Gu Yueyue felt a lump in her throat again. "Since you don't like it, then you can sleep on the sofa. There are blankets and quilts available; I'll get them for you."
"ah?"
Before Xu Yi could react, Gu Yueyue had already gotten up and gone to the closet to get blankets and pillows.
Gu Yueyue: Here's your stuff. Go to sleep early. Otherwise you'll be late when you meet up with Zhang Ya and the others tomorrow.
Xu Yi froze, staring at the blanket and pillow in her hands, blinking her eyes with the same expression as Xiao Xiao, who had been locked out of the door before.
"What's wrong?" Gu Yueyue asked in a still indifferent tone, "Is there anything else you need?"
Xu Yi pursed her lips, carefully observing Miss Gu's expression. Oh no... she seemed genuinely angry.
"No, that's all." Xu Yi didn't dare linger and left with her things.
After she left, Gu Yueyue's complexion worsened.
Oh.
Zhang Ya tells you to go to the base, so you go; I tell you to sleep on the bed, so you go and sleep on the sofa.
My heart was pounding with anxiety, and I didn't sleep well all night.
The next morning, when Gu Yueyue came out of the bedroom, she saw that the pillows and blankets on the sofa were neatly folded, and the person who should have been sleeping soundly on the sofa had left early for the first time ever.
Ono came out of the study yawning, saw the things on the sofa, rubbed her eyes and laughed, "Sis, you really let her sleep on the sofa?"
“She insisted on sleeping on the sofa.” Gu Yueyue turned and went to the kitchen, intending to prepare a hearty and nutritious breakfast for Xiaoxiao.
Xu Yi left early in the morning, instead of going to the Starry Idol Base as Gu Yueyue had expected.
Instead, they hailed a taxi and drove through the streets of Haibin City.
The driver looked a bit annoyed. "Hey young lady, where are you going?"
"Turn right ahead." Xu Yi sensed the direction and soon the driver arrived at the destination. Xu Yi gave her some money and hurriedly ran out of the car.
She came to find Xu Shang, but she didn't expect that Xu Shang's whereabouts would be so unpredictable in just one morning.
After wandering around for a long time, she finally found Xu Shang in a small internet cafe in an alley.
Xu Shang was no longer dressed in red and black robes; she had changed into a simple shirt and jeans, and her long hair was styled. She looked like she had integrated well into the city.
However, being a cultivator, and one who cultivates through the path of passion, her alluring charm cannot be concealed by her ordinary appearance.
When Xu Yi came over, she heard her cursing at the computer screen.
Xu Yi stood behind her and listened for a while before realizing that she was even cursing her teammates. Xu Yi's expression changed slightly, but then she felt relieved. That was San'er's style. After all, she hadn't even spared her fellow disciples, and she would either fight or kill them whenever she met them.
Xu Yi placed his hand on her shoulder and patted it gently.
Xu Shang turned around abruptly, and when she saw it was Xu Yi, she breathed a sigh of relief. "Oh, it's you." She said as she took off her earphones.
"I need to talk to you about something."
"Let me finish this game first." Xu Shang controlled the little character in the game, constantly rushing to the opposite side to slash and kill, until finally dying.
Xu Yi glanced at her score: 1/36/2. Xu Yi often watched Xiao Ye play games and knew what this score meant.
Sure enough, her teammate's curses came through the headset: "Top laner, just AFK and get lost! Don't make me curse your family tree."
"Insolence!" Xu Shang didn't sit idle while waiting to be resurrected. He unleashed a barrage of attacks on his teammates, hurling insults at them with great passion, as if he had started the thirtieth war between immortals and demons ahead of schedule.
Xu Yi couldn't stand it anymore. How could her beloved third junior sister have become so foul-mouthed?
She grabbed Xu Shang by the collar and easily dragged him out.
In the small restaurant, Xu Yi ordered her a bowl of mutton offal noodles, which Xu Shang ate with great relish.
"Speak. What do you want?" Xu Shang finished eating, wiped the grease off her lips, and leaned back comfortably in her chair.
Xu Yi then told her about what happened last night.
Xu Shang frowned slightly, then quickly relaxed, scoffing, "You don't even understand something this simple?"
"What?"
"You're jealous!"
Xu Yi didn't understand at first, but after pondering the two words carefully, her ears immediately turned red.
"Jealous of Captain Zhang Ya?" Xu Yi asked with surprise. "Does this confirm that Miss Gu also has feelings for me now?"
"I can't be sure yet. Feelings are very complicated. You have to see where she is in the jealousy right now. It's like how Junior Sister likes Master. She thinks about killing us every day and monopolizing Master. I guess that's the possessiveness of a Daoist partner. Senior Uncle also likes Master, but he can't stand how good Master is to us. That's Senior Uncle's jealousy of Junior Sister. It's the possessiveness of a family member."
Xu Yi nearly bit off her own tongue. "Junior Sister likes Master?!"
"How strange! Both the immortal and demon realms know about it, but I guess only you and your master don't know."
"Was she expelled from her sect for insubordination?" Xu Yi was unusually curious, as she usually wouldn't allow any disciple to speak ill of their master.
Xu Shang was furious and blurted out, "What insubordination! Master is the inferior, bah... I mean Master will not let her be punished!"
"So, if I see my junior sister in the future, should I call her 'Master's Wife'?"
