After Chen Wen left, Jiang Qiuyi got out of bed.
On the wall above Chen Wen's bedside was a protruding shelf where things could be placed.
At some point, a camera had been placed on that shelf.
Judging by its red light, it was clearly recording.
Standing on tiptoe, Jiang Qiuyi carefully took down the camera, quickly browsed through the footage, and finally nodded in satisfaction.
That was right. Ever since Chen Wen had come back at noon, the entire bedroom had been under recording.
It was not that Jiang Qiuyi had not wanted to tell Chen Wen beforehand.
She had simply been afraid he would be too self-conscious in front of the camera and fail to show his genuine reactions.
As for Jiang Qiuyi's cramps and the like, those had naturally been real as well.
She had not reached the point of acting just for the sake of the show. She had merely wanted to record Chen Wen's real reactions.
After placing the camera on the desk, Jiang Qiuyi lay back down on the bed and idly flipped through her English vocabulary list.
After looking at it for a few seconds, she took out her phone to browse Moments and scroll through Bilibili, then looked at it for a few more seconds.
When she heard the door opening, Jiang Qiuyi immediately sprang up from the bed, sat straight, and put on the obedient appearance of studying seriously.
Carrying preserved egg and lean pork congee, Chen Wen entered the bedroom, brought a stool in from the living room, and set it beside the desk. "Get up and have some congee."
Setting down the English vocabulary list whose page had not even been turned, Jiang Qiuyi climbed out of bed, sat on the stool, and accepted a bowl of congee.
"Why is the camera here?" Chen Wen asked suspiciously as he sat down in the chair.
"Hehe." Jiang Qiuyi snickered. "Upload the new footage inside to the computer and you'll know~"
Chen Wen gave Jiang Qiuyi a doubtful glance and plugged in the data cable.
Soon, several hours' worth of video footage loaded onto the computer.
Chen Wen opened the video while drinking his congee. The moment he saw the image, he froze. "It was recording the whole time?"
Jiang Qiuyi grinned. "Yep~"
"I was thinking of editing it into a video and posting it on our secondary accounts later. What do you think?"
"After I finish my exams this month, won't I have to wait until you finish yours at the end of the month before we go home together?"
"Other than practicing piano and filming videos for my main account, I won't have anything else to do in between."
"By then, if I edit together the vlogs I record during this period, I should be able to make several videos."
"If you agree, I'll upload them then."
Chen Wen casually checked a few points in the video and thought back on what had happened earlier. Other than touching her stomach, nothing seemed particularly out of line.
Compared with what was in the video, what had happened at the supermarket was still far more embarrassing to him.
"If you like it, post it. I don't mind."
After finishing his congee, Chen Wen tidied up the desk, then received a WeChat message.
He Ran: Master, are you home? I'm bringing back the Interpreter.
Chen Wen took a look and remembered that she was Si Jiao Ji's younger sister, so he replied.
Ill-informed Wen: I'm here.
He Ran: Then I'll probably arrive after five~
"Who is it?" Jiang Qiuyi could not help getting curious when she saw Chen Wen open WeChat.
"Si Jiao Ji's younger sister. She's bringing back the Interpreter."
"Oh~" Jiang Qiuyi nodded.
Jiang Qiuyi already knew that the Interpreter had been lent out, so she did not react much.
But when the doorbell rang outside close to five, Jiang Qiuyi immediately got up and ran out of the bedroom, saying as she ran, "I'll get it. You just stay put."
When she reached the door, Jiang Qiuyi peeked through the peephole and saw two people.
Hm?
The one on the left was indeed He Ran, but who was the delicate-looking young man on the right?
He looked rather shy, too.
When Jiang Qiuyi opened the door, He Ran was briefly stunned to see her. She immediately put on a sweet smile. "Hello, Senior Qiuqiu~"
The young man beside her nodded at Jiang Qiuyi.
Jiang Qiuyi nodded back. "Hello."
