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Chapter 163: She Doesn't Know Her Thoughts Has Been Exposed, Right?
Returning to Wen Yan and Jiang Wanwan's campsite, the very first things that caught Shen Jingchuan and Shen Jinghe's eyes were the two rooftops not far away.
They actually built two separate small houses too?!
Unable to suppress his curiosity even a tiny bit, Shen Jingchuan immediately tugged on Wen Yan in front of him.
He asked in a low voice, "So you two live separately as well?"
"???" Wen Yan turned around, her face filled with total disbelief.
"'As well'? You just used the word 'as well'? So you and Shen Jinghe live separately! Under such grueling conditions where every single ounce of physical strength is so precious, you two actually live in separate quarters?!"
‘...These two have truly had enough! They really are two peas in a pod—from the same family, no doubt! Legend levels of petty! 666!’
Shen Jinghe: "..." Why is it that I clearly didn't say a word or do a thing, yet I still end up catching stray fire and being mocked while lying down?
It's all Shen Jingchuan's fault! If only he were a mute!
Shen Jingchuan chose to keep pushing his stubborn front: "I don't like sharing a room with anyone. It ruins my sleep quality."
Bullet Comments:
[After moving in together, who was the one sleeping earlier and waking up later than Shen Jinghe every single day? His sleep quality couldn't be better! Alex, won't your heart hurt saying that? Manually inserting doge head.]
"..." Wen Yan was somewhat speechless. "What kind of environment are we in right now? How come I never noticed you were so delicate and needy before? Let me make things clear to you first, there are no options for you to pick and choose from here.
"Just now Wanwan and I discussed it. The sauna room we built later can be given to you two to stay in. I'll take you over to check it out in a bit."
"A sauna room? Is your team's progress this far ahead?!" Shen Jingchuan's jaw nearly hit the ground in shock.
While two full-grown men like him and Shen Jinghe were still living meal to meal, bouncing between starving and stuffed, these two young women had actually started steaming in a snow-mountain sauna!
If this show got broadcasted, where would he even hide his face?
He had originally said he was coming to protect this girl, Wen Yan, but it turned out she was living a vastly more lavish and carefree life than he was!
Protect what, his ass?
In the end, he even had to move into their ready-made house.
He had no idea why he had even come to this show in the first place—had he known earlier, he wouldn't have come at all!
Bullet Comments:
[Hahaha! I feel like Alex's pupils are having an earthquake!]
[Forget about him—to be honest, seeing the Wen-Wan combination step-by-step make it to where they are today, my whole family was shocked too!]
[Because the Wen-Wan combination is genuinely insane! Compared to the other three teams, they are practically god-tier existences. Regardless of the final outcome, Wen-Wan is the NO.1 in my heart!]
[By the way, is anyone keeping an eye on the current voting standings? Who is number one right now? Is it our Wen-Wan?]
[Not yet! Right now, the top spot is still held by Qin Yan and Yin Haoyu's team because Yin Haoyu had exploding good luck and stumbled upon a huge moose carcass, though in the end his base got looted, haha!]
[Our Wen-Wan team's votes have stayed beneath theirs due to the food shortage, but now that they've caught fish and joined forces with Shen Jinghe's team, I reckon their votes will surpass Yin Haoyu's team very soon!]
[Yes! It's been rising steadily right now! Barring any accidents, they'll definitely take first place. Right now, even Alex's team is rising with the tide. Ever since Jing Hao's team withdrew, they'd been dead last the entire time!]
[Fam, what are we waiting for then? Hurry up and throw a wave of votes!]
[Sob sob sob, I can't! Since the show started airing, I've voted for the Wen-Wan team using all 8 of my accounts. I don't have any extra accounts left!]
[So many accounts! Then when the prize money gets split in the end, won't you personally get 8 shares?!]
[No way, I need to go register a few more accounts too!]
While the viewers in the livestream chat were plotting how to vote, Wen Yan and the others had already begun bustling about.
Shen Jingchuan and Shen Jinghe hadn't taken a proper bath in a very long time either. Before moving into the sauna room, they decided to take a hot soak first.
Now that the two teams had merged, they had two pots available.
The large pot brought by Wen Yan was used to boil hot water, while the Shen brothers' pot was used for cooking dinner.
By the time the sun was about to set, the four of them were huddled inside the rustic little kitchen, sipping hot, fragrant, steaming fish soup.
This rich, milky-white fish soup was exceptionally, amazingly delicious, especially for the two Shen brothers.
Neither of them had eaten such a proper meal in a long, long time.
Wen Yan and Jiang Wanwan hadn't eaten fish in many days either; the moment they caught the aroma, the food cravings in their bellies had long been triggered.
Now with hot soup entering their bellies, nobody had the heart to speak, all lowering their heads to dig into the food.
