CH 117

Chapter 117 – Extra 8: Maldives Part

Most easily coaxed little devil

“Cut!”

On hearing the director’s voice, the six people finally ended their affected performance. Ling Yi directly fell down on the beach, and Lu Yuan flipped his ponytail with pride. Jiang Miao’s braids had gotten loose, and he tried to braid them back by himself.

As soon as the music stopped, Fang Juexia’s sense of shame soared up to the sky. He didn’t know whether it was from the dancing or from being dressed in this outfit, but his face was now even hotter than the sand underneath his feet.

The other people who had finished dancing seemed quite excited. He Ziyan, the muscled spice girl, pulled Pei Tingsong up, who was feeling so hot under his big wavy wig that he was doubting life, and ran to the camera, where he said, “Come, come, come, let’s have Song Mei say hello to everyone.”

[Hahahaha Song Mei!]

[Song Mei is too beautiful!]

Pei Tingsong, wearing an expression completely not suited to fanservice, looked at He Ziyan. “Huohuo Jie, your makeup has melted, it’s so weird-looking, it’s scary.”

“Yi, really? Did my mascara melt?” He Ziyan looked everywhere for a mirror. “Jie, do you have a small mirror?”

[Hahahahahaha touching up makeup, really a good girl]

[Where did the stylists find these swimsuits hahaha]

“Our stylists really put in a lot of time and energy into this,” He Ziyan explained, “Although it’s a bikini, to make sure we wouldn’t flash anything while dancing, there’s a skirt below.” Saying that, he spun around and showed off his skirt. “Maybe it was tailor-made, because as soon as we picked them, they gave it to us.”

Pei Tingsong rolled his eyes. “Who could fit into it besides you ah, so wouldn’t they have to just give it to you?”

Jiang Miao also walked over with his newly-tied braids, and waved at the camera with a warm expression. “Everyone should remember to watch the second season of our ensemble show ah.”

[I’m looking forward to it every day! Season Two: Our new girl group KaleidoBlossom is going to debut!]

[AHHHHHH I JUST DISCOVERED THAT THE “official gossiped about girlfriend” IN PTS’ SIDE ACCOUNT IS JXGG!]

Upon seeing this line in the barrage, Pei Tingsong couldn’t keep the corners of his mouth from rising, even with the camera on him. “You only figured it out now ah.”

[Deaf, deaf, deaf]

[Juexia looks really good ah. From a distance, he looks like a big female beauty ah, worthy of being the face!]

Fang Juexia was looking at Ling Yi in front of him, and suddenly discovered something crawling on his swimsuit, so he drew close to him, putting his hand on his shoulder. “Ling Yi, don’t move. There is something behind your neck.”

“Ah?” Ling Yi was so scared that he twisted his neck to look straight back, but he couldn’t catch sight of anything. “What is it?”

The top half of Ling Yi’s swimsuit was the halter-top type, and the lace ties were tied around his neck. The stylist  Jiejie had also specially tied it into a beautiful little bow just for him. 

“It’s a baby crab.” Fang Juexia observed it carefully and as he spoke, stretched out his hand to help him remove the little creature. But as soon as his fingers clamped around the crab, Ling Yi was so scared that he ran away. “Ahhh, crab?! What if he pinches my skin, what then?!”

Obviously, running off like that, something big had to happen. 

Fang Juexia’s hand was holding the little crab, and the pincers of the little crab had been grasped around the lace ties behind Ling Yi’s neck. 

So, Ling Yi’s little bow was undone just like that, and with his top no longer supported now, it directly flipped down, showing off his entire chest. 

Pei Tingsong, who was staring at the barrage on the livestream, almost laughed his wig off when he saw this scene. “Hahahahahaha! Ling Yi, you silly!”

[Shit, Song Mei, your subwoofer burst of laughter scared me]

[Hahahahahahaha, Ling Yiyi, you’ve flashed us!!!]

[I’ve seen it all! You’re going to marry me!]

“Ah!” Ling Yi immediately covered his chest, really acting it out. His steps filled with a girl’s shame and indignation, he trotted all the way to hide behind Jiang Miao. Only Fang Juexia, with his hand still raised, and the innocent crab in his hand, were left at this awkward scene.

