I was slacking off on a dating reality show when the female guests treated me like a treasure chest.

This incident caused everyone present to momentarily lose their minds.

"So, you never knew Su Xiao was your colleague?" Li Tian asked in surprise.

"We did meet, but only once?" Chen Nian asked uncertainly, looking at Su Xiao for confirmation.

Su Xiao tilted her head slightly and said, "Actually, this is probably the first time we've met on the show, right?" When she received that good quality song back then, she learned that it was given to her by someone in the songwriting department, so she thought of thanking them.

Therefore, Chen Nian and she never met face to face.

She had met Chen Nian several times, but each time she was too shy to strike up a conversation.

Chen Nian remembered this person. Lin Ran had asked him to become a singer and arranged a song for him, but he found that he was not cut out for it at all.

Logically speaking, if he couldn't do it, then according to the procedure, he should at least record and release the song that Lin Ran arranged.

As it turned out, he never recorded the song. Then one day, when he came out of the recording studio, he saw Su Xiao waiting outside, quietly practicing by herself.

Chen Nian then mentioned to Lin Ran, who came to see him, that he would give his song to the girl who was working hard on her own.

That's about it?

The onlookers, after piecing together the story from just a few words, found it all surreal.

"So, you sent Su Xiao a song, which led to her gradually emerging with talent, and then, you never officially met."

"Oh, what kind of fairy tale is this?"

"The prince and princess just passed each other by?"

Liu Ting's exaggerated description made everyone laugh, but upon closer inspection, it really did have that flavor.

"No wonder I always felt that Su Xiao liked being close to you." Xia Yao finally understood the reason.

From the very first day on the show, Su Xiao was the first person to get close to Chen Nian.

Su Xiao blinked, somewhat bewildered. She roughly understood that Chen Nian truly didn't know she was Xing He's.

Chen Nian sighed, noting that Lin Ran hadn't given him any prior information.

However, he was quite moved by this incident, never expecting that song to help Su Xiao establish herself in the direction of her debut.

But he knew very well that he wouldn't have the ability to sing it himself.

"Don't take it too seriously. If I had sung it back then, it might have been a waste of a song," Chen Nian said earnestly. He didn't want Su Xiao to treat him with gratitude.

Everyone was quite moved by this play; sometimes, fate is inexplicable.

Afterwards, everyone sat for a while, chatting, and when the water for making tea ran out, they got up and left.

As we descended the mountain, the only sounds along the roadside were the chirping of summer insects.

The car circled the road and soon stopped in front of the villa.

"Phew, finally I can take a good shower and rest."

"Who's in charge of breakfast tomorrow? Could you please bring me a cup of hot milk?"

"Is it still Tang Xi and Wen Jingran?"

"Could you please come down and help out this once?"

"And Chen Nian, have you never even stepped into the kitchen?"

Everyone was talking at once, and the conversation among the ten people was completely chaotic. What was said one moment and what was answered the next was not in any corresponding order.

Chen Nian simply pretended not to hear it; he didn't know how to make breakfast anyway.

"Chen Nian~~~" Tang Xi didn't let him off this time, her voice accurately searching for him in the crowd.

"I need to go for a run in the morning, so I don't have enough time," Chen Nian replied.

"Oh? Together? I'm going for a run tomorrow too." Suhe walked up and put his arm around Chen Nian's shoulder, smiling.

"Okay, see you at the entrance tomorrow morning at eight o'clock." Chen Nian nodded.

"No way, you guys go for a run so early?" Qi Feng asked in surprise. He looked at Chen Nian's physique and thought that he was being hasty and might not be able to beat him in a one-on-one fight.

"By the way, was someone looking for you just now?" Li Tian asked.

"Really?" Chen Nian looked blank and then walked into the house.

Behind her, Tang Xi was so angry she wanted to hit someone; these guys were just talking to themselves.

Back at the villa, everyone went to their own rooms.

Chen Nian went up the stairs to the second floor and saw Su Xiao standing there. He greeted her, "Why haven't you gone back to rest yet?"

When Su Xiao saw Chen Nian, she hesitated for a moment, then mustered her courage and said, "Chen Nian, thank you... thank you for giving me such a precious opportunity back then."

She finally said it... Su Xiao felt overjoyed; she had been preparing to say these words for two years.

"Hmm, it's nothing, don't worry about it. This song has just found a suitable singer." Chen Nian smiled slightly. If it weren't for tonight, he would have forgotten about it long ago.

However, there was one thing he couldn't forget: he needed to find time to thank Lin Ran, for she had really worried about him all these years.

The two chatted for a while in the central hall on the second floor. After expressing her gratitude, Su Xiao's smile became bright, and she took the initiative to talk to Chen Nian for a long time.

"By the way, can I know the name of that song tonight?" Su Xiao asked curiously, blinking her big eyes.

Upon hearing this, Chen Nian was stunned...

"Is that not allowed?" Su Xiao asked, somewhat embarrassed.

"That song is called 'Later,' uh, you didn't know it?" Chen Nian asked in surprise.

"As expected, it's called 'Later,' hehe, that's the name I guessed." Su Xiao's eyes crinkled, completely baffled Chen Nian.

"Then go back and rest early," Chen Nian said, glancing at the clock on the wall.

"Okay, goodnight!" Su Xiao waved and then walked briskly down the corridor to her room.

Watching her retreating figure, Chen Nian fell into deep thought. Since tonight, he had felt that something was off, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it.

Just as I was pondering this, I heard Liu Ting's voice beside me.

"Finished your date?"

Hearing her voice, Chen Nian smiled helplessly, turned around, and said, "I don't hold dates here. But you, were you eavesdropping?"

"I didn't want to eavesdrop, but I was just about to go downstairs to get a bottle of water." Liu Ting shrugged, then walked down the stairs. "Go to sleep early, and you'd better work hard tomorrow morning."

"....."

It's late at night...

After finishing several sets of push-ups, Chen Nian took a shower and leisurely lay on the bed, still pondering things that he couldn't understand.

But soon, he fell asleep.

Nothing was said that night...

The early hours of the morning mark, however, mark the start of the online frenzy.

With the first day of the live broadcast of "Heartbeat Rhythm" over, its popularity in variety shows has remained high, and it has appeared on several trending topics. Among them, Chen Nian is unsurprisingly the most talked-about person.

At that moment, none of the guests on the show realized that the song Chen Nian sang that night had suddenly gone viral on the internet.

In a short time, his playing and singing clips swept the entire music scene, and there are already hundreds of thousands of related clips on short video platforms.

Without knowing the song title, the audience kept guessing, and gradually, one name became the most accepted.

That is "later".

Looking at the current online buzz, Lin Ran fell into deep thought; this was a harbinger of explosive popularity.

But she was very confused at the moment. After a long while, she muttered, "Among the two hundred songs he wrote, is this one?" Lin Ran thought back.