However, this drove the viewers in the livestream room insane with impatience.
[Is the silent film starting again? Why isn't anyone talking?]
[Looking at this livestream in a world of ice and snow already feels cold, but what's even colder than the vast snow is the mouths of these handsome guys and gorgeous gals!]
[It really is an absolute feast for the eyes, but the silence is also truly silent!]
[Cold and proud, cool and quiet, distant and austere!]
[The moment they gather together, it feels like the 'cold' buff instantly stacked to the max—multiplied by 3 all at once!]
[Haha, it's fine! We still have our little sun, Wen Yan! Haven't you guys noticed? When the other three are together, they don't say much, but whenever any single one of them spends time alone with Wen Yan, they have plenty to say!]
[Hahaha, without cute little Wen Yan, this big family would fall apart sooner or later!]
Wen Yan and the others couldn't see the bullet comments in the livestream room.
If she could, she would definitely send a floating line of giant, colorful text across the screen:
‘Fam, is it possible that we're just seriously digging into our food?’
Once they were nearly full, Wen Yan wiped her mouth and broke the silence.
"By the way, is there really no food resource whatsoever in the area where you guys were staying?"
"Yeah," Shen Jingchuan picked up the topic. "Why would I lie to you? If we could eat and drink our fill, Brother Jing Hao wouldn't have used an item card to swap campsites with us.
"In other words, two waves of people went to that spot one after another, and after searching for nearly twenty days, neither group found a single trace of small animals."
Wen Yan nodded, then asked, "How did you guys look for them?"
"By looking for footprints, of course! The ground is all covered in snow—if animals pass by, they'll definitely leave tracks. Did you guys not look for them that way?"
"Actually, no!" Speaking of this, Wen Yan's eyes lit up. "Let me tell you, the small animals in the forest aren't stupid either. At the beginning, when the snow wasn't this deep, we searched for them using their droppings.
"But later, as the snow grew heavier, they were also terrified of being discovered by their natural predators, so they learned to hide their tracks and scent. They are actually very smart—at times like this, they won't walk on the surface of the deep snow and leave footprints like we humans do. Instead, they choose to dig tunnels through the thick snowpack. That way, as they move inside the snow, their natural predators won't spot them at all. Of course, these are all small animals—large animals couldn't do this, nor would they need to.
So I think, at most, your campsite area just lacks large animals. There should still be some small animals around, like wild rabbits or squirrels."
"..." Shen Jingchuan listened in utter dumbfounded astonishment. "So you're actually not an airhead after all? When did you go behind our backs and secretly make progress?"
Wen Yan: "..."
‘Has this guy spent so much time around Shen Jinghe that his tongue has become toxic too? What the hell is he talking about? Zero-star review!’
Shen Jinghe: "..." Can someone drag Shen Jingchuan out and execute him?! Why do I always have to take stray bullets because of him!
Wen Yan shot Shen Jingchuan a small glare: "I've realized that spending time with you is really hard on the eyes."
"Why?" Shen Jingchuan didn't catch on for a moment.
Wen Yan: "Because I constantly feel like rolling my eyes."
Shen Jinghe, who had been silent for a long time, chimed in: "I feel the same way."
Jiang Wanwan: "..."
Bullet Comments:
[??? Why do I constantly feel like these three actually share a bit of implicit tacit understanding among them?]
[Originally, looking at them separately, I really didn't feel it, but with Jiang Wanwan sitting next to them as a control group, why do I suddenly feel like Jiang Wanwan is a bit out of place?]
[Not really, right? Alex and Shen Jinghe interacted in this exact mode before! And in Season 1, Wen Yan and Alex were pretty familiar with each other too, plus Wen Yan knows Shen Jinghe—rounded off, count it as all three being pretty familiar with one another. Fine, I don't know what I'm saying either, I'll just keep watching the stream!]
On set, Shen Jingchuan glanced at Shen Jinghe, feeling somewhat annoyed.
Yet ever since the barrier between them had been broken down, Shen Jinghe was now able to respond to Shen Jingchuan's remarks without any barrier at all.
"What are you glaring at me for? Was I wrong?"
"Get lost!" After saying that, Shen Jingchuan turned his head toward Wen Yan with a grin. "Come on, let's keep talking."
Wen Yan found it amusing.
It seems like these two have actually reconciled! They can even joke around with each other now.
So she picked up where she left off and explained to Shen Jingchuan:
"Before I came to participate in the show, I did do some homework regarding snow mountains. Tomorrow we still have to head into the woods to check our traps. The snow over there is incredibly deep—it's practically impossible to walk, takes a ton of effort. So once you finish eating, hurry up and go clean up your room to get ready for bed."
"Sounds good. These past two days I've been truly exhausted and sleepy. Thank goodness we found you guys today and got to move into a ready-made house."
