Chapter 361 The Life Stories of Xixi and Zhusheng
The day is the 8th.

Ying Chanxi lived a very fulfilling life.

After taking a nap at noon while sharing a Bluetooth headset with Li Luo, we continued our classes together in the afternoon.

Halfway through the second period of evening self-study, Li Luo felt his arm being poked a few times. He turned his head to look at Ying Chanxi and found that she winked at him.

Then Li Luo watched her stand up and walk out of the classroom. When she walked out the back door, she did not forget to turn back and look at him again.

Of course Li Luo knew what she meant, so after a while, he got up and left the classroom. Taking advantage of the night, he found Ying Chanxi on the playground.

"Don't we usually go downstairs fifteen minutes early for night jogging?" Li Luo walked up to Ying Chanxi and said with a smile, "You're going downstairs a little too early, aren't you? We've only been in class for a few minutes?"

"Well, I want to take a walk to catch my breath after running." Ying Chanxi said stubbornly, "Don't talk too much, just run faster."

"Row."

"Hey, wait a minute." Ying Chanxi pulled him back, fished out his Bluetooth headset from his trouser pocket, took one out and put it on him, "Okay."

After turning on the music, Ying Chanxi started running after Li Luo.

Enjoying the rhythm of the light music beside his ears and looking up at the crescent moon above his head, Ying Chanxi felt satisfied.

In fact, when Ying Chanxi shared headphones with Yan Zhusheng every day, he wanted to listen to music with Li Luo, but he never found a suitable opportunity.

Yan Zhusheng's absence these two days allowed her to realize her previous idea, and she felt happy the whole day.

Thinking that there was still one day left tomorrow, Ying Chanxi was so happy that he was bubbling with joy, and even his running posture became a little lighter.

After running four or five laps, both of them were sweating and feeling slightly hot, so they stopped running and started walking around the playground.

There were still about twenty minutes before the get out of class ended. Ying Chanxi strolled beside Li Luo, with his hands behind his back, fingers entangled together, and he pursed his lips and turned his head to look at him secretly.

When Li Luo noticed it, she turned her head back and pretended to be serious while looking at the plastic track under her feet.

"What are you thinking about?" Li Luo raised his hand and touched Ying Chanxi's hair.

"I'm not thinking about anything." Ying Chanxi's feet stepped precisely on the white line between the runways, as if he was walking on a single-plank bridge. "Why are you touching my hair?"

"I want to see your twin tails."

"Sure." Upon hearing this, Ying Chanxi took the initiative to grab her hair tie and gently took it off, and her long, smooth hair immediately fell down.

Ying Chanxi took off another hair tie from her wrist and stuffed both hair ties into Li Luo's hands. Then she stopped, turned her back to him and said, "Help me tie it."

"Okay." Li Luo took the hair tie and began to help her tie her hair into two ponytails very skillfully.

As for why Ying Chanxi had an extra hairband on her wrist, it was naturally specially prepared.

Since Li Luo liked to tie her hair into two ponytails, Ying Chanxi always carried two hair ties with her.

One is used for braiding hair normally, and the other is kept as a backup and can be used to tie Li Luo's hair into two ponytails at any time.

It really comes in handy now.

"Alright." Li Luo looked at Ying Chanxi's twin ponytails and nodded in satisfaction at his masterpiece, "It looks great."

"Who is prettier, the hair or the person?" Ying Chanxi touched her braid, lowered her head and asked with a blushing face.

"The twin tails are just the icing on the cake. Naturally, the person is pretty."

"Humph."

Ying Chanxi continued walking along the track with a stern face, the smile on his lips almost unable to be suppressed.

Li Luo followed her pace, but lagged slightly behind by half a step, and from time to time he would admire his own twin ponytails.

Especially when Ying Chanxi walked briskly, the ponytails would flutter up and down, looking very cute.

Paired with Ying Chanxi's exquisite and lovely profile, it is truly pleasing to the eye and a feast for the eyes.

"By the way... have all the songs in Aunt Yuan's new album been filmed into MVs?" Ying Chanxi turned his head and asked.

“Yes, it was definitely filmed.”

"So you don't need to take a new one?"

“It’s not that we can’t shoot it again.” Li Luo said with a smile, “After all, that’s Auntie Yuan’s version. I might release a cover version of my own in the future, and I can also make a music video at that time.”

"Is that so?" Ying Chanxi blinked, looking forward to it. "Then, then..."

"This will be handed over to my exclusive MV director Ying Chanxi."

