A Milky Orange-Flavored Omega Becomes Famous Through a Dating Show [Entertainment Circle] - Chapter 23.2

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Pei Yi looked left and right, her gaze sweeping over everyone and unintentionally lingering for a few extra seconds on Zhong Lin, who had her head lowered while eating little cookies. “I’m the only one who can drive today. Who’s coming with me?”

“I will. I understand this stuff better,” Liang Shan hurriedly answered. “When our hotel buys ingredients, we have to pick for freshness. Sometimes I follow the staff and learn a bit about how to choose produce.”

Of course, knowing how to choose produce was one thing. As an Omega guest, Liang Shan naturally would not let go of any opportunity to be alone and interact with the highest-quality Alpha.

“Then… I’m going too.” Seeing Liang Shan going to buy ingredients, Zhu Ying hurriedly raised his hand to sign up. He absolutely could not let his heartbeat Omega have ambiguous contact alone with another Alpha.

Zhou Xiaoduo also raised his hand. “Then count me in too. Liang Shan, Zhu Ying, and I… the three of us can go with Pei Yi.”

Zhou Xiaoduo said this very decisively. “The three of us” meant excluding Zhong Lin. Now, no matter how he looked at Zhong Lin, she irritated him. Not bringing her was perfect—out of sight, out of mind.

Chu Yunze looked at Zhou Xiaoduo, opened her mouth as if wanting to speak, then stopped. A trace of helplessness flashed across that sweet-cool face, and for some reason, she felt a little panicked.

Previously, Zhou Xiaoduo and Chu Yunze had interacted quite well in the villa. Zhou Xiaoduo had even cut oranges for her and sweetly said, “Yunze, eat more fruit. It’s good for the skin~”

Zhou Xiaoduo was actually Chu Yunze’s heartbeat Omega, but from the moment Pei Yi and Zhong Lin came in, it seemed Zhou Xiaoduo’s focus was no longer on her?

Moreover, in the first episode, the heartbeat Alpha guest Zhou Xiaoduo had chosen was not her. This made Chu Yunze feel disappointed. She raised her arm and then put it down. In the end, she lowered her eyes and said nothing.

At the same time, Pei Yi’s attention was not here at all. Her gaze swept over the two Omegas actively volunteering to buy groceries, then stopped on Zhong Lin, who was silently sitting on the small round stool with her head lowered.

Strands of long hair brushed over her fair neck and fell into the deep hollow of her collarbone. Zhong Lin was quietly immersed in the wonderful texture of “human food,” completely unaware that someone was staring at her.

She tore open a packet of egg yolk pastry. Her cherry lips parted slightly, and Zhong Lin bit into the runny filling. Her hand caught the crumbs beneath her chin, and her head leaned forward a little. Without noticing, some of the runny filling got on her pale pink lips.

Pei Yi’s eyes darkened as she stared in Zhong Lin’s direction.

Zhong Lin tilted her head slightly, feeling something at the corner of her lips. Her flesh-pink little tongue lightly licked away the sauce left on her lips. Her lips had a shining watery sheen, like flower petals that had held morning dew, looking soft and moist.

Pei Yi suddenly felt a little thirsty. Her throat became somewhat dry, and she could not help coughing lightly. Yet her attention had been completely drawn to Zhong Lin in salted-fish mode.

Beside her ears came the arguing voices of Zhou Xiaoduo and Liang Shan. They were arguing over who should sit in the front seat.

—This group of Omegas really was noisy.

Pei Yi looked faintly at Zhong Lin not far away, and a thought suddenly sprouted in her heart.

“Zhong Lin.” She called her softly.

Pei Yi wanted to ask her out.

Pei Yi’s faint voice came from ahead. “Come buy groceries with me. My car only has room for two people.”

Zhong Lin’s heart skipped. The little hand holding the egg yolk pastry trembled, and the runny filling spilled out from the center of the pastry, flowing onto the web of her hand. Her fingers became sticky.

She hurriedly pulled out a tissue to wipe her hand.

Why would Pei Yi choose her? Because she could eat? Because she could sleep? Because she did not know how to pick vegetables?

