The director did not call for a stop on the spot, so the filming continued.
Duan Wenzheng raised his head and looked towards the hand that was reaching out to him.
He grasped the hand tightly without hesitation, and used the force to jump onto the boulder and stand shoulder to shoulder with him.
Next to him at this moment is his captain, his little boyfriend.
There were beads of sweat on his forehead and the tip of his nose, but he stood by his side with a firm gaze.
His small shoulders contain firm strength.
Duan Wen Zheng raised his lips slightly and hugged the shoulder of the person next to him.
Their backs standing on the top of the mountain gradually merged into the snow-covered high mountains outside the icy field where bones were buried. At the moment the sun rose, the flying snow would always dissipate. As long as the sun could shine, there would always be infinite vitality and hope.
The two young men standing side by side will eventually make each other shine.
Then-
On the top of the snowy mountain, a goddess symbolizing freedom and hope appeared, and a new hero wearing a dark green protective suit and having healthy wheat-colored skin—
"Fuck, your eyes!!"
"Just Photoshop it, just Photoshop it, nowadays which beauty's photos and videos are not Photoshopped?"
"Keep your voice down, that contestant hasn't left yet, I heard you..."
Several staff members started whispering to each other. Behind them, Zhou Kanqing, with a dark face and a sullen look on his face, walked towards the dressing room.
In the dressing room, Xue Lan and Duan Wenzheng had already changed their clothes. Even Lu You, who came to watch the fun, was sitting on the sofa beside them, looking at him.
As soon as Zhou Kanqing saw Duan Wenzhen, his blood pressure soared to his skull.
"Duan Wenzhen?!" Zhou Kanqing rolled up his sleeves and rushed forward.
Duan Wen Zheng turned Xue Lan's little head without even raising it.
Xue Lan immediately ran to Zhou Kanqing holding a bag.
"Brother Qing." Xue Lan stuffed the things in his arms to Zhou Kanqing: "These are your favorite things, thank you for helping me... If it weren't for you, I might really not know what to do."
Zhou Kanqing glanced coldly at the bag in his hand and the pair of eyes that were looking at him expectantly.
He rolled his eyes in pain and took the things handed to him by Xue Lan fiercely: "Look, if it weren't for you, I wouldn't make such a big sacrifice!"
Xue Lan nodded hurriedly.
"But!" Zhou Kanqing rolled up his sleeves again: "No matter how cute Lanlan is, I'm going to fight this bastard Duan Wenzheng to the death today!!"
"… "
Duan Wenzheng raised his eyelids and glanced at Zhou Kanqing who was rolling up his sleeves and ready to hit someone, and Xue Lan who was panicking beside him, then turned to ask Lu You: "What is the punishment for fighting while in service?"
"One-year ban and a fine of 50,000 yuan." The upright passerby Lu You answered seriously.
"..." Zhou Kanqing almost suffocated: "No need to remind me, thank you."
Lu You lowered his gaze, frowning as he looked at the new character costume he had not yet changed out of, his tan skin that had been made up to match the character, and his bulging chest.
Expressions are unpredictable.
"Lu You, what's with that expression on your face!?" Zhou Kanqing simply put his hands on his hips and asked, "Isn't it beautiful?"
“… No.” Lu You calmly looked away: “I’m just wondering if anyone will really play this new character?”
"Luyou?!"
While a few people were playing, there was a knock on the door outside the lounge. After a moment, someone pushed the door open and walked in.
Everyone in the lounge stopped their actions at the same time, and Zhou Kanqing blurted out:
"Uncle Duan..."
The person who came was Duan Ke. He looked at Zhou Kanqing in the direction of his voice, and even though he maintained a good emotional intelligence, he still frowned slightly.
Zhou Kanqing then realized what he was wearing and quickly ran into the inner locker room.
Duan Ke stood by the door and said seriously, "I have something to discuss with Duan Wenzheng alone."
Although Lu You didn't know the relationship between the two, he could guess something from what he heard and saw, so he stood up and walked out. Xue Lan also stood up, but as soon as he stood up, he was stopped by Duan Wenzheng.
