Crunch, crunch.
The sound of Shen Ting eating an apple stood out especially clearly.
Everyone couldn't help turning to look at him.
Shen Ting blinked and calmly finished his apple under everyone's gaze.
"Not bad. An apple given in gratitude. Sweet."
Su Yu shot Shen Ting a contemptuous glance. Sure enough, he was still a brainless good-for-nothing. It seemed he had just gotten lucky before.
"Ting, where did you get that apple? Do you have any extras? Could you share some with us? Everyone's hungry, and it wouldn't be good if they got upset stomachs." Su Yu looked as though he was thinking of everyone.
[Su Yu is so gentle.]
[Su Yu's right. Shen Ting really can't read the room. Can't he see everyone's hungry? All he cares about is eating by himself? He has no sense of teamwork.]
[What kind of backward thinking is that, commenter above? My god, Shen Ting can give his own things to whoever he wants. He has every right not to share with the other guests, and here you are deciding how he should hand them out. Isn't that ridiculous?]
[The commenter above is right. Everyone has the right to decide what to do with their own things. Say no to guilt-tripping.]
"You want apples? Well, it's not out of the question, unless..." Shen Ting drew out his voice, leaving them in suspense.
"Unless what?" Su Yu asked curiously.
"Unless he calls me Daddy. Otherwise, no deal." Smiling, Shen Ting pointed at Si Chen behind Su Yu.
"Don't push your luck, Shen Ting!" Veins bulged on Si Chen's forehead, and his hands clenched into fists.
"What are you trying to do?" Yan Yi stepped in front of Shen Ting.
Just as they reached a stalemate, the show's staff finally appeared.
"Welcome, viewers, and thank you for tuning in on time to the first episode of our major dating reality show, Love in the Next Moment. I'm your good friend Xiaoyue. We've invited a total of eight guests to this show, and we hope everyone can find their true love during this journey and leave hand in hand. First, we'd like to thank the ** app for its generous support... All right, let's begin tonight's journey."
"I'm sure all our guests must be very tired after the long flight. The production team anticipated this and prepared bread for everyone in advance. Unfortunately, the bread fell and got squashed during transport, but rest assured, it's perfectly fine to eat."
"You can divide it up among yourselves. Tomorrow will mark the first day of our romantic journey. A friendly reminder: starting tomorrow, the production team will no longer provide breakfast, lunch, or dinner. The guests will have to handle all of that in groups."
"Tomorrow morning, we'll determine your groups and allocate tomorrow's funds through a picture draw."
Meng Yun hurriedly opened the cardboard box in front of him.
The little bread rolls inside, which had originally been soft and fluffy, had been squashed flat as crackers.
"These are way too flat!" Meng Yun tore open a bread wrapper and took a bite. The texture was far too dense.
Almost all the bread in the box was flat, but as luck would have it, eight rolls were still intact.
"I'll eat a squashed one. Ting, you might not be used to eating the flat ones. Take two intact ones." Smiling, Su Yu picked up a flat roll.
"Ignore him. One each." Si Chen stuffed an intact roll straight into Su Yu's arms.
"Mr. Si..." Su Yu sighed helplessly, then gave Shen Ting an apologetic glance.
Shen Ting made a retching noise. Is there something seriously wrong with this guy? He keeps dragging me into everything. It's disgusting.
Shen Ting once again pulled a bag of ham sausages from his Doraemon-like suitcase. This time, he didn't forget his eating buddy beside him.
"Here."
"Thanks." The instant Yan Yi saw the ham sausages, he abandoned the bread in his hand.
Meanwhile, after Su Yu finished his intact roll, he was just about to eat another, squashed one.
Shen Rui suddenly walked over to him.
The radar over Shen Ting's head went wild. Here it comes, here it comes. My big brother's simp tendencies have finally kicked in.
"Yu, you can have my bread."
"No need, Brother Shen. Ting's still here. Give it to him."
The two started pushing the bread back and forth, insisting on dragging Shen Ting into it as well.
Shen Ting ran his tongue over his back teeth and laughed in anger. So I'm just part of your little game, huh?
Smiling, Shen Ting opened his treasure chest again and took out a dark-colored toolbox.
Opening the toolbox, Shen Ting picked up a hammer and casually hefted it in his hand.
"Since you're having such a hard time deciding, let me help you figure something out."
Bang!!!
Shen Ting took the bread from his big brother's hand, put it on the floor, and brought the hammer down on it.
Pfft... The bread bag burst open instantly, and the once-fluffy roll turned into a little flat cake with an imprint stamped on it.
"There, all done. Neither of you has to agonize over it anymore." Satisfied, Shen Ting picked up the bread and placed it in his big brother's palm.
Meng Yun stared blankly at the scene with bread dangling from his mouth. Holy shit! That's way too wild.
Bai Yuanyuan's little hands also paused in the middle of tearing her bread.
Su Weiwang huddled on the sofa like a little hamster, nibbling his bread. You can't see me. You can't see me.
"Ting." Shen Rui's expression changed at what his younger brother had done, anger showing on his face, yet he felt a sense of relief inside. He could feel that his own behavior was wrong, but he couldn't control it.
"Big brother, I don't make choices in life. If I have to choose, I'll smash the whole lot. No need to thank me. I'm just an ordinary agent of justice."
Shen Ting gave his big brother a huge smile, hoping he could still be saved. After all, in his memories, Shen Rui had genuinely treated the original owner well. Even at the end of the novel, when the bottom protagonist had thoroughly brainwashed him, he had never forgotten to dote on his younger brother.
[That hammer blow from Shen Ting knocked me senseless.]
[He wasn't smashing bread. He was smashing my brain.]
[A concealed weapon! That's a concealed weapon!]
[Is Shen Ting sick in the head? Jealousy really does make people ugly.]
[An agent of fucking justice.]
[Am I the only one who thought that hammer blow was kind of hot? If choosing is that hard, why not just not choose?]
[Same as the commenter above.]
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