"Humph." Ying Chanxi raised the corner of his mouth a little happily, "I haven't even said I'll take the photo for you."

"You won't refuse."

"It's hard to say. It depends on the sincerity of some people."

"What sincerity do you want?"

"I need to think about this." Ying Chanxi pinched his chin and thought, glancing at Li Luo out of the corner of his eye.

But Li Luo then asked: "Which of the nine songs do you like best?"

“I haven’t even heard the last two songs yet.”

"So which of these seven songs do you like best?"

"If you want to say what you like best..." Ying Chanxi bit her lip, her eyes wandering, and finally responded softly, "Light Chaser."

"This one?" Li Luo raised his eyebrows and asked, "Then... how do you think the MV for this song should be shot?"

"Of course it has to be at the beach, and at night, with fireworks." Ying Chanxi obviously remembered the lyrics of the song very well, and then he couldn't help but add in a low voice, "Of course... there has to be a male and female lead, after all, this song is about secret love."

"Let's assume that this is the beach." Li Luo pointed to the dark lawn and the runway under his feet. "We are on the beach now. Does Director Ying have any instructions?"

"Well... in this case..." Ying Chanxi blinked, his heart beating faster, "You, you walk in front, and I will follow behind you like the light chaser."

"And then... the angle of the camera should be such that the moon is above your head, serving as a concrete representation of that beam of light."

"The close-up shots are mainly my hands, like this."

Ying Chanxi followed behind Li Luo, slowly stretched out his hand, and chased after Li Luo's back bathed in the moonlight, as if chasing a beam of light.

But just when Ying Chanxi was thinking about how to shoot next, the next second, she felt her outstretched hand being held by Li Luo.

"You..." Ying Chanxi looked at Li Luo, and at her hand that he was holding, and stood there in a daze for a moment.

"What's wrong?" Li Luo turned his head and looked at her. "I think the ending of the song is that the light chaser finally finds his own light. Is that right?"

"Hmm... ah... I, I feel the same way..." Ying Chanxi's face turned red as she felt Li Luo's warm palm. When she thought about herself holding hands with Li Luo at school, even her ears turned red.

But she tried hard to remind herself in her mind that this was a MV shoot, a MV shoot, a MV shoot... Then she could continue to hold Li Luo's hand with peace of mind and not let go.

"Some love is like a heavy rain~but still~believe in the rainbow~"

Li Luo turned around, humming a song, and then came to Ying Chanxi, hugged her in his arms, and whispered in her ear: "If we can have a scene of hugging each other in the rain at the end, and a rainbow appears in the sky at the end, wouldn't it be perfect?"

Ying Chanxi was suddenly hugged by Li Luo like this. He was stunned for a moment, and then he felt hot all over and his body became stiff.

Only after they had been hugging for a while did she gradually come back to her senses. Her body leaning in Li Luo's arms softened, and she hugged Li Luo's back with her backhand, pressing her whole body against him, refusing to let go.

But he still said: "Are you the director or am I the director? Have you started to instruct me on how to shoot the MV?"

"I'm just improvising." Li Luo said with a smile, "What do you think, Director Ying?"

“This…” Ying Chanxi hesitated. He had already hugged her for such a long time, so how could he say no? “It’s, it’s not bad.”

"That means there is still room for improvement." Li Luo said this, and he really pondered for a moment. Then he suddenly freed one hand, raised it between the two of them, gently pinched Ying Chanxi's chin, lifted her little face, and smiled softly, "Does it take a kiss in the rain to be perfect at the end?"

Forced to raise her face, Ying Chanxi blinked and avoided Li Luo's gaze guiltily, her cheeks already flushed with shame.

"Don't go too far..."

"There are kissing scenes in many MVs." Li Luo said seriously, "Didn't the character Shen Dongdong that I wrote also have a kissing scene with the main character when they were filming a TV series? This is called making a contribution to art."

"……Really?"

"Yes."

"Then..." After hearing what Li Luo said, Ying Chanxi actually looked forward to it, but she was still shy in her heart. She only dared to glance at Li Luo occasionally and ran away at the first sight. "We...now..."

"We're not really filming right now, so of course we won't kiss casually." Li Luo smiled and let go of her small chin, "I'm just saying that. As for how to film specifically, you still have to follow Director Ying's instructions."

"Yeah...that's right..." Ying Chanxi pursed his lips, and suddenly felt a little disappointed, but then a little expectation arose, so that his heartbeat inexplicably accelerated again.

