Fu Wenshan’s kiss in the live broadcast immediately exploded on that night’s hot search. The director of “Love Barometer” was ecstatic, wishing they could kiss again.
Jiang Han was so angry he swallowed a fast-acting heart-saving pill. He called Fu Wenshan to scold him that very night.
Xie Wanxing eagerly lay on the bed listening to Fu Wenshan being scolded. Jiang Han’s scolding was interesting, full of variety and without a single curse word. Xie Wanxing didn’t feel bad for his boyfriend at all and just listened with amusement.
But this was just a dating reality show, just a kiss, it could be explained in any way, and viewers were just here to watch the excitement. Many people even became fans of the CP due to their high looks, instantly being converted by the CP fans.
Only the fans knew the truth in their hearts. Their own idols were truly together, but surprisingly, only a few fans unfollowed them in the end. Most people tacitly accepted this relationship.
Seven days of recording soon came to an end, and on the last day of separation, except for Fu Wenshan and Xie Wanxing, the other three couples were still single, without any sparks flying. The middle-aged couple in the group were very diligent, but unfortunately, the known female star was not interested in him, politely indicating that they should just be friends.
Zhou Ying and Wu Ran, the two single dogs, didn’t care at all. After all, they weren’t really on the show to find love. The two of them sat on the sofa, behaving very childishly, pushing and shoving each other, playing around, completely devoid of the gentle gentlemanly demeanor they had on the show. Although Wu Ran’s martial arts value was higher than Zhou Ying’s, he repeatedly let Zhou Ying win, and Zhou Ying’s tail was almost wagging in the air.
Xie Wanxing wasn’t sure if he had a biased view, but during these seven days, he often suspected that Wu Ran seemed to have a bit of a crush on Zhou Ying…
But he couldn’t confirm this with the parties involved, so he could only gossip secretly with Fu Wenshan.
However, Xie Wanxing did gain an unexpected reward.
On the last day of leaving the show, Su Yan kept looking towards him. Finally, as if making up her mind, she hurried over and handed him a signed board. On the board was a photo of him in ancient costume, dressed in white, looking ethereal.
Su Yan cautiously glanced at Fu Wenshan first before summoning up the courage to speak, “Mr. Xie, I, I, I’m actually your fan, a genuine fan. I don’t have any other intentions, but can I, can I please have your autograph…”
As Su Yan spoke, her voice became softer. She didn’t know why, but whenever she saw Fu Wenshan next to Xie Wanxing, she felt inexplicably guilty. But her desire for an autograph was too strong, so she firmly didn’t back down.
She added in a low voice, “Actually, I used to be the president of your fan club… I handed it over to someone else last year. My previous ID was YanYanTodayIsTheDayToWorkHard. I wasn’t inspired by your entry into the entertainment industry, but the thought of being in the same industry as you gives me motivation.”
Fu Wenshan raised an eyebrow slightly. He didn’t say anything, but Su Yan shivered and immediately added with a pleading tone, “I admire you, not romantically but as a fan, really.”
Fu Wenshan’s eyebrows relaxed again. He found this little girl quite interesting, not as jealous of Xie Wanxing’s fans as before.
Xie Wanxing was truly surprised this time. He remembered this ID, which often appeared in the top comments of his comment section, making edits for his fan support. She was a genuine supporter.
Who would have thought it was Su Yan behind it all?
Xie Wanxing lowered his head and signed the autograph, handing it to Su Yan. He looked at the young girl and couldn’t help but gently pat her hair. “Then I’ll share a secret with you too. I’m also your fan. I’ve been supporting you since your debut. The autograph that Fu Wenshan asked you for last time was actually for me.”
Su Yan’s mouth formed an “o” shape.
“Congratulations on successfully being a fan, and congratulations to me too,” Xie Wanxing withdrew his hand and smiled at Su Yan, “I’ve wanted to tell you in person for a while now. You’re great and kind, and you’ll go far. So no matter what kind of criticism or even insults you face, don’t mind them. We’ll always be your backup.”
Su Yan was completely dumbfounded.
The big shot I’m a fan of is actually my fan? What kind of experience is this?
She floated away in the end, feeling that everything was unreal, holding the autograph board carefully in her arms.
But after walking a few steps, she turned back and said to Xie Wanxing, “I’ll do my best! I won’t let you down!” Then she ran away.
Xie Wanxing was simply overwhelmed by her cuteness. He sighed to Fu Wenshan, “Girls are truly treasures. Let’s adopt a daughter in the future…”
After saying it, he realized what he had said. They weren’t even married yet, and he was already thinking about adopting children…
But Fu Wenshan didn’t think there was anything wrong with it at all. On the contrary, he agreed with this idea, “I also think daughters are good. Boys misbehave too much and they’ll definitely be beaten up, just like I was when I was a kid.”
As winter approached, Fu Wenshan released his fourth album, which immediately soared to the top of various music charts upon release. In the promotional posters for his new songs, apart from the few ear studs on his ears, he had also added a collarbone piercing, a black six-pointed star shape, very eye-catching.
