Blake Yan's Journey with His Dancers Chapter 6

Blake Yan felt that it was a bit fake that Adrian Shen might have a crush on him.

But no matter how false something is, you should not think about it too much. The more you think about it, the more likely you are to doubt whether it is true.

but...

Actually, it’s not that fake.

Blake Yan has been good-looking, strong-willed and expressive since he was young. He has been the most eye-catching baby in the class since the kindergarten. Over the years, he has been pursued too many times and has been secretly loved by countless people.

Of course, his suitors are mostly girls, but he has also had boys before, which he thinks is quite normal, a truly handsome guy should be popular with both men and women. So it is not impossible for Adrian Shen to like him, which only shows that Adrian Shen's aesthetic taste is very normal.

Blake Yan sorted out the logic from an "objective" perspective, and then felt embarrassed after realizing it belatedly.

He had no experience in dating, but he had a lot of experience in rejecting people. But it was easy for him to reject Shen. What happened next? They were colleagues, and they would see each other every day. Could they still get along well?

Forget about the future, we have to sleep in the same room tonight.

Blake Yan leaned back in the car seat and thought, maybe it's fake, I'm overthinking. Besides, even if it's true, Adrian Shen might not say anything. This person is obviously not the type to pursue others passionately.

So, what did Adrian Shen like about him? When did it start, and how long had it been?

Blake Yan tried hard to recall, but couldn't remember any unusual interactions between him and the other party. It might be that he had a bad memory or he didn't pay attention to it at the time.

He turned to look at Adrian Shen.

I have to say that this girl is definitely the most beautiful one among all his admirers in his life. She simply dominates the whole audience with no pressure, and her temperament is very extraordinary. To borrow the words of her fans, it is "snow in the sky and moon on the sea". You can only look at her from afar and can never get close to her.

Blake Yan sighed inwardly, but before he could look away, Adrian Shen suddenly said, "Can you stop staring at me?"

Blake Yan choked up: "If you don't stare at me, how do you know I'm staring at you?"

Adrian Shen: ...

Sh!t, what kind of elementary school conversation is this.

Blake Yan's stupid teammates have caused him a lot of harm. He feels that if he continues like this, sooner or later he will turn from a cool and domineering lone wolf into a husky.

Blake Yan coughed lightly and changed the subject, "Have you read the script for the first episode? Today we will record three main parts: eating, performing, and drawing lots to divide the groups and rooms. We will do the official task tomorrow."

It sounds easy and like playing, but in fact, the production team has detailed arrangements for each step, including the seemingly casual chatting during meals, which also has "lines", in order to fully display the personality and cuteness of the guests. Of course, there is a certain performance element, which is to say, the character setting.

After all, it is a variety show. The most important thing is not authenticity, but excitement.

Therefore, each guest must have a prominent personality positioning to impress the audience so that they can pick their favorite type. Then the program team will make adjustments based on the feedback after the broadcast.

Blake Yan's character is similar to that in the Plastic Group. He cannot lose the image of being gentle, mature, and having a good personality. However, given that in the eyes of the public, this character has basically collapsed, if he continues to play this role, it will easily cause the audience to be disgusted and think that he is hypocritical.

So Claire Li discussed with the director about how to "whitewash" him in the show. How to whitewash him? It's very simple. The personality displayed by the guests in the reality show is more real if it is rich in layers. One of the common methods is to first criticize and then praise. For example, a guest exposed his shortcomings in the first two episodes and was very unpleasant. In the following episodes, the plot of the script was used to design a reversal of his personality. The audience would think: In fact, he is not bad at heart, he is a kind person, but his emotional intelligence is not high. He is a real person, much better than some hypocritical people.

Blake Yan is going to take a similar route.

But he is an idol, he certainly can't do things that will cause too much criticism, so the program team will take a gentler approach, allowing the audience to see his gentleness, maturity, and signs of acting, but to guide the audience to find it funny rather than hypocritical, and then arrange some content, through post-editing and subtitles, to give Blake Yan a character who is "a quiet and handsome man on the surface, but a man with barrages of comments in his heart", showing a strong contrast.

