21 – Dazed by Love and Unaware of Restraint
After the stage theme lottery was completed, the Hurricane Girls carried their suitcases to the dormitories.
Everyone joyfully dashed down the corridor.
Excited screams echoed from nearby, “Ah—”
Keikei and Luo Yi were assigned to the same dorm room, and the two sisters excitedly hugged each other, jumping up and down.
“Qing-mei! Which room is yours?”
Luo Yi rushed up to Yan Qing, practically wanting to cling to her like a koala, “It’ll be convenient for me to come find you to spar!”
Yan Ke and Viki were next door to them, Yu Shengsheng and Wang Shuyao were in the first room of the corridor, Su Jinxia had a single room, leaving only Yan Qing still dragging her suitcase around looking for her room…
“Over here!” Keikei waved to them.
Luo Yi quickly grabbed Yan Qing’s suitcase and sprinted over like a rocket, pushing open the door!
But before she could even step inside, she froze.
After all, they were all debuted artists with a certain level of popularity, so the accommodation conditions were quite good. Even though they were double rooms, they had bright floor-to-ceiling windows and spacious princess beds.
But Yan Qing’s room…
“Isn’t the production team being a bit too biased? Everyone else gets Simmons mattresses, but Yan Qing gets a camp bed?”
“And the space is countless times smaller than the others!”
“She doesn’t have any popularity anyway, why should she get a good room? It’s already good enough that she can participate in this show, okay?”
“Srds, that’s not really how you should put it…”
Luo Yi and Keikei exchanged awkward glances.
Yan Qing blinked her clear eyes and strolled over leisurely, “What’s wrong?”
Luo Yi pursed her lips and stepped aside.
Yan Qing raised her eyes and saw the narrow, cramped room, along with the very simple single camp bed.
Keikei frowned slightly, “Qingqing, don’t be upset. Maybe other people’s rooms are like this too. If it really doesn’t work out, you can come to ours. Luo Luo and I can squeeze together!”
“Yes, yes, yes!” Luo Yi quickly nodded.
Yan Qing looked at the two with a strange expression. She thought something major had happened, “Is that all?”
Luo Yi: “…”
Isn’t this a serious matter?
She came from a good family background and had lived in luxury since childhood, having never seen such a shabby living environment.
“Isn’t this dorm environment pretty good?”
Yan Qing calmly carried her suitcase inside and casually sat down on the camp bed, patting it a couple of times, “At least there’s a bed.”
Back when she was cultivating in the Quick Transmigration World, she didn’t even need a bed—she would just sit cross-legged on the ground and fall asleep with her eyes closed!
“I thought Yan Qing would throw a tantrum, but it turned out completely different from what I expected. She actually thinks the environment is good!”
“Having a bed is something to be happy about? Doesn’t she have a mansion?”
“I’m not a fan or a hater, but I feel inexplicably sorry for her. She must have lived in worse rooms before…”
Jiang Wangyan had been keeping an eye on Yan Qing’s footage all along.
When he saw the clearly targeted dorm assignment, his thin lips tightened, and he frowned with displeasure.
Ming Huai was playing games beside him when he suddenly saw the man stand up and put on his jacket, “Are you going out?”
Jiang Wangyan lowered his eyes, fastening his cuffs without responding.
Ming Huai quickly put down his phone and perked up, “Wait, where are you going, boss? Even if you’re the boss, you still need to report your whereabouts! What if you get followed by paparazzi or sasaeng fans?”
Jiang Wangyan strode to the entrance to change his shoes.
Ming Huai followed him and heard the man reply in a cool, indifferent tone, “To find Yan Qing.”
“Oh! To find… find… find who?”Ming Huai suddenly widened his eyes in disbelief, exclaiming, “Yan Qing is still live streaming right now!”
“I know,” Jiang Wangyan replied in a calm, unhurried tone.
But Ming Huai was anything but calm. “If you know, then why…”
However, the award-winning actor paid him no mind. After stepping out, he coldly and mercilessly shut the door behind him.
Ming Huai: “…” You, you, you!
Last time, he almost got exposed because of his watch during her live stream. What if something gives him away again this time? This guy is completely love-struck and doesn’t know when to hold back!
…
The girls from Hurricane gradually finished tidying their rooms.
Yan Qing ran over to Luo Yi’s place to snack on spicy strips, but the treat in her hand was suddenly snatched away. “Confiscated!”
Yan Qing, who had been happily munching away: ???
Her joy was gone! She was about to throw a tantrum!
The staff member remained stern and impartial as she collected all the snacks, then said sternly, “Hand over your phones.”
Luo Yi threw a fit, protesting, “No way! You can’t take them! I still need to vote for my idol! We Nan Jing fans can’t miss a single day of voting—I’ll get kicked out of the fandom!”
Keikei: “…”
The live chat was flooded with laughter.
「LOL! She’s way too invested in her idol!」
「What should I do? I really want to ship them! Nan Jing, take a look at my girl—this future mother-in-law approves of you as her son-in-law.」
「Getting kicked out of the fandom for real? LOL! I’ve never seen Luo Yi voting for Nan Jing before! Got it—she must have a secret fan account no one knows about!」
Keikei was the first to reluctantly hand over her phone.
Luo Yi, however, kept hiding her phone, dawdling and unwilling to surrender it, while Yan Qing blinked innocently beside her.
Her eyes casually drifted over…
And she spotted a corner of a spicy strip wrapper tucked into Luo Yi’s bed seam!
Her happiness was back!
Yan Qing’s eyes instantly lit up. She quickly reached out and tugged at Luo Yi’s sleeve. “Let’s make a deal.”
Luo Yi looked at her tearfully.
Yan Qing leaned close to her ear and whispered, “I’ll help you hide your phone if you give me your spicy strips.”
Luo Yi immediately perked up: !
Spicy strips? Spicy strips are nothing compared to her idol!
“Deal!” she agreed almost without hesitation, extremely cheerfully. “But how are you going to…”
“I need to take a dump!” Yan Qing abruptly stood up.
With that, she vanished without a trace, leaving a bewildered Luo Yi: ???
Didn’t she say she’d help hide the phone?
“Come on, Luo Luo,” the staff member said with a mischievous grin, beckoning her over.
Luo Yi reluctantly reached to retrieve it…
But she discovered the phone she’d hidden under her pillow was gone?
“My phone seems to have grown wings and flown away.”
The staff member: “…”
Of course, she wasn’t easily convinced. She lingered, searching the room while waiting for Yan Qing to return and hand over her own phone.
Eventually, the girl slipped back from the bathroom, peeking her cute little head around the doorframe…
“Yan Qing!” the staff member immediately called out.
She stormed over aggressively. “Hand over your phone!”
“Fine, fine, I’ll hand it over,” Yan Qing grumbled. “No need to be so fierce. Being too fierce can make you lose hair, get wrinkles, break out, develop hemorrhoids, mess up your hormones, and even cause stomach problems!”
The staff member: “…”
Suddenly remembering the day Yan Qing cursed Su Jinxia to go bald, she felt a chill on her scalp and hugged herself tightly.
“Here.” Yan Qing handed over two phones.
She raised an eyebrow slightly. “The other one is Luo Luo’s. I accidentally took it when I rushed off to the bathroom earlier.”
The staff member inspected the phones Yan Qing had surrendered.The screensaver of one of them was a photo of Nan Jing lifting the corner of his shirt, faintly revealing his abs…
She immediately thought it was Luo Yi’s phone.
But she remained vigilant, her eyes scanning Yan Qing like infrared sensors, “What are you holding in your hand?”