CH 13

Save water for showering? I suggest you guys shower together

A minute later, a gif of Ruan Song sitting at the dining table, smirking with his eyebrows raised and his head tilted, grew immensely famous.

His one sentence of ‘Even if I’m just saying it for show, shouldn’t you take the bait?’ directly became an explosive golden sentence that could shatter the industry.

On Weibo, countless VIP bloggers eagerly forwarded the gif.

[After tonight, if someone doesn’t know the name ‘Ruan Song’, I suggest China Telecom1 immediately send someone to repair their network. Either their internet broke, or their network speed secretly slowed down, prayer hands.jpg]

As the only person in the world who has the confidence to say this to Ren Qinming, the 26 year old who won the grand slam title of the film emperor,

Ruan Song rose to fame.

And became completely popular.

On Weibo, photos and small videos about him was posted everywhere. Even Xu Lan didn’t often see this kind of attitude, wherein the entire internet focused on forwarding the news of a single person.

In her memory, other than when Ren Qinming’s relationship was exposed, the only other time when everyone’s attention focused on a single person was when the ‘Nation’s Little Brother’ was found to have been doing drugs.

Seeing the scene of positive public opinion, after she coaxed her child to sleep, she immediately got off the bed with light movements, then found Xiao Lu’s WeChat.

[Lan jie: Are you busy?]

Xiao Lu was also online, and he opened his mouth to ask.

[The Warhorse Lu is Super Quick2: Jie, what are you thinking about now? Don’t hesitate to tell me, I don’t need to follow Qinming ge around so I’m very free]

[Lan jie: Hurry up and contact the support group, and tell them to release CP content about him and Ruan Song, sort out some original works that are convenient to forward, so they can attract some fans]

[The Warhorse Lu is Super Quick: Seize the higher ground, got it]

In the past, they only had negatively oriented public relations contingency plans.

Who would have thought that after Ruan Song exposed his face after a few short hours, he’d become famous.

And it was even a ‘fame’ that was positive. Their contingency plan was completely useless.

Even the post that was just released by the support group on Weibo was the firm decision made by Xu Lan on the spot.

[Lan jie: Remember to tell them that the most important thing is to improve the number of original Weibo accounts. Let the water run naturally, and don’t fake the numbers. Make it more natural]

[The Warhorse Lu is Super Quick: Got it!]

Xiao Lu’s tablet on the left was broadcasting the variety show, while the computer on his right was for work. He pushed his glasses up his nose, and his ten fingers flew quickly as the pitter patter of the keyboard could be heard.

…

The flourishing fortune on the internet was maintained, and the broadcast also didn’t stop.

Chen Yan just happened to have a meeting near the hospital tonight, and thinking that Ruan Song wasn’t here, decided he’d help the other inspect the nurse’s work.

Recently, there had been a lot of negative news about the lack of standardization of the nursing industry. He could also let aunty see Ruan Song working in the live broadcast, and let her feel reassured.

Although mother Ruan’s memory was a bit chaotic due to her illness, from beginning to end, the fact that she didn’t want to increase the burden on Ruan Song, had always been engraved in her heart.

Before, Ruan Song couldn’t save up enough money for her surgery, and she wanted to stop burdening her child.

But as a result, he suddenly said to have the surgery done, and it was done. Mother Ruan felt unsure in her heart, and from time to time, she would find Chen Yan to ask exactly where Ruan Song got the money from.

Did he do something stupid, or did he do something illegal.

Chen Yan understood that aunty had been dutiful her entire life, and knew in her heart that money was not that easy to make. He knew that it was useless just telling her the money for the surgery was made cleanly, so he simply planned to use today as an opportunity to let aunty see it with her own eyes.

Her son was now an amazing, popular person that everyone loves!

…

After Ruan Song and the party of six finished eating in the dining room, Liang Yi began cleaning up the dishes according to the arrangement that had been previously decided on.

Ruan Song originally planned to say that Ren Qinming cooked alone, and he didn’t help at all, so he could share the burden of cleaning the dishes.

But a speaker in the cabin suddenly announced:

[Because the cabin is located halfway up the mountain, basic conditions such as water pressure are limited. The hot water capacity allows two people at most to take a bath together at the same time. The second time after that, the hot water needs to heat up for 15 minutes. Please allocate the order for bathing times, and finish freshening up before 12am, when the hot water will be stopped.]

At that time, the sky outside had already become thoroughly dark.

When the broadcast formally began, it was already 8 at night. Now after cleaning up, eating, and rushing around inside and out, it was already quite late.

After hearing the announcement, Jiang Qiqi was the first to cry in despair with an exquisite makeup look on her face: “How could they also stop the hot water! How come the program team didn’t mention this when they deceived me into participating on this show!”

