The Security Guard Who Won the Heart of the Unattainable Actress - Chapter 26.2 

Chapter 26.2

She had just dried her clothes, but she felt that wet and sticky feeling seep into her heart.

“Sister Wenya, it’s not what you think. It has nothing to do with her. Don’t overthink things,” Ran Mingyue said after a pause. “I have my own sense of what’s appropriate.”

“What sense of what’s appropriate? If you really had a sense of what’s appropriate, you wouldn’t have made such a big gamble with CEO Xu…” Shang Wenya’s tone was full of disappointment. “I just asked you to wait three more years. We could all benefit from it. Why did you insist on coming back early? You’re being so foolish!”

This time, Ran Mingyue didn’t speak.

After a long while, she said, “I’m just tired. I wanted to come back.”

“The price is high,” Shang Wenya said in a low voice. “But you mainly need to stabilize the situation now, one step at a time. Also… there’s a most important point. You can’t have any scandals, especially not any gossip about dating! Not even a little bit! Otherwise, the consequences—”

Ran Mingyue interrupted her. “Sister Wenya, I don’t need you and the company to dictate how I do things.”

They didn’t know that Li Guang was still standing outside.

Li Guang didn’t know whether to go or to stay. She took a few steps back to her own side.

She could still vaguely hear Shang Wenya’s words like “no,” “this doesn’t comply with the contract,” “are you crazy?!”, and “I just wanted you to experience the feeling, not to actually date!”

It sounded… very serious.

Li Guang had always thought that Ran Mingyue was always in the spotlight and had no troubles. Did Ran Mingyue also have problems that she couldn’t solve?

But Ran Mingyue had never mentioned it before, and had never shown it in front of her.

What gamble?

Shang Wenya said that Ran Mingyue was only there to experience the feeling, not to actually date. She couldn’t hear the last two words clearly.

Dating…?

Li Guang’s eyebrows furrowed into a “川” shape. Why did she feel that she was truly just a part of achieving a goal?

Is that right? Is it really? Is it really, really right?! Did Ran Mingyue lie to her about something?!

Including the kiss in the house just now, was that also what it meant…?

Li Guang: QAQ

Li Guang, who was immersed in her own thoughts, was completely unaware. The RV had become silent. The next second, Shang Wenya came down from the vehicle with a very unpleasant expression.

Li Guang and she came face to face. Li Guang awkwardly greeted her.

“Hello, Sister Wenya. I didn’t hear anything.”

Shang Wenya nodded and left without saying another word to Li Guang.

Li Guang understood. Her last meeting with Shang Wenya was not a pleasant one either. At that time, Ran Mingyue was also stopped by Shang Wenya.

Ran Mingyue came down right after. Li Guang immediately became serious.

“Have you been waiting long?” Ran Mingyue asked softly. The moment her voice and scent appeared in front of Li Guang, the sad face in Li Guang’s heart immediately turned into an exclamation point.

If I’m going to be lied to, so be it! It’s worth it to be lied to by a face like Ran Mingyue’s!

Li Guang shook her head like a rattle-drum. “No, not at all!”

Ran Mingyue had also put on her raincoat. Her clothes were brand new and fit well. Although her hair was simply tied in a low ponytail, she still looked incredibly beautiful.

There was a gap between a celebrity and an ordinary person, and there was also a gap between a celebrity and a big star.

Ran Mingyue was a big star.

“Then let’s go back,” Li Guang said. She saw that Ran Mingyue hadn’t put on her microphone yet.

Li Guang was not a person who could hide things in her heart. Ran Mingyue observed carefully. She noticed Li Guang’s hesitation.

“What’s wrong? Do you have something to tell me?” Ran Mingyue said. “You can ask me before we get back on camera.”

“I accidentally overheard your conversation with Sister Wenya… Don’t look at me like that! I didn’t understand everything, and I only heard bits and pieces,” Li Guang quickly explained herself.

Ran Mingyue was candid. “How much did you hear? Ask.”

“Just some things… about why you came back.” Li Guang also had questions in her heart. “Sister Mingyue, your main focus of development used to be overseas. You only came back this year. Even your manager finds it strange, so we…”

Li Guang stumbled for a moment and changed her words. “Then our fans would find it even stranger. They’re curious why you came back.”

This question was not difficult. Ran Mingyue smiled. “I came back for an answer.”

“What answer?” Li Guang pressed.

Ran Mingyue looked at her and met her gaze. Li Guang immediately realized that her question was impolite. She gently tapped her lips with her hand. “Oops, I talk too fast.”

“You said you’d only ask one question. You answer one of my questions, and I’ll let you ask the next one. How does that sound?”

Li Guang nodded.

Ran Mingyue: “Why did you put my photo in your wallet?”

Li Guang: “!”

She almost choked on her own saliva. After this round of filming, Li Guang had already forgotten about the box opening from yesterday afternoon. She didn’t expect Ran Mingyue to bring it up again here.

