Chapter 34
The red envelope rain brought by Meng Huaizhi ended, but the festive atmosphere lingered for a long time, especially for his fans, who were as happy as if it were the New Year.
After the red envelope rain, the fans were still thinking about Meng Huaizhi’s secret.
Meng Huaizhi announced on behalf of Fang Ci, “Regarding my secret… it will be announced in next week’s highlights version.”
[Fang, you dog! Oh, it’s Huai-ge, then it’s fine…]
[Bold guess, could Huai-ge’s secret be related to Shen Wu?]
[I guess so too. Can’t the highlights version be rushed out overnight?]
After the live broadcast was closed, Meng Huaizhi still remembered that Shen Wu had worked so hard and had only gotten five yuan, so he said, “I’ll send you a few more red envelopes.”
“Okay,” Shen Wu picked up his phone.
The limit for a WeChat red envelope was 200 yuan. Meng Huaizhi sent him five in one go.
Shen Wu generously accepted the red envelopes from his gege. For every red envelope he received, he sent a cat scattering flowers emoji to express his thanks.
He had just put down his phone when it vibrated a few more times. He opened it and saw three new red envelopes.
He used different emojis to express his thanks in various ways.
The two of them were each holding their own phones. The smile on Meng Huaizhi’s lips deepened. The moment he saw him put his phone away, he would send a few more red envelopes.
After several back and forths, Shen Wu finally glared at him, “I know you’re rich. Can’t you just transfer the money directly?”
“I didn’t think of that,” Meng Huaizhi said. “I’m done sending them now.”
“How many did you send…” Shen Wu scrolled up the chat history and murmured to himself, counting.
“26,” Meng Huaizhi told him directly.
“Oh,” Shen Wu didn’t think much of it. “That’s a lot of money.”
Meng Huaizhi’s lips curled slightly, and he said again, “You count it yourself.”
After a long while.
Shen Wu: “…”
Meng Huaizhi! You’re done for! The fire of the ‘chasing your wife to the crematorium’ scenario is already three meters high!
The filming location for this episode was an ancient house in a scenic area. A few hours of live broadcast was enough for the fans to figure out their location and rush over to block them.
The two of them bought the first flight back to the capital the next morning.
Shen Wu happened to be urging him, “Hurry up and pack your luggage.”
Meng Huaizhi did as he was told and asked Shen Wu, “Did you wash those clothes?”
“Not yet,” Shen Wu said. “I put them in a bag and in my bag.”
“…” Meng Huaizhi’s movements paused. He glanced at the shoulder bag Shen Wu had opened for him to confirm and said with a hint of helplessness, “Then what are you planning to wear on the way?”
“A jacket over my pajamas,” Shen Wu didn’t mind. For a long-haul flight, comfort was of course the most important.
Yesterday, when they had dinner in the hotel room, it was warm inside, so he hadn’t worn a coat. The fur-collared leather jacket had been spared. But that jacket was a short one. It could cover his pajama top, but not his pajama pants.
“When we land in the capital, there will definitely be a lot of fans picking us up at the airport. Are you planning to walk through the airport in your pajamas?” Meng Huaizhi asked a soul-searching question faintly.
Shen Wu: “…” He hadn’t thought of that at all.
If it weren’t for Meng Huaizhi, he wouldn’t be facing such a grand spectacle.
“Then should I change my flight and have a different time from you?” Shen Wu could only think of this solution.
“You have a lot of fans now too. There’s no need,” Meng Huaizhi said. “You can wear my clothes. Go back early and rest early.”
Before Shen Wu could say anything, before he could refuse or agree, Meng Huaizhi had already taken out a light gray sweatshirt from his suitcase and asked, “This one?”
Shen Wu took it inexplicably and saw that it was a light gray, plain pullover sweatshirt, simple and clean, with a small logo on the chest. It was not picky and did not have too many of the top-tier star’s personal style features.
“And pants. Your size should be about the same as mine, right?” Meng Huaizhi asked first this time, not making a decision on his own.
“Mm,” Shen Wu nodded and pointed to a pair of black casual pants. “Those will do.”
At ten o’clock the next morning, the plane from Nan Island landed in the capital on time.
Shen Wu asked Meng Huaizhi for a mask to cover his face, but above the plain black mask was a pair of beautiful and sharp peach blossom eyes.
He was wearing a light gray pullover sweatshirt with a black leather jacket over it, and black casual pants. It was a very simple and casual outfit, but with his figure, it immediately showed an extraordinary temperament.
So much so that even the hurried travelers at the airport frequently turned to look at him.
The color scheme of Meng Huaizhi’s outfit was exactly the same as his.
A black mask, a baseball cap, a black base layer shirt and casual pants, with a light gray coat over it, the gray of which was very similar to Shen Wu’s inner sweatshirt.
They walked out of the glass jet bridge and into the open airport hall.
Above the hall was a boundless glass dome, but the open hall below was crowded with people. Various hand banners, light signs, and support sticks were dotted among the dense crowd, coming from all directions, all facing the same direction.
The airport staff had been notified in advance and came over to escort the two of them through the crowd.
