The air conditioner was on in the room, but Xia Zhi was sweating all over. The hand hiding behind him kept clinging to him, and he couldn't tell whether the sweat on his body was due to the heat or excessive tension.
He no longer paid attention to what everyone was saying, as the hand wrapped around his fingertips had already taken away all his attention. Under the stimulation of the scalding body temperature, the part where their skin was intertwined oozed fine sweat, and the touch became sticky and slippery. Every time they entangled, he would feel palpitations again and again.
Feeling his heart beating faster and faster, although it was inappropriate, Xia Zhi felt that he seemed to understand why some people like to have affairs. That feeling of secrecy and taboo, doing it behind everyone's back, afraid that they would find out but also afraid that they would not find out, was indeed more exciting than a conventional relationship.
Although "affair" is exciting, it cannot go on forever, and although Jiang Zhixia's behavior is bold, he obviously has no intention of making their relationship public on the show, so he stopped after carefully caressing every inch of skin and every texture of Xia Zhixia's palm with his fingertips.
The moment Xia Zhi felt his palms were empty, he couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief. His heart finally settled down, but deep in his heart there seemed to be a sense of loss and emptiness.
Xia Zhi felt that he must have been driven crazy by this mad dog Jiang Zhixia, and he was still reluctant to let her go! He scolded himself in his heart and slowly withdrew his stiff left hand. The palm of his hand was completely sweaty, and the skin on his knuckles was thin and slightly red from being rubbed. The fingertips seemed to still have the touch of Jiang Zhixia. He clenched his hand into a fist and moved his stiff fingers.
After being disturbed by Jiang Zhixia's actions, his sleepiness was completely driven away.
During the first twenty minutes of recording, Xia Zhi basically didn't pay much attention. Jiang Zhixia was busy harassing him, so his mind was even less on this. Fortunately, the beginning was a session to answer fans' questions, and the group speeches were always handled by Sang Luo and Cheng Yun'an. The other three usually acted as human background boards at this time, so it didn't seem abrupt if they didn't speak.
The question-and-answer session was a bit serious, so the program team also arranged a few small games to liven up the atmosphere. Everyone had to participate in this session. Xia Zhi sat up straight, put aside all the messy thoughts, and focused on the next shooting.
The first game is played by the old actors in the variety show. Whenever there is a game that tests tacit understanding, it is always the first to come on stage.
"The first game is You Draw, I Guess." The director introduced the game from outside the screen. "Everyone should be familiar with the rules of You Draw, I Guess. We will give a word each time, and one member needs to express the word in the form of a picture, and the other members are responsible for guessing. This is a time-limited task. You have to guess at least 15 questions correctly within three minutes to pass the level successfully."
Cheng Yunan interrupted and asked, "Is there a reward for successfully passing the level?"
The director smiled and shook his head: "There is no reward for success, but there is a punishment for failure."
Victoria and the other five: “…”
"What punishment?" This time it was Xiao Han who asked.
"It's a secret for now." The director smiled mysteriously. "The punishment is also chosen from the audience's suggestions. I can give you a sneak peek first. The punishment is not easy. Let's do our best to succeed!"
The five of them looked at each other and had a bad feeling, because their painting skills were not very good...
"Who will draw first?" the director reminded, "The person drawing can be replaced at any time."
Cheng Yunan volunteered: "Let me go first." The artistic quality he had developed from accompanying his daughter to read so many children's picture books over the years should be more than enough to handle such a small occasion.
Cheng Yunan walked to the drawing board, and the director turned his back to the four people who were guessing the words and opened the prompter. Cheng Yunan burst into laughter when he saw the words he was going to express. He changed his previous unconfidence and said to the four teammates confidently: "You will definitely be able to guess this word!"
Everyone's curiosity was immediately aroused, and they waited patiently for Cheng Yunan's masterpiece.
Cheng Yunan was seen holding a marker and drawing confidently on the white drawing board. Five seconds later, a matchstick man and a strange creature with a pointed mouth that was hard to tell whether it was a chicken or a bird appeared on the board.
The four people who had originally held out hope for his painting skills suddenly changed their expressions in disgust. Xiao Han even complained directly: "Your painting is too ugly. How can you be confident that we can guess it if it's like this?"
Cheng Yunan gave him a calming look, picked up the pen again, drew an arrow on the matchstick man, and wrote the word "Xiao Han".
Xiao Han: “…”
Then he shot an arrow at the strange creature that looked like both a chicken and a bird, and wrote two words in the blank space - "Hong Xiu".
When these two names came out, all the staff on the scene, including Jiang Zhixia, looked puzzled. Only Xia Zhi and Sang Luo raised their lips and smiled knowingly. Looking at Xiao Han again, he obviously understood it, but his expression was very depressed, and he narrowed his eyes and stared at Cheng Yunan silently.
