Chapter 58 - Vinegar Essence

In room 2, Duan Yihua gets up to take his medicine and coughs twice more, he keeps apologising to Lin Qingning.

Lin Qingning said, "Don't apologise, you're having a hard enough time yourself."

"I'm afraid it will affect your sleep." Duan Yihua said.

Lin Qingning said, "We're going to the fair tomorrow, can you go?"

Duan Yihua shook his head, cuddled up under the covers and said, "I'll rest for another day."

Lin Qingning nodded and said, "That's fine."

Lin Qingning wanted to talk because of the cameras, so he told Duan Yihua about Pei Xu and Hu Ying's house number three: "Their house was really dilapidated, and the yard was full of weeds and snow."

"Who's in the same house as Xingchen, Yan Zhi?" Duan Yihua asked.

Lin Qingning gave a "hmm" and said, "We were guessing, and Yan Zhi won."

Lin Qingning looked at Duan Yihua for a moment and asked, "Brother Duan, can I ask you a question?"

Duan Yihua looks over at him.

Lin Qingning lowered his voice a little and asked, "What do you know about Di Xingchen ......"

Duan Yihua froze, then coughed twice more.

Lin Qingning knew that Duan Yihua was a very old-fashioned person, so when he talked to him about his feelings, Lin Qingning herself was a bit embarrassed, so he just said, "I think he's been getting quite close to Hu Ying lately ......"

Duan Yihua didn't say anything, just rubbed his eyes a little.

Because of his illness, Duan Yihua looks a little more weathered. Lin Qingning looks at Duan Yihua and says, "I feel like time is flying by, this show is only a month old and it's already the second week."

He's all a bit anxious now.

Although he and Pei Xu have known each other for a long time and their lives have crossed paths, and they sometimes meet at family gatherings during the New Year holidays, they really didn't speak much in a year before they joined the show.

He also figured out that, what face or no face, what kind of love is a person if he doesn't even have the courage to fight for it.

Duan Yihua was smart enough to understand what he was saying. There was no need to go any deeper than that, as he and Duan Yihua were not close enough to talk.

He felt that Duan Yihua was actually quite closed off and had deliberately suppressed his passions and desires.

Duan Yihua was sick and his mind was already heavy, but after hearing Lin Qingning's words, his mind became even heavier.

When I close my eyes, all I can think of is Di Xingchen, and I get a little anxious thinking about it.

I don't know if it's because of his personality or because he's older and has more things to think about. He can't do what he wants like Hu Ying, who yesterday was chasing Yan Zhi and today is pestering Di Xingchen. "Our show is quite popular now," says Duan Yihua. Duan Yihua says, "A lot of people are watching it."

This includes his relatives and friends, as well as company employees.

Lin Qingning didn't understand his concerns and said, "I think it's better for us to be on this show, no matter what our intentions are, to be positive than to be transparent. No one would laugh at someone who is genuinely committed, especially in a relationship. Sometimes you just have too much baggage on your mind, and the consequences are not as bad as you think."

Duan Yihua then gave a soft laugh.

"But Xingchen is the king of popularity here, there are probably at least four people who like him, you, Wen Nuo, Hu Ying, and Huo Cheng." Lin Qingning said this and then felt that the conversation was going to bring Duan Yihua into anxiety, so he hurriedly made a joke: "No I don't, don't worry."

"You like Pei Xu, don't you?"

Lin Qingning asks, "Is it obvious?"

"It's not very obvious, but you can still tell."

Lin Qingning slumped back on the pillow, resting his arms, and said, "It just feels like he's the same as the one I liked when I was young. Don't you think he's handsome?"

Duan Yihua smiled and nodded, "It is very handsome."

"He's actually one of those people who doesn't play at all on this show, he's much better in person, fencing, chess, basketball, piano, he speaks five foreign languages, he's very well known in the foundation world, he's always doing charity work in remote mountainous areas with his mum Pei Huanong, he just donated a primary school last year. You know Hua Xu, named after his mother and him, and if you see a school or building called Hua Xu anywhere, it was funded by him." When it comes to Pei Xu, Lin Qingning starts to talk, with a light in his gentle eyes.

Even Duan Yihua looked surprised to hear this.

Lin Qingning looks up at the ceiling: "He never goes to discos, he doesn't go to parties, he lives a simple life, he's just one of those kids from another family."

There are almost no flaws, except for a cold personality.

But indifference is a kind of cleanliness in disguise. He is indifferent to everyone, closed off from his own social and inner life, with the seductive feeling that if you conquer him, he will be yours only for life.

How can you not be impressed by a man like that. He doesn't have to do anything but stand there and a bunch of people fall in love with him.

