Group Pet Eldest Lady, She Just Wants To Be A Salted Fish

Chapter 13 – Nobody Is better than my sister

The only response to Liu Jin’s question was three indifferent sentences:

[Not interested.]

Liu Jin’s heart sank.

Gu Fuchen stared at the live stream, feeling his sister’s happiness in the game. He sighed softly and didn’t hurry home, instead went to Fu Jiazhan’s private winery.

He also called Jiang Huai and Liu Jin.

Lu Jin : [Hmph, if you guys aren’t interested in my star-chasing life, I won’t come.]

G : [Suit yourself.]

Lu Jin waited for someone to give him a way out, but after ten minutes:

Lu Jin : I’ll reluctantly share with you guys my tips on getting along with younger sisters.]

Jiang Huai : [Please don’t bother.]

Fu Jiazhan’s winery was not far from the Gu family’s mansion.

Gu Fuchen did not come here to drink.

The scene in the live stream had deeply affected him. He reflected on how he and Ruanruan had interacted after she returned home and sadly realized that she did not appreciate his reasonable approach.

He was far from being the model elder brother he wanted to be.

He had forced his younger sister to spend money, accept values that she did not like, and because he was busy with work and returned home late, the attention he gave her was not enough.

Except for being the “domineering president” elder brother that Ruanruan likes, he didn’t do anything else well.

Gu Fuchen felt that something was not right as he thought about it more.

However, the main path of spending money to let Ruanruan indulge in hedonism cannot be changed. In order to take care of the overall situation, he can only continue doing this and seek breakthroughs in other areas.

Since Ruanruan likes playing games, why not learn how to play them himself?

When Gu Fuchen arrived at the winery, he didn’t have a drop of alcohol. As soon as Lu Jin and Jiang Huai arrived, he quickly asked them to play games together and launch an all-out attack.

Jiang Huai is unhappy.

Gu Fuchen said, “I’ll give you a 10% discount on that piece of land in the west of the city.”

Jiang Huai immediately picked up his phone and said, “Okay, boss, invite me quickly.”

Jiang Huai loves money and he always wants a share in anything that can make money. He is the most ambitious among the four.

However, he is also a penny-pincher. He has a bunch of cards in his pocket but never spends them. Despite being a billionaire, he never treats anyone to a meal and always tries to get a free meal if possible.

While playing games, Lu Jin described his new idol, squeezing in between conversations, “Why aren’t you paying attention to who my idol is this time? She’s different from all the other celebrities! Really! She’s so special and holy.”

Jiang Huai replied, “Your fan filter is too thick.”

Every time Lu Jin talks about his idol, he always describes them as flawless. At first, Jiang Huai didn’t understand what a fan filter was, but Lu Jin convinced him to watch a video, and he contributed a click.

After watching it…

He realized that it wasn’t that the acting was bad or the lines weren’t good, but Lu Jin portrayed it as too perfect. It seemed like not winning an Oscar for that acting was a regret. When they watched something that was only five or six points, they would naturally be disappointed after expecting it to be a perfect ten.

Lu Jin is an avid fan of celebrities, and he jumps from one idol to another at a fast pace. His longest-lasting fan phase lasted for half a year, while the shortest was only three days. This is probably the joy of being a free-rider1:

As long as he can climb the wall2 fast enough, he can always have fun.

“I’m serious this time,” Lu Jin said.

Gu Fuchen who was focusing on the game tutorial said seriously, “I’ll play jungle.”

Jiang Huai replied, “Then I’ll play support.”

Fu Jiazhan: “Top lane.”

Lu Jin: “I’m not a free rider this time!!”

The three of them looked up at the same time, looked at each other, and exchanged glances.

—Confirmed through eye contact, he has met the person he loves.

Gu Fuchen put down his phone and looked at Lu Jin steadily, “Where did you get the money from?”

As the head of the Lu Group, it was not difficult for Lu Jin to spend some money on his idol, and it was easy to avoid his parents’ unexpected questioning or checking his spending records.

All he had to do was withdraw some cash from his bank account, and use it to buy things for his idol. However, Lu Jin had never done this before. On the one hand, he was very obedient to his parents, as the legend goes, he was a “daddy’s boy” and a “mommy’s boy”, and he would not deceive them by doing things they opposed. On the other hand, his feeling for the idol wasn’t that deep yet.

But this time was different.

After watching Ruan Yōu’s last live broadcast event, there were only six words that could summarize Lu Jin’s thoughts at the time: love at first sight lasts forever.

It was not entirely because of Ruan Yōu’s appearance, but because of her “confident, calm, composed, decisive, and resolute” attitude in the last live broadcast impressed Lu Jin.

He has to boast that, when Ruan Yōu announced she was going to retire from the industry, she displayed a kind of cool and refreshing style, like a female warrior pulling out her sword and turning around to slash it.

