Chapter 28
The moment Qi Xiu finished speaking, everyone inside the wooden hut immediately turned to look at Qin Ye in unison.
Under the attention of so many pairs of eyes, Qin Ye could not help glancing from the corner of his eye at the young man beside him.
From the corner of his eye, he could not see Shen Jinfeng’s face, and he was too embarrassed to turn his head to look.
But without a doubt, he felt several burning gazes.
One of them definitely belonged to Shen Jinfeng.
Damn it. He was a little nervous, a little excited.
Even more nervous and excited than when he had first negotiated a ten-billion-yuan order.
Sure enough, Shen Jinfeng had fallen for him!
Qi Xiu’s divination result confirmed his conclusion!
Although they had only interacted deeply for two days, Ms. Yun had said that sometimes love came this inexplicably.
It might be a single glance when two people’s eyes met. It might be the instant one met someone. It might be a smile, or a certain movement…
Love could come very quickly, like a tornado.
Many people liked him. Shen Jinfeng liking him was not strange at all.
Qin Ye could not quite describe what he was feeling.
Did he like Shen Jinfeng?
He asked himself.
It did not seem to have reached the legendary stage of depending on each other through life and death, or pledging life and death together.
But at the very least, he did not dislike it.
Qi Xiu had also said that his love was about to come.
That meant, in the future, it was very possible that he and Shen Jinfeng would share mutual feelings.
So there was no need to resist now.
He could just accept it, let nature take its course, and slowly cultivate feelings with Shen Jinfeng.
Anyway, Shen Jinfeng had not confessed to him yet.
Although he now clearly knew the other party’s feelings, he still had to pretend he did not know.
Ms. Yun had said that before a relationship officially began, the ambiguous period was the happiest.
Using the precise logic with which he usually handled hundreds of millions in orders every minute, Qin Ye sorted through the cause and effect.
In the end, he felt that he, he also did not mind officially entering an ambiguous stage with Shen Jinfeng.
Of course, all of this was merely the storm of thoughts that passed through his mind in a few short seconds.
It was just that, what reaction should he have now?
There were so many people here, and Shen Jinfeng had not confessed to him yet. He could not let the others see any clues first. He could not let Shen Jinfeng feel embarrassed.
So…
After hearing Qi Xiu’s congratulations, Qin Ye’s eyes only uncontrollably brightened slightly for an instant at the very beginning before he restrained himself.
His expression remained calm and unruffled. After several seconds of silence, he answered faintly, “Oh.”
However, on the high-definition screen of the Being a Person production team, clear enough to show even the hair on a mosquito’s leg, the redness of his ear was reflected with perfect clarity.
It was not faintly red. It was an obvious, burning-looking red that could be seen at a glance.
[He’s blushing. No, Ye God, your ears are red!]
[Bro, stop pretending to be calm, bro!]
[Oh? Oh what? Does saying one “oh” make you seem high-class, like an old monk in meditation, not excited at all?]
[Qin Ye’s love is actually coming soon! Who is it? My heart is being scratched raw right now. I want to know!]
[Ahhhhhhh! Cough cough, it’s this obvious, and you all still can’t see it? Hehe, sob sob, I’m so happy. I feel like I’ve shipped something real!]
[Sob sob, person in front, I understand! Let’s exchange a secret code!]
[What are some bullet comments sneaking around and talking about?]
[Speechless. What else could it be? It’s just CP fans who see everything as sugar. Who knows which pair they’re shipping.]
[Holy crap, didn’t Qin Ye just accept an interview with a finance magazine two months before entering this variety show? Back then, he even said he had no thoughts of dating. And now love is coming so soon?]
[No, he said he had no thoughts of dating and you believed him? If he really didn’t, why would he ask our little Qi to calculate his love life? If he didn’t want to himself, would he bring up this part?]
[Oh-ho, agreed. Qin Ye is a reserved but secretly passionate man!]
