CH 5

The Yunhe Lake they went to was Xu Yu's home, a two-story duplex house.

It was not the first time Sister Yun had come here. Usually, they discussed work in Lincheng, either in the company or at Xuyu's home. But they were mostly at the company. Now there was no company, so they naturally came home.

Sister Yun was five years older than Xu Yu. She entered the company after graduation. She spent two years in the company before becoming an assistant.

In the past three years, Sister Yun spent most of her time helping Xu Yu. They grew up together. Sister Yun helped Xu Yu a lot and Xu Yu learned a lot from Sister Yun.

In the eyes of outsiders, Xu Yu was young, and looked tender, but had a disposition that did not match his age.

Whether it was a program or an activity, Xu Yu had always been calm, and rarely said anything wrong. Some people said that Xu Yu was a Buddha.

However, in the eyes of Sister Yun, Xu Yu was a child. He just didn’t like to talk in front of outsiders, nothing more. Many people who knew Xu Yu well knew that in private, he was not the way others saw him.

When he was lively, he would joke around and hop about when anxious.

Xu Yu had difficulty integrating into the crowd, but he was considerate in dealing with others and things, both sides existed within him, but also didn’t conflict.

Almost everyone who came out of the program and worked together later had a high opinion of Xu Yu.

Xu Yu was usually the youngest one and is often taken care of by everyone.

Xu Yu was fond of music. For so many years, Sister Yun had helped him with his work. Apart from discussing music-related needs with him, other basic things just needed to be mentioned.

Sister Yun knew that Xu Yu believed in her, and that's why she worked hard to make Xu Yu climb the ladder.

Sister Yun could understand why Xu Yu terminated the contract.

Few of the company's resources given to Xu Yu are related to music. Xu Yu could only write, sing and perform songs at home when he was free. He couldn’t compose often.

There was no heart at all.

"We still need to rent a place. It's not convenient to come home all the time." Xu Yu took a bottled drink from the refrigerator to Sister Yun. "Recently if you have nothing to do, could you look for a studio?"

Sister Yun nodded, "I also thought as much."

The two had worked together for three years, and there was still a basic tacit understanding. 

Sister Yun: "I'm free recently. Let's plan this carefully. It's OK. You can take your time."

Xu Yu's drink was on the tip of his mouth. Hearing this sentence from Sister Yun, he smiled and said, "Why did you suddenly say such words to comfort me? No need."

Sister Yun smiled and said nothing more.

Sister Yun opened the drink and looked at the bottle before drinking it.

Xu Yu said, "Only honey peach flavor, no other options." 

Sister Yun couldn’t help laughing and said, "I also don't want to drink."

Xu Yu liked honey peach and drank honey peach- flavored drinks. Of course, changing it to tea would be better. 

Sister Yun couldn’t help remembering what they talked about in the interview with some boys in private. In the interview, they mentioned the topic of tough guy, and suddenly they all cued Xu Yu together.

Xu Yu was sitting in the corner at that time, so the camera naturally slipped over.

The person sitting next to Xu Yu laughed. He put his arm around Xu Yu's shoulder, patted her on her arm, and said to the camera, "Let me introduce you. This is a tough guy who likes to eat strawberries and drink honey peach-flavored drinks."

Xu Yu immediately reached out and patted back: "Can't a tough guy eat strawberries?"

Everyone said in unison: "Can~"

*Lit: different mouths, same voice (idiom) – speak in unison

Xu Yu decided not to speak.

At that time, Sister Yun watched this interview video and laughed for a long time. She also asked Xu Yu, why don't you ask again, ‘can't tough guys drink honey peach-flavored drinks?’

Xu Yu was too lazy to talk to her.

Next, the two discussed several important matters.

Although Xu Yu terminated the contract with the company, Sister Yun still had some resources in her hands. They talked about the work plan for this year and the future studio one by one for nearly two hours.

"If it's local, it will be more convenient." Sister Yun circled a place on the map: "But you don't have to worry about it. I'll find someone to do it."

Xu Yu nodded, "Hmm."

Sister Yun: "I signed you up for that program next month. You should prepare some songs."

Xu Yu nodded, "OK."

Sister Yun picked up her mobile phone and said to herself, "That's about it." She looked up and said, "You should rest well these days. You’ve recently been quite tired.”

Then Sister Yun sighed: "It's good to be young. You haven't rested well. How can your skin be so good?"

Sister Yun picked up her mobile phone and looked at her dark eyes. Suddenly she was desperate.

Xu Yu comforted her: "It's OK." He looked at the drink Sister Yun had finished and asked, "Do you want more?"

Sister Yun shook her head and said, "No need."

Sister Yun put down her mobile phone and said, "It's just right. These days, think about the name of the studio."

Xu Yu nodded, "En."

Sister Yun said again, "It's OK not to have a name. People don't necessarily remember a name. Let's just talk about Xu Yu's Studio, which is simple and clear." She said and suddenly laughed, "Or XYY, ha ha ha, XYY, JSS, they match ah."

At this moment, Xu Yu suddenly understood something.

He frowned at Sister Yun, smiled, and said, "What are you thinking about?"

Sister Yun laughed and said, "I'm joking, but isn't XYY on your guitar?"

Xu Yu: "That's XY. It was crossed out by mistake."

Sister Yun suddenly raised her eyebrows and said, "As luck would have it, there are two horizontal lines in the middle of the JSS logo."

Xu Yu: "..."

Xu Yu: "Not bad, Sister Yun."

Sister Yun looked down and smiled, "OK ok."

There was nothing more to do. Sister Yun said goodbye to Xu Yu.

It was still early. Xu Yu went to the second floor to exercise first and then took a bath.

