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Outside, the rain was drizzling.
Wu Nan er walked out of the studio and opened an umbrella. He glanced at Junzi Yu, who was acting nonchalant, and tilted his umbrella slightly. He met Junzi Yu’s puzzled gaze and said, “You never used to act like this.”
Junzi Yu lowered his eyelashes, “Are you concerned about me?”
“Close enough,” Wu Nan er put his hands in his pockets, “there’s a great tea shop in the square nearby. Let’s go, I’ll treat you.”
Meanwhile, Shi Sheng walked down the sidewalk holding an umbrella. Passing cars splashed water, and droplets fell along the umbrella’s surface.
In “Fortress Besieged,” Zhao Xinmei said: “The honeymoon trip after marriage is in reverse order. You should travel together for a month first. After a month of travel, if both sides haven’t seen through each other, haven’t grown tired of each other, haven’t quarreled, and still want to maintain the original marriage contract, then such a couple is unlikely to divorce.”
So, when Lu Lin proposed the trip, Shi Sheng saw it as a hint, a hint to make him feel completely at ease.
Su Qi’s tour guide license was not obtained in vain. As soon as she knew they were going on a trip, she started helping with the planning. She selected several nearby tourist destinations, and after Shi Sheng and Lu Lin reviewed them, they unanimously decided on a tourist village on a certain island.
With eighteen bends in the mountain road, they would drive there in the afternoon, enjoy the sea breeze by the beach, cycle around the island at night, and have a beach barbecue. The next day, they would wake up early for a beach stroll and embark on an adventurous exploration in the caves in the afternoon.
“That sounds great. I’ve always wanted to see the sea,” Shi Sheng crunched on some potato chips.
Su Qi was somewhat pleased. “Satisfying customers is my specialty. I’m a professional.”
Shi Sheng also wanted to ask Lu Lin’s opinion. When he turned his head, he saw Lu Lin squinting at the phone like an old man on the subway. Curious, he leaned over and found that Lu Yin had sent him a competition poster.
“What’s this?”
“Couples showing affection competition,” Lu Lin calmly read out the test questions, “Film a difficult kissing video, the higher the difficulty, the higher the score; answer ten life-threatening questions, ten tacit questions, tell your love story; compete with corny love words…”
Shi Sheng leaned on Lu Lin’s shoulder, swiping down the screen with his finger.
Prize: A three-day free stay in a romantic hotel suite.
Does this mean the winners get to go out to see the sea during the day and sleep in a romantic hotel at night, and they have a place to stay no matter how they sleep? Shi Sheng licked his teeth and looked at Lu Lin, “Shall we participate?”
Lu Lin scrolled to the section on participation rules and pointed to the three small words “no gender restriction”. The event had been going on for two weeks and would end that day, with voting tomorrow and the list of winners announced the day after tomorrow, just in time.
They glanced at each other and then looked at Su Qi simultaneously.
Su Qi, who was writing the plan, stopped her pen and slowly raised her head. “What’s wrong?”
“Film a difficult kissing video,” Shi Sheng turned the phone screen to blink his eyes, “Help us shoot it.”
Five minutes later, Su Qi, with a blank expression, held up her phone and watched Lu Lin do a handstand, kissing Shi Sheng lying on the bed. She clicked to stop recording and then, as a single since birth, she left this heartbreaking place without looking back.
Lu Lin got off the bed and bent down to kiss Shi Sheng a few more times.
“Come on,” Shi Sheng leaned on Lu Lin’s back, grabbed his phone for real-name authentication, and opened the life-threatening ten questions. Lu Lin took away the pillow and leaned back.
Question: What do you do when your partner gains weight?
A. Gain weight with them
B. Help them lose weight
C. Let them gain weight alone, while you remain handsome/beautiful by their side
D. Implement the “meat transfer surgery” and eliminate all delicious food for them
Lu Lin pondered and was about to choose A when Shi Sheng quickly chose D. “You’re a firefighter, how can you get fat?”
Lu Lin nodded. “…makes sense.”
Next, they completed the remaining nine questions with the same mindset and successfully obtained the title of “Deadly Couple.” Among the 1,314 participating couples, they accounted for 12%.
“Is this good or bad?” Shi Sheng pondered. “It should be good.”
Lu Lin nodded. “Let’s continue.”
In the subsequent ten tacit questions, the page couldn’t be navigated, and both parties needed to separate and answer with GPS positioning enabled. They had to guess each other’s personality—a_i.
System: When do you usually go to sleep each night?
Shi Sheng’s answer: I don’t sleep if the moon doesn’t sleep.
Lu Lin’s answer: 22:00–23:00
System: Unfortunately, the tacit level for this question is 0.
Lu Lin frowned deeply. Did this guy not sleep when he slept? Shi Sheng scratched his head in the next room. He only slept early when he was lying on the same bed as Lu Lin. Otherwise, didn’t Lu Lin know he liked staying up late?
“Let’s try again!” they said in unison.
Ten minutes later.
System: Unfortunately, the tacit degree of this question is 0.
System: Unfortunately, the tacit degree of this question is 0 (+1).
System: Unfortunately, the tacit degree of this question is 0 (+1).
System: Unfortunately, the tacit degree of this question is 0. The system is tired of saying this!
…
System: Congratulations to both of you for being rated as the least tacit couple of the year! Among the 1,314 participating couples, you account for 1.2%!
“Damn it,” Shi Sheng made a grunt sound, pushed the door back from the next room, threw his phone on the bed, “I’m done, let’s buy it with money.”
“Aren’t you the one who loves eating chicken collarbones the most?” Lu Lin still didn’t understand.
Shi Sheng paused. “Isn’t my favorite fried chicken legs? You fake boyfriend!”
“Don’t you sleep wearing only boxers?”
“…Isn’t it because you keep taking off my clothes? I’m trying to save you trouble.” Shi Sheng put his hands on his hips, annoyed. “You should also know that I use Head & Shoulders shampoo, right?”
Lu Lin’s expression gradually became subtle. “I chose Head & Shoulders shampoo too.”
“Then you must have accidentally selected the wrong one.”
“Impossible.” Lu Lin picked up his phone to show him.
Shi Sheng lowered his head and found that it was he who had mistakenly chosen Pantene instead of Head & Shoulders. His momentum gradually weakened. Well, he admitted he was a bit too loud in accusing Lu Lin.
“Anyway, you just don’t understand me enough.” Shi Sheng nodded. “It’s your fault.”
“Okay okay okay, it’s my fault.” Lu Lin surrendered.
It seemed that they couldn’t freeload at the romantic hotel. Shi Sheng collapsed onto the bed, kicking his legs and starting to think about booking a homestay. Suddenly, Lu Yin called.
“Ge, did you participate in the competition I just sent you?”
Lu Lin was absent-mindedly rubbing Shi Sheng’s head, realizing that it felt quite nice. “I participated, but didn’t pass.”
“Wait, ge, you didn’t do real-name authentication, did you?” Lu Yin’s tone on the other end sounded anxious. “This is bad.”
“What’s wrong?”
“I just found out that the organizer of this competition is our family’s hotel, and the contact number for the person in charge is Lu Chengxin’s. Won’t Dad see the data now?!”
Lu Lin’s hand stopped rubbing his head, and he blinked at Shi Sheng.
He exited the chat interface and checked—
The organizer: Shiyi Hotel.