As the Spring Festival approached, the shooting of "Xing Lan" gradually came to an end. Sheng Xing Ze returned to the set after a few weeks of recuperation and made the last few shots. With this, "Xing Lan" officially finished filming.
At the farewell party, Zhang Chao's face was flushed, and he kept on calling people around him his brothers. The screenwriter knew he was happy and did not stop him from drinking.
It was the first time that Hui Si Yong got to drink so freely, and he was being made to take shot after shot of alcohol by the seniors, and while doing so, he still had that innocent smile on.
Yu Bai was sitting at the main table. Those who did not dare to approach him before were now trying to come closer, and tried to have a toast with him. They did not know when they would get a chance to work with him again in the future, at least after tonight's farewell party, they could go out and boasted with others that they had had a drink with Yu Bai.
Fortunately, Yu Bai had a high alcohol tolerance, otherwise he would not still be able to keep such a calm and collected manner with rounds after rounds of toasts from people.
After taking courtesy toasts from everyone, Yu Bai stood up to take a breather. He wanted to go look for the one person who did not try to have a toast with him. He looked around, but could not find Sheng Xing Ze. He tried to search a bit further, and saw that Sheng Xing Ze was sitting alone by himself in a quiet corner. His face was in a daze with a suspicious blush on his face.
Sheng Xing Ze, in his previous life, was known as the 'drinker who never got drunk,' and he had always been the alcohol king at these parties; after he transmigrated, this body turned out to have low alcohol tolerance. Everyone knew he was still in the recovering period, so they let him replace alcohol with juice for toasting. However, Sheng Xing Ze was aroused by the alcohol aroma around him, so he secretly poured a small cup for himself to have a taste; after that, he had no idea what happened to him anymore.
Yu Bai walked over to him, bent down and waved in front of him.
"Sheng Xing Ze?"
Sheng Xing Ze raised his head in confusion and stared at Yu Bai's face for a long time, as if he did not recognize him. He slapped his face and wanted to stop his head from spinning, "Stop spinning."
A drunk Sheng Xing Ze spoke softly, with a tint of childishness in his tone.
Yu Bai had never seen this side of Sheng Xing Ze, so this action made his heart tremble. He subconsciously looked around, seeing that no one paid attention to them, he squatted down in front of Sheng Xing Ze, and put his hand on the other's head. He smiled and said, "Is it like this?"
Sheng Xing Ze moved his fingers to feel the touch on his head, his eyes squinted to have a careful look at the person in front of him, and finally he recognized it was Yu Bai, he grinned silly, "Brother Yu, did you come to get me?"
His hand slid down Yu Bai's hair and squeezed on Yu Bai's cheek. His whole body was glued onto Yu Bai's body, "Brother Bai, you're so soft." He put his head on Yu Bai's neck and rubbed on it gently, a happy smile was hanging on the corners of his mouth.
Yu Bai's body got stiff due to the rubbing, gently patted the evil hand on his face, stepped back a little to create some distance between them, then he handed Sheng Xing Ze a glass of hot water.
Sheng Xing Ze held the glass in his hands, like a child holding a baby bottle, and looked at Yu Bai with his eyes open while drinking.
Yu Bai saw that Sheng Xing Ze had started to spit bubbles, and the amount of water in the glass was still the same. He took the glass away from Sheng Xing Ze's hand and placed it on the table, ruffling his head, "Be good, I'll go tell the director that we are leaving early."
Yu Bai just turned around to head to the director's direction, when he felt a slight tug on his clothes.
He looked back and saw Sheng Xing Ze was aggrievedly holding onto the corner of his clothes, not letting go. Yu Bai wanted to loosen up the other's grip on his clothes, but the more he tried, the harder Sheng Xing Ze would hold onto it.
Aware of Yu Bai's intention, Sheng Xing Ze's eyes were immediately covered with a layer of mist, and his tears kept pooling under his eyes, as if wanting to cry but could not, which had successfully poked into the softest spot of Yu Bai's heart.
Facing the persuasive Sheng Xing Ze, Yu Bai was unable to counter him; now facing a soft and spoiled Sheng Xing Ze, Yu Bai rendered himself completely powerless.
As he stretched his hand out to Sheng Xing Ze, the other man immediately withdrew his tears and happily put his palm on Yu Bai's hand. After his hand was held by Yu Bai, Sheng Xing Ze immediately became obedient, sticking behind him without causing any trouble.
No one dared to say anything when Yu Bai wanted to leave the party. Although in their eyes, Sheng Xing Ze did not seem to be drunk, besides the slightly redder than usual face; after all they all thought he did not take a single drop of alcohol. When seeing that their hands were intertwined with each other, they all showed a cunning look on their faces, and gave their goodbyes while giving the two of them an ambiguous smile.
Yu Bai's assistant, Yuan Yuan, came to pick them up. Yu Bai pushed Sheng Xing Ze into the back seat, leaned over to fasten his seatbelt. When he closed the door, he heard a "snap" from the seatbelt. Sheng Xing Ze had unfastened his seatbelt, and Yu Bai's effort to fasten the seatbelt were all in vain.
Sheng Xing Ze looked at him innocently, as if he wanted to say that it was the belt's fault. Seeing that Yu Bai kept looking at him, he patted the seat next to him, "You will accompany me, eh."
Yu Bai again compromised, stooped down to fasten the seatbelt, and went over to the other side to get into the back seat.
"Where do you live?" Yu Bai asked him.
