Chapter 458: Why are you wearing Tian Tian

"Sister Tian Tian, Xiao Bai went to see Wang Churan again~"

"Really? That's just how he is—even if it's a cat or dog that's hurt, he'll still help out."

Da Tian Tian spoke as if she understood Bai Liang perfectly, but her words were indeed reasonable.

However, the assistant cautiously reminded: "Xiao Bai is kind, but Wang Churan might be a 'bad woman'~"

And besides, her body has nearly recovered by now.

At this moment, the assistant who had just whispered slander didn't forget to add one more punch!

"Sister Tian Tian, I saw her secretly roll her eyes at you the other day."

Da Tian Tian: "Huh? She did that?!"

The assistant nodded quickly, vowing she spoke not a lie.

But the magic of language lies in speaking only half-truths—everything said is true, yet the effect differs greatly from saying it all.

For instance, Wang Churan rolling her eyes seems rude at first glance, and indeed it is rude.

It gives off a vibe that she looks down on others.

But the problem is, Bai Liang has endured her eye rolls too.

Like right now.

This girl seems to have gotten used to expressing all her emotions this way—unhappy, she rolls her eyes; happy, she rolls her eyes; speechless, she rolls her eyes; excited, she rolls her eyes—ahem.

At times like these, you need a strong figure to whip her into shape and make her break this habit.

Otherwise, right now she's just a nobody, but when her fame grows, this will become her biggest black mark as an artist.

Of course, if you insist on treating it as her signature trait—it's not impossible.

The black-red path, right~

People's tastes are hard to predict; some folks actually like this cocky attitude.

Especially since Wang Churan is tall and beautiful—her anime-style, condescending, disgusted gaze, like looking at trash, fits her perfectly.

Bonus: she comes with a master-level eye roll.

Da Tian Tian: "I've got a master-level backward step too!"

Little green tea, watch out!

When she puffed out her cheeks and rushed to the hospital, pushed open the door, and saw what lay before her, she felt a strange sense of uncertainty—had she arrived too late or too early?

Wang Churan lay with her head tilted back, while Bai Liang reached out to pinch her cheek.

"What are you two doing?!" Da Tian Tian said, slightly aggrieved.

Upon seeing Da Tian Tian, Wang Churan clearly panicked, darting instantly under the covers.

She couldn't help but cast a pleading glance at Bai Liang: Brother, what do I do?

Bai Liang thought for a moment, and to preserve the girl's dignity, decided to tell a small lie.

"Her poison hasn't fully cleared yet—she insists she's a mushroom."

"A mushroom?"

At this word, Da Tian Tian's face filled with question marks.

"I thought about it—partly because of the poisoning, partly because she's been reading too many scripts lately. Her character Shen Yindeng, isn't she a mushroom?" Bai Liang said with a serious face.

That makes sense!

Damn it, Xiao Bai, you're really good at making stuff up!

Hidden under the covers, Wang Churan was utterly impressed, and frantically recalled what she'd learned in drama school.

How to urgently act like a mushroom?

Da Tian Tian: "A couple days ago she was just dizzy and nauseous—how did it suddenly escalate?"

She made it clear she wasn't that easy to fool!

She deliberately scowled and leaned closer to examine Wang Churan.

The girl hadn't yet figured out how to act like a mushroom, so she instinctively pulled further under the covers.

Da Tian Tian: "Ahh~ She really is a mushroom!"

Now she was intrigued, pulling Bai Liang along with eager curiosity: "If I ate that same poisonous mushroom, would I think I'm a vine?"

"I think it's entirely possible! You've been studying your scripts so hard lately~"

Up to this point, Bai Liang was still lying, because Da Tian Tian had been out having fun these past two days—after all, no one knew when filming would resume, so what scripts?

But Da Tian Tian loved it~

So she began discussing with Bai Liang whether mushrooms were cuter or vines were cuter.

Hidden under the covers, Wang Churan's mind was in chaos: How is this sister even more childish than me—and so easily fooled?!

If she met a scumbag, he'd probably trick her out of her entire tea.

Da Tian Tian: "You really think I'm stupid? I'm just a little dense."

After all, she hadn't seen either of them doing anything strange, the room had no windows open and no odd smells, and Wang Churan was just a patient.

Some so-called deceptions work only because someone chooses to believe.

Da Tian Tian insisted she wasn't foolish—if she flew into a rage and stormed off like in a TV drama, wouldn't she just give them space?

No way!

So after spending some time in the room showing concern for the "mushroom-playing" Wang Churan, Da Tian Tian smiled sweetly and led Bai Liang away.

A while later, Wang Churan's assistant slipped quietly into the room: "Did it work?"

Hearing this, Wang Churan rolled her eyes: "Worked at what?"

"Getting close to your crush!"

The assistant had been sent away by Wang Churan herself, just so she could be alone with Bai Liang in the room.

"How do you even get intimate? I'm a mushroom~" Wang Churan groaned, hugging her head and wriggling on the hospital bed.

The assistant was startled by this behavior. "Hasn't the poison cleared yet?"

