Chapter 64: Sixty-Fourth Day as a Salted Fish
Everyone’s eyes focused on Shen Xiaoshan. As the live stream camera zoomed in, her facial expression could be clearly seen.
If answered well, this question would bring the couple’s relationship a step closer. If answered in a way that dissatisfied the husband or wife, a small crisis would brew in their relationship.
Looking at the text message he received, the director said, “Teacher Shen says that she would be like a swan that lost its mate—in extreme grief, unable to eat or drink.”
Swans are monogamous animals, and people often use them to describe human emotions as loyal, eternal, and remaining faithful until death.
On camera, Shen Xiaoshan’s eyes were red as tears spilled over. She wiped them with her hand and choked up, “I can’t even imagine losing Zi’ang. I definitely wouldn’t be able to handle it.”
Touched, Meng Zi’ang took Shen Xiaoshan into his arms, soothing her sad emotions. “I won’t leave you.”
The fans watching the live stream were stunned, one after another feeling distressed for them.
【Wu wu wu, I’m so moved! The Shan-Meng CP must last forever and ever!】
【The Shan-Meng CP is truly the sweetest and most delicious to ship!】
【I’m dying from the sweetness. Sister really loves brother-in-law super much. May their married life be even happier!】
Qin Jiaojiao glanced at the red-eyed Shen Xiaoshan a few times. Although the question posed by the production team was very sharp, Shen Xiaoshan actually cried right in front of the camera. It didn’t look like acting at all—she really was amazing, a truly skilled actress.
Director: “Then let’s now take a look at Mr. Meng Zi’ang’s answer.”
The camera cut to Meng Zi’ang, who gave a very standard and middle-of-the-road answer: “I would need a long period of time to accept losing my partner, and I would not fall in love with anyone else.”
This answer was completely flaw-free. No one thought too deeply into it; saying he wouldn’t fall in love with anyone else didn’t mean he wouldn’t remarry.
Shen Xiaoshan put on an deeply moved expression. “Hubby, I really love you so much.”
Meng Zi’ang patted her back. The two were as inseparable as glue in front of the camera.
The director opened Qin Jiaojiao’s message. Upon seeing the answer, his expression froze slightly, and he spoke up: “Teacher Qin’s answer for losing her other half is: She would turn his ashes into a ring to wear on her hand and take his ashes traveling all around the world.”
The bullet comments went quiet for a second before bursting into shocked discussions.
【Did I hear that right? Turn his ashes into a ring?】
【Hahahahaha what a novel answer!】
【Jiaojiao really loves President Zhou; even in death, she won’t let go of his ashes!】
【Hmm, how can this not count as love?】
【Why do I somehow feel it’s a bit taboo and thrilling? Isn’t Jiaojiao’s love for President Zhou a bit too sickly sweet?】
【President Zhou: Wife, tell me the truth, do you want to kill me?】
Zhou Shaoli had clearly not expected Qin Jiaojiao to give such an answer. He gazed deeply at her, a strange surge of pleasure welling up in his heart.
—Jiaojiao loved him deeply.
Beneath the table, Zhou Shaoli tightly interlocked his fingers with Qin Jiaojiao’s hand, as if wanting to merge her into his very flesh and blood.
Qin Jiaojiao had actually thought about it quite seriously. Supposing Zhou Shaoli died, what would she do? She probably wouldn’t commit suicide for love; she needed to live a good life. But she didn’t want to be separated from him either, so naturally she had to take him along with her. However, since she couldn’t carry an urn around everywhere all the time, she could only find a way to make his ashes into something portable.
Facing the camera, Qin Jiaojiao smiled innocently. The fans were completely captivated by her bright and brilliant smile.
【Visuals are justice! Anything wife does is right!】
【President Zhou, to have your wife love you this much, you should feel honored!】
【Hahaha, our Yueli CP is always so creative! The atmosphere suddenly isn’t heavy anymore!】
【I feel like President Zhou really likes this answer though. He seems to be radiating pink bubbles all over.】
The director cleared his throat with a cough and said, “Let’s take a look at Mr. Zhou’s answer.”
Before opening the text message, the director felt nervous inside, praying that Zhou Shaoli wouldn’t pull something so perverted like sleeping with a corpse and scare the audience.
Seeing the answer, the director’s expression relaxed. Zhou Shaoli’s answer was quite normal.
“Mr. Zhou says that if his wife passes away, he will remain unmarried for the rest of his life, grow old in solitude, and share the same bed in life and the same grave in death.”
