After Transmigrating as a Scumbag Alpha, I Ended Up with the Movie Queen - Chapter 26

By the time Gu Nan returned after changing into pajamas, Shen Zhibei had already put down her phone and was leaning against the bed, thinking about something.

“Have you brushed your teeth and washed your face?” Gu Nan asked.

“Not yet,” Shen Zhibei replied. “There are only a few bottles of mineral water in the room for drinking. There’s no way to wash.”

“Then let’s take our things and go to the kitchen to wash up together?”

In truth, Shen Zhibei had also been waiting for Gu Nan to come back so she could accompany her to wash up.

It was not because of some so-called reason like girls always had to go to the bathroom together.

It was because she was afraid of the dark.

Her fear of the dark really was not some kind of character setting. It was a psychological shadow left behind from when she was still little, when her father had locked her inside a cabinet.

Now that Gu Nan had asked this, Shen Zhibei naturally agreed readily.

“Okay.”

After bringing along everything they would need later, the two of them set out.

When they passed the first floor, the staff staying up on the slope to watch the equipment had already set up their tents and sleeping bags and were preparing to sleep.

Seeing Gu Nan and Shen Zhibei come out carrying bags, basins, and a thermos, one of them asked, “Teachers, what are you…”

“We’re going to the kitchen to mix some cold water and wash our faces and brush our teeth. You can sleep. We’ll come back in a while and go straight upstairs.”

“All right. Then please be careful.”

After saying goodbye to the staff staying behind, the two slowly walked under the moonlight.

In such a quiet environment, it felt as if even their hearts had calmed down.

“Only at a time like this can we properly enjoy the fresh air,” Shen Zhibei said, smoothing down her long hair that had been blown by the wind.

“That’s true. It finally feels a little like a countryside slow variety show,” Gu Nan agreed.

When they reached the water basin, the two drew a basin of cold water and mixed it with hot water, then squatted there and began washing up. Because there was not much hot water, and some still had to be saved for wiping their bodies later, it only made the water less cold.

As Shen Zhibei washed up, she chatted with Gu Nan.

“I was talking to Sister Yan just now. She told me about the current situation online. Overall, it’s very good. There are only a few small flaws.”

Gu Nan was brushing her teeth, so she did not speak and simply took on a posture of listening respectfully.

“And that is: the image of the entire guest group has been led by a certain someone into becoming silly comedy.”

When Gu Nan heard that pointed sentence, she was not pleased.

She quickly rinsed her mouth so she could speak. “Could that certain someone you’re referring to be me?”

“Who else?” Shen Zhibei had already removed her makeup and washed her face, and was currently applying skincare products.

“I didn’t. I’m not. You’re talking nonsense!”

“Sister Yan summarized all the famous scenes that have appeared on the show so far, and you’re in every single one of them. And you still say you didn’t?” Shen Zhibei finished applying her skincare and began squeezing toothpaste onto her electric toothbrush. “You even dragged me into producing a whole pile of reaction images. Now they’re spreading all over the internet. Even Sister Yan is using them.”

The resentment in her final sentence was very strong.

Gu Nan was stunned at first, then suddenly understood. “So this is the main reason you were like that tonight, right?”

Shen Zhibei had already begun brushing her teeth, so she did not speak. She did not even look at Gu Nan.

“What kind of reaction images are they? Can you show me when we go back?”

Shen Zhibei still did not answer.

“Then how about I chat with Sister Yan later and ask her? Maybe while we’re chatting, she’ll send me your reaction images.”

Annoyed by Gu Nan, Shen Zhibei reached out, scooped up a little water from the basin, and lightly splashed it onto Gu Nan’s face.

“Stop talking. Hurry and remove your makeup and wash your face,” Shen Zhibei said indistinctly.

Gu Nan directly leaned closer to Shen Zhibei and shook off the droplets of water on her face, sending them right back onto Shen Zhibei’s face and body.

Shen Zhibei could no longer care that she was still brushing her teeth. Biting her electric toothbrush, she scooped up more water and flicked it at Gu Nan’s face.

Not to be outdone, Gu Nan also copied Shen Zhibei and began flicking water droplets back.

“Can you two play later? Can you let me wash first?”

A faint, gloomy voice drifted over, making both of them stiffen. At the same time, they turned their heads to look.

Lu Xuehai was crouched not far away, his tall body curled into a ball so the wooden fence could cover him.

