Chapter 97: Entangled to the End
Looking at the silly Patrick Star portrait in front of her, Ren Limeng lowered her eyes and suppressed all the emotions in her heart.
She didn't want to speculate on Shen Xingzhi's motives in a bad way, but from beginning to end, she couldn't treat Shen Xingzhi as a "silly white sweet".
From team formation to recording, from performance to elimination, thinking back carefully, Shen Xingzhi was able to handle everything with ease. Even the so-called "flash separation" hidden thunder was only said by Shen Xingzhi himself. The current confusing relationship between him and the agency was not something she could find out casually.
Ren Limeng couldn't help but think about Chen Xingzhi. She had experienced it many times these days. Chen Xingzhi was no longer the senior Xingzhi on campus.
The site travel rules clearly limit funding requirements, but Chen Xingzhi can legitimately earn money by singing and playing in bars, and easily solve this problem in one night; the program team has repeatedly claimed to strictly implement 24-hour recording, but in the afternoon Chen Xingzhi has a simple and single communication, and everyone has free time after the main recording is finished; there is also the first place ranking every time and the courtesy and politeness of all the staff of the program team.
Many similar things popped up in Ren Limeng's mind at random, and each one was silently and sternly warning her that she was different from Shen Xingzhi.
She is just an employee who is lucky enough on the platform.
Even though she had read all sorts of gossip in the circle, Ren Limeng still felt a little overwhelmed after the actual experience of the past week or so. The recording of many parts was on the verge of getting out of control, and many ideas ended up being in vain. Ren Limeng tried hard to maintain a seemingly calm and composed smile on her face, but only she knew that in her heart... she had always felt a little out of place.
This is not the job of a host for an agricultural channel. She has to be on her toes and be cautious every moment in front of the camera.
She was learning the rules of the entertainment industry bit by bit carefully and cautiously, and was very careful to keep everything in order, but Chen Xingzhi always wanted to "force things to happen". She couldn't act as recklessly as him, and she was unwilling to become a pendant of "Chen Xingzhi".
After the "Shan Hai" program, she and Shen Xingzhi will return to their respective tracks and no longer have any entanglements.
She initially decided to agree to Shen Xingzhi's CP hype mainly because she wanted to keep things on the right track, and definitely not to derail it in a different direction.
Ren Limeng knew that she could gain a lot by working with Shen Xing's team. She was even a little ungrateful at the moment, but she would rather not have some short-term benefits and had to stick to her bottom line.
Her cooperation with Shen Xingzhi should be over. People with different ideals cannot work together. Even if Shen Xingzhi takes the initiative to show weakness, she can't just play dumb.
Let's end it now! That's how Ren Limeng should be!
Ren Limeng: Chen Xingzhi, do you have to pester me?
Ren Limeng's fingertips hovered over the phone screen. She hesitated for a while, tapped and deleted repeatedly, and finally sent a simple and neat reply.
Her sight swept across the message sent by Shen Xingzhi again, and Ren Limeng finally couldn't help but sigh.
She didn’t know what to think of Shen Xingzhi.
Both publicly and privately, she sincerely hopes that Chen Xingzhi can be "clear and pure without being coquettish."
But more importantly, none of this matters.
Ren Limeng now just wanted to remind herself that she shouldn't ask any more questions. Her cooperation with Shen Xingzhi or anything else should end here.
There is only one purpose for participating in "Shan Hai", and everything should revolve around this goal. Ren Limeng does not allow herself to go off track, and will not accept anything that affects her. She must be able to simply put aside everything that is irrelevant.
Ren Limeng: Now that things have come to this, don't worry, Captain, I won't bring any personal emotions into the recording.
I hope you can too.
In the B&B, Chen Xingzhi stared at Ren Limeng's cold reply without saying a word, and almost immediately understood what she had left unsaid.
Even when he saw the word "entanglement" which subtly challenged his pride, Shen Xingzhi suddenly found that he did not have much emotion. He just completely understood Ren Limeng's attitude.
A more resolute attitude than expected.
But he couldn't give up.
Shen Xingzhi finally put down his phone, his throat moving slightly, and sat on the sofa chair in the room. His hair was slightly messy from being slightly wet after taking a shower. He raised his head tiredly, staring blankly and silently at the pale and boundless ceiling in front of him.
He kept thinking about Ren Limeng from last night these two days, and couldn't help but replay their conversation over and over in his mind. Shen Xingzhi suddenly found that Ren Limeng seemed to have misunderstood what he meant. He thought that what stood between them was just a misunderstanding in words, but at this moment, he couldn't lie to himself anymore.
She simply wanted to distance herself from him.
Just like the unfamiliar and distant greetings on the day they first met during the recording, from beginning to end, perhaps he was the only one who couldn't contain his thoughts because of the reunion, and the indescribable joy in his heart was silent, but it nourished every inch of his heart.
"Brother Xingzhi, is your neck...uncomfortable?"
Guan He sat on the single bed next to the bathroom and spoke cautiously. Living in the same room with Shen Xingzhi, he was under a lot of pressure and it was difficult for him not to keep an eye on Shen Xingzhi all the time.
