Chapter 4 (All Gathered Together)

“Idon’t think we should have to guess a profession on the night, right?” Huo Cheng said. Huo Cheng said, “I’ve seen other romance roundups where you have to guess a profession on the first night.”

Di Xingchen says: “I don’t think so.”

The profiles of this group of rich kids are all over the internet, and they even know each other.

“Which university did you go to and what did you study?” Huo Cheng asked.

“The dance academy.” Di Xingchen said.

“A student?” Pei Xu turned his head to look at him.

Di Xingchen nods a little.

“He looks like a student.” Huo Cheng says. Huo Cheng says, “The competition in the relationship market is too brutal now, are you all post-00s college students competing with us?”

Di Xingchen was busy saying, “I’ll make up the numbers, it’s still my brothers’ home turf.”

Huo Cheng looked over at him, “Just know to let your brothers go.”

At the end, Huo Cheng suddenly added: “Dancing, no wonder it looks different ……”

Pei Xu glanced through the rear-view mirror at Huo Cheng, whose expression was subtle, and after the smile had disappeared from his lips, the look in his eyes at Di Xingchen was naked and straightforward. Probably because he was sitting in the back and no one could see him.

But the scene was all over the internet.

[This Look ……]

[I knew right away that this Huo Cheng was horny.

[Not even the same kind …… Is it going to be a blue-blue romance this season?

The two attackers must meet each other.

[I can see why it is said that three 1s can do a lot too.]

[Huo Cheng looks fierce, and Di Xingchen is a dancer who can handle it.

[The face is yellow, no wonder they say that BL romance is big in scale, you guys start off with such an explosive story?

[The doors are locked, I have a name for their CP, Martian CP!

The hypermarket is so close to where they live that the drive took five or six minutes, but finding a parking space all took longer than the road.

The area is an old part of the southern city, with old houses and no high-rise buildings around, and the roads are so winding that Di Xingchen took a look at the terrain.

All three of them are big and handsome, and with a bunch of cameras following them, they attracted everyone’s attention as soon as they entered the supermarket.

Pei Xu glanced at the sign at the entrance, “I’ll go to the first floor.”

“What do you want to buy?” Huo Cheng asked.

“Slippers.”

“Don’t you have slippers in your room?” Huo Cheng asked.

The programme team had prepared so many slippers for them that they couldn’t even finish ten pairs per person.

“The colours don’t like it.” Pei Xu says.

Huo Cheng watched Pei Xu get on the escalator before walking with Di Xingchen towards the fresh produce section.

Di Xingchen explains, “He just likes black and white.”

Huo Cheng smiled and said, “Really?”

Di Xingchen nods.

Pei Xu’s clothes, shoes and even bedding are all in black and white, not even grey.

As monotonous to the extreme as he was as a person.

Huo Cheng has been so busy these past few years that grocery shopping has become a novelty for him. He reads out the list and Di Xingchen picks it up, and the two work well together.

Because they were accompanied by the video teacher, many people in the supermarket gawked at them, and even the supermarket staff were extremely dedicated and enthusiastic. Huo Cheng was extremely gentlemanly and tender. The snacks Wen Nuo wanted to buy were on his side, and when Di Xingchen reached across the shopping cart, Huo Cheng squeezed his shoulder and reached out to take the bag of prawn sticks off: “I thought you had an earring.”

Di Xingchen turned his head: “Huh?”

“You have a mole on your earlobe.”

Huo Cheng said and looked closer at him again, a very faint mole that could not even be seen without a close look.

Di Xingchen just laughed a little.

Huo Cheng, who was also in an inexplicably good mood, asked, “Who do you think the text messages from the four guests on the red side will be sent to tonight?”

Di Xingchen said, “I don’t know.”

He doesn’t care, it won’t be sent to him anyway.

“Who would you send it to?” Huo Cheng asked again.

“Isn’t this supposed to be confidential?” Di Xingchen said and glanced at the follow up camera next to her.

