Chapter Forty-Nine Scandals

【Emperor Gu, you've finally met your match 2333333】

【Are you sure this is a girl from China? Her hair is all white.】

【I looked it up, the Tiber River is in Italy, right, our idol went abroad to attend a film festival, why are you still wandering around? Come back soon—your brothers miss you so much!】

【The Seven Calabash Brothers, we're only missing you!】

【Drawing so fast, this is another genius!】

【Oh my god, how can there be such a cute little angel, no wonder our idol was captivated.】

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The other male stars who participated in the Seven Heroes Battle reality show also reposted it.

Ye Fan: Fourth Brother, we're struggling in the mud, while you're living it up in Rome, I'm so envious (flips table)!

Zhou Zhiyu: I want a dozen girls like this (expectant face)!

Jiang Liqing: If you're so capable, bring the girl to us!

Qi An: I feel like Fourth Brother has a lot of inner monologues…

Xu Yinuo: The girl's drawing is very inspired.

Zhongli Xiaozuo: The little angel is so cute O(∩_∩)O~~

Among Gu Zhou's seven male gods, Xu Yinuo is the oldest, followed by Zhou Zhiyu and Jiang Liqing. Gu Zhou is fourth in age, followed by Qi An and Ye Fan, and finally Zhongli Xiaozuo.

Among them, only Xu Yinuo and Zhou Zhiyu are married, but only Zhou Zhiyu has children, and both of his children are boys.

The video posted by Gu Zhou quickly went viral online, along with a post from a secondary account.

Chichi Gutou Bu Tuzha: Oh my god, I saw Gu Zhou on a date with a mysterious girlfriend while traveling (with pictures).

In the picture, Gu Zhou is wearing a baseball cap and facing the camera, talking to a short-haired girl sitting opposite him. The short-haired girl has a very fashionable granny gray short hair, and her profile is quite beautiful. She is holding a wine glass and looking at Gu Zhou intently (?) as he speaks.

A sharp-eyed observer immediately recognized the girl in the picture as the artist from Gu Zhou's video, a fact confirmed by her silver-gray hair that inadvertently appeared in the frame at the end of the video.

Liu Lu, being pressured by her mother to go on a blind date, sat in a cafe booth, listening to her date's boastful talk. She sipped her coffee in one hand and started scrolling through Weibo on her phone in the other. Suddenly, she spat out a mouthful of coffee.

The guy opposite her, engrossed in his conversation, was unlucky enough to get it all over his face. Because he was talking with his mouth open, some also got into his mouth. Realizing it came from someone else, he immediately vomited.

Liu Lu completely missed the unfortunate guy opposite her; her eyes were wide open, staring at the picture she had highlighted.

She recognized Gu Zhou, which wasn't surprising, but the key point was—

the person sitting opposite Gu Zhou was Xu Jiaojiao! Xu, Jiao, Jiao!

Look at the headline: "Gu Zhou's Mysterious Girlfriend Appears!

" Wasn't Er Jiao still participating in the competition? How did she end up with Actor Gu? And the main point is, when did Erjiao become Actor Gu's girlfriend?

She immediately called Zheng Yuan.

"Hey, Yuanyuan, hurry up..."

"I saw it, it's just Erjiao and Gu Zhou!" Zheng Yuan interrupted her, speaking with remarkable calmness.

"Aren't you surprised? That's Actor Gu, the male god! Erjiao is actually with him!!" Liu Lu exclaimed excitedly.

"Please, understand the situation before you shout," Zheng Yuan advised helplessly. Before

Liu Lu could calm down, the guy across from her, who had just wiped his face and spat, was furious.

"What's wrong with you? You sprayed coffee all over my face and didn't even apologize! You have no manners! I'll definitely tell Aunt Li about this. Goodbye!"

Liu Lu was still confused, and even after her blind date stormed off, she still didn't understand what she had done to make him so angry.

"Hey, Yuanyuan, are you still there?"

"Yes."

"Tell me what happened!"

