After Entering a Romance Reality Show Disguised as a Man to Win Over All the Female Leads - Chapter 13

Rong Yu: “.”

She did not understand why He Jiao had suddenly said that. Besides, He Jiao’s gaze and expression clearly showed that she did not like her at all. She even looked like she wanted to chop Rong Yu into pieces.

But this did not affect the livestream viewers’ ability to ship CPs at all.

[Tsk, tsk, tsk. Is my Baby Yu finally about to explode in popularity?!]

[People who don’t understand milk-puppy little brothers are in trouble! Who wouldn’t love a little brother who’s cute, pretty, and can cook? Not only did he hook away Seven’s CP, now he’s hooked away Teacher Sheng’s CP too. I’m dying, hahahahaha.]

Some viewers slowly began to pick up on something else.

[Although, but is it just me who thinks these dish names sound a bit bloody? “When the birds are gone, the bow is hidden”? “When the rabbit dies, the dog is cooked”? No matter how I hear it, it feels like there’s a hidden meaning…]

[Sister above, I kind of feel that too.]

The viewers in the livestream quietly discussed it. Beside Rong Yu, Mu Shuiqing pressed her lips together and shifted closer to her, standing right next to Rong Yu.

She silently declared her status as the true official CP and gave He Jiao a discreet look.

Comments:

[Pfft, the real wife is about to get angry. Stop talking!!]

[Rong Yu and Little Sister Shuiqing are the official CP and cannot be broken up, okay? All you NTR people, get out, get out. Pure-love warriors will lead the protection of the official wife!]

Rong Yu looked at the increasingly abstract comments and, for a moment, did not know what to say.

The atmosphere among the program team gradually froze.

Rong Yu clearly sensed that the gazes of all the male guests around her had landed on her gloomily.

Even without anyone attacking her with their eyes, she still felt a chill down her back.

“……”

Fortunately, Zhang Yong’an clapped his hands and interrupted everyone’s thoughts. “I must remind everyone that for the sake of the program team’s fairness, justice, and discipline, before every round of voting and partner changes, no guest is allowed to privately seduce another person’s partner. As a pure-love dating program of the new era, we must promote socialist core values, establish correct views on romance, and even more so, we cannot NTR someone’s current partner right in front of them.”

Zhang Yong’an glanced at Rong Yu, who was firmly surrounded by the crowd, spread his hands, and added, “Even if you really want to, you have to wait until the next round of partner voting.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the livestream comments instantly began flooding the screen. The entire screen filled with [Pure-love warriors march out to protect], sent repeatedly by various viewers.

Rong Yu could not tell whether the program team was deliberately controlling the comments, or whether the viewers were sending them spontaneously. In any case, the feeling of being stared at unkindly by the male guests around her instantly lessened a lot.

Professor Sheng Ming, who had long since been pushed to the very edge by He Jiao, pushed up the glasses on the bridge of his nose and smiled as he broke the deadlock. “Then should we eat now?”

“Right, right, right. It’s already two in the afternoon. Everyone must be hungry.”

Zhang Yong’an immediately seized the opportunity and followed his words. “Today’s venue rental unit, Qinghe Mountain Villa, has also prepared delicious dishes for everyone. Everyone can eat together.”

After Zhang Yong’an finished speaking, the main doors of Qinghe Mountain Villa behind him immediately opened from the inside. Eight graceful, beautiful servers in long dresses walked out elegantly carrying trays.

The trays held eight dishes of different styles. Just looking at them made one drool. The servers placed them one by one on the long table in front of everyone.

Zhang Yong’an waved at the viewers in front of the main livestream camera.

“Because ours is a documentary-style dating variety show, we don’t have extremely strict time requirements. So the start and end of program tasks are relatively casual. After all the guests finish dining, today’s main program task will temporarily come to an end. After eight tonight, a new program task will appear. Everyone is welcome to come watch then.”

Since the program team filmed from eight in the morning until eight in the evening, following the eight guests the entire time, informing the audience of the day’s task flow in advance would make it easier for viewers to choose appropriate times to watch the livestream based on their actual schedules.