The meaning? The meaning is… what is it? Li Guang was also a bit vague. The meaning was that she just wanted to collect evidence of the moment she and Ran Mingyue were on stage together.

This kind of sneaky thing was enough for her to know by herself.

Li Guang said, “Because it’s precious.” She answered very sincerely.

The door to the villa was within reach. If they walked a few more steps, they would be back on camera. After that, they would each be in their own roles, with a clear distinction between them.

Ran Mingyue stopped. “There’s no other meaning?”

Li Guang looked up.

In Ran Mingyue’s eyes, there seemed to be something else. But Li Guang couldn’t understand it. She didn’t know what Ran Mingyue was hoping for from her.

“There’s no other meaning,” Li Guang said. “Your photo is beautiful! It was a photo from your big play. Isn’t that precious? I heard my colleague say that in the market now, one of your photos can be sold for thousands of yuan…”

Ran Mingyue: “You’re collecting my photo to sell it for a profit?”

“N-no! That’s not what I mean.” Li Guang was just speaking without thinking. She didn’t know why she was saying these things in front of Ran Mingyue. Her heart was inexplicably heavy.

Since she heard those things by the RV.

“If you need it so much,” Ran Mingyue was silent for two seconds. “I can sign a lot for you. As many as you want.”

With that, Ran Mingyue walked directly into the villa.

Li Guang, who was left behind, felt even more suffocated.

Did she make Sister Mingyue angry? It’s not like that… She didn’t want Ran Mingyue’s photos to sell for money at all…

Li Guang quickly followed, but there was already a voice in her earpiece telling her to return. Li Guang could only go back to the production team.

“The hunt team, stand by. You cannot leave the villa. The escape team has one hour to prepare. Note, the prop room is in the backyard of the villa. Please change quickly if you need to.” Wang Rou announced. “In an hour, the hunt team will start hunting you down. The game time is a total of forty-five minutes.”

“Do we just wait here?” Hua Yuzhi leaned closer to Ran Mingyue. “Since we’re waiting anyway, it’s already noon. I’m going to eat lunch.”

“You can order lunch.” The people on Ran Mingyue’s team all gathered in the living room. The people on Wen Yingzhi’s side all went to the prop room. Later, those people could go out through the back door. Even if they were in disguise, the hunt team wouldn’t find them.

The hunt team was not allowed to go to the prop room without the escape team’s permission.

“We can only wait now?” Xiang Que was on another sofa. “Can we only wait for them to escape? The D area of this villa can even go to the mountainside. It’s going to be hard for us to find all of them within forty-five minutes. Our stamina might not be enough.”

“The area will be controlled in the end. They won’t really make people run to exhaustion. There are only a few of us anyway,” Ran Mingyue said.

Li Guang heard a colleague whispering in her earpiece: “Ran Mingyue has completely figured out the rules of this show. Is this really her first time participating in a domestic variety show…?”

It was.

Li Guang could testify.

Otherwise, why would the reaction be so big online after Ran Mingyue announced that she was participating in a variety show?

“Teacher Ran, do you have any ideas?” Xiang Que, who used to call her Xiao Ran, now respectfully called Ran Mingyue “Teacher.”

Comments: “Hahahaha, he used to call her Xiao Ran. Now that he’s found out Ran Mingyue is the backbone, Xiang Que has changed to calling her ‘Teacher’.”

“Don’t worry, he loves her, doesn’t he? More editing material!”

“Go and get information!!”

“Didn’t you hear the rules from the production team? The director only said that the team members can’t go over. But he didn’t say our security guards can’t,” Ran Mingyue’s words made Hua Yuzhi and Xiang Que suddenly realize. “It’s all thanks to you, Teacher Ran!”

Even Li Guang hadn’t understood what that meant yet. The eyes of the three people on the sofa all looked over at her.

Li Guang: “?”

Huh?

Hua Yuzhi said, “My Meimei has been eliminated. Big Brother Xiang Que’s security guard seems a bit too big. After thinking it over, our little 06 is more suitable to go and get information!”

Li Guang: “…”

Her gaze met Ran Mingyue’s. This was the first time their eyes met after their conversation outside the villa.

Although Li Guang was very optimistic, there were times when her optimism failed her. This was one of those times.

She immediately wanted to look down, but Ran Mingyue’s eyes moved away even faster.

Hua Yuzhi said, “06, can you come! Help us get some information and see what they’re planning to do to hide from us?”

Li Guang gathered herself. “Okay!”

Ran Mingyue’s lips moved. Hua Yuzhi said, “That’s great. When you come back, I’ll give you… give, uh…”

She thought for a moment. Someone was helping her with a task. She should at least show some appreciation, right?

Like Hua Yuzhi, she gave her security guard a signed photo of herself last time. Yang Meimei said that his colleagues were all so envious.

When in doubt, sell out your teammate.

