Almost no one noticed anything unusual about Shen Wanwan.
After all, her performance yesterday had been far too cool and fearless.
Even she herself hadn’t noticed.
Not until the roller coaster suddenly sped up again. At the moment a shrieking ghost sprang out, pretending it was about to tear into them, everything in front of her abruptly went dark.
It was as if someone had invisibly pressed a pause button in midair.
The roller coaster was moving fast, yet time at that instant seemed to slow to a crawl.
She blinked, and her long eyelashes brushed against the palm of his hand.
What filled her breath was the clean, pleasant scent from his body.
Qi Luozhou had raised his hand to block her view.
She clearly hadn’t said anything just now, not even let out the faintest sound.
Yet he noticed.
Shen Wanwan hesitated for a moment, then turned her head slightly.
Qi Luozhou didn’t look at her; his gaze stayed fixed straight ahead.
Inside the tunnel, flickering, unstable lights flowed over his face like streams of water.
By her ear were fierce, piercing roars, deafening in volume.
His voice was mixed into it all. Clearly not loud, yet distinctly audible, like the crisp sound of ice clinking against a glass, carrying a steady calm that made people feel at ease.
“It’ll be over soon.”
The smile at her lips lifted as she quietly waited for this peak of terror to pass amid the shrill cries.
The barrage paused for a beat. Just a second earlier, everyone had been frantically flooding the screen with comments about Shao Yuye and Jiang Yuan.
But at this moment, the ‘WanZhou’ shippers could no longer sit still and started spamming wildly—
[God Zhou is way too considerate!!]
[Even though I know if it were Jiang Yuan, he’d probably protect him too, but this scene really made me ship it!!]
[Shen Wanwan don’t be scared, Shen Wanwan don’t be scared, Shen Wanwan don’t be scared! Let go of her! Let me do it! I’m scared, I’m scared, I’m scared!]
Even after the roller coaster rushed out of the tunnel and slowly came to a stop at the end, the shock and excitement brought by Qi Luozhou’s action still hadn’t faded.
Meanwhile, Shao Yuye and Jiang Yuan were slumped in their seats like deflated balloons, completely wrecked.
The staff came over to unfasten their safety restraints.
Qi Luozhou stepped out first, then reached a hand toward Shen Wanwan. The two of them quickly stood up from their seats.
As for Shao Yuye and Jiang Yuan, they were like two battered sheets of A4 paper, silently drifting down from their seats.
The variety-show effect was maxed out.
The director asked, “So, in the scene you just saw, how many stools were there?”
Shao Yuye froze. His whole being went bad as he loudly protested.
“It was that scary! I counted the number of ghosts, thirteen! Five women, seven men! And now you’re asking me about stools?!
“Stools?! Who has the spare brainpower to care about stools?!”
He was so mad at the production team he almost laughed.
The barrage instantly erupted in another wave of hahahahas.
After laughing, the ‘Yu Yu’s felt a bit sorry for him.
[Director, don’t torture him like this, okay? Brother Ye is afraid of ghosts!]
Jiang Yuan was also a bit dazed. “There were stools in there?!”
He’d been too busy screaming “ahhh” to notice anything else.
Shao Yuye casually blurted out a guess: “Six.”
At this point, the director turned to Shen Wanwan and Qi Luozhou.
“And your answers?”
Shen Wanwan shook her head. “Didn’t count.”
Qi Luozhou nodded solemnly beside her. “Mm, I didn’t remember either.”
[I seriously suspect you two did this on purpose and didn’t answer correctly.]
[I didn’t remember either, I only remember how many ghosts popped out.]
[I’m dying. Who knew the production team’s question would be this direction?!]
[Who would’ve thought the question was about stools? Sigh! But if we went through it again, we’d probably know, right?]
[So will the ‘WanZhou’ iconic scene just now happen again?]
Shen Wanwan looked at the director and casually gave a number as well: “Four.”
