Free Web NovelChapter 15: Chapter 15: Serving It Up
"Can you really understand what animals are saying?" Gu Xulin asked, his expression complicated.
"Nope, I can’t," Gu Zhao said with a serious face.
"OOH OOH OOH!"
"You’re going on a heist?! Wait for me!" Gu Zhao took off running toward the monkeys.
Gu Xulin: ...’You little liar!’
’Wait a minute... a heist?!’
Gu Xulin’s face darkened. In just a few seconds, he could already picture Gu Zhao’s future: being led astray by monkeys, starting with robbing animals and graduating to robbing people.
He immediately grabbed Gu Zhao by the collar.
’Is our family going to produce a robber?! No! Absolutely not!’
’I must protect the property of innocent bystanders! And my own reputation!’
"You’re not going. We should head back to the cave. Teacher Tong and the others are waiting for us."
Gu Xulin wore a stern expression. He absolutely could not let the monkeys corrupt a child!
Gu Zhao could only dejectedly bid the monkeys farewell.
[AHHHH I’m so curious what gossip they were talking about! What is it that we, the esteemed netizens, aren’t allowed to know! Translate for us, royal servant!]
[Brother Lin, let her go!! Let her go! I wanna see! Who are they gonna rob! AHHHHHH this is all Brother Lin’s fault! I’m switching biases!]
Before returning to the cave, the two brothers, Song Yi and Song Zhe, went with Zhong Siqi to the small creek to wash up.
Only then did Gu Zhao get a clear look at their faces. Song Zhe looked like a fair-skinned young master. If he were to wear a dress...
’A pretty beauty!’
Song Yi was a bit chubby, but he was very fair and cute.
The group had an exceptionally smooth journey back to the cave. When they entered with their spoils, the siblings Ye Zuiyi and Ye Zexi had already returned.
Ye Zuiyi’s face was full of worry when she saw Gu Zhao. She was just about to speak when Gu Xulin and the others came in.
They were carrying all sorts of fruit!
A cleaned wild rabbit, and even honey!
"You guys... where did you get all this! Did someone help you...?"
Ye Zuiyi’s expression turned ugly. She could hardly keep up the act anymore.
’I’m clearly the female lead of this world! Why does a little villain like Gu Zhao get to have a better life than me! To be luckier than me!’
’Wouldn’t it be better if Gu Zhao just died, like in her last life!’
"Gu Zhao! Did you steal someone else’s things?! Whether you stole them or cheated to get them, give them back right now!" Ye Zexi’s face instantly darkened.
’How could our Ye Family have raised such a creature!’
’The bad genes really show!’
Ye Zexi and the others had never even considered that Gu Zhao was actually Gu Xulin’s biological sister.
He figured she was probably just a temporary stand-in hired for the show.
[AHHH why are they fighting again! Is there something wrong with Ye Zexi?! Young Master, you’re here to film a variety show, not to be a judge! Aren’t you annoying?]
[I’m so mad, I’ve decided to give something away. Only for people who reply to this comment. I’ll pick five winners. Nothing expensive, just a warm greeting: a slap to the face.]
[Ye Zexi, you’d better be careful when you sleep. I’m afraid the Monkey Big King will send his Monkey Soldiers to sort you out in the middle of the night.]
"Ye Zexi, did youw head get squished by a doow? Ow do you just not like me and wanna find an excuse to go cwaazy? Stealing? Cheating? Befowe you make up lies, why don’t you go look at youwself in a puddle? With a bwain like youws, I bet you lost youw own smarts and thought I was the one who stole ’em!" Gu Zhao rolled her eyes.
Gu Xulin ruffled Gu Zhao’s hair.
"That’s enough. Any more and he’ll clutch his heart and try to frame you for it."
Ye Zexi, who had just been clutching his heart in anger: ...
"Gu Zhao, you’re hopeless! If they knew about the things you’ve done in the past, do you think they’d still be so nice to you?! He’s just using you for this variety show. Where do you think you’ll go when it’s over?"
