The younger brothers exposed each other's embarrassing pasts, but their sister was the one who got hurt... (continued)

Zou Yuxing suddenly leaned over and held up six fingers. "That's a whole 60 points. How many tasks would you have to complete to earn that much?"

Wen Feiran thought back carefully. "Not many. I only did six tasks, and each one was worth ten points. That's enough for one night's room fee."

The atmosphere in the living room turned rather awkward.

The five celebrities knew the points decreased, but they hadn't expected the reward for finishing first to be so generous. Ning Tingyu looked envious. "That's great. You don't have to worry about the room fee anymore. Unlike me, I only get a pitiful one point for completing a task. I'd have to do ten in a row to earn enough for my room."

Zhou Zhou offered him a word of comfort, then asked, pretending it had just occurred to him, "By the way, how many task locations are there in total?"

"Six in total," Zou Yuxing said casually. "I made a point of taking a good look around just now. There's no way I missed any."

The remark steered the conversation in a certain direction, and Wen Feiran was inexplicably branded as someone who had deliberately rushed to get ahead.

But the task locations were right behind them, even closer to the Dreamy Cottage, and anyone could have gone to complete them. Besides, the production team had set a trap by deliberately leaving out the rules, and Wen Feiran hadn't known about them either. They had simply made different choices at the same time. Yet the tide of opinion in the livestream changed, and some people began accusing Wen Feiran of being scheming and doing it on purpose.

Seeing that he had achieved his goal, Ning Tingyu smiled with satisfaction. Without giving Wen Feiran time to explain, he eagerly cued the next part of the show. "Director, what are we doing next?"

The director continued, "We won't be the bad guys and split up a loving couple. The remaining four of you will draw lots. Whoever draws the check mark will team up with the two seniors, and the rest will form a team."

The smile froze on Ning Tingyu's face.

He had deliberately excluded Wen Feiran, leaving him in a room on his own, only to end up trapping himself.

Zou Yuxing and Su Shangting were far too difficult to deal with. They quarreled constantly, and he had suffered terribly, caught in the middle.

He had burned through plenty of brain cells dealing with those two, only to gain little attention from them and get cursed at for no reason.

He silently prayed that he wouldn't be put on the same team as Zou Yuxing and Su Shangting again.

The four of them went to draw lots together. Wen Feiran stood beside him, as wooden and guileless as ever. He didn't know how to find the camera, and his expression was blank the whole time, giving viewers nothing to watch.

He adjusted his bulky black-framed glasses and reached for the slip in the upper left corner.

Something stirred in Ning Tingyu's heart. With an inexplicable premonition, he moved a step faster and snatched the slip first.

Wen Feiran's hand froze in midair, and he stared blankly at Ning Tingyu.

Ning Tingyu gave him an innocent smile, as if nothing had happened.

Wen Feiran also curved his lips slightly. He didn't take it to heart and picked up the last slip.

They unfolded their slips together. It was only a small movement, yet Zou Yuxing's heart began pounding wildly, each beat drumming against his eardrums.

When he saw the check mark on the slip, his pupils contracted. He forgot to control his emotions and gleefully held it up. "I got it!"

He immediately walked over to Mu Qianyu and her spouse, as if he didn't want to stay another second.

The viewers in the livestream also noticed his true feelings right away.

[Why does it feel like Ning Tingyu really can't stand Zou Yuxing and the others?]

[Right? Yesterday he was sticking close to them, acting all affectionate and friendly. Today he couldn't wait to ditch them. How hypocritical. Eye roll.jpg]

[Hypocritical, my ass. Who in the world could put up with those two and their tempers? Ningning isn't a punching bag who has to let them bully him!]

[If he doesn't like them, he should just say so. If acting one way to their faces and another behind their backs isn't hypocritical, what is?]

Fans of all three jumped in and began arguing in the livestream. Wen Feiran remained invisible from beginning to end, with no one paying him any attention.

Once the task began, the two bitter rivals lived up to everyone's expectations and immediately started quarreling.

"Why am I on a team with you again? What rotten luck!"

"You think I want to be with you? I'm warning you, don't hold me back. The last-place team gets points deducted."

"What kind of joke is that? Me, hold you back?"

"I have serious doubts about your intelligence."

Wen Feiran walked a step behind them and to their left. He rubbed his ears, which ached from all the noise, his face expressionless.

His presence was so faint that he was like an extra no one would notice. Almost everyone ignored him as a matter of course.

The two bitter rivals argued until they were red in the face. Zou Yuxing grew so angry that he blurted out without a care, "You've got some nerve talking about me! You were a freak from the time you were little, always wearing dresses and pretending to be a girl. If you hadn't insisted on climbing a tree in a dress on your fifth birthday and gotten your undies caught on a branch and pulled down, none of us would've known you were actually a boy!"

Wen Feiran: !!! What? Is he allowed to say that?!

Still shaken, he looked at Su Shangting and silently broke into a cold sweat for him.

He could already foresee tomorrow's headline: "Shocking! A celebrity surnamed S did this to a tree. Is it the downfall of humanity or the corruption of morals?"

Su Shangting's face turned scarlet, but instead of refuting him right away, he brought up Zou Yuxing's own embarrassing past, indirectly confirming that the story was true.

"Why are you pretending to be a good kid? In elementary school, you paid someone to forge your parents' signatures, and they even got them wrong. Your teacher always thought your mom's name was Liu Chunhua because of that. You got a real beating after that parent-teacher meeting, didn't you? I could hear you howling from next door. I nearly died laughing."

"And what about you? You only got five points on your geography test in seventh grade. Oh my, I'm embarrassed for you. You could get more than ten points just by guessing the same answer for every multiple-choice question, but you only got five. How pitiful, having something wrong with your brain at such a young age!"

"..." Wen Feiran nearly choked on his own saliva.

Please stop talking. I'm worried your reputations won't survive your younger years, and all your fans will run away.

But the two of them were already beside themselves with anger, exposing each other's embarrassing pasts, determined that neither of them would get out alive.

Although Wen Feiran was worried about them and kept his head down, pretending not to hear, his ears were pricked up and his eyes kept darting around.