Your Rival in Love Gets Prettier Every Day

Chapter 39: A Pool of Autumn Water

After hanging up the phone, Shen Jintai went to look at the hot search.

Holy shit.

When did he get on the hot search?! The ranking wasn't very high. The hot search term was also very weird: "Eunuch love".

He kind of wanted to know what it was so he could laugh at it. After clicking on it, he knew why Li Melan said he went viral. It was full of neat and uniform GIFs of the bed scenes between him and prince Zhou Ying with the comments full of screaming groundhogs*.

*Screaming groundhogs (在土拨鼠尖叫) = I think it's a reference to . Warning: lower your volume, it's a loud sound.

Fuck!

It turns out that he went viral because of this bed scene!

Shen Jintai knew that he should be able to rely on this drama to make a fire, but he didn't expect the fire to be so rapid. It only took two episodes from the broadcast. In less than three hours, it had already spread like wildfire.

Even more excited than him was Monsoon Entertainment. The scene also included Zheng Siqi. Zheng Siqi was antsy in the middle of the night because he found that his Weibo followers was rising like a storm. From tens of thousands of fans, it rose to 300,000 in less than three hours.

That number was trivial for a big star, but for him, a newcomer, a rise of 10,000 people was enough to delight him.

"This hot search..." He said to his agent, Sister Wen: "The company didn't buy it for me, did it?"

"You think too much, the company bought you one before the broadcast, but the response was lukewarm. This may be... Shen Jintai must've bought it, right?" Sister Wen tone wasn't certain. She thought this hot search could be the real deal. It was unexpected and reasonable. She knew this explosive point very well.

With the development of society, homosexuality was no longer a rarity. In the past two years, the public's recognition of homosexuality had also increased a lot. The public had shown a supportive attitude towards those in the entertainment industry who had faintly same-sex scandals... with the exception of Shen Jintai, who chased after men until he went bankrupt. Had it been women, he still would've been ridiculed.

In the era when everyone is self-reliant, it is despicable to post goods* wherever you go.

*Post goods (倒贴货) = refers to abandoning your self-esteem to make someone happy.

In the past two years, there have been films and television dramas with same-sex themes on large and small screens, but the expressions were very restrained and vague*, especially in the field of TV dramas. <The East Palace is Coming> had set a precedent. Not only did it have a straightforward love scene between men, but the protagonist was also a eunuch. Such taste!

*Clarity: in the sense where it's only hinted at. It's not clear-cut.

The sex scene was filmed with raw emotions and shown in a non-erotic way. The moment the clothes were torn, it really stimulated people's adrenaline. What's more, both actors are young and handsome.

Shen Jintai eunuch's appearance was good and complimented Zheng Siqi's handsomeness. Their ancient costumes were equally as beautiful, elegant, and noble as Bai Qingquan's. The two people who could set fires with their faces, were involved in a love scene that was tragic and dog blooded.

The scheming little eunuch used his beauty to seduce the pure-hearted prince, but he didn't expect that he would also fall into it. This sense of fate was like moths drawn to a flame. It was too easy to swallow!