Chapter 40

"Hey~~! What’s going on between the two of you?" Lu Hongzhe said with a wide grin, which seemed to have become his standard image. At this moment, he was sitting next to HaHa, looking at the two completely awkward people in front of him, full of questions. "HaHa, I remember you weren’t like this? HyunDun is a pretty nice guy, so how did your relationship turn out like this?"

"It’s just awkward, nothing to say!" At this moment, facing Lu Hongzhe, HaHa suddenly started to complain, "Ever since I sat down, I’ve been talking non-stop, but HyunDun has been ignoring me the whole time."

"I also feel awkward," Zheng HyunDun replied with a helpless smile. "I’m just afraid he’ll say those words to me again, ‘Come out and fight me!’"

"Come out and fight?" In the control room, Liu Zaitian’s eyebrows instantly furrowed when he heard Zheng HyunDun’s words. "To be able to say something like that... Brother, I think something must have happened between them?"

"Indeed, HyunDun isn’t the type to speak casually. If he said HaHa told him to come out and fight, then it must have happened. It seems the situation isn’t simple!"

Faced with this sudden statement, although the three people in the private room were still laughing and talking, the four people in the control room had become worried.

"Let’s do this: Brother JunHe, pretend you can’t find your way out, then call HyunDun and ask him to show you the way. See if you can get to the bottom of what happened," Liu ZaiShi thought for a moment and decisively sent another member out.

"Also, Zaitian, once HyunDun goes out, you go in and talk to Hongzhe. See if you can find out what happened from HaHa as well." Coming out to fight? Such words aren’t something a junior can say to his seniors, so to get to the truth, Liu ZaiShi decided to tackle both of them at once.

"I understand. Once Brother HyunDun is called out by Brother JunHe, I’ll go in," Liu Zaitian nodded and then said to Zheng JunHe, "Brother, it’s up to you now. Don’t let me down!"

"Don’t worry, I’ve acted in movies before, so you can trust my acting skills," Zheng JunHe replied. Although he often seemed unreliable on the show, he was definitely someone to trust and rely on when it came to important matters.

"Then I’ll go now!"

"Okay, Brother JunHe, good luck!"

Subsequently, Zheng JunHe quietly left the room and returned to his nanny car. Taking out his phone, he felt the time was right and dialed Zheng HyunDun’s number.

"Coming, coming."

Seeing Zheng HyunDun answer the call on the surveillance screen, Liu Zaitian stood up. Once Zheng HyunDun left, it would be his turn to go in.

"Zaitian, good luck!"

After high-fiving Liu Zaitian and Park MyungSoo, Liu Zaitian nodded confidently.

At this moment, Zheng HyunDun had explained to Lu Hongzhe and HaHa and left the private room.

Standing at the door, Liu Zaitian quietly observed Zheng HyunDun walk past and out of the restaurant before he went out as well.

"Brother HaHa, Brother Hongzhe!" Standing at the door, Liu Zaitian composed himself and pushed the door open.

"Oh, Zaitian, you’re here! We’ve been waiting for a long time..." Seeing Liu Zaitian finally arrive, HaHa’s face was genuinely happy.

"What’s going on?" Liu Zaitian asked, pretending not to understand.

"Brother HyunDun and I have been here for about ten minutes, and it’s been completely awkward. We don’t know what to say. If it weren’t for Brother Hongzhe, I wouldn’t want to stay here at all," HaHa said, his face full of frustration.

"Really? It’s been so long, and Brother HaHa, your relationship with Brother HyunDun still hasn’t improved? What’s going on between you two to make it like this?" Liu Zaitian asked, feigning complete confusion. Even Liu ZaiShi and Park MyungSoo in the control room, if they hadn’t known Liu Zaitian was acting, would have been fooled by his performance.

"(⊙o⊙) Wow, this acting, completely... amazing!" In the control room, Liu ZaiShi and Park MyungSoo couldn’t help but exclaim at Liu Zaitian’s calm and composed performance.

But they quickly quieted down because HaHa had started to speak, "I didn’t expect it to turn out like this! You know, Brother Zaitian, I like to play around, and sometimes even if I say something a bit harsh, it’s just a joke. Once, I sent a text message to Brother HyunDun, which might have been a bit harsh, but I was just joking. I didn’t expect him to stop contacting me after that."

"But, Brother HaHa, what did you send to Brother HyunDun that made him stop talking to you?" Liu Zaitian asked, his face full of curiosity.

"It’s nothing much. You know, friends often tease each other, and everyone knows it’s just a joke, so they don’t take it seriously. Once, I called Brother HyunDun, but he didn’t answer, so I sent him a text message jokingly, saying, ‘Pig head, why didn’t you answer my call? Come out and fight me!’ After that, he never contacted me again." HaHa said, his face full of helplessness. He was just joking, but he didn’t expect Zheng HyunDun to react so strongly.

"Because of that?"

"Yes, because of that! Later, Brother HyunDun became even stranger and stopped contacting me. I had no choice but to apologize to him for two days, but it had no effect. Then, we ended up like this. Just now, when we entered the private room and no one was there, I saw Brother HyunDun’s manager standing at the door and asked where he was. He said he went to the bathroom. At that moment, I was really conflicted."

"I’m so confused~~~!" Hearing this, Liu Zaitian was a bit at a loss, and Lu Hongzhe was already laughing.

In the control room, Liu ZaiShi and Park MyungSoo, seeing the footage and sound from the hidden camera in Zheng JunHe’s nanny car, burst out laughing.

After Zheng JunHe’s诱导, Zheng HyunDun also revealed the reason, which was exactly the same as what HaHa said. It was all because of that text message that their relationship became so awkward.

"What’s going on here!" Seeing this, and watching HaHa continuously complain to Liu Zaitian and Lu Hongzhe in the private room, the two of them found it incredibly amusing.

For such a small matter to cause such a situation, it was hard to say whether they were overly sensitive or just childish...

"Alright, Brother MyungSoo, since we know the reason, we don’t need to keep watching secretly. If we don’t go in soon, they might notice."

After Zheng JunHe brought Zheng HyunDun back to the private room, Liu ZaiShi and Park MyungSoo also followed closely behind.

As more people entered, the two of them started to change their behavior. Especially when Liu ZaiShi entered the private room, their faces instantly lit up with bright smiles.

But soon, seeing the staff follow in, and especially when Liu Zaitian and Lu Hongzhe directed them to the hidden cameras, they realized what had happened. If they hadn’t figured it out by then, they would have been real idiots.

"Ah! What’s this~~~! Audience, we’re very close, everything you saw just now was fake!" At this moment, facing the swarm of staff, Zheng HyunDun and HaHa were no longer awkward, hugging each other intimately.

Of course, if their faces didn’t still have that embarrassed smile, it would have been even better.

In response, the special effects team added the subtitle, "Now you two are pretending to be close, do you think it will work?"!

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