A Milky Orange-Flavored Omega Becomes Famous Through a Dating Show [Entertainment Circle] - Chapter 2

The girl opposite her staggered and fell. She barely managed to avoid landing flat on her butt by bracing one hand against the floor…

Almost entirely on instinct, right before the wooden crate was about to smash into the side of that person’s face, Zhong Lin did not hesitate. She hurriedly stretched out her other small arm to block the weight of the crate.

Her arm burned with pain. Zhong Lin softly hissed.

It hurt so much…

Her slender, fair forearm had struck the corner of the wooden crate, scraping out a large pink mark. Tiny red drops of blood began to bead across it.

The girl opposite her finally managed to steady herself. She patted the dust from her body and stood up, then lowered her eyes to look at Zhong Lin’s injured forearm.

If this person had not reacted just now and the crate had smashed directly toward her, then at this very moment, the scraped injury would have been on her cheek and neck.

Zhong Lin had indeed been very annoying these past two days—a strange, impolite, clingy pest. How could she suddenly…

There was a trace of doubt in the girl’s voice. “You…”

Before she could ask, the group of guests standing opposite them all ran over.

Zhou Xiaoduo hurried forward with small, quick steps, rushing at the very front. He was the first to arrive in front of Pei Yi. As Zhong Lin’s best friend, he did not immediately show concern for the scrape on Zhong Lin’s arm.

Instead, he leaned over and asked Pei Yi, who was standing there perfectly unharmed, “Pei Yi, are you okay??”

“It was Xiao Lin who wasn’t paying attention while walking just now. Please don’t blame her.”

“I’ll apologize to you on her behalf first.”

Zhou Xiaoduo was a boy who knew how to speak very well. With those words, he avoided the important points and emphasized that Zhong Lin had not watched where she was going. At the same time, he displayed his own kindness by taking the initiative to speak up for his good friend. What a wonderful, pure boy~

Most importantly, he hid the real reason Zhong Lin had not paid attention to the road—

It was because he had been talking to her.

He was simply a little expert at shifting blame.

Only after saying all that did Zhou Xiaoduo turn around and ask Zhong Lin, “Xiao Lin, are you okay?”

Zhong Lin was still caught up in the boy’s previous sentence. This cute little male Omega dressed in a Japanese style had been called “Xiaoduo” by the others earlier.

In other words, this person was the male lead Omega in that book—“Zhou Xiaoduo.”

Her eyelid twitched involuntarily. Zhong Lin suddenly felt that something was not quite right. Both her divine beast instincts and her understanding of that book were telling her…

This male lead named “Zhou Xiaoduo” might not be the good friend the original owner had imagined him to be, right?

Maybe he was not as good as he appeared on the surface??

As for the girl she had almost hit just now, what was her name again? Pei Yi.

Wasn’t that the heroine Alpha of this book?!

She remembered that this heroine was amazing. In the middle and later parts of the original text, it would be revealed that she was actually the young heiress of Fanghong Group, and she ranked in the top five on the hot celebrity ranking list…

At the same time, she had once been the youngest Best Actress, winning the Golden Elephant Award for Best Actress at the age of nineteen.

It was just that no one knew why she had gone quiet for nearly three years.

Zhong Lin secretly thought about it. With the heroine’s background and prospects, no matter how one looked at it, “Zhong Lin,” this eighteenth-tier little internet flop, was not worthy of her. The two of them standing together would definitely look very strange…

Every key had its own lock. Zhong Lin clearly knew she was not worthy… Pei Yi was too dazzling, and also far too distant.

What no one knew was that the biggest sponsor of Thirty-One Days Heartbeat Challenge was Fanghong Group. Part of the reason this show existed was to pave the way for Pei Yi’s comeback.

Pei Yi already had a fanbase. Her fan group, “E Fans,” had lost some members during the period when Pei Yi had gone silent, but the ones who remained were all true fans. Their fighting power was extremely strong, and their stance was extremely firm.

When the “E Fans” saw that Pei Yi was going on Thirty-One Days Heartbeat Challenge, cries of grief instantly filled the internet. They all complained—

Why did Pei Yi have to lower her status as a Best Actress and go suffer on her own? Was she going there just to be tied to those flop celebrities while they crazily leeched off her popularity?!

Was she short on money? Let’s crowdfund money for the Best Actress!!

Later, the “Zhong Lin” in the original book had also been hated by the entire internet because she excessively threw herself at Pei Yi, chasing after the most eye-catching person in the whole show while disregarding the feelings of the other guests.

