The story of Rose starts with being a brother

Chapter 422 The Logically Strange Couple

"Guan Gu Shenqi has something that's longer than any of the boys here. What is it?"

The atmosphere in the living room of 3601 immediately became strange after Tang Youyou asked the question.

Even though Wen Sheng had seen this scene in the original drama, he couldn't help but think of it in a slightly off-topic way, just like everyone else.

The group was shocked by the audacity of Tang Youyou's question, and also felt a sense of schadenfreude at Hu Yifei being asked the same question.

So what if you know the answer? Do you dare to say it?

This is simply a top-notch open conspiracy!

Sure enough, Hu Yifei's eyes widened as she stared at Tang Youyou, looking as if she had misheard.

"what?"

"This question is very simple, it's a free point!"

"..."

Hu Yifei felt a little numb. She still couldn't believe that Tang Youyou could ask such a question directly. Otherwise, the most fierce woman in Love Apartment wouldn't be her but Tang Youyou.

Seeing the gloating looks on the three men opposite her, Hu Yifei frowned and said, "Give me a hint!"

What if I'm just imagining things?
"It's just long!" Referee Tang Youyou, unaware of their misunderstanding, pointed out, "And it's definitely longer than Teacher Zeng's and Ziqiao's, while Zhang Wei's and Teacher Wen's are the shortest!"

"..."

As soon as he finished speaking, the expressions of the four men in the room all changed.

Wen Sheng was speechless. Even though he knew the answer wasn't wrong, he still felt uncomfortable with what he said. On the Three Guns team's side, apart from the proud Guan Gu, Zeng Xiaoxian and Lu Ziqiao both looked unconvinced.

Hu Yifei's lips twitched. Tang Youyou's hint was as good as no hint at all; instead, it made her think even more crookedly.

Even though the answer seemed obvious, she couldn't bring herself to say it.

"How would I know about them?"

"You know that!" Tang Youyou raised her voice, glanced at the four boys, and then said to Hu Yifei, "You've met them before!"

"..."

Upon hearing this, the expressions of the people in the room changed again.

Well... to put it simply: Xian's shock, Gu's panic, Qiao's admiration, Sheng's speechlessness, and Fei's bewilderment.

"Just say it, just say it!" Tang Youyou continued to guide Hu Yifei.

Hu Yifei stared wide-eyed. If she had only suspected that she was thinking in a wrong direction before, now she was certain that the question was indeed wrong.

Can this be answered?
She looked at Wen Sheng beside her, and seeing that he was only slightly surprised, she couldn't help but ask, "Wen Sheng, do you know the answer?"

"I know," Wen Sheng nodded, but then changed his tone, "I'm just not sure whether I should say it or not."

“I think we all know the answer, but who can say it?” Lu Ziqiao put his arm around the stunned Zeng Xiaoxian’s shoulder and laughed loudly. “Wensheng, if you dare to say it, then say it. We won’t stop you.”

"nineteen……"

At this moment, Tang Youyou started the countdown. Wen Sheng looked at Hu Yifei, who was so anxious that she scratched her head and finally covered her ears and said, "I'm asking for help from outside the arena. Wen Sheng, if you know the answer, just tell me!"

"May 4th..."

"Wensheng, answering the questions is a small matter, but losing your integrity is a big deal!" Lu Ziqiao continued to wink.

Wen Sheng nodded and said in the last second of Tang Youyou's countdown, "Name."

"correct answer!"

After Tang Youyou flipped the scorebook, the others present were still confused, not understanding how she answered correctly and how she got points.

Seeing this, Wen Sheng smiled and explained, "Guan Gu Shenqi's name is the longest!"

"..."

The living room was quiet for a few seconds, then four faces showed sudden realization.

Zeng Xiaoxian's dazed expression finally disappeared, and he breathed a heavy sigh of relief.

"Yes!" Hu Yifei exclaimed excitedly, "Wen Sheng, you've got it!"

But then, a new problem arose.

