Chapter 166: Night Drunk

Hu Ying slept for a full thirteen hours, and after ordering breakfast at the hotel, he stayed in bed until noon, feeling that he had finally gotten a full night's sleep since recording the program.

It's amazing that no one from the show has come over to rush him either.

He thinks that his group with Pei Xu should be the most boring group among all the guests, right?

After lunch he had a moment of conscience, and felt that since he had taken the program's money and appeared on the show, he should give the program a little footage that he could use.

So he dressed up and knocked on Pei Xu's door, all glowing.

I didn't expect Pei Xu to change from yesterday's silence, look bright and nice, and ask, "Where are you going?"

Hu Ying froze and said, "Just take a scenic stroll."

Pei Xu nods, and says, "Then wait a moment, I'll change."

Hu Ying was suspicious.

"I'll wait for you downstairs in the lobby cafe." Hu Ying said and went downstairs.

He wore oversized sunglasses, almost covering most of his face, ordered a cup of coffee, sat in front of the window and basked in the sun, saw his own reflection in the glass of the opposite column, he took off the sunglasses to take a closer look, and couldn't help but feel a sigh of relief, he was really too beautiful.

Then he saw Guo Bing.

As soon as he saw Guo Bing, he stood up, "Director Guo!"

Guo Bing smiled and said, "You're finally up."

Hu Ying was still a bit embarrassed and said, "I accidentally overslept. Director, why aren't you in Star and Huo's group, coming over to follow us."

He and Pei Xu have nothing to shoot for.

"You just got up. You may not realize it, but Di Xingchen and Huo Cheng are here too."

Hu Ying's eyes widened, "Star and Huo?!"

Guo Bing smiled, and saw Pei Xu coming out of the elevator.

"Let Pei Xu talk to you." Guo Bing said, "Let you sleep in and not be active!"

Guo Bing said and said hello to Pei Xu.

Pei Xu asks, "Are Huo and Star back?"

Guo Bing said, "Find out for yourself, I am not going to answer."

Pei Xu smiled as she sat down on the sofa, and seeing another cup of coffee on the table, she asked Hu Ying, "Was it ordered for me?"

Hu Ying nodded and asked directly, "Star and Huo came over here too?!"

"They arrived yesterday." Pei Xu said and took a sip of her coffee.

Hu Ying still looked a bit disbelieving, "How did they come here?"

Pei Xu said, "It's a coincidence."

"But Huo knew we were coming here." Hu Ying said.

Pei Xu immediately looked at Hu Ying upon hearing this.

Hu Ying said, "He asked us where we were going before, and I said we were going to come to Tethered Town, and he said it was a nice place."

The mountain across from Tethered Town is too hard to climb.

Climbing up and down the mountain, and taking care of the physical strength to follow the portrait, Di Xingchen and Huo Cheng spent a day to climb to the highest peak and back down again.

Both were paralyzed with exhaustion by the time they reached the bottom of the hill, and after dinner the two of them lay down on the seats to laze around.

Di Xingchen played with his cell phone for a while and suddenly noticed the lights on the river coming all the way from further away.

He encountered another light-up moment.

He slumped toward the railing and watched as the lights lit up past him, the lights on the shore reflecting back into the water, and the world instantly became bright and sparkling.

"Stars!"

Di Xingchen looked diagonally across the room and saw Hu Ying lying on the railing, looking at him excitedly.

Pei Xu is sitting behind him and is taking a picture of him with her cell phone.

Huo Cheng laughed and said, "How to get hit again."

Hu Ying said, "Then who told you to be so close to the hotel."

These two restaurants were both next to the White Horse Hotel, and although there was only a river between them, they had to go around the Half Moon Bridge in the distance to get here. When Hu Ying and Pei Xu didn't come over, Huo Cheng ordered a drink for each of them, while he sat up straight and said to Di Xingchen with a smile, "This is the end of our date."

Di Xingchen smiled and turned his head toward the Half Moon Bridge to see Hu Ying running over in a puff of smoke.

Hu Ying is very confused today.

Huo Cheng brought Di Xingchen to Shuanma Town, and he was very confused.

Huo Cheng, what kind of reverse operation is this? Has he forgotten that he and Pei Xu are coming to Shuanma Town?

And Pei Xu, Pei Xu knew Di Xingchen and Huo Cheng were coming, and he was confused when he didn't follow them!

Di Xingchen helped him pull out his chair, and Huo Cheng pushed his drink over, "For you."

"Have you two been climbing all day?" Hu Ying asked.

"I just came down and I'm so tired I can barely straighten my back." Di Xingchen said.

"Halfway up the mountain, I ask you if you want to come down." Huo Cheng said, "Have to climb."

"There's a beginning, there's an end." Di Xingchen said, "I've climbed."

"I really didn't expect you guys to come here!" Hu Ying said, "I couldn't believe it at first when I heard from the director!"

Huo Cheng asked him, "What did you and Pei Xu do today? Did you really sleep in the hotel all day?"

"We both spent the afternoon wandering around town, and I bought a lot of stuff that I'll show you back at the hotel later!"

