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What Ye Chen had been pondering for a long time yet couldn’t imagine to happen was unexpectedly about to happen!
It was about to happen right before his eyes, yet he wasn’t involved in it!
It’s so infuriating that I can’t manage to smile anymore!
Gu Xi continued, “This movement is quite challenging to perform. First, Ren Jing mustn’t show that he’s tired. Du Ke had to trust Ren Jing while still being pleasantly surprised. While you’re looking at each other, Ren Jing has to show a doting look while Du Ke has to show a slightly blushing look…”
After Gu Xi said all that, Du Ke smiled bitterly and said, “It’s…impossible to be done.”
Gu Xi responded, “You can do it! Believe in Ren Jing!” This movement would be more difficult for the man to do, while the woman simply needed to remain to be surprised, bashful, and affectionate.
However, Du Ke replied, “I don’t trust myself…”
Gu Xi was puzzled.
Du Ke finished her words, “Lately, I’ve gained a lot of weight… Would Ren Jing be able to lift me up?”
Gu Xi wouldn’t believe it when an actress said that they were fat. Even if they only gain 0.001 jin, it still counts as gaining weight? As if a certain someone hadn’t gained 180 jin of weight before!
He waved his hand and said, “No worries, no worries, Ren Jing has good stamina, I’m clear about that.”
A lot of people stared at him after Gu Xi finished his words. At this time, he realized: He was gay, not to mention that he had come out of the closet long ago. It seemed like his words had misled others into thinking about something else.
He simply blurted ‘haha’, then explained, “Don’t think too much about it. I just happen to have watched some of the movies Ren Jing starred in and got to know him from there. I wanted to scout him as the lead actor, after all, it’s only natural that he has to fit the role.”
Then, he added, “Besides, Movie King Ren is a straight man, I would never hit on a straight man.”
Ren Jing glanced at Ye Chen.
Ye Chen was absolutely bewildered seeing him doing so. What are you looking at, you damned straight man! He took the opportunity to stare back at him.
He was giving him such a fierce glare, yet all that lingered in Ren Jing’s eyes was a glimmer of a smile. He hasn’t done any lifting, yet all that he’s doing is enticing others! Du Ke, who stood close to him, couldn’t look straight at his eyes anymore because of that!
9.40 AM.
They finally begin to do the ‘lift up high’ movement, unfortunately the person doing the lifting didn’t get to lift the person who desperately wanted to be lifted high.
Ye Chen was scowling at them in contempt on the side, resulting in his jealousy showing clearly in his eyes.
Fortunately, Gu Xi was so deeply immersed in the shooting, or else he would have certainly noticed his best friend’s ‘dissatisfied’ look.
Gu Xi didn’t notice it, but Ren Jing could see it clearly instead.
He (one-sidedly) concluded that Ye Chen was being jealous and felt so sweet in his heart that it nearly melted. The promotional video was taken very smoothly thanks to him being in the mood. He simply lifted Du Ke up two or three times and pulled it off.
Du Ke’s face was slightly flushed, thus she didn’t need to act deliberately and was completely brought into the act by Ren Jing. It felt like she had returned to the days when she was seventeen or eighteen, and that was also when she met her now-husband who was still young, and they… Wait, her husband was fair-skinned and so delicate when he was eighteen, it would be a lot of trouble for him to even hug her—things like lifting up high was out of the question then!
Gu Xi felt extremely delighted upon seeing the photo. “So wonderful! Very fitting!”
Ye Chen moved closer and took a look, resulting in him immediately smelling the overwhelmingly sour stench. “Sham!”
Gu Xi sneered at him. “Yeah, your acting skills are the one thing that’s not a sham.”
Ye Chen took a glance at Ren Jing’s eyes which seemed to be twinkling with stars and inexplicably felt his heart clenched, but his words were still ‘profound’ as usual. “With that acting skill, his future wife would most likely be utterly deceived by him!”
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Gu Xi gave him a good smack and said, “Don’t say that grapes are sour when you can’t eat them.” He simply thought that Ye Chen was jealous of Ren Jing’s acting skills, but little did he know that Ye Chen was actually jealous of the two who were doing ‘lift up high’.
