Chapter 9: “Now, both your person and your heart are full of attraction to me.”
Lin Huaizhi wanted to communicate with the little old lady and had no intention of leaving. He took two steps forward, looking like he wanted to rub the old lady’s back to calm her. “Grandma, we have no bad intentions. Smooth your breath first…”
“I told you to get out!”
“Get out! Do you understand?! Do you understand human language!”
The old lady remained agitated. Because she spoke too sharply, she began to cough. While coughing, she picked up the cane she had dropped when grabbing Lin Huaizhi’s hand earlier and swung it at Lin Huaizhi.
【Holy sh*t! This old lady is too crazy!】
【She’s actually hitting people with a cane? Why did the program team choose this kind of household as a lodging point?】
Lin Huaizhi took two hits from the cane and had to retreat. It wasn’t that he was afraid of pain, but mainly because the old person was advanced in age; if she got too excited and had a health issue, it would be bad.
Back at the mud house, Lin Huaizhi immediately began to care for Huo Chen. “How are you?”
Just now, when the old lady hit him with the cane, Huo Chen, standing behind him, had blocked for him.
Huo Chen gave two words: “I’m fine.”
“Don’t play the cool guy at a time like this. I heard the sound. The old lady hit you several times. Where did she hit?”
Lin Huaizhi turned Huo Chen back and forth to look.
Huo Chen rarely had physical contact with people, even his parents. Every time Lin Huaizhi got close, his body would issue a warning. But Lin Huaizhi didn’t care about being choked by the neck.
He really didn’t care.
Huo Chen had used force, yet Lin Huaizhi’s expression hadn’t changed. He just looked at him and smiled, his black eyes reflecting Huo Chen’s cold face, like a monster.
Feeling Lin Huaizhi’s hands touching his body now, Huo Chen felt wrong everywhere.
“Don’t move!”
“Take off your clothes.”
Astonishment appeared in Huo Chen’s eyes: “What?”
The cameraman’s reaction was even bigger than his: “What?! Make him take off his clothes? Do you want to listen to what kind of wild language you are speaking!”
Lin Huaizhi frowned slightly, startled by that loud voice. “His clothes are like that; what’s wrong with taking them off to change into clean ones? Not just him, I need to take mine off too. What, are you going to livestream us changing clothes?”
【That’s not impossible!】
【Yes! Must livestream it! I want to see! I crave their bodies! Just looking at them, I know they have great figures! Both have abs!】
Joking aside.
The audience wanted to see it, but the cameraman didn’t dare film it. After all, it was hard enough to get unbanned. If they got banned again, the director would probably come over to kill someone!
How to put it…
Maybe because his direct boss was the director, when facing his direct boss’s direct boss, Lin Huaizhi—this Buddha—he was actually calmer than he imagined?
But no matter how calm, engaging in yellow content was a no-go.
The cameraman turned and went out the door without hesitation. “Then you guys change. Call me when you’re done.”
Once the person left, Lin Huaizhi stripped off Huo Chen’s clothes without a second word. He turned Huo Chen around and checked front, back, left, and right. Seeing no marks on Huo Chen, he finally relaxed.
“If she hits me again next time, just hide far away. Otherwise, what was originally one person’s pain becomes two people’s. That’s a bad business deal.”
Clearly, it was help and protection, but in Lin Huaizhi’s mouth, it became an uneconomical business deal.
Huo Chen looked up, just in time to see Lin Huaizhi taking off his wet top. He intended to look away, but his gaze touched upon the scars on the other’s collarbone.
They were dark red spots.
Like scattered plum blossoms, spread across Lin Huaizhi’s body.
It wasn’t until Lin Huaizhi tied up his shoulder-length black hair that Huo Chen saw there were such scars even on the back of his neck.
“You grew long hair to cover the scars?”
Seeing Lin Huaizhi look over, Huo Chen realized belatedly what he had said. Just as he was about to apologize for such a probing question about private matters, he saw Lin Huaizhi flash a smile at him.
“Yes and no.”
“When I was little, my hair would never grow long, and it looked ugly. When I grew up, I wanted to keep it longer.”
Lin Huaizhi changed his clothes and touched the scars on the back of his neck, asking jokingly, “Are these scars particularly ugly? If you mind them, I’ll find a way to get them removed later.”
Huo Chen was putting on his clothes. Hearing this, he didn’t have any special reaction, nor did he look at Lin Huaizhi. “That is your body. You possess the freedom to control it. You don’t need to consider others’ thoughts on how to treat it, nor do you need to listen to others’ opinions.”
Lin Huaizhi was stunned.
Then he couldn’t help but laugh.
He laughed louder and louder. Finally, under Huo Chen’s slightly puzzled gaze, he spoke from his heart: “I admit, your appearance was the fundamental reason for my love at first sight. But now it’s different.”
“Now, both your person and your heart are full of attraction to me.”
……
Cleaning up the mud house was troublesome.
Lin Huaizhi found other farmers nearby and borrowed a knife. He cut down two stalks of bamboo and used the bamboo branches to make a simple broom.
It wasn’t until nightfall.
Only then did the two manage to clean up the dilapidated mud house.
After washing up simply by the creek, the two prepared to rest. The cameraman ended the livestream there and headed to the director team’s base camp.
The mud house had no bed. Lin Huaizhi split the bamboo in half with the knife and laid it on the ground to make a makeshift bed board.
The bamboo bed was very hard.
Lin Huaizhi had slept on this kind of bed board in his childhood, basically falling asleep as soon as he touched it. He thought that after being successful for so long, he shouldn’t be used to such a bed anymore. But in fact, his body adapted faster than his consciousness.
Within minutes of touching the bed, his consciousness sank into darkness.
……
“Get up, get up!”
Before dawn the next day, the cameraman arrived at the mud house. After waking Huo Chen and Lin Huaizhi, he began to announce the mission.
“Today’s mission is to help the farmers sell goods at the market. The requirement is to make a profit of 100 yuan.”
Lin Huaizhi had opened his eyes when the cameraman entered. Hearing the cameraman’s voice, and looking at the sky outside which was so gray-black one could only see a thin layer of extremely faint blue, he pulled the thin quilt over his head.
“Sleep a while… sleep a little longer!”
The cameraman had recorded many variety shows, mostly lifestyle ones. This was his first romance variety show. However, guests sleeping in was something he was used to beyond belief.
“No.”
The cameraman came to pull the quilt.
“The market opens at four o’clock. It’s already three. If you delay any longer, you won’t be able to grab a stall.”
Lin Huaizhi turned a deaf ear, covering his head directly with the quilt. The voice coming out was muffled and heavy.
“Just a little while!”
“And don’t pull my quilt anymore! I’m wearing absolutely nothing underneath! If you pull it open, the livestream will be banned immediately!”
The cameraman retracted his hand as if by reflex.
When he reacted, his face was full of shock.
What on earth did Lin Huaizhi just say? Wearing nothing underneath??
Not knowing what he imagined, the cameraman instantly looked at Huo Chen. The man, however, didn’t dawdle at all. When the cameraman looked over, he was just putting on a long-sleeved shirt, his abdominal muscles flashing into view for a split second.
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