Edited by Ning
The recording of this episode of the reality show alone took nearly five hours, from 7pm to 12pm. The entire crew of the show wanted them to come out quickly, so when Zhou Ziheng opened the door, almost everyone cheered outside for this scene.
Ruan Xiao and Cen Cen followed him closely, and when they came out, they were sprayed with ribbons by the staff waiting outside the door.
“So did we win or lose?” Cen Cen, with a ribbon on her head, looked at Ruan Xiao with a dazed expression.
Ruan Xiao smiled and lay her head on Cen Cen’s shoulder, “We are the second to come out, and the points are still very high.”
Cen Cen looked shocked, “So Ziheng is not the killer?”
Standing next to her, Xia Xiqing smiled and joked, “It’s me.”
Cen Cen looked at Xia Xiqing in shock again. Ruan Xiao pushed Xia Xiqing, “Don’t tease Sister Cen Cen.”
The push itself didn’t matter, but it happened to push Xia Xiqing into the arms of Zhou Ziheng who was standing behind him, and his subconscious reaction made him reach out and grab Xia Xiqing’s arm from behind, and hold him.
The tip of Xia Xiqing’s hair swept across Zhou Ziheng’s chin, itchy.
Xia Xiqing also didn’t expect Ruan Xiao to over-push himself. The moment he was caught by Zhou Ziheng, he turned his head back and looked at him unexpectedly. After his sight met him, he quickly recovered his composure and said softly, “Thank you.”
This sentence was swept across like that inadvertent hair tip, Xia Xiqing took the initiative to step back a little distance, and then continued to joke as if nothing happened, “Ruan Xiao, I couldn’t tell at all, you look so gentle and weak but you’re actually a strangely strong girl.”
“Would I say I’m a Mensa who made a lot of progress using physical strength?” Ruan Xiao stretched her waist. “I’ve been nervous all the time when I’m inside the house. Now I feel so hungry as soon as I relax.”
Cen Cen agreed, “Me too, I feel tired and hungry, I didn’t feel it before.”
Zhou Ziheng made a rare suggestion, “Let’s eat supper after work.”
“Okay.” Ruan Xiao grabbed Cen Cen, “Let’s go together, I want to eat hot pot.”
Everyone was talking about the choice of supper, only Xia Xiqing felt that something was wrong. His eyes swept over the few people present, then looked inside the door, and finally asked, “Wait a minute…Where is Sirui?”
“Sirui…” Ruan Xiao just remembered, “Ah! Sirui was just calling from the study…”
The cheers were too loud, overshadowing Shang Sirui’s cry for help.
When everyone finally rushed to the study, Shang Sirui had already given up calling for help. He leaned back on the chair and looked at the ceiling. Hearing the sound of the study door opening, he sat up straight, “You finally remembered me!”
A few people laughed together, Zhou Ziheng also wanted to laugh, but it would be too inhumane to laugh now, so he had to hold back and walk over to help Shang Sirui untie the rope.
“No, you are too serious Ziheng.” Shang Sirui sitting on the chair began to complain at him, “I was already handcuffed, and you still tied me with a rope.”
“That’s what we were like when we first came in.” Zhou Ziheng threw the rope aside. Looking at the handcuffs around his wrist, he remembered that he didn’t take the key. Just as he was about to get up, he saw a hand pass the key to his eyes.
Zhou Ziheng raised his head, Xia Xiqing’s clean and innocent smiling face was in his sight.
It just looked clean and simple, he denied it again in his heart, and then took the key in Xia Xiqing’s hand.
“He wasn’t handcuffed when he came in.” Xia Xiqing smiled, “Only I was handcuffed. It was worse than you. My eyes were also blindfolded.”
“Wow… it’s too difficult for you to escape.”
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Why is he comparing?
With a click, the handcuffs were released. Zhou Ziheng recovered his thoughts.
There was nothing to compare.
Shang Sirui, whose shackles were removed, jumped a few times with ease. He held Xia Xiqing’s shoulder with one hand and Zhou Ziheng’s shoulder with the other hand reluctantly. “It’s over at last.”
Several staff members stepped forward to help them remove the microphones from their bodies. Xia Xiqing suddenly felt relaxed, raised his hand and rubbed his neck. On one side of his face he saw Zhou Ziheng’s nape with a ribbon that had not been removed before.
He stretched out his hand.
“What are you doing?” Zhou Ziheng suddenly felt a chill, and when he turned his head, he saw Xia Xiqing’s hand reaching his neck.
He looked like a little tiger with the furs standing on alert. Xia Xiqing said “sorry” while suppressing a smile, then took off the ribbon.
