Chapter 1 The Incredibly Accurate Xuan Turtle
Xu Gui was thinking, and had been thinking for an hour.
His expression was very serious.
For as long as she pondered, her viewers watched her live stream. Finally, under the excited gazes of everyone, Xu Gui made her move.
She... changed her position, and then stopped moving again.
Xu Gui: Yeah, my legs went numb from holding that position for too long.
Viewers in the live stream: ? ? !!! !
Netizens were angry for a moment, and then they were furious again.
What is this person doing? Just sitting there spacing out? Does he know he can't get first place, so he's just giving up?
Please be understanding. After all, washing dishes doesn't earn much money. If she gets first place, I'll eat shit on live stream.
The production team doesn't allow celebrities to take a passive approach to the competition. Isn't she afraid of being punished by the production team for doing this?
I really didn't expect that Xu Gui, if he didn't become a celebrity, could only find a job washing dishes behind a restaurant. It just goes to show, he truly is a loser.
[I've wanted to say this for a long time. How can someone like Xu Gui, a nobody who failed the college entrance exam, become a star? The bar for becoming a star is too low! Aren't they worried about setting a bad example for children? @State Administration of Radio and Television]
[This slut is not only a jerk, but she's also a homewrecker. Our Xuxu and Nai Ge have been together for a year, and she still went to knock on Nai Ge's door in the middle of the night. She's utterly shameless.]
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【360 Professions】—This is a new large-scale live reality show on Hunan TV. The production team invited a total of fifty people, including celebrities and ordinary people.
According to the program rules, the guests are not allowed to bring a single penny with them. During the month-long filming period, the guests must find ways to earn money. All the expenses they need for daily life must be earned by themselves. In other words, if the guests do not earn money, they will not be able to afford food or accommodation.
A month later, the guest who earns the most money will win the show. They will not only get an endorsement from the top luxury jewelry brand [BU], but also a cover feature in the fashion magazine [Ariel], and even a prize of two million yuan. It can be said that Hunan TV has spent a lot of money on this show. Therefore, the show has attracted much attention even in the early stages of preparation. After the show was officially announced, it sparked heated discussions among netizens and its popularity soared.
Once the show aired, it far surpassed other programs, completely siphoning off the traffic from other platforms. The guests participating in the show also garnered considerable attention, although not all of them achieved the same level of popularity.
Fifty guests, including both ordinary people and celebrities.
The ordinary people chosen are mostly those with outstanding looks or good family backgrounds, who already have a certain level of popularity, since only such people will attract viewers when the show starts. As for celebrities, there are award-winning actresses and actors, as well as TV actresses and actors, and popular idols, or minor celebrities with some popularity and buzz. As for Xu Gui, he is the latter, a minor celebrity with his own built-in buzz.
Unfortunately, the topics surrounding her are not good ones. She is accused of being a homewrecker, interfering in other people's relationships, and the ones she interfered with were the famous golden couple, Tang Xu and Qiu Nai, who were popular actresses and actors. The two were a couple in a fantasy drama, and as the drama became a hit, their on-screen couple also became popular. Later, they even started dating and gained a large number of loyal fans.
It's easy to imagine how much criticism Xu Gui would receive if she participated in this show, which is exactly what Hunan TV wants to see—she's a nobody, and Hunan TV invited her because they're interested in the topic surrounding her. After all, being famous for being controversial is still fame; if people criticize her, it means she has buzz and traffic. And what they fear most in their industry is being completely unknown, with no one even bothering to criticize her.
Xu Gui was just an unknown celebrity with only about 200,000 followers on Weibo, not even as many as some internet celebrities. However, because of this incident, her live stream actually gained some popularity after the show started airing. It was mostly filled with fans of Tang Xu and Qiu Nai, all of whom came to criticize her.
"360 Trades" is a large-scale live-streaming show. After it started airing, viewers saw that all the guests were actively looking for jobs and making money in front of the camera.
They can't afford to be passive, because if they don't go out to earn money, they'll be sleeping on the streets and starving from day one.
Xu Gui dropped out of school at a young age. Lacking formal education, she had very limited job opportunities. On the advice of a "helpful person," she chose a job that no one expected:
"Dishwasher".
After learning that she had chosen such a job, Xu Gui was ridiculed online, and her live stream audience suffered a significant loss. Now, apart from the fans of the Tang Xu and Qiu Nai couple, there are basically no casual viewers in her live stream.
Now, it's Xu Gui's third day working as a dishwasher. She earns 120 yuan a day, paid daily, which means she has earned a total of 240 yuan so far—today is the third day, and she hasn't been paid yet.
After an hour of spacing out, Xu Gui, who had finally sorted out his situation, sighed, "Sigh..."
Her face was full of worry.
No one knew that the current Xu Gui was not the same Xu Gui as before, because just an hour ago, the core inside this body had been replaced, from Xu Gui to "Xu Gui", except that this Gui was the same as the turtle.
