After Entering a Romance Reality Show Disguised as a Man to Win Over All the Female Leads - Chapter 6

A long time ago, there seemed to have been a time like this too. A flower vase had fallen from above and nearly smashed into her head. Fortunately, Lian Langsheng had sharp eyes and quick hands, and pulled her away.

The huge vase brushed past her clothes and shattered on the ground, shards flying far into the distance. Rong Yu had been so frightened she could not speak. It was Lian Langsheng who suddenly leaned close and interrupted her fear.

“What? Did you go stupid?”

Rong Yu woke from the memory and pressed her lips together without speaking.

Just now, she had clearly seen countless transparent silver threads extend from Lin Mengxing’s body. Before they touched the billboard, they had already wrapped around it in midair. The silver threads were like silk spat out by some kind of insect—light and soft, yet hard as iron. In an instant, they strangled the billboard until it warped, and at the same time Lin Mengxing reached out, she flung it far away.

The countless silver threads did not disappear immediately. Some of them were drawn back into her body, while the rest…

Rong Yu lowered her head and looked at her wrist, which was being gently circled by the silver threads. The threads rubbed upward along her skin and wrapped tenderly around her wrist.

Ever since Lin Mengxing appeared, the rich lily perfume fragrance that had lingered without dispersing was also floating thickly in the air. Rong Yu felt as if she had been placed inside a cellar filled with flower honey. Every breath she took was filled with that scent.

Now Rong Yu was absolutely certain.

This was mental power.

Lin Mengxing was definitely the heroine from the ABO world!

When she blinked again, the silver threads on her wrist had disappeared. Everything had happened in an instant. The passersby had not seen anything, as if it had merely been her hallucination.

Rong Yu looked at her empty wrist, then at Lin Mengxing in front of her, pretending she had not discovered anything.

“Thank you.”

The girl with the cat-ear hairstyle crossed her arms and looked at her. “If you want to thank me, give me a ride.”

She opened her palm, revealing the room key she had drawn from Host Zhang Yong’an earlier.

“Our lodging locations are very close.”

Rong Yu froze. Thinking back to the contents of the novel, Lin Mengxing’s accommodation really was very close to the original “Rong Yu’s.”

Behind them, a string of chaotic footsteps suddenly sounded. It was Mu Shuiqing quickly running over from a distance. Her usually expressionless face was full of panic. Her bright red eyes looked Rong Yu up and down for a long while. Only after confirming that Rong Yu really was not injured did she let out a breath and become expressionless again.

Rong Yu did not know Mu Shuiqing’s personality very well, but she did know Lian Langsheng’s personality when they were young. If she could show worry on her face, then her heart must already be in turmoil.

Rong Yu raised her hand and patted Mu Shuiqing’s shoulder. “It’s fine. I’m okay. It’s all thanks to Miss Lin saving my life.”

Lin Mengxing glanced at Mu Shuiqing beside them, the meaning in her eyes unclear. “You’re too polite. I only reacted a little faster than ordinary people.”

The “ordinary person,” Mu Shuiqing, abruptly clenched both hands at her sides. She raised her eyes to look at Lin Mengxing but did not speak. From an angle Lin Mengxing could not see, the little paper figure in the pocket at Mu Shuiqing’s chest angrily waved its fists.

The atmosphere suddenly became strange.

Rong Yu coughed lightly. “Shuiqing, here’s the thing. Miss Lin wants us to give her a ride.”

Mu Shuiqing lowered her eyes to look at the ground and said slowly, “She has a car too.”

Lin Mengxing tilted her head and looked at Rong Yu. “I don’t know how to drive.”

She spread her hands, her catlike face utterly sincere. “No choice. My family is poor and I couldn’t afford driving school.”

Rong Yu: “……”

If it were the original Lin Mengxing, whose family background really was ordinary, Rong Yu might have believed it a little. But after witnessing that earlier scene, there was no way Rong Yu could believe that the strongest heroine from the ABO world she had created—someone who could even pilot interstellar spaceships—did not know how to drive a car.

However, Lin Mengxing had indeed saved her life just now. Rong Yu thought about it and did not expose her. Instead, she quietly asked Mu Shuiqing’s opinion.

