A Milky Orange-Flavored Omega Becomes Famous Through a Dating Show [Entertainment Circle] - Chapter 32

“It’s nothing.” Pei Yi lowered her eyes, her crow-black lashes trembling. She stepped forward, placed her hand on the table in front of the woman in the suit, and tapped her long fingers against it. “The prizes. Bring over everything written on the paper.”

The woman in the suit nodded repeatedly. She took out a black velvet gift box from beneath the table and handed it toward Zhong Lin. “These are the prizes you won.”

“Wow…” Zhong Lin accepted the expensive-looking gift box.

After opening it, she saw many small paper boxes fitted into the large velvet lining inside. She opened each of the small boxes and found that they were all little items commonly used by girls—hair clips, hair ties, key rings, a thin platinum-colored bracelet, a ballpoint pen…

They looked very practical.

Unfortunately, the Bai Ze cub did not know goods and had no idea what price range these things belonged to.

“Is this all?” Zhong Lin found it a little hard to believe. Where was her ten-thousand-yuan grand prize?

What she did not know was that these miscellaneous little things were actually all from international luxury brands. Added together, they had already exceeded ten thousand yuan… The first prize among this pile of money-scented little items was actually not worth mentioning~

“It’s here.” The woman in the suit bent down and reached into her waist pouch. “The first prize wasn’t placed inside.”

She took out two black cards and handed them to Zhong Lin. “First prize! Two dining cards for Thousand Flavors Delicacy in the city center, worth six thousand yuan! A grand prize worth over ten thousand yuan! Congratulations!”

Thousand Flavors Delicacy, also known as Delicacy, translated as “珍馐,” or “tender and refined.”

The name sounded romantic and gentle. It did not sound like a Cantonese restaurant; it sounded more like a hotel for couples on dates.

Moreover, it was located in the most expensive part of the city center’s CBD business district. Both dinner and lunch required advance reservations. Although these two black dining cards only had six thousand yuan charged inside, their value was far higher than the amount charged into the cards, because they carried the privilege of dining without reservation.

“Dining cards?” Zhong Lin suddenly became excited, her light brown eyes instantly lighting up.

Free food! Super happy~ (≧▽≦)/~

A free meal gained through her own efforts was naturally wonderful~ But the Bai Ze cub was very loyal. Compared with delicious food, friends were also very important. Besides, when Pei Yi had saved her during her secondary differentiation before…

Zhong Lin picked up one of the dining cards and handed it to Pei Yi, very bold and generous. “Those who see it get a share. One for you.”

Pei Yi’s lips moved twice. What could she do? What could she say? Everything she had wanted to do and say had been done by Zhong Lin already!

She was simply speechless.

Pei Yi (⊙_⊙): “…”

The original plan was: Zhong Lin would fail at throwing darts and receive a “consolation prize,” then innocently seek Pei Yi’s help. Pei Yi would carry the girl and raise her score, and the two would finally win first prize.

In the end, Pei Yi would give Zhong Lin the dining card, receiving thanks and a fangirl’s admiring gaze, ending in a happy reunion…

Now, Pei Yi held that black dining card, utterly speechless.

—So all those plans had been wasted.

“Let’s go back.” Zhong Lin stuffed her own card back into her bag and held the black velvet gift box in her arms. “If we’re any later, the director will get angry. I think we still have another process to do tonight.”

Pei Yi had nothing left to say. Her mood was now complicated. Looking at Zhong Lin’s innocent and guileless face, she silently nodded and followed Zhong Lin all the way to the elevator.

The elevator doors opened. The two walked in. Pei Yi subconsciously pressed the -2 button, where the parking lot was.

“I’ll call a car.” Zhong Lin held the gift box under her arm and was about to take her phone from her bag. “It’s almost eight now. It’ll probably be hard to hail a taxi.”

Pei Yi hurriedly canceled the -2 button and pressed the button for the first floor instead. She also smoothly took the gift box from under Zhong Lin’s arm. “I’ll hold it for you.”

Zhong Lin nodded and opened the app to call a car.

“Ding—” The elevator doors opened. They had reached the first floor.

When they walked out of the mall, the car Zhong Lin had booked happened to arrive by the roadside.

Pei Yi opened the car door, and the two got in.

The phone in her pocket vibrated. Pei Yi took it out. The screen lit up, and there was a new message in the notification bar—

[Xu Tao]: “Second Miss, I had someone drive your car to the parking lot. It’s in Area A, on the left side. The blue SUV.”

