After Transmigrating as a Scumbag Alpha, I Ended Up with the Movie Queen - Chapter 25

The moment the group came out of the small building, they saw thick smoke billowing from the kitchen.

None of them knew what had happened in the kitchen for it to become like this, so they hurriedly ran over.

The chief director had already learned from the other follow-cameras that all the guests were rushing over, so she quickly notified the camera operators to shut off all cameras.

[Wow, why did the livestream suddenly say “see you next episode”? Cutting it off here is immoral.]

[It’s already past nine anyway. Since you’ve already gone overtime, what’s wrong with streaming a little longer?!]

[What happened in the kitchen? Did Lu Xuehai burn the kitchen down? That can’t be, right? There’s nothing in the kitchen, and he was only going to fill a thermos with water.]

[Are there any sisters who were watching Lu Xuehai’s solo feed? Tell us what happened.]

[Haizi wanted to put out the fire, so he searched on his phone and followed what it said. He poured water onto the burning firewood.]

[Uh… I won’t comment on that operation.]

[This group… I feel like there aren’t many people whose IQ is online. Occasionally one or two people are, but they get led astray too. Overall, it’s doomed. (doge)]

At this moment, the entire kitchen was filled with thick smoke. The group covered their mouths and noses as they rushed in, and they could only see silhouettes.

“Xuehai, what happened?”

Shen Zhibei asked one of the busy silhouettes. Among them, there was someone standing in the middle, looking very helpless.

As soon as that silhouette heard the familiar voice, he immediately turned around. At the same time, Lu Xuehai’s voice rang out.

“I wanted to put out the fire in the stove, so I looked it up on my phone. It said pouring water on it would work. Then… then it became like this.”

Although they could not see Lu Xuehai’s expression, just from his voice, they could hear how wronged he felt.

If water was poured on it, the firewood would be hard to burn afterward, right?

No, now was not the time to think about that. Gu Nan looked around. “Then is there anything we can do here?”

The production staff were busy dispersing the smoke, putting out the fire, and cleaning up the stove. They could not help with any of that.

At this time, the chief director also walked over. “Because it was already past nine just now, we cut off all the livestreams directly. The footage ended on the scene of you entering the kitchen. When the livestream starts tomorrow morning, Teacher Lu, find an opportunity to briefly explain what happened.”

This matter could already be considered a dark history. Having it seen once was already more than enough. Tomorrow morning, he actually had to personally talk about it again.

Lu Xuehai sighed and agreed.

“We can overcome everything else, but is there any solution to the issue of not having a proper place to shower?” Shen Zhibei still remembered the shower problem. “Or do you have some other arrangement?”

The chief director immediately stopped answering. “Teacher Shen, let’s not talk here. Let’s go outside and chat.”

Peng Yushu immediately sensed that something was wrong and said, “Say it here. Give us an answer. I’m afraid that once you go outside, you’ll run away.”

Seeing that her delay tactic had not worked, the chief director could only point at the large wooden bucket in the kitchen and say, “Isn’t that something that can be used for bathing?”

After all that, there was still nothing!

Shen Zhibei gave an order. “Gu Nan, grab her!”

Gu Nan reached out, wanting to grab the chief director, but the chief director had long been prepared. The moment she heard Shen Zhibei shout, she escaped with nimble footwork.

Before leaving, she even left behind one sentence: “I still have to arrange tomorrow morning’s work, so I won’t keep you company. Everyone should sleep early.”

As if they could still sleep!

Peng Yushu’s eyes began searching the remaining staff members, wanting to draw out one lucky person to answer their questions.

All the staff members who met Peng Yushu’s gaze began trembling. In the end, one relatively bold staff member directly shouted, “The weather is hot now, so we all draw water from the well and shower with cold water!”

With someone taking the lead, the other staff members immediately nodded like chickens pecking rice. “Right, right, right!”

Peng Yushu still wanted to ask for an explanation, but Gu Nan quickly held this old gentleman back.

“Teacher Peng, if we keep asking, the staff will all run away. Let’s just carry the hot water back and wipe ourselves down.”

Looking at the state of the staff members, as if they really would throw down whatever was in their hands and run, Shen Zhibei also stepped forward and held Peng Yushu back together with Gu Nan, one on each side.

“That’s right, Teacher Peng. Let’s endure for one day first and think of a way tomorrow.”

Bai Rui was also quick to read the situation. She picked up the thermos placed on the ground, felt that it was full, and called Tang Ling and Lu Xuehai to each carry one.

In front, Gu Nan and Shen Zhibei supported Peng Yushu and walked out. Behind them, the other three each carried a thermos and followed.

No more production staff followed them. It was already past the filming time now.

Only after they were far away from the production staff still busy in the kitchen did Gu Nan and Shen Zhibei tacitly let go of Peng Yushu.