“Shuiqing, do you agree?”

She had liked Lian Langsheng since she was little, and she had almost no resistance toward Mu Shuiqing, who was extremely similar to Lian Langsheng when they were young.

No matter what, they were currently inside the plot of a dating variety show. As a “male guest,” if she wanted to give a ride to a female guest other than the one she was paired with, of course she had to get the agreement of her own female partner first.

This time, Mu Shuiqing did not speak again. She slowly pursed her lips and nodded once.

Rong Yu quickly ran toward the car prepared by the program team. The staff member behind the car immediately handed her the car key.

Just as she took the car key and opened the door, Mu Shuiqing, who had followed closely behind her to the car, smoothly pulled open the front passenger door, looked coldly at Lin Mengxing, and got in.

Lin Mengxing, who was one step too late, shrugged and sat in the back seat of the sedan.

Rong Yu sat in the driver’s seat and took out the golden key she had received earlier.

The backs of the keys the host had given them all had QR codes. Although Rong Yu had long known the exact location of the lodging, she still pretended to scan the QR code on the key and read the assigned accommodation location.

She opened the navigation and drove toward their lodging.

Lin Mengxing, who was sitting in the back seat, shifted left until she was directly behind Rong Yu. Rong Yu subconsciously looked at her through the rearview mirror and met the other girl’s gaze.

Lin Mengxing tilted her head and smiled at her with a raised brow. Her index finger hooked a lock of curly hair that had fallen onto her shoulder, rubbing it back and forth between her fingers, while her eyes stared straight at Rong Yu.

Lin Mengxing’s catlike eyes were bright and lively, their corners upturned. Her intense gaze was impossible to ignore. Rong Yu awkwardly adjusted the seat belt across her chest, hesitating over whether she should change the angle of the rearview mirror.

In the next moment, she felt a tingling, numbing shiver spread from the back of her neck.

It was as if something soft, sticky, and gentle was rubbing against her nape.

Rong Yu raised her hand and touched her neck, but felt nothing. Yet the moment she withdrew her hand, that thing wrapped around her again.

A strange guess surfaced in her mind.

Could this be… Lin Mengxing’s mental power?

Rong Yu wanted to turn back and look, but since she was still driving, she could only hold herself still.

A moment later, however, that sticky, numbing sensation became warm, soft, and moist, spreading through her entire body.

Rong Yu instinctively lowered her head and glanced at her smooth wrist. She saw nothing, yet it felt as if her fingertips were being wrapped and licked by something soft. Even the back of her hand was flushed red.

There was clearly nothing foreign on her body, yet it felt as if she were wrapped in damp, soft mist.

The skin being touched stood on end. The hot, soft sensation seemed to pass through her skin and seep into her bones. Even the gaps between her bones were filled with a strange feeling that made her want to scream. It was difficult to describe what kind of feeling it was. It was like countless soft feathers brushing faintly over her brain neurons, making her fingertips go numb.

The car’s ventilation was on, yet her body temperature continued to rise. Even her breathing began to grow cramped.

Rong Yu was certain that Lin Mengxing was not using much mental power. Otherwise, according to the setting in her ABO novel, Lin Mengxing’s powerful mental strength would definitely make her lose control on the spot.

Even so, the hands she used to grip the steering wheel were already beginning to tremble uncontrollably.

After that sensation swept across a sensitive point once again, Rong Yu slammed on the brakes. The car stopped at the roadside. The hand gripping the steering wheel, along with her arm, began to tremble.

Mu Shuiqing immediately looked over and saw Rong Yu’s flushed face and lightly trembling wrist.

“What’s wrong?”

Noticing that Rong Yu’s complexion was not right, Mu Shuiqing furrowed her brows slightly, unbuckled her seat belt, and leaned closer. She raised her hand and placed it against Rong Yu’s forehead. The heat beneath her palm made her inhale sharply.

“Do you have a fever?”

Mu Shuiqing clearly had no experience taking care of others. Her face was full of worry, but she only knew how to ask this one question.

