Chapter 9: Fire

I received four messages at once and Di Xingchen went down.

The four text messages were read over and over again. Thankfully, none of them had the ambiguity of a heartfelt text message, and the last one was a bit of a yin-yang.

It breathed acidity, as if it were jealous.

Is he jealous because he saw Pei Xu and Yan Zhi giving him shells?

It doesn't sound like Wen Nuo sent it.

Tuan Yihua and Lin Qingning didn't feel like people who would use that tone of voice either.

That leaves Hu Ying.

Hu Ying was always straightforward and said what he had to say, and this tone suited his character.

Luckily none of them were heartfelt texts, or he'd really have a big head.

He was going to be transparent, he didn't want to be the love interest of the three main male characters!

"Di Xingchen."

The crew suddenly called him.

He let out a "hmmm" and looked up towards the camera in front of his desk.

"It's time for you to text too." The programmer reminded.

Di Xingchen said, "Oh."

He wasn't distracted by the four texts.

Anyway, none of this affects the big picture, he is still self-aware, he is a poor student, how can he possibly fuck over the other three high rollers.

He sent a heartfelt text message as per the original episode.

I had just finished posting when I suddenly heard a knock on the door from outside.

He came out of the bedroom, crossed the small living room, and opened the door to Yan Zhi.

Yan Zhi looked gentle and handsome in his pajamas, with his hair down and replaced with black-framed glasses.

"Sleeping?"

"Not yet."

"A little chat?"

"Yeah."

Pei Xu was probably already asleep, and Di Xingchen was afraid of disturbing him: "Let's talk in my bedroom."

Yan Zhi nods.

They had both just reached the bedroom door when they saw the door next to them open.

Pei Xu stood in the doorway watching them.

"Still awake?" Yan Zhi took the initiative to greet her.

Pei Xu gave a "hmmm" and looked over at them both.

"I'm looking for Star for a chat." Yan Zhi said.

Pei Xu closed the door with another "hmm".

Yan Zhi and Di Xingchen go into the next bedroom.

"Pei Xu doesn't seem to be in a good mood today." Yan Zhi said.

"No, I don't think so. ...... He's just like that, he likes to be stinky."

Yan Zhi glanced at Di Xingchen's room.

"It's a bit of a mess." Di Xingchen cleaned up a bit, "You sit."

Yan Zhi sat down in his chair, seeing the textbooks on the desk, "Reading?"

"No, just texting." He asks Yan Zhi: "You got a lot of texts today, didn't you?"

Yan Zhi smiled, that face looked even more handsome under the golden table lamp, lips glistening, smile warm.

Just then, there was suddenly another knock on the door outside.

Di Xingchen hadn't even sat down yet; he opened the bedroom door and glanced out, then walked out.

This one back is Huo Cheng.

"Are you asleep?" Huo Cheng asked.

"...... no."

Huo Cheng came in.

"Is Castor sleeping?" Huo Cheng asked.

"I don't think so." Di Xingchen asks, "You looking for him?"

Huo Cheng turned back, "No, I'm looking for you."

Huo Cheng said and went into his bedroom.

Once inside, he saw Yan Zhi standing.

Huo Cheng froze, "You're here too."

Yan Zhi gave a "hmmm" and his pajamas were buttoned at the top, "Couldn't sleep, came over to play."

"Me too." Huo Cheng said.

The two looked at each other, Huo Cheng smiled and surveyed Di Xingchen's room, a subtle aura filled the room between them.

Di Xingchen received two glasses of water in the living room and was about to bring them in when Pei Xu came out of the room with a glass of water.

He smiled at Pei Xu and said, "Huo Cheng and Yan Zhi are both here, come over here too, let's have a chat."

Four Lan Fangs, just in time for a brother's night out!

Pei Xu said, "I'm going to sleep."

The tone was less than friendly.

It's better if you don't come, Di Xingchen thought, you're so bad-tempered that you'd spoil the atmosphere.