This will help dilute the sense of collapse of his image after his secondary account was exposed.

In comparison, Adrian Shen's positioning is much simpler. The program team arranged for him to be the perfect male god, a "friend of women" with explosive boyfriend power. He is rather taciturn and cold, but very gentlemanly to the female guests. He is handsome and has substance, knows how to act in moderation, has high emotional intelligence, and knows how to respect others. He is a model of the new generation of good men.

When Blake Yan saw this character, two rows of ellipsis appeared in his mind.

To be honest, where is Adrian Shen's sense of propriety? Where is his high emotional intelligence? It's too fake. He is obviously a lonely child, with eyes on the top of his head and headphones on, and he doesn't bother to care about ordinary people. Fortunately, he is a model man.

Well, it’s all work anyway, so don’t make fun of anyone else.

In order to ease the tense atmosphere in the car, Blake Yan forced himself to continue the boring topic and chatted a little more about the program content. After all, the one who should be nervous is the one who has a crush on someone else, why is he nervous?

Thinking of this, Blake Yan became a little uncertain again. In fact, it was quite presumptuous to suspect that someone had a crush on him. It would be better to find out the truth, otherwise it would be very embarrassing if there was a misunderstanding.

He should try it out.

"Brother Ze." Blake Yan controlled his tone and said tactfully, "I saw the Weibo post you accidentally liked. Fans online are guessing. They said you searched it yourself and were excitedly discussing whether anyone in our group is gay."

Blake Yan smiled lightly, pretending to be helpless, blinking his eyes and sighing to Adrian Shen, "Netizens have really wild imaginations, they believe everything they hear..."

While speaking, he carefully observed Adrian Shen's expression, not missing any subtle unnaturalness.

Sure enough, when several of his teammates talked about such topics in the past, Adrian Shen pretended not to hear and didn't care at all. When people spoke to him by name, he would at most say "hmm" to indicate that he heard it.

Now Adrian Shen turned around and looked at Blake Yan steadily, his eyes hinting at a subtle...exploration?

...

Did he find out that I discovered his secret?

Blake Yan's throat suddenly felt dry, and he became nervous for no reason. It was all because they were too close. It was hard to hide his expression at such a close distance, and Adrian Shen's perfume was very pungent. When a person is completely enveloped by the breath of another person, it is easy to feel uncomfortable - their territory has been invaded.

Blake Yan raised his hand unconsciously and loosened his tie.

Today he was wearing a casual suit, which was casual in style and not too formal, just right for a young handsome guy.

Adrian Shen's inquiry was still there, and his eyes seemed to confirm something. They swept across his face, lowered, and landed on his fingers that were untying his tie.

Blake Yan froze, his knuckles still pressed against his collarbone, and he didn't move for a long time. Fortunately, Adrian Shen turned his eyes away immediately, but he turned too quickly, which inexplicably showed a sense of deliberateness, as if he was deliberately drawing a line and deliberately avoiding suspicion.

However, it would be better not to avoid it. The more you avoid it, the more ambiguous atmosphere there is, as if you want to say something but cannot.

Adrian Shen may have realized it, and said as a remedy: "It's not summer yet, are you hot? Dress properly."

Adrian Shen's tone was cold and hard.

Blake Yan: ...

Why didn’t I dress properly? I just loosened my tie. My dad isn’t so strict!

Blake Yan was in mixed feelings. For the first time ever, he took out his headphones and plugged them in to listen to music.

His music app was set to automatically resume play. When he turned it on, his headphones were playing their first hit song of that year, "Do You Know I Love You?", which was also written by Adrian Shen. The climax had five sentences, which was just the lyrics "Do you know I love you?" repeated five times, with five people singing one sentence each. It was a heart-wrenching high-pitched cry.

Do you know that I love you?

Do you know that I love you?

Do you know that I love you?

Do you know that I love you?

Do you know that I love you?

...

Blake Yan's ears hurt after hearing this, and he couldn't help but glance at Adrian Shen. He thought to himself, I get it, you are such a double-faced and introverted person, no wonder you can write a song like this.