Seeing this bullet comment, Sun Xinping felt “faintly” guilty.
Qin Ye himself might indeed have had no thoughts of dating.
But Sun Xinping had no choice. Entrusted by someone—and happy to see it happen—he had helplessly implanted in Qin Ye the subconscious desire to find a partner.
Cough cough. But speaking of which, could the subconscious have such a big effect?
Besides, there were plenty of people who wanted to find partners, but not many actually found someone they liked.
Love was coming soon.
Did that not still require meeting the right person first?
He was thinking this when,
on the screen, Qin Ye, who was pretending to remain unmoved, paused, as if he felt his reaction had been too cold.
He added another sentence: “I look forward to it.”
[???]
[Okay, confirmed. Qin Ye really does want to date. He’s already looking forward to it. I’m dying of laughter.]
[Damn it, I suddenly really hope Qi Xiu’s divination is wrong and that he doesn’t get to date! I’m sour. I’m extremely sour. This world must not allow the existence of someone who has looks, height, career, wealth, and love all at once. Not! Allowed! What right does he have? Did he save the galaxy in his past life?]
[Speaking of which, are there really no fans coming out to protest?]
[Fans protesting? First of all, Qin Ye is already outside the industry now. Besides, what use is fan protest? Celebrities in the entertainment industry still worry about losing fans and bad public opinion. Would Qin Ye be someone who worries about that? Even when he was still acting, he never did fan service.]
[Fans are powerless to protest… Ye God is someone with very strong opinions. Our protests are useless… But who is his love?! If his love is very ordinary, I really will protest!]
[Ye God isn’t that young anymore either. He’s twenty-nine, right? Isn’t it normal to date? And he was always single before! Key point: for the past twenty-nine years, he has been single since birth! Isn’t that cleaner than most people’s romantic history in the entertainment industry? At this age, wanting to date or even get married and have children is perfectly reasonable…]
[It’s only in recent years that there have been so many protests against celebrities dating, mainly from traffic-star fans. Qin Ye left the industry years ago. He’s not from this era. Back in their era, popular actresses and actors married young, and they never cared about fan protests.]
[Although that’s true, I’m really so sour! Sob sob, after Qin Ye comes out, will he go back to work at Qin Group? I’ll pack up and go apply right now! Maybe his love is me!]
[Good grief, Qin Group’s HR department is going to have a headache for quite some time.]
[Actually, the most important thing is what sister-in-law is like. If sister-in-law isn’t good enough, fans really will protest for years. Mm, even though protesting is useless.]
A bit of trivia: apart from idols who sell a single-person image and specifically attract girlfriend fans or boyfriend fans,
most celebrities, including even some idols, do not have such extreme fans.
In most fans’ eyes,
it is not so much that they do not allow their idols to date. Rather, they do not allow their idols to date someone they look down on!
This also leads to some very niche phenomena.
Sometimes, under the videos of certain celebrities, or even ordinary people outside the industry who happen to have some connection with the entertainment industry,
one can see fans from different sides fighting over who gets to be sister-in-law.
Of course, the explosion of bullet comments had temporarily nothing to do with the scene.
After hearing Qi Xiu’s result, the others’ eyes also lit up, and they began gossiping.
He Erwang was the first to ask, “Love is coming? Who doesn’t have love? The question is, how is Brother Ye’s love?”
Gu Shengsheng asked, “Is it his destined match? What kind of destined match? Will he have to suffer?”
Mo Fan muttered, “Still looking forward to love? Who doesn’t look forward to love?”
Only Shen Jinfeng did not ask.
No one noticed that besides Qin Ye’s red ears,
the base of Shen Jinfeng’s ear was also a little red. It was just that he was sitting in front of the fire, and the firelight illuminated half his face while the other half was hidden in shadow, so no one saw.
Others did not know, but how could Shen Jinfeng not know what it meant?
Love was coming soon.
Qi Xiu really did have something. He could even calculate this.
