Chapter 39 The Little Drama Queen in Romance Variety Show 12: The Gilded Umbrella
As the dance began, the wind stirred by the movements ruffled Yun Chiyi's hair, and a fragrance surrounded them. Lin Qiao, having lost the aid of sight, had an exceptionally keen sense of smell.
He caught a whiff of fragrance, which irresistibly filled his nostrils. At the same time, he thought of the day when he picked the embroidered ball. Yun Chiyi was blindfolded, and her sense of touch was more sensitive than usual. With her intelligence, she knew who he was when she touched his hand.
This time, she didn't need to be afraid of his gaze. Yun Chiyi looked at his face with a smile.
You can still clearly see his deep-set eyebrows and eyes, his sculpted nose, and his slightly thin lips.
His appearance suited Yun Chiyi's taste, but more importantly, it was the wildness hidden in his temperament.
Lin Qiao's steps were steady, seemingly unaffected. He opened his mouth and asked, "Are you looking at me?"
When Yun Chiyi was caught red-handed, she calmly said, "Why can't I look at you? My eyes aren't covered."
His use of the word "see" was somewhat purposeful and had a perverse sense of humor, which was quite different from Yun Chiyi's nonchalant and easygoing response.
Yun Chiyi's hand on his arm suddenly tightened, crumpling the expensive fabric as she felt his firm muscles. She asked, enunciating each word clearly, "How did you know I was watching? You could see me?"
Lin Qiaoyu said, "It's intuition."
Yun Chiyi smiled, seemingly finding his answer somewhat naive.
Lin Qiao felt a burning pain as her nails dug into the flesh of his arm. He reminded her, "You can use less force."
She first pursed her lips and chuckled, but couldn't hide the laughter in her voice: "I'm carrying you because I'm afraid you'll step on my feet."
Lin Qiao replied frankly, "Impossible."
The next second, he stepped on something soft, and Yun Chiyi let out a soft moan: "See, you stepped on me."
She deliberately slowed down by half a step, waiting for Lin Qiao to step on her. She lowered her eyes, controlling the area under his weight. Otherwise, with his weight pressing down on her, would she even be able to walk tomorrow?
Lin Qiao didn't even frown, which was extremely strange.
Yun Chiyi asked him, "Aren't you going to apologize to me?"
Lin Qiaoyu replied, "If you have a clear conscience."
He slowed his pace, and the moment the music stopped, he pulled off the silk scarf with his long fingers. The first thing he saw when his vision returned was Yun Chiyi's eyes filled with tears.
Her nose was slightly red, her lips were pouting, and she stood there looking aggrieved.
Lin Qiaoyu: "Does it hurt?"
Yun Chiyi nodded, tears streaming down her face.
Lin Qiao helped her sit down to rest outside the venue. Her scheme had worked, and she enjoyed his thoughtfulness: "What if you broke my bones? I won't be able to act or appear on variety shows anymore?"
He squatted down beside her and gently pinched her toes through her shoe with his large hand. Yun Chiyi curiously turned her head to look at the action in his hand.
"Are you a doctor? Why don't you let Brother Song take a look at me?"
Now Lin Qiao knew Song Shiguang's profession. Yun Chiyi awkwardly covered her mouth and shushed, "Don't tell anyone."
He didn't care about Song Shiguang's skills in making a living outside of the show, because what Yun Chi wanted him to care about wasn't that, but rather that she wanted him to find another man to clean up his mess.
She was practically throwing the abacus beads at his face.
Lin Qiao stood up, his tall and slender figure pleasing to the eye. He said without changing his expression, "You'll be fine after a while. It won't affect your work in the entertainment industry."
His unchanging gaze held a hint of mockery; everyone knew Yun Chiyi was doing poorly in the industry. She couldn't immerse herself in her roles, but her appearances on variety shows were all genuine; it didn't matter if her work was even worse.
