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    Chapter 82

    When Chi Huang came back after answering the phone, the director quickly asked: “Are you ready?” After a late-night recording, everyone was a little anxious.

    Chi Huang did not speak. He had no right to speak on this occasion and it was not his turn to speak.

    Jian Yao waved his hand and said to the camera crew: “Wait a moment, you go out first, I will call you when you are ready.”

    The director didn’t want to delay any longer: “Is there anything else?”

    “Go out when I ask you to, so much nonsense.”

    Unable to offend Jian Yao, the film crew had to exit the room first.

    He and Chi Huang were the only two people left in the room. After turning off the indoor camera, Jian Yao asked him, “What happened?”

    Just now the recording was ready, Chi Huang’s phone rang, and the director asked him to turn it off. He took a look at the caller, but instead of turning it off, he answered the phone despite everyone’s dissatisfied looks.When I came back after picking it up, my mood was obviously not right.

    Chi Huang sat beside his bed and was silent for a long time. He raised his head and asked Jian Yao, “Have you ever been abandoned?”

    “?”

    “You definitely haven’t. You are so beautiful and you are popular right now. People all over the world will like you.”

    “It’s impossible for someone to be liked by people all over the world. If you look on social media, there are a lot of people who hate me.” Jian Yao looked at him for a while, “Should I ask the director to cancel tonight’s recording?” After saying that, he stood up and went out to find the director.

    Chi Huang held his hand: “Don’t bother. Everyone has been busy for a long time. If today’s content is not recorded, it will delay everyone’s progress. The holiday is approaching, and everyone wants to finish things as soon as possible.” After that, he added, “Thank you.”

    Jian Yao looked at him tangledly: “Are you really okay with this?”

    “It’s okay.” Chi Huang smiled at him with difficulty, “I’ll be fine as long as you stay with me.”

    The content to be recorded tonight is relatively simple. If I hurry up, I should be able to finish it within an hour.

    In the last issue, Chi Huang went to touch Jian Yao’s personal belongings and broke the most important relic of his mother, a jade Guanyin, into two pieces.

    That episode is still being edited and produced, but it is already foreseeable how much scolding and online violence Chi Huang will receive after it is broadcast.In this issue, Chi Huang apologized to Jian Yao with the Guanyin statue that he had painstakingly repaired, and asked for forgiveness.

    When Chi Huang’s restored jade statue was taken out, Jian Yao’s eyes turned red, and the video recorder accurately captured this.Afterwards, the two shook hands and made peace, hugging each other tightly.

    All goes well, the filming ends well.

    Just as the film crew was packing up and about to leave, Chi Huang suddenly said to Jian Yao, “Are you sleepy? If not, I’ll take you somewhere.”

    This was obviously not part of the script. Jian Yao was surprised: “Where are you going?”

    “Put on your thickest clothes, I’ll wait for you downstairs.”

    Soon Jian Yao came downstairs wearing a jacket and jeans, and saw that Chi Huang had already changed into cycling clothes.He didn’t know why, but Chi Huang just said that he didn’t have enough clothes, and went upstairs to get an ankle-length down jacket to wrap him up, and also put a helmet on him.

    The director rushed down and asked him: “It’s time, where are you going?”

    “No comment.”

    “It’s still during the recording period. No matter what you do, we will follow you.”

    After Chi Huang said “whatever”, he pulled Jian Yao onto his motorcycle outside and drove away at high speed.

    The staff of the program team here took the equipment and hurriedly followed.

    The motorcycle was speeding all the way and soon left the program crew behind.After more than an hour, we stopped at the edge of a wild lake.

    On winter nights, the air turns to frost, the lake is completely frozen, and the surroundings are silent. Only unknown strange birds make one or two random calls from time to time, which makes people feel sad and frightened.

    Chi Huang pulled Jian Yao on the slippery ice and called him: “Be careful.”

    Jian Yao held his hand tightly and still hasn’t reacted yet: “Where are you taking me?”

    Chi Huang didn’t say anything. He just used the headlight of the motorcycle to pull him forward until the surrounding grass was sparse and only a huge, flat and clean ice surface remained.However, this is not an untouched place, because there is a bench for people to rest under their feet.

    “You sit here for a while, I’ll be right over.” After speaking, Chi Huang turned back to the shore and turned off the headlights of the motorcycle.

    When he returned to Jian Yao and sat down next to him, Jian Yao couldn’t bear it anymore: “Chi Huang, what on earth are you going to do?”

    “Do you allow the program crew to make a fuss about your mother?” Chi Huang suddenly asked, “I only found out that your mother passed away due to illness last year after searching online.”

    Jian Yao suddenly fell silent.

    “I read online that you were raised by your mother alone, so you should have a good relationship with her.”

    “I don’t want to talk about this.”

    “I know, because my mother is gone too. But she has been gone for more than ten years, and I can only talk about her now.”

    Jian Yao turned his head to look at Chi Huang. The moonlight made the night not too dark, and his eyes were shining brightly.

    “I want to tell you that although what I did was arranged by the show crew, I really feel sorry for it, whether it was breaking your mother’s belongings or using her as a gimmick.”