Only after speaking did he stand up and walk out. But perhaps because he had been squatting for too long and his legs had gone numb, he was limping a little.

“I originally wanted to wait until you two finished washing before coming out. After all, the atmosphere between you two was so nice. But you two never left, and then you started playing. There are so many mosquitoes here, and I really had no choice.”

As Lu Xuehai spoke, he looked at the two of them faintly, making Gu Nan and Shen Zhibei feel extremely embarrassed.

“We’ll be done right away. Give us five minutes.”

With Lu Xuehai’s appearance, the two of them moved extremely quickly and finished washing up. Then they drew another basin of water and hurried away.

Once they left, Lu Xuehai prepared to get some water and wash up.

In the end, he could still vaguely hear the two people’s conversation floating in the wind.

“It’s all your fault.”

“My fault, my fault.”

“You’re still saying that!”

Clearly, this was supposed to be a countryside slow variety show, but everything they had suffered so far had been completely different from a countryside slow variety show.

And now, it felt like a romance variety show.

Lu Xuehai deeply sighed, feeling that the amount of dog food he had eaten today had already exceeded the limit.

Once everything was done, Gu Nan and Shen Zhibei lay side by side on the bed, both of them stiff and not daring to move.

If two people lay on this bed without moving, there was still some space between them. But if either stretched out a leg or an arm, they would directly touch the other. If the two of them even turned over and slept facing each other, they would easily be able to feel each other’s breathing.

“We’re sleeping now, so should I put out the lamp?” Gu Nan did not dare look toward Shen Zhibei at all and just stared straight at the ceiling as she spoke.

In her heart, Shen Zhibei silently repeated: This is filming. This is work.

After repeating that many times, Shen Zhibei’s attitude also returned to normal.

“Mm, turn it off.”

After receiving permission, Gu Nan reached out to turn off the lamp, only to discover she did not know where to turn it off. She could only awkwardly ask again, “Zhibei, do you know how to turn this off?”

“Turn the wick knob to the left.”

“So it’s that simple.” Gu Nan reached out and twisted it, extinguishing the only light source in the bedroom.

The light suddenly disappeared, and the two of them were plunged into darkness.

“I might not be able to sleep tonight,” Gu Nan said with some distress, still looking at the ceiling.

Although her sleeping posture was pretty good, she did occasionally turn over or stretch her legs and arms.

What if, this time, when she fell asleep, her hands or feet went over there? When she woke up, it would be awkward.

“Why won’t you be able to sleep? Because you’re so nervous sleeping in the same bed as me?” Although Shen Zhibei was a little nervous because of the darkness, after her eyes adapted to it, that nervousness eased quite a lot. “I’m not even afraid you’ll do anything to me anymore. Why are you still nervous?”

Hearing this, Gu Nan did feel that Shen Zhibei’s attitude toward her had indeed been getting better recently.

Gu Nan turned over, faced Shen Zhibei, and asked curiously, “You don’t think I’ll lose control like a beast anymore?”

Shen Zhibei told the truth. “You don’t have that kind of courage.”

“Although I should be moved by your trust in me, when you say I don’t have courage, I really do feel a tiny bit unhappy,” Gu Nan said with a bit of emotion.

“Baby, don’t be unhappy.” Shen Zhibei laughed and deliberately used Yin Yuehua’s way of addressing Gu Nan, along with her tone. “This is my trust in your character.”

Being called that made goosebumps rise all over Gu Nan. She hurriedly twisted her body on the bed and said in flustered anger, “Don’t call me that! Be careful, or I really will do something indescribable to you.”

Shen Zhibei smiled until her eyes narrowed. She suddenly understood how Gu Nan felt when she was being mouthy from time to time and made Shen Zhibei so angry she wanted to stomp her feet.

But this little friend had a bigger temper than her. Since she was older, she should let her have her way a little.

Shen Zhibei had already begun selectively forgetting that, in truth, most of the time, the two of them interacted like elementary school students bickering.

“All right, I believe you. Do you want me to tell you my secret to relaxing?” Shen Zhibei naturally did not hear Gu Nan’s response while Gu Nan resisted with silence, so she continued talking to herself. “You can actually treat this as acting.”

“So you’re treating this as filming, and that’s why you relaxed?”

“That’s right.” Shen Zhibei admitted it openly.

