The air became silent.
Because there was no steam, the mist on the mirror turned into water, flowing slowly along the mirror surface, leaving water marks.
Luo Shixi took the towel back, not daring to look at Liang Yulan's eyes, and said with his lips moving, "Brother, it's too hot in this room, why don't we go out first?"
Liang and Lan hung their heads and said nothing, but the sound of water leaking from the floor drain could be clearly heard.
Luo Shixi swallowed nervously. He couldn't see Liang Yulan's expressions at the moment, but he somehow felt that he shouldn't have spoken like that just now.
Escape like that.
In fact, Liang Yulan was not wrong. He had indeed been distancing himself from him. He could joke and play around with others, but he was always more careful with Liang Yulan. He was not as comfortable with them as with Jiang Yan and Bai Jingzhou. Even when he was with Teacher He, he was not so distant.
Liang Yulan finally looked up, his eyelashes drooping slightly, and his tone seemed to be talking to himself: "So... was I abandoned by Xiaoxi?... I thought you... we would be a little different last time."
What he wanted to talk about was the time when Luo Shixi ran to him to announce the good news after the performance last time. No one knew how happy he was at that time.
He thought it was a brand new beginning and Xiaoxi was gradually accepting him.
They would be the same as before, inseparable, with only each other.
Luo Shixi rarely saw Liang Yulan lose his composure. He was always strong, calm, and extremely restrained. He clenched the towel in his hand and opened his mouth: "I... I'm not hiding from my brother, I just don't know how to face you."
Liang Yulan frowned: "Why do you say that?"
Luo Shixi pursed his lips. It was very embarrassing to speak out his thoughts, especially since Liang Yulan had done nothing wrong and it was he who was unilaterally avoiding them.
"If you don't want to talk about it, then don't talk about it. My original intention was not to embarrass Xiaoxi." A soft sigh came from above his head, and Luo Shixi's head was covered by a warm and dry big hand. "If Xiaoxi cares too much, can we pretend that nothing happened? Xiaoxi, just pretend that you don't know me, and let's get to know each other again."
"No!" Luo Shixi hurriedly grabbed Liang Yulan's hand which was about to be pulled back.
He didn't want to hear Liang and Lan say this; it was like they were denying their past.
Liang Yulan smiled lightly.
He looks very good when he smiles. The alienated feeling he originally gave people disappears, and his originally cold eyes are tinged with a hint of smile, making him look extremely gentle, like shallow grass breaking through stones and ice water just beginning to melt.
"Then Xiaoxi, are you willing to acknowledge our past?"
"What do you mean by willing to admit it? That's the fact that we have experienced..." Luo Shixi muttered in a low voice.
Upon hearing this, Liang Yulan hugged him gently.
He was just thinking, if Luo Shixi wanted to let go of the past, what would he do.
Fortunately, he didn't want him.
Luo Shixi stood where he was and did not hide.
He looked into Liang Yulan's eyes and said softly, "Brother... have you ever been home before you came to participate in the show?"
Liang Yulan didn't expect him to ask this out of the blue, and was stunned for a moment: "I have... Xiaoxi, why are you asking this out of the blue? Did they say something to you?"
He frowned and was reluctant to mention his parents.
Luo Shixi thought of something, bit his lower lip, and then shook his head: "No, don't think too much... I haven't seen my uncle and aunt for many years, and I don't even remember what they look like. Brother, you see, time will take away a lot of things, and it will make people forget what people who were once close to them look like."
"Will Xiaoxi also forget what I look like?" Liang Yulan lowered his eyes and stared at Luo Shixi almost paranoidly.
Luo Shixi didn't notice his expression and continued, "No, you are so beautiful, no one will forget you after seeing you."
Liang Yulan didn't say anything immediately.
He thought about it and realized that they hadn't seen each other for many years. When he went abroad, Luo Shixi had just finished his high school entrance examination.
Time does dilute a lot, which is not a good thing.
"Did Xiaoxi agree to make a promise to me?" Liang Yulan asked him.
Luo Shixi nodded, then looked at him warily: "We agreed not to make excessive demands!"
Liang Yulan was amused by him: "How could I embarrass you?"
Luo Shixi sneered: "Why don't you embarrass me?"
He remembered it all too clearly.
When he was young, Liang Yulan loved playing basketball, but the Liang family had strict rules and would never allow him to indulge in playing. During the summer vacation, they hired a tutor for Liang Yulan, who provided one-on-one tutoring from morning to night. Liang's parents were not home all year round, and the tutors did not know Liang Yulan, so he came up with a bad idea.
In order to play basketball, Liang Yulan tricked Luo Shixi into making a bet with him. If he lost, he would help him with tutoring for a summer vacation. Luo Shixi took the bait and lost miserably. While Liang Yulan was playing basketball outside, sweating profusely, he was tutoring at Liang's house, writing quickly.
