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People in the studio were either so lted they stood up and paced around clutching their heads or utterly stunned, covering their faces with their hands if that's what they were doing, as the atmosphere of the romance reality show reached its climax in that mont.
"Alcohol is really sothing, what am I seeing!!! Scripted or not, although Xu isn't worthy, at least it lets little see sothing good."
"I've been unable to stop grinning foolishly all afternoon, my mom wants to send to the psychiatric hospital. What should I do, I'm waiting online, it's urgent!!"
"I've been rolling in bed like a maggot, heaven knows how stiff my feet were when I saw the two little divas hold hands."
"Help, I'm still at work and I can't help but smile. My boss is coming, fuck!! Fuck!"
"Seeing Bai Jinze suffer made so fucking happy, motherfucker, teaching soone to be a lickspittle."
Finally, the ga ended.
Bai Jinze hurried off, leaving him with only two hours. His head was still a bit foggy from the drunkenness, but he didn't want to spend another mont in that living room.
Xu Qingyan smiled watching his retreating figure and said nothing. He stood up, and together with Shen Jinyue, they took the slightly tipsy Pei Muchan and Lin Wanzhou back to their rooms.
Dinner was probably a no-go, as the guests were all a bit drunk.
In the hallway, only Shen Jinyue and Xu Qingyan were left.
"Don't you want to go back to your room and rest?" He leaned against the wall, glancing at Shen Jinyue from the corner of his eye, "The show's voting will probably start around eight, but it might be delayed."
Shen Jinyue shook his head, silent for a mont.
There were no caras here and they weren't wearing audio equipnt. The lights in the hallway were glaringly bright.
"Okay, then I'll go back first," he said.
"Wait!" Shen Jinyue suddenly dashed up to Xu Qingyan like a mouse, blocking his way, "I have sothing I want to ask you."
"Ask away, all secretive and mysterious," Xu Qingyan yawned, leaning against the wall.
"Where are you going after tomorrow?"
"Tomorrow?" Xu Qingyan looked puzzled, "Tomorrow morning we reveal our identity cards, right? The love reality show would be over, of course, I'd go ho. Where else could I go?"
"Where's your ho? Can I co to see you later?" Shen Jinyue lifted his head, full of hope.
"You could, but I might be really busy for a while," Xu Qingyan didn't take his words to heart, the future was the future.
"Busy with what?"
"Working, all sorts of chores," said Xu Qingyan.
"So when will you be free? I want to hang out with you, and then maybe... Sister Zhou Zhou might not have ti, do you think Sister Pei would..."
Shen Jinyue was still earnestly counting on his fingers, deep in thought.
"I want to visit many places, many places I've never been to, like Jianye..."
"I probably won't be able to go, you should ask the others," Xu Qingyan cut off his words, sincerely saying, "I really want to, but unfortunately, I am an ox or horse you can't understand."
"I need to make money, to live, there are so many things to be busy with."
"But you can't just not have holidays, right?"
"Yes."
"But they say, youth has no price..."
"Stop with the 'youth has no price', the more I live, the scarier it gets," Xu Qingyan said, "Shen Jinyue, is your life just about fun and gas?"
"Yeah."
"Well, I'm envious, goodbye," Xu Qingyan waved his hand and left without looking back, it was too fucking heart-wrenching.
If you spend your life with only money and nothing to strive for, not working or having goals, just eating, drinking, and having fun every day, you'll find when you get old that there's nothing left to regret in this life.
"Hey, Xu..."
Shen Jinyue stood in the hallway, his outstretched hand not yet lowered, slowly drooping again. He had really wanted to ask how much he made and could pay him.
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But the mont she rembered her mother telling her not to discuss money with friends—it was disrespectful—it all beca awkward again. Making friends is such a hassle, and even when you do, it's always busy.
Xu Qingyan went back to her room, not really drunk, and continued to pull out her phone to charge it and look at lessons. She studied a bit of music theory and composition and knew she needed to practice more whenever she had the ti; the only way to get better at sothing you're bad at is to practice.
In the blink of an eye, it was 8:30 pm.
