CH 12.1

Do You Still Hate Her? 02 – I didn’t know you guys are such good friends.

The logic of Zhai Yue Liang is very clear and she directly grasped the crux of the problem. With a few trending searches, she made netizens understand clearly what had happened. Moreover, following her words, netizens also began to doubt the true owner of the rose manor.

If the rose manor belonged to Jiang Yi, then neither Ning Lin’s personal attitude nor the studio’s Weibo post indicated that they knew about the plan to turn it into a cemetery.

Originally, manipulating trending searches and keywords was an internal public relations technique. However, after Zhai Yue Liang brought it to light, netizens realized that there was a problem.

If there was nothing to hide, why bother deliberately concealing this matter?

Although some of Ning Lin’s fans are currently trying to defend her, many netizens are still discussing and curious about what happened to the rose manor that warranted such a “special” transformation. They are also shocked by Zhai Yue Liang’s behavior of throwing money to buy trending searches.

Some people are puzzled.

[Is Zhai Yue Liang really that rich? I always thought it was just a persona. I admire her even more now. Also, isn’t she afraid of offending people?]

Soon, someone answered her question.

[I’m from A city, and my circle overlaps with Zhai Yue Liang’s, but we aren’t close. Although Zhai Yue Liang’s family doesn’t have much power, they are really wealthy. Buying a few trending searches is no big deal for her.]

[Why should she be afraid? She’s an internet celebrity, not a star. Unless you can cut off her internet access, there’s nothing you can do to her.]

Netizens are shocked by Zhai Yue Liang’s wealth and ruthless behavior, and at the same time, they are tagging Ning Lin’s studio, hoping to get a response.

At the moment, Ning Lin’s studio is naturally unable to respond and dare not suppress the hot search topic, afraid that Zhai Yue Liang will really do what she said and then Ning Lin’s name will be the only one on today’s hot search, which would be terrible.

However, the public relations team cannot just sit by and do nothing. After all, Ning Lin is still the company’s cash cow. After failing to contact Ning Lin again, they can only immediately purchase a water army to steer the rhythm towards “Zhai Yue Liang is rude to take photos of the rose manor without permission, and it’s her own fault for being rejected,” to prevent a completely one-sided public opinion from being too detrimental to Ning Lin.

The live broadcast of the variety show is still ongoing. Although the barrage has started to have netizens coming back from Weibo to discuss the rose manor, most of the audience are still watching normally, and there hasn’t been too much impact for now.

The person who won the second round of the game was Ye Lu, and as a reward, the others had to cook lunch for him. Ye Lu only needed to open his mouth and wait to eat.

Next, everyone had to go to the supermarket to buy ingredients for lunch. Except for Ye Lu, everyone had to make a dish by themselves, and then Ye Lu would score them without knowing who made which dish.

The task sounded simple enough, but when everyone arrived at the supermarket, they found that the production team had not prepared any purchasing funds for them. To buy ingredients, they needed to exchange and complete different tasks based on the price of the selected ingredients.

Shang Lu stood in the vegetable section, lost in thought.

[Is Shang Lu unable to cook?]

[Hahahaha, it seems like we’ve finally found Shang Lu’s weakness!]

Shang Lu thought for three seconds, then turned and walked towards the nearby book section, where she found a cookbook for home-style dishes.

Although she had never cooked before.

But it shouldn’t be too difficult, right? With a recipe book, just follow the steps and it should be as simple as learning.

So, after flipping through the cookbook, Shang Lu found a few pages of dishes she could reference and memorized the contents before going to look for the necessary ingredients.

After getting all the ingredients, the director group assigned Shang Lu to work at the checkout counter for an hour.

It was a relatively easy job, so Shang Lu didn’t have any objections. She put on an employee-exclusive jacket and started working.

Meanwhile, it was unknown what ingredients Ning Lin got, but she was also assigned to work as a cashier and stood opposite Shang Lu at another checkout counter.

Ning Lin smiled at Shang Lu and said, “What a coincidence, let’s work hard together.”

With a lively and energetic appearance, it seemed as if the two had never had any unpleasantness before.

On the way back to the villa, everyone rode on the same bus.

There were many empty seats on the bus, and everyone’s relationships were not that great, so naturally, they didn’t plan to chat and sat separately.

Except for Ning Lin.

She was the last one to get on the bus and hesitated for a moment before standing next to Shang Lu, wanting to sit down.

But Lin Yanyan, who was originally sitting in the back row, reacted faster than her brain.

Lin Yanyan quickly got up and rushed up, sitting down in the seat next to Shang Lu before anyone else.

Because Lin Yanyan’s sudden movement was too sudden, Ning Lin couldn’t react in time and still sat down.

When Shang Lu felt someone sitting next to her and opened her eyes to look, she was met with an extremely strange sight—

It was Lin Yanyan sitting next to her, but this wasn’t the point, the point was that Ning Lin was sitting on Lin Yanyan’s lap at the moment.

Shang Lu : “…”

It was so weird, she looked again.