Logically, such a mild toxin should've been cured with just one injection.

Could it be that the godlike guy is all show and no substance? That doesn't make sense.

Wang Churan: How dare you gossip about him like that?!

The truth was, Bai Liang had done nothing wrong—simply because she was still lying in bed.

He wasn't the type who, upon hearing a girl had a fever, would immediately want to feel how it felt to be wrapped in even higher heat.

A patient should rest properly, not go around doing all sorts of nonsense.

What Sister Tian Tian had just rushed in and seen was both a beginning and an end.

As for Wang Churan, she felt a little disappointed, yet also thought that Brother Dou Xiao Bai truly cared for her~

She had just lifted her clothes, and Bai Liang had merely touched her slightly before pulling them back down.

A slight touch was respect, an affirmation of her beauty and figure; pulling her clothes back was care for her as a patient.

Yet when Bai Liang pinched her cheek, he also made a small request—and she obediently complied.

"Can you give me a little eye roll?"

"Hmph! What kind of request is that? Are you thinking of Wang Churan?"

Sister Tian Tian placed her hands on her hips, but suddenly realized kneeling on the carpet while doing so lacked authority, so she bared her teeth.

This gesture, under the current circumstances, was terrifyingly intimidating—it immediately made Bai Liang behave.

Yet after achieving this milestone victory, Sister Tian Tian still fulfilled his request.

Just an eye roll? Who can't do that? It's not exactly a rare skill.

She was just too easygoing.

But Bai Liang couldn't help rubbing his chin: It just didn't feel right~

Indeed, expertise lies in specialization.

In terms of eye-rolling, Wang Churan was simply far more skilled.

Unlike Sister Tian Tian, whose eye rolls looked like cute antics. In fact, Sister Tian Tian could learn a little from Wang Churan on this point.

Because the character Si Teng needs a touch of this element to feel more complete.

After all, she's the kind of character who says things like "Even a tiger fallen from the plains won't cry out" and "Ugly, it hurts my eyes"—her sharp tongue and eye rolls are a perfect match.

Yet this "underachiever," Sister Tian Tian, refused to attend White Teacher's lesson during her happy moments!

She declared with great gusto that today, she'd show Bai Liang exactly what a vine spirit could do.

—

The return-to-work date came faster than expected.

The Si Teng production team had only halted for over ten days before being included among the first groups to resume filming.

This was largely thanks to their team having almost no personnel coming or going.

Now it was almost like a closed-set filming setup: actors already on set couldn't leave until their scenes were finished; those not yet on set had to enter early and quarantine for fourteen days, with minimal disruption to shooting.

As for actor schedules, most productions still had a long way to go before resuming—they averaged one to two months of shutdown.

Only production teams like Si Teng, filming deep in the "remote mountains and forests," had been barely affected.

Still, after filming in Yunnan was done, they'd have to see what condition the Hengdian set was in—many crews were still stuck there, unable to move.

Indeed, Bai Liang received plenty of "intelligence": many girls he knew were currently holding "team-building" events in Hengdian.

Na Zha, Re Ba, Li Yitong, Meng Zi Yi, Li Xin—all had dramas starting in Hengdian, then got stuck when filming halted, unable to leave, since leaving would mean at least fourteen days' delay.

"If I'd known, I'd have joined the Si Teng crew—you guys are still filming!" Meng Jie whined over the phone to Bai Liang.

"You really are suited for the role of Shen Yindeng—a villainess? That's your lane."

"I'm not a villainess at all! I'm very kind-hearted!" Meng Jie whined on the other end.

But soon she added another question, as if trying to prove her "kind-heartedness."

"How's Churan doing on set? Haven't you been bullying her?"

After a pause, Wang Churan looked up and noticed Bai Liang was still on the phone with Meng Jie—she couldn't help rolling her eyes again.

Then she deliberately made a small noise.

"Huh? Is there someone else beside you?" Meng Jie asked, puzzled.

"Yeah, it's Wang Churan. Want to talk to her? She just got out of the hospital, and she's currently in my RV too."

"No thanks~ I'll just call her directly if I want to talk. I just wanted to talk to you~"

Meng Jie didn't think much of it, since she knew Wang Churan had been hospitalized after eating poisonous mushrooms.

Even after discharge, her body was surely still weak—resting in the RV was perfectly normal.

"I once had food poisoning. When I first got out of the hospital, I was weak—I had to eat lots of nutritious food to recover."

That made sense!

But there's no such thing as a free lunch—whether she recovers depends on the girl's own effort.

Bai Liang thought she was unlikely to manage it.

Still, this girl had some clever ideas.

"Brother, wait for me a second!"

"Huh?"

Bai Liang was stunned—wait, she just left him here and ran into the bedroom?

Due to the physics principle of evaporation absorbing heat, feeling chilly at this moment was a perfectly normal bodily sensation.

Fortunately, she moved quickly and came out shortly after.

When she appeared again, she was wearing a magnificent qipao.

Why did this outfit look familiar to Bai Liang?

"Brother, do I look good in this?"

