"Looks like I came at a bad time."
Xiao Jingxi stood at the doorway of the study, dark undercurrents surging at the depths of his gaze, yet a faint smile still hung on his face. "Do I need to excuse myself?"
Xu Shuangrong peeked out from behind him, unable to help covering her eyes when she saw the scene inside the study. "Oh my, what are you two doing?"
As it turned out.
The man was pinned down on the sofa, his tie loosened, the collar of his shirt unbuttoned to reveal fair, alluring skin and faintly visible muscle lines.
Messed-up wisps of hair barely obscured his eyes, yet they could not hide the trace of a slight blush on his cheeks.
The girl was straddling his slender waist, his slender fingertips attempting to push the girl's waist away, but she remained completely immovable.
The long legs pinned beneath her struggled slightly, only to give up soon after.
"Don't."
He turned his head to the side, his long eyelashes fluttering slightly. "Tonight... can we?"
"Like hell you can! Eat this right now!!"
Xie Mi's voice shattered the ambiguous atmosphere, shoving cookies into Shen Yeqing's mouth one after another. "Try acting all coy again, why don't you?"
[Xie Mi, don't make a sound, I'm begging you.]
[Closing my eyes, there really are images in my head, but Xie Mi's voice just hauled me right back.]
[Ah ah ah, why is Mr. Shen so coy? I love it so much.]
[This is the first time I've felt that Best Actor Xiao and Xu Shuangrong are a bit redundant...]
"Eat! Eat it!"
"No~"
This dialogue made it hard for people not to let their imaginations run wild.
Xiao Jingxi, who had been ignored from start to finish, finally reached the limit of his patience. He strode over to the sofa, practically roaring in Xie Mi's ear:
"I said! Do I need to excuse myself or not?!"
At the same time, Xie Mi was thoroughly angered by Shen Yeqing.
"Fine, fine, fine. Not eating, right? If you won't eat it, I'll feed it to the dogs!" As she spoke, she turned her hand around and shoved the cookie directly into Xiao Jingxi's mouth.
Xiao Jingxi bit down on the cookie: "?"
[If you're feeding it to a dog, why are you feeding it to Best Actor Xiao??]
[Watch your mouth!]
"Pardon me."
Shen Yeqing lazily raised his gaze, the corners of his lips curving leisurely. "I was too immersed and didn't notice you. Is something the matter?"
Xiao Jingxi's expression turned even uglier.
[I... damn... why do I have a sense of deja vu of a love triangle?]
[Wait, Mr. Shen doesn't seem to resist at all. In fact, he even looks a little bit like he's enjoying it?]
[Xiao Jingxi is really weird too! He clearly could have just walked away, but he insisted on asking several times, and even stubbornly sidled up just to draw Xie Mi's attention.]
[? Upstairs, stop making things up out of thin air, okay? Best Actor Xiao clearly felt that Xie Mi was lacking in public decency and intervened because he had reached the limit of his patience.]
[Exactly, and Best Actor Xiao originally just wanted to read books in the study with Shuangshuang. Seeing Xie Mi occupying the study here, he probably just wanted to drive her out, alright.]
[Oh-ho-ho, how impressive. Driving people out, huh? Come to think of it, isn't this study a public area? When did it become Best Actor Xiao's exclusive property?]
[Something's off. These bullet comments are off. How come it feels like Xie Mi has fans now?]
[That's right, I'm Xie Mi's newest fan. My core philosophy is that the fan follows the idol-as long as you don't go crazy enough to die, just go all-out crazy!]
Xiao Jingxi, whose face had been slapped, was extremely displeased, but constrained by the fact that the other party was Shen Yeqing, he found it difficult to lash out.
"I just wanted to remind Mr. Shen that before interacting with someone, you should first understand their character. Having spent years abroad, you might not pay much attention to domestic entertainment news..."
"Best Actor Xiao."
Shen Yeqing interrupted him, the smile still present. "Care to try passing passive-aggressive remarks again?"
Xiao Jingxi's breathing hitched slightly.
[Mr. Shen actually dissed Best Actor Xiao for Xie Mi!]
