Let's Squander A Billion First! - Chapter 45
Chapter 45: Everyone’s Idol (15)
Editor: Atlas Studios
Chuzheng sat for a while before standing up to walk to a corner to take a breather.
“Gu Chuzheng!”
Liu Manman was standing at a place not too far away from Chuzheng and called her name in a tone that was neither too loud nor too soft.
“Yes?”
“I’ve got something to tell you. Let’s go over there.”
“I’m not going,” rejected Chuzheng. ‘It’s so far. I don’t want to move.’
Chuzheng walked back in and Liu Manman’s face immediately turned sour. She remained silent for a few seconds before pulling on Chuzheng’s arm all of a sudden.
Chuzheng did not even have the chance to react and Liu Manman suddenly screamed before falling backward.
People from afar heard the scream and quickly ran over.
“What’s wrong?”
“What happened?”
“Manman? What happened? Quickly get up.”
Feng Jiao and Wei Jun helped Liu Manman up and Liu Manman gave a pained expression. She accused Chuzheng, “Even if you don’t want to lend it to me, you don’t have to flare up, right?”
Chuzheng: “…” ‘So we’re acting now? You didn’t even give me time to react! I have never even seen you act so passionately as you are now during filming?’
“What happened?” By then, Xie Zhou had also come over. When he saw that Liu Manman was being supported by other people, his voice deepened as his icy cold gaze scanned through the crowd.
“Movie King Xie, it seems that she has pushed Manman,” complained Feng Jiao.
“I wanted to borrow her mosquito repellant spray, but she refused to lend it to me and even…” Liu Manman wanted to continue on but stopped talking on second thought.
The mosquito repellant spray was a reward to Chuzheng as she was the first person to get the full survival equipment. As such, nobody else in the team had it and everyone was aware of that fact.
Hence, it was perfectly normal for Liu Manman to ask to borrow the mosquito repellant spray.
However, Liu Manman initial’s intention was obviously not to borrow the mosquito repellant spray. It was not until Chuzheng rejected having a chat with her that she thought of such a plan on the spot.
Yet, Liu Manman could think of it in such a short time…
‘Bravo, bravo.’
‘If this little beauty doesn’t act in an imperial harem drama, it would be a waste of her intelligence. She would definitely be the last person standing in the palace. Give her an award! She needs an award! Immediately crown her now!’
[…]’Little miss, stop imagining useless scenarios! You’re being bullied!’
Feng Jiao helped to seek justice for Liu Manman, “Gu Chuzheng, how could you push her?”
“I didn’t.”
“There’s only the two of you here. If it wasn’t you, who could it be?”
“Herself.”
“Huh?” Feng Jiao scoffed, “You mean Manman pushed herself? Why would she want to do that?”
Chuzheng wore a serious expression. “Perhaps she’s dumb.”
“Forget it… Maybe Miss Gu isn’t feeling too good today. I don’t blame her,” said Liu Manman in a weak tone of voice.
“Manman, not only did she push you, but she also scolded you. How could you forgive her just like that? No, you need an apology.” Not only did Feng Jiao disagree with Liu Manman, but she also pushed Xie Zhou into the waters. “Movie King Xie, you can’t just watch her bully people, right?”
“Miss Gu, please apologize,” said Xie Zhou.
Xie Zhou looked towards Chuzheng. He had not taken much notice of her and only felt that she was a little proud and lonely.
Chuzheng remained silent, making it hard for one to guess what she was thinking.
“You should apologize if you did something wrong!” With Xie Zhou as her backing, Feng Jiao pushed her luck further.
“Miss Gu, even if you don’t want to lend the mosquito repellant spray, you shouldn’t push people. We are all ladies and should look out for one another,” added Wei Jun.
“It’s not something big. Just apologize and everything will be fine.”
Movie King Xie has already opened his mouth and everybody would definitely support him. Most importantly, with Liu Manman subtly spreading rumors these few days, most people thought that Chuzheng came into the show because she had a sugar daddy.
