This is the perfect match
As soon as Lu Xinyang opened his eyes, he felt extremely energetic and didn't want to stay in bed at all.
Even though he slept very late last night and it wasn't even four in the morning yet, he got up without being urged. He was particularly active in washing his face and brushing his teeth, even using cold water. After washing up, he stood by the bed, stretched his arms and legs, and his back looked cheerful and sunny.
"I'm so happy! Why am I so happy?" Lu Xinyang muttered to himself. "I even want to jump into the pool and swim 8,000 meters!"
"Then think about it. You've thought about it dozens of times this month anyway." Tang Lin came over with a plate of breakfast. It was a very rich dish of egg, corn and beef pancakes with a bowl of mutton soup sprinkled with chili rings, but only the egg and corn were Lu Xinyang's.
Tang Lin took Lu Xinyang's copy and, turning around, caught a glimpse of a slip of paper under his pillow. He casually pulled it out and glanced at it, barely recognizing the poorly written words. "What is this? Teacher Ji's indenture? Did you come back so late yesterday just to try to trick Teacher Ji?"
Anyway, he knew that the note was definitely not written by Ji Rongyu voluntarily.
"Hey, don't move, give it to me! What indenture? This is clearly my insurance to be the leading man for the rest of my life!" Lu Xinyang didn't even care about the corn at hand. He rushed over to grab the note and carefully stuffed it into the phone case.
After thinking about it, he felt that this was still not respectful enough to his second half of life, so he dug out a brand new New Year's red envelope from the bottom of his suitcase.
After he paid off the money he owed Ji Rongyu, Ji Rongyu returned the red envelope to him. After all, it was a token of his grandfather's love. Lu Xinyang carefully kept the beautiful gold-sprinkled red envelope and now folded the small note and put it inside.
Very good, this is a perfect match.
"Turn around and don't look." Lu Xinyang said as he turned his back to Tang Lin, hid his precious red envelope again, then munched on the corn with satisfaction, and opened Ji Rongyu's Weibo by the way.
Swipe, swipe, um. Ji Rongyu posted the shrimp dumplings and lemon-dipped chicken he had the day before, which Lu Xinyang had been enjoying nearby. He also posted a picture of a snowman he had built himself. The craftsmanship was so poor that Lu Xinyang had to struggle to find an angle to take a decent shot, which he set as his WeChat profile picture.
There were only two new Weibo posts, and Lu Xinyang didn't see what he wanted to see. He muttered quietly, "Why didn't he send the mug I gave him? He even sent the Lei Feng hat... The mug also needs to be registered."
Although the post about the Lei Feng hat was only accompanied by a melting hot emoji and didn’t express any compliments, it still gave the person some recognition!
Why is the cup treated differently? Haven't you noticed yet? No way, you should have noticed it when you were sleeping at night. The cup is so obvious and so irritating.
The more Lu Xinyang thought about it, the more unsure he felt. Could it be that Ji Rongyu didn’t like the cup either?
Ah! Ji Rongyu's heart is so hard to understand!
"Have you got the things? If so, we should go, otherwise we will be late." Tang Lin finished his breakfast in big mouthfuls, and when he looked back, he saw that the corn in Lu Xinyang's hand had gone cold, but there was still more than half left.
This is incredible. Tang Lin frowned and looked him up and down. Lu Xinyang must have been carrying so much on his mind... or rather, he was pretending to be such a big shot that he couldn't even feel hungry.
"Let's go." He raised his voice and urged. Lu Xinyang nodded absentmindedly, then walked out the door while lowering his head and browsing his phone.
During the ten-minute drive to the set, Lu Xinyang rarely reviewed his lines or chatted with the actors he would be acting opposite to build rapport. Instead, he leaned against the window, glancing at the empty seat beside him from time to time.
He rested his elbows on the fallen windowpane, feeling the cold wind that he was usually not allowed to blow, and kept thinking in his mind, what was going on in Ji Rongyu's heart?
This is a bit too hard to imagine.
He couldn't help coughing twice, fearing that he would be scolded if he caught a cold, and Ji Rongyu would still despise him for not riding in the same car with him, so he raised the window glass, but let go of his fingers when it was almost raised to the top.
Tang Lin glanced at Lu Xinyang through the rearview mirror from time to time, watching him playing with the car window up and down, and wondering in his mind, who is Lu Xinyang having feelings for?