Zhang Yong’an had originally been kindly reminding them, but unexpectedly, the number of people in the livestream room did not decrease at all. The viewers had no awareness of “the morning program task is over, so we can leave and come back tonight.” Instead, they urged him to move aside quickly.

[Baby, you’re blocking the camera.]

[Huh??? You think we’re here to watch a dating show? What part of Heartbeat Moment is enough for me to like?]

[We’re here to watch the battlefield romance drama between four beautiful sisters and a milk-puppy little brother. We’re here to look at the beauty of young men and women. What do program tasks have to do with me?]

[What? Heartbeat Moment has program tasks?]

“……”

Zhang Yong’an felt as if a sword had stabbed into his chest. He felt very hurt.

But also a little happy.

They had filmed so many seasons of dating variety shows, and finally, finally, they had stumbled into the dumb luck of “no need to use your brain at all; as long as the guests are chosen correctly, viewers and fans will continuously flow into the livestream room”!!!

Zhang Yong’an quickly gave the director a look, telling him to hurry up and follow the shots around Rong Yu, while he himself quickly exited the filming site.

Thus, only the eight guests in front of the long table remained in the shot.

Especially Rong Yu, who was sitting in the center. She practically occupied the dominant center position.

On her left were Lin Mengxing and He Jiao. On her right were Mu Shuiqing and He Huaiting. Qin Wenhan, who was originally supposed to stand between Lin Mengxing and He Jiao, had already stood at the outermost edge with a dark face because of his argument with Lin Mengxing.

At this moment, Rong Yu had become the only “man” among the female guests.

With her little brown curls and eyes like thirteen-point aquamarines, wearing only a white shirt as she sat before the long table, no matter how one looked at her, she resembled a lamb waiting to be slaughtered, surrounded in the center by four beautiful sisters.

The pure white inner shirt had no unnecessary colors. Simple white would originally make a person look darker, but because Rong Yu had naturally cold white skin, along with slightly lighter hair and eyes, it instead set her off to seem even more lustrous and jade-white. Sitting among the crowd, she seemed to glow.

The first two buttons at her collar were undone, just enough to reveal her slender, fragile neck and collarbones, rising and falling with her breathing. The looseness of her collar was not revealing. It even carried a conservative sense of inviting yet refusing. But it made people’s hearts itch unbearably, even giving rise to the impulse to reach out and touch.

A string of comments in colors that should not be sent drifted across the livestream room:

[Who understands? My S tendency awakened. I regret so much that I was watching other people before. Clearly Rong Yu is more fragrant… Is this the kind of naturally born milk-puppy Omega from novels???]

[Ahhhhh, me!! Ahhhh, I can’t take it. Is that collar open because it wants me to reach inside?]

[Sister above, the comment section is not an uninhabited zone!! I’ll say it again.]

[Who taught Little Brother Rongrong to dress like this? Where’s the sweater jacket from earlier? Huh??? It’s all your fault I turned into a pervert! wipes drool, screams, twists and crawls in a dark corner]

The viewers and fans who had been watching Rong Yu’s livestream kindly reminded everyone:

[You can look at what He Huaiting is wearing…]

[Holy crap, I was wondering why it looked so familiar.]

[He Huaiting is wearing Little Brother Rong Yu’s clothes? But why does it feel completely different, hhhh. I even think Sister He looks cooler wearing it, I’m dying. The sister above was right. Rong Yu really is some top-tier male O.]

The livestream viewers hissed and licked the screen while taking screenshots.

The red-eyed Mu Shuiqing carefully picked up a piece of grilled fish and placed it on Rong Yu’s plate. She did not speak quickly, but her eyes shone brightly, as if picking food for Rong Yu was something so devout it required faith. Her eyes glimmered as she stared at Rong Yu.

“Rongrong, eat more.”

At this moment, He Huaiting beside them had just moved her chopsticks when Mu Shuiqing’s face suddenly froze. She instantly became vigilant, and even her crimson eyes darkened a little.

