Jiang Zhixia finished work a little late today, and it was already late at night when he returned to the hotel. As usual, he tried to move as quietly as possible after entering the room so as not to wake up his already sleeping lover. However, when he approached the bedroom, he heard a slight movement, which seemed to be the sound of the TV.
Jiang Zhixia pushed the door open and went in. The lights in the bedroom were off, with only the dim light from the TV mounted on the wall, barely depicting the scene on the bed.
Xia Zhi was leaning against the head of the bed. Judging from his posture, he should have been watching TV before, but now he had fallen asleep, with his head tilted to one side and Jiang Zhixia's pillow in his arms.
Jiang Zhixia walked to the bedside with light footsteps and turned on the bedside lamp. The warm yellow light poured down from above, making the delicate sleeping face even softer and more beautiful.
Jiang Zhixia knelt on one knee on the edge of the bed, and gently stroked her lover's cheek with her palm, with an extremely gentle movement. Then she leaned over and kissed her forehead gently.
The kiss was very gentle, but perhaps because Xia Zhi was not sleeping soundly, he was immediately woken up.
"You're back." Xia Zhi opened his eyes dazedly, "What time is it?"
"It's almost time." Jiang Zhixia picked him up and put him on the pillow. He put his hand on his back and patted him gently, coaxing him softly, "I'll go take a shower first, you continue to sleep."
"Yeah." Xia Zhi quickly closed his eyes again.
Jiang Zhixia sat by the bed for a while, and waited until the person on the bed fell asleep again before he stood up, took his pajamas and prepared to go to the bathroom to take a shower. When he walked past the end of the bed, he turned off the TV and saw that it was their show that was playing. The date on the upper left corner was the latest episode. He didn't care too much, turned off the TV and left the bedroom.
Jiang Zhixia returned to the room after taking a shower, only to find that Xia Zhi had woken up again and the TV was turned on again.
"Why don't you continue sleeping?" Jiang Zhixia wiped her dripping hair with a dry towel and put it aside, ready to go to bed.
"I had already taken a nap before you came back, and now I can't sleep." Xia Zhi frowned and stared at Jiang Zhixia's wet hair, "Why don't you blow dry it?"
"I thought you were still sleeping," Jiang Zhixia said honestly, "I was worried that using the hair dryer would wake you up."
"If you want to wake me up, then wake me up." Xia Zhi glanced at him disapprovingly, "If you don't blow dry your hair before going to bed, you'll get a headache."
Jiang Zhixia curled the corners of his mouth and took the opportunity to make a request: "Then help me blow it." While saying this, he deliberately shook his hair, flicking the water droplets onto Xia Zhi's body.
Xia Zhi pointed a finger at him and said, "Sit still and don't move."
Jiang Zhixia really didn't move.
Xia Zhi rubbed his head with satisfaction, then got out of bed to get him a hair dryer.
Jiang Zhixia leaned against the bed, frowning as he recalled Xia Zhi's actions. The more he thought about it, the more he felt like he was... training a dog...
So when Xia Zhixia came back with the hair dryer, she saw her boyfriend leaning against the head of the bed with his arms folded, his wet hair dripping with water, soaking his light grey cotton pajamas. However, Jiang Zhixia seemed not to notice, with his lips tightly pursed, as if he was sulking.
Xia Zhi couldn't help but find it funny.
"What's wrong? Did someone upset you on the set?" He found a socket and plugged in the hair dryer, then hooked his finger at the person on the bed, "Come here."
It was still like calling a puppy, so Jiang Zhixia became even more depressed, but she still walked over obediently and found a chair to sit down so that Xia Zhi could blow her hair.
You may be angry, but you must not miss your boyfriend’s service!
It was also the first time that Xia Zhi blew Jiang Zhixia’s hair. When the two of them were together, Jiang Zhixia was basically the one who took care of him, and he was the one who enjoyed himself. When they were still in the group, Xia Zhi often went to bed after taking a shower without blowing his hair when he was tired from running around during the day. Then Jiang Zhixia would pull him out of bed and blow his hair.
At that time, Xia Zhi was usually so sleepy that she couldn't open her eyes. After blowing for a while, she would fall to the ground and sway left and right. Jiang Zhixia would stop blowing for a while and straighten her up. Later, Xia Zhi fell to the ground and fell asleep in Jiang Zhixia's arms while blowing. Jiang Zhixia thought this posture was not bad, so she continued to blow her hair in this posture.