After the two had a friendly conversation on the playground regarding the MV shooting, they finally returned to the classroom together one minute before the end of the get out of class.

When the bell rang for the end of get out of class, the two packed their schoolbags, met up with Xu Youyu on Houde Road, and walked towards Bihai Lanting.

On the way home, Li Luo took out his mobile phone, looked at the consultation, and was stunned for a moment, almost forgetting to walk.

Xu Youyu noticed his strangeness and couldn't help asking, "What are you looking at? So absorbed?" "Hmm..." Li Luo was silent for a moment, then said, "The official has announced the identities of the guest singers for the finals."

In the duet singing session of the finals, each finalist can invite another singer to sing with them.

Generally speaking, everyone looks for someone who is relatively famous in the circle so that they can borrow the other person's fame to help them canvass votes or something.

But for someone like Yuan Wanqing, who directly invited someone whose name no one had even heard of, it seemed a bit abrupt.

——Yan Zhusheng.

Who is this?
When everyone saw the unveiling of the guest singers on Weibo, they were all stunned.

The first three guest singers are all relatively well-known. Even if someone doesn’t know them, they can always find their entries by searching on Baidu.

But the fourth guest singer, Yan Zhusheng, couldn’t even be found on Baidu, let alone knowing him!

The unveiling of the guest singer took place at 2 o'clock this afternoon.

Afterwards, a rumor leaked that Yan Zhusheng was actually Yuan Wanqing's daughter.

This really surprised the onlookers.

After all, ever since Yuan Wanqing made her comeback, it seems that no one has ever heard that she has a daughter.

Or it should be said that since Yuan Wanqing made her debut, we have never heard that she has been married!
Where did this daughter, who looks to be at least in her teens, come from?
[Fake news, right? How could it be a daughter? Don’t you see how old Yuan Wanqing is? If it’s a daughter, wouldn’t she have given birth before she was 20? ]

[But if it wasn't her daughter, why would she find someone outside the industry to help sing? I don't understand, it doesn't make sense.]

[Could it be that he is the second generation of some celebrity? He wants to debut and found this opportunity? After all, although Yuan Wanqing's new album has been a big hit, her foundation after her comeback is not yet stable. It is possible that she exchanged this stage qualification with others for resources.]

[It doesn’t matter if she’s a daughter, right? She’s been a singer since her debut, and she’s a talented singer now, so she doesn’t rely on her face to make a living.]

[But even if it doesn't matter, when you help out with the duet, everyone else asks famous singers to help. Why are you bringing your own daughter? Do you think you have too much of an advantage? Are you afraid that you'll steal the championship from them?]

[Maybe she is paving the way for her daughter in advance? To be honest, this makeup photo is really beautiful, not inferior to Yuan Wanqing when she was young]

[What's the point of being pretty? This is a singer's stage, not an idol's stage. Can she sing well? ]

On Weibo, everyone was arguing with each other.

Everyone was discussing whether Yan Zhusheng was Yuan Wanqing's daughter.

However, the discussion did not last long. At eight o'clock in the evening, Yuan Wanqing posted on Weibo herself.

[Yuan Wanqing]: Yes, the guest singer this time, Yan Zhusheng, is my daughter. The song for this time is a mother-daughter duet song written by Teacher Chongran. For this song, I think there is no one more suitable than my daughter to be my guest singer. I hope to bring you another surprise on stage tomorrow night.

Once these words were spoken, the final conclusion was reached.

So the topic online became, who is Yuan Wanqing's husband?

Soon, many speculations emerged on the Internet.

Li Luo walked all the way home, digesting the news. When he returned to 1502, he couldn't help but call Yan Zhusheng.

"Hey?"

"Where are you?"

"I'm at the rehearsal with my mom." Yan Zhusheng said, "Now I'm in the fitting room."

"Have you seen what's happening online?"

"No, Mom said not to look."

"Then don't watch it." Li Luo said, "Just focus on the game."

"Yeah." Yan Zhusheng nodded, "Uncle Ying said he would take care of it and told us not to worry about it."

"Uncle Ying? What else did he say?"

"He said he had already said hello." Yan Zhusheng recalled, "Anyway, I will only go on stage once, and no one will specifically ask about me afterwards, so I don't have to worry about my high school studies being disturbed."

"Okay, just listen to what Uncle Ying says." Li Luo felt a little relieved when he saw that Ying Zhicheng had already made arrangements.

"Are you worried about me?" Yan Zhusheng asked.

"if not?"