In the end, the original “Zhong Lin” was flamed by the whole internet, had all her dirty laundry dug up, and reached a BE death ending.

Her five elements lacked fire, and her fate was destined to flop. The fan circles said she had brought it all upon herself by “acting” up.

The heroine Alpha, Pei Yi, was an extravagant wish for the “Zhong Lin” in the original story—something she could see but never reach.

Most importantly, just now, the heroine Alpha had almost had her face ruined by Zhong Lin…

If that had happened, wouldn’t she have been cyberbullied ahead of schedule, hated by the entire internet even faster, harder, and more miserably?!

Zhong Lin gently let out a breath. “Sigh~”

How terrifying…

The future life of a Bai Ze cub was actually this difficult.

The small arm Zhong Lin was using to hold the crate trembled unconsciously. A little milk bottle at the edge of the crate slipped out and rolled to the ground with a gurgling sound.

While she was still lost in thought, the pressure on Zhong Lin’s arm suddenly vanished. The crate in her hands was taken away.

The cameraman following her, the staff, and the director had gathered around. Someone took the heavy wooden crate from Zhong Lin’s hands.

“Why are you still holding the crate?” The director looked at Zhong Lin and suddenly felt that she was especially different today. She seemed far purer and cuter than before. Maybe the smoky makeup she used to wear had covered up this piece of unpolished jade?

The director quietly waved his hand, signaling for the cameraman to move closer bit by bit, practically shoving the camera into Zhong Lin’s face to give her small face a huge close-up.

At that moment, the director mouthed to Zhong Lin: Hurry and talk about why you got hurt.

Zhong Lin froze for a moment. She misheard it as—

Hurry and recite the sponsorship ad.

Lowering her head and seeing the milk bottle that had rolled by her feet, she quickly bent down and picked it up. Zhong Lin remembered that this was one of the sponsors of Thirty-One Days Heartbeat Challenge.

Zhong Lin tilted her head slightly and pressed the milk bottle against the side of her face, obediently beginning to read the advertisement:

“Youyiduo yogurt milk, fresh milk, healthy milk.”

The small arm holding the milk bottle still had a fresh, large scrape on the inner side of her milky-white skin. Under the camera, it looked especially obvious. She looked like an obedient little daughter. Even though she was injured, she could not cry or make a fuss.

—She had to obediently read the commercial advertisement.

—She had to be a useful person, not just a lazy little drama queen.

Pei Yi looked at that little arm, at the red, bloody scrape, and at the girl’s side profile. Her almond-shaped eyes were clear, her curled lashes fluttering again and again, and her pale pink lips obediently recited the advertisement…

There was a strange feeling—

It was as though the person before her was no longer quite the same as before.

Pei Yi tilted her head slightly away, her eyelid twitching once. She stopped looking at the little girl who had become pure and adorable.

This should only be an illusion created just now when Zhong Lin had blocked the wooden crate and protected her from injury, right?

It was definitely an illusion!

The director was shocked. Why was Zhong Lin so professional?

This, this, this… Was this still the little drama queen Zhong Lin he had seen two days ago?!

The cameraman following her was also shocked. He looked up at the director and asked in a low voice, “Are we cutting this part later?”

The director shook his head and lowered his voice, leaning close to the staff beside him. “Later, have Youyiduo yogurt milk add more advertising fees.”

The bullet comments went wild:

[Why did she suddenly become cute? My heart took a critical hit!!!]

[Youyiduo yogurt milk, pay up!]

[What a miserable girl. She’s injured and still remembers to do business. Her little arm is even bleeding…]

[Drama queen Zhong Lin suddenly became professional? Is she creating a hardworking persona? I don’t believe it… She must be pretending!]

[Drama queen Zhong Lin, get out of the entertainment industry! A Drama Queen is wrong no matter what she does! Don’t even think about tying yourself to our Yiyi! I’ll hate you for ten thousand years!]

[To be fair, if Zhong Lin hadn’t blocked it with her arm just now, the one scraped would have been Yiyi!]

[I also feel like Zhong Lin seems to have changed a little? She became so pretty? Did she really not get plastic surgery? Why didn’t I notice before?!]

Those two or three comments that leaned a little toward Zhong Lin were quickly drowned out by the messy attacks from Zhong Lin’s professional haters—

[Zhong Lin, get out of the entertainment industry.]

[Zhong Lin, get out of the entertainment industry +1.]