Back in the bedroom and lying on the bed, he took his mobile phone and logged into Weibo.

Just at noon, some people posted Weibos in regarding his contract termination, but as he had guessed, there were no hot searches. Comments said he had done a good job and asked why he had terminated the contract. But most of the discussions were about the company, and there was not much discussion about Xu Yu.

Xu Yu stepped back and was about to log out of his Weibo when he suddenly remembered what Sister Yun had said about Su Yuanjiu.

She said that Su Yuanjiu had fans in the entertainment industry, and she also said that it was estimated that more than half of the fans were CP fans.

Suddenly curious, Xu Yu entered Su Yuanjiu in the search column.

The following relevant searches soon appeared. Sure enough, it was Su Yuanjiu together with all sorts of stars. Xu Yu glanced at them and unexpectedly found that nine out of ten were male stars.

Xu Yu clicked on Su Yuanjiu first, but after looking for a long time, he couldn’t find Su Yuanjiu’s Weibo, he, therefore, returned to the search page. From all the entries just now, he selected a video called "Su Yuanjiu coming out" and clicked it.

The top one was a frequently seen Weibo account of a big verified blogger. Last year, a ten-minute video was forwarded hundreds of thousands of times, with tens of thousands of comments.

Xu Yu went in and jumped to watch it. It was probably a video of Su Yuanjiu cooking. He was not interested in it. He withdrew in less than five seconds.

He clicked into the comments again.

Commenting on the scene of large-scale "I can" and "husband", Xu Yu withdrew in doubt and clicked into the video again.

This time he pulled to the middle and looked for a few seconds more. He found that he was not only cooking but also making coffee.

Before Su Yuanjiu could grind the coffee beans, Xu Yu withdrew.

Su Yuanjiu was very handsome and had a strong aura. Otherwise, Sister Yun would not have praised him like that today.

However, he may not be as handsome as Xu Yu. Xu Yu couldn’t resonate with netizens in the comment area.

He pulled down. Under this Weibo, there was a video titled "Challenge and Su Yuanjiu's 10 second look at each other", with tens of thousands of comments and hundreds of thousands of forwarding.

Xu Yu clicked into it curiously.

The screen of the 18-second video was black when you entered it, and white text appeared one second later.

"Are you ready?"

“3”

“2”

“1”

The screen lit up slowly, and Su Yuanjiu appeared in the video, looking at the camera.

Looking at Xu Yu.

Xu Yu also looked at the seconds on the right side of the progress bar at the beginning. Gradually, he stopped paying attention to the time and looked at Su Yuanjiu on his mobile phone.

Ten seconds passed quickly, and Su Yuanjiu suddenly smiled at the last half second.

The screen blacked out after that smile, leaving a* sense of anticipation.

*(yi you wei jin) Lit: to wish to continue something/ to have not fully expressed oneself

“Time is up”

“You”

"*What heart rate?"

*(xin dong) Lit: heart rate- Fig: emotionally affected; aroused by (desire, emotion)

Xu Yu swallowed a mouthful of saliva without even realizing it.

He immediately withdrew and clicked into the comments.

Comment No. 1: Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah! Really gentle and tender. This is more than heart rate! Ah! I’m dead! I’m dead! I’m dead!

Xu Yu blinked and found that his thumb was very close to the *Zan. If he didn't pay attention, it would have lit up.

*zan – internet slang: to like something (so this is probably the like button)

He didn't want to light it up. He was on his *tuba at the moment.

*Tuba- main account. (I think)

Oh, of course, his *trumpet won't light up.

*trumpet – side account (this one I know for sure from all the Gaming novels I’ve read lol)

Just fine.

It's really gentle and tender.

But it was not that exaggerated.

Xu Yu withdrew from the comment and wanted to withdraw from the search, but *demons and goods were at work, and he was sent into the challenge again.

*Demon and gods at work (idiom) – unexplained event crying out for a supernatural explanation

It was probably because the filter was very gentle, and the tone also fit, it set off a gentle and tender feeling.

After watching, he clicked into the comment section again, and scrolled down several pages. He came to the realization that the challenge was cut out from the cooking video just now. It was a very casual look at the camera for more than two seconds that was stretched to ten seconds.

No wonder the last smile was cut, he should have looked away.

He also learned that Su Yuanjiu's *cousin took the cooking vlog.

*Biao di – younger male cousin via the female line

His cousin was an online celebrity in self- media with more fans than Xu Yu. He not only had many fans on Weibo, but also on other well-known websites, and was famous for frequently producing videos.

*Self-media – news or other content published on independently-operated social media accounts

Realizing this, Xu Yu did something *supernatural again.

*Lit: Demons and gods at work

He downloaded the ten-second challenge video and saved it on his mobile phone.

He didn't know if he had seen too much of Su Yuanjiu, or because the last video left an impression on his mind before going to bed, but Xu Yu dreamt of Su Yuanjiu that night.

Without logic, Su Yuanjiu was his classmate in the university.

One second they were still in class, and the next they suddenly looked at the stars in the wild.

Then, the picture in the video appeared, and he looked at Su Yuanjiu in his dream.

It was dawn. The sky was blue, the clouds were white, and the grass was green. Everything you could see was soft.

Su Yuanjiu's last smile continued in his dream.

The two men looked at each other for only two seconds. Su Yuanjiu moved closer and kissed Xu Yu.

He also said to Xu Yu in a very low voice, "Close your eyes."

When he woke up the next day, Xu Yu's temples *pulsated suddenly.

*peng peng - onomatopoeia

His heart was *thumping.

*Lit: tu tu - onomatopoeia

What ah?