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Hua Yu felt a little uneasy.

Since recording the show, he has always felt like an outsider who could be kicked out of the group chat at any time.

I want to fit in, but I feel out of place everywhere.

For example, right now.

Over there, three female guests were chatting and laughing, enthusiastically pounding frozen wood ear mushrooms, and occasionally complimenting each other on their spoils.

Meanwhile, Fang Yu and Chen Daoming, the old man and the young man, sneaked away behind an old tree a dozen meters away, where they were carrying out some shady secret operation.

What are they doing?

What rare and precious materials are they stealing?!

Or did I trigger a hidden side quest?

What's most infuriating is—why aren't you including me in the game?!

The thought of this made Hua Yu's fragile self-esteem sour.

No, we absolutely cannot be marginalized like this.

I have to go and join in the fun.

Hua Yu straightened up and stretched deliberately.

It was as if they were stretching their muscles after picking wood ear mushrooms.

Then he started walking slowly toward Fang Yu and Chen Daoming.

His steps were slow, his gaze was unfocused, and he seemed to be casually admiring the snow scene.

— People who are pretentious even have to follow a script when they walk.

"Teacher Chen, Fang Yu."

He strolled behind the tree, forcing himself to adopt a casual, passerby-like tone:

"What are you two doing here?"

The voice just fell.

An elderly man and a young boy, who were frantically weeding, froze in their tracks.

The two stopped what they were doing with perfect understanding and quickly exchanged a glance.

That one look was full of emotion.

Guilt, fear, and a touch of "Holy crap, I've been found out" vigilance.

Immediately afterwards, the two of them straightened up in unison.

She can control her facial expressions in a second, always appearing completely harmless.

"It's nothing."

Fang Yu opened his mouth and immediately stuffed the "Kidney Essence Tea" in his hand into his inner pocket.

With hands shrugged and an expression as innocent as could be:

"I noticed some wild grass growing on the tree. It was quite unusual to see it so green in the dead of winter, so I picked a couple of leaves to take a look."

"Yes, just ordinary weeds."

Chen Daoming followed closely behind and quickly completed the act of hiding the stolen goods.

Then, with his hands behind his back, he resumed the air of an old artist and added:

"Xiao Fang said the shape of this grass leaves is quite unique, and I thought so too, so I studied it for a while."

The old and the young, singing in harmony, worked together flawlessly.

However, the more they acted this way, the deeper Hua Yu's doubts became.

weed?

Does it look funny?

You're kidding me!

If it's really as indifferent as you say...

Why did you have to hide what you had so quickly?

Looking at their airtight secrecy...

Hua Yu suddenly felt a surge of acid reflux.

It's confirmed, this is definitely an attempt to exclude him!

He opened his mouth, wanting to ask a couple more questions.

But he swallowed the words back down his throat.

Asking any further questions would make me seem petty.

It's as if they have to pry into other people's secrets.

If you don't want to talk, then forget it!

This top star doesn't even care to listen to that!

Hua Yu thought to himself, his delicate face immediately turning cold.

—The progress bar for the character's transformation has already reached fifty percent.

It just so happened at this very moment.

Fang Daqiang also joined in at some point.

"Wow! Xiaoyu, you have a good eye!"

Old Fang watched as the girls finished picking their flowers, then strolled over to see what his son was doing.

Then I immediately noticed a small patch of green leaf veins remaining on the tree.

He exclaimed in a loud voice:

"Why are there so many 'howling' birds near the edge of this forest?"

"These things are hard to come by these days; they're rare finds!"

Fang Yu's head buzzed, and he almost had a heart attack.

He desperately winked and made faces at his father:

"Dad! This is tea, a special wild tea!"

Unfortunately, Lao Fang didn't get the distress signal his son was sending at all.

He looked completely at ease:

"Yes, it's tea! It's called Kidney Essence Tea, isn't it!"

Fang Yu: "..."

Chen Daoming: "..."

If he could call an alien spaceship right now, Fang Yu would like to buy two standing tickets and leave Earth overnight.

The scene instantly fell into a deathly silence.

Everyone's movements froze.

A dozen meters away.

Liu Yifei, Ju Jingyi, and Zhang Manyu are working hard.

I clearly heard the deafening words "howling" and "kidney essence tea".

Three women—

From a pure and innocent girl group idol in her twenties to a national goddess untouched by worldly affairs, and then to a seasoned veteran in her fifties who has seen it all.

Their reactions at this moment were remarkably consistent.

They were all stunned for a second, their wooden sticks hanging in mid-air.

Immediately afterwards—

"Wow...the snow scenery in these mountains is truly unique! Look over there, it's so white..."

Zhang Manyu spoke first, abruptly changing the subject.

"Yes, yes! Sister Manyu, look at those crystals, they're so clear and sparkling, like frost on a tree, they're so beautiful!"

Ju Jingyi quickly followed and immediately started rambling incoherently.

As for Liu Yifei—

She silently pulled up her thick neck warmer, covering her bright red face tightly.

I shrunk down like an ostrich, wishing I could just crawl into a hole in the snow right there.

She mentally pounded on Fang Yu's virtual avatar.

Why are you picking that stuff?!

Anyone who didn't know better would think something had happened between us!

At this moment, the live stream room had completely transformed into a sea of ​​joy.

[Hahahaha! Holy crap! Holy crap! I screamed like a pig!]

No wonder Fang Yu and Chen Daoming were sneaking around to get their hands on this; who wouldn't be tempted by such a masculine tonic?

[The veteran artist Chen: My lifelong reputation has been ruined today in these deep mountains and forests.]

[Liu Yifei's inner thoughts at this moment: I don't know him. I'm not familiar with him. We're just ordinary colleagues.]

Meanwhile, Hua Yu's corruption progress bar has reached 80%...

At that moment, he was completely thrown into the air.

A...a...scream?

Kidney... Essence... Tea?

He stood there dumbfounded in the snow, those words playing on repeat in his mind.

Although Hua Yu was aloof, he wasn't stupid.

The name is extremely suggestive.

It's so clear that no further explanation is needed.

He finally realized what those two had been hiding.

An extremely complex emotion surged within him.

Some suddenly realized, while others were left speechless with a mixture of amusement and disbelief.

More than anything, it's a sense of relief that's utterly absurd.

After all that effort...

The treasure you two secretly picked behind my back, is this the thing?

That's it?

His pride, which had been severely damaged by being ostracized, was now broken.

At that moment, he received a strange healing.