Fang Juexia looked at Ling Yi and then at the baby crab. Finally, he put the poor little thing back on the beach and walked to stand behind Pei Tingsong. He had wanted to avoid the camera but was immediately dragged to the front by Pei Tingsong. “You still haven’t said hello to everyone yet.”

Unable to hide, Fang Juexia could only smile awkwardly. “Hello everyone.” After saying that, he went to stand behind the group leader, wanting to stay away from the camera and hoping that the livestream would end soon. 

[Amazing, amazing, this face is real]

[The highest level of beauty can sure enough really blur gender]

[I kind of want to buy the swimsuit Juexia is wearing, but I’m not as pale or thin as he is 555]

[I want to buy this face]

Since he had finished dancing, his long hair was now sticking to his face, which was very uncomfortable. Pei Tingsong saw him frown, so he stretched out his hand and patiently tidied it up for him. This scene took place only at a small corner of the livestream camera, but the TingJue girls nibbled on it until they fainted. 

This livestream was just meant to be a little taste, so after a small chat about their plans for the new season of the ensemble show and their new album, the group said goodbye to their fans. After the livestream ended, the work of the production team was almost over. Kaleido purposefully stayed dressed in the women’s clothing as they said goodbye to the staff, and the atmosphere was very joyous.

As night fell, the six of them finally gained their freedom as they watched the staff leave the island in a speedboat. Pei Tingsong immediately ran over to Fang Juexia’s side and cuddled and embraced him. 

“Yes! Finally, we can rest!”

“I need to take a bath, I need to sleep, these days of water sports have even made my heart fragile.”

Ling Yi grabbed Fang Juexia’s arm and clamored for him to come tour his beach villa. “I have an L-shaped swimming pool, the kind that goes around the house!”

“Go away,” said Pei Tingsong, trying to tear Ling Yi away. “Don’t think about abducting my wife every day.”

Hearing the word “wife”, Fang Juexia suddenly felt embarrassed and straightened his neck to push at Pei Tingsong. “What nonsense are you talking about…”

In such a manner, all of them were pulled to Ling Yi and Lu Yuan’s luxury beach villa. Pei Tingsong just wanted to be alone with Fang Juexia in their two-person world; for the past two days, there had been cameras everywhere they had gone, and so they had had to sleep separately, with one person on the first floor and the other on the second, which nearly left him with insomnia.

Now, as soon as the outsiders had left, Fang Juexia had been stolen away by Ling Yi, who was impervious to the obvious situation here. 

“Look at our swimming pool!” Ling Yi brought everyone to his L-shaped swimming pool while Lu Yuan sighed loudly. “Don’t be shameful, who goes to the Maldives like you with a suitcase full of inflatable little ducks ah?“

It was true. When Fang Juexia saw the little yellow ducks floating in the swimming pool, he chuckled. Reflexively, he found Pei Tingsong. “Xiao Pei, look…”

Only when he looked back did he see that Pei Tingsong was leaning against a wall, and his face had the word “unhappy” written clearly across it. Fang Juexia went over and pulled his arm. “What’s the matter? Do you not feel good?”

Pei Tingsong let out a half-dying “en” sound, his eyelids drooping. “Don’t feel good.”

“Where do you not feel good?” Fang Juexia reached out to touch his forehead. “Do you have a bit of heatstroke?”

That wasn’t the issue. 

“En, maybe.” Pei Tingsong slipped down the steps. “I want to sleep.”

“Then you head back ba.” Lu Yuan crouched next to the pool and laughed at the two of them. “Juexia can stay and play cards with us.”

Everyone else laughed along with him, making Pei Tingsong so angry that he came close to having smoke come off of him. 

“I’ll go back to rest with him ba.” Fang Juexia touched his forehead again, moving to his neck next. It felt a little hot, so he couldn’t help but worry about it. “You guys play first. When he gets a bit better, then we’ll come over ba.”

Looking at Fang Juexia’s back as he pulled Pei Tingsong and left, He Ziyan affectedly wrung out his long golden hair and sighed, “Once you go, you won’t come back.”