Di Xingchen smiled and suddenly looked behind him. Hu Ying also turned her head and saw Pei Xu walking towards them.

Huo Cheng twisted his head to look and said with a smile, "Handsome outfit today."

Pei Xu is still dressed in his usual style, only the color isn't pure black anymore, an off-white rushing jacket with a grey baseball cap.

He wasn't wearing a watch today, his wrist was empty.

"Right? I'd say he's dressed differently today." Hu Ying said.

But Pei Xu's sudden change in dressing style actually made him a bit uneasy, especially towards the end of the recording. I wonder if he's too sensitive.

He glances back at Di Xingchen, and Pei Xu takes a seat over Huo Cheng.

"How was your day?" Pei Xu asked.

"Other than being tired, everything else is good." Huo Cheng said, "The drink I ordered for you smells a bit like alcohol."

The four of them sat by the river and chatted for a while. The winter in Shuanma Town was quiet and there were very few tourists, because there were mountains to the north, and it wasn't too cold at night. Hu Ying lying on the railing to watch the river cruise, the river is very beautiful at night, and there are people putting lotus lanterns.

"Did you guys feel that one station went by faster than the other?" Hu Ying asked, "I felt like the North Side stop went by the slowest, probably because it was so cold and there was a lot of activity, the West Side stop behind it felt like it went by in a blink of an eye, and the East Side stop went by even faster."

"There are two more days, tomorrow and tomorrow, and it's over." Huo Cheng said.

"I hope that when this program is over, we, the people, will meet again." Pei Xu said to Huo Cheng.

Huo Cheng smiled at his words and looked at him.

"Drag can even say such things, it seems like our program is really coming to an end." Hu Ying said.

Hu Ying lies down on the railing and crosses his arms together, looking at his reflection in the water. Di Xingchen is lying down next to him, the two of them reflecting the reflection in the water.

Look how well they both go together. Red and blue!

He touched Di Xingchen's head in a wrong way. Rarely did Di Xingchen understand his intention; in the reflection, their heads seemed to collide, and Di Xingchen even tilted to the side: "Ouch."

Hu Ying laughed and turned his head to Di Xingchen, who looked at him with a smile. Hu Ying raised his eyebrows and turned his head to look at the wind chimes hanging on the old acacia tree next to him.

The four of them went back to the hotel early because the show had booked them on a six o'clock flight tomorrow morning.

Hu Ying feels that Pei Xu and Huo Cheng are even more "brotherly" than before.

They're not supposed to be the strongest of rivals!

Huo Cheng has no more offense, so he's more lost.

He thinks that Di Xingchen is in all likelihood hooking up with Pei Xu.

This feeling is getting stronger.

Hu Ying hesitated, but still planned to take advantage of the time between returning to Nancheng to find Di Xingchen to have a good chat.

By the time the South Side is eight people, the last day of taping is sure to be especially busy, and there may not be any chance to spend time alone anymore.

As a result, he went in and found Pei Xu in Di Xingchen's room.

"Then you guys chat, I'll go back first." Pei Xu said.

"Am I interrupting?" Hu Ying asks, "Why don't I come back later."

"No, he was just leaving." Di Xingchen said.

Pei Xu said, "Don't stay up too late talking, you two, you have to get up at four or five tomorrow."

Hu Ying watched Pei Xu go out, then sat down on the sofa, only to see a white plastic bag on the coffee table, the bag contained several boxes of plaster stickers.

"You're not feeling well?" He asked immediately.

Di Xingchen said, "I'm tired and sore from climbing today."

The ointment was bought by Pei Xu.

He didn't even tell Pei Xu about his back pain, and I don't know what he did or said, but Pei Xu actually observed it, and specifically ran to the pharmacy outside of town to buy a plaster to put on it.

Di Xingchen tore open a box, took a plaster patch, and applied it to her backside.

Hu Ying looked at his thin white waist and said, "You who dance, protect your waist."

"Everyone of our classmates have more or less minor problems, it doesn't matter." Di Xingchen said.

Hu Ying sighed as she slumped down on the sofa.

Di Xingchen turned her head to look at him, "What's wrong?"

Hu Ying lies on the couch and whispers, "Tomorrow is the last day ......"

"The day after tomorrow is another day, right?" Di Xingchen puts away the plaster and says, "I heard the director say that the latest arrangement is that we'll spend a day and a night at the Red and Blue Lodge tomorrow, and the final confession day will be the next day. But that day should be busy, and we might be kept apart in the middle."

He said, turning his head to look at Hu Ying. Hu Ying lying on the sofa, chestnut-colored hair messy, like a lazy sleeping beauty, he now has no makeup, especially vegetarian, but the eyelids bring their own light, open and close between the extreme flavor.

He sat down next to Hu Ying.

Hu Ying pinches her hair, strand by strand, and keeps looking at him.

"Want to go out and talk?" Di Xingchen asked.

He felt that Hu Ying seemed to be a bit camera shy.

Hu Ying asked softly, "Xing Chen, among the seven of us, who is the person you like, is it Brother Pei?"

Di Xingchen froze.

Hu Ying just laughed a little and whispered, "I wanted to know a day in advance."

