[Wow, so Shen Wanwan had her eye on this vegetable garden from the very start?!]
[Each team has three members, so one meal costs 300 tokens. Not counting breakfast, lunch and dinner would cost 600 tokens per team per day, and for three teams that’s 1,800 coins…
[This is way too expensive!!! ]
[It’s not like it could be cheaper either. Think about it: the other teams all have places to stay, but Shen Wanwan’s group has to buy lodging, and that isn’t cheap.]
[The person upstairs clearly can’t do math. There’s no profit in your calculation.
Right now only Su Tingxuan hasn’t shown up. With just one meal, Shen Wanwan has already taken in 800 coins, enough to book a standard room and still have 300 left! Looks like she deliberately lost the room-picking challenge!]
Meanwhile, after Lin Kexin collected the money, everyone started eating noisily by the vegetable garden.
Zhang Yiran picked up a piece of braised pork and said, moved, “Who cooked this dish?”
Lin Kexin raised her hand a bit shyly.
“I did.
“What’s wrong? Doesn’t it taste good?”
She looked a little nervous.
But Zhang Yiran gave her a thumbs-up.
“With skills like yours, you could go on <Little Restaurant>.”
<Little Restaurant> is a reality show where celebrities run a restaurant, and the invited stars are all famously good cooks.
Flustered and flattered, Lin Kexin smiled, and the others all praised her cooking.
She quietly glanced at Shen Wanwan.
On a race-type variety show like this, it’s actually hard for a female celebrity to show off any special trait.
Before coming, her agent had analyzed from many angles how she could stand out.
That is, to quickly attach a ‘label’ to herself and shine.
She hadn’t expected it to happen so smoothly.
Right now, she actually felt a bit grateful to Shen Wanwan.
At the village entrance, the director was still craning his neck, waiting after hearing what Su Tingxuan had said.
Until a staff came back to report, “Director, bad news! Shen Wanwan set up a buffet, and all the guests are over there buying food!!”
Director : “???”
The staff showed him photos of the lively scene at Shen Wanwan’s stall.
Director: “Good grief!”
He couldn’t help blurting out, “Good grief!” again.
Shen Wanwan really was impossible to guard against!!!
After the meal, Jiang Rong was heartbroken over the 100 tokens she’d just spent. So she decided to follow Shen Wanwan’s example and try the same trick, selling the mosquito repellent spray she’d brought.
“I brought mosquito repellent. If you want to use it, I can sell it to you, 100 tokens. What do you say?”
Lin Kexin was a little tempted.
With mosquito repellent, she should be able to sleep peacefully tonight, right?
But Shen Wanwan rejected it outright.
“No need.”
Jiang Rong was startled, “I’m selling it cheaper than the production team’s price, you know? Aren’t you afraid of being bitten by bugs?”
Shen Wanwan : “I am.”
…Oh.
So she must think the price is too high.
Jiang Rong glanced at Lin Kexin.
“How about this. Since we were in the same drama crew, I’ll give you a twenty-percent discount. 80 tokens!”
Surely that would be tempting!
Lin Kexin really was tempted.
She looked toward Shen Wanwan. After all, they’d just earned 800 coins, so spending 80 should be nothing, right?
But Shen Wanwan’s expression stayed cool and unmoved.
“Don’t want it.”
[LOL, Jiang Rong: I’ve been pitching for ages, why won’t you buy?!]
[Shen Wanwan: You can pitch all you want. If I buy, I lose. Hahaha! ]
Jiang Rong puffed out her cheeks.
Shen Wanwan was too stingy!
When she was earning their money, she hiked the price without hesitation, but now she wouldn’t even bargain for a mosquito repellent!
Irritated, Jiang Rong stuffed the spray back into her pocket.
“Then there’s nothing I can do.” She sighed in mock regret, “Looks like I’ll just have to sell it to someone else.”
[Shen Wanwan may act tough now, but tomorrow morning she’ll be swollen like a pig’s head!]
[Mosquito bites aren’t a joke. If your skin is delicate you can swell up a lot!]
[I feel like Shen Wanwan is doing this on purpose. She’s so pampered, I don’t believe she won’t end up buying mosquito repellent from the show later. Feels like she’s deliberately targeting Jiang Rong…]
Jiang Rong, unable to sell her mosquito spray, was a bit downhearted.
