LIGHTNOVELONLINE
Chapter 81
Bai Yin and Chen Huaixiao were still cuddling and whispering sweet nothings on the rooftop. The cameraman noticed this couple secretly talking about love away from the audience. He hurriedly lugged the camera and rushed up.
As soon as they saw the cameraman, the two let go of each other tacitly.
Seeing the CEO couple spring apart like a spring, the audience protested in unison:
"If you have a love to talk about, please talk about it openly in front of the camera!"
"What can't my gold membership see?"
"Quick, glue these two people together!"
"How annoying!"
...
Downstairs, Director Fang beckoned Bai Yin and Chen Huaixiao. He signaled that they were the next to enter the confession garden and asked them to get ready.
Bai Yin and Chen Huaixiao had nothing to prepare - no lines, no script, no rehearsal - they could only improvise.
Seeing the starry lights on the grass, Chen Huaixiao reached out his hand to get Bai Yin to take his arm.
Bai Yin slapped his arm away and walked ahead into the green lawn.
The soft white gauze skirt outlined her graceful figure. She looked back, pulled her eyelids and made a grimace at Chen Huaixiao.
Chen Huaixiao had no choice but to catch up.
In the romantic confession garden there was a swing set. Bai Yin simply sat on the swing and started swinging: "Brother, do you have anything you want to say to me?"
Chen Huaixiao stood behind her, naturally pushing the swing: "How about you?"
"Nothing."
"Then I have nothing either."
Bai Yin knew he would answer like this. She pouted: "Then let's go."
"Since we're here, just say something casual."
"Say what?"
Chen Huaixiao held on to the swing frame: "Something like you love me."
"I love you, big fool!"
At this time, Director Fang's extremely helpless voice came from the earpiece: "Um...this is the final confession night. You two should at least go through the motions, please, I'm begging you! I beg you, even if you're acting, at least pretend to be serious!"
"We're not acting." Chen Huaixiao took off his earpiece and said to Bai Yin, "Let's play a game then."
Sitting on the swing, Bai Yin looked sideways at him: "What game?"
"Rock Paper Scissors. No thinking, quick Q&A, still honest answers like we used to play when drunk."
Bai Yin remembered that drunken time and nodded in agreement: "Okay, let's go."
The audience saw the two start playing Rock Paper Scissors -
"I've seen so many dating shows, and never seen anyone play Rock Paper Scissors on the final confession night!"
"Ha ha ha, the comic relief couple is so funny."
"Director Fang pleaded with them to at least pretend to confess their love, but they're acting like kids!" ...
In the first round of Rock Paper Scissors, Bai Yin won. She asked without hesitation: "Chen Huaixiao, who was your first love?"
Chen Huaixiao answered without thinking: "You."
"Huh, don't believe you."
"Believe it or not."
In the next round, Bai Yin played paper, Chen Huaixiao scissors.
Chen Huaixiao: "Who was your first love?"
Bai Yin bit her lip and did not answer right away.
Chen Huaixiao: "Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock."
Comments:
"CEO Chen even comes with a countdown!"
"Haha, the funny dating show couple is so cute."
After thinking about it, Bai Yin said: "It was my deskmate Little Wang in first grade elementary school, because he could recite the multiplication table."
Chen Huaixiao had a speechless expression: "Elementary school first grade doesn't count."
"There's no such rule!"
"The rules are set by the host." He righteously said, "Only high school and later counts."
Bai Yin pouted and quickly answered: "It's you, okay, next question!"
The two continued playing Rock Paper Scissors. This time Chen Huaixiao played rock and beat Bai Yin's scissors: "If stranded on a deserted island, Li Chunfeng and I, who would you choose?"
Bai Yin quickly replied: "I'd choose Tang Ka, he can cook."
Next round, Bai Yin won. She cleared her throat and said, "If stranded on a deserted island, a whole ship of food that could save you and me, which would you choose?"
Chen Huaixiao didn't hesitate: "I'd choose you. If tomorrow was the end of the world, I'd rather keep making love until we die."
The director's voice came from the earpiece: "Ahem...guests please watch your words! Censor that!"
In the next round, Chen Huaixiao won again. He still wouldn't let it go: "If stranded on a deserted island, Tang Ka is dead too, Li Chunfeng and I, who would you choose?"
Bai Yin: "I'd choose Shen Bin, I heard he was the dragon boat racing champion in his hometown."
Chen Huaixiao: "Shen Bin is dead too."
