APCF -Chapter 23 (1)

The programme was finally humane for once; the next mission was very simple. Thus, the guests cooperated to complete it in the morning, then headed back to their base camp at Zeng’s house to enjoy some rare rest time.

This just happened to be convenient for Qi Xingchen. He first ran to the director’s lounge, “Director Zhao, can I do a livestream? The kind that definitely won’t reveal the location of filming!”

Director Zhao: “……What do you want to do again, you monkey demon?!”

“I just wanted to help us to promote our show.” Qi Xingchen pulled over the foldable cross stool and adopted the attitude of confiding in him with full sincerity that he used when facing Zeng Er.

All of the hairs on Director Zhao’s body stood on end, “I’m telling you, don’t plot against me ah, I won’t fall for it.”

“…… How could I dare to plot against you?” Qi Xingchen did not know whether to cry or laugh, “I just wished to discuss this with you. My popularity had risen up with great difficulty, if I don’t do business for a while, I’m afraid I won’t be able to maintain it.”

Idols come and go like flowing water, while the fans are fixed in place like iron. If a young newcomer like Qi Xingchen, who has just risen to prominence, doesn’t show his face often, he might just be forgotten by the public at some point.

Director Zhao understood what he was doing; moreover, him going out to do business would be good for maintaining the popularity of the programme. Hence, after nagging about the three don’ts and such once, he gave his permission.

Qi Xingchen thanked Director Zhao and ran again to a place with no one to ask Qi Yuji about her progress.

“Xingxing!” Qi Yuji transformed into a crying monster, “I’ll be setting off soon, I’m bringing you dried cod and Auntie Zhang’s hand-made spicy beef sauce, what else do you want?”

“……These are enough,” Qi Xingchen said, “The roads where I am filming at are bad, I’ll have to trouble you and the bodyguard to come by ox cart. What time will you arrive? I’ll ask a fellow villager to pick you up.”

“No trouble, as long as I can see my family’s Xingxing, even if I crawl over here it’s also no trouble! I’ll reach the Niuben town hall around 4 pm, and the mayor will be able to send me to the trail to Yangshan Village at almost 5 pm.”

“Okay, I’ll see you there. By the way,” Qi Xingchen reminded in passing, “it’s cold here at night, bring a jacket along ah.”

There was a moment of silence on the other end of the line, and then a shriek erupted: “AHHHHHH Xingxing, you actually know how to care for jiejie now! I can die happy now wuwuwuwuwu…”

Qi Xingchen hurriedly pulled the phone away from his ear and waited for Qi Yuji’s state to return back to normal, then hung up the call after a bit more prodding.

With Director Zhao and Qi Yuji both taken care of, Zhou Yu was next in line. Qi Xingchen first went to Old Zeng’s place and asked if he could pick up Qi Yuji before going back to his room to get a small box.

Zhou Yu was just giving Luo Qiuman a light pounding back massage in the courtyard. Qi Xingchen cradled his mobile phone to his ear and unhurriedly pretended to pass by.

From the movement of his lips, he seemed to be discussing something with the other end of the line, all secretive: “……Yes, 5:40. En, the drying yard that is next to the minor road leading into the village. Aiyah, don’t ask me what I’m doing, of course it’s a good thing, heheheheh……”

Zhou Yu pricked up his ears as he eavesdropped, his heart gradually growing suspicious.

After two days of recording, he could tell, in the guest team of 《Budget Travel》, Zhang Yunfei was the oldest male and thus took on the role of the decision-maker. Qi Xingchen was the youngest, the most quick-witted, and already had a faint hint of being the group’s favourite.

So even though Qi Xingchen did not say what he was doing, Zhou Yu could already guess that he definitely wanted to do something that made a splash. How could he let that boy get what he wanted?

He must go and have a look!

When Qi Xingchen saw his expression change, the big stone in his heart finally fell; what he was taking advantage of was exactly this mentality of Zhou Yu. When everything was properly prepared, he sent out a Weibo post to announce the upcoming livestream.

At 4 pm, Old Zeng left on time to pick up Qi Yuji. At 5:20 pm, Qi Xingchen arrived at the drying yard and opened the livestreaming software.

“……”

There are actually over 100,000 viewers in the livestream!!!

In his expectations, he thought that 20,000 to 30,000 people would be enough as witnesses, but he was completely unprepared for this many people waiting even before he even showed his face!!!

He took two deep breaths, then tapped the【Start Streaming】button. Under the afterglow of the setting sun, a clean and clear face of a young man appeared on the screen.

The starlights who were waiting expectantly: “……F*ck!”

【AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!】

Immediately, a barrage of screams filled the bullet screen, followed by more “AHH”s pushing them out, it could be said to be the scene of a massive illegal groundhog assembly!

Seeing the audience being so enthusiastic, Qi Xingchen greeted them stiffly, “Hi, good afternoon everyone.”

【Xingxing, you’re finally livestreaming, Mama has been waiting for you for a long time, you know?】

【wuwuwu Being able to see my boyfriend livestream in this lifetime, my heart is fully content!】

【Honey where are you? Looks like there’s a lot of mountains behind you】

【Oh my god what kind of god face is this, this passerby became a huge fan, this passerby became a huge fan!!】

The bullet screen finally showed something different from “AH”. Qi Xingchen replied them one by one: “Sorry for keeping you all waiting.”

“I’m recording a programme; the location has to be kept confidential.”

“Become my fan bah, there will be no loss if you invest in the original issue shares.”

“Those Starlights that call me Son, have you all reached the legal age to marry?”

Seeing the idol actually promoting himself, the bullet screen became one full sheet of laughter. Fans who received the alert for the start of the livestream also came in one after another, and the number of viewers increased to 200,000.

However, Qi Xingchen was very adaptable and gradually got higher and higher as he let go of himself, even singing a few lines of a corny song to the audience with the accompanying music.

The bullet screen was full of 666.

【HAHAHAHAH f*ck b*stard, who the f*ck did you learn that from!】

【This image is so beautiful that I don’t dare to look at it…… I’ll just take one look……d*mn it’s going straight to my head, straight to my head!】

【What kind of corny idol is this? This is way too interesting】

【AHHHHHHHHHH!】

【AHHHHHHHH IS THIS REAL?】

At this moment, another rush of groundhog shrieks filled the entire screen of the livestream. Qi Xingchen thought in his heart: The audience today has really unusual interests, is there any need to react this enthusiastically when they heard this corny song?

In the next moment, he fully understood the origin of the shrieks — at the very top of the livestreaming interface, a flood of light seeming like the Milky Way flashed.

Then, 【Bo Ye has sprinkled a meteor shower on your livestream 】

Qi Xingchen: “……”

The Milky Way special effect was an exclusive special effect shown when entering streams that the livestreaming platform custom made for Bo Ye. The meteor shower was then the exclusive gift that only Bo Ye could give.

So…… Why on earth did the male protagonist enter his live stream?

…

Having no idea if the male protagonist saw the foolish image of him singing corny songs, Qi Xingchen’s face gradually heated up.

Just as he was about to do something normal to save his dignity, the sound of clothes rustling suddenly came from behind him.

It was Zhou Yu, he’s here!

The drying field was full of harvests from the mountains, with piles to the left and right. Qi Xingchen deliberately sat behind a stack of wooden branches, so it was normal that Zhou Yu could not see him.

The main matter was urgent, he couldn’t be bothered to think about it anymore and whispered into his earphones, “Another guest from 《Budget Travel》 is coming over, I’ll see what he’s up to. You guys just wait for me for a bit.”