Liang Yu actually regretted it the moment the words left his mouth. He pursed his lips, looking both angry and aggrieved. Xu Jingzhe still had the small box in his hand. Liang Yu glanced at the mic before grabbing it and turning it off.
Xu Jingzhe had no choice but to remind him, “The stuff you just said…”
With a dark look on his face, Liang Yu called the producer and straight up told him, “You’re not allowed to air what I said just now. Delete it.”
The producer: “…”
Xu Jingzhe was still sitting atop Liang Yu. Neither of them spoke for quite a while as they stared at each other in silence. Liang Yu was still hard down there, and he was starting to get a little embarrassed, an awkwardness about him. It wasn’t clear whether he was still angry with Xu Jingzhe or whether he was angry with himself. “I’m not the kind of person who does things casually. I never thought about forcing you to do anything.”
Xu Jingzhe was stunned for a moment. It took him a while to process what the other had meant by that.
Liang Yu: “I’m not usually … that easily excited.”
After struggling with himself for a moment, he looked at Xu Jingzhe and said, “It’s only because I held you just now.”
His ears were a little red. He held Xu Jingzhe in his arms, burying his face in the other’s shoulder, and murmured in a low voice, “I’m only like this with you.”
Xu Jingzhe didn’t know what to say anymore. He felt that his heart was about to melt, feeling sweet and sour at the same time. He also felt especially sorry towards Liang Yu.
The two of them held each other for a while before separating. Xu Jingzhe held the other’s face in his hands, refusing to let go.
“It’s not that I’m not feeling it…” He explained, “I’m just a little nervous. Can you wait for me a bit longer?”
Liang Yu’s stubbornness reared its head again. He asked, “How long do I have to wait?”
Xu Jingzhe couldn’t possibly know the answer to this question, so he wasn’t sure what to say.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
If there were any relationship problems between the couple, the cameraman would usually be able to tell. However, if there was no “reality”, then there wouldn’t be any “show” either. Even if the couple were to quarrel right in front of them, the production team still needed to record it all.
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The housekeeper was still at the villa, having made dinner and kept it waiting for the two of them. The producers were well aware that the vibes weren’t quite right, but, even so, they needed to arrange activities for the two of them.
“There need to be activities or events in the evening.” The producer asked, “Do either of you have any suggestions?”
Xu Jingzhe, whose night life was rather uninteresting, sat quietly on the sofa. Liang Yu said coldly, “Can’t we just stay at home?”
The producer: “That’s okay, but do you have any plans?” They had discovered that these two didn’t particularly care about the cameras. It wasn’t the biggest deal, but what were they going to do about post-production? It’s not like they could release an entire episode of them just being intimate with each other!
“How about this?” The producer couldn’t let things stay like this forever, so he suggested, “Why don’t the two of you go shopping? Mr. Liang likes shopping, and Mr. Xu can accompany him as he shops. We will arrange just one cameraman to shadow you two, so you guys can relax a little. What do you think?”
Xu Jingzhe suspected that the production team had arranged this in advance. This wasn’t just his ego talking. Two celebrities making a visit to a public facility like a mall required a great deal of security and crowd control. The two of them were enough to bring the entire mall down.
Liang Yu, naturally, had also realized this. He favored Xu Jingzhe. He could be patient with him and speak gently to him. However, this wasn’t the case with the producer. He immediately shot back with a barb, “If you’ve already got an idea of what you want to film, then just say that, don’t beat around the bush. What? Are you afraid I’m going to say no?”
The producer: “…”
Liang Yu: “What do we need to get at the mall? Why don’t you just give me a list of everything you want us to buy? Are you not afraid of me overspending and asking you to reimburse me?”
The producer: “…”
Quite frankly, they might’ve actually put a spending limit in place if the guests were anyone else, but they didn’t have the guts to do that with Liang Yu and Xu Jingzhe. In the end, they simply pretended to assign them a task, saying that they needed to buy a gift that would move the other party. So long as the other party finds it romantic, then it’d be good.
Xu Jingzhe felt that the producers were actually quite pitiful, but the producers didn’t think so. They only had one request of him. “Mr. Xu, please get Mr. Liang into a good mood. So long as he’s happy, everything else will work itself out.”
Xu Jingzhe: “…”
Liang Yu had his own preferences when it came to shopping. His usual clothing style included high street or some niche designer brands from Europe. He may not know much about fashion, but the one thing he did know was that he wanted to impress.
