Chapter 26 (Dividing the Rosary)

There were so many unexpected surprises tonight.

The crew was very happy with the results!

Guo Bing gathered writer Liu and the others around the table for a boxed lunch and a chat about the emotional direction of the next Red and Blue Lodge.

A whiteboard was placed in front of them, and they wrote down the names of all eight people, just like the Variety reviewers.

Only this time, instead of being divided into red and blue groups, the eight names form an octagon, which can be linked at random.

“Let’s start with the easiest one, Huo Cheng , Yan Zhi , both of them like Di Xingchen , is that OK with you?”

Everyone nods their heads.

” Wen Nuo …… I think he likes Di Xingchen too, right?”

Wen Nuo was a marginal figure, not a priority, and was quickly skipped over.

” What about Duan Yihua?”

“He must have made a huge difference to Di Xingchen today!”

“But all things considered, his arrows have always been more in favour of Huo Cheng, who is around his age, right?”

“Yes, and I think they’ve changed their minds about Huo Cheng after the last drink.”

” Lin Qingning …… I think it’s Huo Cheng too.”

“I think Lin Qingning would write about Pei Xu. He’s always looked at Pei Xu in a complicated way, in a way that his reason tells him to stay away but his emotions are out of control, and today he’s the one who took the initiative to go over and give Pei Xu a leg press.”

In the end, the consensus was that he liked Pei Xu best.

“Hu Ying …… is a bit of a sea king, and a bit of a matchmaker. Before he was closer to Yan Zhi, now he is closer to Di Xingchen.”

But everyone still thinks he likes Yan Zhi best, after all, his previous arrows to Yan Zhi were so thick that everyone knew it.

Next up is the main event, the two most head-scratching.

Pei Xu and Di Xingchen.

One is indifferent to everyone, and even the line with Di Xingchen is a guess by the programme team and has not yet been confirmed.

One is good to everyone, and it feels like the choice could be anyone’s.

” Pei Xu should like Di Xingchen. He even went to school, although it was just a chat, nothing ambiguous.”

“I think it’s Di Xingchen too, he’s such an aloof person, it speaks volumes that he took the initiative to go to the Central Dance Academy.”

“It’s definitely Di Xingchen, not that he’s interested in Di Xingchen anymore, but out of the other seven guests, if he had to choose one, he’d pick Di Xingchen without even thinking about it.”

This was inexplicably uplifting for everyone to hear.

Yes, Pei Xu is either one person or no one, and if he has to choose, it’s only possible to choose Di Xingchen.

“Here comes the hardest one.” Guo Bing circles Di Xingchen’s name.

The name has been surrounded by arrows.

“Who will he pick for his date tomorrow?”

“It’s not hard, I think he’ll go for Duan Yihua. He hasn’t had a chance to get to know Duan Yihua better since the first issue was texted to him.”

“I think he’s going to go for Hu Ying, don’t you think it’s a bit strange that he sent the first issue to Duan Yihua? He and Duan Yihua haven’t had any flirty interactions, and there’s no spark between them.” “I also think he’ll send it to Hu Ying, he and Hu Ying just seemed so in tune with each other.”

Guo Bing then gave the line from Di Xingchen to Hu Ying.

A group of people put down their chopsticks and looked at the connecting lines on the drawing board.

Guo Bing threw the marker: “A pair of mutual arrows are not even available!” “The most eye-catching part of the romance variety is the repair field, one steals many, this is just the beginning, it may not be a good thing for the CP to be set too early!”

“The point is that there are still a lot of people who haven’t seen Di Xingchen dance. I don’t know what they’ll do when they’ve all seen it, especially Huo Cheng!”

“Yeah, the big move hasn’t even been released yet!”

Di Xingchen ponders for a moment.

He decided to invite Hu Ying.

He made this choice because he felt that Hu Ying was the easiest breakthrough of the four Red Square fan alternatives.

And the two of them have the best relationship and are becoming more and more like good sisters.

After writing the invitation card, it was time to send it to Hu Ying unobtrusively.

Di Xingchen thought about it and came up with a great idea.

The roses he had bought had not yet been delivered to their respective rooms.

He then went upstairs on the pretext of sending flowers.

Duan Yihua and Lin Qingning were both chatting in the living room when they saw Di Xingchen coming up and Duan Yihua smiled and asked, “Have you finished your massage?”

Di Xingchen nodded as he handed them some of the flowers and asked, ” Where is Hu Ying?”

“Just went to my room.”

Perfect timing.

Di Xingchen knocked on Hu Ying’s door and heard Hu Ying say from inside, “Come in.”

He pushed the door open and saw Hu Ying applying a face mask.