“The host said we can’t seduce other groups’ CPs.”

She did not lower her voice at all. Clearly, this was not only meant for He Huaiting.

He Huaiting’s hand holding the chopsticks only paused for an instant. Then she picked up a dish and put it into her own mouth, glancing expressionlessly at Mu Shuiqing without speaking.

The corner of Rong Yu’s mouth twitched.

She remembered that when her friend was young, she did not seem to be this jealous.

Rong Yu attributed Mu Shuiqing’s reaction to possessiveness over a friend or partner. After all, even kindergarten children would be very unhappy if they saw their friend playing with classmates from another group. Even if there was no emotion belonging to “love” involved, it did not affect possessiveness in the slightest.

Mu Shuiqing really resembled Lian Langsheng in childhood.

When Lian Langsheng was young, her parents had both died, her relatives had taken all her inheritance, and yet no one had adopted her. Rong Yu’s family background could not compare to the Lian family at all. After her mother adopted Lian Langsheng, Lian Langsheng could no longer live the wealthy life she once had.

Rong Yu had always felt guilt and heartache toward her, so she also did not want Mu Shuiqing to be unhappy.

Following the other girl’s wishes, she picked up her chopsticks and ate the grilled fish Mu Shuiqing had placed on her plate.

Her expression instantly became somewhat strange.

This grilled fish used the grass carp He Huaiting had caught earlier. From marinating the fish to grilling it in the end, every step had been completed by Rong Yu herself. Even after it was finished, she had personally tasted the sauce. She knew very well what level her cooking was at.

But the fish meat now in her mouth had improved by more than two levels compared to the dishes she had originally made. If Rong Yu’s own cooking skill was an eight out of ten, then this had shot straight to full marks, and even came with extra bonus points.

For a moment, Rong Yu could not even think of a suitable description.

If she had to describe it, then—

It was so delicious it made one want to cry.

Really.

Rong Yu could not help thinking about where exactly the problem had appeared.

She remembered Doctor Lin saying that Lian Langsheng’s personal consciousness would influence the scenes inside the brain world.

But if it was because Lian Langsheng subconsciously felt Rong Yu’s cooking was delicious, then she should have tasted such a good flavor the moment she finished cooking.

Could it be because this was food Mu Shuiqing had picked for her?

Thinking it over carefully, Rong Yu felt it was very possible.

She just did not know whether food picked for her by the others would have the same effect.

If it did, could that prove again that all four of them were Lian Langsheng’s main consciousness bodies?

But Zhang Yong’an had just said that guests were forbidden from seeking out other guests’ temporary CPs. How should she prove this?

Just as this thought rose in her mind, Rong Yu suddenly smelled a familiar fragrance.

Clear and rich, like a lily scent being poured straight into her breathing, it rushed toward her. The fragrance was warm and sweet, almost tangible. From Rong Yu’s left side, it gradually spread through her whole body, causing her to tremble.

It seemed as if an invisible layer of mist gently covered her body. Rong Yu could even smell the lily fragrance clinging to herself.

Yet the others around her did not seem to notice. Not a single person discovered anything unusual.

The familiar tingling, numbing shiver made her whole body tremble. That unseen, intangible, secret mist seemed to press tightly against her body through her clothes. Rong Yu instinctively sat up straight.

That seemingly tangible mist then appeared to turn into cool water, suddenly pressing against the back of her neck. The cool sensation was sticky, wet, and soft. Once it touched her skin, it gradually became warm, licking upward from below along the back of her neck.

It was simply like… like…

The hand Rong Yu used to hold her chopsticks trembled, and the chopsticks clattered onto the table.

Mu Shuiqing, who was about to continue picking up food for her, paused and narrowed her eyes as she looked over. She slowly leaned closer to Rong Yu.

“Rongrong, are you uncomfortable?”

