Chapter 181: Beginning to Awaken the Sealed Memories (Double — Asking for Monthly Tickets)

On this Bulgari gala night, Bai Liang and champagne seemed to share an especially fateful bond.

He really had drunk quite a lot.

Just that, outside the gala, the way he drank was a touch too strange.

Still, practice yields true knowledge — a swan's neck and champagne really do pair well.

Oh right, the very next day Sister Yanzi told him that champagne brands had actually caught wind of it and reached out, wanting Bai Liang as their spokesperson — and not just one.

After all, although Bulgari jewelry was the star of the show last night, that glass of champagne did steal an unusual amount of the spotlight.

Makes sense — when Bai Liang was playing with cars, didn't he lure in both Mercedes and Red Bull?

"Brother Xiao Bai, I think we should just pick something like Moët or Krug — like Bulgari, they're top champagne brands under the luxury giant LVMH."

"You pick it, that's your call. By the way, with these endorsement deals — will they send me wine to drink?"

"Probably, yeah. If you're willing to drink it often and post a few Weibo updates while you're at it, the brand side would be thrilled."

"Sounds pretty good~"

Bai Liang felt last night's experience was rather pleasant — the champagne trickling slowly down the lines of his body was a feast for the eyes on its own.

Let alone everything else.

Just that cleaning up afterward was a bit of a hassle — he might have to pay the hotel some cleaning fee.

The floor-to-ceiling windows of last night's presidential suite, the floor in front of them, even the sofa — all of them had been thoroughly wrecked.

Clearly this sort of thing couldn't be done in the RV — the space is too small, no room to really spread out.

Sister Yanzi actually guessed what he was talking about, but she pretended she didn't know.

After all, early this morning it was she who had rushed over to deliver clothes to Li Xin — the young lady had come with Bai Liang yesterday still wearing her gala gown, and she didn't even have a change of underwear, let alone anything else.

Sister Yanzi had no choice but to camp outside a shopping mall, waiting for it to open so she could rush in, buy everything, and bring it over first thing.

Mm. Still, this didn't really give Sister Yanzi much to complain about — though she was very curious.

"Brother Xiao Bai, can I ask you something?"

"Go ahead~"

"So, is Li Xin a stand-in for Li Yitong, or is it the other way around?"

Pfft!

Body-double romance tropes too?

Bai Liang was thoroughly amused. "What makes you think that?"

"I'm guessing, because Li Yitong is Meng Jie's bestie, right? So even if you like that type, Brother Xiao Bai, you really can't do anything about it. Then you happened to run into Li Qin, who happens to look a bit like her—"

At first listen, it actually sounded pretty reasonable.

But the premise was wrong.

Bai Liang earnestly corrected Sister Yanzi's take and added: "Just because two people look a bit alike doesn't mean I'll treat one as the other. They're both individuals, each with their own charm. Body-double romance doesn't fly with me. At most I use the resemblance to tease them both for fun — honestly, in my eyes the difference between them is huge."

Got it!

Sister Yanzi nodded — so he wasn't planning to let either one go.

Of course, by now she knew her Brother Xiao Bai pretty well: whether he "lets go" or not really depends on whether the girl in question makes the first move.

If Li Yitong had just behaved herself, given Bai Liang's laid-back capybara habits, chances are nothing out of line would have happened.

From Meng Jie to Nazha, and later Reba — wasn't it always the same?

Though, to be fair, Bai Liang really was pretty easy to push over.

All the cardio and strength training he'd done over the years somehow left him, at certain moments, "fragile" enough to be unable to resist some delicate, sweet girl.

If he actually brought out the combat power he used against Wu Jing and Huang Jingyu, what girl could even get close?

On the road back to Jiaxing, Bai Liang also checked in on the situation online.

Last night's drama was still trending on the hot search — he and Wu Yifan's fans were still going at each other, bickering nonstop.

Though the other side had switched talking points, now attacking Bai Liang for having fewer luxury endorsements and fewer top-tier magazine covers than their "brother."

