After Transmigrating as the Villain’s Cannon Fodder Fake Sister - Chapter 14
Gu Ruanruan’s “astonishingly brilliant” idea was ruthlessly rejected by Jiang Xia’an.
“Breaking a big stone on your chest”—how could her unarmed, delicate younger sister even say something like that!
The fans in the livestream room were even egging her on. One dared to say it, and the others dared to believe it.
At this time, the young Jiang Xia’an still did not know just what shocking skills her “delicate and unable-to-care-for-herself” younger sister would display in the future.
That was a story for later, so it would not be mentioned for now.
Right now, Film Empress Jiang was simply cleaning up the mess left behind by her “young and ignorant” sister’s reckless words, to prevent herself from having to spend the rest of her life visiting Gu Ruanruan in the hospital.
Jiang Xia’an waved her hand. “All right, all right. I think you’re all too bored. Do you want to help me get on the headlines again???”
Tomorrow, the headlines of all the major marketing accounts would be: [Famous Actress Forces Younger Sister to Perform for Fans During Livestream, Cruelly Harms Her Own Sibling, Crime Unforgivable!]
With Jiang Xia’an cutting in like this, the fans immediately began enthusiastically helping her come up with headline titles.
Jiang Xia’an’s fans were all very interesting. Since Gu Ruanruan’s idea had been vetoed, she could only chat and interact with Jiang Xia’an’s fans. The fans did not feel especially regretful about not seeing “breaking a big stone on the chest.”
They could tell that Gu Ruanruan was young and easily took things seriously, so the sweet-talking fans coaxed Gu Ruanruan into making quite a few promises.
These promises, whenever Gu Ruanruan looked back on them in her later life, were all tears…
Shengshuilan Noble Academy.
Cultural Comprehensive Building, Room 306, creation and rehearsal room.
Countless “ideas” Gu Ruanruan came up with were rejected by Shen Wenlan. The ideas Shen Wenlan proposed, Gu Ruanruan knew absolutely nothing about. Their creative process fell into a stalemate.
Seeing that there were only a few days left before the performance, even if the two of them decided to lie flat and completely give up, they did not even have any trash to give up on.
The prerequisite for giving up badly was that they had to have a bad piece of work in hand. They were still in the process of creating that bad piece of work!!!
She had seen mismatched partners before, but never a pair this mismatched.
To put it simply, Shen Wenlan was somewhat proficient in every instrument except the suona, while Gu Ruanruan was exactly the opposite: she knew nothing except the suona.
Shen Wenlan sighed deeply.
What virtue or ability did she have to be matched with such a teammate?
After all these years, this was the first time she had encountered such a helpless situation.
And yet the person in front of her was still there, carefree and heartless… chopping vegetables.
Wait… chopping vegetables? Gu Ruanruan was actually chopping vegetables?!
In the time it took Shen Wenlan to lose focus for a second, Gu Ruanruan had somehow set up a little stall in front of herself. Not only were there pots, bowls, ladles, basins, and other utensils, there were even little greens, cheap instant noodles, ham sausages, eggs, and all kinds of ingredients.
Shen Wenlan felt that her bottom line was being continuously challenged by Gu Ruanruan. Speechless, she asked, “What are you doing?”
Gu Ruanruan was very calm and comforted her. “Aiya, the battle situation is deadlocked. Let’s relax a little. What’s the use of worrying over there? Let’s eat first, then think of a solution. I’m hungry. Without productivity, I can’t create.”
She was telling the truth. When she did not eat enough, her energy dropped.
And because of her love for food, every meal had to be at least decent.
As she spoke, she conveniently put the freshly cut cherry tomatoes into the pot and stir-fried them until the juices came out.
It was indeed getting late.
A fluffy head appeared at the door of Room 306.
Song Jing followed the fragrance and walked in.
“Wow, Boss, I knew you were secretly making something good behind my back!”
He had seen Gu Ruanruan secretly messing with these things during class today! There had to be something fishy. Sure enough, he had guessed right!
Gu Ruanruan remained calm and composed.
The past two days of discussions had left her starving by the end. Shen Wenlan, the heroine, was pure, noble, and untouched by the mortal world, but Gu Ruanruan had been so hungry her chest was sticking to her back and she was almost ready to eat the floor!!!