This homestay is divided into two floors. The lower floor is the living room, kitchen and other public areas. There are only three rooms on the upper floor. Naturally, the two ladies have one each. But Guan He really didn't expect that a big shot like Shen Xingzhi would actually live in a double room with him.
Even though the cameras were completely blocked, Shen Xingzhi still stayed in the room calmly, and even had some emotions on his face that Guan He couldn't understand.
Seems a little...dejected?
But the person in front of me is Shen Xingzhi! Is there anything that Shen Xingzhi needs to worry about?
Guan He would rather believe that Shen Xingzhi had a sore neck.
"It's okay, I'm just a little tired."
There was a hint of inexplicable confusion in Shen Xingzhi's cold tone, and he suddenly looked down at his ringing phone.
Before Guan He could choose his words, Shen Xingzhi stood up suddenly, took off his nightgown, put on a black shirt, and put on a dark black baseball cap, "I'm going out for a while."
Guan He glanced at the screen of his mobile phone. It was already ten o'clock and the two of them had just finished taking a shower. There was some confusion in his eyes, but he didn't dare to say much. He just couldn't help but murmur in his heart, is Shen Xingzhi looking for an excuse to move out?
Although this kind of thing is taken for granted in the circle, Shen Xingzhi took the initiative to take a shower, and Shen Xingzhi's status does not require him to make an extra move.
“Chen Xingzhi, what do you want to do in public?”
In the lobby of the B&B hotel, after saying goodbye to Yan Fangshu, Ren Limeng walked briskly into the room and headed towards the accommodation area at the back. Suddenly, her cell phone vibrated.
Shen Xingzhi’s call?
Decisively reject it.
Ren Limeng paused slightly, but her hands moved without hesitation. Her right index finger pressed the red round button on the screen again and again, as if this could suppress all her emotions.
Until I saw Shen Xingzhi's simple and crude new message.
Chen Xingzhi: Look to the right.
Ren Limeng took a subconscious look, and after just one glance, she immediately froze in place and subconsciously looked around.
This is a large B&B hotel. Although it is a B&B, the lobby is more like a hotel style. Behind the stacked floral bonsai is the reception hall. Two rows of comfortable brown sofas complement the potted plants dotted everywhere, and the booths on both sides blend with the waterscape in the center of the lobby.
The green plants cleverly blocked the view of passersby, but Ren Limeng immediately recognized Shen Xingzhi in black in the corner of the booth. Even though he was half-hidden, his figure revealed an indescribable coolness and uprightness.
A black suit and a low-knit black baseball cap could not completely hide Shen Xingzhi's conspicuous presence, at least in Ren Limeng's eyes. She had no time to appreciate Shen Xingzhi's outstanding temperament at the moment.
Ren Limeng was keenly aware of the gaze of the reception staff not far away. She couldn't hide the look in her eyes, pretending not to see but secretly glancing over. Fortunately, there were no other guests in the hall at the moment.
However, there were hidden cameras in the lobby from the production team. When Ren Limeng was putting her luggage away in the afternoon, she saw the staff debugging it with her own eyes.
Shen Xingzhi didn't call again, but Ren Limeng believed that if she pretended not to see anything and continued to walk inside, Shen Xingzhi would definitely come directly over.
Ren Limeng took a deep breath, looked at the phone with a sudden look of surprise on her face, and then hurried to the booth on the other side of Chen Xingzhi. Separated by the waterscape and green plants, the two seemed to have no communication, but she had already dialed his number at the same time.
Listening to the prelude of Shen Xingzhi's masterpiece "Lost Dream", Ren Limeng secretly criticized Shen Xingzhi's "narcissism" of using his own work as a ringtone. The next second, she not only wanted to criticize, but was about to lose her composure!
Shen Xingzhi actually rejected her directly, just like she had rejected him just now, straightforwardly and decisively.
Ren Limeng clenched her cell phone tightly, trying to maintain her composure, but her fingers moved more roughly as she pressed the dial button again, just like her mood at the moment.
Shen Xingzhi, and still said that she was naive, he was so childish!
"Ren Limeng, I can't believe you...are such a slow learner."
After much anticipation, Shen Xingzhi finally answered the phone. He spoke lazily, intending to mock Ren Limeng for still having so many dramas after leaving the opera circle for so many years, and for having to act out a situation before making a phone call. However, when the words reached his lips, he paused, inexplicably changed the subject, and his tone dropped.
"Chen Xingzhi, what do you want to do in public? Don't look at me, just say what you want to say!"
Ren Limeng tried her best to keep her voice calm, and deliberately provoked Shen Xingzhi with impatient questioning. Ren Limeng's head was a little confused now. She hoped that Shen Xingzhi would leave proudly and not look for her. When she met Shen Xingzhi now, it was even a bit like a mouse meeting a cat.
But she just wanted to end the cooperation. It was her right. If he wasn't so famous, she would be afraid that he would "go crazy" and she would never pay attention to him again.
"If you won't let me look at you, then why are you looking at me? Aren't you afraid of being discovered?"
Shen Xingzhi's cold and lazy voice carried a hint of low calmness. Noticing Ren Limeng's pretending to be calm, he chuckled and his mood inexplicably turned from gloomy to sunny.
"Nothing, I just wanted to inform you that I must pester you to the end."
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