The pure Ling Yi was still playing with his own pool of little yellow ducks. When Lu Yuan and Jiang Miao heard He Ziyan’s words, they began to laugh.

“Come, come, come, let’s play cards.”

“Everything in the Maldives is good, just that there is no mahjong.”

……

On their way back to the water-side villa, Fang Juexia suddenly remembered what the fans had said in the barrage just a while back, about something to do with Pei Tingsong’s side account. He wondered if this guy had posted something again. So he logged in, expecting to search for this post in his side account, but didn’t expect to instead see #Pei Tingsong’s official gossiped about girlfriend# on the Hot Search list, and so was surprised. 

“What is this…”

Pei Tingsong, who was walking next to him, stopped when he heard him. “What?”

Fang Juexia, who had clicked on the link, saw a screenshot of Pei Tingsong’s side account, which contained the photo Pei Tingsong had taken of him while he was crossdressed. He couldn’t help but feel a little anxious. “Why did you take a picture of me ah? And you even posted it on Weibo.” Saying that, he took another look, and as his cheeks started burning, his words came out in a bit of a stutter. “And…and what are you saying about this ‘gossiped about girlfriend’….who’s your girlfriend ah?”

Pei Tingsong also hadn’t expected this post to get on the Hot Search list, but since it was already there, it was there, so he could only put on an expression of a dead pig not afraid of boiling water. “Just joking around ma. What, you’re not willing ah?”

Willing about what? Willing to be his girlfriend?

A humid sea breeze blew on the beach at night, and the delicate white sand had by now also lost the heat from the day. Fang Juexia stood frozen there, speechless.

“Not talking again.” Pei Tingsong thought of what had happened just now and felt aggrieved. He thought that this guy really was made of ice. “Isn’t it just a picture?”

“Then you delete it.” It was embarrassing enough for Fang Juexia to crossdress, now he was also on the Hot Search list. Just thinking about it, his scalp went numb. 

“I’ll delete it in a bit.” Pei Tingsong turned around, and there were just a few steps left before they’d reach the water-side villa. He went that way by himself. “Don’t you want to go play with them? You go back ba.”

Only after this did Fang Juexia realize that Pei Tingsong was truly angry. He was a bit confused, and kept staring at Pei Tingsong’s back while frozen in place for a bit, but within ten seconds, he reacted and hurried after him, entering the water-side villa together. 

“Pei Tingsong, Xiao Pei?” Fang Juexia followed him into the room, trotted over two steps, hurried to stop him before he could enter the bathroom, and looked up at him. “You’re angry.”

“I’m not,” Pei Tingsong himself knew that getting unhappy over such a small matter made him seem like an especially petty and extremely jealous man, so he didn’t want to admit to it.

“You are.” Fang Juexia stretched out his arms and held the door frames on both sides to prevent him from entering.

Seeing him like this, kind of like a child, Pei Tingsong didn’t even have the attention to be angry anymore. “Am not.”

“You are.”

He really couldn’t out-stubborn him, so Pei Tingsong had no choice but to admit it. “Yes, you’re right, I am.” He mentally prepared himself and put on a posture of talking things through properly with Fang Juexia. This time, he had to stand firm, be a little fierce, and say everything he wanted to say. “Fang Juexia, do you know…”

Unexpectedly, before Pei Tingsong could say anything more, Fang Juexia immediately hugged him. He hugged him tightly, buried his head in his shoulder, and gave him a kiss on the side of his neck. His always cool young voice suddenly became a bit sticky. “Don’t be angry, en?”

The last note of the “en” lilted up coquettishly, just like the aggrieved hum of a small animal lying on one’s chest.

This was the first time that Fang Juexia had taken the initiative to throw himself into his arms and deliberately act coquettish. 

Pei Tingsong’s heart was knocked down in an instant.

What angry or not, what talking things through properly? Now, he couldn’t even control the corner of his mouth that crazily kept trying to rise up.

Oh no, oh no, clearly he himself was so good at flirting, how could he be flirted with just like that?  

