"What about this?" She tilted her head and asked, "I heard there were many NGs on the day of filming?"
Ouyang Guang was speechless. The photos were indeed retaken several times for various reasons, but he didn't expect Jin Zhiyuan to know so much.
"That's just a joke..." He weakly defended himself, and suddenly an idea flashed in his mind, "And we don't have any kissing scenes!"
As soon as he said this, the audience burst into laughter. Kim Ji-won couldn't help laughing and pinched his face: "Okay, I won't tease you anymore." She scooped a spoonful of cream from the cake and handed it to his mouth, "Reward for honest children."
Ouyang Guang opened her mouth obediently, the sweet cream melted on the tip of her tongue, and the jealousy in her heart also disappeared without a trace.
As the celebration session was coming to an end, the production team handed them a gold-plated task card.
Ouyang Guang took the card, cleared his throat and read: "To the Guangyuan couple who are loved by the whole world: Let's give a hot performance at the 2012 Song Festival!"
Kim Ji-won's eyes widened: "We? Performance?"
"It's a collaborative stage." The PD added, "You can decide the specific songs."
Kim Ji-won nervously grabbed Ouyang Guang's arm: "What performance should we prepare? A duet? Or a chorus? What should I do? I can't seem to do it!" Her eyes were shining and her expression was a little worried, as if she had already thought of countless possibilities.
Ouyang Guang looked at her dependent look and suddenly recalled the scene when they first met on We Got Married. At that time, the two were so unfamiliar with each other that they didn't dare to look at each other, but now they have to prepare for a collaborative stage.
"As long as it's not 'Until Sunrise'." He muttered deliberately, earning a light punch from Kim Ji-won.
…
As the nanny car drove away from the recording site, Ouyang Guang looked back through the car window at the gradually receding Wojiecun. His phone vibrated. It was a message from Jin Zhiyuan:
"Stage music, what should we perform..."
"Candy in My Ear"
He typed a reply with a smile on his face. The neon lights outside the window lit up one by one, like lights lit in advance for the upcoming Song Festival.
…
The mirror in the practice room was blurred by sweat.
Kim Ji-won raised her hand to turn off the music, and looked at Ouyang Guang in the mirror, panting: "The movement in the chorus is still a bit messy."
Ouyang Guang nodded, wiped the sweat off his forehead with the back of his hand, walked to the stereo and played the accompaniment of "Candy in My Ears" again: "One more time? Start from the part where I love you."
This is their seventh rehearsal this week. Since it was confirmed that they would perform this sweet duet at the Song Festival, Kim Ji-won came to SM's practice room almost every day. At first, both of them were a little nervous - the lyrics of "I love you" and "honey-sweet voice" made every rehearsal a blushing and heart-pounding challenge.
The music started again. Kim Ji-won walked towards Ouyangguang to the beat, and when she sang "Whatever you want to hear, I'll tell you in your ear," she put her lips close to his ear according to the choreography. She usually kept a distance here, but today, somehow, her warm breath brushed against his earlobe.
Ouyang Guang’s whole body froze and he almost forgot what to do next.
"This is great!" The PD of the program team in the corner suddenly spoke up, startling both of them, "We need this kind of ambiguous atmosphere, and we should keep it like this on the official stage."
Jin Zhiyuan lowered her head to adjust her not-so-messy skirt, and her ears turned red. Ouyang Guang cleared her throat, pretending to concentrate on adjusting the position of the microphone, but she couldn't control the upward curve of her mouth.
Late at night on December 30, they were the only two left in the waiting room after the rehearsal.
Ouyang Guang checked his dance moves in the mirror and saw Jin Zhiyuan carefully applying lip balm to her lips. It was not orange, but strawberry, and he could smell it.
"Nervous?" He walked over to her and handed her a bottle of water.
Jin Zhiyuan shook her head, then nodded, "I have never officially performed on stage before," she unscrewed the bottle cap and took a sip, "Today I will be performing in front of the whole of Korea..."
"Pretending to be in love?" Ouyang Guang took over her words with a teasing tone.
Jin Zhiyuan suddenly looked up and looked into his eyes: "A Guang, do you know what is the most terrifying thing?" Her voice was very light, "I can hardly tell which is acting and which is sincere."
The air froze for a moment. Ouyang Guang opened his mouth, but was interrupted by a sudden knock on the door. It was the staff member who came to inform them to leave.
The two walked out of the waiting room one after the other, and neither of them continued the dangerous topic. But Ouyang Guang noticed that Jin Zhiyuan left the strawberry lip balm on the dressing table.
On the evening of December 31st, the Song Festival took place.
Ouyang Guang had just finished EXO-K's "MAMA" performance, and without even having time to re-do her hair and makeup, she hurried to the waiting area for the double stage. Kim Ji-won was already waiting there, her pink sequined miniskirt sparkling under the lights.
"Is it too late?" She reached out to help him tidy up his sweat-soaked bangs.
Ouyang Guang shook her head to indicate that she didn't, but the moment she touched her fingertips, she remembered the "unable to distinguish true from false" last night. The prelude sounded at this time, and the staff urged them to go on stage.
The moment the spotlight came on, all the hesitations were thrown out of their minds. They perfectly reproduced the dance steps that they had rehearsed countless times, and when they sang "I love you", Ouyang Guang stroked Jin Zhiyuan's cheek, which attracted deafening screams from the audience.
When the climax came, Kim Ji-won followed the choreography and leaned close to his ear, but this time, she did not move away as she did in the rehearsal.
"Ouyangguang," her lips almost touched his earlobe, her voice so soft that only he could hear it, "this is not a performance."
The music stopped and the stage fell into darkness. In the shadows that the audience could not see, Ouyang Guang held Jin Zhiyuan's hand.
When the clock struck midnight, they stood in the artist's booth and looked at the sky full of colorful ribbons.
Jin Zhiyuan quietly hooked Ouyang Guang's little finger: "You haven't answered that question just now."
Ouyang Guang looked at the colorful paper flying on the stage, with a gentle smile on her lips. He lowered his head and sang the lyrics of the song softly in her ear:
"I'm so tired..."
(Spanish for "I love you")
Jin Zhiyuan was stunned for a second, and then smiled brightly. This was a secret that belonged only to them. On the stage where everyone was paying attention, under the gaze of thousands of spectators, they completed the most public confession.
The first candy of the year has melted in their ears.
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