There was nothing to be sorry about, he just wanted to touch him with the pretense of taking the ribbon on purpose.
Holding one end of the ribbon, his slender fingers shook in front of Zhou Ziheng, let go, and let the ribbon fall slowly like a feather, finally lying at his feet.
The color of the ribbon was very eye-catching. Just like the smile on Xia Xiqing’s face at this moment.
Zhou Ziheng felt awkward for a long time, but still said thank you.
“You are welcome.”
Why is the ending of this person’s speech always so light? It’s like a frivolous cloud lying in the wind that can’t be grasped.
The director of the program group came over and said, “We will film some post-recording highlights.” He handed one of the cameras in his hand to Sirui and the other to Cen Cen. “There are two cameras here, you can take a tour of this house in two teams. It took our production team two and a half days to build it up.”
“Don’t worry, director, I happened to want to take a look around.” Shang Sirui took the camera with a smile and pointed it at Zhou Ziheng’s face. “It’s already on, isn’t it?”
“It’s on, it’s on.” The director stepped aside after speaking. Seeing that Zhou Ziheng was about to hide from the camera, Shang Sirui immediately grabbed him, and turned the camera to his face by the way, and coughed twice, “Hello everyone, I am today’s VJ and host of the show, HighFive’s Shang Sirui! Hi~~ Now let me introduce, Dangdangdang—” He turned the camera to Zhou Ziheng’s face, “Zhou Ziheng! Wow, your face looks good in the camera.”
Zhou Ziheng jokingly covered the camera lens with his palm. Shang Sirui struggled to get the camera out of his clutches and turned to Xia Xiqing, “This one is our super invincible and smart Xia Xiqing. His performance in the secret room was really shocking and amazes me. If it wasn’t for Xiqing, maybe I would have won.”
“So you are expressing dissatisfaction?” Xia Xiqing smiled gently, “Your performance also shocked me.”
“Hehe.” Shang Sirui held the camera and turned around and pointed at the entrance of the house. “Let’s take a look first.”
After the recording, Shang Sirui was like a kid who had been injected with chicken blood. He was walking around with the camera. Zhou Ziheng and Xia Xiqing walked behind him. They only said a few words when the camera cue arrived.
When he walked to the study, Shang Sirui was extremely excited, “It’s here that I was imprisoned by Ziheng! He handcuffed me and tied me with a rope!” His camera turned to Zhou Ziheng, “This is the handsome guy who kidnapped me.”
“Pfft.” Xia Xiqing couldn’t help laughing. Zhou Ziheng, who was caught by Shang Sirui holding the lens to his face, said calmly, “Who told you to lie?”
“That was all forced by the program crew. I panicked, okay.” Shang Sirui was a little curious, “By the way, how did you find the last password? I searched for it for a long time and haven’t found it.”
“It’s in this room.” Zhou Ziheng took out a flashlight from his jacket pocket. “This flashlight I found on the sofa and also two key words written on the clue, ‘study and turn off the lights’…”
Before Zhou Ziheng’s words were finished, Shang Sirui, who reacted too quickly, stretched out his free hand to press the light switch at the door, “Is it a clue that can only be seen when the light is turned off?”
His hand was caught.
“Don’t turn off the lights!”
Xia Xiqing was stunned. He didn’t even react to turning off the lights. He saw Zhou Ziheng grabbing Shang Sirui’s arm without any hesitation and stopping his action.
“What’s the matter?” Shang Sirui looked at Zhou Ziheng suspiciously.
To be honest, Zhou Ziheng didn’t expect that he would stop him like this. That sentence was almost blurted out and there was no process of thinking at all.
“What he means is that the camera is shooting. There should be no infrared shooting…” Xia Xiqing quietly held Zhou Ziheng’s wrist. It was the protruding wrist bone that exposed the cuff. He took down his hand, “right.”
“Yeah.” Zhou Ziheng quietly freed his hand from Xia Xiqing’s, “I’ll tell you directly. After turning off the light, use this flashlight to light four corners, and there will be a numerical code, you just crack one.”
“So that’s it…” Shang Sirui nodded as if he understood, and then sighed regretfully, “I feel like I’m missing a clue! Otherwise, it’s me who wins. I’m so angry. ”
After shooting the last room, the three came to the underground passage connected to the out platform, which directly connected to the external recording preparation area. The passage was very narrow, and Zhou Ziheng walked with difficulty.
Fortunately there are lights, otherwise, when he dropped down earlier…
Fortunately? Why is it fortunate?
Zhou Ziheng feels very strange. Now he is more and more confused about himself. It seems that a villain forcefully moved into his head. He says strange things all day long, which makes his whole body a little nervous.
