Seduced the Obsessive NPC and Ran - Chapter 59

Chapter 59

In a dim room with the lights off, the only illumination came from the fluorescent glow of a computer screen.

A man was frantically typing insults against Yan Jinge on his keyboard before uploading a video clip.

It was getting late. He leaned back and exhaled a long breath, looking weary. He rubbed his face and finally stood up, dragging his stiff body to turn on the lights.

As the bright light flooded the room, it revealed the man’s face-it was Yan Jinge’s former manager.

Ever since Yan Jinge had been transferred to Lin Jiu at Song Zhengjun’s company, the manager had felt a growing bitterness in his heart.

Even though Yan Jinge hadn’t had many resources before, he had still put in the effort to manage him for a long time. He had even found him a sugar daddy, which was how Yan Jinge happened to meet the current Song Zhengjun.

Now that the kid was on the verge of skyrocketing to success, he had just kicked him to the curb like that?

Without even a token of appreciation!

How could he stand for this?

He had previously said he would trip Yan Jinge up, but because Song Zhengjun protected him so well, he hadn’t found a single opportunity to even see the man.

During this incident with Yi Haotian, the manager saw his chance. He hadn’t slept all night, staying on Weibo to frantically stir up public opinion.

Furthermore, he wasn’t worried about Yan Jinge retaliating.

This was all small potatoes. Besides, for Yan Jinge’s sugar daddy, even if a kept relationship was exposed, there wouldn’t be much of a loss. It wasn’t like there was ironclad proof, so the man certainly wouldn’t go out of his way to target him. At most, he’d send a symbolic lawyer’s letter or just delete all his comments. But what he didn’t expect was-

That chairman named Song Zhengjun actually personally entered the fray!!!

…Then the video he just posted.

The manager’s expression shifted slightly. He wanted to delete the video, but the system indicated that it had already been successfully uploaded.

Who was Song Zhengjun?

The answer to that question was likely known to everyone except those who didn’t use the internet.

He had graduated from a top-tier university and was the Chairman and CEO of the Nirvana Group. He had once been the richest man in the country, appeared on wealth rankings, and had even received the Forbes Lifetime Achievement Award.

Many products people used in their daily lives were produced by the Nirvana Group.

Song Zhengjun didn’t appear in public often, but the few photos of him that occasionally surfaced in financial reports were enough to drive netizens wild. Song Zhengjun was of mixed heritage, with deep-set eyes and a pair of particularly captivating ice-blue eyes. A person like him, even if placed in the entertainment industry, would undoubtedly be a top-tier figure.

Not to mention his personal achievements.

Countless netizens shouted “husband” or “daddy” under his Weibo posts.

And such a god-like figure actually spoke up for Yan Jinge and got personally involved?

No matter how you thought about it, it felt surreal.

“…Wait, was Chairman Song’s account hacked by a bot army?”

“Is your head stuck in a door? That’s Chairman Song’s account. No matter how good a bot army is, they can’t hack his account, okay?”

“After reading all of Chairman Song’s comments, I only have one question: So even the big shots follow celebrities? And he’s following… emmm, this kind of 18th-tier nobody… couldn’t he pick someone else to stan? Like our world-best Jin Zuidong…”

“Jin Zuidong and Yan Jinge are friends, and now the fans are starting to tear each other apart? What do you mean ‘pick someone else’? What, does he need your permission to like a celebrity?”

“Other fandoms please stay quiet and don’t look for trouble, thanks.”

“Speaking of which, that person who said Yan Jinge has a sugar daddy, come out! If Yan Jinge really had a sugar daddy, how could his resources have been so bad before? He debuted based on his face. If the studio he signed with back then hadn’t been so incompetent, it would have been impossible for him to vanish from the scene. Look, after a few years, he stars in one drama and immediately starts getting popular again just by relying on his face?”

This was actually true.

After Yan Jinge came out of the survival show, his resources had always been poor; this was obvious to everyone.

“And Chairman Song personally said Yan Jinge doesn’t have a sugar daddy… so there really shouldn’t be one, right?”

***

At the hotel.

President Li and the others were settling scores with Yi Haotian, and Yan Jinge couldn’t be bothered to get involved.

He sat in a corner, looking at the news online with his phone. Seeing the sharp, biting remarks Song Zhengjun had sent to shut people down, Yan Jinge pursed his lips, a hint of a smile touching his eyes.

When Song Zhengjun said Yan Jinge wasn’t being kept, his tone was perfectly righteous, yet he had forgotten that the two of them were actually still within the effective period of a keeping contract.

In a strict sense, he really was being kept…

Speak of the devil.

Yan Jinge’s phone vibrated.

Song Zhengjun: “Is the matter handled?”

Yan Jinge glanced at the people beside him: “Still denouncing him.”

Song Zhengjun: “How much longer? Should I come over to pick you up for dinner?”

Yan Jinge: “Sure, you can come now. I can leave early.”

Yan Jinge put away his phone.

A person sat down beside him. It was the minor celebrity who had once sent text messages to the Original Host, threatening him to break up with Yi Haotian. Just now in the livestream, he had been wearing sunglasses and staying in the corner, not attracting much attention.

As he sat down now, his first words were, “I’m sorry.”

Yan Jinge waved his hand dismissively.

The minor celebrity hesitated for a moment before saying sincerely, “Even though I already told you over WeChat, I felt I should apologize to you formally in person. About those things before… I was blinded by love and did so many terrible things. Looking back now, I feel like I was a total idiot. I don’t know what was going through my head.”
Yan Jinge smiled. “I don’t care about that anymore.”

