CH 21

This question touched his knowledge blind spot.

It’s over now. Who said that there was no such thing as a test for seeing a fans’ authenticity? He just jinxed it. Not ten minutes after telling a lie, he was faced with such an exam. 

Faking being a fan was cool for a while. But now he’s faced with a certain death. 

Gu Wei was only enthusiastic in collecting memes. His knowledge in e-sports meanwhile? Zero. 

What did “elimination number” even mean? He didn’t know that, so… maybe… he could be lucky enough to guess it correctly. 

He had no other choice, anyhow.

The staff member were waiting for his answer, even Jiang Xun looked at him with encouragement and expectation. And the cameramen all pointed their lenses at him.

‘Come on, Gu Wei, speak up. Give us your answer.’

Gu Wei was desperately recalling the hot search keywords a while ago, looking for information related to numbers, Jiang Xun, world champion, TMW team, seven consecutive victories.

Huh, seven consecutive victories. 

Maybe that’s the answer?

Staff: “What’s your answer?”

“…Seven, seven?” Gu Wei gave the answer carefully, staring nervously at the staff, and began to hint with his eyes to release the water1taking it easy on him. Give him a hint, or something.

Netizens on Weibo once said that black fans can blacken Gu Wei’s character, but they can’t blacken Gu Wei’s appearance at all. This was true, his pair of peach blossom eyes were especially attractive when he looked at people seriously.

But at this time, hints were useless.

Staff: “…”

This request was no longer to release water, but to release floods.

Cameramen: “…” 

Both of the cameramen actually followed e-sports news quite religiously. At this point, they were rendered speechless. They could only take close-up shots of Gu Wei and Jiang Xun, hoping to at least take their reactions. Surely, with this kind of answer, it would be priceless.

Jiang Xun: “…”

Gu Wei: “?” 

Did he guessed right? He better be, this was now a matter of life and death. 

The staff member spoke again, with a horrible expression on his face: “No, no, not seven. It’s two hundred and nineteen.”

Jiang Xun was the MVP during the World Championship. There’s no way in hell he only killed seven enemies. 

Gu Wei: “…” 

His guess didn’t even come within the same ballpark.

Was Jiang Xun actually so powerful? That number sounded fake.

It’s really over. His “fan” disguise was completely wiped out. 

Jiang Xun took Gu Wei aside, so as not to be recorded by the camera, “what’s the matter with you? Didn’t you say you’re my fan?”

Gu Wei: “I…”

“Explain to me clearly.” 

The “or else” was heavily implied.

Jiang Xun wouldn’t be fooled this time. 

“You may not believe it,” Gu Wei closed his eyes and admitted his sin, “Ge, I’m… strictly only a fan of your… reaction memes.” 

Jiang Xun: “???”

Reaction memes…???

What kind of answer was that???

Jiang Xun: “didn’t you watch my games before?”

Gu Wei: “I went with… my groupmates. They are all your genuine fans, so they watched your games. While… I only… watched…” 

Gu Wei’s confession was barely audible during the last parts. Jiang Xun couldn’t hear it at all.

What he wanted to say but didn’t dare was–

‘I only want to see your memes being made live with my own two eyes. You always had such wild range of expressions… and also golden quotes during your games, be it curse words or hilarious commentary while cussing your opponents. Watching them is way more interesting than watching any thunder dramas2soap opera, you see.

Jiang Xun let out an angry laugh. After he achieved good results, he had fans of his techniques, his face, and also those who are delusional enough to fantasize being his girlfriend. But this was the first time he heard that there are fans of his reaction memes in this world.

This little fiancé arranged by his family always kept surprising him.

Ever since he met Gu Wei, Jiang Xun felt that his life had never been boring.

The staff and the cameramen obviously didn’t expect such a situation, and the three of them could only watch the lively scene on the side. 

“Why are you a fan of my memes?” Jiang Xun felt a very bad headache starting to grow.

But this confession actually explained many of Gu Wei’s previous deeds and words. 

Using many Jiang Xun’s memes in his Moments, and that declaration when they met in Northern Europe—

“Reaction memes aren’t supposed to play hooligans–!!”

“Because…” Gu Wei hesitated, “Ge, I think your memes are better looking than you.”

Jiang Xun: “…” 

Should he be happy? By that kind of wild explanation??

“No no no! That’s not what I meant!” Gu Wei quickly denied while shaking his head, “I mean, your memes…”

For Gu Wei, it was a factual truth that Jiang Xun’s memes were leagues better than the actual person. 

Reaction memes could only be used to pissed other people. They would not bully him, calling him a “little bride”, nor making him blush fiercely with his heart racing a mile a minute. Especially not throwing suggestive words full of innuendo at him.

“My lying little Gu,” Jiang Xun said with a headache, “are you in your rebellious phase?” 

Being unknowingly charming in one second, and unknowingly irritating in the other.

Wasn’t that being rebellious? 

He led Gu Wei away from the camera, and slapped the kid’s butt lightly.

“You’re teasing me on purpose.”

“You…” Gu Wei bowed his head and didn’t dodge at all. Jiang Xun’s slaps were very light, but his ears were still stained crimson. His eyes still refused to look at the older man directly. 

“I… What I want to say earlier is… you are so mean.”

“Since you are just my fake fan… our earlier agreement is now null and void,” Jiang Xun deliberately said with a straight face, “you have to think about how to make it up for me. For that… essay you made on WeChat, and for digging up my ancient post on Weibo.” 

“Okay,” Gu Wei knew it was useless to try to escape. So he stopped trying to run.

He thought for a while. They were not being recorded by the camera, so… 

He stood on his tiptoes, being careful to avoid his voice being captured by his mic on his neckline, and whispered directly to Jiang Xun’s ear. “Ge, I know I’m wrong, I’ll give you… that yearly subscription.”

Jiang Xun’s eyes lit up.

“Really?” He just wanted to tease this kid, he didn’t expect the kid to really agree on his earlier demand.

Gu Wei nodded solemnly: “Really.”

He thought of a wonderful solution – full of his sincerity, service and pleasure guaranteed. He had no experience in this field, and wouldn’t be able to do it well. So, he had to find a “professional” instead. Gu Wei had already figured out how to do it.

The kid, who was in a hurry when his fake fan identity was exposed, could only agree to this request.

Seeing this, Jiang Xun’s curiosity peaked. He wanted to see how Gu Wei would handle this situation after the filming was done. 

Gu–professional archaeologist-Wei is so good at digging holes (for himself) indeed!

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