Xu Tao was Pei Yi’s manager, the person who had just guest-starred as the “woman in the suit.”

After the two left, Xu Tao returned the shop key to the floor manager, threw away the target and darts, and sent Pei Yi this message.

Pei Yi was an artist under Wanfang Entertainment.

If one carefully checked the corporate database, one would discover that Wanfang Entertainment’s controlling shareholder was Fanghong Group, and Pei Yi was the second daughter of Fanghong Group. Therefore, as Pei Yi’s manager, Xu Tao had always been under a lot of pressure.

Pei Yi, this person, was openly her company’s artist, but in reality, she was her company’s great-aunt.

The great-aunt did not want to inherit the family business and wanted to return to the entertainment industry for fun. She had even made a bet with Chairwoman Fang. Because of this, all the managers at Wanfang Entertainment were caught between two sides and had a very hard time.

Xu Tao had acted out this scene today because of a text Pei Yi had sent several days ago—

[Come see a talent…]

Sending a gift was sending a gift. Why go in circles? She even said she was inviting her to observe a talent?

Xu Tao gritted her back teeth. This was the first time Pei Yi had been this serious, even making a plan in advance. And this time, Pei Yi was participating in a dating variety show. Could it be that she wanted to pursue Zhong Lin?

Did she only think this little girl was fun?

Or had she really taken a fancy to this Omega??

This was the first time Xu Tao had seen Pei Yi put so much thought into an Omega.

Her thoughts flew wildly. She had even been annoyed that her acting was too bad, so bad even the future young madam could easily see through it… At that moment, her phone suddenly rang.

[Eve]: Don’t need the car. Drive it back.

Eve was Pei Yi’s English name. If Zhong Lin carefully looked at those little items, she would see that beside the printed brand logos, there was also a custom engraving.

In the least noticeable place, each one was engraved with fancy English letters: Eve’s.

Eve’s things. Pei Yi’s things.

This kind of marking on objects was similar to an Alpha biting through the back of an Omega’s neck and blending her pheromones deep into the flesh. It was an extremely obvious hint…

A hidden possessiveness belonging to an Alpha.

[Xu Tao]: Drive it back? Back where, Second Miss?

“Second Miss” was something Xu Tao deliberately called her, full of teasing.

[Eve]: Drive it to the underground parking garage of the program villa district. Also, drive back the sports car that was taken there before.

[Eve]: What era is this? How are there still people using that kind of title? Do you live in the last century? Also, how many times have I told you not to call me Second Miss? Call me by my name!

[Xu Tao]: Okay, Second Miss. [SpongeBob salute.jpg]

[Eve]: Get lost.

[Eve]: What do you think of that child?

[Xu Tao]: Very pretty. Her waist is very thin, her legs are straight, and she’s an Omega. I think Chairwoman Fang should agree.

[Eve]: Where were you looking?! [/Flipping table and standing up]

[Xu Tao]: I was wrong, I was really wrong. I shouldn’t have looked at the young madam…

[Eve]: …

[Eve]: You misunderstood. I actually don’t…

I actually don’t… like her.

Pei Yi’s hand suddenly stopped typing. She hesitated, but still did not send the sentence below.

[Eve]: Do you think she has potential to be developed?

Xu Tao sat in the driver’s seat. Seeing the line “does she have potential to be developed?” on her phone, she instantly felt a little speechless. Are you really trying to poach someone??

Why did it feel like there was both close personal teaching for darts and roundabout gift-giving?

Was she not afraid that little girl would misunderstand and think Pei Yi liked her??

Xu Tao hesitated for a moment. Thinking of Zhong Lin’s performance just now, that terrifyingly strong learning ability, and that first-love face that clearly had not been carefully dressed up—plain and without makeup, yet stunning at first glance…

The girl’s quiet, focused appearance, those light brown eyes staring at the dart target, pure to the extreme. Between each breath, she was especially innocent, even carrying a kind of holy power.

It made one unable to look away, as if the world had stopped.

[Xu Tao]: Good. Very good. Extremely good. Practically perfect, whether from Wanfang Entertainment’s perspective or as a backup candidate for young madam.

Young madam? Seeing those words in the chat box, heat climbed up Pei Yi’s ears, and her heart twitched.

What kind of words were these?!

Simply unbearable to look at!

[Eve]: Get lost. Your bonus next month is gone.

