Chapter 39 Mission Release Mission in Advance

When Ning Heng got the video, he was already planning to send a copy to Gao Luo, but after entering her email address on the computer, he found that the address was just a name.

He tried to spell it, then listed two names with the same pronunciation, Xie Ran and Xie Ran, and finally locked on Xie Ran. The reason was simple: he had seen this name before - on the day when Feng Daiyue became a hot topic, it was listed together with Feng Daiyue and her ex-boyfriend Song Rui's names.

Weibo was quite lively during those days, and Ning Heng certainly didn't miss it.

First, Feng Daiyue revealed that she had a boyfriend, and then the onlookers discovered that Song Rui had broken up with her. Then Song Rui openly quarreled with Feng Daiyue on Weibo and confessed his love for another girl, Xie Ran. In the end, the public pointed the finger at Xie Ran as the reason for their breakup, but unexpectedly, the person’s colleague came out to clarify the truth and clear her name.

Throughout this series of melons, although Xie Ran herself never showed up and acted like a bystander, everyone knew that she was a very important character in this story.

Ning Heng felt that he was overthinking it. A'Luo and Xie Ran had nothing in common, so how could they be related?

But for some reason, he wanted to test the waters with this name. So he said those two words in front of her at the airport. Gao Luo's reaction was completely beyond his expectations.

When she heard the name Xie Ran, he saw clearly the shock and panic on her face.

Does it really matter?

Gao Luo realized that she had given the wrong email address. Her mind was in a mess and she was unable to argue at the first opportunity.

In a panic, a hand fell on her right shoulder, not too light or too heavy, just enough to calm her down.

Gao Luo heard a familiar voice sounding beside her.

"This is Sister Luo's email address."

It was Xia Shi who spoke up to explain for her. Gao Luo turned around and saw his face, and her heart suddenly settled down.

"Yes." Gao Luo told Ning Heng: "It's my sister's email address."

Ning Heng took a deep look at Xia Shi who suddenly appeared: "Teacher Xia, how did you know that this person is A'Luo's sister? Do you know each other?"

"I know him." Gao Luo admitted, "He is my cousin."

Xu Man entered the airport lounge and went to the dining area to eat a bowl of noodles. He just came back now. I took a bite of "after-meal melon" unexpectedly. Before I could sort out my thoughts, my nervous system had automatically captured the gossip information and became excited.

Gao Shule witnessed all this and also became a spectator, feeling surprised and curious. At the same time, it suddenly dawned on her that Xia Shi was A'luo's cousin. No wonder he took such good care of them. He probably did it just for A'luo and she did it for the sake of it.

Ning Heng was calmer than the other two, but that was only on the surface; his heart was already in turmoil. Before I could find out Xie Ran’s relationship, I started to eat another melon.

Ning Heng asked: "Are you relatives?"

Is it such a coincidence that my cousins ​​are on the show together and are in different groups? Is it a coincidence or intentional?

Ning Heng had a hunch that there was no such coincidence in the world, but Xia Shi came to replace Feng Daiyue, and he didn't know that anything would happen to Feng Daiyue.

"We are relatives." Xia Shi said, "But there is no legal relationship. Luo just calls me that."

"Oh..." Ning Heng understood.

They are fake relatives.

I guess the elders in the family know him.

Ning Heng: "So you knew each other was coming to film a variety show, and you made an appointment to go together...?"

"I don't know. We met by chance. I just knew he was my cousin a few days earlier than you did." Gao Luo said, and then returned to the previous topic: "Are you going to post the video?"

After being reminded by Gao Luo, Ning Heng realized that the topic had gone off topic. He held up the note in his hand and asked Gao Luo: "Didn't you say this is your own mailbox?"

Gao Luo didn't care: "My sister and I have a deep relationship, we are as close as one person, what belongs to my sister is mine, is there a problem?"

Ning Heng: "...Then your sister's name is Xie Ran?"

Gao Luo said “hmm”.