Mu Shuiqing’s unique slow speech made each word seem as if it had been lingered over in her mouth thousands of times. Paired with her focused and passionate crimson eyes, her beautiful, wooden, doll-like magnificence was so stunning one could not look away.

Rong Yu’s eyelashes trembled slightly, and she was just about to shake her head.

The indescribable sensation on the back of her neck seemed to turn into teeth, gently biting her.

The force was not strong, but the action was far too suggestive. Rong Yu’s shoulder blades went numb and weak, and she instinctively shrank her neck.

Mu Shuiqing’s brows furrowed lightly. The motion of picking up food for Rong Yu stopped completely, and even her voice became shadowed.

“…Rongrong?”

Rong Yu stared at her blankly from the side.

Her face was flushed with rosy clouds she could not hide.

Mu Shuiqing’s face completely darkened.

On the left, Lin Mengxing propped her chin up and tilted her head to look at Rong Yu. She reached out a finger, hooked the loose hair by Rong Yu’s ear, and wound the curl around her fingertip.

“Looks like Rong Yu is tired. You can’t even hold your chopsticks.”

Before she finished speaking, the thing that had been rubbing against Rong Yu’s nape began acting like fingers, pinching the back of her neck and stroking up and down.

The sensation was very strange. It was like warm currents were passing through her skin and into her blood. Clearly, it was not solid, yet it made her blood tremble. Heat swept rapidly from the back of her neck through her entire body.

Rong Yu belatedly realized that this was Lin Mengxing’s mental power again.

“……”

What exactly had she been thinking back then when she designed the Enigma setting, making Lin Mengxing’s absolute mental power and pheromones usable even on ordinary humans? Wouldn’t a normal ABO system have been fine?! Now it was this bugged.

Rong Yu could not help clenching her molars, forcibly enduring the uncontrolled reaction of her body.

Lin Mengxing suddenly leaned closer. Her gaze wandered with great interest from Rong Yu’s forehead to the corner of her lips, and even the warm breath she exhaled carried the scent of lilies.

“Do you need a temporary mark? Perhaps I can help you.”

Rong Yu: “……”

Rong Yu had once imagined that if Lian Langsheng had never experienced all those hardships, perhaps she could have lived as freely and boldly as Lin Mengxing. But now, although she knew Lin Mengxing was part of her close friend’s consciousness body, she still inexplicably felt her fists itch. She simply wanted to punch Lin Mengxing.

Just as she nearly could not hold back from moving, she suddenly felt a coolness on her right hand.

Rong Yu lowered her head and looked at her wrist. There, she saw a streak of vermilion. Its dry, clear fragrance dispersed the surrounding flower scent almost instantly.

The air returned to the natural scent of damp soil and wood from the mountain forest.

It was practically an artificial air freshener.

Most importantly, the thing that had been controlling her physical reaction also disappeared.

Lin Mengxing on her left suddenly let out a cramped breath, as if something had cut off her mental power. Mu Shuiqing on her right withdrew her fingers stained with cinnabar without changing expression, then continued picking up food for Rong Yu.

Her red lips parted slightly, and her words carried hidden meaning.

“If you’re uncomfortable, apply more cinnabar. It calms the mind, settles the spirit, drives away evil, and prevents you from being entangled by unclean things.”

After saying this, she even took out a small packet of cinnabar wrapped in white paper from her pocket and stuffed it into the pocket at Rong Yu’s chest.

The phrase “unclean things” was almost specifically referring to someone. Rong Yu instantly felt that the temperature around Lin Mengxing on her left had dropped several degrees, cold air puffing outward.

Was childhood Lian Langsheng this aggressive?

She had always felt she was very obedient and well-behaved.

She looked at Mu Shuiqing and slowly nodded.

The livestream viewers gradually began to sense that something was wrong.

[Do you guys feel like… this scene is giving The Last Supper?]

[Hahahahahahaha, fuck, your comparison is already kind of terrifying!]

[Pfft, are you trying to say that Rong Yu is all the sisters’ dinner? XSR, dying of laughter.]

He Huaiting raised a brow and glanced at the three of them, then quietly ate.