Shang Lu found it hard to believe and then remembered that in the first episode, Lin Yanyan seemed to have said that she liked Ning Lin. So she exclaimed, “I didn’t know you guys are such good friends.”

After saying that, Shang Lu no longer looked at them and closed her eyes to continue sleeping.

Lin Yanyan : “?”

Ning Lin : “…”

Ye Lu, who had witnessed everything from the back seat, couldn’t stop shaking with suppressed laughter.

At this moment, the barrage was also filled with “hahaha”.

[I can see a hint of panic in the look in Shang Lu’s eyes hahaha]

[Hahaha, why did it end up with such a strange scene? This is a classic moment that no script can come up with!]

[Shang Lu, don’t you really know what happened? Look at the faces of Lin Yanyan and Ning Lin, they’re practically black, how could they look like good friends?]

[From Shang Lu’s perspective, it’s not wrong to be shocked seeing Ning Lin sitting on Lin Yanyan’s lap after opening her eyes. It’s just too strange!]

[Shang Lu, can’t you stop sleeping? Do you have any idea what weird things happened while you were sleeping?]

[So, why did Ning Lin and Lin Yanyan compete to sit next to Shang Lu? I’m confused…]

…

Lin Yanyan naturally thought that Ning Lin had no shame, and kept pushing her way to Shang Lu’s side, so Lin Yanyan wanted to stop her without thinking.

But Ning Lin was different. She had no idea why Lin Yanyan suddenly rushed out from behind.

However, the scene was a bit awkward now, so she had to stand up from Lin Yanyan’s lap first.

Ning Lin looked at Lin Yanyan with a gentle expression and asked, “Yanyan, do you want to sit in this seat?”

Lin Yanyan crossed her arms and looked at Ning Lin confidently, asking in return, “Can’t you see? I’m already sitting here.”

Ning Lin smiled lightly and took a step back, saying, “If there’s a seat you like next time, just let me know. It’s too dangerous to act like earlier.”

Lin Yanyan hated Ning Lin’s weak appearance and said directly, “Do I have to report to you every time I want to sit in a certain seat? There’s no name tag on this seat, whoever gets there first can sit.”

“Yanyan, that’s not what I meant.”

“I don’t care what you mean…”

Before Lin Yanyan finished her sentence, she saw that Shang Lu suddenly stood up beside her.

Shang Lu rubbed his eyes, looked down at Lin Yanyan, yawned and asked directly, “Do you like this seat?”

Lin Yanyan was stunned, then quickly came up with a silly excuse, saying, “Yeah, I just wanted to sit in this row, this…this is my lucky number!”

Shang Lu then looked at Ning Lin beside Lin Yanyan and asked, “Do you also want to sit in this seat?”

Ning Lin didn’t know what was on Shang Lu’s mind, but she still said, “Yes.”

Then Shang Lu nodded in understanding, lifted her long legs and stepped out, leaving only a sentence, “Then why don’t you two sit together? Why argue over such a trivial matter, disturbing people’s sleep?”

Lin Yanyan : “…”

Ning Lin : “…”

Shang Lu found another spot away from them and went back to sleep.

Everyone : “…”

[Hahaha, Shang Lu, what are you doing?]

[When two women argue over you, you can learn from Shang Lu (just kidding)]

[Shang Lu : I’ll go~]

[Shang Lu, redefines contemporary peacekeeper]

Although Ning Lin and Lin Yanyan did not end up sitting together, no one spoke during the journey, and Shang Lu finally took a comfortable nap.

When they returned to the villa, they found that the program team had given them a new task.

Ye Lu held a card and announced the rules of the program team: “Remember the appearance of the black-clothed people who took you to the small black room when you were eliminated in the game session? Thirty black-clothed people will appear next. Please find the one who took you away today. Each person only has one chance, and the person who completes the task will receive a mysterious kit and a special privilege.”

And Ye Lu was not eliminated, so he was looking for the one who gave him a big red flower at the end.

For everyone, this was an almost impossible task. After all, when the black-clothed people appeared during the game segment, their faces were completely covered. Everyone didn’t see anything, let alone a long time has passed. Even if someone remembered the black-clothed person’s face clearly back then, they might have forgotten it by now!

So when the thirty black-clothed people of similar height and build appeared and surrounded them, everyone’s expression naturally became solemn, except for one person—

The PD was shocked and asked, “Teacher Shang Lu, have you found the person within one minute? Do you want to take another look?”

Shang Lu walked out with the black-clothed person she had found and said directly, “I’m sure that it’s him.”

Naturally, Ye Lu didn’t believe it and asked, “How is it possible to find the right person?”

Jiang Jing was also helpless and said, “Looks like we have to take a wild guess.”

Song Zeqian was certain that he had no impression of the black-clothed person who took him away and didn’t want to waste any more time searching. He just randomly picked the person closest to him and walked out.

However, Lin Yanyan was not willing to give up. She desperately recalled the details and checked them one by one, but unfortunately still had no clue.

Ning Lin was very serious, and had already identified several candidates for the final selection.

Soon, everyone had made their selections, and they were handed over to the production team for verification in reverse order.