In fact, if Tao doesn't take action on his own, Cheng Xi is also prepared to pay attention to him. After all, no matter how many dogs the other person has, he is still his senior, and he should be returned to his family due to emotion and reason.

He didn't return immediately because he wasn't sure Tao Shiyan really wanted to pay attention to him, or maybe he made a mistake.

After all, the three-time Best Actor took the initiative to follow a little guy who had just debuted for half a year and had just over 2 million fans. How could he think that it was like something in a novel?

But now the other party told him through actions that this matter was true. While Cheng Xi was wondering, he retreated secretly, ready to run away at any time.

His actions were quickly discovered. Tao Shiyan frowned: "Where are you going?"

Cheng Xi: "I just opened that fanfic and didn't even look at it, really!"

Tao Shiyan: "..."

Tao Shiyan suppressed a smile and said, "Listen carefully to my question and then answer it."

"...Oh," Cheng Xi was already desperate, his despair made his face expressionless, "There will be filming tomorrow, I will go back to sleep."

After saying that, Cheng Xi, whose face was shattered, ran out as fast as he could in his life!

Tao Shiyan reacted very quickly, took advantage of his long legs and took two steps forward. He grabbed the boy's wrist with his left hand, supported the wall with his right hand, and slammed him against the wall.

Cheng Xi was trapped between his arm and the wall.

"Why are you running?" Tao Shiyan frowned.

Cheng Xi retreated subconsciously, but there was no way to retreat. He pressed against the wall and said in a fierce tone: "...I, I'm anxious to go back to sleep, I can't!"

It's almost two o'clock in the morning, and it's pitch dark outside. The boys are only wearing thin pajamas, so it's easy to catch a cold.

"Sleep here," Tao Shiyan said. "If you go out and be seen by someone, tomorrow's hot search will be news about our affair."

...How wrong is it for me to have an affair with you? Cheng Xi wanted to refute, but after looking at his own situation, he swallowed his words hard: "...Okay, okay, I won't go out, you let me go."

Tao Shiyan chuckled and finally let him go.

The oppressive breath disappeared, and Cheng Xi took a deep breath. Only then did he realize that he had forgotten to breathe just now, and his lungs were so suffocated that it hurt.

My wrists also hurt.

...No, it's not pain.

He lowered his eyelids and saw that the fabric of his pajamas was wrinkled at his wrists, and the cat pattern was squeezed into an abstract shape, like heated marshmallows.

He shook his hand and found it was hot. The area where he had been scratched was very hot.

There is a side hall in the Yangxin Hall, but the program team thought it would not be used, so they did not make the mattress. In the past two days, Tao Shiyan asked Zhang Jing to make the bed, but Cheng Xi had no shame in occupying other people's bedrooms, so he went there on his own initiative.

The straight-line distance between the side hall and the main hall is about three meters. Because it has not been used by the crew for a long time, the whole room has no human smell. There is only wooden furniture mixed with the smell of trees and grass.

Cheng Xi was lying on the bed with his eyes empty. The shooting these days was very intense and physically demanding, and he felt tired in waves. He closed his eyes and tried to fall asleep.

Ten minutes later nothing happened, I couldn't sleep, I didn't even feel like sleeping.

This state was very common. He turned over and was about to count the sheep. His chin accidentally touched the cuff of his pajamas and felt a familiar smell.

Raising his hand to smell carefully, he found the source of the smell.

——Comes from the dog that caught him just now.

And strangely enough, when he smelled this smell, his nerves quickly calmed down, and he felt inexplicably relieved and relaxed.

It was as if someone was whispering to him in his ear: "Go to sleep, I'm here."

So he is no longer afraid of the darkness, snakes, insects, rats, ants, demons and monsters lurking in the dark. He can sleep peacefully, knowing that that person will drive away all fear.

Cheng Xi closed his eyes again, but unfortunately a gust of wind blew in and the smell on his clothes was instantly blown away.

Glancing at the dark night outside, my nerves returned to their tense state.

Damn, I can't even sleep.

Cheng Xi scratched his hair irritably and realized that this was not going to happen.

Now that he is with Tao Shiyan, he can find an opportunity to sleep with Tao Shiyan. What will he do if he can? The recording of "Journey" will eventually be finished, and he and Tao Shiyan will eventually part ways.

Have to think of a way.

The most permanent way is to find out the reason why he fell asleep next to Tao Shiyan. Now it is basically certain that it is because of the smell.

So what needs to be done next is to analyze which flavor works.

Cheng Xi lay on the pillow, leaning on his cheek and recalling carefully:

The smell on Tao Shiyan's body was not complicated. It could smell like tobacco, perfume, and maybe dry cleaning agent, laundry detergent, or softener.

