Popular Top Stream (9): The original owner recognized Qiao Qiao as his younger brother in a variety show, but he would not acknowledge him.

Gu Juntian’s mentor had always been a bit exasperated with him, feeling that he was not living up to his potential.

Gu Juntian had excellent talent, but unfortunately, his mind was not on studying at all, and he didn’t study properly.

He felt it was a pity and even worried about Gu Juntian’s future employment.

But after learning about Gu Juntian’s identity, he was no longer worried at all.

He didn’t have to worry about Gu Juntian’s future anymore, so he wouldn’t have to deal with Gu Juntian in the future. It saved him quite a bit of trouble, which was great.

As a result, just when he decided to stop caring about Gu Juntian, Gu Juntian unexpectedly sent him a perfectly written program, asking him to help sell it.

According to his understanding of Gu Juntian, Gu Juntian couldn’t possibly write such a program.

But this program, it couldn’t have been written by anyone else for Gu Juntian.

First of all, Gu Juntian sent him this program to help him sell it for money, not to participate in a competition and win awards.

Gu Juntian spent money to buy someone else’s program and pretended it was his own, then asked him to help sell it. This behavior was of no benefit to Gu Juntian at all.

Even if there were relevant competitions, Gu Juntian had no need to spend money buying someone else’s program to participate.

As the son of a wealthy tycoon and a movie queen, he didn’t need to use competition awards to add luster to himself.

Moreover, programming is something you either know or you don’t. If he pretended to know now and got exposed later, it would be really embarrassing.

So, did Gu Juntian really write this program?

Did Gu Juntian hide his skills while studying here?

Or perhaps, back then, Gu Juntian didn’t care about his studies at all, but now that he did, he was doing well?

Gu Juntian was a genius?

The professor thought more and more that Gu Juntian was not simple, couldn’t help but open the live stream to take a look, and then saw Gu Juntian enthusiastically cooking pig food.

Professor: “…”

Pig food didn’t need to be cooked too thoroughly; the reason for cooking it is that pigs are less likely to get sick from eating cooked food.

So, after cooking for a while, Gu Juntian scooped the cooked sweet potatoes and greens into a bucket, added rice bran, mixed it, and then fed it to the pigs.

Those pigs had already caught the scent of food and were eagerly waiting in the pigpen. When Gu Juntian entered, they crowded around him, and despite the uncle’s efforts to shoo them away, it was futile.

Gu Juntian was nudged by the pigs several times like this.

Fortunately, Gu Juntian didn’t mind. He poured the pig feed into the trough and completed the final task.

“Uncle, are the pigs fed now?” Gu Juntian asked.

“Yes, they’ve already been fed,” the uncle said with a smile, “I’ll go get your reward.”

The production team had prepared the reward in advance and handed it to the uncle, which was a large piece of pork ribs.

Besides the pork ribs, the uncle also gave Gu Juntian a piece of salted meat the size of a palm and a piece of braised meat of the same size: “This is for you too. The ribs are the reward, this is my gift.”

“Uncle, we have the ribs, that’s enough. We can’t eat too much,” Gu Juntian said.

“You can eat it later if you can’t finish it. This meat can last a long time. My pickling skills are pretty good; you should give it a try.” The uncle grinned.

Gu Juntian could tell that the uncle genuinely wanted to give him the salted meat, so he accepted it. “Then I won’t be polite. Thank you, Uncle!”

Although this village was in the mountains, every household lived quite well. Two pieces of meat weren’t particularly precious to this uncle, so he didn’t mind accepting them.

After the show aired, this place would definitely become a must-visit spot for Zhou Qinghao’s fans. By then, it might even bring some benefits to this uncle.

Thinking this, Gu Juntian said to the uncle, “Uncle, if you have some free time recently, you can buy more pork to marinate and sell it in a few days.”

“This pork is marinated by every household, no one buys it,” the uncle replied with a smile.

Gu Juntian said, “In the future, people will buy it. This is the same marinated pork that Zhou Qinghao has eaten! Uncle, when the time comes, print out the photos of you and us and put them at the door, and your business will surely thrive.”

The production team chose filming locations after consulting with the local government, and the villages selected by the local government were all those that could be developed into tourist attractions.

This uncle was still a bit confused, but the people watching the live stream were already clamoring: “No wonder he’s a rich family’s young master, he was born knowing how to make money.”

“Ahhh! I want to buy!”

“I want the same salted meat my brother had!”

“I also want sweet potatoes!”

“This uncle is really nice, and the scenery in this village is beautiful. Once the live stream ends and the location is announced, I’ll go visit right away!”

