Chapter 73 I'm So Caring
The story begins after the second public grouping is over——
After solving the big problem of selecting songs for the second public performance, Xia Linxing also began to think about how to "mend the fence after the horse has bolted".
After all, for him, completing the plot mission is the most important thing.
Therefore, he had to find a suitable opportunity before the second performance officially began to make up for the important plot that he had accidentally let Shen Sibai and Xie Tinglan miss.
But a problem also arises - there is no haunted house at their filming base, so how can he replicate the classic plot in the original novel where the relationship between the two people buds?
You can't expect the sponsor to be completely satisfied with the last location shoot and then ask them to shoot it again, right?
So Xia Linxing decided to see the essence through the phenomenon——
In the original novel, the story of Xie Tinglan and Shen Sibai's budding relationship in the haunted house can be summarized very simply, it is nothing more than - "the hero saves the beauty" after Shen Sibai is trapped.
Xia Linxing and System 999 had a heated discussion and finally decided to "adapt to local conditions" -
He decided to create a "haunted house" in the filming base and then put Shen Sibai in it! Finally, he anonymously notified Xie Tinglan to come to the rescue.
Perfect reproduction of the original plot!
As for the plot where Xie Tinglan carried out the crime of Chen Sibai on his back after being rescued, humph... Xia Linxing also had a brilliant idea!
Therefore, Xia Linxing believed that as long as he followed his plan completely, the plot that he accidentally dropped could be perfectly restored!
Therefore, these days, Xia Linxing has been taking advantage of the breaks in rehearsals to sneak out and wander around the filming base, trying to find a perfect setting for the "haunted house".
This is also the reason why Ling Xiao always finds opportunities to criticize Xia Linxing these days - after all, Xia Linxing can't always get back in time. Sometimes he runs a little far away, and when he comes back, the other trainees are all there, waiting for him alone.
Fortunately, after these days of hard work, Xia Linxing finally found a suitable position!
Thanks to the fact that there were many vacant rooms in the training base, after Xia Linxing's secret observation these days, he found a utility room at the end of the corridor on the first floor that had not been used for a long time.
This utility room is also very hidden. Since no one uses it, it is covered with dust. If you turn off the lights, it looks not much different from the secret room in a haunted house.
——Xia Zhen had been locked in a secret room in a haunted house. This was Lin Xing’s evaluation after a careful on-site investigation.
Therefore, Xia Linxing not only secretly took away the key from the door of the utility room, but also took advantage of his rest time on weekdays to sneak into the utility room several times -
He came to clean.
Although it sounds... outrageous, this is indeed what Xia Linxing did when he sneaked out at night these past few days.
As for the reason, System 999 also asked Xia Linxing (because System 999 also couldn't understand Xia Linxing's train of thought).
To this, Xia Linxing replied: "Although the dusty room looks scary and has the atmosphere of a haunted house, after Shen Sibai is locked up in it, won't he have nowhere to rest?"
System 999: “…”
Xia Linxing continued to argue: "If there is dust all around, Chen Sibai won't even have a place to sit. He will have to stand in the utility room until Xie Tinglan comes to rescue him."
"But what if, when I (anonymous) go to inform Xie Tinglan, Xie Tinglan is not there?" He couldn't just make a phone call to ask where Xie Tinglan was. Wouldn't Shen Sibai have to stand in the utility room and wait for a long time?
Xia Linxing had gone to great lengths to create this scene in order to help their love grow, not to make Chen Sibai stand there as punishment. So, it would be better to just clear out a clean area inside so that Chen Sibai could rest while waiting for rescue.
Moreover, the reason why Xia Linxing had to clean it up was related to his little trick that allowed Shen Sibai to be carried on Xie Tinglan's back!
However, Xia Linxing is not going to tell System 999 about this little trick yet. He wants to see System 999's surprised expression when the time comes!
Xia Linxing thought happily in her heart that she not only cleaned the utility room, but also hid a small blanket in the box in the utility room.
After all, the second performance was imminent, and Shen Sibai still had to rehearse during the day, so Xia Linxing very considerately chose the evening as the time to trap Shen Sibai.
In this way, he had cleared out a clean place so that Shen Sibai wouldn't have to stand and wait all the time; and if the temperature dropped late at night, or Xie Tinglan was too slow, and Shen Sibai got sleepy after waiting for a long time, Shen Sibai could cover himself with the blanket he had prepared and take a rest.
