Chapter 168: How sweet is it?

Pei Xu changed her shoes and went in, and froze for a moment when she saw Yan Zhi cooking.

Hu Ying asks, "Has the chef changed?"

"Today Yan Zhi is in charge." Lin Qingning said with a smile.

Hu Ying went over to take a look, and Lin Qingning suddenly asked, "Why is your face a bit swollen?"

Hu Ying said, "I drank too much yesterday and didn't sleep enough today, my image as a beautiful man is going to be over!"

"It's a little haggard." Tuan Yihua said.

Hu Ying is actually in a rather depressed mood, he only realized yesterday that he is completely out of the game, how can he adjust his mind so quickly, he is just trying to be tough, but he doesn't want to show too much loss to make it difficult for Di Xingchen, so from the moment he opens the door of the car, he's in a strong high.

It was a good thing that it was a special day and everyone was there and the attention and focus was not on him.

Pei Xu was soaked, he took his hat off, and said, "I'll go change first."

Pei Xu carries her suitcase to get changed, Di Xingchen remembers that Pei Xu doesn't know that they might have to re-distribute the rooms later, so she follows her in.

When they entered, they saw Pei Xu standing in the small living room, surveying the room where the two of them used to live.

Di Xingchen said, "We may have to re-distribute the rooms later, so just change your clothes and leave the bedroom untouched."

"Still changing?" Pei Xu asked.

"It's possible to switch." Di Xingchen said.

Di Xingchen did not stay long in the room, and after closing the door, he came out of the room and saw Guo Bing coming in.

"Are you cooking already?" Guo Bing asks, "Are you having a potluck?"

"Is the director going to eat with us?" Lin Qingning asked.

Guo Bing said, "You can't eat, and we've got two more dates for you today."

Yan Zhi immediately put down the chopsticks in her hand when she heard this, and her expression was obviously a bit stunned.

Guo Bing said, "Is everyone here? Where's Pei Xu?"

"Here it is."

He turned his head, and saw Pei Xu coming out of the room with her sweater on.

Guo Bing said, "Let me talk about our arrangement today. It's like this, because our whole recording time is relatively short, and everyone's favorites are more concentrated, which leads to the fact that up to today, there are still guests who haven't been able to have an official date with their favorite person."

Upon hearing this, Lin Qingning looked over to Tuan Yihua and Wen Nuo next to him and smiled as he patted Wen Nuo on the shoulder.

Wen Nuo's face was red.

"So we'd like to give these guests one last chance at a date today. We will base our judgment on your last heartthrob text message, so if anyone's heartthrob is not the same as before, they can bring it up now." Guo Bing said and looked around, "Everyone's heartthrob hasn't changed, right?"

As soon as his words left his mouth, he saw Lin Qingning raise his hand awkwardly.

Hu Ying just laughed out loud, "Who did you send it to?"

"Pei Xu." Lin Qingning said frankly.

"So if you were to send a heartfelt text message right now, who would you send it to?" Guo Bing asked.

"Wen Nuo bar." Lin Qingning said, "Didn't we both just travel."

This is a polite heartfelt text message after a date.

Wen Nuo then smiled.

"The director can leave me alone. Give the last almost to someone else." Lin Qingning said with a smile.

"Just don't regret it." Guo Bing said. Guo Bing said, "Then as of now, the only people who haven't had a formal date with their favorite person are Tuan Yihua and Wen Nuo.You two have one lunch and one dinner, so let's talk about splitting it up."

"But Yan cooked a lot of food today." Wen Nuo said.

"Then let's all split the afternoon." Tuan Yihua said, "We'll all eat together at noon."

Guo Bing said, "You guys watch it."

"Then we'll have it all together for lunch. One meal is less than one meal." Huo Cheng said.

"Then those who haven't recorded their single picks should record them before they have lunch." Guo Bing said.

Only Pei Xu, Yihua Duan and Yan Zhi have recorded a single take so far, leaving five of them unrecorded.

While everyone went to record the single picks, Pei Xu and Duan Yihua stayed behind to lay hands on Yan Zhi.

Tuan Yihua asked Pei Xu, "Where did you and Hu Ying go?"

Pei Xu said, "We went to Tethered Horse Town."

Duan Yihua froze for a moment, "Did Huo and the others go to Shuanma Town as well?"