Xu Gui was originally a Xuan Turtle that could communicate with heaven and earth. Turtles are lazy and slow in everything they do, and Xu Gui was the laziest of them all, the laziest turtle in the Xuan Turtle clan.
Not long ago, she was sunbathing on the beach when a strange phenomenon suddenly appeared in the sky: lightning and thunder. Xu Gui, being too lazy, did not dodge in time and was struck by lightning. This strike transformed her from the Xuan Gui (a mythical tortoise) into the human "Xu Gui," and her soul was directly transported to her body in another world.
In other words, she has now transformed from a turtle into a human.
Xu Gui, who absolutely did not want to become human: ...This matter was very sudden.
It took Xu Gui half an hour to finally accept that he had become "Xu Gui" instead of Xu Gui. It took him another half an hour to accept his original "Xu Gui" memories and figure out the current situation.
So, she's currently participating in a program and doing a live broadcast?
Thinking of this, Xu Gui glanced at the camera following him, then looked down at the large basin in front of him, filled with bowls and chopsticks.
"...Why haven't you washed the dishes yet?" Just then, a shrill voice came from behind Xu Gui.
As a dishwasher, Xu Gui naturally didn't work inside the restaurant. Instead, she was assigned to work outside the kitchen, where a stool, a large basin, and a water pipe were all she had for her job.
The kitchen was behind her; anyone inside could see her as soon as they opened the door.
Xu Gui heard footsteps. A plump middle-aged woman walked up to her, glanced at the large basin in which she had just washed a few dishes, and then glared at her.
"What's wrong with you? Don't you want to work here anymore? If you don't, get out! There are plenty of other people who can do this job!" The woman spoke rapidly, her voice loud and clear, like firecrackers exploding. She yelled:
"Look at how you work! You've been washing dishes for ages and you've only washed a few. There are still dishes waiting to be used. Let me tell you, if you maintain this work attitude, you can forget about getting paid today!"
Xu Gui listened, silently stood up, and reached out to take off the apron she was wearing.
The middle-aged woman looked at her actions in surprise and asked, "What are you doing?"
Xu Gui looked at her innocently and said, "If I can't do it, then I'll get out?"
The middle-aged woman frowned: "You'd better think this through. If you quit, I won't be paying you today's wages!"
Xu Gui didn't mind, politely placed the apron in her hands, and then slowly walked out, counting in her mind as she went: "One step, two steps, three steps..."
Just as she took her third step, she heard a somewhat exasperated voice coming from behind her.
"Wait!" The middle-aged woman strode over and said, "I've already transferred your wages for today! Hmph, our restaurant isn't the kind of shady place that doesn't pay its employees... But you only worked half a day today, so I won't give you 120 yuan. I only transferred 80 yuan to you. You don't have any objections, do you?"
As she said this, she glared fiercely at Xu Gui, as if she would make him return the eighty yuan if he dared to object.
Upon hearing her words, Xu Gui's dark eyes gradually brightened. She grabbed the middle-aged woman's hand and shook it excitedly, saying, "Boss lady, I knew you were a good person!"
The middle-aged woman, who was also the restaurant owner, snorted and said coldly, "If it weren't for the fact that you've been working very well these past two days, I wouldn't have given you eighty yuan!"
After saying that, the proprietress looked at Xu Gui with some suspicion and asked her, "Why do I feel like you're much more intelligent now than you were a couple of days ago? Hmm, you seem much smarter now."
The proprietress looked at Xu Gui with some surprise. Just this morning, when she looked at this girl named Xu Gui, she felt that her eyes were lifeless, like a wooden person without any emotions. But now, looking at her... she felt that she was much more lively.
Alive? Yes, that's right, alive!
The proprietress finally came up with a suitable adjective. She had always felt that Xu Gui lacked personality and was rather dull, but now, looking at her lively eyes... well, she was incredibly charming.
Xu Gui patted his phone in his pocket with satisfaction. This phone wasn't just a phone; it was the phone that had just brought in eighty yuan.
Before leaving, Xu Gui said to the proprietress who had suddenly started spacing out for some reason, "Proprietress, you should call an electrician later and have him check your electricity... Otherwise, your restaurant will catch fire tonight."
Boss lady: ? ?
"You little brat, can't you talk properly? Your house is going to catch fire!" The landlady, having regained her senses, cursed at Xu Gui's departing figure. "You wretched girl, I even paid you eighty yuan!"
The proprietress's voice drifted over from behind. Xu Gui wrinkled his nose and muttered to himself, "I'm telling the truth. If you don't get an electrician to check your wiring, your restaurant is going to catch fire tonight."
After all, Xu Gui was a member of the Xuan Turtle Group. The Xuan Turtle Group was connected to heaven and earth, knew the future and the past. In human terms, every Xuan Turtle was born a divine strategist.
Their fortune telling is incredibly accurate!
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