CH 9

Chapter 9 – Knockout

The livestream is here, and don’t go in if you don’t like it

Watching the lines in the barrage fly past on the screen at what looked like double speed, the six people didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

“Pei! Ting! Song!” Ling Yi shook Pei Tingsong’s shoulders. “Look at what you drew!”

Jiang Miao and He Ziyan didn’t say anything, but they did glance at each other at the same time.

[Holy shit, Water and Fire’s held gaze is so subtle! Why did you look at each other as soon as you hear about passing the candy wrapper~]

[The WaterFire closet door can’t be held shut anymore! It’s worthy of being the number one CP in K before the birth of the TingJue CP. It really brings the atmosphere of an adult CP…]

Fang Juexia hadn’t seen the livestream room being so active in a long time, so he focused on the screen.

Passing a candy wrapper around with their mouths? What kind of game did this count as? 

Lu Yuan was laughing so hard that he had rolled onto the floor. “Pei Tingsong, hahaha, Putuo Temple Site has discovered his golden finger!”

“What are you laughing at? Don’t you also have to do it?” Pei Tingsong held back his instinct to roll his eyes. 

“I’ll do it ah.” Lu Yuan crawled up and then proclaimed, “You’re definitely recording that coarse flower hand dance move clip today!”

Pei Tingsong raised his eyebrow as he quipped back, “Dream on, this time, I definitely won’t lose.”

At this moment, the director announced the rules. Consistent with what was being said in the barrage, it was a game where the band members had to pass the cellophane to the next in line with their mouths, and the last member needed to hold the candy wrapper with his mouth for three seconds before it could count as being a success. 

“Alright, now figure out the order.”

[AHHHHH order! I’m getting excited!]

[God forbid, don’t tear apart TingJue, don’t tear apart TingJue!!]

[WaterFireWaterFireWaterFireWaterFireWaterFireWaterFire!!]

[OneRoad!! OneRoad has to be together!!!]

[SquareCircle! SquareCircle!!!]

The barrage had turned into CP chaos, and it seemed as though people couldn’t send enough messages about their preferred CP. 

The director again took out a box, this time containing six balls, on which were written numbers, and then said, “Draw these and then sit in a row according to the number you get oh.“

[Sit in a row and kiss.]

[Hahahahaha what the hell is sitting in a row and kissing?!]

[What beautiful Chinese!]

Everyone successively grabbed a ball. Jiang Miao drew a 2, after which it was He Ziyan’s turn. He carefully flicked his fingers around while drawing a ball, a bit like a gambler king watching the cards, before then showing a confident smile.

[Fire Ge is either 1 or 3!!!]

He Ziyan aimed the other side of the ball at the camera, and sure enough, it was a 1.

[Two Fire: You guys are right, I am a 1]

It was now Ling Yi’s turn to take the box. 

[Is our Lingyi a 0 or 1 hahahaha]

“3!” Ling Yi hugged Jiang Miao’s arm and exclaimed, “Ah, I’m next to Miaomiao!”

Lu Yuan rolled up his sleeves and shook the box, which had only three little balls left, for a long time. At last, he extremely cautiously drew out a ball and announced, “It’s now time to witness whether or not I’m a third wheel!”

[Hahahaha Teacher Yuan is really the TingJue CP official support group captain!]

Fang Juexia faintly felt a bit worried. If Lu Yuan didn’t split up the two of them, this game would become really embarrassing. Of course, it was also embarrassing to pass the candy wrapper using the mouth around with other members, but it would still be better than doing so with Pei Tingsong. It was plainly clear that up until two days ago, they had still been waging their two-year long cold war, but now, they were playing such an intimate game.

You never knew what would happen next. 

“Let’s draw together ba.”

The director suddenly said, “Lu Yuan really knows how to create an effect for the program ma.”

[Hahahahahaha Northeast Lao Ge is awesome]

Xiao Pei shrugged. “Fine.” 

The two of them reached into the box and took out the balls. Before the numbers were announced, Lu Yuan suddenly became serious, and said with a lowered voice, “Seriously, I still want to pass the candy wrapper around with Juexia.”

Pei Tingsong let out a sneer. 

[AHHHHHH, this deja vu of two gongs fighting for one shou]

[That sneer is so Alpha!]

[Hello, in the SquareCircle CP, Teacher Fang is the gong ba. 1.8 meters tall and has a salty look, we’re not joking around here]

[Wuwuwuwuwuwu SquareCircle girl enjoying blue skies overhead!]

Ling Yi, whose seat had already been assigned, opened a package of milk toffees and distributed them. Fang Juexia took one and stuffed it into his mouth. The rich sweetness of the milk toffee spread in his mouth.

[However, the frigid face lordship doesn’t care about this battle at all and instead eats sweets happily.]

