After Transmigrating as a Scumbag Alpha, I Ended Up with the Movie Queen - Chapter 38

This breakfast, which made Gu Nan and Shen Zhibei feel as if they were sitting on pins and needles, was finally about to end when Assistant Jin and Ding Ziyan were led into the dining room by the butler, Uncle Quan.

The two of them had deliberately avoided Gu Tiansheng and Yin Yuehua’s breakfast time, but unexpectedly, they still ran into them in the dining room.

Moreover, both of them looked at the person who had come in with them at the same time.

They were both thinking: Don’t tell me the other person is here to do the same thing as me?

“Assistant Jin, Miss Ding, what are you…”

Gu Tiansheng and Yin Yuehua temporarily stopped their feeding actions and looked curiously at the two people who had entered, greeted them, and then fallen silent while staring at each other.

“To bring Miss / Zhibei something.”

Of course, Gu Nan and Shen Zhibei knew what the two of them were here to deliver, but this matter was not easy to tell the Gu wives.

If these two extremely traditional people found out that even their wedding rings had been bought by someone else on their behalf, a round of nagging would be inevitable.

Gu Nan immediately pulled out a tissue and wiped her mouth. “Let’s go. We’ll talk upstairs.”

“Is it some document? Do your Mom and I need to help you look it over?” Gu Tiansheng asked.

Assistant Jin was only carrying his briefcase, and no other item could be seen. Something that could be carried over in a briefcase was most likely a document, so Gu Tiansheng asked.

It was not that the Gu wives did not trust Gu Nan. It was simply parental concern.

“No need, no need.” Gu Nan inexplicably felt guilty and refused repeatedly, standing up as if she wanted to leave.

The moment she felt guilty, the Gu wives, who had originally not thought much of it, immediately began thinking something.

“With that guilty look of yours…” Yin Yuehua looked at Gu Nan suspiciously. “Did you do something behind our backs?”

“How could I? Nothing like that.” Gu Nan laughed awkwardly.

Yin Yuehua grew even more suspicious. If there was nothing, why were you so guilty?

“Xiao Jin, what did Nannan ask you to bring? Don’t tell me she bought a house and wants to move out to live alone with Zhibei? If it’s that, there’s nothing wrong with it.”

Assistant Jin could only take a small box out of his briefcase.

Shen Zhibei and Ding Ziyan also looked toward that small box. Their first reaction was: They actually bought duplicates!

Gu Tiansheng and Yin Yuehua found the appearance of that small box extremely familiar.

Then they looked at Ding Ziyan, who had only brought a small handbag, and asked suspiciously, “Miss Ding couldn’t also be here to deliver this kind of small box, could she?”

Ding Ziyan felt that this was not a big matter either, so she smiled awkwardly and also took a small box out of her handbag.

Looking at these two small boxes, which could not be said to be exactly the same but were extremely similar, then looking at Gu Nan and Shen Zhibei, who were already sitting there obediently with lowered brows as though accepting their fate and waiting to be scolded, the Gu wives felt their heads buzzing.

“Assistant Jin, what exactly did Nannan ask you to buy?” Holding on to the last bit of hope, Gu Tiansheng asked.

She was not Ding Ziyan’s superior, so it was not very appropriate to ask her. But asking Assistant Jin was still fine.

Assistant Jin glanced at Gu Nan, revealed an apologetic look, then said to the direct superior who paid his salary, “Miss asked me to buy wedding rings.”

Since it was confirmed that what Assistant Jin had bought was a pair of rings, what was inside Ding Ziyan’s small box, which looked extremely similar to the one in Assistant Jin’s hand, was self-evident.

Gu Tiansheng held her head. “You two really do have a tacit understanding. You both thought of buying wedding rings on the same day. But wedding rings are such important things. Fine, forget that you didn’t buy them before getting married. But after getting married, one of you had an assistant buy them, and the other had a manager buy them?”

Who could have thought it would be this coincidental today? And why did you also ask someone to buy them?

