Witch, Open Your Eyes

Cat Part 8

The short trailer has so many views.

Passers-by fans or fans of the Battle of Cute Pets don’t detect anything special but it doesn’t mean that Fang Daichuan’s fans are blind.

Fang Daichuan’s bottle of “hand cream” has long been searched on the Internet. On Taobao the seller stated that it is an adult product. On that very same day, a small line was added on the lubricant’s picture: “The same thing that Fang Daichuan uses, water-soluble, safe and efficient, celebrity choice.”

https://www.lawinsider.com/dictionary/adult-product

The Chuan fans are outwardly silent. If the person in question doesn’t speak up, they are authorised to pretend they don’t know, and when people ask, they will say it’s hand cream, and the big deal is to admit it’s an adult product. What, who says a single male idol can’t use personal lubrication when he jacks off? Our Chuan’er-ge is someone who treasures his body. He probably afraid of directly grind the precious p*nis using bare skin. What’s the problem? Wouldn’t you do the same?!!

Li Sinian’s existence is actually not a secret among a small number of illegitimate fans* but everyone who knows just keeps it for themselves. As long as the person in question did not say anything, they will also keep their mouth shut and help debunking any rumour. At best they will said, they are good friends and then play blind.

(T/N : Raw are [私生饭] and apparently this means ‘fans who trespassing on idol’s private life, by either stalking or taking picture without permission’)

The show’s crew really invited Li Sinian to the show, and had the audacity to call him Beta’s dad. Beta’s dad’s pillow was pulled off by Fang Daichuan himself from his bedroom bed during the first episode.

——This time, I can’t even pretend to be blind, it’s getting old.

Ordinary fans also exploded.

(T/N : Ordinary here means not illegitimate one, just a note)

Everyone rushed to tell each other and within half an hour the story spread all over the circle of friends. Then all kinds of Sherlock Holmes appeared and the sharp-eyed girls tried to pick up some clues from various candid pictures.

Li Sinian usually goes out alone. There are not many photos of him picking up and dropping off Fang Daichuan. However there is a photo taken with a high-definition headshot, taken by the clerk of the convenience store in front of Fang Daichuan’s house. Li Sinian looked back at the camera and Fang Daichuan was sitting in the Front Passenger Seat, revealing a small arm. ——Don’t say that it is only one right hand and it is not enough as a proof, the thing is, even if only one toe is exposed, can you call yourself a fan if you cannot recognize your idol?

(T/N : From chapter 99)

The girls withered.

A group of girlfriend fans came together with trepidation: “So – this mixed race, is Beta’s dad? What the fuck is this? What are they doing? Going to a show openly like that? Other people are going with their boyfriends and wives, okay? What the fuck are they doing? What is this? Are they coming out of the closet on the show! Is this a fucking coming out show?”

The girls feel their brain deteriorating.

As a result, after the show was broadcast, they were slapped hard by the host.

Imagination? Li Sinian smiled disdainfully. Hehe, you think I don’t know that your “imagination” is full with yellow stuff from your brain?

(T/N : I think most already know, but yellow means ‘21+ stuff’.)

Li Sinian drove the plane to the tarmac path, although it is called tarmac path, it is more like a flat open space in the centre of the village and the crew specially invited someone to sweep the snow. Li Sinian parked the plane and stepped down from the cockpit, lifting his goggles as he walked. Wearing a jacket and scarf, a pair of long legs in flight boots, suddenly the screen is filled with masculine hormones.

The makeup artist drew him a brown inner eyeliner, which was hard to see when he opened his eyes, but when he looked at people it could blow you away.

He hummed a song as he walked to Fang Daichuan’s cabin, one hand in his pocket as he walked along the path covered in thick snow felt, the warm-toned cabins on either side of the path sandwiched and decorated with lights, as if the whole world was greeting him.

The camera followed him, not daring to utter a sound for fear of ruining the atmosphere of this backbreaking solo walk.

In Fang Daichuan’s cabin, Sister Tong was already there waiting for him.

“Shuke!” Sister Tong rushed out without a care in the world and embraced Li Sinian, quickly letting go of him once he was iced by the cold air of wind and snow carried by Li Sinian.

Li Sinian raised his right eyebrow, “Shuke?”

“Isn’t it? What Chuan’er-ge said,” Sister Tong betrayed Fang Daichuan mercilessly. “He said that Beta was called Beta because it had a Shuke father who flew a plane.”

