The Film Queen Is Cold and Ruthless, Only Sends Money - Chapter 26.1

[“I saw it! Did Su Yun hide that single shoe back in its spot?!”

[“Is it a pair with the shoe Ye Ying is holding?! Hahaha!! Well hidden indeed!”

[“Su Yun: What was lost in the last round, I’ll reclaim it all this round!”]

After burying the shoe, Su Yun and Jiang Zhi didn’t make a big fuss and quietly left the area where the production team was stationed.

The other guests were all busy with their own tasks. Even if they noticed the two of them, they simply assumed they were heading past the crew to the back wall of the courtyard.

After all, who would have guessed that the best item was hidden in such an obvious spot right in the center of the courtyard, behind the director’s seat?

For the third round of the game, the production team gave them thirty minutes.

Once time was up, the director picked up a megaphone and shouted, “Guests, you can gather here with your loot now!”

She was worried that if she didn’t call them back soon, the entire courtyard would be torn apart.

This round, none of the guests returned empty-handed everyone came back with plenty of spoils.

However, the clothes and shoes they found varied greatly in quality, especially when Lin Yan showed up with her summer flip-flops and Ye Ying appeared holding a single shoe.

“Hahahahaha!” Su Xue couldn’t hold back her laughter. “How did the production team even think to prepare flip-flops?”

Lin Yan shot a resentful look at the director. “Yeah, carrying these around, anyone would think I’m off to the beach, not working in the fields.”

At this point, the cloth shoes Su Yun and Jiang Zhi had found stood out starkly among the others. The simple, sturdy shoes in their hands practically radiated a connection to the earth.

Was this just Su Yun and Jiang Zhi’s incredible luck?!

After all, this round didn’t involve any competition, the items were simply hidden in the courtyard, and how much they found depended entirely on their own efforts.

Ye Ying gazed enviously at Su Yun’s cloth shoes.

Holding her own shoe, she turned to the director and asked, “Did you really only hide one shoe?”

She felt like she had turned the entire courtyard upside down but still couldn’t find the second one.

The director replied, “Of course not. The two shoes were just hidden in different spots.”

Hearing this, Liu Yangran chimed in, “Director, is the other shoe still in the courtyard?”

The director nodded. “It is.”

Ye Ying was stunned. “It’s still here???”

With this confirmation, the guests began scanning the limited space of the courtyard, unable to figure out where they might have missed.

Now, their curiosity was fully piqued, they were dying to know where the director had hidden that elusive shoe.

Su Xue plucked a leaf from her hair and said, “The director must’ve hidden it in a super sneaky spot, right? Otherwise, how could all eight of us have missed it?”

[HAHAHAHAHA!! Wrong! Only six of you missed it!]

[Su Yun: They’re so busy… but what exactly are they busy with?!]

[I can’t believe Su Yun and Jiang Zhi are keeping a straight face right now, I admire their restraint!]

Just as the guests were about to start tearing the place apart again, the director reached behind her and pulled out the shoe. “No need to keep looking, it’s right here.”

And so, the guests watched as the director casually brushed aside the dirt behind her seat, revealing the mysteriously missing shoe.

During the nearly minute-long silence, the guests present underwent a baptism of wisdom.

Xu Zhi: “Now that you mention it, this spot seems to be part of the courtyard too.”

So it turns out, it wasn’t the production team setting them up, they had completely overlooked this detail after hearing the task.

Ye Ying: “Did your production team study The Art of War before coming up with this location?”

The director denied it: “But since some guests did think of it, that proves our design was flawless.”

As the director finished speaking, everyone’s gaze fell upon the cloth shoes in Su Yun and Jiang Zhi’s hands.

Lin Yan: “Come to think of it, we never asked where they got those cloth shoes from?”

“Exactly, from the same dirt pit,” Su Yun said with a smile, her eyes curving. “But we remembered one team in the second round really wanted us to lose, so we had to return them to their original spot.”

In other words, if not for the second round, Su Yun and Jiang Zhi might have given the shoes to Ye Ying.

Ye Ying, Liu Yangran: “!!!”

Of all people, why did they have to provoke Su Yun! QAQ

–

After completing all three rounds of games, the production team left the remaining time for them to rest and prepare for the next day’s farming.

“Are there really no more tasks?” Lin Yan asked, watching the director close the planning document, still somewhat incredulous.

Su Xue was overjoyed: “None at all! Today must be the day with the fewest tasks!”

“The tasks today were indeed few, but I feel like I’ve been on a rollercoaster,” Liu Yangran said, sitting nearby and picking up her water cup. “Every part of the tasks had me on edge, no shortage of thrills.”

Su Yun, for once, agreed with her words and nodded unconsciously.

Especially during the second game, it was miraculous how many they had guessed correctly.

“I’m a bit worried about tomorrow’s farming. How are we supposed to water the plants with spoons?” Ye Ying asked.

