My Idol System: An Idol, But Also A Savior-Chapter 207: The Special Guests Have Arrived!

The first day of the Running Actors program thus came to an end. Everyone said their goodbyes and went their separate ways, although this wasn’t exactly something Joshua felt happy about.

Liona had even invited him to stay the night at her villa. After all, there were plenty of rooms there. But how could the show possibly give them a chance to break the rules?

So Joshua could only trudge back to his own little hut.

At the very least, thanks to Liona’s guidance, Joshua still managed to light a fire. It was just that after finishing everything, both his hands and his face were smeared pitch-black.

He could only go wash his face. The cold water at night felt even colder, with a slight sting to it. Joshua couldn’t help shivering before quickly returning to bed.

Although it looked a bit strange, sleeping on it was indeed warm.

Lying in his blanket nest, Joshua finally had the time to check his phone.

There were messages from countless different people. Joshua chose to reply to a few of them first before opening Nine’s messages.

[Ha ha ha, Joshua, why didn’t you tell me earlier that you were this good? Lucas’s expression, ha ha ha, I can use those screenshots as anti-material for another ten years!]

[That green tea thing is obviously no match for you.]

[He didn’t say a single word all day. Fans are already posting about Lucas being isolated. As if he didn’t want to isolate everyone himself.]

[Things have already come to this, and he still has the nerve to stay.]

...

It could only be said that Nine’s messages were as rich and colorful as ever. He could curse Lucas a hundred times without repeating a single line.

Joshua couldn’t help replying: [If our messages got leaked, my career would basically be over.]

The moment Nine saw Joshua reply, he shot back almost within a second.

[What did I say wrong!!! Besides, no one will ever leak our messages. That person would have been strangled to death before they were even born!]

MyJ: [This is a reminder for you.]

Nine pouted in grievance.

[I only send these to you anyway. I don’t do anything like this in public...]

Of course, on the Wolf account he wouldn’t post anything over the line. But on his other accounts, his record was practically legendary. He was the ringleader of the anti-Lucas camp.

Joshua hadn’t even replied yet when Nine sent another message, this time another reminder.

[There’s still one more day of filming tomorrow. Be careful. Lucas is nothing good, and his guest definitely won’t be any better!]

MyJ: [Don’t worry, Luis is coming tomorrow too.]

Nine thought to himself, so what if Luis was coming? Did that mean it was reassuring?

Although Luis treated Joshua like a younger brother, in Nine’s eyes, every man other than himself was trash. So he immediately started listing a whole string of Luis’s shortcomings in his head.

Joshua couldn’t be bothered to pay attention. He wished Nine good night and went to sleep.

It was already very late. Only Nine was someone who always stayed up all night.

...

Tonight, some people slept soundly, while others couldn’t fall asleep at all.

Online discourse had almost completely closed in on Lucas.

He instinctively bit his finger, his eyes dark red and bloodshot.

He knew he should put the phone down, but he almost couldn’t control himself, endlessly scrolling.

He wanted to find comments defending him, but far more of what he saw were voices mocking him.

Earlier that evening, his manager had also called him, saying that he had acted far too rashly. There was even anger in the manager’s tone.

The manager wanted Lucas to find an opportunity to apologize to Joshua in front of the cameras. This was the fastest way to calm the online backlash.

As long as Lucas apologized, the company could then find people to start analyzing and commenting. Things like mistakes can be corrected, things he didn’t do on purpose, whatever they wanted. The memory of netizens was never that long. They might curse him today, but if Lucas had something eye-catching tomorrow, yesterday’s scolding would naturally be buried.

But how could Lucas possibly endure it? Apologizing to Joshua was no different from admitting that he had lost, that he was truly in the wrong.

Even if he really was wrong, he still didn’t want to bow his head in front of Joshua.

Looking at the cries of fans announcing they were leaving the fandom, Lucas grew even angrier.

Leaving the fandom, leaving the fandom. A bunch of idiots!

So the next morning, Lucas looked a little haggard. Staring at himself in the mirror and recalling his manager’s words, Lucas could only grit his teeth.