Lin Qingning just summed it up and his own heart blossomed. He craned his head to look at Duan Yihua next to him and couldn't help but smile.

Duan Yihua laughed twice along with him, and all his anxiety lifted.

But Huo Cheng was not so lucky.

Wen Nuo is introverted and shy, not the type of person you would talk to.

Yan Zhi and Di Xingchen, perhaps taking a bath at the moment?

Yan Zhi, that moralistic beast of a man, couldn't bear to eat Di Xingchen with his eyes, could he?

Okay, he's a bit of a judge of himself, but a man knows a man, and Yan Zhi is no better, right? If he didn't have some nasty ideas, his name would be written backwards!

Huo Cheng wanted to.

He rested his arms, glowered in the darkness for a moment, then turned his head to look out the window.

He rolled over so frequently that Wen Nuo heard him and was so nervous that he was even more afraid to move.

He certainly wasn't worried about what Huo Cheng would do to him, but he was just nervous and shy, and he hadn't even rolled over since he'd been lying down.

Then he saw Huo Cheng sit up with a start, roll out of bed, put on his clothes and go out.

Wen Nuo let out a long breath and hurriedly took the opportunity to roll over.

His arms were numb from the pressure.

He hopes he can sleep with Di Xingchen next time.

He still feels most at home with Di Xingchen.

Woo-hoo, Di Xingchen.

Huo Cheng went outside, took out a cigarette and lit one. The corridor is silent, it's a six-storey building, there's no lift, they live on the first floor, he stands against the railing and looks in the direction of the little North Pole.

The cold, biting north wind dissipates much of the heat in the heart. One also calms down.

If it was in real life, the person he likes and the love rival went out on a trip together, open a room together, he was nervous and anxious even if, they are now filming the love variety, a bunch of staff, a bunch of cameras, is a bath, what can it be, not also talk, physical contact will not necessarily have, he is afraid of what.

He tilted his head and took a long puff of smoke. The starry sky was shining in the distance.

There are countless stars in the sky, but none can compare to the one in his heart.

Di Xingchen Ah, Di Xingchen.

Huo Cheng bites down on his cigarette.

He would like to take Di Xingchen back to his hometown sometime.

Huo Cheng tilts his head up with a cigarette in his mouth and looks at the stars in the sky.

This is the first time Pei Xu has slept on a bed.

Just lying there for a while, I felt that the half of my body next to the bed was a little too hot.

But for him now, the psychological torment is far greater than the physical one.

If it wasn't for Di Xingchen and Yan Zhi, he wouldn't have known that he would be so possessive if he hadn't been so indifferent.

Unlike Huo Cheng's ramblings, he didn't think anything would happen to Yan Zhi and Di Xingchen.

But he was worried that Di Xingchen might take a liking to Yan Zhi.

Even the brief, slightest hint of kindness he felt pricked him to the heart.

Di Xingchen's complete heart and love should all belong to him.

Just like he did with Di Xingchen.

His emotions are a desert, all that he has belongs to Di Xingchen. He has never felt the slightest stirring for anyone other than Di Xingchen.

He put the hat he wanted to give Di Xingchen on his head and covered his whole face with it.

In no time he was sweating.

Pei Xu sits up and pours a glass of water.

He had just taken a couple of sips when he heard Hu Ying call out, " Xingchen, look at this ......"

The latter lump is inaudible.

Pei Xu froze for a moment before he realised Hu Ying was talking in his sleep.

Did he dream about Di Xingchen?

What are they doing in the dream?

He had better have unusual dreams, and if it is spring, dreams ......

Pei Xu's heart grows two shades darker.

Hu Ying brought the pink rabbit that Di Xingchen gave him with him.

That pink bunny looks very eye-catching.

Hu Ying is dreaming.

In the dream he was shopping with Di Xingchen and saw a pink rabbit, exactly the same as the one Di Xingchen had given him earlier.

" Xingchen, look at this rabbit, it looks so much like the one you bought for me, I want this one too, to make a pair."

In the dream Di Xingchen said to him dotingly, "Wait, I'll pin it out for you!"

He was excited and watched from the sidelines as Di Xingchen flipped the coin.

Di Xingchen was really good and caught it in one go. He was overjoyed and was about to cheer when suddenly he heard a bang.

Hu Ying jolts out of his sleep, slowing down for a moment, and leans up to see Pei Xu standing under the bed, the dim light of the broken house pulling him back to reality. He squinted his dry eyes and asked, "What's wrong, what's that noise?"

"I accidentally kicked the basin," Pei Xu said lightly, "It's okay, you go back to sleep."