Into the Spring - Chapter 3

Chapter 3

Under the watchful eyes of hundreds of thousands of people both in and outside the studio, I slowly typed out a few lines.

“Xiao Jiang received! Xiao Jiang is blushing! Xiao Jiang says don’t look!”

“Teacher Shi, you’re breaking character. Want to say hi to everyone here at the variety show?”

Xiao Jiang was the character I played in the new drama Shi Xingxun and I were filming.

Damn, I really was a genius!

I actually managed to smooth that over.

Exposing a relationship and generating buzz for a project were two completely different things.

Anyway, the new drama was about to be promoted soon. We could just treat this as a scripted promo segment and get some free marketing out of it.

Two birds with one stone!!!

Even if I stopped acting, I would still be a hall-of-fame-level mentor in the marketing world, hehe.

Hopefully Shi Xingxun could understand my very obvious hint and not drop the ball again!

The other side was quiet for a while before decisively sending over a video call.

The staff on set were extremely perceptive and immediately projected my phone screen, enlarging it until it covered Cui Ran’s mortifying chat box.

“Hello, everyone. I’m Shi Xingxun.”

The first thing that appeared was his cool, distant eyes and his tightly pressed lips, which had not the slightest curve to them.

Mm. His popularity really was high. The audience’s screams were about to tear the studio roof off…

No, seriously, I could not understand it. Was a face this strong really more attractive than pink underwear?!

I sighed.

With an attitude of not understanding but still respecting it, I focused my gaze on Shi Xingxun.

He was probably on set. His whole body was casually leaning back in a chair, a few loose strands of hair at his forehead pinned back with silver-white clips, his expression utterly calm.

As if the person who had just gone to such desperate lengths, kicking up a fuss just to make me reply, hadn’t been him at all.

How should I put it? He looked like a soulless promotional tool.

“I’m very happy to be working with Teacher Zhou Qingran, and I’m also very happy that our new drama will be meeting the audience soon.

“What happened just now can be considered a little Easter egg for everyone. I hope you’ll all give us plenty of support.”

With Shi Xingxun showing his face, this episode’s popularity was definitely going to explode.

After receiving instructions from the production team, the host excitedly threw him a topic, trying to extend this segment.

If you ask me, Cui Ran had a pretty strong heart too.

Even after all that, she could still find the right moment to sweetly greet Shi Xingxun.

She even teased him all on her own, saying, “Teacher Shi works too hard. He doesn’t even have time to reply to my messages.”

…

No, girl, how many dishes did you have to get this drunk?

The way she said it made it sound like he and I only had a purely professional relationship, while the two of them had something private going on?!