CHAPTER 16: CHAPTER 16: AN UNSETTLING STRANGENESS

"Hmm."

Pei Yan nodded, responding, his gaze falling on Qin Yun, a bit bright and deep in the darkness.

Being looked at like this, Qin Yun felt inexplicably uncomfortable because she noticed that against the backdrop of the night, Pei Yan’s gaze seemed indeed a bit affectionate.

Especially when she was used to Pei Yan’s cold and self-restrained demeanor in the Heavenly Court, where even a side glance could freeze someone to death, making any wild thoughts impossible, it made her even more uneasy.

Hmm... her face felt a bit hot.

Because the movie star Pei Yan in the book, although not having peach blossom eyes, had a pair of deep eyes that could lock onto someone, looking quite passionate, making one wonder if he liked them.

This made Qin Yun, who had never been looked at like this before, and the one staring at her was Pei Yan, feel a bit indescribable all over.

A bit like wanting to escape.

Thinking this, she acted on it, Qin Yun said while walking back, "Then you better hurry back, don’t let them discover you, I need to head back too."

Before Pei Yan could say anything, she ran off as if something was chasing her.

Back at the cabin, Qin Yun glanced back under the tree, and Pei Yan was no longer there. She breathed a sigh of relief, but her face was still a bit warm.

She didn’t know what was wrong with her.

At this moment, a voice came from beside her, following her gaze but seeing nothing, asked puzzledly, "Sister Yun, what are you looking at?"

"–!!"

Qin Yun was startled, her body instinctively tensed up, and she jumped to the side.

After seeing who had spoken, before she could say anything, Yang Leqi exclaimed in surprise, "Sister Yun, why is your face so red?"

"...you scared me." Qin Yun shot her an annoyed glance with a hint of embarrassment.

After speaking, she walked inside.

Yang Leqi relentlessly glanced outside again, trying to see what Qin Yun had been looking at, but outside was nothing but darkness.

She immediately caught up with Qin Yun, unable to suppress her curiosity, "Sister Yun, what were you looking at just now?"

"Saw nothing." Qin Yun replied plainly.

Even if there were, she wouldn’t say!

"Saw nothing, then why did you look so guilty, and your face was red so unnaturally." Yang Leqi was clearly skeptical.

"In the middle of the night, you suddenly speak in my ear, anyone would react like this." Qin Yun said calmly.

Steadily heading upstairs.

"Is that so?" Yang Leqi blinked, thinking if someone suddenly spoke in her ear, she would probably be scared too.

"Hmm."

Qin Yun nodded affirmatively, returning to her room, with a little tail still following her.

Suddenly thinking of something, Qin Yun stopped, and Yang Leqi, still trailing behind, bumped right into her.

Yang Leqi took two steps back, pouting and looking at Qin Yun quizzically, "Ouch, Sister Yun, why did you stop?"

"Weren’t you showering, how come you’re downstairs?" Qin Yun asked puzzledly.

"Ah, my cleanser was taken by the show crew, came to you for it, but found you weren’t in the room, so I went downstairs to find you." Yang Leqi blinked innocently.

Qin Yun remembered she and Yang Leqi had discussed leaving different items so they could make up a complete set.

She also remembered she washed her face while showering, and the cleanser was left on the towel, probably obscured, so Yang Leqi couldn’t find it and came looking for her.

"I just left it in the bathroom after I used it, you probably didn’t see it. I’ll get it for you."

She left the room again, went to the bathroom, retrieved the cleanser from under the towel, and handed it to Yang Leqi. "Go wash quickly, they’re still waiting. I’ll go dry my hair."

Hearing Qin Yun’s words, Yang Leqi immediately remembered her hidden "treasure," and whispered to Qin Yun, "Ah Sister Yun, I have a bottle of hair oil, for hair care, I secretly hid it in my clothes, the show crew didn’t search my clothes, you can’t tell anyone else."

"It can be done like that?" Qin Yun looked at Yang Leqi, surprised.

Because, in her impression, Yang Leqi wasn’t someone who would do such things.

Yang Leqi went back to the room to get her clothes, dragging Qin Yun to the corner, took out the small bottle of oil from her clothes, handed it to Qin Yun, proudly puffed her chest, her little face beaming, "Experience from being on the show! My hair gets slightly dry after washing, if I don’t use oil, it turns into an explosion the next day, can’t face anyone, previously I was on a show, needed to film in the morning bare-faced, at first, I didn’t understand, but other female guests were beautifully ’bare-faced’, only me! With a mess of chicken nest head, purely bare-faced, from then on, I started carrying a makeup artist, oil is a must-have too."

Qin Yun recalled the people she’d seen with Yang Leqi before, suddenly understanding why.

Showbiz is indeed not shallow water; it’s all scheming from little things.

On the surface, everyone seems friendly, but privately, it’s all about competing.

After all, a minute more on camera, anything small can explode at an unknown time.

"If you have any must-haves, you can choose samples, put them in clothes, generally speaking, the crew only checks big items, won’t rummage through clothes, like this, put them in the clothes, others can’t see." Yang Leqi demonstrated to Qin Yun with her clothes.

"Got it!" Qin Yun’s peach blossom eyes were bright, nodding seriously and earnestly.

Little did she know, it was precisely this teaching that led Qin Yun to develop all sorts of snack-hiding techniques later, driving the crew mad.

No matter how thoroughly checked, Qin Yun could always pull out snacks from different places to munch on during filming.

Battling wits with the show crew.

Having taught Qin Yun, Yang Leqi triumphantly went to the bathroom to wash up.

After all, Qin Yun’s cleanser was known, washing her face at the bathroom sink, in front of the camera, using Qin Yun’s cleanser, was also a good chance to show face.

For those confident in their skin, they could show their bare face to the audience, and take the opportunity to speak a few words, attract the camera, have longer screen time, most of these scenes are usually retained.

Earlier, Qin Yun didn’t know while washing, directly blocked the camera washing together, forgot to wash her face on camera.

After washing up, the two directly went to bed to rest.

At 6 a.m. the next day.

Outside suddenly erupted with a magical high-pitched sound.

"Shandandan’s blooming, oh, so bright and vivid~"

"Ugh... don’t bother me, let me sleep a bit more." Yang Leqi flipped the quilt, muttered a sound, burying herself in it.

Qin Yun was more straightforward, curling up completely, ignoring the noisy singing outside.