AITFYMIBP Chapter 41

TL: Hua

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Gu Siye stopped in front of Lin Yanran, subtly withdrawing his gaze.

“Are your eyes feeling better?”

Hearing Gu Siye’s words, Lin Yanran noticed the eye drops in his hand.

Earlier, when Sister Ming was doing his makeup, Gu Siye had stood behind him for perhaps a few seconds, then left to go over the procedures.

He hadn’t expected that in just those few seconds, the other party had noticed the problem with his eyes and thoughtfully brought over eye drops.

“They’re alright.”

Just as Lin Yanran finished speaking, he heard Gu Siye interject, “They’re redder.”

Lin Yanran blinked a few times. He did feel that his eyes were drier than before.

“Maybe I haven’t been resting well lately.”

He truly had been too busy recently. While he wasn’t pulling all-nighters or keeping irregular hours like he used to at Day and Night Entertainment, he was constantly preoccupied with back-to-back announcements and every detail of the stage design for the second public performance. His body was definitely in a state of relatively high strain.

“Don’t forget to rest.”

While saying this, Gu Siye had already opened the eye drops for Lin Yanran. “This brand of eye drops is better for relieving fatigue. Try it.”

His eyes were now in a very uncomfortable state, and he genuinely needed eye drops to relieve the fatigue.

Since Gu Siye had been so thoughtful as to buy him the eye drops, Lin Yanran didn’t stand on ceremony and immediately nodded, reaching out to take them.

However, just as he lifted his hand, the man in front of him said softly, “I’ll do it for you.”

It was difficult to put in eye drops by himself, so Lin Yanran directly sat down in the spot next to Qiao Ye.

Gu Siye bent down, his left index finger gently holding Lin Yanran’s eyelid.

A few quick, light drops of the eye drops were administered to his dry eyeballs, and he instantly felt much more comfortable.

“Close your eyes and rest for a few seconds.”

Gu Siye’s voice sounded above him, and Lin Yanran immediately closed his eyes.

The moment he closed his eyes, the excess eye drops, mixed with tears, slid down the corner of Lin Yanran’s eyes, instantly leaving two clear, watery trails.

Qiao Ye immediately pulled two tissues, intending to hand them to Lin Yanran so he could wipe himself.

But he saw the man in front of him take the tissues from his hand, lower his head, and directly wipe the two watery trails dry for Lin Yanran.

“Thank you,” Gu Siye said to Qiao Ye.

Qiao Ye retracted his hand but didn’t reply.

He lowered his gaze, re-opened the song he had paused earlier, and put on his headphones.

Ever since Gu Siye arrived, he felt like an observer.

He couldn’t insert himself into the interactions between the two of them at all.

Inside the makeup room, the trainees, who were also observers, mostly had only one thought upon seeing Gu Siye help Lin Yanran with the eye drops:

Teacher Gu and our mentor have such a great relationship!

Except for Xia Xingxing.

This person, who had been a fan since elementary school and was an avid ‘shipper,’ was already trembling with excitement from this interaction, fingers grabbing and scratching at the wall.

Teacher Gu put eye drops in my idol’s eyes!!

What an intimate interaction!!

That look Teacher Gu just gave my idol, that gentle movement…

Ah!

Ahhh!

Ahhhhh!

Ahhhhhh!

Hurry up and eliminate me, so I can get my phone and immediately join the Gu Siye X Yanran CP fan club!!!

The scene of Gu Siye helping Lin Yanran with eye drops elicited different thoughts from different people.

However, a similar scene suddenly flashed through Lin Yanran’s mind when he closed his eyes.

Just like that one time when he came back from playing games and forgot to do his homework. He was frantically copying physics homework just before the class representative came in for the evening study session.

Then, his friend just sat down next to him and tossed a bottle of eye drops at him.

Class was starting in half an hour, and he still had four sheets of test papers to copy. Lin Yanran’s eyes and mind were entirely focused on the physics homework, his gaze firmly fixed on the paper, completely preoccupied.

“What do you want?”

He used his pen to push away the eye drops that were blocking the answers, not even lifting his eyelid.

The other’s lazy voice came from beside him, “My eyes are uncomfortable. Help me put in some eye drops.”

Lin Yanran was too busy to help him with eye drops.

“I’m busy. Ask Brother Pang to do it for you.”

“His hands are heavy.”

“Then call Lao Gao.”

“His hands are rough.”

“You call—”

Before Lin Yanran could finish his sentence, the other man grabbed his pen, and with his other hand, shoved the eye drops into Lin Yanran’s hand.

“Don’t call anyone else. I just want you to do it for me.”

“I’m copying homework.”

Lin Yanran couldn’t continue writing and was forced to look up at the other person.

He saw that the other’s eyes were quite red.

“Why are your eyes like a rabbit’s?”

“Stayed up all night last night.”

Xiao Pang, who happened to be passing by, put a sausage in his mouth and casually remarked, “What’s up, Brother Ye? Couldn’t sleep all night? Are you… in love?”

The other person just smiled faintly and didn’t speak.

Seeing his expression, Lin Yanran joked with him, “Is that really it?”

The other person simply reached out and ruffled Lin Yanran’s hair. “Yes, thinking of you.”

After he said that, he pulled Lin Yanran closer. “Hurry up and help me. When you’re done, I’ll copy two pages for you.”

Lin Yanran saw that this deal was quite a bargain, so he bent over and helped him put in the eye drops.

After finishing, he saw the other person kept blinking, so he told him, “Close your eyes, or you’ll blink out all the eye drops.”

The memory ended here.

Lin Yanran opened his eyes.

He looked up at the brand of eye drops in Gu Siye’s hand.

He realized the brand was exactly the same as the one in his memory.

Lin Yanran raised his gaze, fixing it on Gu Siye’s face.

Was the person in his memory called Brother Ye?

After the eye drops, Lin Yanran had a quick chat with the trainees and then walked towards the front stage with Gu Siye.

Because of that fleeting memory fragment, he subtly asked Gu Siye about the brand of eye drops.

“My doctor recommended them. When I used to be too busy with work and didn’t rest well, my eyes would also get red and dry. He suggested I use this one.”

After hearing this, Lin Yanran couldn’t quite describe how he felt.

The same brand of eye drops—was it just a coincidence after all?

Lin Yanran was pondering this when the person next to him stopped. “Do your eyes feel better now?”

Then the other man leaned forward slightly, looking into his eyes.

“They’re not as red.”

Gu Siye was about ten centimeters taller than Lin Yanran, so when the other man looked at his eyes, his gaze was level with the other’s collarbone.

Ming had given Gu Siye a very trendy and cool look today. His black shirt was unbuttoned at the top two buttons, revealing a seductive V-shape of his fair chest.

Above his delicate collarbone, he was wearing two layered necklaces, with two oval beads, one black and one light gray, hanging at the bottom.

When Gu Siye leaned over to look at Lin Yanran’s eyes, his angle tilted, so when he straightened up, the beads on the top and bottom chains became entangled.

“Brother Gu, your necklaces are tangled.”

Lin Yanran saw it and immediately reminded him.

The director had given a heads-up today that because the live audience had arrived early, they might cut to some backstage shots before the competition officially started.

Although a tangled necklace was a minor, harmless issue, Gu Siye was a top celebrity who had practically never had a bad photo or been caught with a wardrobe malfunction since his debut. Lin Yanran felt it was better to tell him immediately.

Gu Siye heard this and simply hummed, unhurriedly, but remained standing in place.

Then, he looked at Lin Yanran, perfectly composed, lightly curved his lips, and chuckled, “You help me.”

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