Ch 64: Don’t Remember
In the WeChat group, Huang Han was taken aback and exclaimed, "Oh my god! The corn we ate that morning was actually picked by Shao Junling!"
Wang Chen followed up with a soul-searching question, "You guys ate corn picked by Shao Junling? Why didn't Xue Ziwen and I have any?"
The TV quickly aired what happened next - Yinchang asked Huang Han to cook the corn, and after hearing Huang Han's analysis, mistakenly thought that the corn was compensation given by the staff, and generously shared half of it.
Shao Junling woke up and rushed out, seeing Huang Han and the others crouching at the door eating corn, his eyes grew full of resentment...
Huang Han: "[covers eyes][covers eyes][covers eyes]"
What was even more outrageous was that Yinchang even pointed at Shao Junling with a corn cob and told him not to be picky.
The group of friends in the chat couldn't take it anymore.
Qin Jing Shan: "Wow, Yinchang, you've gone too far!"
Wang Chen: "Damn it, if I treated Xue Ziwen like that, he'd probably scream his head off!"
Huang Han: "But why didn't Shao Junling explain?"
At this time, the program timely inserted an interview Yinchang had received in Tuyao Village a few days ago.
Yin Chang's shocked expression and speechless emotion greatly pleased all the viewers in front of the screen.
But the question Huang Han just asked in the group was also the one Yin Chang wanted to ask Shao Junling: "Hey, what were you thinking at that time? Why didn't you tell me?"
Shao Junling replied, "I was afraid you would get angry, so I thought I'd just let you be and not tell you."
Yin Chang was momentarily choked by his response, but still wondered, "Why would I get angry?"
Shao Junling didn't explain the reason, only firmly said, "You're just someone who gets angry easily."
Yin Chang: "..."
Shao Junling was now hanging his head and clenching his fists, not knowing whether he was embarrassed or frustrated.
If it were in the past and Yin Chang saw the little guy like this, he would probably have a headache, but now, he just found it amusing.
Yin Chang reached out and pinched Shao Junling's ear, not wanting to argue with him, and instead said in a cooing voice, like coaxing a child: "I won't get angry with you anymore, okay?"
Shao Junling dodged a bit, and his ears quickly turned red: "S-sure."
Yin Chang smiled and continued to watch the program, and the matter was thus brushed off with his teasing.
At this point, they had already gone to the square to have breakfast, and Qin Jingshan and Qin Xifeng appeared in a dazzling manner. Post production added dreamlike special effects and beautiful background music when they appeared, exaggeratedly rendering the beauty of the sister duo.
Back then, almost everyone was staring at the Qin sisters, but only Shao Junling shifted his gaze away after giving them a glance, and looked up straight at Yin Chang.
Because of this contrasting behavior, the program team specifically gave Shao Junling a close-up shot. With the same dreamy special effects, they even added a string of mood annotations above his head in post-production: "Brother is still better-looking~~~"
Shao Junling: "......"
At that time, Yin Chang completely didn't notice that Shao Junling was stealing glances at him. Now, while watching the program, he couldn't help but feel stunned... and then delighted.
He turned his head to look at Shao Junling beside him. So the little guy likes him so much.
Afraid that Shao Junling would feel embarrassed, Yin Chang didn't mention it and just hugged him - this position was very convenient for "touching and feeling" - touching his hair, touching his ears, feeling the little guy twisting restlessly in his arms.
After introducing the newly debuted Qin sisters, the five groups of guests began the task of drawing food cards.
Yin Chang remembered that they relied on Shao Junling's incredible memory to win first place in this round. He already thought that Shao Junling was very capable at that time, but seeing his little brother's performance on the show, Yin Chang was deeply shocked.
When Shao Junling rushed out first after receiving the task card, the background music from Detective Conan that made the culprit fearful started playing on the TV...
At the same time, a small village map appeared in the upper right corner of the screen, with a red line drawn to show the shortest distance from the square to the villagers' homes.