Accompanied by nagging like “You don’t even take this kind of thing seriously” and “I’d rather you two had secretly bought a house and were preparing to move out,” Gu Nan and Shen Zhibei looked at each other in silence.

After finally enduring the Gu wives’ long-winded scolding, the two of them finally had to hurry off to work.

Gu Nan and Shen Zhibei sent away Assistant Jin and Ding Ziyan, who had ruined things, and only then could they finally let out a breath.

Collapsed on the sofa, the two each held a ring box and carefully examined them.

“Let’s choose the better-looking style to wear. What style is yours?” Shen Zhibei asked.

“I don’t know. Assistant Jin chose it.” Gu Nan was very curious. “What about yours? Let me see.”

Shen Zhibei actually did not know either. She had also asked Sister Yan to help choose. But one could lose the battle without losing the attitude, so she said nothing and put on an appearance of great confidence in the ring box in her hand, directly opening it.

“This one of yours…” Gu Nan looked at the pair of rings in Shen Zhibei’s box and was a little dumbfounded.

It was not that they were ugly, exactly. It was just that the overall color was gold, probably made of pure gold, with two rows of large diamonds set around the outer ring.

“A little too… mm.” Gu Nan thought of a nicer word. “Too retro, maybe?”

“No, it’s not that I like…” Shen Zhibei was choked speechless. In the end, she closed the box and said, “Let’s look at yours instead.”

The one Gu Nan was holding, chosen by Assistant Jin, was platinum.

A simple platinum design, paved with forty-three brilliant-cut diamonds. It could be said to perfectly hit both of their aesthetic preferences.

“Assistant Jin’s taste really is good.” Shen Zhibei had already stuffed the small box in her hand into the gap of the sofa.

“Then this one?” Gu Nan raised her eyes and asked.

“Mm, this one.” Shen Zhibei directly took one ring from the box and slipped it onto her ring finger. “All right. Then I’ll go back to my room first.”

“Wait.” Gu Nan stopped Shen Zhibei, hesitated to speak, and then, under Shen Zhibei’s increasingly baffled gaze, pointed at the location of her gland.

“?” Shen Zhibei did not understand and reached up to touch the gland at the back of her neck. It seemed she touched something.

Thinking of how many people she had seen that morning…

Holding on to her last shred of hope, Shen Zhibei asked, “What did I touch?”

“Well, a teeth mark,” Gu Nan said.

After Gu Nan pointed it out, Shen Zhibei practically floated back to her room.

The moment she closed the door, she rushed straight to the bathroom mirror, lifted her hair, and looked at the gland on the back of her neck.

Sure enough, a very obvious teeth mark was there, bright and clear, letting her know why Mother and Mom had lovingly fed her that morning, and why Assistant Jin and Sister Yan had looked at her a little strangely.

Shen Zhibei’s fingers unconsciously scratched at the sink. In the end, even in shame and anger, she still did not do anything like throw things or smash the mirror.

She only quickly ran back to the bed, pulled the blanket over, buried herself in it, and did not want to see anyone.

There were only three days between the end of the first episode of A Poetic Life and the recording of the second episode.

After lying dead at home for two days, Gu Nan and Shen Zhibei’s “vacation” was basically over.

Considering the production team would definitely come for revenge, the two of them needed to discuss how to make full use of the space in both their suitcases.

The time chosen for this was the night Shen Zhibei officially entered her heat period.

Humans really did have strong adaptability.

From avoiding seeing each other at the beginning, to later sharing a room, then sharing a bed. Now, after the second marking was completed, Shen Zhibei could already very calmly nestle in Gu Nan’s arms and accept the soothing of her pheromones.

This could be described as a qualitative leap.

“Tomorrow, we need to pack our suitcases. After all, we’re leaving the morning after tomorrow. We don’t know where they’ll take us this time, or whether there will be electric appliances and such.” Gu Nan had already reached for her phone with one hand and started browsing Taotao.

“Probably not.” Shen Zhibei closed her eyes and said lazily, “What are you planning to bring?”

“I still don’t have any good ideas, but I’m looking at field cooking sets.”

