Chapter 44 Summer Solstice Is that your secret girlfriend?
After everyone told Chen Xing about this blunder, Chen Xing laughed so hard that he rolled on the ground. He was so happy that his abdominal muscles were pulled. He cried out "Ouch" while laughing.
“Hahahaha——” Chen Xing rubbed his stomach. The more he thought about it, the funnier it became. “No, this is too artificially stupid, right? He can even mistake arms for legs.”
"If you want to blame someone, blame your arm for being too white!" Zhao Xingyu pretended to pat Chen Xing's arm, but his movements were so light, like a slap in the wind.
Chen Xing covered his arm and continued laughing.
Huang Canni also laughed and said, "I have to tell my team members about this. Your team is amazing. It's fun to watch every time we come."
Shao Shuxian also nodded.
"That's all thanks to Xingxing." Zheng Peiya said cheerfully, "The innate variety show saint body."
Chen Xing felt embarrassed by their praise and scratched the back of his head.
Xia Huanming glanced at Chen Xing and asked Wang Baiyue: "What happened next? Did you report something wrong?"
"Of course, once the production crew came down, they worked non-stop to fix it." Wang Baiyue said, "After all this, I feel like the live broadcast company must be sweating profusely."
After finding the source of the error, the program team immediately applied for an error report, and the live broadcast company quickly dealt with the bug. After that, no matter how Chen Xing moved, he was no longer banned.
The program team also issued a statement on Weibo, saying that the live broadcast accident was purely a misjudgment of the AI system.
Although the matter has come to an end, the image of this group in the eyes of the audience cannot be changed.
Now everyone on Weibo is talking about their team being banned, and everyone is laughing at them calling this group the "Gods of Abstraction".
If these netizens find out that they chose the team name based on the concept of abstraction, I wonder if it will become a hot topic again.
The one-hour live broadcast time was soon up. Before ending the live broadcast, a group of them gathered in front of the camera and said goodbye to the audience, as if they were taking a group photo.
Zhao Xingyu and Zheng Qi were video chatting on their phones. They were all gathered together, sitting in front of the live camera, and said in unison: "Goodbye, everyone!"
Zheng Qi's network connection was delayed, and when they finished talking, Zheng Qi's voice was particularly abrupt with the rough broadcast sound quality: "Goodbye!"
This caused everyone to burst into laughter again.
After closing the live broadcast, everyone rehearsed briefly for a while and then went out to eat together.
Chen Xing thought their team had arrived early enough, but it turned out there was an even earlier team, with people queuing at every window.
Chen Xing was queuing at the Fantuan window, looking at his phone while waiting.
Xia Huanming stood behind Chen Xing, and with his height he could easily see the contents on Chen Xing's phone screen.
What is the name of the other side... "Princess"?
Because it was the other party's privacy, Xia Huanming just scanned the name and stopped reading it. But he was still thinking about this nickname: Princess? Then is Chen Xing a prince in the other party's eyes?
Is this Chen Xing's sister? Or is this Chen Xing's girlfriend?
Girlfriend...if Chen Xing really has one...Xia Huanming felt a flash of a knife in the dark, and his heart suddenly ached.
When Xia Huanming was feeling sad, someone patted him on the back.
"Hey, Xia Huanming, look at this," Zhao Xingyu showed Xia Huanming the video he had found with great interest, "How about we take a photo like this next time?"
Xia Huanming glanced at his phone. In the picture, a beautiful female internet celebrity was sharing her photo poses with her bestie. Both of them were wearing colorful wreaths and dressed like elves in the forest.
Xia Huanming frowned: "...I know, everyone has their own hobbies."
Zhao Xingyu was staring at his phone happily, but when he heard this, he was confused: "Ah?"
Xia Huanming took a deep breath and said, "If you like women's clothing, I support you, but I don't. I'm sorry."
Zhao Xingyu: “……?”
Zhao Xingyu almost jumped up: "What women's clothing? I'm talking about photo poses! Poses! Isn't this a scenic spot? It just happens to have the same atmosphere! Didn't we agree to check in every issue?!"
Xia Huanming apologized calmly: "Oh, I misunderstood."
Zhao Xingyu: ...
It doesn't look like he was careless at all.
Zhao Xingyu ignored her phone, which automatically played the next video of the blogger. The blogger was wearing an almond-colored windbreaker and holding her bestie's hand as they took a city walk. They ran very fast, and when they turned sharply, the hem of their coats briefly stayed in the air due to inertia, drawing a fan-shaped trajectory, and then quickly fitted their legs to restore the drape line.
