After Entering a Romance Reality Show Disguised as a Man to Win Over All the Female Leads - Chapter 5

The livestream viewers, who had been staring in a daze, were jolted awake by the alarm from Mu Shuiqing’s pulse oximeter. Only then did they come back to their senses.

[They… actually really came out?!]

[Holy crap, Little Brother Rong Yu is awesome!!!]

[That’s too amazing, damn. So cool!]

[Did anyone notice Qingqing’s heart rate hit 152 just now?! Hahahaha, my god.]

[She got teased past the limit by Little Brother Rong Yu, wuwuwu.]

[Baby Yu, I understand the logic, but don’t take off the pulse oximeter if you have the guts. doge]

In the individual livestream room, the viewers began voting like crazy. Gifts of every color flew across the screen, filling it completely. The vote count, which had originally been only 13, began skyrocketing, leaping to 134 and still rising geometrically.

[Baby Yu wanted votes, right? Here, here, I’ll give them all to you!!]

[It’s not too early. There’s no such thing as too early when confessing to Little Brother Rong Yu. very loud]

[Baby Yu is amazing!!! I’ll wave the banner for Baby Yu!!! All my little flowers are yours!!!!]

Someone sent another Super Chat worth 100 RMB, and the one-minute highlighted message hung at the top of the screen.

[I promised Baby Yu just now that I’d give Baby Yu ten thousand votes. I’m here!]

As soon as that Super Chat appeared, flower petals floated across the entire screen.

[Little Flowers x10000] appeared on the screen with golden starlight, so generous that it left people speechless.

The two people at the haunted house exit could not see the livestream comments and were still standing quietly at the doorway.

The staff member responsible for checking the pulse oximeter studied it over and over for a long time, but could not see where the problem was. The device was clearly still alarming, but Mu Shuiqing, who stood beside them, was so calm. No matter how one looked at it, she did not seem like someone whose heart rate had exceeded the range her body could bear.

Then it could only be a problem with the device.

The staff member lowered their head and said to Mu Shuiqing and Rong Yu, “Sorry, the device might be broken. We’ll go notify the director.” Then they jogged away with the pulse oximeter in their arms.

For a moment, at the west entrance of the haunted house, only Rong Yu, Mu Shuiqing, and the cameraman following them remained standing outside the door.

“The device was broken,” Mu Shuiqing said calmly.

“Mm-hm, I know.” Rong Yu raised a brow and nodded.

The comments burst into laughter.

[What broken? Shuiqing, just keep making excuses. doge]

[Qingqing: The device was broken. Rongrong: Ah, yes, yes, yes. Mm, right, right, right. I’m dying.]

[You’re beautiful, so everything you say is right. not really]

After pausing for two seconds, Mu Shuiqing suddenly turned to look at her again, her expression hesitant.

“How did you know the password was those three words?”

The smile on Rong Yu’s face did not change, but her left hand could not help tightening around the pulse oximeter she had already removed. She lowered her head and looked at the heart-rate display stopped at 44.

Because this was a locked room she had designed.

Because she liked her close friend.

Because that secret, unspeakable crush that could not see the light could only be hidden in her novels full of obscure, ambiguous love and spoken aloud there.

In the original story, He Jiao would stumble into this place by accident, and the original protagonist “Rong Yu” would enter the password and bring her out of the pure white locked room. As for Rong Yu’s empty, fruitless crush, it could only remain forever within the cold lines of text, like that pale locked room resembling a prison.

“Because this is a romance variety show.” Rong Yu withdrew her thoughts, lifted her head, and blinked at Mu Shuiqing. “Those three words fit the theme, don’t they?”

She had concealed herself for a long time. In Lian Langsheng’s brain world, she would be even less likely to slip up.

Mu Shuiqing looked deeply into her eyes. She opened her mouth as if she wanted to say something, then closed it again and nodded.

Just then, the program staff member who had run off with the pulse oximeter to find the director came jogging back and delivered a tablet.

“Director Ruan said you may have to wait a little longer for the other guests. If you’re bored, you can watch the other guests’ livestream cameras first.”

Mu Shuiqing stood there with a wooden expression and said nothing. Rong Yu stepped forward and reached out to take it.

“Thank you.”

