MFIMM Chapter 73

Taking Pictures

Lin Xi’s feet couldn’t help but curl up, his toes gripping the floor. Even with his ears red like cooked shrimp, he still met Pei Jiashu’s gaze and stammered, “What… what can you do to me?”

“I… I’ll cling to you with my hands and feet all night tonight.”

Pei Jiashu’s face was still being pinched by Lin Xi, his mouth puckered, making him look like a little duck when he spoke. Especially since he said this to get revenge on Lin Xi, it didn’t sound threatening at all.

Lin Xi burst out laughing.

Meanwhile, the audience watching the live stream:

[Holy crap, is President Pei impotent? Lin Xi is flirting so much, but President Pei isn’t taking action. At this moment, he should just flip Lin Xi over, pull out his belt, and tie Lin Xi’s hands, so he can’t move in bed.]

[Hiss hiss, keep writing, upstairs!]

[These two are like elementary school kids in love, I can’t take it anymore, I’m going next door to watch Sheng and Li, they’re already on the highway.]

[To be fair, they’re so innocent, it makes me feel like pink bubbles are popping.]

[They’ve been married for a year! Innocent, really? Get on the highway already!]

Lin Xi let go of Pei Jiashu, covered his face, and lay down on the table. “Let’s just watch the video.”

“…Okay.” Pei Jiashu touched his face, still feeling the heat. He got up, opened the window, and sat down with Lin Xi to continue watching the live stream.

He casually took a notebook and jotted down a few keywords, then turned off the video.

“That’s it?” Lin Xi asked in surprise.

“Pretty much.” Pei Jiashu said.

“So amazing.” Lin Xi looked at Pei Jiashu excitedly, with a hint of admiration in his eyes.

Being praised by the person he liked, Pei Jiashu immediately turned red and scratched his head modestly, saying, “Not really.”

Seeing the admiration in Lin Xi’s eyes gradually fading, Pei Jiashu changed his tone and said, “But tomorrow’s task shouldn’t be a problem.”

“Wow!” Lin Xi looked at Pei Jiashu admiringly. He knew Pei Jiashu was just that kind of person, excellent no matter where he was.

The next day, they arrived at the entrance of the Ancient City. The production team asked them to wait there for the arrival of foreign tourists.

The staff introduced the guests to the foreign tour group in fluent English, and explained the rules of the show. They divided the foreigners into four groups, and had them each follow one of the couples.

Pei Jiashu used his accent-free English to first introduce the Ancient City to the foreigners. Lin Xi also took the foreigners to the clothing store from yesterday, and even personally did their makeup, allowing them to experience the unique clothing of the Ancient City.

The foreigners praised Lin Xi’s skills, showering him with compliments.

Pei Jiashu took the opportunity to say to the foreigners, “This is aanchor under our Jiashang Media. His videos and live streams all teach how to do makeup, you can follow him.”

Lin Xi was amazed and tugged at Pei Jiashu’s sleeve. “President Pei, that’s really not necessary.”

Pei Jiashu leaned close to Lin Xi’s ear and said, “If our variety show is broadcast overseas, we can take this opportunity to promote your account.”

“Okay, Mr. Boss, whatever you say is right.” Lin Xi hid behind Pei Jiashu in embarrassment.

But unexpectedly, this foreigner was quite interested in Lin Xi, and didn’t have that much interest in the Ancient City. They kept asking about Lin Xi’s preferences the whole way.

“Although, but, this is my wife.” Pei Jiashu pulled Lin Xi to his side and said to the foreigner.

The foreigner looked at Pei Jiashu, then at Lin Xi, and said regretfully, “Sorry, I thought you were just superior and subordinate, I didn’t expect you were husband and wife.”

“It’s okay, let’s continue strolling.” Pei Jiashu continued to explain to the foreigner.

It was less like he was explaining to the foreigner and more like he was showing off to Lin Xi. Lin Xi seemed to like listening to his long-winded speeches, a pair of almond eyes fixed on him, the longing unconsciously revealed in his eyes impossible to hide.

Only now did Pei Jiashu truly realize that Lin Xi had liked him all along.

Thinking about how Lin Xi had been watching him like this for so many years, his throat felt like he had swallowed a lemon, so sour it made him want to cry.

Pei Jiashu quietly took Lin Xi’s hand. Lin Xi was already used to Pei Jiashu’s sudden attacks, and naturally hooked his hand into Pei Jiashu’s.

The two showed off their affection in front of the foreigner, who didn’t even want to pay attention to them anymore.

However, Pei Jiashu still dutifully took the foreigner all over the Ancient City, and even took Lin Xi to ride the boat that they didn’t ride yesterday.

There were many pedestrians in the Ancient City, some slowly strolling on the bluestone steps, others laughing and playing in groups of three or five, many microcosms presented before their eyes.

Lin Xi specially carried a camera today, and took a few photos with it.

Turning around, he found Pei Jiashu taking pictures of him with his phone.

“Why are you taking pictures of me?” Lin Xi asked coyly. He walked to Pei Jiashu’s side, and looked at Pei Jiashu’s phone. The photos on his phone had no composition at all, almost the entire frame was Lin Xi.