Bai Yin finally couldn't help laughing out loud. She reached out and shoved Chen Huaixiao: "Chen Huaixiao, you're really so silly!"
The screen was already full of "Hahahahaha" comments -
"Seriously, leave the poor deserted island alone, it's just a child!"
"This is truly a preschool dating show."
As Bai Yin was about to leave, Chen Huaixiao suddenly said behind her: "The wedding that time was not grandfather's plan or arrangement, nor was it a sudden incident."
Bai Yin turned around and looked at Chen Huaixiao.
Under the flower arbor, the man's figure was tall and straight. His features were obscured in the dim shadows and unclear, but Bai Yin could feel the determination in his eyes.
"The wedding ring, I had long ago prepared. If you came to Beicheng, I, Chen Huaixiao, would have proudly brought you home. If you didn't come, I would have gone to Jiangnan Town to spend the rest of my life with you."
Bai Yin lowered her head to look at the diamond ring named "Starry Eye" on her left ring finger.
In all the years of their marriage, except when filming, she wore this diamond ring all the time. Seeing it made Bai Yin's heart fill with inexplicable joy.
It was the joy of dreams come true many years later.
"Chen Huaixiao, I also have to tell you, that first night was not a scheme, it was true feelings." Bai Yin closed her eyes, blushing slightly: "On the high speed train coming to find you that day, looking out the window at the scenery, every tree reminded me I was closer to you. I thought then, if something were to happen tonight..."
Chen Huaixiao's gaze was gentle: "A Yin..."
However, Bai Yin suddenly looked up at him angrily: "But why did you call out someone else's name!"
Comments:
"OMG"
"I was just feeling touched, didn't expect...such a shocking reversal."
"I get to eat this kind of gossip?"
"Amazing!"
"CEO Chen, how could you be so scum!"
Chen Huaixiao was stunned: "I called someone else's name?"
"That's right."
"You heard wrong."
"I wouldn't get it wrong. The name you called was of the person you've always missed."
"The person I've always missed since the beginning is the person I met when I was young. You know very well who that is."
Comments:
"What kind of tongue twister are you talking about?"
"Quick, someone summarize please!"
"These two have quite the dramatic past."
With her arms crossed, Bai Yin pouted unwillingly.
Although she knew it was a misunderstanding, she had been upset about it for many years.
"Chen Huaixiao, you fool."
Chen Huaixiao walked over and took her hand: "I'm sorry, okay?"
"No, compensate me for the loss of my youth."
Bai Yin directly took his wallet out of his pocket, her fingertips brushing past a row of black credit cards.
Chen Huaixiao snatched his wallet back: "I won't insult you with money."
"No no no." Bai Yin grabbed the wallet again: "I don't think this is an insult at all."
"Can't my love compensate enough?"
"Get out of here!"
In the end, the two actually started fighting over the wallet. The audience was about to laugh themselves silly at their childish behavior -
"So the final intimate confession night, the CEO couple is fighting over property!"
"Who needs love, money is more reliable."
"This couple is really real."
"CEO Chen you have to compensate!"
"Even spending all your family fortune wouldn't be enough!"
...
The last couple on confession night - the idol couple, Lu Shen and Yun Moli.
Yun Moli had also wanted to use the emperor couple's tactic for an extreme reversal, to dispel fans' recent doubts about them following a script.
However the director advised against them copying the emperor couple, since that tactic had already been used.
If they just imitated it, not only would it not have the desired effect, but it could make the audience feel it was fake, and even affect the emperor couple negatively.
Yun Moli was very disappointed and looked at Lu Shen: "Don't you have a better idea?"
Lu Shen seemed absent-minded and said lightly: "No."
"What's your attitude?"
"I've been shooting all day today, I'm tired." Lu Shen looked exhausted and said weakly: "I just want to finish shooting quickly and go back to rest."
Hearing him say this, Yun Moli was immediately furious: "Today is our confession night, and you tell me you are tired! Lu Shen, what do you mean!"
Lu Shen really didn't want to argue with her. He turned around, sat on the edge of the steps, and lit a cigarette.
Yun Moli had always been pampered by her family since she was a child. No one had ever dared to speak to her in such a perfunctory manner.
She was as angry as a pufferfish, her cheeks flushed red, and she ran over and pushed Lu Shen hard.
Lu Shen stumbled from her push and almost fell off the edge of the steps.
He steadied himself and seemed to have lost his temper too, flicking the cigarette butt viciously on the ground.
Yun Moli stood with her arms crossed, looking down at him: "What's wrong, are your wings clipped, and you still want to make trouble?"
