After Transmigrating as a Scumbag Alpha, I Ended Up with the Movie Queen - Chapter 23

“??? What happened to you two? Why such a big reaction?”

Peng Yushu and Bai Rui looked at the two of them in confusion, not understanding why they had reacted so strongly.

Gu Nan and Shen Zhibei looked at each other, then said in unison, “Nothing!”

Peng Yushu and Bai Rui’s expressions became even stranger. Their gazes moved back and forth between the two of them, keenly sensing that there was definitely gossip to hear here.

[Although they didn’t see it, I saw it! (doge) Thank you, production team, for such clear cameras!]

[They kissed, they kissed! Rounding it up, I’ve basically watched this married couple’s wedding night!]

[Have you CP fans gone stupid from eating too much sugar? Didn’t you see them dodge? If they’re really wife and wife, it’s just a kiss on the ear. Why dodge?]

[What exactly is the two-bag deal Gu Nan mentioned? If you don’t explain it clearly, my heart is itching.]

[The sugar from a real married couple really is delicious.]

[They’re in front of cameras. Can’t people be a little shy?]

Gu Nan secretly glanced at Shen Zhibei’s expression and decided to help her preserve her image a little. Although it had pretty much collapsed by now, Shen Zhibei was still working hard to maintain it.

Gu Nan walked over to take the pumpkins the two of them had brought back, conveniently blocking Peng Yushu and Bai Rui’s view of Shen Zhibei as she said, “We’ve already started the fire. We can start steaming them now.”

Once the topic turned to dinner, the two people who had still wanted to wait and see if there was any gossip became focused on the pumpkins in their hands.

Peng Yushu first dodged Gu Nan’s movement, then said, “We brought back too many. You can’t take them all by yourself. We should just put them straight into the pot.”

“Don’t put them in the pot yet. I need to wash them first,” Gu Nan stopped him.

“That’s true. We’ll wash them first, then eat them with the skins on later.” After Peng Yushu finished speaking, his eyes immediately began searching the kitchen for something they could use to wash the pumpkins.

Looking at Gu Nan, who had helped block the gazes and change the topic, Shen Zhibei still could not bear to let her keep walking around with black ash all over her face.

“Gu Nan, give me the ladle first. I’ll pour water for you so you can wash your face too.”

Only then did Bai Rui dare to openly stare at Gu Nan’s tabby-cat face. With a concerned expression, she asked, “Xiao Nan, did your face get covered in ash because you were starting the fire just now?”

Although Gu Nan did not know what Bai Rui wanted to express, she could directly block whatever Bai Rui might say next.

“Yes. The two of us were starting the fire just now, so our faces got a little ash on them. I poured water for Zhibei first so she could wash. She had just finished washing, and it hadn’t been my turn yet when you two came in.”

“Aiya, even after her makeup got washed away by water, she’s still so gorgeous and moving. Don’t you agree?”

As Gu Nan spoke, she even gave Peng Yushu and Bai Rui meaningful looks, making it seem as though Shen Zhibei had been worried about her own makeup earlier.

Shen Zhibei looked at Gu Nan in surprise. She had not expected Gu Nan to actually respond so well.

Originally, when Bai Rui asked that trap-filled question, Shen Zhibei had already prepared to pull the conversation back for Gu Nan. She had not expected Gu Nan to say such a thing herself, forcibly cutting off Bai Rui’s lead-in and even making Bai Rui have no choice but to follow her words and praise her.

So as long as Gu Nan wanted to, she was actually very good at talking.

Then why was she so bad at talking when facing her?

Shen Zhibei could not help thinking this.

The words Bai Rui had originally wanted to say were immediately choked back by Gu Nan’s counterquestion.

Not only were they choked back, she still had to praise Shen Zhibei.

Although Bai Rui felt uncomfortable inside, she still pretended to look carefully at Shen Zhibei’s face again, then praised with a face full of amazement, “Sister Zhibei really looks the same with or without makeup.”

“Zhibei’s skin really is good.” Peng Yushu also nodded in agreement.

Faced with this sudden wave of commercial compliments, Shen Zhibei accepted it well and directly praised them back.

At the same time, she grabbed Gu Nan’s clothes and dragged her behind her, took the ladle still holding quite a bit of water from Gu Nan’s hand, and told her to hurry and wash her face.

Looking at Shen Zhibei, who was slowly pouring water, then at Gu Nan, who was washing her face, Bai Rui felt a wave of frustration.

There were actually many similarities between her and Shen Zhibei’s appearances, and their temperaments were somewhat alike too. Otherwise, she would not have been called “Little Shen Zhibei” as soon as she debuted, and productions that could not get Shen Zhibei would not have come to find her.

