Geng Yiyi closed the door in a fit of rage, then she remembered that Bai Ningning was also outside.

She opened the door a crack again, poked her head in and asked Bai Ningning, "Ningning, don't worry about that idiot. Come in and cool down inside."

"Let the smell go away! We won't go in until it's gone away!" Chu Xisen said, pulling Bai Ningning's wrist and walking out.

"I'll be there in a moment." Bai Ningning turned around and said hello, then was pulled away by Chu Xisen.

Geng Yiyi closed the door and sighed, "It's really pitiful that Ningning has a brother like this. Did they know each other before?"

Zhang Yongchao thought carefully for a while. "I originally thought I didn't know him, but it feels like I've met him once or twice... But strangely, it seems like only Chu Xisen unilaterally admitted that they knew each other."

Geng Yiyi got the answer she wanted and asked, "When will the other group come?"

Chief Director: "It's almost there, it should be here in ten minutes."

On the other side, Bai Ningning asked, "There aren't many shops at the foot of the mountain. Where are you going?"

Although Chu Xisen pulled her away, he only held her wrist loosely, and Bai Ningning easily broke free.

When they reached an open area, Chu Xisen stopped and said, "I have a phone call I want to ask you."

Bai Ningning took out the hairpin, handed it to him, and asked, "Can you smell it?"

"It doesn't have any special smell, just an ordinary...sandalwood scent? Why does this thing have a sandalwood scent?" Chu Xisen answered subconsciously and waved his hand, "Don't change the subject, I really have something to say..."

Bai Ningning stuffed the hairpin into Chu Xisen's hand and said, "There might be three ghosts in here. Please keep them safe for me. It would be best if they all stay in there obediently. If they come out...you can handle it yourself."

Chu Xisen was stunned and immediately went crazy: "No, you gave me such a dangerous thing? What the hell is this?"

Bai Ningning: "The twins' biological sister and mother in the box."

Chu Xisen: “?”

His first reaction was: He was complaining, not asking about the ghost's identity!

Then I took a few more seconds to react, feeling that the amount of information was a bit overwhelming.

Bai Ningning: "Geng Yiyi is nominally the twins' older sister, but in reality she might become their stepmother."

Chu Xisen received a large amount of information in a short period of time, as if his brain was overloaded, and he became demented.

Bai Ningning waited quietly for a few seconds and said, "That's all I can say. Just do what you have to do and don't let anything slip. OK?"

Chu Xisen looked like he had a headache: "... Wait a moment, let me take my time."

"Hey—" A pair of brothers waved at them from a distance, "Chu Xisen! Do you want to go eat together?"

Chu Xisen raised his hand casually with an unhappy look on his face as a greeting.

His mind was in a mess, and he put the hairpin into his pocket first.

If there really is a ghost sealed inside this hairpin, we can only say that it is very well made.

Generally speaking, the container that seals ghosts will have some bad smell, but this hairpin does not have that at all, so he is not worried at all that the ghost inside will run out.

There is quite an age difference between the two brothers. The younger brother looks like a middle school student who is about 15 or 16 years old and has not yet fully grown up. He has a slender frame and looks quite handsome.

The younger brother almost jumped in front of Bai Ningning, looking at her with sparkling eyes: "You are so beautiful."

"Thank you." Bai Ningning responded politely, and kindly reminded, "It is not recommended for minors to participate in this variety show."

The younger brother seemed to be used to being misunderstood and responded good-naturedly: "I am an adult now. I just celebrated my eighteenth birthday last month."

Bai Ningning stared at him in confusion.

His voice was clear, sweet, and bright, as if he was a child who had not gone through the voice change period.

The elder brother came late and put his arm around his younger brother's shoulder. Thinking that his younger brother had said something wrong again, he smiled apologetically at Bai Ningning: "Sorry, my brother is a little naughty. You are Chu Xisen's sister, right? You two look exactly the same."