Even taking a short nap first... is not impossible.
The more Xia Linxing thought about it, the more she felt that she was so thoughtful!
Especially today when he went out to check his ankle which was almost healed, Xia Linxing also saw that there were snacks sold in the convenience store next to the hospital!
Xia Linxing suddenly realized that his previous preparations were still a little lacking——
He forgot to prepare some food for Shen Sibai!
What if Shen Sibai hadn't had time to eat dinner when he was led to the utility room by him? Then Shen Sibai, who had been training for a whole day, would probably be hungry and tired and would definitely need food!
So Xia Linxing took advantage of the time when the staff who brought him to the hospital was driving the car, and sneaked into the store, bought a bunch of snacks and hid them in his bag.
After returning to the trainee dormitory, he picked out the ones he thought were delicious, put the rest into a plastic bag, and distributed it to the trainees in his group.
It was an apology for him missing some training today.
Obviously, all the other trainees except Ling Xiao's eyes lit up after seeing the snacks that Xia Linxing brought back.
God knows how long it has been since they last ate this junk food!
The snacks Xia Linxing bought weren't anything expensive. Normally, they wouldn't even look at them. But after being locked up in this training base for so long, seeing these junk foods was like seeing delicacies from the mountains and the sea!
"You guys are exaggerating too much..." Ling Xiao looked down on his teammates this time, as they all rushed towards these cheap snacks without any image.
"Besides, it's all junk food..." Ling Xiao said with disdain: "You'll get fat if you eat it..."
"How can you gain weight with just this little bit of food?" Another trainee was a little annoyed that Ling Xiao was constantly spoiling the fun. "Xia Linxing didn't bring much back either."
They guessed that because there were staff members at the hospital when they went there, Xia Linxing couldn't buy a lot (in fact, most of it was picked up by Xia Linxing and left for Chen Sibai), so if they divided the amount among them, it would probably just be a taste for everyone, and they wouldn't gain much weight...
"That's right, Ling Xiao, if you don't want to eat it, give me your share..."
"Me, me, me, I want one too!"
"Our Xingxing still remembers his brothers... He even brings gifts for them when he goes out to see a doctor!"
"Oh, that's the taste! I miss the taste of this very bite!"
"Xingxing, come and eat with us..."
Ling Xiao watched helplessly as the trainees who had previously complained with him about Xia Linxing being late for training again, became extremely enthusiastic towards Xia Linxing after Xia Linxing took out some worthless snacks, and surrounded Xia Linxing like a star.
The joyful atmosphere made him, who was standing alone, feel like he was being excluded.
Ling Xiao: “?!”
It wasn’t like this before!
Ling Xiao gritted his teeth in hatred.
This Xia Linxing is really good at tricks!
…
"Sesshū, let me tell you..."
After a day of training, Ling Xiao and Cheng Xuezhou walked back to the dormitory, and Ling Xiao kept complaining to him: "That Xia Linxing is really too arrogant!"
"He's late for training again today!"
Ever since Xia Linxing snatched the song that Cheng Xuezhou wanted to choose (Ling Xiao unilaterally decided), Ling Xiao has always been unhappy with Xia Linxing.
Especially after Xia Linxing entered the group that Cheng Xuezhou had always dreamed of, he didn't cherish it. It was obvious that his foundation was much weaker than other trainees. Not only did he not train well, but he was also late and left early from time to time!
Sometimes they couldn't find the people from Xia Lin Star even if they wanted to.
So the first thing he did every day when he got together with Cheng Xuezhou was to complain about Xia Linxing. Originally, Ling Xiao only had some opinions about Xia Linxing because Xia Linxing had snatched Cheng Xuezhou's songs, but now after getting to know her for a while -
He began to have a problem with Xia Linxing as a whole.
"Ah, why is he late again..." Cheng Xuezhou also looked indignant, "The performance is almost about to start, why is he still so lazy!"
"The performance is a team competition. Isn't he holding you back?"
"That's right!" Ling Xiao echoed, "It would be great if you, Xuezhou, were in our group..."
"Xuezhou, your vocal skills are much better than Xia Linxing's!"
More importantly, Cheng Xuezhou is also a practice fanatic like him, and will never be late or leave early.