"Team Yifei answered four questions correctly, earning four points, tying with Team Sanqiang." Tang Youyou pointed to the scoreboard showing a four-to-four tie.

"No way? Another tie?" Hu Yifei exclaimed in exasperation. "Are we going to have to play overtime?"

"Another overtime?" The Three Guns team looked tense. Guan Gu Shenqi clutched his chest and said, "My heart can't take another overtime game."

Tang Youyou then said awkwardly, "Well... I didn't expect you to tie in overtime, so my question bank was... a bit insufficient."

"Damn it!" Hu Yifei rolled her eyes. "What is this? Did these three mediocre guys really manage to tie me?"

She paused, then gestured with her chin toward the three people in front of her: "So, how about we have a physical fight after the intellectual contest? All three of you can come at me together."

"..."

Upon hearing Hu Yifei's words, the members of the Three Guns team tensed up and instinctively huddled together.

"Well... we're all civilized people, we don't encourage violence," Zeng Xiaoxian said with a dry laugh.

Just kidding, if they were to fight Hu Yifei, the three of them combined wouldn't last more than a few rounds.

To reiterate, the reason why Hu Yifei is revered as the "big sister" in the apartment is not because they are being polite to a lady and don't want to argue with her; it's because it's a testament to her real fighting prowess.

"Then what do you think we should do?"

Just as the situation reached a stalemate, Wen Sheng raised his hand and asked, "By the way, you still haven't told me what exactly happened today?"

Wen Sheng's words made both groups stop. The Three Guns team looked at each other, and Lu Ziqiao sighed, "I really regretted saying I wouldn't stop you from answering that question."

Otherwise, they would have won by now!
But since things had come to this, Lu Ziqiao and the other two had no choice but to tell Wen Sheng about what Zhang Wei had done to damage 3602 after sleeping on the sofa these past two days.

Sleepwalking, nearly jumping off a building, washing Zeng Xiaoxian's hair with milk, staying up all night and keeping them all awake...

Zhang Wei's actions in these two short days—no, two nights—are countless; otherwise, he wouldn't have claimed it was for the sake of harmony in the entire apartment when they came to challenge Hu Yifei.

If Zhang Wei were to sleepwalk and jump off the balcony to go on an undercover mission, or even impersonate a speed bump on the road outside the residential area, that would be a huge problem.

After listening to this, Wen Sheng nodded. Zhang Wei had unintentionally found a good way to solve the problem: to escalate personal conflicts into collective conflicts.

"So what do you do now?"

"This one……"

The Three Guns team looked conflicted. They really wanted to resolve Zhang Wei's issue, but the pressure was too great right now, as they had drawn both games.

Moreover, they cannot afford to lose; if they do, Hu Yifei will turn their suite into a card and mahjong room.

Sitting opposite her, Hu Yifei sneered, looking at her fingernails, and said, "Anyway, I'm not in a hurry. You can challenge me anytime you're ready."

Hu Yifei's words sounded like the magnanimity of a superior, but to the Three Guns team, they made their blood pressure rise rapidly.

More importantly, the longer the delay, the longer Zhang Wei will torment us, which is the real problem.

Just as they were scratching their heads in frustration, Wen Sheng spoke up again.

"Um... so you want Zhang Wei to shut up, right?"

"Yes, if he continues like this, I'm going to commit seppuku," Guan Gu Shenqi said anxiously.

"He ruined all my dates with the girl." Lu Ziqiao said with a bitter face, then looked at Tang Youyou, "Auntie, it seems your nephew's mission to continue the Lu family line is going to fall through!"

"..."

Tang Youyou looked helpless. She had already gone easy on him before, but who knew that Wen Sheng would suddenly appear out of nowhere?
Zeng Xiaoxian looked even more distressed and said, "Can you understand why everyone I meet at the radio station asks me what brand of shampoo I use, and I smell like milk all day long?"

He paused, then complained to Wen Sheng, "And your dear ex-wife Nuolan, she actually asked me on the show if I was using baby formula as baby powder!"

"..."

