A Milky Orange-Flavored Omega Becomes Famous Through a Dating Show [Entertainment Circle] - Chapter 34

The two went to the counter to refund A Little Thing Called Love and bought tickets for Summer, Hide-and-Seek With the Bridal Dress instead.

After they sat down, Chu Yunze suddenly placed her arm on the armrest between them and turned to Zhong Lin. “If you get scared later, you can hold my arm.”

Zhong Lin smiled sweetly and lowered her voice, saying softly, “Thank you, Yunze.”

How could the Bai Ze cub be afraid? She was a divine beast who sought good fortune and avoided calamity. A long, long time ago, she had even cooperated with Heavenly Master Zhong Kui as a friend and helped suppress evil ghosts~

However, after the founding of the country, animals were not allowed to become spirits, and humans were not allowed to turn into ghosts or monsters. She was truly curious what the “ghosts” in movies looked like.

She stuck in the straw and took a sip of “Cheese Strawberry Berry,” hugging the popcorn and crunching away happily. The popcorn bucket looked quite big, but actually did not contain that much. She had already eaten nearly half of it.

The movie began—

A man and two women who had graduated long ago received an invitation from their alma mater to attend the school anniversary. But the moment they entered the school gate, they discovered that it was already an abandoned school. The original school had moved away long ago.

“Bang—bang—” It was the sound of doors closing.

The nightmare began. They could not get out. All exits had been locked shut.

They searched for a way out. When they passed by a lecture hall and heard voices inside, they walked in.

Inside the lecture hall, an old, broken projector was running. On the screen, a figure hung suspended in midair. It was a woman dressed in a crimson bridal robe.

Judging by her appearance, the woman looked about twenty or so. Her face was deathly pale, but her lips were blood-red, as if she had just drunk blood.

The woman in the bridal robe said, “I am… Little Flower Fairy.”

“Impossible.” The man and two women looked terrified.

…

The extreme resentment revealed in those eyes was so powerful that the actress’s acting was simply explosive. It was as if she really were “Little Flower Fairy,” or rather, a vengeful female ghost.

The moment the woman in the red bridal robe lifted her head, Chu Yunze shuddered all over. Her arm on the armrest suddenly trembled.

Her elbow happened to hit the popcorn bucket Zhong Lin had placed near the armrest.

The popcorn overturned and spilled all over Zhong Lin.

With a “pa,” the cola loosely held in Chu Yunze’s hand was knocked over. It rolled onto the seat beside her, the plastic cup burst open, and cola spilled all over the floor.

Luckily, the whole row of seats had been reserved by the production team… and it had not spilled onto Chu Yunze’s legs.

Zhong Lin let out a low “ah,” feeling a little surprised and also a little regretful. In one go, they had lost a cup of cola and all the popcorn.

“Sorry, sorry…” Chu Yunze hurriedly turned her head and raised her hand, wanting to help Zhong Lin clean up.

Zhong Lin waved her hand. “I can do it myself. You watch the movie first.”

In the movie, the man and two women began playing a game of “hide-and-seek” with “Little Flower Fairy.” It was called a game, but in reality, it was one-sided suppression, teasing, humiliation, and terror… It was a bloody game.

The man was drowned in the restroom. His body was broken into several pieces and soaked in the sink.

One of the two women fell from a high place and became a pile of rotten flesh in a pool of blood.

The other was frightened insane and ran everywhere, playing “hide-and-seek” with “Little Flower Fairy.”

…

Chu Yunze’s face became increasingly ugly. Especially when she saw the man’s manner of death, she jerked backward violently, her fingers gripping the armrest tightly. Blue veins bulged on the back of her fair hand, and her raised knuckles turned white from force.

Disgusting. For some reason, she wanted to retch.

Chu Yunze felt a strong discomfort, nausea spreading through her throat.

Some people sought excitement through bloody scenes, while some people were naturally unable to look at overly bloody things—for example, mild blood dizziness, feeling nauseated at the sight of it, stress reactions, and so on.

Moreover, Chu Yunze seemed to have barely eaten that morning and had only drunk a cup of iced Americano.

A little finger suddenly poked the back of Chu Yunze’s tightly clenched hand.

Chu Yunze turned her head, and an unopened cup of Mango Pomelo Sago appeared in her vision.

With a “ka,” Zhong Lin pierced the straw opening and handed it to Chu Yunze. “Drink something sweet~ I haven’t touched this cup yet.”

