The Film Queen Is Cold and Ruthless, Only Sends Money - Chapter 37.1

[The director was so serious when giving the answer, I couldn’t tell if she was joking or being genuine!]

[If the magical mushroom wants the orange dead, the orange has no choice but to die. I’m literally dying of laughter because of your show!]

[Hahahahahaha! The director’s question was so wild it even made Su Yun speechless. You guys are truly something else!]

[It’s Su Yun’s turn to answer! Will they get to eat their own dishes today?! I’m starting to worry for them!]

The rapid-fire Q&A didn’t require a specific setup, so they conducted it right in the living room.

Beside them, the hot pot simmered away, its rich aroma wafting through the air and constantly distracting them.

Lin Yan swallowed hard, doing her best to keep her agile mind from being completely hijacked by the delicious scent, and focused intently on the person answering the questions ahead.

Su Yun stood at the front, also hearing the bubbling sounds of the hot pot.

Director: “Listen to the third question: What does Little White plus Little White equal? You have three seconds to answer.”

Upon hearing the question, Su Yun spent the first second wondering was her cat, Little White, missing her?

How could she hear her cat’s name even during a game segment?

[Wait, why are the show’s questions getting harder and harder? Hahaha! I’m seriously starting to doubt they’ll get to eat today!]

[Little White plus Little White, does it turn into Little Black? Director, are you really not giving any other hints?]

[I genuinely don’t know this one! Su Yun, you’re on your own, I can’t help at all!]

After the director finished the question, Jiang Zhi, standing behind Su Yun, had the same first instinct, she also thought of their cat.

Lin Yan, standing behind her, whispered to Jiang Zhi, “Do you know the answer? I’m completely blanking!”

Brain teasers really weren’t her strong suit.

Jiang Zhi shook her head honestly. “No idea. I just thought of our cat.”

Lin Yan: “…!”

To be distracted by thoughts of her cat at a time like this, how unshakable! As expected of you!

While the live audience and the guests were all caught up in a fierce brainstorm, trying to guess the answer, the director didn’t stop her countdown.

Director: “3”

Su Yun stayed silent, still thinking about her cat, Little White.

Director: “2”

Su Yun, standing at the front, remained quiet, her mind wandering further, if she had two Little Whites at home, she could pet one with each hand. Double the happiness.

[Director, stop counting down! Watching this is more nerve-wracking than giving a speech myself!]

[Why does Su Yun look completely unfazed? Does she know the answer or not?!]

[Last second, Su Yun probably won’t answer, right? Is her perfect streak going to end today?!]

[Honestly, if none of us or the other guests can guess the answer, it’s understandable if Su Yun doesn’t know either. Let’s just wait for the director’s explanation later!]

[Hahahahaha! No need to guess, the answer to this question is definitely as absurd as the mushroom-orange one earlier!]

[It’s fine, I’ve mentally prepared myself! After watching Dear Them, I refuse to believe there’s anything I can’t handle anymore!]

The barrage of comments flew across the screen at lightning speed. Nearly everyone in the live stream was waiting for the director to call out the final number.

Director: “1”

Just as the director began to speak with a breathy tone, before his words could fully land, Su Yun also opened her mouth at the same moment.

Su Yun: “Little white rabbit.”

Everything happened in the blink of an eye.

The director looked down at the paper where he had noted the questions: “Wrong ans—correct answer.”

For the first two questions, she had gotten used to saying “wrong answer” and hadn’t expected Su Yun to blurt out the correct answer in just one second. Fortunately, she managed to correct herself in time.

The director’s countdown overlapped with Su Yun’s answer, so those behind didn’t hear what Su Yun had said only the director announcing the correct answer.

Su Xue perked up immediately, jumping from the back to Su Yun’s side: “Got it right? Did I hear that correctly?!”

The others also crowded forward, equally astonished.

Su Yun chuckled lightly: “Yes, it’s correct. How about I take the beef rolls?”

She looked utterly relaxed, as if completely unfazed, already moving to the other side of the table to claim their dish.

“Sure, sure!” Liu Yangran nodded eagerly. Everyone loved the beef rolls in hot pot, and as the first victory prize, it had to be a meat dish!

[Did I hear that right?! The director said Su Yun actually got it correct?!]

[Unbelievable… And Su Yun looked so confident, not like she was just guessing. She was already picking the dish before the director even confirmed if it was right!]

[But I didn’t catch the answer! Can someone explain and analyze it for me?!]

[I didn’t hear it clearly either. At the time, all I heard was the director counting down. Only Su Yun can explain this!]

[Hahahahaha! Hey, guests, don’t rush to pick dishes and eat yet satisfy our curiosity first!]

By the time Su Yun placed the beef rolls on their side, everyone present breathed a sigh of relief finally, some food!

Only then did they have the mind to ask Su Yun what exactly had happened in those fleeting three seconds!

Lin Yan was the first to voice the question on everyone’s mind. She looked at Su Yun and asked, “What was the answer you just gave? What do you get when you add ‘little white’ and ‘little white’ together?”