In the program, Rong Yu was a “male guest,” so naturally she had not put on heavy makeup. Her features were her original ones, only with makeup slightly thickening the lines of her brows and eyes. Her sharp yet exquisite mixed-race face glowed white beneath the sunlight, and those sky-blue eyes were even clearer than the sky overhead.

The staff member lowered their head and met her face directly. Their face instantly flushed bright red, and they quickly waved their hands.

“N-no problem.”

Then they hurried away with the tips of their ears red.

Mu Shuiqing looked in the direction the staff member had left, lips pressed tightly together. She did not make a sound, but her face looked a little cold.

Rong Yu did not notice. She lowered her head and looked at the tablet in her hands.

This was a tablet specially set up by the program team. It could only be used to watch the program’s main camera and the individual livestream rooms of the other groups besides theirs.

Rong Yu placed the tablet on a nearby iron stand, just high enough for both her and Mu Shuiqing to see.

The first thing displayed on the tablet was Lin Mengxing and Qin Wenhan’s individual camera.

The comments were full of people spamming hahahaha.

On the screen, the two of them were sprinting all the way to avoid the gloomy female ghost behind them, who had long hair hanging loose and was carrying a hoe.

Qin Wenhan, whose heart rate had originally been fairly good, had now shot up to 120. With a dark expression, he ran wildly side by side with Lin Mengxing. His shoulders and hair were covered with splattered fake blood and blue-green paint. The calm, cold, domineering CEO aura he had originally possessed had vanished completely. Even his hairstyle had been blown crooked by the cold wind in the corridor.

As he ran, he fled in panic while dodging the hoe attacks from the female ghost behind him. He looked extremely miserable.

Lin Mengxing beside him was clearly much neater. Aside from a little green paint on her arm, she was still as fresh and clean as when she had first entered the haunted house. Even while sprinting a long distance with Qin Wenhan, her face was not red and she was not out of breath. She remained calm and at ease, as if walking on flat ground.

She turned back to glance at the female ghost still roaring and chasing them, then suddenly said, “You run first. I can’t run anymore.”

Qin Wenhan, who had been sprinting, froze for two seconds at her words and subconsciously slowed his steps. The female ghost behind them immediately grew so excited that she roared. He was so frightened that he sped up again and resumed running wildly.

Qin Wenhan widened his eyes in disbelief as he looked at her. “What are you trying to do?”

Lin Mengxing waved a hand. “I’m too lazy to run. You go first. Don’t mind me.”

After saying that, she gave Qin Wenhan no chance to react. She stopped directly and stood against the wall.

The livestream viewers were dumbfounded.

[???? What is she doing?]

[Could the female ghost be a holographic projection?]

[Friend above, the female ghost’s fingernail grabbed Qin Wenhan’s jacket earlier. It’s definitely real. How could it be a projection?]

[It’s over, it’s over. Lin Mengxing has gone crazy. But this female ghost really can chase, my god. She’s been chasing them for five minutes. If it were me, I wouldn’t be able to run anymore either.]

Some people could not help complaining in the comments.

[What is she doing? She can’t run anymore, so she just stops? What kind of logic is that? This is a team game. Don’t drag your teammate down.]

[Exactly. I’m speechless.]

[She doesn’t look tired at all, but she still says she can’t run. Little princesses really are precious, huh. Tsk, tsk.]

The internet trolls began taking turns attacking her in the comments.

The female ghost carrying the hoe had also already approached Lin Mengxing.

Lin Mengxing, with her graceful figure and tall, slender build, stood by the side of the peeling, broken corridor with her cat-ear hairstyle. Seeing that she had stopped, the female ghost immediately raised the hoe and charged at her like a madwoman. Under the contrast of that burly figure, Lin Mengxing looked exactly like a poor, helpless little lost cat.

Qin Wenhan, who had already run ahead, turned back and saw this scene. After hesitating for two seconds, he turned and was about to run back to help her.

In the next moment, everyone in the livestream saw Lin Mengxing lift the female ghost with one hand, turn sideways, and kick backward. She directly sent the ghost flying five or six meters away.

With a bang, the female ghost crashed into the wall, then slid limply down to the ground, stirring up a layer of dust.

Comments:

[……??]

[Holy crap, so handsome, so handsome, so handsome!!!]

[Sister is so cool ahhhhh!]

[Ah, uh, this—]

[Although I know the NPCs in here are all props and can be freely attacked, they seem very heavy, right…? She kicked it flying just like that?]