"Just check Gu Nanshen's Weibo and you'll find out." Zheng Yuan hung up after saying that.

Liu Lu quickly clicked on Gu Zhou's Weibo and saw the latest post, published at around 2 AM Beijing time.

Gu Zhou: Today I met a little girl from China by the Tiber River. I was instantly captivated by her paintings. I thought if she recognized me, I could ask her to give me a painting, but she didn't recognize me at all (feeling wronged)~ (with video attached)

She quickly clicked on the video. The video started off shaky, then a canvas appeared in front of the camera. A fair hand was holding a paintbrush and drawing on the paper. Then came a stroke of genius that caught everyone's eye, and finally, an incredibly cute little angel.

Aww... So cute!

A few strands of silver-gray hair that appeared in the video made her even more certain that the person who drew the angel was Er Jiao herself. Moreover, she was more certain of this person's identity than anyone else because she knew that Er Jiao was a master painter.

It's only a little past nine in the morning, less than seven hours since 2 a.m., but Gu Zhou's Weibo is already flooded with comments from netizens.

Everyone knows that Gu Zhou has a hobby: photography. His Weibo is mostly filled with photos he takes wherever he goes. He rarely posts selfies; it's mostly pictures of other people or things—like the silhouettes of street cleaners sweeping the road before dawn, stray dogs huddled together, and beautiful landscapes. In short, he's turned his Weibo into a place to showcase his photographic works.

It's rare for someone to post something different this time, and such a sensational one at that, how could fans and netizens not be excited!

After watching the video, Liu Lu figured out how this all happened.

It must be that Er Jiao's painting was so stunning that it attracted Gu Nanshen (Gu's boyfriend). Er Jiao probably didn't give the painting to Gu Nanshen, so he tried to use his connections to get it, but Er Jiao was unmoved. Disheartened by his failed attempt, Gu Nanshen posted on Weibo seeking comfort.

As for the previous rumors about Gu Zhou's mysterious girlfriend, that's now explained. Gu Nanshen and his group were in a tourist area, so it's inevitable that Chinese tourists would be there. They happened to be photographed by tourists and the photos were uploaded to Weibo. Bored netizens got excited and immediately made it a trending topic. After all,

Gu Zhou has very few scandals.

He's either filming or taking photos; even the actresses he's paired with in dramas haven't been able to generate any real-life rumors.

Gu Zhou had dated before, but he was too busy with work, and all his relationships ended amicably. His ex-girlfriends, when interviewed, all said that Gu Zhou was a very good person, but he spent far too little time with his girlfriends—more time with his two dogs than with his girlfriends.

Knowing that Er Jiao and Gu Zhou had nothing to do with each other, Liu Lu felt relieved. Just as she was about to call Zheng Yuan, her mother called.

"Why are you calling me all of a sudden?"

"Why do you think I'm calling? Xiao Peng is such a good boy, look what you've done!"

"What did I do? I didn't do anything right! He suddenly wanted to leave and even called me rude! What a piece of trash!"

"You spat in his face and didn't even apologize! Don't you think you deserved to be scolded?"

"Well, he was sitting across from me, who else should I spit on?"

"Liu Lu!" Liu's mother was angry.

Liu Lu could only try to persuade her gently, "Okay, Mom, I'm still young. You don't need to rush me to find a boyfriend. Besides, I still have two years in school. Maybe I'll find a suitable boyfriend there."

"Hmph, if you could find someone, you would have found one as soon as you entered university. Two years have passed already."

"I say, you guys are crazy. You wouldn't let me date in high school, but as soon as I entered university, you wanted me to find someone to marry immediately. People aren't like products on a shelf that you can just pick up and take. Even products sell out eventually."

"You child..."

"Okay, I'm not going to say anymore. I have something to do. I'll talk to you when I get back tonight."

Liu Lu pouted and hung up the phone. She saw a message pop up from Zheng Yuan, saying that Gu Zhou had just retweeted one of her Weibo posts. She quickly clicked on Weibo to check and, sure enough, saw Gu Zhou's latest update.