?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 so aningful gaze where he didn't understand what the aning was. They were periodically looking into their phones and whispering sothing to each other.
Did sothing happen?
Yating tilted his head questioningly, wondering to himself.
"Gu Yating!"
Director Murong welcod 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 sothing the matter today?"
"Hm? What matter?"
"I don't understand why is everybody gazing at …a certain way? Sothing 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 sothing more furious and ferocious.
Director Murong took out his cell and swiped so 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 keep one!' Chyou whined.
'I refuse for anybody to see as a clown,' he smiled. 'So please delete or I can keep this ga of tag going on forever.'
Yating obviously rembered as it had happened just last night, but what he didn't understand was who recorded this and why it was on social dia.
"Couple of Chyou's fans were at the sa restaurant as you two and they saw you two together, you know, having fun and all. You know Chyou's status very well. They didn't approach her but you can see the other result in front of you."
"Yeah well that's fine but what is the source of this frenzy?"
"Read the post."
Yating scrolled to the end of the video and read the post which said,
'Oh my gosh, it's my favorite Queen in front of !!! I am seeing her in the flesh! But wait…who is she with? Wait, wait, wait! Isn't he my Queen's savior!? Are they playing tag? The Queen is playing a ga of tag with the Chief Editor, oh my gosh!'
Yating's brow twitched.
She has so talent in starting and ending her ssage with the sa line, he thought.
He looked at Director Murong. "And? Of course, it's in the video."
Director Murong smiled. "Yeah but you are not Cheng Yin."
It took half a second after which he ca to a lightning fast realization with everything clicking together.
"Wait, don't tell that people think…sothing is going on between us?"
Director Murong raised his brow. "I don't know about others but to , as a director, I loved the chemistry between you two."
"There is no chemistry between us. It's just friendship."
"Hmmmmm welllllllll…doesn't look that way in the video."
He was dumbfounded. "This is nothing. Chyou was just taking so silly pictures of mine and I was asking her to delete them. She wasn't listening so I was chasing her around, that's all. Why, has the concept of friends beco so distant now that this is considered as sothing romantically intimate?"
"So you weren't on a date?"
That left him even more speechless. "Director, Chyou is already dating Cheng Yin and I am single. There is no question of us getting together. It wasn't a date. Our fathers were there too."
The staff, who were fully concentrating on their conversation with their ears perked out, gasped once again as they almost collapsed this ti.
With their fathers…? You an Zhu Xiaosi and Gu Rong?
"It was a marriage eting!?" One exclaid.
Yating - "..."
"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 eting so I cannot really bla them. I shouldn't have said that.
He said, "It wasn't a marriage eting. Our fathers are collaborating on a project and they want Chyou and to work on its branding and marketing together. We were there to discuss that. That's all."
The frenzied crowd cald 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 an person! You didn't let 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 dia yet."
She quickly saw it too and facepald. "How is this a date when we were just running around like a bunch of school kids?"
The sa excited girl who had exclaid before, asked once again, "Mr. Yating said that Mr. Zhu and Mr. Gu were there too. So, so, so! Was it a marriage eting?"
Yating's mouth twitched.
I just said it wasn't. Is it so hard to believe ?
She blinked twice. "Ah? No, it wasn't. I an, that was already done and dusted before so why would it be a marriage eting again?"
Yating and everybody else - "..."
Done and dusted before aning 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 eting. Aren't we two silly peas in a pod?"
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