I'm Crushing on Gorgeous Faces in Variety Shows!-Chapter 293: ...Is This Episode "Transformation at the Seaside"?
The production team prepared for them a standalone beachfront house.
It’s a single-story, very spacious, with rooms and outdoor walkways decorated with wood grain stickers on the walls, and the roof adorned with plenty of thatch and coconut leaves, adding to the ambiance.
Guan Yu walked beside her, pushing a suitcase, speaking softly.
"I heard they were college sweethearts who stayed in love until marriage. They look so young. That guy named Fu Ran is quite good-looking; it’s a shame that the agents in the industry missed out on such a great talent."
"Married young, and they seem to be in a cougar relationship," Mu Qiu whispered back, "The guy even calls the girl senior."
Guan Yu had a sour expression: "What a sweet nickname. As expected, this episode is about one married couple and seven single dogs?"
Mu Qiu moved aside with her suitcase: "Although it’s quite inconsiderate, I’m not a single dog."
Guan Yu: "......"
"We’re picking rooms. What are you two gossiping about over there?"
Shu Ran turned her head to glance at them.
She generally assumed that those whispering behind her back were bad-mouthing her.
Determined to split them up.
Mu Qiu and Guan Yu immediately stood straight.
"Picking rooms? I can take any room!"
Shu Ran: "I just happen to want to choose the one with the sea view first, so you guys can pick any other room."
In the end, Mu Qiu picked a room in the middle on the right-hand side, with Ye Mian and Cheng Zhirang on either side.
Further beyond Cheng Zhirang’s room were the remaining rooms, unclear if Li Yang or the third guest would take them.
After quickly tidying up and taking a shower, changing into beach vacation attire, it was already 8:30, and the lights had been turned on at the beach outside.
The crowd outside was more excited than ever, with whistles, screams, and laughter never ceasing.
The production team prepared for everyone a... lavish meal box on the beach at the entrance.
As everyone stepped out of their rooms, they saw what served as a living room, with stacks of boxed meals with two meat and two vegetable dishes.
"Chotto matte." Guan Yu mumbled some indescribable Japanese, looking in disbelief at the two cameras in the center.
"...Are we having boxed meals tonight?!"
Mu Qiu also glanced at the camera: "If we’re having boxed meals, at least have a table; do we eat squatting in the corner?!"
The cameraman chuckled but nodded.
"... The production team has no humanity!"
She had changed into slippers, ready to be barefoot in the sand anytime! But the joyful scene she imagined, eating barbecue, drinking beer, and singing songs, turned into a group of people huddled in the corner eating boxed meals?!
The three female guests were very unhappy, especially Shu Ran.
She was already in a floral V-neck dress, and now she’s supposed to squat to eat a boxed meal? Impossible; she’d rather skip the meal.
Perhaps anticipating this thought, the director whispered behind the camera: "Everyone should eat a little; it’s a long night, and tomorrow will be exhausting... Plus, there are no snacks on the road."
Mu Qiu suddenly felt offended.
"No snacks? Fine, but why are you looking at me, director?"
Director: "My gaze just unconsciously drifted to you, no other meaning."
Mu Qiu: I don’t believe you at all.
Everyone was still reluctant, so the director added another line.
"Moreover, although these look like ordinary boxed meals, they are not. It’s a special boxed meal here, with seafood, and for those who don’t eat seafood, there’s grilled skewer meat."
Saying this to a group of people who hadn’t eaten for seven or eight hours...
Guan Yu calmly wiped her mouth: "Then I think it’s acceptable."
Mu Qiu: "I agree."
Shu Ran: ... Fine, she can eat a little too.
So ten minutes later, on the outer walkway of this beachfront house, sat a row of finely dressed men and women.
They held their boxed meals, "working hard" to eat.
When starved for long, even boxed meals taste great.
Guan Yu ate with satisfaction, completely forgetting her earlier disdain for the boxed meals.
Mu Qiu sat on the boardwalk, swinging her bare feet over the sand, holding a small cup sipping seaweed soup. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮
The two of them were comfortable and satisfied, snugly filling their stomachs, but the several people next to them had a very different vibe.
Also sitting on the walkway, while Mu Qiu’s feet dangled in the air, Cheng Zhirang’s rested directly on the sand.
Also with slightly hunched backs, one hand holding the boxed meal, the other with chopsticks, they relaxed while others seemed like they were posing for drama shots, picturesque and beautiful.
Beside him, Shi Yuhuai’s legs were even more impressive, able to rest the boxed meal steadily on his knees.
He seemed a bit picky, pushing aside the seafood he wouldn’t eat, exuding the aura of an oversized child with a grievance on a runway seat.
As for the last person...
Shu Ran had chewed a piece of grilled meat around ten times, her boxed meal placed beside her, unheld, expressionless, gazing past the cameras to the beach outside.
"Why do we dress so nicely to sit here and eat boxed meals? Isn’t this supposed to be our free time? Why?"
It sounded full of resentment.
Guan Yu took a sip of soup, letting out a relaxed sigh, saying, "Be content; having food is better than none. Besides, after eating, you can go out and have fun."
"Then I won’t eat. I’ll go out now."
"Are you sure? There might be nothing to eat for more than twelve hours."
"...I’ll endure for a few more minutes."
Mu Qiu lowered her head and laughed.
When they were almost done, drifting down the extended boardwalk path came the sound of suitcase wheels rolling.
A row of people looked up.
’Self-filming’ Li Yang, dragging a suitcase and wearing sunglasses, was walking over. Seeing a row of people sitting at the door, he suddenly stopped, took off his sunglasses.
"... Is this episode a beach transformation plan?"
Guan Yu: "Director hid such a deep secret and you found out."
The director sneezed in the temporary work tent.
The photographer behind Li Yang gathered enough behind-the-scenes footage, capped the lens, waved, and went back to eat.
Li Yang dragged the suitcase over to them, glanced inside: "Such a great sea view house, such a wonderful trip, dressed so nicely, and you just sit here eating boxed meals?"
... How does it feel like he’s scolding dogs for relieving themselves outside a villa?
Mu Qiu shook away that inexplicable thought, saying, "Your boxed meal is inside, hurry up and join us."
"...Forget it, I think my personal image doesn’t quite align with your group."
"Don’t think you’re so noble just because you’re wearing a t-shirt," Guan Yu pointed to Shu Ran and said to Li Yang: "See? She’s dressed in high luxury, and she’s sitting here eating boxed meals."
Finishing with Shu Ran, she nodded her chin towards Cheng Zhirang and Shi Yuhuai: "There’s Brother Cheng and Brother Huai too, who look like they’re here to shoot a blockbuster, but they’re sitting here eating too."
Li Yang furrowed his brows: "Why don’t you guys rebel? There’s BBQ outside."
Shu Ran: "You think we want to? The director said every boxed meal is different. Whoever gets the same one will be in the same team tomorrow."
