Chapter 16 | Part 2
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The hand Gu Feining was using to hold the phone trembled and the phone dropped on her bed. She tried to hurriedly pick it back up but accidentally pressed the button to end the call instead. Thus, the video call was cut off just like that.
She looked at her bright phone screen, her mind in a mess. What did Shi Xi just say?
She was still trying her best to sort out her thoughts when Shi Xi called again. Gu Feining panicked and pressed the button to shut down her phone, pretending she went offline because her phone had no more battery.
It was more than enough for tonight. On top of how she ended up not saying what she called him for, she was also unable to give him an answer and had created an even bigger mess for herself.
The next day, she was pulled out of the bed by Xiao Mang with dark under eyes. Gu Feining had to go to the filming set. Her new show was about fashion and the filming was to start that day in the city she was in.
Although Gu Feining was not the main lead, she had a lot of scenes to film. She liked the character she was acting as and most importantly, she had never acted in this sort of role before. This was why she had accepted the role.
Xiao Mang pulled her up from bed and dragged her there. After she finished putting on makeup and participated in the opening ceremony for the production team, she did a simple interview alongside the main cast. By the time this was done, it was already the afternoon. Only when one of the young actresses playing a minor role asked her for her WeChat did she remember her phone had been switched off all this time.
With the young girl’s eyes staring hopefully at her, Gu Feining switched on her phone, trembling.
She thought there would be numerous messages but found that although there were quite a few messages, there was only one from Shi Xi. It was a simple ‘good night’.
She felt disappointed for some reason. Gu Feining did not understand herself either.
Although his words were very flirtatious, he would not badger her. Was that how the young people these days dealt with relationships?
Gu Feining never would’ve guessed that although she wanted to avoid Shi Xi every day, she would feel troubled because of Shi Xi now. These past few days, she paid a bit of attention to the entertainment news and had almost mastered Shi Xi’s schedule. It turned out he had flown out of the country for a photoshoot the next day. He was still in his studio working on his music so late at night so she’d thought he had no other work. She hadn’t expected he would have such high-intensity work waiting for him so soon.
It seemed he truly loved music.
The days she spent filming were particularly uneventful. But a week after Gu Feining entered the filming set, the “Best Female Lead”’s official Weibo released the promotional video, attracting many fans and confirming that the photo of Gu Feining and Shi Xi hugging was not one from a scene they were required to film. The eagle-eyed fans were even able to dig out that the costumes they were wearing were for the clips they were filming individually.
That hug became quite a mystery. The fans said besides the parties involved, there was probably not a single person who knew what the hug was for.
There was a lot of noise on the Internet. Those who supported this CP enjoyed the treat, while those anti-fans insulted people. But regardless of this, the biggest winner was the production team. The number of views on the promotional clip became first place among all the new variety shows this year.
In the promotional clip, besides Shi Xi getting the most screentime, the screentime for the remaining mentors was evenly split. Gu Feining had quite a few explosive scenes and some of the scenes were from when she was acting intimately with Shi Xi. It seemed like the production team was fully supporting her CP with Shi Xi.
The expert editors had material again.
As soon as the promotional clip came up, ‘Best Female Lead’ and the mentors’ acting skills started to trend. Gu Feining probably cried very well in the promotional clip, she gained quite a lot of fans as well.
Without a doubt, real skill was the best tool to attract fans.
After the promotional clip was released, the production team held a press conference. After that, it was time for the filming of the new episode to begin. This time, they would film three episodes at once, and it would require a few days.
On the day of the press conference, this group of people got together again. Despite having not seen each other for a long time, when they gathered again, there wasn’t the feeling of awkwardness they had at the start. ‘Best Female Lead’ was the variety show on the video platform that had received the most investments this year, thus they held this press conference with utmost sincerity. Along with the popularity brought about by the earlier publicity, a lot of media companies came today.