Her question drew laughter from everyone.

After laughing, Lin Yan said frankly, “We’ll deal with tomorrow’s problems tomorrow. No need to worry today. Just think about our magic wands, doesn’t that make things a little better?”

“You’re right! We’ll solve our troubles tomorrow!” Ye Ying sighed in relief.

Without the pressure of tasks, the guests’ smiles grew more frequent.

After dinner, Su Yun had wanted to enjoy more of He Rong County’s scenery but was dragged by Lin Yan to play a game.

Looking up, she saw that Lin Yan had rounded up all the guests and even several crew members.

Su Yun: “What are we playing?”

Lin Yan pulled out a deck of cards from her pocket: “Werewolf. I came prepared.”

“You carry this around with you?” Liu Yangran glanced at it, it really was Werewolf.

“When I was filming on set, if we went up mountains or to remote places, we often had no internet. So my suitcase is full of cards nothing else,” Lin Yan explained. “If you want to play something else, I have more in my room.”

Without their phones, Lin Yan’s cards were indeed a great way to pass the time. Su Xue was intrigued: “No need, this is perfect.”

Su Yun drew a card and asked Jiang Zhi, “When you were on set with Director Lin, did you play this too?”

“Yes, but it wasn’t Werewolf back then,” Jiang Zhi replied.

“How’s her technique?” Su Yun asked curiously.

Jiang Zhi thought for a moment, then, sparing Lin Yan’s dignity, said nothing, only shaking her head.

Su Yun: “…Got it.”

Twenty minutes later, Su Yun understood the meaning behind Jiang Zhi’s headshake.

She had never seen anyone whose excitement was so blatantly obvious after drawing the Seer card, it was practically screaming, I’m going to reveal all your roles one by one!

During the voting phase, Su Yun sighed and directly cast her vote for Lin Yan, offering just one simple remark: “I think Director Lin seems like a werewolf.”

The moment she said it, everyone nodded. In less than three seconds, Lin Yan was unanimously voted out.

Lin Yan tried to defend herself: “Why do you all trust Su Yun so much? What if she’s the werewolf?”

But she hadn’t expected her words to be met with immediate opposition.

Ye Ying: “Right now, I unconditionally trust Su Yun.”

The reason? The lesson she’d just been taught.

Su Xue scratched her head, unable to explain her reasoning: “But I just feel like Su Yun is right, so I voted for you.”

[HAHAHAHAHA!! I get it now!]

[Watching them play Werewolf together, I can’t shake the feeling that everyone’s going to get completely fooled by Su Yun!]

[+1, if Su Yun could find loopholes in the show’s games, something like Werewolf is child’s play for her…]

With her innocent appearance and silver-tongued ability to twist black into white, Su Yun successfully dominated the entire game.

Finally, the host announced: “The werewolves win.”

As it turned out, Su Yun and Jiang Zhi were two of the werewolves. Flipping over her identity card, Su Yun grinned: “Thanks for your trust, everyone!”

Lin Yan, who had been eliminated early and watched as her fellow innocents were picked off one by one: “…”

[So not only did the werewolves vote out the Seer, but they also controlled the entire game???]

[Classic Su Yun! Even I fell for her innocent act!]

[Jiang Zhi’s reasoning was always just, I think Su Yun makes sense HAHAHAHA!!]

[+1, if those two aren’t the real deal, then I’m the fake one!]

–

After three rounds, before Su Yun could even speak, she was voted out first.

“You’re letting personal grudges affect the game,” Su Yun accused them from the moral high ground. “Director Lin was the one who dragged me into playing in the first place.”

After her indignant speech, she turned to Jiang Zhi with puppy-dog eyes. “They’re bullying me.”

Lin Yan: “…” Who’s bullying who here?

But Su Yun didn’t get Jiang Zhi to stand up for her.

Because Jiang Zhi, who had supported her in the game, was also voted out.

Under the accusatory stares of the two, Lin Yan felt a rare pang of guilt but remembering how Su Yun had played them all for fools earlier, she said, “This isn’t bullying. We’re just jealous of your intelligence.”

The moment she finished, everyone else nodded in agreement.

Ugh, we’re no match for them.

Jiang Zhi: “…”

She’d thought Lin Yan would have more backbone.

Su Yun, ever magnanimous, accepted their jealousy and decided not to hold it against them. “Fine, then Jiang Zhi and I will go out for a bit.”

As soon as she said it, she noticed the collective look of relief on everyone’s faces.

Huh. Suddenly, I’m having second thoughts.

They’re way more fun than Werewolf.

–

After stepping outside, Su Yun and Jiang Zhi leisurely took in the scenery of Herong County.

The ducks in the river spotted the two women and first swam closer to the bank near them, then flicked their tails and darted to the other side, lively and carefree.

