Chapter 127
Chapter 127
Fu Zhi gave a grunt of acknowledgment. Though there was a faint trace of irritation on his face, he cooperated with Ning Mingyue the entire time and helped her take photos.
In the end, after more than an hour of fussing around, they finally got one photo that Ning Mingyue was satisfied with.
“To make sure the photo gets more likes, let’s find a few more places to shoot,” Ning Mingyue decided on the spot.
Fu Zhi was already at the limit of his patience. “Ning Mingyue, enough!”
Ning Mingyue pressed her lips together and sighed, as if she had no choice. “I know you might not have much patience, but I’m only doing this so we can get a good photo. Don’t you want to win? The winners get to decide the order of tonight’s performances.”
[Why does the way Ning Mingyue talks feel kind of weird? Like she’s PUA-ing him hahahaha]
[It’s not as serious as PUA, but for the past hour-plus, Fu Zhi has been taking photos of Ning Mingyue the whole time. Ning Mingyue hasn’t once thought about taking a photo of Fu Zhi. Sure, the director said there was no limit on the number of people and that solo shots or two-person shots were both fine, but Ning Mingyue is being way too dictatorial]
[Pitying Fu Zhi for three seconds. And you should know I rarely take the guy’s side, especially when it’s Fu Zhi, the one I hate most]
[Mingyue just wants them to win. Besides, who told Fu Zhi to be so bad at taking photos? I’m on Mingyue’s side]
The Danmaku was divided, but the tone was still relatively mild.
Until later.
“I checked a photo guide. There’s a little country lane nearby that’s perfect for pictures. Let’s go there,” Ning Mingyue said to Fu Zhi after looking at her phone.
Fu Zhi frowned. “Will we have enough time…”
Ning Mingyue spread her hands, looking helpless. “Let’s not assume we won’t. I promise we won’t run out of time.”
Fu Zhi said, “We’ve already been shooting for an hour and a half. If it’s still the same kind of solo scenic check-in photo, then it doesn’t matter how many places we switch to. The photos won’t have anything new about them.”
He might not take photos often, but he still had some sense of aesthetics.
These solo scenic check-in photos of Ning Mingyue’s were fine for posting on Moments and asking friends for a few likes. But if they were going to put them out there and ask netizens to like them, whether they could win was another question entirely.
Hearing Fu Zhi say that, Ning Mingyue froze for a moment. Then she put on that good-tempered, accommodating look again and said, “How could it be meaningless? It won’t be. You might not have much experience because you’re young, but…”
“Ning Mingyue, do you have an oppositional personality or what?” Fu Zhi’s patience ran out, and he snapped mercilessly, “If we’re taking photos, then take photos. What does age have to do with anything?”
“?”
In her heart, Ning Mingyue cursed Fu Zhi up one side and down the other. On the surface, she only sighed, pressed her lips together, and forced a strained smile.
“All right. I can actually take photos by myself. It’s just that the Program Team requires the photo to be completed through cooperation between two people. If you won’t cooperate, then there’s nothing I can do…”
[That sounded a little green-tea]
[How is that green-tea? Fu Zhi is obviously too selfish. He says he doesn’t want to shoot, so he won’t shoot. Poor baby Mingyue, sob sob]
[If Shen Yibai were here, Ning Mingyue would definitely get along well with him]
[Hhhh why don’t you say that if Shen Yibai were here, Ning Mingyue’s attitude would be different too? I don’t believe she’d make Shen Yibai act as her photo-taking tool, snapping nonstop for an hour and a half while getting scolded the whole time]
[Strange. Ning Mingyue gets along pretty well with the other three male guests every time, but when she’s with Fu Zhi, she unconsciously gives off this superior attitude, like because Fu Zhi is younger, he should listen to her in everything and put her first]
[This group really feels weird. Watching it makes me angry, but I don’t even know who to be angry at. I’m out. Going to watch another group]
Meanwhile, on the other side.
Ning Xi, who was looking at a map on her phone, received a Moments notification: Your friend “Fu Zhi” mentioned you in Moments.
Suspicious, Ning Xi tapped open Moments.
She found that Fu Zhi had just posted a new caption: “shift, zui fan strong people.”
Ning Xi: ?
