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Chapter 133, Section 132: Zhou Ye: I Don't Have the Talent to Be a Green Tea Girl (6K)

"I have a secret that I need to tell you mouth-to-mouth. I hope you won't object, brother?"

Lin Shaobai repeated Zhou Ye's words.

"I didn't expect you to have this kind of talent, senior sister."

"If I have no talent, I'm just playing along. If I absolutely have to have talent... I only have the talent of a little witch, a little witch who specifically preys on bad people like you!"

Zhou Ye sat next to Lin Shaobai, muttering to himself.

"However... there is one more thing."

A moment later she turned around and rested her head on Lin Shaobai's lap.

"What?"

"I'm just sighing that it's the end of the year again. This year has gone by so fast. Ever since I started filming, I feel like time has flown by. We've been filming one drama after another, and a year has passed in the blink of an eye."

"...Yes. That's right, it really does feel like time flies."

Lin Shaobai crossed his hands behind his head and said lazily.

Zhou Ye: "The movie will be released next year, I'm kind of looking forward to it."

Lin Shaobai: "Mm."

"Speak of Xiao Lin."

"What's wrong?"

How much do you think that movie will gross?

"Ten billion."

"puff."

Zhou Ye smiled so hard his eyes crinkled.

She stood up, pinched Lin Shaobai's face, and said, "You really dare to dream! 10 billion in one go? Do you want to become an actor with 10 billion in box office revenue?"

Lin Shaobai: "Look at you! Everyone needs to have dreams. I'll wish for 10 billion!"

"Okay, okay, 10 billion. Then I'll do the same as you and hope the movie makes 10 billion."

After Zhou Ye finished speaking, he lay down in Lin Shaobai's arms again, burrowing into him as if he wanted to melt into his body.

Lin Shaobai understood that the movie would definitely not reach 100 billion.

In fact, no Chinese film has ever grossed 100 billion yuan in one go.

The top two domestic box office hits were both starring Wu Jin: "The Battle at Lake Changjin" and "Wolf Warrior 2". The third-ranked film was "Hi Mom", and the fourth-ranked film was the Chinese animation miracle "Ne Zha".

Only these four companies have grossed over 50 billion yuan.

"But what I really hope for is that people can get to know me."

Zhou Ye said leisurely.

She's supposed to be the second female lead in this movie, but her screen time is pitifully small.

So no matter how high the box office is, it won't be credited to her.

"Then I think your wish will come true."

"I really feel that you, Kobayashi, are always encouraging people."

"I'm just telling the truth."

After Lin Shaobai finished speaking, he picked Zhou Ye up and carried him slowly to the bed.

Zhou Ye knew what to do next, his face turned slightly red, and he didn't say anything, but slowly lowered his head.

"Ahem, Senior Sister, do you know what I'm going to do?"

It was unexpected that Lin Shaobai would say such a thing after putting Zhou Ye on the bed.

Zhou Ye lay on the bed, his lips twitching.

To tease someone like this at a crucial moment...

You, Lin Shaobai, are you playing games like this?!
"Kobayashi, you did this on purpose, didn't you?"

"Tsk. This is called the British police—ugh!"

Before he could finish speaking, Lin Shaobai was pulled into bed by Zhou Ye...

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A few days later, Lin Shaobai went to Hunan TV to record the famous celebrity detective reality show "Who's the Murderer Season 4".

Because of his immense popularity, the "Who's the Murderer" program team decided to invite him to be a guest on the previous episode.

Top-tier celebrities deserve a "show finale".

The two North Korean stars remain regular guests this season.

The regular guests include Ou Kuaihuo (oh no, I mean Ou Huopo), Bai Jingting, Gui Gui, Zhang Ruoyun, and Liu Haoran.

In each episode, six celebrity guests will play different roles, including detective "murderer" and suspect.

It's somewhat similar to murder mystery games.

Together they will confront an elaborate murder case, then gather evidence based on clues and deduce who the real "killer" is.

The "murderer" will be locked in a cage.

If the reasoning fails, then the murderer wins, and vice versa.