When the filming was over, Sheng Xing Ze could not continue to stay at the hotel. Yu Bai just now realized that he did not know where Sheng Xing Ze lived.
Sheng Xing Ze tilted his head and looked at him curiously with his clear black orbs, not understanding what he was saying.
Seeing him being like this, Yu Bai knew that he could not ask where the other lives tonight. He told Yuan Yuan to take them to his residence. Yuan Yuan drove slowly and smoothly towards their destination.
Sheng Xing Ze gently pulled on Yu Bai's clothes, and Yu Bai heard a small voice beside him when he turned to look at him, "Brother, do you want to take me home?"
Yu Bai's heart skipped a beat. Pretending not to hear his words, he tried to put up a poker face and looked out of the window; however, his mind was still lingering on the person beside him, even unconsciously peeking at the man's reflection from the glass window.
Sheng Xing Ze did not get a response from Yu Bai. His eyes kept staring at Yu Bai, and did not notice that Yu Bai was peeking at him. His face was full of doubts, one hand hesitantly reaching out to touch Yu Bai.
Even though Yu Bai did not look back, he could clearly see that Sheng Xing Ze's hand had stopped mid-air, so he grabbed the other's hand and placed it in his palm. Sheng Xing Ze looked at their intertwined fingers and looked at Yu Bai's side face, as he laughed secretly.
Foul play.
Yu Bai thought.
"Yu Ge Ge, just now there were bombs in that hotel, I helped to take them out." Sheng Xing Ze poked Yu Bai, and then searched his pocket to find the poker cards.
"A total of fourteen bombs, I took them all out, they should be fine there now."
Sheng Xing Ze's eyes stared at Yu Bai brightly, looking for the man's praise. Yu Bai could clearly see his reflection in the other's eyes, and he found himself helplessly looking at the "fourteen bombs" that Sheng Xing Ze handed to him, he smiled, "You're so awesome, saving everyone's life."
Sheng Xing Ze took back the poker cards and flipped them over, he selected the kings and queens and put them back in his pocket, "This is for me, the other is for you, you can hand them over to the police, so some of the credits are yours."
"Why are you keeping bombs on your body?" Yu Bai asked him in a tone he usually used to coax his little niece.
Sheng Xing Ze said proudly, "To beat the bad guys."
Yu Bai did not answer him, just rubbed his head.
Yuan Yuan dropped the two of them off at their destination and drove away. Yu Bai held Sheng Xing Ze with one hand while trying to unlock the fingerprint lock at the door. He led Sheng Xing Ze to sit down on the sofa and went to the kitchen to pour him a glass of warm water and honey.
"Take some, or you'll have a headache tomorrow."
Sheng Xing Ze stared at the glass in his hand, the expressions on his face changing several times, while finally showing a weeping expression in the end, "Do you really want to kill this child? He didn't even get a chance to see this world yet."
Yu Bai really had no idea what was going on in this man's head, so he pushed the glass over, letting the glass wall touch the other's lips, "Stop it, drink some then go to bed."
Sheng Xing Ze's eyes were red as he said sadly to Yu Bai, "You think I'm just fooling around, but there really is a child in my belly, I can feel him."
Yu Bai facepalmed: "You're a man, how can you conceive?"
Sheng Xing Ze avoided the glass being handed to his mouth, lifted his clothes, and pulled Yu Bai's hand to touch his belly, "You cannot feel him? He's already so big."
The moment the porcelain white skin suddenly appeared in front of his eyes, Yu Bai felt that his nose started to get hot. The hand held by Sheng Xing Ze directly touched that patch of skin. The double stimulation of the vision and the touch made him feel all the blood in his body getting drained. He quickly pulled Sheng Xing Ze's clothes down to cover the exposed skin, fearing that the other would take off his clothes if he said a wrong word.
"He's going to die. Are you even not willing to look at him?" Sheng Xing Ze looked at Yu Bai with disappointment, only hating himself for being so blind.
Yu Bai warmly coaxed Sheng Xing Ze to drink the glass of "abortion drug", then guided him to bed and tugged him in.
Sheng Xing Ze was sure that once he finished drinking that glass, the fetus in his belly would be destroyed, so he curled himself up into a ball and hid under the quilt, leaving Yu Bai to face his back, "Leave, I don't want to see you again."
Seeing that Yu Bai was still standing at the bedside, he took out the two poker cards from his pocket and said sadly, "If you don't go, I'll activate the bomb, then we both will die together with it."
Yu Bai did not expect him to still remember the bomb story, so he covered him well under the quilt and left the room.
"Good night."
Yu Bai went to the bathroom to take a shower, and when he came out, Sheng Xing Ze was already asleep in bed.
The man had his mouth slightly opened with even breathing, while sleeping on his face. He did not know what the other was dreaming, but the man was whispering something in his sleep.
Yu Bai helped him to adjust his sleeping position, stood by the bed and watched him for a while, then took another quilt and went to the sofa to sleep by himself.
This was the first time Yu Bai slept on the sofa in his own home, and he was not very comfortable with the softness of the sofa. He could not get himself to fall asleep for a long time, because Sheng Xing Ze's face kept appearing repeatedly in his mind.
He really had no idea what was in that man's head, for him to come up with such a strange scenario.
He touched the poker card that Sheng Xing Ze gave him earlier, and Yu Bai laughed out loud while lying down.
Even though Sheng Xing Ze was such a headache when he drank, he was still really cute.