After I Gave Up/Let Things Slide, I Became Famous Across The Entire Internet - Chapter 28.1

Xu Yujing replied almost instantly. After replying, she immediately regretted it and wanted to withdraw the message, afraid Tang Shuxia had already seen it.

As expected.

【Tang: Boring.】

She rested one hand behind her head, lying on a beam with her legs crossed. Through the glass window, she could faintly see the moonlight outside, along with the rustling tree shadows. In her ears, there were still terrifying, life or death shrieks. It felt less like filming a puzzle-solving show and more like a horror movie.

As for the princess waiting to be rescued…

“Forget it, I might as well let her continue being a block of wood.”

Xu Yujing could sense the other party’s complete lack of interest and boredom through the screen. She quickly searched for the variety show’s ratings and comments. Scrolling down, she found nothing but one-star and two-star reviews.

【F*k, is the production team even human? A bunch of idiots.】

【I think my daughter has been scared senseless, and the people next to her are still laughing, LOL. My heart aches for her. What kind of garbage show is this? It makes my fists hard.】

【D*n it, I should make the director experience having a pot of ice water poured on him when he’s having his period.

【What a pile of rotten dog sh*t. They’re forcing comedy for the sake of comedy. Can’t you tell the guests are all forcing awkward laughs? Idiot production team, idiot director.】

【XYJ: Do you want to play an interesting game?】

【Tang: What game?!】

You Yixuan somewhat regretted having a spat with Tang Shuxia and splitting up earlier. Otherwise, she wouldn’t be stuck alone on this floor searching for some damn clue.

She trembled as she unlocked a room. The lighting was dim, adding a gloomy and eerie atmosphere to the room full of paintings.

She opened drawers to search. The production team’s clues were placed in a small, palm-sized box. She had seen the regular pairing, Yin Shenglong and Zhong Wenbo, pick one up earlier.

However, she touched something, and a mournful song started playing in the room. You Yixuan froze completely. She felt a gust of cold air blow across her exposed neck, and her whole body started to shiver.

Help me.

There isn’t a ghost, is there?

The production team, watching the lone You Yixuan through the camera: “I deliberately set up a horror painting room. Why isn’t she screaming? Is it not scary enough? Someone go and scare her again. Preferably scare her into running out of the room.”

You Yixuan was already scared pale, with cold sweat breaking out on her forehead. Unfortunately, the more afraid she was, the less she could move; she had completely lost control of her body. She closed her eyes to try and relax.

When she opened her eyes, a black shadow was standing in front of her. You Yixuan: “Ah”

Her eyes rolled back, and she collapsed directly onto the floor.

The production team saw this: “What happened? We told you to scare her into running out, not scare her into fainting!”

The person responsible was also very wronged; he hadn’t done anything yet.

The production team knew that blaming anyone now was useless. “Forget it, forget it. We’ll wait until she wakes up. Wait, something’s not right. Why do I feel like someone is missing?”

“Where is Tang Shuxia?”

Since filming began, Tang Shuxia had been missing for nearly two hours. The guests were running all over the castle, scared by the production team’s endless stream of frightening little gimmicks.

The entire castle was filled with screams.

Just as the production team realized they had missed Tang Shuxia, they began searching for her figure across all the split screens. The result? None.

Not a single split screen recorded Tang Shuxia’s activities. She had vanished as if evaporated into thin air. To trace back to the start, it was probably from the first moment Tang Shuxia disappeared from their cameras.

Clack…

All the lights in the entire castle went out instantly.

“What’s going on? Why did the power go out?”

“Did the circuit breaker trip?”

“It shouldn’t have. I specifically had someone check the castle’s electrical system.”

“Quick! Take two people to check it out. Fix it as soon as possible.”

A staff member thought better of it and just grabbed his tools, turned on his flashlight, and walked quickly across the empty floor. As he listened to his own footsteps, an inexplicable sense of eeriness arose. He heard an overlapping tap-tap-tap sound behind him, as if someone were following. He stopped abruptly, and the tap-tap-tap footsteps sounded rapidly, like a sudden downpour.

“Who?”

“Who’s there?”

“Come out, don’t scare me!”

In the middle of the night, person-scaring-person could actually scare someone to death.

The staff member caught a glimpse of a red shadow flashing past his peripheral vision. He quickly moved the hand holding his phone, but only illuminated a pillar. He rubbed his eyes. “I must be seeing things.”

He turned around, and a woman with disheveled hair, hanging upside down, appeared in his sight. Her bloody face pulled into a grim smile and she spoke in a chilling voice, “Give… me… my… life… back.”

The staff member was so terrified the tools in his hands dropped to his feet. He turned and ran, scrambling desperately. “Ahhhhhhh, there’s a ghost!”