Gu Feining had arrived quite early. She did not see Shi Xi at all. It was only when she got on stage that she found out Shi Xi’s flight had been delayed and he might not be able to participate in the interaction segment at the start. Due to this, the person in charge of the production team was feeling very troubled.
Gu Feining, Teacher Gu, and the rest went on stage first. The MC of the press conference today explained to the fans on behalf of Shi Xi. Just as expected, the atmosphere at the venue was immediately dampened. The MC tried to liven up the atmosphere, promising that they would be able to see Shi Xi today, that he would definitely be present for the live interviews.
Everyone felt that it was a pity while Gu Feining was feeling happy. This was because she saw that among the seats in the back row, she had been arranged to sit beside Shi Xi. It was obvious what the production team was thinking!
Although the press conference was nothing new to Gu Feining, when she saw there were people raising LED signs with her name among the fans, it dawned on her that her popularity had indeed increased.
Actresses like her were different from popular idols. Even if she had fans, it would not be on the level of those idols’, with fans that waited at the airport to receive them or fans that organized events to support their idols.
So when she saw the LED signs, Gu Feining was stunned for a moment.
However, because Shi Xi was not present, the atmosphere at the venue was noticeably a lot colder.
Thankfully, the MC of the press conference had a lot of experience. Although the atmosphere was worse because Shi Xi was unable to make it in time, the MC managed to liven up the place a little. Gu Feining and the rest were also having a hard time. They all tried their best to deal with the popularity that was originally directed at Shi Xi.
They managed to reach the interview portion with much difficulty. When everyone was worried that Shi Xi might not make it in time for the press conference, he finally arrived.
Shi Xi looked tired but as soon as he arrived, he apologized to everyone for being late. Then, he hugged the main leads in the variety show and greeted everyone. Shi Xi hugged each person one by one. When he hugged Gu Feining, she wasn’t sure if she was imagining things, but she felt that when Shi Xi hugged her, he leaned in with all his strength. It seemed he was so tired he became unsteady on his feet.
Everyone sat down in their respective seats. Shi Xi sat next to Gu Feining and smiled tiredly at Gu Feining. Gu Feining lowered her head, not daring to look at him. She kept feeling like Shi Xi’s gaze had many emotions that she did not understand.
There were a lot of reporters present that day, and they asked all kinds of questions. The common questions included: ‘Do you have the confidence to train someone to win the competition?’ ‘Who has the most members in their team during the recording?’ ‘Did anything funny happen?’
The more interesting questions were also included: ‘If you were a contestant, whose team would you want to join?’ Everyone chose Teacher Gu for this question.
The next question was: ‘If you were to act as the male lead, who would you want to pick as the female lead?’ For this question, everyone picked Gu Feining because she was the only girl here.
After that, because Shi Xi hadn’t been here during the performance portion, everyone read their lines for the performance again.
Up to this point, the atmosphere was not bad. But then a reporter suddenly stood up and directed a question to Gu Feining, “Before we came here, we gathered some questions from the Internet. The question I’m going to ask you is the most popular question the netizens want to know. Can you tell us about the photo of you and Shi Xi?”
The production team had already prepared the answer to this question beforehand. After all, this was a popular question, and they guessed that someone would ask it.
Gu Feining said calmly, “That was just a little behind-the-scenes image. At that time, Shi Xi had come to the studio we were in to greet us. It was just a simple hug. If you want a hug, I can give you one now too.”
The reporter was obviously not satisfied with this answer and proceeded to ask, “Then what is your opinion on the netizens saying that you are trying to make use of Shi Xi’s popularity?”
Gu Feining was stunned for a moment. She hadn’t expected that someone would ask that so directly.
She immediately started to feel down. Although she wanted to reply rudely, she remembered there were a lot of reporters present, so she quickly controlled her anger and said calmly, her expression serious, “I didn’t try to make use of anyone’s popularity.”