Qin Ye had ended up stranded on this deserted island because of him.
Because of love.
Qin Ye even responded, “I look forward to it.”
What was he looking forward to? Aside from looking forward to love bearing fruit, what else could there be?
That sentence was meant for him.
Earlier, Qin Ye had hinted to him that he had always been single before.
Now, through Qi Xiu’s divination, he had secretly confessed to him again.
Shen Jinfeng had truly never seen such a skilled secret admirer, one who could seize every possible opening.
He sighed. Ah, they had only known each other for two days.
Qin Ye was really too impatient.
He thought this in his heart.
The other members of the team were also too nosy right now.
Hearing everyone’s questions, Qi Xiu did not hide anything. In fact, he felt a little sour inside. “It’s a good love. The other person is very, very good. However, there will be some twists and turns.”
Qin Ye frowned slightly. “There will still be twists and turns?”
Qi Xiu wanted to roll his eyes. “Did you think you could embrace the beauty without any twists and turns? Whose romance doesn’t have at least some twists?”
Qin Ye instinctively glanced at Shen Jinfeng beside him.
Shen Jinfeng’s expression was calm.
But he had nearly scratched a three-bedroom, one-living-room apartment into the floor.
What did he mean by embracing the beauty?
Qi Xiu’s wording was far too inappropriate!
At this moment, Qi Xiu glared at Qin Ye. “Why are you looking at Boss? Boss can’t help you solve love troubles.”
Cough cough.
Shen Jinfeng’s eyes quickly flickered.
No, perhaps he could.
The others were so envious their eyes turned red.
Mo Fan was middle-aged and unemployed, and he had already divorced before. His marriage had broken down and had not been ideal.
He Erwang: ask once and the answer was that dating would definitely get him deceived in body, heart, and money.
Gu Shengsheng: dating meant he had to perform a deeply abusive romance. Reject, reject, reject!
“I heard before that when calculating peach blossom luck, you can even calculate what someone’s future destined partner looks like. You can see height, appearance, even career. One of my older female cousins told me that. Is it true?” He Erwang asked.
Gu Shengsheng gave a surprised “eh.” “That powerful!”
“Qi Xiu, can you see what Qin Ye’s approaching love looks like and what the other person does?”
The two of them sang in harmony, instantly pushing the progress bar to the maximum.
Qin Ye and Shen Jinfeng spoke in perfect tacit understanding: “Let’s not look at that.”
“Ah?” The others froze and looked toward the two of them, especially Shen Jinfeng.
He Erwang asked hesitantly, “Why?”
Qin Ye’s heart pounded wildly, but he only said coldly, “That is my privacy.”
Shen Jinfeng: “…”
He cleared his throat and explained to them, “When fortune-tellers calculate romance, even if they see the client’s destined partner, revealing such detailed things is, first, disadvantageous to the fortune-teller themselves. Second, once said aloud, it becomes a suggestion. After the client learns who their destined partner is, they may deliberately search in that direction, or rebelliously avoid that standard, causing negative consequences.”
For example, now that Qi Xiu had calculated a result, it somewhat affected his judgment.
Could it be that in the future, he really would agree to be with Qin Ye and fall for his secret admirer too?
Shen Jinfeng was somewhat conflicted. Was 888 finally so useful for once that the surprise it had prepared for him landed right in his heart?
After hearing his explanation,
Qin Ye let out a breath of relief.
Qi Xiu also nodded with shining eyes. He said, moved, “Boss, you’re really thinking of me!”
“My master said the same thing. Too many secrets of heaven cannot be leaked.”
However, to see things to the extent He Erwang mentioned and see the destined partner, he would need Qin Ye’s eight characters.
Six-line divination mostly gave an accurate result, but it could not see things in such detail.
[So there’s this kind of rule. It does make sense. A fortune-teller can’t just report someone’s ID number to you. If they describe height, appearance, career, and so on, there would be a huge pile of people who fit. You get excited and go looking yourself—who knows whether you found the right person?]