To avoid the BE ending, Zhong Lin had been constantly avoiding ambiguous interactions with Pei Yi on the show. She was very sure she had not taken the initiative to court death by throwing herself at Pei Yi and leeching off her popularity, QAQ…

Zhong Lin reached out and tucked the strands of hair hanging in front of her eyes behind her ear. She awkwardly raised her eyes and looked forward, her gaze panicked and helpless. It just so happened to meet Pei Yi’s dark brown eyes, which were currently staring at her with great interest.

Pei Yi sized up the flustered little girl and felt a kind of pleasure similar to successfully pulling off a prank.

[2333333333 My cub is so innocent. She was happily eating and suddenly got cued.]

[Linlinzi: Why are you calling me? Who do you think you are, what little cookie?!]

[I feel like Zhong Lin and Pei Yi will definitely have something happen on the road… Like car-road.avi.]

Rational passerby fans once again discovered the mystery—

[Look at Zhou Xiaoduo. He can attack or retreat. If he can’t go grocery shopping with Pei Yi, he can still stay in the villa and use washing vegetables as an excuse to flirt with Chu Yunze. A true romance master.]

[[Angry][Angry] I feel like Zhou Xiaoduo is stringing Sister Yunze along…]

[Hi! Wife~ Chu Yunze, hurry and marry me. Don’t bother with that Zhou Xiaoduo anymore. So annoying! Stinky male green tea!]

[Not necessarily. It’s a dating show, and they haven’t made mutual choices yet. What’s wrong with trying things out? Little brother Xiaoduo doesn’t have any bad intentions~]

[What level Yin-Yang Master is the person upstairs? If you can talk, say more!]

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Pei Yi chose to invite only Zhong Lin.

Zhou Xiaoduo, who had been talking nonstop, suddenly fell silent. His almond eyes widened like copper bells, and shock appeared in his gaze. No matter how he thought about it, he could not understand why Pei Yi would choose to go buy ingredients with Zhong Lin.

But this state only lasted a few seconds. A moment later, he immediately smiled and expressed approval. “Then… the rest of us can prepare the vegetables in the fridge together.”

Zhou Xiaoduo accidentally brushed Chu Yunze’s arm not far away. “Yunze, come help me later.”

Chu Yunze stood beside the sofa with her arms crossed. She wore a trendy oversized purple T-shirt with hot pants, and her hair was tied into small dreadlocks. Her outfit was both Alpha and beautiful. At this moment, her expression was stiff and cold. She remembered very clearly—

Just now, when Zhou Xiaoduo had been thinking only about going out to buy groceries, he had completely forgotten her. And now he suddenly remembered her again?

“Okay.” Chu Yunze answered coldly and imperceptibly moved a little to the side. As if unintentionally, Chu Yunze avoided Zhou Xiaoduo’s hand that was about to rest on her shoulder.

Zhou Xiaoduo’s hand froze in midair. He immediately changed direction, turning the back of his hand over and waving at Chu Yunze. “Then let’s hurry to the kitchen.”

Zhou Xiaoduo did not notice the dimness in Chu Yunze’s eyes just now. Those eyes that had once stared closely at Zhou Xiaoduo, the light at their bottom, gradually faded.

After the division of labor was settled, the guests began heading off to do their own tasks.

Zhong Lin once again sat in Pei Yi’s car.

The engine started, and accompanied by the deep rumbling sound like thunder, the Bentley supercar drove out of the villa district.

The first time was unfamiliar, the second time familiar. This time, Zhong Lin was no longer amazed by the difference of Pei Yi’s mount. Along the way, she quietly looked at the scenery outside. Towering office buildings, their exteriors like upright coffin boxes, quickly slid behind her field of vision.

The car followed the traffic flow onto the elevated road.

In Zhong Lin’s eyes, these elevated roads crisscrossed through the air, shaped like little azure dragons. Even though this was the third time she had seen them, she still felt they were novel. In this era, humans used space to its limit. It was completely, completely different from the era she had lived in…

Everything was so very strange, yet familiar, very similar to the contents of that book.

Sometimes, Zhong Lin almost began to wonder whether she was truly in this world, or whether everything was only an illusion. Was the real her still sealed with her kin in the cold void?