“This isn’t the same as filming, right? When filming, there are many people and cameras around,” Gu Nan said. “And I’m not nervous because I’m sharing a bed with you. It’s just that even though my sleeping posture is actually very good, I still want to be careful. What if I stretch out a hand while asleep, or you stretch out a hand while asleep? You won’t wake up in the morning and treat me like a pervert, right?”

“I won’t. Besides, we both have to trust our own sleeping postures,” Shen Zhibei said confidently.

After this conversation, the remaining nervousness in both of them finally eased.

Once their moods relaxed, under the soft moonlight, the two people who had been tired all day soon fell into a deep sleep.

…

It was a bright and sunny morning.

Warm sunlight pierced through the window and spilled onto the two people tightly hugging each other on the bed, reflecting a very beautiful scene.

As for why this scene appeared, that had to be explained by the temperature difference between day and night in Dian Province.

Originally, the two of them had indeed slept properly apart, each under their own blanket. But because the temperature difference between morning and night in Dian Province was extremely large, and Shen Zhibei’s constitution was not very good, in the latter half of the night, the half-asleep Shen Zhibei felt the chill and automatically moved toward the warm place.

The result was that Shen Zhibei directly burrowed into Gu Nan’s arms, while her own blanket fell to the floor. The two of them squeezed under Gu Nan’s blanket and hugged each other intimately.

The crowing of the roosters in the countryside was extremely penetrating, letting these people who had always lived in the city enjoy the power of a biological alarm clock.

Being forcefully woken up was an extremely uncomfortable feeling, not to mention they had worked hard the entire previous day and slept very late.

Shen Zhibei originally wanted to wait until the crowing stopped and then continue sleeping, but the crowing lasted for a very long time and finally woke her up.

She opened her eyes blearily and discovered that she was in someone’s arms.

Her mind instantly sobered, but her hand instinctively shoved hard.

With a loud thud—

Gu Nan, who had still been in her dreams, fell heavily to the floor, completely dazed by the impact.

She looked around, and only then did she remember that she was on a variety show, recording a program.

“What happened? Why did I fall onto the floor?” Gu Nan stood up, stretching her painfully bruised back as she asked Shen Zhibei.

Shen Zhibei looked extremely guilty, her fingers anxiously twisting together.

At this moment, she also finally vaguely remembered that after she had fallen asleep in a daze last night, she seemed to have felt very cold and moved toward the heat source, even actively hugging that heat source fully.

Thinking about it now, that heat source should have been Gu Nan. And as a result, first thing in the morning, she had directly pushed Gu Nan onto the floor.

Seeing Shen Zhibei’s guilty expression, Gu Nan immediately became suspicious. “Don’t tell me you pushed me?”

“Uh.” Shen Zhibei became even guiltier, but she still stammered and admitted, “It… it was me.”

Gu Nan was instantly speechless. She picked up the blanket that had fallen to the floor with her and returned to the bed. “Didn’t you swear last night that you wouldn’t treat me like a pervert? Then why did you push me so hard this morning?”

How could Shen Zhibei possibly have the nerve to say that the moment she woke up and saw herself in someone’s arms, before her brain could react, her hand moved by itself?

If she said that, Gu Nan would definitely ask again, “Then why were you in my arms? Which of us moved first?”

Shen Zhibei did not doubt at all that Gu Nan would ask that.

At that time, should she tell the truth or lie?

If she told the truth, Gu Nan would definitely activate mocking mode without leaving her any face at all.

If she lied, her blanket had fallen onto the floor on her side, and she herself was on Gu Nan’s side of the bed. The evidence was right there.

So it was better to muddle through.

“I… I saw wrong, that’s all,” Shen Zhibei said awkwardly.

“My face looked like a pervert?” Gu Nan patted the dust off the blanket, then noticed that Shen Zhibei’s blanket had also fallen onto the floor. “Why did your blanket fall too?”

Shen Zhibei turned back to look at her “evidence of guilt.” Before she could think of a perfect answer—

The door of the secondary bedroom they were in was knocked on.

A staff member’s voice came from outside the door. “Teachers, what happened? Did something happen to you?”

“It’s nothing. Gu Nan accidentally fell off the bed while turning over,” Shen Zhibei answered first.

Gu Nan: …

“It’s good that nothing happened. Teachers, it’s already 8:20 now, and the livestream starts at 9. You can get up and make preparations. But please don’t go downstairs. A staff member will come call you later. Also, at 9, the cameras in the room will automatically turn on. Please remember to remove whatever is covering them.”

“Thank you for the reminder. We understand.”

