"You two... are a couple, aren't you?"
"Huh?"
Chu Xinghui spun around and hurriedly shook his head.
"No... not right now."
Pei Hanmo did not answer. He merely smiled without a word.
Elder Zhong nodded thoughtfully.
So they simply hadn't made their feelings explicit yet?
But the way these two interacted hardly resembled a young couple who had yet to fall head over heels.
They seemed more like husbands who had been together for years.
He coughed and said,
"All right, I'll believe you for now."
Chu Xinghui stepped behind Pei Hanmo and pushed him toward the door.
"All right, you've given me the MP3 player, so you don't need me for anything else now, do you?
You can go back to filming your scenes."
It was fine if the shippers simply enjoyed pairing them up, but if any actual rumors spread, the impact on Pei Hanmo would still be considerable.
Chu Xinghui now had around three million followers, still far short of Pei Hanmo's tens of millions.
He silently clenched his fists, planning to put in extra practice that day.
He pushed Pei Hanmo outside and said quietly,
"I'll go home on my own this afternoon. You can leave work first."
"Ooooh~~~~~~"
Before Pei Hanmo could reply, Ke Jingtong drifted out from somewhere again.
"Guess what I just heard?"
Chu Xinghui abruptly poked his head out from behind Pei Hanmo and watched him warily.
As though Ke Jingtong were something terrifying.
"I'm telling you, you can't..."
Before he could finish, Pei Hanmo covered his mouth and pulled him behind him.
Although Pei Hanmo was smiling, the smile did not reach his eyes.
"I'd love to hear exactly what you heard."
Over the past few days, Ke Jingtong had been testing Pei Hanmo, occasionally bringing up Chu Xinghui quite deliberately