Pei Xu nods.

Yan Zhi glanced towards Pei Xu at that.

"Have you seen it?" Tuan Yihua asked again.

"We had dinner together twice." Pei Xu said.

Tuan Yihua then laughed, half-jokingly, half-sincerely, "You're really lucky."

Or this is the so-called fate, just like any two people in this world who love each other, are in the millions of years and millions of people, with a variety of chances happen to know and love each other, and finally come together.

Tuan Yihua stole a glance toward Yan Zhi, who was wearing an apron with rolled-up cuffs, quietly using chopsticks to turn over the fish in the pan, probably with insufficient skill, so that the fish rotted as soon as it was turned over, revealing the white flesh.

"It seems like you have to heat up the water to make the fish soup white." Pei Xu suddenly said.

Yan Zhi, who was about to receive cold water, looked back and said, "I forgot."

Tuan Yihua said to Pei Xu, "You can cook now too."

"I've seen Star make fish soup this way." Pei Xu said.

Tuan Yihua looked at Pei Xu, and thought to himself, Pei Xu is actually still very low key, and doesn't have any smug and provocative expression, but the change from when he first came to the Red and Blue Lodge is just too obvious, and that kind of change visible to the naked eye is like a victor's radiance that says it all.

Most of them haven't changed, only Pei Xu has changed the most, it's love that has changed him, giving him color and light as well.

Pei Xu is changing towards Di Xingchen.

He was really envious of Pei Xu in that moment, even a little jealous of him.

If only he'd changed sooner, he'd spent too long avoiding, obsessing, hesitating.

Losing to Pei Xu, he is not wronged at all.

Because it was the last single picking, the program group recorded especially fine, and by the time they all finished recording the single picking and came back, all the food was on the table.

Probably also due to the last single pick, the questions asked by the crew made everyone's emotions a little sad.

"Let's have some wine." Huo Cheng took out a bottle of red wine from his suitcase.

"Huo even brought wine." Hu Ying said.

Huo Cheng said, "I still have a bottle of white left, saving it for the end of the program."

"Can we eat together again tomorrow?" Hu Ying asked.

"Tomorrow, after the recording is over, we definitely need to get together with the program team for a meal." Lin Qingning said.

"It seems like every time we've gotten together lately we've said it might be the last time we get together, and we end up eating meal after meal." Wen Nuo laughs.

"This program is just full of surprises and surprises." Huo Cheng said.

He poured everyone's glasses and then everyone stood up.

"Let's drink a toast to our last and possibly penultimate dinner, and to Yan Zhi's first time at the helm of a chef's kitchen!" Huo Cheng says.

Everyone just laughed, glasses clinking together, the situation as it had been when they first came to the Red and Blue Lodge.

As it turns out, there's no such thing as a quick fix when it comes to cooking, and Yan Zhi's dishes look as fine as he is as a person, and taste mediocre. But the first time he took the helm of a spoon and was able to do so, everyone gave him high praise and ate it all up.

The meal was finished and there was not a drop of red wine left.

At the last moment, everyone was conversely calmer than before. After dinner, everyone sat on the seats and chatted, and around three o'clock, Tuan Yihua stood up and looked at Di Xingchen : "Xingchen."

Di Xingchen stood up.

Everyone sits on their chairs and watches Di Xingchen and Tuan Yihua go out together.

It was still raining outside, Hu Ying glanced at Pei Xu and saw that Pei Xu was looking at Di Xingchen's back.

The six of them sat there for a while longer before they started clearing the table.

"I forgot to talk about the room sharing." Hu Ying said, "I didn't even get enough sleep, I still want to catch up on my sleep."

"In my opinion, it's just going to stay the way we divided it before." Huo Cheng said.

Yan Zhi nods and says, "I can do anything."

Lin Qingning said, "Me too."

After everyone cleaned up the kitchen, they went to their own rooms to clean up. It was only about ten minutes ago when Pei Xu heard a commotion in the small living room.

He put down his pillowcase and came out of his room, only to see Di Xingchen return.

"Back so soon."

Di Xingchen says, "We went for a walk on the beach and came back."

"Cold?"

Di Xingchen laughs, "Kind of, so we walked for a while and came back, Tuan was freezing and kept sneezing, it was so windy on the beach."

