Overlapping on the Third Floor

Shen Yan gritted his teeth and tried to push Pei Heng away. "The fucking problem is that I'm about to suffocate."

Pei Heng held him close, looking at Shen Yan's cheeks flushed from the heat, his crimson lips, and his eyes tinged with anger.

His Adam's apple bobbed slightly.

Pei Heng hugged him tightly and said, "Suffocating is still better than being found by Lu Xingchuan. Do you want him to kiss you?"

Shen Yan looked utterly baffled. "Where the hell is your brain? I can run. Why would I let him kiss me? I run faster than him, and even if I can't outrun him, I can beat him up."

Pei Heng still held him tightly, looking suddenly enlightened. "Right."

Shen Yan kicked him. "Then let go already!"

He could restrain Lu Xingchuan with effortless ease.

But when Pei Heng held him, Pei Heng could restrain him with effortless ease. He simply couldn't break free.

Rustle, rustle.

The viewers could only see the garbage bag wriggling, but not what the people inside were doing.

Their mics were off too, so no one could hear them.

The comments instantly became even more unhinged.

The director's tightly pressed lips finally failed to hold back. Whoosh—

His gums were on full display.

Seeing that Shen Yan was truly overheating, Pei Heng finally let go, albeit reluctantly.

Shen Yan sprang up from the floor like a monkey riding a rocket.

"My legs are numb. I can't stand up." Pei Heng sat on the floor and held out his hand to Shen Yan. "Pull me up."

Hearing hurried footsteps approaching, Shen Yan immediately flashed Pei Heng a smile.

"Hehehehehe! Then just wait for Lu Xingchuan to kiss you!"

He turned around and, without hesitation, leaped off the rooftop.

After Shen Yan climbing through the window and Pei Heng scaling the wall earlier, the viewers' nerves had toughened up a little.

As they watched Shen Yan smoothly climb down from the roof and enter a room on the third floor, they furiously fired off comments.

[Holy shit! Shen Yan, how could you pull up your pants and run!]

[This looks exactly like catching someone cheating!]

[Wuwuwu, you heartless scumbag! Come back and take responsibility for President Pei! You even lifted the garbage bag—what would it hurt to DO it once in front of me!]

Amid the viewers' jokes, Lu Xingchuan returned to the third floor again.

This time, he saw Pei Heng the moment he came up.

Pei Heng was leisurely getting to his feet from the ground, not forgetting to straighten his slightly rumpled clothes.

[Weren't his legs numb? Couldn't stand up?]

[Just a little trick to fool Shen Yan into holding his hand.]

Seeing only Pei Heng and not Shen Yan, Lu Xingchuan darkened his face. "Where's Shen Yan?"

Pei Heng clicked his tongue. "Why are you always fixated on Shen Yan? Don't tell me getting beaten by him gave you feelings for him? Is that your thing?"

[President Pei's mouth is as reassuringly vicious as ever.]

[I'm curious too. Why is Lu Xingchuan always looking for Shen Yan? He was clearly avoiding suspicion and pretending not to know him at first.]

[Why doesn't he go look for Xie Li? Xie Li is practically about to cry behind the sofa!]

Lu Xingchuan looked at Pei Heng. "I'm only completing the game mission."

Pei Heng nodded and asked Lu Xingchuan very seriously, "So, are you here to kiss me now?"

Lu Xingchuan: ...

Pei Heng waited a moment. When Lu Xingchuan did not react, he flicked his wrist, took several steps back, and with a swift, nimble motion, whooshed off the rooftop.

After Pei Heng jumped down and left, Lu Xingchuan stood there radiating gloom, his fists clenched tight.

He did not know why he had to keep searching for Shen Yan over and over again.

But when he saw Shen Yan and Pei Heng's red dots overlap on the LED screen downstairs, he had felt terrible.

Why?

He was supposed to hate Shen Yan.