He stayed on the set filming every day and only had contact with a few people. If he showed that he had a crush on someone, it should be very obvious, but Tang Lin guessed many people and felt that none of them seemed like the right person.
In fact, it is very simple to know the answer. Just look at who Lu Xinyang gives the cup to. Tang Lin is making random guesses here simply because he is too curious.
Tang Lin was also conflicted about whether he should report this matter to Sister Chang.
If I say it, it doesn't seem like a big deal; if I don't say it, Lu Xinyang might really cause trouble.
He drove to the set with a heavy heart.
This early morning scene had to be filmed before daybreak, and time was tight. As soon as Lu Xinyang arrived, the stylist pressed him into a chair and hurriedly put on his makeup. They then filmed non-stop until 8 or 9 a.m. Only after most of the crew had arrived and started work did they finally have time to drink some water.
In the lounge, Ji Rongyu had just put down his computer when he saw Lu Xinyang floating in with his eyes wide open, mumbling meaningless nonsense, such as "one, two, three, four, five, go up the mountain to fight the tiger" and "I am speaking under the red flag"...
"What's the matter? Didn't you perform well during the filming this morning, and Director Gao scolded you so much that you became stupid?" Ji Rongyu spoke without raising his head or even looking at him.
But the next second, Lu Xinyang leaned over from behind him, putting the weight of his entire upper body on him, with a cold ear pressed against his neck.
Ji Rongyu didn't move. Lu Xinyang paused for a few seconds before speaking the first words that people could understand: "I'm hungry. Did you bring any food?"
"No."
"You brought it, I can smell it."
"You smelled it and asked me?"
Lu Xinyang closed his eyes and said, "Teacher Ji, you don't care if your students are hungry? You are not like a teacher at all."
"You are not like my student at all. You don't pay the tuition and still eat and take away the money." Ji Rongyu pushed his head that was pressing on his shoulder away a little, and pushed it away twice.
"I gave you a gift, I gave you... um, a Lantern Festival gift." He originally wanted to say that I gave you a cup I made, but he hoped that Ji Rongyu would find it by himself instead of being reminded by him, which would be so boring, so he held back and didn't say it.
"Did you really not bring me any delicious food? Director Gao said I could eat normally after these two days of filming. I don't believe you don't remember." Lu Xinyang took out Ji Rongyu's decorative glasses, which he hadn't touched for several days, from the box, held them up in front of his eyes like a magnifying glass, tilted his head and leaned closer to Ji Rongyu to examine him carefully, "Let me see if you are lying to me."
Ji Rongyu retreated significantly and immediately took out a hot barbecued pork bun from his coat pocket and quickly placed it on Lu Xinyang's head as if his hand was scalded.
Xuan Bai's bun pressed down his black hair, and Lu Xinyang's head also looked soft.
"Hehe, thank you, I knew you were the best to me." Lu Xinyang held the barbecued pork buns in both hands and happily ate himself back to human form. He no longer stuck to Ji Rongyu like a ball of plasticine, then rubbed his ears and went to the side to change clothes for the next scene.
But Tang Lin thought he was still here, so he went to buy him a bottle of cough syrup. When he opened the door, he didn't see anyone, but he saw a cup of hot water on Ji Rongyu's table.
The upper half of the cup is green, with two chickens and a small turtle painted on it, and the lower half is blue, with a mosquito coil sun painted on it.
Because Lu Xinyang couldn't draw a perfect circle, he tried to draw it in circles with lines, and then painted seven or eight vertical lines on the side. This is the perfect sun.
Tang Lin stared at the cup for a long time, almost dumbfounded, but still couldn't believe it and asked, "Teacher Ji, this... is this your new cup?"
Ji Rongyu seemed to have not expected him to show up at this time. He subconsciously stretched out his hand to block the cup. After calming himself down, he nodded as if nothing had happened.
"This pattern looks quite unique...but..." Tang Lin tentatively observed his expression, "It doesn't seem like something you would like?"
"Compared to the Lei Feng hat, it's much better." Ji Rongyu completely avoided the topic of whether he liked it or not.
“…That’s true.”
Tang Lin didn't see anything special on his face, and felt a little relieved. Thinking about it carefully, although there are few male authors who write BL novels, not all of them are gay.
Even if it is, it doesn’t necessarily mean that you can like Lu Xinyang!
But he still felt very complicated. He turned around and found Lu Xinyang. After the makeup artist packed up and left, he asked directly, "Did you give the cup to Teacher Ji?"
