Who Can't Talk Big?

Xiang Qianchong had been rather disappointed when he saw the guests deciding their own groups.

But when he saw the final grouping, he felt revitalized again.

He was very satisfied with these groups!

"Alright, since you've all sorted out your rooms, I'll take you to have a look at them next!"

The seven guests exchanged glances, each seeing disbelief in the others' eyes.

Qi Si said, "He's being this agreeable?"

The others shook their heads, their eyes equally full of suspicion.

Clearly, no one believed things would be that simple.

The facts proved that their instincts were correct.

Xiang Qianchong led them all the way into the village.

Cloudgrain Village was not actually small, but there were not many residents. Most of the area consisted of farmland and undeveloped wasteland.

The houses in the village were all simply built. Most were constructed from wood, with only a few brick-and-tile houses.

"I haven't seen houses like these in years. The last time was probably at my grandmother's place when I was little," Yang Yi said wistfully. "It feels like such a distant memory, distant enough to seem like another lifetime."

She was already in her forties, and her grandmother had been gone for over thirty years.

Ever since her grandmother passed away, she had never gone back. She had no idea what the place looked like now.

Zhou Linzhe and Shen Shuyu had never seen a place like this at all.

One was the young master of the Zhou Household, while the other was the young lady of the Shen Household. They had been born with silver spoons in their mouths. When would they ever have had the chance to see something like this?

In everyone's eyes, Qi Si should not have seen such a place either.

But in reality, Qi Si had seen them, and he was fairly familiar with places like this.

In his previous life, he had gone to a similar small mountain village while filming.

He had played a teacher who went to teach in a remote mountain area, and the director had found just such an underdeveloped village.

For those months of filming, he had genuinely lived there for several months.

Even with the conveniences the production crew provided as much as possible, life in a place with blocked transportation was destined to be difficult.

Compared to that, this village was not bad at all. At least cars could still drive in.

"This place is so remote. I wonder how the people here usually survive? They're too pitiful," Lin Weiwei said, her voice full of sympathy and pity for the locals.

Like a compassionate saint grieving over the suffering of the world.

Zhou Linzhe's gaze fell on Lin Weiwei, and his eyes softened for a moment.

"They've lived here their entire lives. They don't need your concern. If you really sympathize with them so much, don't just talk about it," Shen Shuyu could not help retorting.

Lin Weiwei froze, seemingly not expecting Shen Shuyu to suddenly snap at her. Her eyes immediately reddened.

"Sorry, I was just speaking from the heart. I didn't mean anything else."

The moment Zhou Linzhe saw Lin Weiwei's reddened eyes, his brows drew together sharply. His gaze at Shen Shuyu carried a trace of displeasure.

Shen Shuyu saw it, and her chest tightened. She pressed her lips together and stubbornly turned her head away.

Qi Si could not help rolling his eyes.

As expected of a classic angst novel. The entire main cast had collectively lost their brains!

Whenever Male Lead One and Male Lead Two encountered Lin Weiwei, it was like they had both been hit by Daji's second skill, Charm, and lost their minds together.

They believed anything Lin Weiwei said.

Shen Shuyu had clearly grown up alongside the two of them. They should have known her character best.

Yet they could not escape the laws of an angst novel. Whatever Lin Weiwei said, the two idiots believed it without even thinking, then went wild bullying Shen Shuyu.

Qi Si felt his liver ache.

How could people be this stupid?!

Shen Shuyu was stupid too.

She had plenty of useless backbone, but she just would not open her mouth.

Although speaking up might not have helped anyway, since Bo Fuyu and Zhou Linzhe developed selective deafness whenever anything involving Lin Weiwei came up.

But in the original plot, whenever Lin Weiwei smeared Shen Shuyu online, Shen Shuyu would not say a word either!

That was truly infuriating!

She had so many chances to turn things around, yet she was obsessed with her feelings and refused to address any of the mud being thrown at her.

It had to be said that novels like this really needed protagonists with brains full of garbage, or the plot would not be able to continue at all!

No surprise, Lin Weiwei's fans were probably cursing Shen Shuyu bloody in the livestream right now.

Qi Si had not wanted to interfere.

But after holding back for a moment, he failed to hold it in.

"So you really were just speaking from the heart? You're not planning to do anything about it at all?"

"What?" Lin Weiwei had not expected Qi Si to suddenly speak up and looked at him blankly.

Qi Si frowned, looking at her with an expression of utter incomprehension.

"I thought you truly pitied them. So you were just talking big. Who can't do that? I thought you were going to pay to build roads and help the village develop. That's it?"

Lin Weiwei's face turned pale. "I wasn't just talking big, I..."

Before Lin Weiwei could finish, Qi Si interrupted her.

"Well, that's great! On behalf of the villagers, I'll thank Miss Lin for her generosity first!"

Lin Weiwei said, "?!!"

"Weiwei is wonderful. She's very caring," Yang Yi said with a smile.

Xiang Qianchong, who was walking ahead of them, also heard the conversation between Qi Si and Lin Weiwei. Turning back, he smiled and said, "Then I'll thank the villagers on Weiwei's behalf first! We chose this place as the filming location this time in hopes of attracting some investment projects to the village and helping the locals escape poverty and become prosperous. I never expected Weiwei to be our first great philanthropist. The younger generation is truly formidable!"

Lin Weiwei's smile was somewhat strained, but she had already been placed on the spot and could not get down.

Nor could she back out.

"Hehe... I'm not as wonderful as the director says. It's only what I should do."

Lin Weiwei wore a smile and said it was only what she should do, but inside, she was bleeding profusely.

Where was she supposed to get that much money?!

The money she earned was barely enough for herself to spend, and now they wanted her to donate it to poverty relief?!

Thinking that Qi Si was the one who had caused her to suffer such a huge loss, Lin Weiwei gritted her teeth in hatred.

Fine, Qi Si!

You can't have me, so you want to ruin me?

Disgusting!

I'll never fall for a man like you in this lifetime!

Qi Si did not know what Lin Weiwei was thinking. He simply felt delighted watching her look so stifled.

If he had known what she was thinking at that moment, he would probably have felt that he had gone too easy on her.

Shen Shuyu had not expected Qi Si to speak up so suddenly, but that did not stop her from enjoying Lin Weiwei's humiliation.

It felt good.

Only Zhou Linzhe looked at Lin Weiwei, the admiration in his eyes growing even stronger.

Weiwei truly is such a kind girl, as beautiful on the inside as she is on the outside.

After walking a little farther, the director led the guests to stop in front of a house.

The house was a wooden cabin with a small courtyard at the entrance. It did not look shabby, but its conditions definitely could not be called good.

"This is the first house. You can choose to stay here or not," Xiang Qianchong said, looking at the guests.

"What does that mean? Aren't we staying together?" Xu Zhening asked.

He had thought that everyone would be living together, just in different rooms.

The director explained, "You won't be staying together. You'll be lodging in villagers' homes. There are four households in total, and each one has one room."

"What?!"

All the guests were dumbfounded.

They truly had not expected this move.