The hot pot meal prepared by the program group for the guests was very practical. There was a table full of ingredients and most of them were meat. Li Linlin and Du Yanwei chatted while it was cooking.

“Do you like spicy food?”

Du Yanwei nodded. “Yes.”

“I also like it. We can eat together in the future.” Li Linlin boiled the pork belly and didn’t forget to remind Du Yanwei, “Your duck intestines should be almost ready.”

“En, do you want some? I’ll give it to you first.” Du Yanwei gave the duck intestines to Li Linlin and then cooked some again. There were cameras in the room filming them all the time but Li Linlin didn’t worry about how she was eating—— Now that she couldn’t follow Chen Yiran out to eat anymore, it was hard to get a chance to eat hot pot, so she had to eat well!

The two of them were chatting while eating and their posture didn’t look like they were there to find love but just to eat and drink. The program group saw that the time was almost up and announced the next task to them.

“Tomorrow you two will have your first date. Please discuss tomorrow’s itinerary.” The announcement came from the side and Li Linlin and Du Yanwei both glanced at the speaker before continuing to eat the food in their bowls.

As if unwilling to be neglected, the speaker was quiet for a moment before another sentence popped out, “The makeup of the female guests for tomorrow’s date needs to be done by the male guests.”

When Li Linlin heard this, the chopsticks in her hand finally paused. “What do you mean? You want him to do my makeup?”

“That’s right.”

“Ah——?” Du Yanwei also exclaimed in surprise, holding a piece of beef with the chopsticks in his hand. “Isn’t that a bad idea?”

Li Linlin looked at him and asked, “Do you know how to put on makeup? Do you recognize all types of cosmetics?”

“I-I’m alright.” Du Yanwei wasn’t particularly confident. “I put on makeup when I go on shows so I know those things, but I’ve never done it for someone else.”

Li Linlin’s initial surprise had already passed and now she was back to cooking hot pot again. She told him, “Then you can practice more on your own tonight.”

Du Yanwei smiled and said, “That’s the only thing we can do. I think the show’s staffs are too malicious. They will still let the female guests walk outside for a day even if their makeups are bad? That’s a bit too much.”

The broadcaster on the speaker said, “You can avoid failure. Jiayou.”

Du Yanwei: “……”

You cheering me on sound oddly sarcastic.

After the two finished eating the hot pot, they followed the staff to the hotel where they would be staying. Shooting lasts for two days so they would stay there for the night and get up early tomorrow morning for their date.

There were also cameras installed in the hotel rooms, which would film the state of the guests inside. Li Linlin originally wanted to take a bath and go to bed, but the program group asked her to go for a walk and continue recording. Li Linlin had no choice but to go down, and then by ‘coincidence’, met Du Yanwei who was also going for a walk.

The night view in the hotel was quite romantic. The two of them discussed the schedule for their date while walking.

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This translation is by Pocketrobbin at S h a n g h a i f a n t a s y . c o m

At this time, Chen Yiran had only just returned to Yinwan from the company. When he went upstairs, he bumped into little kid Lu Yuxuan. He’s holding a paddle in his hand, as if he had just come back from playing table tennis.

Chen Yiran was coming upstairs from the underground garage and Lu Yuxuan didn’t expect that he would be in the elevator. The two people, one big and one small, looked at each other in silence before Lu Yuxuan walked in with the paddle.

Chen Yiran had already pressed the floor button so Lu Yuxuan didn’t swipe his card again. He stood on the side and glanced at Chen Yiran, who was in a suit, and smiled at him, “Uncle, you’re off work?”

“Who’s your uncle?” Chen Yiran lowered his head and stared at the little kid.

Lu Yuxuan said, “Isn’t a middle-aged man of your age an uncle?”

Chen Yiran snorted inwardly. At his age? Middle-aged? The country says he’s an outstanding young entrepreneur, okay?

The focus was on the word young.

“Uncle, aren’t you a lot older than Sister Linlin? You two are really not suitable.”

Chen Yiran sneered. “Then who do you think is suitable for her? Your brother? That’s quite a thought.”

Lu Yuxuan harrumphed and tilted his head to look at Chen Yiran. “Even if she didn’t end up with my brother, there are other young boys around her, like the male star Shang Ci. Their CP is very popular on the Internet.”

“Primary school students should stay away from the Internet. It’s better for you and the adults.”

Lu Yuxuan retorted, “Uncle, you seem to rarely go online, you probably still use 2G to surf, right?”

Chen Yiran: “……”

Was he talking about him, who fought with netizens on Weibo when he was eight years old for his uncle Chen Zui? 🙂

The ding of the elevator ended the ‘gunpowderless’ battle. Chen Yiran felt that he was so idle that he was even arguing with a little kid.

He walked out of the elevator without looking back and opened the door to his house. Lu Yuxuan walked in the opposite direction and returned home with his small paddle.

Chen Yiran took a shower and changed his clothes. He originally wanted to deal with work for a while, but he couldn’t stay still, so he simply opened the door and went out to find Li Linlin upstairs.

Wu Hui did not stay in the hotel with Li Linlin, leaving only two assistants there and returned to Yinwan. She and Chen Xi stayed in their own rooms. After hearing the doorbell ring, they both went out to take a look.

“Who’s coming at the door at this hour?” Chen Xi asked Wu Hui as they headed towards the door. “Could it be Brother Yiran?”

“Ah? Then I won’t go.” Wu Hui immediately halted. “Go and open the door, I’m going back to my room.”