Not hearing a response from Pei Tingsong, Fang Juexia looked up at him again. As soon as he looked up, Pei Tingsong managed his expression, restrained the smile he couldn’t hide, and coughed.

Seeing Pei Tingsong’s face go cold, Fang Juexia pursed his lips, and then, looking as if he had had to summon up a lot of courage, took the initiative to draw closer and kiss him.

This was pretty much a K.O.

Pei Tingsong, who had just been thinking that [only I think about Fang Juexia, but Fang Juexia doesn’t like me at all, he doesn’t think about me at all and doesn’t take the initiative to follow me into a two-person world], lost all reason at this point, and crouched down while covering his face.

Seeing him crouch down like that made Fang Juexia a little jittery, and he thought that he had done something wrong. “Xiao Pei…”

Just as he was about to ask, Pei Tingsong, who was crouched on the ground, changed positions to lay down on the ground, while his legs started alternately pedaling in the air. His face was now covered in a silly and happy smile. 

Fang Juexia couldn’t help laughing when he saw Pei Tingsong like this, and crouched down on the ground to pull his hand up and pinch it a bit. 

He really was the world’s most easily coaxed little devil. 

This kind of feedback filled Fang Juexia with great confidence. Originally, he was extremely passive during social interactions, and he was like that with anyone. But seeing this level of happiness from Pei Tingsong in response to his taking the initiative to just kiss him once, Fang Juexia’s heart also floated up a bit.

So Fang Juexia leaned down and gave him another kiss on his cheek. “Ah, there’s lipstick.”

Pei Tingsong died again.

Fang Juexia kept kissing him again and again like that, kissing him until Pei Tingsong’s entire face was covered in lipstick, and only then did he stop. 

Pei Tingsong wriggled around on the floor like an earthworm sprinkled with fluff.

“It’s all over your face now, let me help you take off your makeup ba.” Fang Juexia pulled Pei Tingsong, who had been supplemented with too much fluff, up, and then brought out the makeup remover from the bathroom to help him remove his makeup.

He had never helped anyone take off their makeup before.

Pei Tingsong happily enjoyed this kind of treatment, having long forgotten about everything he was angry about. If emotions could be visualized, then he would be covered in pink bubbles right now.

Fang Juexia half-knelt on the ground and gently rubbed at the lipstick he had left on his face with a makeup remover cotton pad. He suddenly recalled the incident that they had nearly quarreled over, so he went ahead to explain first, “I—it was actually because, crossdressing, I felt a bit embarrassed, so when I saw you posting on Weibo, I… But I’m not actually unhappy. I was actually very happy when I saw it.

“It’s the same when you call me ‘wife’, or when you say I’m your ‘gossiped about girlfriend,’ it’s all because I’m too thin skinned.” Fang Juexia pursed his lips and honestly admitted, “I actually really like it…”

“Really?” Pei Tingsong raised his eyebrows.

Fang Juexia nodded seriously, and then quickly added, “But you can’t call me that too often, it’s better if you just call me that when there’s only the two of us.”

After hearing him say that, Pei Tingsong thought he was cute again and also became reluctant to be harsh with him. When he looked down and saw Fang Juexia kneeling on the ground, he was even more reluctant to do so, and so directly stood up and pulled him up as well. He sat on the chair and let Fang Juexia sit in his lap. Then he apologized in a muffled voice, “Sorry, I just lost my temper at you.”

“No ah,” Fang Juexia gently took off his false eyelashes. “Can that even be called losing your temper ah, you just lost your temper at yourself.” He put a cotton pad over Pei Tingsong’s eyelids. “But I want to know a bit about why you were angry. It’s not out of pure curiosity, it must be that I did something, and only then did you become unhappy. You tell me this time, and it won’t happen the next time.”

His tone was very serious as he stated this, because his internal error correction chain mechanism came into play again, but Pei Tingsong still didn’t want to say it directly. He felt it was a little humiliating.

“Aiya, it’s nothing.” He attempted to fool him by acting coquettish with him.

“Tell me ba.” Fang Juexia also used his coquettish mode in return.

