126: Chapter 126 Successfully advanced, new competition questions.

Sure enough, when Shen Qingxue heard these words, her whole body noticeably stiffened for a second.

She stared at Lu Li for two seconds, then quickly averted her gaze, turning her head aside and revealing a thoroughly red earlobe.

"You're crazy."

Her voice was very soft, so soft that Lu Li almost didn't hear it clearly.

But when that word came out of her mouth, it didn't sound like swearing at all; instead, it carried a hint of... coquettishness?

Lu Li was stunned, thinking he had heard wrong.

Is this a curse or...

The atmosphere in the living room suddenly became somewhat subtle.

Lu Li stood in place, not knowing what to say or what to do.

There was only one thought in his mind.

Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing?

On the other side, Shen Qingxue tilted her head without looking at him, her mind completely scrambled by those words.

Cute?

He said she was cute?

From childhood to adulthood, countless people had praised her for being good-looking, pretty, aloof, as well as having temperament and talent...

But no one had ever said she was cute.

Until these two words came out of Lu Li's mouth, inexplicably making her feel... her heart soften.

"Um..."

Lu Li couldn't help speaking up, breaking the silence.

"You... you aren't angry, right?"

Shen Qingxue turned her head to glance at him, then averted her gaze again, unable to help letting out a "humph".

"I'm angry."

But there wasn't a trace of angry tone in those two words.

"Then... what should we do?"

But Lu Li had never experienced this kind of situation before. Scratching his head, thinking she was really angry, he asked with a nervous look.

"How about... you pinch me back?"

Hearing this, Shen Qingxue froze for a moment, then raised her head, looking at Lu Li with a shocked expression.

Pinch back?!

He actually let her pinch him back?!

Lu Li was truly a blockhead! A super invincible mega-blockhead!

But right now she didn't have time to overthink, because at this moment, Lu Li had already unwillingly leaned his face closer, looking like he was at her disposal.

Seeing his resigned expression as if facing death, Shen Qingxue couldn't help laughing exasperatedly.

He really leaned his face over, how shameless.

"Humph, who wants to pinch you, conceited."

Shen Qingxue spoke indifferently, but her outward aloofness could barely conceal her slight joy.

Well... this should also count as a small victory, right?

Hearing this, Lu Li opened his eyes and cautiously glanced at her.

Shen Qingxue had returned to her aloof appearance, but looking at her always gave the feeling that she was different from usual.

Lu Li stared blankly at her slightly red cheeks for two seconds, a strange impulse suddenly welling up in his heart.

Actually... he wanted to pinch her again.

Of course, he was just thinking about it; he wouldn't dare.

"Ahem... th-that... about the photo..."

Lu Li quickly changed the subject, pointing at the phone in Shen Qingxue's hand.

Shen Qingxue looked down at her phone for a moment, then raised her head to look at him, slightly lifting her chin.

"Not deleting it."

"Why?"

"No reason, because this is as a punishment for you, so that we're even, and neither owes the other anything."

Shen Qingxue subconsciously hid the phone behind her back.

Lu Li opened his mouth to say something, but looking at Shen Qingxue's "I'm not listening, I'm not listening" expression, he ultimately swallowed his words back down.

It always felt a bit weird.

It seemed like not only did he get the short end of the stick, but he had also subsidized a lot into it.

"Fine, whatever you say."

Helplessly, Lu Li could only pretend to look indifferent, waving his hand at her.

Don't delete it then, anyway it was already taken.

And to be honest...

Actually, he didn't want to delete it that much either.

Hehe

The afternoon passed very quickly.

Lu Li exported the complete audio source of summer wind, and then matched it with the high-definition photo of Shen Qingxue on the day of the audition as the cover.

After finishing all this, he edited the caption and posted it on the account of Rock Sugar Pear.

In less than half an hour after publication, the view count broke 500,000, and the comment section was extraordinarily lively.

[Family members, who gets it, the full version is finally here! I waited until the flowers withered!]

[This song is really too suitable for summer, single loop reserved]

[The Goddess's photo is still as good-looking as ever! Was it taken at the audition site?]

[So sweet, love shipping them, today's sugar intake has already exceeded the limit～]

[I'm so pissed, Lu Li actually got tangled up with the Goddess, I have totally no chance now]

[Who has yellow urine, someone hurry up and wake him up with it]

Lu Li leaned against the sofa, browsing the comment section one by one, his expression gradually becoming subtle.

Because he discovered a problem.

Netizens' focus seemed to have slowly shifted from the music itself to the relationship between him and Shen Qingxue.

Although this situation existed before, it wasn't particularly obvious.

However, as the cooperation between him and Shen Qingxue deepened further, this situation intensified.

Especially now, casually browsing a few comments would show ones like "Are the two of them together?" and "These two definitely have something going on".

Moreover, the like counts of these comments were not low, little by little guiding netizens to think in that direction...

However, Lu Li didn't want to care that much, and of course couldn't manage it either.

After all, before he time-traveled, the relationship between the immensely famous Phoenix Legend was also shipped all the way up by people.

As a result, later when the internet became developed, many people discovered that they were indeed a cooperative relationship, each with their own private relationships, unrelated to each other.

As for his relationship with Shen Qingxue...

Yeah! That must be it.

A proper cooperative relationship!

So don't overthink it; maybe those groundless emotions in his own heart were all guided out by netizens.

That's right, it's all the netizens' fault.

The time quickly reached 6:30 PM.

The two of them had just finished dinner, and the atmosphere between them was very relaxed.

Suddenly, Shen Qingxue's phone vibrated.

The screen lit up, and a text message popped up.

Her gaze fell on the screen, her fingers paused for a moment, then she picked up the phone, unlocked it, and tapped it open.

Lu Li noticed the change in her expression and subconsciously asked.

"What's wrong?"

Shen Qingxue didn't answer immediately, her gaze lingering on the phone screen for a few seconds, then she raised her head and looked at Lu Li.

"Sent by the competition organizing committee."

Lu Li was stunned for a moment, then straightened his posture.

"What does it say?"

"Advancement notice, we made it to the semi-finals."

Shen Qingxue's tone was still calm, but the corners of her mouth slightly curved upwards into an imperceptible arc.

Lu Li instinctively grinned.

"Isn't this expected? If you didn't advance, then this competition would be the one with a problem."

Shen Qingxue didn't pick up his words, lowering her head to continue reading the message.

The content of the text message wasn't long. Besides a standard notification congratulating them on successful advancement, a website link was also attached below.

"There's also an attachment."

Shen Qingxue said, tapping open that link.

The phone screen jumped to a page, on which the theme for the next competition was strikingly written.

Lu Li stood up from the chair and walked over to her side, leaning over to look.

The distance between the two of them suddenly closed up very much.

Shen Qingxue could feel the temperature transmitted when his arm brushed past her shoulder, her breathing slightly stagnated, but quickly returned to normal.

"Love and Regret?"

Lu Li read out the two words on the page, his brows slightly raising.

If it's this theme, then the scope for writing songs is very broad, and there are many suitable songs.