He Jiao sat in her seat with a cold face, her expression as icy as thousand-year-old black ice.

This had originally been a task proposed by the program team to promote the feelings of each group of “temporary lovers,” called “Make lunch for your partner.” But by the time the task ended, aside from Rong Yu’s group, the atmosphere of the other three CPs had become especially strange.

He Jiao publicly saying that her “partner” was Rong Yu finally made the fake smile Sheng Ming always wore on his face impossible to maintain. His expression became especially stiff.

Qin Wenhan and Lin Mengxing had already quarreled several times. After this, they no longer spoke at all, and even their seats were far apart.

Ever since Seven misspoke, he had been uneasy the entire time. He was worried and secretly glanced at the comments from time to time. He was both afraid to see comments on the main screen mentioning the arrogant words he had said earlier, and afraid that no one in the livestream room would pay attention to him at all, with no comments about him whatsoever.

Throughout the meal, his expression was stiff. His entire person seemed as if his soul had flown beyond the heavens, sitting woodenly at the other end.

Of all the male guests present, Rong Yu seemed to receive the best treatment. It was practically five-star treatment. She was surrounded in the center by four female guests. They even competed to chat with her, and beautiful female guests personally picked food for her. Her life was simply far too comfortable.

The fans who had supported Rong Yu from the very beginning felt honored.

[Huh, I clearly came here for Seven ahhhhh. Why have I been watching Rong Yu for ages and not even felt anything was wrong?]

[Aiyaya, following the right main character is happiness, hhhh!]

[+1111, who understands the feeling of shipping the right CP??? Little Brother Rong Yu and Little Sister Shuiqing are the most compatible! Milk-puppy little brother x gentle sister.]

[Person above, isn’t there a problem with the CP you ship? It’s clearly milk-puppy little brother x cool older sister He Huaiting! You didn’t watch the clothes-changing scene, did you?]

[The person upstairs is talking nonsense. It should obviously be cat-like older sister x dazed cute little brother. Lin Mengxing matches him better, okay?]

[??? Mixed-race people should be paired with mixed-race people, okay? That’s the only way to achieve peak beauty for the next generation!]

[? What are you all talking about?]

[This pure-love warrior refuses to accept it! I want official wife Mu Shuiqing! I want official wife Mu Shuiqing!]

Almost all the comments in the main livestream room were arguing endlessly over who exactly Rong Yu’s CP was. Occasionally, someone discussed the other male guests, but they were quickly washed away.

Seven had originally still been worried about whether his fans would be angry. Seeing this, his expression became even uglier. His heart hung suspended in midair, unable to rise or fall.

As a traffic-star singer, not being paid attention to was even more unbearable than having scandalous black material exposed!

He thought of what his agent had told him before he joined the show.

“You’re going on this dating show to solidify your fans. Which fan doesn’t want to date their idol? With your looks, just act hot and cold toward those female guests, and won’t they rush to form CPs with you? When the time comes, maintain your cool-guy persona. Refuse when you should refuse. As for the rest, your fans will solve it for you. The more jealous and envious your fans become, the more they curse the female guests online, the more this wave will solidify your fanbase.”

He had followed the route his agent designed for him.

But he had never expected that from the moment he entered the program team, things would start becoming wrong. He Huaiting, who was supposed to like him, had said he was not good-looking right away. Not to mention, Mu Shuiqing had sharply called him ugly.

The program team had also arranged such a terrifying haunted house exploration, completely failing to use his advantage in singing. In the haunted house, all he had done was get scared into hitting high notes!

This was completely different from what he had imagined before.

The more he thought about it, the angrier he became. His heart turned gloomy again and again for a long time.

On top of that, in the morning, he had seen He Huaiting go out with Rong Yu, a male guest from another group, to search for ingredients, while leaving him, the official CP, at the mountain villa entrance to pick vegetables.

The more Seven thought about it, the angrier he became. Later, at the kitchen door, when he saw Mu Shuiqing, he began losing control and speaking recklessly.