It was just awesome.

After watching this live broadcast, Lu Jin went back and watched Ruan Yōu’s past TV dramas and activities. After finishing them, he felt that this female star was even more worthy of being his idol!

She has a fundamental difference from other celebrities.

In this entertainment industry of fame and fortune, she does not fight for attention, and when she appears on variety shows, she voluntarily serves as a supporting character. When prompted by the program team, she can easily become the center of attention with a witty remark or an outstanding performance.

Untainted by mud, that’s her!

Unfortunately, Lu Jin became a fan of Ruan Yōu too late. He just became her fan and she retired, leaving him to cry and re-watch her previous TV works in the middle of the night.

But Ruan Yōu’s previous resources were very limited. He had watched them all, and even rewatched the dramas that he had already watched.

Perhaps it was to remember the retired star, Lu Jin had the idea of spending money to support her for the first time, without relying on freebies.

But the question was, where would he get the money?

His younger sister, Lu Xuan, ran away from home after falling in love with a scumbag, breaking their parents’ hearts. In response, their parents immediately cut off her card, and she never got it back even after she returned home.

Lu Xuan was broke and had only two thousand yuan on him.

So, Lu Jin made a deal with his sister: if she gave him the two thousand yuan to pursue his idol, he would let her use his card to buy things and even drive his supercar.

Despite their sharp tongues, their parents had soft hearts, and even though they had cut off their daughter’s card, they didn’t stop Lu Jin from secretly helping her. This way, Lu Xuan had money to buy things, and Lu Jin didn’t have to spend the family’s money to chase after his idol, it was a win-win situation.

However, Lu Xuan had an even better idea.

She joined an investment forum, gave 900 yuan to Lu Jin for him chase star, while using the remaining 1100 yuan for investments to make more money.

From then on, Lu Jin would have a steady stream of money to chase after stars, while Lu Xuan would have a steady stream of cards to spend, and the two of them cooperated happily. Speaking of this, Lu Jin gave a glance at Gu Fuchen and said, “Tsk tsk, secretly making money, you didn’t share it with us when Shirui was doing big things. It was my sister who found the analysis online.”

Gu Fuchen : “You don’t even have that much brain power. You should just give your position to your sister.”

Lu Jin: …

D*mn it.

He is busy with the Lu Corporation all day long. Lu Corporation’s main business is IT, and they focus on different information points. They don’t have the leisure to pay attention to what a small subsidiary of the Gu family is doing.

The previous remark was just a joke.

The small profit from the soaring stock price cannot attract them, and they won’t use this kind of investment to make big money.

But Lu Jin still need money to chase star.

Gu Fuchen was a bit interested: “What’s that person’s ID?”

“I don’t know, my sister said it’s a new user, very mysterious, and it’s their first time posting,” replied Liu Jin.

Gu Fuchen didn’t ask any more questions and continued to focus on the game, opening the game’s AI training mode while reminding Lu Jin.

“Let’s play the game.”

Lu Jin realized belatedly, “You guys haven’t even heard who I’m a fan of!”

“I’m more interested in your exciting money-making experience than who you’re a fan of,” said Jiang Huai.

Gu Fuchen: “No one is better than my sister, not worth asking.”

Lu Jin’s gaze fell on Fu Jiazhan.

Fu Jiazhan remembered what Mrs. Ruan had said when he was young, frowned slightly, and didn’t answer, and continued to play the game.

Lu Jin felt like going crazy.

What kind of lousy friends are they?

Gu Fuchen: “Come play the game. The money you use to chase stars is earned by Shirui. Indirectly speaking, I am your sugar daddy.”

Lu Jin: “…”

He was so angry, but what he said was true!

The four of them couldn’t play a five-person game.

Gu Fuchen shared the game information in the Gu Family group chat.

[G: Come join us for a five-man game.]

The person who came in was Gu Zexi, the youngest son of Gu Fuchen’s third uncle.

Gu Zexi was a game enthusiast and often scolded by all the elders for playing games every day. However, this time, when Gu Fuchen initiated a game in the group chat, no one dared to speak up. Gu Zexi was thrilled and quickly switched to an alternate account to join the game.

After knowing who the other three players were, Gu Zexi immediately became obedient and carefully explained each hero’s skills to them.

At the end of the game, Gu Fuchen had a pretty good impression of him.

When Gu Fuchen returned home, Ruan Yōu just finished playing the game.

She went from Gold to Diamond rank in one night and was so happy that she wanted to buy some diamonds to celebrate.

Just buy it!

Only diamonds can match her “distinguished” gaming status!

She messaged Wei Wen: [Help me see what are the good blue and red diamonds recently.]

[Understood, Miss, what will you use it for? So that I can determine the size.] Wei Wen replied.