"Is it Xie Ran who has fallen in love with Feng Daiyue's ex-boyfriend?"

Although it is the truth, why does it sound so unpleasant when it comes out of Ning Heng's mouth?

Gao Luo wanted to say, "Who my sister is is none of your business," but then she saw Ning Heng shaking the note in his hand and remembered that she had not received the surveillance video yet.

There's no way. It's hard to be tough when someone finds out your weaknesses.

Gao Luo continued to say "hmm" reluctantly.

Ning Heng got a definite answer and looked surprised: "Really? Then you and Feng Daiyue know each other?"

"Why are you asking so many questions? Are you going to give me the video or not?"

Ning Heng was talking in a long-winded manner as if he wanted to get to the bottom of the matter, and Gao Luo became annoyed by him.

Ning Heng said, "You're getting impatient after I asked you a few questions. Don't you want something from me?"

"I did ask you for help, but I've said everything I need to say. Why do you still have so many questions? You wouldn't know unless I exposed my shortcomings in front of others!"

Ning Heng was speechless for a while after hearing what she said. Seeing her angry look, I could only say, "Okay, I'll send it to you after I return home."

He had already told her that he had sent it, but she snorted heavily when she left, which made Ning Heng extremely depressed.

He is quite small, but has a bad temper.

*

Gao Luo got angry when she saw Ning Heng, so she found a seat in the lounge as far away from him as possible and sat down. Gao Shule and Xia Shi sat on both sides of her.

Gao Shule was seldom curious about other people's family affairs, but at this moment she couldn't help but ask: "A Luo, is he really your...cousin?"

"Yes, our grandmothers are sworn sisters." Gao Luo explained the relationship to Gao Shule in detail, and finally said: "I actually just found out about it. My uncle told me two days after you left the tea mountain."

Gao Shule sorted out her thoughts: "So when we were filming at Chashan, he knew who you were, but you didn't know who he was?"

"right."

"So... does he know your sister Xie Ran?"

"Yes, I saw him when I was a kid."

“I see…”

Speaking of this, Gao Luo thought of a question. She turned to look at Xia Shi on her right: "Haven't you only met my sister when we were kids? Why did you recognize her when you saw the photo of her at the beach?"

When that photo was taken, Xie Ran was already in his twenties and looked like a complete adult. If they had only seen him as a child, how could they recognize him so immediately?

"I've seen it not just when I was a child." Xia Shi said.

"Ah? You saw it when you grew up? When and where?"

"At..." As if afraid of reminding her of her sadness, Xia Shi lowered his voice: "At your grandmother's funeral."

That day, Xia Shi saw Xie Ran from afar. She was crying the whole time. Even from such a long distance, he could see that her eyes were swollen like walnuts. Later, Xie Yanzhi saw that she was upset because of crying too much, so she sent her to the house of the old lady next door and let her stay there to divert her attention.

Xia Shi saw Xie Ran that day, but knew that she probably didn't see him.

In fact, it wasn't just that day. Xia Shi had seen her many times, but Xie Ran didn't know about it.

Seeing Gao Luo recalling seriously, Xia Shi teased her, "You weren't even born at that time, can you remember?"

Gao Luo came back to her senses suddenly and smiled guiltily: "You're right, I wasn't even there at that time, ha, ha, ha."

The more she laughed, the more embarrassed she felt. Gao Luo turned her head back to the left, trying to pretend to have a chat with Gao Shule to change the subject. Turning around, I saw Gao Shule frowning, looking bitter and resentful.

"LeLe, what are you thinking about?"

"Ah? No, nothing? I just... suddenly remembered that Xiaonian is not here." Gao Shule's mind worked so fast for the first time in her life.

Gao Luo: "Oh, right, where's Xiaonian?"

Xia Shi said: "Someone sent him back."

Gao Luo: "He took a private plane?"

Xia Shi: “Yeah.”

Gao Luo sighed, he is indeed a rich young master: "Then why didn't you go back with him?"

"I..." Xia Shi hesitated to speak.

