Of course, all that came later.
At the moment, Pei Tingyun and Xie Huan were cycling toward the third check-in spot.
Their luck was good today.
When they reached the third check-in spot, the lighthouse, they happened to catch the Tyndall effect.
The sight of sunlight spilling into the sea like ribbons was absolutely stunning!
There weren't many chances to see the Tyndall effect by the sea at this hour, and it didn't last long.
To capture this moment perfectly.
Pei Tingyun directed Xie Huan to sit on a large rock by the shore, strike a pose, and hold still.
Then he raised his phone and tried every angle.
He needed to get both the lighthouse behind Xie Huan and the rays of the Tyndall effect into the shot.
Pei Tingyun spent two whole minutes just finding the perfect angle.
He looked up at Xie Huan, who had gone stiff from holding his pose, and asked:
"Do you want a tighter shot or a wider one?"
Supermodel Xie humbly asked in return:
"Could I get a quicker one? Your big bro can't hold on much longer."
Amused, Pei Tingyun quickly pressed the shutter as he laughed.
Xie Huan now had the photo of a lifetime.
So he wanted to take a matching one for Pei Tingyun.
But Pei Tingyun turned him down.
Pei Tingyun said, "Forget it. Your photography skills are too explosive for me to handle."
The livestream comments:
[Hahaha, Xie Huan just lost his photography gig.]
[From now on, big bro can only be the youngest's model.]
[One personal tour guide, one personal model. These lovebirds know how to have fun.]
Pei Tingyun and Xie Huan found the standee the production team had placed beside the lighthouse.
As the saying went, once or twice was one thing, but not a third time.
Three times in a row, the sample poses they'd found for their check-in photos had all been wedding photo templates.
Pei Tingyun finally understood.
He wasn't the only one being set up.
The entire Roaming Group had been set up by the directors.
Fine, fine, fine.
You insist on making a bunch of grown men do this cringey stuff, huh?
Fine.
As long as I'm not grossed out, someone else will be.
But Xie Huan, who had designs on him, certainly wouldn't be grossed out in the slightest.
Pei Tingyun even felt that Xie Huan was eating a little too well during this segment.
First, he'd been princess-carried by his crush, then air-kabedoned.
At this stop, he would get to hug his crush from behind and take a photo of them gazing at each other with their heads tilted.
Pei Tingyun suddenly felt that there might really be something to the Gu Household being the show's biggest financial backer.
Fortunately, Xie Huan meant him no harm, or the nightmare from a year ago might truly play out again.
Pei Tingyun was silently counting his blessings.
Xie Huan, who was studying the sample photo to learn the pose, suddenly caught on:
"Whoa, hold on! This isn't right. Why am I doing the bride's part every time?"
Without blushing or missing a beat, Pei Tingyun spun some nonsense:
"Ahem... well, because you're delicate!"
Xie Huan said, "...Are you burning newspapers at a grave to fool the ghosts?"
Xie Huan pulled Pei Tingyun over to stand beside him in front of the camera:
"Come on, let everyone take a look. Which one of us is actually delicate?"
Pei Tingyun didn't argue.
He simply stared at Xie Huan without blinking.
Xie Huan feared nothing except Pei Tingyun staring at him.
He didn't know why, but whenever Pei Tingyun stared at him, his heart would get flustered and his face would grow hot.
He surrendered in under two seconds.
Xie Huan gave in. "Fine, I'm delicate. I'm delicate, okay? I'm so damn delicate! Just perfect for doing the bride's part. Come on!"
The livestream comments:
[That's right! A delicate real man knows when to bend and when to stand tall!]
[Hahaha, just keep spoiling him, Xie Huan!]
[Xie Huan: I'm all out of moves. He keeps using loving eyes + a beauty trap on me. Who could withstand that?]
[I told you Pei Tingyun was a total top. Their positions in the photos make it obvious!]
Following the photo requirements, Xie Huan hugged Pei Tingyun from behind.
Looking at Xie Huan's hands wrapped around his waist, Pei Tingyun felt a little strange.
He wasn't averse to it, nor was he grossed out.
But the electric tingling around his waist was something unfamiliar that he had never experienced before.
Even on the way to the next check-in spot, Pei Tingyun still couldn't find a precise definition for that feeling.
Before he'd even processed the pose from the last check-in spot, the sight of Gu Lin and the husky at the next one assaulted his eyes.
When Pei Tingyun and Xie Huan arrived at the fourth check-in spot, the windmill.
Gu Lin and the husky were sitting on the lawn in front of the windmill, struggling to make a heart.
Gu Lin had to pose the dog while also holding up his phone to take a selfie.
The dog was hardly easy to control. If he missed the shot, the dog would change poses.
Then he had to pose the dog all over again.
Over and over.
Gu Lin's two hands were so busy they might as well have been eight.
At one point, he even thought he'd gotten stuck in a loop.
The livestream comments were completely overrun with [Hahaha].
For this task, Pei Tingyun finally began to feel sympathy for someone else.
See, he wasn't the only one who'd been set up.
Look, other people were falling apart doing their tasks too.
Fortunately, Xie Huan was fairly sympathetic.
Gu Lin posed the dog for the umpteenth time.
Xie Huan immediately pointed at the dog and said, "Don't move!"
The husky's right front paw actually obediently froze in midair!
Seeing Gu Lin frozen in shock, Pei Tingyun reminded him:
"What are you spacing out for? Make a heart! Hurry up and make a heart. I'll take the photo!"
Coming to his senses, Gu Lin quickly raised his left hand over his head and formed a heart together with the dog's paw.
Pei Tingyun pressed the shutter with a click.
Gu Lin was finally freed from the loop.
He flopped onto his back on the lawn.
His eyes were vacant.
It was as though the husky had drained every last bit of his strength.
The husky, on the other hand, circled him excitedly.
Sniffing on the left, snuffling on the right.
Finally, the dog pulled a half-finished bag of dental chew treats out of his trouser pocket, dragged it aside, and started chewing.
Pei Tingyun and Xie Huan left the two of them alone and went to find an angle that would include the windmill for their own photo together.
As far as Pei Tingyun was concerned, making a heart was genuinely the most comfortable pose of the lot.
It wasn't embarrassing or awkward.
And there was none of that inexplicable electric feeling.
Without needing to discuss it, the two found their places according to the bride and groom's positions in the sample photo.
Then they raised their hands to make a heart.
Holding his phone in his other hand, Pei Tingyun finished taking the photo in a second.
It was all about getting it done fast.
By the time the two finished their battle, Gu Lin was still lying on the ground.
Pei Tingyun walked over and asked him:
"We've checked in at all four spots below the mountain and we're heading up. Are you coming?"
Gu Lin glanced at him and answered weakly:
"I only have the last one left too. Let's go together..."
If they went together, Xie Huan could help keep the husky under control.
Otherwise, the husky would wear him out before he even reached the summit!
By the time the three men and one dog reached the foot of the mountain, it was evening.
The light of the setting sun slanted across the horizon.
Beneath the sunset glow, the entire mountain forest looked warm and soft.
Yao Xuan and Tang Keni had arrived long before.
But they hadn't gone up the mountain.
Instead, they waited there, as the five of them had previously agreed in the group chat.
Only once everyone had arrived.
Did they all begin climbing the mountain.
By now, they had completely lost the competitive air they'd had when the task first began.
On the steep stretches, they even gave one another a hand.
They were so harmonious that they seemed not to care at all whether they got to eat the candlelit dinner.
The director, already waiting at the mountaintop restaurant, grew a little anxious as he watched from behind the monitor.