But why was it that no matter how many times she tried to show goodwill to Gu Nan, this scumbag Alpha, famous throughout the entertainment industry, remained unmoved?

Was it just because she was a Beta, while Shen Zhibei was an Omega?

Bai Rui secretly bit her lip, and a trace of determination appeared in her lowered eyes.

It seemed that making Gu Nan fall for her and then hinting for Gu Nan to do something was not a workable method. She needed to change methods.

This variety show was an excellent opportunity. She had to use this variety show to resolve the obstacle standing on her path to the top. Otherwise, with Shen Zhibei in the industry for even one more day, when would she ever be able to stand out?

While Bai Rui was thinking about her own matters, Peng Yushu found a usable basin and placed the pumpkins inside.

Then he found an empty bowl and slowly poured water into the basin to wash the pumpkins.

[What’s wrong with Bai Rui?]

[Maybe she choked on the dog food. (doge)]

[Watching Bai Rui and Shen Zhibei on the same show really shows why only dramas Shen Zhibei doesn’t want go to Bai Rui. There really is a difference in looks and temperament.]

[Where exactly did you see the difference?]

[Because you’re Shen Zhibei’s fan, that’s why you saw a difference. Hope your fave flops soon.]

[A passerby says one thing and you people immediately label them as a fan, and even say something like hoping their fave flops. I don’t have a fave. I don’t chase celebrities!]

The bullet comments in the livestream room instantly became a mess of arguments. The production team staff who had been watching the livestream saw this situation and hurriedly used mass muting, only then suppressing the increasingly heated comments.

But while the intense remarks in the livestream room had been suppressed, the war of insults between Shen Zhibei and Bai Rui on Big-Eye had only just begun…

At this moment, Gu Nan had also finished washing her face. Seeing Peng Yushu washing pumpkins while Bai Rui stood to the side in a daze, she took the ladle and walked over, taking the pumpkin from Bai Rui’s hands as well.

Only then did Bai Rui realize what she had missed while lowering her head and thinking. She hurriedly tried to make up for it.

“No need, I’ll do it. I move very quickly.”

Gu Nan’s movements were indeed very quick. In only a few minutes, she washed all the pumpkins clean, cut them into small pieces, placed them in the pot, and covered it with the wooden lid.

“All right. They’ll be ready after steaming for half an hour.” Gu Nan clapped her hands. “We can use this time to tidy up the rooms. By the way, whose phone still has plenty of battery? Watch the time. We can come back to eat in half an hour.”

“Mine can.” Bai Rui hurriedly said.

She was just thinking of performing a little to salvage the image of Peng Yushu working earlier while she had only stood there blankly. Hearing Gu Nan say someone needed to watch the time, she snatched up the task without even looking at her remaining phone battery.

Gu Nan glanced at the proactive Bai Rui. “Okay, you watch the time. Then let’s go back to the small building.”

Taking down the two hurricane lamps used for lighting, the four of them returned to the small building again.

Lu Xuehai and Tang Ling had already moved all the luggage to the second floor and were now sitting on chairs in the second-floor mahjong room, resting.

“You’re back.” Tang Ling panted heavily while fanning himself. After yet another round of intense physical exertion, all he wanted now was food, so he asked the question he most wanted to know.

“When can we eat?”

Looking at this person whose eyes seemed to be filled with the word hungry, Gu Nan decided that once it was nine o’clock and the cameras turned off, she would tell him that she had brought a lot of instant noodles.

But for now…

“In another half hour, we can eat.”

“That’s great! We can finally eat. I’m starving to death.” Tang Ling let out a cheer.

“Let’s divide the rooms while we have some free time now.” Shen Zhibei took makeup-removing wipes from her bag and was currently wiping her face.

“All right.” As the oldest, Peng Yushu began presiding over the room assignments. “Let’s not sleep in the master bedroom. After all, it’s the room the owner has always slept in. It wouldn’t be good to disturb it.”

“Then won’t we be short one room?”

Lu Xuehai did not understand the current state of the domestic entertainment industry very well, so he innocently said this.

Gu Nan and Shen Zhibei both felt somewhat awkward. They had already predicted what Peng Yushu would say next.

This time, it was not like the hotel, where although they were in one room, there were still two beds.

They had seen the secondary bedroom upstairs too. It only had an ordinary double bed, and there was also a camera installed in the room.

If there was even the slightest thing off between the two of them, careful netizens would dig it out.

And this also meant they needed to share a bed and pillows.