After a whole day of hard labor, everyone was exhausted.
The moment it turned dark, they each squeezed into their respective small wooden cabins.
Before sleeping, Jiang Wanwan signaled for Wen Yan to mute her mic.
She asked Wen Yan, "Tomorrow when we go into the woods, do you want me to create an opportunity for you and Shen Jinghe?"
Wen Yan was just about to say it wasn't necessary, but after giving it some thought, she changed her mind, because she indeed had a few words she wanted to say to Shen Jinghe in private.
However, she genuinely regarded Jiang Wanwan as a friend, and deceiving a friend wasn't her style.
"Wanwan, actually things aren't what you think, but right now on the show it's inconvenient for me to explain. Once filming ends, I'll explain it all to you."
"There's a story behind this?" But since Wen Yan said she'd explain after the show, Jiang Wanwan didn't pry any further. "Then I'll just wait until after the recording ends."
"Okay! When the time comes, I'll treat you to something delicious! By the way, I actually want to dig for a bit of gossip too, do you currently have a dating partner or someone you like?"
If she remembered correctly, in the original web novel, before the female lead's 'career line' officially kicked off, the author had already arranged for her and the book's male lead to meet and spark a tiny bit of chemistry.
Sure enough, Jiang Wanwan's answer had a subtle hint of that flavor in it.
"I don't have a dating partner. As for someone I like... he, well, probably hasn't appeared yet. Besides, I don't want to talk about personal romance right now."
This, Wen Yan knew.
Jiang Wanwan still had to fight her way back to the Jiang family for revenge, trampling all those awful relatives who had bullied her and her mother underfoot.
However, it wasn't polite for Wen Yan to pry into such family affairs; even if she asked, Jiang Wanwan might not necessarily share.
Still, there was another person that Wen Yan had been keeping in mind.
"Then can I ask you about another person?"
"Who?"
"Someone named Qin Weiran. Is there someone like that around you, or do you know her?"
Jiang Wanwan gave it careful thought: "I don't know her. And there's no such person around me either. Who is she? Is she very important to you?"
"Um... how should I put it, not really. She's just someone I know of, but she probably doesn't know me at all. She's roughly in our line of work too—I'm not entirely sure either, so I'm just asking around everywhere."
"You've asked other industry peers too?"
"Mm, asked a few."
"Then I'll keep an eye out for you. If I see her in the future, I'll notify you right away."
"Thanks, darling!" Since the female lead herself had already appeared, she assumed that other person would probably show up very soon as well.
The next morning, after the four of them had a combined breakfast-lunch, they prepared to go check the traps.
Because they had agreed on it last night, Jiang Wanwan took the initiative to call Shen Jingchuan over to her side and headed toward the woods in the east.
That left Wen Yan and Shen Jinghe to head into the woods in the west.
The moment she found an opportunity, Wen Yan muted her mic.
Without her needing to say a word, Shen Jinghe consciously muted his mic as well.
He lowered his gaze to stare at Wen Yan, quietly waiting for her to speak.
In fact, Shen Jinghe could roughly guess what Wen Yan wanted to say, and he had been waiting for it all along.
"Go ahead, what is it? Keep it short, we don't have much time."
"Yes, that's exactly what I intended too! Because it's inconvenient right now, I can't explain everything in detail to you, and I know you don't like others dictating your decisions, but I hope you can listen to me this once, okay?"
"Say it."
"You cannot like Jiang Wanwan."
"Why?"
"Because she doesn't like you—it's that simple. One-sided feelings are destined to end badly."
"Then I have a question. This is the first time she and I have met; how do you know for sure that I will like her?"
"Because I saw you stealing glances at her, and multiple times at that! You might not know this, but before I came to record Season 2, Mom talked to me about your personal life. Mom asked if you had any close female friends in the industry."
"And what did you say?"
"I told her the truth! I said you've never had rumors or flings with anyone, and you don't even spare a second glance at female celebrities on regular days. But in the blink of an eye, guess what I saw? Your eyes were constantly drifting onto Jiang Wanwan, intentionally or otherwise!"
"..." Shen Jinghe raised his eyebrow slightly.
Look at how dead serious this girl sounded when she talked! But back at the airport, hadn't he clearly heard her inner voice first before he even looked at Jiang Wanwan?
She seemed to still be completely oblivious to the fact that her inner thoughts had been exposed to him all this while, right?
However, now wasn't the time to talk about these things, because the camera crew was already catching up.
Shen Jinghe immediately lowered his voice: "We'll talk about it after we get back. But rest assured, I promise I won't spare another glance at Jiang Wanwan from here on out."
And as a matter of fact, he truly no longer held that desire anyway.
This was actually a very bizarre thing, just as strange as suddenly being able to hear Wen Yan's inner thoughts.
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