Hu Ying's words immediately reminded Di Xingchen of what Pei Xu had just told him.

Pei Xu told him that Huo Cheng might know that the two of them are in love, so he deliberately brought him to Tethered Horse Town.

"I think I know and I should tell you too." Pei Xu said.

From Di Xingchen's point of view, Huo Cheng's behavior was atmospheric and touching, which gave Huo Cheng a lot of points. But Pei Xu thought he should let Di Xingchen know.

Di Xingchen looked at Hu Ying, who smiled and looked at him without moving.

Di Xingchen nodded.

Hu Ying hooked her fingers into her hair and curled it into a pigtail, then sat up, "I guessed it already."

He did feel it a long time ago, he just never dared to confirm it.

Although he had already sensed it, hearing Di Xingchen say it out loud made his heart drop to the ground with a thud, a bit of pain, a bit of embarrassment, and a bit of confusion.

But these are all necessary processes, and if you don't go through them today, you will go through them in a couple of days.

Hu Ying looks at Di Xingchen: "Would you be embarrassed if I cried out now?"

"Huh?"

Hu Ying laughed. He slapped his butt and said, "I guess Director Guo will come running over later and ask what you two are whispering about!"

Di Xingchen asks, "Should we go out for a drink?"

Hu Ying said, "We have to get up early tomorrow. Don't drink. You're not suffering from back pain, so get some rest, you'll still have to suffer in the next couple of days."

With that, he headed for the door, and Di Xingchen followed him to the door, where there were no cameras, and Di Xingchen leaned over to look at him, and Hu Ying pushed his head, waved his hand, and wiggled his ass toward the elevator.

Hu Ying went straight downstairs.

He came out of the hotel alone and took a few steps down the silent, deserted street.

He wasn't really as violently sad as he'd been with previous breakups, he was just extraordinarily lost, like the huge loss of sourness he'd felt when his straight best friend from his first crush told him he had a girlfriend.

It's the kind of thing that you prepare for and anticipate, but one day the other person suddenly tells you he's in love, and you're still irrepressibly lost and empty in every direction.

He then called his best friend Bunny over.

"Di Xingchen is in love, and it's not with me!" He said.

Bunny returned, "Holy fuck."

Hu Ying said, "Ugh, ugh, ugh!"

"Who does he like, Pei Xu?"

Hu Ying gas: "Yeah, drag brother stink face Pei!"

"That kinda makes sense... Pei Xu is very proactive and sweet... I won't lie, I'm a Rising Star fan."

Hu Ying: "......"

Hu Ying : "Then there's no need to comfort me so much."

He said as he wandered outside the hotel and turned to see Di Xingchen standing in front of him, wrapped in a jacket.

Hu Ying froze for a moment, then was greatly embarrassed.

He hung up immediately and looked over at Di Xingchen.

"I guess you didn't hear anything."

Di Xingchen said, "You don't have to be so comforting to hear a word."

Di Xingchen zipped up, "Let's go."

"Where to?" Hu Ying asked.

"Have a drink." Di Xingchen said.

Hu Ying looked at Di Xingchen's back and felt that Di Xingchen was so offensive at this moment.

He stood for a moment and immediately followed.

The two found a tavern, no cameras, no staff, just the two of them.

Hu Ying was drunk and lying on the table Di Xingchen.

"I thought I was going to cry, and surprisingly I didn't." Hu Ying said, "But there were definitely others who cried."

He thought for a moment and said, "I think Wen Nuo will definitely cry, and on the last day he must cry ...... and Huo."

"Huo won't cry in front of the camera." Di Xingchen said faintly, "Those who cry don't necessarily use their love deeply, and those who don't cry don't necessarily have real plainness."

Hu Ying's eyes reddened.

He was really going to cry at that statement.

He can't think of stars in the sky, fireworks, or buying Di Xingchen plasters, and only tries to get to Di Xingchen as much as he can, but he really likes Di Xingchen, too. Eight people have different personalities and behave differently. By nature, he doesn't know how to take care of people or how to pursue them.

"Just be honest and wait for someone to chase you, keep being your little princess, you don't have to change for anyone." Di Xingchen said raising her glass, "There will always be people who don't like you, and there will always be people who like you."

"Luckily, of the eight of us, you're the only one who isn't in love." Hu Ying clinks her glass with him.

Hu Ying was so drunk that he couldn't walk steadily, Di Xingchen helped him and they walked to the hotel together late at night.

"I think I've learned a little." Hu Ying said, suddenly drunk, "I'm making progress."

Di Xingchen asks, "What?"

Hu Ying said, "Because I just suddenly kept thinking in my head, "Does your back hurt, and you're holding me up like this."

He's improved, he's not just recklessly charging upwards anymore.

But it's too late.

Di Xingchen froze, then laughed.

All the lights in the town have gone out, except for the moon and stars in the sky and Hu Ying's drunken speech.

"I'm going to be my friend's best man next month."

"Isn't this a bit far from the hotel."

"Come on, let's walk back to the South Side together!"

Di Xingchen said, "This time it's really not possible, it's too far."

"Hahahahahaha."