ABBWW Chapter 17.1

Chapter 017.1 The Young Master – “The slap in the face comes too fast, like a tornado” (17.1/35)

{TN: First VIP chapter on jjwxc! Triple length!Posted in 2 Parts}

 

 

When the program’s official Weibo announcement was released, it really surprised countless people. In the blink of an eye, ‘Starting with Cohabitation’ became a hot search, and numerous questions were raised.

 

>>As we all know, the order of the official announcements for ‘Starting with Cohabitation’ reveal the paired partners. Wen Xusheng and Shi Jingge announced their participation one after the other, so isn’t it clear who Shi Jingge’s partner will be?<<

 

>>Wen Xusheng is known for his aloof and reserved personality, and disliking arrogant and spoiled individuals. Now the production team specifically arranged for him to live with a self-centered young master. Isn’t this pushing Wen Xusheng to the edge?<<

 

>>Specifically pairing him with someone he dislikes to live together—the production team is clearly stirring up trouble!<<

 

>>Is the production team crazy or am I crazy?<<

 

>>I’m in trouble, I’m hallucinating! There has to be something wrong with my eyes!! I’m going to see a doctor right now!<<

 

>>Don’t go, friends in front of me, take me with you!!<<

 

>>The production team probably tagged the wrong person [humble.jpg].<<

 

>>Shit, I just realized—our Wen Ge is going to have to live with that guy? If the production team dares to do this, I’ll report them!<<

 

>>Fuck! Can you just leave our Wen Ge in peace? If he really has to live with that guy, he’ll go crazy!<<

 

>>Ahhhhh, I’m gonna lose it! Everyone knows that Wen Ge hates self-centered little rich kids like this!<<

 

>>The program team is heartless!<<

 

In less than five minutes, the official Weibo account of ‘Starting with Cohabitation’ exploded with over 20,000 comments.

 

Wen Xusheng immediately posted on his Weibo account, deliberately not reposting the show’s Weibo announcement. Instead he tagged Shi Jingge, wanting to use this method to tell his fans that he and Shi Jingge really were good friends.

 

Wen Xusheng V: See you tomorrow @Shi Shi Shi Shi

 

This Weibo ID, full of the spirit of a rebellious teenager, was quite interesting.

 

Wen Xusheng couldn’t help but laugh and follow him, only to realize that Shi Jingge hadn’t followed him yet.

 

…Was he shy?

 

For Wen Xusheng, this Weibo post was the most personal one he had posted in years, and he even followed Shi Jingge afterwards, making his position very clear. But… But he couldn’t stop his fans from speculating and stirring things up!

 

Soon, Wen Xusheng’s Weibo was flooded with negative comments.

 

>>Wen Xusheng didn’t even repost the official Weibo account of the show. What does that mean? He must be dissatisfied with them!<<

 

>>Why would he be dissatisfied with the show? It must be because of Shi Jingge!<<

 

>>Not only did the show find him such a troublesome partner, but they also made Wen Xusheng post a clarification on Weibo late at night. Wen Xusheng had no choice but to clarify due to his contract…<<

 

>>Damn, this show is heartless!<<

 

>>Brother Wen, if your account was hacked, just blink your eyes!<<

 

>>Brother Wen, did the production team force you to do this?<<

 

>>Brother Wen, we won’t allow them to treat you like this!<<

 

>>Brother Wen, if you can’t afford the penalty, just say so—the fans will crowdfund for you!<<

 

>>How can a production team bully someone like this? This is too much!<<

 

Wen Xusheng was taken aback by this turn of events. He was utterly confused.

 

Du Yi almost laughed out loud.

 

—You’ve finally met your match!

 

Du Yi cleared his throat to get Wen Xusheng’s attention. “Someone’s stirring the pot. Don’t pay attention to the chaos. We don’t know how many of them are paid trolls. Nowadays, they’re getting better and better at hiding themselves. Don’t worry about it.

 

“It’s useless for you to speak up now. The more you say, the easier it is for them to twist your words and manipulate the narrative. Wait until tomorrow’s livestream, and when you and the young master appear together, all this noise will die down.

 

”The young master is aware of this as well. Look, he’s not even responding. Don’t you know what kind of person he is? He’s not the type to take things lying down. He’s not even engaging with them, which shows that he doesn’t take it seriously.“

 

Du Yi continued talking, but Wen Xusheng wasn’t listening. All that remained in his mind was one sentence.

