I'm Crushing on Gorgeous Faces in Variety Shows!-Chapter 328: I’ll Take You Away Right Now~

The second round of the water trampoline game began. Mu Qiu climbed onto the trampoline and directly sat down cross-legged.

Li Yang: "?? What are you doing?"

What kind of strategy is this?

Mu Qiu waved her hand: "Listen carefully, I specially chose a slow song for you."

Li Yang’s eyes shifted, and he also sat down cross-legged. The two of them sat in a meditative pose at opposite ends of the trampoline.

The electronic voice announced the song for this round.

"Challenger’s song: ’A Kind of Love is Letting Go’."

Mu Qiu: "Did you hear that? Such a fitting song."

Li Yang sat opposite her: "... I won’t let go for the sake of grilled chicken wings."

"Then I can only say sorry."

The two of them maintained this strange posture, waiting for the music to start.

Li Yang picked up the microphone and held it to his mouth, still watching Mu Qiu closely, completely on guard against her every move.

Mu Qiu thought that if she even moved her neck, it would probably make him jump.

"If the paradise for two people feels like a warm wall, imprisoning your dreams, does happiness feel like an iron window, with a migrating bird losing the south, if you yearn for the sky..."

Li Yang could sing love songs too, but his attention was still focused on Mu Qiu, to the point he was starting to forget the lyrics. When he hit a snag, he’d improvise a few words to get by.

Mu Qiu rested her elbow on her knee, leaning her chin on her hand: "Could you not stare at me so intently while singing this song? I’m not that keen on the sky."

The depth of his gaze almost made her think they’d had a history together, and she was the one who cheated on him.

Li Yang rolled his eyes dismissively and continued to stare at her while singing.

"... Your wings shouldn’t accompany a rose, obey the decaying time, if romance turns into a shackle, I’d choose for you to return to... um, if entanglement becomes a chain discarding promises, a kind of love is letting go—don’t move!"

Mu Qiu flashed him a bright smile, then sank down while sitting as is.

The trampoline began to wobble. Mu Qiu was so light, she didn’t even need to stand up and jump; she just sat and sank a few times, creating an inertia bounce on the trampoline.

Li Yang used his free hand to support the trampoline, still singing. Even though his voice wobbled a bit, it was indeed better than last time.

He even got used to the shaking, and suddenly thought to follow this inertia bounce, sitting on it and bouncing up like Mu Qiu, maintaining the same height.

Guan Yu had won a skewer of grilled chicken wings, feeling mighty proud.

She sat in the spot where Mu Qiu had previously sat, next to Ye Mian, dug out a handful of seeds for her, and glanced up: "Are they meditating?"

Ye Mian: "Which temple’s monks meditate by bouncing?"

"..." Guan Yu was speechless, trying a different angle, "Are they competing in a different way?"

"It’s obvious. Li Yang is about to test the resonance principle, to see if they can maintain uniform balance when bouncing with the same amplitude as Mu Qiu."

Guan Yu’s mouth fell open, looking at her with admiration: "I almost didn’t get that."

Any action with a principle attached feels unfathomably amazing.

Ye Mian paused and continued, "Simply put, they might keep bouncing with the same amplitude indefinitely."

"But haven’t they overlooked a condition?"

Ye Mian: "What?"

Guan Yu gestured with her chin, indicating the ripples under the trampoline.

Ye Mian raised an eyebrow. 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

The trampoline was on water, unlike stable ground.

Two people of different weights on it—even if they bounce back and forth consistently—any minor imbalance could flip the trampoline.

Mu Qiu noticed this too.

So she purposely landed where it would unbalance things, bouncing from one side to the other, legs crossed, hardly moving her feet, just using her hands to push and bounce, trying desperately to disrupt Li Yang’s rhythm.

Li Yang was using his free hand to brace, adjusting the angle whenever he fell.

The trampoline on the water would rock back and forth, utterly unstable, with an ever-present risk of flipping.

The audience couldn’t help but comment.

Guan Yu asked Ye Mian: "Don’t you think they’re like legless people acting like gorillas in a circus?"

Ye Mian took a serious look.

Legs crippled, using only hands to shift positions, hunched over, intently watching one another, as if itching to grin and pound their chests at each other.

"...Exactly like that."

Once imagined, it was hard not to laugh.

On the trampoline, Mu Qiu glanced back at them with a squint.

"Sister Guan Yu, how about you say that to my face instead of assuming I can’t hear you with a mic on?!"

Guan Yu shrugged: "Can you guys heat up a bit more for the spectators? They’re getting bored, and we’re not at the climax yet."

"Isn’t this just a song’s length? Can’t you be a bit more considerate of Li Yang’s stamina?"

Li Yang, still singing: "???"

Mu Qiu turned back, looking at Li Yang: "The audience says they’re bored."

Li Yang: "A kind of love is letting go, for you I’ll forego forever~"

Mu Qiu: "Do you really have to sing to me with such emotion?"

Li Yang: "If staying together makes you give your all, let true love take me away~"

Mu Qiu: "Okay, I’ll take you away now."

She said this, and the next time she bounced, she straightened her legs, jumped on the trampoline with force!

"A kind of love ay ay ay ay ay ay!"

The trampoline lifted from the water, and Li Yang quickly grabbed the edge.

Not wanting to fall in but also not wanting to lose, what should he do?

Li Yang sprawled across the edge of the trampoline, wriggling over to the microphone, still persisting in his singing.

"Is called~ letting go~, for love~ end... end what??!"

On the beach, many fans screamed the answer into his ear.

"Forever and ever!"

"Forever and ever, kid!"

"Oh my god, quickly look up the lyrics!"

"Old songs for love, sisters!"

One fan’s voice was particularly piercing: "Li Yang! It’s the ’forever and ever’ with me!!!!"

From the other side, a fan’s voice responded louder: "In your dreams!!!"

Everyone else burst into laughter.

Guan Yu laughed until her eyes turned to slits, leading the applause: "Li Yang! If it’s for your forever and ever, sing it well! Each word is trembling with vibrato!"

Li Yang reminded himself internally: Don’t respond, don’t respond, they’re all tactics to make him forget the lyrics, it’s all part of their plan!

He finished his internal monologue and continued lying on the edge, tremblingly singing love songs under Mu Qiu’s continuous bouncing.

Guan Yu cracked some seeds, shaking her head: "Poor guy, he’s singing with real sadness."

The vibrato, the sorrowful singing posture, fit the song’s mood perfectly.

But Mu Qiu didn’t feel the sadness, she was thinking, since Li Yang still had the energy to keep singing, the provocation wasn’t enough.

It was time for the big move.

Mu Qiu stopped, crouching to maintain balance, panting as she looked towards Li Yang... or rather, to his left side.