When the weather grew colder and the first snow of the year fell, the people from the Fu and Xie families finally had the chance to sit down and have a meal together.
The parents of both families were already familiar with each other. After accepting the fact that their sons actually liked men, and then looking at the boyfriends their sons had chosen, they felt quite satisfied. The atmosphere during the meal was very pleasant, and the mutual boasting about their businesses was also quite well done.
However, what Fu Wenshan didn’t expect was that he would actually hear some old gossip about Xie Wanxing at the dinner table—a different story from his own perpetual bachelorhood. Xie Wanxing had actually been engaged before.
This former fiancée of his was actually Xie Wanxing’s childhood sweetheart. She had lived with Xie Wanxing’s family when they were young. Not only was she beautiful, but she also came from a similar background as Xie Wanxing. However, as they grew up, they lost interest in each other, so the engagement never materialized, and they remained friends.
But Fu Wenshan still felt a pang of jealousy when he heard about this old flame. His gaze suddenly became very plaintive as he stared straight at Xie Wanxing, making Xie Wanxing feel a chill down his spine.
Because the restaurant was a bit far from Cuhe Bay, Fu Wenshan and Xie Wanxing didn’t return to their own places that day. Instead, they stayed at the old Fu family mansion.
Lying in the bedroom he had when he was a teenager, Fu Wenshan didn’t feel a shred of shame. Instead, he made Xie Wanxing cry in bed, forcing him to timidly call him “husband.”
Although he knew the room had good soundproofing, there were still other elders living in the house. Xie Wanxing didn’t dare to be loud, even when being bullied, and could only let out soft whimpers from his throat.
“We, we’ve never been together. I don’t like her,” Xie Wanxing hugged Fu Wenshan’s neck tightly, feeling as helpless as a withered branch floating on the water, “She’s had eight boyfriends since then, and she doesn’t, uh, like me at all.”
Sweat rolled down Xie Wanxing’s forehead, slid over his chin, and dripped into the nape of Fu Wenshan’s neck. His eyes were also moist, his lips were rosy, like peach blossoms dyed in water, exuding endless spring colors, which made Fu Wenshan’s heart burn even more fiercely.
“That’s hard to say. Maybe you’ve made her heart flutter at some point, but you didn’t know,” Fu Wenshan provocatively shifted the blame. He loved seeing Xie Wanxing’s helpless yet clinging-to-him appearance.
Xie Wanxing couldn’t argue with him and could only punch him, but it was almost like flirting because he had no strength.
After the two rounds of lovemaking were over…
Xie Wanxing didn’t even have the strength to lift his hand. Covered with a thin blanket, he nestled in Fu Wenshan’s arms, flipping through a thick stack of photo albums, all of which contained photos of Fu Wenshan from the past.
He had accidentally found them in Fu Wenshan’s bookshelf.
Although he had just been pounded by Fu Wenshan almost to the point of passing out, he had already forgiven him and was completely drawn to the photos.
The first few pictures were of Fu Wenshan as a child, when he was still a little bean sprout, wearing a well-fitting little suit, standing at the entrance of the kindergarten, clutching a lollipop in a grumpy manner, looking cute.
As Xie Wanxing looked at them, he couldn’t help but smile, “Why were you so fierce when you were a child?”
Fu Wenshan chuckled, “I didn’t like going to kindergarten back then. Every time I went, I would cause trouble and even get into fights with others. After less than a year, my parents gave up and brought me back home.”
Xie Wanxing was speechless. He was the favorite child of the kindergarten teachers when he was a child.
He flipped through the album, and Fu Wenshan in the photos gradually grew up, turning into a handsome young man, then slowly becoming the tall and upright young man he was now, gradually growing into the familiar face he knew, handsome and arrogant on the outside, yet gentle and steady on the inside.
But as he flipped through the photos, he reached the end, and there was a picture that slipped from the bottom.
Xie Wanxing picked it up and looked at it, and he froze.
He didn’t know when this photo was taken. It showed a dark-skinned boy, tall but thin, with slightly messy hair covering half of his eyes. He stood under the shade of a tree, looking at the camera with a displeased expression, so the photo was a bit blurry.
But even so, Xie Wanxing recognized the person in the photo at a glance.
It was the young man who had jumped down from the wall and saved him when he was sixteen.
Xie Wanxing was stunned. He picked up the photo and looked at Fu Wenshan, asking, “Who is this?”
Fu Wenshan saw the photo and thought to himself, “Uh oh, I forgot to hide this black history. Now my boyfriend has seen it.”
Sure enough Xie Wanxing didn’t recognize him at all.
Fu Wenshan felt a bit frustrated. “Mr. Xie, I feel like you don’t really love me, otherwise how could you not recognize your own boyfriend?”
Xie Wanxing: “……???”
He lifted the photo and held it up to Fu Wenshan’s face, comparing it back and forth, incredulously asking, “Is this you?!”