Yet he could not stop thinking of Shen Yan's face as he sat on the sofa and looked at him earlier.

Filled with frustration, Lu Xingchuan took two deep breaths.

What was he doing?!

He had joined this dating show to make Xie Li famous and help Xie Li, who had just returned to the country, establish himself in the entertainment industry.

With anger and irritation churning inside him, Lu Xingchuan stood there and calmed down for quite a while before turning to head downstairs.

He returned to the first floor.

He looked at the LED screen.

At first glance, he saw Shen Yan's red dot on the second floor, while Pei Heng's red dot had returned to the rooftop.

Lu Xingchuan let out a breath of relief and immediately charged toward the second floor.

First floor.

Behind the sofa.

Xie Li watched Lu Xingchuan's departing back and bit his lip hard.

[Oh my god, I feel so bad for Xie Li. If Lu Xingchuan had been willing to look, he would have spotted Xie Li's hiding place at a glance.]

[What exactly is Lu Xingchuan doing? Why does he insist on looking for Shen Yan?]

[Who said Lu Xingchuan was looking for Shen Yan? Going to the second and third floors means he's looking for Shen Yan? Shen Yan's fans are so full of themselves!]

"Where's Shen Yan?" Lu Xingchuan had clearly seen Shen Yan's red dot on the second floor on the big screen, while Bai Jing and Song Qianshan had both gone to the third floor. Yet after searching the second floor, he only found Bai Jing in a wardrobe.

To prevent getting smacked in the face by clothes again, Lu Xingchuan reacted quickly, grabbing Bai Jing's wrist and pulling her straight out of the wardrobe.

The instant he pulled her out, he kissed her forehead.

A staff member's voice immediately rang through the villa: [Bai Jing has become a ghost.]

Bai Jing staggered from being pulled out, barely managing to steady herself. "I don't know. I just came down from the third floor and hid here, then Teacher Lu found me. I know where Shanshan is hiding. Let's go find her!"

Lu Xingchuan said, "There's an LED screen on the first floor. Let's take a look there. It'll be more straightforward."

Bai Jing looked surprised. "The production team actually set up a big screen? Come on, come on, I want to see what it looks like."

The moment they reached the first floor, before Bai Jing could look at the screen, she spotted half a head sticking out from behind the sofa.

She immediately ran over. "Someone's behind the sofa! It looks like Xie Li. Teacher Lu, let's surround him from both sides!"

[Bai Jing recognized Xie Li at a glance, but Lu Xingchuan went up and down several times and still couldn't see him!]

[Teacher Lu is clearly doing it on purpose. He wants to leave Xie Li until the end.]

[??? Is that what's happening? I thought he was just completely focused on finding Shen Yan.]

[Don't let Shen Yan's brainless fans brainwash you. Lu Xingchuan can't wait to stay as far away from Shen Yan as possible.]

Xie Li was hiding behind the sofa.

Ready to spring into action.

Hearing the approaching footsteps, he was certain that Lu Xingchuan was coming from the left and Bai Jing from the right.

As long as he pretended to flee, rushed out from here, and charged toward the left, he could run straight into Lu Xingchuan.

That would give him some buzz.

"Ha, Xie Li! I knew it was you! You can't escape!"

Bai Jing rushed in from the right and reached out to grab Xie Li.

Xie Li put on a frightened expression, then turned in panic and ran out from the left side of the sofa.

To make it look realistic, Xie Li charged forward with tremendous force!

But after rushing out, he ran straight into empty space.

His whole body stumbled forward!

Where was Lu Xingchuan?

Just as he was about to lose his balance and fall onto the table ahead, Bai Jing grabbed him from behind.

"Got you!"

Amid Bai Jing's delighted shout, Xie Li watched helplessly as Lu Xingchuan, who had originally been rushing toward him, turned and sprinted toward the stairs.

On the LED screen.

Shen Yan and Pei Heng's red dots overlapped on the third floor.