fake god

Chapter 72

The sudden ringing of the phone interrupted what Lu Ping almost said.

Lu Ping was lying when he said he wasn't surprised. He was very curious about Shen Yuze's legendary father who was nearly 70 years old and scored four goals. He vaguely sketched an image of a self-willed rich and bad old man in his mind... In short, it looks like a TV series. The kind of villain in the movie who would say, "If you have money, you can do whatever you want."

If Shen Yuze knew about his imagination, he would definitely tell him - that's right, Shen Guoning is such a person whose interests are paramount.

The relationship between Shen Yuze and his father Shen Guoning is not close. When Shen Yuze was born, Shen Guoning was already 51 years old. Shen Guoning didn't have any feelings about his third marriage and third child.The only thing that had an impact was that the Shen family's lawyer in charge of estate distribution had to work overtime for a month.Only Shen Yuze's mother still had a little fantasy, thinking that "mother is more valuable than her child" and firmly grasped her husband's heart.

There are not many opportunities for father and son to meet each other.Shen Guoning's business spread all over the country, and occasionally he would fly abroad to stay for a few months. The relationship between father and son was indifferent. Every time they met and talked, Shen Guoning asked his son a few questions in a formal manner, and Shen Yuze answered them very well.As for Shen Yuze's grades in school, what friends he has around him, and what hobbies he has cultivated... Shen Guoning doesn't know anything.

A few months ago, Shen Yuze suddenly decided to transfer schools, and Shen Guoning didn't ask any further questions. He just thought it was a young man's whim. Shen Guoning hadn't called Shen Yuze for so long, but at this juncture today, Shen Guoning called him up!

Shen Yuze probably guessed what he was going to say, and his face suddenly became ugly.

When Shen Yuze answered the phone, Lu Ping thoughtfully left the study, closed the door for him, and gave him enough space.

Lu Ping's heart is in a state of agitation right now. The words he didn't finish just now are piled up in his heart, and his heart is floating in mid-air, as if being hung by a thin rope. It may fall to the ground at any time, and he doesn't know what it is. time to land.

He sat down in the living room and continued to use his mobile phone to chat with partner customer service, but the other party used the word shameless to the extreme, no matter what he said, the other party stopped replying.

At the same time, under every post of Lu Ping, there are messages from new fans.Some people knew him from other platforms, and rushed to register an account, and the ids were all the default names of the system.There are more and more people @ him in the background, and there are even many classmates from their school who posted photos of Shen Yuze secretly on the partner.

For the first time, Lu Ping knew that it was such a terrible thing to be followed by so many pairs of eyes.

Now he can't delete his account, so there is only one way left - delete all the dynamics he has posted.

This is a big project. Since Lu Ping started using this account until now, he has posted a total of nearly a hundred posts, including photos, videos, and casual essays... In each post, there is a little guy who lives in him. Among them, every time the delete button is pressed, it seems that one percent of him is also deleted.

The fans quickly realized that more private messages flooded into his backstage, asking him why he deleted the post, but Lu Ping didn't reply, because he didn't know how to deal with their concerns.

He has told so many lies that he no longer knows how to tell the truth.

The dynamics are deleted one by one, and the timeline goes backwards step by step.

The video of taking Zhaocai to be sterilized was deleted; the news of the typhoon staying overnight at the school was deleted; the photo taken when he first came to Shen Yuze’s house as a guest was deleted; the sentence "So envy and sympathy can exist at the same time" was deleted; The beautiful scenery was also deleted... In the end, Lu Ping's finger stopped on the first post posted by @fake-diamond.

There was no extra text in that post, only a photo - Shen Yuze was wearing a knight uniform, leading a steed, looking at the camera indifferently.

Through the screen of the mobile phone, Lu Ping stared blankly at the person in the photo.

The boy's fingers stroked Shen Yuze's eyes, and he wanted to feel a little warmth from those distant eyes.

But he could only touch the cold screen.

"I'm sorry," Lu Ping curled up, buried his head, and repeated to the phone over and over again, "...I'm sorry."

"sorry."

"sorry."

"Sorry……"

I don't know how many times he said it, and finally, his finger pressed the button, deleting the first and last post on @fake-diamond.

The entire software page has become empty.Lu Ping seemed to have had a long, long dream, but he still couldn't tell whether he was awake from this dream or not.