The reporter seemed to still want to say something else but Shi Xi spoke first, “If all of you keep harping on this problem, Teacher Gu might blacklist me when she returns home.”
Because of Shi Xi’s words, the atmosphere that had almost become a little stiff warmed up again. Shi Xi changed the topic, and the questions asked after that were all about him. Shi Xi had originally looked extremely tired and disinterested, but now, he seemed to be quite enthusiastic, dealing with all the questions properly.
Gu Feining was thankful to Shi Xi, so she would occasionally glance at him, who was answering questions. The Shi Xi today was very different from the Shi Xi she saw that night. His gentleness was gone, and all that remained was maturity and experience. Gu Feining suddenly felt grateful she was able to see Shi Xi’s other side, so gentle and cute.
It was just that she was still feeling a little curious about what Shi Xi meant when he said those words that night.
Shi Xi faced the camera and easily dealt with the questions from the reporters. He was even able to tease the reporters back. However, his arm that he rested on the sofa started to act mischievously. He reached across the back of the sofa and placed it behind Gu Feining. While people were distracted, he secretly poked her back.
Gu Feining was startled and immediately straightened her back. She instantly glared at Shi Xi. Although there were no cameras behind, the fans below the stage were all eagle-eyed.
Was he not scared of being found out?
It happened that the current interview question involved Teacher Gu. Shi Xi accepted Gu Feining’s gaze and turned his head to talk to her, “The reporters like to ask random questions, don’t take it to heart.”
Gu Feining didn’t really mind the reporters’ words. She gritted her teeth and replied to Shi Xi, “Your hand…”
“I’m comforting you.”
Shi Xi smiled at her. As he was speaking, he poked her back twice. He was so childish, as if they were in grade school, like those boys who liked to use a pencil to poke the girl sitting in front of them and who they had a crush on. His constant poking made Gu Feining annoyed.
Gu Feining looked at the camera in front and after confirming that no one noticed the actions behind her back, she straightened her back and reached her arm behind herself, pretending to scratch her back as she grabbed Shi Xi’s misbehaving hand.
Unexpectedly, when she grabbed him, he did not back off. Instead, he quickly grabbed her hand.
Gu Feining was now frantic. She struggled slightly, lowering her voice to ask Shi Xi, “What are you doing?”
Shi Xi ignored her, smiling as he leaned back on the sofa lazily. As he listened to Teacher Gu answer the reporter’s question, he caressed her fingers lightly.
Gu Feining was both anxious and angry. However, she didn’t dare to struggle too obviously. She could only turn her body to the side to hide her strange posture. The other people on-stage were interacting with the people off-stage, and no one noticed two of the main leads in this variety show were so childish that they were starting to play with their fingers.
It was only when the next question was directed towards Gu Feining that Shi Xi finally let go.
As soon as Gu Feining achieved her freedom, she immediately distanced herself from him. Besides the sofa hand rest, she managed to make a big distance appear between the two of them.
Gu Feining did not smile once at Shi Xi for the rest of the press conference. She had been given a big scare by Shi Xi this time. The other was being too bold. Shi Xi, on the other hand, kept looking at Gu Feining the whole time although she was being unresponsive. While looking at Gu Feining’s angry figure, he couldn’t help but smile.
That day, someone posted a photo of Shi Xi’s side profile as he was smiling on Weibo.
A lot of fans were yelling that this was an expression of someone who had found love. It was an expression that made people fall in love.
After the press conference ended, they were unable to go out for a meal together because the schedule was too tight. At night, everyone had to meet the contestants in their team. The contestants had been assigned to stay in the dorm, and they would have performance lessons every day. Gu Feining and the rest visited them as a form of checking on everyone’s homework and to guide them.
The program team filmed them the whole way. When Gu Feining went over, she brought quite a lot of things for everyone to eat. She had eaten a little as well as her dinner. After that, she watched everyone’s performance seriously. She didn’t know what the other mentors did, but she was seriously helping everyone with any problems in their acting. She taught them some techniques. Because they were going to eliminate half of the people present during the filming tomorrow, everyone was very nervous. It caused Gu Feining to feel nervous as well.