Gu Nan and Shen Zhibei both secretly glanced at each other, only for their gazes to collide at the exact same time.

Both of them froze, then quickly looked away.

[Ahhh! I understand, I understand, I understand! What should they do if they’re short one room? Let the married couple sleep together!]

[Sharing the same bed and pillow, hehehe, hehehe.]

[I want a twenty-four-hour livestream. Production team, look at me! We don’t want a twelve-hour livestream. We want twenty-four hours!]

[As noble VIP members, what is there that we can’t watch? Supporting twenty-four-hour livestreaming.]

[Look at the little looks between the Nanbei wives. I instantly thought of something unsuitable for children.]

“Zhibei and Gu Nan are legal wives, the kind who have received their marriage certificate.”

Sure enough, after Peng Yushu explained to Lu Xuehai with an ambiguous expression, he said, “Zhibei, you and Gu Nan don’t need to divide rooms. The two of you can sleep together in the secondary bedroom on the third floor, the one with the largest bed.”

Gu Nan and Shen Zhibei looked at each other again.

Now that it had actually come to this, the two of them relaxed instead.

Because Shen Zhibei had the previous experience of sharing a hotel room as precedent, she also became relatively accepting of it.

Seeing that Gu Nan and Shen Zhibei had agreed, Peng Yushu continued, “I want a room on the second floor, so I can climb fewer stairs. My eyesight isn’t that good now either, and I’m afraid I’ll fall at night.”

“Then how about Teacher Peng sleeps in the mahjong room? The space is large and relatively dry,” Lu Xuehai said. “I can sleep in the room storing winter melons and pumpkins.”

“Then I’ll sleep in the storage room.” Tang Ling also took the initiative to claim the last room on the second floor. “The remaining secondary bedroom on the third floor can go to Bai Rui.”

“Thank you.” Bai Rui looked moved. “Thank you, everyone. You’re all taking such care of me. I really don’t know how to thank you.”

The three people who had taken the initiative to stay on the second floor all waved their hands and said she did not need to mind.

“Then let’s each go back to our rooms and tidy up.” Peng Yushu pounded his waist. He really had been worn out the whole day. Right now, all he wanted was to rest.

“Miss Bai, you take your backpack upstairs first. I’ll help you carry your suitcase up in a bit.”

“All right. Then you must be careful.” Bai Rui gave a delicate and weak reminder.

She had always known that a weak posture did not fit very well with her appearance and temperament, but it could create an even stronger sense of contrast.

This kind of contrast made it easier for Alphas and male Betas to develop a strong protective desire toward her. As long as she gave a little hint, under the stimulation of this strong protective desire, they could help her achieve the next step of her plan.

Although she had failed repeatedly in showing goodwill before, trying once did not cost anything.

After casually flirting with Gu Nan, Bai Rui maintained that weak appearance and hooked her arm around Shen Zhibei’s. “Sister Zhibei, let’s go up together.”

Shen Zhibei also looked at Bai Rui with a full smile. “All right.”

Seeing the scene before her of deep sisterly affection as the two of them intimately went upstairs together, Gu Nan hurriedly lowered her head to move the suitcase, deeply afraid that she would fail to control her horrified expression and let it appear before the cameras.

Gu Nan made three trips, carrying up the suitcases of all three people staying on the third floor. Then she decisively said goodbye to Bai Rui, who still wanted to thank her more, and returned to her own room.

The secondary bedroom assigned to her and Shen Zhibei had only had its bed likely tidied up by the production team staff, with new bedding added. Aside from that, because no one had lived in it for a long time, anything they touched left their hands covered in dust.

Gu Nan walked around the room. “There’s no rag, and fetching water isn’t convenient either. Let’s just make do for tonight and talk about it tomorrow.”

At this moment, Shen Zhibei had opened her suitcase and found a set of long-sleeved clothes and long pants.

In just these few short hours, just as Gu Nan’s crow mouth had said, she had been bitten by mosquitoes several times, and now she was itching terribly. If not for the cameras, she might really have scratched without caring about her image.

“Gu Nan.”

“Mm? What’s wrong?” Gu Nan turned back and asked.

“Block the camera for me.” Shen Zhibei showed Gu Nan the clothes in her hands.

“All right.” Gu Nan agreed, then directly reached out and covered the camera with her palm. “Is this way okay? This way, I can’t see either.”

Shen Zhibei shyly tugged at the clothes in her hands but did not say anything. She directly took off her mic and hid under the blanket, changing from that dress into the long pants and long sleeves she had found.

[Damn it! Move your Buddha palm away!]

[I can’t see anything! I can’t see anything anymore! Damn it!]