He sat on the sofa completely exhausted, not knowing what to do next.

At this moment, there was a sudden noise in the study—something was thrown to the ground.

Lu Ping didn't have time to sort out his mood, his body had already stood up early, and walked quickly to the study, worried about what happened to Shen Yuze.

When he pushed open the door of the study, he saw Shen Yuze standing in front of the French window of the study with his back facing him, with the shattered mobile phone under his feet.

Lu Ping bypassed the wreckage on the ground, walked quickly to Shen Yuze, and asked hurriedly, "What happened...ah!"

Before Lu Ping finished speaking, Shen Yuze had already turned around, hugged him tightly, and even buried his head on Lu Ping's shoulder.

Shen Yuze was half a head taller than Lu Ping, and he suddenly put all his strength on him, which shocked Lu Ping.Fortunately, Lu Ping reacted quickly, and quickly stretched out his arms, wrapping his arms around Shen Yuze's shoulder with one hand, hesitating for a few seconds with the other hand, and finally landed on Shen Yuze's head.

"...Are you okay?" Lu Ping asked softly, "Did you quarrel with your father?"

"Arguing?" Shen Yuze didn't raise his head, a muffled voice came from Lu Ping's shoulder, "He just found a reason to scold me."

Lu Ping asked carefully: "Why did he scold you?"

"Oh." Shen Yuze sneered, "He thinks it's very naive for me to jump into the water to save people impulsively, regardless of my own safety or my status as the heir of the Shen family."

Lu Ping was stunned: "Is that what I understand?"

"That's what you understand." Shen Yuze finally raised his head and looked at Lu Ping, "He thinks that people are divided into different classes, and human life has its own value."

Just repeating this sentence made Shen Yuze feel sick from the bottom of his heart.Although he recognized Shen Guoning's selfishness and indifference when he was very young, when he heard Shen Guoning say it with his own ears, he still felt disgusted that he had that person's DNA.

Shen Yuze lowered his eyes: "Pingping, sometimes I really envy you. Uncle Lu and Aunt Lu love you very much."

He remembered the nervousness, worry and pride that Lu's mother showed when Lu Ping and Lu's mother were on the phone. She cared about her child from the bottom of her heart, without any falsehood.This kind of blood connection between mother and child is something that Shen Yuze has never had since childhood.

They stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, hugging so quietly.This is the first time Shen Yuze has exposed his emotional side in front of Lu Ping.In the final analysis, he is just a 17-year-old boy.

Looking at the loneliness in Shen Yuze's eyes, for a moment, Lu Ping almost blurted out: Shen Yuze, come to my house, I can share my family with you, so that you also have parents who care about you, and a clingy sister And the same clingy me.

But in the end Lu Ping didn't say anything, but hugged Shen Yuze's shoulder with more strength.

……

Early on Sunday morning, Shen Yuze accompanied Lu Ping to the mobile phone business hall to reapply for a phone card.Unexpectedly, the staff in the business hall recognized them and wanted to take a photo with them very enthusiastically.

Someone else in business asked, "Are they stars?"

"No! Did you watch the very popular diving rescue video yesterday, they are the two protagonists in the video!"

"Ah! I looked, I looked, it turned out to be them!"

With such a yell, people who didn't recognize them at first also ran over to take a photo with them.

The two looked at each other, and quickly ran away before the crowd gathered.

They finally ran back to the car, Lu Ping was still out of breath: "In the end, how many people have watched that video?"

"Just the one posted by the original blogger has already surpassed one million likes, which is not counted as reprinted by other media." Shen Yuze said in a low voice, "According to the calculation of the number of views and likes ten to one, more than one person has seen it." Never."

More than ten million...Jiaojiang is a small city with a population of only one million!Lu Ping's eyes darkened, and he suddenly felt that the partner's increase of [-] followers was nothing at all.

Shen Yuze: "Behind this incident, someone should be pushing it on purpose."

"You mean the navy?"

"Hmm." Shen Yuze's face was very bad, "I checked, and the first reprinted marketing accounts are all related to Wang Shiya's media company, and those little Internet celebrities who signed contracts under her name also liked and commented on the video, which attracted a lot of attention. There's a lot of traffic."

Lu Ping did not expect to hear Wang Shiya's name: "What is she going to do? Is she sick?"