Of course, the production team wasn’t going to choose an overly large place for the guests to run around in. In any case, the dimensions of the shopping mall were sufficient enough, and the environment was high-end. Most importantly, it met Liang Yu’s requirements.
Xu Jingzhe idled in the cloakroom for a little too long before heading out. Once he came out, Liang Yu impatiently asked him, “What were you doing in there? I already picked out your clothes for you, didn’t I?”
Xu Jingzhe almost never picked out his own clothes anymore. Since the other’s arrival, his cloakroom had gone through a complete overhaul. He couldn’t even find any of his old clothes. Liang Yu had replaced all of them with new clothes, so, naturally, he didn’t have to worry about what to wear each day. Liang Yu even matched his socks and underwear. The two had joked that, if he were to quit the industry, he could always start up a trendy brand and sell his own clothes.
“I think I still have some eyeliner from the photoshoot.” Xu Jingzhe fluttered his eyes shut and tilted his head up at Liang Yu. “Can you help me take a look?”
Liang Yu bowed his head for a bit. He couldn’t bring himself to rub too hard at Xu Jingzhe’s eyelids, brushing them gently like willows in the wind. He then said, “It’s fine. You’re still as pretty as ever.”
Xu Jingzhe glanced at him, a sort of light rebuke in his eyes. Xu Jingzhe rarely looked at him this way, so Liang Yu found it rather amusing, heat rising in his heart.
Outside the cloakroom, there was a camera. So long as there were cameras, Liang Yu could kiss Xu Jingzhe as much as he pleased, and he made full use of the fact.
Therefore, when the producer came to urge them along, he was once again met with the sight of the two guests kissing one another.
The producer: “…”
He was really too tired for this. He needed to rest his eyes for a moment. “Gentlemen, let’s go shopping, shall we?”
Liang Yu pulled himself away from Xu Jingzhe, helping the other wipe the saliva from his lips as he did so. He then shot the producer a stern look.
The shopping mall that the production crew ultimately ended up going with was called Parkview Green. They had already made preparations with the mall’s management and security. In fact, there were hardly any people there when they arrived. The few people that were there had been informed about the shooting in advance and generally weren’t too concerned about celebrities.
The exterior of the shopping mall was a pyramid-shaped glass structure. The most well-known part of the building was its two hundred and sixty meter long walkway. The program team intended for the couple to walk along that bridge, as it would undoubtedly make for a beautiful scene.
Xu Jingzhe treated this as part of the job, so he went along with it. Liang Yu, on the other hand, didn’t care as much. Sometimes, he would just run off, Xu Jingzhe in tow, so the cameramen had to be quick-witted to avoid being thrown off his trail.
After crossing the walkway, the two of them went to the north side of the mall to check out the various clothing stores there. Liang Yu’s interest in fashion wasn’t this one-off thing. He’d been sporadically studying up on it for the past couple of years. Whenever he was free, he’d get in contact with both domestic and international designers.
“A lot of my clothes are brand sponsorships,” Liang Yu told Xu Jingzhe. “High street fashion and designer fashion both need someone to promote them. I look good in anything, so it’s easy for the stuff I wear to get popular.”
Xu Jingzhe laughed. “I can’t say that I’m surprised.”
In the end, they didn’t do that much shopping, but Liang Yu still picked out some more clothes for Xu Jingzhe.
Later, Xu Jingzhe mentioned that he wanted to check out the jewelry. Liang Yu took one look at the massive rock on his hand and began speaking in this put upon tone of voice.
“You want to buy more?” He asked, “What do you want this time? Jade? Pink diamond? Gold? Gold’s not bad. It holds its value.”
As he spoke, he began to actually consider it. “We can just buy the gold itself and then have a jeweler carve into a something you like.”
“…” Xu Jingzhe felt a little helpless. He really couldn’t bring himself to dampen the other’s “nouveau riche” spirit, so he just tactfully said, “Let’s discuss it once we get there.”
Liang Yu took this as his agreement and happily led the way to the jewelry store.
Xu Jingzhe seemed to have a specific jewelry store in mind, a store called Jiangnan. Liang Yu also knew of this brand. It specialized in designing matching couples’ rings and had even won awards both at home and abroad.
Upon reaching the entrance of the store, Liang Yu finally realized that there was someone there specifically to welcome them. He turned towards Xu Jingzhe with a puzzled look. Xu Jingzhe seemed to be holding back laughter. He pushed him by his waist and whispered, “Let’s go in.”
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