“Rumour first appeared ten years ago, and the first script he worked on was promoted at the time when Xie Qianchen just became a manager. It was smooth sailing afterwards. And this Wen Ran alias was from the time Xie Qianchen was managing his two juniors and guiding them to the top. Take a look at the names — Wen Ran… Lu Wenyuan, Han Feiran. It’s self-explanatory! And the first two works of Wen Ran, well, the first one was the one in which Lu Wenyuan achieved the highest viewer numbers in the television circles. It’s also Wen Ran’s only drama work. And the second one was the one where Han Feiran won the Ten Thousand Flowers Award for Best Actor. Based on all this, we can tell that it’s the same person, and this is the explanation that makes the most sense!”
Following the timeline summarised by this attentive netizen, more and more details were discovered by the public. Later on, there was even a computer expert who accidentally found out that Wen Ran’s Weibo and Rumour’s Weibo had been logged on from the same mobile phone at the same time. And the number of that phone… belonged to Xie Qianchen!
So, these three were really the same person!
All the netizens were shocked.
In the end, the person who confirmed the answer was the lawyer who made the will for Xie Qianchen. He showed all the evidence and said that the real person behind the two scriptwriter aliases was Xie Qianchen.
“So, our scriptwriter god Rumour is… gone?”
“Wen Ran, our shining light! Nooooooooooo!”
The fans of the two aliases were confused. They couldn’t believe that their idols had left the mortal world, just like that. The comment sections of the Weibo site, including Xie Qianchen’s ID, were full of wailing.
Everyone was asking: Why?
What do you mean why? It’s because he can’t live on anymore.
It was a simple answer which anyone could give, but for those who knew Xie Qianchen, this simplest answer was the most cruel. And for those who did not know him, they felt that they could not accept it.
This was because to everyone else, the dark times of the entertainment industry had passed, and the best time had finally come. As the pioneer of the era, it was the time for Xie Qianchen to enjoy the fruits of victory… So why did he have to leave in this way?
And after that, a long Weibo post titled “The truth of what happened ten years ago” hit these people hard.
The first sentence of the long post stated that the story written by Rumour was true. That youth in the story was Xie Qianchen.
He gave up on acting because he was too traumatised by Cao Kun, and could no longer face the camera.
The entire story was a folder so big that it took hours to download. It contained the whole truth about Xie Qianchen’s humiliation.
Pus, this truth was something which Xie Qianchen and sent out personally, folder by folder, in order to break free from the threat of Cao Kun.
“I read a little and my heart couldn’t take any more. Cao Kun is a f*cking beast!”
“It’s horrible! It was an open-and-shut case! Were the police back then all blind? How dare they class it as a lovers’ quarrel? Who would call this being lovers? Couldn’t you guys hear him begging for help non-stop?”
“My heart is breaking. Xie Qianchen had such a bitter life! I finally know why he jumped from there. Because Han Feiran also jumped from that place!”
“I have no words. In fact, Rumour wrote the ending already, but we didn’t notice it. Remember the ending of the story? The youth jumped, didn’t he?”
Meanwhile, Xie Qianchen’s award-winning performance was also dug out. The young man, who was only eighteen years old, was able to match the acting skills of the veteran actors and actresses. Seeing that, the netizens almost immediately burst into tears.
“I hope you are treated tenderly in the other world.”
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Practically all the big names of the entertainment industry attended Xie Qianchen’s memorial service. They stood in silence in the auditorium, red-eyed, unable to say even a word of farewell.
Qi Luo, who was standing at the front of the room, was crying so much that he couldn’t breathe. The boy’s normally chubby face was gaunt..
“Brother Qianchen, why did you go back on your words? You said you’d guide me in acting. I lost weight. I also grew taller. I can protect you in the future. Please, if you’d just waited for me…!”
The past few days had put a lot of pressure on Qi Luo, and he lost some control of himself. He cried so much that his voice broke. It was heartbreaking.
Bai Siwei and Hao Yi were also very sad. Although they’d only been with Xie Qianchen for a short time, he had shown them enough kindness for a lifetime.