But she did not know that Rong Yu’s body was still carrying the lingering aftereffects of that overly intense stimulation. Just being touched on the forehead by her cold hand made another shiver rise inside Rong Yu.

In the back seat, Lin Mengxing crossed her legs and leaned lazily against the car seat with her arms crossed. Her smile was unreadable as she pretended to be concerned.

“Is Rong Yu not feeling well? Why don’t we let Miss Mu drive? I heard that young ladies from wealthy Hong Kong families are all very good at driving.”

Rong Yu: “……”

This person was definitely doing it on purpose.

In the original setting, Mu Shuiqing was the only daughter of a Hong Kong tycoon. She was beautiful, talented, quiet, well-behaved, and also a top student. Her parents doted on her greatly, and her vehicles from childhood onward had all been the newest sports cars released each year. So what Lin Mengxing said was not wrong.

But in the current situation, no matter how one looked at it, it felt ill-intentioned.

Not to mention, Lin Mengxing had also allegedly used mental power to attack her.

Before Mu Shuiqing could speak, Rong Yu wanted to refuse first.

But the moment she opened her mouth, a wave of heat inside her mind, even more stimulating than before, quickly swept through her entire body. The rejection that was about to leave her lips almost turned into a moan.

Rong Yu relied entirely on her tenacious willpower to keep her face tense and close her mouth. A flush spread across her face again, and even her breathing was hot and scorching.

Although Lian Langsheng’s personal consciousness body should mainly be maintained inside one important character, every person in her brain world was, in the end, a small part of her consciousness.

As soon as Rong Yu thought that the one using mental power to tease her was a part of Lian Langsheng…

Her body could not help trembling even harder.

Rong Yu: “……”

Help. Her body’s reaction really could not be controlled.

When Mu Shuiqing heard Lin Mengxing’s words, her face had already turned several degrees colder. Now, after staring at Rong Yu hesitantly for a moment, she withdrew the hand pressed against her forehead, turned, got out of the car, and walked around to Rong Yu’s door.

Her voice carried a few more traces of anxiety than usual. “Switch seats. Go to the passenger seat.”

Rong Yu nodded and slowly got up from the driver’s seat and got out. Mu Shuiqing supported her as they walked toward the passenger side. Although Mu Shuiqing looked thin and frail, her strength was very steady. Rong Yu’s limbs were numb, and she could barely walk, yet Mu Shuiqing could still support her forward without changing expression.

Lin Mengxing lowered the car window and called out to the two of them.

“Rong Yu, you really should exercise more. That little body of yours can get a fever just from driving.”

Rong Yu’s mouth twitched.

Mu Shuiqing coldly raised her head and glared at her. Lin Mengxing shrugged indifferently.

By the time Rong Yu was supported by Mu Shuiqing around the back of the car and almost reached the passenger door, Lin Mengxing in the back seat suddenly opened the door. One hand wrapped around Rong Yu’s waist while the other grabbed her wrist. Before Rong Yu could even react to what had happened, she was already half-lying in the back seat.

Lin Mengxing sat by the car door and, with a click, closed it.

Rong Yu: “?”

Was this the speed of a top mental-power character from an interstellar ABO world?

Outside the car door, Mu Shuiqing had already begun tugging at the handle. Lin Mengxing pressed the lock and blinked at Mu Shuiqing outside the window.

“She isn’t feeling well. I’ll have to trouble Miss Mu to buy two bottles of water.”

Mu Shuiqing looked woodenly at her and did not answer. Her delicate, fair face and red lips looked as if they had been stained with blood, carrying a faintly hostile air for some reason.

Rong Yu even saw the little paper figure in her chest pocket somehow holding a small paper knife, waving it wildly in the air with bared teeth and claws. Clearly, it was already furious.

This world truly was a brain world. It really did not conform to common sense.

The little paper figure at Mu Shuiqing’s chest was so supernatural, yet Lin Mengxing did not find it curious at all. She was not even the slightest bit surprised and was still smiling as she said, “Don’t worry. I remember our agreement.”

This time, it was Rong Yu’s turn to be surprised.

Lin Mengxing and Mu Shuiqing had an “agreement”?

What agreement?

