The air seemed to be stagnant, and the scene was so quiet that not a single sound could be heard except for the ringing of cell phones.
Everyone had the same expression and gaze, staring blankly at the phone in Jiang Zhixia's hand, with horror in their eyes. It didn't look like they were looking at a phone at all, but rather as if they were looking at something unclean.
At this moment, everyone's brain was working so fast that the CPU was about to burn out - Xia Zhi accepted the punishment task and called the person he liked to confess his love. Then, Jiang Zhixia's phone rang!!!
Although we have been doing variety shows for many years, this is the first time we have encountered such a situation, so everyone was shocked and stunned.
For the situation in front of them, not to mention the staff on the scene, even Sang Luo, Cheng Yunan and Xiao Han, the three insiders, were quite frightened. However, compared to the shocked staff, the three of them were more worried and entangled - should they watch quietly? Or should they step out and distract everyone's attention
The three of them looked at each other, communicated silently with their eyes, and finally made a unanimous decision - watch the show quietly!
Xia Zhi's cell phone was on speaker, and the "beep-beep-beep" sound of waiting was as deafening as thunder at this moment. Every sound touched the hearts of everyone present.
Xia Zhi was obviously the protagonist, but no one was looking at him at the moment. Everyone's attention was on Jiang Zhixia behind him. They stared at Jiang Zhixia without blinking, nervously and anxiously waiting for his next move.
Finally, Jiang Zhixia lived up to everyone's expectations and answered the call in full view of everyone! The moment he pressed the answer button, everyone subconsciously held their breath and turned their eyes back to Xia Zhi.
At the same time, Xia Zhi's phone call also came through.
"Hiss—" There were gasps coming one after another at the scene.
Ignoring the crowd of onlookers who were already speechless from shock, Xia Zhi calmly raised the phone to his lips, chuckled and said, "Are you listening? I like you."
Five seconds later, Jiang Zhixia's voice sounded simultaneously from the sofa behind and from Xia Zhi's cell phone.
"Yes, me too."
"Ahh!" One of the girls couldn't contain her excitement and screamed.
Thanks to this scream, the others who were still immersed in great shock also came back to their senses. They looked at each other, and although they didn't say anything, they couldn't hide their excitement.
Jiang Zhixia publicly announced her relationship on the show, and her lover turned out to be her former teammate! This is too fucking exciting!
After receiving a positive answer, Xia Zhi nodded with satisfaction and simply hung up the phone. Then he raised his head and asked the director with a calm smile: "Have I completed the task?"
“Uh…” Director Xu Tian stared at him blankly. After a long while, he nodded slowly and said, “Done, finished…” His voice sounded a little floating, not sure if it was because of excitement or nervousness.
"Then I'll go back." Xia Zhi walked back calmly and sat down next to Jiang Zhixia.
Jiang Zhixia raised his head to look at him. The moment their eyes met, the corners of his mouth curved up, and a soft smile appeared in his eyes.
So the staff, who had finally calmed down a little, were shocked again. After recording the show with Jiang Zhixia for so long, this was the first time they saw such an obvious gentle smile on this cold and serious face.
In fact, before this, many staff members still suspected that all this was a prank by Xia Zhi and Jiang Zhixia, but now they can finally be sure that these two people are real! It's really true!
After accidentally uncovering a romance that was big enough to shock the entertainment industry, all the staff seemed a little distracted during the subsequent recording; even the chief director Xu Tian was slow to come back to his senses.
In the end, everyone barely managed to complete the rest of the recording by relying on their physical memory. At midnight, the recording finally ended and the staff began to pack up the equipment.
Xia Zhi had been sitting all night, and his limbs were a little stiff, so he stood up and stretched his body. Jiang Zhixia also stood up, took his hand as if no one was around, and said, "Let's go."
Xia Zhi looked down at his clasped hands, the corners of his mouth curled up unconsciously, and he leaned close to Jiang Zhixia and muttered, "I'm so tired."
"Okay. Go back to sleep." Jiang Zhixia reached out and tidied up his hair, looking gentle and doting.
The staff still felt a sense of unreality when watching this scene, but they had to admit that the two were indeed a good match in every aspect, and even the picture when they stood together was exceptionally harmonious and beautiful.
Teammates Sang, Xiao and Cheng couldn't help but smile knowingly when they saw this scene and quickly followed.
Xiao Han couldn't hold it in any longer after enduring the whole night, and as soon as he entered the elevator, he couldn't wait to start scolding the two of them.
"You two are really brave. You suddenly used a big move while the show was still being filmed! Not to mention the staff, even we were shocked. If you two wanted to make it public through this show, you should at least tell us in advance."
