As soon as the shooting is over, Liu Yu’an quickly leaves the tent and tells Xu Bing and the cameraman, “I’ll be going,” then quickly rushes outside with his bag of fruits for Shao Yanxi in hand so quickly that their jaws drop to the ground.
Looking at the tent flapping in the wind from Liu Yu’an’s departure, Xu Bing says with widened eyes, “my god, what a runner An-ge is.”
He’s only just got out of his sleeping bag.
The cameraman nods, then says, “Mr. Shao is outside.”
“You’re right,” Xu Bing sighs, “if I also have a dear wife waiting outside I’d definitely be as quick.”
The cameraman ‘mm’s, then says, jabbing daggers in his heart, “if you have one, that is.”
Xu Bing “…”
When Liu Yu’an is outside, the rest of the celebrities are not here yet, so there is only the director and other members of the staff, along with Shao Yanxi and assistant He.
Liu Yu’an walks over and greets them in turn, then asks Shao Yanxi, smiling, “why did you come all of a sudden?” Looking as if that embarrassing business with Yue Zhun just now didn’t happen. Shao Yanxi’s face grows gloomier.
Liu Yu’an gives him a glance and gives it a little thought then asks the director, “is this everything for today? We’ll be going.”
“Yeah, everything’s done,” the director quickly replies. The investor daddy is here, so obviously everything must already be done; besides, today’s shooting really is over.
“Oh, right, you’ll have to wake up before 5:30 tomorrow morning, to resume shooting here.”
It’s to film them waking up inside the tent, and Liu Yu’an answers, “alright,” then he walks over and takes Shao Yanxi’s hand, and parts with the staff, “then we’ll be going.”
“Be careful on your way back,” says the director. While the hotel is about 20 minutes away on foot, it’s still not exactly close by.
Liu Yu’an then says to Shao Yanxi, “let’s go.”
Shao Yanxi is really angry looking at Liu Yu’an who seems oblivious to everything that’s happened. He pulls his own hand out and quickly walks away.
Assistant He “…”
That little tantrum he’s throwing… Is this little tsundere here really his boss who’s called the devil because he is calm and rational and decisive and robotic and unforgiving and merciless and utterly destructive?
What on God’s green Earth… Is this how his boss usually interacts with Liu Yu’an? It’s unbelievable.
His almighty boss, is suddenly descending onto Earth, becoming a mortal.
Meanwhile, Liu Yu’an feels a bit sweet inside knowing Shao Yanxi is feeling jealous. The corner of his mouth perks up as he catches up with Shao Yanxi and takes his hand again.
He pulls him over to plant a kiss on his mouth.
“Angry?”
“No,” Shao Yanxi looks away.
Liu Yu’an chuckles before explaining, “I really have nothing to do with him. I only like you right now, very very very much. So much so I don’t want to separate from you for a single second.”
Assistant He “…”
Jesus Christ the cringiness, but it looks like his boss is buying it wholesale.
Then Liu Yu’an continues, “I’ll tell you about it in excruciating detail later, but why don’t we go back first? They’ll catch up if we keep dawdling around.”
Shao Yanxi doesn’t reply, but is quite obediently led along by Liu Yu’an as they leave.
The assistant feels like poking his eyes out; he’ll have a hard time facing his boss in the future; why did he have to keep watching them, in the first place?
Unfortunately, nobody cares what terrible trauma our little assistant is going through, as Liu Yu’an and Shao Yanxi are walking on the dirt path of the tourist area, while being showered by moonlight, looking like any other loving couple.
On the way, Liu Yu’an slowly and seriously explains to Shao Yanxi about every single thing that’s happened today, especially the tent problem.
From how the girls had to share a tent and how the seniors chose to be in a single tent and how Lin Xi abandoned him for Xu Bing.
“That is why you saw that only Yue Zhun and I were left…”
Shao Yanxi suddenly interjects, “would you have slept with him if I didn’t come?”
Liu Yu’an smiles. Finally, he’s asking the important question, and says, “no. I would have asked to switch even if you weren’t here.”
“I would not sleep with him.”
Shao Yanxi is quiet for a bit before asking, “then have you slept with him before?”
Liu Yu’an can’t help but chuckle, and asks in return, “what do you think?”
Thinking about how experienced Liu Yu’an seems to be in bed at making him lose himself in pleasure, Shao Yanxi’s face goes dark again, and he says angrily, “why should I know?” Then he pulls his hand out again.
Even if he knows that this sleeping is only for show purposes, and he shouldn’t be angry, but he just can’t help feeling mad.
Liu Yu’an feels that any more teasing might actually set Shao Yanxi off, so he quickly grabs onto Shao Yanxi’s retreating hand, and pulls him back, right into his embrace.
“Shao Yanxi, I will only say this once, so listen carefully. I, Liu Yu’an, besides you, have never ever laid my hands on anybody else, including Yue Zhun. I have never even held hands with him. You are the first one. The first hand-holding, the first kiss, even the first sex. You are all my firsts.”
The original cannon fodder likes Yue Zhun and did a lot for him, but obviously, the protagonist Bottom cannot actually have been tainted by him for the setting of the original world’s sake.
Shao Yanxi seems like he has a hard time believing, as he stares straight into Liu Yu’an’s eyes.
Half a minute passes before he suddenly hugs Liu Yu’an back and kisses him on the lips.
Assistant He, following not far behind “…”
Jeez, get a room, you two.
When he’s out of the damned mountains he is also going to look for love, and be the one dispersing dog food everywhere and make everyone else bitter this time.
As assistant He’s imagination goes wild, Liu Yu’an and Shao Yanxi are already finished and are walking back again. Then his boss seems to have said something and Liu Yu’an laughs quite loudly.