The production team was still sitting and chatting. Suddenly, one person shushed the others. “Listen, I think I hear Xiao Shen’s voice.”

“He sounds like he’s yelling. What is he yelling? Did he see a ghost?”

“Don’t talk nonsense! There are no ghosts in this world. You just have a guilty conscience.”

“Is that so? But when we rented this castle, I heard that the previous owner died here.”

Whether it was their imagination or not, after that sentence, the surrounding temperature suddenly dropped.

The director had been squatting in front of the camera for over two hours and suddenly felt the urge to pee. “Stop talking rubbish! What if the castle owner is waiting to sell this place? Saying things like that is blocking someone’s path to wealth.” Finally, he asked, “Hey, who wants to go with me? I’m going to take a leak.”

Not a single person wanted to go.

The director had no choice but to use his flashlight to find the restroom himself. It had to be said that this mansion was truly enormous. The restroom was at the other end, requiring him to walk down a long corridor where the French windows could reflect a person’s image.

The director was whistling and striding forward, but when he casually glanced at the French window, he caught sight of a white figure behind him. Silent and unmoving, it had followed him without him knowing.

He walked forward, and the white figure behind him moved too.

He stopped, and the white shadow behind him also stopped. He couldn’t help but check the white figure’s heels they were truly not touching the ground.

The director couldn’t help but gasp. He had actually run into this evil thing.

He lifted his legs, preparing to tiptoe forward. Unexpectedly, the ghost behind him suddenly raised its head, and two hands reached out from behind to grab him.

What would happen if he were caught by a ghost? His highly developed brain told him: nothing good.

“F***, there’s a ghost”

The director ran forward with all his might, but the sound of labored breathing behind him reminded him that the ghost was running faster.

Plus, after years of socializing and late night snacks, he had gained a lot of weight. After running a hundred meters, all his bones were screaming in protest.

The director couldn’t help but turn his head for a look a bloody face! He was so scared that his breath escaped him. When he turned back around.

Bang…

He had reached the restroom he was looking for. The director, without paying attention, ran straight into the door…

When day broke, the guests gathered, discussing the events of the previous night in hushed tones. They had vaguely heard some commotion, sounding like staff members making noise.

Especially after the power went out, they couldn’t reach the staff, so they simply engaged in free activity. The result was.

Xi Caiwen whispered, “I think I heard that the place was haunted last night.”

Zhong Wenbo: “I don’t know who locked our room. Since the power was out anyway, we just fell asleep without knowing. I just heard it from the logistics department.”

Han Haohao and Xi Qingshu exchanged guilty glances, then awkwardly looked away from each other.

Xi Caiwen said nonchalantly, “Brother Jian and I were also locked in a room.”

Han Haohao quickly changed the subject. “So, do we have to re-film this episode?”

His and Xi Qingshu’s performance last night was utterly dreadful. He didn’t even want to imagine how bad those shots would look.

Jian Rufan: “Probably not for now, because the director apparently accidentally hit his head yesterday and has to go to the hospital for a check-up. We’ll have to wait for further notice for the specifics.”

Yin Shenglong: “Is it serious? How did he hit his head out of nowhere?”

Jian Rufan: “Alas, it was pitch dark. He probably didn’t see where he was going and ran headfirst into something.”

While listening to them, Xi Qingshu was busy touching up her makeup. Only after finishing did she finally realize what was missing. “Sister Shuxia, have you seen her?”

You Yixuan suddenly looked up. “I haven’t… seen her.”

Xi Caiwen propped her chin on her hand and shook her head. “I haven’t seen her at all, but…” She suddenly looked at You Yixuan. “Aren’t you two a group? Were you not in the same room last night?”

You Yixuan’s complexion was still poor. “We…”

Han Haohao: “Sister Xia.”

Tang Shuxia appeared in a form-fitting long red dress. Her hair was half-down, draped over one shoulder, and she wore a pair of long black high heels. She walked down the stairs radiantly and in high spirits.

She looked at the guests, whose reactions varied. “What’s wrong?”

Could Han Haohao say she was too beautiful? He looked at the others and subtly contained the amazement in his eyes. “Sister Xia, where did you go?”

Tang Shuxia was in a good mood. “I found a place to catch some sleep.”

Everyone else: “Ah!?”

The sudden power outage interrupted the filming. With the director and several key staff members out of commission, the production team had no choice but to suspend the filming of the second episode and had to apologize to the guests one by one.

Zhang Zeyang also received the notice and learned that the production team had experienced some minor incidents overnight. Tang Shuxia was very easy to talk to and expressed her understanding, which deeply moved the production team; they nearly pulled her aside to talk for another half hour.

Zhang Zeyang couldn’t help but glance at Tang Shuxia several times. Yesterday, she had been listless before going to film the show, but after one night, she was glowing and radiant.