[Xu Tao]: Wuwuwu, please spare me. I have old above and young below, a thirty-year-old wife and a one-year-old cat waiting for me to support them. Sister Yi, I was wrong, I was really wrong. QAQ

[Eve]: Meal allowance and travel subsidy as usual.

[Xu Tao]: Bowing to Boss!

Pei Yi pressed the lock-screen button, and the phone screen went black. She leaned back slightly, her back pressing against the car seat.

Xu Tao was an old friend. Before Pei Yi retired three years ago, Xu Tao had always been Pei Yi’s manager. When chatting with her, Pei Yi felt much less pressure. She did not need to worry about much and would even send memes.

The little girl beside her tilted her head. Her long hair half-covered her pure yet alluring brows and eyes. She seemed sleepy again.

Pei Yi turned her head slightly and observed the girl’s sleeping face from the corner of her eye.

Her lashes were very long and thick. When her eyes were closed, they left a faint shadow beneath her eyelids. When quiet, she was very obedient. Although she wore no makeup, her skin looked so tender it seemed it could break with a puff of air, like a freshly peeled egg, without even the slightest flaw.

Once she was full and tired from walking around, she got sleepy and wanted to sleep. She seemed to have no worries, like a child.

Still a child, still growing…

Pei Yi’s gaze slid downward and saw the collar of Zhong Lin’s goose-yellow shirt slightly open, setting off the skin at her neckline so white it was like snow. Further down were the delicate, graceful lines belonging to a young girl. The hem of the shirt was tucked into the white pleated skirt, making her waist look narrow and thin, so thin one hand seemed able to circle it. Her round knees were a pale pink, and her legs were straight, obediently pressed together.

A very slender and petite girl. Looking at her made one want to try… exactly how much flesh she had on her.

Zhong Lin suddenly moved, as if sensing someone was looking at her.

Pei Yi hurriedly looked away.

What was this? Why had she stared at her for so long?

What kind of Omega had Pei Yi not seen?!

And Xu Tao’s words today were way too strange. What young madam?? She had only given Zhong Lin a few things. It was not as if she was pursuing Zhong Lin.

Simply inexplicable.

…

When they returned to the villa, it was almost 8:30.

Just as they walked into the villa’s front courtyard, someone was sitting in the hanging chair, wearing very short hot pants. Her long, straight legs lazily rested on the ground. The hanging chair, which had been swaying back and forth, suddenly stopped.

Chu Yunze closed the magazine in her hand and lifted her eyelids to look at them. Seeing the two walk in through the courtyard gate, each holding a gift box and gift bags, she casually asked, “Went shopping?”

Zhong Lin walked in front and had just been about to answer…

Behind her, Pei Yi suddenly quickened her pace and nodded slightly to Chu Yunze in greeting. “Yes, we went shopping, so we came back a little late.”

Pei Yi only said they went shopping, but did not say who they had bought things for.

—They had merely bought birthday gifts for Zhu Ying.

But this point, she would not tell Chu Yunze.

Heh. Let Chu Yunze guess who bought the gift box in Zhong Lin’s hands for whom.

Pei Yi did not stop and walked straight past Chu Yunze, though from the corner of her eye, she lightly glanced at Chu Yunze’s expression.

Chu Yunze laughed softly and suddenly called out to Zhong Lin, who was following behind Pei Yi. “Zhong Lin, wait a moment.”

Zhong Lin stopped. “What’s wrong?”

“I have something for you.” Chu Yunze reached out and picked up a round iron box from the small table opposite her. It was a certain brand’s high-end butter cookies.

“The company gave them out today. I don’t really eat sweets. Seeing that you like them quite a lot, so…” Chu Yunze explained.

“Thank you!!” Zhong Lin hurriedly accepted the cookie tin, smiling at her with curved eyes and raised lips. “I really like them!”

Human food and such was the most delicious~ Since Chu Yunze did not like them, it would be bad to waste them by throwing them away.

Better to throw them into the Bai Ze cub’s stomach.

Pei Yi, walking ahead, paused and turned slightly to call toward the two in the front courtyard. “Hurry up, you two.”

“We have to record the show later. Don’t make the others wait too long.” Pei Yi raised her eyes and looked at them, her gaze cold as water, her line of sight fixed on the cookie tin in Zhong Lin’s hand.

—Heh. Butter cookies from the company? What company would give its artists such high-calorie things?

