Five minutes later.
Four of the six guests sat around the dining table and started eating hotpot.
As if nothing had happened, they were eating with great enthusiasm.
But no one invited Xie Li or Lu Xingchuan.
Lu Xingchuan sat on the sofa with a dark face, both hungry and angry.
That bitch Shen Yan actually really didn’t invite him to eat.
Fine if Shen Yan didn’t invite him, but why were Bai Jing and Song Qianshan so thoughtless too, not even asking him a single time?
He was a movie star!
“Brother Xingchuan, it’s all my fault. I dragged you down. If I could be as amazing as Shen Yan and find a lot of ingredients, you wouldn’t have to go hungry now.” Xie Li sat beside Lu Xingchuan, looking pitiful and worried about him. “Are you okay? Shen Yan really is something else. Why couldn’t he just talk nicely and had to use violence? You scared me just now.”
Seeing Xie Li’s pitiful look, Lu Xingchuan got even angrier.
It was all Shen Yan’s fault!
Look how frightened Xie Li was.
“It’s fine, I’m not hungry. Don’t worry about me. Go eat with them.” Lu Xingchuan said to Xie Li in a gentler voice.
Xie Li shook his head. “I’ll stay with Brother Xingchuan. I’m not hungry either.”
Lu Xingchuan frowned.
That wouldn’t do. Xie Li had a bad stomach; even a little hunger would make him feel awful.
But the four people over there didn’t just fail to invite them; they didn’t even glance this way once.
He didn’t know what they were saying.
That bitch Shen Yan was laughing like a rooster crowing.
Lu Xingchuan was irritated beyond belief.
He sprang to his feet.
“I’m going to ask the director. The production team can’t really refuse to give us food.”
Xie Li sat heavily on the sofa without moving, only looking troubled. “Ah? Wouldn’t that be bad? Brother Xingchuan, forget it.”
The more he said that, the more Lu Xingchuan felt that Xie Li was being terribly wronged.
He immediately went to find the director.
“What are Xie Li and I supposed to eat for lunch?” Lu Xingchuan had been in a bad mood all day. When he saw the director, he got straight to the point and asked directly.
He was in a bad mood, and the director was in an even worse mood.
This was supposed to be a proper dating variety show.
Why were the only things on the trending list such toxic trending topics?
#Lip-reading Level 10#
#Shen Yan Suffocates Lu Xingchuan on the Recording Set#
#Real Action Movie#
This was supposed to be sweet romance!
Facing Lu Xingchuan, the director could hardly resist being sarcastic.
Why on earth did you have to go provoke Shen Yan?
“Aren’t the game rules very clear? The guests’ lunch is whatever ingredients they find. I saw that you and Xie Li weren’t putting much effort into finding ingredients, so I assumed you two weren’t hungry.”
Lu Xingchuan was almost furious to death.
Was he made of iron? After messing around for so long, how could he not be hungry?
“The game rules are just for the audience, aren’t they? It’s just for show. Do Xie Li and I really have to go hungry?”
The director smiled innocently and nodded at him. “Yes, that’s right. If you didn’t find any ingredients and don’t want to eat together with the other guests, then you really can only go hungry. After all, we’re a proper livestream show with no script. Authenticity is our main selling point.”
Lu Xingchuan never expected this.
The production team really wasn’t going to feed him!
And not only that.
One minute later, the director’s reminder voice echoed through the villa.
“Dear guests, while you rest and eat, please don’t forget that you still have hidden tasks. Only guests who complete their hidden tasks can smoothly enter the afternoon game session.”
“Otherwise, you’ll have to accept the production team’s punishment.”
Thinking of his own hidden task, Lu Xingchuan wanted to die on the spot.
He looked at Shen Yan with dark eyes.
Shen Yan finished the last slice of cooked fish and let out a burp. “Hotpot is so delicious!”
Bai Jing looked at Shen Yan with a smile. “What’s your hidden task?”