Hu Ying smiled when he saw the roses in his arms, then asked in a low voice, “Did you give them to Brother Duan?”

As a good friend, he also had to assist Di Xingchen.

Friendship in a love story is sometimes more heartwarming than love.

Helping each other, standing in line, no sparks and no competition between each other.

Di Xingchen said, “It’s just been given to him.”

Hu Ying lifted the mask from his face and smiled, looking down and smelling the roses in his arms, “It smells so good.”

Di Xingchen said, “There’s a card inside.”

Hu Ying froze for a moment, picked up the card and looked at it, then looked up at Di Xingchen.

Because the camera was filming, he only gave a surprised expression and then raised an eyebrow.

“I’ll see you tomorrow.” Di Xingchen said, “I’ll go and deliver it to the others.”

Di Xingchen said this and came out of Hu Ying’s room and went to Wen Nuo’s room.

But Wen Nuo is not in the room.

He went downstairs and found Wen Nuo alone in the kitchen, scrubbing the sink.

He was thin and slim and not very tall, and somehow, alone, his back looked very lost and pathetic.

” Wen Nuo .”

Wen Nuo looked back at him and stood up straight.

“I just put the roses on your desk.” He said.

Wen Nuo nods his head.

“Haven’t we already scrubbed it once, we don’t need to do it again.”

Wen Nuo says: “I have nothing to do anyway.”

” Brother Duan, aren’t they upstairs talking? Why aren’t you with them?”

After asking this question, Di Xingchen regrets a little that Wen Nuo must have come down because he couldn’t talk to Duan Yihua.

A feeling of pity came over him, “But it’s good you’re here, so you can help me deliver the flowers to Brother Huo and Brother Yan.”

Wen Nuo froze for a moment and asked, “Don’t you deliver it yourself?”

“I want to go to the toilet, you can deliver it for me.” Di Xingchen said and gave him the rose.

Wen Nuo’s heart warmed as he knew Di Xingchen was looking after him.

He finds it ridiculous that he has to come into the kitchen alone to wipe things up for a variety show. But Duan Yihua and Lin Qingning are very nice people, but their conversations are so highbrow that he is uncomfortable just sitting around and listening.

He is most at ease in the presence of Di Xingchen.

He then sent the roses to Huo Cheng and Yan Zhi.

Di Xingchen came back to his room and headed for the bathroom.

When I pushed the door in, I saw that Pei Xu was inside.

Pei Xu must have just had a shower and is looking down as he wipes the water with a towel.

Holy fuck.

Di Xingchen just felt his whole body burned, so he hurriedly closed the door and got out.

Fuck me, fuck me, fuck me, what’s going on.

Pei Xu, how did this bath turn out?

But none of this is the point.

The point is jjwxc the male lead is too much of a Tong family!

When it was asleep it was already magnificent, but I didn’t expect it to be so powerful when it woke up.

He raised his hand to look at his fine white wrist.

Ah.

Low self-esteem.

Di Xingchen stood dumbfounded for a while, he was really shocked, he didn’t even know what to say.

Just then, Wen Nuo suddenly walked in.

“Here’s another bunch, is it for Brother Pei?” Wen Nuo asked.

Di Xingchen cleared his throat, “Well, he’s in the shower, give it to him later.”

Di Xingchen beckons Wen Nuo to come to his room.

Although he didn’t know why Pei Xu was like this after the massage, he felt it was better to give Pei Xu some personal space at this time.

Wen Nuo glanced in the direction of the bathroom and thought, “Why is everyone in the shower at this time of day?

Yan Zhi was in the shower when he went to his room.

When I went to Huo Cheng’s room, Huo Cheng had just finished his shower.

Even Pei Xu is taking a bath now.

He heads for Di Xingchen’s bedroom, but Di Xingchen suddenly walks towards the camera in the small living room, then picks up the shirt Pei Xu often uses to cover the camera and covers it up.

The programme crew next door straightened up: “It’s true that those who are close to the vermilion are red and those who are close to the ink are black, how come Di Xingchen has also learned the same thing as Young Master Pei!”

“You can build it, but is there a reason? Why did you cover it? What just happened in the bathroom?”

“I always felt that Di Xingchen had a strange look on his face.”

They thought it was Di Xingchen who had gone in and bumped into Pei Xu in the shower, so they rushed out.

Pei Xu glanced in the mirror, which was still misted with water and did not shine clearly, but he could still see his red face.

The black and white eyes all seem to have a slight red tinge to them.

He actually didn’t know what was wrong with him, his mind was really clean for a while, he didn’t think about anything, but his body kept numbly in this state after the bath, no matter what, he just couldn’t return to his normal state. Maybe his body was too full of energy after being frozen for more than 20 years.

