Chapter 38

Shen Luoluo couldn't refuse at all. She also wanted to see what Sui You and the idol in the team who was on a date with his girlfriend and dressed up as a boy to avoid being discovered looked like.

With so many people on that show, there must be a lot of juicy gossip and it would be very interesting, so Shen Luoluo readily agreed.

The filming location for the show "Idol Newcomers" is in the suburbs, which is quite remote. It takes more than forty minutes to get there from the Shen Family.

Shen Xiche had already informed the production team, and the two arrived at the recording location, the boys' dormitory building, without any problems. At this time, the sun was hanging halfway up the mountain, about to set, and the afterglow of the sunset shone through the thin clouds onto the car window.

Shen Luoluo and Zhao Huizhen got out of the car and saw Shen Xiche and a group of handsome men. Some of them looked familiar; they had been to Shen Luoluo's birthday party before.

"Hello Auntie, little Luoluo is here too!"

"Shen Xiche, you're so lucky! None of us have a sister who brings us Chicken Soup! Luoluo, be my sister, I don't even have a sister."

"Yeah, I'm so envious of you! The Chicken Soup your auntie makes looks delicious."

A group of people greeted them warmly, exuding youthful energy. Zhao Huizhen was beaming with pride. She shared her Chicken Soup with them in the cafeteria downstairs. In addition to Chicken Soup, Zhao Huizhen also brought them mooncakes.

I received a ton of compliments again.

Shen Luoluo also met Sui You, Sui You secretly told her that her brother would be able to replace her in a couple of days. The next competition would be a round of elimination, with 56 contestants being narrowed down to 21. This meant that 35 contestants would be eliminated, making it the most brutal round of eliminations.

She was worried that her brother's leg injury had only recently healed, and she didn't know if he could participate in the performance, or if he could dance well. She was considering whether to wait until after this round of competition to replace her brother.

Shen Luoluo couldn't offer any good advice; she could only listen to her vent her troubles, since she was the only one there to hear them from.

Near the end, Zhao Huizhen called Shen Xiche out and told him about Shen Anya.

Shen Xiche was the family member who was closest to Shen Anya. Now that they had kicked Shen Anya out, Zhao Huizhen didn't know how Shen Xiche react, but she felt it was necessary to tell him.

Regardless, Shen Xiche has the right to know about this.

"I understand." Shen Xiche's voice was flat and even. "My older brother told me about it, it'll be that very night."

Zhao Huizhen didn't expect him to react so calmly. "So you don't have anything to say? You won't miss it?" After all, the two of them had the best relationship.

Shen Xiche asked, puzzled, "Why would I be reluctant? She did something wrong, so it's only right that she be kicked out. Luoluo is my own sister."

Speaking of Shen Anya, Shen Xiche also felt strange. Everyone thought he and Shen Anya had a good relationship, and that was also his memory. But strangely, he found that his feelings for Shen Anya didn't seem that deep. When he heard that she was kicked out, he was very calm and thought it was normal and expected.

Sometimes he couldn't even understand why he had done those things in the past, why he had bought a teddy bear for Shen Anya, why he had taken her out to play. It was as if those were things he was supposed to do, not things he wanted to do, but rather things that happened unconsciously.

In short, he didn't know why, and since he couldn't figure it out, he simply stopped thinking about it. His greatest strength was not making things difficult for himself.

Hearing him say that, Zhao Huizhen breathed a sigh of relief. She had been worried that Shen Xiche would be furious after finding out that they had driven Shen Anya away, but now it seemed that she didn't have to worry at all.

Shen Xiche finished talking with Zhao Huizhen and returned to the cafeteria, he found that his sister had already become friends with her teammates and had started playing games together.

They didn't even take him!

Just as they were about to ask them to take her along, a tall, curvaceous woman walked in; it was their mentor Xia Lanyin.

Everyone quickly greeted her, and she nodded aloofly before heading up to the second floor of the cafeteria.

Shen Xiche glanced at her and asked in confusion, "Didn't Teacher Xia twist her right ankle a couple of days ago? How come her left ankle was having some problems when she went up the stairs just now?"

The boy next to her immediately chimed in, "I noticed that too. I was just about to say, how come Teacher Xia's right foot is fine but her left foot is injured too?"

Shen Xiche was about to say something more when he heard Shen Luoluo's inner thoughts--

Are you sure the Teacher Xia you're seeing now is the same Teacher Xia you saw a couple of days ago?

Shen Xiche frowned. What did that mean?

Before he could figure it out, the assistant director walked in and called a few of them to go and shoot a promotional advertisement for a certain sponsoring brand.

Shen Luoluo's eyes widened.

[Wait, I can't go! That's not a commercial shoot, it's a trap!]

Chapter 38

They like playing with multiple people!

Shen Luoluo didn't expect that there would be even more scandals from this show than she imagined; one person left and another immediately followed.

She looked at the Intelligence System and continued—

[This person, ostensibly the assistant director of the show, actually has another identity: a pimp.]

Pimping? Zhao Huizhen frowned. What does pimping mean?

Zhao Huizhen had never been involved in the entertainment industry and didn't know what pimping was, but Shen Xiche knew very well. He had been in the industry for three or four years and had heard about it to some extent. Pimping was essentially acting as an intermediary in some illicit transactions. This kind of thing often happened to girls in the industry, some were forced, and some were voluntary.

Surprisingly, the boys weren't spared either.

Neither of them disturbed Shen Luoluo, waiting for her to continue.

[This assistant director often abused his position to select good-looking boys or girls from talent Variety Show, ostensibly to film advertisements for sponsors. However, before filming, he would have them have dinner with investors. During the dinner, the assistant director would secretly drug the drink of anyone the investors favored and then send them to the investor's bed.]

Zhao Huizhen was truly shocked. This... this was rape or drugging and raping! What kind of society is this where such things still happen?!