The director then looked at Shao Yuye and Jiang Yuan.
“Congratulations, your answer is correct!
“Please proceed to the big wheel to collect your clearance reward!”
Shao Yuye: “……”
This works too?!
Beside him, Jiang Yuan looked at him with admiration. “Awesome!”
Shao Yuye: “……”
The barrage burst into another round of laughter.
Thinking that Brother Ye and Jiang Yuan wouldn’t have to suffer through the horror theme anymore, this time everyone laughed from the heart.
[Brother Ye: some useless luck has increased.]
[The questions you seriously remember, the director doesn’t test; the answer you randomly guess actually turns out right. Ireally don’t know what to say, lol.]
But Shao Yuye soon dashed toward the big wheel.
Damn.
He needed to seize this wave of good luck and push through in one go—spin his way to the partner-swap card and swap his sister back!!!
Shen Wanwan and Qi Luozhou stopped where they were, watching him spin the wheel.
He put a lot of force into it. As the wheel spun, the words on it were basically impossible to see—only the huge disk whirling rapidly.
[Ahhh, I don’t know why, but I feel kind of nervous.]
[Me too! Please, Brother Ye has been thinking about that swap card for so many days, just give it to him already!]
Amid everyone’s anticipation, the wheel finally began to slow down.
The pointer crept forward little by little. Just one more space ahead, and it would land on the partner-swap card that Shao Yuye had been dreaming of.
[Ahhh! This is even more nerve-racking than scratching a lottery ticket!]
[Hurry, hurry! Just move forward one more space!]
[Please, please—just one more space!]
As if it had heard everyone’s prayers, the pointer struggled past the current obstacle card and finally came to rest on the partner-swap card.
Perfectly still.
The livestream chat exploded.
[Wow!!! ‘Petty Revenge Duo’ reunion—charge!!!]
[It’s the swap card! The swap card!!]
[Brother Ye, go, go, go!!]
Shao Yuye stared, eyes wide, his heart pounding wildly.
Damn!
It finally came!
This long-awaited—
Partner!
Swap!
Card!
Overflowing with excitement, he looked at Shen Wanwan and hurriedly said,
“I want to swap partners!”
Watching his sister stay by Qi Luozhou’s side for even one more second was pure torture.
Although his intention was already crystal clear, the director still followed procedure and kindly asked,
“Which group would you like to swap with?”
Shao Yuye jerked his chin toward Shen Wanwan’s direction. “Hurry up—swap her over to me!”
Director: “Unfortunately, this card can’t specify an individual guest, but it can specify a guest team.”
Shao Yuye: ?
“What do you mean?”
At this moment, a staff member brought up a device filled with small balls, like a lottery drawing machine.
Inside, it was packed with pink balls.
[No way—does the production team have this many tricks up their sleeve?!]
[Director, I advise you to be kind! I want to see ‘Petty Revenge Duo’ reunited today, I mean it!!!]
[What does this mean then? So now there’s a 50% chance of drawing Shen Wanwan?]
[Yeah, and the other 50% is God Zhou!]
Director: “Now, please press the button and draw your partner.”
Another crowd-pleasing luck-based segment.
Shao Yuye looked at his own hands and fell silent for two seconds.
His luck today had been incredible.
Random guesses on questions were all correct. A casual spin of the big wheel landed him the partner-swap card…
Let it keep going smoothly like this—straight through in one breath!
Shao Yuye pressed the button. As the machine started up and the balls began tumbling, his eyes locked onto them, watching as they were stirred and rolled nonstop.
The chat grew tense along with him.
[ Ahhh, please! Give ‘Petty Revenge Duo’ a chance to reunite!]
[It’s just a one-in-two chance! If Brother Ye messes this up…]
As that unfinished ellipsis appeared on screen, there was a *pa-ta* sound. A pink ball rolled out with a clatter.
On it, clear as day—
Printed Qi Luozhou’s name.
“………………”