Shen Yan bared his teeth at Bai Jing in a very stupid grin, then said, “I’m not stupid. Why would I tell you?”
Bai Jing rolled her eyes. “Hmph, tell me or don’t. I don’t care.”
Shen Yan recalled the plot of the original novel and immediately let out a very wicked laugh. “Hehehehehe, your task wouldn’t happen to be asking every guest about their hidden task, would it?”
Bai Jing immediately jumped in guilty panic. “No! Stop talking nonsense.”
Shen Yan laughed in that annoyingly sly way. “If you say to me, ‘Brother Shen Yan, you’re the best,’ I’ll tell you what my hidden task is.”
Bai Jing suddenly stood up, slapped the table, and said proudly, “I already know. Your hidden task is to make everyone say: ‘Brother Shen Yan, you’re the best.’”
Shen Yan very slyly told Bai Jing, “Look, you’ve already said that sentence. My task is one-sixth done. But unfortunately, my task isn’t that sentence, so your task progress bar: 0.”
Bai Jing got so angry that she stood up to hit Shen Yan.
Shen Yan dodged away with a wicked grin.
Pei Heng was clearing the after-meal table. “She chases, he runs.”
Song Qianshan glanced at Pei Heng and helped him clean up. “He’s making trouble, you’re laughing.”
Nearby staff member: …
Enough!
I said enough!
Stop making meme references!
The villa was large enough, and the first floor was very spacious. Bai Jing and Shen Yan chased each other around for a while before sitting down by the floor-to-ceiling window.
Just as they sat down, Xie Li came over with a bottle of water.
“Shen Yan, Sister Bai Jing.” Xie Li still wore that obedient expression as he came over warmly, greeted them, and politely sat on a small stool nearby. He chatted naturally, saying, “I saw the weather forecast. It says there’ll be a massive rainstorm tonight. The production team isn’t going to make us do tasks in the rain, is it?”
Bai Jing immediately wailed, “I think that’s very possible. After all, by normal logic, variety shows are basically inhuman.”
Xie Li smiled as he tried to twist open the bottle in his hand.
Hey!
It wouldn’t open.
He twisted again.
Hey!
Still wouldn’t open.
A little embarrassed, he said to Shen Yan, “Shen Yan, can you help me open this water? I think my blood sugar is a little low, and I can’t twist it open.”
『My heart really hurts for Li Bao. He hasn’t eaten anything since this morning.』
『Shen Yan and the others are really too much. They have so many ingredients, and they don’t share any with Li Bao.』
『It was Lu Xingchuan who provoked Shen Yan. Why is he taking it out on Li Bao?』
『Are you sick? You clearly didn’t read the production team’s rules, did you? The rules say it very clearly: eat whatever ingredients you find, and if you didn’t find any, you don’t get to eat.』
Faced with Xie Li’s plea for help,
Shen Yan jumped up at once and refused three times in a row. “No, no opening, no helping. I suspect your hidden task is to get someone else to open the water for you.”
Xie Li’s expression stiffened slightly. He gave a bitter smile. “No, I really can’t open it.”
Shen Yan stood there, looking down at him. “But helping you isn’t impossible. You have to tell Bai Jing your hidden task, and then I’ll help you.”
Bai Jing froze.
There’s such a good deal?
She immediately grinned like a silly young deer and decisively leaned her ear toward Xie Li.
『Hahaha!』
『Bai Jing is so cute.』
Xie Li: …
Of course Xie Li wanted to get along well with Bai Jing.
Bai Jing’s father was one of the top figures in the real estate industry.
After a moment of hesitation, he immediately whispered his task into Bai Jing’s ear.
Bai Jing listened with great satisfaction. After hearing it, she turned to Shen Yan and said, “Thank you! I’ve also completed one-sixth. I owe you one!”
Xie Li: …
I told you my task, so why are you thanking him?