"In fact, I didn't want to reveal it on the show at first. It's just my bad luck that I got this task." Xia Zhi leaned half of his body against Jiang Zhixia and yawned. He was so sleepy that his words were a little confused. "You can't ask me to conjure up someone I like at the last minute, so I can only bite the bullet and do it."
Xiao Han turned to Jiang Zhixia and asked, "And you just took it?"
"What else?" Jiang Zhixia put his arm around Xia Zhi's waist with one hand. Although he had a forced expression on his face that said "He called me so I had to pick up the phone", the smug look between his eyebrows betrayed his true thoughts.
As a result, he successfully received contemptuous looks from his three teammates.
"So, you are ready to make it public?" Cheng Yunan asked.
Jiang Zhixia said indifferently: "I'll listen to Xia Xia."
Xia Zhi leaned against Jiang Zhixia with droopy eyelids, as if she was about to fall asleep in the next second, and her voice began to become unclear: "Let's talk about this later."
Cheng Yunan glared: "The entire production team knows about this, do you think you can still keep it a secret?"
"It's fine if they know," Xia Zhi said nonchalantly, "as long as they don't edit it into the show."
"Will the director agree?" Xiao Han was worried. "After all, if this part is edited in, there will definitely be no shortage of topics for this episode."
"Let's discuss it with them first." Xia Zhi looked up and asked Jiang Zhixia, "You don't mind, do you?"
Jiang Zhixia raised the corner of her mouth: "I'll do whatever you say."
These two were both very opinionated people. Since Xia Zhi did not want to make his relationship with Jiang Zhixia public on the Internet for the time being, he must have his own considerations. The three teammates were very confident in them, so they did not ask any more questions. After walking out of the elevator, they said good night to each other in the corridor and went back to their rooms to rest.
Xia Zhi also returned to his room to rest.
"It's very late, you should go back to bed. You have to get up early tomorrow." Xia Zhi blocked the door and did not allow her boyfriend to enter the house.
Jiang Zhixia stood at the door and invited him with a loving look: "Come up with me."
"No," Xia Zhi refused, "I want to sleep in my own room today."
"Then I'll sleep here too." Jiang Zhixia pulled up Xia Zhi's hand that was blocking the door frame and walked into the room openly, "We are dating."
"so what?"
"So of course we have to sleep in the same bed." Jiang Zhixia said seriously.
"But I'm leaving tomorrow, and you'll have to stay here for another six months. What will you do if no one sleeps with you?"
Jiang Zhixia seemed to be waiting for this opportunity, and said without thinking: "Then you stay too."
Xia Zhi was stunned: "Stay here?"
"You still have half a month of vacation left. Why don't you return to Y City after U University starts school? " Jiang Zhixia discussed with him while pulling him into the bedroom.
"..." Xia Zhi was already wavering, but then he dragged her to the big bed in the bedroom, and the thought that had just popped up in her mind was immediately retracted.
"Forget it, I'll go with them tomorrow." Xia Zhi kicked away the big-tailed wolf that was pressing on him and smiled coldly, "If I stay with you for half a month, I may not be able to go back alive."
After being kicked away, Jiang Zhixia rushed over and hugged Xia Zhi again, burying his head in his shoulder and couldn't help laughing: "You said it so horribly, am I a cannibal?"
"You didn't?" Xia Zhi lifted his knees and rubbed them gently, "Didn't you just eat last night?"
Jiang Zhixia's body froze for a moment, then she hugged him tighter and gave him a series of hot and wet kisses on his ears, explaining with her actions what it meant to push for an inch.
"Then I want to eat it again, can I?"
Xia Zhi rolled her eyes and reminded him helplessly: "You have to go to the set at seven o'clock tomorrow, and it's already one o'clock now."
"Yeah," Jiang Zhixia kissed him on the lips, "five hours of sleep is enough for me." This way there is still an hour left, just enough to do it again.
"Only five hours of sleep?" Xia Zhi asked seriously, "Won't you be tired?"
"Not tired." Jiang Zhixia also answered seriously, "I don't sleep enough. I had a heavy workload for a drama I was filming before. I only slept four hours a night for nearly three months, and I had to shoot a whole day the next day."
"…" He will die suddenly...
Jiang Zhixia leaned close to him and whispered, "I'm really not tired. If you don't believe me, come and verify it yourself."
Xia Zhi silently moved his knees to the side, with a complicated expression: "I believe it."
Very spirited indeed.
"… "
After a few sticky kisses, the clothes and pants were thrown off the bed.
Xia Zhiyang lay on the bed, looking at the energetic Jiang Zhixia, and couldn't help but start to worry deeply about the days to come.