Before Lin Qiao found a seat to rest, he gave Yun Chiyi a small plate of fruit.
Yun Chiyi stared intently and saw that it was a plate of jackfruit pulp; she clenched her back teeth.
No, why would he deliberately annoy people?
She stuck her tongue out at his back; that childish guy who was almost 1.9 meters tall was really annoying.
So engrossed in her antics, Yun Chiyi didn't realize until the system alerted her based on feedback from the comments that her dance with Lin Qiaoyu had gone viral. Her team, with years of experience in anti-blacklisting PR tactics, had honed their skills to perfection. Without hesitation, they paid extra to push the trending topic to the top.
#SweetGardenWaltz#
#Yun Chiyi, Lin Qiao, and Blindfold#
#Who's shipping the live-streamed dating reality show?#
Topics like these flooded social media with half of the variety show content, and of course, the production team also bought some tickets to follow suit.
Passersby saw the GIF of Yun Chiyi blindfolding Lin Qiao and, on a whim, clicked to watch the live stream. Most people saw the scene where Lin Qiao was half-squatting on the ground pinching Yun Chiyi's feet.
[Are you crazy? Do you guys on a dating reality show eat this well?]
[The girl looks familiar; I think she's acted in some TV series. She's wearing a veil, so I can't see her clearly.]
[This damn married vibe is unbearable, I don't care, I want it! They've started spreading rumors, is there any supertopic to show me the video?]
Yun Chiyi kept an eye on the trend of the comments and thought that the team needed to find some new people to play the role of CP fans. It wasn't good to keep picking on her all day long.
At 7 p.m., the dance hall doors closed behind the guests.
It started pouring rain outside at some point, and the path down was all steps, and the parking lot was quite a distance away, so it wouldn't be convenient for them to go back to the villa anytime soon.
Insects and frogs chirped and croaked on the lawn. A breeze picked up, and the temperature dropped considerably. Yun Chiyi half-huddled herself, her skin turning even paler from the cold.
Seeing that he was freezing, Gu Huai took off his coat, and even faster than him, threw it directly onto Yun Chiyi's shoulder. She was hit and her hair, which was tied up, became messed up.
Yun Chiyi removed the veil from her head, and her long-lost eyes returned to everyone's sight, the corners of her eyes reddening in the wind and rain.
She suppressed a breath and said, "I'm not cold, Lu Yi'ang, take your coat back."
As she spoke, she raised two fingers, pulled the clothes off her body, and tossed them back into Lu Yi'ang's hands.
She hates people who stir up trouble and muddy the waters, except for herself.
Lu Yi'ang said, "You've even developed a nasal voice from the cold."
Yun Chiyi sniffed at him and hummed, giving a distinct nasal sound.
Lu Yi'ang snorted coldly back: "Kindness is misunderstood."
It would be a miracle if he really meant well.
The rain subsided, making it a good time to leave, but unfortunately, I didn't have an umbrella.
Suddenly, Yun Chiyi saw someone holding an umbrella in the crowd. She lifted the hem of her skirt and ran over, pushing through the crowd to see Lin Qiao with his tall figure and a large double umbrella.
She immediately grabbed Lin Qiaoyu's hand: "Count me in."
Lin Qiao borrowed the umbrella and took control of the situation. He lowered his eyes and looked at Yun Chiyi's plain face. Her eyelashes actually looked better without makeup, though she lacked a bit of allure.
He didn't reply, so Yun Chiyi decided to play the victim: "How long am I supposed to wait here on tiptoe?"
Lin Qiaoyu: "..." Didn't she just run over to find him?
Yun Chiyi was about to speak when Lin Qiaoyu relented and said, "Come here."
She smiled, took his arm, and walked under the umbrella. Lin Qiao glanced in the direction of the parking lot and walked along the eaves for a while.
The others watched helplessly as the two walked away with their umbrellas, their figures gradually blending into the rainy night.