Pei Xu smiled and said, "We still live here, the same split as we did back then."

"I just heard from Hoggle."

While there's time, Di Xingchen plans to clean up his room. Pei Xu walks up to his door and whispers, "I'm planning to invite Huo to dinner tonight."

Di Xingchen froze and nodded.

Pei Xu leaned against the door frame and watched him.

At that moment, there was a knock on the door from outside. Pei Xu glanced back towards the outside and saw Wen Nuo pushing the door in.

"Brother Pei." Wen Nuo was still a bit nervous.

"Looking for the stars?" Pei Xu asked.

Wen Nuo nodded his head.

Di Xingchen probed, "Wait for me for a while, I'll be done in a minute."

"Then I'll wait for you in the living room! You don't have to rush ...... " Wen Nuo red-faced and went out.

Pei Xu said, "You can stay out with Wen Nuo for a while longer and come back later."

Di Xingchen turned his head toward Pei Xu.

"There may not be this kind of opportunity in the future." Pei Xu said.

"Which chances?"

"The chance to date another man squarely." Pei Xu said.

"Yo~" there was a sound of dog food from the program next door.

It's really rare that they catch this young couple flirting!

God, so sweet!

Di Xingchen sure enough smiled back, didn't turn his head back, and only reached out his right hand to point to the camera behind him.

"Yo~" there was another sound of dog food being eaten by the crew next door to the program.

The next thing Di Xingchen did was squat down on the floor to organize his suitcase, and Pei Xu leaned against the doorway, and neither of them spoke anymore.

Tomorrow he won't be single.

Pei Xu wanted to.

It was actually exciting, even if it was more or less apprehensive until that moment came. Even though the sadness of the parting, and the complex feelings he had for his other love interests were all mixed together, it was more about the thought of a future love life.

They met and fell in love on Love Complex, and the camera may seem to hinder their intimacy, but it actually facilitates it in a way. When the recording is over and there is no more camera, maybe Di Xingchen will become more shy instead.

They are in for a more real, intimate and exciting relationship.

That was the beginning of a real relationship, just for the two of them, and it was exciting.

Di Xingchen senses Pei Xu's longing for the end of the program. Behind that longing is a desire for all that a real relationship entails. Dating, kissing, intimacy, bonding, heart to heart.

Di Xingchen pursed her lips for a moment and suddenly thought, a little abashedly, that it would have been nice to record him for another month.

What would Pei Xu be like without her staff, without the cameras, and without the other guests, in a real love life?

Thinking of Pei Xu, who was leaning on the door frame and looking at his back without saying anything, Di Xingchen quietly changed his direction from back to face. He raised his head to look at Pei Xu, whose eyes were focused and bright, all glowing with love.

"I told you, these two are sweeter when they don't talk than when they do!" Xiao Li said.

"What do you think they're both thinking at the moment?"

"Definitely thinking about staying up one more day, one last day."

"God, don't say that,, I'm excited."

"It's hard to say what Di Xingchen thinks, but Pei Xu must want it to be over, right? Otherwise, who can stand to see his favorite person going out for a walk with this one day and going out on a date with that one tomorrow?"

"The two must be even sweeter in private, look at them now with this lassitude, this tension, not to mention, surely they must have at least KISSED on the first day of the end, right?"

"Director, should we let them have their first on-screen kiss if the confession is successful?"

"Just like a marriage proposal, it's not too much to ask for a kiss if it's successful! On behalf of the hearts of cp fans!"

"Let's do a freeze frame with the two of them kissing at the end of the finale, it's going to bomb!"

"Then our season will be truly complete!"

"I can only say that the show is over, to the real relationship, any pair of even the most ordinary couple in this world, really in love at that moment, how sweet, is the outsiders can not even imagine, only the two of them know it themselves." Guo Bing said.

The show is coming to an end, but for Rising Star, it's only the beginning.

Di Xingchen closed her suitcase and stood up.

"Being a doormat?" He said to Pei Xu.

Pei Xu suddenly laughed.

Pei Xu asked softly as Di Xingchen walked past him:

"Nervous? I've noticed you're mean when you're nervous."

The two were next to each other inside the doorframe.

"It's too late to be nervous." Pei Xu said.