"Just tell me what you have to say. Don't be shy about telling him."
"You?!" Duan Ke said angrily: "Okay, Duan Wenzheng, I can accept any of your heresy from childhood to adulthood, but this is not acceptable."
Duan Wenzheng glanced at Xue Lan and asked, "Only this? There are so many people in your company who like men. Shouldn't you be used to this by now?"
"It's because I've seen it so many times that I don't want to see your son being like this!"
"Is there any difference between liking men and women?" Duan Wenzheng asked frankly, "Or is it just because you don't want the Duan family's incense to end with me?"
Duan Ke's face turned pale and he said nothing.
"As for this person... you also know that once I make up my mind, it's very difficult to change it, just like you." Duan Wenzheng said to Duan Ke frankly: "But the possibility of 'I like women' cannot be said to be absolutely impossible. If Xue Lan becomes a woman one day, I don't mind changing my orientation."
"But you were right before. I tried every possible way to trick him into going home with me. He didn't mean to trick you. I tricked both of you." Duan Wenzheng took Xue Lan's hand without hesitation in Duan Ke's silence. He looked frank and determined, "It took me a lot of effort to get him. Of course we won't break up."
Even though Xue Lan knew that Duan Wenzheng was unorthodox, she never thought that he would say these things so directly.
And he just said—
It took a lot of effort to catch up with you, and we won’t break up.
Xue Lan cast his gaze towards Duan Wen Zheng amidst his disordered heartbeat. Now was not the time to be moved. What was important was that if the dispute between him and his father Duan Ke continued like this, it would eventually be eased.
But now Xue Lan had no right to say anything. If he spoke again, it might only intensify Duan Ke's anger.
Duan Ke's face turned pale and he said nothing. Duan Wenzheng had already grabbed the uneasy child, who didn't know how to persuade him, and walked out.
No matter what Duan Wenzheng said, Xue Lan still felt guilty and remorseful. He stopped beside Duan Wenzheng for a moment, and bowed deeply to Duan Ke in a daze and guiltily.
Duan Ke's eyes moved slightly, but he still didn't speak.
Duan Wenzheng hugged his shoulders and continued to walk out.
"You can't lie about the feeling between people." Duan Wenzheng paused, and turned to look at Duan Ke: "Putting aside the gender, you two have been together for such a long time... Do you really not like him as a person?"
Duan Ke remained silent. Duan Wenzheng did not stay any longer and quickly left the lounge with Xue Lan.
Xue Lan felt guilty about this, but the finals of the domestic league were approaching, so he had to put all these things aside for the time being and focus on team training.
However, even though the team's training schedule was tight, Xue Lan still found time to go to the resurrection match.
The two most watched teams in the resurrection match are Thunder and Glory. The Glory team was sent to the resurrection group by Thunder himself, so there is no need to talk about the grudges between the two teams.
In the resurrection match, only one team can win the resurrection spot and advance to the quarterfinals together with the other seven teams.
The last game is the battlefield between Thunder and Glory.
Because this match was about the last spot for the quarterfinals, members of the other seven teams in the audience of the resurrection match all came to watch the game.
As soon as Xue Lan arrived at the stadium, he saw Su Yiyu waving at him from afar.
The game had entered its final round, and Xue Lan, Duan Wenzheng, Su Yiyu, and Meng Weiran found a seat in a corner and sat down.
Su Yiyu sat down carefully next to Xue Lan. She wanted to have a good chat with Xue Lan, whom she hadn't seen for a long time, but she also glanced at Duan Wenzhen nervously.
"What's wrong?" Xue Lan noticed his strange confusion and asked.
"No, no, no... It's okay." Su Yiyu waved his hands awkwardly.
But his expression didn't look like everything was alright.
Xue Lan looked at him suspiciously: "Why are you so nervous? Is it because the stress reaction has not been cured yet?"
"It's okay." Su Yiyu scratched his head embarrassedly.
