A Top-Tier Green Tea Actress Enters a Dating Reality Show - Chapter 1

Five o’clock in the afternoon. The vegetable sections of major supermarkets were bustling with people—elderly folk, young people, all shopping for groceries. The sounds of human chatter, mixed with promotional loudspeaker announcements, and amidst the hustle and bustle… seemed to be a few other whispers of discussion?

Meng Ziqing, dressed in the latest Chanel, stood in front of a potato stall, selecting with a very serious expression.

“They all look pretty much the same…”

She held a potato in one hand, lightly tossed the weight of it in her left hand, then tossed the weight of it in her right hand. After a long moment of visible struggle, she finally put both down and slowly walked to the next stall, which sold broccoli.

She continued to repeat the previous operation, weighing one in each hand.

The cameraman behind Meng Ziqing was expressionless: …

Is she crazy?

She’s weighed stuff at more than a dozen stalls, hasn’t bought so much as a single grape, what’s the point?

The other guests got annoyed by her weighing act and left.

The girl is fair-skinned and beautiful, and her family has quite a bit of money, so why is her mind not quite right?

It’s a dating reality show, yet the main group of guests went off shopping, leaving one female guest to weigh things alone. This is ridiculous!

“Yeah, there are too many ridiculous things in the world. This is nothing.”

Meng Ziqing’s faint voice drifted from in front of him.

The cameraman’s hand, holding the camera, trembled. He was startled. He looked at Meng Ziqing in surprise, then noticed she was actually chatting on WeChat with a friend, and he finally let out a sigh of relief.

Meng Ziqing sensed the movement behind her, turned around, and gave the cameraman a strange look.

“What is it?”

After the cameraman awkwardly indicated that it was nothing, she turned back.

Meng Ziqing put her phone in her pocket. The blank WeChat screen flashed by before turning black. She continued to face the lush green broccoli stall. “So green…”

Meng Ziqing sighed, “As green as the hat on my head.”

System: “…”

“Don’t you agree, Mr. System?”

“Well… Miss Meng, I can explain.”

The System’s voice was weak.

“Explain what?” Meng Ziqing held a piece of broccoli in each hand. She didn’t know what was wrong with the broccoli, but the outer plastic wrap wasn’t sealed properly, getting small green seeds all over her hands. “My mission is very clear, isn’t it? It’s just to form a couple.”

System: “Yes, form a couple.”

“So this is the reason I have to be cuckolded?”

Meng Ziqing put down the broccoli and clapped the small green seeds off her hands, but that trace of green stuck to her like an adhesive plaster; no amount of clapping would remove it.

“It’s truly heartbreaking.”

She said, though it was unclear if she was talking about the green seeds stuck to her hand or the future cuckolding, “Uh… this…”

The System stammered.

Meng Ziqing magnanimously stated, “It doesn’t matter…”

System: “?”

“I’ll just cuckold the male lead before he cuckolds me.” She said airily.

The System subconsciously agreed, “That works too… Wait, what?!”

Meng Ziqing finally managed to brush off those few broccoli seeds. Her fair, slender fingers had beautiful bone structure, a hint of moist fleshiness, and a clean, cool look from the faint blue-green veins—it was very pleasing to the eye.

“Let’s go, time to find them.”

She spoke gently, yet somehow, it carried a sense of menace.

System: “Miss Meng, calm down. We just need to ignore the male and female leads. Your personal happiness is what’s important.”

Meng Ziqing softly replied, “If they’re happy, I can’t be happy.”

System: “Miss Meng, think thrice!”

Meng Ziqing asked the cameraman for the current location of the other guests. The cameraman muttered a complaint internally but, for the sake of the show’s ratings, gave her the general direction.

In the camera’s view, the young woman, with her romantic, half-pinned curly hair, walked neither too quickly nor too slowly, but with great determination, moving through the noisy crowd with an elegant rhythm.

She was a bit too dazzling, glancing around curiously, looking out of place with the environment, yet surprisingly harmonious.

It was a strange sight, like a fairy strolling through a farmer’s market.

The cameraman held his breath, keeping the camera even steadier.

People are naturally drawn to beauty. Coupled with the cameraman filming behind Meng Ziqing, the usual clamor of the supermarket was tinged with unusual whispers of discussion and subtle, lingering stares.

These sounds and stares were extremely discreet, but to Meng Ziqing, they were as obvious as someone wearing a ninja suit in broad daylight.

They couldn’t be more obvious.

Various inner voices related to herself flooded her mind, making her feel mentally numb and giving her a headache.

The ability to read minds was irritating.

She glanced in the direction of the loudest voices. After receiving the startled inner thoughts of the person, she walked past with her usual expression.

“Excuse me,” Meng Ziqing said, her gaze as indifferent as if she were looking at a paper cutout.

“Oh, okay.” The passerby awkwardly stepped aside, clutching their chest, still uneasy about Meng Ziqing’s gaze.

This fairy is too detached from the world of mortals. Her eyes have no emotion when she looks at people. It’s creepy.

If she’s called a fairy, then she must have come from the heavens.

Meng Ziqing thought to herself as she elegantly brushed past.

Meng Ziqing wasn’t from this world; she had transmigrated into a book.

The book was a stand-in trope story disguised as a dating reality show, where the male lead joined the show for his first love the “White Moonlight”, and then he and the stand-in female lead got into a cycle of love, misunderstandings, and melodramatic chaos.

As for the original body’s owner, she was the male lead’s wicked fiancée, the kind whose family was about to go bankrupt.