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Death System responded, “Oh my, you sure think so far to the future!”
Ye Chen, “…”
There were only five minutes left, so Ye Chen was left with a single option.
He had to trick Ren Jing and forcefully had him lift him up high.
And what would happen after that? Ren Jing would think that he was a fool and avoid him like the plague from then on. With that, he wouldn’t be able to complete the future missions and all that awaited him would be death.
Ye Lan would be so rejoiced after Ye Chen was dead, but what about Ye Chen’s parents?
Not to mention the old man…
Although Ye Chen had always disappointed him, grandpa certainly wouldn’t want to see the young ones die before himself.
After pondering for a while, dark clouds hung heavily over Ye Chen. He hid in the corner without saying a word, looking very pitiful.
Xiao Liu handed over a cup of water to him. Ye Chen shook his head but then thought better of how this might be the last cup of water he could get, thus he took the water and drank it down in one gulp.
Death System is really quiet, huh.
In fact, Ye Chen couldn’t blame it for behaving like that.
Without Death System, he would’ve already died. Just how mystical it was for someone to be brought back to life after death? There must have been some sort of price he had to pay.
Even though Death System had made him do troublesome things, when compared with his life, these weren’t much of a trouble for him to do.
But he himself was a good-for-nothing… Right, he had always been a good-for-nothing.
Ye Chen was feeling completely at a loss, but wanted to pee not long after. Wouldn’t have drank that cup of water had I known it would come to this earlier, it’s literally spoiling the mood. Wouldn’t it be such a disgrace if he spent his last moment in the restroom?
Upon thinking so, Ye Chen hurriedly got up and ‘hastily’ rushed to the restroom. He had to solve his physiological problem before the time showed 9.55 AM.
Right after he went there, Ren Jing followed after him.
He had been looking at Ye Chen for a while, and when he noticed him looking so grieved he was about to cry, it made his heart ache.
It’s just an audition, yet he’s already that jealous…
In the future… Right, Movie King Ren had planned ‘their’ future all by himself: If Ye Chen didn’t like (what he was doing), he would just withdraw to a position behind the scenes.
There were two minutes left.
The moment Ye Chen went out of the restroom after taking care of his needs, he bumped into Ren Jing head-on.
He opened his eyes wide and shot him a death glare.
Ren Jing’s heart leaped because of being glared at. For a moment, Movie King Ren with his usually perfect composure was unexpectedly somewhat at a loss for words.
Ye Chen felt that this was his last and only hope.
“Uh…” Ye Chen licked his lips, finding it difficult to bring the matter up.
However, he had no idea that he looked really captivating right now: him averting his gaze, his moist lips, and his fair skin were touched with a slightly pinkish color; all of these were like soft feathers which were ‘tickling’ the tip of Ren Jing’s heart, making his heart race uncontrollably.
He suddenly recalled Ye Chen who was jealous while they were on the shooting site…
Ren Jing smiled, then wrapped his big hands around Ye Chen’s waist and lifted him up just like that.
Ye Chen’s eyes increasingly widened, astonishment and happiness showed clearly in his face!
Ren Jing looked up at him and was unable to contain the rapid pounding of his heart any longer as a result. He put Ye Chen down by the side of the bathroom sink then kissed his lips after making sure that he had sat down properly.
Ye Chen’s mind turned a complete blank in response to the kiss.
Followed by that was Death System saying, “Congratulations, you’ve completed the daily mission. You’re rewarded with one life point.” Surely he almost missed what I said, though!
He lived, he actually lived!
Tremendous joy bursted in his chest. Ye Chen was so elated that he wrapped his arms around Ren Jing, wanting to shout with all his might: Savior, a savior!
But of course he couldn’t let it out, since his lips were kissed by his ‘savior’ as his tongue was being hooked to the point that he felt limp and numb.
Ye Chen was in a daze because of being kissed like that. This went on until Ren Jing let go of him and whispered in his ear, “Someone’s coming.”
Ye Chen immediately jumped down from the sink, then lowered his head as he ran out of the restroom.
Ren Jing followed him, a smile ever so sweet painted on his face.