This way, everything would go more smoothly. The more pitiful he looked, the more fans would protect him. If Joshua appeared too cold or refused to accept the apology, Joshua might even end up being scolded instead.

According to the program’s rules, the guests had to gather at the main villa before eight thirty in the morning. The livestream room had even been opened thirty minutes in advance.

Because today, there would be special guests, namely the support guests of this round’s participants.

When Lucas appeared, he immediately saw that the sofa was already full.

There was Liona with her best friend, Tiffany. Next to them were Tina and her male co-star from their new film. It was said that in the movie, the two of them had plenty of suggestive moments. Right now, they looked shy and sweet, clearly intending to stir up a CP and attract fans.

Lucas knew Louis would arrive a bit later, so he didn’t pay much attention to that.

His gaze instead landed directly on another corner of the sofa, where Luis was sitting.

Luis, the most outstanding actor of the current era, with countless fans and an unshakable position in the industry. On top of that, with a director friend like Lance, his career only continued to shine brighter.

He was the kind of existence that anyone who acted would want to befriend.

Lucas forced a pale smile and stepped forward to greet everyone.

The moment fans saw him appear, their hearts ached immediately.

[Oh my god, he definitely didn’t sleep last night.]

[TAT]

[If it were me, I’d be so embarrassed I wouldn’t be able to sleep either, hahaha.]

[Just reading the comments online makes me feel secondhand embarrassment.]

[Lucas already looks like this, can antis stop talking already?]

[Isn’t this just reaping what he sowed? Why shouldn’t people talk about it?]

[The moment I saw that expression, I knew he was acting.]

[I’m not even an anti, and I didn’t curse him or anything, did I?]

Before anything else, fans were already engaged in an intense keyboard battle. Meanwhile, Lucas greeted Luis and said with a smile, "I really didn’t expect to run into you here, Luis. Did you come to promote a film with Joshua? But it looks like he hasn’t woken up yet... I guess he didn’t know you’d be coming..."

Lucas said with a smile.

Luis nodded as he looked at him. "Joshua knows I’d be coming." Then he chuckled. "Don’t expect him to show up early. He’ll definitely be late."

At that moment, the sound of footsteps suddenly stopped at the doorway. Joshua pressed his lips together, looking unhappily toward Luis.

[Didn’t expect that, hahaha.]

[Joshua arrived ten minutes early! Luis, apologize immediately!]

[Brotherhood over today!]

Luis showed not the slightest fear or guilt at being caught "talking behind someone’s back." He walked straight toward Joshua and, before Joshua could react, suddenly lifted him up and spun him around, swaying him back and forth, then lifting and lowering him a couple of times before finally concluding, "You’ve lost weight."

Joshua panicked. He couldn’t help letting out a small yell, raising his voice. "Put me down!"

Luis directly tucked Joshua under his arm and dragged him along. With his other hand, he messed up Joshua’s not-quite-neat hair even more, smiling as he said, "So loud. How scary."

With that, he pulled Joshua down to sit on the chair.

Joshua immediately scooted farther away, clearly unwilling to pay any attention to Luis.

Luis, meanwhile, was smiling brightly, and from time to time he would even raise his hand to rub Joshua’s head.

Joshua kept shaking his head, but no matter what he did, he couldn’t escape Luis’s demonic claws. In the end, he could only give up and let it happen.

Seeing this, Liona couldn’t help laughing. "Joshua, you should react more fiercely. Why does even your struggling look like you’re acting cute?"

Joshua felt this was an accusation. Before he could say anything, Luis spoke up from the side, "Don’t be fooled by how much he resists. He actually loves having his head patted."

Hearing that, Joshua immediately grabbed Luis’s hand and pulled it down, sulking. "I don’t!"

Liona added, "Why does your voice sound so soft whenever you talk to Luis?"

"I don’t!" Joshua protested, feeling utterly wronged.

But in truth, the fans felt Liona wasn’t wrong. Or perhaps it was simply that Joshua really did treat Luis like an older brother, which was why he sounded so soft without even realizing it himself.