Lu Xinyang said, "Yes."
"Did he use it? Did you see him use it?" Lu Xinyang pressed the corners of his mouth, trying to appear less cheerful. "Well, he used it well."
"What's good about that?! I'm telling you, you're not really going to be gay, are you? Are you in love with..." Tang Lin suddenly shut up and pointed towards the next room, "You're in love with someone, right?"
"Huh?" Lu Xinyang looked even more surprised than him. "How can giving a cup mean you like it?"
"You care about him so much, and giving him one gift wasn't enough, so you gave him a second one. Even if others didn't like the gift you gave them before, I've never seen you take the trouble to give them a replacement gift!"
It seems that he has never given her a replacement gift, but... "That was just a hat and a cup. Does that mean he likes her? That's impossible!"
Lu Xinyang didn't seem to take it seriously at all: "I just think Ji Rongyu is good-looking, and looking at him more makes me feel good. This is not called liking, right?"
"Besides, don't those novels and TV dramas say that when you like someone, your heart itches. I... I..." Lu Xinyang thought seriously for a moment, "I've seen him coughing a lot lately, so my condition is just an itchy lung!"
The more he thought about it, the more he felt his point was made: "Look at those TV shows and movies. They always have fate guiding them when they fall in love with someone. For example, fireworks are set off when they look at each other, or it snows when they walk on the road. Do we have that? Absolutely not!"
"Everything in that TV show is fake! Wasn't that snow scene on the mountain this morning made of foam? You saw it all, how could you still believe it?" Tang Lin felt that Lu Xinyang was really sick. "No, do you really have to have such high standards for love? If there is no one to help you set off fireworks in life, will you close your heart and lock away your love?"
Lu Xinyang glanced at him and said, "You've never liked anyone before, so how do you know that there won't be someone to help you set off fireworks when you feel itchy?"
"I……"
Tang Lin was choked. Lu Xinyang's confident and eloquent words only made him hesitate. "Anyway, what you're saying is that you don't have that feeling towards... um, um? Are you sure? Are you really just close friends?"
"We're really good friends, and of course there's a bit of teacher-student camaraderie involved," Lu Xinyang took the bottle of cough syrup and poured himself a small cup. "There's also a bit of solidarity and friendship, of helping each other. He feeds me delicious food, and we even raise two chicken sons and a turtle daughter together..."
Lu Xinyang was busy counting the relationship between him and Ji Rongyu, while Tang Lin beside him had a toothache expression on his face.
It feels weirder the more I listen...
Do you need fate to guide your love for someone? What a lame excuse.
When Lu Xinyang first met Ji Rongyu, he said that Ji Rongyu was suitable for turning him gay. If we believe in fate's guidance, shouldn't we also believe in fate's predictions? What if that casual remark of his has come true?
Lu Xinyang had no idea what Tang Lin was mumbling in his heart. He was preparing for the next drunken scene, an area in which he had no experience. After asking the director and Wen Zhuo for their opinions, he opened a bottle of wine and started drinking.
After a few drinks and a slight tipsiness, the filming was over. Lu Xinyang let Tang Lin go first and secretly pulled Ji Rongyu aside and whispered, "Today is the Lantern Festival. There are activities at the scenic spot tonight. Do you want to go together?"
Ji Rongyu smelled the faint smell of alcohol on him: "Are you not drunk?"
Lu Xinyang shook his head: "Only three cups."
"It's almost nine o'clock. You got up so early today, why don't you go back and get some more sleep."
"No rest." Lu Xinyang continued to shake his head.
Ji Rongyu glanced at him again, then wrapped the scarf he had just taken off back around his neck and said, "Let's go."
Lu Xinyang chuckled and said, "I bought the tickets yesterday."
After filming in this scenic area for so long, he never even went in through the main gate to have some fun. Now that it's a rare opportunity to encounter the Lantern Festival, Lu Xinyang is thinking about it.
The two of them walked all the way to the scenic area. When they were about to enter, Lu Xinyang took out a woolen hat and a mask to equip himself. Ji Rongyu exhaled white mist and said, "No one can recognize who you are yet, and you're so eager to live the life of a big star?"
"No," Lu Xinyang argued, "I just feel cold. Oh, this damn weather is really too cold."
Ji Rongyu said "Oh" and was about to say something, but suddenly shut up.
