Chapter 197 Jealousy
"Qingzi, Sister Jiao asked me to remind you to be safe during the third public performance and ensure a smooth recording."
Shen Xingzhi slowly stood beside Li Qingzi, with a cold face, even though he spoke caring words on behalf of his agent, he could not see a trace of concern.
Li Qingzi's eyes were slightly stunned. Shen Xingzhi's gaze was always on her, and he didn't even glance at Ren Limeng beside her. It was as if he suddenly came in the rain just to explain his agent's instructions.
But Li Qingzi knew very well why Chen Xingzhi came. Even the so-called agent's reminder at this moment was more like Chen Xingzhi's secret warning. No matter what their common agent Xu Jiao planned, Chen Xingzhi was warning her not to cause trouble during the recording of the third public performance.
"Okay, thank you, Brother Xingzhi."
Ren Limeng and An Ling looked quietly at Han Xing and his fellow apprentice. Their indistinct expressions became even more blurred in the continuous rain. On the other side, Fei Jingting could no longer suppress her excitement of watching the show in the front row. Her gaze wandered between Shen Xingzhi and Li Qingzi.
Suddenly, Fei Jingting couldn't help but look at Ren Limeng who was quietly holding an umbrella beside her.
It was a break in the recording, and there was no constant camera shooting in the rain. Ren Limeng's expression was a little more real. She looked at Shen Xingzhi with a hint of hesitation in her eyes, and there was a rare hesitation.
She always felt that she should say something at this time, whether it was a pity that San Gong's bet was broken or she wished Chen Xingzhi a safe journey. In short, she should not be completely silent.
Ren Limeng certainly didn't believe that Shen Xingzhi came here specifically to fulfill his agent's instructions. Neither Xu Jiao nor Li Qingzi had that kind of relationship with Shen Xingzhi.
Even if she might be being sentimental, Ren Limeng still felt that Chen Xingzhi came for her.
She could feel the refreshing aura that Chen Xingzhi exuded all the time. Even though she was always eloquent, Ren Limeng didn't know what to say in front of everyone at this moment.
There have been enough rumors about her and Shen Xingzhi.
"Are you also going by high-speed rail?"
As Li Qingzi finished thanking him, the atmosphere suddenly became stagnant. The program staff around them were arranging various things and making a lot of noise. However, the area around Ren Limeng and her team became very dull. The agent's affairs had been explained, and everyone was waiting for Shen Xingzhi to leave on his own initiative.
However, Chen Xingzhi still stood upright in the rain with an umbrella. He stood quietly opposite Ren Limeng and her group, his eyes cold and they looked at each other without saying a word.
The whole team and Shen Xingzhi looked at each other in bewilderment. The silence that spread silently was like the continuous rain in Jiangcheng at this moment, densely covering every corner around them.
Finally, Shen Xingzhi slowly opened his mouth and asked with a normal expression.
"......Um."
Li Qingzi didn't know who the "you" in Chen Xingzhi's words referred to. She subconsciously glanced at Ren Limeng who lowered her eyes, and finally nodded slightly.
"The high-speed train at 1pm, Brother Xingzhi, how about you guys?"
Ren Limeng finally raised her eyes. She held the umbrella slightly high and looked seriously at Shen Xingzhi who was one step away from her. She tilted her head to stare at him and smiled faintly.
"We'll meet at 1:30. See you at the high-speed rail station."
Shen Xingzhi said softly, and finally looked at Ren Limeng. After a very quick and arrogant glance, he raised his head, swept his eyes over everyone indifferently, and finally turned around and walked back.
"Qingzi, you and Brother Xingzhi have such a good relationship! He even went out of his way to show his concern for you! Actually... my... best friend really likes Brother Xingzhi. During the San Gong performance, can you take me to see Brother Xingzhi and ask for an autographed photo?"
Fei Jingting approached Li Qingzi with an umbrella and a smile on her face, with a clear mockery in her eyes. If it weren't for the weird atmosphere just now and everyone being inconvenienced in the rain, she would have asked Shen Xingzhi for an autograph just now. She naturally didn't want to miss such a rare face-to-face moment.
"No problem, but Jingting, there's someone on our team who might be more convenient than me."
Li Qingzi looked at Fei Jingting with a smile, and then she looked at Ren Limeng on the other side with a smile but no words, with some tentativeness in her eyes. At this moment, there was no camera following her, so she couldn't help but speak softly but with a hint of thorns.
At this moment, Ren Limeng looked calm, and it was impossible to tell what she was thinking.
"ah?"
Fei Jingting noticed Li Qingzi's gaze and immediately thought of the gossip that had been circulating in the outside world for the past two weeks. Even everyone on the show had already been talking about it. The relationship between Shen Xingzhi and Ren Limeng, which was trying to be concealed, seemed to be just like the silent gaze between the two just now. Fei Jingting recalled what had just happened and even vaguely thought that Shen Xingzhi left only after hearing Ren Limeng's reply.
But no matter what the speculation was, she was not deliberately provoking trouble at the moment, nor did she want to be used as a gun.
Fei Jingting smiled foolishly, stretched her neck to look at the distance, and did not respond to Li Qingzi's words, "The car seems to be coming soon!"
After getting on the train, the new team roughly determined today's itinerary and agreed to have a meeting on the train. The train then fell into a silent rest atmosphere, and everyone picked up their mobile phones at the same time.