How did she, the original author, not know about it?

Had the character settings already collapsed so badly that they were affecting the plot?

While Rong Yu was still thinking, she saw that Mu Shuiqing actually did nod slightly and turn toward a roadside convenience store to buy water.

For a moment, only Rong Yu and Lin Mengxing were left nearby. The spacious car suddenly became especially cramped. Rong Yu moved back two steps, sat upright, and pressed herself against the car door on the other side.

In the next second, Lin Mengxing spoke.

“Who exactly are you?”

Rong Yu froze and looked at her blankly. “What?”

Lin Mengxing propped up her chin, her catlike eyes looking Rong Yu up and down. The words she said stirred up enormous waves in Rong Yu’s heart.

“Wasn’t the original Rong Yu a man?”

After saying this, she leaned closer to Rong Yu and began tidying her messy collar. Lin Mengxing’s fingers smoothed from the back of her collar to the front, folding out just the right angle before releasing it and flattening it neatly.

That overly familiar motion of straightening her collar made Rong Yu’s mind go blank for a moment. Only after Lin Mengxing withdrew her hand and sat back in her original place did Rong Yu react.

Once she came back to her senses, Rong Yu pressed her lips together. Her first reaction was that it was over. According to Lian Langsheng’s brain world’s automatic defense mechanism, she might be kicked out.

The human brain had a self-protection mechanism, mainly to ensure the stable transmission of the brain’s consciousness. When something appeared in the consciousness that violated the individual’s own awareness, it would be expelled. In other words, Rong Yu would be ejected from the brain world.

But she waited stiffly for two seconds, and there was not the slightest sign of the surroundings breaking apart. This showed that Lian Langsheng’s consciousness had accepted her identity as a woman.

For a moment, Rong Yu could not figure out whether this meant that her gender was irrelevant to Lian Langsheng, or whether, in Lian Langsheng’s own consciousness, the character “Rong Yu” was supposed to be female.

Lin Mengxing did not give her time to think and continued speaking.

“How about this? I’ll tell you who I am. In return, you tell me who you are.”

This sounded quite reasonable.

But she was currently inside Lian Langsheng’s brain world. If what she said went against the structure inside Lian Langsheng’s brain and she was directly kicked out of the brain world, wouldn’t her mission be completely ruined?

Rong Yu hesitated and did not nod.

But Lin Mengxing began speaking on her own.

“Whether you believe it or not, the world we are currently in is a novel. And you are the male lead who becomes a heartthrob in the ending and wins the beauty. As for my original identity, I am the Enigma daughter of General Lin Zhao from Interstellar Year 2379. In our world, there is no division between men and women. There are only three genders: Alpha, Beta, and Omega. I am the hidden fourth gender there.”

Rong Yu was afraid that after Lin Mengxing finished, she would start asking about her identity. She hardened her scalp and pretended to be shocked.

“What? You said this world is a novel?! Also, what is a fourth gender?”

Lin Mengxing narrowed her eyes and observed her expression, seeming to confirm whether her words were true or false. Then she leaned closer to Rong Yu and said softly, “It means… this—”

As soon as she finished speaking, the heat wave that had finally subsided began raging through Rong Yu’s body again.

The physical reaction, even more intense than before, made Rong Yu unable to stop herself from gripping the handle beside her and curling up while trembling.

Damn it.

When she had written the ABO novel, she had not felt that mental power was this terrifying!

In an instant, Rong Yu felt the despair of an Omega in an ABO world facing an Alpha and having absolutely no ability to resist.

It was a powerless sensation, as if every inch of her body could be easily grasped and controlled by someone else.

Not to mention, Lin Mengxing had not even really done anything to her. She had not even used a pheromone attack. This was simply a mental-power probe, yet Rong Yu already could not bear it.

“Do you feel it?” Lin Mengxing lowered her voice. “I am an Enigma. I can turn all humans into Omegas that belong exclusively to me.”

Rong Yu did not raise her head, but she could clearly feel the other party’s gaze fall on her. Right now, she regretted more than ever that, in order to prevent the heroine from being bullied, she had arranged such an overpowered gender setting for her.