He then went into his room with two glasses of water.

Pei Xu looked back while receiving the water, and when the bedroom was opened, he vaguely saw Yan Zhi and Huo Cheng, and then the door of the room was closed without letting in any light. He took a glass of water and drank from it when he suddenly realized that the camera in the living room was turning towards him.

He finished his water, grabbed his jacket from the couch and covered that camera.

"He's shading too early too, what time is it." The photographer spat.

"It can't be helped, who told my aunt to be a producer."

"Sister Zhou would only be furious if she saw it."

"It's a great honor for Pei Xu to be here on our show, how dare Sister Zhou say anything about him. He and Yan Zhi are the two Buddhas of our program, and we're relying on them for the first day's ratings."

"But this text he sent Di Xingchen is so wonderful."

"Yeah, yeah! I thought it was subtle too. What kind of text message is that, friendship or not, love or not, and a little sour."

"No matter what the text message is, it must be sent only if you have a good feeling about it, right? Whether you want to be friends or lovers with someone, the beginning is so shady, like a grade school chicken."

Their program is a mess these days.

Because the first day of texting went way beyond what any of them expected.

Among the guests on the red side, Lin Qingning, Hu Ying both sent to Yan Zhi, Duan Yihua sent to Pei Xu. Wen Nuo sent to Di Xingchen.

All of this was expected of them.

However, out of the four Lan Fang guests, three male guests sent Di Xingchen!

"As I've said before, the red-blue distribution is inherently problematic; there's no such thing as a clear separation between homosexuals and heterosexuals."

"But it's been red and blue for the last three seasons. But don't say attributes don't matter, look at Hu Ying, they've got people who want to be best friends."

"I have a male best friend, and according to him, it's less likely for two receptors to be together, but it's more likely for two attackers to be together. Don't you guys think Di Xingchen can be both offensive and receptive?"

"So are we going to shift our strategy?"

After all, their scripts have been setting up red and blue CPs all along now.

Everyone looks to director Guo Bing.

Guo Bing pinched his chin and frowned as he thought, "Everyone's text messages are restrained today, and the situation is still unclear, so let's look at another installment. The rest remains the same as the original plan! But we also have to be prepared just in case, it's best to make two sets of plans out of it."

Screenwriter Liu said, "Okay, let's stay up late tonight and study Di Xingchen!"

All of the romance synthesizers have their own team of writers, and writer Liu, who is the team leader, gathers a few of the other smaller writers together and they all have a meeting.

Di Xingchen came to their attention a week ago. As a vegetarian, they picked Di Xingchen mainly for his outstanding face and student status, but their knowledge and investigation of him was far less than that of other guests.

"Di Xingchen, 20 years old, height 183, weight 125, sophomore at the Central Academy of Dance, studying classical dance, both parents are ordinary working class, excellent grades in school, 0 love history, pure vegetarian, according to himself, sexual orientation male, attribute 1."

Writer Liu looked at everyone, "Previously, we set up a red and blue CP line for him and each of the four male guests from the red side, now the task is to try and set up three blue and blue CP lines for him and the other three male guests from Lan Fang."

Screenwriter Liu clapped his hands, "Let's do it!"

Screenwriter Liu is excited.

He's a veteran of Red and Blue Signal, having done three seasons in a row, and he's also done two romance series before Red and Blue Signal, and is known as the number one writer of romance series.

But after doing too many romance synthesizers, BG's and BL's, he has lost his freshness, and always feels that there is a bit of excitement missing somewhere.

But now he had a flash of insight.

To set up the CP line, we have to set up the interactive session according to the personal characteristics of the guests, and everyone started to focus on Di Xingchen's profile, and the more they ended up picking at them, the more excited they got.

They picked up a video of Di Xingchen dancing from the official Middle Dance account.

