"Wei Wei, congratulations." Wu Lian Jie placed his arms around Ning Wei's shoulder before Ning Wei pushed his arms away a second later. This time, he did not mind Ning Wei's action. His eyes were on the packets of high-grade meat on the table.
Ning Wei won the game by selling the vegetables the fastest, and the production rewarded her with packets of meat.
Just imagining cooking the meat on the grill and letting it melt in the mouth could make one salivate.
"Now that you won, you should not forget your friends," Wu Lian Jie said.
Ning Wei looked at Wu Lian Jie and pretended not to understand his meaning. "I remember that my teammates are He Zhen and Ai Lun. Naturally, I will share my reward with my teammates." The smile on her face turned mischievous. "You can watch us from the side."
He Zhen smiled happily. "Ning Wei, you are so nice."
She thought that Ning Wei was going to eat that meat alone or with her bandmates. Unexpectedly, Ning Wei said that she would share them with her as well.
"Wei Wei, I didn't expect that you would forget our years of friendship just like that?" He pointed a finger at Ning Wei with an aggrieved look on his face. "Bros before chicks. Have you forgotten about this?"
The corner of Ning Wei's lips started to twitch. "Don't speak nonsense. You are going to stain Miss He's reputation with your words."
Wu Lian Jie gasped. He turned to He Zhen, looking apologetic. "Miss He, I'm sorry. I did not mean to say things that could damage your name."
He Zhen was surprised by Wu Lian Jie's sudden apology. Moreover, Wu Lian Jie's expression told her that he was genuinely apologizing to her. He Zhen stared at Wu Lian Jie for a while and let out an awkward laugh. "It's alright."
Ning Wei looked away and happened to see Ning Yue looking at her unhappily. Her thoughts went back to the final result.
Ning Wei won first place for selling the vegetables the fastest. Ning Yue got second place. She sold her vegetables ten minutes after Ning Wei.
Next were Ding Chuan and Wu Lian Jie. While He Zhen got the last place.
He Zhen's image as a villainess in a drama was still too strong. Earlier, her live channel was flooded with viewers, but a lot of people were cursing He Zhen for making the female lead's life difficult in the drama.
The way Ning Yue was looking at her made Ning Wei feel uneasy.
Was she unhappy that she got second place? Or was it because of that Young Master again?
Her agency reminded them to be nice to Ning Yue as she had a powerful figure behind her.
Instead of being nice to Ning Yue, Ning Wei's instinct was to tell her not to get involved with Ning Yue.
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Ning Wei and her members spent five days in H Town to shoot.
On the day the filming ended, their manager, Fu Ming Shi, showed up in his nanny car.
Seeing the familiar car turned Wu Lian Jie's expression uglier.
When they came to H Town, their manager made them hike up the mountain to reach the town. The manager even told some nonsense that a car couldn't reach the town by car.
Climbing up the mountain was tiring. What annoyed Wu Lian Jie the most was the bugs all around him.
It was only now that Wu Lian Jie realized that the manager was lying to him.
The moment Wu Lian Jie sat in the vehicle, he covered his face with his cap and closed his eyes. Right now, he was too lazy to talk to his manager.
"How was the shoot? Tiring?" Fu Ming Shi asked as he turned to look at the members. The smile on his face widened when he saw everyone's unhappy faces. "I see that you brought along a lot of vegetables with you."
Before they left, the farmers came over to thank them for spending their time in H Town.
The celebrities helped them to promote their town as well as their vegetables.
The grateful farmers did not have much with them. They could only thank everyone by giving them the vegetables from H Town.
"Brother Fu turned up the air conditioner." Ding Chuan fanned himself with his hand. "It's too hot."
Fu Ming Shi heaved a sigh, noticing that the members were too tired to talk to him.
"Brother Fu, don't ask," Ning Wei said with a sigh. "My muscles are all sore. Try to stay in the town and farm for a few days. Then you'll know how tiring it is."
Fu Ming Shi pursed his lips into a thin line. A trace of sympathy appeared on his face as he recalled that Ning Wei had to work as hard as the other guys during these past few days.
Everyone must have let him do all the hard work, thinking that he was a man.
But then, Ning Wei should have known that she would have to face something like this when she decided to pretend that she was a man.
"I heard that you won a game in the show," Fu Ming Shi said. His expression turned serious when he recalled something that the higher-ups had told him. "The higher-ups were not too happy."
"Why not?" Ai Lun looked displeased.
He remembered that Ning Wei had won fairly. Why would the higher-ups be unhappy over something like this?
"It was planned for Ning Yue to win the game."
Fu Ming Shi's words turned everyone quiet.
Wu Lian Jie, who was pretending to sleep, took off his cap and stared at Fu Ming Shi unhappily.
He was in the same team as Ning Yue and that woman had made him do all sorts of work when the camera was not pointing at them. Seeing Ning Yue blinking her eyes almost made him push her away.
They had never thought that Ning Yue was going to ask the production to win a game.
"Brother Fu, you told us to be nice to Ning Yue because of the people behind her," Ai Lun said. "Who is it?"
"I'm not sure." Fu Ming Shi shrugged. "I only know that her uncle is someone powerful."