Chapter 156 - Your family of three – you, Li Jinyuan, and Huo Chengming (2)

Chapter 156 – Your family of three – you, Li Jinyuan, and Huo Chengming (2)

By the sixth season of the talent show and another variety show was also launched, Li Jinyuan’s fan count officially exceeded 10 million.

Whenever Zhong Yuhuan went onto Weibo, she could see a screen full of news about Li Jinyuan.

She thought about it for a bit and felt that she should go and support him some, which was why she searched for some videos online and watched them attentively.

In the variety show with Li Jinyuan, there was a girl band and a boy band.

Both bands had four members each.

Li Jinyuan didn’t feel awkward in the middle of them. In fact, he felt closer and closer to being in the center spot toward the end.

Let it be games, singing love songs, or Q&A, Li Jinyuan had mastered them all.

If someone like that didn’t become the #1 star, then who could?

Lamenting, Zhong Yuhuan closed out of the app and sent Li Jinyuan a Boss-drinking-iced-cola emoji.*

She had assumed Li Jinyuan would be busy on his end, but his reply came almost instantaneously.

“I brought my pay to look for gifts for you. Heart.jpg”

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“Do you like any of them?”

Zhong Yuhuan felt a little perplexed. “Where are you?”

“London. They needed my help here. And also to get you some gifts on the side.”

Zhong Yuhuan was just about to respond back to him before her cellphone buzzed again.

Huo Chengming sent over Wechat messages.

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“The sun is too harsh here.”

“My secretary said the merchandise at this counter is very suitable for you.”

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“Do you like this one?”

Zhong Yuhuan looked at the high-end purses displaying in the cabins, some even have gemstones on them.

She wasn’t sure if they were selling purses or gems.

Zhong Yuhuan went silent.

Was this some sort of a special day?

Huo Chengming and Li Jinyuan both shopped for gifts for her.

Her cellphone buzzed again.

Zhong Yuhuan temporarily clicked out of the chat window with Huo Chengming and went back to the one with Li Jinyuan.

Li Jinyuan: Huanhuan?

Li Jinyuan: Are you busy?

Li Jinyuan: Okay. I will just buy them all. I can’t tell the difference between them anyway. Giving-you-my-heart.jpg

Zhong Yuhuan: ……

Zhong Yuhuan: I don’t need that many.

Li Jinyuan: Playing-dumb.jpg

He certainly was good with his emojis.

Zhong Yuhuan returned to the chat window with Huo Chengming.

Relatively speaking, the messages from Huo Chengming were much more formal. Very much like chatting with an elderly person, using the minimum number of characters possible.

Huo Chengming: Okay. I am done buying them.

Huo Chengming: I will be back in a few days.

Huo Chengming: You should come with me next time. My secretary said all girls will like this place.

Zhong Yuhuan thought about it for a little bit.

Dubai, huh?

Of course! All girls want to go shopping there!

Zhong Yuhuan felt inappropriate at first, but after thinking about it some more, she felt very justified.

It wasn’t strange that they’d buy gifts for her!

It wasn’t the female lead’s turn yet!

Zhong Yuhuan immediately returned an emoji to both of them: heart.jpg

When Huo Chengming saw the reply, he immediately recalled the time when she responded to the heart that someone had sent her. All of a sudden, he felt relieved.

Looking at the display case in front of him, he asked his secretary, “What else do girls like?”

The secretary asked a little incredulously, “You are going to buy more?”

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Translator’s rambling:

Boss drinking iced cola – the best I could figure out, has the meaning of saying to someone “wow, I didn’t know you are that good!” Do not ask this translator how that meaning came about.

I swear I sometimes come across the most random pictures while translating. This appeared to be a picture of a dog disguised as a bottle of coke. I randomly came across this when I was looking up the meaning of “boss drinking iced cola”… All I can say is, “This must be a Chinese thing….”