“I feel like we both might not get a single text message today, so why don’t we both send each other?” Huo Cheng laughs, “It’s not like we’re saying eight people can send whatever they want this season anyway.”

The reason for this season of “Red and Blue Signals” is that last year, a male guest on a friendly romance show was called a philandering scum by netizens because he changed his heart for one period. The male guest was later interviewed and said that he actually didn’t like any of them, but the show’s team also stipulated that he had to text one girl he wanted every day, so he took turns sending them one by one.

This incident has caused a lot of backlash online. Yes, even if it’s a romance variety, people should be allowed to dislike none of them, right? It’s really unreasonable to require guests to choose one heartthrob per episode.

That’s why Red and Blue Signals has changed the rules this season so that if you don’t have love for several of the guests, you can send a friendship text.

Since it’s a friendly text message now, it can be sent to anyone.

They had just finished shopping for snacks when they saw Pei Xu coming down from the first floor.

Huo Cheng saw him first and waved.

Di Xingchen turned his head to look at it and had to say, Pei Xu is really worthy of being a jjwxc type of male lead, this body, this look, really one in a hundred, standing on the down escalator with a pair of slippers, just like in an idol drama.

The most striking thing about him is his languid and aloof demeanour, as if he has been accustomed to the adoration and gaze of those around him since childhood.

The pop-ups were even more instant.

[I really don’t blame the other few guests, who can’t love this face?

[Pei Xu is so amazing, I want to slap him and kiss him at the same time!

[This man who makes people love to hate him has a really great figure and temperament].

“I think this kid is our biggest rival.” Huo Cheng said to Di Xingchen, “Why don’t we team up first.”

Huo Cheng smiled and looked at him, thinking that Di Xingchen looked too good when he smiled, his eyes looked like stars, and he couldn’t help but want to get closer and smell the milk on him.

With all that milk, it should smell good wherever you go, right?

Huo Cheng took one look at the slippers in Pei Xu’s hand and said, “Just now Xingchen said you only like black and white, and you really bought a pair of plain black ones.”

Pei Xu puts the slippers in the shopping cart and glances at Di Xingchen.

“How do you know I only like black and white?”

Di Xingchen couldn’t say that he got it from a novel, so he said, “I see that your clothes and everything else are in these two colours, there’s no mix of colours.”

“So what colour do you think I like?” Huo Cheng asks.

Di Xingchen turned his head to look at him.

“You like floral shirts, don’t you?”

Pei Xu, who had been deadly dull, suddenly smiled.

Huo Cheng was surprised: “How do you know, I haven’t even worn it yet!”

The smile on Pei Xu’s face became even more pronounced, so much so that his followers came up to get a close-up of his face. Pei Xu probably noticed and gave a cold look to the camera, his smile no longer visible.

The camera sighed.

The crowd of onlookers was already growing, with many taking out their mobile phones to take pictures of them. But the three male guests were very calm, and while they went grocery shopping, Pei Xu and Huo Cheng stood quietly by and watched Di Xingchen picking and choosing.

“I believe you really know how to cook.” Huo Cheng took the dishes Di Xingchen picked out and said, “You look like a pro at this.”

“I do a lot of my own cooking when I’m at home, I know Chinese and Western food and Japanese food, so I’m taking over the kitchen at Red and Blue Lodge, so none of you are going to take it from me.” Di Xingchen says.

The Red and Blue Signal was a short live broadcast today, only a few hours, after all, the live broadcast was just to attract traffic, there was still some secret content to be broadcast when it went on air, Di Xingchen The three of them were coming out of the supermarket when the screen suddenly freezes and the theme song plays.

In the picture, Huo Cheng, the tallest and strongest, looks straight into the camera with a bright smile, Pei Xu frowns slightly, fair and handsome, cool as an iceberg, while Di Xingchen, standing between them, is a young man with a bright, beautiful and dazzling look.

Three young men carrying shopping bags shot straight into the hot seat.