Peng Yushu said, “I just wanted to ask more about the shower problem. That’s not excessive, right?”

“Not excessive, not excessive. But the main point is, if we kept asking, the staff would go on strike.” Gu Nan explained.

Shen Zhibei followed Gu Nan’s words and said, “The kitchen is still being cleaned up by those staff members for us. They’re helping us clean up, and we’re still asking them things their chief director won’t let them say. That wouldn’t be appropriate either, right?”

Peng Yushu looked left at Gu Nan, then right at Shen Zhibei. “You two are quite in sync.”

Gu Nan and Shen Zhibei looked at each other and said in unison, “We’re not in sync.”

“And this still doesn’t count?” Peng Yushu did not let the wife-wives continue talking. “All right, I won’t make trouble for the production team. Let’s hurry back.”

On the way back to the room, the group walked and chatted casually.

“Putting today aside, we still have to stay here for two days and one night. We can’t keep going like this, right? Should we talk to the chief director about it?” Peng Yushu asked. “Do any of you know where the production staff are staying at night?”

“I asked about it before,” Bai Rui said. “It seems most of them are staying with other villagers at the bottom of the slope. Only a small number of staff members are staying here to watch the equipment. Those staff members are pitching tents and sleeping in sleeping bags on the first floor.”

“The chief director should be going down with them too, right?” Lu Xuehai had finally recovered from the depression of having his stupid act watched throughout and having to explain it again tomorrow morning. “Then tomorrow morning, let’s get up early and stop her for a talk before they come up and turn on the cameras?”

“I thought about it. The script says there’ll be American ginseng harvesting tomorrow, so they’ll definitely have us go down to the village’s planting base.”

Gu Nan explained her own idea. “At that time, they’ll have to introduce Yingpan Village’s American ginseng to the entire livestream room. The production team will definitely find a local villager who can speak Mandarin to introduce it. We can secretly ask that person where in the village we can take a hot shower, even if it costs money.”

Peng Yushu clapped and praised her. “This method works. And it even adds heat to the show. The production team will probably be happy to see it happen.”

“If anyone asks, we’ll say it’s a confrontation segment between the guests and the production team?” Shen Zhibei also said with a smile.

“I think that works.” Tang Ling raised both hands in agreement.

Everyone reached a consensus on this issue. Once they returned to the second floor, they divided up the hot water in the thermoses, then returned to their rooms to rest.

“Oh right, since the cameras are off now, wait here. I’ll go get everyone something good that can fill your stomach.” Gu Nan suddenly remembered the instant noodles she had planned to bring out and quickly told the others to wait for her.

Shen Zhibei already knew what the “good thing that can fill your stomach” Gu Nan mentioned was. Thinking of the attack of the aroma she had suffered at the hotel, she silently followed Gu Nan up to the third floor.

“Why did you follow me back?” Gu Nan asked Shen Zhibei while opening her suitcase and taking out many bags of Master X braised beef noodles and ham sausages.

“It’ll be even more uncomfortable to smell it there and not eat.” Shen Zhibei sat on the bed. “I won’t go down later. Help me tell them that I’m a little tired and don’t want to eat.”

“Okay.” After agreeing, Gu Nan took the instant noodles and ham sausages and prepared to leave.

After taking two steps, she turned back again. “Since I agreed to pass on the message for you, can I change the bedsheet later? Just my half is fine.”

Shen Zhibei raised her head and looked at Gu Nan. This time, she stared at her very seriously for a long while.

Gu Nan was unnerved by the stare and twitched the corner of her mouth. “Forget it. I won’t change it.”

“No need. Change all of it. If you only change half, it’ll still be easy to notice.” Shen Zhibei no longer looked at Gu Nan. Instead, her gaze fixed on Gu Nan’s suitcase, as if flowers had bloomed on it.

“Take out the bedsheet, duvet cover, and pillowcases. I’ll help you put them on.”

“Ah?!” Gu Nan looked at Shen Zhibei with an expression as if red rain had fallen from the sky. “Is that okay?”

Shen Zhibei looked up and caught the expression on Gu Nan’s face. She immediately said in embarrassment and anger, “If you keep looking, you don’t get to change them!”

“Thank you, beautiful and kind Sister Zhibei!”

Gu Nan swiftly put away the obvious expression on her face and took out the other clean three-piece bedding set she had brought, along with two bags of preserved carrot, from her suitcase. She held them up with both hands and offered them to Shen Zhibei.

Before this, the instant noodles and ham sausages had already been tossed back into her suitcase.

“Sister, this is another set. I washed it, but I haven’t used it even once. You can use it with peace of mind too.”

Shen Zhibei accepted them and waved at her.

The meaning was: you may withdraw.