 

—Don’t you know what kind of person the young master is? He’s not the type to take things lying down.

 

That’s right, Shi Jingge wasn’t the type to take things lying down.

 

He’d always been confrontational, taking on anyone and everyone, even going up against hundreds of people at once without flinching. He didn’t give anyone special treatment.

 

A couple of years ago, he had criticized an actor’s terrible acting on Weibo, and his fans came to confront him. Shi Jingge hadn’t backed down. He argued with them until 3 a.m., and even posted screenshots and videos to back up his claims. The incident made it to the trending topics, but the fans couldn’t touch him. It’d been a defining moment for him.

 

But now, Shi Jingge held back.

 

He reposted the official announcement on Weibo but ignored the chaos in the comments section.

 

The young master who never backed down, no matter who he faced, chose to tuck away his fangs and claws this time. Even though he saw everything, he pretended not to notice and refused to engage with these people.

 

Why? Wasn’t it clear enough?

 

It was because of Wen Xusheng.

 

Shi Jingge didn’t want to cause him unnecessary trouble, so he chose to remain silent. Even though he was furious, he swallowed it all down.

 

Wen Xusheng’s heart sank little by little.

 

Shi Jingge didn’t have to endure this. It was Wen Xusheng’s own selfishness that dragged him into the turbid waters of the entertainment industry, and in the end, he failed to protect him.

 

Wen Xusheng lowered his head and edited his Weibo post.

 

Du Yi spoke, but realized that Wen Xusheng wasn’t listening, so he leaned in closer and saw that Wen Xusheng was still planning to post on Weibo. He couldn’t help but frown.

 

“I really don’t think it’s necessary. Even if you agonize over every word, they’ll find a way to twist it. They can say you’re being forced by the Shi family, speculate about how much you’ve suffered, and so on. The young master doesn’t care, but you…”

 

Before Du Yi could finish, Wen Xusheng interrupted him, “But I care.”

 

Du Yi stared at him in disbelief, wondering if he had heard correctly. “And who told you he doesn’t care?”

 

“He’s only not responding because of me.”

 

Watching Wen Xusheng edit his Weibo post, Du Yi gaped in disbelief, unconsciously revisiting the events of the past few days. Suddenly, a terrifying thought crossed his mind.

 

“You wouldn’t be…” Du Yi bit his tongue in time, stopping himself from finishing the sentence. He had bitten too hard though, and the pain brought tears to his eyes.

 

This time, Wen Xusheng finally took his attention away from his phone. He looked up at Du Yi and said calmly, “Go on, keep talking.”

 

Those eyes were filled with encouragement.

 

Du Yi shivered. “No!” he said solemnly, waving his hands. “I won’t ask!”

 

“Don’t give up. Ask me, and I’ll give you the answer.” Wen Xusheng raised his hand. “I swear.”

 

Du Yi said indifferently, “Youe said all that just to make me ask, right?” He shook his head vigorously. “As long as I don’t ask, I won’t get the answer, and then everything in my head is just guesswork. There will be no evidence, so it won’t be true!”

 

“That’s why I absolutely won’t ask!” Du Yi said forcefully.

 

Wen Xusheng stared at him for a moment, then smiled lightly. “Alright.”

 

Wen Xusheng nodded, looking very agreeable.

 

Du Yi sighed in relief and smiled, looking a bit smug.

 

Then he heard Wen Xusheng say, “Everything you guessed just now is true.”

 

Du Yi: !!!

 

The heavens are out to get me, Du Yi thought vaguely.

 

A new Weibo post was uploaded, this time with a photo.

 

Wen Xusheng V: The little kid I took a photo of is pretty cute [photo]

 

It was a photo of the young master forced to wear a rabbit ear hat. He was already good-looking, and with the hat on, he looked even softer, his face flushed red, looking furious, but there was a hint of suppressed laughter in his eyes, making him even cuter.

 

Such a photo could only be obtained by the closest of friends.

 

If it weren’t for reassuring his fans, Wen Xusheng would never have shared this photo.

 

>>???? Is this the ignorant, arrogant, self-centered young master?<<

 

>>Are they really friends??<<

 

>>Can the production team stop exploiting Wen Ge like this???<<

 

>>They keep making Wen Ge clarify things. Mum is so angry. Does the production team really have to invite such a prince and make people feel upset?<<

 

>>Am I the only one who thinks they’re actually friends?<<

 

>>Damn, I actually think this young master is kind of cute?<<

 

Within a few seconds, there were thousands of comments. Wen Xusheng picked a few to reply to.