Shen Zhibei was startled by the words “field cooking sets” and immediately opened her eyes. “Although they’re very practical, a set must be heavy. Besides, we’re only going to record a variety show. There’s no need to bring field cooking equipment.”

“Mm, right. One set is about one hundred catties, so it really is too heavy. And these things that basically don’t need electricity will definitely be prepared by the production team.” Gu Nan let Shen Zhibei look at the set she was looking at.

“Bringing more power banks is more practical.” Shen Zhibei did not look and directly closed her eyes again, returning to her lazy state. “Next episode, the production team will definitely be on guard against our raids, so that method can’t be used anymore.”

“That’s exactly why the things we bring are even more important.”

“Oh, right.” Shen Zhibei suddenly thought of a topic mentioned in the RV on the last day. “What did you and Teacher Peng discuss when I didn’t know?”

“It was just on the first day we arrived in Yingpan Village, when we were eating instant noodles. We brought it up casually while chatting. At the time, you and Brother Xuehai had gone back to your rooms first, so you didn’t know. Actually, it can’t really be called a discussion. It was more like the production team’s pressure is forcing us to turn our casual ideas from back then into reality.”

Gu Nan explained, “At the time, after seeing how difficult the conditions were, and that even our food had been confiscated by the production team, we discussed what each of us could bring next episode so we wouldn’t starve even if we ignored the ingredients provided by the production team. For example, Bai Rui said she’d bring seasonings, Tang Ling said rice, Teacher Peng said Lao Gan Ma, and I said instant soup.”

“You all thought it through pretty well,” Shen Zhibei commented.

“Of course. We were all doing it so everyone could live better under the production team’s demonic claws.” Gu Nan got excited, and her hand, which had originally been obediently clenched into a fist, casually patted Shen Zhibei’s waist.

Shen Zhibei’s body was still in the sensitive period after just being temporarily marked. Being patted like that made the place Gu Nan touched feel numb and tingling. It was as if an electric current began from that spot and ran through her entire body, and a craving began rising from her heart, wanting Gu Nan to do more.

This feeling was something Shen Zhibei had never experienced before.

On one hand, she resented the uncontrollable feeling that appeared after being marked. On the other hand, she truly let out a breath of relief, because she could still restrain herself from this feeling.

Shen Zhibei quickly pressed down on Gu Nan’s hand, opened her eyes, and glared at her. “Keep your hand still.”

Rather than saying that gaze was a glare, in Gu Nan’s eyes, it did not have any force at all. Instead, it seemed more like tiny hooks were being thrown out, lightly hooking onto her heart.

Gu Nan’s mind swayed, and she wanted to do something. But in the end, she still clenched the hand Shen Zhibei was holding back into a fist and obediently placed it properly, continuing the earlier conversation.

“I actually had my eye on a self-heating pot a couple days ago. If we could bring one, it would be very convenient for boiling hot water. Whether we drank it directly or used it to soak instant noodles, instant soup, or instant porridge, it would work. But self-heating pots that use lime packs to generate heat can’t be brought on planes or checked in, so I had to give up.”

Although Shen Zhibei had pressed down Gu Nan’s hand to stop her from moving, her own body unconsciously leaned closer to Gu Nan.

At this moment, Shen Zhibei did not notice this. After suppressing the impulse to want Gu Nan to do more, she smelled the pinewood-scented pheromones Gu Nan was releasing and asked very relaxedly, “And then? What else do you want to bring?”

“There’s no ‘and then.’ Now that I’ve even rejected the field cooking set, there isn’t much else to bring. I can only bring more instant food and jerky and things like that.” Gu Nan put her phone into her pants pocket. “I already told Sister Li to make a batch of dried vegetables. When the time comes, we’ll have vegetables to eat.”

“You really are preparing things as if this were a survival variety show.” Shen Zhibei truly admired Gu Nan’s hoarding awareness.

“What else can I do? Who asked the production team to not act human? If they acted even a little bit human, I wouldn’t have to be like this.” Gu Nan was also very helpless.

