Help! My Fanservice Partner is Looking at Me Differently Lately - Chapter 12

“I am actually starting to ship the two of you,” Chi Li said. There was no hint of embarrassment on his face from being caught watching. Instead, he casually offered his approval.

When the two most hypocritical people in the house coordinated their acting, they did so with such intensity and feigned passion that they seemed to lose themselves in the roles. To a certain extent, they truly were a perfect match.

Zhou Yang froze, but then a surge of secret joy washed over him. He thought that Chi Li was definitely jealous.

“Oh, stop,” Xie Weishui said with a shy, timid air. “Do not tease us anymore. Let us continue the game.”

The dealer for the second round was Fang Jin. Before the numbers could even make a full circle, the bomb exploded with Gao Yuan. In the third round, Wei Xuan was the dealer, and the one forced to drink was Xie Weishui.

By the fourth round, it was Shen Xunye’s turn to lead. He casually typed in a number. After the range was set, Chi Li was the first to guess. “19.”

Shen Xunye’s eyebrows lifted slightly. “How did you guess so accurately?”

Chi Li had not expected to hit the mark on his first try either. He poured himself a drink and offered a casual explanation. “It is my age.”

“So young,” Shen Xunye murmured, his lips twitching into a faint smile.

Chi Li had not mentioned his age over the past few days, so this was the first time Shen Xunye had heard it. Nineteen was indeed a bold and reckless age.

“Well,” Chi Li said, tilting his head back to drain the glass. “You should be more impressed by my one in a hundred luck rather than my age.”

Shen Xunye let out a light laugh. “Or perhaps, I should be impressed by our telepathy?”

“That works too,” Chi Li replied, setting his glass down and idly spinning it with his fingers.

“Gosh, I am starting to ship you two as well.”

Gao Yuan watched their interaction, which seemed as if no one else were in the room, and echoed Chi Li’s earlier sentiment. It was strange; whenever he saw Xie Weishui engaging in this kind of ambiguous interaction with someone, he felt as disgusted as if he had swallowed a fly. He had once thought he simply hated the bromance marketing, but seeing these two interact, the word match popped into his head for the first time.

Their visuals matched, their heights matched, and even the tone of their conversation matched. Gao Yuan wondered how two men could be such a perfect pair.

“You will ship anything. Your teeth must be made of steel,” Zhou Yang said with a cold sneer.

As long as he was around, he would not let Chi Li develop any ambiguity with another man.

“Exactly, exactly,” Jiang Lele added immediately. “You cannot just ship anyone.”

Gao Yuan was speechless. “What a buzzkill.”

Xie Weishui cut in at the right moment. “Let us continue the game.”

In the fifth round, Chi Li was the dealer. After Gao Yuan and Jiang Lele made their guesses, the range narrowed to between 39 and 98.

Zhou Yang made a guess with total confidence. “91!”

He believed that Chi Li would have a clever reason for choosing his number. To him, 91 represented the exact number of days they had officially been dating.

“The range is 39 to 91,” Chi Li announced coldly, having no idea why Zhou Yang looked so excited.

Zhou Yang could not hide his disappointment. He cycled through numbers representing their birthdays, ages, or the date their relationship started, but they had all been excluded for being too low. He wondered if there was another number with a special meaning.

“52,” Xie Weishui called out, precisely naming the number Zhou Yang had in mind.

Zhou Yang’s heart skipped a beat.

“The range is 39 to 52,” Chi Li stated.

Zhou Yang was dejected. No one noticed his silent anticipation or his subsequent letdown. The bomb finally exploded when Fang Jin said “44.” Over the next three rounds, the people forced to drink were Jiang Lele, Zhou Yang, and Fang Jin. Shen Xunye and Wei Xuan were incredibly lucky and never stepped on a single landmine.

“Alright, it is getting late. How about we play one more game before we call it a night?” Xie Weishui said, firmly maintaining control over the flow of the evening.

Chi Li wanted to observe these people up close anyway, so he naturally raised no objection. The others who lived there were not about to disrespect Xie Weishui either.

The new game was simple, called I Have What You Do Not. Each person would hold up five fingers. One person would state something they had done that no one else had. Anyone who had not done it would have to fold down a finger. The first person to fold all five fingers would have to drink three glasses. The second and third would drink two, and everyone else would drink one.

The person who went first had a clear advantage. For the sake of fairness, the winner of a round of rock, paper, scissors would start.

“I am over 190 centimeters tall,” Shen Xunye said, having won the right to go first. He dealt a direct blow to everyone else.

“I feel like I am not just folding my finger, but my self-esteem as well,” Gao Yuan said, giving Shen Xunye a resentful look.

Jiang Lele joked, “I am curious if the air at 190 centimeters is different from ours.”

Zhou Yang pouted in dissatisfaction. “What is the difference? Have you never worn elevator shoes or stood on a chair? He is just over 190 and happens to be handsome. How shallow! Chi Li would never care about things like that!”

“I will stand on a chair later to experience the air up there,” Xie Weishui teased.

“My turn,” Chi Li said, ending their small talk. Taking inspiration from Shen Xunye, he also dealt a universal blow. “I am under 20 years old.”

“I am being hurt by both of you,” Gao Yuan said, folding another finger. “Being tall and young is really something, is it not?”

Wei Xuan looked worried. “Am I even going to get a chance to speak?”

“Based on this trend, it is very likely,” Jiang Lele replied.

“Gao Yuan, show some mercy. Do not be so aggressive,” Wei Xuan called out to him.

Gao Yuan did not bother to respond. Instead, he spoke up immediately. “I have confessed to someone and been rejected.”

Most of the people sitting there were high achievers among their peers. It was likely rare for them to take the initiative to confess and even rarer to be rejected. Furthermore, even if someone had a similar experience, they might not be willing to admit it. Gao Yuan was certain this move would take down quite a few people.

To his surprise, two people besides himself did not fold a finger: Zhou Yang and Fang Jin.

Livestream Comments:

• “My shipping brain is tingling. Did these two actually confess to Xie Weishui?”
• “Another piece of material for fanfiction.”
• “The person above is delusional.”

“Now I am curious,” Jiang Lele said, his eyes darting between the two of them. “Under what circumstances were you rejected?”

A faint smile appeared on Zhou Yang’s face. “Because he thought I was joking.”

“Oh,” Jiang Lele said. “A misunderstanding like that should be cleared up pretty quickly, right?”

The misunderstanding was indeed cleared up quickly, but they did not get together until six months after that. However, that was a relationship Zhou Yang felt he could not quite admit to right now.

Zhou Yang gave Chi Li a look full of apology. “It was cleared up, but there was no need to be together anymore.”

“What kind of logic is that?” Wei Xuan could not help but criticize. “If it really happened the way you said, the real reason is that the other person had no feelings for you but did not want to hurt you, so they just made up an excuse to reject you.”

Zhou Yang hurriedly denied it. “Who are you to analyze me?”

“His analysis is actually quite reasonable,” Chi Li added casually.

At that time, they had only known each other for three months when Zhou Yang rushed to confess. Chi Li felt the man was far too frivolous and rejected him. When Zhou Yang later asked why he had been turned down, Chi Li had simply used that excuse.