When he was little, people often said he looked pretty like a girl. He even played the role of a princess in kindergarten. However, as he grew up, his originally delicate androgynous features changed a lot. Although his facial features were still soft, they were not to the point that people would mistake his gender.
Xu Chun ruffled her hair, touched her cheek with a worried expression, and began to seriously consider whether she needed to get a tattoo to make herself look more domineering and powerful.
He gestured on his face for a while, but in the end, he gave up in embarrassment.
Because he had something on his mind, Xu Chun had been looking at Xie Jianyuan with a strange gaze lately. But when Xie Jianyuan noticed his gaze and looked at him again, he would immediately stiffly look away, thinking he was hiding it well. In fact, his every move was under Xie Jianyuan's watchful eye.
"Xu Chun." Su Li walked over and urged the makeup artist to hurry up, "We only have ten minutes left, the celebrities are already here."
This time, Su Li arranged a collaboration for him with a live streaming platform called Cat Tooth Live, which is one of the top platforms in China. They arranged for the artist to do game live streams with famous streamers on the platform to promote the artist. It's a win-win situation for both the platform and the artist.
"What? Xie Jianyuan is here too?" Xu Chun blurted out when she heard Su Li mention the name while on the phone.
Su Li hung up the phone and gave him a strange look. "Weren't you always on good terms with him? What? You're not happy about it?"
Xu Chun paused slightly, then said, "... No, I just didn't expect we'd be collaborating again."
"Yes, now that you mention it, I realize you two often work together. If you weren't a man, I would have thought that Young Master Xie had a crush on you and was deliberately creating so many opportunities to get close to you."
Xu Chun: "..."
He chuckled awkwardly a few times, "... Haha, yeah."
When Xu Chun arrived at the live stream room, he saw three computers and cat-ear headphones provided by the platform. The live stream equipment was complete. The platform staff first gave him a brief introduction to the game.
The game is called "PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds" (PUBG). Simply put, it's a shooting-style competitive game where 100 players choose their own landing spot, jump off a plane, and then fight to survive. The safe zone shrinks continuously, and only those who survive to the final circle have a chance to win.
But for Xu Chun, it was just a skydiving game.
Every time he parachuted from the plane and landed on the ground, he was killed, a situation commonly known as "landing and immediately dying."
Not long after, Xie Jianyuan arrived. He was dressed in black casual clothes, tall and thin, with handsome and cold features. When he wasn't smiling, he had an aura that kept strangers at bay.
But when he saw Xu Chun, his eyes lit up and a smile appeared on his face. He became as lively as a large dog seeing its owner.
"Brother Chun."
Upon hearing Xie Jianyuan's call, Xu Chun, unusually, did not immediately respond. Instead, he coughed awkwardly, then turned around and pretended to be serious.
"We're going to be live-streaming a game later, how's your skill level?"
Xie Jianyuan smiled at him and replied, "It's so-so."
Xu Chun was relieved.
At least he has someone to play this skydiving game with.
Another celebrity was Wei Jiahe, whom we haven't seen in a long time. He's been busy filming lately and rarely makes public appearances. Xu Chun greeted him.
Wei Jiahe, ever the friendly type, was about to put his arm around Xu Chun's shoulder when he seemed to remember something. He glanced at Xie Jianyuan beside him without making a sound, and then silently lowered his hand.
As usual, Xu Chun and her team would interact with the audience before officially starting the live stream.
Watching the rapidly scrolling comments on the screen, Xu Chun could only squint slightly in order to see them clearly.
"Brother Chun! I want to see you get a chicken dinner!"
"Chun Chun is really good at video games; he played with me last night."
"555wsl, I can't believe I'm seeing Chun Chun and Xie Jianyuan playing games together in my lifetime."
"Sister upstairs, I agree! I've already silently raised my paws, ready to take a screenshot."
"What an ugly sissy."
"Which young heartthrob is this? Why is Maoya (a Chinese online shopping platform) promoting him all the time? They're the first ad page you see when you enter the app."
"The Chun Chun upstairs isn't some young heartthrob; he's a veteran actor with eighteen years of experience. If you really don't like it, you can click the 'X' button. Nobody's forcing you to watch."
"You tell me not to watch it, but I'm going to watch it anyway."
At this moment, a staff member from the organizers said off-screen, "What if we can't win the game? Let's decide on a punishment method, and we'll draw lots to determine the winner later."
The method of punishment is naturally determined by the audience.
I want to see Xie Jianyuan call me by my ID and say goodnight.
Check out Xu Chun's five adorable photo series!
"No, I want to see Xie Jianyuan's ten consecutive cute poses!"
"The ladies upstairs are too ruthless! I'm different; I just want to see Chun Chun eat wasabi."
I want to hear Wei Jiahe sing about the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau!
The last thing that attracted Xu Chun's attention.
"I want to see Xu Chun and Xie Jianyuan feeding each other cookies mouth-to-mouth."
Xu Chun: "..."You're a devil.
Chapter 54 A Perfect Match
Xu Chun didn't know what the punishment comments would be randomly selected by the staff, so she could only comfort herself that since she had a streamer with her, she shouldn't be eliminated immediately after landing.
The streamer introduced by the Maoya platform was a young man in his early twenties named Jiang Jiang. Before the official live stream Xu Chun obtained his WeChat through the staff and successfully greeted him.
Xu Chun always believed that a person's WeChat picture could roughly reveal their personality. For example, Xu Huaizhou's profile picture was completely black, which matched his aloof and reserved personality. His younger brother, Xu Jin, had a cool selfie as his profile picture. As for Xie Jianyuan... his profile picture was a picture of his cat.
Jiang Jiang's profile picture is a panda emoji, captioned "Men are all the same."