Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Pei Xu’s silence made everyone feel that he was even more terrifying.
A dog that bites doesn’t bark, and a man who accomplishes great things always keeps quiet.
He was so silent that no one could fathom his inner thoughts. No one knew what he would do tonight.
They looked at Zhai Xingchen. Zhai Xingchen was so young and naive; he was still a blank slate. How could he possibly be a match for the scheming Pei?
At the door of room number one, Lin Qingning patted Hu Ying on the shoulder: “Stop looking.”
Hu Ying and Lin Qingning returned together, and he took off his clothes listlessly, sat down in a chair, and sighed.
“Are you going to wash up?” Lin Qingning asked.
Hu Ying said, “No, I might have to go out again later.”
So Lin Qingning went to wash up.
Hu Ying leaned back in his chair and pondered for a while. He took off his hat, which had flattened his hair. He ran his hands through his hair, then opened his phone to watch videos he had taken at the ski resort that day.
The more he looked at it, the more alarmed he became.
Because he discovered that in that short video of just over a minute, Pei Xu had looked at Zhai Xingchen no less than three times.
Zhai Xingchen and his group of six walked to the entrance of Room 2. Huo Cheng and Duan Yihua stopped and said, “See you tomorrow.”
“See you tomorrow.”
Huo Cheng glanced at Zhai Xingchen, then at Pei Xu, and suddenly asked Yan Zhi, “By the way, do you cover the cameras when you sleep?”
He felt he was quite clever; instead of asking Pei Xu and Zhai Xingchen, he chose to ask Yan Zhi and the others, making his purpose seem less obvious.
Yan Zhi said, “I won’t cover it up.”
He slept with Wen Nuo, how could he possibly cover up the camera?
Wen Nuo, who had always kept a low profile, suddenly spoke up at this moment: “We never cover the camera, and Director Guo also said before that we should try not to cover it.”
Huo Cheng said, “We don’t cover it up either. It feels weird to cover it up when two people are living together.”
After he finished speaking, he glanced at Zhai Xingchen and Pei Xu.
Zhai Xingchen said, “Isn’t anyone covering up?”
“There’s no need to cover it up,” Huo Cheng said. “It’s just the two of us living here, and it’s so cold. Who would go shirtless in front of the camera?”
“Then we won’t cover it up anymore,” Zhai Xingchen said.
Pei Xu, true to his low-key style, remained silent.
Huo Cheng was completely satisfied.
Having a camera was like having a third eye.
Huo Cheng and Duan Yihua walked towards room number two together. Even when they were almost at the lake, Huo Cheng was still looking back at their backs. He didn’t go in directly, but stood by the lake and smoked a cigarette.
The wind by the lake was cold. He didn’t like wearing hats, and his hair was short, so the cold wind made his forehead ache.
When they reached room number three, Yan Zhi and Wen Nuo saw the two snowmen at the intersection again.
Just yesterday, when they saw the snowmen, they were just two snowmen.
So cute.
But looking at them today, they were no longer just two snowmen.
The two snowmen were holding hands.
Oh.
Yan Zhi appeared calm on the surface, but his inner emotions were more extreme than anyone else’s. His emotions were much more intense than Huo Cheng’s and Hu Ying’s, but unlike Hu Ying and Huo Cheng, he didn’t linger in room number three and left immediately. Wen Nuo, on the other hand, would turn back and look at the room even after he had walked a distance away.
Pei Xu’s tense emotions finally relaxed.
He didn’t actually care about his rivals’ hostility. As Pei Huanong’s son, he had been the center of attention since childhood and had developed a talent for indifference. He didn’t care how others treated him. He could understand and didn’t care whether Huo Cheng and the others bullied or attacked him. The reason he was so tense was mainly because of Zhai Xingchen.
Just because he didn’t care didn’t mean Zhai Xingchen didn’t care either.
Zhai Xingchen went to the bathroom first. He opened the door and went in. The room was terribly cold. He put down his bag and immediately started a fire.
When Zhai Xingchen returned from the restroom, he saw that Pei Xu was already lighting a fire.
“I’ll do it,” Zhai Xingchen said.
Pei Xu turned around and glanced at him with a smile.
