AHFAFTGTTT Chapter 66

Chapter 66: Sweat “Didn’t I say I’d make you look at me in a new light…

The recording location for “Edge of Era” wasn’t in the city center.

Xu Chengyue entered the control room according to the specific address in the work group, and it was already late. He moved quietly, so the staff in the control room didn’t notice him. They were all chatting idly in front of their computers—

“Oh my god, does he have to go this hard?”

“This guy is really single-handedly driving the entire show into overdrive.”

“The moon doesn’t sleep, so he doesn’t sleep, but I want to sleep…”

Xu Chengyue heard the staff’s complaints as soon as he entered the door. Everyone was holding a cup of iced Americano, looking utterly hopeless.

“Now it’s Fu Yang doesn’t sleep, so I don’t sleep,” the staff member monitoring the display screen complained, “I have a blind date this weekend, and now my dark circles are almost down to my chin. Pity that girl, she’s going to meet a super greasy, bald, old baby…”

Feeling someone tap his shoulder, the staff member instantly put away his snacks and milk tea, and looked up at Xu Chengyue who had just entered the door, “Cough, Teacher Xu, thank you for coming so late.”

“It’s okay, you guys are working harder.” Xu Chengyue looked at the wall full of camera display monitors transmitting real-time images. All the other display monitors were static, only one was still jumping energetically.

In the picture, an extremely tall figure was practicing in front of the mirror without stopping. Sweat dripped down his neck, almost wetting the floor.

“Could it be that he knows about the hidden mission? Didn’t they say he’s the young master of that family? It’s not worth working so hard for a show, right?” someone said in a low voice.

As a mentor, Xu Chengyue certainly knew what the hidden mission was.

The cameras were secretly recording the total practice time of each trainee before the first public performance. The one with the longest time could get a solo stage overtime on the second public performance stage.

But Fu Yang definitely didn’t know.

“Yo, Teacher Xu is here, why didn’t anyone call me?”

The director of “Edge of Era” strode out of the control room cubicle and reached out to Xu Chengyue. He looked like he had just woken up, his eyes were so blurry that he even wore his slippers backwards.

“Director.” Xu Chengyue politely returned the handshake.

“It’s so late to ask you to come over, it’s because there’s a trainee, you’ve seen him too, he’s been working hard practicing dancing for almost a week, only sleeping 4 hours a day, going back to the dormitory at two in the morning, and coming back on time at six in the morning. There were even two days when he was afraid of disturbing others, so he just stayed in the practice room.”

“Cough, it’s not that we can’t stay up and want to get off work, the main thing is that we’re afraid his body will have problems,” the director didn’t know what he was thinking, he couldn’t help but snitch to Xu Chengyue, “Ha, but he has indeed improved rapidly in the past few days.”

Xu Chengyue silently looked at the young man’s movements on the display screen and nodded, “Indeed.”

Seeing that he looked approving, the director forced a smile. His goal hadn’t been achieved. He exchanged glances with the staff, who all gave him a look—go for it, director, whether we can get off work early today depends on you!

“Now everyone is complaining about him!” the director said decisively.

Xu Chengyue was stunned, “Complaining about what?”

The director hit his left hand with his right fist, “If he doesn’t sleep, the others are too embarrassed to sleep!”

The staff pushed each other and echoed—

“He often practices late into the night, and the other trainees are following suit, so everyone has dark circles around their eyes like pandas, but he himself is full of energy and radiant.”

“He eats five servings of rice at every meal, his appetite is ridiculously good.”

“He occupies the practice room at 6:00 every morning and doesn’t allow anyone else to enter, he’s simply a troublemaker!”

“In just one week, he’s become the little tyrant of the West District, it’s terrifying, too terrifying!”

“The god of involution…”

Xu Chengyue chuckled, “That’s too much.”

On the display screen in the control room, there was no one else left. The practice room was once again left with only one shadow standing in the constantly bright lights.

The young man’s features were delicate, his eyebrows deep, and the sharp, clear line of his jaw almost cut through the screen.

His hair hadn’t been taken care of, it was as messy as a chicken coop, and a loose T-shirt was draped lazily over his body. He didn’t seem like someone so competitive, but in reality, he was more stubborn than anyone else.

It seemed like he had lost a lot of weight since the first stage. He was already recovering from a serious illness, so if he continued like this, his body definitely wouldn’t be able to take it.

Xu Chengyue watched seriously for a while, and said seriously: “I’ll go persuade him.”

The corridor of the West District practice room was silent in the late night.

The motion-sensitive lights flickered. Through the window of the practice room, the tall new trainee repeatedly counted the beats in his mouth, dancing in front of the mirror, the floor even vibrated a little.

The salty sweat flowed into his eyes, making it difficult for him to open them, but his movements didn’t stop. He lifted the collar of his T-shirt with one hand, wanting to wipe it off, pulling the hem up a bit, revealing a hint of his abs. Only then did he realize that the whole shirt was already soaked and couldn’t be used to wipe anything. At the same time, he heard the sound of the door opening.

“I’m going back soon.”

The interlude of a song hadn’t ended yet. Fu Yang loosened his collar and gave up the idea of wiping his sweat with his clothes. Even if he couldn’t open his eyes, he had to keep up with the movements.

Thinking it was another staff member coming to urge him to go back to the dormitory, he responded casually.

“I’ll pay the electricity bill for you, okay? All you do is nag…”

Finally, the music ended. His eyes were painfully stinging from being soaked in sweat. Although he was usually a bit of a neat freak, he didn’t care about anything else at this moment and wanted to wipe them directly with the back of his hand.