There are countless such examples.
Liang Yulan coughed and avoided the topic: "I want Xiaoxi to follow me..."
He finished speaking under Luo Shixi's extremely nervous gaze: "Come back to my alma mater with me."
Liang Yulan's alma mater is also Luo Shixi's alma mater. It has junior high school and high school departments, and the two spent their youth there.
Luo Shixi breathed a sigh of relief and repeated, "Go back to our alma mater? But we can't get out now."
"Then we can go out when we can," Liang Yulan said without worrying about the present. "Is Xiaoxi willing?"
Luo Shixi nodded.
There was nothing for him to be unwilling about. He was about to get his college entrance examination results, and he would go back to his alma mater then. He had not yet filled out his application.
There was a knock on the door, and Jiang Yan's impatient voice rang out: "Were you two rushed into the bathroom? Why are you dawdling and not coming out?"
"You were the one who was flushed into the toilet!" Luo Shixi shouted to the outside, then turned around and said to Liang Yulan, "Brother, I'll go out first." There was a hint of intimacy in his tone that he was not even aware of.
Liang Yulan responded and watched Luo Shixi close the door and go out. The sound of his quarrel with Jiang Yan gradually faded away.
Liang Yulan slowly wiped the still wet ends of his hair, and his cold eyes were reflected in the mirror.
Xiaoxi would not mention Liang's father and mother for no reason. There must be something happening that he doesn't know about.
It's best not to let him know what it is.
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The top nine people in the first public ranking will participate in the recording of a variety show. Luo Shixi found out about this on the second day.
They have to bring two sets of clothes, one is the college-style uniform issued by the program team, and the staff who came to inform them said that the other set should be more casual so that it would be convenient to play games.
Luo Shixi was staring at his clothes in a daze when he was told that the program crew had prepared casual clothes.
"For me?" Luo Shixi took it flattered, opened it and took a look.
It's an orange Korean-style jacket and white suede wide-leg pants.
Staff: "Yes, the program team gave it to you. Everyone has it."
Luo Shixi saw the label on the clothes that had not been cut off, and stared at the string of zeros for a moment: "...Then your production team is quite generous."
The top nine had it, which meant that Jiang Yan and the other three had it too, but the three of them ultimately chose to wear their own clothes.
Only Luo Shixi changed into the clothes provided by the program team.
The bright orange color was particularly eye-catching on him. This color made his originally fair skin look even whiter and reflective. The whole outfit made him look youthful and lively, and particularly eye-catching. When he came out after changing his clothes, the three people in the dormitory were stunned for a moment.
This was Luo Shixi's first time to record a variety show. The van took them to their destination. As soon as the nine of them came out, they saw He Yu who had been waiting there for a long time.
He Yu smiled at them, and his eyes met Luo Shixi's as he got out of the car.
"The clothes are nice," he praised.
Luo Shixi pursed her lips and smiled, "The production team gave it to me. I think it looks good too! People who choose clothes have good taste."
He Yu nodded in agreement: "He definitely has a good eye, and his aesthetics and taste are not bad either."
Luo Shixi scratched his head.
He Yu knew the person who sent the clothes? This was the first time he heard him praise someone like this.
"Is everyone here? Come in with me."
He Yu saw that this was their first time recording a variety show, so he gave them a few instructions backstage and then let the nine of them go on stage.
This program is a new variety show jointly launched by Orange TV and Kiwi TV. It became popular as soon as it was launched and has received good reputation and response.
The host did not make things difficult for them and was enthusiastic, which made these big boys who were appearing on a variety show for the first time gradually relax.
Seeing the atmosphere gradually becoming more lively, the host announced the following rules of the game:
"The game we're going to play next is called squeezing balloons. Draw lots and divide into two groups. One person carries the other on his back. The person at the bottom is blindfolded and can only follow the instructions of the person on top. Everyone is tied with balloons. Whoever squeezes all the balloons on the other person first will win."
"There are penalties in this game. The losing team will have to taste the 'delicious food' made by the winning team. Remember, you have to eat it all."
The host doesn't set up the game for nothing. Who has a good relationship with whom, who has always disliked whom, and who will form a popular couple with whom can all be seen from the simple physical collision game.
They were all young men in their twenties, full of vigor and vitality. After listening to the rules of the game, they were ready to start.
The host brought a lottery bucket and asked them to draw lots. There were only two colors, red and blue, and people with the same colors were automatically grouped together. Because there were nine of them, three hosts were added to form three pairs.
Liang Yulan drew red, and he knew it the moment he saw his color.
Luo Shixi must be blue.
As expected, Luo Shixi really got the blue signature.
"Who's blue!" Luo Shixi held up his sign and looked at his roommate excitedly.
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