\nYu Bai turned off the hairdryer and combed Sheng Xing Ze's fluffy hair one last time.
Before Sheng Xing Ze was about to jump away from him, he took out the ointment prescribed by the doctor.
"Apply this onto the burned area."
When Sheng Xing Ze saw that the other man opened the ointment cap, he knew that Yu Bai would not let him refuse, so he stopped trying to get away from Yu Bai and obediently stretched out his hand to the man.
"Does it still hurt?" Yu Bai suddenly felt distressed when he saw the obvious reddish patch of skin on the younger man's arm. He squeezed out the ointment and applied it onto Sheng Xing Ze's arm carefully, for fear that he might hurt Sheng Xing Ze.
"It doesn't hurt anymore," Sheng Xing Ze stared at Yu Bai's fingers with his flushed ears. In fact, there was still a tingling pain in the burned area, but he did not want to make Yu Bai worried.
Yu Bai applied the ointment evenly and increased the temperature of the air conditioner in the room.
"Don't pull down your sleeves just yet, and if you're cold, you can cling onto me."
Sheng Xing Ze did not feel cold even one bit, instead he felt burning hot as they speak. If he were to cling onto Yu Bai, he would get burned on the spot.
He tried to find a topic to alleviate the awkward atmosphere in the room. A familiar scent came from the arm that has ointment applied on it. Sheng Xing Ze placed his arm to his nose and sniffed, "It seems to be...sesame oil scent."
Yu Bai also took a whiff with his nose, "It is."
"Suddenly I want to eat my father's seaweed and egg soup, with added sesame oil, it's really good." Sheng Xing Ze immersed himself in his imagination.
Yu Bai rubbed the younger man's stomach and said with a smile, "Hungry again?"
Sheng Xing Ze felt an itching urge and shrank away from the older man's claw.
The two made a fuss in the room for a while until Sheng Xing Ze's arm had absorbed all the ointment, Yu Bai allowed him to pull down his sleeve.
"The clothes now smell of sesame oil." Sheng Xing Ze complained.
Yu Bai took out a clean coat from Sheng Xing Ze's luggage, "Be good, try to bear with it for a bit, I've asked Mi He Qiu to bring two new sets of clothes over for you."
"Why does my assistant listen to everything you said?" Sheng Xing Ze reached out and put on the coat Yu Bai handed to him, and Yu Bai helped him straighten the collar.
"Because I'm his boss," he poked Sheng Xing Ze's puffed cheek.
Sheng Xing Ze evaded Yu Bai's hand unceremoniously, "But I'm the one signing his paycheck, by all means, I am his boss."
"Sure, sure, you are the boss, I'll have him listen to you from now on."
Sheng Xing Ze: "..."
This is the conglomerative way of speaking; moreover, Mi He Qiu should be listened only to me.
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Sheng Xing Ze put on his clothes; before leaving, he suddenly remembered something and stopped Yu Bai from opening the door, "Wait a minute, I have something to ask you, what's with Lin Mu's matter? Did it have anything to do with you?"
Yu Bai shook his head, "He has the courage to tamper with Hui Si Yong's cable, how Hui Si Yong's parents would let him go. With one word from Hui Hong Sheng, there is no way he can stay in the showbiz world; also his manager is the typical stepping the low and holding the high. After knowing that Lin Mu had offended Hui Hong Sheng, he immediately ignored him and switched to new recruits from the company. Lin Mu really has not been receiving any new work, since he doesn't have much education, so he could only come to the hot pot to find work."
Sheng Xing Ze pointed to his nose and looked surprised, "Then I just happened to go to the hot pot restaurant, so Lin Mu thought I did it?"
"Maybe, after all, you are the only one who has conflicts with him the most." A cold light flashed across Yu Bai's eyes, "but this time he is completely done."
I will not allow anyone to hurt you again, Lin Mu is just a nobody.
"I think after this incident being spread on the net, Lin Mu will never be able to find any job." Sheng Xing Ze said.
Yu Bai did not answer, a dark cloud flashed past his eyes.
Sheng Xing Ze shook his head and put Lin Mu's affairs to the back of his mind. Compared to Lin Mu, the most important matter to him now was to finish filming "I Have an Agreement with Ah Piao".
Now that Lin Mu had fallen to this point, he could regard it as avenging the original owner, and after that, there was nothing that concerned him.
**
The program crew had been waiting for Sheng Xing Ze and Yu Bai outside the room. They wanted to know whether Sheng Xing Ze's injuries were serious or not. They finally waited for the two of them to come back from the hospital; however, before they could ask anything, the two men locked themselves in the small room.
The staff member pushed one another to go up to knock on the door. In the end, no one had the courage to step forward, so they could only push the director to the knife point.
Under normal circumstances, the director would usually knock on the door and ask them to come out directly; but, the person behind the door this time was Yu Bai, and the other person with him was Sheng Xing Ze; plus, Liang Qing was not here, even if the director was given ten times more courage, he would not dare to knock. He could only sit in the corridor shaking his legs, and glanced at the closed door every two minutes.
After the long wait, the door finally opened.
The director rushed forward happily.
"My two ancestors, you finally came out, how is Xing Xing, is his injury any serious?"
Sheng Xing Ze was wearing a gloomy face. He looked at his hand, and tears coming out from his eyes, "The doctor said later, it would be..."
"Would be what?" The director held up his breath as he said so, for fear of hearing the bad news.
"It would be healed." Sheng Xing Ze suddenly laughed when he saw the director's solemn face.