Was there some other hidden reason behind the collective minor accidents of the production team???

As soon as Tang Shuxia watched the production crew leave, she immediately sprawled out on the back seat like a salted fish, pulled out her phone to scroll through videos and hot searches. She noticed her name was still trending.

“Xiao Zhang.”

“Does Teacher Tang need anything?”

“Your miss”

“…Hmm?”

Tang Shuxia paused the hand scrolling Weibo, backed out, and opened yesterday’s chat interface.

【Tang: Let’s have dinner together tonight.】

She waited, noticing that Xu Yujing didn’t reply immediately as before. She impatiently clicked her tongue, her finger drumming against her phone case.

She drummed for how long, Zhang Zeyang silently counted for how long. What exactly did she mean by only saying half a sentence?

Especially when it concerned his miss.

Zhang Zeyang took out his phone, but couldn’t type a single word for a long time. What was he supposed to say?

Should I tell my miss that Miss Tang mentioned you twice?

No, no, no.

Xu Yujing had actually seen Tang Shuxia’s message a long time ago. She silently repeated the words many times in her mind, staring at the line, unable to believe it, as if in a dream.

【XYJ: Okay. Should we have home-cooked food, or go out and try new cuisines?】

Xu Yujing leaned towards Tang Shuxia choosing the latter, but the result was unexpected.

【Tang: Home cooked food, at your place.】

Xu Yujing tightened her grip on her phone, seemingly in disbelief. She sent another message to Zhang Zeyang.

【XYJ: How is her mood?】

Zhang Zeyang knew who “she” was just by thinking about it. He glanced in the rearview mirror. Tang Shuxia was humming a song, and her toes, resting on the window, were wiggling.

【Xiao Zhang: Her mood is excellent.】

A smile touched Xu Yujing’s lips. She then pushed her wheelchair to her refrigerator, opened it, and found it was empty, sharing a similar fate with the refrigerator next door.

She quickly called someone to deliver groceries, and finally started planning the menu for tomorrow night’s dinner. The kitchen was spotless, devoid of any cooking odors.

She suddenly realized it had been a long time since she had cooked herself.

Tang Shuxia leaned against the window on the plane, looking at the clouds and the city below, which looked as tiny as ants. She watched like this the entire journey and didn’t feel bored.

Even with the best Qinggong (lightness skill), she couldn’t fly this high. Watching the world from a plane was similar to standing on a mountain peak and looking down.

This world was truly miraculous.

Tang Shuxia was more careful this time. Before getting off the plane, she went to the restroom and adjusted her appearance.

When the door opened and Tang Shuxia emerged, Zhang Zeyang automatically deferred to her, giving up his spot. But then he looked up again, continuously scrutinizing the exact same dress she was wearing. “You, you…”

Tang Shuxia was very confident in her disguise. She curled her lips. “I’ll leave first. You and the assistant should wait for half an hour before leaving. Remember to bring my luggage back.”

Zhang Zeyang was completely stunned. He stared at the face that bore absolutely no resemblance to Tang Shuxia anymore. “Are you really Miss Tang?”

Tang Shuxia smiled. “Otherwise?”

Zhang Zeyang looked bewildered but didn’t forget his duty. “Miss Xu told me to personally escort you home.”

Tang Shuxia: “You get paid by me, so you should listen to me.”

Zhang Zeyang, who was getting paid by two people: “…”

He couldn’t seem to argue against that.

After saying that, Tang Shuxia waved her hand dismissively. Zhang Zeyang couldn’t stop her and immediately called Xu Yujing.

Listening to the voice on the phone and looking at the table full of dishes, Xu Yujing was full of joy. “Let her be. As long as she’s happy.”

Zhang Zeyang: “Yes, Miss.”

After hanging up, Zhang Zeyang suddenly remembered Tang Shuxia’s specially disguised face. Truthfully, he had never seen such a high level of disguise. Should I inform Miss Xu beforehand?

Forget it. Tang Shuxia will arrive, and Miss Xu will naturally figure it out.

Xu Yujing waited by the door until a woman in a long red dress appeared at the entrance of the house. The woman’s seductive body leaned against the doorway as if boneless, and her alluring eyes winked at her. “May I come in for a glass of water?”

Xu Yujing rubbed the armrest of her wheelchair, sitting in thought for a minute. She slowly wheeled herself forward, opened the door, and then moved the wheelchair halfway out, blocking the only entrance. She looked up at the woman in front of her. “Is it just for a glass of water?”

The woman leaned closer lazily, presenting her proud assets to Xu Yujing. “Otherwise, what else do you hope I’ll do?”

Xu Yujing moved her wheelchair back a step, avoiding the contact. “Come in.”