Wen Sheng couldn't help but laugh.

"You're still laughing!" Zeng Xiaoxian seemed to have opened the floodgates of his吐槽 (tu cao, meaning to complain or criticize). He hadn't complained to Wen Sheng before in order not to think of any gossipy people, but this time he finally couldn't hold back anymore.

"Wen Sheng, could you please persuade your ex-wife to show me some respect on the show?"

"I'm a professional host, here to be an emotional mentor, not a comedian!"

"If this continues, I will no longer be the wise and good man I used to be in the eyes of my audience. Moreover... I will have to constantly remind myself that she is your girlfriend, no, your ex-wife. I can't talk back when I'm being criticized!"

"..."

Listening to Zeng Xiaoxian's almost tearful accusations, Wen Sheng touched his nose.

"Really? I feel fine when I listen to the program occasionally!"

"..." Zeng Xiaoxian coughed up blood in mid-air, suddenly realizing that he had acted like an idiot just now when he was complaining.

Seeing this, Wen Sheng smiled and comforted him, "Alright, Zeng Xiaoxian, there's nothing I can say to Nuolan about what happened on the show. It's all for the sake of the show. Besides, isn't a high rating a good thing for you too? Don't worry, I know Nuolan. She won't keep all the glory after the show becomes a success to herself."

"Did you hear that, Zeng Xiaoxian? Even Wen Sheng is more open-minded than you. You're such a big man, always so indecisive," Hu Yifei teased as usual.

Zeng Xiaoxian clutched his chest, feeling a slight spasm in his heart: "Because she's his ex-wife, and Nuolan has already taken over the show, of course he can let it go."

"Alright Zeng Xiaoxian, don't say I don't consider you a friend. If you're capable, you can easily put her down on the show. You don't need to let her have her way because of me," Wen Sheng said with a smile.

Upon hearing this, Zeng Xiaoxian looked up in surprise and asked, "Really?"

In fact, he had this idea a long time ago. After all, he was the former host of this program and a real local bigwig. How could he be so easily manipulated?

Although Nolan had the right to suggest sending him to the Alashan Desert, there is a saying that goes, "Peace is preserved through struggle, and peace is destroyed through concession."

Even if he's a pushover, Nuolan needs to know that if she squeezes him, he'll rot and splatter mud all over her hands.

We can't let them continue to act so arrogantly!
“Of course it’s true.” Wen Sheng smiled.

If Ms. Nuo's spirit can be crushed like this, I'll change my name to Wen Sheng.

"I'm relieved to hear that." Zeng Xiaoxian breathed a sigh of relief, then smiled and said, "Don't worry, I just want her to show me some respect, I definitely won't go too far."

"come on!"

"Hey, Zeng Xiaoxian, Zhang Wei's problem hasn't been solved yet. Can you focus on this first?" Lu Ziqiao nudged Zeng Xiaoxian's neck to bring him back to his senses.

The topic of conversation shifted back to Zhang Wei, and the atmosphere between the two groups gradually became tense again.

Of course, the main reason is that the Three Guns team is currently a bit blustering but cowardly, and for the time being, they don't know how to take back Zhang Wei's right to use the room.

Wen Sheng got up, grabbed a bottle of Coke from the refrigerator, took a couple of sips, and seeing that they still hadn't decided what to do, he thought for a moment and said, "Zhang Wei just has trouble sleeping in a particular bed, right? Why don't we just give the bed back to him?"

"..."

Several people turned to look at Wen Sheng, momentarily confused as to whether he was helping Zhang Wei.

Lu Ziqiao was the first to realize: "That's right, Zhang Wei won't sleep on the sofa, he won't sleep on the Simmons mattress, he has to sleep on his folding bed."

So they turned their attention to Hu Yifei in front of them, hesitating whether they should ask her to return the bed, or simply have her win another PK to take it away.

Hu Yifei glanced at them, then turned her gaze to Wen Sheng beside her. She then crossed her arms and said irritably, "Alright, alright, since Wen Sheng answered a question for me earlier, you can take Zhang Wei's bed with you."