[666666]

Mu Shuiqing also raised her delicate brows at the sight and even took the initiative to praise her. “Not bad skills.”

Rong Yu stared at the livestream image without speaking.

Just now, she had clearly seen that before Lin Mengxing made her move, the female ghost had already stopped attacking. It was like a robot whose settings had been changed midway. Its gaze instantly became dull, and even the hoe had been withdrawn. It was only because Lin Mengxing acted too quickly and kicked the female ghost away in an instant that the ghost’s reaction did not attract attention.

This combo was like…

Like she had used some kind of mental attack before launching a physical one.

Rong Yu thought of the Hello Kitty sticker on the back of Lin Mengxing’s neck and the lily perfume scent that had appeared and disappeared around her for no reason.

What if she, like Mu Shuiqing, had borrowed a new character setting from one of Rong Yu’s other novels?

Rong Yu remembered that she had written an interstellar ABO novel before. The female lead’s pheromone scent seemed to be lily perfume…

For a moment, Rong Yu was speechless.

“.”

A strange association suddenly appeared in her mind.

If Lin Mengxing really was the female lead of that ABO novel…

Rong Yu’s expression suddenly became somewhat complicated.

Back then, she had grown tired of the three-gender setting in ABO stories, so beyond Alpha, Beta, and Omega, she had created a fourth and strongest gender. That gender belonged only to the female lead, solely for the purpose of making her uniquely beautiful and the most powerful.

If Lin Mengxing was currently maintaining that gender as well…

“……”

Rong Yu’s scalp tightened. For the first time, she felt a little afraid.

After dealing with the female ghost, Lin Mengxing clapped her hands, let out a long breath, and continued humming as she followed the original path forward. Not only was Qin Wenhan stunned, even the livestream viewers were dumbstruck. The entire screen was full of cheering voices, while the haters who had been sneering and spraying insults earlier instantly became as quiet as chickens.

Rong Yu raised her hand and swiped the screen. The display immediately switched to Seven and He Huaiting’s livestream camera.

Seven, the singer whom his fans had pinned all their hopes on, now had snot and tears all over his face. He was frightened pale, hiding behind He Huaiting.

The cold older-sister type with white hair and golden eyes led him through turn after turn expressionlessly. While single-handedly dealing with the zombies rushing toward them, she continued moving forward with Seven, her deadweight burden.

Their group’s horror level could not compare to Rong Yu’s group, but the disgustingness of the zombies was no less and perhaps even greater.

He Huaiting’s shoulders were covered in fake blood, yet it did not hide her cold, stunning beauty in the slightest. Her long, straight white hair fell smoothly behind her, like an unsheathed treasured blade, astonishingly beautiful and full of danger.

The two of them looked like an older sister and younger brother in a horror film’s escape sequence, constantly on the road of running into zombies and slaughtering zombies.

The comments were all:

[Whoa, so handsome, so handsome, so handsome!]

[Why are all the sisters this episode so cool ahhhhh!]

[Sister He and her useless ugly little brother. I’m dying.]

However, in the camera, the road He Huaiting’s group and Lin Mengxing’s group took was not the same as Rong Yu’s group. Even if they eventually found their way out of the haunted house, they would probably come out through the north and south exits.

Rong Yu was just about to continue swiping the screen to check on He Jiao’s group.

Suddenly, the haunted house’s west exit beside her and Mu Shuiqing began shaking violently. The large door slowly rose, and the white locked room appeared once more.

The blond-haired, blue-eyed He Jiao strode out from inside with a cold face. The moment she saw Rong Yu at the doorway, she glared at her fiercely, gave a cold snort, and knocked into Rong Yu’s shoulder as she walked forward.

Sheng Ming touched his nose and followed her out, nodding to greet Rong Yu and Mu Shuiqing.

Rong Yu: “……”

This was no longer the first time He Jiao had glared at her. Now she had even started getting used to it.

If she followed her earlier guess, then the female guests had all borrowed character settings from her other novels. But she did not seem to have written any female character like He Jiao, who loved glaring at people and acted fierce in a cute way. Where had He Jiao’s character setting come from?

Also, how had He Jiao known how to open the locked room?

He Jiao’s attitude toward Rong Yu was obviously terrible. Even Mu Shuiqing, who seemed especially slow, noticed it. She glanced at He Jiao standing not far away, then looked at Rong Yu and slowly asked, “Did the two of you have a grudge before?”

