Free Web NovelChapter 726: Chapter 725: Brother Cheng, Shall We Form an Alliance?
Cheng Zhirang walked over to the fountain with a female guest.
Mu Qiu coughed awkwardly twice, tightened the white tablecloth a bit more, stood up, and greeted him.
"Brother Cheng."
After saying hello, she looked at the female guest next to him and asked with a smile, "Hi, who are you?"
Bai Shu extended her hand, "Hello Sister Mu Qiu, I’m Sajor Bai Shu."
Sajor...what’s that? A girl group? Or just her English name?
No matter how confused she was inside, her face showed utmost comprehension, nodding as if she’d just understood, then reached out to shake her hand, "Hi, hi, just call me Mu Qiu."
After her, Lin Lian stepped forward, bowed politely, and extended his hand, "Hello Brother Cheng, I’m Lin Lian, hello Bai Shu."
Bai Shu was probably not used to seeing two beauties at once and was visibly taken aback when she saw Lin Lian’s face. Cheng Zhirang, however, didn’t let his gaze linger on his face for more than a second, and after shaking hands, turned to Mu Qiu.
"What’s this cloth? Isn’t it stifling covering your face?"
Bai Shu and Lin Lian also turned to look at her face, their gaze lingering subtly above her nose.
Mu Qiu chuckled dryly a couple of times, "Not too bad. But how come you still look good with such an ugly makeup? Did the makeup artist go easy on you?"
Around his eyes, there wasn’t any horrifying colorful eyeshadow. They just dabbed a smudge of dirty yellow on his nose, with a couple of big red moles on either side of his lips. His eyebrows looked as if they had been uprooted by a pig.
The rest was just shading, making his perfectly structured handsome face look dull and flattened as if he had been punched.
Cheng Zhirang was surprised, "This is called going easy? I checked with the camera; this makeup is terrifying."
"With the camera?" She was shocked; does anyone still dare to use a camera as a mirror these days?
"You’re really something." She gave him a thumbs-up.
While the two were chatting, Lin Lian and Bai Shu couldn’t participate in the conversation and could only stand properly on the side.
When Lin Lian wasn’t speaking, he resembled a fragile pale glass vase. Coincidentally, his eyes were the color of brown glass, and his hair was also brown, giving an impression of extreme purity and cleanliness when he looked at people quietly.
Bai Shu couldn’t help but frequently glance at him and took the initiative to start a conversation.
"Hi, Lin Lian, which company are you from? Are you also a newcomer?"
If he were debuting from a talent show, with looks this striking, he would definitely be a hit, there’s no way there could be no buzz.
Lin Lian replied politely, "I just signed with a company, Changhui Entertainment."
Bai Shu paused, no wonder, a sponsor’s person, probably couldn’t wait to appear on the program just after signing.
She spoke in an even more courteous tone, "I just debuted on a recent talent show, with Chuxin Entertainment. This grouping for this episode is going to be interesting, huh? I wonder what kind of game it will be."
"It is quite interesting." He pinched the stuffed tiger in his hand, making a "roar" sound, which startled Bai Shu.
"What’s this thing...Pff, what the hell?"
The tiger’s roar also startled Cheng Zhirang; he tilted his head towards the stuffed tiger, but the question was directed at Mu Qiu, "Is this... the White Tiger?"
Mu Qiu laughed dryly again and took out her pink pig, squeezing it twice.
"Oink oink."
"Oink oink."
Cheng Zhirang, "......It does match the theme. Where did you find them?"
"Over at the Kite Road by the entrance, I figured a staff member probably threw it at my feet when they saw me passing through. Did you and Bai Shu meet at the other bridge? Is there another bridge here?"
"Yeah, there’s another higher bridge over there, with a pavilion at the end."
Mu Qiu nodded thoughtfully.
This grouping this episode is quite interesting. She and Lin Lian are in one group, Cheng Zhirang and Bai Shu in another, and the regular guests all have ugly makeup, while the guest stars are delicately beautiful.
What’s the program team’s intention? Promoting newcomers?
"It’s a bit sunny, let’s go to the pavilion by the bridge," Cheng Zhirang shielded Mu Qiu’s forehead from the sun and asked Lin Lian and Bai Shu, "Do you want to come along?"
Bai Shu: ... Aren’t we in the same group? Why does this sound like a re-grouping?
Lin Lian nodded before she did, walking last in the group of four.
It seemed he was keeping a bit of distance from Cheng Zhirang.
Mu Qiu withdrew her gaze and handed the pink pig to Cheng Zhirang, "Do you want to play with this? It’s pretty funny."
Cheng Zhirang took it and squeezed it twice, laughing at the odd "oink oink" sound.
She asked again, "Were you assigned a different entrance? I searched a lot of areas and didn’t see you. Did you meet anyone else?"
"I ran into Shi Yuhuai. Was it tiring running around so much? Had any water?"
"I did," she chuckled at the thought of Shi Yuhuai with those two bright red cheeks, "Brother Huai’s makeup is also quite hideous, most noticeable were those two bright red cheeks. When I ran into him, he was drinking soy milk and dancing with a group of grannies, tsk tsk tsk."
Cheng Zhirang couldn’t imagine Shi Yuhuai with those blushes dancing, "But he said mine was worse."
"That’s because he hadn’t seen Sister Guan Yu and Sister Shu Ran. Hey, he saw me, did he say yours was uglier or mine was?"
Why are they comparing who’s uglier? Cheng Zhirang found it amusing but chose to be honest, "He said mine was ugly but much better than yours."
At that moment, he had looked guessing the era of a piece of art.
Mu Qiu, "I knew it. He even said the colors on my face were too much and hurt his eyes, which raised my blood pressure sky high."
"He already makes jokes like that? Didn’t you chase him?"
"Of course I did!" But that guy’s long legs were too fast for her to catch!
While they were chatting, the pavilion by the bridge arrived.
A simple pavilion, with a stone table in the middle and a few bottles of mineral water on top.
After the last episode, Mu Qiu found the readily available water and food surreal. Before sitting down, she grabbed a bottle of water, looked around at the nearby staff, relaxed only when no one stopped her, and boldly sat down, unscrewing the cap and drinking a couple of sips.
It’s not good to always stick together and flirt on the show, so she decided to openly pull in an ally.
"Now that Brother Huai, Sister Shu Ran, and Li Yang haven’t teamed up, someone might really be moved into our team. Different-sized groups must have special meanings. Brother Cheng, how about we form an alliance?"
Bai Shu and Lin Lian both looked at her.
Cheng Zhirang didn’t immediately agree, so she added a couple more sentences, "We don’t know what the game is yet, but having one more person means more strength. This is the eighth episode, and aside from you and me, everyone else only has one chance left, so Brother Huai they will definitely team up against us, to protect themselves. What do you think, does it make sense? Alliance?"
Cheng Zhirang, "But I don’t really want to form an alliance."
Mu Qiu, "?!?"