[My heart hurts. Such a rare scene was blocked just like that. I really am going to spend money to assassinate that scumbag Alpha.]

[Sister even took off her mic. I can’t even hear the sound. If there were sound, I could still imagine a little, but now I can’t even imagine.]

“You can let go now.” After changing clothes and clipping her mic back on, Shen Zhibei said, “Let’s go take the daily necessities in the master bedroom and give them to the others.”

“Wait a moment.” Gu Nan leaned in and carefully looked at the camera. “I pressed too hard just now, and it seems like my palm print is on it. Do you have an eyeglass cloth? Lend me one.”

“Yes. Wait.” Shen Zhibei went back to rummage through her backpack and pulled out a sunglasses case. “Here.”

Gu Nan wiped hard for quite a while. Feeling that her palm print had been wiped off, she returned the eyeglass cloth to Shen Zhibei. “All right, let’s go. Let’s go deliver warmth to the other guests.”

“We can take the thermos bottles to the kitchen later. The water used to steam the pumpkins can be poured into them. Then we can still drink some hot water later, or use it to wash our hands, soak our feet, and so on.”

“Then what about showering? Everyone probably sweated today, so they probably all want to shower.” Shen Zhibei frowned and put the eyeglass cloth back. “That large wooden bucket in the kitchen should be for bathing, but it needs too much water each time. Boiling hot water plus fetching cold water—if all six of us want to wash, we probably won’t finish even after a whole night.”

“Tonight, we can only wet towels and wipe ourselves down. We’ll think of another way tomorrow.” Gu Nan was also helpless. “Although I don’t want to say this, with the current conditions, I have to.”

“What?”

“Let’s overcome it.”

As they spoke, the two of them walked toward the master bedroom.

[Ahhh! If you’re going to wipe it, then wipe it properly! Now it’s even blurrier!]

[I’m about to roll my eyes. Production team, hurry and look! I’m almost starting to think I have presbyopia.]

[Although a clean, soft eyeglass cloth can indeed be used to wipe a camera lens, if you wipe it with that much force, won’t the lens be ruined?]

[Where’s the production team? I really want to call the police! I can’t even see Sister’s face clearly anymore!]

[Someone come quickly! Someone come quickly! Someone come quickly!]

Of course, the production staff also saw this situation and hurriedly rushed to the third floor.

As a result, just as the two of them walked out of the secondary bedroom, they were stopped by the staff who had rushed over. “Teachers, please wait a moment. The camera in your room is blurry. We need to go in and clean it again.”

“I didn’t wipe it clean just now?” Gu Nan smiled sheepishly. “Then go in and wipe it again. If I wiped it broken, just tell me. I’ll compensate you with a new one.”

“All right, we will.” The staff also knew that the two of them were going to the master bedroom to take daily necessities for the other guests. This kind of footage could be considered a highlight too, so the staff hurriedly said, “Teachers, please do whatever you were going to do. We’ll simply clean the camera.”

Since the staff said this, the two of them did not wait to see the cleaning result. They went straight to the master bedroom, took the daily necessities the production team had prepared, and began distributing them room by room.

[Sure enough, the production staff are watching the livestream comments.]

[Then can you livestream twenty-four hours? I want to watch the two sisters sleep. Little face turning yellow.]

[I also vote for twenty-four-hour livestreaming!]

The production team had prepared quite a lot of daily necessities, so many that Gu Nan and Shen Zhibei could not carry them all in one trip.

The two of them took as many as they could this time and would come back for the rest after distributing these.

The other four were either unpacking or already lying on their beds to rest.

Seeing Gu Nan and Shen Zhibei carry a pile of daily necessities over to distribute, they finally remembered that there were still things they had not taken and hurriedly followed the two of them to take their own share.

Holding his pile of daily necessities, the hungry Tang Ling could not help asking, “Has it not been half an hour yet? I’m so hungry.”

“?” Gu Nan was first stunned, then immediately turned to look at Bai Rui and asked, “What time is it now?”

Bai Rui also froze. She remembered she had set a thirty-minute alarm. Since the alarm had not rung, it was probably… not half an hour yet?

She took out her phone, only to discover that her phone had automatically shut down at some unknown time.

Bai Rui’s heart sank. She had not expected something she had taken the initiative to handle to end up like this. But thinking that if she did not admit this was her mistake now, her image in front of the public would be finished, all kinds of solutions rapidly flashed through her mind.

In the end, she quickly chose to let tears fill her eyes and said in a tone full of apology,

“I’m sorry. My phone shut down, so the alarm I set didn’t ring. Now, I don’t know what time it is either.”