Your Rival in Love Gets Prettier Every Day

Chapter 99: Crazy

“If it weren’t for the task that I have to complete in order to survive, I might not even be able to flirt with the beautiful Bai Qingquan,” Shen Jintai said: “Since I have to flirt with one, I will flirt with my favorite one! In terms of aesthetics, Bai Qingquan is more tempting.”

Xiao Ai: “This was simply a suggestion from Xiao Ai. The final decision is still yours. However, Xiao Ai kindly reminds you that there is also a time limit for your mission.”

Shen Jintai: “What?!”

Why didn’t you say it before!

Xiao Ai: “Since it’s a task, there must be a time limit.”

Shen Jintai: “I still have…how much time?”

Xiao Ai: “It must be completed within two years.”

That’s okay. There’s still nearly a year to go. After filming <When You’re Older>, he should be able to improve his relationship further with Bai Qingquan. He had confidence in himself. After all, if Yan Qiuchi can fall in love with him, then he need not mention Bai Qingquan!

Xiao Ai: “The love and harmony system premise is on voluntary participation. Of course, we will not force you. I wish you an early victory conquering the white moonlight, reach the pinnacle of your beauty and hold a beautiful man. Good luck!”

With a beep, Xiao Ai went offline.

Shen Jintai was sweating by what Xiao Ai said. He laid on the bed thinking about Bai Qingquan, then Yan Qiuchi. Both were very good men. He didn’t blame the system for being conniving. After all, the choices they gave him were the best. One was the ultimate shou*, and the other was the ultimate gong*.

*Clarity: in the past I’ve used receiver (shou) and attacker (gong) in my translation. I decided going forward I’m just going to use the pinyin form as we all know what shou and gong means, and I prefer those words.

Thinking about it, it was better to go with Bai Qingquan. He likes little 0 beauties, so he felt very comfortable being with Bai Qingquan. As for Yan Qiuchi… forget it. Being in bed with Yan Qiuchi would be awful, especially since he has severe skin hunger. After holding it in for 25 years, he couldn’t imagine how scary it would be when it finally breaks out.

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Yan Qiuchi was lying on the bed when he suddenly sneezed. It was the end of August. The hottest time was about to pass signaling that Autumn will soon arrive.

Yan Qiuchi had caught a cold. He was a person with a very good physique, so he rarely gets sick. This time, it may be due to the cold wind by the river and his terrible mood. After lying in bed for a while, he felt that he was getting ill.

People who normally don’t catch cold will usually have a severe one when they catch it. Their nose will get stuffy, they would constantly sneeze, and there would be buzzing in their head. By the next morning, they’ll break out with a bad fever.

Yan Qiuchi was planning to visit the clinic when there came a knock on his door. He went to open it and saw it was Xiao Tang.

“President Yan,” Xiao Tang was excited and scared. He had just learned a very big secret. Yan Qiuchi had an icy face standing in front of him, yet just yesterday he had just confessed and got a tragic rejection. It was both fascinating and exhilarating. Looking at him now, President Yan’s expression looked really haggard and he haven’t shaven his beard so his chin was some cyan stubbles.

It was rare to see President Yan so lost.

Yan Qiuchi responded with a “Nn”.

Xiao Tang smiled and said: “Brother Jin said we’re going to the airport. I don’t know what time your flight is. If it is the same flight, we can go together.”

“No need, you guys go first.” Yan Qiuchi said.

“You have a cold?” Xiao Tang instantly noticed his nasally voice.

Yan Qiuchi: “Nn. I have a fever.”

Xiao Tang silently thought to himself while in the elevator. Yan Qiuchi had told him that he was suffering from a fever. Did he wanted him to pass this on to Shen Jintai?

The domineering president was sick, just like a beautiful woman with a bald head, it always made people feel pity. Xiao Tang didn’t have any animosity towards Yan Qiuchi. He was always felt that Yan Qiuchi has always been polite with a gentleman’s demeanor. He couldn’t blame him for the past. Only Brother Jin could be blame for being too crazy about love.

Xiao Tang felt very tangled. He couldn’t help but elicit feelings of pity and be sentimental to a domineering president who couldn’t court love. Yan Qiuchi wasn’t the only person in the world who didn’t like how Shen Jintai used to be and now there are many who are madly in love with him now.