"I don't know." Shen Yuze sneered, "Maybe she thought that making me 'famous' would make me show her love."

"...#￥%@￥%￥..." Lu Ping couldn't help but swear.

Shen Yuze taught him: "You also set your mobile phone to do-not-disturb mode, so that those calls will not come in. They can't find us, so they can only contact the school. I have already talked to the principal, and all the interviews will be done for us. Pushed, we don't need this kind of famous way. This kind of enthusiasm will dissipate in a few days, don't let these attention affect yourself."

Lu Ping hesitated: "But online..."

"Don't mention things on the Internet anymore." Shen Yuze felt upset when he thought of the bad things Wang Shiya's navy did, "I really hate this kind of things that use my banner to gain attention. I don't want to hear it again."

"……it is good."

Shen Yuze didn't know, he once again interrupted the truth that Lu Ping was about to tell.

Things like "honesty" are not something that can be said at the touch of a tongue.People who lie are always suffering. They don't know how to fight against their vanity and guilt. If they can't tell the truth in one go, they can only decline again and again.

This weekend has been both long and short for Lu Ping.He hardly closed his eyes, and even when he fell asleep, his dreams were all disturbed by the Internet.He dreamed that Shen Yuze knew the whole truth, and those eyes that were once full of warmth became extremely cold again.

Shen Yuze in the dream was still calm, as usual.

He didn't even show shock, disappointment, or anger at being cheated on.He just restrained and asked indifferently: "Pingping, you have been able to tell the truth so many times, why didn't you tell me?"

Lu Ping in the dream couldn't answer, because he had asked himself the same question countless times.

After waking up from the dream, Lu Ping found that his pillow cover was full of dampness.He raised his hand to touch the tear stains on his face, got up and went to the toilet to wash his face, then returned to the bed and waited soberly for the dawn.

These two nights, Lu Ping did not return to the guest bedroom, but continued to squeeze on the bed in the master bedroom with Shen Yuze.It stands to reason that Shen Yuze's fever subsided, so he should move out, but when he thought that this might be the last time he was so close to Shen Yuze, he couldn't help but want to stay by Shen Yuze's side for a while and enjoy the last few hours. close.

He knew that Shen Yuze didn't like to read gossip on the Internet, but even if Shen Yuze didn't read it, his classmates would tell him.At that time, Shen Yuze must know about @fake-diamond. With his IQ, he will definitely find out the truth soon.

In the hazy night, Lu Ping stared at Shen Yuze's sleeping profile, stretched out his hand, and silently held Shen Yuze's finger.In his sleep, Shen Yuze seemed to feel something, and instinctively grabbed Lu Ping with his backhand, clasping his fingers in his palm.

The familiar temperature is slowly transmitted to the heart along the beating blood vessels along the touching fingertips.

"I'm sorry." Lu Ping's eyes were hot, and he only dared to speak his mind quietly at this moment, "I'm a bad boy."

"Shen Yuze, I don't deserve your preference."

……

On Monday morning, Lu Ping looked sleepy and put down his breakfast after only a few mouthfuls.

Shen Yuze asked him what's wrong.

Lu Ping hesitated and said, "...I'm afraid that when we get to school, many people will gather around and ask questions."

"If they ask, just ask. We did a good thing, not a bad thing. Don't care what others say."

But how can things be so easy?

When they arrived at the school, they saw many reporters waiting at the school gate.The reporter didn't know where he learned that this Cayenne was Shen Yuze's family car. As soon as the car was parked on the side of the road, enthusiastic reporters surrounded him.The reporter is also an ordinary worker. These two days are the time when the rescue incident is at its peak. Unfortunately, no one can contact the two parties throughout the weekend. They are reluctant to bear such a good flow of traffic, so they simply come to the school gate to block people.

If it weren't for the quick response of the school security, it would have been difficult for Shen Yuze and Lu Ping to even enter the school gate.

Seeing that the two parties could not be interviewed, the reporters turned to interview other students in the school, and they caught a few "fish".High school students of this age like to show off the most. When they heard that they could be on TV, they rushed to get in front of the camera to break the news.

"Shen Yuze? His grades are particularly good, and he got full marks in English in the first monthly exam."

"Shen Yuze transferred from the imperial capital. I heard that he went to an international school before!"