This kind of behavior is just the usual fan-circle data wars.

Then Bai Liang's fans mocked the other side for having no real works — just a pretty face.

Actually, that side does have works — they've shot some dramas — though in the future they'll completely vanish.

Some artists really do have that talent: gone half a lifetime, return still a nobody.

Though Bai Liang was worried this guy, once he goes in, won't be able to come back at all~

"Brother Xiao Bai, we definitely crushed them yesterday, but their fans are still way too many — the Weibo comment sections are a total mess."

"I'll go clap back, let me!"

"No, no, no — when does an artist ever jump into the comments themselves? That's not appropriate."

"Really, never?" Bai Liang asked, a little puzzled.

Sister Yanzi nodded firmly. "Definitely never! Brother Xiao Bai, trust me!"

Lin Gengxin: I'm here, bro~

Who says artists can't jump into the comments and clap back themselves? Let me show you how it's done!

Logically speaking, he really shouldn't have stuck his nose into the Bai Liang vs. Wu Yifan drama.

Even though he's close with Bai Liang, he had just wrapped a film with Wu Yifan — Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back — hitting theaters this Spring Festival.

But then again, maybe he'd been a little ticked off inside. Damn it — my good bro blows up and still plays supporting to me, and you, some K-pop idol flown back from Korea, think you can outrank me?

So yesterday he quietly reposted Bai Liang's Bulgari gala photo and gave him a shoutout.

Not promoting his own movie — that kind of thing is actually pretty normal, everyone has some industry friendships.

The result was that Wu Yifan's fans got upset.

Your movie is about to hit theaters and you're out here hyping up the competition?

A second lead from my family's gege dares to bounce around?!

So his comment section wasn't much better off than Bai Liang's side.

So Lin Genxin got fired up and went straight to Weibo to trade barbs with the antis.

Personally entering the fray!

Yesterday while Bai Liang was happily sipping champagne over there, this buddy spent the whole night cursing at antis—or rather, fans from other camps coming to stir trouble.

Really the whole night, high-intensity combat, still hasn't stopped even now.

At the same time, the heat on this matter kept climbing—after all, in the dead of night nobody was paying attention to Lin Genxin going at the haters.

And who could've expected him to have this much energy, to argue with people from night into day! Truly a marvel of bone structure.

When Bai Liang refreshed the trending searches, he found the matter was almost in the top ten.

What a coincidence—Wu Yifan's press conference from yesterday was about to drop out of the top ten; these two were about to swap places.

"Met you, met shit!"

"I'll hammer you till your own mother doesn't recognize you."

"Shut it, trash"

"You seem like some kind of unspeakable thing"

"You look like a dead hairtail that's been dead three days"

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Sister Yanzi:.

After seeing this thing, she fell silent.

She really wanted to say "Lin Genxin this guy is a bit abnormal."

But then she felt her own Dou Xiao Bai gege wasn't exactly normal either.

"Hey hey hey~ he @'d me!"

"What the heck?"

Bai Liang handed the phone to Sister Yanzi, who stared at the screen in disbelief.

Lin Genxin had just updated a Weibo post, directly @-ing Bai Liang: Great Immortal, I can't hold up anymore, going to nap for a bit—are you up yet? Help me crank up the heat on them!

"Not up yet!"

Sister Yanzi slapped her hand over the phone, but two seconds later let go herself.

Then she scratched her head for a while—after all, she'd truly never seen any top-tier celeb with this kind of vibe.

Isn't anyone going to rein Lin Genxin in? This guy is going to "lead astray" her own Dou Xiao Bai gege!

Luckily Lin Genxin still left himself some wiggle room—that "are you up yet?" was basically giving Bai Liang a way out.

He could easily play dead, then later "realize belatedly" that he'd slept through it.

After all, an artist personally entering the fray to spray antis is just too damn abstract!