Bai Ningning: “…”

The younger brother turned around and smiled slyly, his tone as if he was acting coquettishly: "Brother, girls will be unhappy if they are told that."

Bai Ningning seemed to be hallucinating and saw translucent misty twin ponytails appearing on his ears.

She shifted her gaze and explained, "We're not siblings. I'm a passerby found by the program team. My name is Bai Ningning."

"I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Gu Yuanfan, and this is my brother Gu Bozhi."

Gu Yuanfan has been in the entertainment industry for many years and is very good at reading people's faces. He thinks that these two people must have some relationship, but they just don't want to say it.

He glanced at the unhappy Chu Xisen again, and his voice became much softer: "The director just sent a message in the group, saying that we should have dinner together and record some small behind-the-scenes footage. Are you guys going over now?"

"Go, buy a few bottles of water on the way."

After Bai Ningning finished answering, she glanced at Chu Xisen, who was still unhappy but hadn't said anything, and asked, "Are you still going?"

Chu Xisen's face darkened: "Go. I told you to stay away from Geng Yiyi. She stinks."

Chu Xisen frowned slightly and looked at Gu Bozhi: "Are you not feeling well?"

He could even smell the scent of wandering soul emanating from Gu Bozhi. He had seen this kind of situation before when he followed his second brother. The soul was unstable and often left the body. People with this kind of soul usually had poor health.

Gu Bozhi was a little surprised. He had put on makeup today, but he didn't expect Chu Xisen to still be able to see it at a glance.

He covered his mouth with his hand exaggeratedly: "You can even see that?"

Chu Xisen: "If you are not feeling well, I advise you to stay away from Geng Yiyi's family. It's up to you whether you listen or not."

Gu Bozhi had never met Geng Yiyi in person, but he had heard about it and knew that Chu Xisen and Geng Yiyi had a grudge.

He didn't take it seriously and asked jokingly, "Then can I follow Sister Ningning?"

Bai Ningning shook her head: "I suggest you listen to his advice. It's best for you to follow Chu Xisen. His instinct to seek benefits and avoid harm is quite strong."

Gu Bozhi was puzzled: "Aren't you two brother and sister? Shouldn't you act together?"

Bai Ningning: "Don't ask so many questions, kid."

Chu Xisen shook his head: "A person with an unstable soul like you dares to participate in a haunted house variety show. Don't you have any idea in your heart?"

Gu Bozhi immediately stopped smiling and became obedient, not daring to respond.

Gu Yuanfan looked at him suspiciously: "You haven't set up a charlatan persona, so how come..."

Chu Xisen's mind was still in a mess, and he was too lazy to argue with them. He said directly: "Keep your brother away from Geng Yiyi and the twin brothers she brought with her."

After he finished speaking, he walked towards the grocery store and asked Bai Ningning, "What would you like to drink?"

Bai Ningning: "Mineral water is fine."

Chu Xisen was unhappy: "Choose a drink. You came out specially to buy two bottles of mineral water. It makes me look stupid."

Bai Ningning: "Buying drinks at the foot of the mountain makes you look stupid. There aren't many shops at the foot of the mountain, and the flow of people is low, so it's easy to overstock. Mineral water has the widest market share and is often fresh."

She grew up in the mountains, and these little-known facts that others might not even think of are part of her daily routine.

Chu Xisen took two seconds to react before he felt that what she said made sense, but then he felt that she was fooling him: "You didn't make up a set of rhetoric just to fight me, did you?"

“…”

Bai Ningning slumped her shoulders and took a deep breath, feeling hopeless about his intelligence. "Why do you always doubt things you shouldn't? Believe it or not, just buy it and go back."

When Chu Xisen went to the grocery store, she found that it was just as she said. Only the mineral water was relatively fresh, and some of the drinks were covered in dust and looked dirty.

Gu Yuanfan and his brother followed along, wondering, "Are you buying it just for us?"

