As Yan Shiqing dragged Shen Qiaoyu towards the director, she caught a glimpse of Yan Yi’s look by chance.
What kind of look was that? It was as if the two of them were being improper.
Please, Qiao Qiao is already her girlfriend, alright?!
Yan Shiqing intentionally walked very close to Shen Qiaoyu, even tugging at her arm, displaying extreme affection.
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But what else could she do? With the camera rolling, she couldn’t continue following and picked a fight with Shen Qiaoyu. Shen Yuchuan might turn against her if she did.
She must have been crazy to let Shen Yuchuan come along! He’s just ruining everything for her!
…
Meanwhile, Shen Qiaoyu and Yan Shiqing submitted their ten-minute hand-holding task and received an undercover clue card and a sticker. The director thoughtfully offered iodine, cotton swabs, and even band-aids, smiling at the two of them and saying, ‘You need two stickers in exchange.’
Shen Qiaoyu: “…”
“Forget it then.” She was very stingy and about to return the iodine. “I don’t care about such a minor injury.”
Yan Shiqing stuffed the sticker she had just obtained into the director’s hand with a smile, saying, “Let’s make an exception this time!”
As soon as Yan Shiqing spoke, the matter was as good as done.
After the director agreed, the two exchanged a knowing look, each feeling the other had been very cooperative.
Since one couldn’t just get iodine for free, it was perfect to exchange it with unwanted supplies.
And since the iodine might be needed in the future, what if someone gets hurt again?
Yan Shiqing had already rolled up Shen Qiaoyu’s sleeve with practiced ease. Shen Qiaoyu couldn’t help saying, “I’ll do it myself.”
“Are you sure you can do it properly? I can help you faster.” Yan Shiqing deliberately brushed her fingertips lightly over Shen Qiaoyu’s arm, and while applying iodine, she occasionally touched her.
Shen Qiaoyu didn’t notice at all. She only saw that Yan Shiqing had dipped a cotton swab in iodine and carefully applied it to her injured elbow. The frown on her face made her look as if she was the one in pain.
Shen Qiaoyu subconsciously smiled and said to her, “Is that necessary? You look as if you’re the one who’s hurt, not me, when you’re applying medicine to others.”
“I get easily engrossed in the role, experiencing empathy deeply,” Yan Shiqing replied with downcast lashes. She carefully put on a band-aid before looking up to tease her, “You should learn from me on how to get into character quickly. I can teach you.”
Shen Qiaoyu: “…”
Had it escalated to acting now?
But she indeed needed to improve in that aspect.
Thus, she found herself unwittingly guided along by Yan Shiqing. As they looked for other challenges, she asked, “How can you get into character so quickly?”
“I’ll teach you when we get back tonight,” Yan Shiqing suddenly leaned in and whispered in her ear, “This kind of thing should be taught in private.”
“That’s true,” Shen Qiaoyu replied. She understood very well that this was an essential skill for an actor. If she could trade something in exchange for listening to one of Yan Shiqing’s lessons, she would consider it, given her impressive acting skills.
So she coughed softly and asked her in a low voice, “What do you want? Shall I buy you a few lessons?”
Yan Shiqing’s eyes instantly curved into a smile as he said, “No need, it’s free.”
Shen Qiaoyu hadn’t had the chance to be pleased when she added, “As long as you call me teacher, that will be enough.”
Shen Qiaoyu: “…”
This was too much.
She saw her as a rival, but now she had to call her teacher? She couldn’t help grinding her teeth, yet thinking of her own terrible acting, she eventually gave in: “Okay.”
“A moment’s patience can lead to a vast sky of opportunities,” Yan Shiqing said, smiling.
Hearing her agreement, the corners of Yan Shiqing’s lips rose into a high smile. She then gestured for her to look at a clue provided by a mole, saying, “See, this time the production team has drawn a white clock. What does that tell you? It shows that I’m a good person, not a mole.”
“And also, did you see the mole card beneath Xu Bing’s name tag when you tore it off just now? And when you and Fei Wuya were pulling off my name tag, did you see a mole card then?”
“Xu Bing indeed had a mole card, but I didn’t see yours,” Shen Qiaoyu frowned, and continued, “That mole card was a small one attached to the name tag. It’s normal that I didn’t see one behind you. Perhaps the staff hid it well?”
Yan Shiqing glared at her suddenly, annoyed. “Are you dead set on tearing me down or what? What would happen if all the supplies were gone, and I weren’t undercover?”
Shen Qiaoyu replied seriously, “Then I’ll admit defeat. I really think you’re undercover, that’s why I wanted to expose you, not because of personal grudges.”
Personal grudges? What personal grudges could they have between them?!
Right, the personal grudges between the two of them were too numerous to count!
The more Yan Shiqing thought about it, the more annoyed she became. She simply ignored Shen Qiaoyu and strode ahead determinedly. Even Shen Qiaoyu could tell she was angry.