Was Pei Yi beside her a real person?

The heroine Alpha was a frightening existence. In the original story, Zhong Lin had been shelved by her company, cyberbullied by netizens, personally attacked, cursed, and humiliated.

One of the triggers for “Zhong Lin’s” death in the original story was her excessive obsession with the heroine Alpha, as well as her hopeless “drama queen nature”…

Zhong Lin turned her head and saw the person in the driver’s seat.

The car stopped at an intersection, waiting for the green light.

Today’s sunlight was just right, dyeing Pei Yi’s face with a pale golden halo. Her high nose bridge left a dark shadow on the side of her face. Her red lips were lightly pressed together, and behind her sunglasses, her eyes were looking straight ahead. Her expression while driving was very focused.

Her shoulder-length black hair was blown backward by the wind. A few strands clung messily to her neck, making her skin look even fairer.

At the tip of her nose, Zhong Lin could faintly smell a familiar fragrance: white grape sparkling wine. The scent of alcohol was very faint, yet somewhat intoxicating.

Zhong Lin blinked lightly, and her heartbeat inexplicably sped up. It was probably because she had been lured by pheromones.

Pei Yi’s scent was actually more tempting than all the “human food” Zhong Lin had ever eaten.

It constantly teased her nerves, like a wildly blooming poppy, dangerous yet alluring, making one inexplicably addicted. But it was a poison she could not touch.

Zhong Lin did not want to follow the original plot anymore. She did not want to die.

Pei Yi frowned slightly, seeming to notice Zhong Lin’s gaze. “Why are you looking at me?”

Zhong Lin’s voice was very low and soft, murmuring like a small animal. The words in her heart slipped out unconsciously. “You’re… pretty.”

Praising the heroine Alpha should not go wrong, right? (:з」∠)

As soon as she finished speaking, the green light came on.

Pei Yi stepped on the gas, and the car roared as it started again.

Strands of black hair slipped down from behind her ear. Heat spread at the roots of her ears, and Pei Yi’s ears slowly turned red.

Unconscious words were the most alluring.

More than an hour later, the car drove into the underground garage of the supermarket.

This “human mount” slowly entered a huge “underground cave” garage. The sky above was gradually blocked by the top of the cave.

The light was rather dim. Inside this huge “underground cave” stayed many “human mounts.” They quietly lay dormant in different “territories.”

This place was spacious, so it seemed especially quiet.

Zhong Lin turned her face to look outside the car and stared blankly for a moment, marveling in her heart—this place was really huge. It could allow many “human mounts” to stop and rest.

The Bai Ze cub was full of curiosity toward the underground garage.

While she was spacing out, the tip of her nose suddenly caught a familiar scent. Zhong Lin turned her head and saw a face approaching.

Pei Yi leaned over, her face almost pressing against Zhong Lin’s shoulder. Zhong Lin abruptly turned back, and the tips of their noses almost touched. The other person’s features enlarged in her vision: deep brows and eyes, sharp peaks of her lips. It was the kind of beauty with exposed sharpness.

It was simply a beauty critical hit.

Zhong Lin was wearing an off-shoulder pale yellow dress today. At this distance, it was too close. The breath the other person exhaled was warm, brushing over Zhong Lin’s shoulder and making it itch slightly.

The lipstick shade Pei Yi wore today was very pretty, somewhere between true red and rose-brown. It outlined her almost perfect lip shape, making one want to kiss her and taste what flavor her lipstick was. It really looked very soft…

Zhong Lin blinked hard. After secondary differentiation and her heat period, had her brain broken? Why did she want to taste everything?

She absolutely could not walk the original story’s dead end again! The Bai Ze cub had to stay a little clear-headed~~

The garage was empty, and there were very few people around. It was all dormant “human mounts.” Now there was no follow-cameraman here either. A lone Alpha and Omega, suddenly leaning so close.

Even the sound of each other’s breathing could be heard very clearly.

Zhong Lin’s heart inexplicably tightened, and she hesitated over how to push Pei Yi away…

Too close. It felt a little uncomfortable.