But doing that seemed a bit ungracious. Sister Yanzi knew her own Dou Xiao Bai gege—setting aside what kind of person he was, just going by "hobbies," he'd definitely be happy to do this.

Look, he was already itching to go.

Still, Bai Liang respected Sister Yanzi's opinion—she was his manager after all~

But watching his little face all innocent plus the period expectant, even blinking at her, Sister Yanzi really couldn't refuse!

Eyes shut, face full of pain and conflict, she waved her hand, "Dou Xiao Bai gege, do as you see fit~" "You got it!"

Bai Liang worked his fingers a bit, and even rubbed his own head.

Beginning to awaken. Dust-covered memories!

Three lanes blown up, piano set up, the canyon no different from Vienna.

Highland collapsed, family tree sealed, the fountain on par with Wu Lin Feng.

Why did Lin Genxin dare to let Bai Liang crank up the heat?

Because he knew just how vicious Bai Liang's online roasting ability was, how fast his typing speed!

Playing games together this long, he'd witnessed it more than once or twice.

He never developed any worship or awe because Bai Liang's game skills were good, but when he personally saw Bai Liang, in between solo-killing opponents, somehow squeeze in time to type over a hundred characters roasting someone, he was utterly prostrated in admiration.

His gameplay was trash, and he never thought about improving, but operating a character to move while typing to roast people—that was just too cool!

Coach, I want to learn this!

Sister Yanzi watched Bai Liang's movements and thought, do you need to warm up before typing to roast people?

Isn't that a bit too over the top?!

But when she saw Bai Liang's fingers tapping afterimages on the phone screen, she completely lost it.

Holy shit, calm down a bit! We absolutely must not swear, the influence would be terrible.

This book's latest updates are on ##!! Update!

She hurriedly leaned over to "supervise."

"Look at you, you're quite human-savvy."

"Where did you hide when humans were evolving, big brain"

"I was scared by a dog as a kid, don't yap."

"You sure talk nice, little mouth like it's been smeared with glycerin suppository."

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Roasting people without a single swear word is Bai Liang's basic code.

Because he really does have class.

From Shanghai to Jiaxing, this time Bai Liang took a car back to the crew.

The whole way here, he had been busy fighting under Lin Genxin's Weibo and completely forgot that there were actually plenty of such guys under his own Weibo too.

What's the use of home?! Home is given!

But this stunt worked out extremely well — those anti-fans and trolls who had been active under his Weibo caught the scent and swarmed over to join the fight.

And because Bai Liang had stepped in directly, the trending search for this incident shot up like crazy, gaining a ton of heat.

It had long since stomped Wu Yifan right down.

Large numbers of netizens caught wind of it and hurried over to watch the show.

And Lin Genxin, who had rushed off to catch up on sleep, woke up and saw his good buddy had entered the fray, so naturally he jumped back into battle at once.

Damn, trolls, bring it!

This internet battle event is historically known as: Two Heroes Battle the Masses.

When the car pulled up to the crew's hotel, Bai Liang hurried straight onto his RV.

Li Yitong, who had known he was coming back and had specifically come to pick him up — and also wanted to vent about the Li Xin situation — was gloriously ignored.

Before she could even get mad, Sister Yanzi hurriedly explained the situation.

"Huh? Cursing people online? For real?!"

"Yitong sis, just check the trending search yourself, my head hurts too."

Check the trending search? No need for that — Li Yitong hopped straight onto Bai Liang's RV, ready to watch the battle up close.

The more she watched, the wider her eyes grew — especially that clack-clack-clack of the keyboard, it really sounded like he was playing the piano. To exaggerate a bit, that hand speed was almost catching up to Lang Lang.

Before this she had actually doubted Bai Liang couldn't curse people out?

She stared straight at him like that for about ten minutes before Bai Liang finally stopped.

Mainly to stretch his wrists and fingers a bit.

Li Yitong seized the chance: "Hmph!"

"Huh? How come you're here?" Bai Liang had been so immersed he really hadn't noticed Li Yitong had gotten onto his RV.