To Gu Feining’s surprise, Miao Yi was there too. She wasn’t playing around. In fact, she was quite serious. She even came over to ask Gu Feining secretly if she would be eliminated, jokingly asking her if she could help her go through the back door.
Gu Feining regretfully told her that during the filming tomorrow, the contestants’ mentor could not interfere with the decisions made for their team. She could only use a rescue card to allow the eliminated contestants PK with someone else again. Shi Xi was the only one who had the card that would allow people to fully pass the round.
Miao Yi immediately became energetic and said she would go knock on Shi Xi’s door at night.
Gu Feining could only wish her luck.
After they finished work, Gu Feining had Xiao Mang return first. She stayed inside Miao Yi’s room for a while. This was the best hotel in the nearby vicinity so it was not strange for Miao Yi to stay here. It was just that Miao Yi was staying in a suite, whereas Gu Feining was staying in the room the production team had booked for her. The two of them chatted till late at night and Gu Feining did not intend on returning to her room. She took out her phone to message Xiao Mang to come to Miao Yi’s room to look for her the next morning.
When she took out her phone, Gu Feining realized she had shut down her phone for the whole night. She had switched it off while she was guiding the contestants just now. Gu Feining switched on her phone and quite a few missed calls came in. They were all from Shi Xi.
“Are you very close to Shi Xi?” Miao Yi came close to Gu Feining and looked at her call records. “Calling you so late at night, there’s definitely some suspicious relationship here.”
“Nonsense, don’t you call people late at night?”
“I do, but I only call men. And… when I call men in the middle of the night, I have bad intentions…” Miao Yi’s expression became a gossipy one. “Something is definitely going on. Hurry up and tell me. If Shi Xi is yours, I won’t make a move. You’ve rarely liked a man in so many years, and as your best friend, I definitely can’t snatch your man.”
Gu Feining was speechless and was about to refute Miao Yi’s words.
At that moment, her phone vibrated. She received a message from Shi Xi, asking her if she had returned already.
Miao Yi smiled evilly. “Why are you refusing to admit it? Why would someone ask you if you’ve returned to your room for no reason?”
“We’re just friends, don’t think too much.”
Gu Feining hurriedly replied Shi Xi: [I’m already asleep.].
After that, she switched off her phone and dragged Miao Yi to bed, wanting to sleep.
“Friends?” Miao Yi laughed at her. “That’s not all there is, right? You’re normally a lot less shy and more open when you talk about men.”
Gu Feining ignored her, turning her back to Miao Yi and pretending to sleep.
It was true that she was not very open about him. She actually did not really understand Shi Xi. Just like today, he had secretly grabbed her hand, doing those strange things. Gu Feining kept feeling like she was in a lot of danger now. Shi Xi’s actions messed up her mind.
“Ning Ning,” Miao Yi suddenly called her name while lying on the bed, “Yuan Jinyan and Mi Ke broke up.”
“Ah?” Gu Feining was stunned for a moment.
“Actually, the two of them seemed to have broken up long ago, but because there were still some personal interests involved, they didn’t make it public.” Miao Yi sighed. “They’ll probably make it public soon.”
“Oh.”
If it had happened in the past, Gu Feining might get up and set off firecrackers1, but now, she was very calm.
“Oh?” Miao Yi was also very shocked. “Aren’t you going to get up to set off firecrackers?”
Gu Feining said calmly, “It’s illegal to set off firecrackers in the city.”
Miao Yi turned her head to look towards Gu Feining. “I thought that you would be happy when you hear this news.”
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Translator’s Notes:
Setting off firecrackers as a way of celebration. This is figurative like she isn’t actually going to get up and set off firecrackers. She’s just saying that if it were in the past, she would have celebrated.