Chu Yunze really did not know how to lie. Only a naive little girl like Zhong Lin would believe it.

Pei Yi’s eyelid twitched. Her heart felt blocked. Carrying the gift bags prepared for Brother Ying, her fingers tightened until red marks appeared.

“Okay, I’ll go in now.” Chu Yunze stood from the hanging chair and waved lazily at Pei Yi. Her crimson lips curved, and the smile on her face carried faint mockery.

—Why did a certain faded Best Actress’s tone sound so sour?

“Don’t make the others wait too long”? Clearly, everyone was waiting for the faded Best Actress.

With such a small capacity, and she was still a Best Actress… truly ridiculous.

“You go in first,” Chu Yunze said warmly to Zhong Lin. “I’ll tidy up the magazines.”

[Hahahahaha, I saw Yunze’s smug little gaze. So even gentle Alpha sisters have such a black-bellied side!!]

[Just now, Pei Yi and Chu Yunze looked at each other over Zhong Lin’s head. That look had something in it.]

[I feel like the gift box in Zhong Lin’s hand was given by Pei Yi… Yunze also gave her cookies. Receiving gifts from two high-quality Alpha guests at the same time, really, I’m sour. I’m a living lemon spirit.]

Suddenly, someone criticized Zhong Lin, feeling that Zhong Lin had acted wrongly—

[What the heck? Before, people in the bullet comments scolded Zhou Xiaoduo, saying he was eating from the bowl while thinking about the pot, being ambiguous with Yunze while wanting to hook Pei Yi. Now Zhong Lin is stepping on two boats, so why is no one scolding her?!]

Some of Zhou Xiaoduo’s diehard solo fans began spraying Zhong Lin:

[Pure passerby. I feel certain people really have double standards. Zhong Lin is so brave in raising fish and being a sea king on a dating variety show, yet no one scolds her. Our Xiaoduo only took the initiative to interact with two Alpha guests and got attacked by you all. I’m really convinced.]

[Amazing. The production team is inhuman, treating our little brother Xiaoduo as a roast point. Money-grubbing dog thing.]

But these few bullet comments attacking Zhong Lin were quickly drowned out by a large wave of rational viewers—

[Sweetie, don’t deliberately donate your eyes to someone else. Can these two be the same? Zhong Lin is passive. Yunze and Pei Yi are both taking the initiative to show goodwill. What is she supposed to do? Say on the show—

“Aiya, both of you stay away from me, I don’t want to be a loose Omega?”]

[Exactly. Zhong Lin originally didn’t want to interact with the two Alpha guests. She was forced. Those two guests both want to show goodwill to cub. Zhou Xiaoduo, on the other hand, is a truly strange marine creature! He has bad intentions! He flirts with one after another!]

[And the AO guests haven’t mutually chosen yet! Why can’t she interact with both sides? It’s not like she’s binding a CP! Is the person upstairs really a passerby? Not one of Xiaoduo’s brain-dead fans-er??]

…

At the entrance, Pei Yi bent down and changed into slippers.

Zhou Xiaoduo happened to be standing in the hallway, holding a glass cup. He took a sip of water, looking like a pure and good housewife Omega as he greeted Pei Yi. “Did you go out tonight? How come you left early, but came back even later than us?”

“Yes.” Pei Yi coldly replied with one word. After changing into slippers, she walked inside, too lazy to say another word to Zhou Xiaoduo.

Pei Yi did not even know what she had been thinking on her first day in the production team… She had actually felt that Zhou Xiaoduo was relatively obedient? During the AO Random Date Time, Pei Yi’s impression of Zhou Xiaoduo had actually been the best?

Pei Yi felt that back then, she had truly been blind!

Maybe it was because Zhong Lin had been holding the “little drama queen script” at the time, making Zhou Xiaoduo seem pure, obedient, and beautiful by contrast. But after seeing the bullet comments analyze Zhou Xiaoduo’s behavior these past few days, she suddenly realized that Zhou Xiaoduo was not an easy lamp either.

Go to hell with that obedient little male O!

Pei Yi went straight back to her room with her head lowered, always feeling that the production team was going to stir up trouble again tonight.

Zhong Lin walked into the living room and ran into a figure holding a water cup.

Zhou Xiaoduo stood in the hallway holding the cup, his whole face deathly pale, clearly angered by Pei Yi’s perfunctory response just now. “You’re back? Little star.”

He called Zhong Lin “little star” again.