Pei Yi’s arm stretched sideways. Her whole body covered the space in front of Zhong Lin, her shadow nearly enveloping Zhong Lin’s petite figure completely.

Zhong Lin sat increasingly straight. Her eyes were full of vigilance. Her back pressed completely against the genuine leather seat behind her, her chin tilted slightly up. The skin of her neck grew tense, and the slightly raised veins on her neck and the hollow of her collarbone became increasingly obvious.

She was nervous.

“Ding—”

A crisp metallic sound came beside her ear. Her seatbelt was unfastened by a long index finger.

Pei Yi curved her lips, her smile faint.

She had only been unfastening Zhong Lin’s seatbelt.

At this moment, Pei Yi was leaning close, almost touching Zhong Lin’s shoulder. As she breathed, the warm air slowly stirred the loose hair by Zhong Lin’s ear, softly brushing the roots of her ear. It was itchy, and her heart seemed to twitch along with it, faintly itching too.

Zhong Lin stiffened her neck, and her whole sitting posture became even more rigid, like a little hamster that had been frightened into freezing.

Having achieved the effect she wanted, Pei Yi withdrew the hand propped beside Zhong Lin and removed the arm surrounding her. She slowly straightened up and sat back in her driver’s seat.

“What were you thinking about? You froze for so long… little fool.”

“Still not getting out?”

Zhong Lin shivered, clearly frightened. She puffed up her pink lips, her voice sounding somewhat dissatisfied as she muttered softly, “I’m not a little fool. I’m not foolish at all…”

Hmph, she was very smart! ╭(╯^╰)╮

Pei Yi reached out and pulled out the car key. Her red lips curved upward, and joy involuntarily rose in her heart. It was the pleasure brought by malicious teasing—serves this little girl right for saying nonsense on the road just now!

It was Pei Yi’s first time being this petty. Beneath her sunglasses, those dark brown eyes lowered slightly, a hint of cunning flashing within them. Her expression was filled with the smugness after “getting revenge.”

In her first comeback variety show, she had discovered a treasure. This little girl was truly interesting, more interesting than all the other Omega guests on the show.

Pei Yi took off her sunglasses and saw herself in the rearview mirror…

The corners of her lips were lifted.

She had never smiled this brightly before.

The huge Buy-buy-Well Market supermarket logo hung on the exterior wall of the second floor, very eye-catching. Zhong Lin and Pei Yi walked out from the underground garage and headed one after the other toward the passage designated by the production team.

At one of the mall entrances, the production staff were waiting.

Since the supermarket and the production team were cooperating, in order for filming to go smoothly, the supermarket had informed customers in advance that this passage was temporarily occupied. Therefore, there were very few people here.

From the crowd came the surprised cry of a little male Omega, shrill like a screaming chicken. “Ah~ ah~ Pei Yi! It’s Pei Yi!”

Zhong Lin stopped and stretched out an index finger to lightly poke Pei Yi’s arm. “They’re calling you…”

The little male Omega, wearing an oversized gay-purple T-shirt, held his friend’s arm. As if afraid that Pei Yi in front of him would run away, he charged over aggressively. A moment later, he shouted breathlessly, “I finally squatted until you arrived!!”

He took a pen from his pocket and held it out to Pei Yi with both hands. “Can you sign an autograph for me?”

Pei Yi nodded, took the pen, and said faintly, “Where should I sign?”

“Sign one on my back!” The little male Omega turned around and enthusiastically invited her.

Pei Yi used the marker to sign her name on his T-shirt, then capped the pen and returned it to him.

“Teacher Zhong Lin, sign one too… Since you’re already here.” The little male Omega took the pen and handed it to Zhong Lin, turning his back toward her.

Zhong Lin immediately felt overwhelmed by favor. For an eighteenth-tier internet flop like her, someone who had been mocked by the whole internet, this person actually was not throwing eggs at her on the street? Someone was actually asking her for an autograph?! QAQ So moved!

She took the pen and wrote her name beside Pei Yi’s handwriting.

Pei Yi’s handwriting was tall, slender, and exquisite. Zhong Lin’s handwriting was neat and round.

Written side by side, they actually looked very pleasing to the eye.

