SABA Chapter 33

Jiang Tiao felt happy thinking about this…

Danger always stimulated people’s adrenaline. The guests and staff were all animatedly reviewing and discussing what had just happened, only the director was utterly distraught.

Why did Chu Xu get into trouble again and again and again?!

He just couldn’t understand it. Jiang Tiao and Ying Yuanxun were both wearing life jackets, and there were professional rescuers around. You said your swimming skills weren’t that good, why did you insist on jumping into the sea to save someone?!

Look, now it’s good. Who knows what the bullet comments will say about the show again!

[When will the show ever put the guests’ safety first?!]

[No security measures are no different from murder!]

[This show is really unprofessional? How can I complain to the radio and television bureau to shut down such a show?!]

[+1 Sisters with complaint channels, please send them!]

[Wuwuwu Chu Chu is still as kind as ever, seeing someone fall into the water, he didn’t hesitate to save them, even though their relationship wasn’t that close.]

[No matter how many years pass, our Xu Xu will always be that kind and just big boy.]

[Look at Chu Xu and then at someone else, who is sincere and who is hypocritical is clear at a glance.]

[Exactly, and they are in the same company. As expected, you can see someone’s character when something happens.]

[sb get lost. I didn’t want to spray, but the idol is brainless, are the fans also brainless? There are professional rescue teams nearby. Chu Xu, without life-saving equipment and unfamiliar with the waters, jumping into the sea to save people is just causing trouble.]

[Exactly, it’s good that those two are fine, otherwise the rescuers would have to free up their hands to save one more person.]

[And don’t you know your own level? Whether it’s Jiang Tiao or Ying Yuanxun, whose swimming skills are not better than his? And he’s saving people, heh.]

[Justice is in people’s hearts. I don’t want to say more. I hope those who mock Chu will encounter people like your idol who stand by and watch when they are in danger.]

[emmmm Am I the only one who cares about whether Jiang Tiao or Ying Yuanxun was the one Chu Xu unhesitatingly jumped into the sea to save?]

[Finally, someone asked this question! Sister! I understand you! [Wicked smile]]

[Raising my hand, from the moment Jiang Tiao stepped on the surfboard, Chu Xu’s gaze never left Jiang Tiao! —From a wolverine who wasn’t attracted by Jiang Tiao’s attention and observed from beginning to end.]

[Yo yo yo, do the relationships between these few people need to be re-examined?]

The live broadcast was still on, and the director couldn’t let the segment be stuck here. After asking Chu Xu if he needed to rest in the lounge and being denied, he gathered the guests to quickly summarize this part.

The director asked the guests to vote for Jiang Tiao and Ying Yuanxun, and the winner would receive more points.

The voting results were revealed. Except for Ying Yuanxun himself, everyone else had voted for Jiang Tiao.

Ji Mengfei didn’t like Jiang Tiao, but she disliked Ying Yuanxun even more. She deliberately pretended to be very apologetic and sincere, “Emotionally, I actually wanted to vote for you, but the difference between you two is too obvious. If I vote for you, the audience will scold me for being too biased.”

Ying Yuanxun’s teeth were about to shatter. He knew what this woman meant. Deliberately saying these words was nothing more than wanting to make him look even more foolish.

Ying Yuanxun forced a smile. He knew that in such a situation, only self-deprecation could prevent him from being ridiculed by everyone. He pretended to be humble, as if he didn’t care too much about winning or losing, “It’s okay. Actually, I also wanted to vote for Jiang Tiao with this vote. But then I thought, everyone will definitely vote for him. If I also follow my heart, then I won’t have any votes at all, which feels a bit bleak. So this vote is my encouragement vote for myself, hahaha.”

After Ying Yuanxun’s self-deprecation, seeing that the atmosphere had eased, he deliberately shifted the topic to Jiang Tiao: “But seriously, we never knew you were so good at surfing. You really didn’t reveal anything. Didn’t you say you hadn’t received professional training?”

Having been in the entertainment industry for so many years, Ying Yuanxun knew very well how to give people flaws. With just a short sentence, Jiang Tiao became a scheming person with deep cunning in the eyes of the audience.

