A Top-Tier Green Tea Actress Enters a Dating Reality Show - Chapter 23

“Sister, aren’t I your treasure?”

Meng Ziqing gazed sadly at Qin Yue, her pale pink lips pursed into a rosy hue. Her pupils, naturally darker than others under her long lashes, revealed an intense stubbornness.

How could you not be?

Qin Yue replied internally, lowering her eyes and tightening her possessive embrace around Meng Ziqing’s waist, pulling her even closer until she was practically embedded in her arms.

She was the treasure she had liked at first sight.

The treasure she had wanted to take into her arms the moment she first saw her.

However, the silly question posed by the sleepwalking idiot was sudden, straightforward, lacked any basis, and held no truth.

Qin Yue struggled to look away, closing her eyes, her delicate, cold face filled with inner torment. She told herself internally that Meng Ziqing was sleepwalking now, that what she said could not be taken seriously.

It-can’t-be-taken-seriously.

Meng Ziqing was sleepwalking; she couldn’t do that sort of thing to her in this state.

Qin Yue cautioned herself internally.

She took a deep breath, suppressing the rising heat within her.

“Sister…” Dissatisfied with Qin Yue’s distraction, Meng Ziqing frowned and bit her again. The slight, stinging force sent a numbing sensation through Qin Yue.

“You are!” Qin Yue conceded.

She sighed in resignation, raising her hand affectionately to gently tuck the slightly messy strands of hair stuck to Meng Ziqing’s cheek behind her ear.

“You are my treasure.”

“Qingqing is my treasure, the treasure I loved at first sight.”

“Little friend Meng Ziqing is very cute. Although you are a bad kid, you’re not unpleasant.”

“I… like Meng Ziqing very much.”

Qin Yue’s sweet talk was practically clumsy, utterly lacking in technique and very general. Yet, her usually cool eyes were soft, like the first melt of snow on a high mountain—initially cold to the touch but radiating warmth.

Just like now, she still wasn’t sure which of Meng Ziqing’s qualities, besides her face, she truly liked.

Meng Ziqing’s face was exceptionally appealing to her, but what about her other qualities?

Not only did she lack good qualities, but she was fundamentally wicked.

Her ambition was as beautiful as her face; she was hypocritical and deceitful, and the smile on her lips was eternally insincere.

She was arrogant, rude, and two-faced.

Her eyes constantly held a look of mockery, viewing the world as if it were a grand show.

She was not a good person; inside the ethereal shell, she was a dahlia flower blooming into decay.

Qin Yue knew all of this.

She was aware of Meng Ziqing’s inherent wickedness, and she knew Meng Ziqing played games with the world, but when summarizing her, there was only one phrase:

Meng Ziqing is a cute bad kid.

To Qin Yue, she was cute.

She didn’t know where the cuteness lay, but in any case, she was cute.

“I like Sister too.”

The sleepwalking idiot, satisfied with the answer, finally settled down and lay with Qin Yue. Qin Yue’s eyes darkened.

Meng Ziqing didn’t stay quiet once she lay down, constantly muttering.

“Sister must like me properly, must hug me, must kiss me, must hold hands with me, and must sleep with me.” She pecked Qin Yue’s lips provocatively as she spoke, “Because I love to snuggle with Sister.”

“I love Sister the most. Sister is my treasure too.”

A string snapped in Qin Yue’s heart. She couldn’t hold back. Her long fingers ran through Meng Ziqing’s dark hair repeatedly. She asked in a deep voice, “Who is the treasure’s second favorite, after Sister?”

A shadow of gloom crossed Qin Yue’s eyes, but her expression remained cool and unchanged. “Is it Wen Siliang?”

“Wen Siliang?” Meng Ziqing blinked confusedly. “Who is Wen Siliang?”

Qin Yue’s fingers, stroking Meng Ziqing’s hair, froze. Her voice was strained and cold. “Doesn’t the treasure know Wen Siliang?”

“Don’t know…”

Qin Yue’s heart sank halfway.

“Then do you know the Sister you claim to like?” she asked through clenched teeth, a fierce chill in her cool eyes.

“You don’t know Wen Siliang, so who is the Sister you like?”

How ridiculous. The person she praised so much during the day didn’t recognize her at night.

And what about her? Which sister did she count as?

“It’s Qin Yue…”

Qin Yue froze, momentarily crashing.

Meng Ziqing repeated, “The pretty Sister I like is called Qin! Yue!”