"I also went to Student Shen's speech contest, and some judges gave him [-] points!"

"Lu Ping? I don't know Lu Ping..."

"Lu Ping seems to be Shen Yuze's deskmate, right?"

"He's from the North Shore, and his family sells embedded cakes."

"Everyone calls him Prince Cake Cake, haha!"

"Well, we also have to learn from their spirit of helping others!"

"Uncle, which channel is your program on? Can my mother see me on TV?"

"How did they become friends? I don't know...Shen Yuze is so rich, who wouldn't want to be friends with him?"

Fortunately, Lu Ping didn't hear the last sentence, otherwise he would definitely give the other party a big white eye.

He became friends with Shen Yuze not because of his family background, his grades, his appearance...just because he is "Shen Yuze".

However, Lu Ping is not sure how long their precarious friendship can last.

When they walked into the class, the class was silent first, and then everyone's eyes fell on them.

In this incident, Shen Yuze was undoubtedly the one who received the most attention. Unfortunately, Shen Yuze was too cold and cold. They wanted to ask him many questions but dared not ask them, so they could only ask Lu Ping in a roundabout way.

Chen Miaomiao jumped up and down anxiously, before Lu Ping could sit still, he yelled: "Lu Ping, you are too good, I saw that video, and you jumped into the water without even thinking about it, aren't you afraid? "

Lu Ping said honestly: "I really didn't feel scared at the time...but I was a little scared when I went ashore. The water was so cold that I almost had cramps. Fortunately, there was Shen Yuze."

Lu Ping's ability to narrate is really not good. Such a thrilling thing came out of his mouth dryly, without any ups and downs.

"It's too boring." Chen Miaomiao complained, "Lu Ping, according to your narration, it seems that you just jumped into the water in an ordinary way, saved a person in an ordinary way, and then rejected all the media reports in an ordinary way. interview..."

"That's right." Lu Ping nodded, "This is an ordinary thing, it's not a big deal at all."

"..." Chen Miaomiao stared at Lu Ping for a while, and said inexplicably, "Damn, Lu Ping, I suddenly think you are so handsome."

Lu Ping: "?"

During recess, the window facing the corridor in their class was crowded with people, and the front and back doors were even more crowded.In the name of borrowing books and going to the toilet, some people passed by the door of their class over and over again, just to get a few more glances at Shen Yuze.

Finally, it was time for the exercise time between classes, and students of all grades had to go to the playground to gather.

The moment he stepped out of the classroom, Lu Ping keenly noticed that the sightlines gathered from all directions surrounded him and Shen Yuze at once.In this Internet age, all news spreads fast. For the first time in the boring and repetitive life of students, "Internet celebrities" appear, just like small advertisements for web games that pop up suddenly while surfing the Internet. Of course, you have to pay more attention. .

Lu Ping noticed that someone secretly took out a mobile phone to secretly take pictures of Shen Yuze... It's really daring, isn't it afraid of being discovered by the grade director?Lu Ping ran two steps quickly, came to Shen Yuze's side, and blocked the camera for him.

Seeing him following up, Shen Yuze told him, "Follow me closely."

Lu Ping nodded.

However, they obviously underestimated the curiosity of the students. There were originally many people in the corridor during the exercise time between classes, but now everyone gathered towards them, three floors inside and three floors outside. Before they knew it, Lu Ping and Shen Yuze was dispersed by the crowd.Seeing Shen Yuze's back getting farther and farther away, Lu Ping was a little anxious, and hurriedly called him: "Shen..."

"Student Shen Yuze, I'm a reporter from the Student News Agency, can we interview you?"

At this moment, several figures wearing work badges appeared out of nowhere, and stood in front of Shen Yuze with excited faces.

That's right, Jiaojiang No. [-] Middle School has its own "Student News Agency", which is a school tradition that has been going on for many years.The school's radio station has their columns, and the WeChat public account is also more diligent.The student news society collects and edits big and small things in the school, from the retirement of a certain teacher to the new dishes in the cafeteria, all of which are the focus of their attention. Of course, they will not let go of such big news as diving to save lives!

Shen Yuze didn't expect that he managed to avoid the reporters outside the school, but he couldn't hide from the "reporters" in the school!

Before Shen Yuze could react, the girl in the lead stretched out a recording pen in front of him, and asked a series of questions.