Does Chen Xing also have such a windbreaker? Xia Huanming pursed his lips and looked at it carefully.
He didn't know that in the eyes of others, he was just simply fascinated by what he saw; he also didn't know that when the two of them were choosing the photo plan, Chen Xing came over to look for a few seconds and quickly stepped back.
After Chen Xing received the rice ball, he continued to send messages to Xu Yuancai.
The content of their chat was simple, nothing more than what happened during the live broadcast. Xu Yuancai laughed at their frequent problems, and after learning that the cause was Chen Xing, she even sent several laughing emojis.
[Princess]: I saw that the variety shows you participated in before also had their own program effects
[Princess]: The program team really found a treasure by having you.
[Princess]: Are you really not considering becoming a comedian?
Faced with Xu Yuancai's questions, Chen Xing chose to remain silent.
Then Xu Yuancai sent another message.
[Princess]: I watched you rehearse your lines with Xia Huanming during the live broadcast. You finally fulfilled your wish.
Wish? What wish? How come he didn't know?
Chen Xing was puzzled and replied, "What wish?"
[Princess]: Stick to me? Don’t you like Xia Huanming very much?
[Chen Xing]: Yes, but he is a straight man, so we can only be friends.
[Princess]: How can you be sure that he is straight?
Chen Xing glanced at Xia Huanming, who was smiling at Zhao Xingyu's phone.
He leaned over to take a look and saw two beautiful girls walking, and they happened to be two different types of beauties.
See, he is indeed a straight man.
Chen Xing shook his head in his heart. Perhaps it was because he witnessed Xia Huanming's interest in beautiful women with his own eyes, the excitement he had felt not long ago had calmed down, and now he was even more calm.
[Chen Xing]: He is still obsessed with watching beautiful bloggers.
[Chen Xing]: And when I asked him to hype up a couple before, his face turned pale. He is a straight man.
[Princess]: Tsk tsk tsk. Forget about the straight guy, what a pity, I think you two are quite a match.
[Princess]: Falling in love with a straight man will bring you a lifetime of pain
【Chen Xing】: Falling in love with a straight man will bring you a lifetime of pain
That’s right, Chen Xing is gay, a pure gay.
There is no possibility of being bisexual at all. The lowest criterion for his relationship is that the other person cannot be straight.
Things like turning straight people into gays only exist in the fictional world. In real life, straight men will just say lightly, "It would be nice if you were a woman," after having fun, and then go and find a girlfriend.
These are his friends' personal experiences.
Even though that friend now has a new lover, the scene of him drinking and scolding a straight man for an hour that day still remains in Chen Xing's mind, indelible.
Precisely because Chen Xing is a man of strong will, when he was briefly depressed by Xia Huanming today, he immediately thought of his friends, and then remembered the fact that Xia Huanming was a "straight man", and quickly determined his position, becoming even more resolute and unwavering.
He and Xia Huanming can only be friends and can never go further.
The moment he was sure that Xia Huanming was a straight man, he had already excluded Xia Huanming from his own circle and treated him as a friend without any excessive actions.
Of course there are regrets, but it’s also nice to have a friend like Xia Huanming.
Chen Xing is very optimistic.
After Chen Xing received the rice balls, he continued to send messages.
[Chen Xing]: Now that you mentioned that, it just occurred to me that those people who spoke strangely before, were they trying to tease me at that time?
[Princess]: Huh? You just realized it now? They said you didn't react and thought you weren't interested.
[Chen Xing]: I am not interested. I don’t understand what they are saying.
[Princess]: Hahahahahahahahahahaha
Xu Yuancai started laughing wildly again. Chen Xing looked up from his phone. After he got his rice ball and came out of the line, Xia Huanming also came out. Xia Huanming held the rice ball in one hand and looked at his phone with the other. He didn't know how long he had been standing there.
Have you been waiting for him?
Xia Huanming always makes small gestures like this, which touch Chen Xing's heart more than those sweet words that he can't understand.
If Xia Huanming was bent a little bit, he would have rushed now. He wouldn't just pull his sleeves every time he called Xia Huanming - this was more polite and kept a sense of distance.
On the other hand, Xia Huanming would pull his fingers or touch his palm when he called him, which actually shows that Xia Huanming is a pure straight man.
Because straight men always have a lot of physical contact and they don't shy away from it.
Chen Xing pursed his lips and maintained his usual smile: "Ahuan, let's go."
