The scent of Nan Zhou's pheromones

Another day's livestream had ended, and the hugely popular dating show "You Make My Heart Flutter" still firmly dominated a large portion of Weibo's trending searches.

Among them, topics related to Nan Zhou and Huo Xingye were the most numerous and popular, holding steady in the top ten.

Several topics were especially eye-catching: #Nan Zhou's first love wasn't Huo Xingye#, #Lu Zhou's expression#, and #Nan Zhou's first kiss on Huo Xingye's birthday#.

Click on any one of them, and the discussions were all extremely active.

But there was another topic that, despite not making the top twenty, still drew gossip lovers in to discuss it.

#The scent of Nan Zhou's pheromones#.

Under this topic was a clip from the livestream posted by a marketing account.

After Nan Zhou and Huo Xingye left the table, the guests had continued answering the fan questions the production team had screened in advance.

But although the two had left, the production team had already put the questions into a PowerPoint, so when the guests revealed them, the fan's question for Huo Xingye about what Nan Zhou's pheromones smelled like appeared before everyone.

Whether they were watching the livestream, outside the show, or guests present at the scene, everyone was surprised to see this question.

That question was far too explosive.

Because of Lu Zhou's remarks, Nan Zhou was already being roundly condemned online, with people calling him a fake-innocent beta pretending to be an omega.

But if Huo Xingye described the scent of Nan Zhou's pheromones in front of everyone on the livestream, it would completely change the current direction of public opinion. Conversely, if Huo Xingye avoided answering, or put things more bluntly, it would further cement the fact that Nan Zhou was a beta.

"Just what you'd expect from Pei Feng. He played his cards well."

"Too bad that however carefully Pei Feng schemed, he couldn't beat the timing of Nan Zhou getting sick."

"Now I'm starting to wonder whether Nan Zhou's illness is even real..."

"Some people here are so vile. Even a guest getting sick has to be twisted into an attempt to dodge and cover up pointed questions. Don't be so vicious."

"Our Zhou really is sick, okay! Didn't you watch the livestream? Even Film Emperor Huo got angry."

"Who is Huo Xingye? A best actor. If he wanted to, his acting could easily fool everyone, okay?"

Under this trending topic, onlookers and shippers were embroiled in arguments. There were also haters trying to stir things up in the confusion, whom Nan Zhou's and Huo Xingye's fans caught and chased down with abuse.

Compared with the chaos in the trending topic, the Xingzhou CP supertopic was bustling, brimming with suggestive hormones.

The creator who had edited yesterday's Xingzhou secret-crush video had actually stayed up overnight to produce another extremely high-quality, steamy video.

The comments said even the song in this video was scorching hot; put a pregnancy test in there, and it would immediately show two lines.

The whole video opened with Nan Zhou saying he had heard that human body heat was the warmest, followed immediately by footage from the Livehouse of Nan Zhou secretly drinking behind the bar and tilting his head back in front of Huo Xingye.

Then came Huo Xingye telling Nan Zhou to take his clothes off in the apartment, Nan Zhou asking, "Aren't you changing?" in the fitting room, and his "Together?" after getting drenched in the rain.

Although not all the footage came from the livestream, the dialogue was real, and it was incredibly thrilling. Not to mention Huo Xingye's lines like "You wouldn't drink when I told you to" and "You won't even put your pants on..." that had the shippers crying that it was too much.

The final footage was from yesterday morning, when the two had been filmed sleeping together in a narrow little bed.

In no time, the video's views shot past several hundred thousand and raced toward a million.

Meanwhile, plenty of fanfiction and fan art also appeared in the supertopic.

Quite a few of the fan illustrations were racy, and one artist had even drawn Huo Xingye marking Nan Zhou.

Of course, there were also the pure-romance evidence hunters.

In her post, she dug meticulously into Huo Xingye's supposed longtime crush, his various displays toward Nan Zhou during the livestream, and the way he looked at Nan Zhou while answering fans' questions.

Naturally, she hadn't missed Nan Zhou's answers either.

In short, she believed that Huo Xingye had secretly loved Nan Zhou for many years, but Nan Zhou had liked Lu Zhou. Only after the incident involving Lu Zhou and Nan Zhou that made the trending searches had he become determined to pursue him. And it was very possible that something had happened between the two on his birthday.

In the post, she also inferred from Nan Zhou going to an omega specialist in Huo Xingye's clothes, along with some things he had said during the livestream, that Nan Zhou might be an omega, and the two might even have already marked each other.

This creator's analysis was very detailed, with all sorts of livestream screenshots circled and annotated, comparisons of Huo Xingye's usual behavior with his behavior on the livestream, and more.

The Xingzhou CP fans, already swept up in shipping them, all voiced their agreement and felt this made the pairing even more irresistible.

Rather than declining, the popularity of the CP's supertopic soared even higher because of this content.

At nine the next morning, the camera operator knocked on the door of Nan Zhou and Huo Xingye's apartment.

The livestream started at eight, and these two had failed to be on time for two days running, leaving the production team at a loss.

Yesterday morning was one thing. After all, they had ended up capturing some explosive footage.

But this morning...

Although Nan Zhou had indeed had a fever the night before, which the production staff all knew, the cameras inside the apartment still hadn't been switched on by nearly nine, so Pei Feng felt another surprise visit was necessary.

But how could he have expected that this time, the apartment door would be locked from the inside?

With no other choice, the camera operator could only shoulder the camera and knock.

[Oh-ho, a new day, a new Brother Ye! So handsome.]

[Huo Xingye's outfit today is so, so, so handsome!]

[Ah, Best Actor Huo is already up and dressed. Does that mean the spicy stuff I was hoping for is gone? Damn it!]

[Film Emperor Huo seems pretty quiet today. Is he still angry about yesterday?]

[They must've fallen out.]

After opening the door, Huo Xingye shifted slightly to the side, and the camera operator immediately took the cue and filmed the apartment's interior.

At the dining table, Nan Zhou sat bundled up like a little polar bear, eating breakfast while looking at his phone.

On his phone was a string of messages from Hao Jia, all sent the night before.

"I wanted to call you when you got caught in the rain! But I figured Film Emperor Huo cared so much about you that you'd probably be fine, yet you still ended up with a fever."

"What's going on with you? Aren't you usually the most careful?"

"How are you? Has your fever gone down?"

"Wear more layers. Having a fever is bad for you, and your gland already has problems."

Nan Zhou replied, "My fever's gone down. Thanks."

"Does the fact that I get fevers so easily have anything to do with my gland injury?" he asked.

On the other end, Hao Jia didn't reply immediately. There was no telling what he was busy with.

Nan Zhou placed his phone facedown on the table.

Huo Xingye sat down beside him again. "Are you feeling uncomfortable anywhere?"

At those words, the dirty-minded viewers in the livestream immediately perked up.

[Uncomfortable where, hmm?]

[You gave your wife a thorough lesson last night, and now you're back to fussing over him today, huh?]

[Is my mind in the gutter, or is it yours?]

[Huh? Isn't he asking about his illness?]

[Don't ask. Just hug him and comfort him!]

"I really am fine now." Nan Zhou put down his spoon and leaned toward Huo Xingye, pressing his forehead against his. "If you don't believe me, feel for yourself."