Chapter 22: Arc 1.20
"He is acting weird." Shen Jiyu said as he peeked through the door to watch Nian Zhen who was working on his laptop in his office.
Noticing Shen Jiyu who was standing at the door, Nian Zhen paused, "Is it time for lunch? What do you want to order?"
He had a smile on his face. His tone was gentle with a touch of friendlessness but that normalcy was what made Shen Jiyu even more suspicious, It had been a week since Nian Zhen came back drunk from the meeting, he had clung to him stubbornly until he fell asleep and yet it was as if nothing had happened.
"Anything." Shen Jiyu said and shut the door behind him. He looked to his left and his words entered Xiao Shu's mind, "See, isn't it strange?"
Xiao Shu was confused. The Marquis was acting as he always did, it was the realm master himself that was acting weird.
"What is strange? He works in his office from 10 am to 3 pm on Saturday. I have not detected any malice from him either. I don't think that he met the object of obsessions. Maybe he had slowly begun to move on. Realm Master, let us keep watch for a few weeks before we contact Senior Mo Fangyuan to begin extraction."
Shen Jiyu walked down the stairs lost in thought. In the divination of this host body; Nian Zhen should have taken him to the meeting where Xui Fan would see him, for the first time. It has been a week, and Nian Zhen had not mentioned Xui Fan. Has he begun to let go of the obsession?
Impossible.
He sat down on the stairs, his mind was filled with thoughts. He recalled the gaze that Nian Zhen looked at him with that night, it was soft and complicated, like he had a lot of things he wanted to say but would not. What was Nisan Zhen thinking, what was he thinking, what was going through his mind? These questions bothered Shen Jiyu with every passing day.
Obsessions were not easily resolved. You could destroy the object of the obsession but it was not a foolproof method, you could also overcome it and let it go. Something like letting go of the obsessions, he was not sure if Feng Main was capable of it.
Even as Nian Zhen, he was soft-spoken and gentle but Shen Jiyu had experienced just how cold-hearted and stubborn this person was. When he turns his back on you, no matter how much you beg and throw your pride away, he will not give you another glance. Feng Mian was that cruel. What was he doing here? Why was he playing house with him?
But what if Nian Zhen had given up his obsession? For the Lu Yan that he had spent six months with, he had eaten from one plate and played games together, maybe there would be an ounce of mercy in that dark heart of his. Hope was like poison, and when it gets hold of someone, it would be spread like a contagious disease.
"Realm Master, What should we do?" Xiao Shu asked.
"Wait!" Shen Jiyu replied and waited until they did.
**
The third episode of the Tv series Ascension of a Demon King came out and the entire fans went crazy once again. As the highest-ranking series in the chart, it had a lot of fans but it was not just Mu Ze that was trending this time around.
@Who is the handsome Immortal' was trending just below Mu Ze's name.
In the movie, Shen Jiyu was dressed in a white flowing robe. His long black hair was tied with a simple white ribbon, his eyes cold and his aura indifferent. Not only was his face capable of raising an army of face lickers, but his acting was also good. In less than three hours there were over 50,000 reposts. Of course, there were a few black reviewers but they were quickly shut down.
"Realm Master, your followers have grown to six hundred thousand. Ah! When did you snap these pictures? They are so good." Xiao Shu said as he passed the phone to Shen Jiyu who took it.
There were about ten new pictures in his feed. Some of them when he was shopping, the rest while he was reading or just absent-minded.
He looked at the comments which were all praising his face and smiled. "If they could see me in my true form, would they not just faint?"
Xiao Shu gave him a look but did not say anything else. This person's arrogance, he was now too familiar with it.
Shen Jiyu grinned and called Nian Zhen on the phone but the other didn't pick up his call.
"Is he in a meeting?" He wondered and put the phone away. Nian Zhen has been so busy recently. He glanced at Xiao Shu, "Can you check what he is always working on? Forget it, that is not right either."
But it did not stop with just picking up his call, Nian Zhen hardly ever returned home. Shen Jiyu would try to wait till late into the night but the other did not return until he slept and left even before he woke up.
Due to his newfound popularity, his entire schedule had been overly booked, he had been so busy that he would not wait for up to an hour before he fell asleep.
Shen Jiyu was not an expert at enduring things and after the work of Nian Zhen going incognito, he was already at his limit. He ignored the assistant manager and threw the car key to Xiao Shu, "Let's go to the company."
Xiao Shu collected the key, before reminding him, "Shen Ge. You have a live interview in thirty minutes."
"Is that what is important right now? Have you forgotten the reason we are here?"
Xiao Shu wisely did not say a word as he drove to the headquarters of Shang Zhen Entertainment.
Shen Jiyu stepped out of the car ignoring everyone until he reached Nian Zhen's office. He flung the door open and saw Nian Zhen sitting on the guest sofa with a bottle of water that he handed to Shen Jiyu.
Shen Jiyu did not have any intention to touch it, "Are you avoiding me?"
Nian Zhen dropped the bottle of water and shook his head, "Of course not, I have been very busy. What are you doing here? You have an interview in twenty minutes. Do you know how it would look if you were late for a live interview?"
Shen Jiyu was speechless and a pain that he thought had slightly faded began to come back in full force. His eyes slowly darkened. Perhaps it was due to his anger, or perhaps it was something else, but the molten iron boiling within his eyes was hot enough to scald.
"Is that what you are concerned with right now?"
Nian Zhen did not reply and screwed open the bottle of water and took a long sip. He closed it and dropped it back on the table before he looked up at Shen Jiyu. There was a familiar alienation in his gaze that chilled Shen Jiyu to the bones.
"Is there anything else I should be concerned about? Right, I forgot to tell you. Tonight, you will be having dinner with someone. He is a fan."
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