Dating My Drama Queen Girlfriend On A Slow-Paced Variety Show - Chapter 42

After being “kindly advised” by Luo Mingzi, Min Xueren completely dropped her previous “ambitious” attitude for the remainder of the recording. She stopped calling them “Sister Li” or “Sister Mingzi” and sat quietly in the middle.

Noticing Min Xueren casting frequent glances at her past Pei Dongxin with a furrowed brow, You Shiyi asked her what was wrong.

“It’s nothing, I just suddenly feel a bit unwell. Maybe from the games earlier. ” She cut herself off, covered her mouth, forced a smile, and said, “It’s fine.”

Pei Dongxin said hurriedly, “You’re not feeling well?”

Everyone stopped talking, their eyes immediately landing on Min Xueren. Wu Xuezhen said with concern, “Xiao Min isn’t feeling well? Let’s head back then. It’s getting late, and the roads are hard to navigate in the dark.”

Luo Mingzi was vigorously fanning herself with a cattail leaf fan to ward off mosquitoes. Hearing the commotion, she suddenly turned her head and made a face at Li Yue. Li Yue’s fan promptly swatted Luo Mingzi’s face as she said slowly, “Mosquito.”

Liar!

Luo Mingzi swung her fan wildly at Li Yue. Wu Xuezhen, who was ushering everyone to move things to the car, watched them play-fighting and asked in disbelief, “Aren’t you two tired?”

“Cheering people on is indeed exhausting! But I still have to deal with her!” Luo Mingzi said, looking ready to pounce on Li Yue.

Fanning herself leisurely, Li Yue looked into Luo Mingzi’s eyes and asked sincerely, “Is eating exhausting too?”

“Take a rest.”

Sarcasm! Pure, unadulterated sarcasm!

Luo Mingzi rolled up her sleeves and, with a “He-yo!”, lunged at Li Yue. War broke out instantly, and it was intense!

Nearby, Min Xueren’s lip twitched. Seeing everyone’s gaze including the cameras fixed on those two, she felt a surge of irritation. She stood up and said, “I’m going to lie down in the van first.”

She headed straight for the production van. Min Xueren hadn’t been particularly famous before, but her new agency valued her highly and wanted to push her to A-list status. Both the drama on the Mingyue App and this Late Countryside variety show were resources they had fought hard to get for her. Min Xueren was ambitious since signing, her agency staff had coddled her, and the actors in her dramas had lower status than her and were very polite. This caused her ego to inflate before she even truly hit it big. Consequently, encountering someone like Luo Mingzi on Late Countryside and not being put on a pedestal made her extremely uncomfortable.

When Luo Mingzi told her to behave earlier, she had been contacting her agency. Her manager was watching the recording, but instead of helping when she was slighted, the manager told her to endure it. Min Xueren called the company directly, wanting them to pressure the production team to be “merciful” during editing, but the company also advised her to record properly, implying they couldn’t make such a request.

Min Xueren felt suffocated. Speaking of which, she had followed the gossip about Luo Mingzi before and felt the woman was just incredibly lucky. She had been kicked off a film set, kept filming “trashy” dramas with no good works or serious awards to her name, yet she remained so famous.

“Why can’t I be that famous?” Although Min Xueren’s name sounded “cool” (Xue means snow), the fire in her heart was unstoppable. She tossed and turned in the van, glancing out the window.

Beside the tricycle, everyone was loading the BBQ gear. Everyone smelled of smoke and cumin.

“Please check carefully, don’t leave anything behind, especially important items,” a staff member reminded them.

Li Yue and Luo Mingzi were having their final showdown by the tricycle. Luo Mingzi grabbed Li Yue’s wrist, but Li Yue easily slipped her hand out, flipped it to pin both of Luo Mingzi’s hands, leaned down, picked her up, and effortlessly tossed her onto the back of the tricycle.

Important item loaded.

“Whew…” Luo Mingzi exhaled deeply, patted her full stomach, and said, “I’m actually tired now.”