……

The sweet potatoes won’t be ready for a while, and since it was still early, Gu Juntian didn’t rush to leave. He and Zhou Qinghao huddled together behind the stove to warm up and chatted with Zhou Qinghao.

“Teacher Zhou, I watched the first episode of the show. You can cook. How about we cook together later?” Gu Juntian asked.

Zhou Qinghao smiled and agreed, “Sure.”

“The salted meat and soy sauce meat can be steamed and eaten, and we can braise the pork ribs?”

Zhou Qinghao looked at him gently, “Okay.”

They were just chatting like this, and the people in the livestream were speechless: “These two really don’t care about the livestream traffic at all! They don’t interact with us at all.”

“They don’t need to care, the traffic in this livestream has always been the highest.”

“True…”

……

Everyone was chatting when someone suddenly said, “There’s a big scoop in the next livestream room, everyone go check it out!”

“What scoop?”

“What happened?”

“I’m shocked, the next door’s Movie Emperor Qin broke character!”

“Movie Emperor Qin wasn’t even injured, but he pretended to be hurt and refused to work, causing a scene with someone.”

“Is there really such a thing? I’m going to check it out!”

……

The number of people in Gu Juntian and Zhou Qinghao’s live stream room instantly decreased a lot; everyone went next door to watch the excitement.

But after watching for a while, the live stream in the next room ended, and they couldn’t see anything, so they had to return reluctantly.

However, even though they didn’t see all the excitement, they still saw quite a bit.

“Feeling embarrassed for Movie Emperor Qin.”

“Never thought Movie Emperor Qin would be such a person.”

“If I were him, I could use my toes to pick out a three-bedroom apartment.”

“Compared to Movie Emperor Qin’s situation, Zhou Qinghao’s so-called character collapse in the first episode doesn’t count for anything, right?”

……

Just now, after Qin Yanming said he was injured, the old man who was pounding rice cakes absolutely refused to believe him and insisted on taking Qin Yanming to the barefoot doctor to have his injury examined.

At this point, the live-streaming audience was sympathizing with Qin Yanming, and many were cursing the old man.

This old man clearly didn’t seem like a reasonable person.

But then, everyone noticed something was off.

Qin Yanming was unwilling to go to the barefoot doctor!

Qin Yanming got injured and was blamed by the old man who was being unreasonable. His fans and Qiao Qiao’s fans were all hoping he would go to the barefoot doctor to get his injury verified, in order to slap the old man’s face.

But Qin Yanming was unwilling to go!

The people in the live stream immediately started to doubt: “Why isn’t Movie Emperor Qin going?”

“He can’t be completely uninjured, right?”

“I praised him for digging water chestnuts while injured yesterday. If he wasn’t injured… it’s hard to explain!”

……

Qin Yanming’s height and build were similar to Gu Juntian’s. Gu Juntian dug up six baskets of water chestnuts, but Qin Yanming? He dug up even less than Zhao Li!

It was at this moment that the situation escalated.

Qin Yanming was entangled by the old man, and in a moment of panic, he pushed him away, causing the old man to fall.

The old man wasn’t injured, and he had no intention of framing Qin Yanming. He quickly got back up.

But after he got up, he pointed at Qin Yanming and shouted, “You little brat, you have the strength to hit me but not to hit the rice cake, huh?”

This old man had previously demonstrated how to hit the rice cake. He wasn’t very old and wasn’t very tall, but it was clear that he had a lot of strength when pounding the rice cake.

Qin Yanming was able to shake him off easily, but when it came to hitting the rice cake, he showed no strength at all, looking all soft and weak…

In Qin Yanming’s live stream, his fans felt extremely embarrassed.

Those who didn’t follow him and simply came to watch the rice cake making started to mock him.

It was at this moment that the director realized something was wrong and cut off the live stream.

But it was already too late.

The situation in Qin Yanming’s live stream room had already spread.

Zhou Qinghao’s manager had been busy all night yesterday and had just woken up.

Waking up to see such a thing… he was overjoyed and immediately arranged for someone to guide public opinion.

Zhou Qinghao’s video of working hard in the first episode and Qin Yanming’s video of slacking off under the pretext of being injured were put together. There was no need to say anything deliberately; it would be enough to change Zhou Qinghao’s image.

And it wasn’t just them who were stepping on Qin Yanming.

Qin Yanming was meticulous in making movies, with few works. He didn’t take endorsements or shoot commercials, appearing somewhat indifferent to worldly affairs.

But he was in the best film crews!

Many people were jealous of Qin Yanming, and now they were all coming together to criticize him.

The production team was very helpless and could only find someone to communicate with Qin Yanming.

Qin Yanming was furious: “What’s going on with you? Why did you choose such a person to collaborate with?”

