Title: Adopting and Raising the Male Lead and the Villain
Translator: Fringe Alpaca
Chapter 155 - Your family of three – you, Li Jinyuan, and Huo Chengming (1)
The assistant shut up.
Except that after the nanny van had started moving forward, the assistant couldn’t help but start again, “But idols being in a relationship is a big deal in China. If your romance was ever exposed, your image would be ruined and you risk to lose a lot of your fans…”
Suddenly, Wei Jie chuckled and said, “Oh, Xiao Yang, who did you think was Young Master Li video-chatting earlier?”
The assistant was nervous right away after he asked that. She stuttered, “Girl… girlfriend?”
Li Jinyuan didn’t say anything.
Wei Jie chuckled and said, “What are you talking about. That’s Young Master Li’s older sister!”
The assistant blushed right immediately. “Oh, oh. Look at me… I’m so sorry, Young Master Li. I really had no idea… My bad about Sister Li…”
Li Jinyuan suddenly turned around. He smiled at Wie Jie and said, “You have seen her a few times already. Do you really think that she looks like my sister?”
Wei Jie didn’t think much about it. Smiling, he said, “No, not really. Miss Zhong is kind of petite and her features are delicate and soft. Young Master Li looks more like her older brother…”
The assistant couldn't help but grumble. How was it that they didn’t have the same last name then? Were they cousins?
Wei Jie stopped and switched to a different topic. “That being said, it’s still too early for Young Master Li to be in a romantic relationship. He’s not even at the legal age to get married yet… It is so far away. Don’t worry about it.”
Wie Jie had worked very closely with Li Jinyuan overseas and he knew how restrained Li Jinyuan was better than anyone else.
Too much micromanaging would only cause backlash. It really wasn’t necessary.
Li Jinyuan turned and looked out of the window. He didn’t say anything else.
Everybody knew that he was very tired from the filming today, so one by one, they stopped talking and let him rest.
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“Who went to the filming location today? I’ve heard that Li Jinyuan was all sorts of flirty outside the location today. Was that true??”
“Yes! That is true! I almost bawled! It was alright during filming. I was only ogling his amazing look. But he was so flirty after the filming was over! He smiled, looked up, and talked. He was just irresistible!”
“On sight. This is the video clip! See for yourself…”
“Li Jinyuan was born for this. Every movement of his was so charming. And his EQ was high as well. It’d make no sense if he was not popular!”
And, just like that, Li Jinyuan made the most trended list again. The video clips from that day were reposted uncontrollably.
His smile when he looked down in front of the camera and what he said to his fans when he looked back up were talked about incessantly. They were discussed ardently on all different forums.
And, just like that, Li Jinyuan’s fans went over 8 million.
As his popularity grew higher and higher, finally his dark history was clawed out.
But, before his dark history was clawed out, a very heated topic appeared on a few of the major forums – “So Capricious. Li Jinyuan Returned to China Amidst His Flourishing Modeling Career…”
The channel owner found pictures of Li Jinyuan as a model overseas -- some of him on stage, magazine covers, as spokesperson for advertisements…
“Hot dang! I thought it was him. But he went with a different name overseas, plus his style was very western in all of his shows and he had never mentioned this before. I was almost leery to say this was him!”
“That’s incredible. He had participated in quite a few of the major shows overseas… It was just that we paid more attention to female models in China; otherwise, we would have noticed that way before now.”
“He’s a true prince of royalty! Such amazing temperament… but why did he suddenly decide to return to China? Looking at his accomplishment, he was already popular among the entire England. He has so many fans in Europe already.”
“Maybe it’s easier to make money here?”
“I suggest the last poster to check out the comments on him from overseas first. Rumor had it that he was born in some prestigious family…”
“Okay. I shall keep my mouth shut then.”
“Not necessarily. That could be fake. So many stars had fake certificates from universities overseas, or Second Generation Rich, or Second Generation Star images…”
“Oh, stop with that conspiracy theory already… his modeling career was real, okay?”
No matter how many black fans there were in the mix, or how many there were who wanted to speak poorly of Li Jinyuan just to show that they were different, none of them stopped Li Jinyuan from gaining more fans.