\nThe room was dark, only their even breathing could be heard in the room.
As it approached midnight, Sheng Xing Ze lay on the bed and turned over many times. He physically felt very tired, but mentally he did not feel that tired at all.
He was still replaying the scene at the Ferris Wheel in his head over and over. Today was too surreal, and he could not help but want to replay it in his mind.
"Xing Xing," Although Yu Bai did not show it, he was as excited as Sheng Xing Ze. It was hard for him to sleep.
"Did I wake you up?" Hearing Yu Bai's voice, Sheng Xing Ze thought his constant turnings woke the other person up.
"I can't sleep." Yu Bai's voice sounded very awake, and it did not look like he had just woken up.
"I can't sleep either," Sheng Xing Ze hugged the pillow and muttered, "Film Emperor Yu, can we talk for a bit?"
"Go to bed, we have to get up early tomorrow," Yu Bai glanced at the phone and saw that it was late, urging Sheng Xing Ze to go to sleep early.
Sheng Xing Ze looked at the ceiling of the room with his eyes open. Yu Bai on the bed next to him was silent. He tilted his head to look at Yu Bai's sleeping face in the dark, and the smile on his lips grew wider.
There was a sudden "boom" outside the room, and Sheng Xing Ze's smile suddenly stiffened on his face. He held his breath and listened carefully to the movement outside.
There are people outside.
Although they deliberately stepped lightly, Sheng Xing Ze's hearing still caught the slight movements.
He guessed that the undead army that the director mentioned must be outside. Even though he knew that these were all posing by the staff, Sheng Xing Ze still felt a little flustered.
There was no movement from Yu Bai next to him, and it seemed that the man did not react to any movements outside their door.
Sheng Xing Ze thought about it carefully. They had locked the door when they came in earlier, just to prevent the program crew from breaking in on them in the middle of the night.
"Xing Xing," Yu Bai opened his eyes at some point, and waved to Sheng Xing Ze, "Come here."
Sheng Xing Ze had been waiting for this sentence. He stuffed a pillow under his quilt, and put a wig he obtained from the previous room onto it, making a simple dummy of himself lying on the bed.
After doing so, Sheng Xing Ze quickly rolled into Yu Bai's quilt. He had done this action many times.
He used to accompany Yu Bai in the filming crew before, and he often used Yu Bai's quilt. Later, Yu Bai gave up the idea of having two quilts. Because, when he woke up the next day, there was always a quilt that would be left out.
Yu Bai's quilt was being warmed by the man's body heat, Sheng Xing Ze leaned into him contentedly, and couldn't help but rub against the heat source.
"Don't move." Yu Bai said in a low voice.
Sheng Xing Ze felt a hot rod against his lap, and immediately froze on the bed motionless. He raised his head and smiled fondly at Yu Bai, and buried his head in Yu Bai's chest and pretended to sleep.
Yu Bai looked at him with an angry yet amusing expression.
I have it coming.
The footsteps at the door were getting closer, Sheng Xing Ze suddenly pricked his ears, and the fascinating thoughts in his mind were interrupted by the program's undead army.
Someone turned the doorknob of their room but failed to successfully open the door.
The footsteps moved away, and Sheng Xing Ze heaved out a sigh of relief hiding under the quilt.
He raised his head to say something to Yu Bai, and Yu Bai put his finger on his lips to signal him to be quiet.
It was quiet outside the door, but Yu Bai's finger was still on Sheng Xing Ze's lips. Suddenly he felt a damp heat on his finger. When Yu Bai looked down, Sheng Xing Ze looked at him innocently.
Squeezing Sheng Xing Ze's face, Yu Bai continued to focus on the movement outside the room.
The sound of footsteps came back not long afterwards, and the sound of the key turning to unlock the door. Only a "click" was heard. The door was unlocked. The undead dropped the key randomly on the ground and walked into the room.
The light in the hallway leaked into the room, Sheng Xing Ze retracted his head into the quilt; seeing Yu Bai still looking at him, as they were hiding under the quilt, the man winked at him, urging him to pretend to sleep.
The sound of footsteps was getting closer and closer to them, and Sheng Xing Ze leaned against Yu Bai's chest and dared not come out.
Yu Bai hugged him quietly, gently stroking his back.
The undead army came in holding water guns and shot at Sheng Xing Ze's bed, a dark red stain immediately appeared on the white sheet.
There was no movement on the bed. A leading undead in skeleton costume pressed down lightly on Sheng Xing Ze's bed, took out the wig and the pillow, and threw them on the ground.
"We've all been tricked." He whispered, his voice seemed to come from the deep cold of hell, and Sheng Xing Ze suddenly got goosebumps.
The undead turned the target to Yu Bai's bed, and he walked step by step toward Yu Bai's bed.
Yu Bai closed his eyes, he looked like he was asleep, even his breathing was not uneven, and Sheng Xing Ze stayed put in the quilt for a long time and did not dare to breathe out. With this, it seemed that there was really no one else in the room but Yu Bai.
The undead went to the bathroom and searched everywhere but did not find Sheng Xing Ze anywhere, so he could only depressingly leave the room.
Sheng Xing Ze listened as the footsteps gradually walked away, he slowly poked out his head.
"They seem to have gone."
Yu Bai closed his eyes, "Go to sleep."
