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Captivated by You - Chapter 10




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Chapter 10

During the weekend, Mo Lan and An Xiaoluo sat side by side in the living room, anxiously looking online at the bullet-train timetable.





Chinese New Year Eve* this year falls on February 4th, which could be considered as relatively late*. Mo Lan and An Xiaoluo was currently looking at train tickets to go home to celebrate CNY.

(I call it Chinese New Year, some call it Spring Festival or Lunar New Year. So on the eve of CNY is normally the big family reunion dinner. Quite often it falls towards the second half of January)

I was curious

First go to Tongxiang County, then take the bus back to Wuzhen.

It was a pity that the train tickets with better timing have all been bought, and despite not wanting to in every possible way, but without any better option they bought the 11pm ticket for the 3rd of February.

An Xiaoluo’s company only gave her five days of vacation, compared to her, Mo Lan with her eight days of vacation instantly felt that she was a winner in life.

The two have been dealing with this for over an hour and finally bought the train tickets.

When the website showed “Payment Successful”, Mo Lan’s QQ in the lower right corner started went “di di di” constantly.

She opened it, it really was the Ninth Heavens Mandarin Dubbing Group’s QQ group chat.

Mo Lan roughly scrolled over with the mouse, then, she got excited.

On the one hand she entered the very familiar URL of the forum into the address bar, on the other she turned and said to An Xiaoluo, “Cousin,《A Look At JiangShan》have just been released!”

“Ah? So fast? That’s just too efficient!” Facing the computer with a depressed and frustrated face, An Xiaoluo was astonished when she heard, and then rapidly opened the forum, “So excited, I want to grab the front row!”

Just as Mo Lan found the post with the keywords《A Look At JiangShan》that was prominently shown on the home page, when she clicked, there were more than a hundred replies..

1L: Sofa* ~ Sprinkle flowers celebrating Ninth Heavens’ new drama~

(means the first person who commented got to sit on the sofa right in front)

2L: A drama by the great gods, too embarassed to listen without wearing headphones…

3L: Grabbed the bench by the front row! Secretly Captivated DaDa I love you!

4L: First time so front, keep your paws!

5L: Secretly Captivated SAMA, finally thought it over and decided to flaunt your rottenness?

75L: The script is not bad, but how come I have not heard of the author before?

76L: Finished listening, so oppressive until my heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys, not one of them do not hurt. I say, Su Qingmo DaDa, what role did you actually play in this drama? Were you the loyal topdog* silently protecting Mi Da, or the witness to Mi Da and Xiao Luo Bo’s secret love affair?

(Google translated it to loyal guardian. The author used 忠犬攻 zhōng quǎn gōng (loyal dog attack). gōng also means the top/giver in a male to male relationship. So I can’t decide if it was a play of words cause it wouldn’t make sense for “loyal guardian” given the line after? Cause there wouldn’t be a need for that distinction? But anyhow, it’s not that important.)

77L: So… right now Ninth Heavens’ main CP is Mi Da x Xiao Luo Bo?

78L: Ninth Heavens three big shots* have finally appeared in the same drama, have really waited for this moment, excited >3<.

(當家花旦 dāng jiā huā dàn – dang jia: to manage the household/to call the shots – hua dan: role of vivacious young female in Chinese opera, actress – big shot actress?)





With a helpless sigh, Mo Lan replied: The sofa and bench have been taken, silently watching from the back row, scattering flowers to celebrate =3=.

Opening the Ninth Heavens Dubbing QQ group which was still in full swing, Mo Lan also participated in the discussion:

Ye Lanshan: New drama have been released, didn’t grab the front row, sadness T^T

Producer-Honey Lemon: Touch my head, I also didn’t manage to grab it, isn’t it just opening the door then I’ll get it, people are brushing* too fast!

(it’s internet slang. brushing like crazy on the public forum = commenting so quickly that all you see are the comments rolling through the screen)

Post-Production-In A Flash Rosy Cheeks Becomes Old: Hahahaha, no more front row thus no pressure.

Screenwriter-Ran Ran: Just finished listening, the first time listening to the full version of the finished product, so cruel till cried.