"This is Master's Interpreter. Please take good care of it, Senior." He Ran took the wooden sword from behind her back and handed the Interpreter and its sword strap to Jiang Qiuyi.
"Mm, thank you." Jiang Qiuyi replied politely. Seeing that the two were about to leave, she could not help asking curiously, "Who is this beside you?"
"Oh, him?" He Ran wrapped her arm around the boy's. "He's my boyfriend~"
Hearing that answer, Jiang Qiuyi was visibly surprised and could not help raising an eyebrow.
A few days ago, she had still been fawning over Chen Wen, and now she was with another guy already?
This boy... should be the one she had made a ring for and wanted to pursue before, right?
"If there's nothing else, we're off on our date~" He Ran waved at Jiang Qiuyi. "Bye-bye, Senior Qiuqiu~"
"Mm, goodbye."
Watching He Ran and her boyfriend enter the elevator, Jiang Qiuyi still had not quite recovered.
This was good too.
Jiang Qiuyi shook her head, closed the door, placed the Interpreter in the display case on the wall of Chen Wen's workshop, then returned to the bedroom.
"Hey, that He Ran has a boyfriend now."
"Oh."
"Why don't you look surprised at all?"
"Didn't she make a ring to pursue someone? It's normal for her to have a boyfriend, isn't it?"
"..." Jiang Qiuyi was speechless. "Forget I said anything."
After that little interlude passed, the two returned to their daily routine.
That night, Chen Wen continued staying in the workshop, making Lambent Light.
At his current pace, he would probably finish it by Friday.
Jiang Qiuyi practiced piano in the music room for a while, then finally did some serious review of the academic subjects she would be tested on during finals.
When it was about time, she took a shower and slipped into Chen Wen's bed.
Lying in bed and scrolling through Bilibili, Jiang Qiuyi discovered that the video she had posted that afternoon had already surpassed eight hundred thousand views!
At this rate, it would probably break one million before tomorrow.
If it kept gaining traction for another week or two, it might even reach two or three million views.
Compared to her usual average of eight or nine hundred thousand views, that was definitely quite a pleasant surprise.
Moreover, this Ke Nan-themed cosplay had been entirely absurdist in style, vastly different from her usual style, and it opened up a new direction.
For the future creative direction of her main account, it was also an area worth exploring further.
Thinking of that, Jiang Qiuyi became a little happy and could not wait to share it with Chen Wen and show off.
But she waited until ten-thirty and still did not see Chen Wen come into the room.
That left Jiang Qiuyi a little puzzled.
She climbed out of bed and walked out of the bedroom into the living room, where she saw a figure on the sofa.
"What are you doing?" Jiang Qiuyi walked over curiously, only to find Chen Wen eating ice cream. There were also three empty ice cream wrappers on the coffee table.
"I'm eating the remaining ice cream so you won't be tempted to sneak some." Chen Wen finished the fourth ice cream, meaning he had wiped out all the ice cream in the refrigerator. "Come on, let's sleep."
"..." Jiang Qiuyi did not know whether to laugh or cry. She looked somewhat longingly at the wrappers on the coffee table, but realizing Chen Wen was doing it for her sake made her a little happy. "You're so silly."
Jiang Qiuyi snuggled into Chen Wen's arms, wrapped both arms around his broad back, and giggled twice. "But I like it."
[Pu Jie Ri Ji]: For this book, only Chen Wen and Jiang Qiuyi are the most important and irreplaceable. Since there were problems with my writing and portrayal of He Ran's character, I will not stubbornly keep writing her that way. She will definitely appear again in the future, but she is destined to be a secondary character in the early stages. As for what happens later, we'll see later. After all, I've only finished the detailed outline for the first volume... PS: Quite a few new readers have recently been curious about my gender... I suppose this pen name is rather misleading... So let me state it here: I'm male. (Never thought I'd have a day when people would suspect I was female while writing male-oriented fiction...)
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