【So the paparazzi were right? Then our CP fans’ call for “consume candy cautiously, don’t spread” these past two days was for nothing? Qi Ke, how on earth did you do it! I even checked the flights! There were no flights fast enough to directly refute the exposé! Should I go apologize to him now?】
【Haha, did you guys miss the last sentence of the exposé? Keke came back on a private jet.】
【Poverty has limited my imagination.】
【Huh? Where did the solo stans who said Qi Ke had an Anywhere Door or could teleport go? Why are you so quiet now?】
The solo stans who were called out: I have to say, Sweet Day really does have something called team spirit.
Others: ?
Solo stans: Current boy bands and girl groups, please learn from this! Don’t be all desperate to debut, get your idol into a debut group, and then immediately demand they shine on their own. As everyone knows, groups without team spirit all flop!
CP fans: ? Have the solo stans been possessed by group stans?
“You’re live?” The online discussions exploded, but the two people on camera in the livestream remained calm. Qi Ke quickly settled into a natural state, stood up, and said, “What are you talking about? Let me join in.”
The number of viewers was rapidly increasing.
Song Yushi was also very natural. “Just chatting randomly. The food is over there, you eat first.”
Qi Ke: “Have you eaten?”
Song Yushi shook her head.
Qi Ke smiled. “Waiting for me?”
Audience: ??? I rushed over here excitedly just to listen to you two show off your love? Give me more, don’t be polite, thank you! This is what I’m relying on to survive this semester!!!
Song Yushi gave an irrelevant answer: “You eat first.”
Qi Ke rubbed her stomach and said with difficulty, “I was quite hungry, but seeing you on the livestream, I’m suddenly not hungry anymore.”
Audience: “…”
So is there a causal relationship between the two?
Song Yushi was also speechless: “…”
Qi Ke dragged over a high stool, sat in front of Song Yushi, and forcibly joined the livestream. “I suddenly feel like singing a song.” She looked at the camera with a smile. “Do you guys want to hear it?”
Danmu: Not really!!!
Qi Ke laughed. “Everyone is so enthusiastic.”
Danmu: Which eye did you see that with!
Song Yushi happened to be tired of talking anyway, so she took the opportunity to give the stage to Qi Ke. She scrolled through the song list on her phone and asked her, “Which song do you want to sing? I’ll play the instrumental for you. One of your own?”
“《The Wind Rises》, let’s do this one.”
Danmu: Who agreed! Don’t make decisions on your own!
The instrumental music began to play. Qi Ke opened her mouth, her voice as clear as a spring, with a hint of just-woken-up laziness, enough to make the listeners’ ears pregnant in an instant. A massive “true fragrance” scene: Qi Ke’s singing is so good!!!
After the song ended, Qi Ke naturally started chatting with the fans in the livestream.
“What Anywhere Door? What’s this teleportation meme? I just came back after my work over there was done. Don’t overthink it, ba… dear… respected fan friends.”
“The Captain is fine, she’s just a little tired, so you don’t mind if I take over for a while, right? Aren’t true fans satisfied just by looking at her face?”
“《30 Days of Cohabitation Life》? I’m filming it, I’ll be on the next episode.”
“Team spirit? Of course, our Sweet Day definitely has team spirit. What’s the point of being a group without team spirit? But team spirit is something that’s cultivated slowly, so don’t be anxious right after forming a group. Not everyone can hit it off like the Captain and I did from the start.”
Listening to Qi Ke’s increasingly ridiculous rambling, Song Yushi turned a speechless gaze on her.
Qi Ke sensed her gaze and quickly turned back to throw a wink at her.
Song Yushi: “…”
She really wasn’t suited for livestreaming after all.
In the end, Qi Ke returned the livestream to Song Yushi. She sat opposite the bar, eating and opening their couple’s Super Topic, which was buzzing with videos from the livestream. The quick ones had already taken screenshots and edited the pictures.
【@QiYuWillBeHardToExplainIfNotMarried: Sob sob sob, the way the little Captain looks at Keke is so affectionate. Keke naturally gave her a wink. Damn it, I’m so happy eating this dog food!!!】
Qi Ke liked the post.
She just loved these sharp-eyed “shipping scientists”!
“Okay, that’s all for today. See you next time.” Song Yushi waved at the camera, then added thoughtfully, “Although I don’t know when ‘next time’ will be.”
Fans: ???
Song Yushi shot a wink at the camera and ended the livestream. After putting away the phone stand, she received a mournful and resentful gaze from across the bar.
Song Yushi: “…Uh?”
Qi Ke rested her chin on her hand, listlessly picking at her food. “Captain.”
Song Yushi chose to remain silent.
Qi Ke: “You rarely seem to shoot your winks at me.”
Song Yushi shifted uncomfortably. “Speak properly, don’t act cute.” After a pause, she retorted, “Back when you were in the group, you seemed to love calling other people ‘baby’, ‘love you’, ‘love me’, and things like that. Did I say anything?”
Qi Ke: “That was for business!”
Song Yushi: “We’re also doing business now.”
Qi Ke: “With you, it never is.”
Song Yushi: “…”
Qi Ke: “When I say I love you, it means I love you.”
The atmosphere suddenly became enchanting. Ambiguity flowed in their intertwined gazes. The light from the pendant lamp above the bar was soft, scattering lazily on the floor, meeting the moonlight from outside the window.
Song Yushi was the first to look away. “H-have you finished eating?”
Qi Ke smiled helplessly. “Yeah. I’ll do the dishes. Do you… want to go out for a drive to clear your head? We can just take the car I just drove, go wherever the road takes us?”
