Chapter 144: Mr. Zhai and Mr. Pei
Guo Bing was sitting in the car, hating that he couldn't be the first to see all the guests' reactions.
Especially Pei Xu who received the text message.
He must be so excited.
Not to mention the people involved, but their staff, the entire studio downstairs was in an uproar when they saw Di Xingchen's text message.
Their staffs are also fanning CP, and those who support Pei Xu are stomping their feet in excitement, while those who support the other guests are stomping their feet and wailing.
The guests are fighting so hard this season, and all of them are so good, that it's almost the last leg, and the CP line is finally revealed!
The next best part was naturally to see how the guests reacted.
But he's the director, it's not appropriate for him to get into anyone's car.
Although he wasn't able to follow the car, he was the first to see Pei Xu's reaction.
The staff member who was with Pei Xu captured Pei Xu's reaction on camera and passed the video on to him.
Pei Xu, who has always been like an iceberg, is smiling with the envelope in her hand, and just by watching the video, Guo Bing is smiling along with her aunt.
Ahhhhhhhhhh.
Pei Xu, that's such a sweet reaction!
Where are the other guests?
Will it be lost?
How lost will it be?
Don't blame him for being cruel, but the sweeter the guests are, or the more they lose, the better the show is.
The reason why the program team used envelopes to deliver the heartwarming text messages this time, besides appearing to pay more attention, there is another more important reason, which is to increase the suspense and watchability of the plot.
From the perspective of the Love Complex, this is actually a milestone event that greatly affects the direction of the CP in the final week, and a cell phone text message is obviously not enough for such an important moment.
The mode of using envelopes is different, more solemn, more fancy.
They had at least one envelope for each guest.
When the show airs, the seven guests are cut together, and everyone opens the envelope to reveal the final answer, which is as exciting as an awards night!
Huo Cheng actually guessed who Di Xingchen's text message would go to.
So he was surprised when the program handed him the envelope.
"We will be delivering heartfelt text messages in an envelope format this time." The staff said.
Huo Cheng picked up the envelope, "I got a text message?"
The staff laughed and said, "I don't know, just open it, it could be empty or there could be a text message sent to you from another guest."
Huo Cheng then laughed a little, the corners of his lips slightly bitter: "I told you so."
But even though he had expected it, his heart still gave a small jump the moment he got the envelope.
I guess that's how people are, even if their hearts are dead, they can't help but look forward to what if they are given a little bit of hope.
That little what-if.
What if?
He rubbed the letter for a moment, then opened the envelope, sticking his fingers in and feeling it, then looked up and smiled at the camera.
"You programmers are so bad." He said with a faint smile.
He collected that envelope and gave it back to the staff at the front.
Huo Cheng at the South City Station is so energetic, Huo Cheng at the North City Station is like a big brother in charge of the whole situation, and Huo Cheng at the West City Station has become so gentle.
"Huo doesn't seem very surprised, does he?" The staff said.
Instead, Huo Cheng asks, "Do you know who Di Xingchen sent it to?"
The staff said, "That's something we can't divulge by rule."
"Pei Xu?" Huo Cheng asked.
"How do you know?!" A staff member asked offhandedly.
It's all just further validated by Pei Xu's outstretched hand in the darkness and Di Xingchen's text messages.
The so-called "one in a million" is not as good as the other 9,999. It is probably human nature to think that there is still that one in a million when you are most lost.
Compared to Huo Cheng's anticipation, Yan Zhi was nervous.
He actually thought it was a little more likely that Pei Xu would get a text message from his heart at the end of the West Side station than he did.
Because at the West Side Station, he didn't have much contact with Di Xingchen. Most importantly, there was no real progress between him and Di Xingchen compared to the North Side station.
But Pei Xu did take Di Xingchen skydiving.
He felt that the tandem skydiving thing was no less lethal than setting off fireworks, and both were a colorful part of the history of romance synthesis.
As a gaming star, Yan Zhi, who is used to seeing big scenes, was very calm. He took the envelope from the staff with a smile and opened it with a smile, looking at the empty envelope, his heart fell into a hole in the ice at that moment, but he still had no expression on his face.
The camera teacher looks through the lens at his brow and the corners of his mouth, trying to decipher what he's feeling at the moment from his micro-expressions, but Yan Zhi just hangs his eyes and is silent for a moment before folding the envelope and nodding his head at the camera.
"Was the outcome what you expected?" The staff continued the interview.