Shao Junling led Yin Chang and the filming crew to their destination along the red line on the map in this stirring music. Not only that, but for all the following mission locations, Shao Junling always took the shortest distance.
Of course, the show didn't only feature Yin Chang and Shao Junling. Other pairs were also shown in between, but once the camera switched to them, they wandered around like headless flies, and even the background music became slow and rhythmless.
However, when it came to Yin Chang and Shao Junling, the background music changed to "Detective Conan" ... this made Shao Junling's team stand out from the rest.
But what was highlighted most was not Shao Junling's incredible memory, but his action afterwards.
In the middle, Huang Han and Qin Jingshan had both brought their sisters to ask Shao Junling for help. Both times, Shao Junling was forced to answer by Yin Chang. The first time, he told Huang Han the shortest route, but the second time, when facing Qin Jingshan, the route he suggested was different from the one on the small map.
In the later stage of the show, the production team specifically marked the two different routes with lines of different colors. Although Qin Jingshan and Qin Xifeng successfully found the mission location, the audience clearly saw that they had taken a longer route.
Yin Chang immediately turned to Shao Junling and said, "You..."
Shao Junling couldn't hide from his brother's gaze. He appeared flustered and struggled to run away.
Yin Chang grabbed him and held him tightly.
Just when Yin Chang wanted to ask why he did this, the program interrupted with an interview of Shao Junling by the staff.
"Shao Junling, why didn't you tell Qin Jingshan and the others the shortest route at the time?"
Yin Chang paused, focused, and waited for Shao Junling's answer on the screen.
But Shao Junling lowered his eyes and fell into silence. Maybe his silence lasted too long, so the program team fast-forwarded the segment, with subtitles that read "one minute later," and a cartoon image of a photographer sleeping at the bottom of the screen. But it only took four or five seconds to play.
The staff laughed, "If you don't want to answer, you can't go out."
Shao Junling raised his eyes, "I... don't remember."
The staff: "…"
The cartoon image of the photographer appeared again. This time, he had a speechless expression with sweat pouring down his head.
Damn, who believes that he can't remember? It's better to just make up another lie than say that!
Yin Chang was also left speechless by Shao Junling's reaction. In the program, he couldn't ask any further, but in reality, he wanted to know why he bullied them.
"Why did you bully them?" Yin Chang interrogated Shao Junling.
Shao Junling had nowhere to hide, and his face turned red. "I... I was upset! You... hit me on the back of my head!"
Yin Chang was surprised. So, Shao Junling deliberately played a prank on the two sisters because he didn't like being forced to help?
Yin Chang reflected on his behavior and realized that maybe his approach was too rough, which triggered Shao Junling's rebellious reaction.
But for some reason, this mischievous Shao Junling also was cute to Yin Chang.
He rubbed Shao Junling's head like comforting an angry cat, "Hehe, okay. I'm sorry. I won't hit your head again in the future."
Shao Junling thought that his brother would be angry with him and was alert, but unexpectedly, Yin Chang apologized to him?
This...made Shao Junling even more nervous!
After spending a year together, Shao Junling thought he had figured out his brother's temperament and personality, and knew how to get along with him. However, these two days, Yin Chang seemed to have changed his personality, not only his behavior was abnormal, but even the tone of his speech was always off.
Shao Junling was very anxious.
"I, I want to go to the bathroom..." He found an excuse and finally broke free from Yin Chang's embrace and ran away.
Yin Chang sighed in disappointment, picked up his phone and saw that Qin Jing Shan had protested against Shao Junling's behavior to the program group.
Qin Jing Shan: "Shao Junling..."
Qin Jing Shan: "What did I do wrong? Why did you do this to me...[sobbing]"
Qin Jing Shan: "Yin Chang, quickly call your little brother out and explain to me...[covering her eyes and crying]"
A group of people laughed insanely below: "Hahaha!"
Yin Chang also replied with a smile for Shao Junling, "Don't take it too seriously. He lied to you, it has nothing to do with you."
Qin Jing Shan asked, "Why?"
