Ning Xiaoyu decided to reason with the childish love system. How could this count as making the other party wear a green hat?

While lying comfortably on the bed, she spoke with the system, “What’s the matter with you? Do you know what the word ‘cheating’ means? It’s mostly used for couples since only they can step on two boats^[1]two-time……” She and the movie king were just strangers. That word was too heavy and obviously wrong to use in this situation.

The love system showed a ‘I’m not listening, I’m not listening’ attitude. It clearly just wanted to see her send a message to the movie king.

Therefore, Ning Xiaoyu decided to just lie flat like a salted fish.

She couldn’t send him those messages. If she chose any of the lines the system gave and sent it, wasn’t it the same as blatantly telling the movie king, “Man, have I successfully caught your attention”?

And it’s not just the movie king who would see the message, but audience as well. This salted fish wouldn’t actively invite that kind of trouble.

Since she had decided not to do it, she could only accept the punishment. Ning Xiaoyu felt it wouldn’t be a problem at all.

As an eighteenth-line actress, she also played a part in various online dramas and understood the general routine. Punishment would most likely be a lightning strike, electric shock, or directly running a 1,500-meter lap or something. Although it would be uncomfortable, she could take it.

Thus, Ning Xiaoyu lay lazily on the soft and comfortable bed, waiting patiently for the end of the thirty-second countdown.

While waiting for the timer to end, she unexpectedly received a reply from Shen Yueyue.

【Hello. Good night.】

Ning Xiaoyu thought that she, this transparent person, would be completely ignored, but unexpectedly, the other party replied to her.

Shen Yueyue was a senior and Ning Xiaoyu had always liked the other party’s palace drama. But just as she was about to reply back, the bright red countdown happened to end.

She closed her eyes and prepared for the arrival of the lightning strike, but after waiting for a few seconds, she got nothing.

Would the love system be so kind? Where was the promised punishment?

Ning Xiaoyu was not struck by lightning. However, she felt that the matter wouldn’t be that simple. With that in mind, she slowly opened her eyes.

What greeted her was total darkness.

It was so dark. Was the love system planning on locking her in a dark room? Good thing she wasn’t nyctophobic.

As soon as Ning Xiaoyu thought so, a plot instantly entered her mind.

【《What it Takes to Love You, My Runaway Bride》, Episode 1. At a cocktail party, Xu Wan drank a glass of spiked wine. When her mind was in a state of confusion, she stumbled into a room. The ignorant and innocent girl thought it was just an unoccupied room, but in fact, it had an owner. It was on that night that Xu Wan and the owner of the room began an indissoluble bond and a tangled relationship for many years. Because of that glass of wine, they sleep together. Their two lives were like parallel lines that should have never intersected, but from that moment on, they crossed paths.】

Before Ning Xiaoyu had time to ridicule this eighteenth-rate dog-blooded^[2]absurd, exaggerated, ridiculous plot people hate, her wrist was suddenly tightly grasped by someone.

In the darkness came a cold and deep voice, “Who are you?”

Ning Xiaoyu didn’t know who the other unfortunate guy caught there to play the script was, but based on the love system’s morality, she blindly guessed that the one holding her wrist at this moment must be the unlucky movie king.

She pursed her lips and replied, “I’m the female lead of 《What it Takes to Love You, My Runaway Bride》.” Although the system didn’t explicitly say what it wanted her to do, since such a plot was transmitted to her, it should have meant for her to play the female lead of this drama.

The amazing thing was that Ning Xiaoyu discovered that her voice had changed as soon as she spoke. Her current voice was one commonly used by female leads in TV dramas. Moreover, there was also a faint smell of alcohol on her body.

Good grief, the punishment of the love system wasn’t a lightning strike, nor running laps, but to capture her to play a trashy plot! If she had known this, she….. she…… she would probably still choose to accept the punishment.

In reality, she was just someone who played insignificant roles. She never expected to get the female lead role as a task punishment.

It’s just a pity that the script was terrible.

Hearing her answer, the other party slowly withdrew his hand.

Ning Xiaoyu subconsciously rubbed her sore wrist.

None of them ask questions like, “How did I get here?” or “Why are you here?”. It would have been futile anyway. Wise people don’t ask questions but prefer to find the answer by themselves.

In the darkness, the two spent some time looking for the door and the switch. Unfortunately, after searching for a long time, they couldn’t even find a single light, let alone a door.

Ning Xiaoyu was the first to give up. She crouched in the corner of the wall and began to sit like a salted fish. She had no idea how long it had been. She tapped her slightly sore back, missing the bed provided by the crew so much. It has to be said that 《Hi, My Friend》 was really rich and generous, and the bed arranged for the guests was simply amazing. It’s soft and warm, and very appealing to her, this salted fish.

She couldn’t take it anymore. Ning Xiaoyu spoke up, “You also got your script, right?”

The other party didn’t reply, but Ning Xiaoyu knew he heard her. She went on to suggest, “It seems we can’t go out of here until we finish doing this scene. Since that’s the case, why don’t we cooperate and end this sooner?”

At her words, a chuckle came from the darkness. The other party spoke as if he knew she would say so, “How do you want to do it?”

The plot that the other party got was similar to Ning Xiaoyu’s. Only, it was from the male lead’s perspective.

