Day 48
In the afternoon, the streets had rained, and damp vapor coated every window pane, unable to be easily wiped away. This hazy, blurry substance condensed into strings and slowly slid down the glass.
The cold grows colder, while warmth is isolated indoors.
The young man's face turned slightly pink due to the heat, and he had to change into his summer work uniform.
The young man connected his headphones and played English listening and Chinese poetry in a loop, quietly waiting in the store in silence.
Ye Lai took a deep breath at the door. The camera, stuck in the seam of the bag, would go unnoticed if he wasn't careful. He didn't go directly into the store. Instead, he followed instructions, raised the camera, and aimed it at the face through the glass.
Exclamations from the other side continued to be heard through the headphones.
"Oh mo oh mo, too handsome!"
"Why is Super Prince Nim working at a convenience store?"
"Chebai, please let me live with that face for a day!"
"I definitely made the right choice with this convenience store! It's so nice to be able to look at handsome guys while working."
The first time Ye Lai saw the man, he was 80% sure that he was Chinese. After all, there were very few boys here with such beautiful eyes.
But after guessing the other guy was also Chinese, Ye Lai immediately felt a sense of suffocation, a sadness brought on by a sense of crisis. He couldn't help but wonder if his fans would fall in love with someone else if this guy performed better than him in front of the camera.
The PD in the headphones was already urging him to leave the room, so Ye Lai had no choice but to push open the door.
"Welcome." The automatic voice in the store was full of inhumanity, stiff and weird, giving people goosebumps unconsciously.
Ye Lai wanted to strike up a conversation naturally, but the moment the man looked at him, he seemed to be frozen and started to move his hands and feet.
Perhaps puzzled by Ye Lai's discomfort, the boy took off his headphones, stared at him coldly, and then nodded slightly.
"That..." As Ye Lai got closer, he felt more and more hot on his face. He couldn't look him in the face, so he had to look around and stare at the sign behind him.
"What can I do for you?"
Ye Lai heard the other party asking softly, the tone was a little off and the word order was completely wrong, it seemed like he was a complete novice in H language.
But his voice was so beautiful. The moment he opened his lips and spoke, it was like a spring stream breaking through the ice, and each syllable was wrapped in the freshness of mint.
It is the kind of fruit wine that is not intoxicating, with a sweet taste and a slightly tipsy fragrance. Even if one does not have a good command of the language, one can still hear the symphony of flowing water in the mountain stream and the flapping wings of skylarks, and taste the wonderful aroma of the wine lingering on the tip of the tongue.
He stood: "Can I...can you help me? I really don't know what to do."
God knows how much of Ye Lai's life's work he put into reciting the shameful words according to the script. When he thought about the next plot which would make him even more desperate, he felt dizzy and hopeless.
I even forgot my hostility towards the convenience store youth.
He covered his face with his hands, and could only see the floor tiles through his fingers.
He heard the rustling of fabric, and then sneakers stopped in front of him.
"Okay, so please tell me how you can help me."
Ye Lai tricked the convenience store clerk to the door by saying that the store was too hot and he was not in a clear mind, because the high-definition cameras were all outside.
Looking at his thin uniform, Ye Lai finally felt a little guilty.
But the man was already standing at the door.
He went back again and when he came out he was handed a cup of hot coffee to warm his hands.
As expected of a Chinese, they have such high quality! Ye Lai almost found it absurd to have such thoughts at this moment.
"Very good, Ye Lai! The picture of you standing together is very beautiful. Please be silent for a while to create some atmosphere, and then continue with your lines." I heard the PD's instructions in my ears.
The surveillance brought a secret sense of voyeurism, giving Ye Lai goose bumps all over his body. The chill penetrated through the surface of his skin and into his bones, merging with the stimulation, and he trembled slightly.
Ye Lai could feel the young man next to him looking at him, but he didn't expose his nervousness.
After calming down for a while, I finally regained the feeling of my vocal cords in my throat.
In my peripheral vision, I saw a tall and thin young man leaning against the window. He raised the back of his hand with exposed veins to put on his hat, then stuffed it into his pocket to retain the last bit of warmth.
He saw his smooth chin, angular jawbone, high nose bridge and enviable skin.
Frost spread across his face, and tiny ice crystals condensed on his eyelashes, reflecting a glimmer like broken diamonds in the dim light of the street lamp.
Her lips had been completely frozen to a light color and were slightly pursed.
He accompanied him in silence. Even though they had no relationship, he was willing to accompany him in silence in the cold wind during this free moment.
For him, silent companionship is the best form of comfort, which makes people feel at ease, as if a pair of warm hands are reaching out from behind the waist to support him with all their strength, and he can find his sanity in such strength.
"My boyfriend cheated on me." Ye Lai began to act serious. He pretended to be sad and took out the wedding rings from his bag. "Why did he do that? I was the one who paid for me for three years. I even bought him a wedding ring!"
"I bought the house, and I always treat everyone to meals!"
"How could he be like this? He said that our family looked down on him, but then he turned around and enjoyed three years of my hard work!"
The convenience store clerk glanced at the pigeon egg in Ye Lai's hand. In order to seek truth, the program team said that the rings on this pair of rings are real diamonds, which were sponsored by the rich second-generation staff.
Ye Lai continued, "I won't give up! That man must be sitting in the luxurious restaurant I reserved right now, wishing I would kneel down and beg him to marry me!"
"No! I must let him know that there are many people who like me, so, can you lend me a hand to act in a play?"
Afraid that he would refuse, Ye Lai quickly tried to make amends, "You don't have to show your face. Just lend me your hand and help me take a couple's photo wearing this diamond ring!"
"Why don't you find someone else?"
Hey, this guy is quite alert...Ye Lai had no choice but to continue making up lies.