The minor celebrity looked sheepish, likely feeling a bit awkward. He didn’t say anything more, getting up to find someone he knew better.

Before long, Song Zhengjun arrived.

Yan Jinge said his goodbyes to the people around him and headed out. Just as he reached the elevator, he ran into Song Zhengjun.

Song Zhengjun naturally took Yan Jinge’s hand. “There’s something I want to talk to you about.”

Yan Jinge tilted his head. “Hmm?”

“Jinge, I want to go public with our relationship,” Song Zhengjun said, his expression serious.

After speaking, he felt a wave of nervousness.

He held a treasure in his arms, and he held the rights to that treasure; naturally, he wanted to announce this good news to the whole world. He wanted the world to be envious, and he wanted everyone to know that Yan Jinge was his-that no one else could touch him. But if Yan Jinge didn’t agree…

Song Zhengjun’s eyes darkened.

Yan Jinge was a celebrity.

For the sake of their future career paths, most people would choose to hide their romances. Song Zhengjun could actually understand that.

He had already decided that if Yan Jinge refused, he wouldn’t force it. However, he would definitely have to pin the man to the bed and do this and that until Yan Jinge couldn’t even get up, just as compensation.

At the thought of how Yan Jinge would look…

Song Zhengjun’s breath grew hotter than before.

A flicker of excitement flashed through his dark, unreadable gaze.

“Sure,” Yan Jinge said.

Song Zhengjun: “…”

Song Zhengjun: “???”

Damn it!

How could he agree so easily???

…If he had known Yan Jinge was this easy to talk to, why would he have wasted so much time in those previous worlds? Besides… now he couldn’t use that as an excuse to do this and that to Yan Jinge.

Song Zhengjun couldn’t help but steal a few more glances at Yan Jinge, only to see that the other man looked perfectly calm.

He felt an indescribable sense of loss, yet he was also happy that Yan Jinge had agreed without hesitation. It was a clear validation of their feelings for each other. For a moment, he was a whirlwind of conflicting emotions.

With a soft sigh, Song Zhengjun sent a message to Liu Wu.

Meanwhile, the internet was still buzzing as if it were a holiday.

Yan Jinge’s former manager was in a frantic rush. He deleted the video he had just finished uploading and let out a sigh of relief.

He thought to himself that it was a good thing everyone was busy discussing the relationship between Yan Jinge and Song Zhengjun; not many people should have seen it. Glancing at the sky outside, the manager prepared to head to bed.

However, the manager had underestimated the power of current internet traffic, not to mention that when he posted the video earlier, he had specifically tagged it with “Yan Jinge’s Sugar Daddy.”

The moment the video was spotted, someone had already saved it.

-Inside a magnificently decorated hotel, Song Zhengjun was seen supporting a drunken Yan Jinge as they entered a room.

It was obvious that the video was a candid shot. The camera angle was quite low, but since it was taken not far behind the two of them, their faces were clearly visible.

The public went wild: “???”

Holy crap???

What’s the situation now???

Yan Jinge’s sugar daddy is Song Zhengjun???

It must be. Otherwise, they wouldn’t go straight to a hotel together. They looked so intimate, and Yan Jinge looked completely wasted…

People who watched the video immediately let their imaginations run wild.

[Yan Jinge’s hand was practically sliding under Song Zhengjun’s clothes. If there’s nothing going on between them, I’ll perform a handstand while having diarrhea!]

[I saw Yan Jinge’s mouth moving. He seemed to be calling out something, but the audio in the video is too low to hear clearly. Did anyone catch it?]

[Damn, one piece of gossip leads to another. Do they not want people to sleep tonight?]

[Yan Jinge, get out of the entertainment industry!]

[…I’ve studied a bit of lip-reading. If I’m not mistaken, he seems to be calling out ‘Xiang Gong’? Wait, has Yan Jinge ever acted in a historical idol drama?]

[Nope.]

[This is ironclad proof of a sugar daddy relationship. People were saying they might just be friends before, but what kind of friend touches another friend like that and calls them that? Disgusting.]

[What are you all talking about? Yan Jinge and Song Zhengjun are in a legitimate relationship. People at our company have seen them holding hands plenty of times. If it were really a sponsorship deal, who would hold hands in public?]

[The industry is so messy these days, who knows?]

[The person above… is a verified employee of Song Zhengjun’s company???]

[Did your boss send you here to damage control?]

“This makes me so mad!”

In an office, a girl threw her phone down, her chest heaving with anger. “What is wrong with people on the internet? Yan Jinge and our Chairman Song are so good together, yet they actually guess it’s a sugar daddy thing instead of a romance? Their minds are so filthy! And they keep attacking Yan Jinge!”

Ever since meeting Yan Jinge in person a few times, the girl had become a fan. Seeing so many people on the internet cursing Yi Haotian while dragging Yan Jinge into it made her instantly frustrated.

“Calm down, that’s just how they are.” Another employee thought back to the time she had greeted Yan Jinge and how he had turned to smile at her. Gritting her teeth, she said, “Whose Weibo are you looking at? Send me the link, I’ll help you flame them.”

“Okay!” The girl had just picked up her phone when she froze upon opening it.

“What is it?” her colleague asked.

The girl let out a short “Ah!” her eyes sparkling. “Our Chairman Song-everyone, go look at Chairman Song’s Weibo! He just came out! He directly announced his relationship with Yan Jinge!!! Ahhh-the ship I stan is so sweet! Ahhh-!”