I'm Crushing on Gorgeous Faces in Variety Shows!-Chapter 185: They Held Hands!

"I think not regretting the choices I’ve made is the only thing I can do now."

Mu Qiu said while picking up some food, "I work freelance, and my biggest wish is to see my books being known by everyone. I was originally doing screenwriting work, but later the director said it wouldn’t work like that."

"Everyone on the show is unfamiliar with this kind of different routine, so the show definitely wouldn’t be fun, and that’s why it needs someone who knows a little to join in. I thought about it and realized that was true, so I’m here."

"As for everything else, I’ve thought about it but there’s no solution, so I just let things be and stop worrying."

As the conversation reached this point, everyone’s guard slowly relaxed.

Bolder ones, like Li Yang, have already started asking Cheng Zhirang about the rumors of being in love while on the rise."

More directly, he pointed at Cheng Zhirang and Mu Qiu and asked Cheng Zhirang, "Brother Cheng, I checked your Weibo, then watched fan-edited videos, it seemed like you’ve been looking at Mu Qiu several times. You guys..."

Guan Yu looked around and pretended to chide Li Yang, "Li Yang, how can you be so direct? It’s supposed to be a secret!"

Cheng Zhirang just watched them act, and said at last, "Let things take their course."

Let things take their course...

Everyone exchanged a look that said ’you get it, I get it, everyone should get it (?).’

Mu Qiu coughed softly, inexplicably feeling her face flush.

Not sure if it’s the heat from the hot pot or something else.

Next to her, Cheng Zhirang heard her cough and handed her a tissue, asking quietly, "What’s wrong? Did you choke?"

"No."

After asking the gossip that everyone was most curious about, the others got bold as well.

First, Guan Yu asked Shu Ran if the scandal three years ago was true, and if she had really been in a sister-brother relationship with a newbie.

Next, Shu Ran asked Guan Yu if there was someone back home who helped her, otherwise how could she have had the opportunity to join a program that many fought to get into.

Guan Yu admitted frankly that her uncle had some influence.

Shu Ran hesitated several times but then admitted she had indeed been in a sister-brother relationship.

Li Yang also confessed he had a bit of a crush on a member of a girl group when performing at a party shortly after starting his career, intending to take it further.

...But unfortunately, he never got her contact information, and eventually, nothing came of it.

One piece of gossip spilled after another, as if if one person didn’t offer a secret after the other shared theirs, they couldn’t earn each other’s trust.

Mu Qiu listened with great interest, eating the food Cheng Zhirang picked up with public chopsticks, thinking the atmosphere was simply perfect.

Pity she didn’t have any secrets to share... apart from having a romance with a gentle uncle.

After finishing that hotpot, when leaving the private room, the feeling among the six of them had already changed significantly.

If it weren’t for gender constraints, Guan Yu and Li Yang would have started calling each other brothers.

If they hadn’t drunk any alcohol, they might have dragged Shi Yuhuai and Shu Ran along to swear brotherhood, tearfully describing their twisty experiences over twenty-some years.

As for the two left out of the "brother" group, they were tacitly left behind. Walking leisurely, not far from the others, but not too close to each other.

Mu Qiu didn’t think everything was absolutely safe; she still worried about being photographed. If the calmness of gossip was disturbed by exposure of their relationship, the impact on Cheng Zhirang would be much greater than normal.

Cheng Zhirang himself didn’t pay much attention to these things. When reaching the stairs, he reached out to pull her along.

Mu Qiu turned back, softly asking him, "What is it?"

Cheng Zhirang’s subtly deepened voice after dinner, tinged with a smile, reached her ears in the dimly lit stairway.

"Walk a little apart."

The stairway wasn’t spacious, and the group ahead were chatting and laughing. If she was too close to them, any sudden stop would cause her to bump backward.

Mu Qiu withdrew her step, nodded, "Should I walk behind you?"

"Okay."

Li Yang and the others’ voices were already at the second floor, Cheng Zhirang walked up, Mu Qiu followed behind, watching his naturally dangling, gently swaying hand.

They were quite beautiful hands. If I were to grab and hold onto them, what would it feel like?

The dry, soft sensation of skin touching skin, or a gentle, heated collision, would tension seep out in sweat?

At the stairway turn, after many glances, Mu Qiu stealthily stretched out her hand, gently grasping his fingers.

As soon as she touched him, Cheng Zhirang reacted quickly, promptly holding her back, then stopped and turned to ask her, "What happened?"

Mu Qiu shook her head.

Cheng Zhirang lowered his voice, "So you just wanted to hold hands?"

Mu Qiu blinked, smiling with curved lips.

Half a minute later.

From the second to the third floor, with one hand in his pocket, the other hand holding Mu Qiu’s, Cheng Zhirang led her upstairs.

The second-floor corridor was empty, but their voices were quite noticeable; Mu Qiu was walking nervously but—

She looked down at their interlocked hands, his long, powerful hand, dry and warm, gripping part of her palm, the intimate contact area felt like gradually heating up.

Her hand was small, even when she tightened her fingers she could barely circle half of his fingers.

Because of walking side by side, their hands were connected, so were their wrists, the pulse seems perceptibly clear.

The allure of such emotions was too strong; a strange sentiment rose in Mu Qiu’s heart, like excitement mixed with shyness.

"We’re here."

Cheng Zhirang stopped in front of the 304 door, looking down at her.

"Go back and rest well. My room is right next door, if you need anything, call me anytime."

Expressionlessly, Mu Qiu released his hand, glancing sideways at the other room doors in the corridor as if the weird imagination hadn’t occurred.

"Okay, noted, you should go back too."

Cheng Zhirang let go so she could retract her hand, his gaze lingered on her face for a moment, reaching out to gently touch the corner of her left eye.

Mu Qiu instinctively blinked, reflexively avoiding, her fluttering lashes poked against his finger.

"If your eyes are uncomfortable, don’t stay up too late tonight."

Mu Qiu opened her mouth, then laughed a moment later, "Understood."

Thinking it was going to lead to a big moment, but instead, he ended up giving a fatherly reminder not to play on her phone too late.

The two separated at the door of 304, each returning to their own room.

Half a minute after the two door panels closed, the doors of four other rooms carefully opened on the third-floor corridor.

Inside, suddenly four heads popped out, neatly aligned in a row.

Guan Yu gestured at Li Yang in 306 opposite 304 with a chin lift, speaking almost in whispers.

"Did you hear them?"

Li Yang shook his head but immediately became full of shock and excitement, putting both hands out to make a gesture of holding hands himself.

They’re holding hands!!!

Shu Ran just donned a shower cap, displaying an ’I knew it’ expression.

The room in front, Shi Yuhuai still didn’t quite understand why he had to follow a group of fools in such a foolish act.