"And what's more, the director of the variety show you're on now personally came to me to book your availability for the later episodes. To secure you, they actually offered well over three times the appearance fee, and even promised to center all the show's subsequent promotion around you!"
As Zhang Yue reeled off one piece of good news after another, even Chu Yu herself was stunned.
Had a pie just fallen out of the sky?
So many great opportunities were actually coming right to her door.
For quite a long time after that, Zhang Yue walked Chu Yu through all the uproar she had caused on the trending searches since appearing on the show, explaining everything in detail.
After hearing about her own grand exploits, Chu Yu nearly moved herself to tears.
An unremarkable little celebrity with lousy acting skills, hated by the entire internet, had actually made it to this day!
"So, Xiao Yu, you must seize this opportunity and aim to complete your transformation and shake off those anti-fans!" Zhang Yue instructed solemnly.
Chu Yu nodded earnestly in agreement.
Before long, the two ended the call.
Chu Yu put down her phone and lowered her head, sinking into thought.
In that dream whose reality she could not be sure of, during the sibling variety show's first livestream, she and Chu Chen had been mercilessly mocked by netizens because they formed such a stark contrast with the Wen siblings.
That had also forced the two of them to leave the show early. When the day trip to the amusement park was filmed later, they had not even been eligible to participate, reduced outright to cannon fodder.
But now, not only had she and Chu Chen successfully taken part in the amusement park livestream, they had also gained so many unexpected surprises and rewards.
The plot of the dream had been successfully changed.
That also meant there was a possibility of averting the miserable ends originally awaiting her and Chu Chen.
A gleam of wisdom flashed in Chu Yu's eyes, and the corners of her lips lifted slightly. Beaming like a spring breeze, she turned and walked out of the restroom. Only after handing her phone back to the staff for safekeeping did she return to the lounge.
Just as Chu Yu achieved a sweeping victory, the Wen siblings finally overcame countless hardships and reached the haunted house's final stage.
More than an hour had passed since Wen Zhixin solved the first stage.
Wen Zhixin had no idea how quickly the other two sibling pairs were solving the puzzles and clearing the stages, but she was very confident in herself.
In her view, puzzles that even she struggled to solve could not possibly be easy for the other two pairs to solve either.
So Wen Zhixin did not think anyone could have successfully cleared the course yet, and still harbored hopes of competing for first place.
Wen Tianqi, who had been slacking off throughout the first two stages, perked up when he saw that there was finally hope of leaving the haunted house and began trying to solve the puzzle too.
Yet the moment the two stepped through the entrance, the lights went out with a snap.
They had long since grown accustomed to the haunted house's frequent voltage fluctuations.
In the pitch darkness, Wen Zhixin and her brother clung tightly to each other.
"Don't be scared. Your big sister's here."
Although Wen Tianqi felt somewhat disgusted by Wen Zhixin's hypocrisy, he could not make it too obvious on camera, so he could only lower his head and put up with it.
From the camera's angle, Wen Zhixin was nervously holding her little brother. Wen Tianqi looked as though he had been frightened, his head lowered pitifully as he hid in his sister's arms.
This warm, loving scene between the siblings immediately touched their fans.
[You can tell at a glance that the Wen siblings really care about each other. Nothing like those two noisy Chu siblings next door.]
[Exactly. The way I see it, Wen Zhixin is the one who genuinely cares about her little brother.]
[Watching this makes me want an adorable little brother too.]
Because the Wen siblings' livestream had been steadily losing viewers, only a small group of diehard fans remained in the room by now.
As a result, the bullet comments scrolling past were mostly rainbow farts.
Wen Zhixin could not see those bullet comments at the moment.
She could only do everything she could to present netizens with the perfect image of a good older sister.
A little while later, the lights returned to normal, their brightness instantly dispelling the darkness.
Seeing nothing unusual in the corridor, Wen Zhixin released Wen Tianqi and patted his head with a smile. "That scared you just now, didn't it? It's all right now."
The place they were currently in was exactly the same circular corridor Chu Yu had been in earlier.
The only difference was that the Chu siblings had suffered a terrifying attack by a female ghost in the corridor.
But ever since Wen Zhixin and her brother entered the corridor, everything had remained calm, without any other unexpected incidents.
That was the benefit of choosing the intelligence option.
Aside from difficult puzzles that required intelligence to solve, they would basically encounter no other dangers or scares.
Wen Zhixin and her brother soon discovered the bridal chamber on the inside of the corridor, decorated entirely in festive colors.
The two cautiously pushed the door open and entered. The moment she looked down, Wen Zhixin spotted a pile of gold ingots on the floor.
The ingots had been folded from gold paper and were now scattered haphazardly across the floor, looking completely disordered.
They looked particularly odd amid the room's overall layout and decor.
Wen Zhixin quickly became certain.
There was definitely something wrong with these gold ingots.
Suddenly, inspiration flashed through her mind, and she immediately instructed Wen Tianqi, "Hurry and unfold all these ingots. Be careful not to tear them."
The siblings began rapidly unfolding the gold ingots.
In no time, the gold ingots that had been scattered haphazardly on the floor became individual slips of paper.
On the back of the gold paper was a line of writing: [Turn the vase on the far left of the bookcase's third shelf to open the door leading out of the haunted house.]
Excitement flashed in Wen Zhixin's eyes. "We can get out."
What was more, she had never expected the third stage's puzzle to be this simple.
Judging by that, their team was very likely the first to clear the course successfully.
When Wen Tianqi saw the final stone door opposite them slowly open, he jumped with excitement too.
"Big Sis, we did it!"
At that moment, both Wen siblings were extraordinarily excited.