“Yes,” Jiang Tiao answered crisply and frankly. The first time he played with a surfboard was when he was young and went to the beach with Huo Shen, and Huo Shen taught him. After Huo Shen’s parents passed away, Huo Shen’s childhood ended. Besides his studies, he had to learn various financial knowledge and company affairs, and he had to deal with those with ulterior motives among his relatives before he was strong enough. He became busier and busier, and their opportunities to go out and play became fewer and fewer. Later, he went surfing with Chu Yanhao more often.

“I’m still far from being as good as professionals, and my paddling isn’t good either,” Jiang Tiao looked at Ying Yuanxun, his eyes, which were usually full of cheerfulness, seemed to see through people.

“If I were good at paddling, I could have avoided you when you accidentally bumped into me.”

Ying Yuanxun panicked for a moment. He was behind Jiang Tiao at that time. Jiang Tiao couldn’t possibly notice him. Moreover, collisions are normal in sports like surfing, even if they are accidental. The internet would at most scold him for his poor technique, and they wouldn’t be able to see anything else.

Ying Yuanxun’s palms were sweating, his throat felt as if it were filled with lead, and he couldn’t say a word.

By the time he finally managed to calm himself down by force, the topic had long passed, and there was no point in trying to cover it up.

…

Perhaps it was because he thought of what Huo Shen had gone through all those years, Jiang Tiao was in a bit of a bad mood. He listlessly leaned on the railing of the cruise ship’s deck, enjoying the sea breeze.

He held his phone in his hand, turning it around for a long time, and finally opened the chat window with Huo Shen.

Jiang Tiao: [What are you doing now?]

Jiang Tiao: [Jumping and bouncing.gif]

Jiang Tiao waited for a while, but didn’t receive a reply from Huo Shen. He pouted, and his forced spirit drooped again. What was he busy with? A meeting?

Jiang Tiao boredly poked and tapped on his phone, and finally opened the pinned album. Half of it was photos of him and his family, and the other half were photos related to Huo Shen.

After he got a new phone, he downloaded this album back from the cloud. He didn’t know why, but his previous phone didn’t have it.

Jiang Tiao flipped through the photos one by one. They had watched the aurora together, climbed Mount Everest together, and dived into the deep sea to witness the underwater city of Taimyr…

From the age of twelve to twenty-one, Huo Shen’s stolen moments of leisure seemed to be spent with him.

Jiang Tiao felt happy again thinking about this.

Luo Xingwen had been looking for Jiang Tiao for a long time and finally found him leaning on a corner of the deck railing, smiling foolishly by himself.

“What are you looking at? You’re smiling like an idiot.”

Jiang Tiao: “…”

As expected of an ex-boyfriend they had dated, if one wasn’t careful, one would think that this sentence was said by Chu Yanhao himself.

Jiang Tiao put away his phone, “I’m in a good mood, I won’t bicker with you. What do you want me for? Is the director going to start filming?”

After a whole day of game competitions, Jiang Tiao’s group’s points ranked second. Both Jiang Tiao and Luo Xingwen were quite satisfied with the result, as they had almost no points in the first round of the tacit understanding competition and the treasure hunt snack street at noon.

Luo Xingwen replied, “Mm,” “Everyone’s here, only you are left. The director has been looking for you for a long time.”

Jiang Tiao was a little surprised: “Isn’t it not time to gather yet?”

Luo Xingwen showed a “you know” smile, “The earlier we film, the earlier we finish.”

Jiang Tiao recalled the director’s occasional frantic face-rubbing expressions of collapse and despair, and understood, “He’s had a tough day.”

The director felt he had been extremely tough! He had just hung up a scolding call from his superior when the head of the publicity department sent him a bunch of screenshots of Chu Xu’s fans complaining about the show on the official Weibo and WeChat, asking him to find a solution.

What solution could he have? He couldn’t transform into Jiang Tiao himself and say in a high-pitched voice, “Brother, don’t be angry anymore, actively post something to help the show speak well.”

Wait.

Thinking of this, the director suddenly had a brilliant idea.

