The man sitting right in the middle was the sixth male participant, Jiang Ye.
After shuffling the cards, he spread them out for everyone to choose. Wen He sat in the farthest corner. He had intended to wait until everyone else had picked and take the remaining card, but Ji Chi swept out a hand and snatched two cards from the pile, placing the two cards in front of Wen He.
"Pick one?"
Wen He picked one at random.
It was the three of hearts.
After looking at his own card, Ji Chi tried to peek at Wen He's.
Wen He caught him and immediately covered the face of his card with his long, slender fingers, silently watching his wandering eyes.
With his intentions exposed, Ji Chi awkwardly licked his dry lips and clicked his tongue softly.
"Let me see. I won't tell anyone."
Wen He pressed his lips together and quietly stared at him. "Tell me what yours is first."
Ji Chi generously showed Wen He the face of his card.
The six of hearts.
It wasn't the king card. Only then did Wen He let Ji Chi see a tiny corner of his.
[I'm reporting these two for cheating.]
[I'm reporting them too! Sneaking peeks at each other's cards!]
[Report them! Report them!!]
[Reports rejected, rejected~]
"I have the king card. Sorry, everyone~" Zhou Siyu raised his joker and waved it through the air.
Wei Xun sighed regretfully.
Zhou Siyu looked around and noticed the two secretly conferring in the corner. He hadn't interacted with either of them, but they seemed closer to each other than to everyone else.
"Hmm... then I'll pick... number two? Who has number two?"
Number two had nothing to do with him, nor with the person beside him...
Staying out of what didn't concern him, Ji Chi took a handful of meat skewers the production crew had grilled and put them on the empty metal tray in front of them.
The aroma of barbecue wafted toward Wen He, stirring his appetite.
He picked up a large lamb skewer and began eating as he watched the fun.
Looked at this way, having that nuisance around did have a little upside...
Zhang Shengsheng regretfully raised his two of hearts, pretending to cry as he begged for mercy.
"Hahaha... it's me! Please go easy on me, Your Majesty~"
"Then will you choose truth or dare?" Zhou Siyu put his card back on the table, giving Zhang Shengsheng the chance to choose for himself.
"Truth, I guess...?"
The production crew had prepared cards for truth and dare. Zhou Siyu drew one from the truth pile.
"Oh... this is an interesting question~"
With a teasing look at Zhang Shengsheng, he put on a mysterious air and said, "Tell us, how many exes have you had?"
Biting into his beef skewer, Ji Chi thought that was a good question. He looked at Wen He, who was concentrating on his meat, and asked first.
"How many exes have you had?"
Wen He took a bite of hot beef. The freshly grilled meat was still scalding, and the bite burned the tip of his tongue. He hurriedly tossed the beef around in his mouth a few more times.
Ignoring the question from beside him, he picked up the fruit wine on the table and gulped it down to ease the pain.
Only after he had finished a glass did Ji Chi speak mischievously.
"Oh dear... looks like you drank my wine... I'd already had a sip, you know..."
Hearing that, Wen He froze. With a stiff expression, he put the glass back where it had been, then naturally picked up the glass beside it and took another small sip.
Noticing that the tips of his ears had turned slightly red, Ji Chi spoke again. "Oh... sorry, I remembered wrong. This is the glass I drank from..."
Without looking at Wen He's expression again, he took the stemmed glass from his hand to verify whether that was true. Just as he was about to drink the fruit wine, Wen He snatched the glass away and pushed it out of reach.
"Someone's already drunk from this one. Have something else..."
While the two went back and forth, Zhang Shengsheng had already finished answering his truth question farther away. Ji Chi pushed both their cards back.
A new round of shuffling began.
[What are these two doing over here? Why have they started eating, and why does it look so good?]
[Will someone keep these two in line?]
[Chotto matte, what did I just see?]
[Did Xiao He drink the wrong wine? If I remember right, that second glass was Ji Chi's, wasn't it?]
[I noticed too. Hang on, let me drag the progress bar back and watch again!]
[Speaking of which, Shengsheng has only dated two people? If I had that figure, I'd date eight a day! Take turns!]
Just like last time, Ji Chi scooped up two cards with one hand and let Wen He choose.
This time, Wen He picked one at random.
Turning aside, he carefully checked its face. "Joker." It was the king card...
As he covered the card again, he caught Ji Chi about to peek. Looking at him, Wen He decided to punish him a little.
That was what he got for always peeking at his cards.
"What do you have?"
"What do you have?"
They spoke in unison. Ji Chi pursed his lips and generously showed Wen He the card in his palm.
The ace of hearts.
Wen He's lips curved, and even the corners of his eyes held a hint of triumphant amusement.
He revealed the king card in his hand.
"I drew the king card. I choose the ace of hearts for a dare."
After returning his king card to the table, he decisively drew a card from the dare pile and displayed it in front of him.
Seeing how quickly he moved, Ji Chi's eyes filled with amusement. He ran his tongue over the tip of a tooth and clicked his tongue softly.
That little blockhead got me...
"Have the person on your left sit on you, then do twenty push-ups."
Push-ups... that was hard work.
Wen He hated hard work most of all.
Once Wen He finished reading the sentence, everyone around him turned to look at him. Even Ji Chi stared at him without moving.
"?"
Why are you looking at me?
Wen He turned toward Ji Chi, about to count out who was on his left... only to realize that he himself was on Ji Chi's left...
His triumphant smile instantly vanished. With a stiff face, Wen He stared into the camera with a smile that said he had nothing left to live for.
[Ahahahahahahahaha!]
[Oh, I'm dying. Fate is toying with Little Wen He.]
[He thought he could punish the other guy, but ended up dealing a thousand damage and taking eight hundred himself.]
[What else is there to say? Guys, put 99+ in the public chat.]
[999999]
[May you have a hundred years of happiness together! A hundred years of happiness!]
[May you have a son soon! Have a son soon!]
[Uh... that, that, that might not work.]
Ji Chi slowly stood up, looked at Wen He, and held out a hand to him.
"Come on?"
Then he planted both hands on the ground. After hesitating for a moment, Wen He carefully sat on his back with a dark expression.
The soft sensation against his back made Ji Chi unconsciously tense his back muscles.
Wen He sat cautiously on his back, feeling that the skin beneath his bottom was terribly hot. It left him uncomfortable all over, as though ants were crawling over him.
One, two, three... twenty. A full twenty push-ups, and Ji Chi got up with ease, as though the weight on him just now hadn't existed.
Ji Chi dusted the fine dirt off his palms and headed toward the restroom.
He didn't like having dirt on his hands and wanted to wash it off quickly, so he left first.
Wen He stared at the grilled meat on the table, his fingers unconsciously tightening. A blush also unwittingly crept onto his face. Though it soon faded with time, the viewers in the livestream still caught it.
[Xiao He is blushing... slurp, slurp.]
[I didn't expect Ji Chi to be so strong!]
[Did you see those muscles on his arms just now? Watching got me hard.]
[?]
[Person above, this isn't a deserted area.]
[Stop getting hard?]