“Yeah, I was fourteen or fifteen at the time, sent by my dad to a training camp. I got really tan and skinny. My dad hoped the camp would straighten me out, but when I came back, I was even more unruly. So, my dad sent me to the countryside for reflection… I didn’t come back until I reflected for a whole summer.” Fu Wenshan now recalled, feeling that it wasn’t easy for his dad to have a son like him.
But Xie Wanxing gradually couldn’t hear clearly what he was saying.
His memories drifted back to that summer eight years ago.
That summer when he was so different because of puberty, fat and covered in acne…
He couldn’t accept himself like that. The way people looked at him in school was a bit strange, not discrimination, but pity. After all, he used to be so beautiful, but now he seemed disfigured, everyone felt sorry for him.
All these troubles made him too annoyed. To avoid all this, he simply went to the small town where his grandmother lived to escape the heat.
And it was in that small town that he met a dark, thin boy, who scared away some bullies trying to rob him, and clumsily comforted him for an entire afternoon.
“You’re quite good-looking, fair-skinned and soft,” the boy was awkward with words, obviously not good at comforting people, but sincere, “Besides, no matter what you look like, the people who like you will still like you. If they stop liking you just because of your appearance, what kind of friends and family are they?”
With just these simple words, he remembered until now.
He still remembered, in the end, he asked the boy’s name, and the boy thought for a moment and said, “I’m Fu Shan.”
Xie Wanxing looked at Fu Wenshan, the face of that boy from his memory gradually overlapped with the handsome face in front of him.
Turns out, it really was Fu Wenshan…
Xie Wanxing suddenly laughed, but his eyes were a bit moist for some reason.
Outside the window, the snow started falling again, and half of the plum blossoms in the yard quietly bloomed. The air was filled with a faint fragrance, a gentle cold fragrance.
“Fu Shan…” Xie Wanxing called Fu Wenshan softly.
Fu Wenshan had never been called by Xie Wanxing like this before. He was stunned, then smiled, feeling very intimate.
Xie Wanxing raised his hand, lightly brushed Fu Wenshan’s eyebrows, then brushed his eye corners, and finally landed on his lips.
As Xie Wanxing laughed, a tear suddenly fell from the corner of his eye.
This was his first love.
It was his first love from when he was sixteen until now.
He later went back to that small town, looking for the boy named Fu Shan. By then, he had become good-looking again, but no matter how hard he searched in the town, Fu Shan seemed to have evaporated into thin air, leaving no trace behind.
After that, he gradually grew up, had his own career, and became busier and busier. The person named Fu Shan was gradually sealed deep in his memory.
He no longer had the fervent thoughts of his youth, but occasionally he would wonder if that boy from back then had grown into a gentle person like before…
Now he knew the answer.
That boy from back then, when he grew up, was still just as gentle, and fate secretly brought him back.
Fu Wenshan was startled by Xie Wanxing’s tears. He didn’t know what he had done to make Xie Wanxing cry. In a panic, he embraced him and clumsily wiped away his tears. “Why are you crying? Are you feeling unwell? Did I do something to upset you?”
Xie Wanxing was amused and shook his head.
The snow outside grew heavier, and the snowflakes gently tapped against the window, creating a gentle and quiet atmosphere.
Xie Wanxing leaned against Fu Wenshan’s shoulder in the subtle sound of the falling snow and slowly told him everything about this photo.
…..
One day, a long time later.
Xie Wanxing posted a blurry painting on his Weibo. The painting depicted a lush summer with a boy in a black shirt sitting on a wall. Below the wall, another boy with semi-long hair in a white shirt hurriedly passed by. Their eyes met for an instant, captured in the painting.
The caption of the Weibo read, “You are my first love, from sixteen until now.” He tagged Fu Wenshan.
A second later, Fu Wenshan retweeted it with the comment, “You are also my first love, from this moment to eternity.”
Neither of them paid attention to the comments, and this Weibo post was soon flooded by fans and bystanders.
Since the airing of the variety show “Love Barometer,” Fu Wenshan and Xie Wanxing frequently shared sweet moments. Their fan clubs, “Fu Xing” and “Fu Xinghusband,” grew rapidly and soon overshadowed other fan clubs.
Now that the two of them had finally announced their relationship officially, fans screamed like crazy, wishing they could send them straight to the Civil Affairs Bureau to register their marriage.
However, amidst all this cheering, there was a slightly discordant voice.
“What do these two mean by ‘first love’? Are they kidding? These two playboys still have the nerve to call themselves first loves?! Shouldn’t publicity follow some basic rules?”
But this comment was quickly drowned out by others, buried in a sea of flower emojis.
At the end of this year, during his concert tour, Fu Wenshan performed his latest single, “Summer First Love.”
The last few lines of the lyrics were:
“I met a star in the summer,
With bright and flawless eyes.
I held him close to my heart,
Promising him a lifetime of tenderness and sincerity.
In this summer of first love.”
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