After hearing the reply, the staff member’s footsteps gradually faded away.

Shen Zhibei had been worrying about how to explain the blanket that had fallen off the bed. Now that the staff member had given a reminder, she immediately changed the topic. “Let’s get up. We still have to put on makeup, brush our teeth, and wash our faces. If we don’t hurry, there’ll be a pile of cameras filming us doing all this.”

Gu Nan was indeed choked by the scene Shen Zhibei described. She immediately got up, picked up her clothes, and prepared to change.

“I’ll turn my back. You can just turn your back to me too.” Shen Zhibei said very “considerately,” “That way, you won’t have to go to the master bedroom to change and risk being discovered by someone else.”

Having a convenient method was naturally good. Gu Nan immediately said, “Okay. Then I’ll call you when I’m done changing.”

Seeing Shen Zhibei turn around neatly, Gu Nan immediately turned around and began changing clothes.

Hearing the rustling sounds behind her, Shen Zhibei could finally feel at ease enough to secretly pick up the blanket that had fallen on the floor.

The clothes the two chose this time were both convenient for going out and doing work.

After both of them had changed, they did not put on their mics or remove the covers on the cameras. Carrying basins and the toiletries they needed, they went downstairs to the water basin to wash their faces and brush their teeth.

The first floor was now full of staff members, all busily installing and adjusting equipment.

Seeing that the two of them had not dawdled in bed and had instead come downstairs with toiletries, the production staff panicked a little.

“Teachers, why did you come down? Didn’t we say to wait for us to call you?”

“You wanted to film us barefaced and just getting out of bed?” Shen Zhibei understood why the other party had wanted to keep the two of them in the room, so of course she would not let the production team get their wish.

“No, we… um, it was to film the moment you received the mission we issued.” Of course, the chief director could not admit that Shen Zhibei had guessed the production team’s intention correctly, so she forced herself to find a reason.

“Oh, so that’s it.” Gu Nan pretended to suddenly understand. “Then since we got up early anyway, and there’s still some time before 9, we’ll come back to the room as soon as we finish washing up. We guarantee you’ll be able to film the moment we receive the mission.”

As Gu Nan spoke, she looked anxious and pulled Shen Zhibei along, hurrying past the staff. She also said, “Then we need to hurry even more. We can’t delay your filming plan. Everyone, please move aside and let us quickly tidy up our personal hygiene.”

When Gu Nan’s mouth was not aimed at herself, watching the show was quite enjoyable.

Shen Zhibei was in a very good mood. One hand was being held by Gu Nan, and with the other, she even made a bye-bye gesture at the chief director.

The chief director was forced to swallow this loss. But Gu Nan and Shen Zhibei still did not go too far.

After washing up, they quickly returned to the room.

Although they still did not wear their mics or remove the covers from the cameras, the two of them sat there slowly doing their makeup, allowing the camera operator who entered at 9 to capture some footage. They felt that they had been quite considerate.

At nine o’clock, the camera operator knocked on the door right on time.

Shen Zhibei had not finished her makeup yet, so Gu Nan, who had already finished hers, went to open the door.

Originally, Gu Nan had also wanted to wait for the camera, but no matter how much she slowed down, she still felt she could finish her makeup very quickly.

But thinking about it, the audience all wanted to watch Shen Zhibei anyway. It had nothing to do with her. So she stopped making things difficult for herself and finished her makeup quickly in a few strokes, then sat to the side and watched Shen Zhibei’s movements.

Both of them had their own dedicated follow-camera. As soon as the staff entered, one camera aimed at each person and began filming.

[Wow, a new day has finally begun.]

[Sister is still doing her makeup. Sister’s bare face is so beautiful too. Lick lick.]

[I couldn’t eat or sleep and crouched in the livestream room just to see what Sister looks like right after waking up. But Sister got up so early, and I couldn’t see anything. Wuwuwu, I’m crying so loudly.]

“This is this morning’s breakfast mission.”

The production staff handed over the mission card.

Gu Nan had just put her own mic on and was putting Shen Zhibei’s on when a mission card was handed over.

Whether they would do the mission or not was uncertain, but they still had to look at it.

Gu Nan casually accepted it and opened it to look.

“Eh!”

She looked at the production team in great surprise. “Your mission has finally become interesting.”

Shen Zhibei had also finished her makeup and was tidying her things. Hearing Gu Nan say that, she curiously looked toward the mission card in her hand.