Extra 01
Actually, both Fang Ying and Xu Qiuluo had their faces completely covered, so even their own moms wouldn’t recognize them. But this kid spotted them instantly. She was so excited she could barely contain herself but didn’t want to make a scene and miss her chance to get close to her idols, so she stood right in front of them, playacting a helpless panic.
“Ahhhh, Luo Luo! Xiao Ying! I really, really like you guys!!!”
Xu Qiuluo, used to fans like this, wasn’t in a hurry to leave. He looked a little serious (just slightly) and said, “No photos, but I can sign something.”
“Ahhhh, okay okay okay!!”
The girl scrambled to her backpack, quickly pulled out a pen, then took out a brand-new T-shirt. “Just... just sign this, please!!!”
Xu Qiuluo’s autograph flowed smoothly and swiftly.
Fang Ying, meanwhile, was a bit gentler, asking, “Do you want me to write a ‘to’ dedication?”
“Ahhhh, really??!!” The girl’s heart was racing like a stampede. Fang was just so gentle! She swore she’d fangirl-blow him up on Weibo thirty times over!
She covered her face, voice trembling a little: “P-please, Xiao Ying write the dedication, okay?”
“Okay,” Fang said, “to whom?”
The girl turned bright red, stammering, “B-big Cucumber.”
Xu Qiuluo raised his eyebrows and gave Fang a teasing look.
Fang paused his pen for a moment, then grinned so hard his eyes nearly shut, “Sure.”
Later that day, after Big Cucumber left the mall, another girl chased after her. Though Big Cucumber didn’t know who she was at first, she recognized her immediately as the same girl who had been dining with Xu Qiuluo and Fang Ying.
The girl asked excitedly, “Are you a writer?”
Big Cucumber was a little startled, dumbfounded, and replied blankly, “Yes...”
The girl brightened: “Ah, then that’s it! I have a friend who loves your writing so much. Could you sign something for him?”
“Ah??? You’re not joking, right???”
Big Cucumber had been writing fanfiction for three years, published four booklets, yet never signed anything publicly. Her hand trembled as she awkwardly asked, “To... to whom?”
The girl gave a sly smile, as if she’d been waiting for that moment forever, and whispered, “Fang Huai.”
Big Cucumber: “Ahhhhh??!!”
Ten minutes later, that signed note naturally made its way into Xu Qiuluo’s hands.
Xu Qiuluo toyed with it for a while, then said to Fang Ying, “Give this to Fang Huai for me.”
Then he turned and strolled ahead.
Fang hugged the note closely, trailing happily behind him: Σ(▽ ) “Got it, Luo-ge!”
Xu Qiuluo suddenly turned back, and Fang nearly collided with him in a perfectly dramatic idol-movie-style moment, face full of shock.
Xu Qiuluo smiled in a way that gave Fang the chills inside.
“Wh-what?” Fang stammered.
“Sorry, I forgot you are Fang Huai.”
Fang: … 凸
That day, at home, Fang Ying read Big Cucumber’s neat handwriting on the note three times over:
“To Fang Huai: May the green mountains remain, and the waters flow forever.”
Signed with three big characters: Big Cucumber.
Fang smiled and gently slid the note into a book, tucked deep in the back of his bookshelf drawer.
That day, Big Cucumber got home and first changed her Weibo bio to: “A truly magical day.”
Then carefully unfolded that T-shirt and saw Fang Ying’s signature.
“To Big Cucumber: On the path to stardom, thanks for being with me.”
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