The director opened his eyes, and exclaimed with delight…
“Come, come, come, cash on deliv…”
Before he could finish saying ‘delivery’ he recognized the woman buying food in front of him. It was Lin Kexin.
The director was dumbfounded: “…Didn’t you already cook?”
Lin Kexin looked completely innocent: “Nope. Wanwan said you guys have it hard too, so the two of us should support the production team’s business! How is it? Aren’t we being nice to you?”
Lin Kexin even playfully winked at him.
Director: “!@#￥%……&*（”
Such great ‘support’ for the business!
Great! Just great!
He was so angry his cheekbones felt like they were lifting to the sky!
Lin Kexin didn’t cook…
Which meant that just now Shen Wanwan was shouting prices at him for nothing…
She had already calculated that he would lower the price, and used it as bargaining chips against him!
Shen Wanwan, this woman…
This woman!
Why can’t she play by the rules?!
The livestream viewers were laughing themselves to death.
[Hahahahahaha I can’t look at the director’s face right now without bursting out laughing!]
[First director in history to get tricked by guests hahahahaha. It’s okay, director, don’t blame yourself. After all, you’re dealing with God Zhou and Shen Wanwan!]
[Shen Wanwan is insane. She single-handedly cut the price in half! Amazing, seriously amazing!]
A few minutes later, Shen Wanwan also arrived.
Thanks to Shen Wanwan, all the guests got to enjoy a luxury dinner for 50 tokens.
Staff carried dish after delicious dish to the table, making the exhausted guests’ mouths water.
Lin Kexin happily waved to her: “Wanwan, come here!”
Shen Wanwan nodded at Lin Kexin.
Bai Ling, sitting at the edge, was watching Shen Wanwan with a complicated expression.
Maybe it was true that ‘success makes one glow’. Right now, Shen Wanwan looked stunning.
Bai Ling remembered how Shen Wanwan used to be.
Cold, arrogant, spoiled and willful, constantly fighting with Shao Yuye. No matter how prettily she dressed, she always had a gloomy aura. Bullet comments were full of people scolding her.
But in just two episodes, the audience’s impression had flipped.
The production even opened a popularity ranking this episode. The two top-tier idols, Qi Luo Zhou and Shao Yuye, naturally took first and second place. But unexpectedly, third place was Shen Wanwan.
She looked confident and proud, bright and bold.
Shen Wanwan’s gaze accidentally met Qi Luozhou’s.
Qi Luozhou looked calm and laid-back, with a lazy nonchalance all over him.
His beautiful peach blossom eyes lifted slightly, and his thin lips curved into a charming smile.
Shen Wanwan also curled her lips at him.
There seemed to be an invisible magnetic field between them.
Clearly nothing ambiguous was happening, everything was normal, yet people couldn’t help feeling that there was something different between them.
And Shao Yuye…
He was also particularly attentive to Shen Wanwan.
Bai Ling lowered her eyes, her grip on her chopsticks tightening unconsciously.
The barrage was still going wild.
[Tonight’s performance, God Zhou’s assist was legendary!]
[Without his added line, I don’t think the director would’ve dared lower the price.]
[Hahahahaha first time seeing guests completely trick a director on a variety show. Shen Wanwan is too strong. I’m becoming a fan!]
[Seriously amazing! I feel like the two of them have this subtle sense of tacit understanding, does anyone get what I mean??? They just match so well (not me shipping… probably…)]
[Look at the director’s face omg I’m dying laughing!! Shen Wanwan, first person in variety show history to trick the director!]
The cameraman was ruthless.
Right after this barrage appeared, he secretly cut the camera to the director.
On screen, the man who had been full of vigor earlier, determined to crush Shen Wanwan’s momentum tonight, was now sitting with drooped shoulders and a defeated expression, looking like all his energy had been sucked out… wilted.
His assistant, oblivious, added fuel to the fire:
“Director, why does it feel like we should’ve made a profit, but it also feels like Shen Wanwan played us…”
The director glared at him: “Shut up, will you?!”
Everyone burst out laughing again.
At this moment, someone finally remembered Shao Yuye.
[Too bad my Brother Ye isn’t here, otherwise tonight would be even funnier!]
[I can already imagine his smug face after teaming with Wanwan to crush the director in a price war hahahaha!]
[Brother Ye has the finals tonight, right? We’ll see him tomorrow!]
At 10 p.m., as senior Shao Yuye announced the results, the nine-member limited boy group from <One Pick> officially debuted.
It was an emotional night for countless fans, but Shao Yuye rejected the program’s invitation to stay for the celebration and rushed straight to Luocheng.
He had only caught a glimpse of the barrage in the morning.
All of it was scolding Shen Wanwan for being irresponsible, leaving the new guest to do tasks alone, causing them to get a bad room.
Thinking of the mistreatment his sister might’ve suffered, Shao Yuye really couldn’t sit still!