“Oh, right. I forgot to tell you earlier. Mother told us that on the variety show, we must be even more careful of Bai Rui. She said that among the evidence collected recently, the evidence pointing to Bai Rui is all small matters. Basically, everything was done through her lovers. Although they haven’t found direct evidence, her intention to harm you is not fake. Also, she may still have some inducer and hallucinogen in her hands.”

Shen Zhibei’s head was lowered slightly, so Gu Nan could not see what she was thinking at this moment.

After a moment of silence, Shen Zhibei suddenly asked, “Then do you think Bai Rui will make a move on this variety show?”

“She probably won’t, right? Previously, she always had her lovers act while she stayed out of it. She probably won’t act personally this time either. But…” Gu Nan frowned and thought for a while.

“Based on how she behaves on the show, do we also need to guard against Tang Ling and Brother Xuehai?”

“You forgot one person,” Shen Zhibei said.

“Who? The only one left among us is Teacher Peng.” Gu Nan looked speechless. “Could Teacher Peng still fall for Bai Rui? What you’re saying is way too terrifying.”

Shen Zhibei looked steadily at Gu Nan in helpless silence.

The room was quiet for a good while.

Only then did Gu Nan point at herself. “You can’t possibly mean me, right?”

“I mean you. Otherwise, how do you explain her constantly showing goodwill to you?” Thinking of the provocation Bai Rui had made toward her in the kitchen back then, Shen Zhibei’s gaze darkened.

“Because you’re the person closest to me. If she wants to act against me, then as long as she makes you like her, then gives you a little hint, wouldn’t it become very convenient?”

“I just thought she had some serious illness.” Gu Nan rubbed her nose.

Right. After all, with your miraculous brain circuit, how could you possibly connect with Bai Rui’s normal one?

Shen Zhibei did not know whether she should feel lucky or not.

Gu Nan also did not want to discuss too much about Bai Rui and ruin the mood, so she directly summarized, “There are only two episodes left anyway. We’ll be more on guard against her. During filming, don’t act alone. No matter when it is, the two of us will move together. That should be fine, right?”

Shen Zhibei did not comment.

She was not like Gu Nan, who thought Bai Rui would not make a move during this variety show.

Especially now that she knew Bai Rui might still have powerful weapons like hallucinogens and inducer in her hands.

If their inference was correct, then previously, both she and Gu Nan had fallen because of these two drugs in Bai Rui’s hands.

They had already fallen once. Now, no amount of vigilance would be excessive.

Moreover, these past two days, she had also looked a little more at her and Bai Rui’s squares on Big-Eye.

Of course, she was not going to look at the Nanbei CP super topic, nor was she going to look at that fic that had been enshrined as the treasure of the Nanbei CP circle because she had read it out loud. She was going to look at the movements of the fans.

Because Sister Yan had told her that recently, Bai Rui’s fans, her fans, and the Nanbei CP fans had already been fighting fiercely.

Bai Rui’s side had hired a very large number of paid commenters, wanting to make the title “Little Shen Zhibei,” which had suddenly been dug up again, be forgotten by the public once more.

Actually, she had almost suppressed it already. It was only because Chengxin had bought even more paid commenters that Bai Rui’s attempt failed, making this fan war grow increasingly fierce.

This matter alone was enough to show that Bai Rui cared very much about being called “Little Shen Zhibei.”

Once something a person cared about was about to succeed but was destroyed by someone midway, as long as they were human, they would definitely feel anger. And when people were angry, they could do irrational things.

Besides, there was only such a thing as being a thief for a thousand days; there was no such thing as guarding against thieves for a thousand days.

Shen Zhibei began thinking about how to make Bai Rui reveal her flaws as soon as possible while ensuring her own safety.

Very soon, time passed amid Gu Nan packing luggage and Shen Zhibei thinking of countermeasures, and the day to leave for the second episode’s recording arrived again.

This time, there was no situation where cameras came into the house to film. Gu Nan and Shen Zhibei did not have to wake up early and could each wait in their own room until it was time to leave.

Gu Nan’s luggage had already been completely packed the night before. So when she saw that it was about time, she dragged her suitcase out to find Shen Zhibei.