In the past, when Sang Luo complained about his man's endless desires, he thought it was an exaggeration. How could anyone really have sex seven times a night, seven days a week? Even the hardworking old oxen couldn't plow the fields in this way. It was only now that he believed that Sang Luo had not lied to him.
With his upper body sunk into the soft blanket, Xia Zhi's thoughts were shattered. He felt as if he was thrown into the air, with a feeling of being top-heavy and his body trembling. When his body climbed to the top of the cloud, Xia Zhi suddenly caught a glimmer of clarity in his chaotic thoughts. He couldn't help but mourn for himself in his heart.
According to this situation, before Jiang Zhixia, the old ox, runs out of energy, his saline-alkali land will probably be destroyed first...
After Jiang Zhixia's coaxing and deception, Xia Zhi finally agreed to stay with him.
The next afternoon, the program crew set off to return to City A. The return tickets for the five guests were also booked by the program crew, so they went back on the same flight. However, in the end, only Xiao Han and Cheng Yunan went back together.
Xia Zhi wanted to stay here to accompany Jiang Zhixia. As for Sang Luo, it was said that at 2 a.m. last night, his promised partner took a private plane to "accompany" him, and then left early this morning with his man on a private plane.
According to eyewitnesses, Sang Luo moved slowly and looked tired when he left this morning, as if he had been drained of his energy by a goblin.
Xia Zhi didn't see this scene, Xiao Han told him all this when he came to say goodbye to him. Xiao Han originally wanted to laugh at Sang Luo with Xia Zhi, but Xia Zhi couldn't laugh when he thought of his embarrassed posture when he got up this morning.
At the same time, Xiao0 is a wanderer in the world, so why bother Xiao0
The hotel room Xia Zhi is staying in was booked by the production crew, so after the production crew left, he moved to Jiang Zhixia's room. Although he decided to stay to accompany Jiang Zhixia, he didn't have much time to accompany her. Jiang Zhixia was basically filming on the set during the day, and there were many people on the set, so Xia Zhi didn't want to go with her, so he basically stayed in the hotel during the day, and his meals were either ordered by the hotel or delivered to him by Jiang Chi.
Jiang Zhixia usually had to finish work after 8pm to return to the hotel. If the shooting schedule was heavy on a certain day, he might not be back until the late night, when Xia Zhidu would have already fallen asleep. So although the two slept together every day, they didn't have many opportunities to spend time together.
As for the days and nights that Jiang Zhixia had imagined at the beginning, they were not realized. Although he repeatedly assured that he did not need too much sleep, Xia Zhi still threatened him with the terrifying reason that "staying up late will lead to early death", and forced Jiang Zhixia to extend his sleep time to six hours.
So whenever Jiang Zhixia finished work early at night, Xia Zhi would cruelly deprive him of the privilege of night activities, and at most give him a goodnight kiss before going to bed. But Jiang Zhixia had a lot of filming tasks recently, and basically worked at this pace, so since Xia Zhi moved in with him, he could only drink some meat soup every night, and had very few opportunities to eat meat.
Before he knew it, Xia Zhi had been here for a week. During this week, he hardly left the hotel. During the day, Jiang Zhixia went to the studio to film, and he stayed in the room to handle his work. Jiang Zhixia went out early in the morning, and when Xia Zhi woke up, the other half of the bed was empty. After a simple wash, he went downstairs to the hotel restaurant for breakfast, and then went back to the room to work. Jiang Chi usually brought him lunch at noon, and as for dinner, no matter how late it was, he would wait for Jiang Zhixia to come back and eat with him.
Xia Zhi had been dealing with work for the whole morning. At twelve o'clock, there was a knock on the door. He stood up and opened the door. Jiang Chi stood at the door, smiling a little stiffly.
"Teacher Xia."
"Well, come in." Xia Zhi smiled slightly and stepped aside to let him in.
"Okay, okay." Jiang Chi changed into slippers at the entrance and went into the house, putting the insulated food box on the dining table.
Xia Zhi moved the computer and documents to the sofa first, and then asked as usual: "Is he still filming?"
"There was still a scene to be performed when I arrived." Jiang Chi opened the insulated lunch box and explained while serving the dishes, "In the previous scene, an actor's performance was unstable and he had to do several NGs, which delayed the progress."
"Is that so?" Xia Zhi pulled out a chair and sat down, then raised his head and asked, "You haven't eaten yet?"
"No."
"Then sit down and eat together." Xia Zhi said, "I can't finish it by myself."
"No, no need, Mr. Xia." Jiang Chi's face tightened and he said seriously, "Brother Zhixia is still filming. I have to rush back to the set to watch over him. You can eat by yourself."