Su Yun wanted to point out the duck in the distance to Jiang Zhi: “Its tail looks gray with patterns…”

But they were already standing close, and as she turned too quickly, what filled her vision instead were Jiang Zhi’s beautiful, magnified eyes.

【!!! What am I seeing?! Did these two just kiss?!】

【Ahhhhhhh!! My ship is real!!】

【Camera person, can you move closer? Why are you so far away? We can only see their backs!!】

Su Yun, of course, had no idea how excited the live chat was. She saw scenes like this every morning there was no reason to be surprised.

It must be because she was still hyped up from playing Werewolf earlier! Her heartbeat hadn’t calmed down yet!

She pointed at the duck across the river, and the two of them naturally sat down by the bank. “That’s the one I was talking about.”

Jiang Zhi followed Su Yun’s finger and spotted the gray duck among a flock of white ones it stood out immediately. “I see it.”

Su Yun suddenly remembered: “Do you recall during the game earlier, Liu Yangran wrote ‘duck’ on her answer board?”

It was the third question, where they had to write their favorite thing.

“At the time, she said Ye Ying liked eating duck meat, so that’s why she wrote it,” Jiang Zhi naturally remembered.

Su Yun couldn’t help but laugh at the memory of their stunned expressions: “But then Ye Ying wrote ‘dress’ those two are so tragic.”

Then she thought about her and Jiang Zhi’s answers: “We really are in sync! We only got one question wrong. When I first heard about this game, I was actually a little worried!”

As she said this, Su Yun turned to look at Jiang Zhi again, her eyes bright and clear, shimmering like the gentle ripples on the river’s surface. “But you didn’t seem nervous at all back then.”

Jiang Zhi chuckled softly. “Should I have been?”

“Of course! We haven’t known each other as long as the other guests. Weren’t you afraid there’d be questions you couldn’t answer?” Su Yun said.

A bird flew overhead, casting a fleeting shadow beside them, but Jiang Zhi didn’t glance away. “No. If I got any wrong, I’d just memorize the right answers. Then I wouldn’t make the same mistake next time.”

【Is this how Jiang Zhi flirts?!】

【Someone understand me, I’m screaming at home! How can this couple be so perfect?!】

【Wahhhh!! “If I got any wrong, I’d just memorize the right answers”, what kind of flawless response is this?!】

【Thank goodness I was recording! I caught Jiang Zhi’s line just now! I hope I can use this a hundred years from now, I’m gonna say it to my girlfriend too!】

【Hehe, lucky for me, I already have a girlfriend! Writing this down in my notebook!】

【Someone drag the person above out of the stream! I saw nothing!!】

【Ten minutes ago: Su Yun, I envy your intelligence.

Ten minutes later: Su Yun, I envy you for having Jiang Zhi, wahhhh】

The one who felt the full impact of those words most acutely was Su Yun.

Her heartbeat, which had just settled from watching the ducks, was now racing again, thump, thump, thump!

Su Yun covered her face and accused Jiang Zhi: “You’re cheating!”

Jiang Zhi hadn’t expected this reaction. She laughed helplessly. “How am I cheating?”

Did I say anything wrong just now?

Su Yun had always been fine with explicit content in novels or comics, she could even draw 18+ fan art with complete calm.

But Su Yun was a die-hard romance purist!

When she truly shipped a pure love couple in a story, even seeing them hold hands could send her bouncing around her bedroom with her phone, teary-eyed and savoring the moment for ages.

So Jiang Zhi’s words just now were a critical hit to this romance warrior!

“You broke every rule there is!” Su Yun muttered, touching her burning cheeks.

Jiang Zhi had no idea about the storm of emotions in Su Yun’s heart and simply assumed she was shy.

Though… “shy” didn’t seem like the right word for Su Yun.

When Su Yun finally looked up, Jiang Zhi said, “Didn’t you also say you liked me the most before?”

Her own words earlier couldn’t have been as blunt as that.

Su Yun: “……”

Back when she’d said that, she’d never imagined it would come back to her like this.

But she had professional integrity, no taking back her words. “Even now, compared to anything else, I still like you the most.”

Jiang Zhi: “……”

Now she was certain Su Yun definitely wasn’t shy.

Jiang Zhi chuckled and didn’t press further, smoothly changing the subject. “Shall we head back? They’ve probably finished their game by now.”

“Yeah, let’s go.” Su Yun gratefully took the out.

But as they stood up to leave, Su Yun turned back for one last glance at the gray duck she’d pointed out earlier.

Noticing this, Jiang Zhi asked, “You like it?”

After all, Su Yun had been eyeing that duck from the start.

Su Yun nodded. “I do. But my ‘like’ might be cruel for it.”

Jiang Zhi was puzzled. “Why?”

Su Yun sighed. “From the beginning, I thought it looked plumper than the others, it’d probably taste amazing roasted.”

What a cruel person she was.

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