The Female Lead Insists on Being My Wife [Quick Transmigration] - Chapter 21

Chapter 21: Stealing the Wife in a Romance Reality Show (Part 4)

Her heart was shattered by the cold and heartless producer, but Chen Suihe didn’t want to give up on her unprecedented and unparalleled “Super CP Chaotic Stew” plan. However, now wasn’t a good time.

Things being as they were, Chen Suihe tucked her hands into her sleeves and returned to her room to rest. The moment she closed her door, the door across from hers opened with a creak.

Shen Chuli, who lived directly across from Chen Suihe, stepped out—left foot first, then right. She paced in the empty hallway, her hand lifting to knock, then stopping, lifting again, then stopping once more… a repeating cycle of hesitation. After agonizing for a long while, she finally stepped forward and knocked on Chen Suihe’s door.

A little pitch-black “monkey” poked her head out from the crack of the door.

“Movie Quee—Chuli,” Chen Suihe called her name, catching herself just in time. “Is something wrong?”

Shen Chuli, who stood a head taller than her, looked every bit the elegant and cold Movie Queen at this moment. She opened her mouth slowly and said, “Please go on a date with me tomorrow.”

Little question marks popped up all over Chen Suihe’s head.

“Eh?” Chen Suihe pointed to herself in confusion. “Me?”

She couldn’t wrap her head around it. This was Shen Chuli, the Movie Queen admired by everyone in the industry, and she was inviting her on a date? It was just as shocking as the unanimous anonymous votes from the night before!

“I have a reason,” Shen Chuli explained with a straight face, avoiding the girl’s bright and clear gaze. “I only joined this show to return a favor. I don’t want to fall in love, nor do I want any complications or to be ‘bundled’ with anyone for hype.”

“You’re a non-celebrity; you probably don’t have plans to enter the industry, right?” Her gaze was as cool as spring water. “You are relatively ‘safe,’ so I want to cooperate with you.”

A certain retired obscure idol felt the sting of an unintentional mockery. Clutching her bleeding chest, she felt a sharp pain in her metaphorical knees.

“Is that so?” After a few awkward laughs, Chen Suihe pulled her expression together. “It’s my honor to help you. Well, it’s getting late, I’m going to go shower now, Chuli.”

With that, Chen Suihe hurriedly closed the door to lick her wounds in private.

Pain… too much pain…

Former idol and current “Matchmaking Tool Monkey” Sui-sui tilted her head up $45^circ$ to prevent tears from wetting her face and staining her white shirt black.

Outside the door, Shen Chuli stood stiffly for a long time before walking back to her own room with robotic, uncoordinated steps. The moment she closed her door, she squatted on the floor in a fit of frantic regret—where was the “Inaccessible Alpine Flower” now?

“Yo yo yo, sisters, did you see that? Look at that ‘unworthy’ behavior.”

“Take notes on the key points: ‘Doesn’t want to fall in love,’ tsk tsk.”

“Someone was acting so cool in front of Monkey Baby, but look at what she’s become the moment she left!”

Her biological fans were ruthless in their mockery:

“Let her keep pretending. Let’s see Monkey Baby’s answer tomorrow; she’s going to end up slapping her own face.”

Inside the room, Chen Suihe was restless. Things being as they are, I should go remove this makeup first!

A pitch-black monkey went in; a while later, a snowy-white, tender “rice cake” came out steaming hot. The steam had turned her face a soft pink. Chen Suihe rubbed her face with a warm towel and let out a long sigh: A hot bath is the best!

Unlike Shen Chuli, who tossed and turned all night, Chen Suihe slept exceptionally well.

When she woke up the next morning, Shen Chuli’s eyes were bloodshot and dark circles hung under them; she looked quite haggard. Chen Suihe, meanwhile, was frantically searching every corner of her room for her precious foundation. But to no avail.

Who! Who was it! Who stole my precious foundation!

Working up a sweat from the search, a Chen Suihe who looked like a “chocolate mochi” poked her head out from under the bed. That was the sight Shen Chuli saw when she knocked and entered. She walked in as if seeing nothing unusual, carrying breakfast, and closed the door behind her.

“What are you looking for?” Setting the breakfast on the small tea table, Shen Chuli walked over and helped pull her out from under the bed.

Despite this being the first time she saw Chen Suihe without the pitch-black makeup, she didn’t seem surprised at all. After pulling Chen Suihe up, she walked familiarly into the bathroom to get a wrung-out towel and several dry ones. After covering the room’s cameras, she walked back with the damp towel.

Handing the towel to Chen Suihe, she sat down beside her. “What did you lose?”

Chen Suihe’s wild face-wiping technique—scrubbing up and down vigorously—made Shen Chuli’s brow twitch. She felt sorry for that delicate skin.

The white and tender “Rice Cake Sui-sui” reappeared. Her mind was entirely occupied by the whereabouts of her foundation, so her speech became more casual: “It’s so strange, my foundation is gone.”

“Can this stand in for now?” Shen Chuli flipped her hand, producing a bottle of black foundation from a different brand out of nowhere.

Chen Suihe leaned in to look. “No, this one is expensive; mine was very cheap.” She sighed. “Even though it was cheap, it was exceptionally good. Who! Exactly who! Which villain kidnapped my baby foundation!”