 

Wen Xusheng V: >>Don’t talk about him like that, he’s actually quite cute.<<

 

Wen Xusheng V: >>We really are friends.<<

 

Because of Wen Xusheng’s attitude, the questioning voices became much smaller, but there were still many people condemning the program team, saying that they shouldn’t have let Shi Jingge participate in the program, that Shi Jingge was a rotten apple spoiling the whole barrel, etc. Some of the comments were really ugly.

 

Shi Jingge had offended many people, and now that they finally had a chance, who wouldn’t want to kick him while he was low?

 

Wen Xusheng couldn’t do anything else, so he could only drag Du Yi along to report each one.

 

Du Yi looked at him in shock and raised his hand to feel Wen Xusheng’s forehead. “No way! You don’t have a fever, which means you’ve lost your mind!”

 

Wen Xusheng gave him a dismissive glance. Du Yi immediately saw the threat in his eyes. He quickly sat up from the sofa and raised his hands in surrender, saying, “I’ll do it, I’ll do it, alright?”

 

The next second, Shi Jingge’s call came in, saving Du Yi.

 

“Hello, Xiao Ge,” Wen Xusheng said with a smile.

 

“Wen Xusheng!” Shi Jingge’s angry voice came rushing over. Du Yi’s ears perked up and he looked over curiously.

 

“Wen Xusheng, are you sick in the head? Who told you to speak? Posting on Weibo so late at night, are you losing your marbles? We’re not close, so you don’t need to get involved in this mess! You must’ve been kicked in the head by a donkey! I don’t need you meddling in my business!

 

“You have such a good reputation, what do you want to get out of this? I’m not in the entertainment industry, so what if I get cursed out a few times? It’s not like I’ve never been through that before. A few curses won’t hurt me. Why bother with those idiots? They’re just giving me more attention! Did I ask you to do this? You—

 

“—You’re driving me crazy!!”

 

Shi Jingge cursed for a while, and Wen Xusheng listened to him and laughed.

 

The young master said angrily, “What are you laughing at?”

 

“I’m happy, so I want to laugh. What else should I do, cry?” Wen Xusheng said lightly.

 

Shi Jingge: “?“

 

“What are you happy about?” Shi Jingge said. “I saw people saying they were turning from fans to haters!”

 

“What a coincidence,” Wen Xusheng said sincerely. “I saw several too, so I clicked on them to take a look and found that most of them were fake accounts. More than half of them didn’t even follow my super topic. There were also a few with a super topic level of 12. Oh, right, I also saw someone who had previously posted on Weibo insulting me, saying I was ugly and should get out of the entertainment industry and stop polluting their eyes.”

 

Du Yi: “…”

 

The young master was furious. “Which blind person called you ugly? If they don’t want their eyes, they should donate them to someone who needs them! They can’t even tell the difference between beauty and ugliness, and yet they dare to open their mouths? I’ll curse them to death!”

 

Du Yi: “…“

 

The young master said vengefully, “Give me their ID. I’ll fight them!”

 

Wen Xusheng laughed.

 

Aggrieved, the young master said, “Now what are you laughing at?”

 

“I’m laughing at you.”

 

The young master: “?”

 

“You were insulted so much, but you gritted your teeth and endured it without saying a word.” Wen Xusheng paused. “Now

you hear someone was insulting me, and you can’t help but want to fight back.”

 

The young master: “…”

 

Three seconds later, the young master hung up the phone.

 

Du Yi covered his face and said weakly, “Could you please give me a heads-up next time you answer the young master’s call?”

 

“Hm?” Wen Xusheng typed while looking down, not even bothering to look up.

 

“I already ate a lot for dinner, so I don’t need to be fed dog food that will make me stuff myself to death,” Du Yi said earnestly.

 

“Oh.” Wen Xusheng realized. “The last shred of dignity for a single person, right?”

 

Du Yi grabbed the pillow from the sofa and swung it at Wen Xusheng. “You haven’t even caught him yet. What are you so proud of?”

 

Wen Xusheng caught the pillow and ignored Du Yi, instead sending a message to Shi Jingge on WeChat: [Do you remember our promise that day?]

