Cāi Cāi

Chapter 87:Curtain Call: Fame the Musical (4)

For this new year, Tan Yiming was able to give his boy a happy reunion that he had not experienced for many years.

Both of them had only a short break and so could not travel abroad. They discussed and settled on driving through a nearby city to see the scenery.

Unfortunately there was a sudden heavy snowfall in Huacheng the night before their departure. Huacheng hadn't had such a heavy snow in many years; large swaths of snowflakes fell like goose feathers onto the ground, trees, cars, and houses. In less than an hour, the world became a vast expanse of white.

Tan Yiming and Xiang Cai exchanged glances, and tacitly decided to change their 'self-driven city scenery tour' to a 'downstairs garden tour'.

The two made a big snowman in their garden, with a round body and a round head. Tan Yiming also found an old scarf from their house and placed it around the snowman's neck.

Tan Yiming was afraid that Xiang Cai's feet would become cold, so he put two foot warmers in his snow boots. Xiang Cai was so wrapped and puffy that when he stood beside the snowman, they almost looked like twins.

They spent a long time in the snow, so when they went back inside, their hair was soaked.

The two squeezed into the small bathroom and took a bath together. The water vapor mixed with the fragrance of shampoo floated in the air. The water coming from the shower head was very hot, but their naked bodies were even hotter.

When they looked at each other, they saw their own reflection in each other's eyes.

When they were infinitesimally close to each other, Xiang Cai slowly closed his eyes, raised his head, and offered himself to his lover as tribute. The swan's long neck stretched, causing the other man's eyes to fall on his unceasingly rolling Adam's apple and he gently press a kiss there.

... They merged into one under the shower.

As a result, the originally scheduled self-driving tour became another kind of self-driven activity in the bedroom.

...

Before the new year had ended, Xiang Cai immediately plunged into a new round of rehearsals to prepare for the upcoming tour. Tan Yiming regretted that he had to be absent from it because of other work commitments.

Tan Yiming had recorded the soundtrack of 'Midnight Sun' as early as last year. When Xiang Cai performed on stage, the sound engineer played the soundtrack in the background. The two ran through this several times and soon became harmoniously in sync.

However, there was a noticeable gap between Tan Yiming's 'live accompaniment' and his 'pre-recorded accompaniment'.

This subtle difference may go undetected by the audience, but Xiang Cai, as the protagonist, could still feel the obvious void. He truly missed Tan Yiiming's stage presence.

This time, because he didn't have Tan Yiming's company, he was really acting in a 'one-man show'.

After the rehearsal that day ended, Xiang Cai received a call.

Unexpectedly, the person who contacted him turned out to be the head of the musical theatre department of Huacheng University of Dance.

Waiting for the Midnight Sun was a dark horse in this year's stage dramas, attracting the attention of all practitioners in the circle. Domestic musicals were originally very small-scale. The fact that such an excellent work could receive unanimous praise from the audience upon its release was enough to prove its superb quality.

The male protagonist Xiang Cai was an outstanding graduate of Huacheng University of Dance. After internal discussion at the school, they decided to invite Xiang Cai to perform there. The tickets for performances would not be for sale, but issued to students of Huacheng University of Dance and its affiliated Huawu Academy.