Shen Qiaoyu thought to herself, ‘She’s not my girlfriend, why should I have to appease her?’
But then, suddenly, an image of a chibi, soft and cute Qingning popped into her head. The image looked aggrieved and said to her, “Shiqing is angry! You two are teammates! How can you win like this? If you don’t coax her, even if we have ingredients tonight, you won’t get to eat potato beef brisket!”
Right, potato beef brisket…
Shen Qiaoyu swallowed unexpectedly, feeling a bit hungry. She then touched her own ear and, feeling extremely awkward, quickly followed close behind Yan Shi Qing, grabbing onto her sleeve.
“What’s up?” Yan Shiqing’s eyes reddened a bit. She stealthily glanced at the hand pulling on her sleeve, and then at Shen Qiaoyu’s slightly red ears. She barely suppressed a smile and continued to ask, “What’s wrong?”
“How about I let you use one hand later?” Shen Qiao Yu hesitated for several seconds before uttering such a sentence. “We’ll rely on our own abilities to see who can eliminate the other, and then it will be a matter of luck.”
Hearing this, Yan Shiqing was still not satisfied and softly said, “Even if you only use one hand, I can’t beat you.”
Upon hearing this, Shen Qiaoyu fell silent and struggled for a while before squeezing out a sentence. “Alright, can you tie up both of my hands?”
“Huh?” Yan Shiqing’s eyes brightened, and she couldn’t help but curl the corners of her lips. “Okay, but remember, you’re the one who said this.”
“Yes, I said it.” Shen Qiaoyu saw her smile and finally breathed a sigh of relief. To make sure she wasn’t angry and to prevent her from lacking her portion of potato beef brisket later on, he went to the director and exchanged for two cream ice creams. She handed one to Yan Shiqing and held the other herself, slowly offering, “Here, you can have both.”
“Hmm?” Yan Shiqing accepted the boxed ice cream and couldn’t help but be suspicious. “What are you up to? You’ve never been this nice to me before.”
Shen Qiaoyu: “…”
Please, at least when they were friends, she had been very good to her, okay?
“If you don’t eat it, then forget it. Eating two might even give you a stomach ache.” She seemed to be very understanding.
By now, Yan Shiqing seemed to have guessed her train of thought. This fool must be ‘yielding with a hidden agenda’ just for the sake of food.
But she still couldn’t help but laugh, grabbed her hand again, took a big bite out of the cone of ice cream in her hand, and chuckled, “I’ll eat it. I want to taste yours~”
Shen Qiaoyu: “…”
Cream covered Yan Shiqing’s red lips. She stuck out her pink tongue to lick it off, then retracted her hand with great delight and resumed her own treat.
She was very particular about where she bit—the side of the ice cream cone. She even left the other side for Shen Qiaoyu, probably anticipating that she wouldn’t eat from where she had bitten and hence drew a line for her.
Shen Qiaoyu couldn’t let it go to waste, so she licked the other side of the ice cream cone that she hadn’t bitten, intending to finish the portion she hadn’t touched.
But the ice cream melts, and in the end, she inadvertently finishes the whole thing.
Shen Qiaoyu: “…”
Oh no, did Qingning see that?
……
During the competition, the production crew allowed the contestants to use stickers.
As the two enjoyed their ice cream and strolled, the participants from the other groups didn’t dare to approach them, focusing instead on quickly finding more stickers.
Yan Shiqing suggested, “Let’s not look for stickers anymore. We have plenty of resources, might as well eat more here, otherwise, if we lose the bet later, we’re going to be hungry.”
Shen Qiaoyu completely agreed with her perspective, which led to a very contrasting scene in the live broadcast.
While the other groups’ guests were frantically searching for stickers, these two were sitting in the lobby enjoying different snacks and drinks, as relaxed as if on vacation. Yan Shiqing would even occasionally stealthily take the snacks from Shen Qiaoyu’s hand, giggling like a mischievous cat, while Shen Qiaoyu, with a sense of resignation, would only lightly scold her each time, never really stopping her.
“Don’t you have your own?”
“These two packets have different flavors, I want to try yours~”
While other groups’ guests were snatching each other’s name tags, they found a claw machine in the corner and played with utter delight.
Yan Shiqing was a bit frustrated. “Why can’t I grab even one?”
“You’re just clumsy,” Shen Qiaoyu glanced at her and boasted proudly. “Watch me. These machines are a piece of cake.”
However, after she said that and tried a few more times, she couldn’t grab anything either.
Shen Qiaoyu: “…”
Her bragging had backfired.
But unexpectedly, they both turned their attention to the director not far away and exclaimed, “Director, there’s something wrong with this machine!”
Director: “…”
So why couldn’t it be that Shen Qiaoyu was the problem?