Working on an empty stomach made efficiency as low as it could possibly be!
Today, she was definitely eating this meal!
It did not matter if there was one more person freeloading. She casually tossed the ham sausage to Song Jing and told him to cut it into slices.
Gu Ruanruan turned around to cook the instant noodles.
Before long, the rich fragrance of instant noodles filled the entire room.
Finally, Gu Ruanruan fried three eggs, pan-fried the sliced sausages in oil, and placed them on top of the cooked noodles.
The bright and rich tomato soup base, the springy and chewy noodles, the crisp and fresh greens, plus the fragrant fried sausage and fried egg—one pot of noodles with complete color, aroma, and flavor was ready, making people’s fingers itch with appetite.
Song Jing unceremoniously served himself a bowl.
He began distributing it with great enthusiasm—
“One bowl for Boss, one bowl for me.”
“One bowl for Little Shen, one bowl for me.”
“One bowl for me, one bowl for me!”
Gu Ruanruan bent her finger and flicked his forehead. “Redistribute that for me!”
Song Jing clutched his head and howled.
Gu Ruanruan picked up a bowl of noodles and placed it in front of Shen Wenlan. “Eat. You’ll only have the strength to keep being angry once you’re full.”
Shen Wenlan pressed her temples.
She insisted, “I’m not eating. Don’t eat in the creation room.”
At this moment, Gu Ruanruan’s mind was quick, and she drew inferences easily. “But the school also doesn’t have a rule saying we can’t eat in the creation room.”
That was because no one would be “genius” enough to think of cooking instant noodles in the creation room!!!
Shen Wenlan was speechless again.
“Really not even one bite? If we can’t put together a performance today, we won’t be able to go home, you know. Work and rest should be balanced.” Gu Ruanruan pushed the cooked instant noodles beneath Shen Wenlan’s nose.
The rich aroma of instant noodles spread to the tip of her nose. Shen Wenlan said disdainfully, “Take it away. I don’t eat junk food.”
Gu Ruanruan withdrew her hand. “Fine, fine, fine. I know. Today, even if you jump down from here, die outside, you won’t eat a single bite, right?”
All right then.
It was not Jiang Cen anyway. What did she care?
Shen Wenlan turned her head away, using her body to express her protest.
“Gugu~” From someone’s stomach came a hungry warning.
There were three people present. Gu Ruanruan and Song Jing had already filled their stomachs. Who could have made such an honest sound?
The two of them looked at Shen Wenlan together.
“Gu~” Another sound. In the quiet creation room at this moment, it sounded especially crisp.
With a whoosh, Gu Ruanruan picked up a chopstick-full of noodles and stuffed it into Shen Wenlan’s mouth.
Shen Wenlan: “Gu Ruanruan, I’m warning you. I absolutely cannot possibly eat this kind of junk food!”
The Shen family’s upbringing was very strict. All of Shen Wenlan’s meals were prepared by nutritionists. Since childhood, everything she ate had been carefully calculated, including what she could and could not eat, all according to strict standards. Just like Shen Wenlan herself, she would never take a single wrong step.
Since birth, Shen Wenlan truly had never eaten anything from outside the Shen family.
Not to mention… as a dignified member of the Shen family, eating instant noodles that cost only a few yuan per packet with classmates at school—what would that look like if word got out?! Just thinking about it made her feel it was absurd to the extreme!
Five minutes later.
Shen Wenlan looked at Gu Ruanruan with slightly bright eyes.
Gu Ruanruan: ???
She handed the empty bowl to Gu Ruanruan.
Gu Ruanruan glanced at it. The bowl was empty.
“Mm… finished?” She casually placed the empty bowl to the side.
A rare shallow blush appeared on Shen Wenlan’s ivory-white skin. Under the afterglow of the setting sun, the cold young girl turned her head away and, with difficulty, forced a few words from her thin lips.
“One… one more bowl.”
At this moment, along with the slowly sinking sunset, Shen Wenlan felt that certain things of hers had also passed away with it.
Gu Ruanruan: “……Truly fragrant.”
Her eyes curved, and she thought of a wonderful idea.