"Aren't you looking for someone with hands bigger than mine or similar? I'm too tall, and guys basically have to be taller than me to meet this requirement, but now on the street..."
The people wandering around this spot are all office workers, and middle-aged men with an average height of 1.75 meters can hardly meet "her" needs.
Ye Lai didn't dare look at him, for fear that she would burst out laughing as soon as they saw each other, so she kept her head down the whole time.
But perhaps it was this kind of bowing that made the other party think that he was really sad. The young man was silent for a while, sighed and agreed.
He agreed to Ye Lai's request in that poor H language.
Ye Lai breathed a sigh of relief. He didn't want to fail here and then find a passerby to witness him wearing women's clothing, so he quickly put his arm into the boy's right arm and took out his mobile phone to take pictures.
But someone held his shoulders.
Ye Lai tensed up.
"W-What are you doing?"
The positions are swapped in the next second.
"Sorry, I have a very distinctive mole on the back of my right hand. To avoid misunderstanding, please use your left hand."
Ye Lai lowered his eyes, and the boy stretched out his hand to show him.
The veins on the back of her hand, white as cold snow, were clearly visible, and her fingers were slender and sensual. The mole, located near the joint, above a purple vein, sparked endless speculation.
Ye Lai swallowed unconsciously, agreeing with the boy's avoidance of taboos. This mole was too unique; anyone familiar with it could tell the owner's identity at a glance.
"Oh, okay." Ye Lai agreed. There was no problem in exchanging positions anyway.
He pulled the blinding ring from the box and handed it to the boy, who tried it on himself. It was a little too big, but they angled it so it wouldn't show in the camera.
Ye Lai was taking photos enthusiastically. If he had initially been filming for the variety show, now he was a bit obsessed with the game. The hand in the camera was so beautiful, even the hand model couldn't compare to it, so Ye Lai frantically took more than a dozen photos.
"Although I have helped you, I still advise you to reconsider this method of revenge." A cold voice sounded in my ears.
"There's no doubt he's a scumbag, but you don't have to retaliate by portraying yourself as a philanderer. You clearly didn't cheat, did you? Why would you jeopardize your own innocence just to piss him off?"
"Perhaps it would be better if you rushed to the store and exposed him to his face?"
"Of course, it's best to find a male friend or relative to go with you, so that the other party won't get angry and retaliate against you."
Ye Lai didn't care about this suggestion and just said "hmm" perfunctorily. After all, she was not really the "girl betrayed by her boyfriend", it was just acting.
Seeing that he didn't listen to the advice, the other party pursed his lips and stopped talking, and the atmosphere instantly became cold.
Logically speaking, the production team should have stepped in to call a halt at this time, and then explained the whole story to the young man who was kept in the dark in a happy ending, but nothing happened for a long time.
Ye Lai put the phone back into her bag and started to get anxious again, rubbing her hands.
PdWhat are they doing?
"Are you going over there soon?"
"What?"
"Didn't you have a dinner date with your boyfriend in that restaurant?"
"Oh, yes, I was going." Ye Lai didn't know how to continue the lie. It wasn't written in the script.
The boy next to him was silent for a while, went back into the store, and came out again after about a minute.
Ye Lai was staring at the vast sky in a daze, when suddenly something like a walkie-talkie was stretched out in front of him.
"This is?"
"Anti-wolf stun gun."
Ye Lai looked up in surprise, and for the first time he looked directly into the boy's face.
It was a face like a whirlpool, which made people fall in love with it at first sight.
The other party was accustomed to this kind of sticky gaze and continued to explain his things.
"I'll lend this to you. Be careful later. Although I still don't recommend you retaliate in that way, men... especially someone like your boyfriend, can be very cunning and easily act impulsively in the heat of the moment. For your own safety, you should keep this with you."
Ye Lai finally came back to his senses from the whirlpool and suddenly found it very interesting.
"Do you still sell this in your convenience store?"
"No." The boy pursed his lips. For the first time, the cold expression on his face broke, and there was a hint of helplessness. "It's mine."
"Your own?" Ye Lai was stunned for a moment, then immediately understood.
"Oh, yes, there are a lot of perverts these days, both men and women. People like you really need to be more careful."
The boy turned his head away, his stubborn expression making it clear that he didn't want to admit it.
"Hahaha." The beautiful woman with long curly hair and heavy makeup laughed so hard that her body shook and her voice almost choked. Fortunately, Ye Lai had profound skills and did not let the other party hear anything wrong.
Seeing that the woman next to him was finally in a better mood, the boy also curled his lips and smiled a little.
“Wow, it’s snowing!”
Ye Lai exclaimed, "This is the first snow!"
Country H has an obsession with the first snow, and Ye Lai, who has lived here for three years, has also been successfully infected.
Hmm. The boy looked up, his clean profile looking like a god under the light. The pure white first snow was just an embellishment, not as dazzling as him.
Ye Lai was touched.
Because that person looks beautiful and lonely.
"You are so handsome, are you a trainee?" Ye Lai asked.
The boy nodded. "Yeah, sort of."
"Is that so? Are you planning to debut?"
Ye Lai had already prepared the answer in advance. Since he could participate in the filming, he must be a trainee who was scheduled to debut.
It never occurred to him that the other party might actually be unaware that he was being filmed.
"Debut?" The boy looked at the night sky, his voice filled with etherealness. "I haven't thought about it, probably not."
This answer was so beyond Ye Lai's expectations that he subconsciously asked why.
The other party whispered, "It would be terrible if you debuted without money and background."
Now, he only agreed to be a trainee because Li Pengcheng paid him two thousand yuan a month and he could learn some dancing and singing to improve himself.
He really couldn't imagine what the future would be like.
This is not a question that someone struggling to survive has time to consider.
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