Back at the shooting site. Gu Xi shot a glance at Ye Chen and was startled for a moment before sternly glaring at him and said, “You’re just going to the restroom, yet why does it feel like spring is in the air judging from your face after you came out?”
Ye Chen, “…” After a moment of silence, he exclaimed irritably, “Get lost!”
Gu Xi looked him up and down for quite a while before moving closer to him and said in whispers, “Say, did you by any chance run into your Mr. Chocolate and share a passionate kiss with him? How surprising, Little Chen Chen, you’re actually quite capable.”
In a sense, there wasn’t even a single word wrong with what Gu Xi had said!
Ye Chen braced himself to say, “Use that imagination on the script, don’t get distracted out of nowhere.”
Gu Xi let out a mischievous laughter while having a wicked expression on his face that read, ‘Just you wait, you won’t get to call me Fatty Gu anymore if I don’t get to reveal who your lover is’.
Ye Chen found him insufferable, so he chose to avoid him.
The crew called it a day when the clock struck eleven, all of them pleased with their work. Du Ke was the only one berating Ren Jing, “Listen, I’m married, so get a hold of yourself more! If by any chance I have an affair on impulse because of you, my husband will take you down with him!”
Ren Jing was feeling incredibly ecstatic, but he simply responded by telling her to rest assured and completely kept his distance from Du Ke so that Ye Chen wouldn’t get jealous.
Afterwards, Gu Xi suggested, “Let’s have a meal after this.”
Du Ke replied, “I still have an event to attend, I have to leave first.”
Ren Jing said nothing in response.
Ye Chen had been feeling so on edge for the whole day, he just wanted to go back home and hit the sack. He hurriedly said, “I also have something to do!”
Ren Jing followed suit by saying, “Since everyone’s busy, let’s dine together another day.”
Gu Xi was only suggesting it casually, thus he said, “Sure, then…”
Right at this time, Death System’s voice resounded in Ye Chen’s mind, “Friendly reminder, you’ve completed 43% of the weekly mission: ‘Stay with Ren Jing for eight hours’.”
Ye Chen, “!!!”
He had almost forgotten about that matter!
Sure enough, Ye Chen met Ren Jing at 7.30 AM in the morning and ‘stayed together’ with him until 11 AM. Three and a half hours divided by eight hours, hm… That should be 43%!
Only four and a half hours to go and he would be done with the mission!
How regretful! Ye Chen was overcome with so much remorse. Why did I turn down the offer to dine together just a while back? If we had a meal together, it would have lasted for at least two hours!
In an instant, Ye Chen felt that he had lost a hundred million life points.
What should I do to make up for it?
After going through a fierce battle of life and death today, Ye Chen had gained a deeper insight of how crucial it was to have a stash of a single life point!
Supposing he had one, then he need not to hastily have to complete the mission by 9.55 AM. With that, he’d be able to put it off until the evening—even better, before 9.55 AM next morning—since he had a stashed point that could be deducted. He wouldn’t die as long as it didn’t drop to zero!
I have 24 hours a day in the world anyway, there are so many things I could do within that time. I definitely wouldn’t be as ‘desperate’ as I was today anymore.
Ye Chen made up his mind that he had to forcefully scrape together four and a half hours of staying together with Ren Jing, even if it meant he had to stalk him.
Gu Xi asked Ye Chen again if he wanted to have a meal together, but Ye Chen cooked up an excuse to decline him.
Gu Xi didn’t think much about it and called the crew to have a meal. He still has a lot to do in the afternoon, after all.
Ye Chen dilly-dallied for a while. When he noticed Ren Jing getting into the elevator, he hastily followed him.
Four people stood inside the tightly closed elevator.
Ren Jing, Ye Chen, and their assistants, Yang Sen and Xiao Liu respectively.
Ye Chen was at a loss for a long time and couldn’t bring himself to speak first.
Instead, Ren Jing was the one who asked him, “Where are you going for lunch?”
Ye Chen asked him in reply, “What about you?”
Ren Jing replied, “I’m going to Lanting.”
Ye Chen promptly responded, “What a coincidence! I’ve also reserved a table in Lanting!”
The author has something to say:
How furious, I didn’t get to write about tomorrow’s mission. It’ll be a more exciting one, though, hahaha!
