Chapter 143: A Strong Sense of Shame

"Private date" time really is private.

Bai Liang didn't take Dilireba to any regular cinema at all, but found a private theater with decent online reviews.

Yeah, the kind where only two people stay in one room.

A big sofa or a bed, and you can pick the movie yourself.

Generally speaking, it's not recommended to do anything shady in there — the chance of there being cameras in these places is actually not small.

If you couldn't hold back, who knows, one day you might see yourself starring in a little video online.

So neither Bai Liang nor Dilireba even took off their masks.

The movie the two of them picked was last year's release "Big Hero 6," an animated film.

The plot was pretty simple — a robot and his little buddies team up to save the world and jointly fight a criminal conspiracy.

Quite a family-friendly movie, with an overall comfortable style.

This film was specially chosen by Dilireba. After Baymax appeared on screen, she looked at Bai Liang with a smile in her eyes, "You two look alike~"

"I look like that white fatty?"

Bai Liang felt this Miss was being a bit disrespectful of his abs — he could let her touch them.

"It's not the build that's alike. Actually, I haven't seen this movie, but I saw clips online before, and I just felt that hugging Baymax was really comfortable, really healing — in that way you're a lot like him."

Saying that~ well, Bai Liang actually thought she had a point.

Hugging "Baymax" really was quite healing — so comfortable that before long, he'd lulled Dilireba to sleep.

Looking at the two hands on his waist, Bai Liang didn't dare move a muscle~

Breathing in the young lady's hair fragrance, leaning against the sofa, he was extra careful, afraid of waking her.

After adjusting himself into a comfortable position, he finally had time to tilt his head and take a closer look at Dilireba's face.

Even with the mask on, he could still see a hint of weariness between her brows — perhaps that was why she could fall asleep even in a situation like this.

Carefully reaching out to smooth her brow, gently stroking her ear, Bai Liang began to show his patience.

"Ah~ how long did I sleep?"

"Not that long, just over an hour."

"Shouldn't we head back? Tomorrow morning we still need to go to Xiangshan Film Studio City for the start-of-production press conference."

Dilireba's first reaction upon waking was tomorrow's work.

Bai Liang was impressed by this too — just look at how thoroughly this Miss had been "trained."

He checked the time; it wasn't particularly late, just past eleven.

After all, Bai Liang's efficiency at "beating up" Huang Jingyu was very high — everyone had only just finished dinner a little past seven.

As naturally as she'd reached out to hug Bai Liang earlier, that decisively was how Dilireba got up now.

If she kept hugging him a little longer in a sober state, she felt she might not be able to hold back.

So she got up, called a car to pick her up.

A phone call that connected on the first try, plus a driver who came the moment he was called — once again showed the current style of Jiaxing's company.

All workhorses!

While waiting for the car by the road, Dilireba held a hair tie in her mouth and nimbly tied up the hair she'd let loose all night.

After finishing that, she smiled at Bai Liang, "Goodnight~ Baymax."

Bai Liang had always been against this kind of nickname-giving behavior.

But sometimes there wasn't much he could do about it.

How many nicknames was this now?

"Goodnight."

The car came, and the Miss left.

Bai Liang found it very interesting — unlike a super-strong career woman like Sister Xiao Zhao, Dilireba was the type who, while clear-headed, would occasionally let herself daydream a little.

She had clear career goals, worked hard for them, and forced herself to temporarily set aside anything beyond work.

But she couldn't fully control herself, so sometimes she had to force herself to pull away.

This kind of thing is really being torn — and being torn leads to being fragile~

But~ at least just now, while hugging "Baymax," she slept very peacefully.

A bright future ahead, gotta keep moving.

It's just that same old saying — when the pace is too perfectly matched, it's hard not to walk side by side.

So the next morning, when Dilireba woke up at the hotel and was about to grab a simple breakfast, she was quite surprised to see Bai Liang.

"You're staying at this hotel too?"

"What else? I don't have a place, you know. The hotel was arranged by your company."

"Then why didn't you ride back with me last night?"

Hearing this question, Bai Liang spread his hands, "I forgot~ It's all your fault, you didn't even remind me. Made me take a cab — fifty-two yuan, transfer it to me later."

That line had Dilireba laughing nonstop — oh my, quite the flavor of a "domineering CEO."

And ordering her around, too.

Though a "domineering CEO" brazenly demanding a fifty-two-yuan cab fare was a rare sight.

"I'll give you ten times that, five hundred and twenty yuan, happy now~"

Alipay payment received.

After receiving the money, Bai Liang realized that number seemed a little off.

He looked at Dilireba in confusion, wondering in his heart whether she'd done it on purpose or by accident.

But the other party was seriously tackling a boiled egg, as if she were solving a century-old difficult problem.

Look at this egg, it's so smooth and round.

"Let me do it, don't ruin that manicure of yours."

Bai Liang said he was pretty good at peeling boiled eggs too, and even helped out Reba's assistant with a couple while he was at it.

Oh right, Dilireba herself only eats one — she's probably about to ascend to immortality~

According to her own account, she ate way too much for dinner last night and felt like she'd put on two jin. While saying things like "absolutely cannot eat any more," she still didn't forget to slip two packs of preserved plums into her pocket.

Bai Liang, seeing this, also packed her some little snacks for her — an important "feeding" tool for the road.