On the way back, she couldn’t help complaining to her teammates.
“What’s with Shen Wanwan? Doesn’t she know how to reciprocate at all?”
They had all just come from the drama crew and hadn’t watched the show before,
so they didn’t know what Shen Wanwan’s personality was like.
Jiang Rong, naturally analyzing it, said, “Normally everyone helps each other, right? Or is the style here all about backstabbing?”
Jiang Yuan quickly waved his hands.
“No, no. Wanwan has always been rather unique.
“If she didn’t buy it, she definitely has her reasons.”
Silent until now, Qi Luozhou suddenly spoke.
“She really doesn’t need it.”
Jiang Rong was stunned and looked at Qi Luozhou, puzzled.
“Why?”
“That vegetable garden is obviously full of bugs…”
Qi Luozhou seemed to think of something and curved his lips in a smile.
Jiang Rong stared, dazed.
She waited a while, but when no further explanation came, she couldn’t help asking again, “Why?”
But this time, neither Jiang Yuan nor Qi Luozhou said another word.
In the vegetable garden, Shen Wanwan was negotiating with the production team to buy a luxury scenic room.
Lin Kexin frantically waved her hands. “Oh my god! Wanwan, isn’t that a bit too extravagant…?”
A standard double room is only 500 a night. You can totally make do!
Why spend an extra 500 just to stay in a luxury scenic room, when it’s only for one night!
Bleeding money! Total loss!
Shen Wanwan raised an eyebrow. “Then you want to sleep in the vegetable garden?”
Lin Kexin instantly choked.
She made a ‘zip-my-mouth’ gesture across her lips.
“…I’ll just shut my damned mouth right now!”
[Hahaha, Lin Kexin: I’m doomed, cursed by the power of money!]
[Ugh, corrupted by capitalism already, huh!]
[But come on, it’s a luxury scenic room, who could say no to that?!]
Shen Wanwan spent 1000 Speed Tokens, and the two successfully checked into the luxury scenic room.
Whether Shao Yuye would come back tonight was still unknown. If he didn’t, it would be an even bigger loss.
So extravagant!
Seriously way too extravagant!!!
Lin Kexin screamed inwardly while following Shen Wanwan into the deluxe villa.
Qi Luozhou’s team, having ranked first in the room-selection round, was already staying here.
When Jiang Rong came out and saw the two of them, she froze for a second.
She thought they’d regretted it and come to buy mosquito repellent, so she said with a proud little tilt of her chin.
“You didn’t want my mosquito spray earlier. Well, I’m back to full price now.”
But the pleas she expected never came.
Shen Wanwan simply replied with a calm “Mm.”
Lin Kexin waved her hand. “No need, Rongrong.”
Jiang Rong blinked.
“No need?”
Lin Kexin said happily, “Wanwan booked the scenic room, we’re staying there tonight too!!”
Bought… the… scenic… room…
Jiang Rong worked hard to digest those five words.
A full 1000 tokens, Shen Wanwan really dared to spend that?!!!
Wait a second. Did part of those 1000 coins… come from her contribution too…?
Meanwhile, at the <One Pick> finale venue—
The trainees were in their final rehearsal. Tonight would be their debut night:
nine shining newcomers about to be born.
And as their senior, the one who would witness their rise—the show’s initiator, Shao Yuye—
Was, unusually, pacing back and forth in the backstage lounge, full of anxiety.
After so many years, stepping again onto this stage that had once brought him both joy and heartbreak, such a reaction was understandable.
Brother Li tried to comfort him. “Ah Ye, relax.”
“How can I relax?” Shao Yuye burst out.
“You don’t get it. This episode added more participants and I’m not there.
“My sister is all alone, and with her quiet personality she’s bound to suffer.
“Without me to team up with her, her progress will definitely fall behind.
“I’m worried the other guests will bully her for being alone.
“After all, last time the two of us really gave them a hard time…”
Brother Li: “……”
—So you’re not anxious about this stage at all, you’re anxious about Shen Wanwan.
But honestly…
Shen Wanwan, not good at talking?
She’s way too good at sweet-talking, okay!
Brother Li carefully chose his words. “Ah Ye, your sister should… be doing pretty well, I think…”
—She practically turned the production crew upside down…
Shao Yuye’s pacing suddenly froze.
“‘Should’…?”
Oh no.
His sister really was being bullied!!!