At the villa, Jiang Rong, new to the place and excited about everything, was especially thrilled to finally be so close to Qi Luozhou. She wanted to spend more time interacting with God Zhou, so she suggested they play Shuang Kou1.
The livestream had ended, and everyone could finally relax a little.
Jiang Yuan was busy showering and had gone back to the room.
Shen Wanwan wasn’t interested in the card game, but Lin Kexin also wanted to play and tugged her arm twice, “Wanwan, come on, play with us!”
Shen Wanwan refused, “Not playing.”
Lin Kexin had a bright, cheerful personality. Even though the two of them had only just met yesterday, she was already acting completely at ease, treating Shen Wanwan like a friend. She whined playfully, “Don’t~ Come on, let’s play!”
After calling out to Shen Wanwan, she turned to Qi Luozhou, “God Zhou, you come too!”
Qi Luozhou paused mid-step on the stairs.
He looked at Shen Wanwan.
Shen Wanwan raised an eyebrow.
“If we’re going to play, it’s not impossible.
“Let’s use Speed Tokens as the stakes.”
Jiang Rong, who had already learned a great deal about her today, clutched her head and wailed, “Capitalist, I beg you, please leave the children a pair of pants!”
But unexpectedly, Qi Luozhou agreed.
“Alright.”
He came over and sat down at the card table.
Shen Wanwan arched a brow with interest.
What’s this?
Trying to give her tokens?
She wasn’t having that.
She thought for a moment and changed her suggestion: “How about this, whoever loses gets flicked on the forehead~”
After speaking, she gave Qi Luozhou a playful wink.
Her forehead flicks were famously powerful.
Hearing that her Speed Tokens were safe, Jiang Rong grew emotional. “Okay, okay!”
As long as she didn’t have to pay, anything was fine!
She now shared the same realization as Lin Kexin:
Shen Wanwan…
She seems hard to deal with. But in reality, she’s even harder to deal with.
Only Qi Luozhou was smiling.
Was she really that confident she wouldn’t get flicked?
Night gradually deepened.
Shao Yuye arrived at the shooting area and started running wildly. His anxious mood, which had lasted all day, finally peaked at this moment.
He first went to the vegetable garden cottage.
It was silent and pitch-black.
The only place one could sleep was a small, shabby thatched hut. It looked fine during the day, even had a bit of rustic charm, but once night fell, the place looked pathetically miserable…
The thought of his little sister sleeping here tonight made Shao Yuye feel absolutely awful!
He set down his luggage and knocked lightly twice.
No response inside.
He knocked patiently two more times, then quietly tried the door handle.
…Locked.
Which meant Shen Wanwan wasn’t here.
At that moment, an uncertain voice sounded behind him.
“Ah Ye?”
Shao Yuye turned around. Seeing the director, his eyes lit up slightly.
“Where… *cough*, where are my teammates?”
The director pointed toward the brightly lit villa at the end of the path and sighed:
“Shen Wanwan already bought the luxurious scenic villa. They’re staying over there now.”
Shao Yuye : ???
Weren’t they staying in the vegetable garden hut?
How did they end up over there?
Seeing how confused he looked, the director suddenly felt a strong urge to vent.
“Come on, I’ll walk you over.”
As they walked, the director spent the entire way complaining to Shao Yuye.
From how Shen Wanwan sabotaged getting the vegetable garden cottage, to how she schemed against him.
Shao Yuye listened in stunned silence.
This… was not the information he’d received at all?!
Still dazed, he followed the director to the villa. The director, thoroughly traumatized by Shen Wanwan today, didn’t want to see her again and waved goodbye to Shao Yuye.
Suppressing the questions in his heart, Shao Yuye heard laughter and chatter inside the villa.
There were unfamiliar female voices too, probably the new guest helpers who joined today.
He pushed open the door.
And looked inside.
He was someone who had seen his share of storms and chaos, but even he froze stiffly at the doorway, pupils trembling.
He now fully understood.
His worries had indeed been… a bit unnecessary.
In the one day he was gone, his little sister had been doing very, very well—so well it was ridiculous—comparable to Sun Wukong wreaking havoc in Heaven.
Not only had she gone toe-to-toe with the production team in a business showdown, earned 800 coins for everyone, and bought the luxurious scenic villa…
But that evening, she had even forced the director into a price war.
And now she was curling her finger, ready to give his image-obsessed arch-nemesis…
A forehead flick…
A… fore… head… flick…!
- 双扣 (shuāng kòu, lit. meaning ‘double deduction’) is a popular, fast-paced Chinese trick-taking card game played by four players in two fixed partnerships, typically using two full decks of cards. The goal of the game is for a partnership to collaboratively score points and deplete their hands as quickly as possible, achieving a rank promotion (or “deduction”) by getting both partners out ahead of the opposing team. It combines elements of games like Bridge and Big Two, emphasizing teamwork and strategic card play. ↩︎