The Security Guard Who Won the Heart of the Unattainable Actress - Chapter 27.1

Chapter 27.1

Crack!

The tree branch Li Guang was on finally couldn’t bear the weight anymore and broke at the exact moment she heard the shocking news.

What?!

She was falling!

Why was she falling?!

If Li Guang had known she was going to fall from the tree, she would have never listened to Wen Yingzhi and stayed on the branch for cover.

Her first thought: There were no cameras here, and no microphones. But there were two living people. She was dying of embarrassment.

Her second thought: Ran Mingyue said she liked her. She overheard it. Ahhhhhh!

Her third thought: Ran Mingyue knew she was eavesdropping. She was dying of embarrassment.

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She fell perfectly, landing sprawled out between Wen Yingzhi and Ran Mingyue.

Luckily, the costume had a buffer, so Li Guang didn’t fall too badly. But her mind was blank, and she couldn’t utter a single word.

Wen Yingzhi even asked her while feigning ignorance: “Oh, Li Guang, what are you doing here?”

Ran Mingyue wasn’t surprised. The moment she came in, she had been wondering where Li Guang was. She just hadn’t expected her to appear in front of her like this.

Li Guang struggled to get up. Ran Mingyue instinctively reached out to help, but then she remembered something and stopped herself, pulling her hand back.

She was very careful not to let anyone see her emotional reaction.

Li Guang flipped over and her throat was stuck. “I… I…”

“It’s okay. Were you playing around and climbed a tree?” Ran Mingyue said. Wen Yingzhi played along. “Exactly. She’s like a little cat, mischievous.”

Li Guang forced herself to remain calm. “Yes, I was just… just looking for Teacher Jiang Qiaoye.”

“You came at the right time. Mingyue and I were testing this lie detector,” Wen Yingzhi said, lightly glossing over the matter.

Li Guang nervously swallowed her saliva. She was a little scared. Her mind was full of what Ran Mingyue had just said.

Believe it or not?

It was already lucky enough to be Ran Mingyue’s security guard. Li Guang had never fantasized about anything more…

What she didn’t know was that all these nervous little expressions of hers were seen by Ran Mingyue.

“Were you scared by the question just now?” Wen Yingzhi and Ran Mingyue exchanged glances. “I was just tricking you. The lie detector wasn’t even on, so how could it have made a sound?”

Li Guang’s mood was immediately like a roller coaster. Huh??

Wen Yingzhi shook the lie detector in her hand, showing Li Guang and Ran Mingyue that the power cord wasn’t plugged in. “I was just teasing you. Why did you let a spy like Li Guang in here to get information on me?”

“Of course I knew you were tricking me,” Ran Mingyue said. “That’s why I answered so quickly, didn’t I?”

Wen Yingzhi: “Yeah, I would have believed you if you had hesitated for even a second. Right, Li Guang?”

“Y-yes, yes,” Li Guang said with a forced smile. “Sister Mingyue is such a good actress.”

She wasn’t disappointed. Or… maybe just a little?

After she realized that Ran Mingyue and Wen Yingzhi weren’t serious, the burden in Li Guang’s heart disappeared.

Don’t take that answer seriously.

Li Guang started to take off the suit, but Wen Yingzhi sent Ran Mingyue away first.

“You can go now. I have something to talk about with little Li Guang.”

Seeing that Ran Mingyue and Li Guang didn’t even dare to look at each other, Wen Yingzhi finally felt a little guilty.

Ran Mingyue looked back as she left, and Li Guang immediately lowered her head guiltily. She didn’t know why she was so afraid of Ran Mingyue. She felt like a thief, even though Ran Mingyue was the one who had asked her to get information.

Ever since the misunderstanding about the signed photo, things had been weird between her and Ran Mingyue.

“You weren’t scared, were you? I don’t know how you fell out of the tree,” Wen Yingzhi said. “But we didn’t find you at all. Even though I knew you were hiding in the tree, I couldn’t find you. Looks like I chose the right suit.”

“Are you planning on wearing this?” Li Guang asked her. “I’ve already seen this suit, so why are you still wearing it?”

“Yes, you tested it for me, so I can wear it with confidence,” Wen Yingzhi said. “Don’t take what happened just now seriously. You saw it, the lie detector wasn’t on. I was just teasing her. I just said your name randomly because you were right there.”

“It’s okay, it’s okay, it’s okay! I get it,” Li Guang waved her hand to show that she didn’t care.

In her heart: It’s too embarrassing. I was the only one who took it seriously!

“I have something to tell you,” Wen Yingzhi said. “This time, I’m going to use this costume for a disguise.”

Li Guang looked at Wen Yingzhi’s smile, and a bad feeling immediately rose in her heart.

“Don’t you dare tell anyone about my disguise, or else.” Wen Yingzhi made a throat-slitting gesture. “I’ll do you in.”

Li Guang shivered and expressed her loyalty. “I promise I absolutely, absolutely won’t say anything!”

“Good, that’s my girl,” Wen Yingzhi patted Li Guang’s head. “You can go now.”

Li Guang returned to the living room under the expectant gazes of her teammates.