Chuzheng touched her wrist. Under the watchful eyes of everybody, she pulled Liu Manman as fast as lightning.
“Ahhh…”
Liu Manman fell onto the ground again.
‘Since you said that I pushed you, here’s a push! What can you do about it anyway? Hit me?’
Chuzheng retracted her hand and said sternly without even waiting for the others’ reaction, “You didn’t look where you are going and yet you blame me for not rolling the red carpet for you to walk. I am so sorry about that.”
Chuzheng then turned around to leave and did not give them a chance to revolt against her.
“Gu Chuzheng, you are so unreasonable!”
Feng Jiao’s voice could be heard from afar.
That was not even an apology! She was just being sarcastic and she even pushed Liu Manman again in front of Xie Zhou…
Was she nuts?
“Manman, are you ok?”
“I’m fine…” Liu Manman gave a pitiful look and when she stood up, she purposely made a pained expression.
Xie Zhou furrowed his eyebrows and carried Liu Manman bridal-style before bringing her back to his tent.
The tent was allocated to one per group. This kind of allocation was not very practical as there should be a distinction between the sexes.
However, since even Xie Zhou did not complain about it, it was not very appropriate for the others to complain. As such, they could only go with the flow.
Chuzheng entered the tent and Su Jiu was curling himself up in a corner while hugging his blanket. When he heard her coming in, he curled himself further into the tent.
Chuzheng directly went over and laid down.
Su Jiu took a few peeks at her carefully.
The tent was a little quiet.
Su Jiu fidgetted around for a while before asking in a soft voice, “What happened just now?”
“Nothing much.”
He did not go out to take a look as it did not concern him. But he seemed to have heard someone shouting her name angrily.
‘It should be related to her, right?’
The distance between them was less than half a meter. Su Jiu lay on his back for a while before tossing and turning. He looked at the person in front of him and felt an unknown nervousness.
He was nervous as he was afraid she would do something to him.
In the end, he fell asleep amidst his nervousness.
Late in the night, the tent fell into complete silence. Su Jiu felt something warm beside him but he was still in a blurry state of mind. He suddenly thought of something and widened his eyes.
He…
Seemed to be hugging somebody?
There were only the two of them in the tent though.
A realization stuck Su Jiu and he pushed away Chuzheng harshly before curling himself into a ball at a corner.
Chuzheng’s eyes fluttered open. “What are you doing?”
It was already midnight and yet he was still so noisy.
‘What a nuisance.’
“What did you do?” Su Jiu gritted his teeth.
“I didn’t do anything.”
“I..Why did I… You…” Su Jiu pointed at both of them. “What did you do to me?”
Chuzheng sat up and explained the truth to him peacefully, “It was you who came over and hugged me.”
“Impossible.” defended Su Jiu.
Why would he roll over to hug her and even refuse to let go?
Chuzheng fumbled to get something beside her before opening an application on her phone and passed it to him.
“Look at it yourself.” Chuzheng was a little impatient as she was too tired and her whole mind was filled with thoughts of her sleeping.
Su Jiu hesitantly took over the phone. There was a video on it and he pressed the play button.
Su Jiu’s face gradually flushed red and only felt the phone getting hotter. He did not dare to watch any further and quickly turned off the phone. Even his ears were red.
He had always slept alone and did not know that he would have this habit when he was sleeping…
“So-sorry,” apologized Su Jiu in a panic and used the blanket to cover his head.
Nobody replied to him and Su Jiu waited for a while before removing the blanket to peek at her. Chuzheng had already gone back to sleep while only her peaceful breathing sounds could be heard.
Su Jiu:
Su Jiu touched his flushed hot cheeks. He felt confused yet strange at the same time, making his head descend into a state of chaos.
He raised his hand to touch his chest.
His heart seemed to be racing.
When he woke up just now, his face touched her skin and that delicate warmth…
‘Su Jiu, what are you thinking?!’
Su Jiu shook his head violently and forced himself to calm down.
‘Go to sleep.’
‘Stop thinking.’