Shang Sirui walked in front alone, walking quickly, and said the closing remarks to the camera. Xia Xiqing followed Zhou Ziheng very closely.
The narrow corridor compressed the space together with breathing, and the air around the body seemed to turn into small particles suspended around the body, floating like planktons.
Suddenly feeling that the shirt on his back was grabbed, Zhou Ziheng turned sideways slightly. Xia Xiqing didn’t expect this difficult guy to turn around so obediently. The moment he grabbed the hem of his clothes, he took a step closer to speak.
In this way, the distance is once again compressed sharply.
In the field of vision, the small nose mole suddenly enlarged, approached, briefly touched the corners of Zhou Ziheng's lips then slid past like a meteor, and moved away.
Those tiny particles floating like luminous jellyfish suddenly come to a standstill.
The air condensed.
In the not-so-bright corridor, Shang Sirui’s childish words were like the background sound that gradually faded away, but another sound slowly strengthened.
Thump——
Thump, thump——
Zhou Ziheng was a little flustered. He regained his senses in a panic. He just wanted to back off in a hurry, but he forgot that this place was so narrow that it couldn’t allow his 193 cm height to walk around at will.
“Oh, be careful.” Xia Xiqing looked at Zhou Ziheng’s head bumping into the upper end of the passage. He tried to catch him, but he failed. When he was flustered, Zhou Ziheng’s foot slipped again, and his whole body fell to the ground.
Those small particles that were originally tense to stillness and invisible to others also fell rapidly, like a large jar of pearl candy falling from the sky, jingling on Zhou Ziheng’s body.
Zhou Ziheng shook his head, trying to throw the illusion in front of him out of his sight.
He was really embarrassed to the extreme.
Hearing the movement from behind, Shang Sirui shouted towards this end, “What happened there?”
Xia Xiqing responded immediately, “It’s okay, Ziheng accidentally fell. You go up first.”
After speaking, he stretched out a hand towards Zhou Ziheng.
Zhou Ziheng didn’t even look at those hands. He stood up and patted the ash on his body awkwardly. When he turned around, he noticed a pain in his tailbone and he had to walk slowly while holding on to the wall.
“Are you alright?”
“I’m okay.”
“Pfft.” There was another chuckle.
Zhou Ziheng felt uncomfortable in his heart and seemed to be looked down upon. He wanted to get rid of the embarrassing atmosphere as soon as possible and turn away from this unglamorous topic, so he coughed twice, turned his back to Xia Xiqing and asked, “You… What were you going to say? ”
“You remember that.” Xia Xiqing’s tone, as always, was as gentle and frivolous as the wind, which could stir people’s hearts so that they can’t calm down.
“Are you going to tell me?”
The tone is quite fierce, and the tips of his ears are obviously red.
“I just wanted to ask… how did you recognize me,” Step by step, Xia Xiqing stepped on the path Zhou Ziheng had walked, stepping on his shadow, “Just after I entered the study with the lights off.”
Zhou Ziheng suddenly stopped talking and was about to go out. He went up the steps in silence.
As a love scene veteran, Xia Xiqing is well versed in the verbal skills that should be mastered when teasing. If the other party does not speak, he can always keep the topic from getting into an awkward situation.
“I guess… is it because of the smell of my perfume?” Xia Xiqing laughed, and stepped up the steps step by step, “Are you so sensitive to the smell?”
Zhou Ziheng still did not speak.
He climbed the last step, the air was noisy again, the staff were talking to each other about their hard work. Everyone was celebrating the success of the first episode of the program, the voice of Shang Sirui and Cen Cen complaining to each other, the sweet laughter of Ruan Xiao, and a lot of mixed voices.
Mixed in among these, was also Zhou Ziheng’s low voice.
“I just subconsciously thought it was you.”
When I got close to you and grabbed your hand, I smelled the perfume on your body, so I became more convinced.
Xia Xiqing’s last step stayed in the air for a second, and together with his paused brain, he was startled.
Subconsciously…
His foot fell to the ground and stepped on the last step. Xia Xiqing looked up at Zhou Ziheng’s back. I’m afraid that this person himself didn’t even notice this unconscious ambiguity.
How lethal.
You both are lethal for each other though!~
Thanks for the chapter<3
It sounds like the beginning of something magical!
thanks for the chapter <3
thanks for the chapter! ♡
lethal… no, i don’t want to die on my birthday!
How lethal indeed (ﾉ≧ڡ≦)｡
Thank you for the chapter 😘
…ah- my auntie smile came out again- QAQ so thats why my friends were staring…
Thanks for the chapter~