The director was so angry that he wanted to beat someone, "Someone took a shot of you heading to the hospital, and the video of the hot pot restaurant went viral on the internet. Now we're asking our PR team to give an explanation to the public. I was so worried about you for so many hours, yet you kid still has the heart to tease me."
The director was about to pinch Sheng Xing Ze's ear; Yu Bai who had been staring at the director's movements this whole time, went to the side with his hand stretched out and went around to straighten Sheng Xing Ze's hair, in which the director could not do as he planned.
The director: Angry but don't dare to speak.
Sheng Xing Ze immediately apologized as soon as he saw the action: "Director, I'm sorry. I'll do as you said to solve the problem at hand."
"Later, we'll do a livestream, just tell your fans that Xing Xing is not seriously injured." The director quietly glanced at Yu Bai after he finished speaking.
"Aren't you afraid the content of the show will be exposed?" Sheng Xing Ze asked.
The director shook his head hurriedly, "we have just discussed with Mr. Liang, and we will start a livestream in the car that will take you there in a bit, and we just leave a cliffhanger when we arrive at the destination."ย
Yu Bai had wanted to say something, and the director knew his intention at a glance before he could say it.
"We have modified our afternoon mission so that it won't cause any harm to Xing Ze." The director explained.
Yu Bai shut up.
"Please get in the car and prepare to go to the next mission."
Sheng Xing Ze and Yu Bai got into the car arranged by the program team, and Sheng Xing Ze started a livestream on the streaming platform commonly used for "I Have an Agreement with Ah Piao."
"Hello everyone, I'm Sheng Xing Ze," seeing that the number of people in the streaming room was increasing, Sheng Xing Ze greeted them.
"This is Yu Bai, your President Bai, we are now recording the second episode of 'I Have an Agreement with Ah Piao'."
Yu Bai turned his head and waved to the camera, using this opportunity to scoot in closer to Sheng Xing Ze, who was sitting near the camera.
"Isn't it too cramped up for you?" he asked in a low voice.
"It's okay, I still have room."
The audience in the streaming room saw these two people whispering into each other's ears as if no one was around, everyone in the streaming room had the same thought "you two are acting all intimate in front of the public."
"There was a small accident while we were having hot pot during lunch, but it was not something so serious. Yet, this person must have me go to the hospital." Sheng Xing Ze pointed to Yu Bai with an innocent face.
"The doctor did not want to prescribe medicine, yet he still managed to have the doctor prescribe an ointment tube, which made me smell like sesame oil now."
Sheng Xing Ze pretended to smell his body and wrinkled his nose in disgust.
Within an instant, the fans started to explode in the comment section.
--I think you two are PDA-ing [Public display of affection], but I have no evidence.
--I see President Bai showing a loving expression.
--President Bai: Yes, yes, yes, you are right about everything, you grisly little fairy.
--Xing Xing, who was that person in the afternoon?
Sheng Xing Ze and Yu Bai looked at the comments together. Neither of them spoke. They finally spotted a person who was not a CP fan, "just a poor man, everyone doesn't need to come after him for retaliation. I believe he will not have a great future in front of him."
Yu Bai's cell phone rang suddenly, he looked down and handed it to Sheng Xing Ze, "My mom, must be about the incident at noon."
Sheng Xing Ze handed the live streaming phone to Yu Bai, and the audience in the streaming room looked confused, what is this situation?
"I ran into my mom and Xing Xing's mom having lunch at noon. I lied to them after Xing Xing's accident." Yu Bai explained to the cell phone in his hand, "Xing Xing is answering the phone. Let's not disturb him."
As soon as Sheng Xing Ze answered the call, it was rare to hear Mother Yu sounded so angry, "Yu Bai, is what you said on the livestream is true? What happened to my daughter-in-law?"
"Auntie, I'm Xing Xing." Sheng Xing Ze did not even hear what Mother Yu said.
When Mother Yu heard Sheng Xing Ze's voice, she recalled that she just blurted out the title daughter-in-law. Sheng Xing Ze could hear some guilty conscience in her voice, "Xing Xing, where's Yu Bai?"
"He dares not to talk to you." Sheng Xing Ze said with a smile.
Mother Yu knew that Yu Bai must have a guilty conscience, that must be why he let Sheng Xing Ze answer the call, "you tell him to answer my call."
"Auntie, I told Brother Bai not to tell you about the incident at noon. You know my mother's temperament. If I tell her the truth, wouldn't she have to tackle Lin Mu on the spot?"
"I told Yu Bai to protect you, now he should get punished if you're injured."
"He went to buy milk tea for me." Sheng Xing Ze was still explaining on Yu Bai's behalf.
"Where's the milk tea? Xing Xing, don't try to help him."
Sheng Xing Ze poked Yu Bai's leg, "Auntie asked where is the milk tea you bought for me?"
"I forgot it at the store, I'll buy you a new one later."
Sheng Xing Ze turned to say to the phone, "Auntie, Brother Bai still owes me a cup of milk tea."
Mother Yu knew that Sheng Xing Ze must be protecting her son. She felt relieved at hearing that Sheng Xing Ze can still joke around with Yu Bai, "I'll explain things to your mother, you should pay more attention to your safety."
"I will, thank you, Auntie."
When Mother Yu finally hung up, Sheng Xing Ze gave Yu Bai a disapproved look when he returned the phone to the man.
Yu Bai handed the streaming phone to the person next to him, and Sheng Xing Ze was about to focus his attention on the streaming room, when a comment made him freeze in place.
--Did I just hear Mother Yu said...daughter-in-law?