There was no other way; Pei Tingsong simply exposed all of it. Anyway, he had already left himself with no face to speak of in front of Fang Juexia long ago. “I want to stick to you every day, and I earnestly wish I could be around you 24 hours a day, but I felt that you are not like me at all. Originally, I wanted to be alone with you after the filming was done, but as a result, you ran off with Ling Yi after he just spoke a few words. Don’t you miss me? I miss you so, so much.”

Hearing him complain as though he was pouring out a pile of beans caused Fang Juexia’s hand to stop moving.

Pei Tingsong’s eyes couldn’t open with the makeup remover on them, and he was afraid that what he had said would make Fang Juexia feel sad, so he stretched out his hands and embraced him around his waist. Just as he was about to say something, he heard Fang Juexia’s voice—

“No, I miss you very much.”

Fang Juexia put down the already mottled cotton pad, wetted a new one, and covered Pei Tingsong’s lips with it. “Even at three o’clock in the morning last night, I couldn’t fall asleep, because I missed you. There was a camera, so I couldn’t come down to look for you. I wanted to send you a message, but I was afraid I’d wake you up.”

Pei Tingsong was stunned by this confession, and with great difficulty, opened his eyes. He could blurrily see Fang Juexia’s red face.

It turned out that when he was unable to sleep, Fang Juexia had also been the same. 

His tone softened. “If you missed me, why didn’t you tell me?”

“I… I don’t really know how to express myself,” Fang Juexia’s expression was very serious, making him look like a cute and clever student. “But I will change slowly, and I can also be very active.”

Hearing this, Pei Tingsong laughed and rubbed the back of his waist to relax him. 

“Thank you.”

Fang Juexia shook his head and suddenly found that he had said a lot of things that he couldn’t have said to anyone else. A bit slow on the uptake, he blushed and just silently helped Pei Tingsong remove the last of the lipstick. He gently wiped his soft lips with the cotton pad in his hand, and from under the red lipstick, his familiar lip color was gradually revealed.

Staring at him, his heart beat faster and faster, his Adam’s apple rolled up and down, and Fang Juexia fell into a strange impulse.

He wanted to kiss him.

So he really did just that.

It wasn’t like the coquettish and playful kisses from just now, but a kiss that came from him summoning up his courage to stick his lips against his, after which he closed his eyes and recalled the sensation he felt when Pei Tingsong had taken the initiative to kiss him countless times before. His tongue unsteadily stretched inwards, like a hesitant fish lost in the warm tide, one that was only able to feel the undulating waves as it chased the other fish in the wet softness. 

His movements were particularly choppy, but it was this choppiness that caused Pei Tingsong’s entire body to burn up. His swimsuit was now so tight that he felt uncomfortable all over, so he held Fang Juexia’s butt and picked him up, walked from the living room to the innermost bedroom, and put him on his own bed.

“Don’t…” Fang Juexia hadn’t taken a bath yet, and he was still covered in sand, so he stood up quickly and said, “I’ll get your bed dirty.”

“That’s fine, we’ll sleep upstairs tonight.” Pei Tingsong stood by the bed, took off his tight bathing suit, threw it aside with his long haired wig, and put his arms around the back of Fang Juexia’s waist. “I very much like you taking the initiative.”

This sudden confession made Fang Juexia’s heart jump, and he didn’t even dare to look down. He could only stick himself against Pei Tingsong’s chest, close his eyes, raise his head, and kiss him. The tongue that he had taken the initiative to stretch out was engulfed by Pei Tingsong, and they entangled with each other wetly and hotly. The more they kissed, the more flustered Fang Juexia grew, the more empty he felt, as if he needed to be filled with something. 

The waves rolled in one by one outside the floor-to-ceiling window, blanketing the sound of kissing and gasping. Fang Juexia’s legs and stomach had gone a little soft, and when he was pushed by Pei Tingsong, he fell on the bed, gasping.

In addition to the floor-to-ceiling window facing the sea, a mirror hung on the wall facing the bed. When Fang Juexia turned his head, he saw himself still dressed in a woman’s swimsuit. In that moment, shame hit him and drowned him.

The seascape was tranquil outside the landing window, bearing silent witness. The mirror in front of him reflected himself, and so another pair of eyes stared back at him.