At this point, the old man making rice cakes was still chasing after him.

“Sorry, it was our oversight. This old man is very famous locally, so we chose him…” The director was very helpless.

The rice cakes from this old man’s house were very famous, and many people came to buy them. The village took pride in him, so he greeted them and asked them to help spread the word.

He gladly agreed and arranged for this old man to be featured in the program.

When he communicated with this old man earlier, the old man was still being reasonable. Who would have thought he would end up clashing with the film Movie Emperor Qin?

After the sweet potatoes were roasted, Gu Juntian took the roasted sweet potatoes and the ribs he got from completing the task and headed back.

As they walked and ate sweet potatoes, Zhou Qinghao, not paying attention, ended up with some dirt on his face.

Gu Juntian saw and spoke up, “Teacher Zhou, your face…”

At the same time, Zhou Qinghao said, “It’s very lively up ahead, what’s going on?” That place was where they were making rice cakes; could it be that Qiao Qiao caused some trouble?

Zhou Qinghao eagerly wanted to see and unconsciously quickened his pace.

Gu Juntian could only follow behind him, and then saw Zhou Qinghao, who had a bit of soot on his face, stretching his neck to watch the commotion with the villagers.

This version of Zhou Qinghao was quite cute, except for that black mark on his face, which was really annoying.

He didn’t know if it was because he had seen the TV dramas Zhou Qinghao acted in, but he had a preconceived notion that he should be someone who didn’t partake in worldly affairs.

Eating roasted sweet potatoes and getting his face all messy, then rushing to see the commotion—this behavior didn’t match Zhou Qinghao at all!

Especially when Zhou Qinghao was watching the commotion, he still had a noble and aloof expression on his face.

Zhou Qinghao shouldn’t be like this! Gu Juntian shouted in his heart.

Zhou Qinghao’s fans were also speechless: “Brother, you’ve broken your character again!”

“No wonder Brother didn’t like participating in variety shows before, and when he did, it was only for a short time. So this is what Brother is like.”

“This isn’t my aloof brother; this is my brother who seems aloof on the outside but is sweet and naive on the inside.”

“Suddenly, I find this kind of brother very cute…”

……

The people watching the live stream couldn’t stop talking. As for Zhou Qinghao… his behavior was partly genuine curiosity about Qiao Qiao’s antics, but on the other hand, it was also an act.

Qiao Qiao always pretended to be innocent, and Gu Juntian probably liked Qiao Qiao because he liked innocent people.

Gu Juntian finally couldn’t help but come over to Zhou Qinghao and pulled out a pack of wet wipes to clean his face.

The viewers of the live stream were dumbfounded: “Gu Juntian, stop it!”

“You can’t just wipe a male star’s face like that, what if his true self is revealed?”

“Even wet wipes! If you’re not careful, you’ll wipe off his makeup!”

……

Everyone was worried about Zhou Qinghao when they saw that Gu Juntian had already finished.

The dark marks on Zhou Qinghao’s face were gone, and there was no sign of uneven skin tone.

Everyone was momentarily confused—could it be that Zhou Qinghao wasn’t wearing any makeup?

Gu Juntian was getting close to him, about to wipe his face, so Zhou Qinghao obviously couldn’t be completely unaware.

He was just pretending not to know.

And after Gu Juntian finished wiping, he asked innocently, “What’s wrong?”

“You got a bit of dirt on your face while eating sweet potatoes just now.”

“Oh, I see…” Zhou Qinghao took another wet wipe from Gu Juntian’s hand, then wiped his entire face, making it all red.

Since they were live streaming, this also served as a public clarification against those who criticized him for being “unwatchable without makeup.”

Viewers started spamming the screen with hearts.

“I saw some unflattering photos of Zhou Qinghao before and thought his stunning looks were due to makeup, but it turns out they aren’t?”

“I only realized how handsome he is after watching the live stream!”

“Zhou Qinghao is amazing!”

“Someone said Zhou Qinghao’s makeup team is the best in the entertainment industry… Does he really have a makeup team?”

……

Seeing that Zhou Qinghao’s face was clean, Gu Juntian breathed a sigh of relief and asked someone about the situation.

After knowing the specifics, Gu Juntian was dumbfounded.

In the original storyline, although Zhou Qinghao and Hu Bingshan were troubled, the old man, despite his complaints, still gave Zhou Qinghao and the others the two kilograms of rice that the production team had prepared for him after they made the rice cakes, allowing the task to be completed smoothly.

That shoot went relatively well, but Zhou Qinghao was mocked again, with people online saying he was weak.