Xue Lan nodded: "Can we take some time these days to solo a few more times?"
Before Su Yiyu could answer, she caught the gaze of Duan Wenzheng beside Xue Lan and shook her head like a rattle: "No, no."
Xue Lan felt very sorry. Meng Weiran, who was beside Su Yiyu, listened to their conversation and said casually, "His nervous hand tremors have healed. Now he only has exist phobia."
"..." Xue Lan remembered that Shen Rong had said something similar, but he was obviously very friendly, so they must have been talking nonsense!
Xue Lan watched the battle between the two teams on the stage seriously. In this final, Thunder and Glory each won one game in the first two games, so the third game became particularly important.
"Who do you think will win?" Su Yiyu asked nervously.
In fact, Xue Lan knew that Thunder would win this game, but even knowing this result, he was still worried for Rong Yao. Rong Yao had been training tirelessly during this period, and he could see all the efforts and improvements.
If Honor loses this game, they will have to withdraw with regret and wait for next year's game.
"I hope it's... glorious."
Even though he knew the result, Xue Lan still said this.
Su Yiyu nodded upon hearing this, but sighed, "I also hope that Shen Rong and his team can win, but this round... I guess the chances of winning are slim."
Su Yiyu's prediction was correct. In the end, Glory survived two waves of team battles, but was still defeated by Thunder's offensive in the third wave and was taken away in one wave. The last spot in the quarterfinals was finally confirmed.
Xue Lan and Su Yiyu were both a little worried about the condition of several members of Rongyao. After the game, they went to the backcourt together.
But before they reached the Honor Lounge backstage, they heard a noisy sound—
"What do you mean?!"
They were very familiar with this voice, it was their old acquaintance Deng Ruiqiu. Upon hearing the voice, the four of them looked at each other and stopped at the same time.
"It's nothing." Yuan Haoran's voice was calm and almost cruel. "Survival of the fittest has always been the rule of the Thunder Team. Didn't you know it from the beginning? Besides, we didn't eliminate you, we just made you a temporary substitute. The next step is the finals of the domestic league. After comprehensive consideration, the team feels that he is more suitable for the next few games, that's all."
"Comprehensive considerations?" Deng Ruiqiu seemed to have heard a joke: "What comprehensive considerations? It's because you have always regarded me as a pawn to deal with Wind. Now he can't play, so I have no use value, right?"
Deng Ruiqiu's words made Xue Lan and the other three look subtle. Although they could not sympathize with what Deng Ruiqiu was going through, because it was he who caused Wen Yan to leave the team, the Thunder Team's behavior of abandoning its running dogs after the rabbit died was really chilling.
The "survival of the fittest" and "wolf nature" that the Thunder Team advocates on the surface are actually just a fig leaf to cover up their ugly inside.
"Don't be so excited. We didn't say you have no value. You will still have a chance to play in the future. We have different ways to deal with different lineups. It is because of this that our team can get to where we are today. And... In the game that day, do you think you didn't show your little tricks? We asked you to hold back Wind, but you wanted to kill him. Didn't you just want to step on him to become famous?"
"I didn't!" Deng Ruiqiu said angrily, "I just didn't expect you to be so dirty. I thought you were just holding Wind back, but none of you told me he was injured!!"
"What does it matter whether I tell you or not? What you care about is that all the public opinion is saying that you caused his hand injury to relapse, but does it mean that his hand injury relapse has nothing to do with you?" Seeing Deng Ruiqiu's face turn pale, Yuan Haoran smiled and continued, "But don't worry, as long as you practice well, you will have plenty of opportunities to play after Wind returns to the team."
"Practice well?" Deng Ruiqiu sneered, "And then continue to be your dog against Wind?"
"Don't say such harsh words. Thunder is a team that focuses on talent. As long as you are valuable, you will always have a place in Thunder." Yuan Haoran was about to say something else when his eyes suddenly became stern.
"Who's there!?"
His gaze was sharp, and where he fell was the corner where Xue Lan and the others were standing!