The Special Guest Was a Handsome Merman!

Things were even funnier on Qin Huai's end. Gu Yunlan had not forgotten to sneak food even while doing his task, and Qin Huai caught him red-handed.

Qin Huai looked at the giant frog eating garlic scallops with his head lowered and laughed in exasperation. Could he show a little self-discipline?

Without ceremony, Qin Huai pulled the heart sticker from his pocket and slapped it straight onto the other man's enormous forehead.

The slap left Gu Yunlan stunned, and he raised his head blankly.

He made even the enormous, comical frog head look especially adorably dazed.

Qin Huai looked at him in exasperated disappointment. "I was away from you for just a few hours, and you started sneaking food?"

Gu Yunlan hid the scallop shell in his hand behind his back as though that would fool anyone, shaking his frog head frantically.

"Starting today, you're getting an extra half plate of vegetable salad every day, and your fruit is being cut in half." With a stern face, Qin Huai delivered his cruel verdict.

"No!!!" Gu Yunlan dropped to his knees on the sand, holding his head with one frog paw and stretching the other straight out in front of him in despair.

Hearing him, the people around them all looked curiously at the comical frog.

[Hahaha, Film Emperor Gu's luck is really something. Caught red-handed sneaking food. By now, probably everyone online knows he's been sneaking food.]

[This time, Film Emperor Gu ate away every last bit of his earlier defiance.]

[There's a witness and physical evidence. Oh, my Film Emperor Gu, how am I supposed to believe you?]

[Hahaha, Film Emperor Gu's meme collection is getting another new picture.]

[Save it, save it! Save them all!]

Zhong Ran was still searching for Leng Yifan, and the search was proving extremely difficult. This time, the production team had found ordinary participants whose heights and builds were similar to those of the guests. They had really put in the effort, and none of the people in mascot costumes were allowed to make a sound, which made the search much harder.

The spot the production team had assigned Leng Yifan was very simple and straightforward, but also very easy to overlook. He had been standing at the entrance the whole time.

When Xu Wang and the others arrived, they walked inside without even looking at him. He had waited nearly half an hour without seeing anyone come back.

[Ranran, turn around!]

[Isn't Young Master Leng's position a little too misleading?]

[Believe in Ranran! You can do it, Ranran!]

Zhong Ran's fans kept cheering their favorite on.

By the sea, Yun Xi watched the white waves continually washing ashore and excitedly took a few more steps forward.

The waves washed over his feet, putting him in such a playful mood that he completely forgot the production team's task.

Not far away, a cartoon seal head suddenly emerged from the sea, quietly watching his partner having a wonderful time by the shore.

Yun Xi was having fun, but the older-sister fans and mom fans in the livestream were frantic.

[Our little green-tea baby, you really aren't worried in the slightest.]

[Baby, you should at least pretend to try. (Don't know whether to laugh or cry)]

[Wait, baby, what's that thing behind you?]

[What? Let me look.]

[Oh my god, what is that? Its head is so round.]

[Maybe it's a seal.]

[Wait, there are seals there? Wild seals are scary.]

Yun Xi could not see the comments in the livestream.

Soon, it was time for the production team's gathering.

Everyone stood on the beach close to the sea.

Wearing slippers, the director walked up to them.

"Congratulations to Teacher Xu, Teacher Xia, and Teacher Qin for successfully rescuing their lovers and breaking the Witch's Curse." The director applauded as he spoke.

"Of course, unfortunately, Teacher Zhong and Teacher Yun did not find their lover and partner." The director turned his head, putting on a regretful expression.

"Let's welcome Teacher Leng back." The director pointed toward the entrance.

A person in a rabbit costume standing at the entrance took off his mascot head, revealing Leng Yifan inside.

By now, Leng Yifan's sweat was flowing nonstop like water from a running tap.

Zhong Ran was filled with regret at the sight. How had he forgotten the entrance?

"Next, let's welcome our special guest, Teacher Jiang Xiubai." The director switched hands and pointed toward the sea.

Everyone turned their eyes toward the shimmering water at the same time.

Just as they were all looking puzzled, something round was swimming rapidly toward the shore.

"What's that? It's all dark." Yun Xi immediately hid behind Xu Wang, leaving only a pair of puzzled eyes showing.

Xu Wang raised an eyebrow at the water not far away and pulled Yun Xi out from behind him. "Why don't you take a closer look?"

"Look at what? Look..." Before Yun Xi could finish, the sight before him completely captured his attention.

The unidentified thing suddenly stood up out of the water when it reached the shallows.

He wore a tight black wetsuit that showed off his impressive physique to the fullest, but the cartoon seal head he wore made him look very strange.

[Woohoo! Now this is what we like to see. Slurp, slurp.]

[I bet a bag of chips that our little green-tea baby regrets half-assing the task now.]

[I bet two bags.]

[Ten bags.]

[You're really underestimating our little green-tea baby. I'm going all in.]

[Hahaha, you're not letting him off either.]

Yun Xi truly regretted it now. He had not known his partner had such an impressive body. If he had known earlier, he absolutely would not have slacked off like that. In the end, he had missed out! Heartbreaking.

Holding Xu Wang's arm with his left hand and covering his heart with his right, Yun Xi looked utterly anguished, as though he had missed out on a hundred million.

"Jiang Xiubai?" Pei Yanchuan looked puzzled when he saw the man before him.

"Yanchuan, you know him?" Xu Wang quietly moved closer to Pei Yanchuan.

"Yes. The Jiang family's youngest son. He's an alpha. His older brother, Jiang Jibai, and I have business dealings."

Xu Wang looked thoughtfully at the young man before him, with his devil-may-care air and flirtatious eyes. Jiang Xiubai didn't seem to have appeared in the original novel, did he?