Chapter 215: Chapter 213: The Boat Cracked

Wen Ying nodded. "Little Song, Jiali is right. The most important thing is to make yourself happy. And if your rivals are unhappy, even better."

Song Jiayan, "..."

’Aren’t you all forgetting there are cameras here?’

[Watching this show is so satisfying!]

[I love this girl, Xu Jiali!]

[It looks like Song Jiayan wants to remind them, but he’s afraid we’ll notice? He seems so shy.]

[Song Jiayan is a rookie and he’s still a bit timid, but I’ve heard one of his songs and it’s amazing. Let me plug Song Jiayan for you all—he’s such a hidden gem!]

[Doctor Wen is always her authentic self, no matter where she is. Seeing this puts my mind at ease!]

[Doctor Wen would never sell out for money!]

"Doctor Wen, are we really allowed to do this? Can Jiali really be in our group?"

Song Jiayan felt like he’d seen his fair share of reality shows, and the rules usually didn’t allow for this sort of thing.

"Song Jiayan, just focus on rowing and stop worrying so much. The director’s team already gave us the okay!"

Xu Jiali said smugly.

The boat was shaking rather violently.

Xu Jiali looked at Little White in her arms. "Little White, this boat won’t fall apart, will it?"

"It will."

Xu Jiali, "???"

Song Jiayan, "???"

"Sister Yingying!" Xu Jiali suddenly panicked. She did not want to fall into the lake.

’Letting those awful people laugh at me for nothing.’

Wen Ying’s expression didn’t change, as if this was no big deal. "Jiali, Little Song, do you two want to get a ton of views?"

"Sister Yingying, of course I do! I came on this show to get famous and break into the business."

Song Jiayan nodded, echoing Xu Jiali’s sentiment.

’He wanted more people to hear his music. He loved to sing, but he was a complete unknown, so no one would listen to his songs.’

’That’s why he had to get famous—it was the only way to get more people to listen to his music.’

"Then how about I give you two a hand?"

Xu Jiali stared at Wen Ying with hopeful eyes.

Song Jiayan was clearly taken aback, unable to imagine how Doctor Wen could possibly help them.

[What is Doctor Wen thinking, saying this so openly on the show?]

[I think it’s pretty real. Who on this show *doesn’t* want to get famous? If someone said they didn’t, I’d just think they were being fake. What’s the point of pretending?]

Ever since Director Wen found out the show’s viewership numbers were real, he’d been grinning from ear to ear.

The contestants might have gone off-script right from the start, but the online buzz was skyrocketing!

Isn’t that kind of buzz the whole point of making a show?

Director Wen felt he didn’t need to interfere at all. Just let them do their own thing!

If they wanted to create drama, let them create drama! If they wanted to work, let them work!

Look at how much freedom his show offered!

Xu Jiali wanted to know how Wen Ying was going to help them, but Wen Ying wouldn’t say, only smiling and telling her it was a secret.

Song Jiayan kept rowing forward. Although his movements were growing more practiced, his heart was filled with unease.

’When is this boat going to fall apart?’

’When are we going to fall into the lake?’

’Is it really going to be okay?’

’What did Doctor Wen mean by helping us?’

’Is Immortal Xiao Bai here to make sure Xu Jiali and I don’t drown?’

Song Jiayan’s mind was heavy with worries.

Xu Jiali, however, secretly leaned in and whispered in Little White’s ear, "Little White, what exactly did Sister Yingying mean by ’helping’?"

She had already forgotten that Little White said the boat was going to fall apart.

Her mind was completely filled with what Wen Ying had said about getting famous.

In stark contrast to the atmosphere on the rickety boat, the other contestants were still struggling miserably with the bamboo.

On Xie Fu Yao’s side, the two men were much faster and had already finished cutting most of the bamboo they needed. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

They started looking for rope to tie the bamboo together.

Jiang Beibei, on the other hand, worked as if she were merely tickling the bamboo. Her speed was absurdly slow.

Although Zhang Jingxing was a man, working alone naturally slowed him down considerably.

Still, he had managed to cut about half the bamboo.

"Beibei, there are only two of us. It should be fine if we have a little less bamboo."

The moment Jiang Beibei heard that, she threw down the sickle in her hand.

"I think so too. Let’s go find some rope then."

Jiang Beibei forced herself to stop looking over at Wen Ying’s group.

"AH!" Meng Xiaoyi suddenly screamed.

Meng Xiaoyi wasn’t far from Jiang Beibei, so when she screamed, Jiang Beibei looked over as well.

Meng Xiaoyi covered her mouth, her expression a mix of panic and urgency. "The boat, the boat! Wen Ying’s boat is taking on water! It’s breaking apart!"

Jiang Beibei looked over in that direction, feigning surprise as a smile crept onto her lips. "Xiao Yi, you must be seeing things, right? Wasn’t that boat supposed to be sturdy?"

[If it weren’t for the smile on her face, I would’ve believed her!]

[So this woman’s acting skills are pretty bad, huh? The fact that she wants something bad to happen to Doctor Wen’s group is written all over her face. Why bother being two-faced? Hasn’t she considered that this just makes everyone think she’s a massive hypocrite?]

[Jiang Beibei and Doctor Wen don’t get along, so I can understand why she’s thinking that way. If it were me, I’d be smiling too.]

[Doesn’t Doctor Wen have a ton of fans? Why aren’t any of you worried in a situation like this? Aren’t you concerned something will happen to your precious Doctor Wen? Or are you all just fake fans?]

[PFFT! These people who are freaking out clearly have no idea what our Doctor Wen is capable of. It’s precisely *because* we’re her Fireflies that we aren’t worried, get it?]

Song Jiayan started to panic when he saw water pooling at the bottom of the boat, but the next second, Doctor Wen seemed to stuff something into the soles of his shoes.

’Yellow Paper?’

Song Jiayan only felt that his shoes, which had been getting damp, suddenly seemed to be completely sealed off from the lake water.

The same thing happened to Xu Jiali.

The two of them stared in shock. Xu Jiali turned to Wen Ying excitedly. "Sister Yingying, is this..."

’Oh no!’

’I’m too excited!’

’I almost blurted out the truth!’

’But I’m so excited! HAHAHAHAHAHA!’

’I can’t believe I’m getting to personally experience something so mythical in my lifetime!’

’And I’m not just a witness—I’m part of it!’

Xu Jiali covered her mouth, but the sound of her laughter still escaped.

Xie Fu Yao, Jiang Beibei, and the others, who had been running toward Wen Ying’s boat, were all left speechless when they heard Xu Jiali’s laughter.

’They’re about to have a serious accident, and this person is laughing?’

’Has she gone crazy?’

’What an idiot!’

Xu Jiali reached out and grabbed Song Jiayan’s arm, pulling him close to whisper, "Are you totally shocked or what?! Isn’t this just like the Water Repelling Pearls from those old fantasy dramas? Theirs were pearls, but ours are paper! Just ignore the material; the effect is what matters."

With Xu Jiali’s explanation, Song Jiayan now had a rationale for what was happening.

’Right, right, that’s it.’

’I never realized the Fox Immortal was this incredible!’

After he got back that day, he had looked up information about the Fox Immortal online, and the more he read, the more astounded he became.

He had originally thought Little White’s appearance was a world away from the Fox Immortals described in online stories, but now, he felt it was all too real!

"Wen Ying, Xu Jiali, Song Jiayan, hurry up and row back!"

CRACK!

The boat split completely apart!