"I'm just asking." Yan Zhusheng pursed her lips and said, "I'll be very happy if you care about me."

"...Hurry up and prepare for the rehearsal. Don't keep us waiting."

"Oh."

After hanging up the phone, Li Luo looked at the situation on Weibo again.

All kinds of rumors about Yuan Wanqing were flying around, and no one knew what Ying Zhicheng was planning.

So in the end I couldn't help but call Ying Zhicheng.

"It's quite rare for you to call me." Ying Zhicheng said on the other end of the phone.

"Well... Uncle Ying, I just want to ask, today on the Internet..."

"It's not a big deal." Ying Zhicheng said, "After all, the fact that Wanqing has a daughter will be exposed one day, so it's better to expose it sooner rather than later. This is why I didn't stop Zhusheng from joining the gang singing."

"As for the media, you don't have to worry too much. After all, Zhu Sheng is still a minor."

"For example, news about second-generation celebrities on the Internet is basically published only after both parties agree to it."

"If you really don't want people to know, you'll find that you can't find any information about the vast majority of second-generation people."

"All that can be found are those that have been actively spread."

"In fact, they are not concerned about who Wanqing's daughter is, but who she married and had children with when she was young."

Hearing this, Li Luo couldn't help but say, "So... I'm going to ask, Uncle Ying, do you know who Aunt Yuan's husband is?"

"Her husband died when Zhusheng was just born." Ying Zhicheng said this, and then fell silent. "Xixi's mother is Zhusheng's father's sister."

Li Luo: “……?”

At this moment, so many nouns came out of Ying Zhicheng's mouth that Li Luo was a little stunned and couldn't react.

"Wait..." Li Luo rubbed his brows and thought carefully for a while, then couldn't help but confirm, "According to what you said, Uncle Ying... Xixi and Zhusheng are..."

"Well... they are cousins, I guess." Ying Zhicheng said with a wry smile, "But Xixi's mother ran away from home and eloped with me, so she cut off ties with that side a long time ago."

"When Yuan Wanqing came to us, her husband had already died in a car accident. People there were quite superstitious and thought she was a jinx."

"So she had no choice but to bring her child to seek refuge with Xixi's mother."

"That's not right." Li Luo asked again, "Then why don't I have any impression of them? When I was a child, Xixi and I lived in the countryside, and I don't think I've ever seen Zhusheng and Aunt Yuan."

"Before her brother died, he left Wanqing a house in the city. She only came to us for help because she had almost no money except for that house."

Ying Zhicheng continued, "It just so happened that I left the TV station at that time and followed my teacher to join Huayue, which had just been established. I also needed to find a place to live in the city."

"So we hit it off right away, and my husband and I stayed at Yuan Wanqing's house, which was close to where she worked, and it was convenient for Xixi's mother to take care of her and her daughter."

"You probably don't remember. You were all still young at that time. When Xixi was young, she lived in the countryside. For a period of time, we asked your mother to help take care of her."

"Later, when my work became stable, Wanqing joined Huayue under my introduction. By chance, I discovered her talent for singing. After signing with the company, she made money and her life got better."

"Xixi's mother then returned to Yinjiang to accompany Xixi to kindergarten and elementary school."

"It's a pity that Wanqing was only popular for the first two or three years after her debut."

"Before you guys could remember anything, she was diagnosed with heart disease and had to go abroad for recuperation. It's normal that you two didn't know Zhu Sheng when you were young."

After listening to Ying Zhicheng's words, Li Luo was silent for a long time, as if he had digested the news.

"Then... Uncle Ying, you and Aunt Yuan..."

"About this matter..." Ying Zhicheng smiled helplessly, "Xixi's mother's name is Yan Ruqing. I wonder if you still remember her? This is the name she changed for herself when she was in college. Before Ruqing passed away, she had a very good relationship with Wanqing."

"Before she closed her eyes, she asked me to take good care of Wanqing. Well... actually... I didn't agree at the time. I only promised to take good care of Wanqing and Zhusheng."

"After going through a lot of things, Wanqing and I got together, but I won't go into details."

Li Luo opened his mouth, not expecting the story to be so complicated.

I just don’t know whether Ying Chanxi and Yan Zhusheng knew about this in their previous life.

But when I think about the fact that they are cousins...

"Don't tell Xixi about these things for now." Ying Zhicheng was silent for a moment and finally reminded.

"I see." Li Luo nodded helplessly, "Uncle Ying, you go ahead and do your work. I won't bother you anymore."

(End of this chapter)