The intense physical reaction had already begun to blur Rong Yu’s consciousness. In a daze, she heard Lin Mengxing continue, “Even if you don’t have glands and aren’t an interstellar human, it’s the same.”

There was a loud bang.

The entire car shook twice.

The conversation inside the car was instantly interrupted.

The mental power controlling Rong Yu vanished in an instant.

The two of them raised their heads at the same time and saw Mu Shuiqing standing outside the car with a gloomy expression.

The car window had privacy film on it, yet Mu Shuiqing outside the window was still able to accurately meet both of their eyes. She fixed her gaze on Lin Mengxing. Her crimson eyes seemed to have dark currents surging beneath the bright light.

“Miss Lin, what are you doing?”

Rong Yu did not know whether it was her imagination, but she vaguely seemed to see two long blades appear behind Mu Shuiqing. They flickered in and out before disappearing again.

Lin Mengxing raised both hands, her face innocent. “I just saw that she wasn’t feeling well and wanted to help.”

The mental power controlling Rong Yu finally dispersed. Anyone who did not leave now would be a fool.

Rong Yu quickly opened the door and got out, moving to Mu Shuiqing’s side. She opened the door and sat in the passenger seat.

Mu Shuiqing, however, did not get in. Instead, she looked at Lin Mengxing and continued, “Get out.”

Lin Mengxing: “……”

This time, the smile on her face finally could not hold.

Mu Shuiqing stared at her expressionlessly.

Finally, Lin Mengxing opened the car door with a stiff face and stepped out with her long, slender, straight legs. The moment Lin Mengxing got out of the car, Mu Shuiqing swiftly locked the doors, circled around to the other side, used the key to open the door, and got into the driver’s seat, giving Lin Mengxing no opportunity to take advantage.

Lin Mengxing: “.”

Rong Yu saw the corner of Lin Mengxing’s eye twitch through the rearview mirror.

Seeing Lin Mengxing suffer a setback, Rong Yu nearly laughed out loud.

Lin Mengxing could not see her expression. Through the car window, she silently mouthed toward Rong Yu, “You still owe me an answer.”

Rong Yu immediately turned her head back and pretended not to see.

In the next moment, Mu Shuiqing handed the water she had bought to Rong Yu, started the car, and drove off with full horsepower.

Without Lin Mengxing’s interference, Rong Yu did not “get a fever” again.

She sat in the car, leaned against the seat back, and looked out the window. In her mind, she could not help recalling what Lin Mengxing had said just now.

Lin Mengxing’s words were equivalent to directly admitting that her character setting was that of a heroine who had transmigrated from an ABO world. That meant she knew the plot of the current world and also possessed extraordinary abilities. Even the Enigma setting Rong Yu had given the heroine of that ABO novel was exactly the same: mental power so strong it could crush all Alphas.

Even her way of speaking and doing things carried the same arrogance.

Once, Rong Yu had also imagined that if Lian Langsheng had not experienced the pain of losing both parents in childhood, then with her family background and abilities, she should also have been a proud, self-reliant young lady of a wealthy family, surrounded and admired by all.

Proud but not conceited. Curious about things, but not arbitrary and dictatorial. No matter what she faced, she would have the courage to move forward.

So Rong Yu had written the heroine of the ABO novel.

That book was a completely plot-driven story about a powerful female lead. There was not the slightest romantic subplot in the entire story, but reading it alone was enough to make one’s blood boil.

In small details, Lin Mengxing always had the same little habits as Lian Langsheng. But she and the childhood Lian Langsheng, who had been quiet and dull like Mu Shuiqing, were two completely opposite extremes.

Whenever Rong Yu saw Lin Mengxing, she always felt as if she were seeing another possible version of Lian Langsheng.

Originally, she had been very certain that Mu Shuiqing was definitely connected to Lian Langsheng’s consciousness body. But now, she was beginning to feel uncertain again.

She lowered her head and looked at her hands, which no longer had any special reaction, then hugged the water Mu Shuiqing had bought for her.

Their lodging was not very far from the program team’s filming location for the day. After another ten minutes or so of driving, the navigation reminded them that they had arrived at the specified destination.