“Yeah, yeah! I want to know too.” Su Xue nodded beside her. She had been racking her brain since the start but still couldn’t figure it out. If she had been the one answering, she would’ve undoubtedly met the same fate as the first two declared “wrong answer” by the director.

Su Yun gently guided them, “Just think in the simplest terms. For example, the cat picture Jiang Zhi and I showed you, ‘little white.’ What happens when you add ‘little white’ to ‘little white’?”

Jiang Zhi replied, “Two little whites.”

The simplest interpretation, like an elementary school addition problem.

The others had also thought of this, but surely the answer couldn’t just be “two little whites,” right?

To their surprise, Su Yun nodded. “Actually, the answer is already there. If you think a bit further, you’ll get it.”

[Huh? Huh? Huh? The answer’s already there? Feels like Su Yun’s explanation didn’t clarify anything!]

[Wait, I’m still thinking. Today’s riddle, I must solve it through my own effort!]

[Seeing the guests as clueless as me is oddly comforting! At least I’m not the only one stumped!]

After Su Yun finished speaking, the guests all fell into silent contemplation. After all, her words had to be the key to the answer.

“Two little whites,” “very close to the answer” that meant a simple transformation of the previous “two little whites” would lead to the solution.

Jing Zhaozhao pondered for a moment before asking, “Is it ‘little white rabbit’?”

Su Yun nodded. “Congratulations, you got it right!”

This was also the answer she had discussed with the director earlier.

“???” Su Xue immediately turned to Jing Zhaozhao beside her. “Why ‘little white rabbit’?”

“Is there some connection between cats and rabbits?” Ye Ying was equally puzzled. “But when the questions and answers were being prepared, the director couldn’t have known Su Yun’s cat was named ‘Little White,’ right?”

“It has nothing to do with animals,” Jing Zhaozhao explained her reasoning. “The key was to get the concept of ‘two.’ ‘Two little whites’ is ‘Little White two’ the English word for the number 2.”

After her explanation, silence fell over the group.

[Director, let’s have a chat. Which staff member came up with these kinds of questions?!]

[Hahahahahaha! I thought about it for so long and never imagined the answer would be ‘little white rabbit’!]

[So Su Yun’s hints earlier were spot on! I’m impressed!]

[I was just saying Su Yun would never guess this question, and they wouldn’t get their first dish. Now I just want to punish myself with a drink for my recklessness!]

“Zhaozhao, it’s really impressive that you and Su Yun figured it out!” Lin Yan could only sigh in admiration. Even with Su Yun’s hints, she still couldn’t have guessed it.

“Just happened to think along those lines,” Jing Zhaozhao acknowledged her own limitations. “If I were answering without Su Yun’s hints earlier, I definitely wouldn’t have gotten it.”

Su Xue looked at Su Yun now with nothing but admiration. “Without you, we might really have ended up with nothing to eat today.”

Su Yun smiled. “It’s not that exaggerated.”

“But I think the director’s question was actually quite good,” Su Yun recalled the moment she had to think of the answer in the last second. “On a scale of one to ten, this question deserves an 8.5.”

Xu Zhi asked curiously, “Why 8.5?”

With such a precise score, no less.

The director was also curious and turned to Su Yun, ready to listen carefully to her feedback, determined to craft perfect questions in the future.

They were aiming to be the most elite production team!

After a brief silence, Su Yun said, “Because I have 1.5 words left unsaid.”

The director: “…”

[Hahahahahaha! Su Yun’s reaction was so quick, she immediately turned the question’s logic back on them!]

[Learned something new. For this episode, I can only give you an 8.5 rating too! This question successfully left me with 1.5 words unsaid as well.]

[Wait, is that viewer who insisted on solving the answer themselves still here? Don’t tell me they still haven’t figured it out?!]

[Hahahahahaha! Will they ever come back?! Production team, have you just lost a loyal viewer?!]

[I thought Su Yun, after answering correctly, would praise the production team. Turns out she feels the same way we do!]

Su Yun’s remark successfully lightened the mood among the guests, who had been feeling frustrated earlier.

“Hahahahaha! Well said, Su Yun!” Su Xue clapped and laughed. “We all agree with that rating!”

The fourth in line to answer the question was Jiang Zhi.

However, just as Jiang Zhi was about to answer, the guests first voiced their objections.

Lin Yan: “Director, are all the questions from the program team going to be like this from now on?”

If that were the case, they’d have to rely solely on Su Yun to help them get the ingredients! At this rate, it would take forever before they could finally enjoy the hotpot!

“Yeah!” Liu Yangran chimed in from the back. “These three questions are each bizarre in their own way, and we only get three seconds to react. Do you really think even your director team could answer them correctly?”

The first question was probably the simplest.

But since it was the opening question, their minds hadn’t fully engaged with the game yet. Combined with the director’s deliberately distracting countdown, they missed out on scoring that point.

If future questions followed this standard, they might as well consider giving up after all, they still had canned food to fall back on.

“Thank goodness we ate the canned food earlier,” Su Xue said, relieved by their earlier wise decision. “Otherwise, we’d be starving right now.”