Chapter 16 | Part 2
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The hand Gu Feining was using to hold the phone trembled and the phone dropped on her bed. She tried to hurriedly pick it back up but accidentally pressed the button to end the call instead. Thus, the video call was cut off just like that.
She looked at her bright phone screen, her mind in a mess. What did Shi Xi just say?
She was still trying her best to sort out her thoughts when Shi Xi called again. Gu Feining panicked and pressed the button to shut down her phone, pretending she went offline because her phone had no more battery.
It was more than enough for tonight. On top of how she ended up not saying what she called him for, she was also unable to give him an answer and had created an even bigger mess for herself.
The next day, she was pulled out of the bed by Xiao Mang with dark under eyes. Gu Feining had to go to the filming set. Her new show was about fashion and the filming was to start that day in the city she was in.
Although Gu Feining was not the main lead, she had a lot of scenes to film. She liked the character she was acting as and most importantly, she had never acted in this sort of role before. This was why she had accepted the role.
Xiao Mang pulled her up from bed and dragged her there. After she finished putting on makeup and participated in the opening ceremony for the production team, she did a simple interview alongside the main cast. By the time this was done, it was already the afternoon. Only when one of the young actresses playing a minor role asked her for her WeChat did she remember her phone had been switched off all this time.
With the young girl’s eyes staring hopefully at her, Gu Feining switched on her phone, trembling.
She thought there would be numerous messages but found that although there were quite a few messages, there was only one from Shi Xi. It was a simple ‘good night’.
She felt disappointed for some reason. Gu Feining did not understand herself either.
Although his words were very flirtatious, he would not badger her. Was that how the young people these days dealt with relationships?
Gu Feining never would’ve guessed that although she wanted to avoid Shi Xi every day, she would feel troubled because of Shi Xi now. These past few days, she paid a bit of attention to the entertainment news and had almost mastered Shi Xi’s schedule. It turned out he had flown out of the country for a photoshoot the next day. He was still in his studio working on his music so late at night so she’d thought he had no other work. She hadn’t expected he would have such high-intensity work waiting for him so soon.
It seemed he truly loved music.
The days she spent filming were particularly uneventful. But a week after Gu Feining entered the filming set, the “Best Female Lead”’s official Weibo released the promotional video, attracting many fans and confirming that the photo of Gu Feining and Shi Xi hugging was not one from a scene they were required to film. The eagle-eyed fans were even able to dig out that the costumes they were wearing were for the clips they were filming individually.
That hug became quite a mystery. The fans said besides the parties involved, there was probably not a single person who knew what the hug was for.
There was a lot of noise on the Internet. Those who supported this CP enjoyed the treat, while those anti-fans insulted people. But regardless of this, the biggest winner was the production team. The number of views on the promotional clip became first place among all the new variety shows this year.
In the promotional clip, besides Shi Xi getting the most screentime, the screentime for the remaining mentors was evenly split. Gu Feining had quite a few explosive scenes and some of the scenes were from when she was acting intimately with Shi Xi. It seemed like the production team was fully supporting her CP with Shi Xi.
The expert editors had material again.
As soon as the promotional clip came up, ‘Best Female Lead’ and the mentors’ acting skills started to trend. Gu Feining probably cried very well in the promotional clip, she gained quite a lot of fans as well.
Without a doubt, real skill was the best tool to attract fans.
After the promotional clip was released, the production team held a press conference. After that, it was time for the filming of the new episode to begin. This time, they would film three episodes at once, and it would require a few days.
On the day of the press conference, this group of people got together again. Despite having not seen each other for a long time, when they gathered again, there wasn’t the feeling of awkwardness they had at the start. ‘Best Female Lead’ was the variety show on the video platform that had received the most investments this year, thus they held this press conference with utmost sincerity. Along with the popularity brought about by the earlier publicity, a lot of media companies came today.