“All right. Thank you for working hard to make the bed, Sister. Please enjoy the delicious preserved fruit.”

Gu Nan nodded and bowed as she slowly backed out. When passing by the suitcase, she bent down and scooped the instant noodles and ham sausages into her arms, then happily ran to the second floor.

The moment the staircase vibrated, everyone knew Gu Nan was back.

Tang Ling, who had not eaten enough and still wanted to keep eating tonight, came up to meet her.

“Wow, why did you bring so many instant noodles?”

Seeing the instant noodles and ham sausages in Gu Nan’s arms, Tang Ling immediately felt as if the sky had brightened.

“Let me, let me. How can I let you work so hard alone!”

He quickly walked over and took those foods, which, in his eyes, seemed to shine with light. Then he walked into the room together with Gu Nan.

The moment he entered, he raised the food high.

“Look what this is!”

“Wow!” Peng Yushu gave him face and directly hit a high note. “Instant noodles! Ham sausage! Our midnight snack!”

“Come, come, come. Who wants to eat? Everyone come eat! Everyone come eat!” Gu Nan greeted them like a wealthy landowner. Only after saying that did she remember what Shen Zhibei had asked her to say, so she added, “Zhibei said she’s very tired and won’t come down to eat. She asked me to tell you.”

“All right. Then we’ll eat.” Peng Yushu immediately said, “I want one bag of instant noodles with a ham sausage!”

“Can I have two portions?”

Peng Yushu and Tang Ling responded enthusiastically.

Bai Rui lowered her head and looked at her stomach, hesitating for a long time. In the end, she still could not resist the desire to eat and said, “Give me one portion.”

Lu Xuehai looked at the instant noodles and swallowed. His body really wanted to eat, and his stomach really wanted to eat too. But his obsession with body management as a model urged him to quickly refuse.

“I—I won’t eat either. I’ll go back to my room first.”

Everyone understood what instant noodles meant to a model on a diet. So although they had the instant noodles in hand, none of them opened the bags. Instead, after telling him to take some hot water with him, they watched him leave. Only after they clearly heard the sound of the door closing did they begin tearing open the bags, adding seasoning, and pouring water.

For a moment, the room was filled with the aroma of instant noodles.

“Delicious, delicious. Ah, a delicacy of the mortal world.” Tang Ling inhaled a large mouthful.

This big mouthful of calorie-exceeding instant noodles finally relieved his craving for oily food.

“I originally thought that since this was a countryside slow variety show, how could there possibly be no food? So I didn’t bring this kind of filling food. I only brought some small snacks…”

At this point, Tang Ling suddenly asked, “Gu Nan, how many instant noodles do you have left? We still have at least two breakfasts, one lunch, and one dinner to eat.”

“You’re not planning to eat instant noodles for all three meals a day, are you? My instant noodles can’t withstand that kind of eating.” Gu Nan beautifully took a sip of soup. “Tomorrow morning, we can first see what the production team prepared. If it seems good, we’ll play the game. If it doesn’t, we’ll continue eating pumpkin first. Then when we have a chance to go to the villagers’ homes, we’ll buy some seasoning, rice, and flour. We’ll work separately from the production team.”

“Exactly. We need to carry out the philosophy of angering the production team from beginning to end.” Peng Yushu nodded in agreement. “Of course, to the outside world, we’ll still say it’s an effect created by the confrontation between the guests and the production team.”

“Judging from this situation, I won’t bring snacks next episode either. I’ll directly bring more filling things,” Bai Rui said. Tonight, she had also been exhausted and hungry, badly tormented by the production team.

When it came to bringing filling food, Bai Rui’s thoughts turned, and she felt this seemed like a very good opportunity. Perhaps she could use that bottle of stuff after all…

Thinking this, Bai Rui added, “Or I can directly bring seasoning over.”

“If you’re bringing seasoning, bring more soy sauce. I can carry some rice then. Soy sauce mixed with rice is pretty good too.” Tang Ling inhaled the instant noodles frantically.

“Then I’ll bring some spicy rice-mixing sauce,” Peng Yushu also followed. “With these things, next episode, no matter how much the production team schemes against us, we won’t end up without food.”

“Then I’ll bring instant soup packets. If they don’t even give us vegetables, we can still drink soup and eat rice.”

“Then it’s settled.”

The group happily discussed what they would bring next episode.

After eating their extra meal, the few people who had finally eaten enough immediately felt exhaustion surge up.

After cleaning up the trash they had produced, they each returned to their own rooms, preparing to simply tidy up and sleep.

“Wait a moment.”

Peng Yushu stopped Gu Nan, who was walking at the back, and quietly said this.

“What is it, Teacher Peng?” Gu Nan asked in confusion.