"Alas..." Cheng Xuezhou also sighed softly, "It's a pity that I have bad luck." There is no friend like Shen Sibai... However, Cheng Xuezhou glanced at Ling Xiao and said that he would never say it out loud.
"By the way..." Cheng Xuezhou calmly changed the subject: "What about the other trainees? Don't they have any objections?"
“They…”
Speaking of other trainees, Ling Xiao's eyes suddenly appeared the group of starving ghosts who rushed over as soon as Xia Linxing took out the snacks, as if they hadn't seen junk food in eight hundred years... The words he was about to continue complaining were suddenly stuck on his lips.
"them……"
"They... all blame Xia Linxing for being so cunning!"
Cheng Xuezhou: “?”
"Originally, they had the same opinion as I did..." After all, every time everyone trained together and found that Xia Linxing was not present, although the other trainees didn't say anything, their faces were also ugly.
but--
Ling Xiao said bitterly, "Xia Linxing should have gone out to see a doctor today, but when she came back she actually brought back snacks to win people over!"
This caused those trainees who were originally on the same side with him to switch sides and all ran to be intimate with Xia Linxing!
Isn't it just a little...hiss (slurp)...snack? It's nothing special...
"snack?"
Cheng Xuezhou's eyes suddenly turned quietly, and he covered his mouth in feigned surprise, "Isn't this... not allowed to be brought here?"
When they first joined the program crew, the staff opened and searched their boxes in order to take away all the snacks, fast food products, etc. they brought with them.
"Of course I know that..." Ling Xiao replied unhappily, "Do you think I haven't thought about... using this to report Xia Linxing?"
But the problem is, he doesn't dare and can't do it!
Bringing snacks is actually the same as bringing a mobile phone. As long as you are not caught by the staff, the only thing that matters is that the government will not investigate unless the people report it.
If Ling Xiao insisted on reporting it, he would have gotten away with it, but in the days ahead, he wouldn't have to expect any more trainees to get close to him or befriend him...
In fact, even Ling Xiao and Cheng Xuezhou themselves secretly carried their mobile phones with them. On the one hand, it was to check the online reviews after the show was broadcast in time, and on the other hand, it was to be able to contact the company secretly.
How could they have the guts to report Xia Linxing for secretly bringing snacks back when they themselves were not clean...
Not to mention, when Xia Linxing was distributing snacks, except for Ling Xiao, all the other trainees ate them all; if he reported it, it would be like offending everyone in the group...
Reporting Xia Linxing would at most result in her having her snacks confiscated (although most of them had been eaten by other trainees) and a reprimand, but it wouldn't hurt her in any way. But if he did report her... Ling Xiao didn't want to be isolated by all the other trainees.
He felt sorry that all his efforts over the past few days were ruined by a bag of cheap snacks that Xia Linxing brought back so easily.
"Is that so..." Cheng Xuezhou also shut up awkwardly. The two of them walked in silence for a while. For the first time, they felt that the way back to the dormitory was so long.
"That Ling Xiao..." Cheng Xuezhou endured for a while, but couldn't help but break the silence: "Why don't you go back to the dormitory first?"
"I, I'll go get some hot water first..." He made up an excuse.
Fortunately, Ling Xiao didn't care. He responded without much strength and continued walking forward.
Cheng Xuezhou also hurried away.
However, he originally wanted to find an excuse to separate from Ling Xiao and take a walk, but when he was at the stairs, he suddenly saw a figure flash by.
The figure... looks a little familiar.
"Is that... Xia Linxing?" Cheng Xuezhou rubbed his eyes and took a few steps forward uncertainly.
He was lucky. When he stuck his head out from the stairs, he saw Xia Linxing's back as he hurried away.
"Strange..." Cheng Xuezhou didn't know what he was thinking. When he saw Xia Linxing's hurried and sneaky back, he subconsciously followed him.
Maybe, he can catch Xia Linxing's weakness!
One of them was walking stealthily in front, while the other was following stealthily behind... Fortunately, at this time, the trainees had all returned to the dormitory to rest, and no one was still hanging around outside, so no one was scared by these two people.
However, a moment later, Cheng Xuezhou looked at the storage room in front of him, his face full of confusion and doubt.
"Xia Linxing didn't sleep late at night..."
"Come here to clean?!"
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