In just six seconds, there are three videos of his dance, all of them are amazing, but they are as stunning and graceful as swimming dragons, with strong rhythmic drums, bang bang bang bang a few times, shocking and heating up the hearts of all the people in the program group.

Screenwriter Liu and the others were all abuzz.

"Go to their school and pull the video, now, now!"

Di Xingchen was called up early in the morning by the program team.

He sat down sleepily in his chair and looked across the pile.

Director Guo Bing was there.

Everyone was looking at him that way in high spirits.

He yawned, "Single picking so early."

"We're all going out to sea today, so I'm afraid we'll come back too tired to pick it up now."

The make-up artist came over to help him tidy up a little, and Di Xingchen smiled, his face still tired, but with a smile that made everyone's heart flutter.

He is now purely veiled and his hair is messy, and he looks more ...... offensive and receptive.

"We didn't put together enough information about you before, so we'd like to add to it now. Just answer whatever we ask. "

Di Xingchen rubbed her eyes a bit and nodded with a little bubbly tone, "Okay."

"Are you sure about your sexuality?"

Di Xingchen nods, "Sure. I won't lie about that."

"What kind of boyfriend are you looking for when you come to our program?"

He doesn't want to find it.

He came to get high on CP.

However, Di Xingchen still answered honestly according to the drama: "There is no specific kind, I hope the other person is a generous, mature boy."

It's the Yihua kind of thing.

"There's no specific requirement, meaning it's just mostly up to fate, right? If there's someone you're very much in love with, very much in love with, but not quite what you expected from a lover, you're okay with that, right?"

Di Xingchen yawned again and nodded.

Whatever. He's just a tool.

"We interviewed you earlier and you said you did okay in school dance?"

Di Xingchen nods.

He was okay.

He's a little known name in middle dance and could be in the top three in his class.

But in fact, in terms of dancing skills, he doesn't rank at all in the talented Chinese dance, and the reason why he's in the top three, I'm sorry to say, is that he relies half on his face and half on his sense of aesthetics.

Their teachers said that he was born to eat this bowl of rice, excellent proportions, long hands and legs, long and beautiful, jumping up and down very su, it's just a pity that the skills still need to be practiced hard for two years.

"But we watched a few of your dancing videos and realized that you are a good dancer." Guo Bing was still a little agitated.

Di Xingchen took this as a compliment, "Thanks. There are really too many gods in our school."

"So what are your usual hobbies? What do you like to do, are there any places you particularly want to go, what do you like to eat, what don't you like to eat, what kind of people do you hate the most, and what kind of people do you like the most ......"

Di Xingchen really didn't expect this interview to be so specific, detailed and long.

He finally could barely hold his pee before the show's crew let him out.

He went straight to the restroom.

As soon as I push the door, I see Pei Xu using the restroom.

He came in so suddenly, Pei Xu's hands shook.

Di Xingchen quickly covered his eyes.

Pei Xu shook his hand off, his face a bit grim.

"I'm sorry."

"So flustered."

"I couldn't hold it in." Di Xingchen said, "I was called away by the program early in the morning to do an interview."

Seeing Pei Xu turn around, he immediately walks over and pulls off his pajama pants without waiting for the water to wash down.

Pei Xu goes aside to wash his hands and looks at him through the mirror.

The toilet was diagonally across from the mirror, and the angle was a good one to see.

Pei Xu s eyes drooped slightly and rubbed his hands with hand sanitizer. Di Xingchen may really hold it hard, congested with blood, and peeing especially slowly.

"Don't take the program team too seriously, we are all in a cooperative relationship." Pei Xu said while wiping her hands, "Holding it in like this for an interview."

Di Xingchen smiled, her ears a little red, "I'll pay attention next time."

"You're too well behaved, too."

Pei Xu had a vivid mood, as if he was particularly hot and bothered early in the morning, thinking that Di Xingchen did not hide his feelings in front of him, and did not treat him as a special person.

It's really getting on his nerves.