Chapter 777 Two silly peas in a pod
?The atmosphere on the set the next day was different. Yating felt it as soon as he stepped in. He glanced across the staff, who were eyeing him with some meaningful gaze where he didn't understand what the meaning was. They were periodically looking into their phones and whispering something to each other.
Did something happen?
Yating tilted his head questioningly, wondering to himself.
"Gu Yating!"
Director Murong welcomed him with a happy grin and patted the seat beside him. "Just when I was thinking about you. We are about to start."
"Yeah..."
Yating took a cautious look around him once more and couldn't help but ask, "Is something the matter today?"
"Hm? What matter?"
"I don't understand why is everybody gazing at me...a certain way? Something definitely feels different."
"Huh? Oh! Is this about the viral video?"
"What viral video?"
"Of you and Zhu Chyou."
Director Murong asked with interest, "Did you two go on dinner last night?"
Yating rapidly blinked his eyes. "...How do you know?"
Sharp and shock-laced gasps echoed throughout the set as soon as Yating admitted a yes. The discussions turned into something more furious and ferocious.
Director Murong took out his cell and swiped some left and right and up and down to show him the root cause of what was happening.
Yating saw the video of him and Chyou in the restaurant's garden last night where they were chasing each other.
'Okay, okay fine, I will delete the pictures!' Chyou pursed her lips heavily with dissatisfaction. 'You are no fun at all. Okay just one picture, pretty please?'
Chyou stared at Yating with her big, bright and pleading eyes to which he was averting his eyes. 'No. Delete all.'
'You have to let me keep one!' Chyou whined.
"Oh my God, is the Zhu and Gu family going to...?"
"I don't know what to say! Do their families want them to tie the knot?"
"But then what about Cheng Yin?"
"Does Mr. Zhu not accept him?"
"Is this a love triangle? Wait, will the Queen and my prince's love story end in a tragedy?"
Yating couldn't wrap his head around the rapid flow of the conversation at all.
Well, even I had misunderstood that it was a marriage meeting so I cannot really blame them. I shouldn't have said that.
He said, "It wasn't a marriage meeting. Our fathers are collaborating on a project and they want Chyou and me to work on its branding and marketing together. We were there to discuss that. That's all."
The frenzied crowd calmed down a bit after hearing that. The video and then the potential conclusions arriving out of it was a rollercoaster ride on its own.
"I am ready~!"
Just then, Chyou arrived ready in her getup but frowned at Yating's sight. "You are a mean person! You didn't let me keep even a single picture!"
He shrugged. He gave it a thought and quickly whispered near her. "Chyou, you need to clarify a big misunderstanding. Have you seen the viral video? Everybody is thinking that we were on a date last night."
She was confused. "I haven't checked my social media yet."
She quickly saw it too and facepalmed. "How is this a date when we were just running around like a bunch of school kids?"
The same excited girl who had exclaimed before, asked once again, "Mr. Yating said that Mr. Zhu and Mr. Gu were there too. So, so, so! Was it a marriage meeting?"
Yating's mouth twitched.
I just said it wasn't. Is it so hard to believe me?
She blinked twice. "Ah? No, it wasn't. I mean, that was already done and dusted before so why would it be a marriage meeting again?"
Yating and everybody else - "..."
Done and dusted before meaning that there were indeed potential marriage talks going on between you two at one point!?
"Huh, huh, huh?" Chyou sheepishly grinned, scratching her head and looking at the crowd that was beginning to fall out of balance. "Why this steep silence?"
Yating closed his eyes and then gave a defeated smile. "I shouldn't have brought up our fathers and you shouldn't have brought up our past meeting. Aren't we two silly peas in a pod?"