Sheng Xing Ze and Yu Bai were literally glued to each other, and couldn't help feeling a little hot on their bodies. Sheng Xing Ze turned around and felt Yu Bai's arm wrapping around his waist. He couldn't help but tentatively asked, "Should I...I go back to my bed? It's quite cramped here, I'm afraid you will not be able to sleep well."
Yu Bai tightened his arm on Sheng Xing Ze's waist, without opening his eyes, "Aren't you afraid they will come back soon?"
Sheng Xing Ze's movements were stiff, and he drew back into Yu Bai's quilt in compromise, and closed his eyes.
"Go to sleep, there is still a whole day left tomorrow." Yu Bai kissed the top of his head, and the two of them hugged each other and gradually drifted into wonderland.\n\n**
At six in the morning, the director woke up Yu Bai on the bed.
"Brother Yu, we are going to start the task."
Sheng Xing Ze covered the quilt over his head as he turned to shrink into the quilt.
Yu Bai rubbed the younger man's back and listened to his breathing rhythms returning to a steady pace. He glanced at the time on the phone and got out of the quilt.
"You sleep for a while, I'll go first." He touched Sheng Xing Ze's head and quickly got up.
When Sheng Xing Ze's own alarm clock went off, he suddenly bounced off the bed. The place beside him was cold, and Yu Bai had been up for quite some time.
Recalling what Yu Bai seemed to have said to him in his hazy state, he did not know if it was a dream or not. He sat on the bed for a while, slowly got out of the bed, and walked out of the room after washing up.
The sequelae of last night's excitement were now finally manifested, Sheng Xing Ze had dark circles under his eyes, and just wanted to go back to the room to put on makeup to cover his tiredness.
"Morning," at the door, he ran into Hui Si Yong and Jia Jie Mao, who also wore the same hazy face coming out of their room, "I was so exhausted from last night."
"The undeads?" Sheng Xing Ze asked tiredly.
Jia Jie Mao's face had the obvious statement of "die with no regret" written all over it, "I can't with that group of people chasing us all over the house."
Sheng Xing Ze replied with a very sympathetic expression, "I haven't asked, how did you two end up sleeping in the same room?"
Jia Jie Mao yawned and tried to open his eyes, "Chu Shu Nan said that Qing Ning is afraid of the dark at night, so he switched rooms with me."
Hui Si Yong hugged his head with a crying expression with no tear, "Why can the director just separate the two of them? I really have enough dog food[1] in this episode."
Sheng Xing Ze thought that you will have more dog food to feed on in the future, but he did not want to tell these two yet.
He touched his nose, smiled at the other two, "Let's go down for breakfast."
Before Chu Shu Nan and Shu Qing Ning got up, Hui Si Yong found a place at the dining table to sit down and lied on the table to continue sleeping. Jia Jie Mao was no better than him, he could barely open his eyes and stared blankly at the table.
Sheng Xing Ze found Yu Bai who was busy cooking in the kitchen, and the sleepiness around his eyes immediately disappeared after seeing his boyfriend.
"Good morning," he smiled at Yu Bai, standing beside him as watching him skillfully frying bacon in a frying pan, "why did you make breakfast so early?"
"I was not able to complete my task last night, so I can only make breakfast as punishment."
The director woke up Yu Bai this morning to have him make breakfast for everyone. Last night, Yu Bai's task was to kill his teammate Sheng Xing Ze, but it was obvious that Yu Bai didn't want to do this. He was being punished for not completing his task.
"Is there anything I can do to help?" Sheng Xing Ze saw the washed cucumbers next to him and was about to cut it for Yu Bai. "Cut the cucumber into small slices?"
"It's okay, just leave them there, I'll do it in a bit, watch your hand." Yu Bai blocked the camera behind him, took a piece of fried bacon and fed it into Sheng Xing Ze's mouth. At the same time, he kissed Sheng Xing Ze's lips, "how does it taste?"
"Delicious," Sheng Xing Ze gave him a thumb up.
He watched Yu Bai fast knife skill, fine thinly cut cucumber slices were displayed under his hands. Sheng Xing Ze helped Yu Bai put the cucumber on the bread to make a sandwich, and he did not forget to praise:
"Film Emperor Yu has made great progress, not the Young Master Yu who doesn't bother to move a finger."
"After all, I have a family now." Yu Bai whispered in Sheng Xing Ze's ear, seeing Sheng Xing Ze's leviated red face and mouth curved into a big smile.
Sheng Xing Ze pretended not to hear what Yu Bai said, staring at the sandwich in front of him and asked, "when did you learn to cook?"
"Just recently," Yu Bai tilted his head to look at Sheng Xing Ze with a smile, with tenderness in his eyes, "my mother said that if you want to grasp the wife's heart, you must first grasp the wife's stomach."
Sheng Xing Ze's eyes met Yu Bai's gaze as soon as he raised his head; he rubbed his red ears, gave Yu Bai a vicious look, and stepped on his foot; taking advantage of Yu Bai's in pain moment, he grabbed the breakfast and ran out in a panic.
Yu Bai looked at Sheng Xing Ze's embarrassed figure, the corner of his mouth curved up even more.
---\nNotes:
[1] dog food - it's a Chinese slang for "Lovey-dovey"