"Student Shen, can you tell us how you felt when you jumped to save people?"

"Can you talk about your ambitions, which university do you want to go to?"

"I heard that you rejected all the interviews, may I ask why?"

"The mother of the rescued girl wants to contact you and thank you face to face. What do you think?"

"As a transfer student who just transferred from the second year of high school, what do you want to say to No. [-] Middle School?"

"..."

Seeing Shen Yuze surrounded by "student reporters", Lu Ping wanted to go up to rescue him, but there were too many people standing between them.Lu Ping was blocked behind the crowd and became an inconspicuous background board, while Shen Yuze became the person who stood out from the background, with the camera, microphone, eyes...all surrounding him.

A pair of eyes looked at him, and each ear was waiting for his answer.

Suddenly, a harsh voice sounded from outside the crowd—"Hey, Shen Yuze, I also have a question to ask you—that guy called fake on the Internet, is it really you?"

Standing outside the crowd was "Glasses" from Class Nine. He had clashed with Shen Yuze several times, and even though he was rubbed against the ground by Shen Yuze every time, he didn't have a long memory.

"Glasses" held a mobile phone in his hand, and the camera was aimed at Shen Yuze. He said loudly, "I also paid attention to that person, but the news posted by that person was very strange. For no reason, he deleted all the dynamics and did not reply to private messages." , It's very strange!" He had a big brain hole, wanting to see Shen Yuze's excitement, "You won't have your photos stolen, right?"

His voice was loud, and for a moment, everyone's attention was attracted by him.

Partner is a very popular software among high school students. After the incident happened, many people who did not have an account also registered an account and followed @fake-diamond on the Internet.But on Saturday night, that account suddenly deleted all the news, which is really suspicious. Could it be that, as "Glasses" said, that account has nothing to do with Shen Yuze, but a hacker?

Noisy discussions sounded.No one noticed that Lu Ping, who was hiding in the crowd, was trembling and buried his head deeply, trying to cover the corners of his eyes that were getting wet.

As he expected, someone really revealed the existence of @fake-diamond to Shen Yuze.He thought he would be nervous and afraid, but when this moment really came, he actually felt an unprecedented peace... The boot hanging in mid-air finally fell to the ground, and he no longer had to worry about it.

Come on, whether it's insults, scolding, or whatever, he's mentally prepared.How will Shen Yuze react?With Shen Yuze's character, he must, must, must hate the person pretending to be him——

"Have you lost your mind? You can think of such things as stealing photos." Shen Yuze's impatient voice sounded, "If you don't have good English, go back and make up for it. There are only two words in fakediamond, and you can't read them well? "

This unexpected answer made Lu Ping suddenly raise his head.

Shen Yuze's tone was light: "fakediamond is indeed my account. The reason for deleting the post is also very simple. It is because too many people follow me, and I find it too troublesome."

Lu Ping opened his eyes wide in disbelief. Looking at the straight figure, he suspected that he was so nervous that he had auditory hallucinations?

But that sentence really came from Shen Yuze's mouth.

Shen Yuze said...fakediamond is his account.

For a second, Lu Ping thought he was still in a dream, but this dream was too real.

"One more thing, I want to make a statement." In full view of everyone, Shen Yuze suddenly turned around and looked at the boy who was a few steps away.

Then, he stepped over.

His aura has become a natural barrier, and the crowd that had been clustered together involuntarily separated to the side as he approached step by step, leaving only Lu Ping, who had been hiding in the crowd, still standing stupidly. There.

The boy's expression was blank, and his brain was sluggish, unable to function at all.

Shen Yuze stopped in front of him, and Lu Ping stared at him blankly. Lu Ping had countless questions to ask, but they were all stuck in his chest, and he didn't know where to start.

Shen Yuze saw the fear in his eyes, he nodded slightly to him, and said a few words silently.

"Do not be afraid."

"Believe me."

In the eyes of everyone, Shen Yuze suddenly held Lu Ping's hand—then, he looked up at the crowd around him.

The young man had a serious expression and spoke solemnly.

"I would like to declare here: I was not the first person to find the girl falling into the water, and it was not me who was the first to jump into the water to save her. I just did something ordinary under the leadership of others. It's just a trivial matter, you don't need to pay so much attention to me."

"I've never been the protagonist of this story—Lu Ping is."