I'm Crushing on Gorgeous Faces in Variety Shows!-Chapter 97: Why Are You Staring at That Pretty Lady?
The lipsticks have been chosen, and they are sitting in a row, eagerly waiting for the celebrity guests to appear.
"Each group draws one lipstick, there are only three guests."
"No kidding, I knew it when they stuck the stickers on."
"Then why did the program team bother to bring up so many lipsticks? Aren’t they afraid we’ll choose the ones that the guests didn’t select?"
"You want me to guess what the program team is thinking? Why don’t you just let me die right here."
"Sister Guan Yu, you’re really showing off being in a group with Brother Cheng!"
"That’s called having the pride of someone with resources. Here they come, the first guest is out!"
Guan Yu immediately sat up straight, looking at the left side of the resting room door.
The door opened just a crack, first revealing a long slim leg, followed by a head suddenly popping out and a swaying long ponytail.
With a sweet appearance and breezy demeanor, she came out and clasped her hands in greeting to everyone.
"Hello everyone! I’m Lin Xixi! A new actress with a background in martial arts, I hope to learn from you all!"
Guan Yu exclaimed, "I know her, she used to practice martial arts, then switched to acting because she looks good. At the end of last year, she was the second female lead in a great action drama!"
"Welcome, welcome!" Li Yang instinctively stood up and applauded, probably used to respecting elders and teachers in the group.
But although everyone was clapping, he was the only one standing. Lin Xixi, who was walking over, was startled.
Mu Qiu pressed him down: "Li Yang, don’t get too excited, stay calm and collected!"
Guan Yu: "Hey, hey, hey Yangyang, you’re still young, what’s with staring at the female guest like that? Your eyes are glowing; haven’t you seen tall and beautiful women in your group?"
Li Yang’s ears turned red from their teasing, and the others joined in the fun. Even the usually silent Shi Yuhuai watched him with interest. Unable to bear it, he sat down and quickly pleaded, "I didn’t! I was just greeting her!"
"So you’re saying the female guest isn’t pretty?"
".... She’s pretty, but I didn’t look!"
"How do you know she’s pretty if you didn’t look?" Shu Ran also joined in on teasing him.
"You jumped up so quickly, startling Mu Qiu, why are you so excited?"
"...I didn’t!!!"
[Yangyang, I’d believe you if you weren’t so obvious]
[#From a Young Idol’s Frantic Denial#]
[Hahaha caught sneaking a peek at the young lady]
[Guan Yu & Mu Qiu: Protecting our pure-hearted Yangyang]
[Poor Li Yang, what’s wrong with looking at a beautiful lady! Let him look!]
[Li Yang’s image just shattered a little more]
[No wonder he doesn’t look at me, there’s a reason]
[Li Yang’s ears are so red hahaha are the sisters teasing him]
[Speaking of staying calm, it’s like something out of a fantasy novel with thousands of Chapters!]
[Li Yang: Our group is all men, and older guys at that, definitely no girls as pretty as her]
Cheng Zhirang, having seen enough, spoke up to rescue Li Yang: "Alright, let’s let the guest sit down first."
"Thank you, Brother Cheng."
The new arrival, Lin Xixi, smiled sweetly, with dimples, and respectfully bowed to thank Cheng Zhirang before sitting in an open spot. It’s clear she has a good personality, even joking with the flustered Li Yang.
"No problem, feel free to look, we’re in the same group after all."
"??"
Mu Qiu glanced at her hand: "Did you choose maple red?"
"Yes," she said, even though her lips were painted a tender tomato red, "going against the grain."
Guan Yu leaned closer, "Can you tell us if the other guests inside are also going against the grain?"
Lin Xixi pursed her lips and smiled, her dimples showing, but she didn’t speak.
Guan Yu immediately understood, "We’re doomed, our strategy was wrong. Brother Cheng, what do we do? We don’t have a female guest."
Cheng Zhirang: "It’s alright, the organizers will sort it out."
"...That makes sense."
The second guest to come out was wearing black pants and white sneakers. At first glance, the long legs made it hard to tell if they were male or female. A hand emerged to hold the doorknob, slender, with a simple silver ring on the index finger.
"Male guest! Definitely a male guest!"
Guan Yu got excited, jumped up, and rushed over a couple of steps, "Come out, male guest! Are you in our group?!"
Li Yang: "Ha! Sister Guan Yu, you tell me not to get excited, but how can you be so eager when we haven’t even seen them yet?"
Shu Ran: "Where does that leave Brother Cheng?"
"Exactly, where does that leave Brother Cheng?!"
"Brother Cheng is my mainstay, but I do need to have other crushes, right?"
Mu Qiu: ...That makes so much sense she can’t even argue against it. 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺
"Sister Guan Yu, you’re scaring the male guest, they even pulled their leg back."
"And he’s not holding that peculiar lipstick," Shi Yuhuai pointed out sharply, "He’s holding red."
Here we go again, after Mu Qiu finished, Guan Yu turned to Shi Yuhuai, "Brother Huai, as long as it’s not a weird color, lipsticks are all red. What shade of red did you see?"
"Like..." Shi Yuhuai answered seriously, looking around and finally stopping at Shu Ran’s lips, "like the color on her lips."
Shu Ran suddenly became the focus of everyone’s gaze.
"I, this is, bean paste color." Forcing composure, but with a sudden stutter.
Even though she quite likes the attention, having so many people suddenly staring at her lips gave her a bit of that awkwardness she felt when she first started out.
"Bean paste color?" Li Yang caught the straight man syndrome, looked closely twice, "So this is bean paste color."
Shi Yuhuai also examined closely: "I thought bean paste color was like the color of bean paste filling."
That dark red, almost black kind.
Cheng Zhirang was the only normal guy, politely tilting his head to express that he’d long known what bean paste color looked like.
Turning his head, he saw Mu Qiu’s complex expression, locking eyes with those clearly defined black and white eyes.
The sour feeling in Mu Qiu’s heart hadn’t faded, so she ignored his gaze, happily watching Shu Ran’s ears instead.
Cheng Zhirang furrowed his brow and looked away.
Guan Yu exclaimed there, "Are you all treating Shu Ran as a lipstick model? Her face is all red from being stared at!"
Shu Ran wasn’t just red-faced; she was practically petrified into a statue. It was only when Li Yang and Shi Yuhuai moved aside that she felt she could breathe normally, joining in with Guan Yu’s forced laughter.
Once Shi Yuhuai moved aside, he immediately turned to fire at Li Yang: "Li Yang, why were you staring at that female artist’s lips?"
Li Yang couldn’t believe it: "??? Brother Huai, are you seriously accusing me? Who was looking first?"
"It was me, but why were you staring?"
"I was trying to... to figure out what bean paste color is like!"
Shi Yuhuai nodded, earnestly telling Shu Ran, "I’m using the same reason."
"..."
Such a roundabout, indirect explanation, yet not one I want to hear.
