I'm Crushing on Gorgeous Faces in Variety Shows!-Chapter 360: I’ll Carry You Out

"Ah!"

The hot water poured down, startling the gecko clinging to the wall below the window. It flailed its tail and ran wildly. Mu Qiu caught sight of it from the corner of her eye and screamed instinctively in shock.

She then stepped back in a panic, stiffly plastering herself to the corner, staring face to face with the gecko which had stopped on the opposite wall.

Mu Qiu clutched her chest, goosebumps rising all over.

The hot water was still pouring down, and the gecko started to crawl around anxiously again. Mu Qiu had no choice but to stand in the middle and carefully turn off the water.

Her hair and body were wet, but she couldn’t continue showering; she had to find a way to get this "little buddy" out first.

Mu Qiu pressed her lips together, not daring to miss a single move of the gecko.

When she was a child, she encountered a spider like this. Just two seconds of not looking at it, and the spider disappeared, making her feel like she could "reunite" with it at any moment, and the whole house was filled with its shadow.

That feeling was too unbearable. She had to watch this little creature crawl out of her room.

But the gecko was too easily startled. If she moved, it would dart around the walls up, down, left, and right, at a rapid speed.

She couldn’t dodge it, so she had to take the showerhead down and hold it in her hand, standing cautiously in the middle, not daring to move.

In the room, she wasn’t too scared, but in such a small enclosed space, there was a tense feeling of "it’s either you or me," especially since she was not wearing clothes.

"Knock knock—"

After two minutes of standoff with the gecko and two exclamations, there was a dull knocking sound from outside.

Following that was Cheng Zhirang’s slightly fast-paced voice.

"Mu Qiu? What’s up?"

Mu Qiu relaxed, wanting to cry but couldn’t, and shouted towards the outside, "There’s a gecko!"

With two doors between them, she wasn’t sure if Cheng Zhirang could hear clearly, and with other people outside, she couldn’t scream out loud.

Fortunately, Cheng Zhirang seemed to have heard clearly. He knocked on the door again and said, "I’ll find someone to unlock the door, hang on a moment."

Mu Qiu didn’t care who he was going to find, nodded and agreed, and continued to keep her eyes on the gecko.

Cheng Zhirang returned quickly, and he was alone. After unlocking, he closed the door behind him and stopped a little further from the bathroom door, whispering, "What’s going on?"

Mu Qiu, looking at the faint tall silhouette outside the frosted glass door, covered her chest with her hand, biting at her lip corner, suddenly felt a bit embarrassed.

In this situation, how could he help...

She didn’t make a sound. Cheng Zhirang took two steps closer, tilted his head and softly tapped on the bathroom door, "Mu Qiu?"

Mu Qiu sighed, feeling uneasy, said, "There’s a gecko inside, crawling around."

Cheng Zhirang seemed to have chuckled slightly and asked again, "Are you already soaked?"

"Mm... the gecko crawled to the door here."

Cheng Zhirang instinctively looked at the frosted glass door in front of him. At a slightly higher position, there was a dark shape, still moving.

Behind this dark gecko shadow, there was a vaguely slender silhouette.

He shifted his gaze, tilted his head again.

"Don’t worry, I’m going to knock on the door now to make it crawl somewhere else. You should avoid it. I’ll open the door and carry you out. Is the bathrobe this one by the door on the platform?"

"...Yes."

They didn’t discuss whether this carrying method should be adopted, but the issue directly moved to which bathrobe to use.

She felt her face was a bit hot, suddenly recalling that before her shower, she had taken off her intimate clothes and put them beside the bathrobe.

Outside, Cheng Zhirang could see, very clearly, the bean-green ladies’ undergarments next to the white bathrobe.

But he remained expressionless, as if he had just seen an ordinary piece of clothing, and only took hold of the bathrobe beside it, then turned his head slightly and said, "Shall I knock?"

Mu Qiu’s voice was muffled, "Okay."

His knuckles tapped on the door. The gecko was startled again and began to crawl frantically. Mu Qiu stood in the middle, nervously turning along with its movement path, only relaxing when she saw it stop next to the shower head.

The vague silhouette inside the door stopped moving, and Cheng Zhirang whispered, "I’m coming in."

He then pulled the frosted glass door, moved with his head tilted, trying his best not to look at her, then went in, opened the bathrobe and quickly wrapped it around her, before hooking his arm under her knees and lifted her up.

Mu Qiu clung onto his shoulder, wrapped her arms around his neck, and was quickly carried out of the bathroom. She watched the gecko inside dashing mindlessly around near the shower head.

She attempted to use this to divert attention elsewhere.

Cheng Zhirang’s arm was beneath her thighs, and to help him bear the weight more easily, she voluntarily leaned over. As a result, places under the bathrobe with no cover touched his body against only a layer of fabric.

His tightened hand partially directly touched the part of her leg not covered by the bathrobe. Neither of them spoke. He closed the bathroom door with his foot.

Then Cheng Zhirang carried her directly out of the room.

Reaching his room door, he said in a low voice, "Hold tight, I’m opening the door."

He switched to one hand, and Mu Qiu buried her head in his neck, almost sitting on his left arm, feeling the curve of his taut muscles.

Other room doors were all tightly shut. It seemed no one besides Cheng Zhirang had heard her previous shout.

She was like a camel, pretending no one knew what had just happened between her and Cheng Zhirang, now, and what would happen later.

(Don’t overthink it.)

With a click, the door opened, and Cheng Zhirang pressed her bathrobe edge down, placing her on the bed in the middle.

After they went in, it remained quiet outside for about one or two minutes. Several room doors then opened slightly, and people behind the doors peeked out, conversing in voices so low they were almost inaudible to one another.

Guan Yu: "What’s going on?"

Li Yang exaggeratedly mouthed, answering in a whisper, "How would I know?"

Shu Ran: "What did she say, did you hear? Did something get into the room?"

Guan Yu: "Can you mouth slower? I can’t guess anymore."

Shi Yuhuai: "What are you doing? What did she shout?"

Guan Yu: "Oh wow, Brother Huai, you’re such a pervert."

Shi Yuhuai: "What are you even talking about."

Ye Mian: "Luckily this isn’t broadcasted."

Fu Ran: "Taking a bath, why are you running around?"

Guan Yu: "So many things can’t be aired, tsk tsk tsk."

Shu Ran: "You’re all so gossipy. I’m going back to sleep."

Guan Yu: "Did you hear that, Li Yang? You’re so nosy. Aren’t you young men who haven’t been in love all this interested in others’ love stories?"

Li Yang: "...You dare say that to me. I’m closing the door to sleep."

He hadn’t even closed the door, but the room next to him, Shi Yuhuai’s door, closed with a click.

Guan Yu also had to quietly close his door, stopping the nosy behavior.

They vaguely heard Mu Qiu’s shout, then listened at the door to Cheng Zhirang knocking and nosily poked their heads out to find out what was happening.

This was the program crew’s place, and right outside the door were cameras. They didn’t expect Cheng Zhirang and Mu Qiu to so openly enter each other’s rooms, and it should have been Mu Qiu’s shower time just now...

Tsk tsk tsk.

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Hey everyone, even boiling a pot takes a few sparks. Isn’t the last spark always the fiercest? No need to rush, folks, this is the last spark that will set the old man’s heart on fire.

And then~ after a kiss, according to Brother Cheng’s personality, the plot will surely progress rapidly.

Lastly, vote, vote (humph, humph, humph, passing by on a scooter.jpg)