The episode featuring Lin Shaobai is a special theatrical version.

Scene: [Ready Player One arcade].

As soon as he arrived, the production team invited him to play the role of a detective, Detective Lin, Zhen Lin.

Anyone who has watched "Who's the Murderer" knows that the show's names are usually chosen rather casually.

Most of them have the surname Zhen.

The other guests are Xiao Sa, Teacher He, Zhang Ruoyun, Xie Na, and Bai Jingting.

Lin Shaobai entered a small room, where a staff member handed him a form.

"Teacher Lin, have you participated in any similar variety shows before?"

"I asked the director."

Lin Shaobai shook his head: "I don't appear on variety shows very often, let alone a reality reasoning show like this. This is my first time."

The director nodded: "Oh... could you please read the text on the form aloud?"

"Okay. I've signed up for the 'Ready Player One' game. In the game, you can earn coins that can be exchanged for real money, but you might also suffer unexpected punishments. There are three levels in total. The first level is called 'Plastic Friends'..."

It's just some game rules.

Director: "This is the final battle of our fourth season, and it can be said to be the most difficult one yet."

"The most difficult?" Lin Shaobai raised an eyebrow, showing some interest.

Director: "Yes, because it's the final battle, we decided to do something different."

In this episode, the entire cast will be challenged to assume a state of amnesia for the first time.

None of the characters had scripts, and the "murderer" was unprepared.

In other words, at this moment, the murderer doesn't even know he is the murderer; he needs to act so that no one will suspect him.

Following the director's instructions, Lin Shaobai first arrived at a scene that resembled a time-traveling fleet, where he acted out a scene where he fainted.

When she woke up again, Zhang Ruoyun, Bai Jingting, and Teacher He were with her.

The three of them went together to the next room to look for Sister Na.

Upon entering, Lin Shaobai stared in disbelief at the Sun Goddess lying on the sofa.

Teacher He pointed at Na Ying's face and said, "Wow, Snow White."

Zhang Ruoyun burst out laughing when she heard this.

That woman remained lying on the sofa, not moving.

Teacher He immediately followed up with, "Since she's Snow White, shouldn't we kiss her awake?"

Lin Shaobai, Zhang Ruoyun, and Bai Jingting all took a step back.

Each of them looked visibly resistant.

Don't look for me! Don't look for me!

Even though I know it's just a joke on a variety show, I can't show off at this time.

Isn't he mentally ill?!

Little Sa ran away in a panic.

Teacher He: "Okay, let's draw a life-or-death lot. Whoever draws the death lot has to kiss her awake! They have to risk their lives to kiss her awake!"

Lin Shaobai: "Why don't we ask the person involved what they think?"

"Okay." Teacher He quickly came to Sister Na's side: "Should we let Xiao Sa come?"

"nonono..."

Sister Na said in a low voice.

Teacher He: "Then let me ask one more question, is Xiaolin okay?"

After hesitating for a long time, Sister Na finally said, "Mm."

"Ha ha ha ha."

The others burst out laughing at that remark.

That sister is indeed doing abstract things as always.

"Kobayashi could be one, right?"

"Come on! Let's have Kobayashi!"

As Zhang Ruoyun spoke, she pushed Lin Shaobai forward.

Lin Shaobai quickly shrank back as if there was an abyss ahead!
Is it even okay to kiss like that?!
If we really have to kiss, then it'll just be a blue kiss!
Teacher He: "Then, is Ruoyun okay?"

"can."

"Is Jingting okay?"

"Hmm...it would be best...three of them, kissing all at once." Na Ying woke up amidst another burst of laughter: "Oh dear, what am I doing here?"

The story involves everyone being hit by an amnesia spray and passing out, so they have to act it out when they wake up.

After a brief discussion, the six guests proceeded together to the first game.

This episode is somewhat similar to the brain-teasing TV show "Endgame".

As we overcome each challenge, we become rivals.

They learned from the amnesia gas that a major event would occur before they awoke.

