A Contractual Marriage with the Best Leading Actor

CH 45

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The Perfect Wife (2)

In the afternoon, the program team brought everyone ice-fishing.

Bai Qi throwed on a super duper thick down jacket and a fluffy beanie with pom-poms dangling from it.
He tied the pom-poms around his chin and, voilà, he looked like a bear.
He was also wearing an oversized pair of gloves, which made his hands look as big as a bear’s paw.

Xi Chengyun waited outside the door.
“Are you done?” He asked without turning around when he heard the sound of footsteps.

“Yup!” Bai Qi replied and slid his hands into the palms of Xi Chengyun’s.

Xi Chengyun seemed to freeze for a second before tightening his grasp on Bai Qi’s hand.

Luckily, Xi Chengyun’s fingers were long enough, or else, with Bai Qi’s thick gloves, he wouldn’t be able to hold his hands at all.

【Did Xi-laoshi just feel a little somethin somethin!】

　　【*sigh* Bai Qi didn’t ask why Xi-laoshi wasn’t holding his hand and instead did it himself… Ngaw, he’s so straightforward!】

They got into the car of the program team and reached a frozen lake.

The fishing equipment needed was all there, all prepared before they reached.　

“Come, the locals will be giving us a demonstration on how to chisel a hole in the ice.
Better learn it properly.
We don’t want anyone to accidentally make the hole too big and fall into the water.”

Yang Yiru couldn’t help but laugh and added, “Should we tie a safety rope around our waists?”　

Soon, the program team roped them up; this showed that the program team really did care about their safety.
Instantly, the bullet-screen comments were filled with praises towards the team.

The staff walked towards Xi Chengyun with the safety rope in hand.
“Xi-laoshi, let me help you…”

Bai Qi rubbed his hands and quickly went forward.
“Let me, let me!”

Xi Chengyun paused before taking Bai Qi’s safety rope over from him.
He bent down slightly, lowering his head as he fastened the rope on Bai Qi.

Xi Chengyun had shot many movies where he hung from wires in the past, so he was pretty experienced.
Soon, he secured the rope properly on Bai Qi.

Whereas Bai Qi… he took 3 minutes to somewhat get Xi Chengyun into the gear.

“Will it come off?” Bai Qi tugged on the rope he tied on Xi Chengyun and asked.　

“It won’t,” Xi Chengyun replied.
He met Bai Qi’s eyes and thought for a bit.
Then, he added, “I can swim.”

【AHAHAH OMG!】

　　【Xi-laoshi knows how to be flirty when he’s off camera too QAQ I’m jelly】

Soon, Bai Qi and Xi Chengyun learned the right way to make a hole in the ice.
Then, under the supervision of the locals, they picked up the tools and started to hack away.

“Tak, tak, tak.”

Zhou Yanfeng and Xu Yi were seasoned fishing enthusiasts, but even they couldn’t chisel a hole through the ice.

So, Bai Qi and Xi Chengyun took over the other couple’s hole drilling duties in exchange for the fish they’ll be catching later.

Bai Qi glided over the ice, making a hole over here and another over there, with Xi Chengyun following beside him.

Someone in the bullet-screen comments section couldn’t help but exclaim ——

【omg, he looks like a parent who’s bringing his kid around.
This is tooo f*cking cuteee!】

The first episode ended here, and everyone watching hadn’t really realised that it had ended.　

　　【This is too short!!! I want moree!】

　　【There’s a strict time limit on it because the show is only a webcast… I think 】

　　【 Hello? Release a VIP version please】

By the end of the episode, there were a lot less people harassing Bai Qi, instead, most were asking for more.

Some people even tried to tactfully point out that the other guests weren’t very entertaining, and they could perhaps have less screen time.

　　视频走到这里，并没有立即结束，而是打出了大大的几个字：后面还有花絮，先不要走哦~

Well, the episode hadn’t actually ended yet.
Just then, a few words appeared on the screen

: Don’t click away ~ Coming soon, behind the scenes footage

Then, the video cut into an advertisement.

Shang Guang, who was watching the show when it aired, let out a sigh of relief after the first episode.
He thought, This is perfect.
Bai Qi did nothing to hold Xi Chengyun back, and in fact, he performed really well!

Now, the netizens wouldn’t feel as if Xi Chengyun had settled for less and had his eyes blinded at such a young age.

“I’m actually very curious, like, how do you know so much about the behind the scenes stuff of ‘Ascending the Mountain’?” Shang Guang couldn’t help but turn towards Bai Qi, who was behind him, and asked.

Bai Qi was slumped lazily on the sofa.
He was currently replying to Mu Dong’s messages.

He didn’t look up as he replied, “Well, if you’ve got to search for loads of info each semester, be it popular ones, unpopular ones, accurate ones, or even highly questionable ones… you’ll be able to gain this skill too.”

Shang Guang opened his mouth before closing it again.

I’ve been scratching my head for half a day to think of the reason he knows so much, and turns out, it’s actually because of a skill that only an academic tyrant* can possess?!

*Academic tyrant (学霸) refers to a straight-A student/ a student with a 4.0 GPA; basically one who excels in their studies.

Shang Guang rubbed his face with a hand and took out his phone.
He had to address the messages sent to him.

The message was from a staff member of Xi Chengyun’s studio.

“Gao Rufei mentioned Bai Qi on Weibo today.
The popularity of the topic isn’t going down and posts related to it are all over the gossip forums…”

Shang Guang zoned out for a bit.

He left like Xi Chengyun was also a gloomy and twisted fellow, and Bai Qi was naturally the brightest star in the crowd.

So, it was inevitable for him to be attracted to Bai Qi.

“Welcome back.” The voice came from the video.
It instantly grabbed the attention of Shang Guang, as well as everyone else who was watching.

The advertisement was now over and the behind the scenes footage started to play.

Bai Qi and Xi Chengyun were carrying two fish back home.　

“We can have some steamed fish and squirrel fish* for dinner tonight!” Bai Qi happily exclaimed.

*Squirrel fish (松鼠桂鱼）is a well-known Jiangsu dish.
It is prepared by deboning and carving a mandarin fish into an ornamental shape similar to a squirrel, and then frying it in a batter before dousing it in sweet and sour sauce.

As he said that, he bent down and took out an apron from the cabinet.

He put the apron on.
However, the feeling was completely different from yesterday.

He was now dressed in a white sweater and a pair of white trousers after he’d taken off his down jacket.

And the apron was pink…

Not only was it pink ——

Bai Qi bent down… right in front of Xi Chengyun, to pick up a basket of potatoes on the floor.

He had a beautiful bubble butt, and had a huge ribbon tied behind his back; he looked like a little gift which was waiting to be opened.

Xi Chengyun paused.
The camera didn’t manage to capture the look in his eyes.

　【???】

　　【F*ck, what kind of odd temptation is this! 】

Shang Guang’s vision went blank when he saw this.

Who the f*ck can stand this? Tell me, WHO!　