“Sister, you are so annoying.”

She yawned. After all the commotion, she was finally tired and began to whimper, “I like to tease cats and dogs, but the Sister I like most is Qin Yue.”

“I’m sleepy. Shall we sleep?” she murmured softly, snuggling closer.

“Okay…” Qin Yue seemed to snap back to reality, unconsciously patting Meng Ziqing’s back as if soothing a child.

In a moment, the girl’s breathing became rhythmic. The sleepwalking child had finally fallen asleep.

Under the moonlight, Qin Yue silently gazed at Meng Ziqing for a long time.

The child’s sleeping face was still obedient, but she couldn’t understand her.

After a while longer, confirming that Meng Ziqing wouldn’t wake up, Qin Yue finally got up and walked barefoot to the bathroom.

The soft light of the bathroom rippled like a tide around the walls. The sound of running water started, and the glass door became hazy with water marks, but there was no steam—Qin Yue was taking a cold shower.

In the dim room, a pair of bright, dark eyes slowly opened. Gone was the feigned confusion, replaced by complete clarity. She glanced toward the bathroom and slowly closed her eyes again.

No breakthrough without destruction.

Meng Ziqing muttered this internally, but her fingers silently tightened their grip on the cup.

Over the next month, the relationship between Qin Yue and Meng Ziqing was caught in a very strange state that was hard to define precisely.

On weekdays, the guests focused on their own work. The production team was very accommodating, not adding extra tasks after the guests’ working hours.

The guests went to work as they needed to, and Zhang Ke, who was still a student, went to school.

It was enough for them to be able to return to the recording villa to stay.

The production team even considered that the recording villa was in the suburbs and specially provided cars to transport the guests to work, once again confirming the director’s claim of being exceptionally wealthy.

Very lavish…

As for Meng Ziqing and Qin Yue, their interactions resembled those of any couple deep in a new romance.

Holding hands, hugging, kissing.

When Meng Ziqing woke up in the morning, her side was, not surprisingly, empty, because Qin Yue would be out for her morning run.

By the time Meng Ziqing slowly got up to brush her teeth and wash her face, Qin Yue would have returned from her exercise. After a sticky-sweet peck on the cheek, Qin Yue would head to the shower, while Meng Ziqing would check the fridge to see what she could cook for breakfast.

Their routine was slightly later than others. In the morning, besides occasionally running into Zhang Ke, who had no class and stayed at the villa, they only encountered Gu Yang and Zhou Feng a few times.

Qin Yue was clumsy in the kitchen but always liked to try and help Meng Ziqing make breakfast.

Initially, she was nothing but a hindrance. After a period of chaos, she slowly got the hang of it and began to dominate the kitchen alongside Meng Ziqing.

After breakfast, they took the production team’s car to their respective companies.

Meng Ziqing often felt sleepy in the car, so the scene of Meng Ziqing leaning on Qin Yue to sleep while Qin Yue handled work on her tablet, occasionally turning her head to look at her, became common.

At noon, if both were free, they would meet for a meal. Qin Yue’s coffee and Meng Ziqing’s tea always ended up on the same table. They might discuss work or talk about other things.

After work, they might go shopping or take a walk.

But most of the time, they returned to the villa. Meng Ziqing would read her comics, and Qin Yue would finish up her work.

In the evening, the other guests would also return, interact symbolically with the live stream for a while, and then do their own thing.

Meng Ziqing and Qin Yue would go back to their room together to sleep.

It’s worth noting that even when Meng Ziqing didn’t sleepwalk, they still slept in each other’s arms.

To outsiders, they looked like a couple in the midst of a passionate relationship.

In reality, they both knew they hadn’t formalized their relationship, and there was still a certain barrier between them that had lingered and not dissipated.

In fact, this barrier was showing a tendency to gradually increase.

The name of this barrier was Wen Siliang.

During the remaining three weekends in this month, the production team assigned single-person date missions.

Meng Ziqing was lucky in the first two weeks; she went picking and made handmade ceramic cups with Qin Yue.

Qin Yue finally got to display her talent for color matching.

Although the cups she made were somewhat abstract on the outside, their brilliant appearance successfully transformed them into pieces of art.

The twisted, uneven rim of the cup seemed to radiate a light that said, “This is art; mortals cannot afford it.”

Currently, this cup sits in Meng Ziqing’s studio, used by her for her daily drinking water.