When he returned to Shen Jintai’s room, he said to Shen Jintai: “President Yan said to go first. He seemed to be sick and haggard.”

Shen Jintai was getting dressed when he was taken aback by Xiao Tang’s words.

Li Meilan, who was helping Shen Jintai tidy up his neckline, immediately asked: “Sick?”

Xiao Tang: “Seems like a fever.”

Li Meilan glanced at Shen Jintai. Shen Jintai paused then said: “I’ll go and have a look.”

Li Meilan said: “You should think about it carefully.”

Shen Jintai: “I didn’t say that I want to avoid him until I die of old age. The Yan family had treated me well. I should go and have a look. Everyone tends to misunderstand me. As soon as they look, they think that I like him. Yan Qiuchi’s IQ is not that low that he would be the same.”

Raindrops were pounding on the window as Yan Qiuchi laid in bed looking at his watch. He was planning to wait another 10 minutes. If no one comes, he would go to the hospital by himself. Who knew as soon as he put his hand down, there came a knock on the door.

Yan Qiuchi immediately sat up from the bed, coughed, then went to open the door. He saw Shen Jintai and Li Meilan standing outside.

“I heard from Xiao Tang that you are sick. Are you okay?” Shen Jintai said.

Yan Qiuchi said: “I just have a fever.”

“Then you have to go to the hospital.” Li Meilan said: “Let me accompany you.”

Yan Qiuchi glanced at Li Meilan and said: “No need.”

“Or let Xiao Tang accompany you.” Shen Jintai said: “A fever is not a trivial matter, so you should get it checked out. I think there’s a community hospital not far from here.”

Suddenly a group of girls ran over in the corridor. Li Meilan heard messy footsteps. When she looked back, she saw those girls holding mobile phones and SLRs in their hands swarming around. Li Meilan was shocked and hurriedly stretch out her hand to protect Shen Jintai.

Shen Jintai also panicked. Before he could figure out what was going on, he was grabbed strongly by one of the girls. As soon as she grabbed his hand, she let out a deafening scream, overwhelmed with excitement.

Li Meilan reacted quickly and fiercely pulled the girl’s hand away. Using her other hand, she pushed Shen Jintai into Yan Qiuchi’s room and immediately shut the door from the outside. She stood outside by herself and stretched out her hand to block the girls’ phones: “Stop taking pictures! Stop!”

Shen Jintai was still reeling in shock as he heard the girls continue calling his name through the door. Suddenly there was banging noises. This was the first time Shen Jintai encountered an illegitimate rice that had chased him to the hotel. He became a little scared. He wasn’t sure how they followed him. His room wasn’t even on this floor. It was as if they had possessed magical abilities.

*Reminder: illegitimate rice (私生饭) =a type of person with extreme and crazy behavior that chases celebrities. In order to satisfy their own desires, they like to stalk, peep, and secretly take pictures of celebrities, harass them and impede on their private lives.

Yan Qiuchi immediately went to call the hotel staff. There was still a lot of noise outside. Li Meilan was soothing the girls who were impatient.

“We have been waiting for our brother in the hotel all night. We are gold powders and we just want to talk to our brother.”

“Brother, can you sign for me?”

“Ahhhhhh! I just touched my brother’s hand!”

It was rowdy outside. Yan Qiuchi coughed and said: “Don’t worry. The security guard is coming.”

The hotel was very high-end, and their work efficiency was equally so. A security guard came up in less than two minutes. From the noise outside there sounded to be some pushing and shoving as Shen Jintai heard a girl shouting angrily: “Don’t touch me! Touch me again and I will call the police. We also booked a room here. We are guests of this hotel and have the right to stand in the corridor. Just you try to touch me again!”

The girl then shouted at the door: “Shen Jintai, we are all gold powders. How could you treat your fans like this!”

Li Meilan was frightened by the girl’s madness. She was afraid that this would become trouble and have a bad impact on Shen Jintai so she tried to mend the situation and said: “Everyone, give Jintai some private space and stop filming. If you want to see him, we will have a meeting offline in a few days and I can send you the address.”