    Jian Yao was silent, then shook his head: “The director discussed this with me. The team felt that my image was far away from the audience, and we needed such a story to bring me closer to the public. It would be better to let you be the ‘bad guy’. I will face a lot of negative comments in the future, and I feel a little sorry.”

    “My apology is not to the program crew, nor to your team, but to you alone, and to those who you put last, your own feelings.”

    Jian Yao lowered his head.

    After a long while, he said sullenly, his throat a little choked: “My mother… I have tried all methods, and I have no regrets.”

    “That’s great. It was an accident to my parents. They didn’t even say goodbye.” Chi Huang raised his head and poked Jian Yao with his elbow, “Look.”

    Following his hand, Jian Yao raised his head and saw the stars in the sky and the bright moon on the horizon.

    The surroundings were so bright, it didn’t feel like night, but rather like early morning, when it was just dawn and the sun hadn’t come out yet.Under the light of the stars and moon, the cracks on the ice surface are clearly visible.

    The air was cold and dry, and even the nose hurt after taking a breath. However, the eyes were warm, the pupils were filled with mist, and the starry sky turned into the rotating star rings in Van Gogh’s paintings.

    “It is said that deceased relatives will rise into the sky and become stars. I like this saying very much. Every time I look at the starry sky, it seems that I can see them.” Chi Huang said, breathing into his hands, “Later, someone told me that a meteor would fall into my hands and become mine.” He spread out his frozen hands, “He lied to me, I have nothing in my hands.”

    Jian Yao looked at Chi Huang, held his hand and rubbed it hard: “It’s very cold. You have so many clothes on me, why don’t you wear more?”

    Chi Huang smiled: “I’m not afraid of the cold.”

    “Yeah, you wouldn’t have found a place like this if you were afraid of the cold. How did you find this place?” Judging from Chi Huang’s familiarity, he must have moved this bench as well.

    “I didn’t look for it specifically, I just rode around at night when I couldn’t sleep.”

    “Aren’t you in the dormitory all night?”

    “You have such a full schedule, how many nights have you stayed in this dormitory?”

    He didn’t sleep at night in the winter, riding a motorcycle around the countryside, watching the stars in the ice and snow… Jian Yao asked hesitantly: “Are you lovelorn?”

    Chi Huang’s phone rang, and the camera crew lost track of people and asked where they were.Chi Huang sent his location.

    Because of this interruption, he did not answer Jian Yao’s question. He just held his fingers in his warm hands, and his heart that fell into the ice cave seemed to gradually warm up.

    Are he and Chen Shilu considered brokenhearted?None of them have ever truly been in love.It’s so funny to think about myself being so devastated by this love that never happened.

    But he had no choice. Just as he couldn’t control his mood and actions in wanting to monopolize Chen Shilu, he couldn’t control his sadness and despair.

    Even the last trace of luck that “Chen Shilu was just too angry and said only angry words” was completely extinguished by the phone call asking him to go back and move his luggage.

    He knew better than anyone that Chen Shilu really asked him to leave and really didn’t want him anymore.

    He suddenly shook Jian Yao’s warm hands and asked him, “Do you like me?”

    The hands he held trembled slightly, then pulled away.Jian Yao’s throat was a little tight and he swallowed: “How could you have such a misunderstanding?”

    “It turns out it was a misunderstanding.” Chi Huang raised his neck and stared at a particularly bright star. “Because you can accurately sense my emotions every time, I thought you paid special attention to me. If you pay special attention to someone, you don’t hate it, but you probably like it, right?” He tilted his head and looked at Jian Yao sideways.

    Jian Yao looked forward, her voice getting tighter and tighter: “Maybe it’s because I used to be the team leader and needed to pay attention to the emotions of each team member.”

    “Is that so?” Chi Huang retracted his gaze and lowered his head, “Really, I’m even more disappointed. I wouldn’t have asked if I had known about it.”

    “…Besides, we are all boys, don’t make such jokes.”

    “You look at gender first, and then whether you like him or not? I’m not. I think people are all the same in skin. What really makes a difference is their soul. If I like someone, I don’t care much about his appearance, including his gender.” He leaned close to Jian Yao’s ear, “Let me tell you quietly, the last person I liked was a man. I loved him to death, but it’s a pity that he doesn’t want me.”

    Jian Yao calmly turned her head away from him: “Tell me this, aren’t you worried that I will reveal your secret?”

    Chi Huang just laughed: “That’s bad, you have caught my handle, you can threaten me to do anything.”

    “…”

    The sound of cars on the shore rang out, a headlight hit the two of them, and the camera crew finally rushed over.The group of people carried the equipment, scurried left and right, and finally slid in front of the two protagonists.

    He opened the camera and pointed it at the faces of the two people, and then recorded the video for several minutes. Neither of them said a word, and there was no conversation. The staff was so cold that they kept sniffling.

    The director couldn’t help but ask: “Excuse me, what are you two doing here?”

    “Looking at the stars.” Chi Huang raised his chin, “Director, please step aside, you just blocked the moon.”

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