"Okay." Xia Huanming followed him.
They came outside, Xia Huanming waited for him by the lake, and then walked south along the path by the lake.
They walked leisurely, passed through a small woods, and when they got a little further they seemed to see the main road, so they turned back and returned to the lakeside.
They talked a lot along the way.
They talked about the script, the live broadcast, the content of the variety show, and the first round of selection. As they chatted, they finished their rice balls.
Finally, they sat on a bench by the lake. Xia Huanming closed his eyes and basked in the sunlight, while Chen Xing stared at the water in a daze.
The midday light dyed the wind with an amber halo, and the water ran with sparkling waves, as if overturning the jewel box of the gods. Countless pieces of gold jumped on the pebbles, and tiny rainbows splashed in the tinkling sound.
"So I want to meet you and wait for you until my fate ends."
Chen Xing hummed his own song "As Wish Comes True" leisurely.
He slowly lowered his head and stared at his pinky finger, which was only a few centimeters away from touching Xia Huanming's. Xia Huanming's pinky finger tapped the beat lightly with his singing.
As long as he moved slightly, he could touch Xia Huanming naturally, and Xia Huanming would not feel strange.
But he couldn't do that, because he had a premonition that if he took this step, all the rules he had set before would collapse.
The water was rippling, and Chen Xing just leaned on the bench, humming softly.
"So you guys just took a walk? Didn't say anything? Didn't do anything?"
Xu Yuancai on the phone burst into laughter after listening to Chen Xing's recounting of what happened at noon.
"Yeah, what else do you think I can do?" Chen Xing put his phone on the table, changed out of his going-out clothes and put on his pajamas.
It is now eight o'clock in the evening. Xia Huanming was stopped by Zheng Qi and Wang Baiyue in the living room to discuss the three-person task just released by the program team, so Chen Xing is the only one in the bedroom.
After he answered Xu Yuancai's call, he simply turned on the speakerphone.
Xu Yuancai paused for a few seconds and said in a relaxed tone: "It's okay, I'll introduce you to a few after you get off the show. I guarantee they'll all have the body you like."
"Thank you, I don't really need it," Chen Xing picked up his phone, switched it to Bluetooth mode, lifted the quilt and sat on the bed, "I haven't made enough money yet."
"Oh, it's about money again," Xu Yuancai chuckled, "It's the same with your family...especially your brother. That brat didn't come to see you, did he?"
"What a coincidence. He just came to see me a few days ago." Chen Xing looked through the text messages on his phone. The content was still about premature love. There was no news after that. "If he watched the show, he will definitely come to see me again."
Xu Yuancai gnashed her teeth, and one could imagine that she had clenched her fists: "Can I find someone to beat him up? I get angry just by seeing him."
Chen Xing smiled and said, "Princess, this is a society ruled by law."
Xu Yuancai knew that Chen Xing was not the type to swallow his anger, but she was still holding her breath in her heart. Before ending the call, she couldn't help cursing: "I get angry when I see him treat you like this. How can you talk to your brother like this? And you are so good to their family, why does he treat you like this? You are such an ungrateful person. Even if he is cured, he will still drool! You might as well just leave him alone! Let him be a ghost fire boy! I am so angry!"
Although Chen Xing agreed with Xu Yuancai in his heart and thought that her scolding was a good one, he still didn't want to make others so angry because of his own affairs.
Being angry can't change the current situation, right?
"Okay, okay, don't be angry before going to bed, or you will have nightmares."
Chen Xing comforted her in a gentle voice for a long time before Xu Yuancai calmed down and left the room.
Chen Xing had just finished the call when Xia Huanming came in.
Xia Huanming was a little surprised to see Chen Xing lying on the bed. He smiled softly and said, "Why did you go to bed so early today?"
"Don't I have to go filming tomorrow? I need to conserve my energy." Chen Xing patted his bed, letting the quilt stick closer to his thighs.
"Do you want me to pour you a glass of water?" Xia Huanming asked.
Chen Xing shook his head: "No need."
Xia Huanming said "Oh" and walked towards his bed.
Chen Xing stared at Xia Huanming who was spreading the quilt, and couldn't help but think of the content of his conversation with Xu Yuancai today, which seemed to be all about Xia Huanming.
Chen Xing thought about it, but couldn't help but called out, "Ah Huan."
Xia Huanming didn't turn around, but replied: "Hmm?"
Chen Xing didn't beat around the bush and asked directly: "Have you ever dated?"