[Some people are indeed very rebellious. For example, me. If you tell me I’ll definitely be with someone, I won’t believe it! I want to make my own choice! Not have you tell me it’s destined. Otherwise, how is that different from ancient parents arranging marriages before birth?]
[Qin Ye really values privacy. Could it be that when he said in past interviews that he didn’t want to date, he was deliberately trying to stop the outside world from guessing about his future other half?]
[No, am I the only one who noticed something? I originally didn’t think Ye God and Big Shot Shen’s CP fans were doing anything real, but just now, the two of them were so synchronized. Was that really not guilty conscience?]
[And little Qi, what the hell do you mean, thinking of you? Hahahahaha! Little Qi, your boss is feeling guilty!!!]
[Little Qi, calculate again, calculate again, and you’ll know why these two both told you not to look!]
[Say it again. CP fans, stay in your own circle and stop showing off!]
[Say it again. Solo fans, open your eyes and stop pretending to be blind!]
[Passerby who isn’t any kind of fan falls silent…]
At the scene, after hearing Qi Xiu and Shen Jinfeng’s explanation, and since Qin Ye, the person involved, also did not want his privacy leaked, He Erwang and the others could only sigh and stop asking.
“All right.”
However, Qi Xiu was not finished.
He looked at the hexagram he had just gotten and stroked his chin thoughtfully. “This is a little unusual. Your love that’s about to arrive actually shows up as a variable.”
Qin Ye’s heart startled.
Exactly. The people Ms. Yun had previously found to calculate his marriage fate had all tactfully expressed that his fate had not yet arrived.
In fact, the meaning between the lines was that he might grow old alone, frightening Ms. Yun badly. After that, she had frantically introduced people to him and urged him to find a partner.
Fortunately, Qi Xiu’s calculation was good.
Being stranded on this deserted island was a variable. He had met Shen Jinfeng.
His love was about to come.
Qin Ye suppressed his wildly beating heart and began thinking about whether he should be a little more proactive and give the young man beside him more of a response.
Qi Xiu did not know his thoughts.
He secretly cast another hexagram. Good grief, this variable really did have something to do with Boss!
Boss was not only his benefactor.
He was Gu Shengsheng’s benefactor.
He was also Qin Ye’s benefactor!
But saying this in front of the benefactor himself was not very appropriate.
He had already hinted to Gu Shengsheng earlier: following Boss would let danger turn into fortune.
Qi Xiu’s eyes turned, and he pulled Qin Ye aside.
Qin Ye was confused. “What is it?”
Qi Xiu pulled him a few more steps away. He looked from afar in Shen Jinfeng’s direction, his eyes full of worship.
Big shot! Boss was actually the benefactor of someone like Qin Ye too!
He definitely had to cling tightly to Boss’s thigh and not let go!
“You two are still going to whisper?” Mo Fan looked over curiously.
Qi Xiu smiled embarrassedly. “I need to explain a couple of things to him.”
He turned back and looked at Qin Ye solemnly, warning him seriously, “Brother Ye, you must thank Boss properly!”
Qin Ye’s eyes flickered. “Thank Little Captain?”
Thank him for liking me?
Qi Xiu did not notice anything wrong at all. He naturally nodded. “It’s all because of Boss that you have this variable and can have a very good love in the future.”
“So when you date in the future and are sweet and happy, you must remember to thank Boss!”
Qin Ye felt as if his whole body was about to burst into flames with a whoosh.
“You… you know?”
Qi Xiu frowned. “I know. Am I not telling you right now?”
Qin Ye restrained the turmoil in his heart and gathered his thoughts.
His cold, sharp brows and eyes were filled with sincerity as he said seriously, “I will.”
Qi Xiu nodded in satisfaction, from beginning to end having no idea that the two of them had never been on the same wavelength.
“All right, let’s go back. Don’t tell Boss what I secretly came to tell you.”