However, at that time, his state had indeed been somewhat strange. He had clearly only been unhappy, yet in that instant, his heart seemed to be filled with hatred. That surging, intense resentment even made him want to kill Mu Shuiqing on the spot.

After he finished snapping at Mu Shuiqing, he instantly woke up and broke into a cold sweat from the thoughts he had just had. Immediately afterward, he began worrying that his fans would dislike him for having a bad personality, and he anxiously fretted for a long while.

But now, it seemed no one cared about his condition at all. The screen was full of comments about Rong Yu.

Why was this guy so disgusting? Why did she have to stand out so much in everyone’s camera shots?

As Seven thought this, he began to feel his heart speed up again. The movement in his chest even spread throughout his whole body. He heard his own voice echoing continuously in his mind.

“Destroy him! What are you waiting for? Hurry and find a chance to ruin him! This show was originally prepared for you. He’s relying on nothing but one face to squeeze in and pretend to be some fresh-faced idol. Hurry and destroy him!”

Every time the voice in his mind roared, his hand trembled once. Seven’s hands shook as he picked up the water glass in front of him and took a sip, but the restless heat in his body did not decrease at all. Instead, it grew stronger.

At the long table, He Jiao coldly rose to her feet and said, “I’m done eating,” then turned and went to get a car from the program staff before leaving.

After that, the male and female guests gradually dispersed. The filming venue, which had been full of people, was almost empty in no time.

Seven considered himself the most popular guest among all the male and female guests present, as well as the only celebrity. Yet now, even though he was the last to leave, he still did not receive special treatment from the program team.

No one cared whether he had eaten well, or whether he had been happy today. None of the male or female guests waited for him. The program staff bustled about packing up, not leaving even a single glance for him.

Seven heard the furious roaring in his ears grow louder and louder, until finally it was almost deafening.

“What’s there to stay for in this broken program team? That Rong Yu shouldn’t have come to Heartbeat Moment at all!! Hurry and destroy him!!!”

Seven picked up the water glass in his hand. His tense face grew increasingly pale, but his eyes gradually turned crazed.

·

After everyone finished lunch, they scattered and returned to their original lodgings.

Rong Yu and Mu Shuiqing returned once more to the siheyuan where they had rested before.

This time, Rong Yu was not awakened by Doctor Lin, nor did she encounter sleep paralysis again. She had a sweet afternoon nap and slept all the way until past six in the evening.

At around seven, the program team’s car knocked on their courtyard gate. A staff member held an iPad playing a video of Host Zhang Yong’an and raised it for the two of them to see.

Zhang Yong’an in the iPad video had clearly used a beauty filter. His skin had been smoothed so much that his original texture could no longer be seen.

Zhang Yong’an said excitedly, “Good evening, dear guests. Welcome to our Heartbeat Night! The program team invites everyone to Fengdu Outdoor Bar to taste wine together and, under the cover of moonlight, break down the barriers between you! In order not to disturb everyone’s late-night snack, chatting, and relaxation, I will not be present tonight. The livestream room will also only have one main camera and will no longer follow with split shots. All on-site cameramen will leave, with only the cameras remaining. I wish everyone a pleasant time!”

·

When Rong Yu and Mu Shuiqing arrived at Fengdu Outdoor Bar in the program team’s car, night had already fallen. The ink-black sky had completely absorbed the daylight, and the roadside scenery was entirely lit by the colored lights on the surrounding trees.

Although Fengdu Outdoor Bar was called a bar, it was actually more like a food stall. There was only a movable dining truck in the distance that could provide various drinks and snacks.

Because of filming needs, the program team had directly booked the entire place, so there were no other customers around.

They had only arranged an extremely spacious square table for the guests. On the table were various low-alcohol drinks, all kinds of snacks, and square board-game boxes.

Not long after Rong Yu and Mu Shuiqing sat down, the other guests began arriving one after another.

Rong Yu and Mu Shuiqing sat side by side on the north side of the table.