The viewers sighed with emotion:
【This answer seems simple, but how many people in this world can actually achieve it?】
【I don’t even dare to imagine how lonely President Zhou would be if he lost Jiaojiao. I was suddenly hit with angst.】
【As a faithful believer, I am willing to trade ten pounds of fat to pray that the Yueli CP stays happily together until old age!】
【As the President of Zhuxing Group, if Zhou Shaoli’s wife passes away and he doesn’t remarry, would his family agree to that?】
【I believe President Zhou is head over heels for Jiaojiao. He will definitely be able to do it.】
With just the first question asked, the bullet comments multiplied several times over, and the live stream’s popularity soared like a rocket.
Under the open sky and starlight, the production team posed the second question once more: 【Dear guests, if your partner does not reply to your messages for seven days, what will you do?】
In this day and age of information technology, not replying for a day is already excessive. Not replying for three days meant a default breakup in most cases.
Not replying on the first day meant that the other party ran into something and was too busy to reply. However, no matter how busy work got, there would always be time to check one’s phone. A couple’s relationship hadn’t grown so cold that they would disappear from each other’s lives, so at the very least, a reply would be sent within a day.
For a married couple in an intimate relationship, how should not replying for seven days be handled?
Qin Jiaojiao sent messages to her friends every day and would reply whenever she had time. The last time she was sick and couldn’t play on her phone, she had still replied within three days to her gaming friend, King.
If she sent a message to Zhou Shaoli, even if he was busy with work, he would reply to her during some brief moment of rest.
Not replying for seven days—unless someone was so busy that they didn’t even have time to look at their phone for seven whole days, failing to reply within seven days was basically cold warfare, a sign of wanting to break up.
The production team likewise gave the guests a few minutes to think and reply via text message.
The bullet comments had already erupted into a debate over this question.
【If they don’t reply to my messages for twenty-four hours, I’ll just assume they want to break up.】
【I really can’t stand someone seeing a message and not replying. You absolutely cannot stay with a person like that.】
【What if the other party is really busy? You can give them a little understanding.】
【The President finishes a meeting in the afternoon and is still dissing people on social media at night. Are you busier than the President?】
【The production team really loves asking fatal trap questions hahahaha.】
【If you’re alive, you reply to messages. Got it?】
Very soon, all the guests gave their answers.
Jin Mingzhu: 【Call them immediately.】
Chen Feihong: 【If there’s no reply within a day, call or video call her.】
Hearing the Feizhu CP’s answers, the bullet comments felt it was quite normal. Both seniors had their own careers, and when busy, they might forget to reply to messages. Mutual understanding between husband and wife was peaceful and sweet.
Jin Mingzhu looked at Chen Feihong and smiled gently, saying, “Sometimes when Old Chen joins a film crew, he has to go somewhere very far to shoot on location. When he’s so busy he can’t even get time to eat, not replying for seven days is normal. I’ll just give him a call.”
Chen Feihong said, “I have an impatient temper. Unless I’m truly too busy, I send her messages and chat with her every day, and she replies to me as well.”
Next up was the announcement of the Shan-Meng CP’s answers.
Shen Xiaoshan: 【Hubby might be too busy and overlooked my message. I’d get mad and make him coax me.】
Meng Zi’ang: 【Wife must be busy. I’ll give her more care and concern.】
The audience and fans expressed that they were thoroughly enjoying the sweetness.
【Newlyweds need to send more messages to consolidate their relationship. If brother-in-law ignores her, Sister Shan is definitely going to get mad.】
【Sister Shan’s husband is truly so pampering towards her! Like a loyal puppy—when his wife doesn’t reply, he doesn’t get angry and instead thinks about caring for her.】
【So sweet! That’s what real young couple life is like.】
The director tapped open Qin Jiaojiao’s reply message, and his vision went dark.
Qin Jiaojiao’s answers were always filled with ‘surprise after surprise.’ The director could already foresee how intense the bullet comments were going to get.
“Qin Jiaojiao’s answer is: Max out his card.”
【Hahahahaha holy crap, as expected of Eldest Miss Qin!】
【President, your wife has spent money on XXXXXX more orders again, please sign for them.】
【An insanely wealthy answer.】
【President Zhou’s black card shouldn’t have a limit though, right? It can’t be maxed out!】
【Housekeeper: President, you haven’t replied to Madam’s messages for seven days.
President Zhou: Is she angry?
Housekeeper: Madam… is currently attempting to max out your card.
President Zhou: Let her spend. Let her spend until she’s satisfied.】
This generation of netizens really had memes for everything, and the live stream’s atmosphere reached a high peak.