Xia Zhi didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Am I scary?"
“No, no.”
"Then why are you so nervous every time you come up here?"
“No, no.”
Xia Zhi waved his hand: "Forget it, if you don't want to eat, I won't force you. Go back to the set quickly. I don't need anyone to take care of me."
"Oh." Jiang Chi slowly lowered his head and pursed his lips.
Because Xia Zhi was going to live here for a while, it was obviously unrealistic to hide it from Jiang Chi, who was her personal assistant, so Jiang Zhixia found an opportunity to confess their relationship to him. From then on, Jiang Chi's attitude towards Xia Zhi changed.
In the past, when Jiang Chi saw Xia Zhi, he was overjoyed, smiling, and his eyes sparkled, and he wanted to rush up to her and get close to her, although he succeeded every time. But after knowing about his relationship with Jiang Zhixia, his attitude took a sharp turn for the worse, and when he faced Xia Zhi again, he looked serious and restrained, and seemed very nervous.
Xia Zhi once thought that Jiang Chi could not accept the fact that he and Jiang Zhixia were in love, which was why his attitude towards him changed 180 degrees. However, Jiang Zhixia told him that Jiang Chi just had not adapted yet, and it would be fine after he got used to it.
Since Jiang Zhixia said so, Xia Zhi just let him do what he wanted. But he thought Jiang Chi was very interesting, so sometimes he would tease him when he felt like that.
After Xia Zhi sat down to eat, Jiang Chi was ready to leave.
"Teacher Xia, I'll be leaving first."
"good."
"Goodbye, Teacher Xia." Jiang Chi walked a few steps outside and suddenly stopped again. "By the way, Teacher Xia, did you watch the latest episode of the show that was updated last night?"
"Hmm?" Xia Zhi asked doubtfully, "Was it updated yesterday?"
"Yes." Jiang Chi asked, "You don't know?"
"I forgot." Xia Zhi calmly picked up a piece of bamboo shoots with chopsticks and put it into his mouth. In fact, it was because Jiang Zhixia finished work early yesterday, and after coming back to eat dinner, he pulled himself to bed. He didn't even have the chance to touch his phone all night.
"What happened to the show that aired last night?"
If it was just an ordinary program update, Jiang Chi would not have specifically asked him if he had watched it. It was probably because the content of the program involved Jiang Zhixia or him, or both of them.
"When you were in Jingwu Village, a villager got married and you went to the banquet," Jiang Chi simply walked back, "The production team edited Brother Zhixia's revelation that he had someone he liked into the main film."
"It was edited in?" Xia Zhi was a little surprised. Although he knew that the production team was unlikely to let go of this ready-made topic, he thought they didn't dare to put it in the main film and would at most put it in a special episode. "Does your brother know?"
"He's very busy today, so I haven't had a chance to tell him." Jiang Chi frowned, "But this matter has become a hot topic, and the fans' reaction is quite big. Some people even know that Brother Xia is about to officially announce his relationship. This is to give fans a heads-up in advance."
"Yeah." Xia Zhi picked up another lotus root and ate it calmly, his emotions difficult to discern.
Jiang Chi became even more unsure. After looking at her for a long time, he asked tentatively, "Teacher Xia, are you really going to make an official announcement?"
Xia Zhi did not answer but asked: "Why don't you ask your brother, but ask me instead?"
Jiang Chi stammered for a long time, and whispered two words: "I dare not."
Xia Zhi couldn't help laughing.
Jiang Chi was extremely curious, and he was no longer cautious at this moment. He asked anxiously: "Teacher Xia, are you really going to make an official announcement?"
Xia Zhi lowered his head and pondered for a long time, but in the end he did not give a clear answer, only saying ambiguously that he would let things take their course.
Jiang Chi left full of doubts.
Xia Zhi continued to eat, but the food tasted a bit tasteless, so he put it down after a few bites. He took out his phone and was about to check online, but he got a call from his sister first.
Xia Zhi laughed immediately. He could guess the purpose of the call with his toes. He held back his laughter and answered the phone. Before he could say anything, he heard his sister crying.
"Brother, you didn't lie to me. My house really collapsed! Wow—"
Xia Zhi pinched his thigh hard to hold back the laughter that was about to burst out, and said calmly, "I'm right, right?"
"My idol actually revealed on the show that he has a crush on someone, so it must be more than just a secret crush." Sheng Yingying sniffed and choked up, "Brother, tell me honestly, do I already have a sister-in-law?"
Xia Zhi thought about it and nodded seriously: "Well, you do already have a sister-in-law."
(End of this chapter)