Shen Wu had never seen such a scene. There were tall security guards on both sides, but the fans’ excited hands would still reach over the security guards’ shoulders, coming within a few centimeters of his face.
“Meng Huaizhi! Meng Huaizhi! Look here!!”
Meng Huaizhi was used to it and walked with his head down, but his eyes were drawn up by a white light in his peripheral vision.
He saw a small fan holding up her phone, trying to squeeze into the crowd.
The small fan did not notice the accidentally turned on flash. She raised her phone again, and it was already right in front of them.
And when Shen Wu saw the phone reaching out from the front and to the side, he subconsciously looked over.
Meng Huaizhi took a step to block him, raised his hand to cover the phone, and also blocked the dazzling white light of the next second.
“Don’t use the flash.”
Hundreds of thousands of fans were pushing and shoving, but Meng Huaizhi had always ignored them, turning a deaf ear, and quietly walking his own way.
But now, a late-coming fan had received special treatment, not only getting a word from the top-tier star who was the center of attention, but also having a moment of contact with him through her phone.
That fan was immediately surrounded by the people next to her, all scrambling to see the close-up she had just taken.
Shen Wu’s heart was still pounding. He had almost been hit in the eyes by the flash at close range, so he also lowered his head to walk.
“A baseball cap to block it for you?” Amidst the noisy screams and shouts, Meng Huaizhi’s clear and cool voice sounded.
“I have a sweatshirt hood,” Shen Wu pulled down the cotton hood and tightened the sweatshirt’s drawstring, hiding his entire face in the hood that was rolled up like a lotus leaf.
Meng Huaizhi couldn’t even take off his baseball cap and put it on his head. He looked at him, the corners of his lips twitching slightly, and said two words, “Let’s go.”
The handsome face in the lotus-leaf-like hood nodded, “Mm.”
The two of them passed through the sea of people with the escort of the security guards. Just as they relaxed, an excited male fan broke through the line of defense, “Wuwu! Wuwu!”
Shen Wu turned his head and came face to face with a face that was almost contorted with excitement. “…?”
“Wuwu, wuwuwuwu… I’m a Miwu!! I like you!!!”
Shen Wu was so scared that he took a step back. “???”
With that step back, his heel happened to hit the tip of Meng Huaizhi’s shoe. Before he could stumble, a strong hand supported his lower back.
Shen Wu steadied himself, and the hand on his lower back naturally withdrew. “This person… what’s going on?”
Meng Huaizhi did not say much and switched places with him. “Don’t mind him. Let’s get out first.”
The two of them quickened their pace and, after much difficulty, finally left the airport and got into a safe van.
The first thing Shen Wu did after fastening his seatbelt was to complain, “I’m not flying with you next time. It’s too scary, especially that last male fan.”
Meng Huaizhi’s expression was calm. “But he seems to be your fan.”
“What…?”
Luo Jinyi, in the front row, chimed in, “That’s right. Your fans call themselves ‘Miwu’.”
Shen Wu couldn’t quite believe it. “I have fans picking me up at the airport?” And a male fan at that?
He then took out his phone to check. Before the car had even reached the dorm, the hashtag #Meng Huaizhi Shen Wu Airport# had already started to climb the trending list.
As one of the parties involved in the trending topic, the busy Shen Wu did not stop. He went back to the dorm to change back into his own clothes and then went to the racing team to train.
The trending topic might still be fermenting, but unfortunately, he had no time to pay attention.
Xiang Zixu was now working as a double assistant, but he was not very busy. When Shen Wu went to record Wonderful Adventure, everything was well arranged by the show’s staff, and Meng Huaizhi’s manager and assistant were also with him, so he didn’t need to bring his own assistant at all.
Xiang Zixu’s work was light, but he complained a lot. He would definitely work overtime to chase stars on the front line, and today he also came to accompany him to train.
In the dim twilight, Shen Wu finished his training and walked up to the assistant who was engrossed in the online world. “You’re still looking?”
“Wu-ge, you’re on the trending list again…” Xiang Zixu looked up, both surprised and happy. “And it’s with Meng Huaizhi again!”
“Still the one from the airport?” Shen Wu picked up his own phone to check.
It was indeed the airport, but the previous hashtag #Meng Huaizhi Shen Wu Airport# could no longer be found. It had been replaced by #Meng Huaizhi Shen Wu Airport Couple Outfits#, and in just a few hours, it had directly rushed to the top of the entertainment trending list.
Shen Wu: “?”
What couple outfits? He didn’t even know himself.
He clicked on the trending topic in confusion and was first greeted by a few airport photos taken by a professional photographer.
In the photos, he and Meng Huaizhi were surrounded by a dense crowd. The bustling crowd was blurred into a hazy patch, highlighting the two tall and slender figures in the center.
The two of them were dressed simply, in just black and gray. The simple colors made the texture look more high-end, and their temperament was extraordinary.
He was wearing a light gray hooded sweatshirt, which echoed Meng Huaizhi’s light gray coat. And their black casual pants were very similar in style.
Shen Wu, the person involved, knew that because the sweatshirt was Meng Huaizhi’s, and the coat was also Meng Huaizhi’s, it was not strange that they were the same color.