Post-Production-Shui Shui Ruo Er: Ran Ran +1, obviously listened with excitement and in high spirits, as a result the more you listen the crueler it gets!

An Xiaoluo who was beside her, plugged in her earphones, carried her laptop and started reveling in the drama. Mo Lan 囧 looking at An Xiaoluo’s flower expression, and also immediately put on her headphones.

She didn’t know why, but when she clicked the ‘play’ button, she suddenly felt a little nervous.

This time… it was different from listening to other previous dramas.

Because, this time, Secretly Captivated’s dubbing, was a radio drama written by herself. No matter how she speculated, she just couldn’t calmed down.

A majestic BGM resonated, followed immediately by, a clear and tender voice: [Created by Ye Lanshan: The radio drama《A Look at Jiangshan*》, 1st Edition]

The announcer… was Secretly Captivated.

Her heartbeat seemed to beat faster, Mo Lan couldn’t help but adjusted her earphones properly, then took a deep breath and began to fully concentrate on listening to the drama.

“Ameng, who is this boy?”

“Your Seventh Highness, that’s His Twelveth Highness, named Chengde, he is the son of Rou Mother Imperial who was ostracised three years ago.”

“No wonder I have never seen him in the palace before.”

“Chengde, I’m your gege.”

“Ge, ge……?”

“Yes. From now on, I will be your only relative in this world.”

“Ge… why? You’re obviously not like that!”

“Chengde, the former you, would have never lose his temper with me.”

“But… ge, you have already murdered so many innocent people, why would you want to do this?”

“I did it so… you can seat righteously on the throne*, for you to enjoy the worship from all the people, Chengde, I have said before, from here on, there will not be anyone who would dare to humiliate you, even if I were to passed away, it will still be this way.”

(= Jiangshan)





“Ameng, he has departed, has it been seven years?”

“Your Majesty, it has been seven years and a day.”

Looking at Jiangshan*, the bones of the dead in the loess.

(The title of the radio drama)

It was just like unfolding a beautiful scroll of the realm of Jiangshan in front of you, and then quietly giving an account of the hidden past of this imperial dynasty.

It was about a deep love, along with being parted by death.

This radio drama wasn’t long, only about 35 minutes. Mo Lan was listening wholeheartedly from beginning to the end, it wasn’t until the last ED* song started, that she finally sensed her heart going back to where it was before. With a long, long sigh of relief, she extended her hand, somewhat absent-mindedly touched the corner of her eyes, it was indeed fairly moist.

(EnDing)

The entire drama, whether the BGM, or the CV’s dubbing, or the poster, they have all reached the point of perfection already. She believed that even the most critical listener would nod in satisfaction after listening to this radio drama.

Concise and forceful, it was really a suptuous feast especially prepared for voice enthusiasts.

Li Huai’en, Secretly Captivated.


The utmost gorgeous and distinguished voice, with every frown and every smile, made one felt the sorrow infused in one’s soul.

It is said that there was no meaning in investing in deep love*, but in this world, there would still be people who will not stop until they reached the Yellow River*, each and every one of them were like a moth flying into the flame*, even if ultimately they become a pile of bones, they would still be unwilling to turn around.

(百無一用是情深 bǎi wú yī yòng shì qíng shēn – it originates from a poem and I think that’s the general gist of the phrase. So from what I can tell, only people who have been thoroughly and immensely hurt would utter the phrase, pointing at one’s own hurt feelings and sufferings and one’s own helpless (without a choice) infatuation)
(不到黄河心不死 bù dào Huáng Hé xīn bù sǐ – idiom – fig. to persevere until one reaches one’s goal – lit heart won’t die until reaches Yellow River)
(飞蛾扑火 fēi’é pū huǒ – fatal attraction)

But, to be able to be like Li Huai’en, the sort who regardless of anything, would wholeheartedly and single-mindedly devotedly loved, how blessed.

Mo Lan sighed slightly, her thoughts gradually drifted away.

Beside her, An Xiaoluo took off her earphones, with an excessive hidden bitterness in her tone: “Xiao Lan… it’s unexpectedly this cruel, I feel like my innerself won’t be well for the next few weeks.”

Mo Lan was dragged back by An Xiaoluo’s voice, she smiled at her, and said softly, “Such a short drama, only natural that a tragedy can further move people.”