Then he puts his hand onto his boss’ waist and yells out, “Yanxi, you’re really cute. How can you be so cute? If you’re so cute like that…”
‘Cute.’
Trying to ascribe this adjective to his boss is making his brain go haywire.
Then, after about 20 minutes of ‘playfighting,’ the two plus one assistant are finally back at the hotel. Liu Yu’an and Shao Yanxi are back in their room. Since Shao Yanxi is jealous that he supposedly might have gone to sleep with Yue Zhun, and the mood is just right, Liu Yu’an manages to drag Shao Yanxi along for two games ♂ .
Then they shower, and Liu Yu’an locks Shao Yanxi in his embrace before falling deep asleep.
——Seriously, Shao Yanxi’s octopus-like sleeping manner is really terrifying.
An obstinate conservative by day, a liberal, open sleeper by night…
Though maybe he has finally got used to it, so even though Shao Yanxi is still in his octopus state when Liu Yu’an woke up, he didn’t have the snake dream last night.
Unfortunately, the alarm clock also wakes Shao Yanxi up, who ‘mm’s a bit before looking blankly at the ringing phone on the bedside cabinet.
Then he finally seems to react by pushing Liu Yu’an, “wake up.”
“Yeah,” Liu Yu’an says, unmoving.
Shao Yanxi shuts off the alarm then pushes him again, “they’ll be here soon.”
“I’ll wake up if you give me a morning kiss.” Liu Yu’an says with his eyes closed.
He really doesn’t want to wake up; it’s almost five-thirty, which means he only slept for four hours yesterday, which is not nearly enough.
Shao Yanxi hesitates a little before giving Liu Yu’an a kiss, and finally, Liu Yu’an opens his sleepy eyes. Seeing that, Shao Yanxi retreats and asks, “awake yet? Then get up.”
“I want another kiss,” Liu Yu’an says, dragging Shao Yanxi over for another French kiss.
Finally, he lets go after they are both short of breath. Then, he drags the blanket which has slipped beyond Shao Yanxi’s waist back up, and says, “it’s early, so sleep some more.”
Shao Yanxi ‘mm’s, and looks at him. While Liu Yu’an is already up, but Shao Yanxi’s searchlight-like gaze is making him unable to wear clothes in peace.
He turns his head around to warn him, “stop staring if you don’t want both of us to be unable to work today.”
Shao Yanxi immediately turns over and pulls the blanket over, burying himself inside and says, “I’m sleepy. I’ll go back to sleep.”
Liu Yu’an “… Just sleep.”
While many celebrities would wear a little makeup before a show, not Liu Yu’an. So he is quickly ready to go. When he is about to leave, he pulls Shao Yanxi’s blanket down a little then kisses Shao Yanxi on his forehead as he opens his eyes, and says, “it’s still early, just sleep. I’ll be going.”
“I’ll bring you lunch,” Shao Yanxi says.
“Looking forward to it,” Liu Yu’an says before leaving.
The sky is already lighting up so early in midsummer. Old Mo, the movie star and Xu Bing are already there when he reaches the lobby.
Everyone greets Liu Yu’an upon seeing him, and Xu Bing asks, surprised, “An-ge, what’s wrong? The eyebags are terrible.”
Liu Yu’an “…”
Everyone is thus looking right at him “…”
The air is quiet. Then, some start to formulate little stories of Shao Yanxi working ♂ Liu Yu’an hard in their minds, and express admiration for CEO Shao’s capabilities ♂ inside for Liu Yu’an to end up like this, and fail to realise they have got the relationship upside-down.
And the topic is dead before it even started, until He Anran is finally here with everyone else, and dramatically yells out, “holy, Xiao-Liu, what’s wrong with your eyebags?!”
“…”
And the air quiets down again.
He Anran doesn’t seem to read the atmosphere well though, as she quickly takes out some cosmetics from her bag and hands them over, “I have some undereye concealer right here. Quickly, before the cameras start rolling.”
“Thanks,” Liu Yu’an says but doesn’t take them.
He Anran seems to misunderstand though, and puts her bag down then points towards the sofa, saying, “you don’t know how to use them, right? I’ll apply them for you.”
Xu Bing and co. look at each other, then the movie star says, “you should really apply some. Your skin is too fair that it will look even more obvious on camera.”
That said, it is amazing how Liu Yu’an’s skin is so fair, even fairer than little girls. It’s really something to be jealous about.
He Anran is about to apply the concealer for him when Liu Yu’an stops her and says, “I’ll do it myself.”
As said before, he had to apply his own makeup for a few hundred years when he was the Emperor of the Yaoguai.
While he doesn’t hate make-up, if possible, he would rather keep his face natural.
Can’t be helped in this case though. He takes He Anran’s cosmetics and says thanks again.
Then he finally covers up the eyebags under the burning gazes of everyone else.
Having centuries of make-up experience meant that Liu Yu’an’s make-up is almost invisible even in person, even though his eyebags are clearly ‘gone,’ and so everyone asks what technique he used, surprised.
Naturally, Liu Yu’an cannot say the truth, and says, “I followed some video tutorial online.”
“Can I see that tutorial?” Wei Jiangxue, who arrived with He Anran, asks.
“I don’t remember; I was just searching randomly online.”
Then He Anran asks, “is this skin actually the effect of cosmetics?” If it is, then it is practically a miraculous level of skill.
Liu Yu’an answers, “it isn’t.”
“Wow, your skin quality really is too enviable,” He Anran then says in return. Even the movie star says, “really, in all my years acting with all the actors and actresses I’ve worked with, Xiao-Liu’s skin is the best I’ve ever seen.”
Everyone nods in agreement; some thinking to themselves, no wonder the wealthiest man would like him, with the skin plus the handsomeness…