“So, so, did you find any clues?” Hua Yuzhi called Li Guang over to her side. “Are they using props?”

Xiang Que and Ran Mingyue’s gazes also followed her.

Li Guang sat up straight. “I didn’t see anyone else. Teacher Wen Yingzhi is disguised as a tree leaf person.”

She answered so honestly that she completely forgot that she had just pledged her loyalty.

“When you’re on the road, check the bushes and trees too. I think Teacher Wen will be hiding in there.”

Hua Yuzhi said, “Didn’t Wen Yingzhi tell you not to say anything?”

“She did,” Li Guang repeated the throat-slitting gesture. “Teacher Wen said she’d do me in.”

“Hahahaha, okay, okay, okay. This little security guard is not afraid of trouble.”

“Did she really just give away the information so easily?”

“Now it’s not just you who knows. We all know.”

“Why would Teacher Wen Yingzhi think of wearing a tree leaf costume?”

“Sisters, the camera for Wen Yingzhi’s team is starting to move. Teacher Wen really is hiding in a tree…”

“Hahaha, disguised as a tree!”

“Can we enable a personal comments function for the guests? Then I’ll just give them all the locations.”

“Why do Xiang Que and Ran Mingyue seem to be avoiding each other? They’re not even sitting together.”

“Newbies, go and catch up on the love-hate drama of Xiang Que and Ran Mingyue’s fans fighting over top billing.”

While the fans in the comments were interacting passionately, the escape team’s guests were frantically running around the different game areas of the villa, looking for suitable hiding or attack spots.

“And you still said it!” Hua Yuzhi exclaimed. “Wen Yingzhi is really something. She’s just bullying you…”

She was just taking advantage of Li Guang’s gentle nature. What did Li Guang ever do to anyone? How could Wen Yingzhi even make that gesture in front of Li Guang’s face!

If she hadn’t known about Li Guang’s amazing fighting ability, Hua Yuzhi would have still thought of Li Guang as a soft, cuddly doll who needed to be protected. Especially with her little curly hair, she was the cutest.

Ran Mingyue’s eyes paused for a moment when Li Guang said Wen Yingzhi was going to kill her. She looked up at the countdown clock on the wall and straightened her sleeve.

Hua Yuzhi looked at Ran Mingyue’s actions and shivered.

Uh-oh. Now I’m suddenly worried about Wen Yingzhi. I have a feeling Teacher Ran is going to get her.

Li Guang was about to say it was okay.

Ran Mingyue stood up, and everyone else looked at her. Li Guang: Huh?

“What if Wen Yingzhi really kills our 06 first?” Xiang Que said. “Actually, with 06 and Xiao Ran together, they’re the ace combo of our team. Neither of them can be eliminated.”

“She won’t,” Ran Mingyue said. She walked over to Li Guang. “Are you scared?”

Li Guang nodded.

“It’s okay,” Ran Mingyue said, and she half-crouched in front of Li Guang, helping her straighten her slightly crooked hat. “When that happens, I’ll protect you.”

Li Guang looked into Ran Mingyue’s eyes. They were at eye level. It was hard for Li Guang to stay normal under Ran Mingyue’s gaze. She was the first to look away.

Hua Yuzhi felt a moment of envy and then said to Li Guang, “You’ve helped us a lot this time. Later, we’ll go find Yingzhi. Don’t worry! You’ll get plenty of signed photos!”

Li Guang: “!”

Signed photos again!

Just as she was starting to feel that the atmosphere between her and Ran Mingyue was getting better, that damned signed photo appeared again.

“The game is beginning. Countdown. Hiding time, last thirty seconds,” a notification rang out in the base camp, saving the embarrassed Li Guang. “Players, please prepare.”

“It’s slippery outside. Please be careful and don’t get too excited when you run.”

Li Guang went off-camera to wait. Ran Mingyue went to the villa’s entrance, waiting for the time to run out.

Xiang Que asked, “Who should we catch first?”

“Prioritize catching Wen Yingzhi. As for the others, just catch whoever you see on the way,” Ran Mingyue said mercilessly.

“I’m dying of laughter. Mingyue, oh Mingyue, do you not remember your good friend Wen Yingzhi by the Daming Lake?”

“That’s what she gets for saying she’s going to slit 06’s throat. The accompanying security guard is also part of the team.”

“I can confirm, Ran Mingyue is a fiercely protective person, no doubt.”

Li Guang was also checking if her earpiece and equipment were all in working order.

“Li Guang, you are in charge of monitoring Jiang Qiaoye and Ran Mingyue’s whereabouts and on-site safety,” a staff member’s voice came through her earpiece. “Because the distance is too far, you can switch to player Jiang Qiaoye’s audio, but don’t reveal their location.”

“The game has begun. Escape team, be aware that your hunters have arrived.”

After the alert echoed through the villa area, a large group of pineapple people were also released. Ran Mingyue’s team already knew how not to trigger the pineapple people, so they all tacitly and silently began to disperse.

They planned to search a specific area first, protect their life points and health bars, and if all else failed, they could lead the pineapple people to them as cover.

“Be careful, everyone. Jiang Qiaoye has a prop card. If you find Jiang Qiaoye, take him out early.”