Chu Xisen casually took a few bottles of drinks and asked the boss to pay: "Then I will do a good deed every day."

Gu Bozhi wondered, "Does bringing them drinks count as a good deed?"

Chu Xisen: "No, I'm helping the boss clear out the unsold drinks."

Everyone: “…”

The boss thought he was disgusted and continued to sell him a bottle with a smile: "It's a little old, but it's not expired. It tastes good. It's just that the outer packaging is a little dusty. I'll wipe it off for you with a rag."

Chu Xisen carried the plastic bag and said to Bai Ningning, "I'll carry it to the door for you. You take it in. If I had brought it, they definitely wouldn't drink it."

Bai Ningning: “…”

He just bought a few bottles of drinks that didn't look good. Why did Chu Xisen act as if he was guilty of poisoning someone?

No one expected that the four of them would arrive together. When Geng Yiyi was about to open the door to welcome new friends enthusiastically, she saw Chu Xisen's face when she opened the door, and her expression changed instantly.

Chu Xisen even fanned the air in front of his nose in disgust: "No smell? You really don't mind the smell."

Geng Yiyi rolled her eyes. "Your nose is the only problem. I suggest you quit the variety show and go to the hospital."

Gu Bozhi's eyes widened. He didn't expect them to start arguing with each other so fiercely right from the start.

Bai Ningning seemed oblivious to the tense atmosphere in the box. She walked past them expressionlessly and went straight into the room, finding a random seat to sit down and placing her drink on the table. "Isn't it pointless to argue now? If you wait until after the show starts, the director might be so happy he'll jump for joy."

"No..." The director tried hard to keep a straight face, not daring to show it even if he really thought so.

If this kind of atmosphere can be created on a variety show, the ratings will definitely soar, and then all kinds of commercial sponsorship will come, and there will be no worries about not being able to make back the investment.

Bai Ningning glanced at the twins and then looked at Gu Bozhi, maintaining a calm appearance. In her heart, she was shocked and doubtful, suspecting that she was not seeing hallucinations, but was really witnessing strange supernatural events.

A translucent, misty thing rendered in a strange blue color - the twins also had this thing, the color was much darker than Gu Bozhi's twintails, and had a black tint.

Judging from its shape, it seems to be a two or three-year-old child - a ghost baby.

There was a ghost baby hanging on each of the twins, one lying on their necks and the other hanging on their legs as if it was about to fall off.

Bai Ningning screamed for help in her heart, and even wanted to call Yuan Muyang or Lu Yu and loudly question them: Is this a variety show that ordinary people should participate in?!

The only normal person in this variety show who knows nothing may be Gu Yuanfan.

Geng Yiyi could also see these little ghosts, and she felt disgusted with Cheng Jingwu for not doing his job, and believed that he would get his comeuppance sooner or later.

If Cheng Jingwu really suffered retribution for this, she would still be doing the people a disservice.

Chu Xisen opened the window, picked a seat next to it, and pulled Bai Ningning over: "Sit in a ventilated place, don't let the smoke make you stupid."

Seeing that they were not cooperating with each other, the director simply removed all the cameras from the room and stopped recording this behind-the-scenes footage.

Bai Ningning: “…”

She didn't want to get involved in their dispute, so she wiped the drink bottle with a wet towel to divert her attention.

Zhang Yongchao also tried to smooth things over and passed out the drinks that Bai Ningning had prepared. "Is this the drink Ningning prepared for everyone? It's so hot out, let's all have a drink to cool down."

"Chu Xisen bought it at the grocery store."

Bai Ningning explained while looking at the drink bottle she had wiped clean: "Does this look okay? Go ahead and drink it."

Geng Yiyi: "How could he have such good intentions? Is there something wrong with this drink?"

Bai Ningning didn't hide anything from her and told her the truth: "It was a little dusty, so it looked a little bad in the convenience store, but now it's fine after being wiped clean. If you mind, you can pour it into a cup and drink it."