Although this was Lin Shaobai's first time participating in a mystery-solving reality show, he had seen "Who's the Murderer" before.

In this kind of situation, an NPC usually dies, and their surname is Zhen.

The group walked forward and indeed saw a dummy-like corpse in the punishment room.

Lin Shaobai quickly went inside to observe the crime scene.

To be honest, he only felt excited, not scared at all.

That woman is hiding by the door, too afraid to come in.

After thoroughly inspecting the room by himself, Lin Shaobai went to the adjacent monitoring room.

Teacher He, standing behind, exclaimed in admiration, "I never expected this kid to be so good at this kind of live-action deduction show."

She performed very well in those leisurely and relaxed farming variety shows, but she seems like a completely different person when she comes to mystery variety shows.

Lin Shaobai watched the surveillance footage with everyone, and after watching it, he was the first to summarize the problem.

"At 11 a.m., there were six of us who entered the game lobby together. I arrived at 7:55 p.m. Before that, the gas had already been released, indicating that the 'victim' was already dead. I woke up at 8:05 a.m., which means that I am not a suspect."

Since no one knows each other's identities, let alone the detective who is innocent, this needs to be clarified.

"I'm the detective for today, Detective Lin. Hello everyone." Lin Shaobai introduced himself formally with a smile.

The others clapped their hands to encourage him, seeing that he was a newcomer.

Lin Shaobai, acting as the detective, briefly explained the current situation to everyone: the murderer is among the six people besides himself—Teacher He, Xiao Sa, Sister Na, Bai Jingting, and Zhang Ruoyun.

They needed to play the game to find out who the murderer was, so they quickly arrived at the first level, "Plastic Friends".

This game is a map game, with each map consisting of 40 squares.

Each round, players must enter the "reveal room" and can choose to reveal information about one player or not. The player whose information is revealed cannot move forward, while the player whose information is not revealed moves forward five spaces. The game ends when a player reaches the 40th space.

The player ranked last will be 10 gold coins in debt and must enter the penalty room for punishment. The other players will receive two gold coins.

After Lin Shaobai briefly explained the game rules, he saw the player number plates in the distance and then guided everyone to watch the game replay on the big screen.

His wisdom and composure in this show are nothing like those of a novice in a mystery reality show.

Teacher He followed everyone's guidance and unexpectedly discovered that Lin Shaobai also had a talent for participating in this kind of reality reasoning show.

It seems like we can invite him to these shows more often in the future.

Just as he had this idea, Teacher He quickly shrugged.

What are you thinking about.

Lin Shaobai is a top celebrity, and his schedule is extremely tight.

This guy is almost always filming on set. Even when he comes out, he takes leave to do business trips or participate in large-scale programs and sing songs.

It's said that the production team approached him several months in advance to ask if he could make a cameo appearance.

The online traffic of top-tier celebrities is terrifying.

Fans will watch this episode because of him.

Back to the scene.

Following the plot hints, the six people moved forward in a grid pattern.

"Congratulations to everyone in the first round, no one was exposed."

The group moves forward five squares.

"No players were exposed in the second round either."

Then the group moves forward five squares.

"The third round of leaks has been made about students in grades one and six."

Upon hearing this, Lin Shaobai quickly called out to the back, "Xiao Yi and Xiao Liu stay where they are, which is square number ten. The rest of you go to square number fifteen."

As the game was nearing its end, Lin Shaobai turned around and said, "I've figured it out. So the rule of this game is that the last person standing will be very anxious to expose others. Because they don't want to be the last one standing."

Everyone took turns moving forward according to the number of squares, and finally two people reached square 40.

Logically, the competition should have ended, but instead, they announced the ninth and tenth rounds, which made Lin Shaobai start to ponder.

Everyone panicked.

"Wait a minute, we've already reached the 40th square, it should be over by now, how could there be a ninth and tenth round?"

"Yeah. You guys got it wrong. How come there are suddenly two extra rounds of the game?"

Lin Shaobai looked at the map and began to think: "That makes sense. If we move in groups of five, then the numbers 26 and 27 on this map are useless. Why are there two extra rounds of the game?"