Rong Yu herself was suspicious too, but she had never met He Jiao before. Hearing Mu Shuiqing’s words, she was just about to shake her head when something suddenly occurred to her.

He Jiao…

Could she have been reborn?

If that was the case, then He Jiao’s earlier reactions seemed to make sense.

In the original plot, Rong Yu had only written up to the protagonist winning the variety show grand prize, successfully entering the entertainment industry, and confirming a romantic relationship with He Jiao. As for what happened after the ending, she did not know.

If, in He Jiao’s setting, something unpleasant had happened between her and that Rong Yu after the ending in her previous life, then after being reborn, she really would glare angrily at Rong Yu.

Rebirth seemed to be the most suitable answer.

Rong Yu just did not know what He Jiao had experienced in her first life to hate her so much.

She only hoped He Jiao would not turn out to be the real consciousness body. Otherwise, with He Jiao’s current attitude toward her, awakening Lian Langsheng would be as difficult as ascending to heaven.

While Rong Yu was still thinking, the host and the male and female guests suddenly appeared in the distance. The staff member who had handed the tablet to Rong Yu earlier immediately jogged forward and took it back.

Host Zhang Yong’an waved at Rong Yu and the others.

“Guests, please come forward.”

The people who had originally been standing scattered around all gathered over. Mu Shuiqing continued quietly following at Rong Yu’s side. Sheng Ming subconsciously tried to pull He Jiao again, but He Jiao coldly avoided his hand and stood beside Mu Shuiqing.

Sheng Ming awkwardly withdrew his hand, pretending to naturally adjust his lapels, then stood behind He Jiao.

Opposite them, the four people walking over with the host also took their places. Lin Mengxing stepped ahead and stood on Rong Yu’s left. He Huaiting stood coldly on her other side. The remaining two male guests stood behind them.

Once this formation appeared, Rong Yu basically became the group favorite. All the guests surrounded her, placing her firmly in the center position. Even Seven did not receive this treatment.

Unexpectedly, no one corrected her inappropriate standing position.

Even the only celebrity guest the program team had invited—Seven—did not speak up to question it.

However, Seven’s face was deathly pale. His entire face looked drained after being frightened. Even the blue strands of hair on his head had lost their shape. Like Qin Wenhan’s hair, they lay crooked and limp on top of his head. No matter how one looked at him, he appeared especially miserable. He no longer had the energy to obsess over whether someone was standing in the center position.

The comments were full of netizens sighing.

[My god, only one hour has passed, but I actually feel like a lifetime has gone by.]

[+11111, I’m dying.]

[I feel like the more miserable guests will never want to join a dating show again, hhhhh.]

[Sorry, but this really feels so funny, hahahahaha. Other than Little Brother Rong Yu, these male guests all feel like they’ve shed a layer of skin.]

[I’ll say it again: the sister guests this season are all so beautiful ahhhhh! And they’re so cool, so handsome, www.]

[Baby Seven, Wenbao looks so haggard, wuwu.]

Host Zhang Yong’an walked in front of the camera, holding a tray in his hands. On it were eight pulse-oximeter-shaped cards, each labeled with a corresponding guest’s name.

“First, congratulations to all guests for successfully completing the task!”

“In addition, before the game began, we also said that whichever group of guests had the lowest heart-rate data inside the haunted house would win. The winning group will receive a mysterious reward.”

Zhang Yong’an raised the tray in his hands, allowing the pulse oximeter cards to face the camera.

“On this tray are the pulse oximeter indexes of all guests after system testing. To ensure fairness and justice in the game, the values we selected are the highest data recorded on the guests’ pulse oximeters during the mission. For example, just now, after the task ended, Mu Shuiqing’s heart rate reached 152. That will not be counted.”

“Now, let us reveal the answer!”

Zhang Yong’an flipped over each card one by one.

The main livestream camera displayed all the data on the tray. Rong Yu and the others could not see the tray directly, but they could see the footage captured by the camera on the main screen in front of them.