“You asked my brother to come out and meet us. We are from Dongcheng. So many people have gathered in the room and waited all night.”

“You have to ask your company to arrange a few bodyguards for you.” Yan Qiuchi said to Shen Jintai: “When you have many fans, there will always be crazy ones who can and will do anything.”

Things finally calmed down after a while. Li Meilan came in and said: “They are all downstairs in the hall now. There are dozens of them.”

“You ask the hotel security staff to escort you to the car.” Yan Qiuchi said.

Li Meilan nodded and took a mask from her bag for Shen Jintai. Shen Jintai didn’t expect to encounter this kind of thing suddenly, so he said to Yan Qiuchi: “Go to the hospital later. I will leave first so I won’t cause you trouble.”

“Be careful yourself.” Yan Qiuchi said: “You don’t need to give face to fans who are too crazy. Don’t be afraid. The fans will understand.”

Shen Jintai nodded, put on a mask and went out the room. Xiao Tang and the others escorted him back to his room and said: “There are some people who are bad and ill-meaning, and they mixed with the illegitimate rice, which is more terrifying than the illegitimate rice themselves.”

The fan group is too complicated. Sometimes its black powder*, sometimes it’s powder black* that it’s impossible to distinguish it all.

*Reminder: black powder (黑装粉) = anti-fans.
*Powder black (粉装黑) = people who pretend to be black powder. Apparently, they just want attention so they pretend to be anti-fans of someone so they can spew hatred and what not.
*Clarity: What Xiao Tang is saying is that some of them are illegitimate rice but there are some who are pretending to be illegitimate rice which makes it even more terrifying.

“Today’s itinerary has been cancelled. I’m afraid we’ll get into a car accident with people following us. It’s raining and the road conditions aren’t good.” Li Meilan said.

Shen Jintai stood in front of the window and nodded. The rain was still pouring outside. It was even heavier than yesterday. The fog above the river was hazy and the strong winds blew the raindrops slamming them onto the windows. The sound it made cause people’s hearts to tighten.

Xiao Qi got into the car in the rain.

“How’s it going?” A girl in the car asked her.

“The hotel security is too strict, and the security is too tight. They almost broke my SLR.” Xiao Qi put down her camera and stroked her wet hair. Her face was pale, and she had beady eyes. She didn’t have makeup on and looked haggard, but her eyes were bright as if it held boundless energy.

“I shared a room with those idiots yesterday. They were grinding teeth and snoring all night that I didn’t sleep much.” Xiao Qi sneered: “Sure enough, fans of Shen Jintai are all stupid and poor people. You keep watch for a bit, I’m taking a quick rest.”

Xiao Qi, a fan who relied on blackening Shen Jintai to eat, was now running out of food. She couldn’t tell whether she was just obsessed with blackening Shen Jintai was because she hated him or because she needed to make money.

Regardless, she has no other ability now than to attack him! She wanted a big meal ticket!

“Shen Jintai has changed a lot now,” Xiao Qi said, narrowing her eyes. She remembered when she first met Shen Jintai, he was still red-haired and was a bloody storm in the entertainment industry. At that time, there were too many people who hated him, and he had tons of black powder. As soon as she first saw him, she hated him. Later she would scold him online and suddenly encountered a gold black group. Only then she found that she could scold and make money!

Since then, she has been transformed into a professional gold black powder. Unlike other professional black powder, she was very single-minded, and she only blackens Shen Jintai. The more she scolds, the more she hated him. It was as if she was brainwashing herself.

As long as she mentions Shen Jintai now, she would feel uncomfortable.

If Shen Jintai didn’t have negative news, then she’ll make some. Her professional ability, coupled with the illegitimate rice she had worked so hard to find, would definitely be enough for Shen Jintai to drink a pot*.

*Drink a pot (喝一壶) = saying that means enough to choke.

The author has something to say：

Don’t worry, Xiao Qi, the obnoxious villain, will not end well!

The only thing she can succeed is to act as a cannon fodder catalyst! Her conspiracy will not succeed!

The next step is to slowly enter a small orgasm.

I posted a beautiful picture on Weibo, if you are interested, you can go and have a look.

Kinky Thoughts: Yan Qiuchi, very crafty. I thought you were an honest man.