He had no idea when she'd even arrived.

This Miss has more guts than Li Xin — back then when Li Xin fell asleep on Bai Liang's RV, the premise was that there were several people on board.

This counts as joining in for the fun.

And right now, on the RV, there were only the two of them.

But Li Yitong didn't seem to notice anything off, and kept on stubbornly arguing:

"I should be asking you — that Li Xin. Why didn't you take me to the Bulgari dinner? A bunch of people thought she was me."

What she said actually didn't make much sense — a chance encounter like that had nothing to do with Bai Liang either.

He shattered all of this girl's momentum with one line: "Did you get an invitation too?"

"…No."

"See? I didn't send out the invitations either. Next time there's a chance I'll take you along."

"Really?"

"Mm-hmm."

At this point, Bai Liang had already started half-heartedly responding, because the battle had started up again!

But Li Yitong didn't mind — she just rested her chin on her hand and watched him fight, gradually getting caught up in it, getting hyped, even starting to cheer him on.

Social pressure is so huge these days, who doesn't want to cut loose~

Sometimes she wants to too!

It's just that as public figures, celebrities have to be most careful about the words "watch what you say and how you act."

Not many people dare to, like Bai Liang and Lin Genxin, just roll up their sleeves and "go nuclear" with the anti-fans.

Oh wait, no — only Lin Genxin, because Bai Liang had started the fight in his own Weibo comments.

He counts as reinforcements.

The netizens were already going wild — oh nice, yesterday you were the glamorous male idol from that viral photo, today you're giving us a wave of ultimate down-to-earth vibes, huh?

Of course, among them there were also some sharp-eyed people trying to catch Bai Liang slipping — like catching him using profanity, for instance.

Unfortunately, not at all.

At worst you could say the guy has a sharp tongue.

As for what Sister Yanzi had been most worried about — losing fans because of this — not at all. From the moment he started cursing till now, he'd gained another several hundred thousand followers.

Lin Genxin's Weibo comment section was a raging battlefield, but Bai Liang's home base had already been cleared.

All that was left was his fans going wild over there~

The looks-obsessed fans licking the screen, the CP fans watching the drama, the talent fans who liked his hidden-gem qualities, the civil-service exam takers looking for reference materials and paying back wishes — these different fans didn't bother each other, each doing their own thing.

Except for a small, slightly weird group… shouting stuff like "Oppa scold me! Quick! Scold me a few times!"

Honestly a bit too perverted — they can be filed under internet masochists.

"Huh? Why's his account banned?"

Bai Liang was mid-rant when he suddenly realized Lin Genxin's Weibo couldn't be commented on anymore.

At this point Li Yitong helpfully reminded him, "His studio issued an apology."

"For real?"

"It blew up a bit too big. You two have been sitting at the top of the trending search for ages! Sister Yanzi also posted an apology statement, even earlier — back then you were still cursing people out."

Ah this — "Your subjects were about to fight to the death…"

But it really was about time — Bai Liang hadn't even had dinner yet.

However, just at that moment, the "trend-riders" arrived.

Wang Sicong suddenly posted a Weibo, tagging both of them: "How about coming to my place to curse? Count me in."

After sending Bai Liang a middle-finger emoji in reply, he shut his computer and stretched lazily.

His body crackled and popped all over—he'd been sitting too long.

But occasionally letting off steam is good for mental and physical health.

Now he could return to his capybara mode again~

Yet at this moment, Li Yitong felt a tiny bit strange.

She stared at her phone; her cheeks seemed slightly flushed, and her expression was uncertain.

After noticing Bai Liang looking at her, she impulsively whispered, very softly: "Um… could you curse at me a couple of times?"

Bai Liang:???

You're not acting right!

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Three chapters, fifteen thousand words completed. See you tomorrow, muah.

Requesting monthly votes.

This chapter was too wild and absurd—if you don't like it, I won't write scenes like this again later.

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