On the tray, the pulse-oximeter-shaped cards with each person’s name written on them were turned over one after another:

Rong Yu: 44
Mu Shuiqing: 141

Qin Wenhan: 123
Lin Mengxing: 80

Sheng Ming: 104
He Jiao: 104

Seven: 148
He Huaiting: 59

The host said excitedly, “Among the male guests, Rong Yu had the lowest heart rate! Among the female guests, He Huaiting had the lowest heart rate. However, unfortunately, because Seven’s heart rate was too high, the final first place goes to Rong Yu and Mu Shuiqing! Congratulations!”

The comments supporting Rong Yu began flooding the screen like crazy.

[Little Brother Rongrong is awesome!!!]

[I’m convinced. I thought Wenwen would get first, but he actually got beaten by a passerby.]

[Don’t say it, but seriously, the least favored pairing actually came out the fastest and got the highest score.]

[Wow, amazing~]

[Baby Yu, big sister loves you ahhhhh!]

[Holy crap, crushing Seven. As expected of you, Little Brother Rong Yu! You really made big sister proud~! No more talking. I’m going to Baby Yu and Shuiqing’s individual livestream room to send votes. puffs chest]

From the screen, Rong Yu saw that Seven’s expression behind her had already not looked very good to begin with. After seeing the livestream comments gradually being occupied by her, his face became even uglier.

His defeated face was pale with a greenish tint, like a forest of books swept over by a violent wind, leaving only bare, stiff branches behind. He forcibly maintained the expression on his face, his jaw tense as he stood behind He Huaiting with a dark expression.

The host waved enthusiastically toward the outside of the venue. “Next, please have the etiquette lady bring out the reward for today’s game mission!”

As soon as he finished speaking, Rong Yu saw a person dressed in a dark red qipao with golden patterns walk over gracefully from behind the haunted house. Her graceful figure was outlined by the qipao to perfection. The slit extended to her thigh, revealing a pair of plump, fair, beautiful legs as she walked.

The woman’s brown wavy hair was only pinned by her ear with a gold-wire cloisonné branch-shaped hair clip. Her bright, generous features were not at all inferior to any of the female guests invited for this episode. Her face carried a smile that was not quite a smile. Merely by walking into the camera frame, she was like a blooming flower, carrying the scent of a sexy mature woman.

The livestream instantly began a new round of comments.

[Wow, even the etiquette lady is this beautiful?! Sister, flirt with me!]

[I feel like she looks really familiar. I think I’ve seen her somewhere, but I just can’t remember. But she’s really beautiful.]

[Licking the screen, licking the screen!! There are too many beautiful sisters this season. I’m so happy, www.]

The woman slowly walked to Rong Yu and lowered her eyes to look at her. Her rich, vivid features carried a soul-stirring beauty. She opened her palm, and a silver-white key lay quietly in her fair, faintly pink hand.

Zhang Yong’an carefully glanced at the woman. Even his tone became much steadier as he earnestly explained to Rong Yu and Mu Shuiqing, “This is the key to the room where you’ll sleep this episode.”

Rong Yu thanked her and carefully picked up the key from the woman’s palm. When their skin touched, the soft sensation made her fingers curl slightly.

The woman, as passionate as a flower in full bloom, looked deeply at Rong Yu without saying a word. Then she turned and walked back in the direction she had come from, her elegant, graceful figure as beautiful as an old painting from a bygone era.

Almost no one present could help turning to look at her back. Rong Yu originally wanted to look too, but the moment she turned her head, she met He Jiao’s glare.

“……”

She touched her nose and silently turned back.

Zhang Yong’an continued speaking to the camera. “Today is the first day of the variety show. To give each group of guests more time to get to know one another, today’s only daytime task was braving the haunted house. After each group draws their accommodation location for tonight in order, you may move freely in small groups. The cars prepared for each group are parked by the roadside. Everyone can drive around and take a look. Tomorrow, we will gather again for the following team tasks.”

Before Zhang Yong’an even finished speaking, Rong Yu clearly heard He Jiao beside her give a cold snort.

He Jiao’s voice was clear and bright, and her manners were refined and elegant. If not for her face being so cold, one could tell at a glance that she was a young lady from a wealthy family. Even her light snort carried the air of a young miss. The half of Rong Yu’s body closest to her abruptly felt cold.

She suddenly remembered that in the original work, it was “Rong Yu” and He Jiao who had received the silver-white key. In other words, tonight should have been her first night with He Jiao, the “original wife.”

Rong Yu subconsciously turned to look at He Jiao, only to meet the other girl’s blue eyes full of anger.

