Ten minutes into the ball, Xie Mi was still hovering around the long buffet table, repeating the same action over and over.
The repeated action went as follows:
Pick up a small piece of food, glance warily over her shoulder, turn away, open her mouth and gulp it down, then close her mouth and chew, chew, chew.
Pick up another piece of food, glance warily behind her, turn away and gulp it down, then chew, chew, chew.
Pick up yet another piece of food...
Watching the entire deck from the third-floor terrace, Director Niu's mouth twitched as he pressed the button on his walkie-talkie.
"Didn't you feed Teacher Xie earlier?"
Bzzzt-
The voice of Xie Mi's assigned producer soon came over the walkie-talkie.
"No way. Dinner was delivered to all the guests' dressing rooms at the same time. The Assistant Director even prepared Teacher Xie's dinner personally. I saw six chefs carry in a whole roast lamb, plus a whole roast pig, a huge turkey, a tomahawk steak..."
What a bottomless pit!!
Watching the vampire countess sneak around the buffet table, constantly whipping her head back, Director Niu was utterly speechless.
If they didn't start the first dance soon, Teacher Xie would be full.
By then, Xie Mi's livestream chat was already flooded with laughter.
[Hahahahahahahahaha]
[You came here for the buffet, didn't you!!]
[Does anyone else find this hilarious? Every time Old Xie whips her head around, she scares a passing ball NPC. I'm dying]
[The noble, aloof countess of an ancient castle (greedy foodie edition)]
[Teacher Xie, stop stuffing your face. You're scaring me!]
Just as the chat was busy teasing her, the livestream abruptly went dark.
It wasn't a streaming malfunction. All the lights at the ball had suddenly gone out.
Only faint moonlight fell across the