Capturing My Demon King Costar

MY COSTAR AND I GET SOME GRIM NEWS

Obviously, the netizens have a lot to say about the short clip of Heimao gallantly defending Jincan.

[Freight train: For a moment there I thought this drama was going to be cancelled for good haha. What's up with the hot bodyguard tho?]

[Sundress missy: Ahhh did you see my geges, so cozy together hearteyes.emoji I'm so happy, this made my day]

[Island person: they certainly were standing next to each other]

[Sock puppet: they certainly are two people who work together]

[Your daddy: no one saw your geges because we were all paying attention to the live workplace romance going on, what's up with that?]

[Internet sleuth: do you guys remember those rumours that popped up a few months back about Xin Hulei and that cute blond guy? He's the same one from the video!!! Turns out he's Xin Hulei's PA, that's why they were together that day. About the other guy, it seems everyone's already guessed it, he's Xin Hulei's new bodyguard.]

[Leilei marry me: Leilei never used to have bodyguards. Maybe it's because of all that mess with the dead prostitutes? Ugh, every since he started working with that Yao Shen there's been nothing but trouble.]

[Shenlei forever: stop spreading baseless rumours. we don't know why Leilei has a new bodyguard, but there's no indication that it's related to Shenshen]

[Older sister is here: can you stop with the actor CP talk? Whether it's true or not you'll never know unless they get married so why lose sleep over it? Now these two other guys, they're just regular people. Has anyone found their social media accounts?]

[Internet sleuth: an extensive search didn't turn up anything. They must be very private people.]

[Little kitty: What if we make a supertopic for them? I think that would be fun.]

[Ying Ying: I'm just glad the drama is filming again. I don't care about anything else]

Yao Shen keeps reading for some time, but finds that people like 'Ying Ying' are rare, and almost everyone else is happy to speculate.

The rumours about Yao Shen and Xin Hulei being together gain more traction, now that everyone is sure that the only reason Xin Hulei was seen with Jincan was because he was his personal assistant.

Luckily, most of them are drowned out by the unlucky surge of interest in Jincan and Heimao. The clip goes viral even outside of drama fan circles, with a lot of people praising Heimao for stepping in and stopping an act of harassment, while a few others point out that Jincan looks really uncomfortable about the whole thing.

The main issue is that the pubic interest has only grown since the video was released. Some people have even called for the key grip to be arrested for sexual harassment, others want him to go on a talk show with Jincan and Heimao to tell his side of the story.

Yao Shen can see why Xin Hulei's manager gave him a call. This level of scrutiny can be troublesome for a group of supernatural creatures trying to hide in plain sight.

Everyone expects that actors will draw attention from the public, but management companies act accordingly to protect their interests and no one bats an eye.

What will happen if people start looking too deeply into two so called 'regular' people and find no birth register, no school enrolment documents...just absolutely nothing?

Yao Shen hands the phone back to Xin Hulei with a sigh. "What a mess."

Xin Hulei takes back the phone. "Who recorded the video?"