“Just thinking about having to shower when we get back makes me even more tired.”

Li Yue pulled the fan out from under Luo Mingzi’s weight, swatted Luo Mingzi’s leg with it, and said solemnly, “It really was a mosquito.” Luo Mingzi instantly perked up, pulled her legs in, and hugged herself in mock sorrow.

Li Yue laughed and hopped onto the truck, reaching into her pocket to pull out a small green bottle and handing it to Luo Mingzi.

“Thank you, you’re so kind, a truly good person,” Luo Mingzi said gratefully, cradling the cooling oil (Fengyoujing).

Li Yue propped up her chin and said unhurriedly, “One bottle of cooling oil and I’m a ‘good person’ now?”

Before Luo Mingzi could speak, You Shiyi spoke up timidly from across the smoke-scented grill: “If possible, could we borrow some too? Thank you. Both of you teachers are wonderful people.”

Even with plenty of mosquito coils by the lake, they couldn’t stop the “local residents” from being “hospitable” and giving everyone “souvenirs” (bites).

The production car followed behind, its headlights shining, making the faces of the three guests looking back appear “moody” in the flickering light. Luo Mingzi shrank back, handed the cooling oil over the cumin-scented iron rack, and whispered spookily, “Let’s just talk nicely.”

Don’t scare people. If you scare people, people die.

Li Yue leaned against the side of the truck, looking up at the drifting clouds and smiling.

Luo Mingzi immediately stared at her, scratched a bite on her leg, leaned in, and asked with a grin: “Looking at the sky? Why, homesick?”

Oh clouds, your goal is the sea of stars!

Li Yue pressed her finger against Luo Mingzi’s forehead, pushing her back. Li Yue said lazily, “Your scent is a bit… complex. I find it difficult to accept at the moment. Please step back, Miss Luo, let’s maintain a reasonable social distance.”

Are you rejecting me already?!

Miss Luo put on an “I won’t allow this” expression, opened her arms enthusiastically, and lunged at Li Yue, giving Miss Li a surging, passionate hug.

The driver looking through the sunroof while holding a camera: Ssss…

The others in the car: Ssss!

The guests on the tricycle, who were busy dabbing cooling oil everywhere, looked up and also: Sssssss!

It was as if Medusa had descended and turned everyone to stone, but forgot to petrify their mouths, so everyone started speaking “Parseltongue” to save their lives.

Watching Li Yue, whose head was being hugged against Luo Mingzi’s chest, You Shiyi swallowed and murmured, “I can’t even imagine how blissful that is.”

Pei Dongxin and Li Xiao: “Ssss!!”

The two of them simultaneously reached out to cover You Shiyi’s mouth.

Saying things like that, do you want to die?

The person who “actually died” (Li Yue) waved her arm weakly before letting it drop. When Luo Mingzi finally released her, she collapsed onto the quilts, looking at the sky, her face slightly flushed.

“I lose.” A true Goddess Li must be brave enough to admit defeat.

Luo Mingzi smiled with satisfaction, then became a bit embarrassed and blushed too, explaining in a low voice, “I didn’t actually mean to hug you that low. It’s your fault for ducking down. Yeah, right, it’s because you dodged.”

And besides, Li Yue was the one who said she smelled “complex” first!

Goddess Li lifted a corner of her jacket and waved it in the air.

She truly admitted defeat.

Cumin is, by nature, passionate. Barbecue is, by nature, fiery. Miss Luo is the embodiment of passion and fire.

The defeated Goddess Li sat up with a red face. Looking at the proud but still slightly huffy Luo Mingzi, she rubbed her face and chuckled:

“The guests will have to pack their things first when we get back. We’ll shower first. Since Teacher Min isn’t feeling well, let’s give the public bathroom to her. On the second floor, the only bathroom left is in your room. To let me… wash off the scent of summer as quickly as possible, may I bathe with you, Miss Luo?”