"Oh, you want to stay and take care of me?"

She spoke out her little thoughts so frankly. Xia Shi sighed: "Yes, I will stay and take care of you."

"Is it because of what my mother told you?"

"No, my aunt didn't tell me." Xia Shi said bluntly: "I want to take care of you."

Gao Luo said without hesitation: "Xia Shi, you are such a nice person."

Xia Shi couldn't remember how many times she had given him the nice guy card. He was quite happy to hear it at first, but after hearing it too many times, he felt uncomfortable. Apart from praising others, it seemed that he had no other thoughts at all.

*

After arriving home, Gao Luo slept for a long time and did not wake up until the next night. Thinking that she had "earned" a month of recovery time this time, Gao Luo couldn't help but press the number on her ankle to turn herself back into an adult. It is much more convenient to turn back into an adult. You don’t have to stand on a stool to brush your teeth, and you can get whatever you want.

When Xie Yanzhi came home from get off work and saw Gao Luo turned back into an adult, she thought she had fully recovered. She was about to be happy, but Gao Luo told her that it was only one more month.

"Don't be sad, I'm not discouraged. One month is a lot, and there will be more in the future. I will earn it slowly!" Gao Luo comforted her.

"Then you should use it sparingly."

"I know, let's just indulge ourselves today."

Once you become an adult again, you can play with your phone and watch your computer openly.

Gao Luo was holding her computer and planning to watch the current popular games when she suddenly thought of the video. She opened her mailbox and saw an unread email, which was a video sent by Ning Heng.

Fortunately, he kept his word this time.

Gao Luo downloaded the video in time and made three backups.

On the fourth day after Gao Luo returned home, she learned that the program crew was going to hold a temporary live broadcast and all the guests had to be present.

Gao Luo complained, what’s the difference between working overtime and not getting overtime pay!

Twelve guests gathered at the TV station, and the live broadcast was arranged in a conference room.

Ning Heng first gave a summary of the shooting of the previous episode. Such high-sounding nonsense as "sea fishing in the last episode was quite difficult and the guests worked hard" and so on.

Gao Luo felt drowsy after listening to this.

When he finally got through this and started talking about local specialties, Gao Luo's sleepiness subsided a little.

The staff gave two wood carvings to each of the four groups of guests, Gao Shule, Bian Yuan, Chen Siyan and Chen Cong.

Yu Jiayu noticed that Xia Shi and Xue Chen were not there, so he raised his hand to signal the director and asked him if he had missed them.

Ning Heng explained: "From the last photoshoot, we can see that our teachers Xue and Xia are both very good at sea fishing and tied for first place, so we want to give them a special reward."

After he finished speaking, Xu Man gave Xia Shi and Xue Chen each a small velvet box.

Gao Luo leaned over to Xia Shi to take a look, and Xia Shi handed the box to her.

Gao Luo didn't hesitate to take it and opened it directly.

Inside was a necklace, an extremely thin 18k gold necklace, with a plump and lustrous black pearl hanging underneath, which was estimated to be between 11mm and 14mm in diameter, black with a hint of green in color, and of excellent quality.

"Black pearls are treasures in that ocean, and we leave them to the two teachers as a souvenir," said Ning Heng.

"So beautiful." Gao Luo exclaimed.

"You take it." Xia Shi said.

"Ah? I...I didn't mean that."

Gao Luo thought to herself: I didn’t want it, I was just praising him casually, that wasn’t my real intention!

Xia Shi smiled: "I know, but this is what I mean. I want to give it to you."

"Teacher Xia is just offering flowers to Buddha." Shen Siyan teased him. "It's just that Luo is too young, and Black Pearl is too mature. It doesn't suit her. Teacher Gao is more suitable."

[It turns out that Chen Siyan is the hidden CP fan? ? 】

[What do you mean? Let him give the necklace to Gao Shule? 】

[No... this is too direct. But if you want to do this, Xia Shi, I totally agree! ! 】

[My colleagues are all drinking it, what does this mean? 】

[This shows that our CP is real!] ! (Very loud!)]