Hua Yuzhi asked, “When you come back with the information, I’ll give you a signed photo of our Teacher Ran. How about that?” Hua Yuzhi then whispered in Ran Mingyue’s ear, “Teacher Ran, is that okay?”

Signed photo.

Signed photo!

Bang!

These three words were a sensitive spot between the two of them.

They were like a firecracker with a long fuse that had just been lit. Now, it finally “popped” and exploded.

“Okay, of course, that’s okay,” Ran Mingyue’s lips curled into a shallow smile. Her eyes narrowed slightly as she looked at Li Guang. “I can sign it however you want.”

“…No, no, no!” Li Guang ran away.

Hua Yuzhi said strangely, “Is she too happy? Is she that surprised? I told you this plan would work.”

“Yes,” Ran Mingyue said. “To show our gratitude, shouldn’t the signature be more special?”

Hua Yuzhi: “What do you mean? You’re saying, since she’s going to get information for us.”

“You don’t need to send it,” Ran Mingyue said. “I have many unsigned photos in my suitcase. To show my sincerity, I can sign it for her directly.”

She paused. “When this is over, bring her to my room.”

“That’s great!” Hua Yuzhi was completely unaware that there was any problem. She said happily, “Teacher Ran, you’re such a good person!”

At this moment, a genuine smile appeared in Ran Mingyue’s eyes.

On the other side, Li Guang skipped to the prop room.

“Who is it?”

When Li Guang knocked on the door, Jiang Qiaoye and Song Suoqi immediately became alert and blocked the door. Wen Yingzhi said, “It’s okay. It’s our little security guard. Come in.”

It was Li Guang’s first time being a spy, so she was not skilled at it.

She was a little flustered. Wen Yingzhi stood up. “Come quickly. You can help us test a prop.”

Jiang Qiaoye and Song Suoqi turned and left, saying that since someone had come, they would go and look for a hiding place outside.

Wen Yingzhi was worried about not having anyone to test the props. She hadn’t changed her clothes yet, so she wasn’t afraid of leaking information.

“Huh?”

Without giving Li Guang a chance to refuse, Wen Yingzhi put a glowing green leaf suit on Li Guang. “You wear this and hide in that pile of bushes. I’m going to do an experiment.”

“What experiment?”

“I’ll call Mingyue in here to talk. You just stay here and don’t move,” Wen Yingzhi said as she zipped up Li Guang’s suit from head to toe. “I want to see if she can find you.”

“Hey—”

Before Li Guang could answer, Wen Yingzhi ran out to call for someone.

…

Why don’t they see me as the opposing team’s spy at all!

Li Guang resignedly put on the prop suit. This was originally the backyard. She just needed to lie on a low tree branch and pretend to be a leaf.

Just as she finished her disguise, Wen Yingzhi came in with Ran Mingyue.

“What do you want now?” Ran Mingyue said. “We’re filming. Don’t bring up those things again.”

“Who’s bringing up those things? My mic is off, and there’s no camera here. I just wanted to thank you for saving Hua Yuzhi’s life earlier.”

Wen Yingzhi said as she and Ran Mingyue went to the tree branch where Li Guang was lying.

Li Guang couldn’t help but hold her breath.

Looking at Ran Mingyue from this angle, she was incredibly beautiful. Perhaps because of the top-down view, she seemed less distant, and the delicate features of her face were even more striking.

Ran Mingyue had a striking appearance. Her nose was straight, and she had barely any makeup on. In fact, her beauty was even more impactful this way.

Li Guang didn’t move.

Ran Mingyue: “Where’s Li Guang?”

Li Guang’s heart skipped a beat, and the leaves on the branch trembled slightly.

“She went to chase Jiang Qiaoye and them. I was just about to ask you about her,” Wen Yingzhi said as she took out a lie detector and held it in front of Ran Mingyue.

“What do you mean?”

Wen Yingzhi said, “Why did you lie about that third question?”

“I didn’t lie,” Ran Mingyue said without changing her expression. “I said I didn’t.”

The third question was whether there was anyone she had a good impression of here.

Good impression? It was already more than just a good impression.

“That’s because she asked the wrong question,” Wen Yingzhi said as she put the lie detector in front of Ran Mingyue. “If you’re not afraid, then take the test again and answer this question.”

Li Guang watched as Ran Mingyue really put her finger into the lie detector.

Wen Yingzhi was very curious to see what answer Ran Mingyue would give.

Wen Yingzhi reminded her: “This lie detector is very accurate. If you don’t answer properly, you’ll really get an electric shock later.”

Li Guang subconsciously wanted to see more clearly. She moved forward a little, and the tree branch also pressed down a little.

“Alright,” Wen Yingzhi said. “Among everyone participating in the filming, who do you like?”

Ran Mingyue said, “I like Li Guang.”

She didn’t hesitate for a second.

Li Guang: “?”

One second, two seconds, three seconds.

The lie detector didn’t go off.

Li Guang: “!!!!”

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