Now it was different. With this incident, Qin Yanming’s persona had, you could say, collapsed in an instant.

The powerful and perfect Qin Yanming from the original plot had now become someone who pretended to be injured to avoid work.

Of course, this should be able to be cleared up, after all, Qin Yanming was the young master of the Qin family.

Just as Gu Juntian was thinking this, he was informed that their live broadcast room had also been shut down.

Was this because they were afraid that they would live stream Qin Yanming’s situation?

Gu Juntian turned around and saw Hu Bingshan and Zhao Li.

“Do you want to eat roasted sweet potatoes?” Gu Juntian asked.

Hu Bingshan replied, “Yes, do you want to eat roasted chestnuts?”

Hu Bingshan and Zhao Li helped that old lady with pickling vegetables, and she was particularly happy. Not only did she give them some extra vegetables, but she also gave them some snacks.

So, a few of them sat nearby, eating and watching the commotion, while Gu Juntian even took the time to answer a call from his mentor.

“Professor, I wrote that program.”

“I was just too lazy to write it before, not that I couldn’t.”

“I’ve been a bit short on cash lately, so I wrote that program.”

“Professor, artificial intelligence is really popular these days, and I want to get into it too. Can you help me find some people?”

……

Gu Juntian smiled as he spoke to his professor, not only asking the professor to help him sell the program but also to help him find people.

The professor completely agreed without any opposition.

Gu Juntian was a second-generation rich kid, and those who work with him will have a bright future. The professor was very willing to introduce talentd to Gu Juntian.

Meanwhile, beside Gu Juntian, Hu Bingshan and the others listened to Gu Juntian’s words and felt a deep respect.

As expected of a rich second generation, he planned to get into artificial intelligence right away!

He said he was short on money, but who knows if it was a few hundred million or a few billion…

Gu Juntian was actually short a few million.

If the money from selling this program wasn’t enough to pay off the debt, he could just write another one.

Just as Gu Juntian started thinking about the next program he needed to write, the production team finally sorted things out and decided to continue the live broadcast.

As for the handling method, the production team and Qin Yanming’s studio simultaneously issued a statement saying that Qin Yanming did indeed get injured, but it wasn’t serious and he needed some rest, and it wasn’t visible on the outside.

As for whether the audience believed this explanation… they couldn’t really control that anymore.

The live broadcast continued, but because that old man was unwilling to cooperate, they directly started filming from the moment they took the ingredients back to their place.

They have rice, pork, and several kinds of vegetables, so they could already make a hearty lunch.

Qiao Qiao was the first to speak: “Me, help out? I can’t cook. Last time I tried, I almost burned down the kitchen.”

He deliberately acted cute, excitedly describing how he almost set the kitchen on fire.

After finishing, he looked at Gu Juntian: “Brother, you were there too, you can vouch for me, right?”

Gu Juntian frowned: “Please call me by my name, I’m not your brother.”

“Sorry.” Qiao Qiao looked at Gu Juntian with a wronged expression, hesitating to say more.

In Qiao Qiao’s livestream, the audience was originally discussing Qin Yanming.

Some people believed that Qin Yanming was really injured, but most thought he was faking it, and both sides were at a standstill.

At that moment, they heard Qiao Qiao call out “brother” again.

Previously, Qiao Qiao’s call wasn’t very clear, but this time, everyone heard it very clearly.

Moreover, according to what Qiao Qiao said, he used to have a good relationship with Gu Juntian—Gu Juntian knew about him burning the kitchen.

What exactly was the relationship between these two?

“Qiao Qiao calls Gu Juntian ‘brother’… he can’t be Gu Juntian’s biological younger brother, can he?”

“Gu Yinghou’s ex-husband just got divorced and remarried. His new wife even gave him a son and a daughter… I remember Qiao Qiao is a few years younger than Gu Juntian?”

“Qiao Qiao is Gu Juntian’s half-brother?”

“Very likely!”

……

Under the guidance of some interested parties, some people online believed their speculations.

Although some felt that one shouldn’t speak without evidence, most people didn’t care about evidence and just went along with the crowd.

“Qiao Qiao mentioned before that he had an older brother, turns out his brother is Gu Juntian!”

“Why is Gu Juntian so cold to Qiao Qiao?”

“What kind of nonsense are you asking upstairs? If your dad just got divorced and remarried, would you be nice to the child born to his new wife?”

“No wonder Gu Juntian pretends not to know Qiao Qiao, if it were me, I wouldn’t want to talk to the child of the mistress either.”

……

Gu Yinghou divorced her ex-husband, and it was Gu Yinghou who initiated the divorce.

She didn’t say much about the reason for the divorce, but there have always been rumors online that it was because her ex-husband cheated.