Judging from the brands of his clothes, most of them are high-end and need to be returned to the counter or sent to the store for cleaning. Since the brands of cleaning agents used in each store cannot be the same, the third item can be eliminated directly.

Only the first two items remain.

He only needs to find out the brands of perfume and cigarettes, buy them and try them out for himself.

Thinking of the wonderful sleep waving to him not far away, Cheng Xi was so happy that he couldn't help but kick his legs - this was simply the best news he had received in sixteen years besides his debut!

With this understanding, even if he didn't sleep all night, Cheng Xi was happy when he got up after being yelled at by the program crew.

He wanted to sneak back to Songlan Pavilion for breakfast, but Tao Shiyan stopped him. The two of them finished eating in Yangxin Hall, and Tao Shiyan said, "Follow me."

Cheng Xi remembered that the other party said yesterday that he would take him to a place. He followed Tao Shiyan, and when the person in front stopped, he discovered that this was actually the back entrance of Cining Palace.

The place where the Queen Mother lives.

"Can you climb over the wall?" Tao Shiyan asked.

"Yes," Cheng Xi was in a good mood and joked, "You want to teach me how to be bad?"

When he was a student, in the eyes of teachers, climbing over the wall was definitely a label reserved for bad students. Tao Shiyan raised his eyebrows: "Well, I'll take you to skip class and meet your parents."

... He said it as if he was in puppy love. Cheng Xi pinched the tips of his ears and said, "I'll go in first."

As he spoke, he supported the wall with his left hand and jumped in lightly and neatly.

Is there any need to teach? Tao Shiyan paused for a moment and jumped in with him.

When the set of "Journey" was built, no one thought that the guests would be so excited that they would jump off the wall. There was no fixed camera installed in the backyard. When the guests were filming and they disappeared, they wanted to jump in, but it was inconvenient to carry the machine, so they quickly

Requesting assistance from off-site: "Director Liu, please have someone open the back door of Cining Palace. I can't take pictures!"

Director Liu was surprised: "What are you doing at the back door of Cining Palace?"

"Teacher Tao is taking Xiao Cheng to jump in!"

"..." Director Liu wanted to cry.

Tao Shiyan, are you fucking sent by God to defeat me?!!

He immediately contacted the management of the film and television city to open the door, and while waiting, the two men had quietly entered the Queen Mother's bedroom.

Tao Shiyan whispered: "Look for something with the Queen Mother's handwriting."

Although Cheng Xi didn't understand, he knew that now was not the time to ask. The two of them searched separately and finally found a stack of rice paper on the desk.

There are paintings on the rice paper, scriptures copied by the Queen Mother, etc.

The more Cheng Xi read the text, the more familiar it became. When the two met and Tao Shiyan took out Princess Zhao's letter, Cheng Xi understood everything.

——The handwriting of the scriptures is not only familiar, it is exactly the same as the handwriting of the letter!

In other words, the letter in Concubine Zhao’s drawer was not written by herself, but by the Queen Mother!

Cheng Xi was shocked for a while and then asked: "Why did she take the letter written to the late emperor?"

"Did she just get the letter?" Tao Shiyan said.

Yes, there is also the Queen Mother's hairpin. Cheng Xi is even more confused, "She wants to collect materials to lower her head to the Queen Mother?"

I can't find any other reason other than perversion.

Tao Shiyan was speechless for a moment: "You know quite a lot."

After a pause, Tao Shiyan said patiently: "Do you remember the setting of Princess Zhao? She was once the most beautiful woman in the world, and she was the most beloved of the late emperor in the entire harem."

"Remember."

"Then she has no children. Is it normal?"

Cheng Xi seemed to understand something, vaguely grasping the truth but not daring to confirm. His brows were furrowed tightly and his eyes were slightly widened, like a cat trying to figure out where the dried fish was hidden.

"......Fool."

Tao Shiyan looked at him for a few seconds, then raised his index finger and tapped his forehead lightly, "This means that Concubine Zhao does not like the late emperor, but the Queen Mother."

Yes, if this makes sense. Because she likes the Queen Mother, Princess Zhao deliberately did not have children even though she was favored by her alone. Because she likes the Queen Mother, she would rather spend the rest of her life in a desolate garden, reading the letters written by the Queen Mother to the late emperor every day.

, I miss the Queen Mother’s personal belongings and don’t want to return to my mother’s house.

In ancient times, childless concubines usually became monks or returned to their mother's house after the death of the emperor. It was much better to have family support than to stay alone in the palace.

But she didn't want to leave.

There are people she loves here.

Cheng Xi suddenly understood and asked in a low voice: "Then what should we do? Should we tell the Queen Mother?"

Tao Shiyan raised his eyelids: "I thought you would ask me why girls can like girls."
To be continued...