Yan Zhi said, "It wasn't supposed to be a 100 percent chance."
"So who do you think of all the other guests are likely to get a heartfelt text message?"
Being the main celebrity guest this season, the show clearly took Yan Zhi a little more seriously and scheduled a lot of questions for this segment.
But Yan Zhi didn't go along with them and simply said, "Guess not."
"Did you lose it when you didn't get a heartfelt text?"
Yan Zhi smiled and looked across at the staff member, "What do you think?"
His face was smiling, but his eyes were not. I don't know why, but the staff member across the room suddenly got squeamish, so it was a good thing that she had finished asking the questions that the program had assigned to her.
Yan Zhi twisted his head to look out the window, the smile at the corner of his lips finally disappearing completely. A huge loss instantly struck him, more vicious and cruel than any of his performances in any of his matches.
Compared to Huo Cheng and Yan Zhi, Hu Ying is a bit more miserable.
Hu Ying was already a little too excited to sit still when she saw the blue envelope: "Did I get it? Did I get it? Give it to me quickly!"
The staff member handed him the envelope, and Hu Ying, without waiting for the staff member's explanation, tore the envelope open.
He looked inside and out twice and looked up, "Where's the letter?"
The staffer said, "...... That means ...... didn't receive it, I guess."
"Confiscated? What do you mean?" Hu Ying asked.
The staff was a little reluctant to hit him, so they said, "It's ...... no one sent you a text message, right? ...... Each of our guests was given an envelope, and if you receive a text message, you open it and there's a letter inside, and if you don't receive it, it's just an empty envelope."
Hu Ying: "......"
Hu Ying's heart was like riding a roller coaster, instantly falling from the highest end to the lowest, the drop was too great, the speed was too fast, and it directly threw him out.
Fuck.
Hu Ying licked his lips and clutched that envelope all together.
His reaction to this apparent loss is actually exactly what the show needed, sadness and happiness all in one moment, and like Hu Ying as a person, the dramatic tension is drawn out, but his camera guy is a little too impatient to film him with this expression right now, and the camera pans down slightly to focus on filming only his clenched hands.
Unlike others, Hu Ying has always felt that there is a high probability that she will receive a text message from Di Xingchen.
He doesn't get much time alone, but he's always around Di Xingchen when everyone's together.
He definitely had a lot of contact with Di Xingchen, and he talks so much!
Di Xingchen doesn't have a special favorite, does he?
If not to him, then to Lin Qingning?
It's possible.
After all, Lin Qingning is the only outsider.
Hu Ying quickly adjusted his mood.
He's still optimistic as a person.
Anyway, he knows where Di Xingchen's family lives, which is his unique advantage!
Zhai's father and mother were waiting for Di Xingchen at the entrance of the neighborhood.
Now the two of them are almost half a netizen, they have to wear masks when they go out, both of them are wearing masks, and it's raining outside, Di Xingchen almost didn't recognize them when they got off the car.
The staff helped them get their bags to the house, and as soon as they entered, Di Xingchen froze.
Their home has been transformed and the entire living room has been refreshed.
"You guys redecorated?"
Zhai's father smiled and said, "Speaking of which, I really have to thank your program team, they have sent so many things to the house in the past few days, saying that these are all free gifts from the sponsors, look, a double-door refrigerator, a new sofa,, new curtains, and by the way, the toilet has been replaced with a smart one, and a new water purifier has been added to the kitchen."
Di Xingchen says, "Sponsor?"
He doesn't remember them having these appliance sponsors for Red and Blue Signal.
"That's not all, they also sent several boxes of laundry detergent, it's not enough to use up, I've shared it with your great aunt and the others." Zhai mother said.
Laundry detergent he knew, had sponsored their show, and he had taken promotional photos for the brand.
Di Xingchen then contacted the staff of the program through WeChat, the staff back: "These are not all our program, there are a lot of very good relations with us and our brand, as well as some of the commercial cooperation within the Starfish TV brand, they will give us some benefits like this every year. This is not almost to the end of the year well, this should be the leaders of the authorization, I hope you and Wen Nuo can live more comfortable."
These leaders are so sweet too!
Di Xingchen went back to take a shower and slept beautifully, and when he woke up, it was already completely dark.
He vaguely heard someone talking in the living room and sat up to hear Hu Ying's voice.
He knew Hu Ying would come.
Hu Ying returned home, took a shower, changed into more mature and stable clothes and drove over. He heard that Di Xingchen was sleeping, so he didn't bother him and sat in the living room to chat with Zhai's father and mother.