Suddenly, a clean coolness wrapped around his slightly damp wrist.

A familiar fragrance wafted towards him—

It was gardenia.

With his eyes closed, Fu Yang felt the person grab his wrist, stopping his movements with a hint of urgency. Their breath brushed against his chin.

There was a slight sound on the floor, it should be the sound of the other person tiptoeing slightly. Based on the force on the floor, he deduced that this person was—

About 5 centimeters shorter than him.

Fu Yang smiled and stopped resisting, standing still.

Soft tissues were slowly dabbing at the corner of his eyes, carefully and patiently.

The fragrance gradually faded away. Just as the person was about to back away, Fu Yang subconsciously grabbed his wrist and pulled him closer, accidentally using too much force, their breaths intertwined.

“Teacher Xu.”

A clear voice, calm, relaxed, and a bit lazy, rang out in the empty practice room.

The young man recognized the person without opening his eyes.

Opening his eyes, he was indeed right.

Looking closely, the young mentor’s eyes were even bigger, staring at him slightly, adorably like a little rabbit eating carrots.

Why did his face seem smaller too?

It wasn’t just seemed like.

It really was smaller. The bit of flesh that was on his cheeks before was now gone, making his chin look even sharper.

At this moment, his slightly long hair was lifted slightly by the night wind from the window, he was clean all over, and there was even a faint smell of medicine.

The daring and reckless new trainee grabbed the beautiful mentor and sized him up and down.

A few seconds later, he took two steps back, “Stay away from me, I’m covered in sweat right now.”

Xu Chengyue looked at the wrist that had just been grabbed, indicating—

Didn’t you just pull me?

Fu Yang: “…”

Xu Chengyue’s mentor identity came online, and he questioned with his hands on his hips, “Why are you practicing so late?”

Fu Yang looked at him, slightly raising the corners of his lips, “Didn’t you say that one public performance is too far away, and let me think about how to get an A in the theme song assessment first?”

“I’ve thought about it, hard work can make up for clumsiness. Want to make a bet? This time I will rush into Class A.” The young man crossed his arms and leaned against the wall, raising his eyebrows with high spirits.

Xu Chengyue tilted his head in confusion. Could it be that Fu Yang was practicing so late every day because of a casual remark he made?

“Do you want to get an A that much?”

“Didn’t I say, I’ll make you look at me in a new light.”

“Is it really to make me look at you in a new light, or for someone else?” Xu Chengyue threw the tissue into the trash can in the corner, saying casually.

Fu Yang felt a little annoyed, “Of course it’s for you.”

“Um… Qu Xue is coming back soon.” Xu Chengyue guessed that the little boy was embarrassed, so he was using himself as an excuse.

“Can you stop mentioning her all the time!” Fu Yang couldn’t help but blurt out, and an amazing thought came to his mind.

Damn, doesn’t Xu Chengyue like Qu Xue?

That’s right, although Xu Chengyue is liked by so many men, he is not necessarily gay. He is now throwing himself into it, maybe Xu Chengyue is still a straight man, thinking about getting married and having children, a wife, and a warm bed.

Fu Yang felt depressed, leaned against the wall, and scratched the wall skin with his fingers in annoyance.

The young man’s resistance was like a heavy blow that instantly woke Xu Chengyue up. He secretly speculated that it was too vulgar for one person to like another. Xu Chengyue despised himself in his heart and quickly said:

“I’m sorry, it’s my problem, I won’t again…”

“It’s not your problem, you have no problem, it’s my problem, my problem is just too big!”

Fu Yang was holding back a fire, and he spoke without thinking.

Xu Chengyue was stunned by the roar, thinking he was angry, he approached a little, and saw his expression in the light and shadow, his face puffed up like a little puffer fish, aggrieved and annoyed, and couldn’t help but want to poke him, “What’s wrong?”

Fu Yang turned around and didn’t want him to see, and buried himself in the corner of the wall and mumbled, “I want to enter Class A.”

Xu Chengyue: “Okay, come on.”

Fu Yang pursed his lips and secretly glanced at him sideways. Xu Chengyue is really a straight man, how can a 37-degree mouth say such cold words?

Fu Yang can only coax himself well, drilled out of the corner of the wall, and humbly asked Xu Chengyue for advice.

“Then, can Teacher Xu please teach me how to rush into Class A.”

“With your current level, there is no way to do it for the time being.” Xu Chengyue spoke even more straightly.

“But I want to try.”

In the practice room under the incandescent lamp, the mirror reflected the bright moon by the window, and the light in the boy’s eyes shone more dazzlingly than it.

“Let me try, even if this south wall makes me break my head and bleed, I won’t regret it.”

Xu Chengyue was slightly stunned, and after a long time he said: “Okay.”

In the silent practice room in the deep night, it was even more noisy.

“Straighten your back, this action is not as simple as it seems on the surface, break it down…”

“Will your muscles hurt like this? If it hurts, it’s right, because the point of force is wrong, kneeling like this will hurt your muscles and knees…”

“When the thigh muscles are on the left side, there will be a beat in the middle when the arms are punched out, you just ate an action directly…”

“Not right… the hand still needs to be raised up…”

“Yes, that’s right, this will make it look less stiff…”

…

Outside the camera, the staff in the control room looked at each other, “Didn’t you persuade him to rest? How did Teacher Xu invest in the enemy camp?”

The director’s eyes gleamed, and he sat on the recliner and instructed: “The work is here, turn on every lens, and shoot it well.”