She lowered her head and struggled whether to send a WeChat message Secretly Captivated, to tell him that the new drama have been released. She hesitated for a while, but in the end she still didn’t have the courage, better to drop it.

This sort of thing… there should be many people who would have already told him? Yup, she doesn’t need to do more than is required*.

(多此一举 duō cǐ yī jǔ – idiom – superflous)

Thinking this way, Mo Lan felt inexplicably dispirited and started browsing Weibo.

Ninth Heavens official blog posted a Weibo post promoting the new play《A Look at Jiangshan》practically the same time as the release, and the number of reposts and comments have reached more than 2,000.

Mo Lan watched the fans flared up in the comments and also reposted it.

Even after thinking for quite a bit, she couldn’t come up with anything, finally she could only write something official: Celebrating the release, hope you like it~

Speaking of which, this was the first time, she could use this kinda tone to repost Secretly Captivated radio drama. “Hope you like it”, such words, one must be part of the crew, then could one used it.





Thinking of it this way, Mo Lan really felt that she’s too blessed.

Next to her, An Xiaoluo rewinded back to the start of the radio drama, then, somewhat reluctantly finally took off her earphones. She turned her head, touched her empty stomach, and pitifully looked at Mo Lan: “Xiao Lan, I’m hungry…”

Mo Lan smiled a little helplessly, she saved the《A Look at Jiangshan》radio show in a folder just for SC, then got up and asked good-naturedly: “How about eating sweet and sour fish tonight?”

Imagine sweet and sour sauce on that! I’m missing sweet and sour pork.

“Whatever you say I’ll eat!” An Xiaoluo smiled with satisfaction, then lowered her head and continued facing the computer screen.

In the kitchen, Mo Lan washed the vegetables with ease, cut the vegetables, heated the pan up, cooked, all in one go.

When she scraped the fresh crucian carp that was bought just this morning and dumped it into the pot, she didn’t know what happened, she suddenly remembered, that day, in the YY room, Secretly Captivated told her that he really wanted to try her dishes.

His name is Gu Ye Mi, he lives in Nanjing, he has sung for her.

Regarding his information, she knew… it was quite a lot, four or five times more than what an average fan would know.

Nonetheless, the closer you get, the greedier you get.

The more he did this, the more she couldn’t helped thinking. For example, the current her, right in the middle of doing something else, wondered if there would be a day, where they would meet in the 3D world, and afterwards, she would personally cook for him.

If only it would turned out like this then it would be great.

No matter how much, she did not dare to hope excessively.

Her eyebrows twitched and Mo Lan was unable to contained her laughter.

Stop your foolish thoughts, Mo Lan. You are nothing but just a little small fan, thinking about things that won’t come to fruit, besides adding to her own troubles, it’s improbable that there would be any advantage.

A favourite… is originally placed on the shrine to be adored and worshiped, even if one day he walked down from the shrine, it would absolutely never be because of you.

On one hand feeling somewhat touched at her own cool-headed reasoning, on the other Mo Lan took out a spoon and tasted the sweet and sour sauce from the pan.

En, the taste was just right.

When Mo Lan walked out of the kitchen with a pan of yummilicious* sweet and sour fish, she saw An Xiaoluo’s face at a glance, carrying an amazed turned shocked look.

(色香味俱全 sè xiāng wèi jù quán – to smell, look and taste great)

Carefully putting down the piping hot sweet and sour fish on the table, Mo Lan looked up, a little amused, she asked quietly, “Cousin, what other universally shocking news have you seen?”

Hearing her voice, An Xiaoluo seemed to have come back to her sense, she turned her computer screen, faced Mo Lan, and asked with a somewhat hollow hazy transient voice: “Xiao Lan… quickly tell me, exactly what kind of relationship do you have with Secretly Captivated SAMA?”

Mo Lan froze for a moment, she looked down at the computer screen in disbelief.

In the next second, she saw the Weibo page on the screen, clearly showed, that just 7 minutes ago, Secretly Captivated reposted her Weibo post, and furthermore added the exact seven words that she used earlier: Celebrating the release, hope you like it.