This scenic spot is hidden in the mountains and forests. It takes several hours to get there by bus from the city, and the transportation is very inconvenient. Although the natural scenery is beautiful, it has never been very lively.
The Lantern Festival was held at night, and the green mountains and blue lakes in the daytime lost their color. The crude wholesale scenery was not exciting, and the singing and dancing performances were mediocre. The two simply walked around in a circle and walked away, at least their ears could have some peace and quiet.
Perhaps Lu Xinyang also felt that the lantern festival was boring. He didn't know when it started, but he stopped talking.
Ji Rongyu walked in the cold wind for a long time with his hands in his pockets, unable to figure out why he agreed to come.
The warm yellow street lights quietly illuminated the bluestone road. At the bend, a young couple with a child let the child ride on a little swan stone sculpture for a photo. Just as Ji Rongyu was about to stop, Lu Xinyang raised his hand and gave him a push.
Ji Rongyu staggered, and then a white light flashed in front of him, and the two of them took a tourist photo of the child together.
Ji Rongyu: “…”
The young couple smiled at them very kindly. Lu Xinyang took off his mask, ignored Ji Rongyu's gaze, and forcibly took his arm and dragged him, and took another selfie with someone else.
"Are you drunk?" Ji Rongyu pulled hard for a long time before he pulled his arm free. Lu Xinyang screamed "Ah", and after his arms were empty, he couldn't stand steadily. He opened his arms and threw himself on Ji Rongyu.
"...It seems so." Ji Rongyu said.
He knew that the three cups Lu Xinyang mentioned were for drinking to get into the right mood before the actual filming. In fact, he drank quite a bit during the eight-hour filming process. If a shot was not done well and had to be started over, Lu Xinyang would have to fill his cup and drink from the beginning.
Although the alcohol content was not high, it was enough to make him drunk.
"I must have been crazy to run out with you. You... forget it, just sit there and sober up. I'll go buy you some hangover medicine." Ji Rongyu looked around, a little unsure. "I'll see where to buy it... Hey, don't move! Sit down!"
He didn't know that Lu Xinyang was even harder to deal with than sticky candy after getting drunk. After he finally managed to pull one hand away, he raised the other hand and hooked it around his neck, as if he was marking his territory. The moist air exhaled from his mouth and nose made Ji Rongyu's back feel hot.
Ji Rongyu held his breath and tore off his scarf, then remembered that drunk people were prone to catching colds, so he turned around and tied the scarf around Lu Xinyang's neck.
Lu Xinyang held his shoulders with both hands, his eyelids opening and closing for a long time but still not completely closing. He looked up for a while with hazy eyes, stretched out his hand and pointed to the sky: "Hey, look, look at that, it has changed... Yeah, it has changed..."
"What?" The moon could not be seen from their direction, but Ji Rongyu looked up following his finger and found that the sky was cloudless tonight, and more than a dozen stars were clearly hanging in the sky, bright enough to illuminate people's thoughts and make them clear.
"Look, it's getting bigger, all of a sudden, it's getting bigger, like, um..." Lu Xinyang struggled to describe what he saw to him, "It's like the stars are blooming, and then, and bearing fruit..."
Ji Rongyu suddenly stopped rushing to buy hangover medicine and asked, "What flowers and fruits?"
"Bloom... No. 1 in acting, Best Newcomer, Best Performance... Best Actor! Haha... And uh... Best ratings, Most Popular... And yours, your Best Novel, Best Screenwriter, you're still the most popular of our crew..."
Lu Xinyang was staggering and mumbling incoherently. Ji Rongyu estimated his weight and thought that it was still far from where he could buy the medicine. He was in no hurry and simply pulled his arm to hold him tighter to himself.
"Forget it, come with me. I don't dare to leave you behind."
Ji Rongyu relied on his sense of direction to choose a fork in the road and walked forward. Lu Xinyang originally lowered his head to count who took the left foot first and who took the right foot first. As they walked, their pace was completely consistent and there was no need to count anymore. He looked up at his stars again.
The twinkling starlight gradually dimmed in his eyes, getting closer and closer to them. Soon, his face felt a little cool and wet. He tilted his head to look at the person who was dragging him forward. There was also something light and crystal clear on that person's face and eyebrows.
Lu Xinyang blinked, as if he was still drowsy, but also as if he suddenly woke up for a moment.
After the stars' blooming period ended, snow fell from the sky.
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