And the two pairs of pants were also Meng Huaizhi’s. His casual wear was exclusively from the same brand, and he only bought the simplest basic styles, so it was normal for them to look similar.
Even so, Shen Wu himself looked at the photos and felt that their outfits were very well-matched.
Perhaps it was mainly the matching of their temperaments, their close distance, and the intimacy captured in their gazes.
After all, when Meng Huaizhi had run into other small artists at the airport before, he hadn’t even looked at them, but he could still be forcibly shipped and hyped up.
And this time, Meng Huaizhi’s special treatment of course did not escape the eyes of his tens of millions of fans. They picked out the details from the cracks and sent the two of them to the trending list.
[how pay how pay, I approve of this marriage!]
[How can such simple clothes look so handsome on them, ahhhh. Can anyone tell me the brand? Wuwuwu.]
[Huai-ge’s casual wear is basically all from Celes’s basic line. It’s not expensive, so feel free to buy the same style~]
[Why do I feel like their pants are the same style?]
[Wuwu’s sweatshirt has a small logo. Is it also from Celes?]
Meng Huaizhi’s clothes were either custom-made or from mass-market brands. The fact that Shen Wu was wearing clothes from the same brand as him could also be explained by the fans as a coincidence. The fans, in order to chase their star, buy the same style, and support Meng Huaizhi’s endorsements, almost all had a piece from Celes.
Shen Wu’s sweatshirt was simple in style but had a generous cut, and it was made even more noble by the person wearing it. The fans were hooked. Hearing that it was not expensive, they immediately went to Celes’s official website to look for it, but they couldn’t find the same style even after searching everywhere.
Finally, there was such a guess.
[Could Wuwu’s sweatshirt be Huai-ge’s?? Isn’t this the one he wore in an ad before?]
[!!! It seems so! I heard that the brand originally wanted him to promote the high-end line, but he didn’t want to wear too expensive styles and make us spend money, so he wore a unique high-end line custom-made one.]
[Be a little bolder, maybe the pants are also Huai-ge’s.]
[Be even bolder, maybe the underwear is also Huai-ge’s (doge).]
[Ahhhhhhhhhh]
[This isn’t a couple outfit, it’s a married couple, hahaha.]
Shen Wu inadvertently caught a glimpse of the last comment, and his heart trembled slightly.
He had to admit that the onlookers were the clearest and could easily hit the truth.
[Wearing each other’s clothes is so sweet, wuwuwu.]
[Although I’m a fan of size difference, double A is so good!]
Shen Wu suddenly felt that something was not right.
Why were the netizens shipping him and Meng Huaizhi so enthusiastically? Even the fans of size difference could easily switch sides?
After thinking about it, he could only attribute it to Meng Huaizhi’s scandal-prone constitution.
Xiang Zixu next to him suddenly changed the subject and said with a hint of caution, “Wu-ge, I have something I want to apologize to ‘sister-in-law’ for.”
“…Apologize for what?” Shen Wu turned his head, a hint of confusion and surprise in his eyes. “You know who he is?”
“Mm-hmm,” Xiang Zixu nodded solemnly.
“Then don’t call him ‘sister-in-law’ anymore,” Shen Wu was not very surprised. “He won’t be happy.”
“Why?” Xiang Zixu was puzzled.
“Would you be happy if someone called you sister-in-law?” Shen Wu asked in return.
“Of course not… huh?” Xiang Zixu’s eyes widened in shock. “Isn’t sister-in-law the beautiful lady who came to visit the hospital last time?”
“?” Shen Wu’s eyes also widened. “What…? No, he’s not a woman.”
Xiang Zixu: “???”
Shen Wu had thought that Xiang Zixu had already guessed, but he had not expected that the silly and sweet assistant was even dumber than he had thought.
Xiang Zixu recovered from his shock. “Ah… in that case, I might not be so sorry to ‘sister-in-law’, ahem, sorry to brother-in-law…”
Shen Wu’s curiosity was piqued again. He couldn’t imagine the silly and sweet assistant’s mental world and could only ask himself, “What did you do?”
“Well… I watched the live broadcast of Wonderful Adventure yesterday and also got a red envelope,” Xiang Zixu said.
“Mm?”
Xiang Zixu hesitated for a moment and only said after a tap, “I also felt a little bit… that it was quite sweet…”
“…” Shen Wu was silent for a moment and then asked, “So?”
Xiang Zixu scratched his hair and lowered his head in embarrassment. “I tried to apply to be the host of the ‘Wuye Shuhuai’ Super Topic, and hey, I don’t know why, but I succeeded in one try! Brother-in-law should… not mind, right?”
But Shen Wu was puzzled. “What’s ‘Wuye Shuhuai’?”
“It’s Meng Huaizhi’s CP Super Topic.”
“He doesn’t have a CP Super Topic, does he?”
Not to mention a Super Topic, even the previous trending topics that shipped Meng Huaizhi would be dealt with by his public relations department in a few hours.
“Wu-ge, what do you do online every day?” Xiang Zixu was speechless at his boss’s 2G internet. “That’s your and Meng Huaizhi’s CP Super Topic!”