His Weibo post was closely tied to the one she just posted, except for the last punctuation, the rest of the text was exactly the same. An indescribable atmosphere that made one felt somewhat ambiguous.

This was obviously a very common repost, it was merely the same content very probably because he was too lazy to think of something else, hence he handily followed her content and posted it up.

But… looking at it, it could make people feel this ambiguous, why did it seemed significant?

This was almost… the feeling of the wife sings and the husband follows.

(Remember this saying from Chapter 7B? The original is husband sings wife follows = marital harmony)

Mo Lan stared blankly at the computer screen for a long time, after a while, she was a little uncertain, was it because… Secretly Captivated has never before interacted with anybody from the opposite sex on Weibo? What’s more, beforehand, he also reposted Mo Lan’s guzheng version of《Senbon Sakura》.

After finished being foolish, Mo Lan simply took out her mobile phone and logged into Weibo. Sure enough, the number of comments and reposts in Weibo was already almost off the charts.

Mo Lan opened the comments, which was clearly following the trend of water flooding Jinshan.

“Male god, are you and author sister having a secret love affair? (Tears)”

“First reposting somebody’s guzheng song, then dubbed somebody’s written drama, and now once again reposting somebody’s Weibo… Mi Da what are you up to? Already crying until fainted in the toilet ying ying ying.”

“Have once gone through meizi‘s Weibo, it’s nearly the same as mine all right? It’s merely a daily broken record of a fangirl ah! Mi Da what do you actually see in her?

“Male god you actually like girls who can write? I know how to write too, I’m also the same kind all right T^T, rolling about requesting for my Weibo to be reposted.”

Such comments, the more she looked at it the more Mo Lan felt embarrassed, nevertheless she firmly decided it was better to pretend that she haven’t seen them.

Reopening the sharing page, it was still full of foul wind and bloody rain*. However, in the sharing page, she surprisingly saw many Weibo users with the yellow V*.

(腥风血雨 xīng fēng xuè yǔ – idiom – fig. reign of terror/ carnarge)
(If I’m not mistaken, it means verified, just like a blue tick on an Instagram/Twitter account)

@CV-SuQingmo: Gee, I knew it, you don’t treat somebody the same.

@BaiYuLuoBoMeow: Dang, Ah Mi… you’ve still decided to abandon me ma?

@CV-QingShang: Haven’t been on Weibo for a few days, what did I see? Have you been snatched?!

@SmallNestOfFlowerBurial: Ah Mi, who is this girl?

Mo Lan held her phone and her eyes widened, suddenly she didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. In her lifetime, her posts have never been reposted by so many glistening yellow Internet Voice Circle god-level figures all at once, regardless of the reason, this was a big triumph worthy enough to leave home and to streak for 300 miles you know.

After feeling moved, Mo Lan was a little surprised to find out, this matter of Secretly Captivated reposting her Weibo post, she actually wasn’t as surprised as she was at the start.

Don’t tell me… she’s gotten used to it already?

Gotten used to her favourite treating herself well, giving her special treament?

Mo Lan closed her eyes and quietly thought in her heart that she must be insane.

An Xiaoluo had quickly sat down on the dining table, while picking out the fishbones, she unclearly asked, “Fortunately I’ve already prepared my heart before, otherwise I would have gotten such a big fright. I say, Xiaolan, your life is a bit too good isn’t it? Hurry up and tell me, how did you get mixed up with Mi Da?”

Mo Lan opened her eyes, and followed An Xiaoluo to sit on the chair opposite her, casually used her chopsticks to get some fish, then thought about it, and replied somewhat at a loss, “I don’t know too… it can’t be because I sang two songs for him?”

The opposite An Xiaoluo was silent for a while. After a long while, she put her chopsticks down, solemnly looked at her, and very earnestly said: “Xiao Lan, my ears’ happiness will all depend on you for the next half of my life, catch male god, you can do it!”

Mo Lan was stumped for words by her serious tone, after she responded, she replied a little embarrassedly: “… don’t make fun of me, all right? He just reposted my Weibo that’s all, aren’t you thinking just a little bit too much?”

Her hand that held the chopsticks paused for a bit, Mo Lan lowered her head and continued to eat in silence.

Can’t think too much.

En… can’t think too much.





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