You were supposed to have a fake marriage with the diva, so how did you become her father?

Chapter 38: Has the disguise been revealed?

Starry Entertainment, Short Drama Department.

"Did that guy in the plaid shirt really ask you that?" Lu Ran asked Tan Yu while drinking his coffee.

"Really, Brother Lu, you have no idea how tired I was from acting just now. Normally, I would have slapped him already." Tan Yu demonstrated with gestures in front of Lu Ran, "This kid asked me indirectly, and I told him the number you gave me, and then pretended to realize something at the end. That kid definitely believed me."

"Well done, you're a good actor. How about you act with me in your next drama?" Zhao Dapeng walked over and patted Tan Yu on the shoulder.

"That's right. Don't you know who your brother Yu is? In this office, if I say I'm second, besides Brother Lu, who else dares to say they're first?" Tan Yu had an expression that said, "I'm the best in the world."

Tan Yu handled things well this time, and Lu Ran's smile widened.

You like to inflate your stats? Well, then you can inflate them to your heart's content.

Online, fans of "Time Train" and fans of "The Return of the Gods" continue their back-and-forth debate.

Meanwhile, in the music industry, the battle for the four singers' new albums is equally fierce.

Liu Siqi's new song "The World" was released as a full single, which is why it's generating so much buzz.

Xu Manlin posted snippets of several songs, which garnered significant attention due to their top-quality content.

Although Weng Qingya is a newcomer, she gained popularity by riding on the coattails of former queen Shen Yuege. At the same time, the song snippets she released, while not as good as Xu Manlin's, were still considered to be above average.

Finally, there's Shen Yuege. She hasn't made any moves in the past week, and hasn't come out to explain the audience's questions. News of her new album seems to be a long way off.

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At dinner time, Shen Yuege was eating the dinner that Lu Ran had prepared with gusto.

"You've received some good songs lately, why don't you respond to them online?" Lu Ran asked while picking up some food from his plate.

"No need to reply. Let them jump around for a bit. Once they've had their fill, I'll come out and slap them in the face," Shen Yuege said casually while eating.

"By the way, how's your short drama going? I've seen a lot of negative comments about it online. The results are supposed to be out tomorrow. Do you have any information that you won first place?" Shen Yuege asked Lu Ran.

"It's alright. I believe our short drama's reputation is no worse than the number one one. As for the data, the number one one has inflated quite a bit. I'll wait until they're smug before I use the real data to slap them in the face." Lu Ran looked like it was perfectly reasonable.

Seeing that Lu Ran had similar thoughts to her, a sentence immediately popped into Shen Yuege's mind.

Not a family, do not enter the door.

At this moment, the two were surprisingly in agreement.

"Oh, right!" Shen Yuege exclaimed as if suddenly remembering something, "Liu Siqi from your company, she sang 'The World' pretty well, it's really nice!"

"Uh, really?" Lu Ran chuckled awkwardly. "It's quite a nice name, after all, she's our company's prospective superstar!"

"But I saw that the lyrics, composition, and arrangement of this song were all written by someone named Lu Ran. Do you know him?" Shen Yuege put down her chopsticks and looked at Lu Ran with a half-smile.

Lu Ran felt a little uneasy under Shen Yuege's gaze.

I was careless and forgot to tell her not to use her real name. Now I'm in trouble; my pseudonym is about to be exposed.

"Really? Then it must be a coincidence of names. There are quite a few people named Lu Ran in our company," Lu Ran explained. "It must be written by another Lu Ran. You don't think it's me, do you?"

"I've already asked my dad for the roster of Xingyao, and I've looked at it."

"There are two Lu Rans in your company, one is you, and the other is the company's security guard. You wouldn't say that the old man wrote the song, would you?"

Seeing that he could no longer hide it, Lu Ran decided to stop pretending. After all, the security guard had also given him such a nice-sounding name.

"That's right, it was me." Lu Ran admitted helplessly, "Director Li Mo was afraid that I would have difficulty gaining the respect of the staff in my newly established department, so he decided to secretly put this song collection under my name in order to increase my prestige in the company."

"Maybe my dad put in a good word for Li Mo, because President Li is quite considerate of me," Lu Ran said, a mix of truth and falsehood.

Shen Yuege thought about it and realized that this was indeed Shen Zhiwei's style.

Although Shen Zhiwei has never supported her in the entertainment industry since she debuted, he must have used his influence as a big director behind the scenes.

Having been in the industry for so many years, I have never had any scandals or been photographed by paparazzi.

At that moment, Shen Yuege suddenly felt grateful to Shen Zhiwei.

This is fatherly love: though he may not say it, he always proves his love through his actions.

Shen Yuege lost interest in interrogating Lu Ran any further. They were only a contractual couple, and even if Lu Ran had written it, she had no right to demand anything of him.

Fortunately, Shen Yuege took out her phone and opened a game.

As the game started, familiar background music entered Lu Ran's ears.

Ok?

Why does that voice sound so familiar?

Isn't this the game "Sheep and Sheep" that I've been playing these past few days?

Has it spread this far? It's even reached Shen Yue's singing circle.

"What game are you playing?" Lu Ran asked knowingly.

"Oh, you're asking me?" Shen Yuege didn't look up, her eyes still fixed on her phone screen.

"Nonsense, there are only the two of us here, who else should I ask if not you?" This time it was Lu Ran's turn to roll her eyes at Shen Yuege, but unfortunately she was focused on playing the game and didn't see it.

"This game is called 'Sheep, Sheep,' and I don't know who wrote it. I just can't get past the second level," Shen Yuege complained as she played.

Lu Ran couldn't help but chuckle to herself.

Unexpectedly, this game also proved to be a challenge for Shen Yuege.

Shen Yuege, who is usually a workaholic, also gets hooked on the little games she writes.

At this moment, Lu Ran suddenly realized that Shen Yuege was actually quite girlish.

"Is it that difficult? Look at what you're saying." Lu Ran stood up and walked behind Shen Yuege.

"It's really super difficult, and what's most infuriating is that just when you think there's nothing below the icon, there are actually many more layers below it. Can you believe it?" As the empty space below was filled up again, Shen Yuege failed the second level once more.

"Try it again, let me see."

"Order this, let's start with this banana!"

"Take the middle apple first, and get the ones on the sides later!"

"Take the baseball underneath after you've taken the toothbrush!"

Lu Ran stood behind Shen Yuege, guiding her through the process.

With Lu Ran's guidance, Shen Yuege completed the level for the first time.

"Yay! I finally passed!" Shen Yuege stood up happily, then turned her head away in surprise.

Because it was so sudden, Lu Ran couldn't dodge in time, and the two of them ended up with their four petals touching intimately.

Shen Yuege quickly pushed Lu Ran away, her face immediately turning red.

At that moment, the two really did look like a newlywed couple.

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