CH 19.2

Do You Still Hate Her? 09 – If you can’t beat them, join them.

Lin Yanyan looked at Shang Lu in panic, her face clearly saying, ‘What do we do? What do we do?’

[Hahaha, everyone panicked visibly!]

[There was no preparation for this gift segment at all.]

[Shang Lu must not have expected that the program team had something up their sleeves.]

[I knew this show couldn’t have such a heartwarming ending! The twist was waiting right here!]

Yu Su was the first to react and immediately took Ye Lu, who hadn’t fully grasped the situation, to sit at the piano in the restaurant. They performed a piece on the spot.

Yu Su was responsible for playing the piano, while Ye Lu, whose body reacted faster than his brain, took charge of singing.

It was the theme song from Jiang Jing’s debut, and performing it on this day held significant meaning. As expected, Jiang Jing’s eyes quickly welled up, and after a moment of daze, she expressed her gratitude after being reminded by the program team.

[Damn, Yu Su reacts so quickly! This gift is also very appropriate!]

[He also managed to rescue Ye Lu from the situation, hahaha, touching brotherly bond.]

[This song isn’t very well-known, right? But they performed it quite well.]

[I don’t know about what the previous commenter said, but Jiang Jing is an actress that Xia Yuan really likes. It’s normal for Ye Lu and Yu Su, as teammates, to know her song, right?]

[Hahaha, Xia Yuan must be recommending Jiang Jing as a fanatic fan. Just thinking about it is so adorable.]

[It’s such a pity that Xia Yuan didn’t come this time! He missed his idol’s birthday like this!]

[It’s a good thing Xia Yuan didn’t come… Should we let Xia Yuan embarrass herself in front of Jiang Jing by swinging fake hair and dancing? That would be so embarrassing!]

With Yu Su’s help, Ye Lu managed to pass through smoothly. The awkward part is the rest of the people. They can’t perform a famous scene from Jiang Jing’s acting skills on the spot, right?

That’s what Ye Lu thought, and because he managed to pass through smoothly, he now appears particularly arrogant. He even looks at Shang Lu and Lin Yanyan with a provocative expression.

Lin Yanyan was extremely angry and punched at him from a distance.

[What are you so proud of, Ye Lu! If it weren’t for Yu Su, you would still be one of them!]

[Ye Lu’s life principle: Be as arrogant as possible for every second.]

However, at this moment, Shang Lu took out a small box from her pocket and walked up to Jiang Jing, handing it over to Jiang Jing. Then she said, “Happy birthday.”

The box was opened, and inside it was a necklace.

Although it didn’t look very expensive, it was very beautiful, clearly carefully chosen.

Jiang Jing was also somewhat surprised. Although she didn’t realize it at first, looking at everyone’s expressions, she knew that they didn’t actually prepare anything. So she was prepared to express gratitude no matter what strange thing she received. However, she didn’t expect to receive a real gift from Shang Lu.

Others : “?”

The viewers in the livestream chat :

[Wow, Shang Lu’s gift is actually a real one?]

[How did she carry it with her?]

[Before they left the previous haunted house, Lin Yanyan went back to change her shoes, and Shang Lu seemed to have avoided the camera for a while. Did she secretly buy it at that time?]

Ye Lu naturally found it hard to believe and asked, “How did you have a gift?”

Shang Lu looked at him and said, “Of course, you have to prepare a gift for a birthday.”

[Shang Lu is right, hahaha.]

[Everyone treated it as a task of the program team and followed the process, but Shang Lu remembered to specially prepare a gift for Jiang Jing. It was really thoughtful.]

However, there were also people who didn’t believe it.

[Shang Lu and Jiang Jing’s relationship is just so-so, right? It’s not necessary to prepare a gift specifically for Jiang Jing. Is it all for the sake of maintaining their public images? Is it real or fake?]

Immediately, someone came forward to explain on behalf of Shang Lu.

