Chapter 1

Chapter 1

Early in the morning, I took a cab to Taohuayuan to join a dating variety show that would last half a month.

The show had originally been doing only so-so, but because they invited the cast of our drama, it shot onto the trending searches the moment filming began.

I prayed that as long as I arrived early enough, I wouldn’t run into anyone. Naturally, things did not go my way.

Xi Yan was wearing a tracksuit and stretching his legs in front of the farmhouse inn. With a face so handsome it was practically a crime against humanity, he was doing something only middle-aged and elderly people did, glancing around as if waiting for someone.

The moment he saw me, those peach-blossom eyes of his lit up. “Well, if it isn’t Teacher Bai!”

My head buzzed, and my scalp went numb as I bowed. “Good morning, Teacher Xi.”

Xi Yan was the youngest Three Gold Best Actor, as well as the male lead of our xianxia drama.

In the drama, he and the heroine were entangled through three lifetimes, their love deep and torturous.

And I was the vicious supporting female character hopelessly in love with him, willing to do anything to have him.

Halfway through, I even took the heroine’s place and deceived him into loving me.

Ever since the drama aired, every scene I appeared in had been flooded with bullet comments saying: Fuyun, you’ve done every evil thing under the sun!!!

Even my Weibo got raided every single day because of it.

Xi Yan and the heroine’s CP was thriving. I was just the homewrecker who barged in between them.

Peach Blossoms Blooming had clearly taken a fancy to our highly controversial love triangle and planned to strike while the iron was hot.

Sure enough, the second I showed up, the bullet comments started cursing me out.

“Help, why would a perfectly good dating show invite her?! I just want to watch Gege and Tian Tian be lovey-dovey. I don’t want to see the vicious supporting female character butting in again! I sat through fifty-six episodes of that. Wasn’t that enough?”

“Waiting for the edits.”

“For anyone saying we should separate the drama from real life, look at her. She came this early to block Gege before Tian Tian even arrived, and she’s wearing a couple outfit with him. That’s so scheming, okay?”

“The way she looks at him doesn’t lie. It’s like a dog seeing a bone. Absolutely ravenous.”

I knew it! I knew it!

The moment Xi Yan and I shared the same frame, this was the kind of landslide-tsunami effect we got.

This time, I had come to the dating show fully prepared to extract myself from this love triangle and clear my own name.

“Teacher Xi, you’re wearing the tracksuit our crew handed out too? It is pretty comfortable, good for everyday wear. I usually wear this when I pick up packages or get takeout,” I said pointedly.

Pay attention, viewers. This wasn’t a couple outfit. It was company merch.

“Mm, I know.” Xi Yan smiled like a spring breeze. “I remember you wore this around the set all day, every day, so I deliberately wore the same thing as you. This way, we look more harmonious standing together.”

“????????”

“What is Yan Ge saying?”

“Is he trying to ship himself with Bai Sheng?!”

“Impossible, impossible. Everyone calm down, okay? Our Yan Ge is just complimenting a colleague and doing his job. He’s being polite, that’s all.”