"Pfft, hahahahahaha, I can't."
Ye Ran laughed so hard he nearly fell off his chair.
[Hahahaha, Shen Beichen's storyline still isn't over, and now there's a pregnancy version.]
[He spent fifty billion US dollars on two seashells? Now that's an overbearing CEO.]
[I can't, oh my god, I'm dying, hahahaha.]
[Aaaaah, why are these two so funny?]
[I wrecked one keyboard this morning and another this afternoon. Shen Beichen, Jiang Xiaobai, pay for my keyboards!]
Shen Xingcan rocked back and forth with laughter.
For a while, laughter was all that could be heard by the beach.
Xie Linchuan looked at Shen Xingcan, who was laughing until tears came to his eyes beside him, then at the seashell on his own finger. Finally, the corners of his lips lifted too.
Last, Ye Ran and Jiang Yifeng exchanged gifts, as did Bai Lin and Lin Cen.
Under the old master's skilled hands, the freshly slaughtered lamb roasting over the distant bonfire gave off an appetizing aroma.
Jiang Yifeng sniffed toward the whole roast lamb in the distance, then covered his mouth. "I'd better keep my mouth covered. I'm afraid I'll drool on camera. I am a male celebrity, after all."
Shen Xingcan sighed. "Look at you. It's just a whole roast lamb. Does it really have to make you drool like that?"
Jiang Yifeng glared at him. "Stop making smug comments. If it weren't for the youngest, you'd be the one drooling here right now!"
Shen Xingcan's eyes curved with his smile. "But I do have him, don't I? Jealous? Too bad being jealous is all you can do~ because he's mine. He's already accepted my betrothal gifts, after all."
Jiang Yifeng ground his teeth. "You look exactly like one of those spoiled fox spirits who flaunt how much they're doted on and are just begging for a beating!"
Shen Xingcan said, "Thank you for complimenting my beauty, but let me correct you. I'm not flaunting how much I'm doted on, because as of right now, we're still sworn enemies... As for begging for a beating, Xie Linchuan definitely won't let you hit me. Give it a rest, Jiang Xiaobai."
Jiang Yifeng answered with a cold smile. "Heh. I wouldn't be so sure."
Shen Xingcan swallowed the sour grape in his mouth without a change in expression. His peach-blossom eyes shifted, and he speared another grape with his fork. "Impossible. If I get hurt, he'll be the one aching inside."
With that, Shen Xingcan brought the sour grape to Xie Linchuan's lips and said with a radiant smile, "Your Majesty, have a grape."
[All right, all right, all right. So this is how you're testing our resolve?]
[That green-tea tone paired with that androgynous face... Next time they film Investiture of the Gods, one of you should play Su Daji and the other King Zhou.]
[You're feeding him grapes and still claiming you're sworn enemies? Are you taking all us netizens for fools?]
[Aaaaaah, can that pest Shen Xingcan stay away from our gege? Get lost.]
[I just don't understand. What more could you possibly want from a sister-in-law as gorgeous and accomplished as Shen Xingcan?!]
[Xie Linchuan is straight. Straight!]
[With Shen Xingcan's face and personality... I have reasonable grounds to suspect that even if Xie Linchuan is straight, he'd have a hard time resisting.]
Xie Linchuan looked at the grape right by his lips and suddenly asked, "Is it very sour?"
"Mm."
Shen Xingcan answered instinctively, then immediately corrected himself when he realized what he had said. "No, how could it be sour? These grapes are really sweet. If they were sour, why would I give you one? I'm not some big meanie."
But I am a little meanie, Shen Xingcan silently added to himself.
Xie Linchuan said, "Then have another."
Shen Xingcan said, "...Fine, I will. I love eating them anyway."
Without batting an eye, he put the grape in his hand into his mouth and chewed, then declared with exaggerated inflection, "These grapes are so sweet! Hurry up and have one too."
Why were these damn grapes so sour! Emperor Shen was going to exile their entire family to the frontier!
Xie Linchuan looked at the grape Shen Xingcan offered him. "Really? But I feel like I don't really want any grapes right now..."
Shen Xingcan cut him off. "What do you mean, you don't want any? You clearly want them very much!"
With that, he speared another grape without allowing any argument and brought it to Xie Linchuan's lips again.
"Hurry up and eat it! Eat it!"
Shen Xingcan looked at Xie Linchuan, his exceptionally beautiful peach-blossom eyes filled with anticipation.
Even the bright moon hanging in the distant, pitch-black night sky seemed to dim before the star in front of him.
Although Xie Linchuan knew perfectly well that the person before him harbored wicked intentions alongside that anticipation, he still could not refuse.
In the end, he ate the grape.
Shen Xingcan watched Xie Linchuan with sparkling eyes, but to his disappointment, Xie Linchuan's expression remained calm throughout, as though the grape he had just eaten had not affected him at all.
But how was that possible?!
He disliked sour food, and Xie Linchuan disliked it even more. Even if it no longer brought tears to his eyes like it had when he was little, his expression should at least have changed a little.
Xie Linchuan said, "It really is sweet."
Shen Xingcan looked suspiciously at the unperturbed Xie Linchuan beside him, then suspiciously at the plate of grapes in front of him.
Could the two grapes he'd just eaten have mutated?
With that thought in mind, Shen Xingcan speared another. This time, he cleverly chose the grape beside Xie Linchuan.
The instant the grape's juice burst in his mouth, Shen Xingcan's face turned green, because this grape was still very sour.
Shen Xingcan snapped, "Xie Linchuan, how dare you lie to me! This is obviously sour!"
Xie Linchuan looked at the furious Shen Xingcan, a hint of puzzlement in his voice. "But the grape I ate was sweet."
Looking at the bewilderment and innocence written all over Xie Linchuan's face, Shen Xingcan hesitantly turned his gaze back to the plate of grapes. ...One more gamble?
As it turned out, a gambler's mindset was no good. Having lost his gamble once again, Shen Xingcan huffily shifted his chair to the side, trying to show through his actions that he really, really was angry.
His usually cold brows and eyes softened, and Xie Linchuan's lips curved into a silent smile.
[You just love teasing your wife that much, huh?]
[He might not necessarily be teasing him. Maybe that grape really was sweet to our Best Actor Xie. Shen Xingcan fed it to him himself, after all.]
[That smile from Best Actor Xie at the end is really something to savor. He's so doting.]
[Such beautiful love. Such beautiful love.]
[Hurry up and coax him. What if he really gets angry?!]
[Best Actor Xie's fans really know how to flatter themselves. Our Shen Xingcan only gave your brother a grape to prank him, okay?!]
[Taking Shen Xingcan away. Shen Xingcan shines on his own.]
[It was just a prank. Don't read anything else into it.]