Xia Zhi thought of these past events and a soft smile appeared on his face. He imitated the way Jiang Zhixia used to blow his hair, and his slender fingers gently passed through his hair.
Jiang Zhixia's hair is soft and smooth to the touch, and it is dark and thick. While blowing his hair, he suddenly asked curiously, "Why aren't you bald?"
"…" Jiang Zhixia was silent for a long time before asking with difficulty, "Why am I bald?"
"Your work schedule is so unstable and the intensity and stress are so great. Shouldn't it be very hard on your hair? Besides, you only sleep four or five hours a day. Lack of sleep will also cause hair loss." Xia Zhi fiddled with Jiang Zhixia's thick black hair for a few times, looking very puzzled. "But you still have a lot of hair, and you're not bald on top."
Having too much hair is not good? Why does your tone sound quite disappointed
"Isn't this a good thing?" Jiang Zhixia said with a mixture of laughter and tears, "If I really became bald, would you still want me?"
"Of course I will." Xia Zhi paused, "But it might affect how much I like you."
After all, a Mediterranean hairstyle is difficult to pull off even for someone as beautiful as Jiang Zhixia.
Jiang Zhixia felt like laughing and felt relieved, and said to herself, "Fortunately, my hair is still growing well on my head."
Xia Zhi asked curiously again: "What if I'm bald? Will you still want me?"
"Of course." Jiang Zhixia nodded without hesitation.
Xia Zhi added the second half of the sentence with understanding: "It might affect the degree to which you like me?"
"No, I like you no matter what you become," Jiang Zhixia raised her face and looked at him affectionately, "I'll like you even if all your hair falls out."
Xia Zhi pulled his hair in annoyance: "Don't curse me, my hair has already fallen out enough, I don't want to become bald."
"No." Jiang Zhixia reached out and touched the back of his head, comforting him, "There are still a lot."
Xia Zhi sighed in sorrow.
Jiang Zhixia simply hugged his waist and held him in her arms, and asked, "Is your work stressful?"
Xia Zhi laughed: "How can there be no worries at work?"
"Not happy with what you're doing?"
"Not really. My colleagues are all very nice and my students are very well behaved. It's just that sometimes the pressure is quite high." Xia Zhi said, "When the pressure is high, it's inevitable that I feel irritable, but I can adjust quickly."
Jiang Zhixia gently rubbed his lower back with her palm: "If you are very tired, don't do it."
Xia Zhi asked with a half-smile: "Then you will support me, right?"
"I do want to, but you don't need me to support you." Jiang Zhixia said honestly, "I want to say that if you are not happy with this job, why not change it? I believe that with your ability, you can do well in any job."
Jiang Zhixia's words warmed Xia Zhi's heart. She couldn't help but lower her head and kissed him on the lips. She smiled and said, "I still like this job very much. Finding a new one may not be better than the current one. Besides, I'm a lazy person. Once I settle down, I don't want to move unless it's absolutely necessary. It's troublesome."
“Does this sentence refer only to work?”
Xia Zhi asked disapprovingly: "What else should it refer to?"
"For example, boyfriends." Jiang Zhixia asked calmly, "Does this rule still apply to boyfriends?"
Xia Zhi finally reacted and couldn't help laughing. Seeing that his hair was almost dry, he turned off the hair dryer and put it aside. He held his face with both hands and pretended to look at it carefully. Then he pretended to be picky and said, "It can barely get by for a lifetime."
Jiang Zhixia curved the corners of his mouth, tilted his face up and kissed him deeply.
Xia Zhi bent down and exchanged a passionate kiss with him, but stopped in time before the kiss evolved into a more intimate physical contact.
It's already very late today, and Jiang Zhixia has to get up early tomorrow. If I let her do this, I might not be able to sleep tonight.
Xia Zhi leaned on Jiang Zhixia's shoulder to calm his disordered breathing. Feeling that Jiang Zhixia was still unwilling to give up, he had to use chatting to divert his attention.
"By the way, a new episode of the show has been updated. Did Jiang Chi tell you about it?"
"I told you." Jiang Zhixia had already had a big meal last night. Seeing that Xia Zhi didn't want to do it, he didn't pester her too much. They just hugged each other quietly. The air seemed to be filled with a faint warmth.
"Did you allow the production team to cut that part in?"
"Um."
Xia Zhi rolled up a lock of hair behind Jiang Zhixia's head and occasionally brushed the back of his neck with the end of the hair: "Are you really giving your fans a shot of prevention?"
