No sooner had she shouted than he turned slightly toward her, and she crashed straight into him. Her momentum pushed him backward, sending them both tumbling into the snow.
Huh, huh, huh?
Su Tangtang blinked. The next instant, she found herself looking into a beautiful pair of eyes, and froze.
Wow, why are his eyes so pretty?
He had been about to raise his hands and push her away, but suddenly stopped.
The eyes she had just complimented watched her in silence.
Unlike him, bundled up with only his eyes showing, her entire face was exposed to the cold wind. Her cheeks were pink, probably from the chill, like lush peach blossoms in March. Her features were exquisite, her eyes sparkling with every glance.
When it came to beautiful eyes, her alluring peach-blossom eyes were probably a match for his.
But his gaze did not linger long. It traveled down to her rosy lips. He was certain he had not seen her mouth move just now.
Seeing him staring at her without moving, Su Tangtang instinctively reached out to touch his long, curled lashes.
As he watched her slender, fair fingers approach, his body stiffened slightly. His hands, which he had politely kept resting in the snow, curled involuntarily.
They're so curly.
That voice abruptly brought him back to his senses. He gently opened his clenched hands, letting the snow he had compressed into clumps fall back to the ground. His hands were empty now; only the dampness on his palms remained as evidence of his strange reaction.
The eyes whose lashes she had touched stared at her and blinked involuntarily.
Only then did Su Tangtang suddenly realize what she was doing. She hurriedly got off him. "Sorry, I didn't see you up ahead."
He said nothing, getting up after her and brushing the snow off himself. When he spotted a camera approaching nearby, he quickly turned away.
"Su Tangtang, are you okay?" Chen Sinian called. With the cameraman and assistant in tow, he made his slow, arduous way over.
Su Tangtang had wanted to say something else to the man with the beautiful eyes, but he had already picked up his things from the snow and was walking away with his back to them, so she let it go.
"I'm fine," she answered Chen Sinian, picking up her equipment. She wanted to keep skiing, but Chen Sinian suddenly held a card out to her. "A task."
"?!"
There's a goddamn task even on a date?
Is ruining the fun all that damn director knows how to do?
She took it and read it. First date task: each guest must take a photo with the guest or guests who chose the same location and post it on Weibo with the show's hashtag, #Love, Here I Come#. If there is only one guest at a location, or several guests, the guests may decide for themselves which photo to post. From the time of posting until eight tonight, the two guests with the most likes will earn the right to arrange everyone's partners for the second date.
After quickly reading it, Su Tangtang had only one thought: Well, I'm screwed. An obscure nobody like me definitely can't beat them.
So she decided to slack off.
You slack off, I slack off-let that damn director's plans go right off track!
Handing the card back, she first asked her generous benefactor, "How do you want to take it?"
Chen Sinian said, "Whatever you want."
[.]
[...]
His fans filled the live comments with all sorts of punctuation.
[Aaaaaah, I'm seriously going to lose my mind!]
[If it were anyone else, I wouldn't be suffering this much!]
Su Tangtang rubbed her chin and began thinking seriously.
There are only two spots. I definitely can't beat them, but my bestie Chen Sinian can! Then I can have him arrange my date. I'm not asking for much, just someone easy on the eyes!
Okay, sounds fucking good! That's the plan!
She snapped the fingers of the hand rubbing her chin and told Chen Sinian to take out his phone. "I'll take your picture."
Chen Sinian's mind was still full of "my bestie." Only when she spoke did he come back to his senses. Feeling rather numb, he took out his phone. "How are you planning to take it?"
He handed it to her, already unlocked.
Su Tangtang took it and looked from side to side like a real professional, searching for the right composition. Noticing the lovely sunlight, she told him to turn around with his back to the sun.
Chen Sinian obediently turned around. When she set down her equipment and raised the phone toward him, he immediately stood ready, waiting for her next instructions.
Seeing this, the cameraman assigned to Su Tangtang slowly shifted his camera toward Chen Sinian's phone.
With countless eyes watching, Su Tangtang spoke. "All right, Chen. Show us what you've got."
Chen Sinian, who had waited all that time for nothing: "..."
Not only that, but through the camera, the cameraman and viewers also saw Su Tangtang continually using her right thumb and index finger to zoom in on the sun in the sky. Only Chen Sinian's head remained in the bottom-left corner.
After tapping the shutter several times, she even said, "Good, good, just like that! Keep it up, Chen!"
The cameraman: "..."
The fans watching Chen Sinian work so hard on his poses: "..."
Their feelings were complicated, to say the least.
[Hahahahaha, I already can't wait to see Chen Sinian's face when he sees the photos /dying laughing//dying laughing//dying laughing/]
[When we were reading the letters last night, which girl said Su Tangtang didn't seem remotely likely to fall for Chen Sinian? I believe her now!]
[Then what happens if Chen Sinian falls for her and she doesn't fall for him???]
"Are we done?" Chen Sinian asked. Only then did Su Tangtang stop taking pictures. She opened the photos, looked them over, and nodded, quite satisfied.
The sun looked really nice.
She handed the phone back to Chen Sinian.
The viewers: here it comes, here it comes.
The moment they had been waiting for had arrived!
Chen Sinian took the phone and lowered his eyes to the screen. The first thing he saw was the bright, beautiful sun. The background composition was good; she actually had some skill.
Then he looked at himself, and his hand froze. "..."
He took back that assessment and gave Su Tangtang a look that was hard to put into words.
Su Tangtang gave him a calculated eyebrow raise. Well? Go on, praise me!
Chen Sinian: "..."
The corner of his mouth twitched awkwardly.
[Guys, I can't hold it together, hahahahaha. She doesn't actually think she did a great job, does she?!]
[I don't care. She's so confident, and I love her!!!]
Under Su Tangtang's expectant gaze, Chen Sinian still used the photo for his Weibo post. Luckily, his face could carry it. Even with only his head showing in the bottom-left corner, he still looked handsome.
His fans, the "Rice Cakes," broke down even further when they saw the post.
[It's over. He posted it even looking like that. This is definitely true love.]
[Why am I somehow sensing a tiny bit of him indulging her?]
His was done, but Su Tangtang's was not. Just as he was about to ask how she wanted hers taken, she suddenly put away her phone and said, "All right, let's keep going, going, going!"
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