[Zhong Lin, get out of the entertainment industry +10086.]

…

At this time, a staff member wearing a pink-and-white striped shirt came over. When she saw Zhong Lin, her voice was a little surprised. “It was actually you?!”

“Thank you for helping me move the crates this morning.”

She opened the first-aid kit, took out disinfecting alcohol, and used a cotton swab to disinfect Zhong Lin’s wound.

The sensation on her arm was cool, with a slightly stinging pain. Zhong Lin bit down on her back teeth, her voice soft and sticky. “No need to thank me.”

The staff member in the pink-and-white striped shirt raised her head and glanced at Zhong Lin. The strength in her hand became even gentler. She felt that this female guest’s obedient appearance made her look like a little sister.

“You’re a guest… Don’t get involved in this kind of thing next time.”

After putting a bandage on her, the staff member slowly stood up. Even her tone became very gentle, as if she were speaking to a little sister. “You have to obediently listen to the director, okay?”

It was the first time so many people had surrounded her and cared about her. Zhong Lin felt a tiny bit nervous. Her fingers slowly curled in, helplessly rubbing against her knees. Her small, delicate chin nodded again and again as she obediently replied, “Okay.”

She lowered her head and looked at the neat bandage on her arm. The pink cat pattern on it attracted her attention.

Another staff member carrying a makeup bag squatted down behind her. Earlier, she had heard the guests say that this female guest had not put on makeup, so she had hurried over to save the situation.

“Lift your head a little.”

“You… You didn’t even apply foundation?!”

Zhong Lin: …Foundation?

“Then please help me apply some,” Zhong Lin politely requested.

The makeup artist stared at Zhong Lin’s small face and froze for an instant. Then she shook her head repeatedly. “No, don’t. This way… is pretty good.”

She rummaged through her makeup bag for a long time, then took an unopened clear lip balm from a pile of lipsticks. “In the future, just do daily skincare. After that, you can apply this.”

This female guest had always worn extremely heavy smoky makeup before, with super-long false eyelashes and exaggerated thick black eyeliner like a cat girl. It had been impossible to see that her original appearance was actually like this?!

Her bare face had a girlish transparency.

Even the color of her lips was just right. Applying a natural rose-bean lipstick would not even show much color.

The makeup artist felt that this “young girl face” that made people pity her was perfectly suited for a dating variety show even without makeup.

A fresh and natural beautiful girl, with lovable deer-like eyes—

She was a very rare type of Omega guest.

Zhong Lin hesitated a little. She wanted to refuse the makeup artist’s suggestion, repeating what Zhou Xiaoduo had said earlier: “I’m going on the show. Going bare-faced… actually isn’t very good, right?”

The makeup artist was a little excited and nodded repeatedly. “It’s good. Very good. Extremely good!”

“Just like this. Listen to me, you can’t go wrong!”

Most celebrities she had seen before, due to overwork, had dull skin when bare-faced, more or less with some marks and flaws. The makeup artist had basically never seen skin this fine, fair, and delicate…

It was like a little peach that had just ripened, milky white with a faint pink blush. In short, she was super cute. (#^-^#)~

Zhong Lin looked up at the director, as if asking for his opinion.

Being stared at by those bright, deer-like eyes, the director felt as if he had suddenly gained a daughter?!

Where was that Zhong Lin who acted up, sent herself to her death, and crazily delivered editing material to post-production?

Director: “…”

Why had this drama queen female guest suddenly become so cute?!

The director nodded awkwardly and agreed, “Uh, uh… It is pretty good. Listen to the makeup artist. For this episode, you don’t have to wear heavy makeup like before.”

His tone was like he was coaxing his own little daughter.

Zhou Xiaoduo was wearing scheming no-makeup makeup, but several acne scars and dark spots could still be faintly seen on his chin.

He lightly raised his brows. For some reason, a chill went through his heart. He refused to believe it!

Zhong Lin, this scheming female Omega, must have secretly used some especially good skincare products. Even the makeup artist was praising her like this…

It was simply infuriating!

Another female Omega guest named Liang Shan, who was wearing a white dress, pressed the corners of her mouth downward in an almost imperceptible arc. Before, whenever she saw Zhong Lin, she had only thought she was nothing more than a vulgar little internet celebrity…

She had not expected Zhong Lin’s bare face to be so strong.

Liang Shan’s heart tightened. The difficulty of the competition had increased again. She turned her head slightly and, while no one was paying attention, secretly glanced in Pei Yi’s direction.