As the male lead’s fiancée, the original owner participated in the dating show to develop feelings with the male lead, trick him into marriage, and get his family to invest money into her own family’s failing business.

However, as the dating show progressed, netizens exposed the original owner’s attempts to “keep up appearances” and the fact that her family was nearing bankruptcy.

The internet was flooded with insults, the original owner’s engagement to the male lead was completely severed, and her family ultimately went bankrupt.

The System Meng Ziqing was bound to was fully named the “Self-Salvation, Find-a-Partner-and-Get-Rich System.”

As a system representing truth, goodness, and beauty, its mission for Meng Ziqing was to get her to break away from the male and female leads on the dating show and find her own partner. Upon completing the mission, she would receive ten billion Chinese Yuan!

Meng Ziqing’s hesitation for even a second would be a disrespect to money.

But she didn’t want to follow the path the System laid out:

—Proactively and willingly separating from the male lead, not causing trouble for their romance, severing the engagement, and then finding a suitable guest on the dating show to form a couple.

Dream on…

The male lead was a total scumbag. Even while the original owner was his fiancée,

the male lead was thinking about his first love and getting intimate with the female lead, having a passionate, loving relationship and going all the way,

leaving the original owner to wear an enormous, green, shady hat (a heavy cuckold).

When the original owner’s family went bankrupt, he led the charge in kicking them while they were down, carving up the family’s various businesses.

The original owner couldn’t take the shock and eventually committed suicide by jumping off a building.

Meng Ziqing: … She absolutely must cuckold the male lead before he and the female lead get together!

Meng Ziqing walked through the bustling crowd, and in her line of sight, the main group of guests appeared not far away.

She stopped and looked at the group, a little conflicted.

Her gaze swept across the male guests of the dating show. Her eyelashes fluttered, and her brow furrowed deeper.

The first one on the left, in black casual wear, was handsome—that was the fiancé, the male lead Gu Yang.

The second one on the left, the movie star wearing a mask, had a gentle and elegant demeanor. Many people around were secretly taking photos. He seemed decent, but in reality…

Meng Ziqing’s expression was subtle. She couldn’t understand why a secretly married movie star with a child would come to a dating show to earn milk money.

The muscular man in the middle—Meng Ziqing still remembered hearing his inner thoughts during lunch that morning, where he was calculating how much money each of the female guests had eaten during the meal.

And…

Meng Ziqing hesitated. Did she really have to sacrifice herself like this for money?

Did she truly need to?

All these men were disappointing. She didn’t want to pair up with any of them.

So cute, I want to take her home…

A clear, cool female voice rang out in Meng Ziqing’s mind. It sounded very comfortable, with a refreshing, spring-water-like quality.

Meng Ziqing instinctively looked toward the source of the voice. Her eyes widened slightly, a flash of astonishment in them.

Under the warm, slightly mottled supermarket lights, a cool, detached woman in a gray business suit stood on the edge of the dating show guests. She had shoulder-length short hair, exquisite features, and an inherent sense of cold aloofness. Her eyes were like noble blue gemstones, meeting Meng Ziqing’s gaze.

She must be a new guest.

Meng Ziqing came to her senses, pursed her lips, and smiled shyly.

Seeing that she had been noticed, Qin Yue straightened up slightly, but her expression became even colder.

Even cuter.

The woman’s inner voice reached Meng Ziqing’s mind. She blinked, swept her gaze across the disappointing male guests, and then walked resolutely toward Qin Yue.

The System was anxious: “Aiya, aiya, Miss Meng, you’re going for the wrong person!”

Meng Ziqing firmly said, “I’m not wrong. It’s all about forming a couple, and it didn’t specify what kind of couple. A friendship couple is also a couple! I want her.”

Meng Ziqing had only read the minds of this one good person all afternoon; she wouldn’t let her go even if she were a ghost.

Meng Ziqing walked up to Qin Yue, flipped her hair, and showed a professional “green tea” gentle and shy smile. She held out her hand. “Hello, Jiejie (Sister). I’m Meng Ziqing, and I’m a guest on the dating show too.”

Qin Yue was very cold: “Qin Yue…”

She raised her hand and shook Meng Ziqing’s hand. The two pairs of fair, yet beautifully structured, hands overlapped, a very pleasing sight.

Meng Ziqing smiled even sweeter after hearing the name. “Hello, Sister Qin. Please take good care of me from now on.”

She was Qin Yue, the White Moonlight who caused the male lead to join the dating show.

She would form a couple with her and infuriate that disappointing Gu Yang!

“Sister, let’s be close!”

She playfully winked at Qin Yue, sweet and innocent.

Qin Yue met her gaze and thought for a moment.

The next second, a shadow enveloped Meng Ziqing. Qin Yue surprisingly leaned in and kissed her without a word.

Accompanied by a blast of cool fragrance, Meng Ziqing’s cheek suddenly felt hot, making her feel a little numb.

Meng Ziqing snapped back and pushed Qin Yue away.

“Hmm…” Qin Yue looked down at her, her expression still cool as usual.

Meng Ziqing looked around and saw that everyone was staring at them as if they had seen a ghost. The air was dead silent.

Her fiancé, the male lead Gu Yang, widened his eyes and pointed at them with a trembling finger, “You… you two…”

Meng Ziqing was stunned, her face instantly flushed like a sunset. She acted coyly toward Qin Yue, “Sister Qin, what are you doing?”

“We’re still outside,” she said with a hint of shyness.

“Don’t do that next time. The male guests will get upset seeing you kiss someone else.”

Qin Yue innocently replied, “But you said ‘be close’.”

After saying that, she pecked Meng Ziqing on the cheek again.