A mocking smile touched the corner of Ye Zexi’s lips, his expression growing colder.
He became even more convinced of his own speculation. Gu Zhao was acting so arrogant now just to play hard to get.
She had used such tactics plenty of times in the Ye Family.
Gu Zhao gave a lazy yawn, swatting away the large hand that was still messing up her hair. She looked at Ye Zexi as if he were someone completely insignificant.
"Sigh, even tofu has a ’bwain.’ How come you guys don’t?" Gu Zhao said, looking troubled.
’Flies aren’t deadly, but they’re so annoying.’
Seeing the atmosphere grow increasingly tense, Tong Jianfeng spoke up with a chuckle. "These small live-streaming devices are filming the whole time. Zhaozhao, you guys definitely wouldn’t cheat, right? After all, the eyes of the entire country’s netizens are on us. No one would want to get a bad reputation at a time like this."
He paused, his gaze falling on Gu Zhao and her group. "Little Ye and the others were just too anxious. After all, the things you brought back truly astonished us."
Tang Yueying said, "So that makes it okay to accuse people without any proof?"
Rebutted by a child, Tong Jianfeng’s smile froze for a moment.
He had been on countless variety shows, but this was the first time a junior had refuted him so disrespectfully.
"Yueying, you can’t be so rude," Tang Yuexuan said, a flash of displeasure in her eyes.
Tang Yueying froze and looked at her older sister, seemingly not expecting Tang Yuexuan to actually criticize her.
"Sis, I’m just stating a fact."
Tang Yuexuan grabbed her sister’s wrist, her grip neither too tight nor too loose.
"Yueying, Teacher Tong is a senior. He’s been navigating the industry for so many years; of course there’s a reason for what he says and does. Besides, if I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn’t believe you found all this food either..."
Tang Yueying looked at her, suddenly feeling that the sister she had known for so long was, for the first time, so... unfamiliar.
Zhong Siqi said, "Yuexuan, to be fair, Yueying is young, but her eyes are sharp. What she said just now was the simple truth."
A faint blush suddenly spread across Tang Yuexuan’s cheeks. It was partly because Zhong Siqi’s firm but gentle words had made her lose face, and partly because she felt she had lost her composure in front of the camera.
Her fingers tightened on her sister’s wrist before quickly loosening again. She suppressed the discomfort she felt and forced a proper smile. "Brother Qi is right. I was being inconsiderate just now."
Gu Xulin’s gaze swept coolly over Tang Yuexuan, showing no obvious emotion, as if it were just a casual glance.
"Since you all seem to think our food was obtained improperly, I assume you won’t be interested in eating it," Gu Xulin said coldly.
"Oh, right. Ye Zexi, you made your position quite clear. You definitely won’t be eating any," Gu Xulin added mockingly.
After speaking, he suddenly seemed to remember something. He raised an eyebrow and narrowed his chillingly dark eyes, his gaze on Ye Zexi turning exceptionally cold.
"By the way, I’ll say this to you one last time. Gu Zhao is my biological sister. From the same mother and father. Slander her again, and I won’t mind having a fight."
[Tang Yuexuan, get a grip!!! Don’t get involved!! Little sister, control her!]
[Teacher Tong meant well. They’re all guests on the same show, shouldn’t they value harmony? Gu Zhao and Gu Xulin are so petty.]
[To the person above me, my toilet’s broken and won’t flush. I’m thinking of sticking your head in it and using your brain to do the flushing. After all, you and the stench of a toilet really hit it off.]
[Brother Lin is so hot! Brother Lin, hit me!! I want to have your babies! After we get married! Gu Zhao will be my own little sister!]
[Damn, the person above wants the whole package deal.]
The bullet comments were in an uproar.
After he finished speaking, Gu Xulin glanced at Gu Zhao, the coldness in his eyes vanishing completely, replaced by pure exasperation. "Gu Xiao Zhao, let’s go gather firewood so we can cook."