“You’re probably just feeling a little uncomfortable. Drink something sweet and you’ll feel much better~”

These words seemed to carry a strange power, like an oracle, like magic. That orange-yellow cup of Mango Pomelo Sago sparkled faintly in the dim movie theater.

The attraction of the Mango Pomelo Sago to Chu Yunze suddenly rose sharply.

“Thank you,” Chu Yunze said softly. Her red lips parted slightly and wrapped around the straw. She directly took a sip from the drink held in Zhong Lin’s hand. The sweetness of mango juice, the tartness of grapefruit pulp, and the sago bouncing on her tongue—

So sweet.

It felt like Zhong Lin’s words had actually taken effect?! After one sip, that nausea instantly weakened, as if it carried holy divine power.

Like a blessing from a god in the heavens, a peaceful and tranquil power flowed down Chu Yunze’s throat together with the Mango Pomelo Sago and entered her body.

Chu Yunze paused, her eyes momentarily confused. She took the Mango Pomelo Sago from Zhong Lin’s hand. Her taste buds were occupied by it, and when Chu Yunze looked at Zhong Lin, her eyes curved slightly. This time, the smile truly reached the bottom of her eyes, unlike the polite business smile from before.

In the dim environment, the girl’s clear gaze completely purified all her discomfort.

So sweet.

The drink was sweet, and the person was sweet too.

[Clapping] Cub’s Mango Pomelo Sago isn’t a drink at all. It’s actually life-saving “immortal water”~

[Oh my god, I also really want to drink Cheese Strawberry Berry, Mango Pomelo Sago, matcha pudding tofu pudding, Oreo cake milk tea…]

[That scared me just now. I thought something was going to happen to Yunze! Is Yunze a little blood-sick? Or low blood sugar? Or nauseated from seeing too bloody a scene?]

[The camera shook just now too. The cameraman probably also thought something was going to happen, QAQ. Luckily Zhong Lin reacted quickly!]

[Zhong Lin is too good, right? Her on-site reaction was fast and steady. I thought there would be a livestream accident, but one cup of Mango Pomelo Sago solved it! She also gave the Alpha guest enough face! [/Mad praise]]

…

After the movie ended, Zhong Lin and Chu Yunze walked out of the theater.

“I thought it was a ghost movie, but it turned out to be a crime movie.” Chu Yunze sighed, clicking her tongue while drinking the Mango Pomelo Sago in her hand. For the first time, she felt that sweets—these sinful high-calorie foods—were not so detestable.

Maybe it was because the original owner of this Mango Pomelo Sago was too sweet.

As a model, indulging once in a while was nothing…

Chu Yunze continued, “An ostracized girl and school bullying. Even an old topic can be filmed in a new way. The director is talented.”

Zhong Lin echoed, “The pacing was really tight, and the plot linked together ring by ring. There were even two reversals at the end. It turned out ‘Little Flower Fairy’ didn’t exist and was actually the hallucination of the girl who jumped off the building! I didn’t expect that at all…”

“Sigh, after suffering school bullying, she developed a mental illness, and in the end, she was forced to jump off a building by those three classmates. She was really pitiful.” Chu Yunze and Zhong Lin walked into the cinema corridor. Their gazes once again stopped on that poster.

Summer, Hide-and-Seek With the Bridal Dress.

Two girls. One stood in the light but had long since died. One stood in the shadows, and though she was alive, she could only coexist with darkness.

The girl in the red bridal robe was actually the older sister of the girl in the school uniform who had jumped from the building.

When she opened her tragically dead younger sister’s diary, she discovered the truth of the school bullying: humiliation, being locked in the restroom, hair-pulling, dirty water being poured on her, and even finally forcing her younger sister to jump from the building.

In the younger sister’s diary, there was a “Little Flower Fairy.” The whole class ignored her, and only “Little Flower Fairy” was kind to her. Little Flower Fairy existed only in the younger sister’s world, saving this girl from despair.

The older sister truly became “Little Flower Fairy.”

—A tooth for a tooth, blood for blood.

“The older sister’s gaze at the end was simply… too shocking.” Chu Yunze still had not recovered from the movie. “When she was caught and imprisoned, that lift of her eyes facing the prison guard, and the older sister’s final line, ‘I don’t regret it.’”

“It was truly thrilling. I feel like this movie is going to win an award this year.”

“It’s just that some scenes were a little disgusting.” Now that Chu Yunze thought of that sink filled with body parts and overflowing with blood, she felt like her stomach had been slightly stimulated again, a little nauseated…

Zhong Lin suddenly asked, “What kind of flower fairy was Little Flower Fairy actually? Could she be a rose fairy? Or maybe some kind of peony fairy?”