Gu Feining had arrived quite early. She did not see Shi Xi at all. It was only when she got on stage that she found out Shi Xi’s flight had been delayed and he might not be able to participate in the interaction segment at the start. Due to this, the person in charge of the production team was feeling very troubled.
Gu Feining, Teacher Gu, and the rest went on stage first. The MC of the press conference today explained to the fans on behalf of Shi Xi. Just as expected, the atmosphere at the venue was immediately dampened. The MC tried to liven up the atmosphere, promising that they would be able to see Shi Xi today, that he would definitely be present for the live interviews.
Everyone felt that it was a pity while Gu Feining was feeling happy. This was because she saw that among the seats in the back row, she had been arranged to sit beside Shi Xi. It was obvious what the production team was thinking!
Although the press conference was nothing new to Gu Feining, when she saw there were people raising LED signs with her name among the fans, it dawned on her that her popularity had indeed increased.
Actresses like her were different from popular idols. Even if she had fans, it would not be on the level of those idols’, with fans that waited at the airport to receive them or fans that organized events to support their idols.
So when she saw the LED signs, Gu Feining was stunned for a moment.
However, because Shi Xi was not present, the atmosphere at the venue was noticeably a lot colder.
Thankfully, the MC of the press conference had a lot of experience. Although the atmosphere was worse because Shi Xi was unable to make it in time, the MC managed to liven up the place a little. Gu Feining and the rest were also having a hard time. They all tried their best to deal with the popularity that was originally directed at Shi Xi.
They managed to reach the interview portion with much difficulty. When everyone was worried that Shi Xi might not make it in time for the press conference, he finally arrived.
Shi Xi looked tired but as soon as he arrived, he apologized to everyone for being late. Then, he hugged the main leads in the variety show and greeted everyone. Shi Xi hugged each person one by one. When he hugged Gu Feining, she wasn’t sure if she was imagining things, but she felt that when Shi Xi hugged her, he leaned in with all his strength. It seemed he was so tired he became unsteady on his feet.
Everyone sat down in their respective seats. Shi Xi sat next to Gu Feining and smiled tiredly at Gu Feining. Gu Feining lowered her head, not daring to look at him. She kept feeling like Shi Xi’s gaze had many emotions that she did not understand.
There were a lot of reporters present that day, and they asked all kinds of questions. The common questions included: ‘Do you have the confidence to train someone to win the competition?’ ‘Who has the most members in their team during the recording?’ ‘Did anything funny happen?’
The more interesting questions were also included: ‘If you were a contestant, whose team would you want to join?’ Everyone chose Teacher Gu for this question.
The next question was: ‘If you were to act as the male lead, who would you want to pick as the female lead?’ For this question, everyone picked Gu Feining because she was the only girl here.
After that, because Shi Xi hadn’t been here during the performance portion, everyone read their lines for the performance again.
Up to this point, the atmosphere was not bad. But then a reporter suddenly stood up and directed a question to Gu Feining, “Before we came here, we gathered some questions from the Internet. The question I’m going to ask you is the most popular question the netizens want to know. Can you tell us about the photo of you and Shi Xi?”
The production team had already prepared the answer to this question beforehand. After all, this was a popular question, and they guessed that someone would ask it.
Gu Feining said calmly, “That was just a little behind-the-scenes image. At that time, Shi Xi had come to the studio we were in to greet us. It was just a simple hug. If you want a hug, I can give you one now too.”
The reporter was obviously not satisfied with this answer and proceeded to ask, “Then what is your opinion on the netizens saying that you are trying to make use of Shi Xi’s popularity?”
Gu Feining was stunned for a moment. She hadn’t expected that someone would ask that so directly.
She immediately started to feel down. Although she wanted to reply rudely, she remembered there were a lot of reporters present, so she quickly controlled her anger and said calmly, her expression serious, “I didn’t try to make use of anyone’s popularity.”