Song Yushi: “…Okay.”
Qi Ke’s car was a Jaguar sports car, with a white body that had a 100% head-turning rate. Fortunately, the convertible top was down, otherwise the whole world would know that the former captain and main vocalist of Sweet Day were out living it up.
“How are Zhou Er and Meng Ying doing?” Qi Ke drove with practiced ease, still having the energy to care about her former teammate’s love life.
Song Yushi was puzzled. “Didn’t you and Zhou Er grow up together? You didn’t ask her?”
Qi Ke tugged at the corner of her mouth. “There’s too much to do for the new album. Selecting the best takes, writing lyrics, composing. Recording. And shooting the MV, the MV also…”
“Stop.” Song Yushi cut Qi Ke off in time. “We went through all this in the group too, no need for details.”
Qi Ke said sullenly, “Oh.”
“They’re fine.” Song Yushi, on the other hand, had a lighter schedule recently and had paid more attention to her former teammates. “Zhou Er agreed to let Meng Ying terminate her contract without a fee. Meng Ying had some savings, so she used it to open a hotpot restaurant. She’s looking for a location recently.”
Qi Ke tutted. “I’d really love to see Zhou Er looking all heartbroken and dejected.”
Song Yushi: “…” What happened to being good sisters who grew up together?
She shot her a glare.
“Oh.” Song Yushi remembered something else, but just as she was about to speak, she felt she was being too gossipy and shut her mouth resentfully. “It’s nothing.”
Qi Ke grew anxious. “Is there any gossip I’m not allowed to hear? Quick, tell me!”
Song Yushi said helplessly, “It’s Chengzhi.”
“Chengzhi? What about her?”
“She seems to have a crush on someone, right on the set of 《Awakening of Insects》.” Song Yushi recounted the time Chengzhi had inexplicably come to visit her on set, only to leave without even seeing her.
Qi Ke’s expression was hard to describe. Could this be the legendary “a friend I made up”?
“This ‘friend’ she mentioned is probably herself, right?” Qi Ke asked.
Song Yushi nodded.
After a moment of silence, Qi Ke sighed and said faintly, “Our Sweet Day teammates have all grown up, they’re all going to fall in love.”
Song Yushi: “…”
Why did she hear the gratification of a proud father in her voice?
“But, they’re still a step behind us. We’re the best!”
Song Yushi was speechless: “…”
She knew it!
Song Yushi decided to just ignore her, leaning back against the seat and watching the streetscape flash by outside the window.
In the late spring and early summer, the flowers by the roadside bloomed only to be blown down by the night rain, scattering all over the ground. The car sped past, crushing them into the mud.
With no specific destination, the car drove slowly through the city lights, eventually heading out of the city and stopping beside a wide-open wheat field.
The convertible top slowly opened. The stars in the countryside were more numerous than in the city, crowded together, shining brilliantly in the sky. Qi Ke couldn’t help but hum, “Twinkle, twinkle, little star, the sky is full of little stars. They hang in the sky, shining bright, but not as bright as your big eyes.”
Song Yushi was taken aback for a moment, then broke into a laugh. “Messing up the lyrics.”
“It’s the truth.”
Song Yushi looked up at the stars. The wind blew through the wheat, making silent waves. Everything was perfectly quiet.
Qi Ke produced two cans of drinks from somewhere, handing a Coke to Song Yushi and opening a beer for herself.
Song Yushi hesitated. “…Drunk driving?”
Qi Ke waved her hand dismissively. “I called our driver before we came. Otherwise, how would I dare bring you to a deserted place like this?”
Her reasoning was sound, and Song Yushi was speechless.
She watched Qi Ke drink beer, unconvinced. “Who are you looking down on? I’m not drinking Coke, give me a beer.”
Qi Ke: “…”
It’s really not that I’m looking down on you, Captain! It’s just that your alcohol tolerance is truly… not something anyone can look up to!
Helpless, Qi Ke still fished out another can… a fruit wine, and handed it to Song Yushi.
Song Yushi: “…?” How come she hadn’t seen a refrigerator in this car?
Song Yushi was a lightweight. Even though it was fruit wine, it still had alcohol content. After a few sips, it went to her head, and in the cool night breeze, her face was slightly flushed.
“Captain.”
“…Hm?”
“What wish did you make that day? On your birthday.”
“…You guess?” Song Yushi turned her head to the side. Drunk, her eyes shone, hiding a hint of a teasing smile. “There’s a prize if you guess correctly.”
“Hoping to win another Best Actress award?”
“…Wrong.”
“Hoping Ruan Xiangmeng’s illness gets better soon?”
“Wrong.”
“It couldn’t be hoping that Qi Ke stays safe and healthy, forever beautiful, and loves you forever, right?”
“…”
The joking words pulled out an answer that caught Qi Ke completely off guard. She panicked for a moment and quickly looked at Song Yushi. “Captain?”
Song Yushi just looked at her, her eyelashes blinking softly. Under the vast river of stars, she was like ethereal moonlight that could vanish at any moment.
As if afraid of startling her, Qi Ke lowered her voice. “Captain…”
The Captain slowly closed her eyes.
Her head tilted and fell onto her shoulder. She was asleep.
Qi Ke: “…”
She didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Her heart, which had been hanging in suspense, unable to settle, returned to its place the moment Song Yushi leaned against her.
She looked up at the stars and hesitated for a moment.
Turning her head, she placed a light kiss on Song Yushi’s forehead.
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