brilliantly at him. At the same time, he lifted his leg and kicked open the bedroom door, “I put a big bed in front of the floor-to-ceiling window.”
“……Σ( ° △°|||)︴”
“Don’t worry, no matter if it’s the front or the back, senior brother won’t let you wash it in vain.”
[Fin]
T/N: And that’s the end of the main story! There’s still one extra left.