He was very good at chatting with his elders, making Zhai's father and mother laugh, but looking at the time, it was past eight o'clock, Di Xingchen had not yet gotten up, and there was no telling when he would get up, and it would not do for him to keep waiting here dry, so he stood up and said goodbye to Zhai's father and mother.
Zhai's father went downstairs to see him off, and Zhai's mother came back home and went to Di Xingchen's room to take another look, and when she opened the door, she saw Di Xingchen getting dressed.
"Is Hu Ying coming?" Di Xingchen asked sleepily.
Zhai's mom said, "You're up. He just left."
"Gone?" Di Xingchen asked, putting on her shoes.
"Your dad went to drop him off, he's probably just downstairs by now."
Di Xingchen put on his jacket and went out, only remembering that it was still raining outside when he got downstairs. He looked out from the hall on the first floor, the neighborhood was lush with trees, and the rain was falling harder than during the day, making it especially cold.
He waited in the first floor hall for a while before he saw Zhai's father return with an umbrella.
He immediately greeted them.
Papa Zhai even froze for a moment when he saw him, "Why are you up."
"Has Hu Ying left?" Di Xingchen asked.
"Gone, just gone."
Papa Zhai put the umbrella away and said, "It's cold outside, and you're wearing this?"
Di Xingchen and Zhai's father were walking back together, and when the elevator arrived, Di Xingchen seemed to suddenly think of something and took the umbrella from Zhai's father's hand.
"I'm going out to do some shopping, so you can go home first." He said to Papa Zhai.
"It's cold out there."
"I'll be back in a minute."
Di Xingchen buttoned up his sweater, pushed open the glass door and went out. The elevator opened with a ding, and Zhai's father turned his head to look at it before entering the elevator.
Di Xingchen holding an umbrella out of the neighborhood, see the door of the neighborhood came in two aunts, he also put the umbrella down some, blocking his face.
He came out of the neighborhood, a quiet outside, the streets in the drizzle of the black hazel, seems extremely cold and silent. This is the west gate of their neighborhood, a small gate, the closest to the building they live in, outside is a very quiet street, parked cars on both sides of the road. As he walked, he looked toward the cars on both sides of the road, and while looking at them, he thought to himself, "This is really funny.
He thought, "Pei Xu won't hide in the car again like last time, will he?
The likelihood of this feels kinda slim.
They've just come back. Not everyone is a hothead like Hu Ying.
Pei Xu also has a job to take care of and a family to gather.
By now Pei Xu should have received his SMS. Although a heartwarming text message doesn't mean anything, after sending the text message, his relationship with Pei Xu has changed again in a subtle way, and he will still be embarrassed when they meet now.
He couldn't tell for a moment whether he was looking forward to seeing Pei Xu or hoping not to see him.
He also thinks that it's because he got his text message that Pei Xu must have come to him.
He walked until he reached the end of the street, which wasn't very long, and five hundred meters away was the main road, which had a lot of traffic, and he was also frozen and completely sleepy, so he went to the flower store next to it.
This is the flower store he brought Pei Xu into last time, he didn't wear a mask, the flower store owner recognized him at once: "Di Xingchen!"
Luckily it was nighttime and raining, and there were no other customers in the store, so he took a picture with the flower store owner, who excitedly asked, "What kind of flowers do you like, roses, forget-me-nots, or asters?!"
Her eyes were glowing when she talked about the full sky.
Seems to be a loyal viewer of their red and blue, asking about the three types of flowers that have appeared on their program.
Di Xingchen thought that she must not give away the plot and cause unnecessary trouble for the show's crew, so she said, "I bought it for my mom and asked for a bunch of carnations."
He came out of the store holding the bouquet of carnations, the boss ran over to help him push open the glass door, looking at him with glowing eyes, Di Xingchen turned back to thank him and saw his blurred reflection on the glass door, and for a moment, he himself felt that he was not the same as he used to be, as if he had become taller and more mature.
He carried the flowers back, because it was too cold, he simply ran, running, he noticed a car toward the road, headlights illuminated the road under his feet, he walked toward the road while looking back, bright headlights shining, can not see what kind of car, in the drizzle, the car drove past him.
He stood staring at the car for a while and was about to run for the neighborhood when he heard a familiar voice ask:
"Mr. Zhai, who are you waiting for?"
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Published at: 09/19/2024 14:00