—The highest-quality Alpha often required the highest-level techniques and methods.

Pei Yi did not like people who were overly enthusiastic or relentlessly pursuing her. And acting as clingy as Zhong Lin had before looked extremely cheap, which would instead cause Pei Yi to dislike her.

So Liang Shan had held herself back and did not disturb Pei Yi. At the same time, she had constantly tried to find ways to make her presence known in front of Pei Yi.

She had thought that only Zhou Xiaoduo, that green-tea little flirtatious male Omega, was competing with her. She had not expected Zhong Lin’s appearance to be this pure?!

And there was always an inexplicable feeling—

Zhong Lin seemed to have become prettier. She was no longer as dramatic as before, nor as stupid?

Liang Shan sensed a faint potential crisis.

Zhong Lin had suddenly abandoned her exaggerated, heavy smoky makeup. The netizens were hit by the sudden impact of her bare face, and for a while, they did not even realize that this pure little girl was actually Zhong Lin—

[My god? Zhong Lin really is bare-faced? She actually didn’t get plastic surgery?!]
A certain bullet comment claiming Zhong Lin had gotten plastic surgery was instantly slapped in the face.

[I suddenly feel like Zhong Lin… is so cute!!!]

[awsl, why is she so cute?! I want her to be my daughter!]

[This cub suddenly became so obedient~]

[That said, have you all forgotten what kind of person she is?!]

[Why is she pretending to be cute? She must be trying to attract Yiyi’s attention so she can continue leeching off her popularity, right? Playing pitiful!]

[Zhong Lin, get out of the entertainment industry.]

[Zhong Lin, get out of the entertainment industry +1.]

[Zhong Lin, get out of the entertainment industry + one hundred million.]

…

At the same time, near the sofa on the left stood a girl. She wore a white short suit jacket over a simple, retro little black dress. One hand rested on the back of the sofa as she watched coldly from the sidelines.

Pei Yi’s eyes darkened. Her gaze lingered on Zhong Lin’s face for a few seconds. She suddenly understood why she had felt something was off earlier—

So Zhong Lin was bare-faced today.

Bare-faced, she did indeed seem a little pretty.

But so what?

This person was still that same Zhong Lin, that strange, overly enthusiastic clout-chaser who threw herself at people. She was probably just trying to leech popularity again…

Pei Yi truly hated Omegas who were not reserved at all. As long as they could gain even a little resource, they would shamelessly throw themselves at someone without any dignity!

Pulling her white short suit jacket closer, Pei Yi stood to the side and turned away.

Her gaze no longer lingered on Zhong Lin.

Everyone participating in Thirty-One Days Heartbeat Challenge had their own purpose. Pei Yi was participating in Thirty-One Days Heartbeat Challenge for two reasons. First, for the interests of the family business. Second, for herself.

Pei Yi had been silent for three years. At the height of her momentum, after becoming the youngest “Best Actress,” she had retired.

This time, she was participating in a dating variety show to stabilize her fanbase.

None of the guests present had simple motives.

Especially Zhong Lin. Her urgent offensive toward Pei Yi over the past two days had fully displayed Zhong Lin’s ambition to leech off the hot topic of the “Best Actress’s comeback,” as well as the dull-witted nature of Zhong Lin herself.

But everything was changing silently.

Pei Yi stood sideways. Beneath the hem of her black satin dress, her slender, smooth legs were exposed. She reached out and tucked her falling hair behind her ear. A nearly imperceptible haze flashed through her eyes.

Pei Yi’s gaze seemed to sweep unintentionally over the seemingly innocent and ignorant young girl sitting on the sofa—Zhong Lin.

Pei Yi looked in Zhong Lin’s direction. The corners of her bright red lips slowly curved upward, but her cold, pale cheeks did not move at all. It was clearly a smile floating only on the surface, filled with chill. A trace of doubt suddenly rose in her heart—

Had the clingy drama queen Zhong Lin suddenly changed scripts?

She would like to see what tricks this person still had.

At this moment, Zhong Lin stood up. She lifted her eyes and happened to look in Pei Yi’s direction.

Pei Yi was looking at Zhong Lin with a cold smile.

Their gazes met in midair.

Zhong Lin blinked, feeling a little dazed. She did not seem to notice the trace of mockery in Pei Yi’s smile.

The only thing she knew was—

Why did the heroine Alpha smile at her????

This… felt a little embarrassing. (/ω＼)