Chu Yunze found this nonsense question so amusing that she almost laughed. The little discomfort in her heart instantly faded. “Maybe.”

Zhong Lin suddenly became thoughtful. Thinking of those sweet pastries she had eaten before and the dessert shop on this afternoon’s itinerary, she said, “Roses are so fragrant. They must taste really good. Do you humans eat roses?”

Seeing that Chu Yunze was still immersed in the discomfort brought by certain scenes, Zhong Lin was deliberately changing the topic.

Chu Yunze laughed softly and blurted out, “Rose flowers? Edible roses? They do exist…”

“Really?” Zhong Lin instantly became interested. Her eyes blinked, bright and shining, like little stars suddenly lit up.

“Flower cakes. They’re very fragrant,” Chu Yunze answered. “I have a friend on a business trip in Yunnan. People in Yunnan like eating flower cakes. I’ll ask her to send a few boxes over and let you try them.”

“Maybe the rose flower fairy Younger Sister imagined really did exist, but was made into flower cakes?” Zhong Lin nodded along. Her voice was light and carried a little playfulness. “Flower cakes. I kind of want to eat them.”

After speaking, Zhong Lin lightly smacked her lips. The Bai Ze cub really was a little curious about what flower cakes tasted like.

“There are also kapok flowers and locust flowers,” Chu Yunze continued. “You can try those later too. Dried kapok flowers can be used to make soup, and locust flowers can be steamed and eaten… There are many more. If you want to learn about them, I can take you to a restaurant next time to try them.”

Zhong Lin nodded. Humans really knew how to enjoy life. She could not help sighing aloud, “I want to eat rose flower cakes…”

[Goddamn rose flower fairy being made into flower cakes?! Am I watching a dating variety show, a horror-thriller variety show, or a comedy variety show?? Cub’s brain circuit is amazing!]

[Hahahahahaha goose goose goose, laughing like a goose.]

[Feels like Zhong Lin is actually pretty smart. She doesn’t really want to eat flower cakes, right? I feel like she deliberately changed the topic. Sister Yunze was finally pulled out of the movie atmosphere by her!]

[Ahhh, KSWL, shipping to death. Yun-Lin is real! It’s real!!]

…

The two walked side by side out of the cinema.

“Where do you want to eat lunch?” Chu Yunze turned her head and asked her.

Zhong Lin thought for a moment and took out a black dining card from her bag. “Let’s go here~”

A free dining card. Only a fool would not use it.

Chu Yunze lowered her eyes and saw that black dining card, catching sight of the gold-stamped words—Thousand Flavors Delicacy.

It was a very high-end Cantonese restaurant in the city, serving everything from high-end seafood to traditional Cantonese cuisine. Business was extremely hot, and she had heard reservations had to be made one month in advance.

Chu Yunze had never heard of this restaurant issuing dining cards. As she followed Zhong Lin into the elevator, she asked seemingly casually, “Where did you get it?”

Zhong Lin waved the dining card in her hand. “This? It’s a prize I won. I’m treating you to lunch today.”

“Okay.” Chu Yunze’s eyes darkened. She lifted the corners of her lips, her smile somewhat bitter, floating on the surface without reaching her eyes.

Whether the meal was delicious or not, she did not know.

But whoever gave Zhong Lin that dining card was not a good person.

At the city art museum, a guide in a suit dress with delicate light makeup was passionately explaining:

“This work was created in 1956. It is a giant flower-and-bird painting jointly painted by twenty-one painters from Guangdong and Wuhan. Although this painting was created impromptu, while reflecting collective wisdom, it also fully displays each painter’s personal characteristics…”

Today, Pei Yi wore a simple pale blue shirt dress. It set off her slender waist, tall figure, and long legs. Standing in the art gallery, she herself was a pleasing sight.

Pei Yi listened seriously to the guide’s words and carefully examined the giant flower-and-bird painting before her.

Behind them stood another person, wearing khaki overalls and dressed in a Japanese-style outfit: a little male O.

At this moment, Zhou Xiaoduo was drowsy.

The “So Beautiful” card allowed the guests to choose the destination themselves, as long as it was related to the word “beautiful,” such as beauty salons and spas, beautiful scenery, fine wine, or even watching a beautiful ladyboy performance… All of it counted as the “So Beautiful” itinerary line.