Qin Jiaojiao said with a beaming smile, “If he doesn’t reply to my messages for seven days, he must be busy. To soothe my injured soul, I can only reluctantly max out his card.”
Zhou Shaoli leaned down close to her ear: “There are a few more cards at home. I’ll give them to you to swipe as you please.”
Qin Jiaojiao felt sweet inside and whispered back, “You said it yourself!”
Everyone in the production team was stuffed with a mouthful of filthy-rich dog food, so they hurriedly announced Zhou Shaoli’s answer.
Zhou Shaoli: 【A situation where I do not reply for seven days will not occur. My wife and I stay in touch every day. If it ever happened, I would find her immediately to confirm her safety.】
The Yueli CP fans in the bullet comments went crazy with joy.
【President Zhou and Jiaojiao are really so sweet!】
【Flexed on again! Staying in touch every day, hehe. President Zhou is unexpectedly clingy!】
【Ahhhhh I’m shipping this so hard! That last sentence from President Zhou was truly overflowing with a sense of security.】
Every guest had their own unique understanding; though the answers differed, they all revealed their love for one another. The viewers in the live stream room were all thoroughly enjoying the show.
“The final question for tonight: If someone confesses their love to your partner and tries to intervene in your marriage, how would you handle it?” the director asked. “Guests, please answer verbally.”
The moment this question came out, the viewers were shocked.
The biggest taboos in a marriage were third-party intervention and infidelity. When encountering such a problem, a couple’s relationship would definitely shatter.
With the production team’s question posed, the viewers stared intently at the screen, full of tension as they awaited the three couples’ answers.
Hearing the question, the guests subconsciously looked at each other.
Qin Jiaojiao looked at Zhou Shaoli. Even though he was married, given his prominent status, plenty of women eyed him eagerly, wanting to win his favor, but none had the chance to get close to him.
Zhou Shaoli met her gaze, inexplicably remembering that young boy on stage from a while back. He could tell there was a trace of affection in the boy’s eyes, though Jiaojiao probably hadn’t noticed it.
This question was a bit tricky and needed to be answered carefully, so the guests took a bit longer to think.
Opinions varied across the bullet comments.
【Is that even a question? Of course you drive the home-wrecker away!】
【How was the confession made? Phone call? WeChat? How did they even get their contact info?】
【Don’t alert the enemy first. Secretly gather evidence, then wipe out both the scumbag man and the trashy woman together.】
A moment later, Jin Mingzhu spoke first: “If someone confessed to Old Chen, I’d talk to her privately and advise her not to be a third party.”
Chen Feihong: “I wouldn’t allow a third party to intervene in my marriage. If the other person kept harassing her, I would call the police.”
【Teacher Mingzhu is still too gentle. If I met such a shameless person, I’d curse them out directly.】
【Out of all the things you could be, you just had to be a third party? How cheap can you get?】
The director asked, “Teacher Shen, what would you do?”
Back then, Qin Jiaojiao and Meng Zi’ang had a nominal engagement, but Shen Xiaoshan had deliberately gotten close to Meng Zi’ang, creating multiple opportunities to be alone with him to snatch him away.
She was a ‘third party.’
A flicker of displeasure flashed across the depths of Shen Xiaoshan’s eyes. What kind of garbage question was the production team asking without coordinating with her beforehand?
Meng Zi’ang had clearly thought of this layer as well; he wasn’t an actor, so the expression on his face looked slightly off.
Shen Xiaoshan forced a smile and said, “I’d leave it to Zi’ang to handle. I believe he’ll take care of everything properly.”
Meng Zi’ang immediately picked up the cue: “I only have eyes for my wife. If someone tried to intervene in my marriage, I would angrily drive them away and not allow that person to appear before our eyes.”
Hearing this, Qin Jiaojiao let out a soft sneer that wasn’t picked up by her microphone.
She stared at Shen Xiaoshan and Meng Zi’ang, making the two feel somewhat uncomfortable, not daring to meet her burning gaze.
The director turned to Qin Jiaojiao and asked, “How would Teacher Qin handle it?”
The expression on Qin Jiaojiao’s captivatingly beautiful face was noble, cold, and proud as she implied, “I wouldn’t bother dealing with the third party—I’d kick out the unfaithful man first.”
As soon as these words were spoken, Shen Xiaoshan and Meng Zi’ang’s expressions turned rather unsightly, clearly recalling the scene where Qin Jiaojiao had slapped them in the face publicly at the hotel back then.
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