Lin Xi, feeling novel about the boat ride, Lin Xi squatting on the boat playing with water, Lin Xi seriously taking photos, even Lin Xi talking with the foreigner, but there was only Lin Xi alone.

When he was learning photography with the photographer before, they said that photography was like painting, all the lenses, composition, and light and shadow were expressing the creator’s emotions.

But Pei Jiashu’s photos had no technique, all that was left was emotion.

Lin Xi pursed his lips, these small details touched him more than Pei Jiashu’s sweet talk. He returned the phone to Pei Jiashu, and only said, “You took them so ugly.”

Pei Jiashu said with a smile, “Of course I can’t compare to you, it’s all because my wife is so excellent. I just need to capture your beauty.”

Lin Xi raised his eyebrows and turned his head, the smile on the corner of his mouth already uncontrollable. He didn’t use much strength, and playfully hit Pei Jiashu’s shoulder, wrinkling his nose and saying to Pei Jiashu, “You’re just good at talking.”

“I now realize that without a mouth, I wouldn’t have a wife.” Pei Jiashu said clingingly behind Lin Xi.

[Wait, did they forget what the task is?]

[Where’s the foreigner?]

[Ahhh, never mind the foreigner, I’m dying from the sweetness]

[Their sugar is so hard, you have to have good teeth to handle it…]

In the end, they returned to the Ancient City gathering point, everyone’s expressions were different. Sheng Yan and Li Zhijian were calm and collected, Jiang Xubai probably wasn’t good at English, and was using his fingers to communicate with the foreigner, but the foreigner could actually understand him, laughing so hard he was bent over.

Wei Qian and Ke Yun were ignoring each other, but on Lin Xi’s side, the two maintained a distance that was neither too close nor too far, both shy and timid, the foreigner actually standing in front of them, with a speechless expression.

The staff had them score each group’s situation, and the team that got the best evaluation could go to a five-star restaurant for a meal.

Lin Xi thought, and tugged at Pei Jiashu’s sleeve. “Were we a bit perfunctory towards the foreigner? What if he doesn’t give us a high score?”

Pei Jiashu was choked up. He was indeed only focused on Lin Xi, and didn’t pay much attention to the foreigner.

“It’s okay, I’ll make you a big meal.” Pei Jiashu said.

“Tch, I eat your food every day, if this keeps up, I’m going to get tired of it.” Lin Xi’s eyes wandered, although he said that, he didn’t look like he didn’t want to eat it at all.

After Lin Xi finished speaking, he observed Pei Jiashu’s expression, a little afraid that Pei Jiashu would get angry because of his words. Just as he was about to explain, Pei Jiashu’s index finger slightly curved, and rubbed his nose with his knuckles. “Okay, I’ll research other recipes to make for you.”

He touched his nose that had been rubbed, his heart already overflowing with honey, and he was still saying, “That’s more like it.”

Pei Jiashu wasn’t angry at all, instead, he looked at Lin Xi even more indulgently.

The final results came out, and as expected, they became the bottom team. Ke Yun was even more concerned about their competition results than they were.

“Why are Lin Xi and Brother Pei at the bottom? Look at how good Lin Xi is at makeup, and our Brother Pei is handsome, and knows how to talk.”

Pei Jiashu touched his nose, stopping Ke Yun, feeling unworthy of Ke Yun’s praise.

“That, it’s all my fault.”

The foreigner was watching them argue, but couldn’t understand anything, only being able to tell from Ke Yun’s actions that Ke Yun was questioning his score.

The foreigner asked himself, and the score he gave Pei Jiashu wasn’t low, it’s just that the others gave higher scores.

So he came up and complained to Ke Yun in English, “Your friends, they ignored me, they were showing off their affection in front of me. I’m like a single dog, I didn’t get any respect!”

“Ah…” Ke Yun’s arrogance immediately died down, and he turned to look at Lin Xi and Pei Jiashu.

Lin Xi now wanted to crawl into a crack in the ground. Pei Jiashu was exposed in public, and was a little embarrassed. He stepped forward and said to the foreigner, “I’m sorry that I couldn’t give you a good experience today, but if you come to A City to play in the future, you can come find me, I can provide you with the best service.”

Pei Jiashu stuffed a business card to the foreigner, who then left feeling wronged.

The others all had expressions of wanting to laugh but needing to pay attention to the camera, unable to laugh too wildly. Jiang Xubai couldn’t help but tease them, “I didn’t expect you two to be so clingy.”

“Haha.” Lin Xi laughed dryly, shyly hiding behind Pei Jiashu.

In the end, the winners were actually Ke Yun and Wei Qian, the two went to the five-star restaurant together, and after returning, the atmosphere between the two seemed to have softened a little.

After the Ancient City trip ended, the theme of the next episode was food, they would go to the place with the most snacks and delicacies to taste the food.

But the day before they were about to leave, Assistant Song suddenly called Pei Jiashu, there was a very important business cooperation in front of the company that required Pei Jiashu to come forward and discuss.

Lin Xi originally wanted to go back with Pei Jiashu, after all, this was a couple’s travel show, if Pei Jiashu wasn’t there, what was the point of him being alone.

“It’s okay, just relax and have fun with the production team.” Pei Jiashu said to Lin Xi. Actually, he was also very reluctant, but the show’s popularity was currently soaring, and it was a good choice for Lin Xi to stay here.