On a variety show, the notoriously sharp-tongued host presses Song Chuyu about the intimate photos of her and Jiang Gulin by the river.
Song Chuyu glances at Jiang Gulin, sitting across from her with an air of nonchalance. She thinks of his 90 million Weibo followers and his fiercely combative young female fans, and can't help swallowing nervously.
As she tries to figure out how to answer, Jiang Gulin curls his lips into a faint smile and taps the table. His voice is cool and clear. "They're fake."
Later, when the production crew makes a surprise visit to Jiang Gulin's home for the sake of authenticity, they discover that the walls are covered with posters of a certain female star, and the drawers are neatly lined with signed collector's edition CDs of the same star.
This bombshell blows the entire production crew away, and the livestream chat explodes, too.
The one left reeling in utter confusion is the female star herself, Song Chuyu.
Pressed from all sides, the top-tier star replies impatiently, "What? Is there some rule that says an entertainer can't have an idol?"
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Shen Qinghe was born a noble young lady of the Duke's mansion.
Not long after the emperor arranged her marriage to Prince Ning, she was abducted during a sudden misfortune and ended up in a remote mountain village where not even birds laid eggs. Pei Wuyun bought her for five taels of silver and brought her home as his wife. He was tall and rugged, but clueless about romance, knowing only how to charge ahead without the slightest idea of how to treat a woman gently. Fortunately, he was still good to her.
One day, she realized she had no appetite, felt sick at the sight of food, and wanted to throw up whenever she stood. She wailed, convinced she must have some incurable disease. But Pei Wuyun came into the room delighted, scooped her up, and began spinning around. The world spun before her eyes, and she couldn't hold back: she threw up all over him.
It wasn't until Pei Wuyun called a doctor to prescribe medicine to protect the pregnancy that she learned, oh, she was expecting a child.
Even in her daze, she couldn't help feeling resentful. She had been a noble young lady, the Crown's chosen bride for Prince Ning. How had she ended up having a child with a muddy-footed farmer from a mountain village?
But as spring turned to autumn, she held her newborn and watched her husband busy with the harvest in the golden rice fields, with their granary full of grain. She began to think that perhaps muddling along like this wasn't so bad after all.
Then bandits struck, separating her from Pei Wuyun. She was abducted along with the village women and children. The bandit chief recognized her as the noble young lady from the Duke's mansion, the one whose family had offered a reward of a hundred thousand taels of gold to find her. He immediately took her to claim the reward.
After regaining her identity, the first thing she had to do was obey the imperial decree and marry Prince Ning. But by then, she no longer cared about Prince Ning and wanted only to break off the engagement. Prince Ning, meanwhile, despised her for having spent two years living outside the family home and considered her reputation ruined. To save face, the Duke's mansion gave her three feet of white silk and a pot of poison, letting her choose how to die.
Just as she chose the three feet of white silk and prepared to end her life, the main gate was kicked open.
A sword severed the white silk hanging from the beam. Pei Wuyun, clad in armor, swept her up around the waist. His overwhelming presence nearly drowned her. In her daze, she seemed to hear the people in the mansion cautiously call him "Prince Dingbei."
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After more than a decade on the battlefield, Prince Dingbei Pei Wuyun had achieved fame and success. He bid farewell to the emperor, took off his armor, and returned to the countryside to live as a carefree farmer. One day, he happened upon a pitiful young woman by the roadside and used the money on him to buy her. He had meant to set her free, but she was so beautiful that, remembering he was still unmarried, he inexplicably brought her home to be his wife. Their life was happy and peaceful, until bandits attacked the village. He had time to save only their child, and in the blink of an eye, the bandits had taken his wife. Enraged, he retrieved the military seal he had not touched in years and led his troops up the mountain, destroying the bandits' stronghold. Only then did he learn that his little wife was a noble young lady from the Duke's mansion.
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