At a spot where they were about to descend a flight of stairs, Yun Chiyi tugged at Lin Qiaoyu's sleeve and said a few words. He stood there for more than half a minute before squatting down and carrying her into the night rain.
The group's curiosity was immediately piqued. What did she say? Why did he carry her on his back?
Shen Zhouzhou pressed his temples with both hands: "Damn it, he's still not awake."
Tang Yu reached out and caught the cool rain, a smile on her lips; she always had a plan in mind.
In the distance, Yun Chiyi helped hold the gilded umbrella with one hand and hooked her other arm around Lin Qiaoyu's neck.
Great, my shoes won't get wet.
Lin Qiao supported her leg with one hand: "From now on, I don't want to hear you say your feet hurt anymore."
Yun Chiyi couldn't help but chuckle: "But it already hurts."
"Shut up," Lin Qiao said coldly.
Yun Chiyi said, "I already promised you I wouldn't choose you for our next date, and I won't be able to talk to you for a long time. Can't I even say a few words to you?"
She leaned forward, tilting her head to look at Lin Qiaoyu: "Besides, if I choose you and you don't choose me, can't we avoid contact with each other? Why did you choose me? I admit I'm a little good-looking."
Lin Qiaoyu only selected her once; all the other selections were arranged by the production team. Her words are incredibly narcissistic.
He remained silent until Yun Chiyi spoke again, at which point she tightly hugged his neck to steady him: "You seem to be in a hurry to go back. You're not planning to sneakily use your phone, are you?"
Lin Qiao's gaze sharpened; her casual remark had come true.
The timing was perfect; he wanted to go back and hear those people's voices again. Could they say something new this time?
——
Nighttime, the Lin family home.
Today is Lin Qingsheng's birthday. The Lin family loves to stage a grand performance of four generations living together in harmony. After so many years of this, Lin Qiaoyu is tired of it and has long lost patience.
Now, the Lin family relatives are gathered in the courtyard.
In summer, the Lin family courtyard is lush with trees and leaves, facing the sea on one side and backed by the mountain on the other. The rustling of leaves and the chirping of birds blend together, and the sound of the undulating waves seems like an invisible white dragon passing through the porch.
Lin Qingsheng is the main character today, the most eye-catching presence.
However, the tall figure moved through the smiling crowd, searching for Lin Qiaoyu, but he couldn't find her in any of the rooms.
His hand holding the wine glass gradually trembled.
Lin Qiao deliberately didn't come back.
This wasn't avoiding him; on the contrary, it was a form of mockery.
Lin Qingsheng was breathing rapidly. He rolled up his long sleeves, revealing a burn scar that snaked up from his wrist to his elbow, looking particularly ugly and grotesque.
He was seventeen years old that year, and Lin Qiaoyu was ten. The two got into an argument, and Lin Qiaoyu burned him with a red-hot iron chain in front of his younger brother.
He cursed Lin Qiaoyu a few times as usual, repeating the same few words over and over.
Bastard, idiot, disgrace, no different from a illegitimate child...
Lin Qiao, who usually never fights back or talks back, went berserk this day and used her bruised hands to burn Lin Qingsheng's arm like this.
At this moment, Lin Qingsheng's mind was still echoing with the screams from that time. He was drenched in sweat and struggling in pain, while Lin Qiao and Leng Xue watched from the sidelines, their eyes showing no emotion whatsoever.
That night, Lin Qiao was once again punished and confined to the basement.
When he came out again a week later, he apologized to Lin Qingsheng, speaking politely and admitting his mistake respectfully, as if the madman wasn't him at all.
Bruises will disappear, but burns cannot.
Lin Qingsheng couldn't find anyone anywhere, and only after asking around did she learn that Lin Qiaoyu was a guest on a dating reality show and had just made it to the trending topics.
Lin Qiaoyu was still as rambling as ever. Lin Qingsheng smashed a cup and cursed angrily, "Madman, lunatic."
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