Shen Zhibei was still adding things to her suitcase.

Although after being temporarily marked, her pheromones could already be controlled even during her heat period, Shen Zhibei still needed to cover the obvious teeth mark on her neck gland. So skin-colored cover patches had to be brought.

She also had to bring long-acting heat suppressant. If any accident happened, it could still be taken out for emergency use.

Because they had agreed that all the instant food would go into Gu Nan’s suitcase, Shen Zhibei would help her bring an extra set of bedding to change into, so she also had to find a set and put it in.

Knocking sounded at the door, accompanied by Gu Nan’s voice.

“Zhibei, are you ready?”

“Almost.”

Shen Zhibei checked once more to see whether she had forgotten anything.

Only after confirming she had not did she close the lid, drag her suitcase out, and meet up with Gu Nan.

When they walked out of the Gu residence’s main gate, the production team’s vehicle was parked at the entrance waiting for them. The two of them naturally got into the production team’s car.

The moment they got in, they could very clearly feel that the aura emitted by the production team staff this time was obviously different from last time.

There was a strong feeling of standing ready for battle.

Under this solemn atmosphere, Gu Nan asked, “Where are we going this time?”

“The capital of Hei Province, HRB City,” the assistant director sitting in the front seat replied.

“I’m not asking where the plane is flying to. I’m asking about the final village we’re going to.” Gu Nan continued asking.

“It’s a small town under HRB City’s jurisdiction.”

“A small town under HRB City’s jurisdiction? Are you sure?” Shen Zhibei’s tone was full of disbelief.

HRB was a provincial capital city. No matter how run-down a town under its jurisdiction was, it should be impossible to find one without running water or electricity.

Would the production team be this good to them? Would this variety show return to being a normal A Poetic Life?

All previous facts proved that was impossible.

“Yes, I’m sure.” The assistant director confirmed decisively.

Gu Nan and Shen Zhibei looked at each other and said nothing, but their vigilance had already risen to the highest level.

This time, the flight only took two hours. As soon as they got off the plane, they boarded a vehicle arranged by the production team. Then they watched the vehicle get onto the expressway again.

“So this is what you call under HRB City’s jurisdiction?”

Looking at the huge words “WC Welcomes You,” Gu Nan asked the assistant director.

“WC City is administered by HRB City,” the assistant director explained righteously.

Shen Zhibei had already begun searching for the names of the poorest villages and towns in WC City.

But no matter how she searched, because the Northeast was among the earliest regions to complete urbanization, she could not find a place that had no water or electricity.

After another three hours in the car, the production team sent the two of them to a hotel in WC City to rest.

The moment they entered, they saw Peng Yushu sitting in the lobby waiting for them, and Tang Ling eating.

“Did you bring everything?” The first thing Gu Nan said when she saw the two of them was to ask this.

“We brought everything. Don’t worry. And we even brought more than needed.” Peng Yushu gave Gu Nan a reassuring look.

Since Peng Yushu said so, at least the four of them were guaranteed food-wise.

Seeing Tang Ling eating nonstop, Shen Zhibei could not help asking, “Tang Ling, are you very hungry?”

“I need to eat more, in case I can’t eat once recording starts.”

Tang Ling’s words were truly heartbreaking, and they also made the four of them start discussing where exactly the production team planned to send them.

But because there was too little information, they could not discuss anything concrete. They could only roughly estimate that the production team was still going to send them to some remote village or town this time. As for whether they would play any new tricks, they could not guess.

Seeing that they could not discuss anything, the four of them decided to return to their rooms to preserve their energy and wait for tomorrow to deal with whatever came.

And early the next morning, just as the guests had guessed, the bus carrying them to their destination drove farther and farther into remote territory, finally directly entering deep mountains and valleys.

Along the way, they also passed an old, run-down sign that read: Dongfeng Forestry Machinery Factory.

And just as they were about to enter this “small town,” the livestream room began operating. The chief director immediately had the staff put four bright red words on the screen:

Horror Special.