[Juexia’s face, if I had to pass the candy wrapper to him, I might just die suddenly 5555]

[Xiao Pei, you fight for your mama a bit!]

[Xiao Pei, you spent this whole night as a waste just for this moment of luck ah! You have to pass the candy wrapper around with the beautiful baby!]

“Come on, come on, come on, let’s announce it together.” Lu Yuan counted to three, and the two of them then reached out their hands at the same time to show the numbers on the balls to the camera. 

[AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH XIAO PEI IS 5!!!]

[Okay, No. 4 honored male guest missed the chance to kiss the beautiful baby]

[AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH TINGJUE IS COMING UP!! I’ll go downstairs and run ten laps to calm down!]

The barrage simply went crazy. 

Even though Fang Juexia looked as though he had expected this, his consciousness was still stuck in a state of dissociation. He still hadn’t figured out what the situation was and what it had to do with him. 

[jxgg really assumes the role as K’s calm person, he really has no waves at all]

[Hahahaha, Fang Juexia has never let go before!]

[jxgg is really beautiful. He looks like a quiet little white rabbit in these pajamas and hat]

[Ah, I’m jealous, I want to bodyswap with pts….]

It wasn’t until Jiang Miao symbolically put the last of the remaining six small balls into his hand that Fang Juexia suddenly realized what had just happened.

“You’re the last one,” Jiang Miao said.

Was that so?

What was the meaning of this?

His fuzzy pajama hood covered his dizzy head, and an abnormal heat rose up on his cheeks. 

“Wait…” He stepped back and asked Ling Yi in a low voice, “Is Pei Tingsong passing it to me?”

Ling Yi pretended to wipe away some tears, took a long breath through his nose, then deeply nodded. 

How could this happen?

Fang Juexia’s soul began to leave his body.

Under the guidance of the staff, the other members sat down in the order they had drawn, and he was automatically lined up last. He Ziyan raised his hand and asked, “Will standing be more… convenient?” He hesitated for a second.

[Hahaha, the word ‘convenient’ is too wonderfull!]

[Messing around with adult idols is an endless enjoyment!!]

Who would have known that the director would actually happily agree, “Alright ah.”

So the six big boys stood in a row and waited for the game to begin.

Lu Yuan was just joining in the fun and didn’t think it was a big deal. “Whoever loses the candy wrapper will have to record themselves doing the flower-hand clip ah!”

“Mr. Yuan, persistent men like you are really rare these days,” Ling Yi complained. 

Lu Yuan said, “Don’t fall in love with me, there will be no result, unless you’re better at the flower-hand dance than me.”

He Ziyan said with a laugh, “Maybe Xiao Pei will be better at the flower-hand dance than you.”

Pei Tingsong shrugged and replied, “Anyway, if I lose, I won’t be surnamed Pei any longer.”

[Hahaha Pei Tingsong’s desire to win is real!]

The staff took out a palm-sized piece of colored cellophane and handed it to He Ziyan, who was first in line. 

“This candy wrapper is strangely very good looking.” 

Having said that, He Ziyan turned around. In order to reduce the possibility of losing hold on the candy wrapper as much as possible, he directly shortened the distance between himself and group leader Jiang Miao. Only when the tips of their noses were about to stick together did He Ziyan stick the candy wrapper onto his mouth, sucking air in to hold it in place before drawing even closer. 

Ling Yi exclaimed, “Ah, Fire Ge is so clever ah!”

While their surroundings started to rise up in an uproar, Jiang Miao took a deep breath and held back his smile. He blocked his ears and ignored the playfulness with which his Didi was drawing closer. He took hold of the cellophane wrapper stuck to He Ziyan’s lips, but in the beginning, it didn’t go smoothly, and the cellophane wrapper remained stuck fast to He Ziyan’s mouth.  

“OOOOOHHHHHH so exciting!!” Lu Yuan crowed. 

[Mr. Yuan is really a rotten man ba!]

[wtf, I’m about to have a nosebleed! This is just a fucking hot kiss ah!]

After several attempts, the disobedient candy wrapper was finally sucked up by Jiang Miao’s mouth. Taking advantage of this opportunity, he turned around quickly and approached Ling Yi, who wasn’t ready yet.

“Ah, wait a minute! Wait!”

[AHHHHHHHHHHHH FORCEFUL KISS!!!! Wtf I’m shipping the YiMiao CP!!!]

[WaterFire just now really did rub their mouths together for a long time ah, oh my fucking god! Fire Ge did it on purpose ba!]

[TingJue girl has already shown a dirty smile in front of the screen at the moment!]

[WTF, I’m blushing right now!]