The reporter seemed to still want to say something else but Shi Xi spoke first, “If all of you keep harping on this problem, Teacher Gu might blacklist me when she returns home.”
Because of Shi Xi’s words, the atmosphere that had almost become a little stiff warmed up again. Shi Xi changed the topic, and the questions asked after that were all about him. Shi Xi had originally looked extremely tired and disinterested, but now, he seemed to be quite enthusiastic, dealing with all the questions properly.
Gu Feining was thankful to Shi Xi, so she would occasionally glance at him, who was answering questions. The Shi Xi today was very different from the Shi Xi she saw that night. His gentleness was gone, and all that remained was maturity and experience. Gu Feining suddenly felt grateful she was able to see Shi Xi’s other side, so gentle and cute.
It was just that she was still feeling a little curious about what Shi Xi meant when he said those words that night.
Shi Xi faced the camera and easily dealt with the questions from the reporters. He was even able to tease the reporters back. However, his arm that he rested on the sofa started to act mischievously. He reached across the back of the sofa and placed it behind Gu Feining. While people were distracted, he secretly poked her back.
Gu Feining was startled and immediately straightened her back. She instantly glared at Shi Xi. Although there were no cameras behind, the fans below the stage were all eagle-eyed.
Was he not scared of being found out?
It happened that the current interview question involved Teacher Gu. Shi Xi accepted Gu Feining’s gaze and turned his head to talk to her, “The reporters like to ask random questions, don’t take it to heart.”
Gu Feining didn’t really mind the reporters’ words. She gritted her teeth and replied to Shi Xi, “Your hand…”
“I’m comforting you.”
Shi Xi smiled at her. As he was speaking, he poked her back twice. He was so childish, as if they were in grade school, like those boys who liked to use a pencil to poke the girl sitting in front of them and who they had a crush on. His constant poking made Gu Feining annoyed.
Gu Feining looked at the camera in front and after confirming that no one noticed the actions behind her back, she straightened her back and reached her arm behind herself, pretending to scratch her back as she grabbed Shi Xi’s misbehaving hand.
Unexpectedly, when she grabbed him, he did not back off. Instead, he quickly grabbed her hand.
Gu Feining was now frantic. She struggled slightly, lowering her voice to ask Shi Xi, “What are you doing?”
Shi Xi ignored her, smiling as he leaned back on the sofa lazily. As he listened to Teacher Gu answer the reporter’s question, he caressed her fingers lightly.
Gu Feining was both anxious and angry. However, she didn’t dare to struggle too obviously. She could only turn her body to the side to hide her strange posture. The other people on-stage were interacting with the people off-stage, and no one noticed two of the main leads in this variety show were so childish that they were starting to play with their fingers.
It was only when the next question was directed towards Gu Feining that Shi Xi finally let go.
As soon as Gu Feining achieved her freedom, she immediately distanced herself from him. Besides the sofa hand rest, she managed to make a big distance appear between the two of them.
Gu Feining did not smile once at Shi Xi for the rest of the press conference. She had been given a big scare by Shi Xi this time. The other was being too bold. Shi Xi, on the other hand, kept looking at Gu Feining the whole time although she was being unresponsive. While looking at Gu Feining’s angry figure, he couldn’t help but smile.
That day, someone posted a photo of Shi Xi’s side profile as he was smiling on Weibo.
A lot of fans were yelling that this was an expression of someone who had found love. It was an expression that made people fall in love.
After the press conference ended, they were unable to go out for a meal together because the schedule was too tight. At night, everyone had to meet the contestants in their team. The contestants had been assigned to stay in the dorm, and they would have performance lessons every day. Gu Feining and the rest visited them as a form of checking on everyone’s homework and to guide them.
The program team filmed them the whole way. When Gu Feining went over, she brought quite a lot of things for everyone to eat. She had eaten a little as well as her dinner. After that, she watched everyone’s performance seriously. She didn’t know what the other mentors did, but she was seriously helping everyone with any problems in their acting. She taught them some techniques. Because they were going to eliminate half of the people present during the filming tomorrow, everyone was very nervous. It caused Gu Feining to feel nervous as well.