This brat had specifically mixed pinyin and English just to curse her out?
Unacceptable. She really wanted to give him an elbow to the ribs.
Ning Xi left a comment: “Everybody cares whether you fly tall or not, whether you’re tired from flying. I’m no same. I no care about you.”
After posting it, she immediately set Fu Zhi’s chat to Do Not Disturb, then turned to Xie Lanchen.
“Xiao Xie, I just checked. The tulip field that tourists online have been recommending is only two hundred meters away from us. Apparently it’s super photogenic, and everyone who’s been there says it’s great. Want to go take a few pictures?”
“Sure.”
Xie Lanchen naturally agreed at once.
However, after the two of them arrived at the tulip field the tourists had recommended, they fell silent.
Where was the field of flowers?
Why was there only one pot of tulips?
That was not what the netizens had said before she came!
In disbelief, Ning Xi opened the tulip-field photo post she had just looked at again:
“Ling Village’s breathtaking tulip sea! I was moved to tears by its beauty! Insanely photogenic!”
“So easy to shoot! An incredible hidden gem in Ling Village, basically paradise on earth!”
“Accidentally fell into a Van Gogh painting~ The tulips are too beautiful~”
Ning Xi looked at the photos in the post, then looked at the tiny pot of tulips in front of her.
“Why isn’t photo fraud a criminal offense? Somebody come arrest them all!”
Xie Lanchen looked at the indignant Ning Xi and tried to speak. “Then should we…”
Ning Xi’s expression changed in a second. She sighed. “Well, we’re already here.”
Xie Lanchen had grown up abroad and didn’t understand the meaning behind these four-character truths like “we’re already here,” “it’s the holidays,” “it’s so early in the morning,” and “it’s the middle of the night.”
He thought Ning Xi wasn’t satisfied, so he said in his clear, gentle voice, “Then should we look for somewhere else?”
Click.
Ning Xi snapped a photo of Xie Lanchen’s profile and said with a beaming smile, “We’re already here, so of course we have to take pictures.”
To be fair, the photo angles the netizens had recommended really did create the effect of a tulip field.
Ning Xi had debuted as a girl-group idol, so her photography skills were already pretty good. Add to that Xie Lanchen’s truly top-tier looks, and every casual shot came out like a magazine spread.
And so…
The most fraudulent tourist photo in history was born.
[…If photos could get jail time, Ning Xi’s sentence would be longer than all those bloggers combined.]
[Arrest them together. One gets ten years, the other gets life.]
[You edit it, he edits it, I get to the attraction and I’m confused as hell.]
Ning Xi looked at the photos and praised herself with great satisfaction. “As expected, I’m just too versatile.”
A tulip pot the size of a booger had been shot by her to look this-big.
Hehe.
But when it was Xie Lanchen’s turn to take photos of Ning Xi, Ning Xi’s attention was drawn to the dragonflies nearby.
“Dragonflies? There are actually dragonflies here?! I haven’t seen dragonflies in ages!”
Ning Xi immediately took eighteen rapid-fire shots of the dragonflies.
Xie Lanchen watched Ning Xi taking photos like crazy, a faint smile spreading through his eyes.
Leisurely, he raised his phone and took a photo of Ning Xi as well.
You were photographing dragonflies; I was photographing you.
“Xiao Xie, come look-” Ning Xi pointed at the dragonflies and turned back to Xie Lanchen.
Click.
Xie Lanchen captured the moment Ning Xi looked back at him.
Click.
That was the sound of CP fans frantically screenshotting their screens.
[You photograph the scenery, I photograph you.]
[You are the only scenery in my eyes.]
[Xi-Lan Flower is locked for life!]
[Oh my god, can we send this photo in for some kind of contest? This shot of “Xie Lanchen photographing Ning Xi while Ning Xi photographs dragonflies” seriously has my heart pounding.]
[This minister seconds the motion!]
“What are you taking pictures of?” Ning Xi asked curiously when she saw Xie Lanchen’s raised phone.
Xie Lanchen moved the phone away, the corners of his lips curving up. “The scenery.”
Ning Xi narrowed her eyes. Why did she feel like that wasn’t true?
“I want to see-”
Just then, a kettle-like scream came from the distance.
“Aaaah-“