Zhang Ruoyun: "However, what can be confirmed at present is that the deceased was Xiao Yi."

Lin Shaobai: "If the game surveillance video is accurate, no one reached the 40th square before the tenth round. So where did players number three and four, who should have been on the 40th square, go?"

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After this story ended, the six of them gathered together again to review the events.

The detective is responsible for investigating the background and names of each of them, but because they were all previously infected with an insomnia spray, the players don't even know their own names anymore.

No wonder the director said before that this episode's detective challenge would be very difficult.

Players can only piece together the story by collecting scattered clues in the rest area from the remaining parts of the completed game, in order to find the number and the "murderer" that it represents in the game.

In short, the task is quite large.

This was Lin Shaobai's first time experiencing this kind of game.

Honestly, it was very exciting.

He has enjoyed playing escape room games and murder mystery games since he was in school.

Now that I'm a big star, I can earn money and play games at the same time, which is even better.

The six players were divided into two groups to conduct on-site evidence collection.

The first group consists of Zhen Sa (Xiao Sa), Zhen Lin (Lin Shaobai), and Zhen Zhang (Zhang Ruoyun).

At this time, Zhang Ruoyun had not yet become a leading figure in male-oriented TV dramas after starring in "Joy of Life".

This mystery-solving show also gained them a following.

He was very smart and had a clear mind on the show.

That's why he didn't feel out of place when he later acted in political dramas.

Even now, many people still praise Fan Xian, the character played by Guo Ruoyun.

That was definitely the representative role in his life.

Each group has a ten-minute time limit for evidence collection. Before the collection, Lin Shaobai uses an OP mobile phone to advertise.

He became the spokesperson for OP mobile phones right after his debut.

Lin Shaobai quickly arrived at the crime scene to collect evidence.

The remaining three are currently fine.

Teacher He went to the director's side.

The director smiled and said, "I think Lin Shaobai did a pretty good job. What do you think?"

"Yes. I didn't expect that he would be so logical and clear-headed on his first time participating in a detective reasoning show."

"If I have the chance, I would like to ask him to invite me to come again."

Teacher He gave a very strange expression.

"It depends on whether there's a scheduling conflict on his end."

"Yes. That's true. Lin Shaobai doesn't seem to appear on variety shows much. But I do really like him."

Soon, Lin Shaobai's group finished their ten-minute evidence search, and it was Teacher He's group's turn.

Once everyone has found some clues, we will conduct the first group deduction.

As a detective, Lin Shaobai also needs to act as a host, standing in front of the blackboard and pasting the photos of the six suspects on it.

At the same time, I started to explain the ideas to everyone.

“There are eight of us in Ready Player One today. Besides the six of you, there's me and the ‘deceased’…”

"Let me tell you about the first clue: I found the game instructions for Ready Player One. One of you owes 28 in debt and invited six other friends to join this game. The total debt will be forcibly split equally among you..."

When Lin Shaobai read this part, he thought that a similar TV series would be produced in the future.

The globally popular TV series "The Squid Game".

Everyone who participates in the game is heavily in debt, and they risk their lives to play it in order to win the huge prize money.

As Lin Shaobai was speaking, he suddenly noticed two words on Bai Jingting's arm.

[Pay back the money]

Lin Shaobai: "What's that on your arm?"

He suddenly became serious and pointed at Bai Jingting.

Bai Jingting panicked for a moment and smiled awkwardly, "I don't know either."

Sister Na: "Oh, I get it. You were the one who got us into this game, weren't you? You're the one who owes 28, right? Case solved, all done!"

"Pfft." Lin Shaobai couldn't help but laugh out loud. Sure enough, the Sun Goddess was as funny as ever.

Opinions about her online are mixed.

But I have to admit that this person is really funny.

Her greatest strength as a variety show host is her ability to liven up the atmosphere.

But of course, it won't end that simply.

Everyone present put the information they had just found on the blackboard and explained it to everyone step by step.

