Chapter 59: Transmigrated as a Stingy Phoenix Man (58)
[…Fuck! Talk about simping hard!]
[Take a breath, the stench of desperate romance is practically leaking through the screen (annoyed)]
[Does Sang Qianshan even know what he’s saying?? Huh??? Is he crazy or am I crazy??]
[Do you even understand what “only good friend” means? (covering mouth laughing)]
“…” Cen Yu stared at Sang Qianshan with a look that defied description. “Don’t lose your mind.”
Sang Qianshan also felt that what he’d just said was a bit impulsive. He glanced at Yu Jinheng, only to see Yu Jinheng let out a slight smile. “In that case, I’ll just yield this room to you.”
He nodded toward Cen Yu, turning back to pack up his luggage.
“…” Oh, good Lord!
How could a single reality show have this many mishaps?!
Cen Yu glanced at Sang Qianshan, then at Yu Jinheng, who was already starting to pack his things. “Haha, he was just joking.” Without waiting for Sang Qianshan’s reaction, he immediately stepped over and pressed down on the hand Yu Jinheng was using to pack his suitcase.
“Brother Jinheng, you should stay here.”
Yu Jinheng paused his hands. Looking past Cen Yu, he cast a glance at Sang Qianshan on the other side. “Is that so?”
He smiled faintly. “I felt like he was being quite serious.”
“Is he really just your good friend?”
As Yu Xinyu’s elder brother—and Cen Yu’s nominal brother-in-law—Yu Jinheng’s words sounded to Cen Yu’s ears like nothing short of a stern warning.
Cen Yu wished he could swear to the heavens! He and Sang Qianshan were completely innocent!
The whole “brother-in-law” thing was fake! Lord Yu, please see the truth!
“Of course he’s just a good friend,” Cen Yu feigned a casual tone. “We’ve known each other since back in our school days.”
Yu Jinheng didn’t answer right away. His expression remained cool as he patted Cen Yu on the shoulder a few times. “That’s good, then.”
He leaned down slightly—as if to prevent the production crew from overhearing and to keep it out of the camera’s shot—and murmured softly by Cen Yu’s ear from a side angle, “I assume you know where the line is.” His voice was very light, yet the underlying message was razor-sharp. “Don’t make Little Yu sad.”
With that, he stepped back from Cen Yu slightly and turned to Sang Qianshan. “I need to finish packing my luggage first.”
The moment those words left his mouth, it was practically an eviction order for guests.
Once everyone had finally unpacked their luggage, the production team issued the next task—
“Director, are we here to participate in X-Change?” Pei Zhuo joked.
The task for that evening was quite simple: a seaside BBQ. However, the ingredients had to be earned by themselves.
After each round, teams would choose their BBQ ingredients in order of their placement. Naturally, Liulian TV had spared no effort to subtly ignite drama among the cast.
The winning team of each round could pick ingredients according to their ranking without any limit on quantity—though the total pool of supplies was fixed.
When the time came, accusations like “Isn’t XX being too selfish taking so many ingredients at once?” or “XXX is acting like a saint again just to make himself look self-sacrificing” would easily spark ten pages of flame wars across Weibo and online forums.
The first game was straightforward.
A swimming competition.
Cen Yu took a look at the few events—
Swimming, basketball shooting, a three-legged race, and a card-memory game. The events had clearly been arranged with each guest’s strengths in mind.
“I’ll take swimming,” Cen Yu offered directly.
Whether it was his original self or his current body, both were quite good at swimming. The basketball shooting was assigned to Sang Qianshan.
As for the remaining two, they’d just leave those to fate.
The groups quickly designated their participants for the first round: Cen Yu, Jian Zhou, Wei Ke, Pei Zhuo, and Lin Xinyan.
When Cen Yu returned to his room to change into his swimwear, he remembered the tattoos on his body… He had just double-checked with the director, who mentioned it would be best to cover them up, which didn’t surprise him.
The only inconvenient part about this room layout was that the bathroom was located over on Yu Jinheng’s side.
“Mind if I borrow it?” Cen Yu said to Yu Jinheng, who was standing off to the side quietly acting as background decor.
“Go ahead.” Yu Jinheng glanced at Cen Yu and nodded.
Seeing that he agreed, Cen Yu went straight back to his room, grabbed the waterproof patches Yu Xinyu had prepared for him along with his swim trunks, and headed into Yu Jinheng’s room.
Yu Jinheng’s layout was identical to his. Stepping inside the bathroom and walking a few paces in, Cen Yu noticed a very familiar bottle of body wash by the shower stall—it looked like the exact same brand he used at home.
What a coincidence?
The thought flickered through his mind as he undressed in front of the mirror.
After putting on his swim trunks, he faced the mirror and began applying patches over his tattoos… The angel tattoo on his arm was easy enough to manage; two patches covered it up completely.
Right then, his phone began to ring.
Cen Yu saw that it was a video call from Yu Xinyu. After a moment’s hesitation, he answered it, only to see Yu Xinyu’s face pressed extremely close to the camera lens.
Yu Xinyu looked deeply concerned. “My big brother didn’t make things difficult for you, did he?”
He said to Cen Yu, “I saw him whispering something to you earlier.”
Cen Yu thought to himself: Your big brother told me to watch my step and not get wrapped up in scandals with anyone else!
Naturally, he wasn’t going to say that to Yu Xinyu. Since he still needed to apply the patches, he set his phone down on the clutter tray next to the sink.
The angle managed to frame his upper body perfectly.
Glancing at Yu Xinyu, he resumed applying the patches to the tattoo on his lower abdomen.
With his head down, Cen Yu naturally failed to notice the look in Yu Xinyu’s eyes on the screen, nor did he spot the background behind him—which clearly wasn’t at home.
Yu Xinyu stared at Cen Yu through the video feed.
Perhaps to ensure the tattoo was covered even more thoroughly, Cen Yu pulled the waistband of his swim trunks down a bit lower before smoothing a patch over the snake’s tail near his pubic bone. Next came the patches covering the apple and half of the snake’s skeleton.
It wasn’t until almost his entire abdomen was covered that Cen Yu pulled his swim trunks back up to their proper place.
“…You’re not at home?” When Cen Yu finally looked up, he noticed the background behind Yu Xinyu.
He squinted to study it carefully.
Isn’t that the beach?!
“…Mm.” Yu Xinyu seemed worried that Cen Yu would be angry. “…I missed my husband too much.”
Fine. A total simp, completely hopeless.
Cen Yu felt he really was getting used to Yu Xinyu putting romance above all else. Finding out the guy had secretly followed him here didn’t even bother him in the slightest.
After deliberating for a moment, he asked, “Does your big brother know?”
“…Know what?” Yu Jinheng’s voice suddenly broke in.
Cen Yu hadn’t expected his bathroom door to be slightly ajar?! Yu Jinheng simply stood outside the door and said, “The director is asking when you can head downstairs.”
Only then did Cen Yu realize he’d taken quite a bit of time applying the patches. Biting the bullet, he hung up the call with Yu Xinyu.
He pushed open the half-closed bathroom door, immediately spotting Yu Jinheng leaning nearby.
Yu Jinheng merely glanced at him, his gaze lingering briefly on the patches covering his abdomen and arm. “Little Yu’s here?”
Noticing that they were currently in a camera blind spot, Cen Yu nodded.
Yu Jinheng didn’t say much else, merely offering, “I knew it.” He looked at Cen Yu. “Little Yu is always like this.”
As for what he was always like, Yu Jinheng showed no intention of explaining further.