Cheng Yunan smiled proudly, raised his eyebrows and asked Xia Zhi and Sang Luo: "You can guess it, right?"
Xia Zhi and Sang Luo looked at each other and answered in unison: "Noobs pecking at each other."
Xiao Han: “…”
Jiang Zhixia: “?”
staff member:"!"
"Right." The director's tone was full of disbelief, but the timer was still running, so he could only temporarily suppress his doubts and continue the game.
The second word was probably quite difficult. Cheng Yunan frowned after reading it and scribbled on the drawing board for a long time but still couldn't finish it.
While waiting, Jiang Zhixia leaned over and whispered to Xia Zhi: "Who is Hongxiu?"
"You don't know?" Xia Zhi was a little surprised and explained to him in a low voice, "Hongxiu is Sang Luo's pet, a chicken."
"…" Jiang Zhixia asked, "Pet chicken?"
"No, just some ordinary poultry." Something that can be served on the table.
"… "
Xia Zhi explained: "That chicken is a token of love between Sang Luo and her man."
It would have been better if Xia Zhi didn't explain. After this explanation, Jiang Zhixia's expression became even more complicated.
Apart from this pair of Crouching Dragon and Phoenix, who else would use a chicken as a token of love
Xia Zhi obviously understood his expression. While Sang Luo and Xiao Han were guessing the words, she leaned over to his ear and whispered, "Don't underestimate this chicken. Sang Luo loves it so much that he even opened a chicken farm for it. The feed it eats is all foreign brands."
"… "
Xia Zhi laughed: "What's that look in your eyes?"
Jiang Zhixia turned his gaze towards Sang Luo and said calmly, "Look at the eyes of a fool."
Xia Zhi tried hard to hold back her laughter: "If Sang Luo wants to beat you up, I won't stop you."
Although Jiang Zhixia complained a lot about the token of love between Sang Luo and his girlfriend, his mind became active. He began to recall what the token of love between him and Xia Zhi was. According to Sang Luo's logic, could their token of love be... wine
In the subsequent game sessions, Jiang Zhixia was so focused on thinking about the token of love that she didn't participate much.
The game didn't go very smoothly. Although everyone guessed the first word easily, it was also a trick in a strict sense. From the second word onwards, everyone could no longer take shortcuts and could only guess honestly based on the drawings.
Unfortunately, starting from the second word, the difficulty of the questions increased significantly. They were no longer simple words, but more like complete sentences of poetry. The difficult questions, coupled with the members' indescribable painting skills, the results were predictable.
"Unfortunately, I failed." Although the director said he regretted it, his tone was completely different, and his unshaven beard couldn't hide the ostentatious smile on his face.
The five people looked at him in silence, seriously suspecting that they had deliberately made the questions so difficult just to make him accept the punishment.
The director took a plastic bucket and explained, "There are ten different punishments in here, all suggested by the fans. Everyone will pick one and complete it. Who's first?"
Cheng Yunan was still the first one to go up. He walked over to draw the lot and asked one more question: "What if I can't finish it?"
The director grinned: "Then change another one until it's done."
"… "
Fortunately, Cheng Yunan was lucky, and the punishment he drew was relatively friendly - doing 50 push-ups. For a fitness enthusiast, this punishment was not a punishment at all, and he passed it easily.
The second person to be punished was Xiao Han. He drew a question: Describe in detail the feeling of a first kiss.
Xiao Han was stunned when he saw this punishment task. He looked at the director blankly and said innocently, "I didn't have my first kiss."
The staff at the scene didn't believe it and shook their heads, saying it was impossible! There are indeed a lot of men who have never been in love or kissed in their thirties, but those who have no love experience at this age are generally not as good-looking. But Xiao Han, with his red lips, white teeth, fair skin and beautiful appearance, has a lot of people chasing him at first sight. How could such a person not have been in love in his thirties!
"I really have never been in a relationship." Xiao Han felt very aggrieved. Who stipulated that people must be in a relationship? Is it because the game is not interesting? Or is the music not fun
"You really have never been in love?" The director was skeptical.
"Really not!" Xiao Han's expression was very serious.
Cheng Yunan also stood up to help him: "I testify that he did not lie. This guy is a dead otaku, his work and rest schedule is chaotic, his days and nights are reversed, he sleeps during the day and plays games at night, he really has no time for a relationship."
The director believed him for the time being, but had no intention of changing the task. He smiled and said, "If you don't have one, tell me about your fantasy first kiss."
Fortunately, although Xiao Han had never been in love, he had written many love songs. Although this task was a bit embarrassing, he finally pretended to be writing a song and finally completed the task with some difficulty.