"That's about right." Jiang Zhixia nuzzled his neck with her nose as they talked back and forth. "Even if you don't tell me now, you'll have to make it public someday. It's better to reveal a little bit first so you can be mentally prepared when it's really revealed."
“Will it have an impact on your career?”
"No, otherwise the company would not allow me to do this."
Jiang Zhixia is an actor, and netizens are not as critical of him as they are of idols. Moreover, although he debuted in an idol drama, he started to transform three years ago and has hardly made any romance films in recent years, so he doesn't need to worry about CP business issues, so even if he makes his relationship public now, most people will probably bless him.
"It's good that you know what's going on." Xia Zhi yawned, "I'm sleepy."
"Well, then go back to bed and sleep." Jiang Zhixia patted his waist gently.
"I don't want to move." Xia Zhi lay on his shoulder with drooping eyelids, looking lazy.
"I'll carry you over."
Although this position was somewhat embarrassing, it was quite comfortable, so Xia Zhi did not struggle, and hugged Jiang Zhixia's shoulders at ease, and her legs consciously wrapped around his waist. Passing by a mirror, Xia Zhi turned her head and took a look, and suddenly felt a little embarrassed, but also found it a little funny, and leaned close to Jiang Zhixia's ear and chuckled and said, "It looks like a koala."
Jiang Zhixia smiled and agreed: "Yeah, very cute."
Xia Zhi pulled his ear and reminded him: "I am a man, a man who is almost thirty years old."
"So what?" Jiang Zhixia said disapprovingly, "Cuteness knows no age or gender."
"You're so smooth-talking." Xia Zhi said in a disdainful voice.
"That's clearly the truth." Jiang Zhixia gently put Xia Zhi on the bed, put his hands on his ears, and pressed them gently, "In my heart, you are the cutest in the world."
Xia Zhi didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Girls only like this kind of compliments."
"You don't like it?"
"I don't like it." Although I said this, my heart was still warm and sweet.
Jiang Zhixia lowered her head and gently rubbed her nose against his: "So what do you like to hear? I'll tell you."
"I don't want to hear anything now. I just want to sleep." Xia Zhi turned his head and glanced at the electronic clock on the bedside, and reminded helplessly, "It's almost two o'clock. I'm sleepy."
Jiang Zhixia chuckled silently: "I won't bother you anymore, go to sleep, good night."
"Yeah." Xia Zhi closed his eyes but raised his chin.
Jiang Zhixia understood what he meant and bent down to kiss his lips.
After an unusually gentle goodnight kiss, Xia Zhi contentedly wrapped himself in the quilt and rolled to his own side of the bed.
"Good night." He was indeed sleepy, and soon his breathing became long.
Jiang Zhixia lay on her side, quietly watching her lover who had fallen into a sweet dream, her eyes as gentle as water.
Since the new episode was aired, Jiang Zhixia's revelation that he has a crush on someone has spread online. His love life has always been a hot topic, but Jiang Zhixia himself has never directly answered questions about it. This time, he took the initiative to reveal it, which naturally attracted the attention of many netizens, and there was a lot of discussion about it online.
[Oh wow, Jiang Zhixia is in a relationship, it will probably be officially announced soon, fans should be prepared. ]
[Oh my god! No way! I just became a fan and my relationship is about to fall apart?! ]
[How can a normal relationship be considered a scandal? He is not an idol, so fans should stop being ridiculous! ]
[There is no need to condemn it all at once. Those who think it is a collapse are just some extreme fans. Most fans are very happy to see this news.]
[The man has such good taste, the girlfriend he finds must be top-notch. I like a beautiful sister-in-law! [Flowering][Drooling]]
[I think gender doesn’t need to be too rigid. Didn’t Jiang Zhixia have an affair with a man not long ago? ]
[Ah? Wasn't this clarified a long time ago? The man was Jiang Zhixia's teammate Xia Zhi. They were recording a show at the time, Xia Zhi was in a bad mood, and Jiang Zhixia came out to comfort him out of teammate friendship.]
[If I hadn't seen the photos, I would have believed it. As if others had never been in a relationship, Jiang Zhixia's actions of comforting Xia Zhi didn't look like comforting an ordinary teammate. ]
[Although I have never been in a relationship, based on my experience of being in a relationship for ten years, I can say that the way Jiang Zhixia looks at Xia Zhi is not innocent.]
[Fuck! How come there are still people who support these two? I feel like anyone who has watched the show won’t be able to support them. After watching so many episodes, I don’t see any sense of CP at all, but the unfamiliarity is quite obvious.]