"..."
A note from the author:
Xu Shang was so excited that he stood up and ran away.
Xu Yi: Where are you going?
Xu Shang: Go seduce Master! I suddenly had a great idea to make you treat me with utmost respect.
Thank you to all the little angels who voted for me or watered my plants with nutrient solution between 20:56:49 on January 21, 2022 and 21:11:49 on January 22, 2022!
Thank you to the little angel who threw the rocket: 1;
Thank you to the little angel who threw the landmine: 1;
Thank you to the little angels who watered the nutrient solution: 1018 (19 bottles); and Mountain Flowers in Full Bloom (1 bottle).
Thank you so much for your support! I will continue to work hard!
Chapter Sixty
Xu Yi learned a lot from Xu Shang and also learned some things she had never heard of before.
When Xu Yi was about to leave, Xu Shang stopped her.
"Give me some money."
Xu Yi felt in her pocket and took out the few dozen yuan she had saved for a taxi ride home.
"Find a job yourself. Earn some money. There's no way to cultivate in this world, so we need to live like ordinary people to avoid suspicion," Xu Yi earnestly advised her.
Xu Shang gave a perfunctory reply, bought two bottles of beer, and then turned around and went to the internet cafe.
Xu Yi didn't go back to Yueyue's house, but called Zhang Ya directly. Zhang Ya quickly sent a driver to pick her up.
Afterwards, Xu Yi went with the team to the Star Idol Drama set.
According to the program team's arrangement, the trainees will arrive together in the afternoon, and the final will start promptly at 8 pm. This time is also convenient for most people to watch the live broadcast on the official website.
The mentors are also very busy and have very tight schedules.
Gu Yueyue and the others arrived at the production team one after another around 5 p.m. After arriving, the mentors did not exchange any pleasantries and went straight to the point to discuss the final competition. Liu Dai accompanied them throughout the process and helped them with their makeup.
At 7:30, everyone was ready.
Xu Yi sensed an energy approaching, found a suitable spot and looked towards the front desk, where she found Xu Shang standing in the corner.
The guy was wearing a red support shirt with Xia Lan's support message on it, holding up a light stick and swaying along with the audience around him.
"..."
Xu Yi couldn't help but smile.
Zhang Ya appeared behind her without her noticing, patted her on the shoulder, and asked, "What did you see? Why are you laughing so happily?"
"It's nothing." Xu Yi turned her gaze away from Xu Shang.
Seeing that she didn't want to talk about it, Zhang Ya didn't ask any further and chatted with her about the competition later.
"I never imagined that I would come here just to help you earn some tuition fees, and somehow we ended up in the finals."
Xu Yi had anticipated this from the beginning.
Zhang Ya has a face that suggests wealth and kindness, making her a rare person with a fortunate destiny. She is likely to succeed easily in whatever she does in this life, and her personality is neither greedy nor impulsive. The good fortune from her past life will allow her to live a peaceful and smooth life for over a hundred years.
Having learned her lesson from losing her voice before, Zheng Wan was more relaxed than anyone else before this competition. During her two-day break, she slept soundly and watched movies at home, and she is in great shape today.
Now that the competition is about to begin, it's inevitable that I'll feel a little nervous.
After spending more than two months together, the eight people were already familiar with each other. When they saw Zheng Wan, she was nervous, so Zhuang Yan and Ruan Hanmei comforted her together.
"You guys get ready, it'll be your turn soon."
When the staff came to inform them, the eight people immediately tensed up again.
The positions of the four mentors offstage remained unchanged, except that Zhao Sheng now occupies the seat that previously belonged to Fan Weiwei.
Zhao Sheng turned his head to look at Gu Yueyue, sneered, secretly turned off his microphone, and said to Gu Yueyue, "You and my brother haven't broken off contact yet?"
Gu Yueyue quickly turned off her microphone and glanced at Zhao Sheng, "What do you mean?"
"Teacher Gu is quite the actress," Zhao Sheng chuckled. "The paparazzi even caught it. Last night, you and my brother were strolling on the beach. I didn't expect Teacher Gu to be so romantic."
There was no point in talking to someone like Zhao Sheng, so Gu Yueyue turned her microphone back on.
Seeing that she had no intention of continuing the conversation, Zhao Sheng became annoyed. "What are you pretending to be so high and mighty for? Do you think it's easy to enter the Zhao family's wealthy clan? My brother is just playing around with you. The old man will not allow him to marry an actress."
Zhao Sheng spoke for a while, but Gu Yueyue's expression remained unchanged, her attention focused solely on the stage. After a while, Zhao Sheng, realizing the conversation was getting boring, stopped talking.
When Xu Yi and the others came on stage, Zhao Sheng turned on his microphone, and his smile gradually warmed up.
Gu Yueyue glanced at him sideways. Zhao Yuan and Zhao Sheng, the two brothers, did not look alike, probably because of their different mothers, but both brothers inherited their father's charming eyes, which were both amorous and tender.
When Zhao Yuan smiles, he gives off a very clean feeling, while when Zhao Sheng smiles, it gives off a feeling of a fake mask.
The second performance ended quickly, and Zhang Ya and her teammates waited for the mentors' comments.
Gu Yueyue and the other mentors also gathered together and discussed it quietly for a while, and finally released the scores according to the ones that had been determined beforehand.