Ji Nanxian: "?"
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[See? See? I told you Shen Yunzhi still had feelings for Ji Nanxian.]
[Exactly. After chasing him for five years, how could she just stop? Yesterday was definitely all for show.]
[Yesterday, Shen Yunzhi kept interacting with Xiao Yao every chance she got. She obviously wanted Young Master Ji to notice her!]
The haters assumed the absolute worst of Shen Yunzhi.
But Shen Yunzhi changed tack. "Say 'I'm a dumbass' three times, and the drumstick in my bowl is yours."
"Don't push it!" Ji Nanxian snapped.
Shen Yunzhi's fans shot up, slamming their tables too!
[Who was just saying our Teacher Shen was still his lapdog? Apologize!]
[Teacher Shen: I'm not that nice.]
Shen Yunzhi tilted her head. "Three 'I'm a dumbass'es gets you a drumstick for your darling Jiang Yunli, so she won't go hungry."
"Don't tell me your measly dignity actually matters more than she does?"
"The Jiang-Yunli and Ji-Nanxian CP fans watching would be so heartbroken."
Ji Nanxian: "..."
The Jiang-Yunli and Ji-Nanxian CP fans were utterly disgusted.
[Shen Yunzhi is such a fucking bitch!!]
[She's a complete psychopath! She just wants Young Master Ji to wag his tail and beg her!]
[Why doesn't Shen Yunzhi just die!]
Shen Yunzhi's fans could hold their own in a fight, too.
They all fired back at those people in the comments.
[And your ship is mentally normal? Getting it on at someone else's Birthday Banquet—how desperate can you be? Fucking idiots thinking with their dicks.]
[This is only what Ji Nanxian used to do to Shen Yunzhi. Some of it was hundreds or thousands of times more humiliating, and you can't take even this?]
The Jiang-Yunli and Ji-Nanxian CP fans:
[Shen Yunzhi stole her place. The Ji family always treated our Yunli as their real daughter-in-law. Shen Yunzhi insisted on being his lapdog, ruining their relationship and coming between them. She deserved everything she got!]
[If not for Shen Yunzhi, Yunli would have been Young Master Ji's rightful fiancée, but instead she's been humiliated by Shen Yunzhi all this time!]
[You feel sorry for Shen Yunzhi? Who's going to feel sorry for our Yunli? Shen Yunzhi ruined what should have been her happy life!]
[Wow, people actually feel sorry for a whore like Shen Yunzhi. Anyone who stans a homewrecker can't be any good either. I don't think these Shen Fans are any good, either.]
In many interviews and through her actions, Jiang Yunli had openly and subtly led the public to believe that the engagement had originally been between her and Ji Nanxian.
That after the true-and-false-heiress affair came out, Shen Yunzhi took a fancy to Ji Nanxian and therefore took Jiang Yunli's place.
As a result, the Jiang-Yunli and Ji-Nanxian CP fans loathed Shen Yunzhi to this day and attacked her daily.
Those people accounted for more than half the credit for the hatred Shen Yunzhi received across the internet.
Jiang Yunli had been hungry all day too. A little vegetable salad and boiled egg really wasn't filling.
Jiang Yunli was craving a bite of that too.
But on the livestream, she still put on a gentle, understanding front.
She reached out and caught Ji Nanxian's arm. "Young Master Ji, let it go."
Then Jiang Yunli looked at Shen Yunzhi, her voice unusually stern. "Don't go too far."
Yet Shen Yunzhi insisted on maliciously fanning the flames.
"Oh my god, you're already feeling sorry for him." Shen Yunzhi turned to Ji Nanxian again. "Jiang Yunli cares so much about you, she'd rather go hungry."
Ji Nanxian truly couldn't stand Shen Yunzhi anymore.
That lunatic!
What on earth had gotten into her?
But except when they were sleeping, this show kept cameras right in their faces. Ji Nanxian couldn't find any time to confront Shen Yunzhi.
Honestly, he was a little afraid that Shen Yunzhi would kick up a fuss about breaking off their engagement, then pack up and head straight back to the countryside.
The Ji family elders would skin him alive!
Ji Nanxian held himself back and decided to indulge Shen Yunzhi a little for now.
He reached out to stop Jiang Yunli. "Stay out of it."
With that, he stepped forward and drew a deep breath.
He looked ready to throw caution to the wind.
"I'm a dumbass!"
"I'm a dumbass!"
"I'm..."
Just as he was about to shout it a third time,
Shen Yunzhi raised a hand to stop him.
"That's enough. I suddenly don't feel like hearing it anymore."
Then she stuffed the promised drumstick into her own mouth.
Ji Nanxian: "..."
Jiang Yunli: "..."
Everyone else on the livestream: "..."
The viewers: "..."
[My silence has been left out to dry.]
[Did I really survive that pandemic? Why does it feel like I'm seeing someone from the underworld?]
[Calling Shen Yunzhi a demon child incarnate would be seriously underestimating her.]