Ning Xiaoyu carefully recalled the plot sent by the love system.

Currently, the ‘female lead’ has already broken into this clearly occupied room. There was no door where they could leave and no lights to see the surroundings, just a big bed in the middle of the room. In other words, the key point of the plot was that bed.

To be honest, Ning Xiaoyu had been craving a bed for a long time. Who wanted to sit if they could lie down? One had to understand that her legs had started to go numb after crouching for too long.

She weighed her words and said, “The scene is to ‘sleep together’.” This was the key plot and the soul of the first episode. It was the first scene between the male and female lead, and there was a high probability that they could leave afterward.

The other party sneered, as if not surprised by her suggestion at all. His voice was gorgeous but cold, “I never do bed scenes.”

Ning Xiaoyu froze for a couple of seconds.

The other party wasn’t thinking she was trying to take advantage of him, was he? Come on, this kind of script was physically demanding and was the most annoying thing for a salted fish.

Ning Xiaoyu pursed her lips and said seriously, “What are you thinking? With today’s strict regulations, it’s impossible to film that kind of indescribable scene. And even if it’s really filmed, it would never be aired.” If it weren’t for the other party saying the words ‘bed scene’, Ning Xiaoyu would have never thought the scene needed to be like that. Besides, the other party was unwilling to do it, but was she willing?

After listening to her answer, the other party was silent, apparently not expecting her to say so.

Having said that, she didn’t bother about the other party’s reaction and simply climbed onto the bed.

Ah, comfortable bed, here she comes. As soon as she lay down, she squinted her eyes in comfort.

Needless to say, the bed provided by the system was no less comfortable than a real bed. Her sleeping position was very regular. She was lying quietly on the far left side of the bed with both her hands neatly resting on the sides of her legs.

The script said the male and female lead slept together, but of course, the female lead drunkenly entered the male lead’s room, so it couldn’t be that simple. Gratefully, however, it was only mentioned lightly. Ning Xiaoyu could take advantage of this loophole.

‘Sleep together’— she guessed that as long as the literal meaning was achieved, the punishment would be done.

After giving a suggestion, she left the other party alone. It has to be said that the other party’s patience was really good. Time has passed for who knows how long but the other party still stood motionless in the darkness.

Ning Xiaoyu didn’t even bother to stretch out her hand to pat the empty space beside her. She still maintained the same position and only moved her mouth to say, “If you won’t come over, then I’m sleeping. Rest assured, I won’t do anything to you.” It was laughable. How could a salted fish take the initiative to invite trouble?

She only wanted to lie flat.

With that, Ning Xiaoyu just let herself go to sleep without waiting for the other party’s response. She didn’t know how long had passed before she vaguely felt that the bed beside her partially sank. Then, half a meter away from her side, there was an additional heat source.

While she was still thinking about when the punishment would end, she was instantly brought back to reality.

Upon returning, Ning Xiaoyu’s drowsiness instantly disappeared. The first thing she did was pick up her phone.

She realized that while many hours had obviously passed in that space, only a few seconds had passed in reality.

In other words, in that space just now, time was stationary.

Ning Xiaoyu’s expression changed slightly. She had gained a new understanding of the love system’s ability.

Fortunately, in her short time of interacting with the love system, she found that it was just a childish system that wanted to watch other people fall in love and ship them, so it shouldn’t have any bad intentions.

The love system said with an excited face, 【《What it Takes to Love You, My Runaway Bride》’s plot is really sweet!】

Ning Xiaoyu: “……”

The male and female lead lay down together with a distance of half a meter between them. Was it sweet even without any interaction?

It seemed that the childish system was quite easy to fool.

Ning Xiaoyu tentatively asked, “Who was the one with the male lead script?”

The love system hummed. 【Who do you think it is?】

The love system didn’t answer directly, but Ning Xiaoyu reckoned that the male lead earlier was the movie king.

Ning Xiaoyu continued to probe, “Just now, he probably didn’t know who I was, right?”

The love system said without even thinking, 【How can he not know?】

Ning Xiaoyu’s heart thumped.

No way! The childish system would cause her problems!!!

Just then, the love system went on to say sweetly, 【You’re Wanwan and he’s your omnipotent President Fu.】

Hearing that answer, Ning Xiaoyu let out a long sigh of relief.

Wanwan is the female protagonist of 《What it Takes to Love You, My Runaway Bride》, while President Fu seems to be the male protagonist.

At present, the punishment was done. Nothing else would probably happen.

Ning Xiaoyu fell comfortably into dreamland.

———pr


The next day, Ning Xiaoyu glanced at the time after waking up.

She forgot to log out of Weibo, thus, after checking the time, she found that there were a few more entries related to the show on the hot search after one night.

#LuJingduTheMostPopularMaleGuest# and #NingYuweiMostPopularFemaleGuest#.

Only then did Ning Xiaoyu know that Ning Yuwei received five good night messages last night, all of which were sent to her by male guests.

She originally thought it had nothing to do with her, so she scrolled the bottom of the hot search with the mindset of eating melon^[3]to be a mere bystander or onlooker. As a result, with such little effort, she actually ate her own melon?

#LuJingdu’sFirstMessageWasSentToNingXiaoyu#

Lu Jingdu’s first good night message was sent to her? What kind of situation was this?