Suppressing a laugh, he walked over and said, “This is a teamwork machine. You need to control it with both hands together to grab anything. Plus, the surprise inside is a sticker.”
Shen Qiaoyu: “…”
How could there be such a strange machine?
As she was pondering this, Yan Shiqing had already grabbed her hand and pressed it together with hers on the control joystick, adjusting the position with effort before hitting the button hard.
The next second, the claw actually grabbed a doll and dropped it down.
Shen Qiaoyu was so startled that she didn’t react at first.
Could it be this magical?!
After that, she completely forgot to be mindful of personal space. Her hand pressed together with Yan Shiqing’s on the joystick, they kept trying to grab the surprise eggs from the machine.
Every so often, Yan Shiqing would glance at her, her eyes brimming with sparkling laughter. And in that moment, they were both so excited, their hands tightly clasped together.
In the end, they finally get the Easter egg, and they excitedly open it.
To their surprise, it contained a note with the word “sticker” written on it.
Shen Qiaoyu and Yan Shiqing were speechless.
The director said, “I didn’t say anything wrong though.”
The audience in the livestream was in stitches.
But the very next second, they were all stunned because Yan Shiqing had somehow found a miniature water gun and charged at the director, spraying water on his head while laughing and hiding behind Shen Qiaoyu, using her as a human shield.
The director was flabbergasted. He had given them some snacks to facilitate bonding, and this was just a playful gesture. He didn’t expect it to backfire on him quite literally.
He tried to dodge while laughing and hid behind other staff members, covering his nearly bald head.
Perhaps only when facing Director Chen could Yan Shiqing be so relaxed.
Everyone burst into laughter.
Even Shen Qiaoyu couldn’t help but turn towards the laughing Yan Shiqing, her lips involuntarily curling up. She couldn’t but marvel inwardly at her plentiful cunning ideas.
No wonder she managed to keep such a smart person as her in second place all the time.
Alright, she would, for the time being, be willingly outwitted by her…
…
Not long after, the name-tearing segment of the game was coming to an end, and each team was required to identify and eliminate the undercover member within a ten-minute timeframe.
Shen Qiaoyu didn’t anticipate but Yan Yi could actually find her and, while stealthily avoiding the cameras, suddenly said something utterly baffling, “If you’re with someone, you shouldn’t be so intimate with Yan Shiqing.”
Shen Qiaoyu frowned, feeling a bit of fire in her heart.
Yes, sometimes she did forget to maintain a proper distance when interacting with Yan Shiqing.
But what does that have to do with her?
Just then, she added another sentence, “I don’t mean anything by it. I just want to remind you that it doesn’t look good for the audience to see this.”
Shen Qiaoyu met her words with silence.
She had said this in front of Yan Shiqing, who had been fully alert the moment she saw her and had stayed close to Shen Qiaoyu without leaving her side.
At this point, Yan Shiqing couldn’t help but pull Shen Qiaoyu away and said to Yan Yi, “Her girlfriend and I are close friends. All of this is with her girlfriend’s consent. What’s it to you?!”
These words left Yan Yi standing there, stunned. The anger in her heart grew more intense, nearly to the point of making her vomit blood from rage.
“What?!” she exclaimed.
By then, Shen Qiaoyu had already been pulled away by Yan Shiqing.
Shen Qiaoyu herself was completely shocked. She whispered to Yan Shiqing, “You know Qingning? She never mentioned it to me.”
Yan Shiqing had already taken the opportunity to tie her hands with a rope. She lifted the corners of her mouth and said, “Yeah, I know her. You can ask her about it when we get back. It’s better for her to tell you about this matter herself.”
“What does it mean?”
Shen Qiaoyu felt her heart wringing with agitation caused by her words, and she desperately wanted to know the truth. However, at this moment, her hands were already tied up. The program crew provided the rope, and it must be said that they were quite accommodating.
Yan Shiqing took the opportunity to leap up victoriously, ready to tear off Shen Qiaoyu’s name tag. Much to her surprise, Shen Qiaoyu suddenly dodged and, with her hands bound, grabbed Yan Shiqing’s collar, pulling her fiercely towards herself while curling her lips into a smirk. She said, “You think just because my hands are tied I can’t beat you?”
Yan Shiqing bit her lip in frustration, but Shen Qiaoyu was too strong and almost tore her jacket. Left with no other choice, Yan Shiqing resorted to playing dirty by suddenly throwing herself to the ground and proudly declaring, “I’ll just lie on the ground. What can you do to me then?”
Unexpectedly, Shen Qiaoyu let out a slight smile, knelt on one knee, and with a strong pull, almost lifted Yan Shiqing up. Gasping in surprise, her cheeks flushed, Yan Shiqing hooked her legs around Shen Qiaoyu’s waist and pressed her back tightly against the ground with added force. She whispered urgently, “Don’t tear it, don’t tear it!”
“Please…”
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