As soon as Lin Mengxing arrived, she directly sat on the east side of the table, next to Rong Yu’s left hand. Qin Wenhan sat on Lin Mengxing’s left with a dark expression.

He Huaiting glanced at the four people already seated at the table and silently sat down on Mu Shuiqing’s right. Seven, who was behind her, also sat down.

Rong Yu noticed that Seven’s face seemed a little pale, and there was a strange panic in his expression. He looked very unnatural.

Before she could think much of it, He Jiao sat down directly opposite her, expressionlessly looking at her. Sheng Ming, still wearing that smiling face, greeted everyone.

He Jiao’s blond hair and blue eyes were still strikingly bright even beneath the dark moonlight. Coupled with that strongly present gaze, Rong Yu found it impossible to ignore. Her scalp only felt numb.

Lin Mengxing glanced at He Jiao’s gloomy face, raised a brow, and pulled a board-game box from the table.

Opening it, she found a deck of exquisitely made playing cards with black backs, red patterns, and a rather special appearance.

Lin Mengxing casually shuffled the cards and looked up at everyone. “Party tradition. How about we play Truth or Dare? We’ll use a bottle to choose someone. The person with the same card number as the chosen one has to choose truth or dare.”

Sheng Ming was the first to raise his hand with a smile and agree. The others did not refuse.

And so the game began.

Lin Mengxing selected a glass bottle of alcoholic beverage, placed her hand on it, and with a little force, easily lifted the cap off.

Lin Mengxing poured alcohol into the empty wineglass in front of each person. By the time she finished a circle, the bottle of alcoholic beverage had just been poured out.

The livestream viewers froze.

[Did you see clearly how she opened that glass bottle barehanded???]

[No… It seemed like she opened it lightly, and it just… opened?]

[What kind of strange strength is this?]

Lin Mengxing laid the empty bottle flat in the center of the table and placed the cards beside it. Starting from her, everyone began drawing cards clockwise.

By the time it was Rong Yu’s turn and she finished drawing, exactly one full round had passed.

Lin Mengxing reached out and spun the bottle. The bottle immediately began spinning at high speed, then gradually slowed down, finally pointing directly at Rong Yu.

Rong Yu raised the card in her hand. It was a seven of diamonds.

Everyone around the table began checking their own cards. Only He Huaiting raised the playing card in her hand, revealing a seven of spades.

The numbers matched.

He Huaiting spoke in a low voice. “Truth.”

Rong Yu thought for a moment and asked the simplest question.

“I want to know what you think of me.”

As soon as she said this, before the others could react, He Jiao’s expression darkened even more. Seven, whose face was stiff, tightened his grip on the glass in his hand and woodenly took a sip of the drink.

He Huaiting’s long, straight white hair flew in the night breeze. Her golden eyes, which had always been calm and steady, stared straight at Rong Yu.

She fixed her gaze on Rong Yu for a long while. Then her thin lips parted, and she slowly uttered two words.

“Very good.”

The livestream viewers instantly burst into laughter.

[Hahahahaha.]

[Are you giving her a nice-person card, dummy!!]

“That’s it?” Rong Yu was a little disappointed.

He Huaiting looked at the character data displayed above Rong Yu’s head by the infinite-flow game system—

[Instance Name: Heartbeat Moment

Instance Difficulty: S-rank

Core Instance Character Name: Rong Yu

Personality: S

Agility: A

Intelligence: A

Appearance: S

Charm Value: S

Overall Evaluation: Dangerous person. Do not approach without permission! Repeating: dangerous person. Do not approach without permission!! Unless you don’t want to maintain your 100% instance clearance rate and want to die in this instance!!!]

He Huaiting lowered her eyes and nodded slightly.

Truly very good.

Someone she knew was dangerous, yet still wanted to keep approaching.

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Author’s Note:

A long time later, after Lian Langsheng had already awakened, she thought back to the words she had said during her He Huaiting period and silently began reading and studying—Don’t Lose Because You Don’t Know How to Express Yourself.