Xia Shi did not reply to Shen Siyan directly, but just smiled at Gao Luo: “Our A Luo looks good in anything she wears.”

Xue Chen originally had no idea about this necklace, because he often received gifts from brands. This black pearl was of good quality, but it had no brand and was not expensive. It would probably just gather dust at home if he took it back.

Inspired by Xia Shi, he pushed the box to Shen Siyan: “Teacher Xia is offering flowers to Buddha, so I will also offer flowers to Buddha.”

Shen Siyan was stunned: "Send it to me?"

"Yes, this necklace is obviously for women, and I can't wear it. There are only two ladies here, and Teacher Xia gave the necklace to Teacher Gao, so I'll give this one to you."

Xue Chen assumed that the gift to Gao Luo was for Gao Shule, so he gave his own to Shen Siyan.

He also had a selfish motive. The reason he was able to tie for first place with Xia Shi was because Shen Siyan suggested that Gao Shule stay on the island regularly. This gave him one more day and allowed him to take first place for three consecutive days. From this perspective, Xue Chen was also grateful to her. Otherwise, the first place today would only be Xia Shi, and that would be very embarrassing for me.

CP fans were so excited about Xia Shi and Gao Shule that they ate other people's food:

[A big hodgepodge of CPs, whichever couple you like is the one! 】

[They are all handsome men and beautiful women, so delicious!] Love to eat! 】

…

Today was not a formal shoot, so Yao Cancan came with Shen Siyan. Shen Siyan was recording the show in the building, so she sat outside in the car waiting.

Don’t forget to take out your phone to watch the live broadcast.

During the filming, Yao Cancan was also watching the live broadcast and paying attention to the content on the barrage.

She found that after Shen Siyan pretended to support Xia Shi and Gao Shule as a couple, her reputation on the barrage improved a lot. Some netizens who once hated Shen Siyan stopped scolding her after she started dating someone else.

Yao Cancan sighed, saying that people who have a CP brain are really easy to deceive. As long as you tell her information like "your CP is real", she will immediately put you in her camp.

There is a saying that goes, "Brothers are there after going through all the hardships, and all grudges can be forgotten with a smile when they meet again." These people can forget all grudges just by being a couple.

In addition to more positive reviews, another benefit is that it can convert their CP fans.

Because in fact most CP fans are not true fans, they are ruthless sugar-eating machines, and they will start eating any sweet couple they see, just like right now, someone in the live broadcast room has already eaten the CP of Shen Siyan and Xue Chen.

If Shen Siyan and Xue Chen show more and more sweetness in the future, and Xia Shi and Gao Shule have some conflicts at this time, then these CP fans will easily switch to Shen Siyan and Xue Chen's side, and when the time is right, they can purify them and turn these fans into Shen Siyan's only fans.

After Shen Siyan finished shooting for the day and came out, Yao Cancan told her his idea of ​​"grabbing fans".

Shen Siyan agreed: “Actually, I think so too.”

Shen Siyan had already thought of what Yao Cancan had thought of, so she deliberately said some ambiguous words to Xia Shi and Gao Shule in the third episode.

Of course, she also wanted to create a couple with Xue Chen, but Xue Chen's fans were too many and too powerful, so the result of forcing it would be the same as Feng Daiyue's. But I didn't expect Xue Chen to take the initiative to show goodwill today. Although it was most likely unintentional, it doesn't matter. Fans will deceive themselves if they eat sweet words.

"Where's the pearl necklace? Put it on quickly. You can also take it out and show it off during the next live broadcast." Yao Cancan asked Shen Siyan to put on the black pearl necklace.

Shen Siyan actually doesn’t like this kind of blunt way of hyping up CP, but seeing that Xia Shi is doing it this way. Judging from Yao Cancan’s reaction now, the fans’ response should be good, so she feels that she should also give it a try.