[But she bought the gift off-camera. If it wasn’t the director’s team pulling off this tricky move, it’s obvious that Shang Lu didn’t prepare the gift to present it now.]

[As a semi-industry insider and a former short-term assistant of Shang Lu, I can say that her staffs were given days off and receive gifts and red envelopes on her birthday. I don’t know why, but it seems like she cares about her birthday quite a bit.]

[As one of Shang Lu’s rare long-time fans, I can confirm that her schedule is completely private a few days before and after her birthday. She must really value it to always have private arrangements.]

In fact, everyone followed a similar approach to Ye Lu and Yu Su’s, trying to smooth things over. Naturally, Jiang Jing didn’t expect to actually receive their gifts, and she smiled warmly throughout the whole process.

That’s how today passed by.

As for Yu Su, he had other work conflicts and had to leave early the next morning, so he couldn’t participate in the recording on the second day.

Yu Su’s appearance was originally meant to save Xia Yuan. It would have been great if he could stay for just one day, but what the program team didn’t expect was that before leaving, Yu Su gave them a gift— a theme song specially created for their show.

The program team first played the song and to their surprise, the gift Yu Su left behind was a complete composition with lyrics and arrangement.

[Wow, it sounds amazing! Yu Su is incredible!]

[Did Yu Su stay up all night for this? He directly gave them a finished product. Damn, he’s so awesome!]

[God knows how many companies would pay to secretly have Yu Su create songs for them… But Yu Su doesn’t need the money. In this regard, he’s like a priceless treasure.]

The program team was extremely satisfied after listening to the song.

They had actually contacted some musicians privately to try and collaborate, but they hadn’t achieved satisfactory results. They never expected Yu Su to voluntarily offer them such a big gift!

So, the directors and producers gathered together and immediately started discussing, changing the plans for the rest of the day.

Why continue with other programs? What games should they play? Of course, they should all pack up and go together to record the theme song!

They immediately contacted the sound engineer in the recording studio and went to wake up the artists, announcing the changes in today’s schedule.

While having breakfast, everyone learned that today’s schedule had been changed due to Yu Su’s gift. When they heard that they were going to record the theme song, the expressions on many people’s faces subtly changed.

Since there was only one professional idol here, Ye Lu became the temporary team leader in the group today, responsible for managing everything and teaching everyone to sing this song.

When Ye Lu heard this, his eyes lit up, and he proudly straightened his chest and lifted his head, as if he were wearing a badge representing honor on his chest.

[Ye Lu is doing it again, right?]

[He’s floating, he’s floating!]

At the same time, Ye Lu also felt somewhat surprised and said, “I didn’t expect Yu Su to consider me so important and specially give me this kind of gift.”

As he spoke, Ye Lu lowered his head and flipped through the sheet music and lyrics in his hand. A smile appeared on his face, but it seemed somewhat stiff.

To be fair, Ye Lu also greatly admired Yu Su’s creative talent. This time, he combined the theme of the variety show, and the lyrics were actually quite simple, but they described the reasons for the guests’ participation in the show from different perspectives, using gentle words to dilute the malice and gradually evoke a warm feeling and beautiful expectations.

Yu Su thoughtfully assigned parts, with special annotations for each person’s singing parts. Because of this, Ye Lu could immediately see…

The verse that Yu Su wrote for Shang Lu is clearly not on the same level as the others.

Ye Lu not a fool, and he immediately understood that Yu Su wrote this song not for him but for Shang Lu.

How annoying!

Ye Lu’s hand holding the A4 paper trembled slightly. For the first time in his life, he hated his own intelligence so much that he could see through Yu Su’s little schemes at a glance.

“What’s wrong, Teacher Ye?”

It was the voice of a staff member that made Ye Lu lift his head from his discontent. He shook his head and said, “Nothing.”

What could he say?

He couldn’t understand! He couldn’t understand at all!

rokumi’s note : honestly, the worst villain of all novels I’ve read is Father Shang.