Chapter 289: 289: Barrage navy
The barrage water army had some effect, as you see, even glutinous rice fans were misled, vaguely feeling—Jiang Nuo might not be worthy of Mu Qiuniang, forcing Jiang Nuo to come out and post on Weibo.
He and his wife are very much in love, so everyone should stop making a fuss.
"Fahai Doesn’t Understand Love" is finally going to be released, and Jiang Nuo naturally attended the opening ceremony.
Mu Qiuniang, as his wife and being familiar with the crew, was also invited.
Although with Jiang Nuo’s level of exposure, any movie with his name would be a hit, for the sake of others in the movie, to increase their exposure opportunities, Mu Nan still arranged some promotional events.
For example, the upcoming "Happiness, My Choice".
Originally, with Mu Nan’s status, he wouldn’t need to attend such events, but he was participating in the variety show "We’re in Love", and after discussions between the two program teams, they thought it would be beneficial for both if he attended the "Happiness, My Choice" event, so they negotiated with him to hope he could participate.
The "We’re in Love" team would follow the filming of "Happiness, My Choice", but would not broadcast it in advance, instead, they would later release some highlights riding the wave of its popularity.
Getting off the van, Jiang Nuo and Mu Qiuniang, with the help of the program team, snuck backstage without alerting any fans.
Onstage, Wei Manman, Xu Dachang, and other actors were playing games with the hosts of "Happiness, My Choice". When they were asked if they had a big surprise today, what would it be, everyone was a little puzzled.
Xu Dachang: "Is it someone’s birthday today?"
Wei Manman spread her hands: "Not mine!"
"Could it be the arrival of the male god?" Lian Nicang said.
"Hahahaha..." The host Tonghua was a bit awkward, anyone could join the joke, but she couldn’t let it come from her.
Originally, the news about Lian Nicang causing a scene at Jiang Nuo’s hotel room was buzzing all over the internet. Knowing Jiang Nuo would be coming, how could he not think about avoiding some embarrassment and not inviting Lian Nicang? But the problem was, he didn’t invite her, and yet, Lian Nicang somehow found a way to parachute directly into the program’s filming, leaving him helpless.
He could only suppress the awkwardness in his heart and hope nothing would happen later while continuing the program recording.
"We have so many male gods on stage, none of them are your expectations?"
Lian Nicang was about to speak, but Tonghua, afraid she might say something wrong again, didn’t give her a chance to talk, quickly self-questioning and answering, "Even if there isn’t, you can’t say it; we’ll be very hurt."
Tonghua’s co-host Ma Fei also pulled a sad face: "Yes, yes, we’re hurt!"
After twisting the topic away, Tonghua resumed, saying there must be a surprise nobody could expect, asking the fans offstage to close their eyes and count to three with everyone: "1, 2, 3..."
"1, 2, 3..."
"Ta-da, look who’s here..." as Tonghua’s voice rose, a huge door on stage opened, mist swirling around, revealing a surprising man who appeared, it was Jiang Nuo.
In casual white linen attire, loose and comfortable, with a warm smile, he waved to everyone.
Lian Nicang, upon seeing him, screamed along with the fans below. However, she didn’t shout his name, silently repeating in her heart: Jiang Nuo, I like you!
It took a while for the audience to calm down.
Tonghua joked: "Can you guys be a little quieter? Or else your male god might just leave!"
"No!" the fans below wailed. They only knew Jiang Nuo starred in "Fahai Doesn’t Understand Love", but never expected him to appear at this promotional event for the movie.
"Male god, aren’t you coming out? What are you doing standing by the door?" Tonghua turned around, joking with Jiang Nuo who hadn’t moved.
Jiang Nuo held the microphone mysteriously, putting a finger to his lips, saying: "Shh... I want to invite someone very important to me, please be quiet and don’t scare her away!"
With these words, the fans went wild: "Ahhh... is the goddess here too?!"
"Goddess, goddess, goddess!"
"Qiuniang, Qiuniang, Qiuniang!"
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Similarly dressed in white linen attire, with a higher waistline, Mu Qiuniang appeared petite and delicate beside Jiang Nuo, just as before, her long hair flowed softly down, showing no expression, yet when looking at Jiang Nuo, her gaze was particularly gentle.
Although most fans below were seeing Mu Qiuniang for the first time, they were very familiar with her. Through Jiang Nuo’s Weibo and descriptions from fans who had seen her, everyone knew—our family’s sister-in-law Jiang is cold on the outside but warm on the inside, and especially gentle, oh!
Watching Mu Qiuniang seemingly melt Jiang Nuo with her gaze and seeing Jiang Nuo brimming with pride, almost wagging his tail, the fans felt warm-hearted yet wanted to laugh—who exactly is pampering whom here?
Male god, has your persona been flipped?
You should be a wife-loving fanatic, not a two-faced dog!
But the male god is so down-to-earth, no matter how elegant and gentlemanly he is in front of others, once before the goddess, he inevitably shows his true colors, behaving just like a two-faced dog.
"Wife, you look beautiful today!"
Jiang Nuo, with honeyed words, took Mu Qiuniang’s small hand, kissed it, and praised.
Mu Qiuniang returned a deadpan look: "Behave!"
Post-production would overlay the note: Behave yourself, or kneel on the washboard when you get home!
"Is this surprise big?" Tonghua asked the fans below.
The fans replied in unison: "Big!"
"I wasn’t asking you guys, I was asking Xu Dachang, Wei Manman." Directly ignoring Lian Nicang’s name.
The teased fans just kept laughing.
"Big, it’s quite big! When he appeared, he stole all the spotlight, and I became poor little me, no one loves me!" Xu Dachang put on a dramatic "sad face".
"Don’t be sad, I’ll spoil you!" Wei Manman generously stepped up to pat his head.
Only, why did this action seem a bit like petting a two-faced dog?
The fans below roared with laughter. They compared, standing on the other side, the male god Jiang Nuo tightly holding his wife’s hand.
Xu Dachang seemed healed, appearing relieved: "Sister Manman, you’re the best to me!"
"Of course, you’re my Xu Xian!"
Xu Dachang’s face stiffened: "If I’m not your Xu Xian, then you won’t love me anymore?"
With a Qiong Yao heroine’s fervent face, Wei Manman replied: "My lifelong love, I only love Xu Xian!"
Xu Dachang looked like he was on the verge of tears, yet tried to salvage it: "Actually, my surname is Xu, first name Dachang, styled Xian. I am Xu Xian, so continue loving me! If you don’t love me, then no one loves me!"
"No! I only love the Xu Xian at West Lake, on Broken Bridge, the one who held an umbrella for me!"
Xu Dachang showed a thunderstruck expression.
Tonghua and the other hosts burst into laughter: "Hahahahaha... which toad is this? Even if you’re draped in Xu Xian’s skin, our White Lady sees your true form in an instant, doesn’t want you!"