Lu Shen raised his suppressed eyes and glanced at Yun Moli. He was trying to restrain his anger.
The director saw that the two were so antagonistic towards each other that he was afraid the confession session later would not go ahead. He came over to advise: "Calm down, you two. Don't argue anymore. It's our program team that didn't arrange it well. Why don't you two rest first? We can stop first. When you both feel better..."
"No need!" Yun Moli interrupted the director: "Shoot now! If we wait too long, fans will feel strange instead."
"But...but your state..."
Yun Moli tilted up her chin and looked at Lu Shen with a certain arrogance and confidence: "Brother Shen, what do you think?"
Lu Shen's temples throbbed violently.
After a long time, he finally lowered his tone: "Let's go, record the show."
The corner of Yun Moli's eyes twitched, with arrogant laughter.
The two held hands and came to the confession garden. Being the last couple of guests, the director's team pulled the atmosphere slowly. Pink balloons were also hung around.
Bai Yin and Chen Huaixiao stood on the balcony watching them from afar.
Chen Huaixiao noticed Lu Shen's abnormal expression at a glance, and whispered to Bai Yin: "Don't blink."
"Why?"
"Enjoy the show."
"When did Xiao Ge, such a cool man, start to like gossip and watching the show?"
"Since being with you."
"..."
She tiptoed and patted his head: "I'm not that gossipy!"
"Oh."
Chen Huaixiao gave her an unbelieving look.
Soft love songs played from the audio hidden in the flower racks, and misty white mist rose in the green lawn.
Yun Moli, wearing a white chiffon dress and holding flowers, looked at Lu Shen expectantly.
Lu Shen's expression was blank, his gaze faintly shifted to the side.
"Brother Shen, do you have anything to say to me tonight?" Yun Moli took the initiative to ask when he didn't speak for a long time.
Lu Shen glanced at her but still didn't speak.
The two looked at each other, and Yun Moli's eyes became sharp, with a hint of warning.
"Are you...too nervous?" Yun Moli was worried that the audience would become suspicious, so she made up: "Don't be nervous! Between us..."
"Yun Moli, let's get a divorce."
Yun Moli's unfinished words stuck in her throat like phlegm.
She looked at Lu Shen incredulously, unable to believe that he would say such a thing!
He wanted a divorce from her? How dare he!
However, Lu Shen's eyes were unusually determined and firm: "Yes, I want a divorce from you."
"Are you too tired or too drunk?" She looked anxiously at the camera to explain to the audience: "Brother Shen drank a little before recording the show because he was too nervous. He is not sober now. Don't think too much everyone! He still loves me a lot!"
Lu Shen looked coldly at the pale-faced Yun Moli awkwardly explaining to the audience.
Yun Moli didn't care about the divorce he proposed itself. She only cared about her image on the screen, only caring whether fans envied her.
Whether to divorce or not, she didn't really care.
She only cared about her face.
"For a long time, I tried very hard to find your good side and to like you." Lu Shen said calmly: "But I found that I really can't do it. I can't satisfy your demands of me: pretending to love you very much on screen. I'm sorry, Yun Moli, I never loved you."
After speaking, Lu Shen took off the haute couture suit he was wearing and threw it on the ground, then strode briskly out of the back garden.
"Lu Shen! Come back!"
"Come back!"
"If you leave now, aren't you afraid our family will blacklist you! You... you..."
Yun Moli finally burst into tears and stumbled after him.
On the dark forest path, Lu Shen's figure could no longer be seen.
She slumped to the ground and cried loudly.
Perhaps at that moment, she truly realized that once a man makes up his mind, he will never change it back.
"Oh my god!"
"Is this... arranged by the script?"
"This show is toxic!"
"Could it be that their intimacy before was all an act???"
"Hmph, some people actually believed Lu Shen and Yun Moli were real. One look at his interactions, Lu Shen was clearly just a prop. There was no love in his eyes at all."
"So this is a real divorce?"
"Looks like it's beyond saving."
"Wait, am I the only one who noticed the CEO couple eating melon seeds on the rooftop?"
The shot immediately switched to Chen Huaixiao and Bai Yin's garden balcony.
Bai Yin leaned against Chen Huaixiao and grabbed a handful of melon seeds from his hand. The two watched the confession garden intently, with the satisfied expressions of gossip eaters.
"Awesome!"
"‘CEO Couple Eating Melon and Watching Show on Romance Reality Show’"
"This couple is the real winner of the romance show!"