For the cruise ship party role selection, Ji Mengfei and Ying Yuanxun’s group ranked first in points, and they chose the role of “Cruise Ship Owner”; Jiang Tiao and Luo Xingwen chose “Invited Guest”; while Chu Xu’s group, as the last place in points, had no choice but to take on the role of “Chef” and go to the back kitchen to cook.

Before dinner, there was a segment where dishes were selected based on the point ranking. There were a total of thirty dishes, brought to the large table by the guests from the “Waiter” group, and then the groups selected one dish at a time according to their point order.

Luo Xingwen didn’t care what he ate, so he handed their group’s dish selection rights to Jiang Tiao.

Jiang Tiao and the guests selecting dishes circled around the large table. Most of the dishes were easy to identify, and you could tell what they were at a glance. Only one dish in a clay pot was very strange. It was yellowish-brown, sticky, and constantly bubbling. It particularly resembled the poisonous potion that a witch stirred and cooked in a cauldron in Disney animations.

Oh god, how terrifying. Fortunately, their group wasn’t last. He deeply felt that given the program group’s excessive nature, this thing must have been chosen by the last-place group, and they would have to drink it all as a hidden punishment.

Chu Xu saw Jiang Tiao staring at the seafood porridge for several glances, and his gloomy face for the day slightly eased. He knew that Jiang Tiao still loved him in his heart, and even if he was angry with him, he wanted to taste the dishes he made.

Jiang Tiao reached out, and Chu Xu hooked the corner of his mouth.

Jiang Tiao picked up the steamed perch next to the clay pot, and Chu Xu’s face turned from sunny to gloomy.

As Jiang Tiao was about to take the dish back to their group’s small table, Chu Xu grabbed the other side of the plate.

“I made that.”

Chu Xu felt that Jiang Tiao must not have recognized it.

Jiang Tiao: “Are you talking about the perch?”

Chu Xu: “I’m talking about the seafood porridge.”

Jiang Tiao was shocked. That thing was seafood porridge? Oh my god, he was going to have his worldview reshaped.

He held back for a long time, and genuinely didn’t know what to say, so he could only manage to say, “Okay.”

Chu Xu: “Aren’t you going to choose that one?”

Jiang Tiao was stunned. No, why would he choose that? Was his brain broken?

Oh, Jiang Tiao looked at Luo Xingwen with an indescribable expression. So that’s what he meant.

Jiang Tiao looked at the perch, then at the unbelievable seafood porridge, and hesitated for a long time, “Sorry, this is too difficult for me.”

Jiang Tiao decisively pulled the perch out of Chu Xu’s hand, planning to let Luo Xingwen choose it himself in the next round.

Chu Xu’s face was as bad as that pot of seafood porridge.

When Ying Yuanxun returned, he overheard the conversation. In the second round of dish selection, he immediately picked up the seafood porridge, with a flattering expression, “So it’s Brother Chu Xu’s cooking. Then I must taste it well.”

Luo Xingwen breathed a sigh of relief. Jiang Tiao asked him to come up and pick dishes. Before coming up, he vaguely said, “Chu Xu said the seafood porridge was made by him.” Luo Xingwen didn’t know the current situation between Jiang Tiao and Chu Xu, nor did he know what Jiang Tiao meant.

He wanted to eat it, but he couldn’t bring himself to ask, so he wanted him to pick it up?

Luo Xingwen initially felt that he could help with this, until he saw what the seafood porridge looked like…

At that moment, his eyes went black.

It was too cruel. Eating this thing was no less cruel to oneself than the little mermaid’s thousand cuts to her feet just to get ashore!

Luo Xingwen was in an internal struggle between helping and being rumored to have an eating disorder.

Fortunately, fortunately, Luo Xingwen saw Ying Yuanxun carrying the clay pot and quickly picked up a plate of stir-fried squid with satisfaction.

Chu Xu’s face was very displeased. He glared at Ying Yuanxun, casually picked up a plate of oysters, and returned to his seat without saying a word.

Ying Yuanxun’s smile stiffened, and a sense of grievance and jealousy arose, his gaze towards Jiang Tiao filled with resentment.

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