Liang Yi lowered his head to glance at the time on his wrist watch, and first pushed Ruan Song, who had wanted to help the other, out of the kitchen: “Soon it’ll be 10:30pm. Even if Qiqi showers quickly, it’ll still take her 50 minutes. You guys go first, or else it’ll be too late.”

The bullet screen neatly filled up the screen with “Oho”.

[How come my little face suddenly turned yellow, hehehe.jpg]

[Let me just say, the youngest guest on this season of ‘19 Days of Cohabitation’, Jiang Qiqi, is already 25, they’re all adults. Everyone understands]

[So my ge definitely also knows how long teacher Ruan showers for, right, hehe]

[This is an adult variety show. Little kids should cover their eyes on their own, pervert.jpg]

[Excuse me, I’m already an adult, how can I see all the teachers shower, doge]

Amidst the joking comments, there were also quite a number of those who disliked Jiang Qiqi for being so fussy.

[Let me just say, has the eldest young miss never seen the previous seasons of ‘19 Days of Cohabitation’ before? Seeing as you’ve decided to come, then you should have done some mental preparation. The program team definitely wouldn’t let the guests off easy]

[Altogether they only have half an hour, but she alone can shower for fifty minutes??? Eating melons.jpg]

[Does Liang Yi really believe that other people can’t see that he’s biased? When they assigned tasks, he directly gave the easiest task of contacting the buyer to ask about prices to her. What kind of big injustices do the others have to endure just to spoil her?]

Of course, there were also others who felt they were speaking too excessively.

[Can you guys be less malicious. Can’t you see how long Qiqi’s hair is? Do beautiful girls irritate you or something, rolls eye.jpg]

[Being beautiful is part of a celebrity’s job, is there something wrong with being dedicated to their work? Later when they’re not good-looking, they’ll still have to endure your scolding]

[That’s right, isn’t it just that the filming started late today. There’ll be plenty of time in the future]

[The program team did it on purpose. They didn’t mention it before, and insisted on waiting until 10pm to say it, eating melons.jpg]

The live broadcast was just like that, and there were all types of comments in the bullet screen.

Fortunately, the guests couldn’t see any of it, and wouldn’t be affected by it.

In order to save time, Qin Sijia subconsciously wanted to shower at the same time as Jiang Qiqi, as the two girls showered for similar lengths of time.

But Ruan Song stopped them: “After showering once, you still have to wait 15 minutes. It still might be too late even if you two shower together.”

Qin Sijia immediately grew dazed: “Won’t it be even later if we shower separately?”

Zheng Qing surmised: “Xiao Song is probably taking into consideration the problem of water usage, right?”

Ruan Song: “Right.”

Jiang Qiqi was even more dazed.

Regardless of if she was at home, or living in a hotel, she had never considered that there would not be enough hot water: “Before, didn’t the loudspeaker say that two people could shower at one time?”

Ruan Song estimated that they usually lived lavishly and had probably never experienced this.

“Generally when they say two people can shower at once, it’s usually not enough for girls with long hair.” Ruan Song occasionally goes out to work as a screenwriter with the program team, and often lives in shabby guesthouses, “It’s better to shower separately to be sure. It’ll be more annoying if you shower halfway and there’s no more hot water.”

If they waste time, it’ll be easy for them to catch a cold and get sick.

Qin Sijia understood it this time: “So you mean to say that Qiqi should immediately shower first, and arrange a boy to shower together with her, that’s 50 plus 15. There’s 25 minutes left, then I’ll shower, and the remaining three boys are with me…… That’s not right, there still won’t be enough water for the three remaining boys……”

Jiang Qiqi knew that the ‘dispute’ arose because of her. She crossed her arms and thought. Suddenly, she grew excited and clapped her hands together: “Song ge and Qinming ge can shower together! If they shower together they can save water!”

The bullet screen first slowly filled with question marks.

Then the entire live stream immediately drowned in countless ‘Ha’s.

[How clever, see which smart little brain thought of such a clever way to save water, doge]

[I said that Qiqi is a sweet little sister. How could a sweet little sister be unreliable, shy.jpg]

[Meimei3 knows how to talk so she should speak more later!]

[I sincerely apologize to the beauty, Jiang Qiqi. Before I shouldn’t have scolded her, it was me that failed to recognize her great talent, cupping my fist4.jpg]

[I’m laughing my ass off, everyone. Hurry and look at my ge’s bright eyes, it’s irrefutable evidence that he’s a sweet pea puppy!]

With the addition of this suggestion, it was as if Pandora’s box opened. Everyone in the bullet screen changed their previously critical tone of speech towards Jiang Qiqi.

But closing Pandora’s box only required a single blink.

Ruan Song spoke almost as soon as Jiang Qiqi finished her speech: “I’m not showering with him!”

For a moment, everyone turned to look in shock.

There was no other reason.