Ren Limeng was ready to use all her sincerity to cram for the exams before the end of the semester in her student days, and temporarily make up for the knowledge related to Gangcheng, but when she opened the screen, Shen Xingzhi's message seemed to have magic, and it unconsciously attracted her attention first.
Chen Xingzhi: Li Meng, we didn’t form a team for the third public performance. I’m sorry, it’s my problem. The production team tricked me.
Shen Xingzhi: The negotiations went smoothly over the past two days, until this morning when the Orange Platform suddenly proposed new conditions. I said we could talk, but I didn’t expect Yao Xin to want more.
Shen Xingzhi: I was careless.
Chen Xingzhi: The bet is mine, shall we team up together again?
Shen Xingzhi: Have you not been looking at your phone?
Chen Xingzhi: Or are you just enjoying being the captain?
Shen Xingzhi: ...
Shen Xingzhi: I saw you holding your phone, don’t you have anything to say to me?
Ren Limeng's fingers paused slightly, and she suddenly remembered that she had picked up her mobile phone once when she was recording. At that time, the five keywords for selecting the destination had just come out, and her first reaction was to roughly search for possible locations in Jingchu Province.
Because it was a secret action under the camera, Ren Limeng suggested that the team members choose a place to eliminate while secretly taking out her mobile phone. The whole process was clear in her goal. Moreover, she turned on the mobile phone screen for only one or two minutes. At that time, Shen Xingzhi's team was choosing a travel destination. Unexpectedly, Shen Xingzhi actually noticed her action of opening the phone.
But in such a short time, and under the watchful eyes of cameras all around, Ren Limeng had no leisure to read the news. Apart from thinking about the choice of travel destination for the three public events, she was only nervously adjusting her hand movements throughout the whole process, cleverly avoiding the camera with the sponsor's logo pillow in her hand.
Chen Xingzhi: We are not in the same team, and you have nothing to say even to me perfunctorily?
Shen Xingzhi: Is being the captain so important, or am I not that important in your eyes?
Chen Xingzhi: Ren Limeng, your ambiguous attitude is really worthy of you!
The messages came in one after another throughout the second half of the recording in the morning. The last message that Chen Xingzhi fixed in front of her eyes was a cold word with obvious emotion still visible through the screen. Ren Limeng couldn't help but think of the cold and hard expression on Chen Xingzhi's face when he came in the rain while waiting for the bus just now.
Ren Limeng suddenly understood why during the later stages of this morning's recording, whenever she looked at Shen Xingzhi, she always felt that Shen Xingzhi looked cold. The series of messages in front of her was completely a reflection of Shen Xingzhi's mental journey that morning.
Ren Limeng sincerely thanked WeChat for only having two minutes to withdraw the message, otherwise... she really thought that Shen Xingzhi was being set up by the program crew, and seeing her full of joy while recording as the captain, he lost his temper and took his anger out on her.
Although this does seem to be the case at the moment, but...
Ren Limeng paused for a moment, and flipped through the dialog box with Shen Xingzhi again. Her gaze lingered on the sentence "Is the captain so important, or am I not that important in your eyes?" for a long time, and she couldn't help but curl her eyes silently.
Ren Limeng: Brother Xingzhi, are you jealous?
Ren Limeng only asked a nonsensical question, but Shen Xingzhi replied very quickly.
Chen Xingzhi:?
Chen Xingzhi only replied with a symbol without any words. Ren Limeng smiled slightly, and her good mood at the moment seemed to have returned to when she first knew that she was the captain.
Ren Limeng: You are jealous of my work. Brother Xingzhi, you are really going backwards as time goes by.
Ren Limeng suddenly remembered that not long after she and Shen Xingzhi became partners in college, she had indirectly inquired about Shen Xingzhi's relationship plans.
"Senior Xingzhi, I heard that after our Deputy Director Chen hosted the New Media Gala last time, he started dating a junior student who works in New Media. Did you know?"
"Um."
Chen Xingzhi stood at the side of the stage, flipping through the host cue card in his hand as usual, without raising his eyelids. He didn't notice the nervousness that flashed in Ren Limeng's eyes beside him.
"Senior Xingzhi...are you envious? I'm just a little curious about what you guys think. Can this kind of club work and interaction really spark romance? I heard that it was that junior who confessed first. I wonder if our deputy club member really likes that junior!"
By analyzing this matter, Ren Limeng was cautiously testing Shen Xingzhi's attitude, which was crucial to her next plan of pursuing him.
"Li Meng."
Chen Xingzhi finally put down the manuscript and looked at Ren Limeng seriously. The lights under the stage were dim, but Chen Xingzhi's obsidian-like eyes still attracted all of Ren Limeng's attention in an instant, making her even forget for a moment that they had to go on stage to host the show later.
"Could you please focus more on hosting and stop dwelling on other people's affairs?"
"ah?"
"The most important thing about club work is the work itself. If your focus is only on these messy things, perhaps... you should seriously consider whether you're suitable for hosting. I heard that you'd like to partner with a more capable host, so I thought you had some ideas about hosting right now."
Chen Xingzhi's face was indifferent, and there was not much emotion in his voice, but Ren Limeng still inexplicably heard a hint of disappointment. She didn't know if she had misunderstood, as it was easy to overthink in front of the person she liked.
Ren Limeng even vaguely felt that Chen Xingzhi's answer at this moment not only expressed his attitude of keeping a distance from these community gossips, but also secretly reminded her.
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