Under Mu Zhengqing’s insistence, Lu Yiwei finally gave up the idea of giving him a massage.
After returning to the bedroom, Mu Zhengqing hugged his little monster plush toy tightly.
This time, he only brought two little monster plush toys that he always carries with him wherever he goes.
Having not touched them all day, he took a deep breath, and although he didn’t immediately feel fully recharged, it did give him quite a bit of energy.
Participating in this variety show didn’t seem as unbearable as he had imagined.
After recharging, Mu Zhengqing started looking at the messages Gu Da sent him.
With over 200 unread messages, he suspected that Gu Da was treating his chat box like a trash can, telling him everything he saw.
After a while, he lost patience and made a phone call.
Gu Da picked up the phone as soon as it rang, making it hard not to suspect that he was just waiting for his call.
“How did you feel on the first day of the show?” Gu Da asked curiously as soon as he connected.
“Don’t you already know how I feel?” Mu Zhengqing replied.
From the messages Gu Da sent him, it was clear that he had been watching the live stream all day.
If he hadn’t been constantly sending messages to bother him, Mu Zhengqing would have considered giving such a diligent and responsible employee a raise.
However, since he was so eager to send messages, why didn’t he tell him about the online trends the day before the show started? That way, he wouldn’t have had to participate in the show.
He seriously suspected that Gu Da did it on purpose.
“How could I know how you feel, but I have a bold feeling that you might want to know?” Gu Da said mysteriously.
“No.” Mu Zhengqing refused without hesitation. If Gu Da called it bold, one could imagine how bold it would be.
“Do you think Lu Yiwei likes you?” Gu Da gossiped.
Whether Mu Zhengqing wanted to know or not didn’t matter, because Gu Da would say it regardless.
However, after saying it, he didn’t speak again, leaving time for Mu Zhengqing to think.
He knew Mu Zhengqing well. He was a very opinionated person. Once he made a decision, he wouldn’t change it.
Take the matter of divorcing Lu Yiwei, for example. Even if it meant having to participate in this variety show, he insisted on divorcing Lu Yiwei.
Not only did Gu Da understand him, but Mu Zhengqing also understood Gu Da. So when Gu Da asked if Lu Yiwei liked him, he wasn’t surprised at all.
Actually, there were a few moments today when he also wondered if Lu Yiwei really had feelings for him.
If he didn’t have feelings for him, why would he be so nice to him?
That’s right, Mu Zhengqing also felt that Lu Yiwei was good to him. Apart from his mother, no one had ever been so good to him.
But with their every move under the camera, he couldn’t figure out if Lu Yiwei was acting or genuinely being nice to him.
Actually, Gu Da’s question was also his question.
If Lu Yiwei was acting, as long as he didn’t overdo it, Mu Zhengqing was willing to cooperate, since he would also benefit.
But if Lu Yiwei really liked him, then he would have to seriously consider what to do next.
He had seen what happens when two people full of expectations enter into marriage.
For a marriage that started off wrong like his and Lu Yiwei’s, the outcome was predictable.
Especially since both of them were in the entertainment industry, even if they could stick to their principles, how long could they endure a life of being apart more than together?
Alright, to be honest, he had no expectations for marriage at all, and as for Lu Yiwei, he just felt that he was not bad, but far from liking him.
Just as Mu Zhengqing was lost in thought, he heard a knock on the door.
At this time and place, there was only one person who could knock on his door.
He hung up Gu Da’s call to open the door.
Although Gu Da insisted that he shouldn’t hang up.
In his words, since they were under someone else’s roof, one must be cautious, especially after witnessing Lu Yiwei’s stamina today.
However, Mu Zhengqing wasn’t worried about this; he still believed in Lu Yiwei’s character.
“Do you need something?” Mu Zhengqing asked Lu Yiwei at the door.
“I came to give you a massage.” Lu Yiwei said softly, raising the ointment in his hand.
Alright, he thought Lu Yiwei had already given up on giving him a massage. It turned out that Lu Yiwei noticed he didn’t want too much contact in front of the camera, so he decided to do it off-camera.
This behaviour of Lu Yiwei made Mu Zhengqing suspect whether he really liked him. After all, if it was just acting, the scene would have wrapped up earlier.
Mu Zhengqing hesitated for a moment, then let Lu Yiwei in.
When he stretched his leg out in front of Lu Yiwei, he was glad that the bedroom also had a sofa. Otherwise, Lu Yiwei would have had to sit on the bed to give him a massage.
Although it was just a massage, once it involved the bed, it would have an indescribable ambiguity.
“Lu Yiwei, do you like me?” Mu Zhengqing asked directly, looking at Lu Yiwei who was massaging him.
This was the reason he let Lu Yiwei in. Instead of overthinking, it was better to ask the person involved directly.
However, when he asked this question, he felt a bit embarrassed. He really couldn’t think of any reason why Lu Yiwei would like him. Was it just because of his face?
If Lu Yiwei were a face-con, wouldn’t it be more convenient to just look in the mirror?
The phrase “self-indulgent” came to his mind.
Hearing Mu Zhengqing’s words, Lu Yiwei paused for a moment, but quickly resumed his actions.
This brief pause went unnoticed by Mu Zhengqing.
Lu Yiwei didn’t answer Mu Zhengqing’s question but instead asked, “Why do you ask?”
“Because you’re a bit too nice to me,” Mu Zhengqing replied without hesitation.
Although he answered without a hint of hesitation, he regretted it a bit after saying it.
After all, he hadn’t interacted much with Lu Yiwei before. Maybe Lu Yiwei was just as nice to others, and he wasn’t a special case, just one among many.
If Lu Yiwei were to ask him back, “Am I?” he would want to find a hole to crawl into.
“I forced you to participate in this variety show. Isn’t it only right for me to be nice to you?” Lu Yiwei explained.
Hearing Lu Yiwei say this, Mu Zhengqing felt an inexplicable sense of relief.
Although everything was his own self-indulgence, at least it showed that Lu Yiwei was indeed nicer to him than to others.
Between awkwardness and even more awkwardness, the awkwardness seemed less obvious.
“Actually, you don’t have to be deliberately nice to me. My manager was overjoyed when you brought me to this variety show,” Mu Zhengqing said.
The conditions were agreed upon by himself. Although Lu Yiwei might have deceived him, in the end, it was his own fault for not understanding clearly before signing the contract.
So Lu Yiwei had no obligation to be responsible for him.
“I’m not being deliberate, I just want to be nice to you,” Lu Yiwei said, looking at Mu Zhengqing.
Uh…
Mu Zhengqing originally thought the topic had passed, but Lu Yiwei’s words made him want to ask again:
Lu Yiwei, do you like me?
T/N: With this, we are officially quarter into the story. The variety show has started with a bang and there's just more idiocy to follow.
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