Free Web NovelChapter 722: Chapter 721: I’m Begging You, Don’t Come Any Closer
Such enchanting dance moves, such enticing and graceful silhouette, Mu Qiu couldn’t help but move a bit closer, wanting to see more clearly.
The closer he got, he was almost stepping onto the wooden bridge when the graceful dancer slowly turned her head.
"...Holy crap!"
Mu Qiu fell on her butt, the little pig on her shoulder slid off, got slightly squished, and let out a timely "Gee gee" noise.
The numbness of a heart-stopping shock spread to her limbs, she felt like her mind went blank.
Couldn’t love anymore.
And the dancer who turned her head covered her mouth and chuckled, pretending to be a shy lady, stepping closer with tiny steps.
"Hello, Snake Spirit Girl, I’m the chief dancer from the Swan Lake Dance Troupe, Guan Shuishui."
"...That’s quite watery... I’m begging you, don’t come closer," Mu Qiu maintained her seated position on the ground, crawling backwards, voice trembling, "I’m so scared."
Staff on both sides were laughing so hard they squatted down, their faces flushed. The photographer was laughing so much his hands shook, causing the camera to wobble a bit while adjusting the lens.
Ms. Guan Shuishui ignored her refusal and kept getting closer, even squatting down to lean her face near her.
"Girl, you’re behaving like Ning Caichen encountering Xiao Qian. I might not be as pretty as Xiao Qian, but my dance moves are definitely... Hey, hey, hey, why are you falling backward?!"
Mu Qiu saw her face getting closer, stopped crawling back, rolled her eyes, and fell straight back down.
After falling, she symbolically twitched a bit and stammered out "final words":
"I, I never expected... never thought that one day I would... be uglified to death by someone else... I’m not willing..."
Guan Yu: "......"
She sprang up: "Get up! Hurry and get up!"
The woman with the enchanting silhouette was actually Guan Yu, who had stolen someone else’s scarf to drape over her body.
She pulled the scarf off, rolled it up, wrapped it around her wrist, then went to drag Mu Qiu.
"Stop playing dead! I’ve seen my own face, and it’s not as frightening as your makeup! Even if you get uglified to death, it’s by your own doing!"
Mu Qiu wouldn’t budge, continuing to play dead.
Unable to drag her, Guan Yu thought for a moment and fell backward too.
"Didn’t see clearly just now, now that I’m thinking it over, I’m scared my heart might stop at your face. What a calamity! How can someone be this shockingly ugly!"
Mu Qiu lying on the other side: "......"
Both of them lay there, each on one side, like feisty old ladies, insulting each other.
This scenario was too familiar; Mu Qiu couldn’t figure out why all three people she encountered on the way had to enact such a scene with her. Doesn’t everyone have some awareness of how ugly we are now?
After enough lying down and insults, the two got back up, standing far away from each other.
Mu Qiu picked up and patted the nearly squashed pink pig, put it back on her shoulder, and sincerely said to Guan Yu:
"Seriously, Sister Guan Yu, I’ve already encountered Li Yang and Brother Huai, but up till now, you’re the ugliest. To be so uniquely ugly, your makeup artist truly has skill."
Guan Yu sneered: "Let me be honest too, I just saw my face in the water and it’s completely not as ugly as yours. Do you know how ugly you are? ’Shocking’ is used to describe disasters; your face is a disaster."
"Impossible," she confidently said, "from Brother Huai and Li Yang’s insults, I’ve come to realize the effect of my makeup today—is quite close to Snake Spirit, but not too frightening. Yours is considerably terrifying, okay?"
She particularly couldn’t handle the fluorescent green eyeshadow and deep purple lipstick. When that face turned just now, she almost had a heart attack.
Neither would concede to the other’s claim, firmly believing the other was uglier. After arguing till their mouths ran dry, they couldn’t determine a winner.
In the end, Mu Qiu proposed a suggestion.
"How about this, we go together to find a bathroom, find a mirror, and clearly see who is indeed uglier."
"There’s no bathroom here," Guan Yu, having explored a few places, "the show crew hid the bathroom; I looked all the way but didn’t find one."
"Even if it’s hidden, this place can’t be without a bathroom, as long as there is one. We can find it by any traces and clues. Going or not?"
Guan Yu’s eyes twirled: "Aren’t you going to find your location first? What’s your riddle?"
"No rush. First, I must find out who’s uglier."
"...Fine, let’s go then!"
They walked from the lakeside toward the shell house, public paths flanked by willows, swaying gently in the wind. Behind the willows were rows of vegetable plots, cabbages looking lush and covered in dew from the morning mist. To the left of the plots were several two-story villas.
Following the public path, walking right around the shell house to the other side of the lake, some brick-red buildings came into view, which were western restaurants and bars, and a small exhibition hall. Beside each building was a grove of bamboo, lush and orderly, like well-disciplined service soldiers.
In this place, there finally appeared a hint of a bathroom.
"Although there’s no sign here either, I’m pretty sure the bathroom’s right in here."
Guan Yu led a group into the bamboo path, looking around, searching for the possibly "concealed" bathroom.
Whether it’s a men’s or women’s bathroom didn’t matter.
Efforts pay off, in this path, they really found a bathroom.
A bathroom obscured by fresh bamboo, clearly temporarily covered by the show crew.
"Well, finally found it."
Mu Qiu petted the pink pig on her shoulder, and together with Guan Yu, moved the bamboo pots outside.
Just lifted them when they looked up and saw the people inside.
A group of people, crew members and photographers.
"Oh my gosh, someone beat us to it?" Guan Yu pushed through the people, squeezing inside.
At the sink stood a figure, graceful...
Mu Qiu was nearly allergic to the term graceful by now and replaced her evaluation of this figure with another term.
Elegant and slender.
This elegant and slender figure was scraping foam from the mirror; upon hearing their voices, she turned around.
Mu Qiu and Guan Yu quickly retreated, hitting the wall with a thud without feeling pain.
Somewhere a "Gee gee" sound was heard, followed by Mu Qiu’s shocked voice.
"Goodness me, so ugly!"
Guan Yu slid down the wall: "I feel like I’m having a heart attack. Someone’s shooting fireworks right before my eyes, I’ve gone blind."
The other crew members couldn’t hold back any longer: "Pfft, hahahaha!"
Shu Ran’s face turned ashen.
Was the show crew not considering the elegant and beautiful female star’s dignity? Droving a donkey cart was one thing, now being made up ugly too! Unbearable!