Just that Ruan Song unexpectedly raised his voice to the loudest level to speak! He even endowed his words with such strong emotion!

As the only normal person who didn’t publish his profile, didn’t publish his information, and who didn’t publish his character, everyone had always been observing Ruan Song ever since he set foot into the cabin wearing his T-shirt and jeans.

They discovered that rather than saying he was gentle, it would be better to describe him as being thoroughly indifferent.

He had no reaction upon seeing celebrities, didn’t feel shy or uncomfortable in front of cameras, and even used a level tone of voice when speaking.

But just when everyone thought that Ruan Song would have the same reaction even if the sky fell, now he unexpectedly raised his voice only when he was about to shower with Ren Qinming!

As long as one had eyes, they could tell that the relationship between the two was good, it couldn’t be that they still hadn’t showered together??

Ruan Song was suddenly faced with so many pairs of eyes, and he evidently also sensed that his reaction was a bit too excessive.

Jiang Qiqi attempted to help him find a few rational excuses, and stared at Ren Qinming with doubt, “……Could it be that Song ge is a germaphobe?”

The others didn’t know the reason, but could Ren Qinming not know the answer?

In just a short minute, he had experienced seeing flowers bloom and wither in the blink of an eye, and his originally twinkling eyes had once again returned to its dark dullness. He profoundly gazed at Ruan Song as he denied: “No.”

“If he’s not a germaphobe, then why……”

Everyone gazed at Ruan Song with a look of puzzlement.

Thousands of other gazes in the broadcast passed through the screen to look at Ruan Song, as if saying if he didn’t provide a reason today, then the show immediately couldn’t proceed with filming.

Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, Ruan Song’s first reaction was to use his eyes to hint at Ren Qinming.

They were just pretending to be lovers, it’s not like they were a real couple!

But Ren Qinming longed for them to be real, of course the other wouldn’t help him.

Not only would the other not help him, but Ren Qinming even bitterly stared at him with the others, seeing what reason the other ultimately planned to give.

The silence at that time was so long that the bullet screen had even visualized an entire, full-scale ‘divorce’ drama on the public screen.

The marketing accounts already couldn’t help but begin to prepare conspiracy theories regarding the state of the pair’s relationship.

But Ruan Song very innocently blinked as he said: “……Do I really have to say it? I’m not sure if I can say this.”

Those who were listening were nearly anxious to death, exactly what could he not say!

Only Ren Qinming’s eyebrows jumped. He thought the other could no longer continue the performance, and had decided to lay down his cards.

But Ruan Song coldly explained: “No way. Does no one think that if he showers with me, we’ll use even more time and water?”

A new Pandora’s box opened.

The guests were silent: “……”

The bullet screen was silent […………]

Ren Qinming’s face turned from black to white, then from white to red, and finally he couldn’t help but cover his lips with his fist, turn to the side and lightly cough.

That little sound was as if a bugle horn of a certain color5 had just rang.

The bullet screen exploded, the live broadcast exploded, and Weibo once again exploded.

[Is this something I can listen to for free!!! Pervert.jpg]

[Why would you use more water! Why do you have to shower for longer! Teacher Ruan can you please explain?? Ear.jpg x3]

[Shower together, shower together, don’t force me to kneel, I’m begging you!!!]

[Ahhhhhh, I immediately imagined a 10,000 character fanfic, this is what adults like us should watch!!]

[Shock! My ge is blushing! Right! The camera should follow! Zoom in and take a close up shot! How could you let him turn around to hide it, hahahahaha]

Ruan Song once again excitedly entered the hot search that night——

[Ruan Song made Ren Qinming blush with one sentence, doge]

Chen Yan, who was far away in a hospital, had just entered the hospital room. He was just about to open the broadcast to let mother Ruan watch, and immediately turned it off after hearing that sentence.

He burst into a series of frantic coughs as he switched over to WeChat to send Ruan Song a message.

[Little Fatty Weighs Over 1000jin, and His Face Accounts for 800jin: You never told me that the scale of this variety show is so large! Society and its people are all watching. Other than Ren Qinming, there’s no one else in the world that you love, right!]

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TN: hi all! i’ll take a break for a week so I can stock up on chapters again, haha. please check back on 5/7 at 8pm est for a double update! see you soon~

1. China Telecom is a telecommunications company (network provider) in China.

2. This is from a poem by Xin Qiji,《破陈子·为陈同甫赋壮词以寄之》The warhorse Lu (卢) mentioned in this poem is the name of the horse ridden by the warlord Liu Bei from the Han dynasty. The name of the warhorse is the same character as in Xiao Lu’s name.

3. meimei = 妹妹 = little sister (do not have to be blood related to use this term)

4. Cupping one’s fist is a sign of respect

5. The color is likely supposed to be ‘yellow’ which is usually a reference to pornographic material.