Zhai Xingchen felt that Pei Xu outside and Pei Xu inside the house were like two completely different people. The Pei Xu outside was so aloof and silent, but the Pei Xu inside had such a bright smile, with a kind of resolute gentleness.
This feeling of being treated differently was really touching; it created a sense of intimacy. It was as if it was constantly persuading you, “Look, we’re different.”
He squatted down next to Pei Xu and placed the firewood on the burning oil paper. Pei Xu took another piece of firewood and used it to lift the oil paper, and Zhai Xingchen saw the scars on the back of his hand.
He then took the firewood from Pei Xu’s hand and said, “Go wash up first, and then apply some medicine.”
Pei Xu looked at the back of his hand, the firelight reflecting off his bright red hand, and said, “After bleeding, I actually feel much better.”
As he spoke, he placed the back of his hand against the fire and warmed it.
The two suddenly fell into an ambiguous and awkward silence. Zhai Xingchen pursed his lips and focused intently on placing the coal pieces on the plate.
“Don’t be afraid,” Pei Xu suddenly said.
Zhai Xingchen didn’t even look at him, only saying while holding the coal, “What would I be afraid of?”
“Me.”
“I’m not afraid of you.”
Pei Xu remained silent.
Pei Xu’s slender fingers were already burning hot, itchy and painful. Now he clenched his fist and turned to look at Zhai Xingchen.
“Yo yo yo yo”.
“The atmosphere has definitely changed; things are different when things are made clear!”
In the production crew, everyone was staring at the monitor in room number three.
“They could pretend before, but now that everything’s out in the open, the atmosphere has definitely changed. Now they’re in a gay relationship that could potentially become a couple!”
“Pei Xu is such a two-faced person. On the way back, he was so arrogant when he was discussing the date with us.”
Upon hearing this, Guo Bing thought of Pei Xu in the car.
He was wrapped in a down jacket, looking handsome, but his attitude was indifferent: “I want a car.”
“Give me a handheld selfie camera, and I’ll take it myself without any staff following us.”
After agreeing to everything, Pei Xu began to confirm with them one by one the road conditions from one place to another, how long it would take, what problems the car was prone to encountering while driving, and what solutions were available, etc. He was incredibly meticulous. His deep voice was very soothing, but lacked emotion, making it feel like he was coordinating work with them.
“Director, do you really not know where Pei Xu is going tomorrow, or what he’s going to do?”
Guo Bing said, “I asked him, and he said he hadn’t decided yet and needed to think about it more tonight. We can only watch the recording when he gets back.”
“After today’s PK competition, the number of fans for the ‘Rising Sun and Stars’ couple has exploded, and they’re still trending on Weibo. I hope their date this time is exciting enough, and they can pull off another iconic moment like the ‘Starry Night Magic Show’!”
“I don’t think Pei Xu will necessarily go for a dramatic date this time,” screenwriter Liu said. “He seems to value privacy a lot, especially when it comes to relationships.”
As soon as she finished speaking, Pei Xu glanced at the camera.
“Oh no, oh no, oh no, he’s going to cover it up again!”
The staff member had just shouted when Pei Xu grabbed a jacket and walked towards the camera.
When Zhai Xingchen saw Pei Xu covering the camera, he said, “Didn’t everyone say they wouldn’t cover it?”
Pei Xu said, “I’m not used to being patted to sleep.”
He looked at Zhai Xingchen and chuckled, “You said you weren’t afraid.”
Zhai Xingchen’s face had turned red from the heat of the fire. Then Pei Xu said, “When I slept in Nancheng before, I covered it up too. You saw that, didn’t you?”
Zhai Xingchen asked, “When you lived with Hu Ying, did you cover it up too?”
Zhai Xingchen regretted asking the question as soon as he did, realizing he had asked a very dangerous question.
Pei Xu replied, “No.”
Zhai Xingchen didn’t ask any further questions.
Pei Xu added, “It’s different.”
“Aaaaaaah!” the staff members screamed.
“Different, tsk tsk tsk.”
“Now that it’s out in the open, we can just say it, right?”
“Zhai Xingchen is completely silent, he must have been charmed!”
“I feel like Pei Xu’s actions have backfired,” one staff member said. “Without visuals, just sound, what if we put in a completely black screen with subtitles? It’ll just feel even more ambiguous…”
“Let’s do it!” Guo Bing said.
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