And Pei Yi had taken Zhou Xiaoduo to the art museum, letting the accumulation of time and the wheels of history mercilessly roll over Zhou Xiaoduo’s ignorant face.

This morning, they had traveled from a modern gallery to the city museum to the city art museum… all the way through four art-filled painting exhibitions, art exhibitions, and museum exhibitions.

Zhou Xiaoduo was exhausted. Now, whenever he saw a guide wearing a microphone and a suit, his head hurt. “Pei Yi…”

Pei Yi seemed not to hear him at all. She lowered her eyes and examined the flower-and-bird painting before her. Occasionally, she raised her head to glance at the enthusiastic guide and nodded approvingly, while her heart involuntarily thought about other things.

—If only Zhong Lin had drawn the same card as her today… Zhou Xiaoduo was so boring. She did not want to spend another second with him.

Today, which Alpha guest would be dating Zhong Lin? Chu Yunze or Zhu Ying?

No matter who it was, Pei Yi was ten out of ten certain that she would see Zhong Lin.

After all, Zhong Lin still had a dining card in her hand.

On the path back to the villa last night, Pei Yi had even deliberately introduced that Cantonese restaurant. It should have left an impression on Zhong Lin.

From the moment Zhong Lin heard about Boston lobster, pan-fried foie gras, traditional roast duck, honey-glazed char siu, and so on that night, under the darkness, those light brown eyes instantly brightened. Her brows and eyes curved like new moons, and when she smiled sweetly, two little dimples appeared in her cheeks…

It could be inferred that Zhong Lin was greedy.

So she would definitely go today.

The guide’s passionate, rising and falling voice sounded by her ear: “You absolutely won’t believe that the Among Flowers and Birds before you was actually discovered inside an old newspaper!”

“Indeed.” Pei Yi nodded cooperatively, though she was actually absent-minded. When she went to the restaurant later, should she invite her to…

“Pei Yi.” Zhou Xiaoduo was calling Pei Yi again, his voice even rising several degrees, almost catching up to the guide with the microphone.

Pei Yi turned her head, raised her index finger to her lips in a silencing gesture, and furrowed her brows impatiently. Her lowered voice carried disdain. “Keep your voice down. Noise is forbidden here.”

Zhou Xiaoduo blinked in grievance and said weakly, “Let’s go eat.”

Pei Yi shook her head. “There’s still one modern art exhibition we haven’t gone to. Didn’t the production team want us to complete the itinerary?”

This morning, in order to date Pei Yi, Zhou Xiaoduo had woken up especially early, spent a long time matching his clothes, and applied very detailed no-makeup makeup and inner eyeliner. He had not even had time to eat breakfast. Now, he was so hungry he was seeing stars and so sleepy he could barely open his eyes.

Zhou Xiaoduo’s gaze gradually scattered. “Do we have to finish looking at all these before eating?”

“The itinerary must be fully completed. We’ll probably go eat at three in the afternoon.” Pei Yi nodded. “I have something to do at 3:30 in the afternoon, so you can go eat lunch by yourself at three.”

Zhou Xiaoduo’s whole face was practically written with “no will to live.” “…” ⊙_⊙

“Then I’ll leave first. I have a headache. I’m going back to rest,” Zhou Xiaoduo said helplessly.

Pei Yi turned back around and did not continue wasting words with Zhou Xiaoduo. She was too lazy to even say goodbye to him. She continued looking toward the guide and listening to the historical origins of Among Flowers and Birds.

The sound of footsteps behind her gradually faded. Zhou Xiaoduo left the art museum filled with resentment.

“Pa pa—”

Pei Yi clapped her hands and nodded lightly to the guide. “That’s enough. Thank you for your hard work today.”

The guide stopped her performance and smiled at Pei Yi. “Have you heard enough, Ms. Pei?”

Pei Yi smiled somewhat mockingly. “These collections—I’ve accompanied our old man to see them countless times before. I’ve long since seen enough.”

Guide: “So now you’re going to the modern art exhibition?”

“Not going.” Pei Yi turned and waved toward the follow-cameraman. She raised her brow slightly, looking helpless. “My Omega partner left early, so the itinerary is interrupted.”

“No need to follow me. This line’s recording is over. You all… are off work.”

Pei Yi turned and followed the guide out through an internal passage.

For the rest of today, she did not want to see Zhou Xiaoduo again.

The follow-cameraman was very sensible and did not continue following. He only called from behind Pei Yi at a distance, “Where is Teacher Xiao Pei going?”

