Give Way, You’re Blocking My Road to the Yellow Springs

Chapter 9

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The netizens’ attention had always shifted quickly. Not even a few days later, it was exposed online that a so-and-so male star was cheating on his significant other by visiting prostitutes, and a so-and-so female star received a major plastic surgery in Korea, and like the waves, gradually drowned out the little celebrity’s suicide attempt.

Although there were still many people who took pleasure in paying a visit to his Weibo every day to mock him, they no longer talked about the little young master. Since they could find nothing on him, why would they care about a random passerby?

Only then did the little celebrity feel at ease allowing the little young master to go out. He found his old clothes from the bottom of his closet and had the little young master try them on, one by one. Fortunately, their height difference wasn’t too big, and the clothes fit the little young master. Otherwise, if they had to go out and buy clothes, they would have to spend a fortune.

The little young master was eyeing a mid-range restaurant. It was a little far from home but the boss promised to pay him weekly if his performance was good. And he only needed to work for three hours at night.

After he tidied up the little young master and sent him out the door, the little celebrity sat at the table with a pencil and paper to slowly calculate how he should spend the remaining five hundred yuan. He could no longer drive the car because he couldn’t afford to pay for fuel. If the young master couldn’t get a stable job, for the time being, he would use the money to buy two boxes of instant noodles, there were very few daily necessities remaining at home, so he needed to go to the supermarket again as well.

He once again glanced at the binoculars hanging on the wall, his heart aching. That would’ve been enough to buy five large bundles of toilet paper.

The little celebrity had no intention of selling his car. The Toyota was the first car he had purchased with the money he saved from filming. It wasn’t a luxury car, but he liked it as much as he did the flowers and plants on his balcony, even if he had to die, he wanted to die driving that car.

The agent had told him yesterday that the company felt his recent incident had too negative an impact and that there would be no more jobs arranged for him for some time.

His manager’s voice sounded a bit regretful, “Why did you do something like that? He just wanted to touch you, would you lose a piece of meat if you let him? I intentionally brought you over because I liked the resources he had on hand, if you had good luck you might’ve even been able to get a role as a male lead.”

The little celebrity sneered, this manager really knew how to talk, but it was hard to tell who exactly would get those resources if things worked out.

The manager obviously thought he had been abandoned by his sugar daddy and was being mocked by the whole internet. Thus, he wanted to quickly squeeze out what little residual value he had left and hand it to the other little newbie1 in the company that had recently started gaining popularity.

He had also met the little newbie before. They didn’t say much to each other, and would always peacefully and steadily co-exist without offending one another. But when the netizens started looking into him, the little newbie used the opportunity to cause trouble, hinting to the netizens that a certain role had originally been given to him by the company, but the little celebrity had made use of his sugar daddy to steal the role away.

The script was an adaptation of a popular IP from the year before. He had wanted to audition for the role of the third male lead, which had nothing too outstanding in terms of personality, but won in the fact that he had a lot of resilience, every time they thought he would die, he would still be able to rise again.

In other words, there were a lot of fake death scenes, and he still had some room to be innovative in his acting.

His ex-boyfriend was indeed an investor in the film, but no one knew the truth of whether or not he had snatched the resources of the little newbie and handed them to the little celebrity. There was only the little newbie who kept talking, and no one from the company’s top management came out to clarify, as if they had agreed it was the truth.

It wasn’t that there was no one who defended the little celebrity, but many of those watching the drama preferred to support the troublemaker.

And now, the role had landed in the hands of the little newbie, and the little celebrity could only feel puzzled. Why was he trying to fight for this role when he only knew how to act silly and cute characters? Anyone with eyes could see that he wasn’t suitable for this role.

The little newbie had just participated in a variety show not too long ago. Because he was good-looking, and his personality was soft and cute, he gained immense popularity. This was the time fans were the most enthusiastic. For their idol, they would tear apart the sky and earth. They firmly told everyone that the little newbie could be serious or cute, and he took this role to diversify his acting career.

What else could the little celebrity say? It wasn’t like this was the only unlucky thing that had happened to him. He would just take it as him taking the blame for his ex-boyfriend, he could only grit his teeth and swallow down that mouthful of blood.

His manager had sent a total of two voice messages.

The other one was: “You should also take some time to calm down. What’s the use of suicide? It’s not your first day in this business, it would be such a pity if you died.”

Surprisingly, the last part even made sense.

——It would be such a pity to die.

But besides dying, the little celebrity couldn’t think of anything else he could do.

He used to laugh at how weak the others were, seeking death over small matters. It was only when it was his turn that he suddenly realized that perhaps in other people’s eyes it was always only one small thing that wasn’t worth mentioning, those people could not see the whole abyss behind the matter.

He also remembered a few months ago when he was recording a wilderness program, the production team asked him to walk across the aerial suspension bridge, they said there was no need to worry about safety, even if he fell there were ropes tied to him, and even if the rope broke there were six layers of netting they had put up beforehand. And in the end, he was able to walk safely through the whole process.

It was only until the night he received a call from his parents requesting to break off their relationship with him did he begin to have nightmares.

He stepped onto the suspension bridge that swayed in the wind, the ropes of the bridge were the first to be cut, the ropes that held him began to break apart, the netting scrambled and fell apart. And all the safety precautions that protected him became illusory bubbles, and he just kept falling, bewildered.

The truth was when someone falls into the depths of a boundless valley, he needed to think about not how to stay alive, but for what reason to live.

The little celebrity forced himself to stop thinking about it and refocused his attention on the five hundred yuan and tonight’s menu.

Just then, the little young master called back to say that the boss thought his appearance and skills were excellent and agreed on the spot. The salary he offered was also a bit higher than they had anticipated.

The loud background noise on the other end of the phone couldn’t hide the joy in his voice.

The corner of the little celebrity’s mouth curved up too. They needed to celebrate day one of finding a job, how could they only eat instant noodles and smashed cucumber salad?

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Translator’s notes:

Literal: little fresh meat (小鲜肉)