“Congratulations in advance, Mr. Rong. Tonight, you’ll get to hold a soft, fragrant beauty in your arms.”

Rong Yu: “……”

Are you misunderstanding something?

She was just about to speak when Mu Shuiqing on her left suddenly leaned forward and grabbed her arm. She tilted her head slightly to look at He Jiao. Her wooden, stiff doll-like face was pure and well-behaved, only the color of her crimson eyes gradually deepening.

“Thank you, Sister.”

After saying that, she withdrew her gaze and stood properly again. She still had that hollow beauty of a doll, only the thin, semi-transparent tips of her ears had become tinged with a fleshy pink, adding a hint of a young girl’s shyness.

Rong Yu suddenly had an ominous premonition. She glanced sideways at He Jiao on her right and, sure enough, the other girl’s face had already darkened like the bottom of a pot. Her cheeks puffed slightly as she clenched her jaw.

The few people’s quiet conversation did not attract the attention of the livestream viewers, because it looked like ordinary chatting. Only Rong Yu, at the center of the storm, felt waves of coldness running down her back.

Zhang Yong’an began distributing keys to the other pairings besides her and Mu Shuiqing. He Huaiting, Lin Mengxing, and He Jiao drew their rooms for this episode from his hand in order from lowest to highest heart rate.

After that, Zhang Yong’an loudly announced that everyone could move freely, and that today’s variety-show livestream would end here.

In the next second, He Jiao turned around with a cold face and strode away from the venue.

The other guests dispersed afterward, and the staff also formed small groups of two or three to pack up the equipment. Rong Yu tightened her grip on the silver-white key in her hand and could not help looking again in the direction He Jiao had left.

He Jiao looked too much like Lian Langsheng. Facing that face, it was truly difficult for Rong Yu to pretend she had not noticed.

Beside her, Mu Shuiqing tugged at her sleeve and slowly asked, “Are we leaving?”

Rong Yu nodded and led her out of the theme park entrance toward the cars arranged by the program team for the guests.

The sedan was parked by the roadside opposite, with program staff specifically watching over it. Seeing Rong Yu and Mu Shuiqing walk toward them, the staff immediately lowered their head and took out the car keys from their pocket.

Rong Yu turned back to look at Mu Shuiqing. “Wait here. I’ll drive the car over.”

Mu Shuiqing nodded and watched her walk quickly forward.

Lian Langsheng’s parents had died in a car accident. With her parents’ tragedy as a warning, Rong Yu was always extremely careful every time she crossed the road. She looked left and right several times, confirmed that there were no cars nearby, then stepped forward to cross the street.

But in the next second, Rong Yu suddenly heard a grating creak above her head. She hurriedly looked up and saw the spring of the billboard diagonally ahead in midair snap. The entire billboard surface suddenly bounced up, broke away from the iron frame, and smashed down toward Rong Yu on the ground.

When that billboard was on the metal frame, pedestrians two or three kilometers away could clearly see its contents. By visual estimate, it was at least five meters wide. The downward force as it smashed down could instantly crush her into bloody pulp.

When facing the ghosts in the haunted house, Rong Yu could still tell herself that everything was fake. But now, seeing the huge billboard falling above her head with her own eyes, the cold wind and the creaking of the swaying metal frame howling into her ears, the overly realistic immersion made her legs go weak. Her feet felt as if they were glued to the ground, unable to move. Her cramped breathing brought with it a rusty taste.

Everything happened in a flash.

Even Mu Shuiqing behind her had not yet reacted.

Rong Yu was already about to close her eyes.

But in the next moment, a tall, graceful figure with exquisite curves suddenly teleported in front of her. Her agile figure was like a nimble black cat. She easily caught the billboard that was about to smash down on Rong Yu’s head and tossed it aside.

The huge billboard was as light as a brick in the other party’s hands, but when it hit the ground, it produced a thunderous boom, smashing several deep pits into the asphalt road.

Rong Yu stared blankly at the girl in front of her. She watched the other girl’s tall figure stroll closer while clapping the dust off her hands. The golden star earrings shone brilliantly in the sunlight.

Lin Mengxing tilted her head and snapped her fingers beside Rong Yu’s ear.

The crisp snap startled Rong Yu into blinking instinctively. Then she saw Lin Mengxing raise a brow and smile lightly.

“What? Did you go stupid?”