CH 35.1

Xia Rong turned his body to the side to let Su Chi in, while his eyes couldn’t help but stay fixated on the family bucket, his mouth watering. “It’s already so late… Is it okay to eat something with such high calories?”

“Usually I have my own fitness plan, so Han-ge generally wouldn’t meddle in this.” Su Chi continued, “If you can’t eat it, then I’ll just finish it myself.”

Facing the aroma of the family bucket, Xia Rong resolutely refused, “No! Even if you have a fitness plan, you can’t indulge yourself like this! Let me help you with half of the calories!”

“En.” Su Chi’s eyes curved from his smile as if he had long expected this development, he lightly commented, “Then I’ll have to trouble you.”

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At 9:30 PM, Xia Rong sat on the hotel bed as he turned on the TV, and tuned it to Orange TV, waiting for 《Liang Shanbo and Romeo》 to start. The air conditioner gently blew out a cool breeze and with Su Chi sitting on the side, a feeling of “liveliness” was immediately added to the room. Moreover, he could grab a chicken wing or take a sip of cold coke from just reaching out, it was practically the most satisfying moment he’s had in this recent period.

While waiting for the show to start, Xia Rong signed on to his side account to scroll through Weibo. His fans were promoting and warming up in his main thread, posting varied photos of his beautiful self and also photos that had been taken by bystanders during the filming of the program, which at a glance seemed flourishingly harmonious.

He really can’t imagine what it would look like after this episode broadcasts— As the episode would be split into two parts to be aired separately, Xia Rong was a bit worried whether the production team would follow the scheme of the previous videos on the highlights, deliberately editing in drama to attract discussion and attention.

Next to him, Su Chi was also looking down at his phone, causing Xia Rong to couldn’t help but to move over to look at his screen. “What are you looking at?”

Su Chi was also going through Weibo, but he was looking at the topic #Liang Shanbo and Romeo#. As compared to a topic around an individual, the content in this topic was more comprehensive and a bit complex as fans, passersby, and even black powder fans would lurk there. With the various different perspectives and conflicting opinions, it was also quite interesting.

After looking at it a few more times, Xia Rong realized a problem. “Why are you using your main account to scroll through Weibo? Aren’t you afraid of your fingers slipping?”

“It’s fine.” Su Chi explained, “I’m scrolling with my left hand, so even if I slip, I’ll only get sent to forwarding. If it does happen, I can just back out of it.”

“How inconvenient is that. Let me tell you, the best way is to register a side account, then you won’t need to be afraid of any accidents no matter what.” As Xia Rong spoke, he also started to become enthused and even began to give pointers.”Take a look, for example, microblogs like these which are cursing at me, I can then directly retort back. Otherwise, the only other option would be to suppress myself over it, how uncomfortable is that… Eh, I didn’t mean to…!”

The two of them could only watch as the like box of that microblog saying that Xia Rong ‘only depended on his face to cheat the mindless, with such poor acting, by what right was he to be on the same program as our Su Chi?’ quickly turned red and a shining cartoon thumbs-up popping out as if to express approvingly to Xia Rong “You’re awesome!”

Su Chi, “…Are you going to compensate?”

Xia Rong, “…”

Although Xia Rong decisively reached out to tap again to take back the like and that the entire process hadn’t exceeded five seconds, with the degree of attention that Su Chi had as well as given that it was during this sensitive period right before the program was going to air, moreover, the microblog ‘liked’ was also a post like this… Xia Rong remembers that there was even an app specially developed for avid fans, where as long as they subscribed to their idol’s Weibo, they would be able to grasp and monitor all their idol’s activities on Weibo at any time. They would even know when their idol came online or went offline, let alone something as big as a ‘like’.

Sure enough, when they went to search “Su Chi” less than two minutes later, a lot of people were already exclaiming with screenshots in hand, “F★ck, Su Chi actually liked a post that was putting Xia Rong down!?” “Do Su Chi and Xia Rong not get along?” “Wow, it’s already exposed so early! It seems that Su Chi has been accumulating resentment for quite a long time!” “Isn’t Su Chi being too distasteful, already liking a post that was mocking a teammate before the program even started…”

Su Chi turned his head and asked, “You’re going to compensate me, right?”

Xia Rong with a face of deep grief, “…Compensate!”

Fifteen minutes later.

People who were paying close attention to Su Chi’s actions soon found that a new microblog had appeared on the main page.

【Su Chi: My cat clicked it, truly. @Xia Rong V [picture]】

The subject of the attached picture was a fluffily soft white cat paw. Without anyone to even guide it, the paw pad very obediently tapped on the “like” of a certain microblog as if to recreate the “scene of the accident” from just now.

Thousands of comments quickly surged in within a short period of time. Aside from the comments of die-hard fans who were acting smitten as usual, there were also some quite interesting comments from the melon eating crowd:

“For those who don’t know the truth, just now Su Chi’s hand accidentally slipped this [picture]”

“For this PR crisis management, I’ll give 82 points. As for the rest, it will be made up in the form of 666 [Erha1]“

“Too sinful! Actually using cuteness to try to get away! Yet, I actually am a person who would willingly succumb to such a tactic.”

“Even daring to @Xia Rong, is the implication that it was really a slip of the hand?”

“Well, that would depend on whether Xia Rong actually pays him any attention, otherwise it would be very embarrassing 23333”

“But Xia Rong isn’t that kind of a good, honest person2, hhh waiting to see the drama~”

“Speaking of it, Su Chi’s cat is so cute. QAQ little white gloves, so cute I’m dizzy.”

“Am I the only one who wants to know how he took this picture? Could Su Chi have two phones?”

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