Yin Chang replied, "He was mainly trying to make me angry, and you just got caught in the crossfire. ^_^"
The crowd was silent.
Huang Han said, "Hey, I just noticed, Shao Junling changed his profile picture again."
Yin Chang clicked on it and indeed, it had been changed, but not to a new one, it had been changed back. It was probably because "Little Cake" no longer served as a useful prompt, so Shao Junling changed it when he got his phone back.
Huang Han asked, "@Yin Chang, is that you in his profile picture?"
Yin Chang said, "Yeah, it's me..."
Shao Junling had previously used a picture of Yin Chang as his profile picture, it seemed to be taken when they were together in Switzerland, and Shao Junling took a sneak shot with his phone. But the picture was a bit blurry, and the part of Yin Chang's face that Shao Junling cut out for his profile picture was only a part of his profile. If it weren't for a corner showing a scarf that Yin Chang was wearing at the time, even Yin Chang wouldn't have recognized himself.
Qin Jing Shan asked, "Why is he using your picture as his profile picture?"
Wang Chen said, "Can't you tell from this episode? Shao Junling obviously has a 'brother complex'. [Digging nose]"
The crowd suddenly realized that indeed, Shao Junling was a "brother stan" - he let Yin Chang have the good food while he ate plain steamed bread, he was afraid that Yin Chang would go hungry, so he got up in the middle of the night to dig corn for him, and when everyone was watching the Qin sisters, he was watching Yin Chang... This brother stan attribute was definitely not to be underestimated!
Upon hearing their analysis, Yin Chang looked at Shao Junling's profile picture again and felt inexplicably sweet.
But why was he in the bathroom for so long?
"Shao Junling?" Yin Chang called out to him, "Shao Junling!"
"Um..." Shao Junling finally responded after a while. Judging by where the sound was coming from, he was probably hiding in the bedroom.
"Why aren't you watching the program?" Yin Chang also stood up.
"I don't want to watch it." Shao Junling, who was peeking at the WeChat group, heard footsteps and quickly turned off his phone, burying his hot face in the pillow.
Hearing that Shao Junling didn't want to watch, Yin Chang also lost interest. Moreover, each episode of the show was divided into two parts and judging by the time, this episode was also about to end after they "finished lunch."
Yin Chang lay on the bed and picked up his phone to read the comments on the program's official account:
"Ah, "Superstar Lifestyle" is so good! I fell in love with Yin Chang's little brother after watching the first episode!"
"By the end, I felt like I was slapped in the face by Shao Junling, you know?"
"Yin Chang taught Shao Junling how to have good values over there, so cool!"
"Am I the only one who feels sorry for Shao Junling? He's always trying to please Yin Chang and get his attention, but he gets the least compared to the other kids!"
"It's not like they're real brothers, right? I also feel like Yin Chang is pretty indifferent to him."
"Don't bother trying to find anything sweet between those brothers of Yin Chang, it's not even worth a grain of sugar. Come and pay attention to Huang Han and Xiao Lu, they are the real deal!"
"What should I do, I really like Shao Junling! He's a highly intelligent little stone face who's so spoiled by his brother! Yin Chang is just a naive and sweet guy! Ah! I want to ship these two brothers! Are there any similar novels out there?"
Yin Chang: "??? " Am I really naive and sweet? What's going on?
Although there were some controversies as he had expected, Yin Chang was still somewhat surprised that so many netizens liked Shao Junling in the first episode.
Yin Chang: "So you like me that much, huh? ^_^"
Shao Junling: "I, I... don't... (voice as thin as a mosquito's)"
Yin Chang: "What did you say? I can't hear you?"
Shao Junling: "... (/////)"
Author’s Note: The background music when Shao Junling went to the villager's house is "Ookami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki" by Masakatsu Takagi, the first popular song on NetEase music. Interested readers can go and check it out.
Chapter #5 sponsored by Yaara. I’m so glad other people like this story! I really like this author and Shao Junling's stoic care is so cute
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