"You look nice, but—"

Bai Liang studied her, then couldn't help asking: "Why are you wearing Sister Tian Tian's clothes?"

Fortunately, she didn't reply with, "If you're chasing thrills, then see it through."

Instead, she bit her lip and said: "Next time I can wear Meng Jie's clothes too."

Bai Liang:???

Two days later, Big Sister Tian Tian frowned and pouted. "That's weird."

"What's wrong?"

"For some reason, this dress feels a bit loose around my hips now—it used to fit perfectly."

"Really?"

"Yeah~ I showed it to you last time." Big Sister Tian Tian scratched her head. Actually, it wasn't just the hips—the shoulders felt off too.

Had she remembered wrong?

But these clothes were custom-tailored to her body measurements; at least the chest area still fit fine, hugging her figure perfectly.

"Just have it altered a bit—it shouldn't matter much," Bai Liang suggested, rubbing his nose.

"Mm~ It's not a big deal anyway."

Big Sister Tian Tian didn't take it too seriously—she had dozens of outfits for this drama, more than she could wear, so a couple of ill-fitting ones didn't bother her.

Most of the clothes stored in Bai Liang's RV were ones she'd already worn on screen.

Once an outfit had appeared, it was never used again.

Just like a female star on the red carpet, Si Teng would never wear the same outfit twice—even within a single episode, she'd change outfits when the scene changed.

After wearing it, the outfit was immediately retired—"wrapped up."

This was thanks to Si Teng not being a long-running drama; the episode count was relatively small.

After Bai Liang joined, the original thirty-episode plot was slightly expanded to thirty-three episodes.

But overall, compared to those sprawling dramas with seventy or eighty episodes, it was still quite short.

This disappointed Big Sister Tian Tian—what if they'd filmed seventy or eighty episodes? She could've worn over a hundred beautiful outfits!

And she truly loved playing the role of Si Teng!

This character, whose every pore exuded "Princess Disease virus," was utterly addictive for her.

"Come on, say 'Great-Auntie'~"

Holding up a piece of fruit to Bai Liang's mouth, Big Sister Tian Tian tried again to assert generational authority, deliberately putting on Si Teng's signature expression.

The spoiled, pouting little cat.

Bai Liang stared, amazed—how could such an expression look so unlikable yet still feel cute? This role was perfect for Big Sister Tian Tian!

"Oh no! Something's happened online!"

At that moment, Wang Churan suddenly rushed over, holding her phone.

Big Sister Tian Tian was initially annoyed—couldn't she see she was teasing Bai Liang?

But one minute later, the two girls were huddled together, eagerly devouring the gossip.

Bai Liang glanced over. Oh~

Xiao Zhan's new top idol fandom had enraged the internet—the infamous "227 Incident."

It began when a writer posted a fanfiction on a fanfic site, triggering fierce, organized backlash and mass reporting from Xiao Zhan's exclusive fans.

This sparked widespread outrage; the next day, netizens—including the fanfic community—banded together to boycott Xiao Zhan and his fans.

Meanwhile, another major domestic fanfic platform became a target for their harassment and reporting campaigns, with many authors there attacked.

In short, his fandom had gone completely off the rails.

It was another case of "haters want him to fade, but fans want him to die."

Until the website was shut down, leaving no room for compromise—the incident exploded. Fanfic creators and readers began boycotting all brands endorsed by Xiao Zhan.

Xiao Zhan himself became the "public enemy of the internet."

All films and dramas he starred in or appeared in faced boycotts and negative reviews; his image and group suffered increasingly severe damage, drawing more and more netizens into the backlash.

The timing was terrible—it happened when the entertainment industry was eerily quiet, everyone hiding quietly, donating, and interacting only online.

Had this happened at any other time—when news of weddings, affairs, and leaked relationships flooded daily—it might not have blown up so badly.

But now, everyone was just too bored.

A full-blown internet "holy war" erupted suddenly.

And since fandom culture had always been unpopular with outsiders, the boycott movement grew especially massive.

Then, someone dug up that photo of Bai Liang "bullying" Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo at the Starlight Awards.

He was dragged into the "holy war" against his will.

Actually, this wasn't unusual—over the years, Bai Liang had often been used to mock other top idols.

The slogan now was: "Even Bai Liang, with his huge status, never did this—what the hell are you?"

"I think that makes sense," Big Sister Tian Tian muttered offhandedly.

Wang Churan couldn't help nodding in agreement.

Their reaction made Bai Liang suspicious: "Have you two read some weird articles about me?"

At this, both of them showed clear signs of guilt.

Of course they had~

These fan fiction articles range from those with heavy tastes to those with lighter ones, some featuring same-sex pairings, others opposite-sex. Different readers have different preferences.

Just like the entertainment-themed novels on Qidian, they frequently reference various female celebrities.

Bai Liang once even rewarded one such book with an Alliance Lord gift~—

My condition is terrible; I'm severely stuck in the writing. The first update is a bit late; I'm now continuing with the second update.

I'm truly sorry.

(End of Chapter)