Her angry expression was vivid and lively; just looking at her made one’s mood improve. Shen Chuli handed over the bottle. “Just make do with this for now.”

Since there was no better option, Chen Suihe thanked her sweetly, took the foundation, and—under Shen Chuli’s watchful eye—shocked her again with her crude application method. She slapped the foundation onto her face like she was applying cheap face cream, finishing it off with a casual pat to the cheeks. Done.

At 9:00 AM, the live stream opened on time. Because the camera angles were different, the producer had simply split each camera into an individual live room for viewers to choose from.

Shen Chuli’s fans first checked their idol’s room—empty. Then they started searching the other rooms for her. One room that was completely blacked out (due to the covered cameras) caught a lot of attention, and many viewers clicked in to investigate.

There was no clock in the room, and Chen Suihe hadn’t checked her phone, so the two didn’t know the stream had started automatically.

“Um…” Shen Chuli’s voice came through, filled with hesitation. “About last night’s proposal… have you thought about it?”

Realizing she sounded like she was pressuring Chen Suihe, she quickly added: “I don’t mean to force you. It’s just that I feel relaxed when I’m with you. You know, I… if you have another choice, I respect and understand that.”

The viewers couldn’t see Shen Chuli’s expression, but they were still hit by the “green tea” vibes of her words.

“You know, I’m just a little camellia flower, I can’t do without you~”

“I also respect and understand~”

Chen Suihe was immune to most tactics—except for vulnerability! Seeing the beauty with lowered eyes, looking so pitiful with those unhideable dark circles, Chen Suihe immediately imagined a scene of Shen Chuli spending the night in anxiety over her reply, tossing and turning.

“Don’t feel troubled. Of course, your own likes and dislikes should be the priority,” Shen Chuli said, striking while the iron was hot with a “retreat to advance” move.

Wow! This completely trapped Chen Suihe. Remembering how the Movie Queen had seemed isolated and out of place the past two days, Chen Suihe’s protective instinct surged. Thumping her chest, she said, “It’s fine! I’ll go out and play with you!”

“No, can someone tell Monkey Baby that the woman opposite her is a scheming Movie Queen with great acting skills? She’s acting! She’s faking it!”

“Why is Movie Queen Shen in Monkey Baby’s room so early? And she intentionally covered the cameras. Tsk, is there a Sherlock to detect this?”

“Daughter! Don’t agree to it! She’s a scheming bad woman!”

The bullet comments were a mess. Shen Chuli and Chen Suihe each held a bowl of lily and lotus seed porridge. After breakfast, they stepped out of the room together. The other guests were already awake and eating breakfast downstairs. This morning’s breakfast was bought by Shen Chuli when she couldn’t sleep; while it didn’t cater to everyone’s taste as perfectly as yesterday’s, it was still palatable.

Everyone thanked Shen Chuli and then began to exchange secret glances behind their backs. Before they could reach a conclusion, Chen Suihe took advantage of everyone being present to announce that she would be “dating” Shen Chuli today.

Unlike Jiang Wan’s shocked expression, Wu Yang and Li Chengxi remained calm, looking at their own noses. They had long noticed Shen Chuli’s different attitude toward Chen Suihe. They originally thought they were old acquaintances, but after these few days, they realized they weren’t.

Excluding the “old acquaintance” option, for the high-and-mighty Movie Queen to descend from her pedestal and scheme against these second and third-tier actors, there was only one possibility—Shen Chuli had ulterior motives! Wu Yang silently looked at Chen Suihe, who was playing around with Jiang Wan, and lit a candle for Shen Chuli in her heart.

As far as things stood, Chen Suihe had a big heart and seemed not to have noticed Shen Chuli’s romantic interest at all.

After speaking with the group, Chen Suihe pulled Shen Chuli to find the producer. The producer had just woken up and was yawning. Opening her eyes, she saw the pitch-black Monkey Sui-sui again.

The producer was shocked. The producer was silent. The producer immediately knocked on the door of the head of hair and makeup to argue for three hundred rounds.

“Why is she a pitch-black monkey again today?! Didn’t we agree to throw away all her ‘bottom-of-the-pot’ black foundations?!”

Although the clever Sui-sui had been confused a moment ago, she now caught the keywords and rushed over: “Throw away? What throw away? Boss, you actually stole an employee’s foundation and threw it away!”

Accidentally letting her misdeed slip, the producer immediately clamped her mouth shut and pretended nothing happened. But the victim, Sui-sui, wasn’t going to let her have her way, circling her and demanding compensation for her baby foundation!

While Victim Sui-sui was passionately defending her rights, no one noticed the director’s “evil” lens was quietly aimed at them.

“LMAO, does the producer just sleep on set? Also, what ‘bottom-of-the-pot’ black foundation? Is Monkey Baby’s skin tone not natural?”

“Definitely not. Even with African heritage, it’s impossible to be as black as Monkey Baby. But it looks like she applies the foundation herself? And she calls the producer ‘Boss.'”

The bullet comments were all discussing Chen Suihe’s skin tone, even starting a cyber-betting pool. In the midst of this peace, a discordant comment floated out: “No way, no way, is someone actually genuinely liking a ‘resource-stealer’?”

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