It wouldn’t be farfetched to say that their stardom and future had been all set on the right path to success by Xie Qianchen. But now, just when it was time for them to be paying him back, Xie Qianchen was gone.
“Qianchen, Qianchen…” Bai Siwei moaned. She could not say anything else, and she cried so much she was on the verge of fainting. Hao Yi put out a hand to support her, and his other arm around Qi Luo, though he could barely hold himself together.
If he did not have to remain calm, Hao Yi would’ve thrown himself to the ground and wailed. The lives of good people were always too short. Xie Qianchen had saved countless people, and their dreams, but no one had been able to lend him the strength to stay on in this world.
As for Shen Yi, he’d collapsed in a faint as soon as he learned of Xie Qianchen’s death. He was now sitting next to the coffin in a wheelchair, looking sluggishly at the portrait of Xie Qianchen. His numbed appearance was no better than the walking dead.
The number of people who came to say goodbye to Xie Qianchen was far more than expected. Xie Qianchen’s final burial place was in a private cemetery, by the mountains and water, a beautiful and quiet place.
The owner of the cemetery was purportedly one of Xie Qianchen’s fans, and had not wanted a penny. Their only hope was that their favourite idol could sleep peacefully here. They also promised that this place would belong to Xie Qianchen alone.
Finally, the day Xie Qianchen was buried, all the people who could come, came. The cemetery was crowded with many people standing around, every face full of sorrow.
It was because they knew that from then on, everyone would remember Xie Qianchen, but this world no longer had Xie Qianchen in it.
And Lu Mian, standing outside the cemetery gates and gazing in, was unable to tear his eyes away for a long time. Just then, his mobile phone rang.
Lu Mian picked up and the caller said, “Mr Lu, Lu Wenyuan is awake! He’s completely back to normal. It’s just…”
“Just what?”
“It’s just that he has a problem with his memory. He doesn’t seem to remember those things, including Mr Xie.”
“Is that so? That’s good too,” Lu Mian murmured, then hung up.
Then, he picked up a beautiful bouquet of lilies from the back seat of the car, and placed it at the entrance of Xie Qianchen’s cemetery before driving away.
The end was just a representation of a new beginning.
Lu Mian knew that he would never be able to wake up from a dream named Song Yucheng in his lifetime, but so what? As long as he still had a dream, he had something.
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When Song Yucheng opened his eyes again, he was floating in a void space. The System, on the other hand, was chanting in a half-dead tone.
“Main task rating, E. Acquisition of an admirer was successful, but the target scum evil-doer did not suffer the pain of being cuckolded.
Secondary task rating, SSS.
Milord, this is a cuckolding system! If we keep going like this, we’re going to turn into the face-slapping system! [NationalTraggedy.jpg]”
Song Yucheng couldn’t say a word in rebuttal. “Well, we’re sure to suffer some setbacks. We can work harder in the next world! You saw Xie Qianchen’s situation too. I could use some strategies to handle the situations with Lu Mian and Shen Yi, and even Qi Luo and Tang Chi, but you think about Xie Qianchen’s grievances… I just want to give him an ending that brought justice for him.”
“Ah, you are too nice, Milord!” Song Yucheng’s explanation was justified, plus the System itself also found Xie Qianchen’s life heartbreakingly painful. It just had to accept it. What’s more, the E-rating or whatever was just a low score, not a failure. All in all, they could be considered to be doing a good job!
At that thought, the System quickly became happy again, and excitedly helped Song Yucheng check the general situation of the next world.
However, it became confused after reading the scenario.
“Did the backstory get messed up?”
“What’s wrong?” asked Song Yucheng.
“Well…” The System thought for a long while but did not know what to say. It simply passed the general background information to Song Yucheng.
Song Yucheng was also confused when he read it.
The new world was set in an ancient time. At first glance, it seemed like a love story of a deeply affectionate prince marrying his male consort… but the scum they were supposed to cuckold was the prince!
This was supposed to be a love story, so what’s this about a scummy man?
Song Yucheng was puzzled, and felt that he had gotten the wrong script, but time waits for no man. There was no reconfirming with the System, because his soul had been pulled to the next world.