I wonder what Di Xingchen will think of him.

He reached out to wipe the water mist off the mirror, revealing a face of his magnificent declining face, a cold face that seemed to be smothered in hot water, with features that were still as cool as ever, but at the moment had completely changed in feel.

When he entered Di Xingchen’s room, Wen Nuo was so overwhelmed that he forgot to put down the roses in his hand.

“Sit.” Di Xingchen said.

Wen Nuo sits down with a rose in his arms and purses his lips.

Di Xingchen’s room smells like Di Xingchen, it’s very light but very nice.

Di Xingchen picked up the mineral water on the table, unscrewed it and took a couple of sips, turned his head to look at Wen Nuo and saw that Wen Nuo looked a bit at a loss and his heart sank.

“Tomorrow you can teach me how to make a cake, I’ve heard it’s all the rage on the internet these days.” Di Xingchen said, “You can teach me first, and then we can do it together tomorrow.”

Wen Nuo nods his head.

He can finally show a bit.

In fact, apart from the excitement of his first day in the Red and Blue Lodge, Wen Nuo soon realised his marginality. The feeling that he didn’t fit in with the show grew stronger and stronger, and he didn’t have the sunny and confident personality of Di Xingchen, so he was stuck in a very awkward position.

It was extremely embarrassing for a man of his character to show such a distressed and silent side on camera, and he had been anxious for the past two days.

So touched was he even by Di Xingchen’s kindness, his eyes were red and he smiled at Di Xingchen.

When he smiled like that, Di Xingchen lowered his voice and said, “Did you find it hard to record this show?”

Wen Nuo nods a little and smiles shyly again, but as he does so, his own defences break first, his eyes are moist, and he feels ashamed to be crying in front of the camera, so he hangs his head and looks a bit frazzled.

Di Xingchen talks to Wen Nuo in a whisper that is barely audible to the crew, he is very comforting and puts himself in the same position as the other person, using the word “we”.

The two of them would have been the only two true vegetarians in the red and blue hut.

He taught Wen Nuo not to be nervous, telling him that as long as he didn’t make mistakes and didn’t annoy the audience, it was a victory for them as instrumentalists.

He also told him not to be afraid, saying that there was always an audience for his type.

He assures Wen Nuo that there may not be many people who like him, but certainly no one who hates him.

“Look, if you think about it this way, isn’t every additional person who likes us, we’ve made a profit? The Red and Blue Signal has such a big audience, a million viewers, even if only one percent of them like us, that’s still 10,000 people. You’re so good, you just need to be yourself and a lot of people will like you, if you don’t believe me we’ll see.”

Wen Nuo shakes his head and smiles, “I’m not that good.”

But he felt that Di Xingchen was sincere in what he said and that Di Xingchen really thought he was good.

Di Xingchen is the sun that this programme gives him, and with him shining, even just a little, on him, he is not cold.

And for some reason, the thought popped up and he wanted to cry even more.

Inexplicable.

It seems that human feelings are uncontrollable, that some tears are destined to be shed, and that some people that one adores are not destined to be with oneself.

He accidentally crushed all the roses in his arms, and a few petals fell, staining his tears.

He was embarrassed and didn’t know what he was crying about.

Maybe it’s too much pressure for vegetarians to be on TV.

Fear, overwhelm, anxiety, fear of being left in an awkward situation, and fear of not performing well and being scolded by the internet.

Di Xingchen was about to reassure him when he suddenly saw Pei Xu pass by his room in his pyjamas and glance in.

There was a slight awkwardness in the four eyes.

” Brother Pei .” Di Xingchen called, “Wait a minute.”

Wen Nuo realised what he was going to say and stood up immediately, only to look down at the roses in his arms, all of which he had just crushed.

Di Xingchen then took two from his table, walked to the door and handed them up, “That, the roses I bought, want them?”

Pei Xu glances at the roses in Di Xingchen’s hand.

At the moment the crew next door are going crazy, only unfortunately the living room camera is obscured and Pei Xu is standing outside the bedroom so the bedroom camera can’t get his face!

They have been waiting for this moment from the moment they instructed Di Xingchen to buy flowers!

The choice of accepting or rejecting is especially significant when Pei Xu learns what their team is up to!

“Ahhhhhhh, I can’t believe I can’t get a shot of such a crucial scene!”

” Will Pei Xu double standard? Will he take it!”

Then they stared at the monitor and waited anxiously, holding their breath lest they miss a single word.

Then they saw a white, slender hand reach out.

They heard the sound of spring rain falling on the ground and everything coming back to life.

They heard Pei Xu say, “Thank you.”

“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!”

The crew was abuzz.