“If Zhibei’s heat period arrives while you’re recording the show, it’s best for you to suppress it with a long-acting heat suppressant and wait until you return home. If at night you really need to…” Peng Yushu vaguely skipped over the later word. “The noise needs to be kept down too. This house’s soundproofing isn’t very good.”

Although Gu Nan did not know how Peng Yushu knew, her face turned completely red from the meaning in his words.

“I—I know,” she stammered in reply.

“Since you know, go back and properly soothe Zhibei’s emotions. Right now is when she needs her Alpha to soothe her emotions, and she’s been exhausted today too.” Peng Yushu also knew that among Alphas, there were hardly any who could carefully notice an Omega’s little thoughts during a special period. That was why he stopped Gu Nan to remind her.

“One look and I can tell you don’t have experience in this area. I’ll recommend two books to you. One is How to Effectively Soothe an Omega in Heat, and the other is called How to Be a Qualified Alpha. After this episode, you can go to the bookstore and buy them to read. They’ll help you understand Zhibei’s thoughts.”

“All right. I’ll definitely buy them and read them afterward.” Gu Nan nodded in response, her face even redder.

Only then did Peng Yushu let go of Gu Nan and hand her the thermos of hot water placed on the ground. “Go back quickly. Zhibei is still waiting for you.”

After a day like this, even though Gu Nan’s physical condition was outstanding, she still felt tired just like everyone else.

When she returned to their room, the bedding had already been changed, and Shen Zhibei, who was lying on the bed, had also changed clothes.

At this moment, Shen Zhibei had plugged in a power bank and was exchanging messages with Ding Ziyan.

Naturally, Ding Ziyan was sending Shen Zhibei the current online situation.

So far, the good news was that participating in this variety show had indeed reversed public opinion online regarding the relationship between the two of them. A CP supertopic for her and Gu Nan had even been created on Big-Eye, and many people had already joined it.

The bad news was that the image she had maintained for many years had been led by Gu Nan into a silly-comedy style. Her expressions had already been made into many reaction images and begun spreading.

Don’t ask how she knew. Because as Ding Ziyan was talking, she sent Shen Zhibei a reaction image she had saved and used before.

It was that one: “smile gradually disappears.jpg.”

Only after sending it did Ding Ziyan realize something was wrong and hurriedly recalled it. Unfortunately, Shen Zhibei had already seen it.

Ding Ziyan could only comfort Shen Zhibei.

Right now, in the eyes of the audience, this entire guest group had already become a silly group. It was not as if she alone was silly.

As they were sending messages back and forth, Gu Nan returned.

“You’re back.”

“Mm, I came back after eating. When we were eating instant noodles just now, we also chatted about what each of us should bring next episode.” As Gu Nan spoke, she took her pajamas out of the suitcase.

“What are you bringing next episode?” Shen Zhibei asked, though her mind was still on the pile of reaction images of herself that Ding Ziyan had mentioned were spreading.

“Bai Rui will bring seasonings, especially soy sauce. Tang Ling will bring rice. Teacher Peng will bring spicy rice-mixing sauce. I said I’d bring instant soup.” Gu Nan was also talking with great enthusiasm. “With all the things we’re bringing combined, we won’t need the production team to provide anything.”

While Gu Nan was speaking, Shen Zhibei received another reaction image from Ding Ziyan: “silly bowl-scooping water.jpg.”

Immediately, looking at Gu Nan’s enthusiastic appearance, she found she could no longer keep watching and could not help asking, “Then what if the production team confiscates all the things you bring before the show starts?”

Gu Nan’s smile froze on her face. “They can’t be that perverted, right?”

“Then could you have imagined a perfectly good countryside slow variety show turning into this?” Shen Zhibei said. “Do you have some misunderstanding about the production team’s integrity?”

“That… seems true.” Gu Nan wilted immediately.

Drooping her head, Gu Nan picked up her pajamas and was about to change into them, only then remembering that there was another person in the room. Her movement of taking off her clothes froze stiffly in an awkward posture.

Shen Zhibei replied to Ding Ziyan, telling her to stop using her reaction images.

Then, when she raised her head, she saw Gu Nan with pajamas draped over her arm, awkwardly buttoning her clothes back up again and looking at her as if she wanted to speak but did not.

“Are you afraid I want to look at your body? If you’re afraid, you can quietly go to the empty master bedroom next door and change.”

“No, I just wanted you to turn around. And when you looked up just now, if I hadn’t stopped taking it off, wouldn’t you have seen me?”

Shen Zhibei maintained a smile showing eight teeth. “You should hurry and go to the empty master bedroom next door to change, mm~”

The danger carried in that drawn-out final sound spoke for itself.

Gu Nan immediately went to the master bedroom next door.

She was doing this for Sister’s mental health. She absolutely was not scared!