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Chapter 13: I've Been Your Fan For Such a Long Time

Gu Wei was about to lose it.

He couldn't stand it anymore.

His heart beat faster and faster. His palms were starting to sweat. Finally, he opened his mouth and began to at least try to explain:

"Back then… I didn't know you were Jiang Xun."

He also hadn't known Jiang Xun was the poor, unfortunate soul who'd gotten caught up in this whole engagement mess.

"Who did you think I was?" Jiang Xun asked. His gaze took on a faintly dangerous glint.

"I thought you were…" Gu Wei caught a glimpse of that dangerous look in Jiang Xun's eyes and swallowed what he was about to say. Instead of admitting he thought Jiang Xun was 'a little kid', he said, "I thought you were a customer."

He couldn't say he thought Jiang Xun's avatar and username were like a little kid's. He had to try to smooth things over.

And so, under Jiang Xun's scrutinizing gaze, Gu Wei thoroughly recounted all the misunderstandings that had transpired during their long-distance communications. But he was very, very careful to omit the words 'little kid' from the whole story.

When he finished his explanation, Jiang Xun was silent for a long moment.

In all twenty-three years of his life, he had never encountered such a bizarre confluence of events.

So this kid really was a nice kid. A good boy. He had lived a simple life. There was no overabundance of experience. There was no body count of one hundred and eighty.

This convoluted WeChat conversation of theirs, that was so like a chicken talking to a duck, could only have been born from the errors of man.

"I'm a serious idol, I can't sell you a year," Gu Wei concluded. "If I sell you a year, my career is over."

Gu Wei had an exceptionally clear understanding of where he stood in society and in the industry, and what he could and couldn't do.

"I can't date, either," he continued determinedly. "Dating would also kill my career."

After finally clearing up all the misunderstandings, Gu Wei let out a sigh of relief. But he didn't realize his every twitch and breath were taken in by Jiang Xun's sharp eyes.

It seemed to Jiang Xun that the little idol, who could make fans shriek and scream when he put on his stage persona, was actually a pretty easy person to talk to offstage.

How could a cute little star like this have such a bad reputation online? Where did all those people badmouthing him on Weibo even come from?

When Jiang Xun thought of those scathing comments on Weibo, he frowned slightly and furrowed his brow.

Gu Wei had started inching a hand towards the locked door, ready to make a break for it. But then Jiang Xun suddenly lifted his phone and showed Gu Wei the screen, brandishing the screenshot of the evidence of Gu Wei's blunder from earlier that afternoon.

"What are you running for? Feeling brave?" Jiang Xun pointed at the screenshot. "What's the explanation for this?"

Gu Wei fell silent.

He had forgotten about that part.

"You really do have guts," Jiang Xun said, looking straight at Gu Wei. "You had the gall to trash-talk me without even blocking me first."

"I did block you!" Gu Wei protested. The mere thought of that mistake made anger rise up in him, causing his voice to grow louder as well. "I didn't know I accidentally made it so that only you could see it!"