Restlessness

It was not until the manager switched the lights back to normal mode that everyone else came back to their senses.

"How was it?"

Li Yu looked around at everyone present and saw them all staring at him with complicated expressions. Yu Lin in particular would normally have spoken up by now, yet he remained completely silent.

"Why are you all making those faces? Was my dancing not good?"

Shu Menglan coughed twice. She had been standing closest to him, and Li Yu's fair, slender waist seemed to still be swaying before her eyes.

In short...

It was thrilling. Far too thrilling!

She even suspected that if Li Yu had kept twisting for another two seconds, she would have gotten a nosebleed right there.

"Little Yu, oh my God... that was so seductive... How are you so good at moving like that?!"

Shu Menglan's gaze unconsciously drifted toward Li Yu's waist again. "Seriously, Little Yu, if this keeps up, I'm going to fall in love with you."

"You know, with those lights and Little Yu's dance just now, it felt like we'd walked into a host club." After Xiang Zhinan said that, everyone else laughed.

"Pfft. If that's the case, Little Yu would definitely be the top host." Liang Meichen joined in the teasing.

"That's enough. What are you all talking about? This is a wholesome show!" Zhong Su said through a megaphone, though he laughed himself afterward.

Zhou Yanqing, standing to the side, said nothing. He silently turned around and poured himself a glass of water.

His mouth was dry, his throat parched, and there was a fire burning in his chest. He had felt something similar that morning, but it had not been nearly this intense.

Now there was no saving it. The flames had spread into a wildfire.

He tipped his head back and drained the glass, but his eyes remained fixed on Li Yu.

He had seen other people dance this on short-video apps before, but he thought Li Yu was the most captivating dancer he had ever seen.

That slightly intoxicated atmosphere, those ambiguous eyes—it made people feel as though, in that moment, the person before them belonged entirely to them.

Fuck...

Zhou Yanqing's throat tightened. He felt that if he kept thinking like this, he would lose control.

His gaze shifted toward Chi Yan.

Chi Yan sat quietly to one side as well, but his eyes had never left Li Yu.

A dangerous, desirous light flickered in those calm black eyes, as though he would tear the person before him apart and swallow him whole the very next second.

Yu Lin had not spoken the entire time either. Seeing Zhou Yanqing drinking water, he suddenly felt thirsty too and hurried off to pour himself a glass.

The moment Li Yu made that first hip-thrusting move, the redness had spread from Yu Lin's ears all the way down his neck. Fortunately, he had shrunk into the back after it ended, so no one paid him any attention.

He had once only thought Li Yu was good-looking and talented in many ways, but from that moment on, the thoughts in his heart had changed.

So Li Yu could be this... alluring too.

That waist, slender enough to encircle with one hand, had nearly swayed its way into the tip of his heart. Like fine, soft feathers brushing across his chest, it itched all the way to his bones.

Yu Lin kept wondering, how could someone be so good at moving like that...

[There's nothing to criticize here. Isn't this my husband?]

[In this desolate land of Bashan and Chushui, there's always some flirty man trying to seduce me.]

[Help, I was so excited I was screaming and running around my room. Li Yu's dance was incredible.]

[He moves so well, he twisted right into my heart.]

[It feels like the gentle but skilled kind.]

[Very good. I love it. Make him my consort!]

[How dare you! This is outright seduction! But it works on me.]

[He's the 1,008,611th man I've wanted to protect during the years when I was powerless!]

[My mom, my grandma, my coat, my jacket, my aunties and great-aunts—I'm so shocked I can barely walk straight. My dad, my grandpa, my socks, my shoes, my uncles and second granduncles—I nearly peed my pants. My mom, my immortal ancestress, my seventh great-uncle, my third aunt, my son, my darling, my Phillips screwdriver, my dad, my mom, my uncle who sells brown sugar, my heart, my liver, my dried red beans and radish, my precious baby, my night pearl, a rare treasure fallen from the sky. Baby, don't be this good at dancing!]

[Wuwuwu, I wish I could possess the chandelier above their heads...]

On the way back to Seaside Villa No. 4, Li Yu saw Chi Yan walking alone at the very back of the group again, so he slowed down to wait for him.

He had keenly noticed that ever since he finished dancing, Chi Yan had become even quieter than before.

Could it be that Brother Chi did not like it?

Did he not like Li Yu being so... wild in public?

"Brother Chi, what did you think... of my dance just now?" Li Yu asked softly.

Chi Yan pressed his lips together, and even his voice was a little hoarse when he spoke. "It was very beautiful."

"Really? Then why do you look like you're not in a very good mood?"

Chi Yan fell silent again. If possible, he did not want anyone else to see this seductive side of Li Yu.

It was not that he disliked it. He liked it too much, which was why he had chosen silence.

He knew that no one could refuse a Li Yu like this.

That was why the sense of crisis in his heart grew heavier and heavier. The urge to reveal his secret felt as though it would become impossible to suppress the next second.

But Chi Yan did not want it to happen now. He believed that everything between him and Li Yu should have a sense of ceremony.

"Not at all. Maybe I'm just a little tired today," Chi Yan said.

Li Yu nodded. After that, neither of them spoke again as they focused on making their way back.

The production team had booked two massage therapists, one man and one woman. Shu Menglan and Xiang Zhinan went in first for their massages, while everyone else sat outside waiting for their individual interviews.

The directing team was hardly easy to deal with. They had been watching the guests' reactions during every game segment, and those whose reactions were especially notable could be pulled out for interviews afterward.

As today's standout, Li Yu was naturally the first to be interviewed.

"Li Yu, did you know that the clip of your volleyball spike this morning has already gone viral online?"

Li Yu was a little surprised. "I really didn't know that. But... I'll admit that I've got some skills."

"The clip of you dancing tonight is trending too. Everyone says you move incredibly well."

Li Yu felt a little embarrassed at that. Resting his cheek in his hand, he said, "That dance... is supposed to be danced that way. But if everyone likes it, I feel very accomplished too. I should also thank Xie Jingming here. He taught me very seriously. The production team can consider making him dance next time."

How could Xie Jingming have known that, without realizing it at all, Li Yu had set him up?

After the director asked a few more questions, Li Yu left the room, and Yu Lin went in.

The moment Yu Lin sat down, the director asked sharply, "How did you feel after watching Li Yu dance?"

Yu Lin froze. He had originally calmed down during the walk back from the seafood restaurant, but the director's question brought the image of Li Yu dancing back into his mind.

How did he feel?

What could he possibly feel?

Even if he did feel something, he absolutely could not say it!

Yu Lin blinked, organized his thoughts, and said, "It was very beautiful. Little Yu is an amazing dancer, and the atmosphere at the time was also very... very good. Anyway, it was just... very good."

"I'm not asking whether it was good. I'm asking how you felt."

"How I felt?" Yu Lin ran a hand through his hair. "I... I forgot... I think I was just completely absorbed in watching him at the time. I didn't have any particular feelings..."

"Fine. We're done. You can go now."

"Oh."

Yu Lin let out a deep breath. Fortunately, the director had not asked anything more probing, or he would not have known how to answer.