Whenever viewers in the live stream followed the cameraman into Meng Ziqing’s studio and saw the incredibly conspicuous cup on the table, they would immediately exclaim how shippable the pair was.

Meng Fairy: See this cup? My wife gave it to me! And she made it herself.

The token of love cup is still in the same conspicuous spot, ha ha ha.

Perhaps because the first three weeks were too smooth, Meng Ziqing was randomly paired with Wen Siliang for the final week’s dating mission.

“This weekend’s dating mission is for the guests to check in at an aquarium together and take beautiful photos.

Guest pairings: Group 1, Zhang Ke, Zhou Feng; Group 2…” Zhang Ke stopped, holding the mission card from the production team. She looked up at Meng Ziqing’s direction, hesitated for a moment, and then read it out.

“Meng Ziqing, Wen Siliang.”

What the hell? Meng Fairy and? Is the production team breaking up the couple!

I remember Meng Fairy told Sister Ice Queen last week that she wanted to check in at an aquarium, but now she’s going to the aquarium, and it’s not with Sister Ice Queen.

The production team can’t pair them up every time. That would be boring. I actually quite like the visuals when Meng Fairy and Wen Siliang]are in the same frame.

Exactly. Meng Fairy always has a good conversation with Wen Siliang. It’s not excessive for friends to go to an aquarium.

Ah, ah, ah, heresy party, scram! Scram! Scram!

The live stream erupted.

When Qin Yue heard that Meng Ziqing’s dating partner for the week was Wen Siliang, her eyes subtly darkened.

She recalled the various interactions between Meng Ziqing and Wen Siliang over the past month.

Wen Siliang was an actor, and his work was slightly busier than theirs. Outside of the dating weekends, he didn’t return to the villa much on weekdays. Yet, he always managed to converse with Meng Ziqing during those few times.

Each conversation felt like a meeting of long-lost friends, a shared understanding between heroes.

This was a very interesting sight.

Because Wen Siliang himself seemed more inclined to be close to Zhang Ke, but somehow, he always coincidentally managed to bring up topics that interested Meng Ziqing.

Even if the topic didn’t seem like something he should know about.

Something is off with Wen Siliang.

Qin Yue grew wary and instinctively narrowed her eyes.

Sister is finally catching on.

After waiting for over a month, she finally heard what she wanted to hear. A quick smile flashed across Meng Ziqing’s face as she lowered her head.

“System Sir, the things you collected should be put to use now,” Meng Ziqing’s eyes curved, and she was in a very good mood.

The CP System rubbed its hands, ready for action. “Host, don’t worry, I’m prepared!”

“Good job…” Meng Ziqing encouraged it.

The girl’s face showed pleasure because the plans she had prepared for over a month were finally coming to fruition. Her ethereal features conveyed a sense of anticipation, which in Qin Yue’s eyes was glaringly annoying.

Is going on a date with Wen Siliang that much fun?

Bad kid…

Qin Yue thought, her gaze shifting to Meng Ziqing’s wrist, a somewhat dark thought crossing her mind.

Qin Yue raised her hand and patted Meng Ziqing’s shoulder, her tone sounding a bit like a parent cautioning their child about bad people outside. “Be careful on the road, and come back early.”

“Sister Qin, you can rest assured. Qingqing and I are good friends; nothing will happen, absolutely,” Wen Siliang spoke before Meng Ziqing could.

He patted Meng Ziqing’s shoulder like an old acquaintance and said gently, “I’ll take good care of her.”

Meng Ziqing didn’t speak, just glanced at him, feeling a bit strange inside.

Why do I feel like someone is stealing my persona?

Qin Yue’s fist by her side trembled slightly. She couldn’t hold back and immediately pulled Wen Siliang away.

Her tone was utterly indifferent. “You exaggerate. Meng Ziqing’s survival skills are stronger than yours. She will take good care of herself.”

Wen Siliang’s pride was hurt, a flicker of anger crossed his eyes, but he still forced a smile on his face.

“That’s true. Sister Qin is right.”

He really couldn’t afford to provoke her.

He could only endure…

“Pfft—” Meng Ziqing lowered her head, stifling a laugh.

What should I do? Qin Yue is truly too cute.

Hahaha, I’m dying of laughter. Sister Ice Queen is so utterly rude.

Sister Ice Queen: Speechless. I’ve never disliked a green tea so much in my life.

The person above, you should say it like this: Sister Ice Queen: Only drinks Meng Fairy brand green tea. Other teas need not apply!