Fu Yunxi feigned composure and smiled at the camera.
"A cold-blooded animal? A snake?"
[Ooh, Yunxi is so smart. He figured it out already.]
A staff member took the cue. "Partly right."
Fu Yunxi took a deep breath and slowly reached out. Before he even touched the edge of the box, his body had already begun trembling uncontrollably.
Some sharp-eyed viewers caught it.
[Wait, Film Emperor Fu's hand is shaking?]
[No way, no way. Who was it who said he'd protect our Tao Miaomiao just now?]
[Wow, that backfired out of nowhere.]
He closed his eyes briefly, then steeled himself and began feeling around.
The moment his fingertips touched that slick surface, he leaped up with a howl, plastering himself against the back of the sofa. His control over his expression collapsed completely, his features contorting wildly.
Xie Lin had long known he was afraid of snakes and had braced himself beforehand, so the shriek didn't startle him.
But Wu Xinyou, who was closest to him, was another story. She nearly flung herself onto Yue Lan in fright.
Then she looked him up and down.
"Wait, Film Emperor Fu, you're... this easily scared?"
[Pfft, hahahaha! I was scared too, but this actually made me laugh.]
[Oh my, thank goodness he wasn't sitting next to Tao Miaomiao. If he'd thrown himself onto wifey, wouldn't Lu Gougou have bitten him to death?]
[I support biting him to death!]
[Support +1.]
Fu Yunxi had been bitten by a snake as a child. He genuinely feared snakes.
No one outside his family knew about this little matter.
Even Xie Lin had only discovered the secret by stumbling across it by chance.
It wouldn't normally have mattered. Plenty of people were afraid of snakes, after all. But he just had to build himself a fearless