—His tone was comparable to freshly squeezed lemon juice, sarcastic and sour beyond standard.

“Yo, holding so many things. Do you want my help?” Zhou Xiaoduo took a sip of water and asked faintly.

Zhong Lin placed the cookie tin and black gift box on top of the shoe cabinet, bent down to take out her slippers, and said, “No need. I can carry them.”

Zhou Xiaoduo curled his lips and turned back to the living room.

Zhong Lin first returned to her room to put away her things. While there, she opened the cookie tin and discovered that the cookies inside were sealed and divided into many small individual cans.

Zhong Lin brought a small can of matcha-flavored cookies to the living room. At this time, no one was around the coffee table yet. She sat down alone, twisted off the lid, and smelled the rich buttery milk fragrance mixed with matcha. It was very fragrant.

Zhong Lin began crunching on them kacha kacha. The cookies melted between her lips and teeth, with a fresh and pleasant sweetness.

This flavor was very delicious. Zhong Lin really wanted to open her abyss-like little mouth and eat all these little cookies, but after eating only a few pieces, she stopped.

Zhong Lin wanted to share them with the others later and let everyone have a taste too.

“How can you still eat at night? Can you even fit it in? Aren’t you afraid of getting fat?” Zhou Xiaoduo was the second to arrive in the living room. He sat on the three-person sofa diagonally across from Zhong Lin.

Seeing Zhong Lin eating the cookies Chu Yunze had given her, Zhou Xiaoduo’s entire face lost control for a moment. In only an instant, he returned to his “Zhou Xiaoduo-style obedient fake smile.”

“You should eat less at night. Be careful, eating too much might make you fat~” Zhou Xiaoduo suddenly softened his tone, like a good sister advising her best friend to lose weight.

At this moment, the camera crew girl standing not far away was adjusting the camera position.

“Good evening.” After the camera girl finished her work, she came over to greet Zhong Lin. She still remembered that Zhong Lin had injured herself while helping the floor staff move boxes before. She was a very kind and cute Omega little sister.

“Do you want a cookie?” Zhong Lin raised the box in her hand.

The camera girl looked at Zhong Lin. The small, slender girl was holding a little cookie can, inviting her to eat cookies.

Suddenly, she really wanted to eat cookies! Damn it, she clearly wanted to lose weight!

The floor staff girl took a piece from the cookie can. Her heart was full of guilt, but she followed her nature and ate it. Very quickly, she was conquered by the cookie.

Ah, this melt-in-the-mouth feeling, as if it were dancing on the tip of her tongue. So fragrant!

“Am I fat?” Zhong Lin suddenly asked her, her face innocent and her tone a little curious.

—Was the Bai Ze cub’s human form fat in human eyes? She had been shocked by Zhou Xiaoduo’s words just now.

“Don’t listen to his nonsense.” The camera girl glanced in Zhou Xiaoduo’s direction and quickly rolled her eyes. “You’re not fat. If you get any thinner, the wind will blow you away.”

Zhou Xiaoduo: “…” Speechless. He had not named Zhong Lin and said she was fat.

Ten minutes later, all the other guests had arrived.

The production team separated the Alpha and Omega guests. The Alpha guests gathered in the small courtyard, while the Omega guests gathered in the living room. The AO guests would each blindly draw cards.

The Alpha and Omega guests who drew matching cards would go on a date together tomorrow at a location arranged by the production team.

Zhou Xiaoduo and Liang Shan moved very quickly, rushing to feel around inside the box for a long time before each finally drawing out a card.

Zhong Lin slowly waited until they had all finished drawing before going to draw. Her mentality was especially good.

In any case, it did not matter which Alpha she went on a date with tomorrow. As long as she did her job well, conducted business properly, and seriously completed the production team’s tasks, that was enough.

The Bai Ze cub was super professional~

“What did you draw?” After looking at the card in his hand, Zhou Xiaoduo immediately exposed his own, hoping to exchange information from the other two. “I drew ‘Really Beautiful’!”

“You two chat first.” Liang Shan looked at the card in her hand, which had “Really Fragrant” written on it, and silently shook her head. She did not answer Zhou Xiaoduo’s question. She stood and left the living room. “I’ll go back first. I don’t feel very well today.”

“What card did Xiao Lin draw?” Zhou Xiaoduo turned his head to look at Zhong Lin. “We’ve been old classmates for so many years. You wouldn’t even hide it from me, right?”