Chen Xi: “……”

It seemed that Brother Yiran had really left a great shadow on Wu Hui’s young mind.

She walked to the door herself and looked at the doorbell camera. Sure enough, it was Chen Yiran standing outside.

She opened the door for Chen Yiran and looked at him with some confusion, “Do you need something, Brother Yiran?”

Chen Yiran looked towards the inside and asked her, “Is Linlin here? I want to talk to her.”

He had thought about it carefully these days. His relationship with Li Linlin couldn’t continue to be so strained. As the older brother, he should take the initiative to untie this knot and have a good chat with her.

Chen Xi blinked. She looked at him and said, “Oh…… Linlin went to record a show. She’s not here.”

Chen Yiran was stunned as he recalled the variety show’s recording schedule given to him by Assistant Wu and asked with some confusion, “Isn’t the recording still two days away?”

Chen Xi said, “It’s not 《A Meal in the Woods》, Linlin has taken another show.”

Chen Yiran gently frowned. “What show?”

“It think it’s called 《Let’s Fall in Love》. It’s a dating show.”

“A dating show?” Chen Yiran seemed to have heard of this kind of reality show for the first time and his frown deepened. “What do they do on a dating show?”

“Of course it’s dating.”

“Dating?” The volume of Chen Yiran’s voice unconsciously rose up a bit. “With whom?”

“The…… male guests.”

Chen Yiran pursed his lips and knitted his brows together. “How can there be such a preposterous show? What’s the point of it?”

Chen Xi said, “Of course it’s to eat sugar^[1]watch one’s favorite CP be intimate. The audience likes to watch other people form relationships! You have no idea, that show is extremely popular. The first two seasons made a lot of people famous!”

Chen Yiran frowned and said, “Is Linlin still lacking in popularity? Why does she need to go on that kind of show?”

Chen Xi looked at him and blinked. “It’s true that she doesn’t lack popularity, so I guess she’s just there to date.”

Chen Yiran: “……”

He turned away without saying a word. Chen Xi watched as he pressed the elevator door button and waved at him from behind with a smile. “Bye-bye, Brother Yiran.”

When Chen Yiran got home, he dialled Li Linlin’s number. The call was quickly picked up, however, the voice on the other end wasn’t Li Linlin’s, “Hello, President Chen.”

Li Linlin’s assistant, Xiao Xi, carefully answered Chen Yiran’s call.

Chen Yiran furrowed his brows and asked in a cold tone, “Who are you?”

“President Chen, I’m Xiao Xi, Linlin’s assistant.” Xiao Xi hurriedly explained to Chen Yiran, as if something was chasing her. “Linlin is currently recording and the crew doesn’t allow her to bring her mobile phone so it’s temporarily left here with us.”

If Chen Yiran called a little later, the phone would’ve already been turned off.

When Chen Yiran heard what she said, he became even more dissatisfied with the show. “If people didn’t bring their phone with them, how can they contact someone if something happens?”

“Don’t worry, President Chen, their filming very closely all throughout and cameras are everywhere. The staff will be the first to see if anything is wrong.”

Chen Yiran pursed his lips and asked her again, “What is Linlin doing now?”

Xiao Xi coughed and spoke as if in some difficulty, “Linlin is taking a walk with a male guest.”

Chen Yiran: “……”

“Who’s the male guest?” When these words came out of his mouth, Xiao Xi almost died on the spot from fright, but Chen Yiran was oblivious.

Xiao Xi said tremblingly, “The male guest’s name is Du Yanwei, he’s a singer.”

Chen Yiran hung up the phone after hearing her out. Without wasting a second, he directly called Assistant Wu.

For Assistant Wu, receiving a work call from the president late at night wasn’t uncommon. He put down the midnight snack in his hand, wiped his hands quickly with a tissue, and picked up the phone. “President Chen, what can I do for you?”

Chen Yiran said on the other end of the phone, “Help me check the information of a singer named Du Yanwei. The more detailed the better.”

“Yes, President Chen.” Assistant Wu agreed, wondering how Du Yanwei had offended President Chen. The tone of President Chen’s voice was as if he wanted to eat Du Yanwei alive.

He quickly went to collect information about Du Yanwei. The young man had just graduated from the Conservatory of Music for a year and was a small singer with few fans. Let alone how he offended President Chen, the fact that President Chen actually knew about such a person was enough to surprise Assistant Wu.

Until he learned through relevant sources that Du Yanwei was currently recording a dating reality show and the female guest he was paired with was none other than President Chen’s sister, Li Linlin.

Assistant Wu: “……”

Du Yanwei was dancing in President Chen’s minefield.

As Chen Yiran’s right-hand man, Assistant Wu organized Du Yanwei’s information and sent it all to Chen Yiran’s email. Chen Yiran didn’t sleep even though it was so late. He leaned on the bedside with a tablet in his hand and checked the email that Assistant Wu had just sent.

The information about Du Yanwei was very detailed, even his final grades for each semester during his school years were recorded.

His resume was barely readable. He received scholarships every year when he was studying and he also won a couple of music awards. However, they were all school awards that the average person probably hadn’t even heard of.

He had been releasing songs since his debut and his works had also been highly praised by the industry, but because they do not meet the taste of the mainstream market, they hadn’t become popular.

The information also specifically stated that he and Li Shen both graduated from the A City’s Conservatory of Music, and that his idol was Li Shen.

Chen Yiran: “Heh.”