[I'm laughing so hard I'm falling apart. I failed my monthly exam and have to bring my parents in. I was already miserable. Why are you showing me this? I'm dying laughing. Never mind, I can't laugh. I'm seriously dying laughing. Fuck, I feel awful. I'm seriously dying laughing...]
The Jiang-Yunli and Ji-Nanxian CP fans in the livestream began hurling even more abuse at Shen Yunzhi.
After cursing Shen Yunzhi, they cursed the production crew, then the director, then finally the show's producer and financial backer, Xiao Yao.
In the end, they simply banded together to report it, hoping to get this fucking show taken down.
Completely irrational, they blamed heaven, earth, and the very air.
[Apply U, that's not cool. If you get it taken down, what are we supposed to watch?]
[Didn't your faves volunteer to come on this show?]
Even so, the show stayed up.
Apart from An Zhizhi and Shen Yunzhi, the remaining guests had eaten nothing but vegetable salad for an entire day.
They harbored more resentment than ghosts.
Yet the director interpreted their unusual behavior as reserve and restraint because they weren't very familiar with one another.
The director thought, This won't do.
So he prepared a little game.
He was determined to help the guests quickly settle into this big family.
This stupid game went like this.
-It was called the Lights On, Lights Off Challenge.
The director controlled how frequently the lights went on and off. While the lights were off, the guests could move freely within the playing area.
While the lights were on, they had to remain still.
Anyone caught on camera moving while the lights were on
would be punished by losing tomorrow's breakfast.
Each guest also had a name tag stuck to their back.
While the lights were off, everyone could seize the others' name tags.
One name tag could be exchanged for a five-star lunch.
The director had originally thought a little game like this
could help them grow closer.
But who knew?
Events galloped away like ten thousand horses, going nothing like he had imagined.
The playing area was the living room.
Two hundred square meters was enough.
The game began.
Lights off.
The six guests rustled around.
Twenty seconds later.
Lights on.
Shen Yunzhi froze with a table lamp in her hands, her face contorted as she swung it down at Ji Nanxian-
Ji Nanxian broke into a cold sweat. "..."
The viewers: ...
Lights off.
The next second.
Bang-
Ji Nanxian let out an unmistakable scream.
"Shen Yunzhi, you lunatic!!!"
Lights on again.
Shen Yunzhi had Ji Nanxian by the hair.
Ji Nanxian's features twisted, his scalp throbbing.
The camera swung around.
An Zhizhi and Chi Zong were already rolling on the floor, grappling with each other.
An Zhizhi had her fingers up Chi Zong's nostrils.
Chi Zong was digging at An Zhizhi's eyelids.
Tears streamed down both their faces from the pain.
Yet neither dared move.
Nobody cared about the tempting five-star lunch reward.
There were only showdowns of the purest hatred.
Those with scores to settle settled them; those with grudges took revenge.
[Hahahahaha!]
[I'm going to laugh myself into smile lines. The production team owes me cosmetic treatment fees.]
[I laughed my face mask apart. Production team, pay up!]
Lights off.
Another round of utter chaos erupted.
"Ow, ow, ow-"
"Let go, let go, let go!"
"Aaagh!"
"You lunatic!!"
[...]
[...]
Even the live comments had gone numb.
Lights on.
An Zhizhi and Chi Zong had each other in a shoulder lock and an arm hold.
Shen Yunzhi had started strangling Ji Nanxian with a belt.
Ji Nanxian's eyes kept rolling back.
Ji Nanxian's fans were on the verge of losing their minds.
[Turn the lights off! Turn the lights off!]
[Young Master Ji can't breathe!]
[Director! Director!]
[...I've been alive for over twenty years, and I've never seen a variety show like this.]
[These guests read The Ten Deadly Sins as fairy tales.]
[I apologize again for what I said above. Shen Yunzhi isn't the only little demon on this show.]
Jiang Yunli, who had been playing the game seriously, couldn't help frowning when she saw Shen Yunzhi beating Ji Nanxian up.
What exactly was Shen Yunzhi trying to do?
Was she really trying to get Ji Nanxian's attention through the contrast of acting crazy and playing the fool?
How childish.
Although that was what Jiang Yunli thought,
she still felt somewhat irritated.
Especially since Ji Nanxian had deleted him because of Shen Yunzhi.
He had gone running to find her in the middle of the night.
And made such a fool of himself.
With Shen Yunzhi constantly hovering around Ji Nanxian, Jiang Yunli kept feeling that she would stir up some kind of trouble.
She still had to find a way to get Shen Yunzhi off this show first.
Right now, the simplest tactic Jiang Yunli could use was to turn public opinion against Shen Yunzhi.
Trying to hook up with Xiao Yao?
How about I lend her a hand?
Jiang Yunli sneered inwardly.
She took careful note of where Shen Yunzhi and Xiao Yao were.
Once the lights went out, she would push Shen Yunzhi toward Xiao Yao.
Once the lights came back on, the audience would see with their own eyes that she had sidled up to Xiao Yao again.
Let's see how she explains her way out of it this time.
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