Shen Siyan took out the box from her bag and put the necklace around her neck——

Today in the conference room, after Xia Shi gave the necklace to Gao Luo, he put it on her and pulled out a very thin chain from his collar. There was a ring under the chain, and on the ring setting was a pearl, a white pearl.

Shen Siyan heard their conversation:

Xia Shi: "Look, I also have a pearl."

Gao Luo: "These are Australian white pearls, right? Have you been wearing them for many years? Why do they look a bit like the style of Lele's pearl bracelet?"

Gao Shule has always worn a pearl bracelet on her hand. Netizens have seen it during the live broadcast. It is wrapped around her wrist twice, and the clasp is a bow. Now Xia Shi also has an Australian white pearl hanging around her neck. It can be seen that it is a necklace modified from a ring. The bottom of the ring setting is supported by a pair of wings inlaid with diamonds.

In addition to the similar style elements and the types of pearls, the years also seem to be the same.

The surface of both people's pearls has slight wear and tear, and the skin is slightly yellowed. According to the quality of this pearl, to reach this level, it must have been manufactured more than ten years ago and worn frequently.

CP fans couldn’t help but scream, Xia Shi must have done it on purpose!

[Isn't it possible that Xia Shi found it on the spot just to wear the same one as Gao Shule? 】

[Where on earth did you find this old "antique" from more than ten years ago? 】

[I haven’t seen him show it off before, he must have just bought it. This guy must have put a lot of thought into this! 】

Yao Cancan saw the barrage and found that everyone could actually eat this kind of "hard candy", so she quickly asked Shen Siyan to wear the necklace as well. Ask her to take out the necklace and show it off during the next live broadcast, so that her CP fans will definitely take screenshots to eat the sweets when they see it.

After talking about this topic, Yao Cancan thought of the important matter: "Are you going to see Zhang Jing now? If so, I'll send him a message."

Zhang Jing is the fixed PD of Shen Siyan's group.

"Let's meet. The restaurant has been booked." Shen Siyan paused and said, "Call your boyfriend."

Yao Cancan’s boyfriend Sun Xu is the artist coordinator of Xi Que TV. He knows Zhang Jing and has some say over him.

After Sun Xu knew that Zhang Jing was Shen Siyan's PD, he went to take care of things for her several times. Zhang Jing is very easy to talk to and will do things if you pay him. So when Shen Siyan came up with the method to frame Gao Shule, she gave Zhang Jing some money and asked him to help find an excuse to disappear for a while. He agreed.

But he never expected that just these few minutes of "disappearance" would cause him to lose his job. Now I must give them an explanation.

Sun Xu is his colleague, and taking him there together can help mediate.

While Sun Xu was slacking off at his workstation, he received a WeChat message from Yao Cancan: [Sister Siyan is taking us to the old place in the basement garage for lunch! 】

Sun Xu immediately got up and went downstairs.

There are four parking lots in Xi Que Tai. The old place that Yao Cancan mentioned is Parking Lot No. 4, which is close to Gate No. 8.

Because that place is the most remote and they won't run into anyone they know, so they usually meet here.

Sun Xu only realized after he got in the car that he was going to be taken to meet Zhang Jing.

"You don't have to talk, just sit down and eat." Yao Cancan told him.

"Where to eat?" Sun Xu was more concerned about this.

Yao Cancan: "You are in for a treat today, Wen Yanju!"

Wenyanju is a high-end private restaurant in Lincheng, adjacent to the ecological scenic area of ​​Luolu Mountain. It only serves nine tables a day, four tables at noon and five tables at night.

The dining hours are from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m., with tables set up every hour. The staggered times ensure the privacy of the guests to the greatest extent possible.

Shen Siyan booked a time slot at 5pm today, which was very difficult to book because of the high regulations of the restaurant and the small number of guests. Shen Siyan arrived several days in advance and asked a friend for help to reserve a seat.

Yao Cancan didn't understand and asked why he had to treat him to such a good meal.

Shen Siyan said: "Show my sincerity first, then we can talk later."

