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The Devoted Second Male Lead Decided to Favor Someone Else Chapter 40.1
Idol, You’re Acting OOC - Intimacy is Prohibited in the Group (4)
After cleaning up the kitchen, it was already late at night. Lu Shijin had spent the entire afternoon working and needed to shower again.
He went upstairs with Xu Yifan and took a change of clothes, preparing to go to the bathroom, when Xu Yifan suddenly stopped him.
“Wait.”
“What is it, Fan-ge?”
Lu Shijin was a bit tired and yawned, water appearing at the edge of his eyes. He used his hand to rub his eyes, making them a bit red, like a rabbit.
Xu Yifan looked at him, then moved his gaze away, saying in a low voice, “Do you know about the rules the company has?”
“Hm?”
Xu Yifan pursed his lips and said, “Rules forbidding artists from dating.”
“Huh?” Lu Shijin had never been in the entertainment industry before and naturally didn’t know of this rule. After thinking for a bit, he said angrily, “Not allowed to date? Why? Is love something you can control? Do you know how hard it is to meet someone you like? Would you have to miss it because of this shitty rule?”
Xu Yifan was stunned by this outburst.
He didn’t expect that although Lu Shijin was the youngest, he would have such deep viewpoints on love. He couldn’t help but size him up again.
Then again, Lu Shijin was at the age where he would first start thinking about love, and it’s normal to think of it in such a positive way.
“Fan-ge, why would you mention that to me?” Lu Shijin felt a bit confused.
Xu Yifan pinched the space between his eyebrows, “. . . Nevermind, you should go wash up.”
Lu Shijin turned and frowned. How strange, only saying half of his words.
This time, Lu Shijin remembered to bring a change of clothes when he showered. After changing, he suddenly thought of a question.
Didn’t the other members shower this afternoon?
He hurriedly used his phone to check the playback of the stream.
As expected, He Xinyi, Li Xiao, Zhao Yue, and He Yang  all went out without a shirt, showing off their bodies.
How frivolous.
Lu Shijin wasn’t interested in how much skin they showed. Instead, he was interested in their shoulders.
Taking screenshots, he saw that He Xinyi, Li Xiao, and Zhao Yue’s shoulders had no blemishes.
Only He Yang’s did.
Lu Shijin zoomed in on the screenshot and found that He Yang’s shoulder seemed to have some bumps.
But because the camera was too far away, that part wasn’t clear and Lu Shijin couldn’t tell if it was tooth marks or not.
Perhaps He Yang was his little prince in this world?
Lu Shijin thought back to what it was like to interact with He Yang.
He seemed like a straightforward boy with no other intentions. Other than dancing and hip-hop, he also seemed to like eating.
However, he wasn’t sure. Lu Shijin planned on finding an opportunity to check He Yang’s shoulder.
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The next morning, the program team woke everyone up just past seven.
But each person was harder to wake up than the next. After going into one room, the previous room’s inhabitants would go back to sleep. The director didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
It took half an hour before everyone went downstairs, still yawning and with sleepy expressions. Everyone except for Xu Yifan, that was.
Xu Yifan seemed to always be in his best state whenever he was in front of the camera.
He was up the first time people came to wake him up.
Then, while everyone else was busy trying to stay in bed, he washed up and got changed.
That’s why while everyone else was completely unprepared, their hair messy like a nest and clear black circles showing, Xu Yifan’s beauty was all the more apparent.
With everyone else being a foil, the meaning of the phrase “to stand out from the crowd” was clear.
There were already fans watching the stream this early, waiting for their idols to appear.
[They’re here! Fanfan is so perfect no matter where he is!]
[Hey, the person with the last name He, can your hair be any messier?]
[Jinjin looks like he’s about to fall asleep again, is he that tired?]
[What fun tasks are for today? I’m so excited!]
Seeing how they seemed to be falling asleep, the director brought out a megaphone, suddenly shouting, “Wake up, wake up, it’s almost eight. If you drag it out any longer, you won’t be able to complete this morning’s task.”
“What task?” Zhao Yue asked as he yawned.
“Rice transplanting. You can receive 100 yuan if you successfully complete the task.”
Upon hearing this, Zhao Yue’s sleepiness immediately disappeared. Pointing at the six members, he looked at the director in disbelief, “Director, aren’t you being too stingy? You’re only giving the six of us 100 yuan in total? No matter how cheap labor is, surely it’s not this cheap? It would make more sense for it to be 100 yuan per person, don’t you agree?”
The other members nodded. For their collective interests, they would be united and not give a single step.
The director was unmoved, “There’s no room for argument. If you don’t do it, your afternoon nap will be canceled.”
He Yang laughed, “So what if we don’t get an afternoon nap, it’s not like I have a habit of doing so.”
Although this plan failed, the director had another plan to make them do the task, “600 is too much. How about this, we’ll provide a free lunch if you do the task.”
Li Xiao smiled, pointing at Lu Shijin, “Director, do you believe that even if you don’t give us anything, Xiao Lu can make us a free lunch? It’s useless to use that against us. I think you should still give more money. 100 is too little, we want at least 500.”