Xiao Han successfully completed the punishment task, and the next one was Sang Luo. The task Sang Luo got was not difficult - call the person who had spoken to him recently and say to him, "I'm so lonely, can you come and keep me company?"
Although the lines were embarrassing, it was easy to do as long as he made a phone call. However, after seeing the task, Sang Luo immediately showed a desperate expression and tried to change the task. However, he was coldly rejected by the director.
After Sang Luo took out his cell phone and made the call, everyone finally understood why he looked so hopeless.
"Have you finished recording the show?"
After the call was connected, a man's voice came from the speaker. Originally, the voice was a little cold, but now it revealed infinite tenderness.
Hearing this voice, the on-site staff were immediately excited, and the four people sitting next to Sang Luo tacitly gave him a sympathetic look.
What Sang Luo disliked most about her man was that he was too energetic and thought about sex all day long. In order to avoid her man, she even ran away from home. If she said "I'm so lonely" again, it would be like walking into a trap! No matter if she was doing a punishment task or not, as long as Sang Luo dared to say it, she would probably not be able to get out of bed for a few days.
"Hmm..." Sang Luo was obviously well aware of the consequences of saying this, so she chatted with her man for a long time without getting to the point.
Although the meaningless phone conversation between young lovers is also sweet, they obviously want to hear more exciting conversations at this moment, so one by one they looked at him with bright eyes outside the venue and urged him silently.
"I'm so lonely, can you come and keep me company?"
It was clearly a very ambiguous and provocative statement, but the tone was indescribably sad.
After Sang Luo finished speaking, there was a brief silence on the phone, and then a low chuckle was heard, which was indescribably seductive.
"Okay, wait for me." These three simple and ordinary words seemed strangely... erotic when they came out of Shi Mudong's mouth...
The staff felt that the little boy’s face looked a little yellow, and they were so excited as if they had watched a Japanese porn movie.
Sang Luo also felt his cheeks getting hot, but he was more afraid that his man would take a private plane overnight to "accompany" him, so he hurriedly explained: "I was kidding! I was just accepting the punishment! If you are busy, you don't have to come!"
The answer he got was a vague chuckle. "Hang up first, and continue recording the show."
Sang Luo: “…”
Sang Luo completed the punishment successfully, but he was not happy at all and his face was very solemn.
Xia Zhi patted his shoulder, feeling a little sympathetic, but also a little... gloating over other people's misfortunes. This was probably the complexity of human nature.
The director then asked, "Who will be punished next?"
Jiang Zhixia stood up: "I'll go first."
The director's eyes immediately lit up when he saw Jiang Zhixia, and the surrounding staff also showed excitement, obviously looking forward to his punishment task.
Jiang Zhixia did not disappoint everyone. He reached into the bucket and grabbed a very exciting task.
"Pocky game!" The director's voice rose as he said these two words. You can imagine how excited he was. "Choose a teammate to eat a chocolate bar together. The remaining length must not be longer than three centimeters!"
"Oh~~~~" Sang, Cheng and Xiao looked at each other and started to cheer together tacitly.
Although they had to choose one teammate to challenge together, the three of them were not worried at all and looked at Xia Zhi at the same time.
Xia Zhi: “…”
When Jiang Zhixia saw this task, a smile flashed across his eyes.
The director quickly brought up the game props and asked Jiang Zhixia expectantly, "Who do you want to choose?"
"Xia Xia." Jiang Zhixia made the choice without any hesitation.
Everyone has noticed these days that Jiang Zhixia and Xia Zhi are very close. Although the five of them all have a good relationship, the two of them are obviously closer, so no one is surprised that Jiang Zhixia chose Xia Zhi without hesitation.
Xia Zhi pulled the corners of his mouth into a bitter smile, but he seemed to be in no position to refuse, so he had to accept his fate and take on the task.
Jiang Zhixia took a chocolate bar from the director, put one end in his mouth, raised his eyebrows at Xia Zhi, and signaled him to bite it.
Xia Zhi reluctantly walked closer, and hesitated for two seconds before opening his mouth to bite the other end. In order to take a close-up shot, a camera was placed between the two of them. The lens was too close, so he felt a little awkward, and his expression was very serious. He couldn't be as calm as Jiang Zhixia at all.
When the two were ready, the director shouted, "Begin!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Zhixia bit off a large piece of the meat. In the blink of an eye, he had shortened the distance between himself and Xia Zhi by half.
The crowd was stunned, because usually when playing this game, players would choose to eat slowly, bit by bit, so that it would be easier to calculate the distance. It was the first time they had seen someone like Jiang Zhixia bite off half of the food right away.
Xia Zhi was also startled. He was just an ordinary player, and was prepared to eat it slowly in small bites. But as soon as he took a bite, Jiang Zhixia's face came closer to him unexpectedly.