“Got it, Teacher Ran!”

Li Guang followed Ran Mingyue with an unspoken understanding.

Jiang Qiaoye’s voice came through her earpiece: “Ahhhhhh, what the heck! Why are there so many pineapple people again!”

He was just as loud as ever.

“I have to hurry, hurry and run to Zone D. Where am I now? Oh… Villa 9 in Zone B. That’s right, I’ll go through the small forest,” Jiang Qiaoye said, completely unaware, still talking about his location as he walked.

“Holy crap! Why are there so many NPCs, like they just came out of a cage… Hey, a weapon box?”

A voice of surprise came from that side, and Li Guang blinked. Uh-oh. Jiang Qiaoye found a weapon first.

Ran Mingyue went out from the base camp and headed to Zone A, then Zone C. After searching Zone A, she should be able to meet up with Jiang Qiaoye in Zone C. But the problem now was that Ran Mingyue hadn’t found a weapon.

This was a disadvantage.

Li Guang ran two steps faster, to Ran Mingyue’s side. Ran Mingyue saw her expression and knew something was wrong. “What’s the situation?”

“Find a weapon,” Li Guang said in a low voice. “Without a weapon, you’ll be at a disadvantage.”

“Holy crap! Why is it Big Brother Xiang Que!” Jiang Qiaoye’s side had clanking sounds, like he had gotten something. “Then I’ll take you out first, Big Brother Xiang Que… Oh wait, why does he have a weapon too!”

It was too noisy.

Xiang Que’s faint shouts came from a distance, and the pineapple people quickly gathered toward that side. Li Guang found that she could easily determine where the players were gathered based on the pineapple people’s direction.

Because the pineapple people moved based on sound.

Ran Mingyue locked onto the location, Zone B. Zone B was the most familiar place for Li Guang.

After she and Li Guang exchanged a glance, they rushed toward that direction without a word.

Hua Yuzhi hadn’t run very far. When she heard Xiang Que’s voice, she knew that Xiang Que had run into an opponent. He naturally needed support from his teammates, so she also rushed over.

“I checked all the trees on my way over there, and I didn’t see Yingzhi,” she said as she ran to Ran Mingyue. Ran Mingyue nodded. “It’s okay. Let’s go see what’s going on over there first.”

Jiang Qiaoye was in the small forest behind Villa 9, and he had run into Xiang Que there.

After Jiang Qiaoye opened the weapon box, he got a retractable knife. He thought he was lucky and planned to go forward and kill Xiang Que in one hit.

What’s more, his teammates were also nearby. This was their strategy.

Two people would attract the firepower, and one would hide in the shadows. Even if the hunt team came, they wouldn’t be afraid. They could just ambush them. Plus, with his prop card in hand, wouldn’t this game be an easy win?

Why does Xiang Que also have a weapon? And it looks like a gun that can be aimed!

Production team, are you making things difficult for our escape team?

Jiang Qiaoye changed his strategy. A lot of pineapple people were rushing toward him.

When Ran Mingyue came over, Xiang Que yelled at her, “Catch!”

Xiang Que actually gave the weapon he had worked so hard to get to Ran Mingyue. It was a water gun with a range of about sixty centimeters.

“With this, you should be able to take out Jiang Qiaoye,” Xiang Que said. “When I came here, I saw that his health bar was only at half. He must have been hit by a pineapple person from yelling so much on the way.”

Hua Yuzhi ran over, out of breath. In her entire team, she was the only one whose accompanying security guard was gone. So Hua Yuzhi had a deep sense of unease.

Now Ran Mingyue had the water gun, and she hadn’t seen a single weapon on her way here. Hua Yuzhi had to protect herself, or she would be eliminated in a second.

She immediately said to Li Guang, “06, my good 06, when you have a free moment, can you protect me? Please, I’m begging you. You’re the only one with the best combat power.”

Before Li Guang could refuse, Hua Yuzhi continued, “I’ll trade a signed photo. You can have whoever’s you want, as long as you can protect me here.”

“She’s so dedicated. Anyone’s is okay? Then I’m willing to go and protect her, wuwuwu.”

“Hahaha, this sister is completely different from the character she plays. Her characters are all scheming women, but she’s a beautiful idiot?”

“I’m dying of laughter. I’m watching a show and realizing I was a bit too harsh on Hua Yuzhi before.”

“I announce that I’m now shipping Hua Yuzhi and Wen Yingzhi. I’m not shipping Wen Yingzhi and Ran Mingyue anymore.”

“Wen Yingzhi is in the tree! Holy crap, I see her!”

“What kind of amazing eyes do you have? I haven’t been able to find Wen Yingzhi since she climbed onto that branch, hahaha.”

“Found her! She’s in the small forest, a little behind where Jiang Qiaoye was before, on that tree branch!”

Li Guang said, “Don’t worry! As long as I have a life left, I’ll watch over everyone on your team!”

“Wuwuwuwu, okay! Thank you, Teacher Ran, for letting your security guard come and save this useless person!”

Li Guang said, “As long as you never mention signed photos again! Seriously, they’re not needed!”

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