The little male Omega happily thanked them and said goodbye, then turned back to his friend’s side. The two continued linking arms.

“My CP signed on the same shirt. Rounding up, that means they’ve done it on the same bed!”

The little male Omega winked, covered his face, and laughed. “Zhong Lin and Pei Yi, body and soul united…”

His friend said, “You’ve changed!? Weren’t you originally shouting about wanting to give birth to Pei Yi’s monkey babies??”

The little male Omega chuckled. “What do you know? There is a kind of love called letting go! Loving her doesn’t mean I have to have her. I’m just shipping the cold Best Actress and the soft, cute little internet flop CP. So what!”

“Seriously, the effect after the first few episodes were edited is that Pei Yi and Zhong Lin really have CP chemistry. That kind of cold, arrogant bigshot who spoils only the little cutie, gets angered by the little cutie but can’t do anything about it… And the way Pei Yi roasts the other Omegas—Tea-curing little expert Yiyi, absolutely amazing!”

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Zhong Lin followed behind Pei Yi. At this moment, the two had already reached the entrance.

Pei Yi was in front and casually pulled open the glass door for her.

The Bai Ze cub’s hearing was especially sharp. She had heard every single word of what Pei Yi’s fan had said just now!

Zhong Lin’s body paused, and her little face instantly became very hot. Her fair cheeks flushed red—

Universe-invincible-explosion red!

Body and soul united? Humans nowadays were so immodest!

It was simply too embarrassing…

Pei Yi looked puzzled. “Why is your face so red?”

Zhong Lin raised both hands and pressed them against her cheeks. Her palms felt a slightly hot temperature. She followed Pei Yi through the glass door. “N-nothing.”

“I actually haven’t been to this kind of place before, so I feel a little nervous.”

A teasing smile floated onto Pei Yi’s lips. She glanced back at her and teased in a low voice, “You really are a little princess.”

Her lashes were long and curled, her eyes clear like glass, and her skin was especially translucent. Zhong Lin’s face seemed naturally camera-friendly. Although she did not even have foundation on, she was still exquisite like a doll.

She really did look quite like a little princess.

The pair of light amber eyes she unintentionally met were like those of an innocent young deer, making one want to see what she would look like after being fiercely bullied, with tears hanging on her long lashes.

Pei Yi turned her face away, her heart faintly itching.

It must be those damned pheromones causing trouble.

Pei Yi reached her right hand into her side pocket. Her fingers touched a cool little iron box. Taking advantage of a blind spot in the camera, she opened it, took out an oval pill, and swallowed it.

This was a short-acting inhibitor, custom-made for each Alpha or Omega individual. The box in Pei Yi’s hand could suppress her most primitive need when facing Omega pheromones, as well as a few other effects…

At the entrance area on the first floor of the mall, the two of them took a shopping cart.

Pei Yi pushed the cart from behind. Zhong Lin followed after her, stretching her head to look at every shelf they passed. These colorful packaging bags seemed very attractive to the Bai Ze cub.

These crunchy, sweet, salty human foods… were truly too fragrant. (:з)∠)

The mall was quite large. Pei Yi held the list in her hand and went around from shelf to shelf to buy ingredients. When she came back to her senses, the little girl behind her had disappeared again?!

Pei Yi raised her eyes and stared at the cameraman, her gaze icy to the bone and full of intimidation.

The cameraman helplessly spread his hands: …He also did not know when she had gone missing.

The arm pushing the shopping cart trembled slightly. Her knuckles slowly tightened on the handle. Pei Yi inexplicably felt a little panicked. She remembered what Zhong Lin had said before. Zhong Lin seemed to have never gone shopping in a mall by herself.

Zhong Lin had never been to a large supermarket…

Would she be scared?

Was she anxiously looking for her?

Author’s Note:
Sigh, Sister Chu is starting to feel disappointed in Zhou Xiaoduo. Those who toy with others will always be toyed with; leave a spare tire too long and it’ll burst~

Note: One of Zhong Lin’s golden fingers is being a divine beast that seeks fortune and avoids disaster. When she reads ads, it is like a divine oracle—great fortune and great luck.