 

Shi Jingge ignored him, but Wen Xusheng didn’t mind and continued sending messages.

 

[Remember to wear that outfit.]

 

[I definitely will.]

 

[That’s our promise.]

 

[Will you wear it?]

 

Shi Jingge didn’t reply, but Wen Xusheng knew he wouldn’t.

 

Shi Jingge couldn’t sleep. He stared at Wen Xusheng’s messages, not knowing how to reply, but he couldn’t suppress the excitement in his heart. He rolled around on his bed, then sent a message in the group chat he shared with Hua Mingyi and Li Zhuoyun.

 

[Anyone want to play a game?]

 

Hua Mingyi and Li Zhuoyun responded quickly.

 

[?]

 

[?]

 

Shi Jingge also typed a question mark.

 

[?]

 

Li Zhuoyun: [No, young master, you’re going to live with Senior Wen tomorrow, and you still want to play games?]

 

Hua Mingyi: [That’s right, why don’t you go to sleep?]

 

Shi Jingge replied after a while: [What do you mean, live together? Can you not say it like that?]

 

[We’re just participating in a reality show!]

 

[I’m a well-behaved fan, okay?]

 

[Besides, how can I sleep at a time like this?]

 

[Let’s play games. Why are you two talking so much?]

 

Hua Mingyi and Li Zhuoyun were applying face masks and laughed when they saw Shi Jingge’s replies.

 

Wow, a certain young master was so excited that he couldn’t sleep!

 

So Li Zhuoyun replied sternly: [I can’t sleep even more when I play games. Let’s chat for a while, and we’ll get sleepy!]

 

The young master replied with a question mark and asked: [What should we talk about?]

 

Li Zhuoyun and Hua Mingyi glanced at each other and saw intense gossip in each other’s eyes.

 

You have to know that before their Weibo accounts were suspended, they had a lot of fun gossiping on their secondary accounts!

 

Hua Mingyi cleared her throat and said seriously: [Let’s talk about your idol.]

 

Li Zhuoyun agreed: [What else do we have to talk about?]

 

The young master: […]

 

Three seconds later, the young master replied: [I’m sleepy.]

 

Don’t say anything, the tactic worked.

 

[Goodbye.]

 

Hua Mingyi: ???

 

Li Zhuoyun: ???

 

The two sent in unison: [Don’t go!]

 

But no matter how they tried to persuade him, the young master ran away without a trace.

 

The two looked at each other and sighed softly. They had been too blunt just now and had forgotten how shy the young master was.

 

——

 

At that moment, Shi Rongqing came in with a glass of milk.

 

The young master sat up on the bed and obediently called out, “Brother.”

 

Shi Rongqing placed the milk on the bedside table and fixed his gaze on Shi Jingge.

 

Shi Jingge: “?”

 

Shi Jingge felt a bit uneasy under his stare. “Brother, just say what you need to say. Don’t stare at me like that!”

 

“Do you have to go?” Shi Rongqing asked. Before Shi Jingge could respond, Shi Rongqing waved his hand. “Never mind, forget I asked.”

 

Shi Jingge looked at him in confusion and innocence.

 

Shi Rongqing sat down, took Shi Jingge’s hand, and talked incessantly for three hours. He talked about everything from “how to curse effectively” to the “basics of safety,” and Shi Jingge almost fell asleep listening to him.

 

“In short,” Shi Rongqing concluded decisively, “I’m entrusting you to Wen Xusheng. If you encounter anything you’re unsure about, go find Wen Xusheng.”

 

Shi Jingge nodded dazedly, remembering only that one sentence.

 

Watching the little rascal’s dazed expression, Shi Rongqing felt both annoyed and amused.

 

Forget it, the little brat didn’t take any of it to heart. He might as well go find Wen Xusheng instead.

 

“Fine.” Shi Rongqing sighed. “Go to bed, you have to get up early tomorrow.”

 

Shi Jingge nodded repeatedly.

 

Shi Rongqing went out to call Wen Xusheng.

 

——

 

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T/N: MY BAD GUYS! I thought I hit the check mark to schedule this post and forgot about it!!! Site is being weird, sorry for any formatting weirdness 

Update 05Oct25 Changed into 2 parts for ease of uploading, seems like the site doesn’t like long chapters.

 

Edited: Krone

Proofread: Choux_choux