Qin Ye said, “Mm.”
He asked Qi Xiu, “Can you not tell the others about this for now?”
This time, Qi Xiu felt a little strange. “This can’t be said either?”
“Isn’t it just that Boss is your benefactor?” he muttered softly.
Qin Ye did not hear clearly. “What?”
Qi Xiu shook his head. “Nothing. Do you have any other questions?”
Qin Ye gave an “oh,” his cold voice tightening slightly. “Wait until this matter is no longer a secret, then say it.”
However, by that time, there should be no need to say it.
Everyone would know.
Qi Xiu waved his hand. “Fine.”
He did not take it to heart.
Nor did he know how huge a misunderstanding his words had caused.
[My god, these two are talking past each other, right?]
[Little Qi means that because Qin Ye met Big Shot Shen, his luck changed and he’s going to meet love? Big Shot Shen is the matchmaker? So he’s a benefactor, and Qin Ye needs to thank Big Shot Shen?]
[Is there a possibility that Qi Xiu really didn’t calculate clearly, and only calculated the surface? Who said a benefactor can’t be a lover? Otherwise, why would Qin Ye have love because of Shen Jinfeng?]
[Does this count as confirmation in disguise?!]
[The problem is, what little Qi calculated now isn’t important. What’s important is that Qin Ye clearly misunderstood!!!]
[Damn it, Director, this won’t do! You can’t let this misunderstanding make Qin Ye actually fall for Shen Jinfeng! This is a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding, ahhh!]
[Old Dog Sun, hurry and pause the livestream! Or find a way to remind Ye God. You can’t let Ye God misunderstand!]
Sun Xinping, also in front of the screen, was trembling with fear and completely at a loss.
Xiao Li’s voice shook. “Director, if Qin Ye finds out after coming out that our lousy show—no, that a guest on our show misled him, and we get dragged into it too, what do we do? Will he make us go bankrupt in minutes?”
Although saying a show could go bankrupt sounded a little strange, it was extremely vivid.
Cold sweat dripped from Sun Xinping drop by drop. “What do we do, what do we do?”
“Goat, do you have any ideas?” he asked the equipment team leader.
The equipment team leader also frowned. “Although it’s a misunderstanding, if he really falls for him, isn’t that also love?”
“It’s not like Shen Jinfeng tricked him. Even if Qi Xiu said that, it can’t control Qin Ye’s feelings.”
Sun Xinping could not listen. “You don’t understand. Qin Ye’s methods…”
Before he finished speaking, his phone suddenly rang.
He picked up the phone and looked. His expression instantly grew even more serious, and he stood up from his chair all at once.
“Hello, Ms. Yun?” On the other end was Qin Ye’s mother.
“Director Sun, I’ve seen the current public opinion, but I remember that the purpose of your show is that once filming begins, no one can manipulate anything, correct?”
Sun Xinping nodded and bowed as he agreed. “Yes, yes, you’re right.”
Ms. Yun gave a light instruction. “I do not wish to see any guest in the show being interfered with from now on.”
Sun Xinping’s heart trembled. “Then Mr. Qin’s side?”
Ms. Yun gave a light hum. Even her cold tone could not conceal the joy within it. “What problem is there with Qin Ye’s side? Can I stop him from dating?”
After saying that, she hung up.
Sun Xinping’s face turned bitter, and he instantly understood.
Qin Ye’s mother meant he could not stop Qin Ye from dating. Not only could he not obstruct it, he had to raise both hands and feet in approval!
He had truly never seen such a mother “tricking” her son.
He silently complained in his heart, then turned back and weakly instructed the equipment team leader, “Forget it. Let nature take its course. You don’t need to manipulate anything.”
On the other end, after hanging up, Ms. Yun put down her phone and grabbed her husband’s arm beside her, screaming in wild joy, “Old Qin, our son is going to date!!!”