Many netizens who didn’t catch the live stream were stunned.

[There’s actually a Pei Xu!

[Isn’t Pei Xu known for his bad temper? How can he be on a relationship show? I always thought it was just a rumour before!

[He may be grumpy, but his face is really handsome, he has inherited his mother Pei Huanong’s beauty.

[Huo Cheng is so handsome too, he’s a University of A student, I heard he won the sailing championship, he’s an all-rounder!

[So the list that was circulating two days ago is true? Duan Yihua was there? And Lin Qingning and Hu Ying, the famous rich kids? And my god Yan Zhi?

[Yan Zhi didn’t show up, but he’s definitely going, the word is out in his fan base].

[Yan Zhi, the handsome guy who likes to wear shirts that are buttoned up to the top?

[Those who say our Sixth Brother is quiet have probably never seen him play, right?

[Hahahahahahahahaha, is Roku really going to be in the Love Variety? Seriously, he’s the one I’m looking forward to the most out of the online list.]

[This season’s Red and Blue Signal configuration is so awesome, it looks like it’s going to blow up!

The response online was overwhelming and gave the crew a shot in the arm. When they returned from the supermarket, the crew sent their phones back to them for the official announcement on their respective Weibo accounts.

Di Xingchen went ahead and shut down a few of the other guests, and he made a point of looking at the follower counts of a few of the other guests.

Yan Zhi, who has the most fans, is the most popular of the eight guests.

The second one is Hu Ying, who tweets about the daily life of a rich white netizen.

The rest of the group, Huo Cheng and others, have anywhere from a few thousand to over 100,000 followers.

The least popular was him, he was new to the show, a dozen followers were sent by Sina, the rest were the other six male guests.

Yes, six, Pei Xu doesn’t have a Twitter account.

It was really not cooperative at all.

Because he is a pure vegetarian, the programme team took extra care of him and picked out a photo for him, which he posted with the caption, “Hello everyone, I’m Di Xingchen.”

I received one like after half a day of posting, and it was from Huo Cheng.

When he was about to hand his phone over, he asked the staff, “When will I get paid for my film?”

He is a pure vegetarian, but because he was approached by the programme, he was paid a fairly objective fee of 100,000.

That’s a lot of money in a variety show. It’s not like most of the guests are on the show to earn a paycheck, it’s the traffic and exposure that counts.

The staff said, “We’ll call when it opens next week.”

100,000 was not much for him in the past, but it is a huge sum of money for him now.

The 100,000 he intends to give half to his current parents and half to invest.

He wants to buy Pei Xu’s fund.

Pei Xu’s fund has come out on top for the second year in a row and is now at such a high level that many people are afraid to enter, but having read the full article, he knows how good Pei Xu is and that he will once again perform a money-making miracle in the next shaky market.

Di Xingchen arrives in the kitchen with a happy heart.

Huo Cheng, Duan Yihua and Wen Nuo were already there picking vegetables, two tall and one short, handsome and beautiful, looking very good together.

Seeing a group of handsome men together is just a pleasure to the eyes.

“The chef is here.”

“Where’s the promised kitchen to me?” Di Xingchen said.

Duan Yihua and the others all looked at him with smiles. Huo Cheng said, “We’ll just have to give you a hand, Brother Zhai, to see how we’re doing with the preparations.”

“Now you’ve started shouting Brother Zhai, haven’t you?” Duan Yihua said with a smile.

“Hard work guys.” Di Xingchen pushed up his sleeves, “Leave the rest to me.”

Wen Nuo said, “I’ll stay and help you with your work.”

“No, I like to do it myself, you all go and play in the living room.” Di Xingchen dismissed them.

Dudes need more contact to get a spark.

Seeing that he was not being polite, they all answered him and he was soon alone in the kitchen.

The occasional laugh from Duan Yihua and the others came from the living room, and Di Xingchen rubbed his hands together contentedly and began to cook.

He was always focused on his work, and when he got serious about cooking, he got serious.

