The Whole World Was Doomed

"Why don't we do this? What if we engrave this audio into a chip and implant it in my body?" Lu Zhi suddenly said. "That way, you won't have to worry about it leaking. I'll be the only one who can hear Teacher Shen's voice..."

Shen Ranxin thought Lu Zhi was truly a pervert and a lunatic.

And not a mildly ill one, either.

What kind of decent person would bury something like that inside his own body?!

"...You have to promise me that absolutely, absolutely no third person will know what happened last night."

Lu Zhi tilted his head. "I promise."

Shen Ranxin scratched at his brow and said quietly, "And also... thank you."

Lu Zhi raised his brows in surprise, picked up his phone, and gave it a shake. "No need to thank me. Teacher Shen has already paid the bill."

"..."

Shen Ranxin pressed his lips together and said nothing as he picked up his clothes from the floor and put them on.

Then he realized Lu Zhi had already torn his clothes.

He said, "Order a few sets of clothes for delivery... We haven't gone back for an entire day. The dating show still has to keep filming, right?"

Lu Zhi took some clothes from the wardrobe beside them. "I had them prepared when we came here yesterday."

Shen Ranxin shot him a sidelong glance, changed into the clothes, and returned with Lu Zhi to Lu Zhi's little villa.

The moment Gu Yifei saw Shen Ranxin return, he darted over like a little flower butterfly.

But halfway there, Lu Zhi grabbed him by the wings and flung him aside.

Gu Yifei glared furiously at Lu Zhi.

Standing beside Shen Ranxin, Lu Zhi spoke with perfect composure. "What are you doing? An Alpha and an Omega shouldn't touch."

"Then what gives you the right to get close to Shen Ranxin?!"

Lu Zhi said, "Because I'm an Alpha."

Gu Yifei said, "..."

Shameless bastard!

Gu Yifei looked at Shen Ranxin, and his expression suddenly turned strange.

"Shen Ranxin, why are you wearing a scarf in this heat?"

Lu Zhi lounged there carelessly. "Because he found that foundation couldn't cover—"

Shen Ranxin swiftly interrupted Lu Zhi before he could finish. "I'm sick. I'm a little cold."

Gu Yifei quickly grew nervous. "Is it serious? You look terribly sick. Your eyes are all red and swollen."

Lu Zhi said, "That's from cry—mmph!"

Shen Ranxin punched Lu Zhi squarely in the chest and smiled. "My hands get a little itchy whenever I see trash. Mm, I feel much better now. Let's go in."

Shen Ranxin walked around Gu Yifei and entered the villa first. Looking around, he asked, "Where are Teacher Fang and Jiang Ye?"

"Oh, the production team called them away just now. They said they were going to water the Paperbush trees. And it looks like something's wrong with Lu Zhi's Paperbush tree—it's dying. The production team was discussing replacing it for him..."

Lu Zhi turned serious. "I'm not replacing it. It won't die."

"But its leaves are already turning yellow." Gu Yifei spoke gleefully. "Does this mean President Lu's romance luck has gone yellow too?"

Lu Zhi smiled. "It's hard to say whether my romance luck has gone yellow, but if you keep talking, your photo will turn black and white. Believe that?"

"..."

Gu Yifei shifted behind Shen Ranxin to hide.

Shen Ranxin sighed. "Forget it. Stop scaring him. He's already dumb enough—if you scare him any more, he'll start drooling."

Gu Yifei said, "Shen Ranxin!!! I don't like you anymore!!"

Shen Ranxin waved tiredly. "Thanks. I don't like you that much either. Since Teacher Fang and Jiang Ye aren't here, I'm going upstairs to take a shower."

Gu Yifei fluttered after Shen Ranxin again, chattering nonstop at his side, only for Lu Zhi to stop him at the bedroom door and slam it shut with a bang, nearly flattening Gu Yifei's high nose into 2D.

Gu Yifei stomped downstairs angrily, took out a little notebook, drew a stick figure with the character "Zhi" on its face, then turned the pen tip into a needle and began stabbing Lu Zhi's little effigy.

"Bastard! Go die! Bastard! Go die! Bastard! Go die..."

By the time he had cursed him for the twentieth time, Shen Ranxin burst out like a whirlwind in his bathrobe, slapped Director Chen's precious camera with a bang, and snarled, "Have you gone completely insane? Fine, you want to reclaim my points, soak my bed, and damage everyday items—but now you're even stealing my underwear?!"

Director Chen froze in place. Looking at Shen Ranxin's handsome face twisted in fury, he mechanically turned to the assistant beside him and asked in disbelief, "...Did you steal his underwear?"

The assistant was a rugged-looking man. Even though his thick beard covered nearly half his face, one could still see that he had turned red with embarrassment. After a long pause, he roared, "I didn't!"

Shen Ranxin sneered. "What do you mean? You dare do it but not admit it? You soaked my bed last time, and this time you stole my underwear. Doesn't your production team have any limits at all?!"

Director Chen said, "While we do want to create a few difficulties for the guests, we have always exercised restraint. We would never do something like that!"

Shen Ranxin frowned, utterly unconvinced by the production team's nonsense. "If it wasn't you, who else could it be? Could someone here possibly be interested in my underwear?"

The moment he said that, everyone present—including Shen Ranxin himself—fell still.

Then, as if by unspoken agreement, they all turned to look at Lu Zhi.

Lu Zhi was walking downstairs with Bluetooth earbuds in.

At that moment, he was wearing a pair of rimless glasses for show. His silver hair fell softly over his forehead.

He wore a creamy white wool sweater. The warm yellow lighting softened the sharpness of his strikingly sculpted features. His long lashes hung low, concealing his pale eyes and casting shadows beneath them, lending him a tenderness deep enough to drown in.

A stretch of long, pale neck emerged from the oversized crew collar, while half of one shoulder was exposed, smooth and broad, marked with crisscrossing scratches.

Seeming to hear his name being called, he stopped on the stairs in gray cotton slippers and casually leaned against the railing beside him. "Hm? What is it?"

Having witnessed the entire scene, Gu Yifei paused, then decided to ask this suffocating question on Shen Ranxin's behalf.

"Did you take Shen Ranxin's underwear?"

Lu Zhi lifted a brow, pretended to ponder for two seconds, then said, "Mm... Do you mean the black pair, or the white pair?"

Gu Yifei said, "..."

Damn it. He wanted to see Shen Ranxin's underwear too...

Shen Ranxin raised a hand. "All right. This subject ends here."

Director Chen protested, "How can it end here? If we did it, then we did it! If we didn't, we have to get to the bottom of it! What exactly did the underwear you lost look like?"

Shen Ranxin began regretting why he had acted so impulsively.

After showering, he had been unable to find his underwear. He had searched the room several times while going commando, and remembering what the production team had done before, he had come downstairs in a rage to confront them without thinking of the consequences.

Now he was stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Was he really supposed to tell all the viewers in the livestream what color his underwear was?!

Lu Zhi gave a soft laugh and removed the Bluetooth earbud from beside his ear. "No need to investigate. I took it."

Shen Ranxin felt a numb sensation shoot from the soles of his feet straight to the top of his head. He was so embarrassed that he even held his breath.

Director Chen asked strangely, "...Why did you take Shen Ranxin's underwear?"

Shen Ranxin said, "It was probably a misunderstanding. It's fine now..."