[Are there any fans of Victoria? Since someone mentioned it, I'm curious to ask, are the two faces of your group incompatible? It seems that there is no intersection between them in the show. ]
[How is that possible! When they were still in the group, they had the best relationship, so close that they were almost wearing the same pair of pants! ]
[Forget it! I have specially recorded that in the four episodes, there are zero shots of these two people alone, zero eye contact, and zero private communication. Is this what you call a good relationship? ]
[It should be said that they really look like a couple who have an office romance in the company but have to continue working together after breaking up]
Xia Zhi: “…”
Xia Zhi was holding his phone and browsing the screenshots of netizens' comments that his sister shared with him. There was also a WeChat voice call with his sister in the background. He used to respond to his sister from time to time, but after seeing the second half and realizing that the topic still involved himself, he stopped talking.
"Brother, are you still listening?" Sheng Yingying asked.
"I'm listening." Xia Zhi came back to her senses and said in a normal tone, "Why are you showing this to me? Are you asking me about your idol's partner?"
Although this would make her seem like a gossip, she was really curious, so she had to shamelessly say, "Hey! Let's talk about this later. Actually, I mainly want to know what's going on between you and my boyfriend?"
"What's going on?" Xia Zhi played dumb.
"Uh, that's right, are you two really not getting along?" Sheng Yingying asked very carefully.
Xia Zhi asked back: "What do you think?"
"It's not impossible... After all, I've never heard you mention him in all these years. You knew he was my idol but you refused to tell me!" Sheng Yingying was just guessing at first, but she convinced herself later. Her tone was serious and panicked, "Could it be that you two are really not getting along?"
When Sheng Yingying thought about the possible disagreement between her own brother and her idol, she felt like she was going to collapse. She had to rely on both sides of her hand. If the two of them started fighting, who would she help
Xia Zhi smiled helplessly: "If we really have a quarrel, can we still stay at his house?"
"That's right." Knowing that her brother and her idol were not at odds, Sheng Yingying felt relieved and said very seriously on the phone, "Brother, you must be good friends with my idol for life! Don't break up!"
Because no matter whether you are helping the left hand to hit the right hand, or helping the right hand to hit the left hand, you are the one who will be hurt in the end.
Xia Zhi raised his eyebrows and chuckled, thinking in his heart in a somewhat unkind way: It's probably impossible to be good friends for life.
He calmly skipped the topic and laughed and joked: "Didn't you cry and say the house collapsed a few days ago? Why are you still calling me your idol?"
"As a girlfriend fan, my reputation has indeed collapsed, so I have now turned into a sister fan!" Sheng Yingying said confidently.
Xia Zhi didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Why do so many male artists in the entertainment industry have to hang themselves on Jiang Zhixia's tree?"
"Of course it's because he's so good!" Sheng Yingying argued, "All the male stars in the entertainment industry combined can't compare to one of his fingers!"
"… Blind love will only hurt you." Xia Zhi was a little dissatisfied, "Isn't it enough that you have a brother like me? Am I not as good as him?"
"Maybe in other people's eyes you are as good and outstanding as my idol," Sheng Yingying paused, and said the second half of the sentence with more and more gritted teeth, "But I will never forget that when we were little, you said that planting money in the soil would produce more money, and then you cheated me of all my red envelopes!"
“…Pfft—” Xia Zhi tried to hold back, but finally managed to not recognize him and laughed out loud.
"Humph!" Sheng Yingying knows how to pull down others, "My idol would never do such a thing."
Xia Zhi asked with interest: "So what kind of person do you think he is?"
"Serious! Cold! Abstinence!" Sheng Yingying slammed out three words.
Xia Zhi sneered in his heart, which of these three words can be related to that guy? Love is indeed blind.
Sheng Yingying chatted with her brother about this and that for a long time, and finally turned the topic back to the thing she cared about most.
"Brother~" Sheng Yingying called very sweetly. She did this when she had something to ask her brother.
Xia Zhi gave a knowing smile and asked knowingly, "What?"
"Have you ever seen me, my idol's target?"
“Yes.”
"Is she pretty?"
"Um."
“How beautiful is it?”
"As good looking as me."
“…Is he a good person?”
"As good as I am."
“…” Sheng Yingying couldn’t stand it anymore, “If you want to praise, just praise well! Don’t praise yourself every time!” His brother is really narcissistic!
(End of this chapter)