"Oh! Yes!"

In an instant, a joyful atmosphere burst forth within the Three Guns team.

Tang Youyou said thoughtfully, "In this way, the laundry room that Yifei just set up will be saved, everyone can continue to do laundry there, you won't be afraid that Zhang Wei will cause trouble while sleepwalking, and Zhang Wei will have a place to sleep peacefully. This is perfect, everyone is happy!"

"Everyone is happy..."

Wen Sheng's eyes were strange. This was truly a wonderful ending. Wei Ge silently sacrificed his right to use his own room to benefit the people in the two suites. He truly deserved to be called the most courageous man.

……

Night falls.

When Zhang Wei returned to his apartment and saw the folding iron bed he had been longing for, he immediately pounced on it excitedly. He rolled around in his arms, hugging the blanket he had lost and found, just like he was lying in bed with his girlfriend, letting out a sigh of relief.

"Ah~"

Seeing his smug look, Lu Ziqiao, Guan Gu, and Wen Sheng, who had come to play games, exchanged glances and rolled their eyes in unison.

Then Lu Ziqiao recounted the glorious deeds of the apartment bully Hu Yifei, who fought for him with three guns that day. He was skilled in ventriloquism and divided the story into several chapters, even drinking a whole bottle of milk in the process before he finished.

Guan Gu Shenqi was completely bewildered as to how they fell into a crisis, how they fought back from a desperate situation, and how they finally achieved a strategic balance.

Of course, considering that Wen Sheng was also there, Lu Ziqiao made some minor changes to make the story sound like the guys in the apartment worked together to finally get the bed back from Hu Yifei, the big devil. As for the right to use the room... they'll fight that out later when they've finished making their own repairs.

"You guys!" Zhang Wei looked at them seriously. "You've been so good to me."

"So for now, you'll have to make do with sleeping with the washing machine," Lu Ziqiao said, wiping away non-existent tears from the corners of his eyes.

Everyone can use the laundry room, so why not?

"It's okay, I'm not that fragile," Zhang Wei nodded and said earnestly.

After saying that, he happily went to tidy up his new home amidst the encouraging looks from the others.

The three men in the living room were left with knowing smiles.

……

Late at night, at the Shanghai Broadcasting Building.

"Thank you, listener. If you do as I say and have a good talk with your girlfriend, I believe all the misunderstandings will be cleared up."

"Thank you, Professor Nuolan. I feel much better now that you've said that."

Inside the recording studio for the live broadcast of "Your Moon, My Heart," newly appointed relationship coach Nuolan is answering listeners' questions about their emotional dilemmas, while Zeng Xiaoxian is constantly fiddling with the buttons on the mixing console.

At this moment, the words Wen Sheng had told him during the day about how to curb Nuolan's arrogance were echoing in his mind.

He had been preparing for this move for a long time.

"Alright, we don't have much time left. Let's take the next call from our listener."

"and many more."

Nuolan, unaware that her partner was holding back a fart, looked at him strangely.

"what happened?"

Zeng Xiaoxian, who was poised to speak, tried his best to maintain a calm expression and said, "Teacher Nuolan is so experienced, I also have a question I would like to ask."

"You?" Nolan asked in confusion.

"It's a bit embarrassing to say, but recently a friend of mine has some complicated emotional problems. He's too afraid to call me, so he asked me to ask him on the show. I wonder if you can answer his questions?" Zeng Xiaoxian raised his eyebrows, a hint of sharpness flashing in his eyes.

Nuolan's eyes flickered slightly, wondering if Zeng Xiaoxian had been given too many hormones in the fake milk powder he drank the day before yesterday.

But she still nodded and smiled, saying, "I can give it a try."