He glanced at the menu and the dishes he would be making today were chicken wings and roast potatoes, tomato ball soup, sea rice and winter melon, steamed egg with meat foam, egg hugging tofu, stir-fried carrots with veggies, and a steamed sea bass.

When he fired this, the guide room was the first to be stunned.

“Is he a student?”

“Yeah, a sophomore in the dance school.”

“Probably used to cook a lot at home, but it’s so rare these days to find someone so good at cooking at this age.”

“When he was approached before he said he would do a bit of it.”

“It’s not even a little bit, look at the proficiency he has.”

In the shot, Di Xingchen is chopping shredded radish, and the knife work is so fast that he can make dozens of cuts in a row.

For indoor variety shows like theirs, the light colours are all dialed in to ensure that the guests are perfectly lit in any area of this room, and with the kitchen being a heavy filming location, the light colours are set up even better, with Di Xingchen in a thin shirt, his phoenix eyes slightly drooping, and that face glowing on camera.

“Give him a close-up.” Director Guo says.

Di Xingchen has an extremely photogenic face and many of the staff were mesmerised by the camera’s close up of his long, white fingers, his eyebrows and chin.

“Such a good looking and cooking 1, I just can’t believe no one likes it.” Writer Liu said.

“It’s awesome.”

Di Xingchen was startled and looked up to see Pei Xu standing in front of the fridge with one hand in his trouser pocket and a glass of water in the other, watching him.

“Dinner will be served soon.” Di Xingchen said.

Pei Xu was watching him cook, and as Hu Ying’s laughter came over here every now and then, Di Xingchen asked, “Why don’t you go play with them?”

Pei Xu said, “I’m hungry.”

“Then bring the food to the table, it will be ready soon.” Di Xingchen said.

Cooking is hard work, and his forehead is sweating. He supports himself with two oily hands and rubs his arms against the sweat that is about to run down to the corners of his eyes. Pei Xu picked out a piece of paper and wiped his forehead.

“Thanks.”

“Mmm.” Pei Xu reached out to serve the food and Huo Cheng and the others all gathered around them at the sight.

“Wow, you made all this?” Wen Nuo said in amazement.

“Thought you were a little mickey mouse, who knew you’d go straight for the atomic bomb.”

Hu Ying and the others were also surprised as they all pulled out their chairs and sat down, looking at the table of food.

Full of colour and flavour.

Huo Cheng opened a bottle of wine: “Let’s all have a drink to celebrate our first day in the Red and Blue Lodge and to thank Xingchen for all his hard work in cooking this meal for us.”

Huo Cheng decided that red wine was not enough and opened another bottle of white.

“When will the other guest arrive?”

“We just asked the programme team about it and they said it should be here this afternoon.”

“It’s Yan Zhi, isn’t it?”

Wen Nuo nodded busily, “It’s him, I saw his fan base breaking the news.”

“You’re in his fanbase?” Huo Cheng lifted his glass and looked at him with droopy eyes as he sipped it.

Wen Nuo blushed and gave a ‘hmm’.

“Is he very hot?” Duan Yihua asks.

“He’s super hot, of all of us, he’s the most famous, right?” Hu Ying says.

“He has a lot of fans.” Lin Qingning says, “He’s really good-looking.”

The doorbell outside suddenly dinged a few times and Duan Yihua took the lead and straightened up.

“It looks like someone is ringing the doorbell.” Wen Nuo said.

“It’s not like we’re talking about Cao Cao Cao, is it?”

Wen Nuo got up and ran to the door, and an unfamiliar male voice came from the foyer: “Hello.”

“Hello.” Wen Nuo said.

They all stood up and in a few moments Wen Nuo was seen running back with a red face.

Hu Ying is about to ask him when a man with broad shoulders and a narrow waist, a white shirt and gold-rimmed glasses walks in carrying his luggage.

The hall hall air.

This was the first word that popped into Di Xingchen’s head.