But of course, the production team was too conniving to let them off that easily.
“If we don’t participate in the final challenge, we have to hand over all the keys we’ve earned?” Amelia Lockhart couldn’t seem to believe her ears and asked again to confirm.
“Yes.”
Hearing the definitive answer, Amelia Lockhart cursed the production team in her head.
‘Those bastards.
Aren’t they just forcing the male guests to wear women’s clothing?’
Amelia Lockhart glanced at Leo Bishop again, and for a moment, she didn’t know whether to praise his professionalism or calculate the extent of his psychological trauma.
Amelia Lockhart looked at the two keys in her hand, then at Ethan Quinn.
After thinking for a few seconds, she said, “We’ll have other chances to get keys.
Why don’t we just hand these over?”
‘The main reason is that I don’t dare ask a High God to wear women’s clothing.’
‘It would shorten my lifespan.’
Ethan Quinn said nothing, which Amelia Lockhart took as tacit approval.
Just as she was about to hand over the two keys, she heard his distinctively cool voice.
“No need.
Go change.”
Amelia Lockhart: ?
The other guests: ?
The online audience: ?
[Dude, do you even know what you’re saying?
It’s not just any dress!
It’s one Amelia Lockhart wore!]
[Forgive me, but I kind of want to see him in a dress!]
Amelia Lockhart was utterly dumbfounded.
She stared at Ethan Quinn’s nonchalant expression, barely trusting her own ears.
“Are you sure you want to…
cross-dress?”
Ethan Quinn shot a meaningful glance toward Leo Bishop.
“At least your dress is long.”
[HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!]
[I’m dead!
Poor Leo!
His life is pain!]
‘High God Ethan Quinn in a miniskirt?’
HISS!
‘The mental image was too much; this Little Phoenix didn’t dare to dwell on it.’
The main highlight of this segment was the male guests cross-dressing.
The show’s buzz reached an unprecedented peak, especially after Ethan Quinn agreed.
The viewership data nearly doubled!
The director’s eyes had narrowed into slits from smiling so much.
They had actually tried to come up with many ways to get Ethan Quinn to cross-dress.
As long as he was willing, this episode wouldn’t lack for hype.
They never expected Ethan Quinn to agree on his own.
The hashtag #EthanQuinnCrossdresses was rocketing up the trending charts.
Everyone rushed into the *Random Lovers* live stream, waiting to see Ethan Quinn in women’s clothing.
The production team thoughtfully gave Leo Bishop a knee-length, preppy-style skirt to change into.
Leo Bishop finally breathed a sigh of relief.
He was smiling on the outside, but inside, he was feeling more than a little resentful.
He had seen how Amelia Lockhart had just acted; she was planning to use their keys to save Ethan Quinn from having to cross-dress.
His partner for this episode, Ruby Sawyer, however, had no such intentions.
Not only did she have no intention of giving up their keys, she even pressured him to agree, saying, “Reality shows live for these kinds of dramatic twists.”
If it were just normal clothes, Leo Bishop would have been fine with it; he wasn’t a melodramatic person.
But Ruby Sawyer’s outfit was clearly a miniskirt, and he had absolutely no experience wearing one.
He had expressed his reservations tactfully, but Ruby Sawyer acted as if she hadn’t heard.
With the live cameras on him, he had no choice but to go and change.
Leo Bishop was normally a good-tempered person, but right now, he put a huge mental X next to Ruby Sawyer’s name.
The men’s clothes were much simpler, so Amelia Lockhart changed quickly.
The only problem was that they didn’t match her current makeup and hairstyle.
It looked a little strange.
Amelia Lockhart borrowed an eyebrow pencil from a makeup artist.
She modified her soft, delicate brows, turning them into slightly thicker, sword-like brows.
She also redid her eyeshadow and specifically deepened the contour on her nose and in her eye sockets, giving her features a more dashing, masculine look.
She then tied all her hair up high, borrowed a dark-colored hair tie of a similar shade, and casually secured it.
After she was done, Amelia Lockhart looked at her reflection in the mirror and nodded in satisfaction.
Her clean-cut appearance made her look like a debonair young man with rosy lips and pearly teeth.
‘The underaged kind, though.’
[HOLY CRAP!
Did I blink and miss something?
How did she pull off a complete transformation with just a few moves?]
[Suddenly, I think Amelia is kinda hot!
Like, that adorable pretty-boy kind of hot!]
[He’s coming out!
Look!]
When Amelia Lockhart saw a cold beauty emerge from the other changing room, she almost didn’t recognize Ethan Quinn.
If not for the fact that the dress was clearly too short, revealing a good portion of his lower legs.
“Wow!
That wig is a great touch!”
The waterfall of a wig, combined with Ethan Quinn’s delicate features and indifferent gaze, created an unapproachable aura.
He was enough to slay any young man who looked his way!
Ethan Quinn seemed unaccustomed to the wig.
He raised a hand to fiddle with it for a moment, then looked at her hairstyle with a placid expression.
He pointed and said, “Help me tie my hair up too.
The wig is too long, and it’s heavy.”
Ethan Quinn’s voice held a hint of helplessness, which nearly made Amelia Lockhart laugh out loud.
The production team had given Ethan Quinn a waist-length, long, straight black wig.
For someone like him who had never worn a woman’s wig before, it was quite an ordeal.
Ethan Quinn sat in a chair while Amelia Lockhart stood behind him, gathering the thick wig to tie it up.
“Actually, maybe don’t tie it…”
Amelia Lockhart stopped what she was doing.
“What’s wrong?
Did I hurt you?”
[Amelia Lockhart, please watch your wording!]
[Such suggestive words!
I just tuned in and that’s the first thing I hear?
Made my poor heart tremble!]
“When you gather it together, it’s even heavier on the back of my head.” Ethan Quinn closed his eyes and sighed softly, his voice tinged with a plaintive note.
He felt like his scalp was about to be ripped off.
[His pouty tone is killing me!]
[Is he being cute with Amelia Lockhart?
I suddenly find this scene so beautiful!
The strapping young lad and his delicate beauty!]
The two, having finally finished changing, returned to the location of the final challenge.
They arrived just in time to see another pair who had swapped their mascot costumes, looking completely identical to how they were before!
Iris Yates’s eyes lit up.
“Wow!
Did you two take this costume swap this seriously?
The others just swapped casually.”
Amelia Lockhart just smiled, neither praising herself nor criticizing others.
“Just tell me, do Mr.
Quinn and I look good or not?”
Iris Yates nodded immediately.
“You look great!
Especially Mr.
Quinn.
When I saw you from a distance, I thought a surprise guest star had arrived!”
A cold glint flashed through Anna Summers’s eyes before she smiled and walked forward.
“The final challenge is really hard.
We’ve all tried it a few times.
Do you two want to give it a shot?”
The clothes swap between the male and female guests was just a prerequisite; the final challenge had to be completed under this condition.
“What’s the task?”
Iris Yates sighed helplessly.
“You’ll find out when you go to the Gatekeeper.”
Amelia Lockhart and Ethan Quinn exchanged a look and walked toward the Gatekeeper.
Seeing that guests had come to take the challenge, the Gatekeeper immediately and dutifully began to announce the task: “Final challenge: Teamwork.
You will succeed as long as you can get this child to willingly eat this piece of cake.”
Amelia Lockhart had already noticed a little boy sitting next to the Gatekeeper.
The reason she’d noticed him wasn’t because he was particularly good-looking, but because the little boy was sitting on his chair very arrogantly, with his legs propped up on the table, swinging back and forth.
Hearing the Gatekeeper’s words, the little boy grinned at them.
It was a provocative grin.