Xia Huanming paused for a moment, then continued to work: "No."
"No?" Chen Xing was a little surprised, "Why?"
Xia Huanming finally straightened his back, turned around and asked Chen Xing: "Why?"
Chen Xing looked at Xia Huanming, who was full of confusion, and choked for a moment.
With this perfect figure, this handsome look, and this lively look in his eyes, if he were in college, he would be the headline of campus confessions, and if he were in the blind date market, he would be a rich son-in-law in the eyes of his father-in-law. And you still ask why?
Chen Xing sighed and explained, "Because you are so good, how come you have never been in a relationship?"
Xia Huanming immediately shook his head and retorted: "You think too much. I am only good in appearance."
In Xia Huanming's opinion, he was just telling the truth.
Because in his eyes, the one who can truly be described as "excellent" is Chen Xing.
But in Chen Xing's opinion, Xia Huanming was overly modest, and he didn't like Xia Huanming who was so self-deprecating.
Chen Xing frowned and said in a serious voice: "You can't think like that, okay? You are a very good person, with a good character and strong abilities. You can do housework and have a keen eye. If you continue to belittle yourself like this, I will..."
Xia Huanming was caught off guard by the compliment and was extremely happy. He asked, "That's it?"
Chen Xing rolled his eyes and said, "Add Xiangpiaopiao to your protein powder."
Xia Huanming: “…”
Xia Huanming echoed in a robotic tone: "Wow, that's cruel."
Chen Xing: “…”
Why is this the reaction? Shouldn't people who exercise be afraid of this?
Chen Xing got anxious, scratched his head and sat up, and continued to add: "I will put chili oil in your dishes, and then... and hang those shiny things on your clothes!"
He glanced around, but couldn't think of anything, so he finally used his trump card.
Chen Xing pointed at Xia Huanming's nose and said, "I changed your note to captain."
Xia Huanming: “…”
Xia Huanming's originally bright eyes dimmed in an instant, his brows furrowed slightly, and the smile on the corners of his mouth disappeared without a trace.
Seeing that the angular face seemed to be covered with a layer of dark clouds, Chen Xing smiled triumphantly: "How about it, this one still works, hahahaha——"
Xia Huanming was silent for a few seconds, then smiled faintly: "Then I'll take all the beer."
Chen Xing stopped smiling.
Chen Xing turned over, covered his shoulders with the quilt, and said angrily, "Who am I doing this for? Who should I make confident? You want to take revenge on me, right? Turn off the lights! Bye!"
Xia Huanming didn't turn off the lights, and walked leisurely to Chen Xing's bedside. He patted Chen Xing's arm, and was shaken off in a second.
He shot again, and the person in the quilt shook again.
He took another shot, but it was shaken down again.
So cute. Xia Huanming was not annoyed, he held back his laughter and said: "Are you anxious when it comes to wine? I'm just talking, I won't really put it away."
Chen Xing had already closed his eyes and said coldly, "I'm going to sleep. Bye."
"Brother Xing, don't be angry." Xia Huanming's voice was gentle and soothing. "Didn't you say that you can't be angry before going to bed?"
When Chen Xing heard the following words, his eyes suddenly widened.
Wasn't this a conversation between him and Xu Yuancai?! Did Xia Huanming hear it? How much did he hear? Did he hear them talking about whether they were straight or not?!
Chen Xing opened it directly, sat up again and asked, "Did you hear it? Which part did you start listening from?"
As Chen Xing spoke, he observed Xia Huanming's expression.
Xia Huanming's brows were slightly furrowed, like the mist lingering among the distant mountains, which did not look very good.
Maybe he really heard it? That's why he's unhappy?
He didn't know that Xia Huanming's unhappiness came from his reaction.
Chen Xing did not hide his panic, and Xia Huanming couldn't help but think of the "princess", so he came to a conclusion: he caught her in a relationship!
Thinking of this, Xia Huanming felt extremely upset, but he still pretended to be calm and said, "It was only the last sentence, because I happened to be at the door at that time. Were you chatting with your friends?"
The other party remained silent, the bedroom was immersed in silence, and only the time on the mobile phone screen flowed silently.
Like waiting for his reaction.
Xia Huanming sneered in his heart, how could he react?
He just wanted to persuade them to break up! If his moral index was lower, he would have offered to be a mistress.
But Xia Huanming's sense of morality was there. He just held his breath and asked calmly, "Or... is that your secret girlfriend?"
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