All of this was noticed by Dilireba's assistant, who stayed silent.

After all, the two eggs Brother Dou Xiao Bai peeled by hand really did taste pretty good~

Around noon, they arrived at Xiangshan Film and Television City.

Bai Liang had also taken full advantage of Jiaxing, getting them to buy him first-class plane tickets and arrange a car to pick him up.

He had to make sure their gambling KPI went from "bad to worse"!

Of course, that was just what he thought.

These expenses were originally what the production crew was supposed to pay for and reimburse.

Who goes on a business trip without expensing travel costs?

After settling in at the production crew's hotel, Bai Liang finally got to experience what the legendary "Jiaxing gift package" actually felt like.

It was full of Jiaxing's artists!

Walking into the hotel conference room, it really felt like accidentally stumbling into the company's annual meeting.

A bunch of their colleagues were over there greeting each other familiarly, chatting away, as if they were at the office, while Bai Liang, the "outsider," was obviously a bit too conspicuous.

The moment he walked in, a pile of people gave him the staring treatment.

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The noise in the entire conference room seemed to drop quite a bit — if most of their gazes hadn't just been curious, Bai Liang would have thought he was getting a power play.

Faced with this scene, he wasn't nervous at all, and even remembered to be polite.

He smiled and greeted everyone: "Hello everyone~"

The saying goes you don't hit a smiling face — but actually, even if Bai Liang didn't smile, even if he wore a stony face, this bunch of Jiaxing "broke artists" probably wouldn't dare say a peep.

At most they'd gossip behind his back.

That's because apart from Yang Mi, their company really didn't have a single person who could match Bai Liang.

Including Jiaxing's current second sister, Dilireba.

As for the male artists... forget it, let's not talk about it.

This is only talking about traffic and fame.

And Yang Mi hadn't arrived yet at this point — the male lead Zhao Youting was the same. Maybe the most important people always have to arrive last, just like grabbing the finale spot on the red carpet.

That's right, this is also from Zha Sect.

Zha Sect's Little Classroom has gradually spread from production crew content to other areas.

After Bai Liang showed that capybara-like harmless smile, the Jiaxing crowd shifted their gazes and collectively looked at... Dilireba.

Most of them were teasing, with looks that said "Reba, your scandal boyfriend is here."

Honestly, it made her a little embarrassed.

Her face didn't blush, but she unconsciously bit her lower lip.

But she also didn't lower her head and play quail — instead, she called out to Bai Liang: "Sit over here~"

It seemed like it had been specially saved for Bai Liang — the spot was already very close to the "C-position."

If this were some entertainment industry group photo situation, Dilireba was essentially placing herself in a position slightly lower than Bai Liang.

All of the above was entirely imagined by Jiaxing's artists.

Where there are people, there's the jianghu~

In the entertainment industry, position is a pretty important thing — it always makes people unable to help imagining things.

Dilireba had Bai Liang sit on her right side purely because she didn't want him sitting next to Zhu Zhu Xudan.

Ever since Bai Liang appeared, this girl had been giving weird looks, mumbling weird things like "pure cotton" with a silly expression on her face.

Honestly, if the other girl weren't her bestie, Dilireba would have wanted to punch her.

"We're on the hot search~"

After Bai Liang sat down next to her, Dilireba said quietly.

"Huh? That fast? When I checked this morning there wasn't any movement yet, was there?"

"I don't know if it was my company or the 'Weiwei' side that bought traffic, but we're already number two on the hot search."

What efficiency!

Idle anyway at this point, Bai Liang pulled out his phone, ignored some WeChat messages, and tapped open Weibo.

"Oh damn, that paparazzi really knows how to catch a shot!"

The number two hot search keyword at this moment was prominently: Sweet Cone!

The content was, of course, the ambiguous behavior of Bai Liang and Dilireba sharing a sweet cone yesterday.

Underneath, a group of original CP fans were going wild — things like Xiao Nai and Bei Weiwei are together in real life too, what wonderful news, etc.

There were also people saying the two of them were unhygienic.

Bai Liang specifically pointed at that comment to show Dilireba.

She hadn't blushed from all those teasing gazes earlier, but this time she couldn't hold it — her face instantly turned red all the way to the roots of her ears.

It felt like that sense of having done something impulsive, having it recorded, and then watching it back later and finding it especially shameful.

From a third-party perspective, the behavior of two people sharing one sweet cone really was too... ambiguous!

The key thing was that the paparazzo's photos were very clear, even accompanied by GIFs.

It precisely captured Dilireba first licking it with her tongue, then handing it to Bai Liang.

What kind of ice cream pass was that?! It was clearly an exchange of bodily fluids!

Mhm, these were also comments thought up by the talented netizens.

Reading only the second half, anyone who didn't know better would think the two of them had become a pair of wild mandarin ducks, brazenly outdoors.

Summary: way too damn sickeningly sweet!

"No more looking, no more looking. Hurry and put it away," Dilireba urged.

She really couldn't take much more; the intense shame was slowly drowning her.

She deeply regretted it—why on earth had she done something like that?

It's all the company's fault! They didn't warn her in advance!

Bai Liang obediently put his phone away, and just as he slipped it into his pocket, messages from some important people also arrived.

If Dilireba had looked at Bai Liang's phone just a little longer, she would have happened to see the angry emoji pack sent by that Zha.

(End of chapter)