Li Sinian lowered his head and smiled. When he smiled, the warm lights in the room reflected in his eyes and the coldness disappeared. He looked like a warm boy next door. As he took off his scarf, he explained: “He bluffed you, don’t you remember, Shuke and Beta are brothers, right?”

Fang Daichuan and Beta hadn’t come back yet, so the program team prepared a basket of ingredients for Li Sinian to look at and pick.

Li Sinian picked crabs and live fish, which are foods that no one in the entire program dared to touch because no one knew how to cook it. He took off his jacket and squatted in front of the kitchen to wash the crabs. His turtleneck sweater covered his chin. The hot water steamed white steam in the air and his fingertips quickly turned red from the water.

“So,” Sister Tong looked at his skilled movements from the side, “what does Beta mean?”

Li Sinian explained as he washed the crab, “Beta is the second small animal I’ve raised, and beta is the second letter in Greek phonetics, so it’s called beta.”

Naturally, Sister Tong picked up, “And who was the first small animal? Alpha?”

“The first small animal is a stupid dog and the name is a secret.” Li Sinian smiled, as if remembering something, licked the tips of his canine teeth with his tongue and winked at her with his left eye.

(T/N : I am sure Sinian is referring to Chuan’er lol. You can read about that on chapter 48)

The pots and pans in the kitchen all showed signs being used as Li Sinian steamed the crabs while he opened the fish and carefully removed the spiny bones. He asked Sister Tong, “Who’s cooking these days?”

Sister Tong stole a ham sausage and said as she nibbled on it, “Of course it was made by Chuan’er-ge. Our program is to let the master cook for the cute pets.”

Hearing this, Li Sinian looked up at the host and threw the bones into the seafood pot. The atmosphere turn gloomy: “Chuan’er-ge cooking for Beta?! Chuan’er-ge? I think I should sue your program group!”

He raised his knife and cut a carrot into pieces: “You are abusing animals, aren’t you? Don’t you have any animal rights groups in China to regulate you?” As he chopped the vegetables, he mumbled, “How dare you ask Chuan’er-ge to cook, how dare you – Chuan’er-ge is cooking and feeding Beta? You didn’t starve Beta to death, did you? I don’t even eat any of his cooking.”

Li Sinian is a really skilled cook, with a smooth and proficient knife technique. He cut up the vegetables, set the pan on the stove and turned on the heat to warm it up. Then he took the time to marinate the fish and drizzle a few drops of lemon on it.

As he sautéed the fillets, Li Sinian mixed the sauce, black pepper, basil, onion powder, salt, and a little sugar.

“So—” Sister Tong asked casually, “Who cooks in your family?”

Li Sinian hummed, lifted the kitchen knife and made a steady cut on the chopping board: “Look at this posture, what do you think?”

Sister Tong couldn’t help laughing a few times: “I think Chuan’er-ge‘s cooking is okay, he’s the best of the five hosts, at least he can cook.”

The expression on Li Sinian’s face was practically speechless: “That’s really – it’s so hard for the babies.”

The screen turned back to Fang Daichuan and Beta. The two of them didn’t know that Li Sinian was here and Li Sinian also didn’t tell them. The program team wouldn’t let him tell Fang Daichuan, so he didn’t tell the truth.

Fang Daichuan accompanied Beta to shoot the snowman. Everyone else completed the task early. With the help of the outside guest the task is completed faster and even the last group of the rapper and his teammates bickered and tousled to get their shots done, dunked a necksful of snowballs into each other’s necks, then took the ingredients and cursed at each other as they headed home.

 It was slowly getting dark. Fang Daichuan was afraid that Beta would freeze, so he took off his jacket and wrapped it around Beta: “Beta, let’s go, we’ve lost anyway.”

Beta burrowed in Fang Daichuan’s clothes and didn’t move. Looking at the three snowmen holding hands in other families, and looking at the two in his own family, not willing to leave at all.

Fang Daichuan had no choice but to accompany Beta to finish making the snowman. The little cat’s snowman was made in an unlikeable way, with a round head, instead of a small tiger, and his own one was also made in a crooked way. Beta cocked his head and looked at the snowman for a long time before moving up to kiss it.

Fang Daichuan was so cold that he stomped his feet and patted the snow off Beta’s body, then took Beta into his arms and gave him a gentle nudge, telling him, “Stinky Beta, let’s go back! I miss your dad too, so we’ll go find him after the show.”

“Eat his fried fish steak! And crab roe with rice! Have him make you a bowl of beef cat food by hand.” He promised on behalf of Li Sinian.

[鱼排] Pic for your stomach

Beta curled up softly on his shoulder and echoed, “Meow!”