Ch89 - Don’t Open Your Door For No Reason

Since Qu Dehui had stated that someone was harassing him, Weibo was full of people supporting him.

The assistant had no other options and could only find someone to call Fan Zeng over to investigate.

Now that the situation had become this big, as the director of the program, Fan Zeng naturally had to come out and take charge. “Instructor Qu, what’s going on?”

When Qu Dehui spoke to the assistant, his tone hadn’t been very polite. When Fan Zeng came, only then did his expression warm up a bit. “It’s just that someone is knocking on my door in the middle of the night and disturbing my rest. Not only are they affecting my rest, I also feel threatened. My request to find this person isn’t too overboard, is it?”

“If there is someone harassing you, then of course it’s not overboard.” The security in the building was relatively strict, and this kind of thing shouldn’t have happened. Fan Zeng inwardly thought that it was impossible, but Qu Dehui was very insistent, and he couldn’t confirm if it had or hadn’t happened, so they could only follow his request to go to the surveillance room to see.

“Let’s go, let’s go. I already told someone to take out the surveillance video from the past two days.”

“Fan ge, let’s discuss this first. No matter who this is, you can’t let them off easily.”

A lot of the time, in order to protect their reputation, the program staff would repress things. Qu Dehui feared that the opposing party was a trainee or someone related, and raised this concern.

What he had posted on Weibo had already caused some noise, so he might as well use this opportunity to continue this wave of abuse.

These words implied that the program group would try to escape responsibility. Not only Fan Zeng, but others would feel uncomfortable when they heard this.

Fan Zeng didn’t want to say too much, and simply said, “If we find this person, the program staff will help you call the police.”

Ji Xiunian and Lu Xu followed behind them silently, listening to their blameful attitudes, and tacitly retained their silence.

The moment he entered the surveillance room, Qu Dehui fished out his phone, preparing to record the segment in order to post online so that his fans could see the face of the sasaeng who was knocking on his door in the middle of the night.

Fan Zeng didn’t forbid him even after seeing his actions, and merely told the head of security, “Let’s start.”

“First, let’s look at yesterday night.”

“Okay, you can just play it fromt three in the morning, it was really loud around that time.”

As Qu Dehui spoke, he became expectant as to who this sasaeng fan was, but when the surveillance video showed that night, he realised there had been no one in the hallway.

“How is this possible?” Qu Dehui didn’t believe it, and wanted to take out the surveillance himself to see. But no one there was no one there, and it wasn’t possible for it to be faked.

“Let’s take a look at the day before yesterday.” Fan Zeng hadn’t gotten enough sleep to begin with, and his mood naturally wasn’t very good, but he had to repress his feelings and direct the staff member.

Just like the video from the day before, during the time period Qu Dehui had said there was someone knocking on his door, the hallway was completely empty.

Even in his dreams, Qu Dehui wouldn’t have thought that there was no one in the surveillance video. If it weren’t for the fact that the surveillance video had a timestamp, he would have suspected the program staff had abridged it.

“No, it isn’t possible for no one to be there.”

He fell into a state of doubt, as if he was questioning if he had actually heard incorrectly.

“Instructor Qu, you also saw the surveillance video. In the time period you spoke about, there was no one who came out. Our security was invited due to connections with high-level people. Under strict security, the situation you talked about shouldn’t have happened,” As Fan Zeng spoke, he sounded rather tired for some inexplicable reason, and couldn’t resist yawning. “Everyone online is currently chasing the program staff around for an explanation. I hope you can give a good explanation for this situation. Many netizens are also asking to see the video. Are you going to post it or should the program staff do it?”

When Qu Dehui heard this, he could only feel his face heat up, and refused without even thinking about it. “Since it’s a misunderstanding, then there’s nothing much to say about it.”

“But the netizens don’t know it’s a misunderstanding.” Ji Xiunian opened his mouth unhurriedly, looking straight into Qu Dehui’s eyes. “If it’s not convenient for Instructor Qu’s side, then the program staff can help with revealing the truth.”

He was the one who had brought up this situation. If he didn’t clearly explain the sasaeng incident now, who knew how much the netizens would blacklist the program staff.

Disregarding everything else, sasaeng fans were the common enemy of all fans.

Not only Qu Dehui’s fans, but even fans of other artists were worried, fearing that a sasaeng fan would make a fuss about their own artist.

At this moment, Qu Dehui finally got a taste of his own medicine, and couldn’t speak out despite the bitterness. He hadn’t fabricated the knocking on the door, and he hadn’t slept well in two days; how could it be fake?

But if one said there were sasaeng fans, one needed proof. There hadn’t been a single person in the hallway; perhaps he had actually met a ghost.

He had posted on Weibo about a sasaeng fan. If he now explained that it had been a misunderstanding, he didn’t know how everyone would view him. But if the video was sent out by someone on the program staff to explain, then he really wouldn’t be able to explain his side of the situation.

To avoid the program group posting the video and “slapping him in the face”, it was better to harden his scalp and say it was a misunderstanding on his part.

Qu Dehui only felt very frantic, but he still maintained his noble, princely air, indicating that he would properly explain the situation.

It was just that no matter if others believed him or not, he had to repeat once more that it was true that he had heard knocking on the door.

It seemed like Lu Xu didn’t care too much, as he casually said, “Hui ge, you shouldn’t be afraid. There’s a phrase that says if you haven’t done anything wrong, then you shouldn’t be afraid of ghosts knocking on your door.”

“Of course I’m not afraid.” Qu Dehui responded without thinking, but his heart was tumultuous.