[Holy crap! What kind of epic love triangle is this?]
[I expected there to be a love triangle scenario, but I never thought the main character would be Xie Mi, while Xu Shuangrong actually got relegated to background furniture!!]
At this moment, Xu Shuangrong, standing off to the side, felt more or less awkward.
Xiao Jingxi hadn't expected Shen Yeqing to be so direct either, and for a moment he found himself cornered.
Unable to afford offending the other party, he could only hurriedly drop a "You misunderstood, I didn't mean that" before finding an excuse to leave.
Once Xiao Jingxi left, Xu Shuangrong naturally followed right after him.
The study was once again left with only Xie Mi and Shen Yeqing.
Xie Mi was still savoring her own cleverness from just a moment ago.
She had seen Xiao Jingxi enter earlier, deliberately pretended not to know, and caught him off guard by shoving the cookie into his mouth-a brilliant feint to the east and attack in the west!
That way, 2/3 of the mission was already completed.
Then the only thing left...
Xie Mi looked back at Shen Yeqing. The moment he met her gaze, his eyes immediately curved into crescent moons, the light within them sparkling.
Xie Mi couldn't smile.
She never expected that the person who seemed easiest to handle would turn out to be the hardest.
She had no idea what kind of grudge he held against these cookies; she had already forced herself upon him, yet he stubbornly refused to eat a single bite no matter what.
It seemed she would have to find another way.
Xie Mi was just about to leave when she was pulled back by him.
"Aren't you going to feed me anymore?" he asked.
Xie Mi laughed in exasperation. "Are you actually letting me feed you?"
"I am letting you."
"You're letting me? Let my ass you're letting me! You..." Catching sight of Shen Yeqing's utterly sincere gaze, Xie Mi paused. "For real?"
Shen Yeqing nodded sincerely.
Xie Mi tentatively extended a cookie toward his lips, and he ate it.
Hiss...
Then what the hell was meant by him acting as stubborn as an ox just a moment ago?!
[Could it be that Mr. Shen was just flirting with Xie Mi on purpose and got caught by Best Actor Xiao?]
[Knowing full well that Xie Mi was doing a mission and still playing along-don't tell me he's taken a fancy to Xie Mi!]
[No!!!!!]
The bullet comments filled the screen with wails.
Xie Mi was living the good life.
Mission accomplished, her whole body felt light and free.
After eating the dog-shit-like dinner prepared by Qiu Chengye, the time reached nine o'clock-the mission settlement time.
The guests sat gathered around the living room sofa.
"Actually, this afternoon, everyone was assigned a hidden mission."
Director Niu turned on his little megaphone.
"Fortunately, everyone completed their hidden tasks. Now, we will determine the order of room selection based on the time it took each person to complete their task."
"The first person to complete their task was Teacher Xie, so she gets priority..."
"Um."
Xu Shuangrong raised her hand and asked softly, "I want to ask, if someone guesses another person's task, what happens then?"
Director Niu: "The person whose task was guessed will be considered to have failed the task. At the same time, the person who guessed someone else's task will receive an extra point on top of completing their own."
"I see." Xu Shuangrong nodded in seeming comprehension. "Then I'll try to guess. Xie Mi's task was to feed three male guests cookies, right?"
"Guessed right!"
Director Niu struck the gong and drum. "Then Teacher Xie is considered to have failed the task, ending up in last place! Meanwhile, because Teacher Xu guessed another person's task, she becomes first place!"
[Nice!]
[Ah ah ah ah Shuangshuang is so smart, truly the entertainment circle's smartest sweet-and-innocent girl.]
[Is the Xie bitch stupid? So what if she completed the mission the earliest? Making such a huge ruckus, terrified that others wouldn't notice.]
"Hold on."
Xie Mi wasn't flustered in the slightest, remaining completely at ease.
Of course there was a reason why she dared to carry out her mission with such great fanfare.
"Xu Shuangrong's done guessing, right?"
She raised her head, the arc of her lips turning upward, sending chills down people's spines like a demonic smile.
"Then I guess it's my turn to start guessing."
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