Capturing My Demon King Costar

MY COSTAR GETS A MYSTERIOUS CALL

The speculation under that dubious "news" post is absolutely wild. Yao Shen's blood cools as he reads through every comment, watching in horror as all the previous rumours and online gossip about him and Xin Hulei coalesce into the driving force behind the new wave of speculation.

While before only a few avid shippers and fans of the original novel were really invested in the possibility of him and Xin Hulei being in a relationship, now, everyone online seems to take it as a fact that they are. Those rumours and fan wishful thoughts are now taken as proof that there is something between Xin Hulei and Yao Shen.

Their relationship is believed to be the reason behind Gao Wu's death. A claim so wild and unsubstantiated that Yao Shen can't understand how ten people would believe it, let alone thousands of them.

Apparently, Xin Hulei was so overcome by jealousy that he just had to kill Gao Wu.

[Simply Sweetie: It all makes sense! Remember all those photos of him with Tan Liansi and with his blond Personal Assistant, that was him trying to make Yao Shen jealous!]

[Your daddy: You guys are being very naive about all this. Treating it like some romantic melodrama. Yao Shen has probably been in a relationship with Gao Wu from the start. Those first pictures of him and Xin Hulei must have happened after XHL asked him out for a dinner, just as colleagues, but his real intention was to get YS drunk to see if he got lucky. Which he did. Not a surprise, YS looks easy haha]

[Yummy melons in my tummy: We're all thinking XHL did it, but what if it was YS to prevent GW from telling everyone what a two-timing cheating whore he is hahaha?]

[Anglerfish: this is serious, a person is dead. We're not supposed to be making jokes about it.]

[Yummy melons in my tummy: stop being so sanctimonious, we don't know any of these people, so don't pretend to feel sympathy when you don't. Anyway, the entertainment industry is so sordid anyway, they get what they deserve]

[Canned Sardine: I don't know, all of this seems like a big reach. I mean, YS and XHL went together on that tv show to expose actual criminals. You'd think that if they were hiding something, they wouldn't expose themselves so publicly]

[Eager beaver: or maybe they just did that so that everyone would be like you and think such good people couldn't possibly have committed a crime. Don't be an idiot, these people know everything about manipulating public opinion]

[Canned Sardine: do they? does this look like it? you guys are just addicted to conspiracy theories, get help]

[Butterfly: At least if they get arrested my two babies will still be together in jail <333]

Yao Shen can't handle any more nonsense, and throws the phone away in disgust.

Xin Hulei pulls him against his chest on the sofa and wraps him up in a tight hug.

"Don't let it affect you. Those people don't know you."

Yao Shen closes his eyes and tightens his fingers on the back of Xin Hulei's shirt, inhaling his crisp clean scent in the hopes of settling is frayed nerves.

"They sure talk like they do."

"Neither of us is responsible for Gao Wu's death. The police won't find any clues. The court of public opinion still can't send anyone to jail."

Everything Xin Hulei said is true, but only technically. There are several variables they couldn't control.

But one thing did reassure Yao Shen. "Even if they send us to jail it's not like they can keep us there. We'll always have Youdu."