Li Yu blinked and thought for a moment.
So... what exactly was someone like Li Shuhe?
A tsundere who was dead stubborn?
"It's getting late. Go upstairs and get some rest."
Li Yu walked over, draped an arm around Li Shuhe's shoulders, and led him toward the villa.
But Li Shuhe was still stubbornly putting up a front. "I'm not going in. I still want to take a walk in the yard!"
"Li Shuhe."
Li Yu suddenly called him by his full name. Li Shuhe reflexively looked over, his eyes full of confusion.
"Has anyone ever told you that as long as you're here, it doesn't matter even if the sky falls?"
Li Shuhe did not understand. He was not someone who followed memes much, so he thought Li Yu was complimenting him.
He rested a hand on the back of his neck, looking utterly unconcerned. "Ha, naturally."
Li Yu's smile was rather inscrutable. "Then get some sleep early. I'm heading upstairs first."
"Fine."
Li Shuhe returned to his own room as well.
Lying in bed, he took out his phone to scroll through some videos. By coincidence, he came across one with the following title: Some people are just too stubborn. Even if the sky falls, their mouth will hold it up...
Li Shuhe:?
Why did that seem a little familiar...
Something was off. He looked again.
Li Shuhe suddenly remembered what Li Yu had said downstairs earlier.
Damn it! His phone was spying on him!
No!
That bastard Li Yu had dared to mess with him!
And so, Li Shuhe went to sleep that night filled with "resentment."
Li Yu still did not know that Li Shuhe had figured out what his words meant. He was watching the variety show replay.
He did not pay much attention to the rest. He only roughly watched a few of the individual interview segments.
The production crew asked each guest different questions. During the final segment of "Paper Soldier Stand," they inserted an individual interview with Chi Yan.
"Were you nervous when you and Li Yu completed the final segment? What were you thinking at the time?"
Chi Yan wore a suit as he sat on the sofa during his interview. His long legs barely fit on the screen. After thinking for a while, he said, "Of course I was nervous. I was afraid I wouldn't stand steadily and would fall on him. As for what I was thinking... I was thinking that Little Fish's legs were... quite fair."
The interview staff immediately burst into laughter.
Li Yu could hardly believe what he had just heard. His face instantly turned red.
Th-That was something Brother Chi had said?
No, why was Brother Chi paying attention to his legs?!
Yet the viewers in the barrage comments were having even more fun than the interview staff—
[Hahahaha, Chi Yan is so smooth]
[Can't even argue with this. Those legs really are straight and thin]
[If those legs were around my waist, I wouldn't dare imagine that kind of happiness]
[Oh my god, I suddenly feel like a terrible person]
[Who gets it? The legs of my dreams are on my husband!]
[I say those legs should be paired with a super short skirt]
Li Yu:...
Li Yu pressed his lips together and, expressionlessly, dragged the progress bar forward, skipping this part.
Yu Lin's individual interview was inserted into the scene where everyone strolled through the snack street that night. A staff member held up a microphone and asked, "How did you think of getting everyone to sing together that evening?"
"Me? Actually, after Li Yu said those things, everyone probably had their own feelings about it. Especially Sister Menglan. Then Teacher Liang went over to comfort her. I just wanted to liven up the atmosphere, so I got everyone to sing together..."
Yu Lin smiled knowingly, then added, "But honestly, Sister Menglan sings a tiny bit off-key... Ahem, can you cut that part? Pretend I didn't say anything. Pretend I didn't say anything."
In the end, the director was especially "thoughtful" and did not cut that part. Li Yu could already imagine Yu Lin being "tortured" by Shu Menglan in the next episode.
The next scene happened to be Shu Menglan's. The staff asked what she had been thinking at the time.
"I definitely thought back to my past self, because it wasn't easy for me to get where I am today. But Teacher Liang was especially warm. She came over and put her arm around me, and I felt so happy then, because I'd always admired Teacher Liang so much before," Shu Menglan said.
Li Yu felt warm inside when he saw this segment too. The barrage comments were exceptionally harmonious, all praising Shu Menglan and Liang Meichen.
As the host, Xiang Zhinan was asked a more central question: After these two days, what did you think of this variety show?
Xiang Zhinan was very composed, as though he had expected the staff to ask this. He quickly replied, "I think the show's original intention is very good—to take viewers to see the beautiful scenery in different places. In the first episode, I also experienced a lot of traditional culture. It was very meaningful."
The interviewer then asked Xie Jingming, who was sitting beside him, "Among the other seven guests, who left the deepest impression on you?"
"The deepest impression? That would definitely be Li Yu. Because we played a four-hand arrangement of Canon together, and when we finished, I genuinely felt like I wanted to play another piece with him. And he knows more things than I do. He's like Doraemon's pocket—he can always surprise people."
Xie Jingming's smile was faint, but his gaze was incredibly sincere.
"Is that so? Then perhaps you can look forward to the coming episodes."
Li Yu paused when he saw that. He truly had not expected Xie Jingming to mention him.
He only watched the show in broad strokes, skipping through many scenes, so he finished the hour-long episode in no time.
After washing up, he went straight to bed, completely unaware of what was happening online.
Li Yu was woken by a ringing phone the next day.
He was so sleepy he could barely open his eyes. He raised a hand and fumbled around for his phone beneath the covers, only finding it after a long while.
But by the time he picked it up, the other person had already hung up.
Li Yu looked and found that it was a call from his manager, Ruan Yun.
Full of questions, he saw Ruan Yun contact him on WeChat right afterward.
Ruan Yun:!
Li Yu:?
Ruan Yun: Little Yu, this overwhelming fortune has finally come to you!
Li Yu:???
Li Yu: What?
Ruan Yun: Look at today's hot searches!
Before opening Weibo, Li Yu had indeed expected A Day to See All the Flowers to bring him some attention. But he had not expected the attention to explode like this!
Other than some current affairs news, the top several dozen trending topics were all related to A Day to See All the Flowers.
#A Day to See All the Flowers Episode 1#
#Liang Meichen Shu Menglan#
#Liang Meichen Shu Menglan Li Yu Flower Adornment Look#
#Li Yu Hidden Gem Boy#
#Li Yu Are You There, Let Me See Your Legs#
#Li Yu Xie Jingming Four-Hand Piano Duet#
#Elm Sect Forever#
#A Look at the Traditional Culture in Episode 1 of A Day to See All the Flowers#
#Have You Shipped Chi-Yu Yet#
Li Yu was dumbfounded. If he had not known his standing in the company, he would have thought the company had bought these trending topics for him.
The instant he opened his direct messages, the interface even froze for a moment. Then, a flood of messages loaded in and took over his screen.
Li Yu randomly opened one message and accepted it. The other person had written: AHHHHHHH, wifey wifey wifey wifey! Mine mine mine mine!
Li Yu:...
Thanks, but he definitely had not woken up yet. He was going back to lie down for a while.