Chapter 19: You Lied to Me
The director looked up and saw Lin Huaizhi, whose eyes were full of excitement. He instantly felt like smashing the loudspeaker.
Why was he stuck with such a boss!
First, the day before the dating show started filming, he said he wanted to be a guest and forced him to make the theme “Forced Love.” Once in the show, it wasn’t every few days, but every two minutes that he had a conflict with Fang Mo!
Usually such an easygoing person at work, but in the show, he acted like he had a blood feud with Fang Mo for killing his father. Let alone one step, he wouldn’t even retreat half a step!
And Chu Xiaoran!
Brother, didn’t you use to like him? Promote him! Big productions, big teams! Promote him! Promote him regardless of investment!
What do you mean now?
Haven’t seen him for a day or two, and he also became your enemy who killed your father?
But that’s fine too. At least a boss who looks shrewd and not bewitched by Chu Xiaoran is much better than a boss who is so charmed by Chu Xiaoran that he loses his bearings and loses who knows how many billions on him.
From a fatuous ruler to a wise ruler.
He could still continue to be loyal.
“Fine, fine, fine, you accept, you hurry up and forced kiss, forced kiss right now immediately!”
【Hahaha! Other guests felt the sky falling when they heard forced kiss, only Lin Huaizhi is eager for action.】
【To be reasonable, the director has to be targeted. Otherwise, this kind of punishment like forced kissing and forced hugging is not a punishment for Lin Huaizhi; it’s a reward!】
The netizens were right.
Among the four pairs of guests, except for Hu Xiaoxu who had completed the task, of the remaining three pairs, only Lin Huaizhi’s eyes lit up when hearing this punishment condition.
This really wasn’t a punishment for him.
It was heaven!
Huo Chen felt his scalp tingle from his burning gaze, and his mouth tingled too. Just as he wanted to say something, Lin Huaizhi leaned over impatiently.
“How about we settle this quickly?”
Huo Chen looked at the person’s reddening lips in front of him, his Adam’s apple rolling unconsciously. “Are you that confident I won’t refuse?”
Lin Huaizhi smiled.
“Baby, you have to figure it out. The essence of forced love lies in love, but its specific manifestation is force. They canceled the punishment because both parties strongly refused the kiss. We are different.”
“I accept your refusal. Doesn’t that perfectly meet the condition of ‘forced’?”
Huo Chen wanted to say more, but Lin Huaizhi leaned in, repeating the previous action, and kissed him directly: “Shh, time flies easily. Let us cherish every minute and every second. Don’t miss this hard-won kiss.”
Huo Chen’s unfinished words were blocked back.
The two embraced and kissed again.
The director just liked watching sweet love. It was just that watching their increasingly outrageous kiss, he finally realized something belatedly.
“You two take it easy! Don’t let the livestream be banned again!”
As soon as the words fell, the livestream went pitch black.
【Banned again?】
【What’s there to ban about kissing! Super Admin, do you have nothing to do!】
……
When the livestream was unbanned for the second time today, Lin Huaizhi and Huo Chen’s kiss had long ended. Other guests were accepting corresponding punishments.
The punishment was also very simple.
That was to help carry water.
Because the weather was getting hotter, the water wells dug by most people in Jinzhai Village themselves had dried up. They could only fetch water from the creek where a little water remained.
The guests’ punishment was to help water-short farmers carry water and fill the water vats at home.
The farmers’ water vats were quite big. Filling the vat with buckets, two people with two regular-sized buckets would have to carry at least three or four times.
Xu Qiao and Chu Xiaoran were assigned to Grandma Caiju’s house.
Grandma Caiju’s water vat wasn’t very big, but the road from the creek to Grandma Caiju’s house was a ridge path. For two people who had never done farm work, they couldn’t walk steadily on this road even without carrying things, let alone carrying two buckets of water.
Lin Huaizhi originally didn’t plan to meddle, but Xu Qiao was quite nice.
He always clearly distinguished between kindness and grudges. Xu Qiao spoke up for him repeatedly; naturally, he wouldn’t just watch Xu Qiao, a girl, suffer.
Lin Huaizhi borrowed two buckets and a carrying pole from Sister-in-law Wu.
“What for?”
Finding Huo Chen asking him, Lin Huaizhi answered readily: “Going to help Xu Qiao carry water. Also, Grandma Caiju isn’t very easy to get along with. It wouldn’t be good if she conflicted with Xu Qiao and the others.”
【Heh, saying he likes Huo Chen, even kissing Huo Chen. Now seeing my Xiao having to carry water, isn’t he running屁颠屁颠 (eagerly/happily) to help.】
Huo Chen obviously thought of this too.
He frowned, hostility flashing in his eyes. He suppressed the hand that was itching to seize Lin Huaizhi’s neck. “You lied to me?”
Lin Huaizhi was confused.
When he saw Huo Chen’s expression, he suddenly realized Huo Chen had misunderstood. But he wasn’t in a hurry to explain. Instead, he leaned close to Huo Chen with a smile: “Yo, didn’t you say you weren’t interested in dating? Why are you jealous now?”
Anger brewed on Huo Chen’s face.
“Lin Huaizhi, I hate people who say one thing and think another the most. If your feelings for Chu Xiaoran haven’t ended, you shouldn’t have come to provoke me.”
Lin Huaizhi saw him angry and smiled instead of panicking.
No wonder Fang Mo could capture Huo Chen’s heart so easily in the novel. Clearly, up to now, he had forcefully pulled Huo Chen into his own rhythm. If Huo Chen was really as cold-blooded as described in the novel, he would have been severely retaliated against by Huo Chen when he kissed him for the first time, instead of just pretending to pinch his neck.
Just because he said he liked him, said he wanted to chase him, despite Huo Chen showing an attitude of disbelief, he still allowed him to make moves.
Called a villain, actually pure as hell.
“En, I know you hate duplicitous people, but evidence is needed in court too. Shouldn’t you let me defend myself?”
“What else do you have to defend?”
“Of course I do. From beginning to end, I said I was helping Xu Qiao. When did I say I was helping Chu Xiaoran?”
Seemed there really wasn’t.
Huo Chen’s gaze softened, but only softened: “You said you were afraid Xu Qiao and the others would conflict with the elderly.”
Lin Huaizhi was amused by his word-for-word nitpicking.
“They are them. There is indeed Chu Xiaoran among them, but I was afraid his mistake would implicate Xu Qiao. After all, Grandma Caiju doesn’t look like an old lady who is easy to bully.”
【Lying! Clearly went for my Xiao!】
【Chu Xiaoran’s obsessive fans are here again. Not only obsessive but confusing this time. When Lin Huaizhi fancied Chu Xiaoran, they scolded Lin Huaizhi for casting couch every day. After Lin Huaizhi didn’t fancy Chu Xiaoran, they started jumping again saying their brother is the best in the world. Really enough, damn it.】
Huo Chen never paid attention to bullet comments.
His journey hadn’t been easy. If he consumed himself internally just because of outside voices, the person standing at the top of Long City now certainly wouldn’t be him.
He just looked at Lin Huaizhi.
“Really?”
Lin Huaizhi raised both hands: “I swear, everything I said is true. Otherwise, let me be hit by a car while walking, struck by lightning on a rainy day…”
Huo Chen took his hands down. “Just talk, cursing yourself back and forth, think your life is too long?”
Lin Huaizhi grinned: “Then do you believe it?”
Huo Chen glanced at him: “Depends on your performance.”
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