Ling Yi did yell to wait, but he moved unexpectedly fast; his lips were like a small suction cup that immediately sucked and held fast onto the wrapper. He turned around fiercely and didn’t even think before directly standing on his tiptoes, grabbing Lu Yuan’s shoulder, and drawing him closer, scaring Lu Yuan so much that his pupils enlarged. 

“Wu?!” Lu Yuan’s eyes were as wide as copper bells. 

[Hahahahahahahaha I’m about to die laughing from Yiyi.]

[Why is it that when it comes to OneRoad, the scene becomes so funny hahahaha]

[Suddenly a tough guy! Kissing online!]

Lu Yuan was flustered as he took the cellophane wrapper from Ling Yi’s mouth, but due to Ling Yi’s nervousness, he had forgotten to let go of Lu Yuan. As a result, Lu Yuan could only forcefully push Ling Yi away, and then turn to face Pei Tingsong. 

[Hahahahaha what love and hate is this?!]

[Yuanyuan: Let me go! I need to go find Xiao Pei!]

[Juexia is so calm, he’s like a bystander at the moment lolololol]

[Did jxgg forget that he is also playing the game hahaha, he’s even showing the kind of expression where he’s smartly watching a play]

Fang Juexia, who was watching from the side, had become engrossed in it, and didn’t realize that it would be his turn soon. Compared to him, Pei Tingsong wasn’t much better either. He was used to just fooling around at work, so at this critical moment, he had still simply stuck both his hands into his pockets, and wasn’t looking nervous at all. When he saw Lu Yuan turn to face him, he just lowered his head a bit. 

Lu Yuan seemed to have mastered some skills. Almost as soon as the two of them touched, they completed the handover, with the cellophane wrapper very quickly transferring over to Pei Tingsong.

[Wow, how fast! Mr. Lu is awesome!]

[Wuwuwuw how is my Xiao Pei this handsome ah! Two hands stuck in his pockets, not in love with anyone!]

[AHHHHHHHHHHH MY TINGJUE IS COMING UP!!!! TINGJUE!!!]

[TINGJUE!!!!!!]

[I’m waiting for the TingJue kiss of the century!!!!]

The barrage suddenly went crazy as if they had been injected with chicken blood. 

Maybe it was because of an emotional delay, but Fang Juexia, who should have reacted earlier, only started to suddenly feel nervous at this moment. His heart began to beat strangely, in a rather violent and unfamiliar fashion. 

Pei Tingsong, who still had his hands stuck in his pockets, turned around. The lower half of his handsome face was covered with translucent cellophane, and the refracted gorgeous luster of it softened the edges of his face. 

He was recklessly shining as he stood on that spot. 

The light in the living room pierced through the lenses of his glasses and dissolved into his eyes, which were full of aggressiveness. 

He didn’t know from which second it started, but somehow, the air around them seemed to solidify, and all movements were transformed into a slow-mo state, further turning into a montage under a gaussian blur filter.

Pei Tingsong didn’t step closer. He just turned his head and bent down to get close to him.

As if he was getting close enough to steal a kiss. 

Fang Juexia didn’t know what was wrong with him, and it wasn’t that he wanted to go against him, but he still subconsciously took a step back.  

With that step back, the soft light in Pei Tingsong’s eyes immediately disappeared, and now, the desire to win sharpened them. He pulled his right hand out of his pocket, reached out and quickly took off his glasses, then grasped the back of Fang Juexia’s neck, and firmly dragged him back towards him while he was still trying to draw further away from him. 

Also, at this moment, Pei Tingsong’s breathing began to grow ragged. 

The cellophane wrapper was pushed free by his breath, and it left his lips as it frivolously and slowly started to fall to the ground. 

“Ah, it’s over, it’s over!”

“Lost, lost, lost!”

Even Fang Juexia had concluded that he would lose, and had also concluded that the troublesome lip contact would not come as scheduled. The punishment wouldn’t fall on him, so logically, he should be relieved. 

But he wasn’t.

Was he really going to lose?

No one could imagine how strong Pei Tingsong’s desire to win was. 

In the next moment, everyone was left stunned. Pei Tingsong actually bent down, tilted his head slightly, and caught that slow-escaping cellophane wrapper again. He was like a cheetah just waiting for the opportunity to strike, his movements natural and smooth, just like floating clouds and flowing water, taking only seconds to accomplish his goal. He then seized the back of Fang Juexia’s neck with his right hand again and held his cheek in place with his left. 

His body suddenly leaned forward, and Fang Juexia’s escaped soul returned at that very moment. 

The delicate membrane rustled, and then the other party’s soft lips were forced against his. His heart nearly stopped beating at this point, and all his senses were violently mixing together. 

The cellophane had blinded his mind.

Pei Tingsong’s desire to win had resulted in them colliding into a kiss.