A chocolate bar is not particularly long. When the two people bit one end each, there was still about a fist's distance between them. Jiang Zhixia bit off half of it in one bite, and the distance between them was directly pulled to face each other.
Before Xia Zhi could react, he suddenly saw Jiang Zhixia's handsome face enlarged in front of him. Jiang Zhixia's eyes were gentle, and the distance between them was getting closer and closer, making Xia Zhi feel that he was going to kiss her in the next second. So he was successfully frightened by his own thoughts, and when he saw Jiang Zhixia approaching, he instinctively wanted to step back.
Jiang Zhixia seemed to have anticipated his reaction. The moment his head tilted back, she suddenly grabbed the back of his neck with one hand and held his head still.
This action was more like a kiss. The staff watching suddenly had their eyes lit up with excitement. Some young girls even covered their mouths and screamed silently in their hearts.
Xia Zhi's heartbeat accelerated with nervousness, because he was worried that Jiang Zhixia would really kiss him... This guy is capable of doing this when he gets crazy! Fortunately, Jiang Zhixia had not been completely carried away by love, and finally remembered the rules of the game, and decisively stopped when there was only a fingernail length left on the chocolate bar.
The staff members were all disappointed that they didn't see the scene they wanted to see the most. Only Xia Zhi breathed a sigh of relief as he bit the last piece of chocolate.
After measuring the remaining piece of the chocolate bar, the director announced: "Challenge successful!"
Jiang Zhixia smiled calmly at Xia Zhi. But Xia Zhi just wanted to roll his eyes at him. He couldn't remember how many times he had been frightened by this man with a bad taste that night.
Finally, Xia Zhi was the only one who had not yet accepted the punishment. The director let Jiang Zhixia go back and kept Xia Zhi to draw tasks.
Xia Zhi was still not calm, so he randomly pulled out a card and handed it to the director without even looking at it.
The director helped him watch and exclaimed three seconds later.
"Wow, Teacher Xia is so lucky. She drew the ultimate set meal we specially prepared." The director was so happy that the show effects came one after another starting from Sang Luo, and each one was more explosive than the last!
Xia Zhike couldn't be happy, because he knew that the happier the director laughed, the more miserable the guests would be.
"What's the ultimate package?" he asked cautiously.
"It's truth or dare combined with real people," the director explained thoughtfully, "It's like the combo in the game, a set of combos."
"… "
On the sofa behind him, three teammates who were watching the fun suddenly laughed loudly without any brotherhood.
“Xia Xia, what kind of luck do you have? Hahahaha.”
"If you have this kind of luck, you won't have to worry about winning the lottery."
"Hahahaha, we only have to complete one task, but you have to complete at least two. Xia Xia, you're in luck!"
Xia Zhi clenched his fists in anger. Who would want to take advantage of such a thing
The director asked with a smile: "Teacher Xia, are you ready? Okay, let's start."
Xia Zhi took a deep breath, nodded resignedly, and said, "Come on."
"First, tell the truth," the director reminded quietly, "It's about feelings. Teacher Xia, don't you mind?"
"..." Xia Zhi continued to nod, "Let's try it first."
"Okay!" The director raised his voice, took out a question card, and asked in a loud voice, "First question, how many relationships has Teacher Xia had?"
"Wow~" As soon as this topic was asked, there was a burst of boos from the audience. Everyone was gossiping.
Xia Zhi tilted his head and thought for a while, then answered hesitantly: "It should be considered two sections..."
"Should?" The director was puzzled by his wording, but now was not the time to gossip, he had to follow the outline and ask, "Then may I ask if Mr. Xia has anyone he likes now?"
Xia Zhi did not hesitate this time: "Of course."
The director's eyes flashed, and he suppressed his excitement and issued a task: "Then please call the person you like now and confess your love to him/her!"
This time, the booing around turned into screams.
Xia Zhi was stunned, trying hard to suppress the urge to look back, with a conflicted look in his eyes.
The director asked quietly, "Is it inconvenient?"
Xia Zhi's eyebrows relaxed, he smiled and shook his head, saying: "It's not inconvenient, then I will call now?"
The director nodded excitedly.
Xia Zhi calmly took out his cell phone and dialed the familiar number.
The scene suddenly became quiet, and everyone held their breath, waiting patiently for the call to be connected.
About ten seconds later, a cell phone rang suddenly in the room.
Everyone's expression froze, and after a brief moment of bewilderment, they all turned to horror. They suddenly began to look around in panic, looking for the source of the ringing sound.
The next moment, they watched as Jiang Zhixia took out a cell phone from his trouser pocket on the sofa. The screen of the cell phone flickered, indicating that it was answering a call.
(End of this chapter)