Originally, they were being unfair to others in this matter. They started to be stingy right from the start, and others must be dissatisfied with them. Besides, they are now in the same boat. If the boat capsizes, it will be bad for everyone, so they must be polite.

"I've only heard of the name of this restaurant, and I don't even know where it is located. Today I can finally see it in person," said Sun Xu.

Yao Cancan kept nodding: "Me too!"

*

After coming out of the TV station, Gao Luo wanted to ask Xia Shi to have dinner together to discuss what Ning Heng said at the meeting.

The reason they were called here temporarily this time was mainly to give them the tasks for the next shooting in advance - each group of guests would perform a talent show for the locals, and then let them vote, and choose houses and distribute some daily necessities based on the votes.

The conditions are very broad, you can sing, dance, or direct and act in a play. There is no limit to the type of play. Guests can cooperate with each other or seek external assistance. The maximum number of external assistance is two people, and the total number of people in the play cannot exceed four.

Submitting the release task is to ask them to prepare the performance as well as possible. I think the competition that day must have been particularly fierce.

Gao Luo wanted to ask Xia Shi what he thought.

Xia Shi agreed and asked her if there was any restaurant she wanted to go to. If not, she could follow him.

Gao Luo said to go with him.

*

The accident came too quickly and ruined their plans.

As they walked out of the building, a woman suddenly rushed over, with disheveled hair and full of resentment.

Like a ghost.

As soon as she came up, she waved her arms, wanting to give Xia Shi a big slap. Fortunately, Xia Shi reacted quickly and grabbed her wrist.

After the woman was restrained, Gao Luo finally saw her face clearly. It’s not a ghost, but a living person, someone I know—Feng Daiyue.

After not seeing her for a while, Gao Luo felt that she had lost a lot of weight, her cheeks were sunken, and her cheekbones looked higher. I don’t know if it’s because I don’t sleep at home every day, but there’s a dark circle under my eyes. With this look, she can hardly play the role of a pretty girl, let alone the role of a mean stepmother of the pretty girl.

Her wrist was grabbed by Xia Shi and she couldn't pull it out, so she could only scream like crazy.

"Xia Shi, you are such a shameless thing! You stole my resources and you dare not come out to see me! You must have whispered something in the boss's ear, otherwise why would he let you replace me? Let me go, I'm going to kill you!"

Feng Daiyue saw through the live broadcast that it was a newcomer in the company who replaced herself, a newcomer with zero fans on the entire Internet. She would never believe it unless someone said that he had something going on with the boss.

She had wanted to argue with him for a long time, but he never went to the company. Feng Daiyue didn't know where he lived and couldn't find him.

Resentment accumulates over time, waiting for the right moment to explode completely.

Today, when she learned that they were doing a temporary live broadcast on TV, she drove over immediately. Unable to enter the building, she waited outside.

Finally she got what she was waiting for!

Feng Daiyue got angry when she saw that face, so she wanted to slap him in the face, but the other party had good eyesight and agile skills.

When Gao Luo heard her babbling nonsense, she hurried back to the building to find the security guard.

Soon several people in security uniforms arrived at the scene.

Xia Shi loosened his hands, and Feng Daiyue rushed over to hit him again, but the security guards held his arms on both sides.

"What are you doing! Let me go, or I'll sue you for sexual harassment!"

Feng Daiyue made so much noise that it attracted a lot of onlookers, and some even took out their cell phones to record the video.

"You can take pictures as much as you want. I'm not afraid anyway! I'm not someone who uses hidden rules..."

Feng Daiyue's voice stopped abruptly because a piece of soft European bread was suddenly stuffed into her mouth.

She glared at Gao Luo in front of her fiercely, her eyes almost popping out.

Gao Luo smiled at her and said, "You seem a little hungry. I'll treat you to some bread."

Those were snacks that Gao Shule bought for her because she was afraid she would be hungry. They were low in sugar and oil, healthy and tasty!

Gao Luo: I finally cleared out a stock today! yeah!