Ruan Yōu thought seriously for a moment: [I haven’t figured it out yet orz…]

She couldn’t just say that she suddenly fell in love with diamonds because of playing games.

Wei Wen didn’t think there was any problem and replied quickly: [Okay, then buy them all and think about the appropriate cuts later.]

Ruan Yōu became more and more satisfied with her butler.

No matter what kind of absurd ideas she came up with, Wei Wen always calmly accepted everything without questioning.

Even if she now wanted to build a film and television city in the mansion, Wei Wen would probably find someone to draw a plan and prepare to start work without a second thought.

When Ruan Yōu was about to go to wash up, she thought of the poor little girl who was “forced by her brother to make money and invest in order to chase stars” last night, and went to the forum to see how things were going.

On the forum, the discussion about Shirui and Puxiong had reached a fever pitch.

The reply she posted was highly discussed. The reply thread had already reached 480 replies, not counting the nested replies. This was the hottest post on this niche website since its inception.

The main credit goes to “Countless Camels” and his additional investment of two million.

At four o’clock in the afternoon, “Countless Camels” fulfilled his promise to buy more shares of Puxiong with an additional two million yuan. Everyone on the forum was shocked, and under the reply to Ruan Yōu’s comment, countless people praised “Countless Camels”.

In reality, there aren’t many second-generation rich people who can afford to invest two million yuan so casually. Soon, even those who usually don’t comment on the forum started leaving messages and admiring “Countless Camels” for his wealth. Some even became his followers.

The high popularity attracted the top ten investment giants on the leaderboard. Six of them, like “Countless Camels”, were more inclined towards Puxiong, believing it to be steady and profitable. Thus, the “Countless Camels” faction gained momentum.

However, the other four big shots bought into Ruan Yōu’s response, believing that she had a point and after checking multiple sources, they leaned towards agreeing with her answer.

No matter what, a simple paid question and answer session has invisibly evolved into a lively PK between two sides. Within a day, Ruan You went from an unknown initial user with ID 4388320 to the most popular person on the entire forum.

On the forum, 80% of the people were waiting to see Ruan Yōu’s joke.

After logging in, Ruan Yōu roughly glanced at the online dispute and remained calm, paying no attention to it.

Resisting pressure is the most useful thing she learned in the entertainment industry.

When she was a celebrity, she faced much more criticism than this, and there was always a conclusion to the matter. Now, if she were to go out and say that Shirui is sure to rise, it would only lead to more intense conflict without any practical use.

According to the timeline of the novel, on the fourth day after she was blacklisted by the entire internet, the new energy incident exploded on the hot search and the stock of Shirui soared. Now, only two full days have passed since the live broadcast, which means—

The day after tomorrow.

The truth will be revealed the day after tomorrow.

Counting the night of the live broadcast, this is her third day back home.

Time seems to pass at varying speeds. Yawning with fatigue, Ruan Yōu slowly walked into her several hundred square meter wardrobe to choose her clothes.

This is a pleasure she only discovered today.

The pajamas are arranged in the middle row on the right side.

The pajamas are neatly arranged in three rows, each with a small tag on the hanger indicating the sequence number, style, and fabric of each piece of clothing, even clearer than in a department store.

The feeling of being able to choose anything is so joyful.

With pleasure, Ruan Yōu picked one and took a shower cap from the nearby wooden cabinet as she left.

Turning a corner, she walked through the intricately designed antique high fashion area and past the shining jewelry in the glass showcase on her right. As she left, the motion-sensing lights in the closet went out, leaving only eight dim table lamps.

After washing up, Ruan Yōu lazily lay on a lounge chair and applied a face mask while watching TV.

Watching movies on a giant screen really gives a different viewing experience.

The room felt like a private cinema, and if it weren’t for the outside world’s temptation, Ruan Yōu could stay in the room for a lifetime.

As she was focused on watching TV, the doorbell rang.

The screens in the bedroom, study, living room, wardrobe, and hallway all lit up simultaneously.

In front of the screen, Gu Fuchen stood still and asked softly, “Ruanruan, can I come in?”

Ruan Yōu pressed the door unlock button casually.

After pressing it, she remembered that she had forgotten to turn off her computer, which was placed haphazardly on the small coffee table.

The investment forum she had browsed was still displayed on the screen.

Gu Fuchen’s footsteps approached.

Ruan Yōu : !

If her brother found out that she was looking at investment websites…

Ruan You instantly imagined a political drama plot of “the hidden talented prince was discovered, and engaged in a fierce struggle with the crown prince on the spot”.

Not only would it lead to disharmony in the family, but also her happy retirement life would be ruined!

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1 this should be talking about a fan who only seeks for freebies without contributing financially (e.g. buying albums or merchandises)

2 changing idols he’s fan of