Before this, he really hadn’t thought about incidents such as being possessed by evil spirits and the like, but if the thing knocking on his door wasn’t a person, it had to be…

Having come to this point, the colour in Qu Dehui’s face immediately became terrible.

He didn’t stay any longer, and made up an excuse about needing to go prepare for the recording and left in a hurry.

“Look at how this matter panned out…” As Fan Zeng spoke, he yawned again, and felt very tired.

Ji Xiunian saw this and asked him, “Fan ge, how long did you sleep for?”

Before Fan Zeng even had a chance to say anything, the assistant next to him “tattled”, “Fan ge has been sleeping really little recently. We were editing until it was bright outside today. Originally we thought we could sleep for a bit, but the moment we lay down we were put into this instead.”

When Ji Xiunian heard this, he couldn’t help shaking his head, and said somewhat disapprovingly, “Fan ge, you can’t be like this. Your body won’t be able to handle it.”

“Hai!” Fan Zeng waved his hand, not taking it to heart. “I understand the concept, but I’m the director of this show. The next episode is about to air, so of course we have to work overtime and finish up all the editing.”

Seeing that Ji Xiunian still wanted to plead with him, Fan Zeng yawned as he said, “That’s enough that’s enough, I know my own body’s situation. It’s just temporarily busy for now. When the show ends, I will really rest well and keep my family company. To be honest, my little daughter almost can’t recognise her own father.”

Fan Zeng’s relationship with his wife was very good. His partner was eight years younger than him, and they could be considered an older husband and younger wife duo.

The two of them had two girls. The younger one was only a little over two at this time, right at the time where she was beginning to recognise people.

Before he had gone to live in the building where the show was being recorded, his daughter had been able to raise her head and call him daddy. Now that he had been gone for so many days, and his face was covered in a stubble, he looked more or less haggard. When he was at home, his clothes were all chosen and arranged by his wife, with just a glance his outfit looked bright and neat.

This comparison was too obvious. When he video-called home, his daughter almost couldn’t recognise him anymore. She only recognised him afterwards when his wife had reminded her to call him daddy.

Lu Xu stood at the side and saw how Fan Zeng’s expression became pensive, and casually asked, “Fan ge, it seems that your relationship with your wife is really good.”

“Of course, how can it be bad with one’s own wife…” When his wife was mentioned, Fan Zeng’s expression became much warmer, and he casually gave his wife a session of praise. He didn’t care whether or not his wife could see this side of him, and purely praised his wife.

“It’s like this, ah.” Lu Xu nodded after hearing this, then suddenly said, “Then if you love her so much, you should take care of your health. Otherwise, you will regret it in the future.”

Fan Zeng still didn’t take it to heart. He glanced at Lu Xu, then glanced at Ji Xiunian, and began smiling. “The two of you say the same things; you have a good understanding of each other.”

Ji Xiunian glanced at Lu Xu. He smiled, but didn’t say anything.

“Okay okay, since we’ve resolved the issue on Qu Dehui’s side, you guys should quickly go prepare for the start of the recording.”

Based on Fan Zeng’s words, he was getting ready to go back to sleep.

Ji Xiunian and Lu Xu already tried twice. If they continued speaking, it would be a bit inappropriate.

The two of them left the surveillance room together, then immediately walked towards the practise rooms.

On the other side, Qu Dehui had already agreed to explain the situation on Weibo, but the moment he opened up Weibo, he discovered that fans from all over had become a group, all debating in his topic tags.

He originally merely wanted to rub off on the popularity of this incident; just the identity of a sasaeng fan would elicit many articles.

Now that he was suddenly changing his mind and saying that no one had knocked on his door, it was unclear which netizens would let this matter pass.

Qu Dehui really didn’t want to bear the responsibility, and could only harden his scalp as he thought of what to do.

He was very sure he hadn’t heard wrong, but after seeing absolutely nothing in the video, it made everything really difficult.

In the midst of his struggle, Qu Dehui took out his phone, and used his hand to casually swipe through the topics related to ‘Birth of an Idol’, and actually saw something about the previous incident with Lai Chengshan.

Although Lai Chengshan had been proven to be a scam and had been struck by lightning, it didn’t mean that the program group had really had met with a supernatural incident.

Qu Dehui began scheming in his head as he read the comments, and finally couldn’t resist making a Weibo post—

[@Qu Dehui V: I’m very sure someone was knocking on the door in the middle of the night, but after looking at the surveillance footage of the entrance, there was no trace of any person.I now feel like my entire world has received a shock. So can anyone help me figure out what happened?]

He posted the video, then liked a Weibo post regarding what to do when one saw a ghost.

Netizens who had originally come to eat melons and catch a sasaeng fan, discovered instead that there had been no one in the middle of the night after opening the video.

[@A Powder Pig: Originally I thought a sasaeng knocking on the door was pretty infuriating, but after I saw the video I now know it’s not. Speaking of this, why does ‘Birth of an Idol’ attract situations with ghostly spirits so easily? Before this, there was that issue with Lai Chengshan and then the incident with Devil’s Bay…]

[@Not Missing You Anymore: To be honest I was a little scared, knocking on the door in the deep of the night with no one around. Isn’t this a stereotypical horror film setting?]

There were also many people tagging Qu Dehui, reminding him that he should never open his door after things like this happened—

[@Natural Strawberry Pie: @Qu Dehui V: Gege, next time when you meet something like this, you have to immediately call for someone to come over and have a look. You mustn’t open the door no matter what. Otherwise, opening the door will be like an invitation, and will attract things into the eaves of your room with you.]