This was true; the original owner knew this from a young age, and because of this, he was never close to his father and never went to his father’s house.

However, the person who married the original owner’s father was not the mistress from his father’s affair.

The original owner’s father didn’t care much for that mistress; it could only be said that the man’s inherent flaws made him unable to control his own desires.

The original owner’s father’s current wife was a rich and beautiful woman he met through a blind date after his divorce.

The original owner’s stepmother was about ten years younger than the original owner’s father. After getting married, she settled down at home to raise children, while the original owner’s father indulged in a life of pleasure outside without caring. She was the kind of virtuous wife and good mother that the original owner’s father liked.

However, in Gu Juntian’s view, the original owner’s stepmother behaved this way probably because she didn’t love the original owner’s father at all, but only loved money.

In short, the original owner’s stepmother was not a mistress.

The online situation, at this moment, Gu Juntian still didn’t know about it.

Although he had eaten some sweet potatoes, he still wanted a proper meal, so he wasn’t very polite to Qiao Qiao: “You’re useless at everything, and you can’t even cook, so stay out of the way and don’t be a nuisance.”

Qiao Qiao felt even more wronged.

Seeing this situation, Qin Yanming was very angry—what was going on with Qiao Qiao? He had an incident and got into trouble, his reputation wasn’t as good anymore, and Qiao Qiao had moved on?

At this moment, Gu Juntian had already dragged Zhou Qinghao, Hu Bingshan, and Zhao Li, who had said they would cook, into the kitchen.

Qin Yanming asked Qiao Qiao, “You call Gu Juntian ‘brother,’ are you his younger brother?”

When Qin Yanming asked this, there was a hint of disdain in his tone.

He had never seen the children born to Gu Juntian’s father’s later wife, but Gu Juntian’s father did not have the surname Qiao.

With all his pent-up anger having no place to go, he took it out on Qiao Qiao.

It couldn’t be considered misplaced anger either; Qin Yanming felt that he had ended up in this situation because of Qiao Qiao.

At first, it wasn’t him who mentioned his injury, but Qiao Qiao.

At this moment, Qiao Qiao spoke up: “Yes, we grew up together. He used to take care of me a lot, but this time, I don’t know what happened, he suddenly stopped paying attention to me…”

Qin Yanming was taken aback.

Qiao Qiao and Gu Juntian grew up together since childhood. Was he really Gu Juntian’s brother?

As for why Qiao Qiao didn’t share his father’s surname… did he change his name to break into the entertainment industry?

Upon learning Qiao Qiao’s identity and realizing he had misunderstood him, Qin Yanming’s attitude towards Qiao Qiao improved a lot.

Qiao Qiao was Gu Juntian’s biological brother, and his status was not lower than Gu Juntian’s, so there was no need to curry favor with him or Gu Juntian.

Qiao Qiao’s enthusiasm towards Gu Juntian could not possibly be a case of unrequited love.

The two people’s conversation was, of course, also heard by the people in the live stream.

“Qiao Qiao is actually Gu Juntian’s younger brother!”

“This is a super rich second generation!”

“No wonder Zhou Qinghao took such good care of him at first!”

“Zhou Qinghao really has issues. He took care of Qiao Qiao so well when Gu Juntian wasn’t around, but as soon as Gu Juntian arrived, he only cared about Gu Juntian…”

“Speaking of which, Movie Emperor Qin treats Qiao Qiao differently too.”

“With Qiao Qiao’s family being this rich, no wonder!”

……

At this moment, in the kitchen, Hu Bingshan asked Gu Juntian, “How does Qiao Qiao call you brother?”

“I don’t know either,” Gu Juntian replied, “He’s not my brother.”

The original owner had acknowledged Qiao Qiao as his brother on a variety show, but he wouldn’t acknowledge him.

If it weren’t for the concern that Qiao Qiao might have some dirt on Zhou Qinghao, such as evidence of the original owner dating Zhou Qinghao, he would have told everyone that Qiao Qiao was the son of his nanny.

Speaking of dirt… The original owner didn’t have any intimate interactions with Zhou Qinghao before, so even if someone took photos, it wouldn’t affect Zhou Qinghao’s career.

He just didn’t know if Zhou Qinghao mentioned their relationship while chatting with Qiao Qiao.

He needed to find time to ask Zhou Qinghao!

If Qiao Qiao didn’t have any dirt on Zhou Qinghao, he would immediately give Qiao Qiao a hard time!

As for the original owner’s dirt… Qiao Qiao definitely had some “dirt” on him.

But he didn’t work in the entertainment industry, so even if it got exposed, it didn’t matter. He didn’t care.