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Chapter 6: I'll Take You

This was a completely different Gu Wei from the one Jiang Xun had encountered in northern Europe. This Gu Wei was dazzling and captivating. He had completely given himself over to the music. Gu Wei's intense focus and concentration even reminded Jiang Xun of the way he himself became completely engrossed in his own fierce battles during tournaments.

Unexpectedly, this short clip of Gu Wei's performance resonated with something inside Jiang Xun.

Setting aside his questionable singing ability for the time being, there was no doubt that Gu Wei truly did have the ability to fulfill the role of lead dancer in the popular boy band T.ATW.

Jiang Xun's cell phone vibrated again. It seemed his irritable little brother was, predictably, getting irritated again.

[Big-Clawed Crab]: Ge, did you finish watching it?

[100K Volts]: Yeah.

[Big-Clawed Crab]: Good. Now tell me what that made you feel.

[100K Volts]: Awe and admiration, I think.

[Big-Clawed Crab]: ???

The admiration came from the dazzling Gu Wei who danced on stage.

And the awe was because of those one hundred and eighty people Gu Wei had openly bragged about… entertaining.

Jiang Ying was called away by his director to get back on set at that point, so Jiang Xun returned to Weibo and continued scrolling through posts about Gu Wei.

And as he scrolled, he did start to encounter far less flattering comments and articles.

Gu Wei was sitting on the couch in the company dorm, swiping through hot topics on Weibo with the other guys in his group.

T.ATW had five members, and four of them were rabid fans of Jiang Xun. Even when they were overwhelmingly busy, they found scraps of time between performances to watch Jiang Xun's tournaments.

They currently had some time to kill before they were due to perform on an evening show at eight that night. Chi Yunkai was working, leaving the other four behind to skim through Weibo to see what was trending.

There was a huge supply of nuts and sunflower seeds on the coffee table. Most of the guys were cracking seeds and tossing the shells into a big, gaudy tea tin from the eighties that their group's leader Fu Zhi had brought from home. In that room, where no one could see them, the cool and striking personas the company cultivated for them were completely obliterated and replaced by a casual atmosphere.

Plenty of tabloids liked to gossip that there was inner strife within the group, and that they would disband sooner or later. But in reality, the guys in T.ATW were pretty tight.

"So?" asked Fu Zhi, the group's leader. "What was Jiang Xun like in person?"

"He… wasn't all that," Gu Wei said. He knew he was sitting in a room full of Jiang Xun fanboys. He didn't dare say anything more scathing than that.

"You're so lucky," Luo Chenxuan, their lead vocalist, said with an obvious note of envy in his tone. "What a coincidence, to meet God Xun while recording your program."

"Why didn't you get his autograph?" Shi Xinyan asked mournfully. "That would be the autograph of a world champion, you know."

"Jiang Xun is so amazing."

"Jiang Xun was way too cool at his last tournament."

"Jiang Xun is just too fierce."

All these blasphemous lies flooded into Gu Wei's ears, and he couldn't help but think back to what actually happened the day he met Jiang Xun.