Geng Yiyi felt a little complicated.

Deliberately picking out things that don't look good to disgust her is indeed something that someone with low intelligence like Chu Xisen would do.

She originally just wanted to pick a fight with Chu Xisen and had no intention of drinking the drink.

But Bai Ningning was so sincere and enthusiastic that she felt a little embarrassed. She took the bottle of drink and also handed drinks to her two younger brothers.

One of the twins took a look and swept the drink aside. "What kind of cheap brand is this? I only drink mineral water that costs ten yuan a bottle."

The drink bottle was knocked over, rolled a few times on the table, and fell heavily to the ground, making the room silent.

Geng Yiyi suddenly became angry: "Can you be a little polite?"

Bai Ningning smiled sweetly, "It's okay. There's no mineral water on the mountain. If you don't bring your own water, you'll be thirsty for three days. With such noble bloodlines, you two should be stronger than us ordinary people. Three days without water is nothing, right?"

Everyone in the box was a little stunned. They didn't expect Bai Ningning to be so sarcastic.

Bai Ningning continued with a deadpan tone, "The tables and chairs here don't seem expensive, and the materials aren't particularly good. They're probably not worthy of you two, so I suggest you don't sit down. There's no takeout at the mountain castle. According to the contract, you'll have to cook both lunch and dinner yourself. You two must be amazing culinary talents, so I wonder if you brought your own ingredients? If the ingredients prepared by the production team aren't worthy of your status, you probably wouldn't have touched the table, right?"

She spoke very quickly and clearly, and the twins' faces changed after a conversation.

The twins didn't want to stay here any longer. They were just thinking of finding an opportunity to kick the stool and leave. As soon as they stood up, before their feet even touched the stool, they heard Geng Yiyi's cold voice say, "Think it over carefully."

He didn't say much, and he wasn't harsh, but the twins instantly settled down.

They felt it was humiliating to sit there like that, and said unhappily, "Can we go out for some fresh air, please?"

"Whatever." Geng Yiyi said with a cold face as she opened a bottle of drink and started drinking.

Gu Bozhi didn't dare to breathe. He looked at his brother with innocent puppy eyes and asked silently: Are the relationships between brothers and sisters in this show so fake?

Gu Yuanfan sighed silently and patted his brother's shoulder gently: Yes, the relationship between most celebrities in the entertainment industry is so plastic.

Geng Yiyi apologized to Bai Ningning on their behalf: "I'm sorry, my two younger brothers have been spoiled at home and have become a little lawless."

Bai Ningning smiled brightly: "I was just a little angry just now, but I'm no longer angry after I scolded you. It's actually harder for you as a sister."

Chu Xisen leaned back in his chair and watched the show like a big shot. Seeing Bai Ningning comforting her, he was a little displeased: "Why do you care about her? You are my sister in the show. You should keep your distance from these people I don't like. Understand?"

Bai Ningning looked at him helplessly: "So why did you participate in this variety show when you knew there were people you didn't like here?"

Chu Xisen: "I never look at the guest list when I participate in variety shows. I only found out she was there after I showed up. What can I do?"

The director was extremely glad that he didn't turn on the camera to record, otherwise it would have been so embarrassing.

He wiped his sweat and said, "The program team has invited two masters of metaphysics to accompany us this time. They will be here soon. Wait a moment."

Chu Xisen: "It's time to find someone to get rid of the bad luck. Ask the master if he can help Geng Yiyi to be liberated as well."

Geng Yiyi moved further away from him in a bad mood. "Master, I suggest you take a look at your nose. Make sure it's not blocked by something filthy that makes everything you smell stink."

The two people just couldn't see eye to eye, and the atmosphere was tense, as if they were about to fight at any moment.

As they were confronting each other, a terrible scream suddenly came from outside the door, and it sounded like it came from twins.