Liu Yangran agreed: “I don’t think hotpot is all that great anyway. It’s not like we absolutely have to eat it, right?”

The guests were experts at comforting themselves and knew when to compromise.

Rather than earnestly attempting to answer questions, only to be marked wrong and go hungry, it was better to just forfeit!

Hearing their remarks, Su Yun couldn’t help but laugh. She leaned in and whispered to Jiang Zhi beside her, “Later, if the questions are still like this, I’ll quietly tell you the answers if I figure them out.”

She guessed Jiang Zhi wasn’t great at these brain teasers and planned to stand by her side as backup support.

“Cheating?” Jiang Zhi also lowered her voice. “Would the director allow that?”

While the others were busy questioning the production team, the two of them chatted quietly.

“Probably not allowed,” Su Yun weighed the rules. “But since the program team is throwing these kinds of questions at us, a little cheating doesn’t really matter.”

She said it so shamelessly.

Jiang Zhi’s lips curved slightly. “Then I’ll thank you in advance.”

[So sweet, so sweet! Su Yun and Jiang Zhi whispering to each other again! These days of endless sugar are just too good, I love it!]

[The contrast between the two groups of guests is hilarious! Su Yun openly helping her cheat, I’m totally here for it!]

[How is this cheating? Helping your partner figure out answers is just couples being sweet, what does that have to do with cheating? Go ahead and help! We viewers in the livestream will back you up!]

Seeing the guests’ widespread skepticism, the director stepped in to explain: “Don’t worry, everyone. The first three questions were just appetizers to help get your minds warmed up. The following ones will be much simpler.”

Originally, the program team had planned for the guests to get all three questions wrong that would have been the expected outcome.

After they failed, the team could then lower the difficulty, achieving the desired entertainment effect.

Unfortunately, Su Yun answered the third question correctly, introducing the only variable.

Only after the director’s explanation did the guests calm down.

Still unsatisfied, Su Xue pushed to make things even easier: “How about for the next questions, we all guess together? If we get it right, we can take one ingredient. What do you think?”

“I think that works,” Liu Yangran nodded. “As long as we answer correctly, we get the ingredient.”

“Then it’s settled. Director, go ahead and announce the fourth question!” Lin Yan declared decisively, leaving no room for the director to interject or refuse.

[Hahahahaha! You guys really know how to lower the difficulty of the game!]

[Director: Who am I? Where am I? Why can’t I speak? Starting to doubt if I’m even the real director here!]

[Just agree with them! The bubbling sound of the hotpot is already coming through their mics into the livestream. No need to imagine, the whole living room must smell amazing. Who could resist that?]

[I just noticed Liu Yangran sneaking glances at the hotpot several times! Clearly can’t resist the temptation.]

Director: “…”

She had no power to refuse and could only resign herself to being a question-reading tool.

Director: “Alright, contestants, listen to the fourth question:

A cup of hot water and a cup of cold water are placed in the freezer at the same time. Which cup will freeze first? You have three seconds to answer.”

As soon as the question was asked, the director began the countdown.

This time, the contestants didn’t consult each other. Unanimously, they answered, “The hot water one.”

Not a single answer differed.

If they’d been asked this question under normal circumstances, their instinct would’ve leaned toward the cold water. But since it was the director’s question, how could it possibly be that straightforward? Guessing the opposite was definitely the right move.

Director: “Correct. You’ve earned another dish. Go ahead and pick one now.”

[Hahahahaha! My first thought was that the show’s questions are always counterintuitive, it had to be the hot water.]

[These contestants know the show too well. Having watched since the last season, this is the first time I’ve seen them so in sync no discussion, just the same answer!]

[I got so excited when they answered correctly! Finally, some food after ten minutes of hard work!]

This time, they chose napa cabbage, another hotpot staple.

Though their table only had two dishes so far, it was still a proper spread meat and veggies nothing to scoff at!

After they retrieved the dish, the director asked, “Everyone seemed very confident in their answers earlier. Could one of you explain the reasoning behind it?”

While they’d answered with certainty, when it came to explaining the principle, silence fell over the group.

They exchanged glances, and eventually, all eyes landed on Su Yun.

Su Yun, who had been pondering which dish to pick next: ???

Don’t look at her! When it came to actual knowledge, creativity wouldn’t cut it, she had no clue!

“This question must involve some physics or chemistry principle,” Lin Yan coughed twice, scrambling for an explanation. “As for what exactly, let’s leave that to the director to reveal!”

She deftly passed the buck back.

Su Xue: “…Director Lin, the way you said that almost made me think you actually knew!”

At least her friend hadn’t been secretly studying behind her back that was a relief.

“There might be kids watching our livestream,” Lin Yan said earnestly. “If I gave the wrong explanation, wouldn’t that be misleading the younger generation?”

When Xu Zhi heard Lin Yan speak, he could already guess that she didn’t know the answer. Now, hearing her explanation, he chuckled and teased, “At least you’re self-aware.”

“That’s a virtue too,” Lin Yan proudly accepted the praise.

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