Rong Yu and Mu Shuiqing got out of the car together and looked up at the spacious, retro-style siheyuan courtyard residence in front of them.

Although it had clearly been built using modern construction methods, it incorporated antique classical design. It looked rather elegant and old-fashioned. Just standing at the entrance, one could smell a clear woody fragrance.

Mu Shuiqing liked this place especially. Her crimson eyes widened slightly with curiosity as she pushed open the door, revealing another wooden door behind it.

Only then did Rong Yu realize that this was actually a large two-courtyard siheyuan.

It was much more spacious than the single-courtyard siheyuan she had set in the original text.

Just as Rong Yu walked closer to the door, Mu Shuiqing behind her took out two golden talisman papers with red characters from her pocket and pasted them onto the back of the door.

Noticing that Rong Yu was looking at her, Mu Shuiqing said calmly and slowly, “To guard against petty people.”

Rong Yu very much suspected that the “petty person” she was talking about was Lin Mengxing.

The two of them pushed open the second door, and the spacious, clean siheyuan was fully displayed before them.

Bags of grain seeds were placed in the courtyard. Chili peppers and red cords hung beneath the eaves. In the corners, several huge porcelain basins filled with water were placed, raising water lilies and goldfish inside. The entire courtyard’s layout was perfectly arranged and did not appear messy or crowded. Although no one had lived there before, it somehow carried a sense of familiarity.

As usual, Mu Shuiqing pasted talismans in different places on the doors of several rooms, carrying the idea of “guarding against petty people” to the extreme.

While Mu Shuiqing was busy pasting talismans, Rong Yu continued observing the courtyard. As expected, their luggage had already been placed at the bedroom door.

Rong Yu went over to get the luggage, then suddenly noticed something faintly flashing red in the corner of the wall.

She moved closer and discovered that it was a miniature camera. Rong Yu immediately turned her head to look at the blind spots around them. Sure enough, she found many more cameras.

She pushed open the doors and checked the interiors of each room. Only the bedroom had no cameras.

It seemed this was still an arrangement by the program team.

Rong Yu took her phone from her pocket, ran to the bedroom, opened it, and logged into the program team’s livestream room. Sure enough, although the staff were no longer there, each group’s individual livestream room was still being filmed through the cameras!

How had even the program rules changed?

When she had originally written the setting, there had absolutely been no rule about secretly filming the accommodation without telling the guests.

Rong Yu tapped into the livestream room for herself and Mu Shuiqing. The comments filling the screen were all:

[Immortal Shuiqing, can you calculate my romantic fate for me? I’ll vote for you two, wuwuwu.]

[Little Sister Shuiqing, what are you doing? Do you need to paste talismans in every room?]

[I’m sorry. I was blind before and even said Rong Yu and Little Sister Shuiqing had no CP feeling. Now I somehow feel like they’re so suitable. A sunny puppy-boy and a wooden beauty are the best match!]

[Little Sister Shuiqing, can you explain the specific uses of the talismans? Also, do old houses really have ghosts? Will there be sleep paralysis at night?]

When Rong Yu saw the words “sleep paralysis,” she suddenly thought of Lian Langsheng, who was still unconscious on the hospital bed.

She took her phone and walked out of the bedroom, looking at Mu Shuiqing, who had finally finished pasting talismans and had begun lighting incense in the corner.

“Um—”

Mu Shuiqing turned back to look at her while holding three sticks of incense.

Rong Yu scratched the back of her head. “If a person keeps sleeping and can’t wake up, how do you solve it?”

Mu Shuiqing said softly, “If someone falls into a coma and cannot awaken, it means their yin energy is too heavy and their spiritual platform is drifting. The specifics still depend on their birth characters, but in all cases, they need yang energy transferred to them.”

Rong Yu froze. “Transfer yang energy…? How do you transfer it?”

She had never written this skill in her novel. Could this be a setting Lian Langsheng’s brain world had altered on its own?

As soon as she finished speaking, Mu Shuiqing freed one hand, tapped her red lips, then stiffly turned around and inserted the three sticks of incense into the ground.

Only the tips of her ears had turned a little red.