As expected, Bai Jinze was eliminated with six votes and didn't stand a chance to turn things around. The other two votes ca from You Zijun and Liu Renzhi, who, without much hesitation, followed the majority.
At the beginning of the show, Xu Qingyan was the one being isolated, while Bai Jinze had decent relations with the other three participants. As for what they discussed, that's sothing they knew in their hearts.
For You Zijun and Liu Renzhi, Xu Qingyan might have been a source of envy, but Bai Jinze was truly chilling to the core, and such things didn't require evidence.
With one guest down, the "Love Hunter" show was left with eight participants: three male guests and five female guests, of which Xu Qingyan alone accounted for three.
The relationships were hard to define, their complexity was astonishing.
The night fell deeper and deeper as so guests chatted on the sofa for a while. For so reason, the topic shifted to Chen Feiyu.
You Zijun hesitated for a mont before speaking up.
"Chen Feiyu once ntioned his love life to us, saying he had broken up recently, which is why he joined this show. But unexpectedly, he still had a current partner," he said.
"That's indeed a bit immoral, but now he's received his punishnt," soone added.
No one brought up Bai Jinze; he seed to be still packing his luggage on the second floor, and it was inappropriate to talk about these matters in his presence. Discussing Chen Feiyu was fine; he had left the island in the afternoon when the sea breeze was mild.
Xu Qingyan, leaning on the sofa, didn't see Bai Jinze co down for quite so ti. Just as she found it strange, Zhou Mian suddenly sent her a ssage, saying Bai Jinze was pulled aside for a chat by the director.
She hesitated for a mont and, although she wanted to laugh, she sent back a question mark.
Zhou Mian replied quickly, "Damn that bastard, he almost screwed up our year-end bonus. If it really was that son of a bitch who did that hot search scam, he's toast."
"Such things can't be traced, can they?" Xu Qingyan typed back.
"We don't understand these things, but if the big shots in the capital really take it seriously, nothing is untraceable," Zhou Mian's chat status showed he was continuously typing, "Damn it, I'm so freaking angry!"
"Doing such things, is he out of his mind? He's a lunatic. Our entire year-end bonuses are riding on this variety show, and he just brought the whole house down," he wrote.
"He's really bold. Even small-ti celebrities are going nuts, all thanks to their crazy fans' blind support. They really think they can be forgiven for anything, daring to do whatever they want."
Xu Qingyan could tell that Zhou Mian was truly anxious. He was probably hoping to earn enough for a down paynt on a house from this show. If the show went under, he could kiss that goodbye.
Blocking soone's source of inco is like killing one's parents; if Bai Jinze's actions get confird, he's finished.
"What's the situation now?" she asked.
"I don't know, he hasn't co out yet," Zhou Mian replied quickly, "This is most likely related to that asshole. Damn his mother, I really want to kick him."
Xu Qingyan didn't reply anymore, she put away her phone and looked up to find that the topic of conversation in the living room had changed.
She didn't care much about it and was about to lean back and rest when out of the corner of her eye, she saw Pei Muchan next to her turning her head to look at her, seemingly wanting to say sothing.
"What's up?"
"Aren't you going to respond to that hot search?" she asked, holding up her phone to show him.
On the screen, Jiang Yunyao had posted a Weibo and tagged him. This ssage, riding on the fa of the previous hot search, was quickly reposted and trended separately.
The content of the Weibo was brief, "The moon doesn't belong to , but at that mont, the moonlight truly shone upon . @XuChunqiu"
Xu Qingyan glanced at it, his scalp tingling instantly.
He wrote so artsy-fartsy literary tweets to make money, and you take it for real?
"Hey hey, no need to reply, it'll blow over in a while," Xu Qingyan pushed Pei Muchan's phone away, "Jiang Yunyao is a good person."
"What do you an by that?"
"Atok once said, 'If my goddess loves , then she is not my goddess.' Xu Qingyan couldn't be direct, so he said, "Have you read 'The Narrow Door'?"
At the ntion of "The Narrow Door," Lin Wanzhou sitting on the other side of the sofa imdiately turned her head.
"Oh," Pei Muchan nodded, not asking any further.
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