Everything About You Is a Surprise to Me

Today, Huo Xingye's task was to go to a film studio and work as an extra, earning money to buy Nan Zhou a Christmas present.

On the surface, it was just an extra role, but he was an award-winning actor and a box-office legend. What film crew or director would dare treat him like an ordinary extra?

The production he'd arranged with was a small-budget film. Its director wasn't very famous, but had a close relationship with the renowned director Zeng Lianyi. They were teacher and student.

And Zeng Lianyi was the director of the film that had won Huo Xingye his award.

On the way to the set, the other party sent Huo Xingye the script for the extra role he'd been specially invited to play that day: a crime boss.

Although he had less than a minute of screen time, Huo Xingye still carefully and quickly worked out the character's logic and backstory, and came up with a few little gestures.

When he appeared before the director's camera wearing black sunglasses, a black jacket, and Martin boots, his long legs striding with effortless swagger, even the male lead acting opposite him couldn't help being intimidated by his domineering, unruly presence.

For that moment, the man standing opposite him seemed like a real crime boss who'd been through the blood and violence of the underworld.

With Huo Xingye's status, the production would arrange the schedule in advance. There was no chance of him waiting around to film; the production crew were the ones who had to wait for him.

So as soon as he arrived, put on makeup, and changed clothes, he quickly began filming.

The male lead was intimidated and forgot his lines at the start, so they had to cut once. After that, filming went smoothly, and Huo Xingye soon finished his scene and sat beside the set, waiting for the male lead to change for the next one.

At that moment, word got around that Huo Xingye was watching Nan Zhou's livestream, and the CP fans in Nan Zhou's livestream began firing off comments like crazy.

[Brother Ye! Did you see what your wife just said?]

[The person above, Brother Ye was filming just now. He only just finished and missed it completely!]

[Huo Xingye, your wife said she wants to try something kinky with you on Christmas!]

But there were also heretical fans who had suddenly started shipping a rare pair.

[Am I the only one who thinks Yue Yang and Nan Zhou are a good match?]

[Isn't it already dreamy enough that someone like Yue Yang was willing to come find Nan Zhou? A genius, cool bassist X a laid-back, don't-care idol-this is great to ship too.]

[Yue Yang is a B, and Nan Zhou is a B too. Double-B romance is a perfect match!]

At the film set, after hearing that Huo Xingye was there to work as an extra, an Omega actor who hadn't had any scenes scheduled for that day showed up at the set for the first time in ages and headed straight for where Huo Xingye was sitting.

"Mr. Huo, you really did come work as an extra for our production." The little O pursed his lips and put on a coy voice as he tried to strike up a conversation with Huo Xingye.

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Huo Xingye's brows knit slightly, a brief, shadowy glint passing through his eyes.

The little O's heart quivered, but he couldn't help continuing. "Mr. Huo, I'm Huang Jie. We had a scene together in Memory Maze. Do you remember?"

Huo Xingye didn't answer. His attention remained fixed on his phone.

The little O noticed another crew's director filming beside him. Putting that together with the trending topic he'd seen last night, he realized this was a livestream.

Since it was a livestream, maybe he could take advantage of this opportunity...

Before he could react, Huo Xingye's brows suddenly relaxed, and even the corners of his lips lifted into a smile.

His slender fingers swiped across the screen. He answered a WeChat call and, when he spoke, his rich, low voice was so gentle that it made anyone who heard it feel weak in the knees.

"What is it?"

When the melody ended, the basement fell briefly silent.

Then Tang Yang's astonished, doubtful voice rang out. "You wrote that melody?"

Before Nan Zhou could answer, Jia Jia quickly chimed in with another question. "Is it a new song?"

"Not exactly," Nan Zhou replied.

He'd written this song a year ago as a single for a certain male singer.

A love song about a romance.

"It sounds like a love song full of regret. Have you written the lyrics?" This time, it was Yue Yang who spoke.

Nan Zhou was just about to say something when, following the on-site director's instructions, the camera operator filming them said, "Mr. Nan, Mr. Huo is watching your livestream. Do you want to give him a call?"

"Watching the livestream? Did he hear what just happened?" Nan Zhou asked.

The camera operator nodded.

Nan Zhou was speechless. He went straight after the production crew. "What happened to the promised present? Didn't that just spoil it? I knew there was something wrong with the logic behind this task. You're filming a livestream and making us perform too. Do you really think my song is as easy to cheat out of me as Flash?"

The camera operator filming them: "..."

The camera operator filming them: "Then, do you want to ask Mr. Huo what he thinks of the song?"

If I just bring up your husband, I refuse to believe you'll keep going on and on!

[Exactly! Hurry up and have him call Huo Xingye. The camera operator gets it-give them an extra chicken leg!]

[I'm dying. They even tried to trick him into giving up a song. It's not like he wrote it.]

[There are no lyrics, and the music isn't even complete. It's just a melody. Maybe he stole it from somewhere.]

[He's been an idol for two years and can only sing. He's never shown that he can write music, and now all of a sudden he can "compose"? The script is way too obvious!]

[Wow, there are a lot of nasty people in the livestream today. Looks like our Zhou Zhou really has gotten famous.]

[I don't care about the song. I want to see him call Brother Ye! This is urgent! Screaming and writhing in the darkness!]

Ever since morning, the on-site director had kept bringing up Huo Xingye in front of him.

Hearing the director do it twice more now, Nan Zhou figured it was part of the production crew's plan. So he pulled his phone out of his pocket, found the WeChat contact he'd added just yesterday, and made the call.

The phone rang for only a moment before the call was answered. Huo Xingye's voice came through the receiver. "What is it?"

Filtered through the signal, his voice was slightly distorted in a way that was barely noticeable. But the distortion was like the just-right grit in a guitar's sound, giving his voice a little more weight and roughness.

It easily brought back memories of those two wild, unrestrained nights for Nan Zhou, making his body react as if a current had passed through it.

He didn't know whether that quality in Huo Xingye's voice was deliberate or a coincidence. He only knew that his body was honestly captivated by it.

" I heard you're watching my livestream?" Even Nan Zhou himself didn't notice the subtle change in his voice when he spoke.

It sounded more delighted, more playful, and gentler.

"Mm."

"Well, there goes the surprise." He said the words, but there was no hint of disappointment in his tone.

A familiar, low, brief laugh came from the other end. He heard Huo Xingye say, "Everything about you is a surprise to me, anytime."

Nan Zhou froze for a moment.

Fortunately, the next second, Huo Xingye naturally added, "Remember to charge me a copyright fee."

[Hahahahahahaha!]

[Copyright fee! I'm crying with laughter! What's going on, Huo Xingye? You've only been with him for one day, and you've already learned that from him?]

[Pei Feng: Fine, fine. You don't learn anything else, but you learn this?]

"But I think you'd like another song more," Nan Zhou said.

"Which one?"

"If I tell you, it'll spoil the surprise again. I'll sing it for you when we get home tonight."