Lin Shaobai, as the detective, listened attentively throughout the entire conversation, and by now he had a clue in his mind.

After the first round of intensive discussion, it was time for the first round of secret ballot.

Lin Shaobai, acting as a detective, went inside.

Anyway, I've always watched these secret voting sessions offline before, and now it's my turn.

As a detective, I certainly can't lose face.

Especially after this episode airs, we can't let people think he's stupid. It would be better if we could create a smarter and more rational persona for him.

He's a top influencer; even a single glance from him can cause a huge uproar online.

After entering the voting room, Lin Shaobai looked at the camera and thought for a while.

In front of him were the ballot boxes for five suspects: Zhen Zhang, Zhen He, Zhen Sa, Zhen Na, and Zhen Bai.

Lin Shaobai: "The conditions offered by various parties are relatively few right now... but my intuition tells me it should be between Zhen Bai and Zhen Sa. Zhen Bai has the words 'repay the money' engraved on his hand, so it's very likely that he's the organizer of this game, the one who owes money... but Zhen Sa... tsk. Just throw it in randomly."

With too few known conditions, a complete deduction cannot be made; we can only choose one at random.

As soon as I stepped out of the room, I could smell the delicious aroma of food.

The show "Who's the Murderer" will take a break after a while.

After the first group discussion, everyone will have lunch. After the second search and the second discussion, everyone will have their own rest time to organize their thoughts.

If I don't rest, my brain is really going to explode!

Lin Shaobai took the boxed lunch from the staff. The side dishes were simple Kung Pao Chicken, shredded potatoes, and stir-fried green beans.

During the meal, Lin Shaobai seemed a little dazed, and Teacher He smiled and said, "Little Lin."

"Ok?"

"how do you feel?"

"There are just some things I can't understand, it's just..."

"It's okay. There are many things you won't understand during the first round of evidence gathering. But you'll suddenly understand during the second round. I know that since it's your first time being a detective, there are probably many things you don't understand and a lot of pressure, but relax, it's alright."

Lin Shaobai sighed inwardly.

Teacher He is still so good at comforting people.

There's a reason why she has such good relationships in the entertainment industry.

"Eat up, I see you haven't eaten any vegetables, just rice," Teacher He said with a smile.

Lin Shaobai froze when he ate the green beans.

Who says these beans are old? These beans are fantastic!
Ever since that clip went viral, every time I see green beans, I think of that meme.

He truly deserves the title of the king of flattery in the entertainment industry.

Zhang Ruoyun sat across from Lin Shaobai while eating, and he was thinking about the development of the plot as he ate.

The information provided so far is insufficient to deduce who the murderer is, and it's even uncertain which person corresponds to which number.

As he ate, he suddenly gasped, his small eyes looking at Lin Shaobai: "Detective Lin, what are your thoughts?"

Lin Shaobai shook his head: "No."

Sister Na: "Ugh, just eat properly. From now on, if anyone mentions the case again, I'll flip the table!"

As soon as Sister Na spoke, everyone else immediately shut up.

Before long, everyone was laughing together again.

No one believed she was really angry.

"I felt like my brain was going to explode at that time. I really admire you guys for recording so many episodes."

As it turned out, Na Jie brought it up herself first.

Bai Jingting: "Actually, it's alright, because I find reasoning very interesting, and I think everyone feels the same way."

The show "Who's the Murderer" requires a full day of filming.

The post-production editing also involves cutting this day's recording into two hours and making the story more interesting.

Every editing session is a nightmare, it's enough to make me go bald.

Aside from his seniors, Lin Shaobai has the highest popularity among the younger generation, and he is genuinely handsome.

Bai Jingting glanced at Zhang Ruoyun several times during their meal.

With such a rare top-tier celebrity sitting right in front of me, how could I not take a few more glances?!
Moreover, this superstar isn't just good-looking; he's also intelligent.

They performed well during the evidence gathering and discussion sessions.

While eating, Lin Shaobai would also observe the expressions of the other people, just in case the murderer would give himself away.

Let's see who's the most panicked.

(End of this chapter)