To Gu Feining’s surprise, Miao Yi was there too. She wasn’t playing around. In fact, she was quite serious. She even came over to ask Gu Feining secretly if she would be eliminated, jokingly asking her if she could help her go through the back door.
Gu Feining regretfully told her that during the filming tomorrow, the contestants’ mentor could not interfere with the decisions made for their team. She could only use a rescue card to allow the eliminated contestants PK with someone else again. Shi Xi was the only one who had the card that would allow people to fully pass the round.
Miao Yi immediately became energetic and said she would go knock on Shi Xi’s door at night.
Gu Feining could only wish her luck.
After they finished work, Gu Feining had Xiao Mang return first. She stayed inside Miao Yi’s room for a while. This was the best hotel in the nearby vicinity so it was not strange for Miao Yi to stay here. It was just that Miao Yi was staying in a suite, whereas Gu Feining was staying in the room the production team had booked for her. The two of them chatted till late at night and Gu Feining did not intend on returning to her room. She took out her phone to message Xiao Mang to come to Miao Yi’s room to look for her the next morning.
When she took out her phone, Gu Feining realized she had shut down her phone for the whole night. She had switched it off while she was guiding the contestants just now. Gu Feining switched on her phone and quite a few missed calls came in. They were all from Shi Xi.
“Are you very close to Shi Xi?” Miao Yi came close to Gu Feining and looked at her call records. “Calling you so late at night, there’s definitely some suspicious relationship here.”
“Nonsense, don’t you call people late at night?”
“I do, but I only call men. And… when I call men in the middle of the night, I have bad intentions…” Miao Yi’s expression became a gossipy one. “Something is definitely going on. Hurry up and tell me. If Shi Xi is yours, I won’t make a move. You’ve rarely liked a man in so many years, and as your best friend, I definitely can’t snatch your man.”
Gu Feining was speechless and was about to refute Miao Yi’s words.
At that moment, her phone vibrated. She received a message from Shi Xi, asking her if she had returned already.
Miao Yi smiled evilly. “Why are you refusing to admit it? Why would someone ask you if you’ve returned to your room for no reason?”
“We’re just friends, don’t think too much.”
Gu Feining hurriedly replied Shi Xi: [I’m already asleep.].
After that, she switched off her phone and dragged Miao Yi to bed, wanting to sleep.
“Friends?” Miao Yi laughed at her. “That’s not all there is, right? You’re normally a lot less shy and more open when you talk about men.”
Gu Feining ignored her, turning her back to Miao Yi and pretending to sleep.
It was true that she was not very open about him. She actually did not really understand Shi Xi. Just like today, he had secretly grabbed her hand, doing those strange things. Gu Feining kept feeling like she was in a lot of danger now. Shi Xi’s actions messed up her mind.
“Ning Ning,” Miao Yi suddenly called her name while lying on the bed, “Yuan Jinyan and Mi Ke broke up.”
“Ah?” Gu Feining was stunned for a moment.
“Actually, the two of them seemed to have broken up long ago, but because there were still some personal interests involved, they didn’t make it public.” Miao Yi sighed. “They’ll probably make it public soon.”
“Oh.”
If it had happened in the past, Gu Feining might get up and set off firecrackers1, but now, she was very calm.
“Oh?” Miao Yi was also very shocked. “Aren’t you going to get up to set off firecrackers?”
Gu Feining said calmly, “It’s illegal to set off firecrackers in the city.”
Miao Yi turned her head to look towards Gu Feining. “I thought that you would be happy when you hear this news.”
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Translator’s Notes:
Setting off firecrackers as a way of celebration. This is figurative like she isn’t actually going to get up and set off firecrackers. She’s just saying that if it were in the past, she would have celebrated.