Chapter 83: Chapter 83: Showing Off
The three siblings were preparing to leave the company when they ran into Pei Hai.
The man with a small braid saw them and smiled.
"What a coincidence, are you going for a meal? Mind if I join?"
Gu Cheng: ▼_▼
Gu Che: ▼_▼
Pei Hai ignored their disdain and circled around to Tuanzi.
"There’s a restaurant nearby with a signature dish that’s really good. Want to try it?"
Tuanzi covered her mouth with one hand and nodded vigorously.
As long as there’s good food!
Pei Hai chuckled lightly and held out his hand, "I’ll take you there now."
With a charming smile from her cousin, Tuanzi dazedly placed her little hand into his palm.
Pei Hai subtly glanced at his stiff brothers and chuckled again.
The four of them arrived at the restaurant and ordered quite a few dishes.
While waiting, Tuanzi cradled a fruit platter and slowly nibbled away, occasionally glancing at the other three with her big, watery eyes.
The eldest cousin was smiling, the big brother had a stern face, and the second brother looked cold.
Looking left and right, the wary Tuanzi clutched the fruit platter closely.
[Miaomiao: Feels a bit strange, better not talk casually]
[Ancient Martial System: Heh]
[Miaomiao: Little Gu, why are you chuckling coldly]
[Ancient Martial System: Humans grow more childish as they age]
[Miaomiao: Huh? Miaomiao doesn’t understand]
The system didn’t plan on explaining too clearly.
Pei Hai, with a smiling face, took out his phone to take a photo of Tuanzi.
"Miaomiao, I watched your previous live stream; you did particularly well. And that knife technique of yours, the views are really high."
Tuanzi bit into a piece of cantaloupe, her bright black eyes filled with confusion as she looked at him.
Pei Hai smiled, "Your outdoor survival skills aren’t bad either, but if you were in a desert, how would you plan to find food?"
Tuanzi: "!"
Gu Cheng quickly reacted.
"Is the next live stream going to be in a desert?"
"There’s an 80% chance of that."
Pei Hai sent off the photo and, resting his chin on one hand, appeared to be smiling, though a faint hint of coldness lingered in his eyes.
"Director Li is someone who’s eager for quick success and greedy. He realized that just normal survival has a high level of interest, so he wants to push the limits of survival even more."
He didn’t mention that Director Li intentionally bought into trending topics only to have him find someone to take it down.
Gu Cheng looked displeased.
If it was just adults in the show, challenging survival’s limits, he wouldn’t say much. But there are kids in this show too, and the other party made guarantees when signing the contract.
In the desert there’s an oasis, surely that’s where the adventure site is.
But if it’s an uninhabited oasis, the resources certainly won’t be as abundant as in the rainforest.
Whether starving wretchedly or pitifully playing games for the show, it would all be interesting, except only the guests would suffer.
Gu Che’s face turned red with anger.
"Does this director have a problem with his brain?"
He suddenly realized something and asked Gu Cheng, "How many episodes did you sign with him for?"
Gu Cheng didn’t make a sound, so he understood, "That old rascal Ai Zhen..."
Tuanzi kept munching on her fruit plate.
[Ancient Martial System: Aren’t you worried?]
[Miaomiao: Big brother will surely solve this issue]
[Ancient Martial System: Do you find him reliable?]
[Miaomiao: Yes, very reliable, gives me a strong sense of security]
The system said nothing more. It already saw that Gu Cheng was contacting someone. If Gu Cheng’s plan succeeded, that Director Li would definitely be ousted.
Pei Hai noticed the starkly different reactions from his brothers and couldn’t help but think of his own younger brother.
He looked down at his phone and saw that his brother wasn’t responding to messages at all, and pouted.
Looking up again, he met Tuanzi’s gaze.
Tuanzi accused him, "Big Cousin, you’re lying."
"What am I lying about?" Pei Hai looked away guiltily.
"You didn’t use Miaomiao’s photo as your wallpaper."
Tuanzi puffed up angrily at him, "Liars will have their noses fall off!"
The system had already informed her.
Gu Che raised his hand to snatch away the phone.
Not caring whether it was polite or not, he directly opened the most recent chat window, which happened to be with Wangchao, scrolling up to read their chat history backwards.
[Isn’t the little sister particularly cute, with a soft face, I’ve pinched it, have you?]
A few photos of Tuanzi.
[Had another meal with little sister, aren’t you envious]
A few photos of Tuanzi.
Looking further back.
[Maybe I’ll also be on a show with little sister, are you envious]
Looking up farther, it was screenshots from Tuanzi’s live stream.
The first instance of a photo of Tuanzi appeared when they first met, also in a restaurant.
Tuanzi, looking bewildered and innocent, faced the camera, her big eyes shiny and black.
Gu Che quickly forwarded these few photos to himself and tossed the phone back.
"Cousin, what’s this about?"
Gu Che said with a teasing smile, "Are you deliberately using Miaomiao to provoke your brother?"
Pei Hai was about to retrieve his phone when Tuanzi suddenly came over, snatched the phone, and ran away with it.
The Film Emperor was helpless.
"Can’t I boast a little?"
Tuanzi has six cousins, and he’s the first cousin to get to know his sister, so why not show off?
The Film Emperor replied confidently, "You guys know too, it’s just the four of us in the circle. I’m not very familiar with the others, so I can’t show off to you two, only to Little Chao."
Their grandparents had five children, four sons, and one little daughter.
The father of Gu Cheng and Gu Che, the eldest, was an actor who had won a Best Actor award. One brother was a director, the other started as an idol.
His father was the second, he was also an actor, and his brother was a singer.
The third uncle’s children are either professors or artists.
The fourth uncle’s family is all in business.
He wasn’t very familiar with his other cousins, and Miaomiao was the biological sister of Gu Cheng and Gu Che. If he wanted to boast about having a cousin, he could only go to his brother.
Of course, he had his own little motives.
His brother was distant towards him, and sometimes he didn’t even know what to talk about. So while he was boasting, he was also trying to find a topic so he could chat with his brother.
However, his brother was so cold, he rarely replied to messages, sigh.
Tuanzi ran to her big brother’s side and held up the phone, wanting him to look at the chat history with her.
Gu Cheng seldom did this kind of thing since peeking into others’ chat records wasn’t polite.
However, since Big Cousin didn’t stop them and his sister was warmly inviting, he decided to look. He also wanted to know why Pei Hai was taking pictures of his sister.
When he saw it, he was speechless.
Tuanzi also had a peculiar expression.
She glanced at Pei Hai, "Do you always talk to Wangchao brother this way?"
So smug, didn’t Wangchao ever hit him for this?
Pei Hai scratched his nose.
"Only about things concerning our little sister."
When winning awards, he didn’t dare boast to his brother for fear of adding to his psychological burden.
Tuanzi laughed softly.
"Big Cousin, since you used Miaomiao’s photo, you should pay up."
Pei Hai chuckled, "How much do you want? How about settling it with a treat to a meal?"
Gu Che reacted, "Better just pay the money, no need for a meal treat."
Treating them to a meal would just give him more chances to hang out with his sister, wishful thinking.
"Not real money," Tuanzi looked at the voice key, "Miaomiao just wants to use your phone to greet Wangchao brother."
"Sure, you can greet him however you like."
Tuanzi held down the voice key and said in her baby voice, "Good evening, Wangchao brother, where are you now? Would you like to join Miaomiao and the brothers for dinner?"
Knowing full well that his brother was right there in Jiang City, Pei Hai: "!"