“Eating.” Pei Yi did not look back, only waved with her back to the camera. Her back looked especially free and easy.

[Hahahahahahahahahahaha XSWL, just now she was still telling Zhou Xiaoduo they had to wait until three in the afternoon to eat. Now, the moment Zhou Xiaoduo leaves, Pei Yi directly ends the itinerary. She flips faces so fast. So satisfying.]

[Feels like Pei Yi simply didn’t want to eat with Zhou Xiaoduo, so she said that thing about eating at three. Hohoho. [Cunning but polite smile.jpg]]

[So you’re this kind of Little Best Actress Pei~]

[Little Best Actress Pei is way too black-bellied! Love it, love it!]

…

Near the CBD business district, on the 99th floor of a hotel located in the tallest building, there was a Michelin three-star restaurant named Thousand Flavors Delicacy.

This place had an extremely advantageous location, overlooking the scenery of the entire city.

Especially at night, it was as if tens of thousands of stars and rivers were stepped beneath the honored guests’ feet, beautiful beyond description.

Every minute and every second of the scenery was full of the smell of money.

Zhong Lin and Chu Yunze took the direct elevator to the 99th floor.

“Ding—” The elevator doors opened.

Facing them were several servers who had come to welcome guests. They bowed slightly to them. “Welcome. Do you have a reservation?”

Zhong Lin shook her head.

“I’m sorry, but reservations here need to be made one month in advance,” one of the servers looked at Zhong Lin and said helplessly. “Please register for a reservation first and come again next time.”

Seeing such a cute girl, she felt a little embarrassed rejecting her, but business was so hot there really was no helping it.

Zhong Lin pursed her lips slightly and took out that pure black dining card from her bag. “Then this can’t be used…”

She felt a little unwilling. TAT

The moment the server saw that pure black dining card, she froze for an instant and immediately changed her words. “If you use this card, you can skip the reservation.”

This card could skip the reservation because no matter how hot business was or how many reservations there were, a few tables were always reserved for certain people, such as the restaurant owner’s partners and the investment partners of this restaurant.

Having money meant one could do whatever one wanted. Reservations? If you had money, you did not need one. That was the highest authority belonging to partners.

Led by the server, Zhong Lin and Chu Yunze walked all the way past a corridor piled with artificial crystal and glittering with starlight, bright enough to blind the eyes, then past the fully occupied hall and into a hidden private room.

Opposite them was a clear floor-to-ceiling window. From this angle, there was an illusion of being suspended high in the air.

Beneath the floor-to-ceiling window sat a figure.

That person supported her cheek with one hand. Two buttons at her shirt collar were undone, revealing a long neck. Her wrist was very thin, and faint blue veins could be seen beneath her fair skin.

“You’re here?” Pei Yi raised her eyes and looked at the people entering the private room. She lifted her brows slightly, her tone casual, as if she had already expected everything.

Unexpected, yet also reasonable.

The people who came were Zhong Lin and Chu Yunze. In other words, the Alpha guest on a date with Zhong Lin today was Chu Yunze.

In the camera feed following Zhong Lin and Chu Yunze, an “unexpected guest” suddenly appeared. The viewers’ hot-blooded excitement for drama was ignited, and the bullet comments went wild—

[This is way too awkward! They actually ran into Pei Yi here?! Didn’t she say lunch couldn’t happen until three in the afternoon??]

[How can these three eat together?? Is this something I can watch without buying a membership??]

[The production team is so rich, eating at this kind of place. (Focus drifting off course)]

[Ahhhhh~ Wonderful~ Hurry and fight. A war between Alphas. Hurry and yank hair! Tear each other apart for me!]

[I keep feeling like today’s lunch won’t be simple. They’ll start fighting while eating, right? (bushi)]

[Feels like the most awkward one is Zhong Lin. Will cub feel like she got caught cheating? Hehehe.]

Author’s Note:

The thousand-layer pancake is here~ Let’s make things exciting~~

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Babies, drink less coffee on an empty stomach. Skipping breakfast will hurt your stomach~

Explanation: Zhong Lin’s golden finger is similar to divine oracles or word spirits. It is the auspicious words spoken from the mouth of a divine beast.

Although Zhong Lin’s current ability has been weakened and she is only human, these little auspicious words can still take effect.

Zhong Lin herself doesn’t know about this ability~

(Note: Occasionally updating ten thousand characters on Saturday and Sunday is entirely thanks to saved drafts. Cherish me, whose saved drafts are almost burned out. Don’t stockpile cute cub, ying ying ying…)