Zeng Xiaoxian laughed, then slowly opened his notebook, looked at the questions he had prepared in advance, and smiled as he began to speak:
"Here's the thing, my friend fell in love with her colleague, Zhi, but she didn't tell him. Instead, she told another colleague, Hao. Hao promised not to tell anyone else. But then her colleague, De, told her that Hao had secretly told another colleague, Lin, who is close to Zhi's ex-girlfriend, Lan. He's afraid Lin will tell Lan, and then Lan will tell Zhi, which would make her feel very awkward. Luckily, Lan and De are currently dating, so she went to De to resolve the issue. De told her that Lan had broken up with him and was now dating Lin, and suggested she go talk to Lin. But Lin told her that Hao hadn't actually told him anything. Now she's confused. Who should she believe?"

Zeng Xiaoxian spoke faster and faster, throwing out the question that had almost killed him in one breath. Just reading the question aloud was enough to make him gasp for breath.

Nuolan, this is what happens when you disrespect Brother Xian!
"Well..."

Just as Zeng Xiaoxian was catching his breath and waiting to see his partner make a fool of himself, Nuolan's expression remained unchanged, but after a moment of contemplation, she said:

"I think this is how it should be resolved: Ah Lin really didn't hear anything from Ah Hao. He wasn't lying. Given Ah Lin's relationship with Ah De, he'll inevitably have some estrangement because of Ah Lan. So, since Ah De told him that Ah Hao told Ah Lin, maybe he said it on purpose. He wants to frame Ah Lin for being a gossip. Actually, Ah De has already told Ah Zhi. In that case, I advise your friend to take the initiative to clarify things with Ah Zhi before Ah De and Ah Zhi say too much. Do you understand?"

"..."

"Just one more thing, this Alan actually had relationships with Ade, Azhi, and Alin. She's obviously a scumbag. I advise your friend to stay away from her. Be careful not to make bad friends!"

Stunned, Zeng Xiaoxian collapsed onto the stage. At that moment, he felt a deep sense of powerlessness. With such a illogical host, it was only a matter of time before the show fell into the other's hands.

After easily dealing with her suddenly restless partner, Nolan smiled and said, "Alright, next question."

"Zi-"

After a short buzzing sound from the wiring, a familiar voice suddenly came through their headsets.

"Hello, is this Teacher Zeng? I'm your fan."

Wen Sheng?!
In an instant, Zeng Xiaoxian and Nuolan, who were lying on the table, froze, not expecting that the call was from Wen Sheng.

When Nuolan heard her ex-husband say that he was only a fan of Zeng Xiaoxian, she immediately narrowed her eyes slightly.

Zeng Xiaoxian glanced at Nuolan beside him and cautiously replied into the earpiece, "Hello, who are you looking for?"

"Of course I'd contact you, since I'm your fan."

"Are you sure... you don't want to look for Nuolan next to me?"

"I'm sure, because I don't think her answer to the question was accurate."

"Ok?"

Zeng Xiaoxian looked puzzled, while Nuolan next to him frowned: "Listener, where do you think my answer was inaccurate?"

"Hehe, Professor Nuolan, I just listened to Professor Zeng's question and your analysis. Your first sentence was, 'Alin really didn't hear anything from Ahao, he didn't lie.' That's obviously wishful thinking. None of Professor Zeng's friends' colleagues are good people. Ahao can't keep secrets and is untrustworthy. Alin stole Ade from her best friend and can't keep secrets, so she's unreliable. Alan has been with both Azhi and Ade. If she tells her ex-boyfriend the secret, she might exaggerate. Ade is a complete scumbag. He dumped his ex-girlfriend Alan and then got together with his best friend Alin. He heard the secret and immediately told her. He's suspected of cheating. With such unreliable colleagues, it's basically impossible for them to keep secrets. However, Professor Nuolan's last sentence is quite right. No matter who in this group tells Azhi the secret, it's not as good as Professor Zeng's friend confessing directly."

"..."

Wen Sheng's cheerful voice rang out on the radio, leaving the two hosts in the recording studio stunned.

"Teacher Nuolan, your logical reasoning is good, but it needs improvement. And Teacher Zeng, I really like your flustered hosting style, keep it up!"

(End of this chapter)