Qin Jianfeng helplessly pulled his wife into his arms and said with amusement, “Nothing has even started yet.”
“How has nothing started? Did you see the way they looked at each other? They’re in love!”
Qin Jianfeng: “…”
Ms. Yun continued: “You know your son too, don’t you? Have you not seen how he reacts to people he doesn’t like? If he doesn’t like Xiao Shen, I’ll shove him back into my womb and make him speak honestly.”
Qin Jianfeng was startled. “…That metaphor is appropriate.”
Ms. Yun beamed with joy and began planning far ahead. “This Xiao Shen looks like such a good child at first glance! What do you think I should prepare as a meeting gift for our future son-in-law?”
She directly opened her collection list.
Mm, that was right. Because she had too many precious collections, the appraiser had specially made a list for her.
“Husband, help me choose something for Xiao Shen from a man’s perspective? Or are there any auctions recently? I’ll go with you next time.”
Outside the show, because of this crossed-wires misunderstanding between Qi Xiu and Qin Ye, the whole world had been thrown into chaos.
Later, after Qi Xiu left the show and learned that he had accidentally become a matchmaker, his face turned green with regret.
But right now, he still did not know. He raised his hand very high and walked back with Qin Ye, arms around shoulders like good brothers.
Now, only Shen Jinfeng had not received a divination.
Qi Xiu still had not given up. His heart felt as if it were being scratched. He really wanted to calculate a hexagram for Boss!
Of course, he could calculate now too, but without the eight characters, it would not be as accurate.
Just how powerful was Boss? What kind of great figure would he become in the future?
Qi Xiu was far too curious!
“Boss, do you really not have anything you want calculated? Is there any confusion about your life direction? Do you want to calculate love too?”
Shen Jinfeng lazily waved his hand. “I won’t calculate. I don’t have any dissatisfaction with my life.”
As long as he left this deserted island, he would be able to live a rich and leisurely life lying flat!
The only thing he had never experienced was love. Cough cough, his secret admirer had already calculated a divination for the two of them.
He already knew.
But this still had to follow its natural course and proceed slowly. He had to adapt.
“Qi Xiu, have you calculated for yourself? Leaking too many heavenly secrets is bad for oneself,” he reminded.
Speaking of which, why had he never become a fortune-teller after quick-transmigrating through so many worlds?
Because in ancient worlds, he really had encountered a few people with real ability, even an old abbot who could tell at one glance that he came from another world.
But, well, those powerful to this degree did not have good deaths.
The old abbot who saw through his origins seemed to go blind the next day, and after another month or so, he passed away.
As for Shen Jinfeng himself, in one world, his identity had been in a cultivation novel, as the Pavilion Master of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion.
Every day, he was responsible for calculating, calculating, and calculating.
He had finally cultivated to one of the top levels in that world, prevented the protagonist from turning evil, and successfully saved the world. He thought he was about to enjoy a good life in the cultivation world.
In the next second, he was hit by backlash from the heavenly secrets.
His body died, and his dao vanished!
Regarding this, 888 said that anyway, once the mission was complete, he had to leave.
Shen Jinfeng: “…”
What else could he say?
In short, afterward, he kept a respectful distance from fortune-telling.
Anyway, whether he calculated or not, he believed more in human effort overcoming fate.
Qi Xiu, whose attention had successfully been diverted, heard his reminder and smiled as he scratched his head, very carefree.
“It’s fine. My master calculated for me.”
“No wife, no children, a happy life.”
He Erwang jumped up in shock. “Holy crap, you’re that miserable?”
Qi Xiu retorted in confusion, “How am I miserable?”
“People who understand a lot about fortune-telling all have something wrong with them. I’m already very lucky.”
“Besides, I like men.”
He Erwang: “…”
Gu Shengsheng, who had been about to comfort him: “…”
Mo Fan: “…”
Shen Jinfeng: “…”
Qin Ye: “…”
Bullet comments: […So damn lucky indeed!]
